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It's a Numbers Game: The GOP Civil War Is HERE: Trump’s Coalition vs. the Republican Establishment! · The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Numbers Game with Ryan Groduski. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys for being here. You know, I have focused
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  Speaker 1: so much on this upcoming midterm election, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go into more early votes later on this week,
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  Speaker 1: not on today's episode, because we're still waiting on the
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  Speaker 1: weekend numbers. It just takes a long time. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: do it for Wednesday's episode. I'll brief you. By Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: we should really know if Republicans have made the momentum
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  Speaker 1: strong enough to that they've kind of undone what Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have been doing in the first two or three days.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you, first two or three days in
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  Speaker 1: most of these states is like presidential level turnout for Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been waning as time has gone on. Republicans
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  Speaker 1: have been picking up as time has gone on. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll really be able to see kind of where the
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  Speaker 1: ground is by Wednesday's episode. I think we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: really good feel for what the early vote looks like.
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  Speaker 1: But we spend so much time talking about this current
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  Speaker 1: midterm election that I haven't talked a lot about the
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  Speaker 1: future after the midterm election, which I think is important because, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we are a week away from or about a week
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  Speaker 1: away from the midterms, but we are just weeks away
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning of the presidential election in 2028. I
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  Speaker 1: know it still feels like that's a million years away.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, to a geriatric millennial like myself, 2028
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  Speaker 1: does feel like a made up year. Like that's impossible.
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  Speaker 1: That's 30 years into the future in my mind. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we are probably going to see one or two major
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  Speaker 1: Democratic candidates announce, my guess, between the end of the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: like when midterms end, to the end of January, January 2027.
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  Speaker 1: I think you'll see at least two, maybe three. History
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  Speaker 1: and recent presidential elections suggest that they're getting earlier as
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  Speaker 1: time goes on, like the announcements are happening earlier and
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  Speaker 1: earlier and earlier. There was a time in American history
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  Speaker 1: that's not like that that long ago where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: major candidates like RFK, I think he announced like a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks before Iowa caucus, like or like a month
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  Speaker 1: before the Iowa caucus, like relatively right there. That's impossible now.
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  Speaker 1: Like that will never happen. So I think you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see a bunch of Democrats, major Democrats announced before
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  Speaker 1: the end of January twenty twenty seven. I was going
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  Speaker 1: through the history books right after the midterms in 2022.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump announced he was running for reelection. And in 2018, remember,
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  Speaker 1: Biden was the incumbent, so there was no Democrats. In 2018, though,
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  Speaker 1: when Trump was the incumbent, you had Julian Castro, Tulsi Gabbard,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Yang, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Marianne Williamson all
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  Speaker 1: announced between the end of the midterms and the end
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  Speaker 1: of January. And that was, I mean, that was a
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  Speaker 1: competitive year for Democrats. 2028 is the first time in
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  Speaker 1: 12 years you will not have any incumbents from either party.
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  Speaker 1: So no Joe Biden, no Donald Trump, fully open field.
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  Speaker 1: It happens rare. It's very rare that that happens. The
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  Speaker 1: last time it happened before 2016 was 2000. So it's
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  Speaker 1: really like it's kind of mind boggling. Actually, no, I
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  Speaker 1: take that back. It was 2008. I'm sorry. I made
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  Speaker 1: a mistake. So Yes, it's been quite some time where
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  Speaker 1: you have neither incumbent because we had a one-term president
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  Speaker 1: in between. However, the stakes are very high because you
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  Speaker 1: not only have to jump in with an exploratory committee,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get some policy issues out there, you
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  Speaker 1: need to do a media tour, but you need to
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  Speaker 1: begin to raise the money. It's going to cost a
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars to run for president, which is crazy. When
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  Speaker 1: you look back in 1996, I was a kid. it
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  Speaker 1: costs $ 115 million to run for president on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Both sides spent $ 115 million. In 2000, it was $ 585 million.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's like a billion per candidate. In 2024, all
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  Speaker 1: of our elections cost $ 24 billion, which is a remarkable
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  Speaker 1: growth in spending. It's still less money in the American
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  Speaker 1: economy than we spend on like Easter chocolate. It's crazy, actually.
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  Speaker 1: It's an insane amount of money relative to other things.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that much money, but that's how much the
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  Speaker 1: increase is happening. It's going to be more in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: So you have all those things happening at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And you also have people who are looking to influence
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  Speaker 1: the future of their party, because once again, both parties
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  Speaker 1: neither have an incumbent. If you're like a Bernie Sanders
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  Speaker 1: who just turned 85 last month, You're looking for a
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  Speaker 1: successor to your movement. I don't think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: run just given his advanced age. I can't imagine him
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  Speaker 1: running for president at 86 to 90. But you never know. Vermont,
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  Speaker 1: I guess all the cold weather in Vermont is preserving
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  Speaker 1: his body. I don't believe he's actually going to run
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  Speaker 1: for president, though, at 86. Likewise, if you are Rahm
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  Speaker 1: Emanuel or you are Josh Shapiro, you're also looking to
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  Speaker 1: influence in your party, moving it away from the DSA types,
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  Speaker 1: moving away from the far left. And it's a fight
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  Speaker 1: for the soul and the heart of your party. That's
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  Speaker 1: also true for the Republicans. And a senator, once in
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  Speaker 1: a while, it's very funny in these interviews, especially retiring
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  Speaker 1: members of Congress, they will let the cat out of
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  Speaker 1: the bag. They will say the quiet part out loud.
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  Speaker 1: This is what Senator Tom Tillis, the retiring senator from
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, said to Politico. Play clip one. As you
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  Speaker 1: look back, has Trump been good for the party?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was good in Trump one, but in
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  Speaker 2: Trump two, I think he's lost sight of what he's
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  Speaker 2: done is created a coalition that, in my opinion, will
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  Speaker 2: not stay with Republicans once we go back to.
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  Speaker 3: Traditional Republican platform priorities. Limited government, free market, get out
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  Speaker 3: of this market manipulation, these other things that we're doing
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  Speaker 3: now that make no sense to me and make no
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  Speaker 3: sense to traditional conservative Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to survive Trump's personality.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the elements of the populism that Trump created to expand
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  Speaker 3: the base that made him successful running for president, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that stays with the party long term.
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  Speaker 1: I just need to know what version of reality Tom
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  Speaker 1: Tillis lives in. The last Republican president to shrink federal
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  Speaker 1: spending outside of addressing a major crisis, so like when
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  Speaker 1: we had to spend for COVID and or the 2008 recession,
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  Speaker 1: and then it went down because federal spending went down,
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  Speaker 1: but it was an emergency spending. But to spend to
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  Speaker 1: regularly decrease spending in our budget was Calvin Coolidge, a
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  Speaker 1: president who doesn't get enough love and attention. But it
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  Speaker 1: was Calvin Coolidge 100 years ago. Ronald Reagan reduced domestic spending,
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  Speaker 1: but he increased the military budget. George H.W. Bush decreased
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  Speaker 1: the military budget, but increased domestic spending. So we have
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  Speaker 1: not had this party, this imaginary Republican party that Tom
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  Speaker 1: Tillis is talking about in 100 years, well before he
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  Speaker 1: was born. He's never lived in this version of the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party. It is not based at all in reality.
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  Speaker 1: I think he is referencing, and this is my supposition,
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  Speaker 1: my intuition. I don't know. Maybe he's talking about a
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  Speaker 1: different party, but I think he's talking about the party
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  Speaker 1: of George W. Bush, that George W. Bush era Republicanism,
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  Speaker 1: which is He and many of his ilk believe it
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  Speaker 1: is connected to a core conservative principle to the Bush
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  Speaker 1: era was really core conservative Republican politics. But it's not true.
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  Speaker 1: It's just fundamentally it is a lie built around a
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  Speaker 1: legacy that was pretty horrible because George W. Bush was
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  Speaker 1: a terrible president. One of the worst I would say ever.
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  Speaker 1: I would actually argue he was the worst president in
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime than any other president. Maybe Joe Biden was
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad, actually, too. But, I mean, maybe Biden. But
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  Speaker 1: George W. Bush, number two. Yes, worse than Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 1: George W. Bush was a horrific president. From the opioid
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  Speaker 1: crisis to making China a permanent favored trading partner, the
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  Speaker 1: absolute hollowing out of our manufacturing base, revising the deficit,
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  Speaker 1: which was reducing before his presidency. ballooning our national debt,
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  Speaker 1: 5 million illegal aliens coming into our country, trying to
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  Speaker 1: give them amnesty with every fight you have, a recession,
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  Speaker 1: two endless wars that cost thousands of Americans their lives,
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  Speaker 1: and tens of thousands were permanently disfigured or wounded or
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  Speaker 1: left on disability because of it. And a ton of
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  Speaker 1: new government programs, big government, Nothing about his presidency was
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  Speaker 1: even remotely conservative, aside from the fact that he was pro-life,
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  Speaker 1: which he didn't get that much done in it because
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  Speaker 1: George Bush was more effective. And he nominated Samuel Alito
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  Speaker 1: at the Supreme Court. That's basically it. Aside from that,
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  Speaker 1: he was Obama without the race hoax stuff. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: really George W. Bush's legacy. The man campaigned. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to because this goes this is forgotten in the
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  Speaker 1: Bush lore. The man campaigned on a policy to stop
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  Speaker 1: the TSA from pulling over Muslims that looked like terrorists
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  Speaker 1: from the from the airport lines.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Because he said it was racial profiling and we are
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  Speaker 1: better and we are not a racist country. And all
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  Speaker 1: that white guilt that he lathered on constantly and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Republicans of his era lather on constantly. He
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  Speaker 1: reformed that policy. And then a few months later, we
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  Speaker 1: had 9-11. And the TSA agents working that day said
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  Speaker 1: that they looked at the terrorists from 9-11 and said,
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  Speaker 1: if that's not a Muslim terrorist, I don't know who is,
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  Speaker 1: but didn't pull them over in part because of white guilt,
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  Speaker 1: in part because of George W. Bush's new policy and
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  Speaker 1: political correctness. The man was a horror show. He was
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  Speaker 1: a horror show. Why is anyone still defending this nonsense?
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  Speaker 1: It's been 20 years. We don't have to do this anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And there is no going back. to that time for
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  Speaker 1: the GOP. It's just not. And more importantly, Americans don't
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  Speaker 1: want that time back. And you know how I know
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  Speaker 1: they don't want that time back? Because after he was
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  Speaker 1: done being president, we got Barack Obama as president to
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  Speaker 1: follow him. We got 60 Democratic senators, 256 Democratic House members.
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  Speaker 1: 29 governors, 27 Democrat state legislatures, and 18 trifectas where
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  Speaker 1: Democrats completely controlled the states. He was so soundly rejected,
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  Speaker 1: he turned the Republican Party briefly into a regional party
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  Speaker 1: in the South, the Midwest, and the Prairie states. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he did. He was so soundly rejected. Why,
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  Speaker 1: 20-something years later, are we rehashing this conversation? saying this
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  Speaker 1: is really what we should be about. How about we
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  Speaker 1: just move on and pretend the whole thing didn't happen?
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you that's what Democrats will be doing in
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  Speaker 1: 20 years for Joe Biden's presidency. Let's pretend this all
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  Speaker 1: just didn't happen. So rather than saying we should, you know,
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  Speaker 1: move on from that time and those disastrous policies that
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  Speaker 1: Bush created, Till's saying, no, let's lose the new Trump coalition.
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  Speaker 1: Let's return to the policies of this imaginary government that
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  Speaker 1: was for limited government and cutting spending and pro-free market,
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  Speaker 1: even though Bush was opening the doors to China, who
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  Speaker 1: was crippling America's manufacturing infrastructure. They were purposely stealing our
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  Speaker 1: intellectual property and manipulating their currency. That is not free market. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that is not remotely free market, Tom Tillis. Like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about? What, because there was no tariffs? Like- Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: you are delusional and divorced from reality. And what you're
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  Speaker 1: saying is screw over the millions of Latinos and Gen
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  Speaker 1: Zers and working class whites who came to the Republican
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  Speaker 1: Party between 2016 and 2024. Yes, some of them don't
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  Speaker 1: like Donald Trump right now, but they liked a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things that he campaigned on. And Republicans should be
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  Speaker 1: picking up the football and moving forward, making it better.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean we become where we should not be
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  Speaker 1: the party of Trump 2.0, where we do the same
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  Speaker 1: exact things, but we should evolve and grow from that.
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  Speaker 1: That is what political parties do over time. You don't
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  Speaker 1: stay stagnant and you certainly don't reverse to something from
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  Speaker 1: 20 years ago. It makes no sense. I mean, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we'll be a better society. more working base party with
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  Speaker 1: populist instincts that doesn't have gold fixtures everywhere and comical
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  Speaker 1: levels of corruption with pardons. And hopefully we have a
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  Speaker 1: trade policy that's more coherent and it's not increasing tariffs
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  Speaker 1: day by day on countries and there's no rhyme or reason.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully there's no bombing campaigns without an easy exit
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  Speaker 1: strategy in Iran. I mean, that's the truth. And I
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  Speaker 1: would also, honestly, we should probably give up a future
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  Speaker 1: Republican president making up nicknames about people because Trump used
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And he was really funny at it.
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  Speaker 1: Like lion Ted, you know, little Marco, those were, those
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  Speaker 1: were iconic lines. Those were classic lines. He's doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the same tact anymore. And again, Like, I mean, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: him saying Marjorie Taylor Brown because green green grass turns
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  Speaker 1: to brown when it dies. Like when you have to
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  Speaker 1: explain a joke, you've really lost momentum. It's really not
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't hit like it used to. And Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: the funniest president we've ever had. He's funny for a politician,
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  Speaker 1: for a human being. He's funny for a politician. He's
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  Speaker 1: extremely funny. We're not going to likely have that out of.
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  Speaker 1: any future politicians. So like, don't, don't do like the imitation.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do what Democrats have done to Barack Obama, where
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  Speaker 1: you all of a sudden have like Josh Shapiro trying
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  Speaker 1: to sound like Obama and John also like two Jews
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  Speaker 1: trying to sound like a black pastor. Don't do that. Like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to do that. We don't need to
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  Speaker 1: make up accents and voices. Let's just be versions of
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  Speaker 1: yourself and speak honestly. Like that's the message and learn
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  Speaker 1: what's the tool you should have learned from Trump's ability
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  Speaker 1: to talk to audiences. It's not like don't do imitations
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  Speaker 1: of him. It's going to be really, really awkward. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: you have Representative Don Bacon from Nebraska, Senator Ted Cruz
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  Speaker 1: from Texas, Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky, Governor Ron DeSantis
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  Speaker 1: from Florida, Governor Brian Kemp from Georgia and Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance from Ohio, all speculating. It's all speculative that they
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  Speaker 1: are going to run in 2028 for president. And none
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  Speaker 1: of them should listen to Tom Tillis. None of them
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  Speaker 1: should be running on a version of Bush republicanism because
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  Speaker 1: that's absolutely bound to lose. I don't know how else
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  Speaker 1: to say it. We don't need to go to the past.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need to go to that era of our politics.
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  Speaker 1: We can move forward. Okay, an extra long Ask Me
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  Speaker 1: Anything is coming up next. Stay tuned. Now it's time
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  Speaker 1: for the Ask Me Anything segment. If you want a
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  Speaker 1: part of the Ask Me Anything segment, email me ryan
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  Speaker 1: at numbersgamepodcast.com. That's ryan at numbers, plural numbersgamepodcast.com. I had
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of emails still in the queue I had
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  Speaker 1: to get to, so I was like, let me do
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  Speaker 1: an extra one, ask me anything for one day, but
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  Speaker 1: I am free and easy, and I am ready to
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  Speaker 1: take more questions, so if you have one, please email me.
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  Speaker 1: I love getting to the segment of the show. First
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  Speaker 1: question comes from Doug. Doug writes, Hi Ryan, although I
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  Speaker 1: don't expect the French riots and destruction of historical buildings
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  Speaker 1: and monuments over there to have any impact of our elections,
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  Speaker 1: do you think the situation could help red pill some
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  Speaker 1: boomers on our side and finally realize that mass immigration
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  Speaker 1: from the third world is poison and just because it's legal,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make it good. Excellent point, Doug. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how connected they are to what's going on in France. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I know they probably saw some of the images, but
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine most lefty Democrat boomers to, they'll probably
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  Speaker 1: side with the rioters. I mean, that's just the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I think the normie average person probably has a feeling,
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  Speaker 1: but doesn't want to say it out loud out of politeness.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen sometimes when European politics and what happens
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  Speaker 1: in Europe impacts America, specifically 2015, what happened there was
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  Speaker 1: as impactful as what happened on our own border. Because
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  Speaker 1: there were images of migrants flooding into Europe by the
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  Speaker 1: boatloads of millions of Muslims and Africans flooding into Europe illegally,
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  Speaker 1: crossing over bridges and crossing over walls and construction to
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  Speaker 1: stop them. You had the mass rapes of German girls
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  Speaker 1: in Berlin on New Year's Eve that one year. And
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  Speaker 1: then you had the mass terrorist attacks that were all
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  Speaker 1: over Belgium and Paris. And I'll never forget it. There
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  Speaker 1: was an episode of The View where Sunny Hostin, who
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  Speaker 1: is like the most racist person on television today, but
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  Speaker 1: she said that Trump was right about talking about migrants
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  Speaker 1: from from in Europe, in Paris, because they had just
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  Speaker 1: done a terrorist attack, I think in the Paris airport,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe it was the Belgian airport. But she was
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  Speaker 1: talking about that. And she was like, wow, Trump was right.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember Joy Behar criticizing her on air and saying,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get him votes. It was it was
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  Speaker 1: a that's a time warp. But I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: I walk in the kitchen, but I can remember an
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  Speaker 1: episode of The View from from over a decade ago
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  Speaker 1: that crisis definitely infiltrated i think normie america and really
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  Speaker 1: radicalized some people wasn't that was also like the charlie
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  Speaker 1: uh hebdo attack that was the mass murder inside the
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  Speaker 1: french disco which was really never talked about how gruesome
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  Speaker 1: it actually was so you had all those things happening
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  Speaker 1: at the same time i don't think these riots and
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  Speaker 1: just the burning will be enough and hopefully france europe
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go through what it went through 10 years ago
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  Speaker 1: because it was horrible Next question comes from Robert. It says,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: he goes, it's Bob from India again. I would like
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to know your opinion of Harry Enten. He's the CNN
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  Speaker 1: data analyst that Clay and Buck like to tout when
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  Speaker 1: he throws cold water on Democrats. I don't watch CNN.
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  Speaker 1: I don't anymore either. And so I don't know his
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  Speaker 1: entire body of work. I would like to know that
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  Speaker 1: if all he does and is he credible, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem fit for CNN mold and he's very entertaining in
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  Speaker 1: his presentation. So Harry Anton is I think he's I
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  Speaker 1: think that he does a very difficult job because he
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  Speaker 1: has to. I think he tries really hard to be fair.
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  Speaker 1: He does present bad evidence for Democrats when it's there.
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  Speaker 1: He has to constantly do new things and just all
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: poll data driven and all data driven. And, you know,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: coming from me who does a podcast like this three
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: times a week. It gets a little difficult at times
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to do that and to present that. He only does
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: like five minutes. I do like a 40 minute episode
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: sometimes by myself like today, but it gets a little difficult.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: So I give him credit. I think he's very talented
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: at what he does. My one criticism, if I have
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: any about him and I don't watch CNN, but I
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: see the clips. My one criticism about him is sometimes
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: he relies too heavy on like Cal Shee and the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: betting markets. And I, that's all like fake, like that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: all nonsense. So like, I mean, That's completely nonsense. But yeah, overall,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I think he does a fair job. I think he's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: good at what he does, and he's the best that
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: CNN is ever going to have in that job. Okay,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: next question comes from Jason. Jason writes, Hey, Ryan, love
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: listening to the show. Jason, love that you listen to
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the show. As we know, the only other U.S. president
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: to have a non-consecutive second term is Grover Cleveland. During
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: his second term in 1894, his party lost about 120
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: House seats and the Senate majority. Granted, he was a Democrat.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Do you think the midterm cycle... Has any other parallels
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: to that one? I sure hope not, Jason. So it
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: was a much different country in 1894. Like it's very
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: hard to do apples to oranges between 1894 and 2026.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I will say that I think I think the only
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: thing that you could possibly and I believe in 1896
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: there was a recession. during Grover Cleveland's second term, like
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a real recession. So I think there was other things
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: going on at that time. I think the only thing
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that you can maybe take from the fact that you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: have somebody running for office in three consecutive terms and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: serving two of them is you get, party fatigue, you
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: get Canada fatigue, you get Trump fatigue. And I think
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: that people start punishing the party in charge when you've
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: been in charge that long. People don't realize this and
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: don't remember it. But when FDR ran for president the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: first time, he won, I think, 46 out of 48 states.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I believe the only two states he lost were Vermont
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and Ohio. And by his third term, he lost many
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: states in his third term. the amount of states growing
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: against him was increasing the Democrats' majority. Remember, this is
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: after the Great Depression when they were winning everywhere was dwindling.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Their majorities were dwindling in both the House and the Senate.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And he was in the middle of World War II
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: as well. So despite having the Great Depression and the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: New Deal and World War II, voters were waning on
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: FDR over time. And when he ran his fourth term,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it wasn't like super close, but he had lost quite
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a number of states.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: People do get tired of the party in power over
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: long periods of time, even when you have these monumental
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: things like the Great Depression and World War Two. And obviously, famously,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Harry Truman barely won his own one term election and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: then Republicans took over for eight years, almost 12. But Nixon,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Nixon had stolen from him. Last question comes from Patrick.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Patrick goes, your last guest took a jab at Blake Masters.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I believe that was Zachary Danini who did that. Calling
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: him a bad candidate. What about him didn't click with voters? So, Patrick,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I worked for Blake a little bit during his House
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: race when he barely lost the House primary to Abe Hamaday.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I will say this. You will never meet a nicer
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: man than Blake Masters. A true gentleman. A wonderful guy. Warm.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Great father. You know, great husband. Just an overall top-notch
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: classy guy i think professionally if i was giving advice
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: during his senate campaign which i was not i was
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: working for the fans campaign at the time i think
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: i tell candidates all the time this you get one
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: issue that you're obsessed with right you get to talk
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: about i don't know the tap water or you get
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to talk about some weird policies you're obsessed with. You
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: name it. Fluoride. I don't care. Whatever the hell it is,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you get one of them. You only get one. You
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: want to have the gold standard? Great. You're not talking
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: about one other weird thing besides that. Everything else is
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: going to be boiler point GOP issues because campaigns and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: elections are not there to educate voters. They are there
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to reinforce narratives and beliefs that they already have. That
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: is what a campaign is. If you are educating it,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You're going to wear on people real freaking quickly. I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: think that his campaign, he was engaged in a lot
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of very thoughtful, big ideas like one family incomes and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: gun rights. But after a while, he became a little
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: weird to people like that was just too much. It
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: was just too much stuff that they are unfamiliar with.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And they were able to brand him as being a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: little bit of a strange person. He is not in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: real life at all. He is warm and loving and great.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I just think the campaign did a disservice to him
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: for people understanding who he is. Like, that would have
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: been a much— because who he is, he's an overall great guy.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I can't say enough nice things about him as a person.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I think the first campaign did not do him a service.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And the second campaign he would have won had Trump
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: endorsed him and Trump endorsed him at the very end.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: But he also co-endorsed another another Republican for months ahead
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of time during the early voting period. Had he earned
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the Trump endorsement during the early voting period as well
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and not just on Election Day because he won Election
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Day by big numbers, he would have won the early
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: vote as well and he would have been the nominee
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and won the House seat. So that was that. It
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: was kind of like a. death of a thousand paper
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: cuts over there but he's a phenomenal guy great guy
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: i think that if you're running for office or you're
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: planning on running for office you get only one issue
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that no one's really talking about and aside from that
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you're going back to boiler point gop or democrat issues
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: either which one okay more ask me anything is coming
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: up next stay tuned all right next question comes from
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: brock brock says i was wondering what he's been what
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: has been in put in place by the gop to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: prevent cheating i.e kicking out poll watchers for this election
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: also i heard you on clay and buck and you
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: slayed it as usual thank you brock i was wondering
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: if evan would join you for a short election night
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: show since your chemistry is so great and buck mentioned
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: visiting some podcasts on election night so maybe he'll visit
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: yours as well I didn't know that Buck said that. Maybe.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I haven't decided on election night yet. I could ask Evan.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: She's probably busy, but she's doing the rounds a lot.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I love having Evan. She's like actually become a friend.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Like she's a sweet girl and she's funny as hell.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I think the chemistry is all natural. As far as
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: kicking out poll watchers, you really shouldn't be able to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: do that. Like, oh, are you saying they're preventing the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: kicking out poll watchers? I understand. I'm sorry.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: If a poll watcher has a certificate from either the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: candidate or the party, they are legally allowed to go
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in them. I believe in every state. I don't think
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: there's a state that you cannot do that. Maybe there
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: is one or two. I've worked in many states. I've
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: never seen a situation like that where you're able to
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: kick them out. If you are being kicked out as
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a poll watcher, it is not because it is a law.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: It is because of bad actors within the polling site,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the polling location. And all you need to do is call.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Every polling location should have an officer of some sort,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a police officer there. You should call the police officer
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and call your local party, either county or state or
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the candidate's party. And they should have lawyers. The lawyers
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: should be there to race down there. I've done many elections,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: local too, where we have an issue with a poll watcher.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: And you call the candidate and the candidate's lawyer comes
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: down there, reads them their rights. And the person causing
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the big hubbub sits down, shuts up, and the poll
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: watcher goes back on their day. As long as there's no, like,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: electioneering inside the polling location, it should all be fine.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So I don't know about that incident. I think that's
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: really a local thing, case by case. For securing the ballots,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of changes around mail-in voting. And
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that's why, by the way, Democrats are not doing mail-in
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: voting that much. The number of mail-in votes is plummeting
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: almost in every single state aside from like California where
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: they have universal mail-in voting or Washington or these states
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: where it's just all mail-in voting. But in other states, Iowa, Texas,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you're seeing declines of mail-in voting. It is declining because
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Democrats are worried that Trump is going to not count
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: their votes or manipulate their votes or whatever. So you're
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: seeing big drops in mail-in voting. If that was always
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the concern, he's definitely absolutely addressed that. Next question. Question
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: comes from Ice Chip. That is the email I have.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I have no name besides Ice Chip. It says, hey, Ryan,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I listen to every episode. Ice Chip, thank you for that.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I was wondering, what do you know about the next
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: week's Israeli election? According to the latest polls, which party
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: is leading the race? Do you think that they will
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: finally have a new prime minister? So I looked at
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the polls. I've not been paying super close attention to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the Israeli elections because we have our own. The polls
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: are kind of all over the place. So there are
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say they're all of us. They lean that
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: BB's coalition is going to lose, but there's major discrepancies
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: depending on the polling company. So there are a handful
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of polling companies that actually say BB's party is going
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to win and the coalition is going to win. There
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: have been four of the last, like 12, have said
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that BB's coalition is going to win. A majority have
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: said that his coalition is going to lose, that he's averaging,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: it's so funny, in half of the polls, he's averaging 30%,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: because remember, there's like 12 parties, so no one gets
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like 50%. So there's like four that have him at 30%,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and then there's like six or seven that have him
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: at 19%, which is a huge change. The other party
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: is the Yashar party. That's been pretty consistent. They all
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: say that he's about 20 points, 20% in the Yashar party, 20, 21, 22.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: So the big question, I think, is how do these
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: third parties perform in this election? I don't know. I've
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: always learned you don't count out Bibi Netanyahu under any circumstance.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: But he's definitely fighting for his life, it looks like.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And I've heard from Israelis who are friends of mine
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that if you think Trump derangement syndrome is bad, Bibi
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: derangement syndrome is worse. That's what they've all basically told me.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And I have friends of mine who are Israeli who
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: absolutely hate Bibi Netanyahu with like a blood passion. They
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: blame him for the October 7th. a terrorist attack in
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: israel they claim that he's a corrupt leader all the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: same things we hear about leaders who've been there for
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: too long or been there for a long time um
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: what one of my jewish friends whose parents are israeli
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: told me and he's a big lib but what he
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: said to me was very fascinating he said that you
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: will miss bb when he's gone if you want a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: more restrained Israeli leader. He said all of them who
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: follow to follow Bibi will be more right wing than
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Bibi actually is, which I found very, very fascinating, aside from,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I guess, the yashar party but i guess future right
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: wing leaders is what he's talking about so i don't
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: know next question comes from trevor trevor thank you for
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: your response to my last email i really appreciate your
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: answer and i largely agree with you but i want
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: more one more follow-up he is talking about the question
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a few episodes ago about the social safety net in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: scandinavia In your last email, I asked you to make
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the best case for why Scandinavian-style social democracy won't work
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: in the U.S. and why we shouldn't want it. Your
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: answer was that these countries are smaller, more homogeneous, and
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: much higher levels of social trust in the U.S. They're
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: willing to invest in social safety nets because they believe
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: they will get it and it won't be scammed by
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: other people. I agree. However, when you make those points
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to leftists, they often respond to you by saying the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: size of the country doesn't matter. Not true. that they
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: can still replicate the same kind of system on a
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: larger scale or implement the system state by state. They
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: also say that social trust and whether a country is
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: homogeneous doesn't matter either and that people just need to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: stop being racist. What is your rebuttal to those arguments? One,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you probably should just stop talking to those people. But two,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: try it. Hawaii has a very diverse population. It is
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a smaller state. Very, very diverse. Huge Democrat majorities in
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the state Senate and state-led state house and the Democratic governor.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Go for it. Vermont is homogeneous, relatively homogeneous. It has
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a Republican governor right now, but it won't forever. Democrats,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: they legislate are super liberal. Put universal health care there.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: They've tried it, actually. I think Howard Dean tried it
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and it failed miserably because they couldn't afford it. It
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: didn't work. But Rhode Island's super Democratic. So is Massachusetts.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Massachusetts is pretty diverse. You got plenty of places to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: try it. Go for it. Oregon, Washington, New York. I mean,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, but go for it. Show me one place
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: where you're going to do it. If it doesn't matter,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: then show me. But you can't because it doesn't work.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: And the governors, when they try to implement something like that,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: it fails. It just does.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: So.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Go for it. New York City has a large social
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: safety net. They have a million different things and they're
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: constantly asking for bailouts from the governor. So go for it.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I would just say, okay, show me where in the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: entire country, in all the states, in all the cities,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: go for it. Some cities have portions of what Denmark does,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: portions of what Sweden does. They have some DEI policies.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Some have universal basic income to a degree. Some have
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: universal child care to a degree, but they don't have what,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: they don't have that level so show it to me
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and let me and let's do it for 10 years
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: it's going to take about 10 years to see if
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: it holds if the if it doesn't if it's not
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: repealed it's like the idea of like this perfect libertarian
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: paradise kansas tried a lot of it had to repeal
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: most of it because it doesn't work like you can't
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: have no infrastructure and you can't have all the i'm
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: sorry no social safety net and you can't have all
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the social safety net like you need some balance and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Because that's what Americans expect. And I'm sorry, go for
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a 60 percent tax rate because that's what you need
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to sustain it. Try it. See if the population stays there.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: See if the business stays there. See if they don't
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: repeal it. See if the party stays in power. Try it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: You're not going to because it's a failure. And if
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: those people still insist that it will work, maybe you
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: need new friends. I mean, at that point, you can't
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: fix stupid. Okay, next question from John. John says, I
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: love your podcast. I'm a former precinct chair here. The
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: sitting state rep opposed a slate of us for precinct
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: chairs and raised $ 175, 000 to houses. That's a lot of
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: money for precinct chairs. Are you aware of the censure
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of Jared Patterson? I am not. If you email me
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: more information, though, I will read it. I was moved
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: from Brandon Gill's district to Pat Fallon's district and voted
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: for him yesterday. You weren't moved. Maybe you moved, but
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the district's lines did not change since Brandon Gill was elected.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what you're talking about there. In
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: my humble opinion, Pat's team is much stronger than Brandon's.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I know Brandon is a friend of yours. I was
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: his GC, not just a friend. But his team has
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: not helped anyone I know in Denton outside of the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Easy Passport and Washington, D.C. tour stuff. So Brandon Gill,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: his district office is amazing. Very much what the former
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: congressman Burgess's office is. Like, a lot of the same
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: people are there. If you have instances of the office
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: being unable to help, email me. I will forward it
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: to them. I will contact them for you if you
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: have an issue that you need to get taken care of.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: But there's not been major turnover from Gil's time in
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: his district office from Burgess. So... If they have a complaint,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: maybe it's because there's too many people have been there
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: for too long, but I don't think there is. Email me.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: If you have a specific detail, a specific question, specifics,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: not just nobody, anybody, not those words, specific, email me.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I'll pass them along. And this is the last question
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of the episode. It's from John from Arizona. He says,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I really like your international coverage. Thank you, John. I
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: think it's important to give people some context, even if
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I don't do whole episodes on them, because... It is important.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: And it's funny, whenever I talk to friends from, or
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: people I meet from Europe, they'll always be like, they'll
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: be amazed, like, you're an American and you know, like,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: about us. And I'm like, yeah, it's shocking, right? We
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: do read. But the interpretations of Americans just don't know
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: anything about any other foreign country. And I think it's just,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's good to pepper that information, just so
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: you know a little bit. Not maybe, you're not an expert,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: but you know enough to get by in casual conversation
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: and sound really smart during a dinner party. I have
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: hoped Republicans would focus on the Nordic utopia that the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: left fantasizes about and really analyze whether those countries have
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  Speaker 1: it so great as a way to thoroughly combat their policies,
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  Speaker 1: GDP per capita, tax capita, including the VAT, schools, health care,
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  Speaker 1: fertility and suicide rates, etc. And whether any of those
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  Speaker 1: could really work here. Based on what I have read
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  Speaker 1: and what the left wants, universal daycare, universal health care
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  Speaker 1: is essentially what those countries do. So I was thrilled
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  Speaker 1: with Trevor's question, your response. Another question, another response on
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  Speaker 1: my question from 1016. I would like to know 10
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  Speaker 1: times of what you covered. I would agree that social
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  Speaker 1: trust and wildly different populations bases make the live fantasy
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  Speaker 1: a fantasy. I will have a full episode on this.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that maybe will be the only one
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  Speaker 1: that is intellectually curious enough to tackle it. Love your
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  Speaker 1: podcast the best that there is. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I have time between this midterm election and
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  Speaker 1: the New Year's. There'll be very little to cover. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll do an episode on this. I might try to
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  Speaker 1: address it. There are certain things about the Nordic social
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  Speaker 1: safety net that do work for them. And it's also
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  Speaker 1: partially why Minnesota is so friendly towards socialism is because
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  Speaker 1: those people are very Nordic. But that doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: can copy and paste everywhere. And what I want you
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  Speaker 1: to understand is that they don't want that Nordic system.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want the Danish system. The Danish system cracks
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  Speaker 1: down on immigration all the time. The Danish system literally
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  Speaker 1: says you cannot ghettoize your community if you're an immigrant.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot have immigrant enclaves because you have to become Danish.
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  Speaker 1: Your children have to go to Danish culture classes. And
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  Speaker 1: in America, the left says we don't even have a culture.
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  Speaker 1: Like when you... You can have the Danish social safety
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  Speaker 1: net under many conditions, but part of what you have
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  Speaker 1: to have as a condition is an understanding of the
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  Speaker 1: big basics. So you have to agree from the beginning, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is who we are. This is what we believe, yada, yada, yada.
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  Speaker 1: Then let's go over the different, but like you have
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  Speaker 1: to have a basic understanding of who you are as
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  Speaker 1: a people. The left says we're not even a people
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want the Nordic system. This is why
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  Speaker 1: the left is so dangerous right now. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: a Nordic system. They want what Uganda had when they
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  Speaker 1: exiled Mandani's family and Kash Patel's family. They want what
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela had. Hassan Piker wants what the USSR had. But
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  Speaker 1: they really want third world race-based policies that are anti-white.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you have to understand. It's not the Danish system.
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  Speaker 1: Go back four or five years, not that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: And you have Senator Elizabeth Warren. Putting forward a bill
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  Speaker 1: to create a new government department on racial equity that
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  Speaker 1: would usurp the power of Congress and the presidency, mind you.
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  Speaker 1: To make sure everything was racially equitable, i.e. that everyone got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the same percentages. It's race based socialism. It's
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: not Nordic based socialism because the Nords don't care. Like
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  Speaker 1: the Nords are very hard on immigration, especially the Danes,
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  Speaker 1: the Norwegians as well. The Finns come see, come saw.
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  Speaker 1: The Swedes started to finally after it blew up in
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  Speaker 1: their face. So, yeah, like. They don't even want that
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  Speaker 1: because it's all race-based Marxism. You have to understand that. Okay,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: lightning round of questions you have for me. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to dislike a lot of these questions. I
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: just want you to know. First one, who put Joe
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Biden up for the June 27th debate that got him
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  Speaker 1: to debate early? It feels like a plan. It is
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: not a plan. Joe Biden, if you remember your history
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  Speaker 1: from 2020, did his first debate with Donald Trump. And
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden... creamed Donald Trump in that debate. That's when
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump was screaming over the mic, over the announcers.
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  Speaker 1: He came up incredibly unhinged. It was his worst debate
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  Speaker 1: performance of any debate he has ever done in any
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  Speaker 1: of the three presidential elections. He did horribly. So there
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: was no fear because they believed Biden would beat Trump
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: again because they demolished him in that debate. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: think that Trump grew and he did. Trump did a
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: very good job. It was definitely his best debate he
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: ever did. Second question. What do you think Joe and
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Jill were offered or threatened to induce them to drop
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  Speaker 1: out of the race on July 21st? I love how
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: you have specific dates. I don't think that they were
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: offered anything because now they're desperate for money. So if
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: they were offered like a billion dollars, they don't have
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: it because they are desperate. They can't get the Biden
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  Speaker 1: library financed. I think that. I think that everyone who
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: was close to them and I've read this since then, um,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Everyone who was close to them told them to drop
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  Speaker 1: out except their most inner circle. And they had no money.
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  Speaker 1: The point is, they didn't give Joe Biden money. They
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: turned off the money. And Joe Biden knew he was
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: going to go down to a record breaking defeat. Or
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: he came to that or his advisors came to the
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: conclusion that there was no more money. So not what
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: they offered. It's what they took away, which was the
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: money for the reelect. Last question. Did Joe Biden. reamped
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: barack's grand plan for the replacement candidate by awkwardly putting
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: kamala forward 30 minutes after he stepped aside what do
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you think about barack's foil grand plan i do not
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about um biden did not biden
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  Speaker 1: did not have a uh like a grand plan in
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  Speaker 1: his mind he kind of went kicking and dragging to
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: that resignation to not running for re-election um Kamala was
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: well aware, but you have to remember Kamala had strong
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  Speaker 1: allies like the Congressional Black Caucus that were saying, if
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: it's not Joe, it's Kamala and you are not going
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: to put a black woman to the side. And the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: pressure from the Black Caucus and remember the Black Caucus
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: and Joe Biden were very, very, very close. They Joe
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Biden owed his presidency to Kamala. people in the Black
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Caucus and the Black community. And he knew what that
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: would have meant to sidestep the first female Black vice president.
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  Speaker 1: So no, it is not. Barack didn't have a grand plan.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: There was never going to be a debate and a
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: convention fight like this is all delusional nonsense. You cannot
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: believe conspiracies like The what what is it? Mocked him's
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: razor or something like that. Whatever the most likely answer is,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: is 90 percent the actual answer. Barack Obama is not
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: in charge of the Democratic Party. Barack Obama is still
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: very popular, but he is a aging figure within the party.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: He does not have the influence. I believe that you
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: think he does. He was not running the Joe Biden presidency.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: He didn't even want Joe to be president. So I
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and by the way, they resented each other enormously the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: entire time Joe was president. You have to stop believing conspiracies.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: They are not good for your brain. I promise you
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: they are not good for your brain. Don't believe it.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Take a step away. Take a breath. You can read
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: a million different inside information about this. But trust me,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: this is not how it went down. Love you for listening.
• 42:42
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• 42:44
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