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Diogenes Club | E33 - Processing Grief, Understanding Victory, and Continuing Our Efforts · Diogenes Club

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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_01: go
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  Ah!
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  SPEAKER_00: I fucking love that song.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: That is just that song is like just perfectly apropos.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, listen, it's we listen.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: This is the first day since the weekend.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: It was so dreary down here, down in Florida.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: We've had like torrential rains.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been it's been awful weather today.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the first day the sun is shining.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm seeing people absolutely just Happy and motivated and there's
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  SPEAKER_00: a different vibe out there right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a different vibe in the chat.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a different vibe right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope. There is.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Hope Stone, courtesy of Beth Cruz.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: Courtesy of Beth Cruz.
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  SPEAKER_01: First off, before we get in, thank you.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: I am so... That song just makes me so happy.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: The...
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just so happy about that.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_01: If you guys could, there is a QR code over Eric's head for Democracy Rises.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go like it on Substack.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go like it on YouTube and share it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Get some views on it because I want to start hearing it on TikToks.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we could easily have this as a TikTok background song fucking going viral.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Easily.
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  SPEAKER_01: While we do it, let's get Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries out of leadership positions.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to talk about that today.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: You're going right off the bat.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no, no. Hold on.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: I was about to, I was going to drop. That was a hook.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eric, Eric, that was the hook.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was the hook.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're leading them in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today, we're going to have a great conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got to talk about a couple of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, go ahead, Eric.
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  SPEAKER_00: The American people, very loudly, with one very unified voice on Tuesday, said,
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  SPEAKER_00: we are sick of this shit.
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  SPEAKER_00: No pun intended.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we are just going to suck less, but I do a whole lot more.
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  SPEAKER_01: We fucking did it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I was looking at the data yesterday with Victoria and John on my show,
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: and we were looking at trends and how, even like Miami-Dade,
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  SPEAKER_00: the shifts in Miami-Dade, 30.
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  SPEAKER_00: 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm looking at this Mississippi Senate election.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you guys understand that what Scott Colombe is doing in Mississippi right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a Trump plus 23.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a Trump plus 23, and he shifted at 23 in the other direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a 46-point shift in Mississippi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nick, you're never going to hear me say this ever again in our lifetimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: A 46 point shift in Mississippi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mississippi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every vote matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: If it didn't, they wouldn't be trying to take them away from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And guess what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Every vote in a state in the South.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we're going to just go right into this, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, hey, y'all, welcome to the Diogenes Club.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Nick Paro, still not your dad, joined by my good friend, Dr. Eric Lulow.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm happy as a clam over here.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we are both happy as a clam today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, Maine threw Susan Collins into a lobster trap and just let her go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maine, y'all, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for getting rid of her.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Michigan flushed Caley Stevens down the toilet,
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  SPEAKER_01: and congratulations to Senator-elect Abdul El Saeed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, congratulations. You deserve that win.
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  SPEAKER_01: You worked your ass off to get that vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: How about Dr. Danny Andrews in South Carolina?
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got so much to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we have Josh Turek in Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, not even close wins.
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  SPEAKER_01: Five-point majority win for a senator in Kansas
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  SPEAKER_01: on Democratic side is a fucking landslide.
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  SPEAKER_00: How about Lauren Boebert losing her seat?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, my God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye, Boebert. Bye-bye. Bye.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beetlejuice came and picked you up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye now.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: And said, bye, Felicia.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Colorado, for your efforts.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, Arkansas, we did not win at the federal level.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: Before we start thanking everybody else, Arkansas, we did not win at the federal level.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, we won at the state level.
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  SPEAKER_01: We flipped 10 house seats in Arkansas. Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which broke the Republican supermajority in our House, in our legislature.
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  SPEAKER_00: And same in Florida. The Democrats won enough seats.
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  SPEAKER_01: No longer just push it through.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we can finally start doing stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Democrats in Florida flipped enough House seats and Senate seats.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no supermajority in Florida anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: We went from 18 to 23 Democratic supermajorities.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the Republicans are not above 25.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is basically 23-23-ish, I think, on supermajorities,
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  SPEAKER_01: if not more Democratic supermajorities now.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would have to look that number up on the Republican side.
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  SPEAKER_01: But on the Democratic side, we are now going to be
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  SPEAKER_01: at 23 state-level supermajorities plus mixed majorities
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  SPEAKER_01: and even more even legislatures across the country in multiple states now.
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  SPEAKER_01: And 28 Governors.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have the power right now, as our good friend Lawrence Winterman said,
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  SPEAKER_01: is to actually finish approving the National Voter Compact,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Interstate Voter Compact Act,
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  SPEAKER_01: so that we can do away
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  SPEAKER_01: with the Electoral College and have a national popular vote
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  SPEAKER_01: for the President, as it should be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we don't need The legacy of slavery anymore holding us back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because that's what the Electoral College basically is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is the legacy of slavery.
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  SPEAKER_01: It allows states to have more power than others when it should just be
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  SPEAKER_01: a popular vote by demand of the people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you work for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: We put you in those seats.
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  SPEAKER_01: We give you permission to sit in our chairs
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  SPEAKER_01: and Those are our public property.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are there for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: You work for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: The American people are ready to remind this government that it works for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And part of what we're going to be doing and talking about today, too,
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  SPEAKER_01: that we've already jumped into, one, celebrate the fuck out of all these wins,
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  SPEAKER_01: y'all. Be happy. Have hope.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have joy. Enjoy this. I'm happy.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I get to smile right now because guess who's going to get impeached?
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: Pete fucking Hegsa.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Or fired.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: Or fired. And if he gets fired, that does not protect him from legal consequences
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: We can change laws in this country too to allow U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: citizens to be extradited to the International Criminal Court.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because for all the people who are saying that Pete Hegseth can just be sent off
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  SPEAKER_01: to The Hague, no, he cannot.
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  SPEAKER_01: The U.S. has laws in place that say that we will not send any of our citizens
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  SPEAKER_01: to the International Criminal Court.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can change that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have the power to change that and actually make the International Criminal Court
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  SPEAKER_01: a meaningful thing because we are a global community.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what happens in one nation impacts what happens in others.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're a global society.
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  SPEAKER_01: And thank God for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you praise God, thank us, the people, for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we put in the effort and we did it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we're not done with our efforts because we need to stop certain people
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  SPEAKER_01: from becoming leaders in their respective chambers of Congress.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chuck Schumer cannot become Majority Leader for the Democratic Party on the Senate level.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Hakeem Jeffries cannot become Speaker of the House, in my eyes, in my opinion.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are better people.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are better candidates for both.
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  SPEAKER_01: Both have failed as leaders.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to get this out and then I'm going to drop it off to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And because you and I have been talking behind the scenes and we're both
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just going to get out of the way and let Nick have his thing here.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just for this final thing on this is I don't think they can
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  SPEAKER_01: because they have not met the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're not prepared to be the leaders that we need right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are peacetime leaders.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: This is not peacetime in politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is political warfare.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'd rather it be political warfare than actual physical warfare because civil war
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  SPEAKER_01: on that front is not a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not advocate for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is not anything we want.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can win this politically.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a political war requires people who are ready to meet the moment and fight.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we can look at who voted
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  SPEAKER_01: in the highest percentages in this nation and say,
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  SPEAKER_01: That population deserves the leadership position because there are candidates
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  SPEAKER_01: who are ready, able, and willing to do that job.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm talking Black women.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: I think Jasmine Crockett would be a phenomenal Speaker of the House
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  SPEAKER_01: because she is also ready to step into the presidency if needed
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  SPEAKER_01: because of impeachments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or other. Or if he flees the country and then J.D.
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  SPEAKER_01: Vance gets impeached.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, Jasmine Crockett could be the Speaker of the House.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: We're not allowed to say that name.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, I'm just saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: No saying J.D. Vance.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't need...
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  SPEAKER_01: And, based on the Constitution,
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  SPEAKER_01: Congress can elect the Speaker of the House and it can be whoever they want.
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  SPEAKER_01: As long as they meet, like, a couple basic requirements...
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  SPEAKER_00: Citizenship requirements, age.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's it. They don't have to be a member.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, every single Speaker of the House has been a member of Congress in U.S. history.
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  SPEAKER_01: That does not mean it needs to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jasmine Crockett could be.
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  SPEAKER_01: AOC could be.
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  SPEAKER_01: And my third one in that list is Becky Ballin of Vermont because of the way
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  SPEAKER_01: that she handled the Epstein hearings.
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  SPEAKER_01: And grill the fuck out of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think she would be a super underdog.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I think the populace that voted in the highest percentage has
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  SPEAKER_01: the right direction that we should be leading from.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we should get out of their way and let them lead because they deserve it
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  SPEAKER_01: through the work that they have put in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eric, as I finish my rant.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just in such a good mood.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's my turn now. I'm in such a good mood, dude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody, thank you for joining Nick and the Diagne Show.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find my stuff on Substack at...
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  SPEAKER_01: I love you, dude.
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  SPEAKER_01: I apologize. I just had to get all that out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love you too, bro. All right, so...
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, my God.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK, so I'm not going to go to the house thing yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a couple of things I need to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know it's already been said before, but you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Stacey Abrams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Beto O'Rourke, for paving the way for what has happened in the Sun Belt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their work is what led to what happened in Georgia and Texas,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it is not appropriate to not acknowledge
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  SPEAKER_00: the The amazing groundwork infrastructure that has been built in Texas and Georgia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah. Now, if the DNC had spent a fucking penny in Florida,
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  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't be having Byron Donalds or Ashley Moody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being governor elect and senator elect right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK, but here's the thing, everybody.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: Ashley Moody does have to run in two years because this was a special election
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  SPEAKER_00: to fill Rubio's seat.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: So because she was appointed,
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  SPEAKER_00: she had she had to actually win the election to fill the last two years.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: So she's on the ballot again. And then guess what?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Angie Nixon ain't going anywhere.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: And for those of you that don't know anything about Angie Nixon, she is a born organizer.
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  SPEAKER_00: She can do the same thing here with a little bit of funding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're going to start seeing Florida start to build the same type
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  SPEAKER_00: of infrastructure that we saw in Georgia and that we've seen in Texas.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: What's going to be amazing is I don't think anybody really understands what
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: the landscape of Texas is going to look like for 2028.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about an entire flip of an entire massive electoral state
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  SPEAKER_00: that has jurisdiction over a presidential election.
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  SPEAKER_00: From Inoza all the way down through the state house,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's only one elected GOP person in Texas, and that's Ted Cruz,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he's disliked more than fucking Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, Texas is a whole different planet now, okay?
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: We're not even talking about Amy Klobuchar winning the governor's race. No.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what she's going to be able to do in Minnesota.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the historics.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about what Amy Acton.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right. I mean, like what Amy Acton was able to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way, I talked about this yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the single greatest thing,
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: and we are never going to mention Ramaswamy's name after this again. God.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: But if you guys didn't hear the story,
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: he tried to call her while she was on stage doing her acceptance speech to concede,
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: and she would not answer the phone call.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: It was basically like, fuck off, I'm not talking to you.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: After what you fucking pulled in that ad, I'm not talking to you.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: May we never mention that piece of shit's name again.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: Three birds for you, Brahma Swami.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: And if anybody doesn't know David Pepper...
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: Who's also the Lieutenant Governor-Elect of Ohio.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I mean, Josh Sapiro, they've got the trifecta in Pennsylvania now.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Josh Sapiro won by like 80, it was like 84% to like 21%.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was like this massive wipeout election in Pennsylvania.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Chris Pappas defeating John Sununu.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, do you understand that there is not a single, in New England,
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: outside of the two governors,
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: there is not one elected Conservative GOP member of Congress in New England.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not disagreeing.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: In New England states, there are no GOP representatives or senators in New England.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a complete blue wipeout.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: A Republican governor in the state of Vermont with Phil Scott is very,
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  SPEAKER_01: very different than Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Same with Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah. And same with Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are very big differences.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a different field.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Phil Scott has said no to Donald Trump repeatedly,
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: especially around National Guard usage within the U.S. soil.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yep. So, okay, I'm not done yet. I had a monologue.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: I get mine.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Don't interfere in my monologue, goddammit.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: So when we start looking at house races, we flipped Missouri 2, Indiana 5.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Bye-bye. New York 17. Hey, welcome.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations. Take a long walk.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Representative of elect Fred Wellman.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: You deserve it, brother.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: You deserve it, brother.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah. Great. Really good guy.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Fred Wellman, great guy. What's his face?
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  SPEAKER_00: New York 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's his name?
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  SPEAKER_01: Brad Landry.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was a flip-flopper.
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  SPEAKER_00: New York. No, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: New York 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mike Lawler.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye, Mike.
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  SPEAKER_00: Toodles. Arrivederci.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, I don't think anybody, I mean, we all see the numbers,
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  SPEAKER_00: but like just the immense, overwhelmingly tsunami that this was.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Democracy, so Decision Desk HQ is basically what they're calling.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm going to get it up for you right now.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: I've got Decision Desk already on my screen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so what they're looking at when the final number...
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: 200, 200, look at the house number.
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  SPEAKER_00: The final house number that they're projecting is 262.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you effing fucking kidding me?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's one more than a two-thirds majority.
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  SPEAKER_00: 262.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what you need for a two-thirds majority in the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're talking about a 90-seat advantage in the house?
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  SPEAKER_00: That is generational.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's...
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: And like the things that we're talking about here, 55 or 56 seats in the Senate,
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: that's generational.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Those people are going to be there for six years.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: And the Republicans have more states to defend in 28 than the Democrats do in the Senate.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Look at California.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yo, I know I'm interrupting.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Look at California.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: There are four out of 52 districts in California.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: Four went to Republicans.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's 48 seats in California.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Of all of the districts on the West Coast,
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: seven went to Republicans.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Seven, not including Idaho or Utah or Arizona.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: From this entire block of the nation, seven Republican seats.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm going to borrow a line from Chairman Michael Steele.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: He's been saying it like a lot on the weeknight.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all can change the lines on the map, but you can't control the voters.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: And the redistricting in Florida, miserable failure.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: The redistricting in Texas was a miserable failure.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: The redistricting in Virginia was only reversed because of the Supreme Court.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: Look at North Carolina.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: North Carolina has out of the 11 house seats in North Carolina, Three are Republican.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: North fucking Carolina. Let me zoom in.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking like, you know, tobacco. We're talking about tobacco.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: Four are Republican.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is, this was a, I mean, when you roll the clock back 160, 160 years ago,
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: this was a secession.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I mean, let's talk about Georgia now where every leadership position in Georgia.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, let's look at the Senate.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: At the state level is, is a, Forget the Senate.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about the state leadership in Georgia.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: I posted this, I think, last night.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: Every elected state position in Georgia is a woman of color.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: African-American women are now running the state of Georgia.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: In every elected position in leadership.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: As they deserve to be because they have put in so much fucking work.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: And they are so overqualified for these roles. Like...
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is not a they were gifted these seats.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: They fucking won.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: These women won.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: These people deserve these seats because they earned them through hard work.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: And we should remember that and reward people like that because they didn't earn it
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: through privilege.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: They earned it through trust.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yep. So just, we were talking about Fred Wellman in Missouri too.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go back to the house map.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: So in 2020, in 2024, that was a Trump plus eight district.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: Wellman flipped it plus 12, 20 point swing.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Look at that. Look at that.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: Seven, Trump 7.85%, Wellman 12.78% swing.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: When you look at New York 17, which is Mike Lawler's district where Kate Conley defeated him.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: So that was a Harris plus half a percent.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: OK, and then she flipped it three and almost four points.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: So when you when you go back and look at data. Right.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: And this is this is what I do.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: I, you know, I look at data all day long, you know.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: So what does it tell you about how the Democratic Party handled the whole thing
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: with Biden and Harris, that they didn't have a primary?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: People want the candidates to duke it out and to go through the gauntlet.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: OK, we do not want things to be anointed.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want people being past the baton or just because you've been there
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: for 30 years, you get to be speaker or you get to be majority leader.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: No, you run through the gauntlet and you earn. Yes.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Your keep, just like everybody else.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: Period. So that's why I'm not in favor of Schumer, by the way, becoming Speaker.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, being a majority leader.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think Jeffries has a role to play in keeping the caucus in line as part
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: of leadership because that's what he's really been groomed for,
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: and he does a really good job with that.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Going out in front of the microphone is not his thing. Okay?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: He can do something other than be Speaker of the House, though. Right. Right.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: He can be in the leadership to help the caucus with voting and to keep the members
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: in line to make sure everybody's on the same page for voting.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a strength of his.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's what Pelosi groomed him for.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: But to be the Speaker of the House,
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: to sit up there next to whoever the Senate majority leader is going to be,
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: standing behind Trump and basically just breathing down his fucking neck.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: Do you want to do a polymarket bet on whether I will not put money in the polymarket.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm kidding. I'm being facetious here.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: But just the overall odds of Trump never doing the State of the Union ever again.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: I would rather, instead of Trump doing the State of the Union,
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: I would love for whoever the Senate Majority Leader is and the Speaker
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: to invite Mark Carney to come down and do and to address Congress.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: I would watch that.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: That any day of the week and three times on Sunday. It would be so petty.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: And three times on Sunday.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: It would be so petty and
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm all for it.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, I'm watching the chat and I know Susan just put a quote up there about Cory Booker.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, they all take PAC money.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: OK, it's part of the process now.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: However, and I've been doing some research on this.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: We were talking Nick and I mentioned before the before the show,
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: we were talking about how I was looking into what it would take to kind
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: of reverse Citizens United.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: The problem around Citizens United is that the Supreme Court made a ruling based
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: on the First Amendment.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: So the only way to completely reverse Citizens United would be to do a constitutional amendment.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: And you can't do that. You don't have the votes for it.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have the states for it.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: What you have to do is kind of work end arounds.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's actually a new bill that's on the floor that has 180 sponsors.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's called the Disclose Act of 2026.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: You can build in more legislation around that and some other pieces of legislation
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: to add into the criminal code.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: Penalties for non-disclosure under Section 504.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Or Section 304.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: And you could do some things around that to kind of redefine Citizens United.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: But the problem is, is that you just can't get rid of it because of the way
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: that the Supreme Court ruled on the First Amendment of Citizens United.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that's part of the problem.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: But this is stuff for like, like lawyers to figure out, not for, you know, physicians.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, I just want everybody to understand, like, listen, we're done fighting.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: We've got to stop the infighting over a pack of this pack or you pack or me pack or whoever.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, PACs are bad.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: Dark money is evil. Okay? We need to end it.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: We got to figure out a way to work out a better system where elections are publicly funded.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: No more dark money.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the only way we got to get back to that again.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because at least where small dollar donations, no more than $1,000 per individual.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay? We got to strengthen the laws around the nonprofits donating to get
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: the tax write-offs and all this other stuff.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: No foreign investments.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Can't be a foreign...
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: A foreign LLC donating into a campaign fund.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: Crypto's got to, I mean, there's so many,
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: there are things that this Congress could do yesterday.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like the House and Senate could pass rules to immediately end stock trading
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: and insider trading by members of Congress.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: They could do that without the president.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: They don't need to do that.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: So there are things that we can, that we can encourage this new batch.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, 100 women will be serving in Congress in the next Congress.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: I just, That's just fucking amazing.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to look at all of this.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Look at this.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: 41 flipped.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: So far, 41 flipped.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans flipped two.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: Let me show all the flips across the country.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: Look at that.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: Look at all of those flips across the country.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to put in mind here that most of these states, the Dakotas, Wyoming,
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: Utah, did not have...
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Did not have like gubernatorial elections, did not have.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_00: And you got to remember, most people in most of these states,
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: most of these states are closed primary.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: So this is really the first time a lot of independent voters or 20 percent
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: of the country that are independent.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: This was their first time actually getting to have a say so as to where they want
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: the country to be directed to.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: And we had states like Idaho,
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: if you had listened to Dana and Lawrence on the Daily Whatever yesterday,
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: I believe it was, talking about Idaho,
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: was they had on their ballot what their state gun was going to be,
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: like their state pistol.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's going to, that draws out a certain demographic more so than anything to get.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: But that happens all the time.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's one of those cheap electoral tricks that parties should be using
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: to draw out their core constituents.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: Get them to vote on stupid shit that they want.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: Add some stupid shit that gets people excited to come in.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: Why not?
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: It works.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: Some of these gimmicks do work.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: And we see it.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: Idaho could have gone blue in areas, but it didn't.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_01: They had a choice of what pistol they wanted to be their state pistol.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: And you know all the gun lovers in Idaho are going to go, well, I want it.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: I want this one over that one. I want to go.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to make sure my votes counted in that shit.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: So let me go out there and do it.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, I want you to pull up Arkansas.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: Pull up the Senate race in Arkansas.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think it's really important.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because Tom Cotton only won by, I think, like 11%.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: Or 12.5 or whatever. But look at the trend.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: Look what happened.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was a Trump plus 30.5.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: And it shifted to Schaffer, to Schaffner by 18.8%.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Nearly 19% shift.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's a 48-point swing.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: No, that is a 49.5-point swing.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, 49-point.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and there was no money dumped into that by the DNC.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: Nope, we were left in to do our own thing.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I just want to make sure we point out which districts went blue in Arkansas
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: for Hallie Schaffner on the Senate race because this is really,
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_01: really important based on our demographic breakdown.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: The entire eastern side,
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: all of the counties right here, Went blue in Arkansas.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: Those are farming counties.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Those are farming counties.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: Hallie Schaffner won the farmers because she is a farmer.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because that's who this election was about was we have lost more farms,
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: family farms in Arkansas this year, these past years, than any time in history.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: And Hallie Schaffner is a farmer, and the farmers voted for her.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, Fayetteville up here, where Washington County is,
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: voted for the Democrats,
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: for Hallie, Little Rock, and Jefferson County.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: So Pulaski and Jefferson County also went blue.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: That was not a surprise.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: Neither is Fayetteville and Washington County.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: Benton County, we got close-ish.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: We have a long way to go in our county.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: Our state is going to change.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: We got 10 seats in our state house.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: Our state's going to slowly change.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: But we need money here.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_01: We need a 50-plus all-territory strategy all the time.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: We cannot just keep investing in single areas.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the ways that we could actually fix all
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_01: of this is limit how spending is done on government ads and use that money
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: in other ways.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like we don't need to be spending billions of dollars on elections.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: We need to be spending billions of dollars on people.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: Minute. Because I want
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: to show people why money is important at the national level
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: and infrastructure.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: So go down to Florida 13.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: You want the house side?
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: The house. The house side.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: Go to Florida 13.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: This was a district that was specifically.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: Where is Florida 13?
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: So, Florida House starts getting there.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus, what is going on?
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's Tampa. No, it's Tampa.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: So it's that. There we go. No, no, no. Go south. Right. There we go. Okay.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: So this was a county.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: This is Pinellas County.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: This county was specifically redistricted to protect Anna Luna Seat.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: Look how close she got.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: So Lila Gray.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: So Lila Gray was a Brigadier General.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: Military.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: OK, she flipped this district 25 points.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: Look at how close she got.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: OK, with no money from the DNC and no money.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: Florida has been 25 years, just like Arkansas, just like Mississippi, just like,
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: you know, whatever.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: Pretty much rigged for the Republicans.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: They rigged Florida for the.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: OK, no, I have a question after.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I want you to look at the look at the trends.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: She flipped this district 25 points.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: If there had been a little bit of money, because I'm going to tell you right now,
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: Byron Donalds had $160 million to spend.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: David Jolly had 25.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_00: Angie Nixon had less than that.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: So if there had been some more money from Schumer and the DSCC and the DNCC, you know what?
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: With a little bit of infrastructure, this could have flipped.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: Florida could have flipped a couple districts.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: So my question for you, and maybe you know the answer because you live in Florida.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: What is the percentage of Yeah.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_01: Or vote difference that needs to exist for automatic recounts.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: Half a percent.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: So she's just outside that range.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: So if you go down, right.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: So, right. So it's outside the range.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: But if you go down to, I think it's house.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: One second. It's it's let me see.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually house district.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: One second.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_01: Look at some of these numbers, though.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: House 24 plus 61%.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_01: House 20, 52.5%.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that was Debbie Wasserman Schultz. That was a new district.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: That was one of the redistricted areas.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: So she ran, you know, 22.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: 22 was won by Pia Danidia.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: That was a new district that they specifically... That 22 was actually Louis Frankel's.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: That was my old district.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm now in 23, okay? Okay.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: Twenty one, twenty three was actually Moskowitz's old.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now he's twenty five.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: Now he's he's twenty five and he won.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they specifically.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_00: So out of the four counties that out of the four districts that DeSantis tried
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: to rig for Republicans that were plus Trump,
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: that were Trump plus twelve plus the Democrats flipped all of them.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like it didn't work.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to look at twenty seven.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: So this is Maria Salazar.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if anybody doesn't remember what Maria Salazar's seat was.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: So Maria Salazar was the one that she voted for the war in Venezuela.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: And then she started backtracking against Trump and the administration.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: But look at the percentages.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: So Elliot Rodriguez ran against her in the last cycle.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: But look at the flip numbers.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: It was a Trump plus 14 and he flipped it 28 points the other direction.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is within the margin of the recount.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: They're going to be recounting Florida 27.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: She might be in trouble.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_01: This might be another flip.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: And there's still 5% of the less than 5%, but there's still votes to be counted.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: Correct. Now, what was really interesting, look at 26 with Nicole Laughlin.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I had interviewed Nicole Laughlin months ago.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: And this is how close Florida was.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: If we just had a little bit of fucking infrastructure, okay?
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: She lost by 6, 70.77%.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: Mario Diaz-Billard was probably going to lose this seat.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: But if she had a little bit more money, we flipped 27, we flipped 26.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's a 32 point, 34 point swing.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's a huge swing.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_00: So what does it tell you with Hispanic Miami,
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: Latin Miami, Western suburbs?
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: People are just pissed.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: This was a Trump plus 18 district.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: And here's a question.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know... What did Courtney ask?
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: Courtney asked about for the farms...
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_01: Was how many were brought up by AcreTrader.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know the number on that, if any.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm not going to speculate.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: But how many votes are left?
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: I just wanted to bring up the point.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: So go to, if you go, if you scroll up, go to, oh, go to remaining.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: On the, scroll up a little bit.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: On the right, next, go, no, go down, scroll down.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: Go down underneath where it says Lachlan plus 15.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's not going to say much.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be the mail-in ballots.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because that's the question of how many votes do we think are remaining?
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: And will that have a significant impact?
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because the difference in percentage here is...
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, what just happened?
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they broke this by county.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_00: Going back to what it actually is.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_01: The difference in votes here is less than 2,000.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, there was a third candidate.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_01: Do not blame a third candidate for getting votes.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_01: They earned those 2,348 votes.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_01: Unless they were put there to be a swing
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: and then that's a miss again on the DNC
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: for not investing money into this race so that the candidate could get out
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_01: the correct information and the DNC could have been there to help
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_01: And provide better information, those votes could have swung to Lachlan.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_01: However, with votes remaining,
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_01: Democratic voters tend to be more likely
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: to use a mail-in in ballot if they're able
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: to.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: And the majority of the votes that are remaining are probably going
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: to be Broward County for her.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: The mail-in votes for Broward, because if you look at the actual map,
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: that top part of the district is actually southern Broward County.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then the one below it is Western Dade, Western Miami-Dade, which is very heavy Republican.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_01: And so let's say, let's say 1,000,
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_01: 2,000 at most more votes come in, maybe. I don't know.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: There could be even a lot more than that. I don't know.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know the population of this county.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_00: Florida is very interesting.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_00: So when there's a recount trigger in Florida,
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: They allow you as a voter,
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: if you're notified that your ballot is in question,
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: you are allowed to re-verify your signature.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so if things got thrown out on accident or put into a bin
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_01: to say these might be or might not be counted, they can fix them.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: But more importantly, what I'm talking
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_00: about is Florida was very close and that was
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_00: without any money from the National Party.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: OK, this was like this was a ripe environment for the Democratic Party
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: to basically flip Florida from red to purple to blue.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_00: It became purple ish.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: But this this was a missed.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: This was a miss.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_00: Just like just like Senator Tester said,
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: Montana Bogner running as an independent was a miss because he told him to run
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_00: as a Democrat.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_00: And it was the same thing with what's-his-face in Nebraska.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: He told the National Party, told him to run as a Democrat, not as an independent in Nebraska.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_00: And he wound up losing.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you need to run.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: There were a few misses in the cycle.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you need to run as an independent when it makes more sense.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to see what the population of Florida District 26 is.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: Florida's congressional district is
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_01: approximately 804,169
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_01: to 851,047 residents,
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_01: depending on the specific census and American Community Survey data set used.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: The census reporter, data USA congressional district.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: Now the question is how many people actually voted
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_01: or estimated voters in that district?
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_00: Right. So the way Florida works is
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_00: that mail-in early vote gets counted first, then day of,
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: and then they process mail-in.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_00: So the early vote, and that includes mail-in ballots,
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: and then they count in like absentee and stuff on the back end.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll see what we'll see what the final numbers look like.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's going to take that's why there's a 60 day window between the election
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_01: and when Congress and or the president gets certified.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, I'll be honest with everybody.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_00: When I was watching the early returns and Florida's very quick in there,
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_00: Florida was very I mean, the one thing about Florida is the numbers come
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_00: in very quickly.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I was I was a little despondent. I was getting upset.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_00: My wife looked at me and she was like, what's going on?
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I'm not looking.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not like the way Florida is turning.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't know if this is going to be the national if this is what it's going
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_00: to look like nationally. But then as the night went on, I was like, damn, you know.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I can tell you right now that as a party,
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: Democrats need to do a better job of figuring out how to balance out the day
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: of voting.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you saw the numbers with Tallarico,
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_00: he won 66% of day of balloting.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: Compared to Paxson.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yes, Paxson's a bad candidate. Paxson sucked. Okay.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, Paxson, we're talking about a twice impeached attorney general
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_00: that should have been convicted and whatever.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_00: But the fact that he won by 12%.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's just, I mean, and that was a 30,
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_01: 39, 39 point change.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_01: 39 point swing from Trump.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't even close.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I just, it's, no.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: So when the, when, when, when Drumpy Poopy Pants said, I'm on the ballot,
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_00: Americans said, okay, we'll put you on the ballot.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're more than happy to put you on the ballot and we're going
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_00: to show you what we think of you.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, If I'm if I'm a Republican and just because you won this election,
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_00: do not think that you have a mandate by your state.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_00: The trends and everything say otherwise,
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_00: even if a Republican won your district or won your congressional district
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_00: or won your Senate seat or your governorship.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: OK, this was not a mandate.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_00: This was a clear message like we're coming for you.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: And you better start working for us or you're going to be out of a job.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_00: So let's go back to Mississippi because I think it's the funny,
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_00: the story about Cindy Hyde-Smith
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_00: and Scott Colum is a very funny story
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_00: that I want everybody to know about in case you haven't heard the story.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: So Scott Colum was actually nominated by Biden to take a U.S. federal court seat.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so he was going through the advice and consent process.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: Cindy Hyde-Smith was the lone vote against him in committee.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: She's the one that torpedoed his federal judicial appointment.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's only justifiably funny that he's going to take her job.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, I hear karma comes back to bite you in the butt.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: But look at that swing, too.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_01: That is a 46% swing.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: 6%.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's insane. Thank you. You know what? Thank you to Mississippi. And you know what?
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: And the DNC did not throw any money into this.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about this too.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like early last year, earlier this year, even last year,
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_01: we were talking about this was Democrats needed plus 30
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: or more everywhere
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_01: to actually do this, to get the majority we needed.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, we came crazy.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_01: The fact that the House happened
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_01: and the Senate is really close means a lot.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_01: It also shows where the Democrats left votes
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_01: on the table in areas we could have won.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_01: The Democratic Party could have changed...
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: The National Party could have changed the landscape in Arkansas.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: We lost...
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_01: A Senate seat, we lost Arkansas 2, which could have easily been a win,
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: and gotten rid of French Hill.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_01: We could have gotten rid of Tom Cotton, too.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, he's more hated than Josh Hawley is.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's more hated than fucking Ted Cruz,
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: and Ted Cruz goes on vacations every time there's a disaster in Texas,
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_01: because he hates his own people.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_01: Do me a favor,
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to...
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_00: This is another part of the story.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_00: Go to Alabama governor.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_00: Because Doug Jones lost to Tommy Stupidville.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_00: But I want you to look at the trend line.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_00: And keep in mind, again, the DNC did not throw any money into the Alabama governor's race.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_01: Look at the percentage. 57%.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_00: And he still lost by almost four.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_01: Some of these places we needed a 60 point.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_01: But look at that.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they did flip a few seats.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly the exact split.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: That's ridiculous.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they're not done counting. 92%.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_01: There's a chance Jones picks that district out for Clark County.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_01: They're still counting.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_01: But they're mostly reported.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's really this district that's left is Clark County.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah I mean he's not going to make up.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, absolutely not.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying there had been if there had been a ground game
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_00: and some infrastructure in Alabama.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I do this one just
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_01: because it makes me smile, makes me smile.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_01: Just remember, this is the second Colorado district that has rejected Lauren Boeber.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yep. She went from one district to another because she was going to lose
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_01: in the other district so that she could win in a very safe, conservative area.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_01: This is a 30-something point swing, y'all.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_01: This is a 37-point... No, it's...
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's... Yeah.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_01: 37-point swing, like...
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's huge.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing. Go back to the map again.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_00: Go back to the House and Senate.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: Go back to the Senate map.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_01: I may zoom out just a little.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because I want to bring up a point that I think is very important now to hear.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: Look at where the new blue wall is.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: The South.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_00: Blue wall is not the Midwest anymore. It's the South.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yes.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_00: The blue wall is now the entire East Coast.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_00: Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, the upper Midwest, California, Oregon.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's every coastal area and then through the middle of the country.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_00: The states that we have a lot of work to do in, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at what happened in Iowa and Kansas.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: Those were not on my bingo card.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, where was Josh Turk?
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, Josh Turk was Iowa.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_01: I said earlier he was Kansas.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_01: I apologize for that.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to correct myself.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_01: Josh Turk won in Iowa, and Adam Hamilton won in Kansas with a five-point win,
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_01: and that is impressive.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah. I mean, look at Alaska.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_00: They elected a Democratic governor.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_00: This is the state that put up Sarah Palin in 2008.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_01: Also, just look at this.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_01: 2018.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_01: Governors.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: 28 governorships.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_00: We flip five.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_00: Guess who controls the 2028 presidential electoral certification cycle?
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_00: The Democrats do.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_00: Governors.
• 53:33
  SPEAKER_01: Look at all these governors.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_00: There are now, yeah, I mean, it's...
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: And if you think that Vermont,
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_01: if you think that Phil Scott out of Vermont is going to go with any shenanigans
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_01: of Donald Trump's, To cheat and steal the people of Vermont,
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_01: you got another thing coming to you.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a Vermonter.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_01: Born and bred there.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_01: That is my home state.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_01: I have family that has lived there for a couple generations now.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's my home state.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_01: Phil Scott would never see
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_01: the light of day in Vermont again if he went with Trump like that.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_01: If he ever did some shady shit like that.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_01: So that's another state that will go with the blue governors because he is
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_01: a real person who actually cares about his constituents.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_00: So just on the entertainment news,
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_00: it broke this morning that Russell Brand was convicted of one count of rape
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_00: and three counts of sexual assault in the UK.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_00: Rapists should be convicted of rape.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_00: See, there's a lesson.
• 54:37
  SPEAKER_00: They actually prosecute sexual predators in the UK.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_00: So some of the news that's breaking, just basically the knives are out for Hegseth.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_00: Trump is blaming Stephen Miller.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_00: Here comes the circular firing squad in the White House.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_00: They're going to be shooting each other in the back.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_01: And this is where it becomes super, super,
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_01: super important that we have good leadership in the Democratic Party.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_01: This is why we cannot have...
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is why I wanted to bring this point up.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_01: Going full circle, this is why we cannot have Schumer or Jeffries as the leaders.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because they are not ready to go on offense.
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_01: On offense.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_01: They need to be on offense.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, you can be accountable without being vindicated.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's not revenge.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_01: Accountability is not revenge.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want revenge.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: I want accountability, pure and simple.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_01: I want people who have been doing corrupt acts,
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_01: who are corrupting and destroying our constitutional system, to be held accountable.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you think that's revenge, get out of the fucking way.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's not revenge.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's following the facts.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_01: I want to follow the facts to where they lead, and we have seen with our eyes...
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_01: And heard with our ears what has been going on.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_01: We have borne witness to the criminal acts
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_01: of Pete Hegseth, of Stephen Miller,
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_01: of Donald Trump, of J.D.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_01: Vance, of RFK Jr., of Linda McMahon,
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_01: of all of this entire staff, of Kristi Noem.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_01: Of others, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, the entire regime,
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_01: Russell Vaughn, Thomas,
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, all of them on the Supreme Court.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_00: We need accountability.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: Think about where we were a week ago,
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_00: where we were so worried about getting 52 that Fetterman was trying
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_00: to position himself as a game.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because he was going to flee.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_00: He just became senator.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: He just became senator relevant.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_00: OK, so two other two other points I want to make. That was the first one.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_00: The second one, everybody, is just look at the map again and look at where how deep
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_00: the bench just got.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_00: Let me pull them back for the next 12 to 15 years.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_00: Look at how deep the bench got for the Democratic Party, for national elections,
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_00: from House races to go up to senator, to go up to governor.
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this this the bench just became and look at everybody that got elected.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody was old.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_00: They were 40s, 30s, whole new generation of leaders.
• 57:42
  SPEAKER_00: Right. This was a generational change election.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_00: Gen X is going to be represented now.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_00: Millennials Gen Y.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like. It's time, and I've been posting this a lot.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_00: I have nothing against the boomers because my parents were boomers.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_00: It is time for them to move on and make room for the younger generations.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_00: It is time for Gen X to lead this country.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's our time to lead the nation.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_00: We have waited long enough.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_01: And it's the millennials' turn to be there right alongside them
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_01: because we have been blamed
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_01: for Since my high school years for crashing and breaking
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_01: the American economy and destroying a system that we were promised
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_01: and was pulled out from under us.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_01: We were told work hard, go to college, you'll get a great job.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_01: You'll be able to afford a mortgage.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_01: You'll be able to afford a family and live and go on vacations.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know what?
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_01: None of that fucking happened.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because the boomers, I am mad at the boomers.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: Because the boomers took that from us.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_01: They got greedy.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_01: They got greedy and became corrupt and became the politicians and the lobbyists
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  SPEAKER_01: who took all our wealth.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_01: And we have the generational opportunity to finish what we started
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_01: with the second Bill of Rights.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_01: We can finish that finally.
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_01: We can get rid of the legacy of slavery in this nation.
• 59:27
  SPEAKER_01: We can restore.
• 59:30
  SPEAKER_01: We can reclaim this fucking country.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_01: And you know who's going to do that?
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_01: Gen X and millennials.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's our fucking turn.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_01: And we have been waiting and we are ready.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_01: We're ready to take over the media.
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_01: We're ready to take over politics.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_01: We are ready to take over civic life.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I know all of you are ready to do it too.
• 59:56
  SPEAKER_01: And we are going to fucking do this.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_01: My message for everyone today is call your senator if they are a Democrat.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_01: Call your senator or senator-elect.
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_01: Call your representative and tell them Chuck Schumer
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  SPEAKER_01: and Hakeem Jeffries Cannot be
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_01: the leaders of the Democratic Party in this moment.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_01: There are more qualified and capable individuals out there.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_01: We've talked about some of them.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_01: But there are qualified and capable individuals who truly,
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_01: truly have earned those roles, not because they were groomed into them,
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_01: but because they worked their asses off to get them.
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_01: And we're demanding that now.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_00: I just posted the House...
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_00: I just posted the House and Senate phone numbers to the switchboards in the chat.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_00: So everybody, if you need the numbers, they're in the chat.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_01: And I will have a script ready so that people can read it.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_01: And you can just use that script to tell. And that's it.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, listen, call your offices
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_00: of your House member elects and your Senate member elects.
• 1:01:11
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to just call the Senate switchboard, but you can call their campaign offices.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, especially if you have a new congressional member or a new Senate member,
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_00: you can call their campaign offices.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_00: They're not because remember, they don't have an office.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_01: You can also remember, and this is for American citizens only.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_01: Please, Canadians, don't do this.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_01: This is the one I'm going to ask only American citizens do this
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_01: because this is we do not want foreign influence in this.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_01: This is our choice as Americans.
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's our mess to clean up.
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and we appreciate that you are here with us, and I love you guys so much.
• 1:01:45
  SPEAKER_01: I love you all.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_00: And we love you.
• 1:01:47
  SPEAKER_01: This, however, needs to be an American effort because it's our mess to fix.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_01: We need to take accountability for our actions.
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_01: We need to have the discipline to live with the consequences of those actions and values.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_01: And the consequence of this election is we cannot have weak leadership.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_01: We're ready to step in for new leaders.
• 1:02:10
  SPEAKER_01: And as an American,
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_01: you do not have to be in the district to call a representative or senator.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_01: I plan to call Bernie Sanders because I am born and raised from Vermont.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_01: I have voted for Bernie Sanders in the past.
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_00: I was going to call Haley.
• 1:02:37
  SPEAKER_01: Ask her how her days go.
• 1:02:39
  SPEAKER_01: Ask her if that was a good choice to sell out on everything.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_00: She's still the sitting congresswoman for Michigan 11.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_00: She's still representing the district.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_00: She needs to just step aside.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_01: I know she can't because we need the number right now in the Senate,
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_01: but she's a House member.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_01: She doesn't deserve it.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_01: She needs to step aside.
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_00: But if you're concerned about Michigan and if you're concerned about what Slocken's going to do,
• 1:03:09
  SPEAKER_00: Call the Michigan, call her senatorial office.
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_00: OK, like if you're worried about what, say,
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_00: like Chris Coons is going to do in Delaware,
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_00: like what Van Hollen already came out and said he's open to a different vote
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_00: on Schumer.
• 1:03:23
  SPEAKER_00: OK, and we all wish Senator Chris Murphy a speedy recovery from his his stroke
• 1:03:28
  SPEAKER_00: that occurred last week before the election.
• 1:03:31
  SPEAKER_00: So please, Senator Murphy, get better.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean, call your state senators, call your Your local congresspeople.
• 1:03:41
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, I already called Lois Frankel's office because Lois is part of the leadership.
• 1:03:47
  SPEAKER_00: She's one of those octogenarian old firebrand, you know, old school House Democrats.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I've got a direct link to her office.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_00: And once they see me calling, they kind of scramble like, oh, shit, Dr. Lula's calling again.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, I talked to her legislative committee and she's like, yeah,
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_00: we're going to be looking at, you know, because it's not just. It's not just me.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_00: It was also Victoria Doyle, who she ran against,
• 1:04:11
  SPEAKER_00: who was pushing her on not voting for Jeffries in the debate.
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_00: And Lois wouldn't commit.
• 1:04:18
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, a lot of this is also the internal politics within the party
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_00: of who's going to be in what leadership positions,
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_00: who's going to be on what committees and chairs and subcommittee chairs.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_00: And there's a lot of internal politicking that goes on here that we don't know
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_00: about on the inside baseball of the committees.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like we know Robert Garcia is going to be the incoming Oversight Committee,
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_00: and then Raskin's going to be
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_00: the incoming on judiciary?
• 1:04:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, maybe.
• 1:04:47
  SPEAKER_00: I think.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_00: Or is that going to be Marky?
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't paid attention to that part yet.
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but this is important, too.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_00: Who's getting leadership positions and who's getting chairmanships?
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's really important, too.
• 1:05:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, who's going to be chair of Ways and Means?
• 1:05:08
  SPEAKER_00: Who's going to be the chair of the Senate Help Committee?
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_00: Right. Who's going to be in charge of judiciary, both at House and Senate?
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_00: Oversight, armed services.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like all of these things become very vitally important
• 1:05:22
  SPEAKER_00: as to how legislation is going to move through the House and the Senate,
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_00: along with investigations from oversight.
• 1:05:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and by the way, there was a post out. I think I retweeted.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think I reposted it that.
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Democratic Congressional Caucus is already
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_00: putting out posting job notices
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_00: for people to help with the Oversight Committee if you've got years of experience
• 1:05:48
  SPEAKER_00: as an investigator.
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have any experience as an investigator, listen,
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_00: there are jobs going to be available in the next Congress.
• 1:05:58
  SPEAKER_00: There's going to be a lot of work available to do a lot of investigative work.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you have any type of investigative journalism background or investigative legal
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_00: or law enforcement, Now's the time.
• 1:06:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is this is like the golden era of of investigational work.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_01: So and we're just going to have this is going to be a good set of weeks.
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_01: My final thing on all of this, my final thing before we go,
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_01: because we have stayed over a little bit and I have to get
• 1:06:26
  SPEAKER_01: to another interview here soon.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you, everybody.
• 1:06:31
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I have not been
• 1:06:32
  SPEAKER_01: paying as much attention to the chat.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_00: Smash talk.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_00: Smash the hearts and thank you so much for being in the chat, everybody.
• 1:06:40
  SPEAKER_00: We really appreciate it.
• 1:06:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was a happy day for us to do the show today.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it was.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_01: I want to share this screen instead.
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_01: One final call out for next week.
• 1:06:52
  SPEAKER_01: Veterans Day Democracy March where we can support and defend the Constitution
• 1:06:56
  SPEAKER_01: and ensure that the ballots are certified and you have a possible opportunity
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_01: to speak with Your representative elect if you were to say set up a meeting
• 1:07:09
  SPEAKER_01: with them for the 11th or 12th or 10th and or go to their office unannounced
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_01: and say, hey, I want to meet with you.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm one of your constituents or hey, I want to meet with you.
• 1:07:20
  SPEAKER_01: I know you and be there.
• 1:07:23
  SPEAKER_01: Come join us.
• 1:07:25
  SPEAKER_01: Come join veterans, civilians, allies,
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_01: normal citizens from across the country.
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_01: Who are going to Washington DC with some incredible organizations
• 1:07:39
  SPEAKER_01: so that we can show what a peaceful demonstration for pro-democracy looks like
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_01: and is.
• 1:07:49
  SPEAKER_01: And use that as an opportunity to go speak with your representatives and senators
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_01: if possible so that your voice can be heard
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_01: in person and make it known peacefully
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_01: that you would like Certain things to change.
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_01: And that they need to uphold the promises that they have kept.
• 1:08:11
  SPEAKER_01: So we can all go to DC.
• 1:08:14
  SPEAKER_01: I know it can be expensive to get there.
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_01: But if you have the opportunity, be there.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_01: I am also going to live stream the entire thing on Wednesday.
• 1:08:25
  SPEAKER_01: So do not worry if you...
• 1:08:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to just use my...
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm probably going to...
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_01: Have my laptop set up in my hotel room and I'm going to stream it
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_01: through Restream like I am now and then just call in on my phone and take
• 1:08:45
  SPEAKER_01: over the screen.
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll see how it works out.
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to try and play around with it.
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_01: So for anybody who can't make it or don't have
• 1:08:55
  SPEAKER_01: the means to make it, you can also donate.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_01: You can go to veteransfightingfascism.org and donate.
• 1:09:03
  SPEAKER_01: And help us in this effort.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_01: There's still things that we need to get done.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_01: And if you are there, you may be able to meet me or you will be able to meet me.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_01: So come and meet me and come and meet some of your favorite veteran creators
• 1:09:18
  SPEAKER_01: and those who have been putting in a ton of effort to get things done.
• 1:09:22
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you all.
• 1:09:25
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you all for being with us and for enjoying this nice long Diogenes Club today.
• 1:09:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's Ashley.
• 1:09:35
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's a great thing.
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, Ashley, thanks for joining us today, by the way.
• 1:09:41
  SPEAKER_01: So, Eric, promote yourself, my friend.
• 1:09:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, first of all, we just all have to suck less,
• 1:09:49
  SPEAKER_00: and we just did all suck less on Tuesday.
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we are just, listen, I appreciate everybody.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, it's been a long year.
• 1:09:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a long two years that we've all gone through.
• 1:10:01
  SPEAKER_00: We have made our choices, we voted, we have spoken,
• 1:10:05
  SPEAKER_00: but now the important work starts by staying engaged, staying active,
• 1:10:11
  SPEAKER_00: continue to do what everybody, what all 160,
• 1:10:14
  SPEAKER_00: 70 of you have done in the chat is be engaged and continue to follow Nick and I
• 1:10:19
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• 1:10:24
  SPEAKER_00: You are doing your civic duty.
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_00: And we all need to continue this.
• 1:10:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is not over because we won the election on Tuesday.
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's just beginning.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_00: The hard work starts.
• 1:10:36
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• 1:10:37
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• 1:11:25
  SPEAKER_00: I've got a few pieces coming out on what did Doge actually do, really?
• 1:11:31
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• 1:11:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's a two-part article on what did Doge actually accomplish.
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, it wasn't about the $2 trillion.
• 1:11:41
  SPEAKER_00: Nick can tell you this from being an intelligence guy.
• 1:11:44
  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you from what happens to my data when I submit to CMS and HHS.
• 1:11:49
  SPEAKER_00: It was never about the money.
• 1:11:51
  SPEAKER_00: It was about building an infrastructure for data collection.
• 1:11:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you all remember, I wrote the article months ago on Palantir.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_00: Same idea.
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_00: These are all these these tech guys that are just infiltrate our government.
• 1:12:04
  SPEAKER_00: And this is where we have to start rebuilding the infrastructure
• 1:12:06
  SPEAKER_00: of the government is getting these fucking assholes out of our lives.
• 1:12:11
  SPEAKER_00: Nick said it before. I've said it.
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_00: I think we should nationalize SpaceX.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_00: We should nationalize Palantir.
• 1:12:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm even okay nationalizing meta.
• 1:12:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they need to be nationalized.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:12:24
  SPEAKER_00: And no more AI data centers.
• 1:12:26
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need anymore. We have more than China.
• 1:12:28
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• 1:12:30
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• 1:12:31
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• 1:13:02
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• 1:13:28
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• 1:13:38
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• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_01: and get out later today specifically about Jeffries and Schumer on some
• 1:13:48
  SPEAKER_01: of the main reasons why they are unfit to lead at the moment
• 1:13:52
  SPEAKER_01: and what this moment needs from a historical context to now and That includes
• 1:13:58
  SPEAKER_01: the script for our email campaigns and our phone campaign.
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_01: So, and Neuro, great question is I will include two or three points
• 1:14:12
  SPEAKER_01: as to why they should not be the leader.
• 1:14:15
  SPEAKER_01: And that way you can include it.
• 1:14:17
  SPEAKER_00: Nick, put up the QR code for the song again.
• 1:14:22
  SPEAKER_01: And then we'll go...
• 1:14:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'll drop the other QR code for a moment.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_01: And then if you can, above Eric's head, I'll move it.
• 1:14:33
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, I'm going to move it right in the middle of the screen.
• 1:14:36
  SPEAKER_01: The exact center of the screen.
• 1:14:38
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_01: That way. There. That thing.
• 1:14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Right here.
• 1:14:45
  SPEAKER_01: As Democracy Rises is the...
• 1:14:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's the song that we used for the intro today.
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_01: And then I'm actually just going to put it on as the outro as well today.
• 1:15:00
  SPEAKER_01: So enjoy as we go.
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, everyone, for being here with us.
• 1:15:04
  SPEAKER_01: We really appreciate you.
• 1:15:06
  SPEAKER_01: I really appreciate you all.
• 1:15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Eric, it's really good to get back with your brother.
• 1:15:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm so excited that it was this week that we got to do it.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Love to everyone.
• 1:15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
• 1:15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody just sucked less and it was so awesome.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, everybody.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, y'all.
• 1:15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, we love you.
• 1:15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining us today.
• 1:15:24
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next week, I think.
• 1:15:26
  SPEAKER_01: No, we will not see you next week because I'm flying back from D.C. on Thursday.
• 1:15:31
  SPEAKER_01: So we will be back in two weeks.
• 1:15:34
  SPEAKER_00: I may do a singular live on my own next week.
• 1:15:37
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, y'all. Have a wonderful day.
• 1:15:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I see y'all hitting that QR code. Thanks, everyone.
• 1:15:41
  SPEAKER_00: Bye, everybody.
• 1:15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Democracy wins. Democracy is rising.
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_01: And so enjoy the song again as we outro.
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_01: Eric, I'll see you in two weeks, brother.
• 1:15:51
  SPEAKER_01: And we'll talk again soon, as always. Thanks, y'all.
• 1:15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Ciao, bro. Thank you.
• 1:16:00
  [music]
• 1:18:25
  SPEAKER_00: We rise again.
• 1:18:32
  [music]