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Tuesday's With Howie · Newsradio WGAN

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  Howie Carr joins us at Seven 30s every single Tuesday and we
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  always appreciate him at being with us.
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  Howie Carr How are things on this Tuesday morning?
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  Very good. What do you think they've got on
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  Graham Plattner that we don't already know?
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  Oh, I know that they've got a lot on him.
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  I, I, I am aware of a few things cooking in the background to
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  him. Let me let me just say this,
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  Abbie Carr, there will be no shortage of things to talk about
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  over the next several months with Graham Plattner in that
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  race and as the presumptive nominee, no doubt.
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  Well, I. Mean, why are they letting it
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  out now? I mean, couldn't.
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  Could Janet Mills still theoretically get back in the
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  fight? I suppose so.
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  I, I, I agree with you 100%. I think they should sit on most
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  of this and drop it when people are paying attention later when
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  it's going to do more damage. But that's just my take on it,
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  that maybe they have this feeling that there's just so
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  much that you can do. It's.
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  Unfortunate to get people's expectations up.
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  That's what I mean. It's better.
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  I it's better just to, you know, a bombshell should be a
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  bombshell. It shouldn't be just kind of
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  leaked out and then they then you say, oh, that's all they
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  got. That's my own feeling as a as a
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  amateur political strategist. Agreed.
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  Yeah, agreed. What do you make of the the
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  ignominious end of Janet Mills? I mean, that was a historic
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  flame out. I actually just saw something
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  yesterday that said this is the first sitting governor that has
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  been running for Senate that has has dropped out since 1988.
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  I didn't realize that. That's pretty humiliating
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  actually, if you think about it, which makes me smile just a
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  little bit. The the way I, I, I said this on
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  the air, you know, I, I, I'm so glad that some of these COVID
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  tyrants are, are finally, you know, you know, facing some kind
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  of karma. You know, there's, there's too
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  few of them, you know, Charlie Baker in Massachusetts, Cuomo in
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  New York, but it's only a handful of them have actually
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  been punished by the voters or, you know, forced to resign in
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  disgrace or not run for re election.
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  And I'm, I'm glad to, I was glad to see it.
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  I don't, you know, I don't care, you know, sometimes you, you
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  just have to, you know, end someones political career.
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  They've been so appalling, despite what may be, you know,
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  lurking in the, you know, in the bullpen, you know, don't you?
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  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're out of the fire
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  Frank Pan and into the fire with Grant Plattner there.
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  But I, I, I will take that deal 100 times out of 100 to get rid
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  of Janet Mills. I mean, the COVID stuff is
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  obviously like the, the instigating thing for me really
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  disliking her a lot, but it's about so much more Howie.
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  So she's done so many bad things.
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  Right, well, that's that's the MO of the COVID tire, right?
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  I mean, it's just the, the COVID just was the was the real in
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  your face, you know, slap. It was the mask off moment.
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  That's how I say it, but it's but it's true.
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  You know what the thing about it, though, Howie is, if you
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  think about it, I, I, I've been watching some of the polling on
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  that race, you know, not just about like them against each
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  other, but like, you know, right track, wrong track questions.
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  And what do you think about the economy in Maine?
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  What do you think about education in Maine or whatever?
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  And they're all crap for her. I mean, every single thing that
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  she has made a signature of her time in office has really turned
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  pretty poorly. And I think everybody in the
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  states, like over her. She's like, I'm, I'm, I'm not
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  sure she was ever really all that popular to begin with.
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  I think she just was a benefit. There was a benefit of a lot of
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  fortunate timing with her when she ran those races because I
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  think she's always been a kind of a crummy politician.
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  Yeah, it, you know, but The thing is, I mean, what gets me
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  about Platiner is Platiner represents all of the problems
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  that have been that have been created in the wake of Janet
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  Mills, the misrule over the years, you know, all these nuts
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  coming into the state. I mean, maybe he's like a
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  native, although, you know, he went to the Hotchkiss school and
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  all that, which for me is that that by itself is disqualifying
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  for for any person, you know, in in public life.
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  But that's just me. I.
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  Think I'm there with you. And you know, but, but why would
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  you vote for him? I mean, you're, you're PO D
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  because of the, the, the flatlanders, you know, the rich
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  flatlanders who pretend to have jobs and pretend to be working
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  class and pretend to be your friend that bought up
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  everything. And, and they wanted to take
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  away your gun range and they want to take away your lobster
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  fishing and they want to take away everything.
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  Why would you vote for him as a protest?
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  Well, see. See how he's new, he's fresh,
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  he's he's authentic, he's he's new Coke.
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  I mean, that's he's just repackaged as a, as a, as a
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  open, you know, vessel, a white sheet in a white piece of paper.
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  You can like pour your hopes and dreams into the.
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  More ways than one, you know, I mean, every, they call everybody
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  a Nazi and then they, then they have a real Nazi, you know, a
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  guy with a real Nazi tattoo and he's OK.
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  I, I don't get it. I, you know, really, I mean, I,
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  I understand it's not a party anymore, it's a cult, but I got
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  that. But still.
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  I mean, but don't cults have some standards?
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  No, apparently not. Apparently they do not have any
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  any standards. And this is just where we're at
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  right now. I mean, it's just tribal crap.
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  I mean, they're they're, they're they all they want to do right
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  now is beat Donald Trump, you know, get rid of Susan Collins
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  and sort of score their victory. So they don't really
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  particularly care how they do it.
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  And if it happens to be, I mean, I think that they're well aware
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  of the fact the guy's a phony. I would at least I hope that
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  they are, you know, that that would make me feel a little bit
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  better if they knowingly knew he was a phony and they just
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  decided to go with it. You know, I'd feel a little bit
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  better about that than if they believed him.
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  You know, that he, oh, I'm an oyster farmer.
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  I'm a working class stiff just like you.
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  I don't know. And what, what about all these
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  people coming in from out of state to to work for him?
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  I mean for. Wine is donors too.
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  You're. Coming from far if you're coming
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  from far away, I mean, it's one thing to write a check if you
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  got, you know, mom and pop gave you 1,000,000 bucks like his mom
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  and pop dad, you know, you OK, you write a check, but you're
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  coming up to main to to campaign for him.
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  You know what that means you don't have that means that means
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  you don't have a job. Yep.
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  Yes it does and. And nobody's taking time off to
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  go campaign for somebody out of state.
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  It's one thing to hold aside on Saturday morning before the
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  primary, but, you know, it's just, it's just crazy, you know,
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  I, I, I've watched it, you know, like everybody has what's
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  happened to, to Maine. But I mean, this is, I really
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  hope they can take him out. I I just don't want to get
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  overconfident though. No, I think he's an actual
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  threat to win, which depresses me greatly saying so.
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  I mean, I, I don't know, it's a lot of, it's going to depend on
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  what the overall national environment looks like.
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  I mean, I know that I was probably going to ask you about
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  the Iran thing and how that's all going.
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  But certainly protecting those ships and getting a couple of
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  them through there and, and preventing Iran from actually
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  being able to threaten them too much is a hell of a good sign.
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  And if that turns into something really super positive, I mean,
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  that makes me feel a little bit better about things.
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  Right, right. I was, I was thinking that, you
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  know that those attack those little the Mosquito squad
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  so-called attacking and getting wiped out.
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  I thought that would be an use to, you know, to just bomb them
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  back even further into the Stone Age than they already are.
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  But you know, Trump is, you know, pulling his punches here.
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  I I hope, you know, I guess he knows what he's doing, You know,
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  and again, if it's not a, if they're really not a threat,
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  then just get all those ships out of there and just start
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  shipping the oil out. And you know that'll that should
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  drop the prices somewhat anyway. Yeah.
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  I mean, I was saying it this morning, but if they really can
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  protect those ships and get them out there and they can maintain
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  the the blockade, which of course they can, that gets
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  pretty much all of Iran's leverage out of the door.
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  I mean, they have absolutely no options at that point.
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  So that's that's definitely a win for the US if that kind of
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  thing happens. So you know if you.
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  Know their most reliable ally at this point.
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  I mean, it's obvious. It's not Russia, not China, not
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  North Korea. It's the Democrat Party and
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  regime control media in the US That's all they got left, yeah.
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  Yeah, I suppose so. Certainly, certainly the the the
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  fellow travelers in Europe can't help them.
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  The comrades Mackerel and Merce and Starmer.
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  I mean, they're just, you know, they're, they're just, you know,
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  hand wringing. They're.
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  Just invisible. They're, they're like, I mean, I
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  don't even think about them on a daily basis.
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  They don't help anybody. They don't help us.
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  They don't care that much about Iran either.
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  They're just kind of stuck in their own little country doing
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  nothing. I mean Starmer what?
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  That guy is bad. I hope he gets.
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  Crushed this weekend in the the by elections.
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  I'm pretty sure he's going to. He's, he's having a bad time
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  lately. I think he's in PERUV ratings in
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  like the 20% range. It's pretty bad.
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  It is it. Raises the question who are
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  these 20% that's. So the answer I don't have,
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  Howie, it's now an answer I don't have.
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  So the other thing I wanted to ask you about here, Howie, I was
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  talking about it earlier in the program, but it looks like
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  DeSantis just signed the Florida redistricting situation.
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  I said that this was basically the essence of the FAFO
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  phenomenon. Like I mean, you want to do the
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  Virginia thing, you want to do the California thing, fine, but
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  we got more states, you got more districts to redraw if we wanted
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  to then you people do. So did you really want to pick
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  this fight? Because right now it looks like
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  you didn't saying that. They're going to eliminate
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  climbers seat in South Carolina. Oh yeah, Louisiana's redrawing
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  theirs. I mean, it's this is a disaster
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  for them, honestly. Yeah, and and you ought to
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  check. Have you have you mentioned the
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  dissent? They not the dissent, but the
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  the the order from Alito. I did Katanji.
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  Oh, that is so great. So Katanji Brown Jackson is
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  asking Louisiana to proceed with an unconstitutional map for the
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  election. I mean, that says it all,
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  doesn't? It it does, it does say it all.
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  That's the idea of jurisprudence.
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  It's. Unconstitutional if it helps the
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  Democrats. The Harvard.
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  By the way. She did?
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  Yeah. Excelled there, I heard.
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  Yeah, Appreciate, Appreciate being with me, Howie.
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  Unfortunately, we're out of time, so I do have to stop
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  there. What's going on at
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  howiecarshow.com before we get out of.
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  The door, we got all of our, our stuff and we'll have, but we
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  still got Maria's gift certificates.
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  It's great for, for, for Mother's Day.
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  It's great for Father's Day, you know, $25 for a $50.00 gift
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  certificate at Maria's, the oldest and best Italian
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  restaurant. And you know, we're going to,
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  we're going to be pushing those hard this week.
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  And we were, we got the, we got some good stuff coming up today
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  with the the governors race in in Massachusetts.
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  If people are interested in it, we'll have both of the
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  Republican candidates on. Yeah, Well, appreciate it,
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  Howie. Thanks a lot.
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  Make sure you go to howiecarshow.com and check it
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  out today. We'll talk to you again next
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  Tuesday, Sir. Thanks a lot.