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because the insanity, the chaos, it's not gonna stop. Now. Look,

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I've been saying this again and again and again. You

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start listening to all these folks, they just calling Trump,

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They're just calling him names. And you can call Trump

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all the names that you want. Doesn't care. He just

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doesn't care, regardless of what you think. That's true. Democrats

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are going to We're not gonna win back seats in

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the House of the Senate by calling Trump an idiot,

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all right, just not. The way to win is by

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going to purple and red states and speaking out, just

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like what Adam Mockler did this weekend in Arizona. Today,

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I want to talk about the redistricting that's happening in

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Texas and the response that New York Governor Kathy Hokeel made,

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someone who's actually speaking up in an admirable way, pointing

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out the obvious that Trump has changed the playing field

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and that we need to do the same play the clip.

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Speaker 2: I'm tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied

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behind my back. With all due respect to the good

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government groups, politics is a political process, and to think

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that we're going to do this with a purity test

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and make sure it's completely fair to everybody involved. The

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reason we are able to draw the lines because we're Democrats,

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because the majority of people in this state selected us,

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elected us to be leaders. And when we say that

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we cannot use that power to its fullest, that we're

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abvinegating the responsibility that we all have. Republicans take over legislature,

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they can have at it, but until then, we're in charge,

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and we're sick and tired of being pushed around when

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other states don't have the same aspirations that we always

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have had. I hold those deer, but I cannot ignore

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that this the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame

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on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight

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to the vestiges of the past. That era is over.

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Donald Trump eliminated that forever by.

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Speaker 1: The way he most certainly did. He's playing by no rules.

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You can't figure out what the rule is because it

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doesn't exist yet. He hasn't created it. Sean Hannity, then

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he spoke with Texas Governor Greg Abbott about Hockel's comments.

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Check this out play the clip.

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Speaker 3: Oh, certainly it should be somewhat proportional to what the

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vote is. What is your response to Kathy Hochel who

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says that we are at war over Texas and the

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redistricting push that's going on in Texas.

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Speaker 4: There's a bunch of crazy bluster. Democrats are freaking out

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because they are realizing Texas has the authority to redistrict

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and we're going to do so in a way that's

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going to lead to these additional seats that will vote

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Republican and they will be starving in Congress in the

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next session. And so Democrats are freaking out about it,

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engaging in rhetoric, but I don't think they have the

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capability of actually living up to it and doing anything

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about it. Texas will continue to fight for what is right,

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and that's exactly what we are doing.

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Speaker 1: What he's basically telling you is that we can do

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whatever we want that benefits us, but if you tried

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to do the same thing, well, you're being improper. He

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also says that jerry mandering happening in blue states is

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distorting the politics in America. Serious play the clip.

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Speaker 4: For example, I think Donald Trump won in all five

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of these seats that we will be making Republican seats.

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The same thing should apply in all those other states. Sean,

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that you mentioned in your monologue where you pointed out

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the gross jerry mandering in these blue states have rejected

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Republican candidates for office that should be serving those states,

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should be serving our country. It's a jerry mandering in

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the blue states that has started the politics in America.

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Speaker 3: All right, Governor, good for you, good for the fight.

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We'll see if these guys show up and do their

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job as they should do. But clearly they don't want

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the same rules applied to them. That's what the story

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is really all about.

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Speaker 1: The only thing distorted more than Sean Hannity is Governor

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Abbott's bullshit. Now on CNN, the guests at the table

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debated why Democrats are coming out and saying that they

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want to redistrict as well. Play the clip.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of funny that like half the Democrats

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are out here saying like the Republicans are cheating, and

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the other half are saying, wait, a minute. We need

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to do it too.

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Speaker 2: Adam Kids, Wait, Adam Kids.

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Speaker 4: Before we came on with John King at eight o'clock,

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he said he was rymandered in his own district. That's

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why he lost his work.

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Speaker 1: He said that he Trump Garrett.

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Speaker 5: But I think part of this is the Democrats are

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is atypical. It is totally normal to redistrict It is

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something that happens based on the census, and then we

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we sort of reapportion Congress. Everyone redraws their districts, and

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and for the Republicans to be trying to change the

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rules in the middle of the decade right now is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely inappropriate, and we know the basis. It's

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not even like they're hiding. They're not hiding in the

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shadows with what they're doing. They're doing it right out

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in the open. They are shoving it into the faces

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of the American people and saying we need these five

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seats because it is a razor thin majority that's giving

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the House to the Republican Party, who is running amok.

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They are refusing to do investigations where investigations should be had.

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there and capitulates to whatever whatever it is that Trump desires.

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majority of the Republican leaders. They're not leading. Fact being,

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you don't even need them there, just whatever Trump says,

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Just Robbert stamp it now. Meanwhile, on the Brothers podcast

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Might's Touched podcast, Brett made a truly interesting observation about

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the Freedom to Vote Act. Play the clip.

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Speaker 6: I'm against Jerry Manderin in general, right. I think it's

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horrible that politicians are able to choose their own voters.

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But that does not mean that we could unilaterally disarm

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and you just allow parties to do that while you

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just stand by and let them run you over with

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a truck. I mean, that makes zero sense to me.

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So I'm happy that you have governors like Newsom and

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Hokl who are speaking out and are saying, well, if

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you're going to do that, well we're going to do

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that too. And I want to remind everybody also, because

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Democrats are so graded on a curve and they're not

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actually given any credit for the things that they actually

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do try to push. I want to remind you to

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one of the first things that the Democrats tried to

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do back in twenty twenty one, after President Biden took office,

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then they tried to pass what the Freedom to Vote Act.

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they tried to put forward in twenty twenty one. This

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Freedom to Vote Act banned partisan jerrymandering. It was one

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of the big provisions of the Act. And it wasn't

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like some lefty, you know out there far left bill

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as like the Republicans like to explain. This was a

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bill to reform our election system. It banned partisan jerry mandering.

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that Democrats are totally against. Guess what, not a single

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Republican voted for the Freedom to Vote Act that would

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have solved all of these issues. Democrats had a bill

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in Congress in the Senate that would have codified a

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ban on partisan jerrymandering, and the Republicans blocked it. That's

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something that we need to be calling out here.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we absolutely do me While Bakari Seller's former South

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Carolina House of Representative, he pointed out that if Republicans

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were going to sweep the midterms in twenty twenty six,

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they wouldn't be doing this play the clip.

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Speaker 5: For the Republicans to be trying to change the rules

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in the middle of the decade right now, he is

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the thing.

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Speaker 7: But it's not curious.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious.

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Speaker 7: And so let me just say this. If Republicans were

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going to march to a sweep in twenty twenty six,

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would you be trying to realign districts today? The answer

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is no, and so yes, the answer is if you

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can't win the game as it's played right now, you

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just rig it right. And so that's what's happening before

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our eyes, and I think that is what like I

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get it. American public may not understand jerry mandering right,

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They may not understand the word. They may not grasp

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how I's done everything years or how it's done. But

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what they do realize is that the economy sucks. Eleven

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million people are getting kicked off Medicaid. The things that

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they were the competency and consistency that they had previously

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is not there anymore, and Republicans are losing, So now

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they're changing the game.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're going to take a look. Let me

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be clear about something like what Bacari just said in

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this previous clip. Not everyone understands what jerry mandering means.

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I'm gonna show you in this next clip, Bakari wants

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to actually educate Americans that are unaware play the clip

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their jobs.

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Speaker 8: The American people don't know the word jerry mander. You

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go out into the street, you ask them what jerry

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mander is. They don't know, and they don't care. They

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have other things they're dealing with. They know what it

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looks like when you don't go to work. And all

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the headlines right now are democrats run away from their jobs?

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Speaker 1: What democrats run away from their jobs? Really? Jesse, my

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dear friend, need I remind you who it was that

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closed the house early for August recess because they didn't

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want to deal with the Epstein debacle. Right. Jesse also

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made an insanely stupid comment about Abbot, announcing that he

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wants to arrest the representatives that left Texas, saying that

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he's sending them yeah to El Salvador. Played the clip.

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Speaker 8: Democrats sat until three to show and they didn't, so

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Governor Abbot sending out a posse to arrest them for

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dereliction of duty and drag them back to the Capitol.

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They told us, no one is above the law, and

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if there is, the posse's gonna hand him the Homan

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and they'll wind up in El Salvador with the Maryland Dad.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine the fact that Fox allows this sort

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of stupidity on their station. I can't believe that Jesse

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as fucked up as he is as a human being.

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I cannot believe that he could actually utter those words

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as he did. Representatives leave and all of a sudden,

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now you think you're going to send a posse to

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pick them up, turn them over to Tom Homan, Department

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of Homeland Security, and send them off to El Salvador.

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It's not just inflammatory, it's patently stupid and asinine. Then again,

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it's what we expect from him. Finally, Jesse tries to

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talk about Texas District thirty five, but the schmuck confuses

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Speaker 8: Play the clip and look at what are the Texas

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districts that Democrats are running away from. They basically drew

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a highway between Houston and Austin. Even the media is

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calling them hypocrites.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're calling you stupid and as always, thanks

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