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Ep 1097 | Texas Dems BRAVELY Abandon Their Posts and Duties at First Sign of Voter Danger | Guest: Dan Andros · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  Stu does America.
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  Welcome to Pseudos America.
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  Hope you had an excellent weekend.
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  We've got a lot to get to.
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  Dan Andros is here to talk about a couple of very important topics,
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  Israel
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  and Sidney Sweeney.
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  Uh,
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  and one's might is slightly more important,
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  but we'll get to that here in a little bit.
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  We're gonna start though by doing Texas Democrats,
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  a vision of courage.
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  Yes,
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  the Texas Democrats
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  are on the run again.
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  Texas Democrats decamp,
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  that's what they're calling it,
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  decamping.
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  They've decamped to Illinois
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  to deny Republicans a quorum
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  on redistricting.
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  Yes,
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  they've run away from the state to avoid votes
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  because they don't want,
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  uh,
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  Texas to
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  do their,
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  you know,
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  their legal right,
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  which is redistricting in the middle of a 10-year period.
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  Uh,
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  and the Democrats,
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  to that note,
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  released a brand new theme song.
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  did
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  he chickened out.
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  I never
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  did a very brave retreat.
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  Ah yes,
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  the brave Sir Robin of the Democratic Party,
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  they're gone.
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  They're gone now.
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  They have,
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  uh,
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  fled the state.
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  The Texas State House Democrats fled,
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  uh,
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  filed off buses and Ubers
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  into Cram
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  County Party headquarters at a strip mall Saturday night alongside
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  JB Pritzker,
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  the horrible.
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  Governor of Illinois rail against what they charged was a racist,
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  unfair,
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  and undemocratic attempt to overhaul the Lone Star State's political map.
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  Texas House Democratic Caucus
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  chair Gene Wu said he believed about 57 Democrats have left the state,
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  with the bulk staying in Illinois for at least the immediate future.
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  Other House Democrats were in Boston
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  and
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  Albany.
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  Now why would they go to Illinois?
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  Well,
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  It's mostly JB Pritzker.
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  Pritzker says the Texas Democrats who fled the state
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  will be protected amid arrest threats.
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  So the Republicans are saying,
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  well,
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  we could technically arrest them for not doing their job.
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  And
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  it's interesting because like when you have a state,
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  like if we were,
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  let's say we,
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  uh,
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  decided we're gonna pass a bill to build a new highway,
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  and we're gonna spend $100 million on this new highway,
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  and we started spending the money,
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  we gave it to the,
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  uh,
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  construction companies,
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  and then they didn't build the highway,
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  what would happen?
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  This is what we're doing with our representatives.
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  We're paying them
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  to be representatives,
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  to represent their districts,
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  and they're not showing up to work.
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  They're just stealing money from taxpayers,
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  and normally that's a crime.
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  But,
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  uh,
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  so that's the reason for the threat.
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  Now JB Pritzker is saying he's going to make sure he stops all that.
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  Uh,
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  Pritzker said they're here in Illinois.
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  We're going to do everything we can to protect
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  every single one of them and make sure that,
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  because we know
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  they're,
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  they're doing the right thing and we know they're following the law.
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  Pritzker told reporters at a press conference
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  Sunday night alongside Texas state lawmakers.
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  If Ken Paxton,
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  who doesn't follow the law.
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  It's the leaders of Texas who are attempting not to follow the law,
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  referring to Texas' Republican attorney general.
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  They're the ones
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  that need to be held accountable.
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  Now,
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  I'm not exactly sure what JB Pritzker can do to protect
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  Texas Democrats in his state,
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  you know,
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  other than stand in front of them,
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  because he's incredibly large.
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  So if someone's coming to get them,
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  they'd have to walk all the way around Pritzker.
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  And if you've ever walked around like,
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  you know,
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  uh,
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  a stadium,
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  you know how long it takes to get there,
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  and,
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  and,
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  you know,
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  they can kind of stay on the opposite side.
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  Like if the,
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  if you're coming for them,
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  you could go around Pritzker,
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  and then
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  the,
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  the representatives could kind of slowly move
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  around Pritzker at the same time,
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  kind of like an orbiting planet,
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  and that might protect you because they'd never actually see the representatives.
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  Um,
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  so that's at least one way he could protect them.
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  But outside of that,
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  I'm not exactly sure what he can do.
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  The law is the law.
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  And it would be an interesting,
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  I guess,
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  an interesting thing to see
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  one state stand up against another state's arrest.
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  It does happen from time to time.
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  Uh,
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  what can happen to these representatives?
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  Well,
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  first of all,
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  they can get fined a heck of a lot.
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  Texas Democrats face the risk of a $500 dollars a day fine.
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  The Republican-controlled legislature
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  approved the punishment in 2023,
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  2 years after state Democrats left last time
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  for three weeks to block an elections bill from progressing.
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  Abbott is threatening House Democrats with removal and felony charges.
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  Uh,
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  Democrats hatched a deliberate plan not to show up for work
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  for the specific purpose of abdicating the duties of their office
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  and thwarting the chamber's business.
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  The absconded Democrat House members were elected to meet
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  and vote on legislation,
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  not to prevent votes
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  that may not go their way.
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  This is of course.
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  Very,
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  very true.
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  Abbott is standing up and saying,
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  I'm not going to put up with this.
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  I'm done.
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  I'm done dealing with these people.
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  Abbott also suggested that he would seek felony charges against Democrats,
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  claiming that some have violated
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  bribery laws.
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  I will use my full extradition authority to demand the return
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  to Texas of any potential out of state felons,
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  and that.
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  Focus on that bribery word for just a moment.
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  I don't have any evidence of bribery here.
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  Um,
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  I have not,
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  uh,
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  seen that evidence,
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  if,
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  if any of it exists
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  as of yet.
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  What I will say here
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  is that,
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  uh,
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  JB Pritzker wants to run for president in 2028.
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  There's a reason why
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  these Texas Democrat
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  Democrats are going to Illinois.
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  Like,
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  I don't know if you noticed this,
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  it's not the next state.
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  They're not hanging out right across,
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  like there's a,
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  an Indian reservation right across the state line in Texas.
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  They could all hang out at the casino,
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  have a great time,
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  and make all the points and all the media would still show up for it.
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  They went to Illinois for a reason,
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  and one of the reasons they're in Illinois.
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  is because JB Pritzker has lots and lots of money.
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  He's one of the wealthiest guys in politics,
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  not quite to the Trump level,
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  but
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  you know,
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  in the vicinity.
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  He's a billionaire type guy.
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  And he's going to be throwing a lot of money around,
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  uh,
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  and people,
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  there's a lot of people inside the political world,
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  especially on the left,
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  that recognize that,
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  know that there's a lot of money coming from JB Pritzker in the next few years,
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  uh,
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  most likely,
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  and are realizing they should get on his good side right now.
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  That's a thing that's happening.
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  Uh,
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  I talked to a lot of people in Washington.
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  Everyone knows about it.
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  Everyone is playing this guy.
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  Everyone knows,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  the consultant class is like,
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  look.
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  Our next gravy train,
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  our next Bloomberg type gravy train might be coming from this guy.
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  We better get on board right now.
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  Now,
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  he's not Bloomberg wealthy,
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  so it's not gonna be that good of a gravy train.
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  But
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  anyway,
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  that's,
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  uh,
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  maybe the reason why some of these people have chosen Illinois
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  for their,
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  uh little vacation they're taking right now.
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  Now,
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  this is all about redistricting,
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  and it's interesting to see because.
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  I don't like the redistricting process.
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  I don't like the way that it works.
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  I don't like the fact that we draw
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  these little districts and we gerrymandermander them to,
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  to win,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  as many seats as possible.
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  I kind of wish they were just a bunch of squares.
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  This is how the founders decided it at the beginning,
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  by the way,
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  this is what they wanted,
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  was just a bunch of squares
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  with a certain population in there,
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  and that was it.
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  That's not the way,
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  that's not reality though.
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  And we are,
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  we are,
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  we can all wish for the world that we want,
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  but we are living in the world that we live in.
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  And we have to figure out how to make the best of this
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  because this is the situation that exists.
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  And the question is,
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  is this egregious from Republicans?
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  Is this some insane thing that no one else does,
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  or is this just typical kind of politics in action?
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  And the truth of it is interesting,
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  mid-decade congressional redistricting in Texas,
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  what to know and how it works.
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  This comes from the Texarkana
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  Gazette.
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  In 2025,
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  and Texas is redrawing its congressional districts.
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  If the move seems unusual,
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  that's because it is,
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  though it's not
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  unprecedented.
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  Governor Greg Abbott set the 30-day special session for Monday,
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  adding more than a dozen other items to legislators' to do lists.
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  While the redistricting is traditionally done every 10 years,
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  it's not unheard of to redistrict mid-decade.
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  State Republicans.
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  gained control of the full legislature after the 2002 election
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  and sought to pick up more seats in Congress.
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  Democrats had previously controlled the House,
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  and the congressional maps had been drawn by courts following the 2000 census.
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  This has also happened,
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  I think,
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  I think it happened in Oregon.
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  I think it happened recently in New York.
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  It,
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  it does happen,
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  it's just not super common.
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  So
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  they're sort of like,
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  you know,
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  pushing the envelope a little bit.
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  It,
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  but it's still within the realms
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  of normalized behavior.
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  Gavin Newsom says he is,
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  uh,
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  pissed.
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  He says Trump's going to steal five congressional seats in Texas,
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  gerrymander his way to a 2026 win.
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  Well,
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  two can play at that game.
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  Special sessions,
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  special elections,
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  ballot initiatives,
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  new laws,
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  it's all on the table when democracy is on the line.
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  Now Gavin Newsom,
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  of course,
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  is a,
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  a horrible human being.
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  Uh,
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  there's just really not any way.
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  I don't,
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  is there another way to state a guy who sleeps with his best friend's wife
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  while they're working for his campaign?
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  I
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  I don't,
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  I don't know what else,
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  what other tag you want to put on that,
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  uh,
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  but that's the type of person he is,
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  uh,
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  and I don't even going into the fact that he's out dining
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  at nice restaurants where he's keeping everybody else in the state prison,
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  so in,
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  in prison,
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  so I,
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  I don't know exactly how you,
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  how you
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  categorize a Gavin Newsom other than just calling him horrible,
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  um,
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  but
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  basically,
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  uh,
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  he's wanted to do all these things.
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  He wants to push the envelope as well,
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  and now he's just using Texas as just.
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  for that process.
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  Now,
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  one of the things the Democrats are doing is spreading
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  these maps virally that look really,
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  really gerrymandered.
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  They're like these little slivers of lines and districts.
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  Here's some of them.
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  This is what they look like.
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  They look like little spirals and like little slabs of land that barely connect.
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  Some of them don't even look like they do connect.
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  It's almost like the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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  Like they are like these are,
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  these are not districts.
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  They're not the squares I was just talking about.
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  And you know,
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  I don't know,
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  they got all panicked about it.
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  Here's another one
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  again,
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  slivers of land,
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  lots of weird north-south districts and
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  districts that curve around each other.
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  They put these out there to scare everyone.
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  Of course,
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  in reality,
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  these are not the maps even being considered.
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  What are they?
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  What did they spread and get millions and millions of likes on?
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  The map generated,
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  uh,
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  garnered the attention of journalists and Democrats
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  alike and generated heated online discussion,
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  but a quick look at the map's data shows that it might not be a serious proposal.
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  For one,
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  the map is listed under the Texas
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  Legislative Council's plans submitted by the public.
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  Tab.
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  When Cron called the uh Texas Legislative Council redistricting office,
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  they confirmed that members of the public sometimes submit maps to the council.
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  In this case,
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  the first map,
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  the one that went viral,
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  was submitted by
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  a private citizen.
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  It's just from some guy.
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  He's like,
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  uh,
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  you know what,
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  I'm gonna make my own map.
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  How about this one?
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  And he submitted it,
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  and that's it.
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  It's not even being considered.
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  Uh,
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  a simple search on the Texas legislator,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  Legislative council's website revealed the name of the mapmaker.
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  They contacted a person
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  with that name through social media who confirmed they had created the map
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  and answered questions based on the condition that any
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  additional identifying information not be published.
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  He stressed that he is a hobbyist.
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  You thought you were a nerd.
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  Uh,
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  they,
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  100% chance
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  the guy who made that map listens to the show.
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  I know you're out there.
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  There's no other nerdier show than this 11
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  100% chance that guy is listening to this right now.
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  First of all,
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  hilarious,
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  and I,
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  I can't
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  even get mad at you.
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  I,
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  if I'm a hobbyist who's making a map,
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  uh,
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  and then my map is like,
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  I'm like,
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  I'm the,
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  I'm the guy who makes the
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  alternate redistricting maps for Texas.
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  First of all,
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  thank you for listening for so long.
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  We know you're here.
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  Secondly,
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  uh,
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  you should come on the show and explain it because it's uh it's hilarious,
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  even though I know you don't want to be found out.
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  Actually,
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  you'll probably be
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  tortured and fired from your job if you do that,
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  so maybe don't do that,
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  but whatever.
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  He said he stressed he's a hobbyist
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  who is not in any way connected to any political parties,
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  groups or officials,
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  and then he submitted the.
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  Simply as a thought experiment.
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  I love it.
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  He also noted that several other publicly created
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  maps have been submitted submitted by other enthusiasts.
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  Look,
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  we all know
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  you map nerds are enthusiasts to the show,
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  and it's fine,
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  it's OK.
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  I want you to know,
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  you're not alone,
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  OK?
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  There's like 3 other people who are just like you.
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  I would say there are literally dozens of us,
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  but there aren't.
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  It's just you guys.
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  But that's OK.
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  You're as nerdy as I am and I freaking love it.
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  Uh,
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  the Texas GOP
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  is now jabbing at Jasmine Crockett with their proposed new map.
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  She calls a spiteful move in a red flag.
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  This is the one thing where I think Republicans are really screwing up here.
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  And I can't stress this enough,
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  do not
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  redistrict
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  to get
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  Jasmine Crockett out of Congress.
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  I personally would support,
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  as a,
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  as a map hobbyist,
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  I am going to submit a map that has a district just around Jasmine Crockett's house,
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  and I want her to be the only person
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  who's voting,
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  so she wins forever.
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  I want her to be in Congress
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  for eternity.
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  OK.
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  Now,
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  I will admit she's probably
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  so annoying that if other people are in the house with her,
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  they might vote against her and she might lose.
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  But it's a risk I'm willing to take.
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  I think whatever we can do to guarantee Jasmine Crockett never leaves Congress,
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  I am for.
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  Keep
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  Jasmine around.
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  We even have shirts,
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  Jasmine Crockett 28,
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  because we want her to run for president,
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  uh,
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  Stuoesmerch.com,
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  Stuomerch.com,
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  the code is Stu 10.
• 12:52
  Jasmine Crockett 28
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  for,
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  uh,
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  Democratic nominee only.
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  Nothing.
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  I don't want her to win the presidential election.
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  That would be catastrophic for our nation,
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  but I would like her to win the nomination.
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  Just throwing that out there.
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  OK,
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  um,
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  a couple of things about this,
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  because this is,
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  uh,
• 13:09
  one of those things where I think we look at the really bad polling,
• 13:12
  and I have a bunch of polling on the Democratic Party,
• 13:14
  maybe we'll get to later today or tomorrow,
• 13:17
  uh,
• 13:17
  just showing that people hate the Democrats right now.
• 13:20
  The worst poll numbers they've ever had,
• 13:22
  people,
• 13:23
  it's catastrophic,
• 13:24
  OK.
• 13:25
  It's easy to feel
• 13:28
  like things are going really well right now in a lot of ways.
• 13:32
  It's important to,
• 13:34
  to tap the brakes on that feeling
• 13:36
  because we are entering a period here where traditionally,
• 13:40
  uh,
• 13:40
  the party in power almost always loses seats.
• 13:43
  When,
• 13:44
  when the Republican,
• 13:44
  and there are a couple of exceptions to this,
• 13:46
  very few though.
• 13:47
  You almost always lose seats in that first,
• 13:49
  um,
• 13:50
  midterm election,
• 13:51
  and that is what the Republicans are facing.
• 13:53
  Now,
• 13:53
  it might not be catastrophic.
• 13:54
  The problem is,
• 13:55
  even if it's not catastrophic,
• 13:56
  they could still lose the House.
• 13:57
  They only have a,
• 13:58
  what is it,
• 13:58
  a 4 or 5 seat majority.
• 14:00
  Um,
• 14:00
  so
• 14:01
  it is a,
• 14:02
  you know,
• 14:02
  4 or 5,
• 14:04
  swap,
• 14:05
  they could lose the majority.
• 14:06
  That is a real
• 14:08
  pickle,
• 14:09
  uh,
• 14:09
  to be in.
• 14:10
  So when you're thinking of this,
• 14:11
  and the reason why,
• 14:12
  like you're asking,
• 14:13
  well,
• 14:13
  why would they be redistricting?
• 14:14
  Why are they doing that?
• 14:15
  They're doing that.
• 14:16
  Outwardly
• 14:18
  because they want extra House seats,
• 14:19
  because they are worried about what's gonna
• 14:20
  happen in this midterm election in 2026.
• 14:22
  That is why they're doing it.
• 14:23
  They're admitting it.
• 14:24
  They're straight out saying,
• 14:26
  this is why we're doing this.
• 14:27
  We want more seats.
• 14:28
  We think it's more representative.
• 14:29
  Now,
• 14:30
  politics,
• 14:30
  by the way,
• 14:31
  can be a factor,
• 14:32
  uh,
• 14:33
  in these decisions,
• 14:34
  and that was ruled on in the Supreme Court relatively recently.
• 14:37
  Um,
• 14:37
  you can't do it over racial lines.
• 14:38
  There's a couple of different,
• 14:39
  um,
• 14:40
  things,
• 14:40
  reasons you can't draw certain gerrymandered lines,
• 14:43
  but politics is not one of them.
• 14:44
  You can do this.
• 14:45
  So I mean,
• 14:47
  ideally I'd like it to be a different thing,
• 14:48
  but this is basically what's going on here.
• 14:51
  Republicans are trying to get 5 extra seats because
• 14:53
  they're worried they're going to lose in 2026.
• 14:55
  That's what they're doing,
• 14:56
  straight out.
• 14:57
  So,
• 14:58
  if a party is acting that way,
• 15:00
  we should all realize
• 15:01
  just because we see bad poll numbers for Democrats,
• 15:03
  just because we see,
• 15:04
  you know,
• 15:05
  decent numbers for Trump at times,
• 15:07
  don't get too comfortable.
• 15:08
  This is,
• 15:09
  there's not a wide margin here.
• 15:11
  What they're doing right now is a strategy to try to win the midterms,
• 15:15
  and that is what they're in the middle of doing right now.
• 15:17
  And this feels,
• 15:18
  as I said,
• 15:19
  kind of icky.
• 15:21
  Like I don't really like the idea of,
• 15:22
  you know,
• 15:23
  doing crazy redistricting to win seats.
• 15:25
  But
• 15:26
  the Trump era has brought something new to the table,
• 15:29
  and this is something I,
• 15:29
  I notice all the time
• 15:31
  when I talk to friends,
• 15:32
  what I see on social media,
• 15:34
  when you see in conservative media coverage.
• 15:36
  Trump has,
• 15:36
  uh,
• 15:37
  uh,
• 15:37
  has set the,
• 15:38
  uh,
• 15:38
  the precedent that it's OK
• 15:40
  to sort of push these lines as far as you can.
• 15:42
  Trump likes to do it,
• 15:44
  uh,
• 15:44
  people who like Trump will like to do it,
• 15:46
  and you,
• 15:46
  you see this phrase used over and over again,
• 15:48
  this is what I voted for.
• 15:50
  This is what I voted for,
• 15:51
  this is what I voted for.
• 15:52
  And
• 15:54
  the reason why people voted for that is because they saw Democrats
• 15:57
  doing it over and over and over and over and over again,
• 16:00
  and we were the victims of unfair sort of treatment
• 16:03
  and unfair tactics from the Democrats over and over and over and over and over again,
• 16:07
  and people got sick of it.
• 16:08
  And like,
• 16:09
  I'm not gonna,
• 16:09
  what,
• 16:10
  what are we gonna do?
• 16:11
  We're gonna sit here and get rolled over,
• 16:12
  over and over again.
• 16:13
  Like that doesn't seem like a good plan.
• 16:15
  How can we do this?
• 16:16
  So,
• 16:17
  these things that,
• 16:17
  and this is perfectly legal,
• 16:18
  this is no,
• 16:19
  there's no legal line here that's even,
• 16:20
  we're even close to.
• 16:21
  I mean,
• 16:21
  you know,
• 16:21
  Pritzker aside,
• 16:23
  uh,
• 16:23
  he is,
• 16:24
  um,
• 16:25
  you know,
• 16:25
  completely insane,
• 16:26
  right?
• 16:27
  Um,
• 16:28
  he is a guy who's
• 16:29
  trying to draw attention to himself for a presidential run and
• 16:32
  saying that it's illegal is just him making it up.
• 16:34
  In reality,
• 16:35
  this is legal,
• 16:35
  they can do it.
• 16:36
  Um,
• 16:37
  you might not like it,
• 16:38
  you might feel a little icky about it,
• 16:40
  and that's OK.
• 16:41
  It's good.
• 16:42
  First of all,
• 16:42
  it's good to keep contact with that person,
• 16:44
  right?
• 16:44
  The person inside of you that's like,
• 16:46
  hey.
• 16:47
  I don't know,
• 16:47
  does this feel right?
• 16:49
  Don't lose contact with that person.
• 16:50
  Stay in touch.
• 16:52
  Hey,
• 16:52
  write them a letter from time to time,
• 16:54
  get a text,
• 16:55
  trade a couple of texts here and there,
• 16:56
  just to remind yourself,
• 16:57
  hey,
• 16:57
  these things are important,
• 16:58
  you don't wanna go too far off the reservation on this stuff.
• 17:01
  Um,
• 17:02
  but Trump has given
• 17:04
  sort of this permission slip to people to be like,
• 17:06
  you know what?
• 17:07
  I'm not going to break rules,
• 17:08
  but we can bend them here and there.
• 17:10
  We can push them to their fullest extent before they break,
• 17:13
  because if,
• 17:13
  because we're seeing the Democrats do it,
• 17:15
  and if we don't go that direction,
• 17:17
  we're just going to wind up getting beaten over the head over and over and over again.
• 17:20
  So when you say,
• 17:21
  hey,
• 17:21
  this is what I voted for,
• 17:23
  we are there.
• 17:24
  Trump is doing that.
• 17:25
  The presidency,
• 17:26
  I think,
• 17:26
  to great effect.
• 17:28
  People are doing this in Congress to great effect.
• 17:30
  We're seeing this all over the place.
• 17:32
  Your request to the DJ has been granted.
• 17:35
  He's playing
• 17:36
  My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion for you right now.
• 17:39
  So get out there and dance.
• 17:40
  It's happening.
• 17:41
  This is all going on.
• 17:42
  It's just important to make sure that we don't go too far,
• 17:45
  that we stay first of all in touch with the Constitution,
• 17:47
  number one,
• 17:48
  the law,
• 17:49
  that's really,
• 17:49
  really important.
• 17:51
  And then you have to look at these things and take
• 17:53
  them seriously and judge them on a case by case basis.
• 17:55
  This doesn't give you full,
• 17:57
  you know,
• 17:57
  full reign to go out there and do whatever the hell you want,
• 18:00
  but
• 18:01
  it does give you.
• 18:01
  I think this era
• 18:03
  is pretty clear that if you don't play hardball,
• 18:06
  you're going to get that hardball thrown back in your face and
• 18:09
  it's going to crack your skull open and nobody wants that either.
• 18:12
  We've got some other big stories that are kind of related to this.
• 18:15
  A lot of hardball being played all over the country and the world right now.
• 18:19
  We'll get into that with Dan Andros next.
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• 20:38
  Dan,
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  man.
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  Appreciate it.
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  All right,
• 20:40
  Stu,
• 20:40
  thanks for having me.
• 20:41
  Uh,
• 20:41
  I've got two things for you,
• 20:42
  and they're very different.
• 20:43
  Um,
• 20:44
  I've got one that's like serious and really important,
• 20:47
  and then one that's,
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  uh,
• 20:48
  still kind of important,
• 20:49
  but also fun.
• 20:51
  Which one do you want to do first?
• 20:53
  See,
• 20:54
  um,
• 20:54
  alright,
• 20:54
  let's go with the,
• 20:55
  let's go with the serious one.
• 20:57
  Let's get that's serious.
• 20:58
  I wanna start in Israel,
• 21:00
  and,
• 21:00
  uh,
• 21:00
  this is a to me an infuriating situation that's going on right now.
• 21:04
  We've had reports of
• 21:05
  all this famine going on in Gaza that's,
• 21:07
  you know,
• 21:07
  not accurate by any measure of what the definition of the word famine is,
• 21:10
  but.
• 21:11
  There have been children that have been shown looking like they are starving.
• 21:15
  We later find out they are instead inflicted with
• 21:18
  these terrible separate ailments that have nothing to do
• 21:21
  with their starvation.
• 21:22
  Their family members also seem to be well fed.
• 21:25
  And then at the same time all this is happening,
• 21:27
  it gets the front page of every newspaper in the country.
• 21:30
  We then start getting images of what's happening to the hostages
• 21:33
  that are being held by Hamas,
• 21:35
  and that is in current present tense.
• 21:38
  They are being held by Hamas currently.
• 21:40
  Um,
• 21:41
  and the media coverage,
• 21:43
  a little different.
• 21:44
  I don't know if you've noticed that,
• 21:45
  Dan.
• 21:45
  Yeah,
• 21:46
  it's definitely been way more,
• 21:47
  it's not that they haven't covered,
• 21:48
  I have seen reports on it,
• 21:50
  but it's just,
• 21:50
  it's with the intensity and the
• 21:53
  front page
• 21:55
  nature of it.
• 21:55
  I mean,
• 21:56
  we saw for a couple of days,
• 21:58
  Stu,
• 21:58
  the news headline,
• 21:59
  maybe even a week,
• 22:01
  dominated by the headline,
• 22:03
  starvation fears in Gaza,
• 22:05
  and they showed,
• 22:06
  a lot of them showed,
• 22:09
  uh,
• 22:09
  you know,
• 22:09
  AP Reuters,
• 22:10
  others showed a picture of a boy,
• 22:12
  a nine year old boy.
• 22:14
  Who it turns out,
• 22:16
  wasn't starving.
• 22:17
  In fact,
• 22:18
  like you mentioned,
• 22:19
  the relatives,
• 22:19
  the mom holding him looked pretty well fed.
• 22:21
  What is she?
• 22:22
  She's eating all the food and not giving any to him?
• 22:25
  Is this what is happening here?
• 22:27
  Uh,
• 22:27
  is what they're alleging.
• 22:29
  But it turns out,
• 22:30
  according to his own mother,
• 22:32
  the boy's name who's Mohammed,
• 22:34
  they,
• 22:34
  she said he suffers from a muscle disorder for
• 22:37
  which he receives specialized nutrition and physical therapy.
• 22:41
  And said he was happy and able to sit upright when they were,
• 22:45
  uh,
• 22:45
  when they were provided,
• 22:46
  when those things were provided to him.
• 22:47
  So it
• 22:48
  sounds like,
• 22:49
  I mean,
• 22:49
  I'm not saying it's a wonderland in Gaza,
• 22:51
  but it sounds like this kid is getting some treatment
• 22:55
  and is suffering from something completely
• 22:58
  unrelated.
• 22:58
  Now,
• 22:58
  I'm not saying that there are no people that are having trouble
• 23:02
  eating or feeding their family in Gaza.
• 23:04
  Obviously,
• 23:05
  it's a war situation,
• 23:06
  and it's
• 23:07
  likely horrible in there,
• 23:09
  but A,
• 23:10
  that is caused.
• 23:12
  By Hamas,
• 23:13
  not being willing
• 23:15
  to end this war.
• 23:16
  They want to keep fighting Israel.
• 23:18
  So if you've got a beef with what's going on,
• 23:22
  with malnutrition and people,
• 23:24
  you know,
• 23:24
  having problems in Gaza,
• 23:26
  take it up with Hamas.
• 23:27
  Why are you complaining
• 23:29
  about Israel at this point?
• 23:30
  It just,
• 23:31
  it doesn't make any sense,
• 23:32
  other than you just hate Israel.
• 23:34
  Yeah,
• 23:34
  I mean,
• 23:34
  it's.
• 23:35
  It's fascinating because it's so consistent with what Hamas did on October 7th,
• 23:40
  right?
• 23:40
  Like
• 23:41
  they knew they couldn't beat Israel in a war.
• 23:44
  They knew it was going to cost thousands of lives of people in,
• 23:47
  in their area,
• 23:48
  their own fighters,
• 23:49
  but certainly some innocents were going to be,
• 23:52
  you know,
• 23:52
  part of collateral damage in war.
• 23:54
  They knew all that when they did it.
• 23:56
  They knew they weren't going to,
• 23:57
  they couldn't win a physical battle against Israel.
• 24:00
  They did this because they wanted the world to react the way it's reacting.
• 24:04
  That's why they went and killed all those people on October 7th,
• 24:07
  and they were certain,
• 24:08
  certain
• 24:09
  that they would win the PR battle,
• 24:11
  even so certain that they would film these murders.
• 24:14
  They would film the rapes.
• 24:15
  They would allow documentation of all these things because they knew
• 24:19
  the media and the world would still go against Israel.
• 24:23
  The same thing here.
• 24:25
  They're in the middle of a PR victory,
• 24:26
  if you will,
• 24:27
  with this,
• 24:27
  with all this starvation talk.
• 24:29
  This is what they want out of the situation,
• 24:32
  and they're so confident
• 24:34
  in their victory
• 24:35
  when it comes to PR
• 24:36
  that they're willing at the same time to release footage of hostages
• 24:41
  starving to death.
• 24:42
  I mean it is incredible,
• 24:43
  Dan.
• 24:44
  That is one of the more incredible things to me.
• 24:46
  This is not like Israeli propaganda.
• 24:50
  Uh,
• 24:50
  that they dug up and found and we're like,
• 24:53
  oh,
• 24:53
  are they editing videos like Hamas showed this.
• 24:55
  They're like,
• 24:56
  yep,
• 24:57
  we're gonna put this out there.
• 24:58
  It's almost like they sit around going,
• 25:01
  let's,
• 25:01
  let's see how ridiculous.
• 25:03
  You know,
• 25:04
  we can make this.
• 25:05
  I mean,
• 25:05
  because I,
• 25:06
  if you would have put the over-under on it,
• 25:08
  Stu,
• 25:08
  of how many days it would have taken after the October 7th attack,
• 25:12
  because I remember there was like true,
• 25:15
  kind of everyone seemed horrified there for a few days.
• 25:17
  It wasn't like,
• 25:18
  it wasn't like 10 minutes and because I think it was happening over,
• 25:21
  I forget what day it was,
• 25:21
  but I feel like it was on a weekend because I started seeing videos when I woke up on
• 25:25
  Twitter and on X and seeing like,
• 25:28
  You know,
• 25:29
  Hamas guys on,
• 25:30
  I'm like,
• 25:30
  what are these people doing with it,
• 25:32
  uh,
• 25:32
  why are these going viral?
• 25:33
  And then,
• 25:33
  you know,
• 25:34
  once,
• 25:34
  once I started learning the story,
• 25:36
  you know,
• 25:36
  everyone was shocked and horrified.
• 25:38
  And I feel like that was the global response for,
• 25:40
  you know,
• 25:40
  a couple of days.
• 25:41
  But if you would have predicted right then,
• 25:43
  Stu,
• 25:44
  and I remember we probably talked about this,
• 25:46
  at least off the camera.
• 25:46
  I don't know if we talked about it on air,
• 25:47
  like how long till they turn?
• 25:49
  What,
• 25:49
  what would you have given it at that point?
• 25:51
  That,
• 25:51
  that horrible of attack,
• 25:53
  they killed 1400 civilians
• 25:56
  or something in that area.
• 25:57
  And
• 25:58
  How long would you have given it if they would have put an over under on it?
• 26:01
  You know,
• 26:02
  it's interesting.
• 26:02
  I,
• 26:02
  I think I did talk about that on the air,
• 26:05
  at least on radio and maybe here as well,
• 26:07
  and I don't know what I said.
• 26:08
  I,
• 26:08
  you know,
• 26:08
  I may have said 1 month,
• 26:09
  I may have said 6 months.
• 26:10
  I,
• 26:11
  I,
• 26:11
  I may have said a couple of weeks.
• 26:12
  I don't know what I said.
• 26:13
  But there was a certainty to it.
• 26:15
  I remember feeling really sure that it was going to just,
• 26:19
  after some period of time,
• 26:21
  once it feels like it's not this current thing going on,
• 26:24
  you know,
• 26:24
  like you're in the middle,
• 26:25
  they're still counting bodies.
• 26:27
  Once that period passes,
• 26:29
  the world will turn against Israel,
• 26:31
  the media will turn against Israel.
• 26:33
  It happens
• 26:33
  every single time,
• 26:35
  and
• 26:36
  you know we did talk about that off the air as well,
• 26:37
  like you knew it was coming,
• 26:38
  it was just a question of how long.
• 26:40
  Yeah,
• 26:41
  and I would say I have to go back and look to see,
• 26:43
  I don't know what you could say,
• 26:44
  uh,
• 26:44
  was the exact tipping point of when you were like,
• 26:47
  OK,
• 26:47
  it's turned,
• 26:48
  but it wasn't long.
• 26:49
  I would,
• 26:50
  I would say if I would have to go back and guess,
• 26:52
  I'd probably put it out,
• 26:53
  I would say it was 1 week,
• 26:54
  maybe like a week,
• 26:55
  maybe two tops
• 26:57
  to where people were like,
• 26:59
  you know,
• 27:00
  how about them Jews though?
• 27:02
  Right?
• 27:03
  It happened quickly.
• 27:04
  It really did.
• 27:05
  Uh,
• 27:05
  and that is basically the intelligence of many of the critiques,
• 27:09
  uh,
• 27:10
  you know,
• 27:10
  it,
• 27:10
  it that is it,
• 27:11
  and you know,
• 27:11
  and I,
• 27:12
  I will say it's,
• 27:13
  it's,
• 27:13
  it's throughout,
• 27:14
  it's very pervasive in the media,
• 27:15
  it's very pervasive on the left,
• 27:17
  obviously there's a giant wing of the Democratic Party
• 27:19
  that seems to be pro-Hamas,
• 27:21
  not even just anti-Israel,
• 27:23
  but like literally pro-Hamas,
• 27:25
  and then there's a sliver as well on the right which is making,
• 27:28
  you know.
• 27:30
  You know,
• 27:30
  it's making me uncomfortable.
• 27:31
  There's nothing wrong with criticizing Israel.
• 27:34
  I don't think there's anything wrong with even saying,
• 27:36
  you know,
• 27:36
  like I wish they would handle this aid thing differently,
• 27:39
  or,
• 27:40
  you know,
• 27:40
  I wish they would,
• 27:42
  you know,
• 27:43
  declare victory and make this be over.
• 27:45
  We've even seen commentary like that from the Trump administration.
• 27:48
  I,
• 27:49
  I,
• 27:49
  I can
• 27:50
  understand those critiques.
• 27:50
  I don't necessarily agree with them,
• 27:51
  but I can understand them.
• 27:53
  When the only thing that you,
• 27:55
  when we're a day after October 7th,
• 27:58
  and you're out there like members of Congress were
• 28:01
  protesting against Israel on October 8th and 9th,
• 28:04
  it's hard for me to see anything else other than anti-Semitism.
• 28:07
  Yeah,
• 28:07
  no,
• 28:08
  100%,
• 28:09
  and uh it's just,
• 28:10
  it's
• 28:11
  the sad reality
• 28:12
  of
• 28:14
  The straw men that are created,
• 28:16
  so,
• 28:16
  when you talk about that,
• 28:17
  that's what I think of.
• 28:18
  I think,
• 28:19
  you,
• 28:19
  oh,
• 28:19
  you're not allowed to criticize Israel.
• 28:21
  No,
• 28:21
  clearly you are,
• 28:22
  because
• 28:23
  you do it all the time,
• 28:25
  and no one does anything to you.
• 28:27
  You're not canceled or anything like that.
• 28:29
  So to me that is one of the more egregious sort of straw man arguments that pop up.
• 28:34
  Oh,
• 28:34
  what,
• 28:35
  we're not allowed to criticize Israel?
• 28:37
  No,
• 28:37
  you can.
• 28:38
  But you need a legitimate criticism.
• 28:40
  No,
• 28:40
  you're just calling me an anti-Semite.
• 28:42
  Well,
• 28:42
  when you say the Jews control everything in the world.
• 28:45
  That's a problem because it's a ridiculous,
• 28:49
  and B,
• 28:50
  it's just,
• 28:50
  uh,
• 28:51
  not true.
• 28:52
  I will also say they're constantly like getting targeted for genocide.
• 28:55
  They must be very bad at controlling the world
• 28:57
  if they're controlling the world all the time.
• 28:59
  And also,
• 28:59
  then we'd see Donald Trump would say they,
• 29:01
  oh,
• 29:01
  Trump got him to not shoot a,
• 29:03
  a bunch of missiles at Iran or whatever,
• 29:05
  you know,
• 29:06
  that was going on at the time.
• 29:07
  We,
• 29:08
  Trump was always persuading.
• 29:09
  I was like,
• 29:09
  wait a minute,
• 29:10
  I thought.
• 29:11
  The Jews controlled Trump.
• 29:13
  I thought that's how this was working.
• 29:15
  Yeah,
• 29:15
  Apparently not.
• 29:16
  I'm very confused on the order of events here.
• 29:18
  We'll have to figure that out.
• 29:20
  I also want to give you a story that,
• 29:21
  you know,
• 29:21
  at least a little bit less serious,
• 29:23
  although I think there's some serious elements to it.
• 29:25
  The Sydney Sweeney story.
• 29:26
  Now this has been going on forever,
• 29:28
  and I honestly am at the point when I see Sydney Sweeney,
• 29:31
  first of all,
• 29:31
  she always looks fantastic,
• 29:32
  she's a very lovely lady,
• 29:34
  but like,
• 29:34
  you know,
• 29:35
  I'm kind of rolling my eyes honestly at the coverage of this.
• 29:37
  Um,
• 29:38
  I will say some interesting things did happen over the last 24 hours,
• 29:41
  one of which was,
• 29:42
  it does seem to be confirmed that Sydney Sweeney is a Republican.
• 29:46
  Um,
• 29:46
  she,
• 29:46
  her,
• 29:46
  uh,
• 29:47
  her voter information,
• 29:48
  I guess,
• 29:48
  was outed.
• 29:49
  She registered as a Republican
• 29:50
  in Florida.
• 29:51
  I will say I think it's really dumb that,
• 29:53
  that this stuff is public.
• 29:54
  I don't know why it's like OK that we go investigate everyone's political life.
• 29:58
  That doesn't need to be public information.
• 30:00
  What party you register under,
• 30:01
  that's dumb.
• 30:02
  Um,
• 30:02
  but secondly,
• 30:03
  uh,
• 30:03
  Donald Trump,
• 30:04
  uh,
• 30:05
  did a Truth Social claim here.
• 30:08
  Post here and
• 30:09
  he set these two things aside next to each other,
• 30:11
  which I thought was interesting.
• 30:13
  Sidney Sweeney,
• 30:13
  a registered Republican,
• 30:14
  has the hottest ad out there.
• 30:16
  It's for American Eagle.
• 30:17
  The jeans are flying off the shelves.
• 30:18
  Go get them,
• 30:18
  Sidney.
• 30:19
  On the other side of the ledger,
• 30:20
  Jaguar,
• 30:21
  just stupid and seriously woke advertisement.
• 30:24
  That is a disaster.
• 30:26
  The CEO just resigned and the company is in turmoil.
• 30:29
  If you remember this ad,
• 30:30
  uh,
• 30:30
  this was the copy nothing ad that came out and everyone was like,
• 30:34
  What the heck is that?
• 30:36
  It was like something that seemed like it was out of that peak woke 2022 type area,
• 30:41
  uh,
• 30:41
  and then came out in 2024.
• 30:42
  Everyone was like,
• 30:43
  what is going on with this?
• 30:44
  Now that CEO is gone,
• 30:46
  uh,
• 30:47
  Sydney Sweeney's doing ads that are kind of like more classic ads,
• 30:49
  a beautiful girl modeling jeans.
• 30:53
  Uh,
• 30:53
  I mean,
• 30:54
  is this,
• 30:54
  is it true,
• 30:55
  Dan?
• 30:55
  Is America back?
• 30:56
  Are we out of that woke period?
• 30:58
  I,
• 30:59
  well,
• 30:59
  first of all,
• 30:59
  I would say
• 31:00
  we're.
• 31:01
  It feels like we're moving out of it.
• 31:03
  It does feel like it is no longer a
• 31:05
  safe territory to be ridiculously woke at this point.
• 31:08
  It sure seems like if you start doing that,
• 31:10
  this is,
• 31:11
  it's not,
• 31:12
  it's probably not gonna go well for you.
• 31:14
  People are
• 31:16
  essentially just sick of it.
• 31:17
  But,
• 31:18
  but yeah,
• 31:18
  I mean,
• 31:18
  I feel like my critique though,
• 31:20
  of the,
• 31:20
  uh,
• 31:20
  first of all,
• 31:22
  I don't even know who Sydney Sweeney is.
• 31:24
  I had never heard of her before this American Eagle ad.
• 31:26
  It shows you how,
• 31:27
  uh,
• 31:27
  uh,
• 31:28
  you're not tuned knee-deep.
• 31:29
  I am in.
• 31:30
  No,
• 31:31
  not,
• 31:31
  not watching that show.
• 31:32
  I don't,
• 31:33
  I,
• 31:33
  no,
• 31:34
  I'm,
• 31:34
  it's sad.
• 31:35
  You can,
• 31:35
  you know,
• 31:36
  at Dan Andros on the X.
• 31:38
  Go ahead,
• 31:38
  make fun of me,
• 31:39
  but I don't even know who she is.
• 31:40
  And then also,
• 31:41
  I haven't even watched the ad because I'm like.
• 31:44
  Alright,
• 31:45
  I don't know how old she is,
• 31:46
  but in the picture she looks like 18 or 17.
• 31:50
  She's 27 or 28.
• 31:51
  Come,
• 31:52
  come on now,
• 31:52
  Dan.
• 31:53
  All right,
• 31:53
  but she,
• 31:53
  OK,
• 31:54
  she looks young.
• 31:54
  I don't know,
• 31:55
  I don't know.
• 31:56
  And I'm just thinking,
• 31:57
  OK,
• 31:57
  so it's fine,
• 31:58
  right?
• 31:58
  We're
• 31:59
  moving out of the woke stuff.
• 32:00
  Nobody wants that.
• 32:01
  But I don't know if we want to be like,
• 32:02
  yeah,
• 32:03
  America's back.
• 32:04
  Look at this,
• 32:04
  we got
• 32:05
  half-naked teenagers crawling around cars,
• 32:08
  like I.
• 32:09
  Yay,
• 32:10
  I guess,
• 32:11
  so we're back to being pervs.
• 32:12
  Well,
• 32:13
  uh,
• 32:13
  it's an interesting point because I think,
• 32:15
  you know,
• 32:16
  I think the relief,
• 32:17
  especially from the right as a reaction to the American Eagle thing
• 32:22
  is more like.
• 32:24
  It's much better than where we were,
• 32:26
  right?
• 32:26
  Like it's much better for,
• 32:28
  like,
• 32:28
  you know,
• 32:28
  again,
• 32:29
  she's,
• 32:29
  I don't know,
• 32:29
  you,
• 32:30
  you say you haven't seen the ads yet,
• 32:31
  like you may have seen some of the pictures.
• 32:32
  I mean she's,
• 32:33
  they're not particularly revealing ads.
• 32:35
  They're,
• 32:35
  they're playful sexual ads,
• 32:37
  you know,
• 32:37
  she's known for
• 32:39
  being well endowed for a lady.
• 32:41
  And uh you know,
• 32:42
  so there's some of that,
• 32:43
  but it's not,
• 32:44
  it's not like egregiously like she's half naked.
• 32:47
  I mean she's wearing jeans and clothing and
• 32:50
  you know,
• 32:50
  they talk,
• 32:50
  they joke a little bit about her,
• 32:52
  her appearance.
• 32:53
  Um,
• 32:53
  you know,
• 32:54
  but they're not,
• 32:54
  they're not like certain like if you remember back in the day,
• 32:57
  Dan,
• 32:57
  I think we were back,
• 32:58
  uh,
• 32:58
  you were back at the blaze when we were um.
• 33:00
  When the Paris Hilton ad,
• 33:01
  the Hardee's ad came out,
• 33:02
  the Hardee's and she was rolling around on the coat of eating at Hardee's,
• 33:06
  it's not it's not like that at all.
• 33:08
  It's much more,
• 33:09
  much more common than that.
• 33:10
  But I think like the idea what we're thinking of,
• 33:12
  you know,
• 33:12
  on the right,
• 33:14
  this is a relief that we're no longer doing
• 33:17
  the Jaguar thing.
• 33:18
  We're now back to at least where we were.
• 33:21
  Your point is interesting though,
• 33:22
  because like,
• 33:23
  I don't know if the American right,
• 33:25
  largely a religious conservative audience,
• 33:26
  should be like,
• 33:27
  hey,
• 33:28
  lots of boobs on TV again,
• 33:30
  we've made it.
• 33:31
  I mean that's probably not the right reaction either.
• 33:33
  Right,
• 33:33
  more boobs and butts,
• 33:34
  yay,
• 33:35
  let's go,
• 33:36
  and the,
• 33:37
  the moral majority is back in power again.
• 33:40
  Like
• 33:40
  yeah,
• 33:41
  no,
• 33:41
  I mean,
• 33:41
  I understand the sentiment like you're just wanting,
• 33:45
  you're so excited.
• 33:46
  That,
• 33:47
  that we're not seeing whatever that Jaguar thing was there,
• 33:51
  which,
• 33:52
  which,
• 33:52
  by the way,
• 33:53
  don't copy anything.
• 33:54
  It's like,
• 33:55
  you literally copied
• 33:57
  every DEI thing that's going on right now.
• 34:00
  That's all you're doing right now.
• 34:01
  You're
• 34:02
  that,
• 34:02
  so you,
• 34:03
  you actually violated your own ad.
• 34:05
  It's hypocritical,
• 34:06
  uh,
• 34:07
  in,
• 34:07
  in its awfulness.
• 34:08
  But I think,
• 34:09
  yeah,
• 34:09
  people are so,
• 34:09
  I mean,
• 34:10
  we've talked about the pendulum a lot.
• 34:11
  That's my big theory.
• 34:12
  I'm like,
• 34:12
  at some point,
• 34:13
  this thing's gotta swing back.
• 34:14
  Like you cannot do this.
• 34:16
  And get away with it forever.
• 34:18
  And,
• 34:19
  uh,
• 34:19
  you know,
• 34:19
  and particularly with young people because
• 34:22
  they have to feel so suppressed that they can't say actual truths.
• 34:27
  Like,
• 34:27
  I'm not allowed to mock
• 34:30
  some dude who shows up in a dress
• 34:32
  and he's 6'8 and 240 pounds or whatever,
• 34:36
  and he's obviously a dude and I can't make fun of that or even notice
• 34:41
  or even know,
• 34:42
  and I have to celebrate it.
• 34:45
  You can only suppress that for so long before it
• 34:48
  just says they say enough is enough.
• 34:49
  Yeah,
• 34:50
  and it it's clear what's amazing about the Sidney Sweeney
• 34:52
  ads are like they are not right-wing ads at all.
• 34:56
  They're just normal ads.
• 34:58
  They're like ads that you would expect out of
• 35:00
  a company that wants to sell their jeans,
• 35:02
  like that is what it is.
• 35:03
  Like the sex sells,
• 35:04
  like this is what you would do.
• 35:06
  Like the other stuff is like you're,
• 35:07
  you're trying to.
• 35:09
  It's like,
• 35:10
  hey,
• 35:10
  I don't know,
• 35:11
  um,
• 35:12
  you know,
• 35:12
  Eskimo celebrities,
• 35:14
  like in your ads,
• 35:15
  like,
• 35:16
  like that's sort of what the DEI thing is like.
• 35:17
  You're taking some obscure random thing and trying to make it
• 35:21
  like this big thing that everyone has to latch onto,
• 35:24
  right?
• 35:25
  So,
• 35:25
  you know,
• 35:26
  it's just,
• 35:26
  it's,
• 35:27
  people are so like,
• 35:28
  uh,
• 35:28
  no,
• 35:29
  like after 2020,
• 35:30
  I guess you had this like period of
• 35:32
  Safety where they could just unleash progressive ideology.
• 35:35
  And I think people have gotten enough of the progressive utopia
• 35:39
  over the last few years.
• 35:40
  We've seen,
• 35:41
  we've gotten a glimpse into this is sort of
• 35:43
  like the family man thing like for politics.
• 35:46
  We've gotten a glimpse now into hopefully we all snap
• 35:49
  awake and it's like back into 20,
• 35:50
  maybe back into 2020,
• 35:52
  we can sort of like redo some things.
• 35:54
  But.
• 35:55
  You know,
• 35:55
  the whole family man,
• 35:56
  the Nick Cage,
• 35:56
  like he gets a glimpse into what his life would have been like if he married the sweet,
• 36:00
  uh,
• 36:01
  other
• 36:01
  woman that he
• 36:02
  abandoned at the airport.
• 36:04
  So we've got,
• 36:05
  we've gotten a glimpse of what progressive utopia looks like.
• 36:08
  We saw the drag queens prancing around the White House.
• 36:12
  They've gotten their wish.
• 36:13
  Hey,
• 36:14
  let's,
• 36:14
  uh,
• 36:15
  go ahead and ban all the police and get rid of the.
• 36:17
  Abolish the police departments and abolish ICE.
• 36:20
  We've seen this,
• 36:21
  and it's as horrible as we've all thought,
• 36:24
  right,
• 36:24
  right.
• 36:25
  I,
• 36:25
  it's funny because like you think of
• 36:27
  part of it I just think is a relief that we're no longer there and,
• 36:30
  and,
• 36:30
  and that's what all this is.
• 36:31
  It's like I think of the same way of like when I think back to those moments in COVID
• 36:35
  when we're all like locked in our homes or whatever we had to do,
• 36:38
  couldn't go out to restaurants because they weren't open.
• 36:40
  And like the relief,
• 36:41
  just thinking back to that,
• 36:42
  I just feel a sense of relief.
• 36:44
  It's not necessarily embracing everything that's going on today,
• 36:46
  it's just a sense of relief.
• 36:48
  And I think like we've,
• 36:49
  we're just starting to wake up and realize how bad that 21,
• 36:53
  22,
• 36:54
  23 era
• 36:56
  was.
• 36:57
  Somebody posted the other day,
• 36:59
  you know,
• 36:59
  this weekend and it went viral and I don't remember who posted it,
• 37:01
  I apologize,
• 37:02
  but it was a.
• 37:02
  It was a retweet of,
• 37:03
  of an NHL tweet from the National Hockey League.
• 37:06
  You saw this.
• 37:07
  And it was like,
• 37:07
  trans men are men,
• 37:09
  trans women are women,
• 37:10
  uh
• 37:11
  yeah,
• 37:11
  the,
• 37:12
  what the hell is the hockey league
• 37:14
  telling us that about?
• 37:15
  Like it's just absolutely insane,
• 37:17
  and I think like we're we at least are past that.
• 37:20
  I don't know if this goes in the
• 37:21
  right direction from here,
• 37:22
  but uh let me give you the last word here now.
• 37:25
  Uh,
• 37:25
  yeah,
• 37:25
  well,
• 37:26
  I would just say I think we're at the point now,
• 37:28
  Stu,
• 37:28
  I think that pendulum has gone so far.
• 37:29
  I,
• 37:30
  me,
• 37:30
  who I don't wanna create any public stir,
• 37:32
  I'm just going about my business,
• 37:34
  my day to day.
• 37:35
  I don't wanna bother anybody.
• 37:36
  I don't wanna be that guy.
• 37:38
  But when I walk into like a store,
• 37:39
  a convenience store or something,
• 37:41
  and it's one of the ones that still has like the plastic barrier up
• 37:45
  in front,
• 37:45
  or like they,
• 37:46
  they just,
• 37:46
  you know,
• 37:47
  they're just too lazy to take it down.
• 37:48
  They obviously don't care at this point,
• 37:50
  but they just haven't done it.
• 37:51
  I'm almost ready to go,
• 37:52
  listen.
• 37:54
  You need to take this thing down or I'm never
• 37:56
  coming back in again or I'm protesting out here.
• 37:58
  It's just so stupid.
• 37:59
  Yes,
• 37:59
  it's so stupid.
• 38:00
  Or the people who are,
• 38:01
  I,
• 38:02
  I,
• 38:02
  I saw a woman walk across the street in front of my car,
• 38:04
  uh,
• 38:05
  yesterday,
• 38:05
  and,
• 38:06
  uh,
• 38:06
  and she was outside
• 38:08
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• 38:09
  wearing a mask across the road.
• 38:11
  But by the way,
• 38:12
  crossing the road in front of my car,
• 38:14
  uh,
• 38:15
  not really caring whether I,
• 38:16
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• 38:18
  but she's got the mask.
• 38:19
  Mask on and also it's in Texas in August or July
• 38:24
  and it's like a million degrees and you're like,
• 38:27
  you know what,
• 38:27
  I'm gonna put this cloth thing on my mask just on my face,
• 38:30
  just in case.
• 38:30
  I mean,
• 38:31
  it's just peak lunacy,
• 38:32
  lunacy.
• 38:33
  All right,
• 38:33
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  we went along there,
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• 38:35
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• 38:42
  Dan,
• 38:42
  appreciate it,
• 38:43
  man.
• 38:43
  Thanks for coming on.
• 38:43
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• 40:03
  for veterans.
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  This is just a lie.
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  Uh,
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  they're trying to roll back abortion access for everyone,
• 40:09
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• 40:10
  by the way,
• 40:10
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• 40:11
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• 40:13
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  uh,
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  We also don't want,
• 40:16
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• 40:16
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• 40:19
  So,
• 40:19
  uh.
• 40:22
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• 40:25
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• 40:26
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• 40:27
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• 40:34
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• 40:37
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• 40:48
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• 40:51
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• 40:52
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• 41:01
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  a unique situa uh solution they say to decline enrollment.
• 41:12
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  basically you'd have college students
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• 41:19
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• 42:53
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  I took my kids to go see Weird Al,
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• 42:56
  which I mean,
• 42:57
  I wasn't for me mostly,
• 42:58
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• 42:59
  Um,
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  but,
• 43:00
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  it was great.
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  And I will say,
• 43:01
  if you happen to be a type of person who,
• 43:03
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• 43:03
  wants to get away from some of the craziness in the world,
• 43:05
  what a great freaking night.
• 43:06
  I mean,
• 43:06
  the guy's 65,
• 43:07
  he's still,
• 43:08
  I mean,
• 43:08
  he's doing fat.
• 43:10
  He did all of his songs,
• 43:11
  a million costume changes.
• 43:12
  I don't know how he had so much energy.
• 43:15
  Um,
• 43:15
  it was,
• 43:16
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• 43:16
  fantastic,
• 43:17
  and if he's in your area,
• 43:18
  definitely worth,
• 43:20
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• 43:20
  the time,
• 43:20
  and I had a great time with my daughter Ainsley as well,
• 43:23
  uh,
• 43:23
  who,
• 43:24
  uh,
• 43:24
  we dressed up in Weird Al wigs and Hawaiian shirts because,
• 43:28
  yeah,
• 43:28
  my son was there too,
• 43:29
  he just wouldn't dress up with us,
• 43:30
  so
• 43:30
  he,
• 43:30
  uh,
• 43:31
  luckily got cropped out of the pictures.
• 43:32
  Um,
• 43:33
  that's,
• 43:33
  uh,
• 43:33
  you know,
• 43:34
  I think he was happy with that decision.