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Speaker 6: We're not here to play political games. We're here to demand,
to demand an end to this corrupt process.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. We asked them to stop hiding things from the public.
We asked them to stop doing things behind closed doors.
We asked them to stop attacking Texas communities. They refuse
because they're loyalty and fealty Donald Trump overrides all other interests.
Speaker 4: Right po. Welcome, my friends. Still the Monday edition, the
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and all. It is Monday. It is a day that
is well tumultuous if you are Democrats, especially if you
are Democrats from Tejas. The move is, of course, as
you have been hearing for many weeks, that Texas Republicans
would engage in a process of redistricting, drawing lines more
accurately reflect the population in elections, and Democrats are having
a proverbial cow. Their pansies are pinched. In some cases,
they're not happy people. Democrats in the state of Texas
board a jet planes took the highways. However, they could
get out of Texas to avoid showing up to work
the Texas Legislature. The state legislature is supposed to be
convening right now at three pm Central time. They were
supposed to go into session. Democrats and by the way,
just before, just in case people don't know, Republicans have
used this tactic as well. I think it was an
Oregon There was a big kerfuffle going there and Republicans
bailed out, said Okay, we're out of here. They got fined,
Some of them lost the ability to run in the
next election because the rules in that state, if you
bailed out, specifically to create a situation where the legislature
couldn't conduct business, you were ineligible to run in the
following election cycle. And some of them took that bitter medicine.
Texas Democrats, you heard one of them in the opening
moments of the program today, state Representative Jeen Wu, who
is a Democrat in Texas. Of course, they have it
that it's all Trump's fault and etc. Etc. Now that
begs the question the fineries of politics, the intricacies of politics,
the weeds of political education. So let me get in
the weeds for a moment, and Carlos don't think I'm
picking on you, Please don't. I just want to ax
you a little ebonic a question, Carlos, Let me ask you,
how often does the Constitution require states to use to
redraw their districts? To be looking at it?
Speaker 7: On?
Speaker 4: Hold on a second, TJ. Do not start looking on
AI for the answer. Good, because you're next. Don't look
at AI. Two years. Okay, you're saying two years. I'm guessing. Actually,
I have no idea, gets no idea, all right, TJ.
Same question. What does the Constitution say?
Speaker 8: How?
Speaker 4: How often are are states supposed to do redistricting? Does it?
In the first place, you look somewhere. I didn't. He
looks somewhere, He looks somewhere. He looks somewhere, he says
to me, does it? Does the Constitution say that?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: The Constitution does not say it. It's a state thing.
It's a state thing. Okay, yeah, we know that. But
which is why I ask a question. How often are
the states supposed to do redistricting? Whenever they want? Pretty
much so, whenever they want? Ladies and gentlemen. Although it
is the tradition in this country that after the ten
year census, states withdraw their lines. There is absolutely nothing
zip zippity duda, nothing in the Constitution what prohibits states
from redistrict doing more frequently than these ten year cycles.
There is absolutely nothing that's say as Texas should have
to wait until after the census to do district redistrict lines.
Some state laws like Illinois and Maryland, which is so
ironic because you have Pritzker, Governor Prince Grody making a
big show of how he's protecting these delinquent state representatives
from Texas. Many of them flew up to Illinois to
be under Printker's embrace. Prinzicker keeps making a big deal,
and Illinois is one of the most gerry mandered states
in this country. Illinois is Illinois has a delegation, a
congressional delegation in the House of Representatives of seventeen members.
How many do you suppose the Republicans? How many do
you think are Republicans? Three out of the seventeen members,
Republicans in that state get three representatives. Maryland. They point
to Maryland, which also has do you know how many Republicans?
Maryland has eight representatives sent to the House of Representatives.
Take a wild guess, cause how many of those eight
are Republicans. One exactly right. One. Massachusetts has nine nine
representatives from the state of Massachusetts sent to the House
of Representatives. How many do you supposed to Republicans? Zero?
You're looking somewhere, but you've done well, you're not absolutely zero.
You're right again.
Speaker 1: Just because Massachusetts is like so like left or like
you know, with a mayor and everything.
Speaker 4: We're here all the time, why would they have any zero? Now,
the interesting thing about Massachusetts, folks, and I hope we're
not getting too in the weeds here, but the interesting
thing to me about Massachusetts is you can't even find
a percentage of Democrats that voting, I mean of Republicans
that voted this Maryland. You look for percentages, okay, what percentages?
And it's hard to find that information. I know, I've
been looking. Kathy Hokeel is out. We have Kathy Hochel.
New York has twenty six seats in Congress, twenty six
of them twenty six. How many do you suppose Republicans
do better than five? They have eight, Democrats have eighteen. Okay,
New York makes sure that their Democrats are totally in control.
Now you go to California, California, California, and Gavin Newsom
is among those making a lot of noise. Historically, the
proportion of registered Republicans in California is around thirty four percent.
I've even heard up the forty percent depending on the election.
Yet California Republicans fifty two. California has fifty two congress people.
Fifty two people in the House of Representatives. How many
you supposed to those, and keep in mind thirty six
to forty somewhere in there. Historically between thirty six and
forty percent of the state are Republicans on the fifty
two seats. How many do you think I've belonging? Nope,
not even nine. And Gavin Newsom is promising that if
this thing in Texas goes, he's going to disband what
the voters, He's going to stick it his mentle finger
up to the voters, that's commonly what Democrats do. And
he's gonna get rid of this commission that's supposedly nonpartisan,
and he's just they're just going to start doing a
payback line so that they can strip Republican voters of
that in that state of even more seats, so that
they can make sure that they punish Republican voters in
the state of California, all because they're upset over Texas.
Kathy Hochel as I said out running her mouth Democrats.
The reason that the reason that the United States House
of Representatives is almost so easily evenly split is because
Democrats have been jerry mandering Republicans out of power for
years in their blue states for decades, and now Texas
wants to redraw their lines. Yeah, Donald Trump suggested it,
and it's a good idea. It should happen based during
the population and Democrats are having a cow. We are
going to take a break early so that we're not
crammed up in the second segment here because there's some
sound bites I do I would love for you to hear.
So stay right there, my friends. James Golden snurally, don't
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Speaker 4: Welcome to both neuralies. Rush Hour fastest hour in American media,
my friends. All right, there are a few politicians who
have become more renown for their classless ness, for having
very little class than Texas Representative Crockett. She did a
little rant on the redistrict thing. She's been talking about
it for the last month, but this one, well you'll
hear it. Cut one Carlos her attack on President Trump
included in this rant.
Speaker 1: Because the Supreme Court has paved the way for half
the stuff that we see that is going on. Listen,
Donald Trump is a piece of Okay, we know that, yes,
yes he is, he is he is. But in a
functioning democracy he still will not be able to get
away with this. But he's been able to get away
with this because the House Republicans are complicent. He's been
able to get away with this because Senate Republicans are complicit.
But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit.
And so I think one of the places that we
have to start is we are absolutely they are the
highest court in the lands and they have no ethics
guard rails. Now you go down to the lower courts
and they do. How much this does that make? Will
we know that they're taking money, We have the paper trail,
and they refuse to pritguardrails on themselves. So it's time
for us to do.
Speaker 2: It for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well go ahead, Jasmine, you go ahead and
do it for him. You go ahead and call the
President of the United States a pos. You can go
ahead with all this ghetto trash talk all the time,
slandering the Supreme Court justices. Unless Democrats win, unless they
get what they want, nothing is working, nothing is functional.
Actually things are functioning. The problem is they are functioning
in ways that democrats don't want them to function. And
so what you get are these ghetto outbursts. What you
get are these sort of just derelictions of duties, which
is what the taxes legislators are doing as they camp out,
and they need to be held accountable and not let
off the hook when the fines come or the potential
felonies don't go away.
Speaker 5: Coming right back The Rush Hour with James Golden on
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Speaker 4: My friends, especially those of you that are new to
our program, here, this is the second. After you hear
that popularly known as boat, nearly very often you will
hear something come after that. Voices. We search, We scour
social media, we scour the internet, We scour in search
of trolls, in search of liberal Karen Tucker's, Karen Tucker's,
and we find Karen Tucker's all over the place. We
all so have mal Karen Tacker is. Occasionally, once in
a while we'll find something truly profound. We'll play that
for you too. But just then, an alert. This is
the segment where you usually hear a Karen Tucker. You'll
hear some liberal voice, and we have one for you
right now.
Speaker 7: Sound the alarm.
Speaker 8: Trump just brought back the presidential fitness test, Yes, the
one that traumatized an entire generation of kids for years.
Because nothing says child health policy like a millionaire golfer
who hits balls into the sun. Trump signed an executive
order reviving the old school one size fits all tests
that includes pushups, pull ups, shuttle runs on the infamous smile.
It was scraped over a decade ago for being outdated, discriminatory,
and humiliating for a lot of students. Now it's back,
and so is the Reagan error obsession with performance overwellness.
But that's not all. Trump also held a White House
photo up with professional athletes to mark the occasion. Oh dear,
this isn't about kids. This is about optics and distraction.
Speaker 7: And let's be real.
Speaker 8: If the goal was to promote actual health, we'd be
talking about funding for recess nutrition programs and mental health,
not turning gym class into a boot camp with a
maga seal of approval. This isn't a health initiative. It's
a culture war stunt dressed in gym shorts. I'll be
breaking this straight down further on my Patreon.
Speaker 4: Won't need the other rest. I thank you, Carlos. That's
a Karen talker. Ladies and gentlemen, Oh yeah, it is amazing.
Democrats will complain about anything she says. This is some maga.
You heard the taker, Karen. I guess when JFK introduced,
you know, physical fitness, he had some political agenda. This
was all politics. What have we been hearing the past
two decades about America's children? They are what? What did
you say, Carlos? Or did they are what? Fat? Yes,
that's what we've been hearing, although not that terminology. We've
been hearing about the obesity crisis. We've been hearing that
these kids sit down too much on their took us
as they don't get enough exercise, and some of them
are too young for sexercise, so they're getting nothing at all. Yes, well,
come on, this is the party that promotes exercise when
they get to be young teenagers. That's what they were
all about, if they if they managed to escape having
their bodies mutilated. But but so now the Trump administration
brings back under make America Healthy again. And yeah, they
had some great athletes at the White House too, saying
we want to be involved, we want to help with this.
And what do you get? You get? Oh my goodness.
The kids get humiliated from exercise. They shouldn't be exercising.
It's it's it's it's too much to ask kids to exercise,
to go to gym class. It's a form of humiliation.
That is the left in a nutshell. We also play
the other one that you were gonna play, because there's
something This is related to the immigration story that's going
on in La. You still have complaints. By the second
in La, people are not out shopping, people are not
out conducting business. They're all This goes to show you,
my friends, how much the city of La grew on
the backs of illegality. And it also shows something else.
This one you'll be able to figure that out for yourself.
Speaker 9: Just got off my twelve hour shift at one of
La County's easiest hospitals and ers and you guys are
waiting room is just empty, like four patients max, like
every hour, And as much as a healthcare worker enjoys
a slow day, it's actually pretty scary. Like I know
that a lot of patients are just scared to seek
medical care right now, and it's just really sad the
circumstances that we are in right now, and it just
scares me for the results of this after because a
lot of patients are going to hold off, to not
seek medical care, and they're going to come back ten
times sicker. And I just want to urge anybody who
has any family members who are experiencing any serious symptoms
to encourage an to seek medical care. Hospitals are supposed
to be spaces, and we are there to protect our
patients and care for them, regardless of who they are,
where they are, and where they come from. So it's
just a PSA. Please, please, please educate anybody who is
scared to seek medical care to seek it if necessary,
and don't wait.
Speaker 4: Now. Of course, when people are in dire assistance of
medical help. No one wants to see them not get
that help. Yes, exercise, I just got a text. Yes,
do Democrats promote that among with children? Instead? You hear
this woman complaining about exercise. Think about what the Democrats
across almost every state in this Union have introduced as
reading material for kindergartener's, first graders, second graders on up.
You have graphic pornography being introduced into the schools at
an and I mean some of it is graphic, and yes, yes,
and I've read and you've heard people go to these
time meetings and start to read some of the stuff
that's send these books, and the people at these school
board meetings are so embarrassed they tell them to stop
reading it. But it's okay for your kids to read it.
And all of that is to promote sexual behavior as
soon as their little parts are ready, say Democrat party.
These love this liberal This liberal agenda is twisted. But
that said, that said, ladies and gentlemen, there were other
things going on. I got I'm gonna respond to. I
looked up and I'm seeing a question mark. Why are
you seeing sexercise? Because that's part of the program. But
yet crats, these liberal women they hate. They're so hateful
of Donald Trump with TDS that if he just suggests
his physical exercise, then a case, that's a problem. Okay,
moving on, Kathy Hochel, I've mentioned it twice, three or
four times. Let's just go ahead and run through her cuts.
Carlos cut eight. Kathy Hochel, failed governor of New York statey.
Speaker 10: Donald Trump and his co conspirator Greg Abbott a roade
our democracy andregasor toward authoritory authoritarianism.
Speaker 4: Now again, start again. I just love that.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 10: Donald Trump and his co conspirator Greg abbittt a roade
our democracy and reregasor toward authoritory authoritarianism. Now tex some
Republican states are doing it the direction of Donald Trump,
I say, is nothing short of a legal insurrection against
our capital. Legal meaning they're using the legal process, does
not mean it's legal and it must be stopped.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, stop right there? What Donald Trump and
they're doing a legal insurrection? I say legal because it's legal,
but it's not legal. What is this woman talking about?
It is not an insurrection. New York is a state.
In fact, I got a lengthy test from a text
from Lady Benedicet, who was talking about a race that
occurred in New York from Nan Hayworth defeating when she
ran for a second term. After New York pulled their
redistricting crap to make sure that they can minimize the
impact of Republicans in the state, and Democrats were outwrage.
You remember, you might remember in the previous election cycle
when Republicans picked up five seats out of New York
and Democrats had a fit, and they have made it
their business to make sure that Republicans do not have
power in New York State. So here's this woman complaining
on and on about some illegal, illegal, illegal, illegal, illegal insurrection.
It's not an insurrection, it's called politics. Every state has
as is a sovereign state of the United States, and
they have the ability to redraw their districts. Now, Democrats
keep saying they're gonna have revenge. They better be careful
with this stuff. They've already redistricted Republicans out almost as
much as you can in red states. There is a
whole lot more legal wiggle room because Republicans haven't done
what Democrats did. So let's go to CUTT nine with
Kathy Hochel And here here you got this.
Speaker 11: You know, last decade redid redistricting hard to say. Do
you think, given this situation where we've had these court
battles everything, that in this twenty twenty seven amendment, that
you may put forward that the Independent Redistricting Commission should
be disbanded or changed in some way so that you
don't have to go through that again in thirty two.
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm tired of fighting this fight with my hand
tied behind my back. With all due respect to the
good government groups, politics is a political process, and to
think that we're going to do this with a purity
test and make sure it's completely fair to everybody involved.
The reason we are able to draw the lines because
we're Democrats, because the majority of people in this state
selected us, elected us to be leaders. And when we
say that we cannot use that power to its fullest,
that we're abnegating the responsibility that we all have.
Speaker 4: Stop it right there, So you see it's okay, this
is exactly what I was talking about. Politics is the press.
Why democrats elected us. The more Democrats in the state
they elected us, and we have to use our political
power to the fullest. Well, what the hell do you
think is happening in Texas? In Texas, the majority of
Texans elected Republicans. But when Republicans use their power, their
elected power, this same hypocritical nonsense is what you hear
from almost every Democrat. She just said it up front. Look,
Democrats elected us, they expect us to use our political power.
Speaker 10: Greg little continue Republicans take over the legislature, they can
have at it. But until then, we're in charge, and
we're sick and tired of being pushed around when other
states don't have the same aspirations that we always have had.
And I hold those deer, but I cannot ignore that
this the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame on
us if we ignore that fact and cling tight to
the messages of the past. That era is over. Donald
Trump eliminated that forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Right, So these other states they don't have the
same aspirations we do. So what does that mean? So
unless you think like a Democrat, which I'm saying before,
these people cannot tolerate They cannot tolerate inclusivity. They want
Conservatives Republicans xed out of any decisions. Democrats run New
York with an iron fist and how their Texas exercise
their power as a Republican dominated state. It takes them off.
And so what are they going to do. They're going
to try to go back within their own state, get
rid of this so called non partisan and I have
a thought about that too, election redistricting thing and just
go full you know what, to the wall rhymes with
walled room to the wall and rewrite their district to
totally kill out as many Republican Republicans as they can,
all the while trying to claim the moral high ground.
These people are now very quickly before we go two hour. Yes,
we do have to do, but we have one more,
one more we got to hear from them. Cut fifteen.
I've been trying to get this in for week. Scott
Jennings with Abby Phillips. This happened last month when this
issue first came up.
Speaker 12: So what does it signify the Republicans ahead of the
midterms believe that that it's going to be so necessary
to get an upper hand that they have to actually
redraw in entire states congressional maps in order to get
five whole seats out of it.
Speaker 13: Oh, probably the same thing that it signifies when they
did it in Illinois and got a fourteen three delegation
for D's Maryland seven to one, Massachusetts nine to zero.
We know what happened here in New York California, even
though they have a commission. We all know what goes
on there in the in the.
Speaker 12: Mid cycles, specifically, are all of those cases in mid cycle?
Speaker 13: All of these cases are where Democrats use the pale
but they have to give them a minute.
Speaker 12: But just to be clear, because I didn't do the
research that you did in the break here is it
that they're changing it after the actual census process where
you're supposed to.
Speaker 11: You're supposed to.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter when they change the district. They have
the authority. They have the authority change it when they
want to. It doesn't make a difference after the mid time,
after discycle. The point is Democrats did it, and she
and every other Democrat want to ignore what Democrats do.
James goldin Slurrity, Don't Go.
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Speaker 14: There was a benefit to shining a light on what
it was that they were trying to do in the
dark in Texas. So unfortunately, we've seen our numbers fall
now that they have these voter restrictions in place. But
I do think it's important for us to have the
conversation around the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was Jasmine complaining about restrictions put in place,
and we have seen our numbers fall. What does that mean, folks?
It means ever since Republicans introduced voter ID validating you
are who you say you are are into elections in Texas,
Democrats have seen their numbers drop. Now why would that be?
Why would that be?
Speaker 8: Ah?
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