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I've been saying this again and again and again. You
start listening to all these folks, they just calling Trump,
They're just calling him names. And you can call Trump
all the names that you want. Doesn't care. He just
doesn't care, regardless of what you think. That's true. Democrats
are going to We're not gonna win back seats in
the House of the Senate by calling Trump an idiot,
all right, just not. The way to win is by
going to purple and red states and speaking out, just
like what Adam Mockler did this weekend in Arizona. Today,
I want to talk about the redistricting that's happening in
Texas and the response that New York Governor Kathy Hokeel made,
someone who's actually speaking up in an admirable way, pointing
out the obvious that Trump has changed the playing field
and that we need to do the same play the clip.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied
behind my back. With all due respect to the good
government groups, politics is a political process, and to think
that we're going to do this with a purity test
and make sure it's completely fair to everybody involved. The
reason we are able to draw the lines because we're Democrats,
because the majority of people in this state selected us,
elected us to be leaders. And when we say that
we cannot use that power to its fullest, that we're
abvinegating the responsibility that we all have. Republicans take over legislature,
they can have at it, but until then, we're in charge,
and we're sick and tired of being pushed around when
other states don't have the same aspirations that we always
have had. I hold those deer, but I cannot ignore
that this the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame
on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight
to the vestiges of the past. That era is over.
Donald Trump eliminated that forever by.
Speaker 1: The way he most certainly did. He's playing by no rules.
You can't figure out what the rule is because it
doesn't exist yet. He hasn't created it. Sean Hannity, then
he spoke with Texas Governor Greg Abbott about Hockel's comments.
Check this out play the clip.
Speaker 3: Oh, certainly it should be somewhat proportional to what the
vote is. What is your response to Kathy Hochel who
says that we are at war over Texas and the
redistricting push that's going on in Texas.
Speaker 4: There's a bunch of crazy bluster. Democrats are freaking out
because they are realizing Texas has the authority to redistrict
and we're going to do so in a way that's
going to lead to these additional seats that will vote
Republican and they will be starving in Congress in the
next session. And so Democrats are freaking out about it,
engaging in rhetoric, but I don't think they have the
capability of actually living up to it and doing anything
about it. Texas will continue to fight for what is right,
and that's exactly what we are doing.
Speaker 1: What he's basically telling you is that we can do
whatever we want that benefits us, but if you tried
to do the same thing, well, you're being improper. He
also says that jerry mandering happening in blue states is
distorting the politics in America. Serious play the clip.
Speaker 4: For example, I think Donald Trump won in all five
of these seats that we will be making Republican seats.
The same thing should apply in all those other states. Sean,
that you mentioned in your monologue where you pointed out
the gross jerry mandering in these blue states have rejected
Republican candidates for office that should be serving those states,
should be serving our country. It's a jerry mandering in
the blue states that has started the politics in America.
Speaker 3: All right, Governor, good for you, good for the fight.
We'll see if these guys show up and do their
job as they should do. But clearly they don't want
the same rules applied to them. That's what the story
is really all about.
Speaker 1: The only thing distorted more than Sean Hannity is Governor
Abbott's bullshit. Now on CNN, the guests at the table
debated why Democrats are coming out and saying that they
want to redistrict as well. Play the clip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of funny that like half the Democrats
are out here saying like the Republicans are cheating, and
the other half are saying, wait, a minute. We need
to do it too.
Speaker 2: Adam Kids, Wait, Adam Kids.
Speaker 4: Before we came on with John King at eight o'clock,
he said he was rymandered in his own district. That's
why he lost his work.
Speaker 1: He said that he Trump Garrett.
Speaker 5: But I think part of this is the Democrats are
doing it in response to the Republicans doing something that
is atypical. It is totally normal to redistrict It is
something that happens based on the census, and then we
we sort of reapportion Congress. Everyone redraws their districts, and
it's meant to be a process that occurs sort of
traditionally in American politics on that once a decade schedule,
and for the Republicans to be trying to change the
rules in the middle of the decade right now is
the thing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely inappropriate, and we know the basis. It's
not even like they're hiding. They're not hiding in the
shadows with what they're doing. They're doing it right out
in the open. They are shoving it into the faces
of the American people and saying we need these five
seats because it is a razor thin majority that's giving
the House to the Republican Party, who is running amok.
They are refusing to do investigations where investigations should be had.
You have people like Maga Mike Johnson who just sits
there and capitulates to whatever whatever it is that Trump desires.
But it's not just Maga Mike. It's the vast, vast
majority of the Republican leaders. They're not leading. Fact being,
you don't even need them there, just whatever Trump says,
Just Robbert stamp it now. Meanwhile, on the Brothers podcast
Might's Touched podcast, Brett made a truly interesting observation about
the Freedom to Vote Act. Play the clip.
Speaker 6: I'm against Jerry Manderin in general, right. I think it's
horrible that politicians are able to choose their own voters.
But that does not mean that we could unilaterally disarm
and you just allow parties to do that while you
just stand by and let them run you over with
a truck. I mean, that makes zero sense to me.
So I'm happy that you have governors like Newsom and
Hokl who are speaking out and are saying, well, if
you're going to do that, well we're going to do
that too. And I want to remind everybody also, because
Democrats are so graded on a curve and they're not
actually given any credit for the things that they actually
do try to push. I want to remind you to
one of the first things that the Democrats tried to
do back in twenty twenty one, after President Biden took office,
then they tried to pass what the Freedom to Vote Act.
This was one of their big pieces of legislation that
they tried to put forward in twenty twenty one. This
Freedom to Vote Act banned partisan jerrymandering. It was one
of the big provisions of the Act. And it wasn't
like some lefty, you know out there far left bill
as like the Republicans like to explain. This was a
bill to reform our election system. It banned partisan jerry mandering.
It required voter id something that Republicans like to say
that Democrats are totally against. Guess what, not a single
Republican voted for the Freedom to Vote Act that would
have solved all of these issues. Democrats had a bill
in Congress in the Senate that would have codified a
ban on partisan jerrymandering, and the Republicans blocked it. That's
something that we need to be calling out here.
Speaker 1: Yes, we absolutely do me While Bakari Seller's former South
Carolina House of Representative, he pointed out that if Republicans
were going to sweep the midterms in twenty twenty six,
they wouldn't be doing this play the clip.
Speaker 5: For the Republicans to be trying to change the rules
in the middle of the decade right now, he is
the thing.
Speaker 7: But it's not curious.
Speaker 2: I'm curious.
Speaker 7: And so let me just say this. If Republicans were
going to march to a sweep in twenty twenty six,
would you be trying to realign districts today? The answer
is no, and so yes, the answer is if you
can't win the game as it's played right now, you
just rig it right. And so that's what's happening before
our eyes, and I think that is what like I
get it. American public may not understand jerry mandering right,
They may not understand the word. They may not grasp
how I's done everything years or how it's done. But
what they do realize is that the economy sucks. Eleven
million people are getting kicked off Medicaid. The things that
they were the competency and consistency that they had previously
is not there anymore, and Republicans are losing, So now
they're changing the game.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to take a look. Let me
be clear about something like what Bacari just said in
this previous clip. Not everyone understands what jerry mandering means.
But unlike Jesse Waters, oh yes, the jerk off Jesse himself,
I'm gonna show you in this next clip, Bakari wants
to actually educate Americans that are unaware play the clip
their jobs.
Speaker 8: The American people don't know the word jerry mander. You
go out into the street, you ask them what jerry
mander is. They don't know, and they don't care. They
have other things they're dealing with. They know what it
looks like when you don't go to work. And all
the headlines right now are democrats run away from their jobs?
Speaker 1: What democrats run away from their jobs? Really? Jesse, my
dear friend, need I remind you who it was that
closed the house early for August recess because they didn't
want to deal with the Epstein debacle. Right. Jesse also
made an insanely stupid comment about Abbot, announcing that he
wants to arrest the representatives that left Texas, saying that
he's sending them yeah to El Salvador. Played the clip.
Speaker 8: Democrats sat until three to show and they didn't, so
Governor Abbot sending out a posse to arrest them for
dereliction of duty and drag them back to the Capitol.
They told us, no one is above the law, and
if there is, the posse's gonna hand him the Homan
and they'll wind up in El Salvador with the Maryland Dad.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the fact that Fox allows this sort
of stupidity on their station. I can't believe that Jesse
as fucked up as he is as a human being.
I cannot believe that he could actually utter those words
as he did. Representatives leave and all of a sudden,
now you think you're going to send a posse to
pick them up, turn them over to Tom Homan, Department
of Homeland Security, and send them off to El Salvador.
It's not just inflammatory, it's patently stupid and asinine. Then again,
it's what we expect from him. Finally, Jesse tries to
talk about Texas District thirty five, but the schmuck confuses
Houston and San Antonio.
Speaker 8: Play the clip and look at what are the Texas
districts that Democrats are running away from. They basically drew
a highway between Houston and Austin. Even the media is
calling them hypocrites.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're calling you stupid and as always, thanks
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