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Ep. 120: Everything You Wanted To Know About The Blue Wave (But Were Afraid To Ask) · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: This is The Opinionated Ogre Podcast,
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  SPEAKER_01: your weekly rampage through current events with little snark,
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  SPEAKER_01: a bit of foul language, and a lot of strong opinion episodes every Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are not safe for work or polite company of any kind whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am your podcast host, Doc Brown, aka The Opinionated Ogre.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is my co-host, Forrest Gump, aka Florida Woman.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hello, Florida Woman.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are you today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're not watching the live stream,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're currently wearing Halloween costumes because
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  SPEAKER_00: why not?
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  SPEAKER_01: We are one week out or less than a week out from the midterm elections.
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  SPEAKER_01: And by this time next week, the blue wave will have started to drown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Republicans all across America.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not going to have a complete picture next Wednesday morning
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  SPEAKER_01: when we start recording,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we're going to have a pretty good idea of just how good a night Democrats had.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did we win, win big, or holy fuckballs, did that really just happen?
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  SPEAKER_01: So maybe next week we're going to read a few headlines
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  SPEAKER_01: and see who's reporting reality and who's just coping.
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  SPEAKER_01: My bet is on there's going to be a whole lot of coping.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking forward to seeing, that's not a blue wave.
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  SPEAKER_01: This wasn't a blue wave.
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  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, Republicans are going to be like, it was all rigged.
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  SPEAKER_01: I may or may not be hungover.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking about live streaming Tuesday night and getting drunk just from laughing
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  SPEAKER_01: so hard and drinking beer while doing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we'll see.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm toying with the idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
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  SPEAKER_01: Should I do that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I should do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the recording for October 29th,
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  SPEAKER_01: 2026, and we have a lot to get to on episode 120 of the Og Pod.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are we ready to do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Woo!
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, then let's get to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's time for the Ogre Nation Deep Dive.
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  Roar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Roar.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are digging into pretty much the midterms.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is going to be like the most of the shows.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's happening next week?
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're going to start off with the Senate.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll get to the rest of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry.
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  SPEAKER_01: So back in April, I wrote...
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  SPEAKER_01: He wrote about how the GOP's big plan was to run.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I swear to God, they actually were going to do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were going to run on their tax cut bill,
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  SPEAKER_01: their big,
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  SPEAKER_01: stupid bill, their big, beautiful, whatever, their tax cut for billionaires.
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  SPEAKER_01: They did this back in 2017.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that crashed and burned, just like every Trump business.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every Trump business.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they figured, let's try that again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And surprise,
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  SPEAKER_01: it didn't work because regular Americans,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: their home base is like,
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  SPEAKER_01: What the fuck do I give a shit about your tax cut for billionaires for?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not doing anything for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they moved on to plan B,
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  SPEAKER_01: which at the time was the equally stupid idea of putting Donald Trump on the ballot.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said at the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: That this was doomed to fail because of course it's doomed to fail.
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  SPEAKER_01: Donald Trump's not actually on the ballot for Republicans,
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  SPEAKER_01: but he certainly was going to be on the ballot for Democrats because we were going
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  SPEAKER_01: to turn out in huge numbers to vote against him.
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  SPEAKER_01: His own people were not going to turn out to vote for him
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  SPEAKER_01: because his name's not there to tick off.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even if he was on the ballot,
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  SPEAKER_01: the 2024 election showed us very conclusively that even if Donald Trump is popular
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  SPEAKER_01: with his base, They barely eked out a victory in the 2024 election.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump won.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Republicans didn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the whole idea that putting Trump on the ballot was going
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  SPEAKER_01: to somehow help was ludicrous on its face.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they went for it anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was always going to fail.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Plan C...
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  SPEAKER_01: Which is what I said they were going to have to do back in April.
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  SPEAKER_01: Was inevitably 100% guaranteed going to be their default closing message.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which is what it always is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jaw-dropping, unhinged racism.
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  SPEAKER_01: And surprise!
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  SPEAKER_01: Here we are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Republicans all over the country are screaming bloody murder about Sharia law,
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  SPEAKER_01: terrorism, the evils of Muslims.
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  SPEAKER_01: Abdul El Saeed, our candidate in Michigan, has become...
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  SPEAKER_01: They're perfect boogeyman, except he's not because he's American.
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't even have a shred of an accent,
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  SPEAKER_01: but it doesn't matter because he's a scary brown man ready to steal their women
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  SPEAKER_01: and force them to wear burkas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Republicans are also still going all in on anti-trans ads, but those have long lost their punch.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's a good bet that we're not going to see a whole lot of money being spent
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  SPEAKER_01: on those ads in the next election cycle.
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  SPEAKER_01: In 2028, I seriously doubt anti-trans is going to be a main component.
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  SPEAKER_01: It'll still be there.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're not going to stop passing laws to hurt trans kids because they love being cruel.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they're not going to waste millions and millions of dollars on the ads
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  SPEAKER_01: because it doesn't whip their base of rage junkies into a mindless frenzy anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: But at this point, they're just desperate.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all they can do is hit the racism button as hard, as loudly as they can.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the more panicked they are,
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  SPEAKER_01: The more loud, the louder the screeching and they are screeching very, very loudly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you see what I was talking about where Trump said that Abdul El-Sayed was a fake doctor?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I did not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell them about that because I missed it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was just like, you've got to be fucking kidding me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was just in his speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: He called him a fake doctor because right now they're going all in on the he's
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  SPEAKER_00: an M.D.,
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: We talked about that last week on the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's just – it's the stupidest thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're calling him Islamic fundamentalist and blah, blah, blah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like what are you even talking about?
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  SPEAKER_01: And J.D.
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  SPEAKER_01: Vance keeps talking about him like he's not an American, like he wasn't born here.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, oh, he didn't even assimilate.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like if you're born here, you don't assimilate.
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  SPEAKER_01: You just are.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing to assimilate to.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're born here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're an American.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's like a saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, well, J.D.
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  SPEAKER_01: Vance's kids haven't assimilated yet because their mother is from another country.
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  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, they just can't stop hitting that racism button because it's all they have.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing else.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely nothing else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: the October surprise in the Senate was a massive small dollar fundraising advantage
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  SPEAKER_00: for Democrats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Republicans are getting their money from billionaires.
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  SPEAKER_00: Democrats are getting their money from actual real Americans who give a shit about the country.
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  SPEAKER_00: Punchbowl News reports that in just the first two weeks of October,
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  SPEAKER_00: some Democrats raised more than Republicans raised in the whole quarter so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, the top 10 candidates for this cycle in terms of fundraising are all Democrats.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's with Elon Musk setting half a billion dollars on fire trying
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  SPEAKER_00: to get James Tallarico, or as Donald Trump likes to refer to him, James Tallarico.
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  SPEAKER_00: Out of Congress.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why he thought that was a good name for him,
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  SPEAKER_00: because I heard James Talafrico, and I was like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it rhymes!
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  SPEAKER_00: So what does all this mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a massive enthusiasm gap, but also it speaks to the quality of the candidates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Republicans do not have tons of crazies this time,
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  SPEAKER_00: but they're shitty candidates anyways, like Ken Paxton.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't have Herschel Walkers.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't have foaming at the mouth morons so much this time,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they're just not good candidates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, Democrats have a boat full of rock stars and it's really pissing off the GOP.
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  SPEAKER_00: We love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Womp, womp, womp.
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  SPEAKER_01: So how bad is this going to go for the GOP?
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  SPEAKER_01: Really, really, really badly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Democrats need to pick up five seats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Technically,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's four seats to take the majority,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we all know Fetterman's going to switch parties if he's the 51st vote.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we need a spare to neutralize that backstabbing fuck.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, up in Alaska, Democrat Mary Patola is ahead.
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  SPEAKER_01: She just had a car accident, but she's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't anything serious, but it doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's ahead.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can tell that she's ahead because the regime is suing already to throw out
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  SPEAKER_01: the results of the ballot before the ballots are even counted on the legal theory
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  SPEAKER_01: that having two people with the same name on the ballot,
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  SPEAKER_01: both Dan Sullivan, is unconstitutional.
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked about this earlier this year,
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  SPEAKER_00: how Dan Sullivan is running against Dan Sullivan,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's been a court battle for several months.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, now it's the Republican Dan Sullivan and an independent Dan Sullivan,
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  SPEAKER_01: and Republicans are really mad about this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, to the surprise of absolutely no one,
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  SPEAKER_01: this happens somewhat regularly throughout the country because,
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know,
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  SPEAKER_01: a lot of white people have the same name,
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  SPEAKER_01: and Republicans have Never complained until it was a problem for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: But good luck getting that through the courts, you fascist fucks.
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  SPEAKER_01: North Carolina is pretty much a lock.
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  SPEAKER_01: Roy Cooper is stomping his nameless opponent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, I don't even know the name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every time I hear it, it just slips away because who cares?
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  SPEAKER_01: They're going to lose.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Republicans have abandoned North Carolina completely and moved on.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's two for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Republicans thought that they might have a chance to flip Georgia,
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  SPEAKER_00: but John Ossoff is hurting their neo-Nazi KKK candidate so badly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we don't say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not hyperbole.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, literally, he has connections.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of connections to neo-Nazis.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's weird how that's not more of a story for the press.
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  SPEAKER_00: So weird.
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  SPEAKER_00: So weird.
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  SPEAKER_00: But, I mean, technically, that wouldn't be a flip for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's still funny how hard they're losing in Georgia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hard enough that there's a chance that Democrats can flip
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  SPEAKER_00: the heavily gerrymandered state Senate because candidate quality matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes,
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  SPEAKER_01: it does.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ohio and Iowa are problems for the GOP.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both states are being severely damaged by Trump's trade wars and the price
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  SPEAKER_00: of diesel is going through the roof.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sherrod Brown is an excellent candidate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And while Josh Turek is not a household name,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump has put such a drag on the ticket that both states are threatening
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  SPEAKER_00: to flip blue.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, Sherrod Brown used to be the senator.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's only been gone for one cycle.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's kind of running as an incumbent, even though he's not the incumbent.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has a lot of name recognition in the state.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that would be three and four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Susan Collins in Maine is deeply unpopular and all of the rat fucking in
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  SPEAKER_00: the world hasn't stopped Troy Jackson from making it a competitive race.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is possibly five flips for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now you have Kansas has become a real opportunity for Democrats,
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  SPEAKER_01: which sounds completely fucking batshit insane.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Republican Roger Marshall is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is a greedy piece of shit weasel who has literally had his patients arrested
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  SPEAKER_01: in order to collect minor debts.
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  SPEAKER_01: 700 patients.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and we're talking debts of a couple hundred dollars.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, 700, he sued 700 patients.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, and some have been arrested for a debt of $150, $200.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which is crazy that they do that in Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but that's who this guy is and his opponent, Democrat Adam Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's a megachurch reverend and Kansas is being crushed by high diesel prices due
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  SPEAKER_01: to Trump's imbecile Iran war.
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  SPEAKER_01: Republicans are pouring money into Kansas to defend a seat that shouldn't be competitive at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: But now has a very real chance of flipping blue.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that would be six.
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  SPEAKER_01: Michigan was supposed to be an easy pickup for Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Abdul El-Sayed was too extreme, too Muslim, too brown.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in the last couple of weeks, that race has flipped away too.
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  SPEAKER_01: As El-Sayed has just gobbled everything up that the racist hate machine has thrown
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  SPEAKER_01: at him and kept going because quality matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mississippi and South Carolina are two more problems for the GOP.
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  SPEAKER_00: Darlene Graham is a terrible candidate and it's not
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  SPEAKER_00: at all clear her name recognition will be enough to get South Carolina to put her
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  SPEAKER_00: in her brother's seat as a voiceless rubber stamp for Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cindy Hyde-Smith is flailing and Democrat Scott Cologne has made
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  SPEAKER_00: the rest unexpectedly tight,
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  SPEAKER_00: sending the GOP into a panic and Democrats into attack mode.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's seven and eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Florida is a long shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I live here right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Florida is a long shot,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's a toss-up between Angie Nixon,
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  SPEAKER_00: the unapologetically loud Democrat,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Ashley Moody,
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  SPEAKER_00: another Trump stooge who used to be our Attorney General and who sucked.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would be nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there's Texas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sweet, sweet Texas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elon Musk is so terrified of James Tallarico winning Texas,
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  SPEAKER_00: he's pouring money like water into Texas and tweeting about Tallarico like he's
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  SPEAKER_00: a date who dumped him on prom night.
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  SPEAKER_00: So far...
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  SPEAKER_00: So far, over half a billion has been spent in Texas,
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  SPEAKER_00: most of it coming from the right,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Tallarico has maintained a steady lead the entire time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's almost like Republicans nominating a sleazy criminal isn't working out for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know it's so weird.
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  SPEAKER_01: So all told, Democrats have the potential to flip up to 10 seats, which is fucking crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: They only need five, at least three of those seats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alaska, Ohio and North Carolina are as close to his luck as we can get it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of the remaining seven, maybe four of them are real danger zones for the GOP.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a bad night sees Democrats picking up six to seven seats.
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  SPEAKER_01: A catastrophic night sees eight to ten flips.
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  SPEAKER_01: The thing is, the 2028 Senate map is really not good for Republicans for a change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like most of the time, the Senate map is really bad for Democrats.
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  SPEAKER_01: The 2028 map is not good for Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's very few opportunities for them to flip a seat.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's a couple of places where if there's another wave elections,
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  SPEAKER_01: Democrats could be eyeing a filibuster-proof majority,
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  SPEAKER_01: which they're going to need in order to get rid of it altogether and expand
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  SPEAKER_01: the Supreme Court.
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  SPEAKER_01: Make Puerto Rico and D.C.
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  SPEAKER_01: to states and generally end the ability of Republicans
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  SPEAKER_01: to ever steal another election.
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  SPEAKER_01: So next Tuesday and a couple of weeks after that,
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  SPEAKER_01: as the states finish up and blah, blah,
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  SPEAKER_01: has potential to be unbelievably catastrophic for Republicans
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  SPEAKER_01: with long term ramifications for the rest of the country.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that brings us to the House.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not going to dig into all the specific House races because we would be here
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  SPEAKER_01: for the next three hours and Florida woman's face is going to itch off like all
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  SPEAKER_01: the skin is going to just peel at this rate.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the overall picture is incredibly good for Democrats.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are contesting seats in deep,
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  SPEAKER_01: deep red areas and Republicans are being forced to just blow money,
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  SPEAKER_01: just waste it on seats that they thought were very, very bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their big gerrymander project is turning into a giant dummymander.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we've talked about this a bunch of times.
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  SPEAKER_01: The safe seats they had are now going to flip because of their own arrogance,
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  SPEAKER_01: stupidity, and mindless obedience to a dying pedophile in the White House.
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  SPEAKER_01: We love that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But let's talk about what that blue wave might end up looking like.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2018, Democrats won 41 seats in the House, giving them a majority of 235.
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  SPEAKER_00: The press spent weeks arguing that it wasn't a blue wave.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: No way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can't be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cool, cool.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Love that.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Right now, Democrats hold 217 seats and could flip over 20.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: That would be half of what they flipped in 2018, but it would still give them a larger majority.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: It would be less because of all the heavy GOP gerrymandering,
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: but the blue wave is so large, supposedly safe red seats are going to flip anyway.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: Which we warned about when Republicans decided they wanted to water down all
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: of those safe seats.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I didn't even know the phrase dummymandering at the time,
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: but if we had, we would have used it.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: I look forward to being told it's not a blue wave because only 20 seats flipped.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile,
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Republican efforts to give themselves a permanent majority in the House have crashed
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: and burned.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: This doesn't mean the Democrats can relax.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: They still have several blue states they can finish gerrymandering.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: And once they gain a trifecta in more states,
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: which we'll discuss in a second, They should absolutely gerrymander those as well.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Republicans wanted to fuck around, and now they're going to find out.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right,
• 17:27
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Let us talk about governor's mansions and how badly that's going for Republicans.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: Who had a number of insults to lob at her own child.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: But Acton's mother has no relationship with her or her brother because she decided
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: to support her husband after he sexually assaulted Amy when she was 12 years old.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: She then fled the state with the rapist,
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: I believe to like Pennsylvania,
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: left the kids behind and allowed him to remain on the lam and not go to jail.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: But instead of disavowing the ad, Trump supported it.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: Of course he did.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: And of course we all know that he loves racists.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: After all, he is one.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: The funny thing about that is that other Republicans told Ramaswamy, don't do this.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to backfire.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: But they were just so – him and his – He also ran another ad featuring a husband and
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: a wife, and the husband has been convicted of sex crimes.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: I know that misogyny and violence against women is like a core component of these people.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: But my God, you can't say it out loud, man.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: You got to leave that part unspoken.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: When you make it front and center, you're going to turn people off.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, I guess they, you know, no one can be Trump except Trump.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: So now they're going to pay the price for that.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck them.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Now, there are 36 gubernatorial races this year,
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: and Decision Desk HQ has predicted that we could take 21 of them.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Democrats are aggressively campaigning to flip as many government mansions
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: as possible,
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: Including in states they might not ordinarily pay attention to,
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: like Oklahoma, where Trump won by 34 points just two years ago.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: The Democratic Governors Association has invested half a million to flip that seat,
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: and it could pay off.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: The Democratic candidate is tied with Republican, according to recent polls.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Partially because they're getting their ass kicked by Trump's tariffs and,
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: you know, the whole diesel situation.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: And he brought in a bunch of beef from other countries.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's right.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: Ranchers are also getting their ass kicked because of Trump.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: And Republicans are just going along with it.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oklahoma isn't the only deep red state becoming a headache for Republicans.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: In Florida,
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: Ron DeSantis won his last election by nearly 20 points,
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: which was the largest margin since 1982.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Republican Brian Donalds is only ahead by two points over his Democratic opponent.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, in Texas, Greg Abbott is only ahead by three points.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Flipping a governor's seat in a state with a Republican-controlled legislature is
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: a mixed blessing, right?
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: It means Republicans will immediately move to strip the governor of their power.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: We've seen this before.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: In North Carolina,
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: Wisconsin— Who use their lame duck session to just strip the power and just give it
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: to the legislature because Republicans are sore losers and fascists who ignore
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: the will of the voters at every opportunity.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: Still, losing control of the state's executive cripples their ability
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: to inflict nonstop harm on the public.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: So any win is a huge victory for the country.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: We are now going to move on to state legislatures.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: So 15 state legislative chambers could be broken up during the midterms.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's giving Democrats an opportunity to snatch some of them away from Republicans.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Of the 15 chambers, nine are controlled by Republicans, three by Democrats.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: The University of Virginia Center for Politics nonpartisan newsletter,
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Sabato's Crystal Ball, predicted as many as 10 chambers could shift left.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: Democrats could also potentially flip hundreds of state seats in November.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: This would be the first time since the 2010 Tea Party Uprising that Democrats have
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: a really, really good election at the state level.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: And considering all of the shitty laws the right has forced down the throats of
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: the American people, the shift is desperately needed.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: And we talked about this during episode 117 a couple weeks ago.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans losing a trifecta means no more easy Republican tyranny.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: But it also means an end to continued gerrymandering.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like they can't gerrymander any more than they already have in those states.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Which is really the real win there.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: But on the flip side,
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: every new state that Democrats pick up a trifecta in is
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: a new state they can gerrymander and they can just erase Republican House seats out
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: of existence.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Six states coming under full Democratic control,
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: that is dozens of Republican-controlled House seats that can just go poof
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: into thin air.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: And we can already hear the howls of tyranny and that's unconstitutional from the right.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: If Republicans have a worst case scenario on next Tuesday,
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: this is really going to be the fuck around and find out election that's going
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: to cripple them for the next decade or more.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: And this is a party that's running out of time.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, Ted Cruz was crying big sobby tears over what state was it?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was Virginia.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: When Virginia was trying to do redistricting,
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: he was like, I can't believe Democrats are doing this.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, motherfucker, your state started this and you're going to complain about Virginia?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck you.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: But Republican Party, they're in a lot of trouble here.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: If they can't solidify their power, They're out of fucking time here.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: The more Nazi they become, the less electable they get.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: And they're becoming very Nazi very fucking quickly.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: John Oliver's this last week,
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: this Sunday show was all about how many Nazis are in the Republican Party.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: And if it's getting on to John Oliver, that's Main Street.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: The press can only ignore this for so much longer.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, I've been talking about it for years.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: John Oliver is talking about it now.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: This is going to permeate into the press soon enough.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: They can't ignore it for much longer because the fringe of the right never stays the fringe.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: And what we've talked about repeatedly here for Democrats is if they get control
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: of enough of the House and they end the filibuster and All the gerrymandering ends.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: All the filibuster ends.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans lose the Supreme Court.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then everything that Republicans have been doing in the States, it's over for them.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: They have to have this unfair advantage in order to do what's Texas is not a red state.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: Texas is extremely purple, tilting blue.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot more of us in Texas than you can tell because it's
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: so much voter suppression and it's so gerrymandered.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: Look at Wisconsin.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: Once we got rid of a lot of the gerrymandering and the voter suppression,
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: suddenly Republicans started losing there.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's a miracle.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: And that's a purple-ass state.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: But all of that goes poof.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: And we don't have to cheat to do this.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's just us evening the playing field.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: We don't even have to tilt anything in our direction because we don't need to cheat to win.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: We just have to keep Republicans for cheating and they always lose.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Always.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: They have to cheat to win.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: So overall,
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: Tuesday is a huge deal in order to stop the creeping fascism,
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: but it's also a very huge deal.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: In terms of steering everything back in the right direction,
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: the ramifications for Tuesday will have a big impact on what happens
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: in twenty twenty eight, which could be a very huge step in finally.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: Finally getting through this fucking minefield of Republican fascism and obstruction
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: and everything else they've been doing to just destroy this country for
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: the last 60 years.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: So big deal.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not looking good for Republicans, but it's looking really, really good for us.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: It is time to move on to headlines for short attention spans.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: We warned that the Republicans' big ugly bill would cause millions of Americans
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: to lose access to food and medical benefits.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: And that's exactly what's been happening,
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: which is another reason they're getting really hurt next Tuesday because a lot
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: of people have felt that pain.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: And going into 2028,
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: this is going to be so much fucking worse for them because everyone's going to know
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: who did it.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: And they're not going to blame trans kids and immigrants.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: I keep saying this.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: According to new Department of Agriculture numbers,
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: which God knows how much they've been massaging that,
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: but there's been a 13% decrease in the number of people
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: who receive food benefits this year.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: That equates to roughly 5.1 million people.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: The right has claimed that roadblocks were enacted will incentivize people
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: to get out and get jobs.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: But experts and reality have pointed out this is not true
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: and there's more people are just now going hungry.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: This country has added a really skimpy 776,000 nonfarm jobs.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: During the last two years of Biden's presidency, 2.6 million nonfarm jobs were added.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: Bit of a difference there.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: Rona Kamar,
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: founder and executive of Feed Louisville,
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: told the Guardian that the food bank has always had enough food
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: to feed its community in the past.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: Quote, but now that we are seeing is every day the shelves are empty at the end of the day.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: So every bit of food that comes in our kitchen every day goes right back into
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: the community at the end of the day.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: Schools are also having a hard time feeding students.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: Many schools with large population families
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: that receive SNAP benefits would receive grants
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: to feed their entire schools free lunch and breakfast.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: But now because of the declining numbers, schools aren't receiving that money.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: In Houston,
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: 26 schools that previously provided free meals are not eligible for
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: the program any longer.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: And this was a specific goal of the budget cuts.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans openly fight against feeding children
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: while that's going out there going,
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so pro-life.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: I love children.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't want to feed the little fuckers.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's the Republican Party.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's who these people are.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's like...
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: Are you even listening to yourself?
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: Don't you go to church on Sundays and praise Jesus and tell yourself what
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: a great Christian you are?
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: How do you not feed kids?
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to be mad at adults, great, fine.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: You're still a piece of shit.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: What do you always say?
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: There's no hate quite like Christian love?
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, seriously, no one hates children more than a pro-life Republican.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: They're just fucking disturbing.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: And yes, TV's right.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: Trump's out there bragging about how rich he's getting and how much money
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: the oil companies are making.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: And people at his fucking rallies can't afford a hamburger.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: But he's out there bragging about how rich he's getting from this.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, you sick fucks.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I've repeatedly told y'all that my husband will not leave the country
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: because he's concerned that he won't be able to come back home if he does.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: He's a permanent resident and during a typical administration when he goes
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: through customs, they say, welcome home and let him go on his way.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: But that's not what's happening right now under Trump.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: And recently a person with the same status as my husband died in ICE custody
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: after being arrested at a port of entry.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Emiliano Andrade Covarevious was detained at a port of entry in Laredo,
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: Texas in June after trying to come back home after visiting Mexico
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: where he was building a house.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: ICE agents detained him and claimed that he illegally obtained his green card
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: because he failed to disclose a 2004 theft arrest.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: His family has said that's a lie, that he did disclose it.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I will tell you this,
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: that when you apply for your permanent residency,
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: you have to get certified copies of your police records for every place
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: that you've ever lived.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: So it's hard for me to understand how he could have lied about that.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: While in custody,
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: his family claims that he wasn't given access to proper medical care,
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: even though he had diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart condition.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sadly, he died this month after being found unresponsive in his bed.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: He's the seventh person to die this year in ICE detention in Texas,
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: just in Texas,
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: and the second at the Rio Grande Processing Center where he was being held.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: Emiliano was in the U.S.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: for decades,
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: raised kids here,
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: had a green card,
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: did every single thing he was supposed to do,
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: and still that wasn't enough to save his life.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why people like my husband are once again living in
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: the shadows like they're fucking undocumented even though they're fully legal
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: and why we always say Nuremberg them all.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: Nuremberg them all.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now,
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: it's important to understand that conditions are like this in the detention centers
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: on purpose.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: Stephen Miller, we now know he deliberately told them to do this.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: There's now documentation that he wants them like this,
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: which means when this regime falls,
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: and it will, Stephen Miller must be fucking prosecuted for murder.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: He has to.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: He has to go to prison for the rest of his life.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: Or he can just drink cyanide and hopefully I get a picture of his dead body
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_01: with some foam coming out of his mouth.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: I really want that as a fucking desktop.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: Stephen Miller dead on my desktop would be fucking magic.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: As long as he deads himself.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: Don't fucking kill your kids.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_01: Leave your kids alone.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: They're young enough.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: They might fucking recover from you.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: But just if you kill yourself,
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: Stephen,
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: please make sure you do it someplace where someone can get a picture of you.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: But he has to go to fucking prison for the rest of his life.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: And it has to be state charges so he can never be fucking pardoned by some future president.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: He has to spend the rest of his life in prison.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, preferably surrounded by roaches and freezing conditions or no air conditioning
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: so he can experience what it's like because that's what he wanted for other people.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: Last week,
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: we told you about Trump and Musk arguing about who is trying to murder Ukraine
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: on behalf of He's saying,
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: well, actually it was because Ukraine violated the terms of security.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: We know they're lying because if that is what it was,
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: then that's what he would have said from the beginning.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: And you know Trump is involved in this
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: because they both were just pretending we don't know how this happened.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe Trump literally said maybe no one did it.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: So we know they're both involved and we both Both know they were doing it on behalf
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_01: of Russia until the public pressure got to be too much because they both got outed
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: as being Russian stooges.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: Both of these people are fucking traitors and they know Trump's not going to go
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: to jail because Trump has immunity.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_01: And
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: he has to be fucking prosecuted for literal fucking treason.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm sure Trump's going to try to give him a pardon before he leaves office.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm kind of hoping he just falls.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_01: Elon Musk,
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: even if he gets a pardon,
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: his businesses have to be everything that every government contract has
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: to be canceled and his businesses have to be audited from top 10.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: So they should do all of that and then kick him out of the country permanently.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: So that's just my opinion.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: Agreed.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: So Trump's golf course renovation saga continued this week.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: Judge Anna Reyes,
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: a Biden appointee,
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: issued a ruling prohibiting the renovator-in-chief from closing
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: the East Potomac golf links in D.C. or cutting down any more trees.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: The judge was furious after DOJ attorneys argued last week
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: that she shouldn't pay attention to Trump's claims that the golf course would close
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: for renovations beginning on November 15th.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, the government attorney said, The renovation was in its planning stages.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't have anything concrete together and they don't know what they're going to do.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_00: But don't listen to Trump's tweets because that's not true.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: Please ignore the president.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't have any authority.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: The judge wrote, quote,
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: rarely if ever has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: to believe the sitting president.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: And yet here we are.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: In her latest ruling,
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: she ordered the government to give a 10 day notice to the court before closing
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: the public golf course or making any, quote, Irreversible Modifications.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_00: She concluded her opinion by writing, quote, the court earlier stated, I'm not the Lorax.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't speak for the trees.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: The court still does not speak for the trees.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_00: It speaks only for the law.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: These people are fucking monsters.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: So this is not great.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: Bird flu has been on our radar for a couple of years.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's dangerous and we have a bunch of fucking morons in charge of the country's healthcare.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: We've repeatedly talked about how bird flu is...
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: Experts are very concerned that we're getting a lot closer to the bird flu making
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: that leap and becoming a huge fucking pandemic for everybody.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's not going to take a lot.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to take one or two little mutations and then it will be viable in
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: the human population.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: And once it starts spreading, that's it, right?
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if it does happen,
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: it would be significantly deadlier than COVID-19 because that's just the nature
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: of this particular virus.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: For it to spread to humans, though, to get to this point, it would
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: That would be much more helpful if it found an intermediate host.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_01: That would be an animal that's vulnerable to diseases that spread in humans and birds.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of like a bridge between the two.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_01: That host animal would need to be in a crowded place where it can For
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_01: over two months,
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: an outbreak of bird flu has raged uncontrolled on a Utah farm that raises thousands
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: of
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's fun.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: They're used to doing this already.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: Instead of trying to stop the outbreak and prevent it from spilling into humans,
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_01: state and federal officials,
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_01: aka Republicans,
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_01: have done little to accept try to keep its existence quiet, our investigation shows.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_01: Basically, what they should be doing is killing humans.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: All of the fucking mink.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: This is what they do with chickens when they get infected.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: They kill the chickens to keep it from spreading.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: They're not doing that with the mink because they don't want to lose the money.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: Mink's a big business.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: They make lots and lots of money for this and they don't want...
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so on the one hand you have capitalism.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to cost them money because it would be millions and millions
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: of dollars they would be losing by killing these meek.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: But on the other hand,
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_01: you have a human and health department, whatever, run by a literal eugenicist.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: RFK Jr. wants another pandemic.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: He wants disease to spread.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: He's against vaccines,
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: partially because he doesn't believe in vaccines,
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: but also because he believes disease Disease culls the herd that
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_01: the weak should die.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: That if they don't survive, that that's good for society.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_01: And another pandemic would be fucking amazing.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: He wants people to die from disease.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_01: He wants the elderly.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: He wants the weak.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_01: He wants the disabled.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: He wants these people gone because he's a eugenicist.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: He sees them as unfit.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: He's not shy about this.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: He's not shy about it at all.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_01: Because he's concerned a bird flu pandemic would kill millions of people.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_01: That is a net positive for him.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_01: And for the regime, that kind of chaos would be fantastic.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_01: Because it would allow them to clamp down on the country and just take more power
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_01: for themselves.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_01: These are the people who screamed against,
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_01: you know, it's like, oh, government overreach, lockdowns were bad.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_01: They would be the first ones.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_01: To come in with jackboots stomping and declaring a public emergency.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_01: And now you have to give us complete and total control in order to stop this rampaging disease.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_01: And that means no more elections, no more protesting, no more this.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: No more of this.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_01: No more of that.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we just have to keep doing this until the emergency's over.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_01: When's the emergency over?
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_01: Never.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's how they, I mean, this is what they're thinking.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: Remember,
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_01: in the first Trump regime,
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_01: when COVID started to spread,
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_01: More than half a million people died because they didn't care.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was 1.4 million people.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well, half a million extra people died on top of what it should have been.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: So they could have done something and been like, we kept this from spreading.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_01: We're heroes.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: But they figured it would be more politically advantageous to do nothing.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what they did.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_01: Because they figured it was going to kill black people more.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: It was going to kill poor people more.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it was going to hurt blue cities more.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_01: And that would help them.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_01: And we saw what happened.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_01: And imagine that.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: But with a disease that's really, really deadly.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like COVID was deadly.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine something far more deadly.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: And then we have a fucking healthy human resources run by RFK Jr.,
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_01: Who really does not care how many people die.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because he's too busy snorting coke off of toilet seats.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: Dissecting fucking whales and shit because he's fucking crazy.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: So.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, let's wrap up headlines with some good news.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_00: Matthew Iglesias wants us to stop paying attention to the elections in other countries.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: He says it's really bad for our democracy.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: But he's a moron who hasn't been right about anything in years, so fuck him.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: In just the last seven days,
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: Brazil overcame election interference from Meta,
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: Trump, and Russia to re-elect Lula da Silva over Flavio Bolsonaro.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we should learn from Brazil's example when Trump tries again.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we should do that.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: No, probably not.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: It should be noted that Flavio immediately fled Brazil to come and hide in
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: the United States because we welcome foreign far-right dictators now,
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: at least until 2029,
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: when Flavio will have packed up and run again to another country
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: because we are taking power back.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_00: We have an extradition treaty that Trump will ignore,
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: but President Democrat in 2029 will absolutely honor.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile,
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: a two-year protest led by students in Serbia resulted in an electoral defeat
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_00: for Russian puppet Alexander Vucek, another blow to the global far-right cabal.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: One wonders when Vucek will be arriving for a prolonged vacation in the United States.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_01: Any day now, I'm sure.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_00: Israel had its election on Tuesday and the results are not quite as clear cut.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right now it appears that Netanyahu lost, kind of.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_00: His party doesn't have enough seats to control the government
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_00: which would normally mean the war criminal is out of power.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_00: But none of the opposition parties have a majority and none of them are willing
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_00: to make a coalition with the Arab-Israeli party,
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: which won a sizable chunk of the vote to take the majority.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: Though I did look this up before we started and there are now talks happening
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_00: between the opposition parties.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully that means that they'll come together.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know,
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: obviously we understand that the Arab Israelis would make it harder
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_00: to continue slaughtering people in Gaza.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that would be a condition of them joining a coalition.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, you want to be in majority?
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_01: Stop the war in Gaza.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: And West Bank.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: Man,
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: I've been seeing a lot of videos of what the settlers are doing in the West Bank,
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_00: and it's really horrific.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I always knew that it was horrific because unlike some people,
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_00: we've been following this for two decades.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_00: But I think that seeing the actual videos on TikTok is so much different
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_00: than just hearing that it's happening.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's really quite impressive.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_01: And then they turn around and go, it's like, well, we're the victims.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, that's how that works.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: If Israel ever wants to prove that they're not the monsters Netanyahu turned them
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_00: into, they better suck it up.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, they don't get to complain about being global pariahs.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_00: We have faith, though.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_00: They've kicked them out of power before.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: The reason this all matters is that these Ettoreans...
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_00: The reason this all matters is because these authoritarians work with each other,
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_00: both officially in public and unofficially behind the scenes.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_00: On paper,
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_00: China and Russia are hostile to one another,
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_00: but North Korea has been sending supplies and soldiers
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_00: to help Russia invade Ukraine.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_00: North Korea does not sneeze without the permission of Beijing.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: Officially, we are at war with Iran and their ally Russia.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: Officially,
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_00: we are at war with Iran and their ally Russia supplies them with targets,
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: targeting data to kill American troops.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_00: But Trump is buying diesel from Putin for billions and pressuring Ukraine
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: to stop blowing up Russian oil infrastructure and blaming Ukraine for
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_00: the diesel crisis, even though it's a crisis that he created.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_00: But authoritarians work together.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't seem to understand this,
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: just that he's simply lying to his audience because no one writing about politics
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_00: as long as he has is that fucking stupid.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_00: Last week,
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_00: he said protesters shouldn't fight back against ICE because that only helps Trump,
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_00: which is obviously fucking not true.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_00: Ignore these people and celebrate the downfall of dictators and scumbags.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_00: Next Tuesday is our turn to kick global fascism in the fucking teeth.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I can't wait for us to do it.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to be wearing my boots.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be delicious.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: I will not be wearing my beard.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_01: All right, it's time to move on to self-care of the week.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_00: On Saturday, my oldest son, Aiden, came down from college and we voted together.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_00: He was so cute.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_00: I finished voting and he was in there for like 10 minutes longer
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_00: because he was checking his votes like a test to make sure
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_00: that he didn't accidentally fill in a bubble next to a Republican candidate.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_00: And when he didn't know who he was going to pick for mosquito control...
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_00: He had to stop and look up the candidates, which I thought was so funny.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_00: Mosquito control.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know who to pick either.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, that one sounds good.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_01: Republican mosquito control.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_01: They might be pro mosquito.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_00: Or yeah, seriously.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, because you already hear it all the time here.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_00: They're spraying us with chemicals from the sky.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, got to let that dang high fever spread.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_00: So one of my son's professors is actually canceling classes on election day
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: and giving students extra credit for voting,
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_00: which I thought was a really great idea.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_00: After we voted, we drove three hours to the University of Florida in Gainesville.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: For those of you who pay attention to football, that's the Gators in the swamp.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: For those of you who pay attention to true crime...
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's where the movie Scream,
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_00: there was a serial killer in Gainesville,
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_00: and that's why the movie Scream was created.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: It was after that guy.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_00: He was killing college students, you know.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I get that.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: So we watched his girlfriend perform at a dance competition.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was a really cool show.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_00: I really enjoyed it.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_00: I liked it a lot last year, too.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: And she actually did almost all of the choreography for her dance team, so it was extra special.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_00: And although they didn't win, we had a lot of fun.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_00: Though, on the way home,
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_00: I had to drive because my son had to work a 12-hour shift the next day,
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_00: and I was listening to my true crime podcast,
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_00: and he literally popped up from his seat,
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_00: turned the podcast all the way down to like a seven so
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_00: that it sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher, looked at me, and then laid back down.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to drive.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_00: I had to drive for two hours in silence and I was pissed.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: And the next day I woke up,
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_00: there was a text message from at 530 in the morning that said,
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm really sorry, mom.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: I know that I irritated you.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: I was just trying to sleep.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, well, you should be happy that we made it alive because at one point I did not off.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh my God.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_01: He's got to learn how to fall asleep with noise around him if he's going to be a doctor.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's gonna have to figure that out.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_00: But for now, you know, he's annoying.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_00: So on Sunday, my aunt and uncle stopped by and visited us.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a few months since we've seen them because they live on the other coast.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_00: And that was really nice.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: I like when we can get together.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_00: We had a good time at my brother's house.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then this week was the Bills bye week.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_00: For those of you who don't watch football, that means that they didn't play this week.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_00: They had a break.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_01: Aww.
• 52:21
  SPEAKER_00: Which was good, I guess, because there wasn't a game to send me into a psychological spiral.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was wondering why I didn't get any screaming tweets from you or texts.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_00: However,
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_00: we do play the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday,
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_00: so I'll be back to yelling at our defense again.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_00: But until then, go Bills!
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Saturday, Anastasia drove us down to Richmond so we could all go see Lila.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: Then I had her parallel park for the first time.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't actually tell her she was driving the entire way or
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_01: that she would be parking when we got there because I found
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_01: that telling her Beforehand makes her super anxious about doing this stuff.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_01: And while she just does it in the moment,
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_01: she doesn't have time to get stuck in her own head in the doom loop.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_01: She did fantastic.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_01: She was, however, extremely mad at me afterwards.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_01: This is the price I pay for pushing her along.
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's what I do.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_01: We had a really nice afternoon with Lila.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't get to take her to vote because she had already early voted at my prodding.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: I kept poking her.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_01: Did you vote yet?
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_01: Did you vote yet?
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_01: And she was like, yep, we voted.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Yes!
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_01: So she's got that one down.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_01: I've taught her well.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_00: Always go vote early.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh,
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_01: but I let the girls spend most of the time that we were down there with each other
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_01: while me, Mrs. Ogre and Jordan hung back.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: They haven't seen a lot of each other since Lila went to school
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: and they needed some time to reconnect and they did.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_01: So it was really nice.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_01: We, we went out to, um, there's a place near nearby.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot with Carrie, Carrington, Carrie town.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a really nice shopping area and the girls were running around.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_01: They were going to different stores and they had a really great time.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Tuesday night,
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_01: Jordan had a concert at school that we found out about Monday,
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_01: which was a little annoying, but that wasn't ideal.
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_01: But Anastasia and I went while Mrs.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_01: Ogre stayed home because she had a virtual meeting for something
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_01: with Anastasia's school.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's not the first time we've done Divide and Conquer, but...
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_01: She wasn't thrilled she didn't get to go, but what are you going to do?
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_01: Jordan was supposed to sing a song with his class,
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: with his special needs class,
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_01: but he decided that he would rather stand on stage and disco dance instead.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_01: He channeled John Travolta and he spent the entire time,
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_01: you know, going up and down with his arm.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_01: Staying alive.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was doing Staying Alive the entire time.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was very entertaining because autism does what autism does.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it was really cute, guys.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_00: I wish we could share a video with you, but
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_01: we can't.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, my God.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_01: It was hilarious.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_01: But, yeah.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, that's what we've been doing.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_01: It was nice.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_01: It was really nice to see Lila.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_01: Jordan was having a good time.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_01: And Anastasia was sitting there laughing.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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• 55:36
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Bob.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_01: Bob has weighed in.
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  SPEAKER_01: The blue wave is here,
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  SPEAKER_01: finally,
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  SPEAKER_01: November 3rd, 2026,
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  SPEAKER_01: just five days until we stormed the beaches and stomp the fucking Nazis into
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_01: the dirt.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: They cannot stop it.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_01: Even though they are trying so many, so many stupid illegal things.
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• 56:04
  SPEAKER_01: Bring a friend and be prepared for disruptions on election day.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_01: Because these are cheating, desperate fucks.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_01: The regime is freaking out.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_01: But they cannot keep you from voting.
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_01: Do not let them stop you.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, you are never alone.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_01: We beat the fascists once and we will fucking do it again.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_01: Adios.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adios!
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