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your support. All righty, so President Trump finally wrapped up

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his press conference. The big announcement out of this press

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conference today was that he's taking control of all the

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police as any authoritarian. No, I'm just kidding. He's just

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taking control of the Washington, DC Police Department and deploying

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the National Guard in the nation's capitol in an effort

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to crack down on crime. This is why I say

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these conditions are a choice. Government leaders make these choices.

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Local voters by installing those government officials make those choices.

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This will continue until people decide they have had enough.

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Donald Trump has decided he has had enough and he

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is going to show We'll see if it turns out

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this way, right, Because like everything else with Donald Trump,

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I always advise, I caution you to give it a minute.

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Let's see what happens. Right by the way, you've got

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Democrats out in the streets of DC protesting this, protesting

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for crime. I guess that the Yeah, apparently, So that's

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what I mean. It's a choice, like you don't want

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to enforce law, you don't want to move homeless encampments,

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you don't want to do any of these things to

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create an ordered society. You want the chaos because you

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think it means you are more virtuous than your political

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opponents who are saying, hey, I think it might be

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okay to be able to walk down the street, you know,

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and not get mugged, not get beaten up, not get robbed.

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There was a saw over the weekend. There's a sub

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reddit the website reddit dot com, and it's you know,

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like message boards and stuff. It's been around for a

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while and over the years, much like a lot of

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these types of platforms, they've been taken over by the left,

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and the left is a censorious bunch, and so they

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remove posts that they don't agree with, and they become

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more and more hostile as they take more and more

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control over these platforms. I've given examples of this over

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the years. I mean Twitter, before Elon bought it was

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a good example. Blue Sky is a current example. Wikipedia

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is another. Reddit is obviously the one I was talking

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about here, which is that somebody posted on the Washington

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d C. Subreddit message board. So Reddit is the mothership basically,

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And then they have all these sub reddits. There's one

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for Charlotte, there's one for you know, every city and whatever.

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And so somebody posted that it's okay to not want

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to be the victim of violence in your city, Like

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you don't need to feel guilty about that, It's okay.

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That post lasted eleven minutes before it got deleted by

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the moderators. So I mean, see, this is this is

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what Trump represents. As much as the left fails to

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understand this, the media fails to understand this. When Trump

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says make America great again, he's talking about restoring order,

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law and order, restoring things to sort of quote normal,

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which was not theens of this kind of dumb assery

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like oh, we have to turn loose all of these

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violent defenders because historic racism or something. No, they are

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a threat to the society. They are a threat to

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law abiding citizens. And when the law abiding citizens cannot

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move about freely, they will cease moving about in your city.

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They will leave, They will go someplace where they do

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feel safe. We talked about this last week at length.

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So Trump announced, quote, our capital city has been overtaken

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by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth,

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drugged out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not

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going to let it happen anymore. We're not going to

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take it right. This is the revenge of the normies.

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The normies have finally said, no, We've had enough. We're

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done ignoring your your silliness, your leniency, We're done ignoring

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this craw And here's the thing. People I think will

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outwardly project outrage, and you know they will larp as

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you know, anti Trump, but still law and order Democrat types.

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But deep down, I suspect many of them are pretty

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happy about this.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: I suspect there are going to be quite a few

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people that hate Donald Trump and will never admit it,

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maybe not even to themselves, but will enjoy the fruits

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of this labor. They will enjoy the fact that they

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are able to walk around their city and not feel

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like they're going to be attacked when they turn the corner.

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Lest do you think that this is Donald Trump acting

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like a dictator tyrant orange hitler as it were. Under

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the Home Rule Act, Trump can temporarily take control of

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the district's police department if he determines quote special conditions

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of an emergency nature exist. So if you don't like

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what he's doing, it's not that he's a dictator. It's

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that he's following the law. See, he's following the law.

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The law allows him to do this, and so he's

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following it. He's using the law. And that's really what's

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got Democrats upset. I suspect the President announced this after

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declaring a public safety emergency in DC. He has the

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authority to activate the DC National Guard without local approval,

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though he is restricted in certain other actions by this act.

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The Home Rule Act, which grants various powers to the

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local government of the district. National Guard troops will not

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be able to make arrests, but will support local and

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federal law enforcement. Trump said he was tapping Terry Cole,

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the administrator of the DEEA, to serve as the federal

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government's leader of the Metropolitan Police Department. Trump must provide

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written notification to Congress within forty eight hours outlining his

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rationale for taking control of the MPD and crime. Then

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this is from was this from Reuters? No, the Hill

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dot com. Crime in DC was down thirty five percent

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last year, marking a thirty year low. Trump, who addressed

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reporters from the White House Briefing Room, cast doubt on

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those numbers. White House officials have cited reports of a

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DC police commander who was placed on leave over allegations

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he changed crime statistics. That was an NBC local affiliate story.

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We covered it last week. They were juicing the stats,

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They are falsifying the stats. That's the charge, that's that's

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what the commander has said that they've been told to

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reduce the charges when you're on the scene, reduce the

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classification of the crime so it doesn't pop up in

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the violent crime stats. And then they tout those stats

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as look, we're safer now, our crime rate is lower.

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Violent crime is down thirty year low. Meanwhile, we see

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stories of attacks and lootings, carjackings all over the place.

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It's like, really thirty year low. That's weird because it

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doesn't seem like a thirty year low, but maybe it's

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just anecdotal, and then we find out, oh, actually, no,

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we've been falsifying the data, so we actually don't even

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know what the crime stats actually are. All right, if

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you're listening to this show, you know I try to

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make the media landscape more transparent. This is quite the

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headline from Politico. Quote, Democrats try to separate their tactical

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use of redistricting from that of republicans. Say there, it's different.

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They literally did the headline. I always say this, it's

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different when Democrats do it. And if you're writing that out,

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by the way, for social media purposes, put the D

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in different When you're writing it's different, you put the

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D in parentheses. Capital D always capital D in parentheses.

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It's different because democrat like that's they wrote this headline.

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Politico did the headline, Democrats try to separate their tactical

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use of redistricting from that of Republicans. Right see, because

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the Democrats we're just acting in a tactical way. Republicans

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are acting in an Orange hitleresque sort of way. Because

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we're better people than they are. But now we gotta

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fight fire with fire. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and

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former US Attorney General Eric the Wingman Holder are pushing

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back against the notion that democrats jerrymandering efforts bear any

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resemblance to Republican plans to extract five new seats in

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Texas ahead of the twenty six midterm elections, and their

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main rationale here, their main excuse is it's different when

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we do it. They literally do not have a better argument.

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They have no argument. This is why I say sometimes

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that I'm pretty sympathetic to Democrats when they try to

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when they try to defend their positions on things, because

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they can't like when you apply logic and economics and such.

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When you apply these principles to the policy debates and

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you know, steer clear of ad hominem attacks, you're not

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personally attacking people, You're just talking about the issue, it

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becomes very difficult to defend a lot of these positions

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with Republicans at the direction of President Donald Trump. With

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Republicans pushing a rare mid decade redraw of the Texas

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legislative maps, dozens of lone star state House democrats fled

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the state to stand up they are standing there ground

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by running away, they fled for Illinois and other blue

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states in early August, preventing the Texas legislature from reaching

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a quorum, which that is the minimum number of people

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that are required in a legislative body in order to

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vote to be legitimate. Now the FBI is assisting in

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efforts to find them, though Pritzker said Texas law on

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quorums has no validity in Illinois. As for their own

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parties coming redistricting efforts, national Democrats say, the time is

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now to fight fire with fire. We see you lighting

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that fire, and we are going to throw more fire

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on your fire. That will defeat your fire. My fire

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defeats your fire. It's like it's like the old kid

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game fire, Fire Fire. Will you do that thing with

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your hands? Boom boom boom, fire fire fire, and then

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everybody wins. It's amazing. Republicans say, oh, that's hypocritical, because

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Governor Abbott out of Texas said they have no capability.

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They've already jerrymandered their states in ways which they don't have.

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Hardly any Republican members of Congress left. It's a joke,

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and he is correct. By the way, he is correct,

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there are not many seats Democrats confined because they have

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jerry mandered the ever loving bajeebus out of their states already.

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They did it through these sham independent redistricting commissions, which

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is this is the most hilarious part of all of this,

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which is the hoisting on your own petard right where

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the Democrats virtue signaled their moral superiority by implementing independent

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redistricting commissions in their states. And then this would take

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the politics out of an inherently political process, which is redistricting.

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And we are better than Republicans. We are going to

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have people who have no idea about anything to do

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with po politics. We don't want any experts, no lobbyists,

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no elected officials, we don't want anybody that knows what

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the hell they're doing to draw our maps. But they

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will be guided by public input, yes, public input. And

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then of course Democrats stage like these faux grassroots organizations

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and communities of interest quote unquote that got together and like, oh,

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we are you know, we are the beachfront community that

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we and we love the seals, and so we are

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you know, we are a community of similar interest, so

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we belong in the same district. And then these people

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who are running the commission that don't really know what

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they're doing, they're like, oh, okay, and then they gave

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them what they asked for, and Democrats Pro Publica did

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a big expos on this thing like ten fifteen years

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ago when they first did it, and it's been corrupted

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ever since. In fact, by the way, the guy who

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drew the redistricting maps behind closed doors for for the

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state of California is a guy by the name of

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Paul Mitchell. Fantastic care products as I understand it. But

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Paul Mitchell, his wife is the head of Planned Parenthood

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California and he does all the election data for California Democrats,

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that's who drew the maps for them, but he didn't

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jerry mander. See it's different when they do it. But

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now they did these independent commissions. You know, they stuck

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it to the GOP for the last ten years or so.

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New York State just rolled out theres a couple of

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years ago, and then they tried to get out of

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the They tried to make a more gerrymandered map and

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the courts shut him down. I got details on that.

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But point is they made all this big show about

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how independent we are. We're not going to jerry mander.

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We have independent commissions which then made maps favorable to Democrats,

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and now They're like, we're going to make even more

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favorable maps now. So you're going back on your promise,

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right you're saying, Okay, fine, we're not going to follow

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this morality play. But also, because you actually did Jerrymander,

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you don't have any seats to find.

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Zvernovsky talking about how Democrats are trying to separate their

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tactical use of redistricting from that of the Republicans. But

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Princeton University's redistricting report card gives the state of Illinois

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to where the Texas Democrats fled. Their map gets an

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F for partisan fairness. That means failure. I know a

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lot of kids today in K twelve gov Co schools

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don't know what that means. But there used to be

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a day where if you didn't do well enough, you

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didn't pass, and you didn't get to the next grade,

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you would get left back or held back a year.

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You have to repeat the great So I've got some

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audio clips. Here is Eric the Wingman Holder. I call

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him that because that's what Barack Obama called him. Obama

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called him his wingman, Eric Holder, or maybe Eric Holder

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said he was Obama's wingman. I forget who used it,

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but that's why he has the names. Because he was

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perceived as the president's wingman. He was the attorney general, right,

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and when I know Donald Trump took office, everybody was like,

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the attorney general doesn't work for you. But see, once again,

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it's different when it's a Democrat. Okay, they're allowed to

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be a Democrat president's wingman. But if it's a Republican president,

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then now it's a separate thing altogether. So Eric Holder,

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who led the Department of Justice under Obama and now

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runs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and basically he and

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Mark Elias, the Democrat super lawyer, also the bagman cut

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out for the Steele dossier and the DNC, and you

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know Constant thorn in the side of the Republican Legislature

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in North Carolina constantly suing overall of our redistricting maps,

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which is why we redraw the things like every other year.

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It seems like he was on Meet the Press. Eric

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Holder was, and listen to his explanation of why it's different.

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Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you, how can jerry mandering both be

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a threat to democracy and also the way to save it.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's no question that jerry mandering is a threat

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to our democracy. It allows politicians to pick their voters

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as opposed to citizens choosing their representatives. But we are

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now in a situation where we find ourselves where authoritarian

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moves are being made by the White House through various states,

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Texas most prominent among them, and there has to be

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a response to that. What I've said is that we

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have to protect our democracy now if we ultimately want

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to be able to save it, and so taking the

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reasonable steps that have been proposed in California, I think

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it makes a great deal of sense in this moment,

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a temporary way in which to respond to that which

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is happening in Texas, with the thought that after this

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crisis is p as we get back to the fight

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against jerry mandering by anybody.

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Speaker 1: Right, So, we're gonna we're going to need to burn

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this village to save it, but just just a little bit,

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just temporarily. We're only going to burn it temporarily here.

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Then we're going to build it right back. We're gonna

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save it. We're going to save the democracy by acting

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in an undemocratic fashion. You see, we're gonna have to

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jerry mander more than we've already been jerry mandering. Then

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there was New York Governor Kathy Huckel, she's been on

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the warpath on this issue. This was her on Fox

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News Sunday.

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Speaker 4: And we didn't intend to do this again until the

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twenty thirty two elections. But because we're in a different

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situation altogether, that demands that leaders stand up and say,

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I'm not going to let our democracy be eroded away

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because there's a blatant power grab to maintain power in

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our nation's capital. This is what I call a legal insurrection.

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Legal insurrection, just let the rules stay the way they are.

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We'll do it the way we always have. But here

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we have Texas and now going to other states. Jd Vance,

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why aren't you looking out for how to lower a

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cost like you promised? Instead he's going like a lapdog

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around the country in a different state, saying, hope, can

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we pick up some here?

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Speaker 1: Can we pick up here?

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Speaker 4: Because they know they're going to lose next year, that's

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the only reason they're engaging this, and also might be

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a nice distraction from people asking all of a sudden,

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this happens when when they refuse to release the Epstein files.

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So I, along with a lot of people in New

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York are saying, what's that all about. Is this just

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another red herring? So no one's buying this, just Texas,

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knock it off. We'll knock it off. Let's get back

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to governing. We want to play these games. We're not

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going to sit on the sidelines. We're in New York

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because we fight back.

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Speaker 1: Do you know who else is in New Yorker? Somebody

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pretty prominent? You know who else born and raised New York?

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Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I think this is what it looks like when

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Republicans don't sit back and take it. By the way,

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this term legal insurrection, this was hilarious. William Jacobson, he

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is the founder of the website legal Insurrection Okay, And

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he said, I came up with the name, which is

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a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing as

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a legal insurrection. If you look on their website, it

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literally has the Dictionary pronunciation and definition to explain the

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thing that cannot be because an insurrection is a rising

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up against established authority or rebellion or revolt. That's what

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an insurrection is. Legal means in conformity with or as

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permitted by law, which is a contradiction to the term insurrection.

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The name has confounded people ever since he named his

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blog this. They ask him what does it mean? What

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does he mean by that? Is it an uprising using

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the legal system or a non legal uprising that is

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not criminal? He says, it's not only self contradictory, it's ambiguous.

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He said, like we shall keep being the thing that

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doesn't and can't exist legal insurrection. That's why he chose

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that name, just like Kathy Hockel's legal insurrection boogeyman, which

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is a person or thing that is widely regarded as

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an object of fear. Like by the way, in watching

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her performance too in these interviews, she is not a

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very good politician. I mean, just like the skill set

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Noah Rothman at National Review says the move by the

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Texas legislature to redraw their districts mid decade seems to

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have had a profound psychological effect on democratic partisans. Sure

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Texas's move is muscular politics. One might even call an

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expansion to the rules of political engagement, though the maneuver

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is hardly unprecedented. Indeed, mid decade redistricting was said to

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have saved the Democratic House majority for the first half

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of Joe Biden's term in office. Beginning of twenty sixteen, Florida, Virginia,

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and Pennsylvania and North Carolina discarded maps that were favorable

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to Republicans and replace them with plans that were more

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generous to Democrats. That's according to the Center for Politics

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analyst J. Miles Coleman. If no maps changed throughout the decade,

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Republican would likely now hold a narrow majority. Some of

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those GOP favoring maps were the result of Republican overreach,

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and they were not thrown out by Democrats, but the courts. Still,

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if the old maps had prevailed, there would have been

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no American Rescue Plan, no Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act,

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no Inflation Production Act, and probably a lot less inflationary

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pressure to which all of these big spending bills contributed.

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History hinges on those maps. Kathy Hackle was on. She's

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the governor of New York She was on Fox News

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Sunday with Shannon Breem and Shannon Breem pushed back on

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the governor of New York.

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Speaker 3: Here's how National Reviews summarized it. They said, it was

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only three years ago that New York's Democratic legislature drew

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up a map so brazenly contemptuous of basic rules the

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governor district's contiguousness, that the state's Democrat dominated Court of

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Appeals through it out. The New York Times at the

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time called those maps comically contorted. That's their quote. So

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your state's highest court at the time, all the judges

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appointed by democratic governors, they threw the maps out. So

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fair to say democrats have done what they're now accusing

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Republicans of doing.

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Speaker 4: No, we followed the rules. We do it every ten years.

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We based on so that you didn't follow the rules. Correct, Well,

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we did follow the rules.

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Speaker 1: No, the court was wrong.

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Speaker 4: We followed the rules.

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Speaker 1: So the court was wrong. Well, we followed the rules. No,

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you followed a rule, which was that you did it

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once in the decade. That was one rule. You followed.

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All of the other rules you did not. And now

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she's going to try to go around the rules. Get

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some exemptions because they implemented an independent redistricting commission in

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New York State, which is the rule that they ran

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a foul love which got them smacked down. And so

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now they're going to try to take it out of

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that independent redistricting Commission's hands. We're going to take it

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back so we can get even more remandering. Then at

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a rally, here is Betdo O'Rourke aka Francis Robert O'Rourke.

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Speaker 5: Well, here, next time we win power, we're gonna drive

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that car like we stole it. We're gonna legalize every Dreamer,

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every dreamer's parents, every hard working American doing backbreaking work

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that makes this country so goddamn great in the first place,

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even greater as US citizens.

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Speaker 1: More more cursing, battel more cursing. We need to know

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that you're gonna fight. I need to hear more cursing.

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Speaker 5: We don't await the punch thrown by these would be

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fascist to land. We punch first, and we punch harder.

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We want California and New Jersey and Illinois and Maryland

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and every other state where the Democrats hold the governor's mansion,

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the Assembly, and the state Senate to redraw their congressional

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districts now, not wait for Texas to move first to

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maximize Democratic Party advantage. Listen, you may say to yourself, well,

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those aren't the rules. There are no reps in this game.

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Speaker 1: The rules.

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Speaker 5: We are gonna win whatever it takes.

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Speaker 1: There we go.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna take this to them in every way that

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we can.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna punch them first because i know they're

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gonna punch me. I know they're gonna punch me, and

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so I'm just gonna punch them first. I'm in a

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bunch of marter. I'm gonna give them the old what

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four Look at me. I'm fighting. I'm dropping f bombs

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all over the stage here people, I'm a fighter. Bet

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do So there you go. Right, we're gonna and this

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goes in line with what James Carvill said the other day.

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We get power, we need to pack the Supreme Court.

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We need to create two new states and pack and

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so they'll be blue states, so we'll have a lock

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on the Senate and we'll be in in you know,

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governing power in perpetuity for democracy, obviously, that's the whole point.

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It's for the democracy, because otherwise we lose the democracy.

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We're gonna have to temporarily do away with the democracy

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just to preserve that democracy. They're totally going to bring

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it back. Okay, don't worry. In fact, I don't know

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who this is from, but it's on the text line. Remember,

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temporary measures was the code for abuse of power during

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the pandemic. Right, it's just two weeks to flatten the

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curve here, people, Okay, we need to flatten the authoritarian curve.

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So we're going to need to suspend the democracy just

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for a couple of weeks, maybe a few months, maybe

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a couple of years, however long it takes, whatever it takes,

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isn't the democracy worth it? All Right, that'll do it

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

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

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while I'm gone.