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your support. So where was I? Oh, at the end

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of the show yesterday, third hour, final segment, I mentioned

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the story of how Sydney Sweeney the actor actress? Can

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we say actress?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Are we going back to actress? Did that happen? I

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lost track because there was this thing where it's like, no,

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everybody's just an actor now, and so you could use

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the word actress anyway. She's she's in movies and that

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she apparently is not just attractive, but she is also

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a Nazi. And this is apparently now day too many

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of the national conversation about what American Eagles ad campaign

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with Sidney Sweeney saying she has good genes j E

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A N S but also g E N E S.

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Get it. Dad pun right that this is quote Nazi propaganda.

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This is straight out of the Third Reich. Okay, So

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Charles C. W. Cook, And I'm gonna tie this to

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a larger political thing going on here. But like you've heard,

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the politics is downstream of the culture, and this fight

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erupted online and it's not even a fight, Like it's

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like mugging a dead guy. It's not a fight. Okay,

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this is it. It's just dumb assery, which I actually

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should right, I should play this again because buzon no

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dumb massery. We are in it, and the politics is

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downstream of this kind of dumb assery. So Charles C. W. Cook,

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he's a writer over at National Review. He's originally from Britain,

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but he then became an American citizen, and he is

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a national treasure. I always say that I love reading

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his stuff, even if I have to look up about

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half a dozen words in the dictionary when I read

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his pieces. He says, Sweeney wore jeans and showed off

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her figure and drove a vintage car and did other

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Sydney Sweeney esque things in front of the cameras. No

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sooner had the spot debuted than it had been deemed

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provocative and offensive and found guilty of sparking debate. Okay,

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the question that was presented by Sweeney's New American Eagle

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commercial was whether or not the Nazis were good.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, the national conversation that has been bolted to this

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transient exhibition of denim has been about eugenics as conceived

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within the Third Reich. Eugenics which, by the way, promulgated

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by Democrats. In North Carolina, we have a rich history

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of the eugenics and it was the Republicans when they

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got into office, under the leadership of then House Speaker

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Tom Tillis, that did the formal apology to all of

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the victims of the eugenics, and I think they even

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set up a compensation fund for those people that were

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so Abusedenics was the idea that you could breed out

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the bad people or bad traits. And for the eugenicists

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that were pushing this, a Lah Margaret Sanger, founder of

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Planned Parenthood, which was part of this eugenics idea, was

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that you have the undesirables kill their babies and this

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way they don't reproduce and you only get you know,

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the production of quote unquote elites, right, the good kinds

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of people, right. That was that was at the heart

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of this idea. Obviously completely discredited and deplorable, and not

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in like a Trump supporter kind of way, but like

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actually deplorable. And it's one of the reasons why the

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Nazis were very interested in the work that the eugenicists

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were doing under you know, this progressive banner in America. Now,

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you may not have known any of that, maybe you

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knew all of it, maybe you knew some of it

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or whatever. But apparently American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney they

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knew this. And see they are trying to put this

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back into the American blood stream. That's what the accusation is,

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that this is somehow a dog whistle to the Nazis

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aka anybody to the right of Elizabeth Warren. And as

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I mentioned yesterday, the thing about dog whistles is only

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the dogs hear them. Only the dogs hear them. And

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so when you jump onto your TikTok page and you

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record yourself and your vehicle doing the hand thing, you

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know where you pinch your thumb to your forefingers, what

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that birdhand I think is what it's called right you

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know that. Yeah, see, okay, I got the I got

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the h the nod from Bernie, who is the designated

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gen z represented Oh millennial, Sorry, never mind, we can't

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trust anything, he said. No, I'm kidding. He's the designated millennial,

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but he speaks for anybody younger than millennials too. I'm

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gonna lump that in there anyway. So when you do

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those videos and you are admitting that you have heard

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some dog whistle, that means that means you are the

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dog that they are, that they are gearing that too. Okay.

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So I just saw the ad and thought, oh, look

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they put that that hot actor into another into a commercial.

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It was sort of the reaction I had same reaction. Really,

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remember when Paris Hilton, I think it was, did the

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Carl's Burger's ad where she's like in a bikini on

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a on a hot rod vehicle and eating a big,

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messy hamburger. That was probably before most of your time,

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but like that was That's how I saw this ad.

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So this national conversation swiftly after the ad was released.

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Cook writes a handful of people on the Internet and

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by the way, I'm reading this portion because he totally

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nails the way these things develop. The timeline here. Okay, So,

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after the ad is released, a handful of people on

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the internet began complaining that American Eagle had released a

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white supremacist commercial, and, as is often done, the self

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licking ice cream cone was swung immediately into action. Some

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people were talking about it online, which meant that the

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press was able to write about it as if it's

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a real story, which meant that the opinion outlets were

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able to get involved with a clear conscience, which meant

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that the press was able to write about it some more,

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which meant that other people were guaranteed to talk about

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it online, and before too long we had one of

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those perplexing news cycles that start with a single mind

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numbing complaint from the most ridiculous people in the country

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and end with daily updates on whether any of the

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figures who are passively involved in the circus have yet

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quote responded to the allegations. End quote. That's the timeline,

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That's the way these things always unfold. Right, you have

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some randos on TikTok or Instagram or Twitter, not even

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Facebook anymore, but okay, maybe every now and again Facebook, Right,

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but you have some people say some utterly stupid things.

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Media then picks it up because this is what media

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does now. We just sit around and scroll through the

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social media feeds for anything that could be a story.

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I literally saw a segment on a news station, a

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local news station in Atlanta, major TV market, and they

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have a segment where they have a reporter quote unquote,

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stand in front of a screen and literally read to

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you tweets which you can see behind her on the screen,

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like that's a news story. Some people are saying some

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stuff and I'm going to tell you what they're saying.

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It was like the people that were like, I got

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to tell you what Donald Trump tweeted, No, you don't.

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I could just read his tweets. I don't need you

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to do a whole news story on something Donald Trump tweeted.

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I could just read what he tweeted. So this is

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the cycle. Then you know, the news covers it, then

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more people are aware of it, and then you get

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more people commenting on it, and then everybody the opinion

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people jump in and just as he calls it, the

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self licking ice cream cone, Ben Shapiro, responding to one

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of the lines in the ad, she says. Genes are

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passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like

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hair color, personality, and even eye color. My genes are blue,

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get it blue jeans, and Ben Shapiro said, I can

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assure you her eye color is, at best, the third

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thing that men will notice about her. At best. You know,

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Speaker 2: Like.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who needs to hear this, but when

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you put attractive women in your ad, that's a marketing

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tactic in order to convince the viewer that they want

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your product. Men and women. Women look at the end

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and they'll think subconsciously, maybe they say, oh, if I

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drink that soda like Cindy Crawford did, I'll be like

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Cindy Crawford. Men think, oh, if that's what chicks like

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to drink that, I'm gonna drink that pepsi too. I'm

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gonna buy the American Eagle jeans. There's a let me

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bounce over here, Aren McIntyre, he's a columnist at The Blaze.

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He says, it's interesting how mutilated men pretending to be

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women in Sports Illustrated was just fine, but one white

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lady in jeans is the return of the Third Reich. Yeah,

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that's that's exactly right. Sidney Sweeney's initials. By the way,

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I'm not sure you've heard of this, but her initials

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are SS. What do you think it means? Charles C. W.

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Cook goes on to say, if there's anything subliminal going on,

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it's that American Eagle wants consumers to think that if

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they buy the product that their featured star is wearing,

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they will become like her. Right beyond that, there's nothing

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of consequence to interrogate here. So why is this annoying?

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He says, Partly because it's dumb, and yes, we need

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less stupidity rather than more. Partly because once again the

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media have indulged the silliest people in America rather than

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ignored them as they deserve. And partly actually mostly really

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because this incident illustrates the preposterous double standard that our

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would be arbiters of taste routinely apply to quotidian uses

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of the English language. When the phrase at hand is

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let's say, from the river to the sea, or how

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about globalize the Intifada or defund the police, we are

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treated to exquisite journeys into nuance and context, alongside detailed

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dissections of how words are translated from one language to another.

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In those cases, we are assured that nobody who says

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any of those things actually means them, even when their

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utterance is attached to a clear declaration of intent. But

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when American Eagle makes an advertisement for denim, all hell

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breaks loose. A pretty blonde girl says she has good

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genes in a commercial for genes, and the presumptions instantly invert, right,

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they flip. And here's the thing about all of the

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protestations about this ad that are coming from the left,

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that's where this stuff is coming from. None of them

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have come close to answering the only question that matters here,

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which is why why would American Eagle do anything of

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this sort? Why would Sidney Sweeney consent to help if

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that was the intent? And who, upon watching the spot

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would react to it by reaching for their copy of

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mind comf Well, obviously anybody who has a copy of

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mine comp maybe right, you have to be, as he says,

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a total bloody moron, And that's correct, that is absolutely correct.

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There is this corruption of the language, and then there

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is this weaponization of this type of thing, right to

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make what is white black and black white. It's to

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invert and the same people that are now telling us

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that this ad is somehow a dog whistle for eugenics

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or Nazism or something, right, they are the same people

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that tell me I don't understand the meaning of globalize

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the Intifada, that that's the real problem, my misinterpretation of

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when I hear jihadists want espouse killing me and all

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the Jews and eradicating the state of Israel right now,

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I just don't understand the nuance and complexity of the argument.

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When I say defund the police, I don't really mean

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defund them, I mean reform. Well, okay, why I just

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say reform the police. Well, we already made the T shirts.

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Like I mean, there's no explanation for why when people

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say the things they say, And then I get some

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sort of an interpreter in the media that says you

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don't really understand what they're talking about. I'm pretty sure

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I do. I'm just listening to them as I would you,

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pretty straightforward, I would say Chris Selly on Twitter, he's

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a columnist for the National Post. He says, this whole

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Sidney Sweeney thing speaks to a theory that I have.

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And here's the theory people's sense the era of maximum

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crazy might be coming to an end, so they're cramming

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in as much crazy as they can before that, which

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that's an optimistic That is an optimistic way of thinking

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about it. I may try to adopt this way of

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thinking on this stuff. I don't know. Let me check

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the uh, let me check the text line here. Stan says, Yeah,

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Liberals say Sidney Sweeney and American Eagle or Nazis. But

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they also say from the River to the Sea. That's

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exactly right, exactly the point that Cook made. This is

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a South Carolina number. Hitler actually gave awards to some

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well known progressives for their great work. More importantly, I

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thought I was the only one who noticed the bird

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fingers phenomena. That's when they're when they're doing this thing

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where they're like they're like pinching their fingers together, like

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all four fingers to the thumb. It's like a little bird.

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It's like you're doing like a shadow puppet of a

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talking hand, you know whatever, Like you're in a puppet anyway.

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And they do this thing to the camera like I

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need you to understand this thing that I'm saying. And

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they're just like bird tapping there. Yeah, this is a

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local number. Pete. Such bottomless dumb assery. Democrats constantly casting

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their guilt upon others. This time they're squealing about racism

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and eugenics when they're when these are their own creations, right, abortion,

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number one cause of death for African American children is

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the number one votainer for them in every election. Thank

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you for your use of the votainer word. Thank you,

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m M and stances. If you put Sydney Sweeney's initials backwards,

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it's suddenly satanic. Oh no, app is on repeat for

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some reason. I have heard there's problems with the streaming

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app so oh on Odyssey. Yeah, I'm not sure what

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has been going on with some of the streaming platforms

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in the last few days, but but yeah, there are

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there are issues across different platforms. Oh, here's another one.

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Jessica Simpson jumping in the time machine. Scroll back twenty

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years to when movie star Jessica Simpson came out with

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her line of jeans at Belks. She had just starred

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in the Dukes of Hazard movie. I never thought of

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her as a Nazi, right yeah? Yeah. So in a

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related story, democrats are trying to figure out how to

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win back young men. I would just offer this Sydney

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Sweeney freak out that you got eyes are seeing among

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your ranks, right, I would submit that this is a

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pretty good example of how not to win back the

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dudes that you have lost. Okay, you got some problems,

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got some problems with the young men, and the Sydney

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Sweeney freak out is an example of why you're having

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columnist a RedState dot com Welcome, how are you today?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Pete. I'm doing wonderful. How are you guys?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. I'm doing all right. You got

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a couple of pieces up at Red State I wanted

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to chat with you about. Let me start with the

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Democrat brand. Uh, it is so bad panic among Capitol

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Hill Democrats after release of devastating new pull. Okay, so

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you write in this piece about the quote free fall

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that the Democrat Party is in right now, You've got

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several quotes from various Democrat officials, and it all seems

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to be stemming from poll after poll after poll that

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shows people don't like them as a party brand so much.

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And you yeah, so the latest one is the Wall

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Street Journal, Right, the.

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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal came out with a poll recently peaked,

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and it was kind of fascinating because you know, there's

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been this, you know, coordinated campaign among the media and

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Democrats to bring down you know, Trump and the Republicans especially,

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you know, the closes we get to the point twenty

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six mid terms. But the problem is is that even

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though the public does have concerns about some parts of

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Trump's agenda and some parts of the Congressional Republicans agenda,

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they still don't trust Democrats. And it's even on the

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issues where they have concerns over the Republican agenda, they

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still trust Republicans more than Democrats by a pretty substantial number.

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To resolve issues like the economic issues and that sort

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of thing. Foreign policy matters. They still overwhelmingly trust Trump

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and the Republicans in Congress more than they trust Democrats.

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And this may be to what led Ken Martin, the

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DNC chairman, to describe the party as being at quote

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rock bottom. I mean, when the chair of your party

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is basically admitting that, and you know that there's a problem.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, rock bottom. You've got a quote from John Anzelone

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who is a Democrat polster, who says the brand is

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so bad that they don't have the credibility to be

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a critic of Trump or the Republican Party. And to

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your point about the numbers, you've got the quote in here,

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here's just one. By seventeen points. Voters disapprove of Trump's

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handling of tariffs, so he's underwater by seventeen points on tariffs.

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But Republicans are trusted more than Democrats by seven points

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on that matter. So, however bad Trump is in his

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approval numbers, the Democrats are worse, which is amazing. And

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part of the problem is I think that the Democrats

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repeatedly say that it's it's their inability to message correctly.

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They're not breaking through. It's just that people don't know

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what our message is and what we stand for. It's

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not the policies. They would agree with us on all

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of that stuff, it's just the messaging. So what do

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you think of that argument?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the thing is is Sarah Hole message

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seems to be we hate Trump. I mean, and you can't.

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I think we've talked about that in our own elections.

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With four feete Republicans, you can't just be the you know,

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the other guy's bad. You've got to talk about why

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you're you're good, supposedly, and they're not doing that. You know,

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the only thing they talk about is how you know

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Trump is the next Hitler and you know the Republicans

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are trying to steal your right to vote and all

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this other stuff, and there's no real substantive discussion on

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the issues. It's just orange man bad, Republicans bad. That

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that's the only agenda that they have, and that doesn't

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really sell well with people. And the orange man bad

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narrative definitely doesn't sell anymore. Mean, if it did, Trump

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never would have gotten reelected in twenty twenty four. So

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that ship is sailed. And because that's not working for

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Democrats anymore, they're just they're lost, they are completely lost.

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Speaker 1: Ben Dominic, who is an editor at the Spectator, he

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laid out the Democrats platform as America sucks, the economy sucks,

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cops are Nazis, Ice is Nazis, and Sidney Sweeney is

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a super Nazi. So there, that seems to be what

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they're running with right now, which I look. I hope

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that they continue right down this path. It'll make it

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a lot easier for Republicans to beat them in the midterms.

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And speaking of the midterms, we now know Roy Cooper

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officially announced his run for the US Senate seat Michael Wattley,

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the RNC chairman, former North Carolina GOP chairman. He's expected

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to announce, thought it was this week. He'll be uh

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running as a Republican obviously, and maybe there will be

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a primary there. I don't think Cooper is going to

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get a primary. I think Wiley Nickel, right didn't he

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didn't he drop out immediately?

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Speaker 2: As of today he and he officially announced that he

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was suspending and he has thrown his endorsements to Cooper.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how many times did he announce that he's withdrawing,

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because if he like, if he asked to match every

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time that he every time he announced, because he had

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like three announcements and all right, so I don't know,

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are two of them still operable or not? All right?

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So what's your what's your what's your read on the

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on the race right now as it stands?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it makes sense that Democrats was the

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DNC were said to heavily recruited Cooper to run, and

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Cooper was probably already considering it anyway before the recruitments

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part started. I think Democrats think they have a real

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shot because this state, you know, the the demographics here

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in the landscape is ever evolving and ever things. And

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Cooper won two state wide elections here. He as far

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as the governor's race and he also won the state

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wide race for attorney general as well. Cooper is a

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lifetime politician, and he is, you know, fairly well known.

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They feel like that, you know, his brand is is

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fairly well known, and he's been dissected and voters still

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approved him even after all that. So they really feel

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like they have a shot that North Carolina will be

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one of the four steeps that they hope to flip

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in twenty twenty six. The problem is is that Pete,

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as you and I know and many of our fellow

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conservatives know, is that in twenty twenty there was not

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a lot of scrutiny of Cooper and in twenty sixteen,

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the media rode the HB two anti HB two waves

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and dragged Cooper over that finished line. So there was

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not a lot of media scrutiny of Cooper in either

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election side all that he's won for the governor's race.

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So I think this time around it's going to be different.

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Mistakes are higher, and Republicans are a lot more loaded

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for bear now when it comes to super than they

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were in twenty twenty and twenty sixteen, So I think

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it's going to be a different ballgame here. Obviously, this

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is probably going to be one of the most expensive.

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It's not the most expensive Senate race in the country

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as the Tillis and Cunningham race was in twenty twenty. Yeah,

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twenty twenty. So yeah, it's kind of an issue and

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Whatley for those who don't know. In twenty twenty two,

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North Carolina had a red wave. It was a mid

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term election year, and it was the election year that

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people thought that it was going to be a red

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wave nationally for Republicans. It wasn't, but we did have

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a red wave in twenty twenty two, and that's when

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North caropin. That's when Michael Watley was the chairman of

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the NCUGOP. You can you read into that, which you will,

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but you know, when you have a red wave in

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your state in contrast to what happens in the rest

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of the country, I think that says something about your

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leadership ability.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree, all right, and real quick, I

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spent a lot of time on this yesterday, and I'll

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circle back later in the program. But the veto rama

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that occurred in the General Assembly, which one of those, Well,

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were you surprised at any of those override votes that succeeded?

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Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't, pete only because the ones that they

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seemingly picked yesterday to override were the ones where they

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knew that they had previously had Democrats support in the

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House at least one or two, if not more. So

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I think that they, you know, they don't take these

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shots without thinking, you know, ahead of time, you know,

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are we going to have a reasonable chance of bringing

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one or two people over, one or two Democrats over?

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And it's kind of interesting. There were fourteen vetos that

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josh Sein has done this year and they were able

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to override eight of them. And the funny thing about

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it is is that they were able to do it

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with Democrats, right, and that you know, Democrats are really

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up set right now to veto overrides, but they faily

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have themselves of lightning because they couldn't get everybody in

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their party in line. It's really kind of funny when

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you think about it, which is.

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Speaker 1: Actually I mean, it kind of speaks to a failure

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of Josh Stein to not be able to count those votes.

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And know, I mean like Nasif Majeed out of Charlotte

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and Carla Cunningham out of Charlotte as well, they both

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broke with their parties or their party to vote with

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the Republicans on different bills. But that's all they needed

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was one vote. And for Stein to not be you know,

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working them like Roy Cooper worked these Democrat lawmakers in

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the past. I think it speaks to the power that

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Cooper had and the machine that he ran and the

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punishment that he needed out to other Democrats that did

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not fall in line versus Stein's approach, and that might

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not redound to his benefit.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly. And you know the funny thing is if

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I'm not mistaken on the bill defined man and woman

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in Saint Law, I'm not mistaken Magee did not vote

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for that bill initially. Oh, and somebody could correct me

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on that, but I'm thinking he did not vote for

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that bill initially, but when it came to the VITA override,

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he changed his mind. Like I said, I kind of

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I looked at over last night. I was writing about

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it last night, and yeah, somebody could could check me

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on that, But I think Magine actually kind of was

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a legitimate.

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Speaker 1: Slip well, and that that would indicate something I've been

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I've been saying since Cooper announced, which is that the

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HB two issue, the whole vibe has shifted on that

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issue from when he used it to be Pat McCrory

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by the skin of his teeth, right, Like I forget.

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It was like it was like a couple thousand votes

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he won by it was. It was very very close.

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McCrory was challenging all sorts of ballots and stuff, but

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he ended up conceding. But that HB two issue, it

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is not as potent benefit for Cooper any longer. If anything,

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it might be to his detriment.

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Speaker 2: Now I think it's going to be the detriment in

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more ways than one. Pet And I know you remember

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this as well. In addition to opposing HB to Roy

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Cooper actually was huddling with corporate entities in this country

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who were calling for boycotts but North Carolina around the

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time the bill passed, and Mark Bennioff from Salesforce to

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the of Salesforce. He was kind of leading the charge

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to get people to boycott our state over the bill,

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and the Wall Street Journal reported that Roy Cooper and

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Mark Bennioff met around the same time. So Roy Cooper

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went through pretty desperate lengths to beat Pat McCrory on

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this issue, and I think he did it by trying

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to sabotage his own resident, the people of his own state.

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He tried to sabotage them, and to some extent it worked.

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I mean in the end, when we all, when we

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all look at the numbers and everything, the boycott really

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didn't amount to a hill of beans. But it was

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the intent, to me in this case that matters. Because

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he wanted to be elected governor, he actually huddled with

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a CEO that was openly calling for boycotts of this state,

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the state that he wanted to lead. I think that

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tells us a lot about Roy Cooper. Well beyond what

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his opposition ah to be two fella.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, he would punish his own constituents if it

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meant personal political game. Absolutely right, Yeah, Stacey, I appreciate

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you making time for us as always, Stacy Matthews. You

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can read her work over at RedState dot com.

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Speaker 2: Hey, take care and stakehold.

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Speaker 1: All right, you two, all right? If you're listening to

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this show, you know I try to keep up with

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all sorts of current events, and I know you do too.

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And you've probably heard me say get your news from

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multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias,

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which is why I've been so impressed with ground News.

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It's an app and it's a website and it combines

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can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it

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out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I

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put the link in the podcast description too. I started

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using ground News a few months ago and more recently

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chose to work with them as an affiliate because it

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lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom.

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The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored

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Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it

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also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape

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more transparent. Got a press release from Priorities USA, which

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just happened to coincide with a big New York Times

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article on what Priorities USA is doing to help Democrats win.

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I'm sure it's completely co incidental that they had the

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press release and the New York Times article out at

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the same time, unless, of course, they told the New

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York Times what they were going to do, so the

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Times acted as a stenographer for them. But they quote

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then the New York Times story highlighting what Priorities USA

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is doing to ditch outdated tactics and experiment with new

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and bold tactics to rebuild trust, re engage voters, and

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retool how democrats run ads online. WHOA what is this

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online ad thing that you're talking about? What is that?

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The story highlights Priorities usa newest pilot programs focusing on

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content and targeting with digital advertising. It's another brand new

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term hmmm. One is called nest. It gathers data from

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sources like podcast transcripts and online comments to try to

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make heads more timely and appealing. Another is focused on

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building new audiences of potential voters to target on YouTube

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and outgrowth of discovering that watchers of politically write coded

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content were more influenced by democratic messaging than any other cohort.

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So they're going to start advertising on the Rogan podcast,

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I guess. The third aims to use search tools on

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social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to reach younger voters.

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They go on to say that there is a concern

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that too many of the decisions have been made by

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party officials on high relying too heavily on polling to

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guide their choices on policy positions, messaging, and advertising, while

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ignoring other important signals that could help influence voters. Danielle Butterfield,

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the executive director of Priorities USA, says, we need to

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rethink things. The same elitism that is abundant in our

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party exists in the way we make decisions like whether

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your sitting president will have a primary challenge or whether

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he will remain president or who the replacement of him

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will be after the coup, like that sort of thing. Now,

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one of the test sites North Carolina, along with Virginia

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and Pennsylvania. The three programs will be tested right here.

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Looking forward to that. All right, that'll do it for

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this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could

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not do the show without your support and the support

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thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything

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