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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Molly john Fast and this is Fast Politics,

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Speaker 1: where we discussed the top political headlines with some of

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Speaker 1: today's best minds. And according to Nnie Fair, Tucker Callson

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Speaker 1: told Trump to pick jd Vance or the deep state

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Speaker 1: would kill him. Just a totally normal exchange. We have

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Speaker 1: such a great show for you today. Senator Al Franken

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Speaker 1: drops by to react to the RNC and let me

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Speaker 1: tell you it's a happy time. Then we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you Tennessee House Rep. Gloria Johnson about her Senate run

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Speaker 1: against Marshall Blackburn. But first we have the host of

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Speaker 1: the Enemies lest the Lincoln Project's own, my buddy, Rick Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Fast Politics Emergency Emergency Podcast. After whatever that was? Whatever?

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Speaker 1: What was that? Rick Wilson, the day seven hundred of

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Speaker 1: the RNC.

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Speaker 2: Okay, listen, the first fifteen minutes, I thought, wow, the

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Speaker 3: Is talking nat.

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Speaker 1: So the first minutes you were like, oh wow, this

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Speaker 1: is like a real speech.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: The first time that SID was like, well, maybe he's

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Speaker 2: gonna have some disciplined approach and maybe this will unfold

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Speaker 2: into something interesting. I never believed the lie that oh

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Speaker 2: Trump is going to listen to speech writers and they're

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Speaker 2: going to craft a message to appeal to all Americans,

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Speaker 2: because that is what we referred to in the speech

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Speaker 2: writing business as horseshit. But Molly, I mean, the thing

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Speaker 2: that fucking blew me away is and I'm pissed off

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Speaker 2: about one thing. I'm just gonna tell you this while

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Speaker 2: we are recording this. As you know, the speech is

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Speaker 2: still going on. Guys, we bailed. We veiled it, like

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Speaker 2: two hours into this fucking thing. I lost the LP

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Speaker 2: office pool. I thought it would be fifty nine minutes

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Speaker 2: out and done. I was not successful.

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Speaker 1: I've been to so many seapacks where you're sitting there

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Speaker 1: and you're like, but I really thought this would end

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Speaker 1: after an hour.

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Speaker 3: Somewhere down in hell.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Fidel Castro is like, wrap it up, bro,

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Speaker 2: come on, let's wrap it up.

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Speaker 1: Let's just talk about the second the beginning that we

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Speaker 1: had who Kalgan pulling off his shirt to reveal a

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Speaker 1: Trump Vance shirt, right.

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Speaker 2: Kid rock with the worst lip syncing in the history

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Speaker 2: of mankind. He was like the Millie Vanilli of.

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Speaker 3: The RNC. It was so bad over a song that's

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Speaker 3: not even his, that was a Metallica song Correck.

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Speaker 1: Oh all right, well learn something new every day. And

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Speaker 1: but he got Trump into the lyrics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean okay, and then you get this Dana

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Speaker 2: White guy, and immediately my my social team at LP

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Speaker 2: posts this video of Dana White the guy giving a

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Speaker 2: speech slapping the shit out of a woman at a bar.

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Speaker 3: Nice guy, Yeah, nice people, you got there, Donnie.

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Speaker 2: The speech descended into rambling anecdotal shout outs to weird

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Speaker 2: friends that may or may not have seen in the audience.

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Speaker 2: It's the inevitable sur story space for us. If I

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Speaker 2: was drinking, I mean, by the time I got to

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Speaker 2: the point where you and I got on this podcast,

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Speaker 2: I would have had permanent liver damage with all the

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Speaker 2: callouts on the drinking bingo for Trump campaign events. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't want to stop because you know what, he

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Speaker 2: doesn't have to.

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Speaker 3: These people want the monster.

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Speaker 1: To do anything for him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I just checked, it's still going Molly. The time,

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Speaker 2: folks is eleven forty nine pm on the East coast,

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Speaker 2: and Donald Trump is still fucking talking.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question about this convention,

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Speaker 1: because before Donald Trump spoke, we had Tucker Carlson, Tucker

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Speaker 1: Ralson used to be the most important person in conservative media. Right,

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Speaker 1: he created nearratives. He got both of us numerous death threats.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Rick Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was a weird speech too, Like it

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Speaker 2: I think what you saw, Tucker Carlson. I mean basically,

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Speaker 2: that Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock and Rando golf course managers,

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Speaker 2: two golf guys. There's the great gift that Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: bought himself about a year and a half ago. He

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Speaker 2: brought in Susie Wiles and Chris Losovita. Okay, two people

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Speaker 2: the national media like and trust and who are smart

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Speaker 2: bullshitting the press for months. Different those this campaign is

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Speaker 2: completely under our control. They were fucked. Read the tem

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Speaker 2: Alberta article from earlier in the week. They were taking

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they forgot who their candidate was.

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Speaker 2: And you're like, by the way, you do realize he's insane.

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Speaker 2: And this idea that Donald Trump is insane seems to

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Speaker 2: have somehow escaped them. It should never escape you. If

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Speaker 2: you're in or around the vicinity of Donald Trump, especially

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Speaker 2: in a work situation, you must always bear in mind

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Speaker 2: that he is batshit, bug, fuck ratcrack insane, and it's

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Speaker 2: always struggling to get out. Like tonight, he tried to

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Speaker 2: and it's it's like he thinks in his mind, like

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Speaker 2: It just looked bizarre. And of course they spelled the

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, that poor family. But

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Speaker 2: the crazy he is always trying to get out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean this is the thing I was.

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Speaker 1: I was struck by. It's just the same speech, it's

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Speaker 1: the same issues, it's the same. I mean, he got

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Speaker 1: china virus in there, the guy, you know, chinavirus. I

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Speaker 1: hadn't heard any of that in like, you know whatever,

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Speaker 1: watch the convention, what you see is that they've tamped

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Speaker 1: down some of the rhetoric. But since there's no policy,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing right. If there's no rhetoric and there's no policy,

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Speaker 1: you literally have nothing. You just have stories about what

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Speaker 3: This is chat GPT.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you tell chat GPT, chat GPT generate a

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Speaker 2: greatest hits compilation of Donald Trump reading speeches and the

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Speaker 2: style of the del Castro. It's just this random anecdotal

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Speaker 2: Ryan Wiggins just posted to this. For those of you

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Speaker 2: who doubted that Trump wrote his own speech tonight, let

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Speaker 2: me assure you he absolutely did. It also represents Trump's

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Speaker 2: state of mind. He is never a cohesive thinker. He

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Speaker 2: is never a systematic thinker. He is always whatever shiny

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Speaker 2: object is in front of you, Donald Trump is going

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Speaker 2: to grab at it, whatever thought enters his mind. There

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Speaker 2: is no cognitive process beyond now, I will speak those

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Speaker 1: Yes, no, and there never has been. Let's just go

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Speaker 1: to Hugo loll our friend, who is actually there on

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Speaker 1: the floor. Trump's speech at the RNC was supposed to

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Speaker 1: last forty minutes. Trump is totally blown past that as

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Speaker 1: he continues to add leb. The prompter has not moved

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Speaker 1: why couldn't I get to Santis not to be terrible? Right?

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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, Susie Wiles right now is getting her

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Speaker 2: team of young minions to find her a two court

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Speaker 3: It's just so painful.

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Speaker 1: The idea that Trump would ever be anything but Trump

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Speaker 1: is just wish casting. And I think that we all

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Speaker 2: At some point right after World War Two, this entire

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Speaker 1: Mean, but we always know who he was, but he

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Speaker 2: It looks like it's still going. It is the energizer

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Speaker 1: The other thing that I think when you hear him,

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Speaker 2: Gonna have the next Republican Convention in Venezuela because it's

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Speaker 1: We had right, we had cheering for Victor orbon right.

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Speaker 3: Right, we had I in the Terrible Wood in Ukraine.

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Speaker 3: Putin was afraid of me. He was afraid of you

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Speaker 1: I like that he had that moment where he said

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Speaker 3: Right right right, and they're communists. What did you think

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Speaker 3: of the chart Smiley. That was a that was a moment.

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Speaker 1: But it was so funny because it was like that

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Speaker 2: Every reporter today. I was talking to reporters all day.

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Speaker 2: I have a bunch of friends up there that are

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Speaker 2: at this thing, talking to reporters, to inside LP and

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Speaker 2: He's right, right, right, He's going to talk about family

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Speaker 2: And I got a text from a national reporter at

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Speaker 2: the top of the food chain who was like, the

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Speaker 2: Rando rallies are better than this shit. What is weird

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Speaker 2: and frustrating? I think probably to the Trump people right now,

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Speaker 2: they have to be very honest with themselves. You cannot

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Speaker 2: control Trump. It's a rule. There is no better version

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Speaker 2: of Trump. It is also a rule. He went in

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Speaker 2: to this speech tonight thinking that he's the greatest entertainer

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Speaker 2: at all other than I'm going to get to the

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Speaker 2: greatest hits. I'm going to walk through the assassination attempt

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Speaker 6: But all right, guys, are you concerned with Project twenty

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Speaker 1: Molly Jong Fast That's Me Project twenty twenty five on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: the word. Al Franken is a former senator and host

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Speaker 4: Al Franken, Thanks Molly, Why are to be back?

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Speaker 1: Happy time? When Al Franken joins me on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: it's a happy time. I'm sorry to tell you.

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Speaker 4: And this whole convention is magical because he survived this

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Speaker 4: But of course this would happen to Trump and he

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Speaker 4: They think they're going to win, and right now we

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Speaker 1: Is this true for you and for Joe Biden, you

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Speaker 1: By the way, the theme of the Republican National Convention,

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Speaker 4: We can do it, but not any immigrants who's ever

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Speaker 1: they're like congratulations, and I was like, this is not real.

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Speaker 1: They just made this off.

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Speaker 4: That's very exciting though, that you got a weekend show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll be broadcasting from the death Camp. But

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I think is interesting about

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Speaker 1: him is that he was very mad when I wrote

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Speaker 1: this piece about fail suns, which is this idea that

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Speaker 1: was actually created by the good fellows over at Chapo

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Speaker 1: Trap House.

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Speaker 5: And it is this idea that you can from prominent

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Speaker 5: parents who can be a NEPO baby as I am,

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Speaker 5: and you can fail ergo become a fail son.

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Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't like that if I were him. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so if you go to the camp, you didn't have

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Speaker 4: to do that. You didn't have to write that.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Had I only clearly JD Van's shows that

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Speaker 1: you can at some point recan't, right, but you can

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Speaker 1: say I meant Hitler in the good way when I

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Speaker 1: called you Hitler.

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Speaker 4: Right right, Yeah, it was maybe he's Hitler. He didn't

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Speaker 4: definitively say he's either Nixon or worse. I guess Hitler.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean exactly, he's Nixon or he's Hitler. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Nixon is considered by some in the Republican Party to

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Speaker 1: still be kind of a good guy. And now the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court has made it so that what Nixon did

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Speaker 1: would be considered not illegal anymore.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're definition unit. No, he wouldn't have to give

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Speaker 4: up the tapes to Nixon's alive to see that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he would have really been pretty psyched.

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Speaker 4: Well why did they do? Okay? Yeah, so you're looking

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Speaker 4: forward to Trump tonight?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just nothing better than I love the bandage.

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Speaker 4: The bandage is a perfect was perfect rectangle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you seen that everyone else is wearing bandages? Now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this was in solidarity. That was a joke I

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Speaker 4: would have done. You know, once on Saturday Night Live,

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Speaker 4: Belushi and Buck Henry did a Samurai del Contessen or something,

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Speaker 4: and Blush would swing that sword around and he hit

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Speaker 4: Buck and did a gash in his forehead. You know,

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Speaker 4: he had to wear a bandage for the rest of

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Speaker 4: the show because he was bleeding, and everybody put a

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Speaker 4: bandage on on their head. So I thought right away,

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Speaker 4: and I would in sympathy put a bandage on. But

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Speaker 4: then I thought that was a bad taste, of course, But.

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Speaker 1: It turns out that's just now the thing we're all doing.

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Speaker 4: That's showing your affection for fearless leader and your solidarity

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Speaker 4: with them. So it's a nice little gesture.

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Speaker 1: You're still going to end up in the camps. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter.

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Speaker 4: Well, not if you hear my next podcasts. You know,

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Speaker 4: they they evidently like people do one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they do. I mean, I hope you will

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Speaker 1: engage in self tanner because if we've learned anything from

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Speaker 1: the election of twenty twenty four, it'said self tanner or

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Speaker 1: bronzer or just orange paint is the way to go.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's a good tip anytime. Solet's get back to creeping

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Speaker 1: authoritarianism for a minute. Jadie Mans was picked by Don

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Speaker 1: jor Don Junior, as you and I both know, has

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Speaker 1: an enormous political acumen and gifted political operator.

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Speaker 4: Met with Russians, yes, for the Trump chat, but that

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Speaker 4: was because they do all their business with Russia.

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Speaker 1: That's not politics, that's that's just business.

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Speaker 4: They're promised dirt.

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Speaker 1: Right exactly on Hillary Clinton. But it turned out that

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Speaker 1: James Colemy was the person who delivered it in the end.

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Speaker 1: God damn it. We're trying to make people feel less depressed.

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Speaker 1: I think it's working.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I feel better. I feel so much better. Just

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Speaker 4: a few minutes ago I came to this. That's that's

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Speaker 4: your podcast. You can't leave it not happy.

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Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for the text from Jesse, which is, like,

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Speaker 1: no one wants to hear this.

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Speaker 4: Move on.

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Speaker 1: At some point when I get really insufferable, Jesse will

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Speaker 1: text me. I mean, the good thing about being a

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Speaker 1: woman is that sometimes people tell you the truth. Whereas

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Speaker 1: I think there are certain people where no one ever

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Speaker 1: tells them the truth. Elon Musk is who I'm thinking of,

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Speaker 1: but all of those other people where they just believe

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Speaker 1: they're charming.

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Speaker 4: So Musk is giving forty five million a month, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: holy shit.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who was created by climate incentives

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Speaker 1: now giving money to the guy who is going to

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Speaker 1: just basically destroy the EPA. Like, if that isn't full circle,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. Like, you made

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Speaker 1: all your money on electric cars and pretending you cared

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Speaker 1: about the environment. Now you're giving all your money to

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Speaker 1: a guy who's like we're going to have the cleanest

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Speaker 1: H two O.

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Speaker 4: There are all kinds of talk from speakers about how

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Speaker 4: we aren't oil sufficient in our country.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because of Biden, we're drowning in oil.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're explorting it. We have more oil than

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Speaker 4: we've ever had and gas and are selling it overseas.

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Speaker 1: This R and C is like every single thing they say, right,

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Speaker 1: like immigration, these people coming to the country who are

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Speaker 1: coming illegally. The numbers are way down, right, They're way

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Speaker 1: down since Spiden has put this climate thing, this new

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Speaker 1: executive order, So that's way down. We're net exporting gas.

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Speaker 1: The economy is really good. Inflation is on its way down.

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Speaker 1: You watch this and you think you're in WYMR German

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Speaker 1: A nineteen thirty three and that no one can get jobs.

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Speaker 1: We're like at almost full employment. The economy is booming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Deporting ten million or twelve million or however many

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Speaker 4: immigrants is insane. I'm aging. I'm seventy three. My generation,

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Speaker 4: this huge generation is aging out and we're losing those workers.

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Speaker 4: We need these people. We desperately need them, and not

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Speaker 4: just to do what you think of as immigrant you know,

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Speaker 4: farm work, but other stuff as well, and this is

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Speaker 4: a history of our country. So this is a really

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Speaker 4: this is really bad economically.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah no, I mean, look this is where we are.

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, just do two seconds on

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Speaker 1: the deportation squad. You don't have enough people working jobs, right,

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Speaker 1: You're at almost full employment. You need people to work jobs.

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Speaker 1: The reason wages are going up is because there are

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Speaker 1: not enough people to work at these jobs. You're going

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Speaker 1: to deport ten, twenty thirty, they're just making up numbers.

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Speaker 1: Now people, you can have mass deportation squads. Were are

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Speaker 1: you going to put those people before you get them

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Speaker 1: out of the country. You're going to put them in camps,

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Speaker 1: Camps of concentrated people. You know what happened just the

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Speaker 1: last time America did camps of concentrated people.

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Speaker 4: Are we talking World War two?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about Japanese internment camps. This is what

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Speaker 1: happens in authoritarian governments. This is not what happens in

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Speaker 1: a pre republic, as people on Twitter like to tell me,

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Speaker 1: not a democracy.

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Speaker 4: Well, they are not interested in a free republic. And

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Speaker 4: that's what the twenty twenty five report that I listened to,

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Speaker 4: that you put out at video, it's chilling because they

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Speaker 4: have their shit together, and their shit together is to

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Speaker 4: do things like put the Justice Department completely under the

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Speaker 4: president and to prosecute enemies of the state.

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Speaker 1: That's us, which is you yes, what do you mean? No, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what's coming. If people don't vote,

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Speaker 1: this is what's coming.

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Speaker 4: You know. Every convention gets its own bounce, right, They

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Speaker 4: got their bounce starting at the botched assassination tempt, which

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Speaker 4: thank god it was botched. I don't know what our

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Speaker 4: convention's going to look like, is what I'm saying, but hopefully,

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Speaker 4: well I'll be there good.

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Speaker 1: So that's before they I got go on.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, no, no, no, I shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Laugh about myself being said to a camp for concentrations

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Speaker 1: of people, but you know, every couple of generations we

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Speaker 1: have to do that in my family. Al franken my body.

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Speaker 1: I hope this cheered you up.

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Speaker 4: It has slightly, just a little bit, just enough to

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Speaker 4: get me through, not the whole day, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: be fine for the next fifteen to twenty minutes.

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Speaker 1: I know that, Ol, Frank, Thank.

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Speaker 4: You, thank you. Mollie.

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Speaker 1: Gloria Johnson is a member of the Tennessee House of

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Speaker 1: Representatives and a Democratic nominee for Senate. Welcome too fast Politics, Gloria,

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 7: I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Gloria Johnson. You are running for the Senate against one

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Speaker 1: of the worst members of the Senate. And I do

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Speaker 1: not say that lately because there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: stupid people in the Senate. But I really do think

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Speaker 1: former Image consultant Marsha Blackburn is one of the worst.

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Speaker 7: So discuss well, she's actually terrible for Tennessee. There's no

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Speaker 7: question about that. Here we are in a forced birth

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Speaker 7: state in Tennessee, and Marsha Blackburn believes in a central

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Speaker 7: abortion band. She voted against the Violence Against Women Act.

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Speaker 7: She is questioned the Griswold Versus Connecticut decision, which allows

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Speaker 7: access to birth control.

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Speaker 1: Because people don't want to have sex. I've been told

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Speaker 1: that young people actually don't like having sex, and they're

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Speaker 1: really psyched by the idea of not having birth control

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Speaker 1: because they don't need it. It's fine that they just

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Speaker 1: stop having.

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Speaker 7: Sex, yeah, exactly. And then, of course we have this

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Speaker 7: presidential candidate in the Republican Party and his VP. So

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Speaker 7: we've got the presidential candidate who is a sexual predator,

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Speaker 7: We've got a VP candidate who believes women should stay

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Speaker 7: with their abusers, and then we've got a woman who

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Speaker 7: believes enforced birth and is against the Violence against Women Acts.

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Speaker 7: We're setting up just horrible situation for women and girls

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Speaker 7: in Tennessee. I can't imagine the outlook. I'm just horrified

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Speaker 7: at what it's going to be like for Tennessee women

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Speaker 7: if this were to happen. It's just outrageous. It's the

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Speaker 7: trifecta of women haters. It's unbel You know, when Marsha

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Speaker 7: goes around asking people what is a woman? I guess

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Speaker 7: he truly needs to know.

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Speaker 1: Can you do me a favor here and explain to

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Speaker 1: me you are in Tennessee. It is a red state,

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Speaker 1: but it's a straight filled with interesting and smart people,

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Speaker 1: and you've also had a very fucked up state house.

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Speaker 1: Talk to us about your viral moment and for the

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Speaker 1: people who don't know and sort of the world in

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Speaker 1: which you really became one of the key voices in

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party of Tennessee.

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Speaker 7: Sure. Well, it was after the Covenant School shooting and

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Speaker 7: thousands and thousands of people showed at the Capitol every

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Speaker 7: day because they wanted to talk about gun sence legislation

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Speaker 7: because they're tired of children being gunned down in their classrooms.

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Speaker 7: They showed up. It was students, it was parents, it

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Speaker 7: was grandparents, it was people from Nashville, but also those

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Speaker 7: from Memphis. Came who were concerned about gun violence, from Knoxville,

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Speaker 7: from every part of the state, because they all wanted

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Speaker 7: to unify on this fight against gun violence in our communities,

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Speaker 7: and our legislature refused to do anything. As a matter

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Speaker 7: of fact, on the day that we went to the well,

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Speaker 7: me and my two colleagues were at Pearson and reut Jones.

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Speaker 7: I hadn't gotten there early that morning and met many

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Speaker 7: mothers who told me they had dropped off their kids

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Speaker 7: at school and just hoped that they would be safe

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Speaker 7: when they met them at the bus or pick them up.

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Speaker 7: That's how parents were feeling. They were just traumatized from

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Speaker 7: this event. And then when we go on to the

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Speaker 7: house floor, our colleagues didn't even look at them as

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Speaker 7: they passed through the crowd to go inside. They wouldn't

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Speaker 7: even make eye contact with them. And then we weren't

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Speaker 7: allowed to speak, to recognize that they were there and

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Speaker 7: to welcome them and to tell them that we saw

657
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 7: them and we heard them, and we cared about this issue,

658
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 7: and we cared about the safety of our communities, and

659
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 7: so we decided to go to the well anyway to

660
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 7: speak to these people who had come to the capitol

661
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 7: day after day by the thousands. They deserve to be addressed.

662
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 7: We needed to talk about their issue, and we just

663
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 7: felt compelled to go to the well and let them

664
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 7: know that we saw them and we heard them.

665
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: So this is about gun.

666
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 7: Violence, yes, And what we have been seeing for the

667
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 7: longest time, of course in Tennessee is that they are

668
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 7: completely removing our right to speak on the House floor

669
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 7: when it's against something that they believe in. They don't

670
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 7: allow us to speak on bills, they shut our mics down,

671
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 7: they don't call on us. I mean, it's true democracy

672
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 7: dies in the state, and it's dying in Tennessee. And

673
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 7: what that did was just open it for the world

674
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 7: to see, for the country to see people who lived

675
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 7: in blue states but didn't really understand what it was

676
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 7: like in a super majority legislature, and they got to

677
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 7: see it firsthand and they were disgusted.

678
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: So explain to us what that means. So you're in

679
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: a state legislature. You're in the minority, and they just

680
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: won't let you talk.

681
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, I like, I stood for forty five minutes

682
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 7: with my hand raised and not gotten called on. It's

683
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 7: just unbelievable. You know, when we had a super majority

684
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,479
Speaker 7: in my first session, which was in twenty thirteen, Beth

685
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 7: Farewell as speaker, and she was a Republican, yet she

686
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 7: didn't cut mikes and she allowed people to speak when

687
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 7: they raised their hand. This crew of MAGA men just

688
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 7: don't want to hear opposition speak. They're so afraid, I

689
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 7: think of the legislation they're bringing that a full debate

690
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 7: on the horrible legislation that they're bringing to the floor

691
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 7: would embarrass them. They passed things quickly and as quietly

692
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 7: as possible because they can't with a super majority.

693
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: So what are the legislations they're trying to pass here?

694
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 7: Of course, there's anti diversity, you know, DEI is just

695
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 7: a dirty word in the legislature. It was crt. They

696
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 7: passed laws that K twelve and college can't discuss divisive concepts.

697
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: Right, college just take a bit into college college can't.

698
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's also just ridiculous. These people have phones right,

699
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: I mean, go on.

700
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 7: These people, they're just super confused. It's not divisive to

701
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 7: talk about racism. Being racist is divisive. They don't understand that.

702
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 7: They think it's okay to be racist, but talking about

703
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 7: racism is the thing that's divisive. I mean, they're constantly

704
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 7: sending dog whistles. That's why we have Nazis marching in

705
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 7: Nashville for the last two months. One group that's supposedly

706
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 7: going to be there for two weeks.

707
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: Now, wait, you have Nazis marching in.

708
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 7: Nashville, literal Nazis caring Loustica flags and they spoke at

709
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 7: the Nashville Metro Council this week. It's outrageous, but they

710
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 7: feel like they have an open invitation. Their message is

711
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 7: the same as the Supermajority and Marsha Blackburn. Their message

712
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 7: is anti immigrant. That's what they're chanting is they walk

713
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 7: through the streets literally. It's like the Supermajority and the

714
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 7: Tennessee Republicans like Marsha Blackburn have just given them an

715
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 7: open invitation. They feel welcome in Tennessee because of the legislation.

716
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 7: We bring the anti LGBTQ legislation to the tune of

717
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 7: something like twenty four bills in one session. It's outrageous.

718
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: It's funny because it's like, I think about what happened

719
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: after January sixth, Right like, on January sixth, we had

720
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: Trumper's doing a similar thing, right like marching through Washington, DC.

721
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: And I have certainly been in New York when we've

722
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: seen Nazis march here, because we've certainly seen that. But

723
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: two weeks of Nazis seems like a lot.

724
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 7: Just a lot of time with Nazis, and I haven't

725
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 7: really paid as close attention, but I do believe that

726
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 7: they actually there was a bartender in Nashville beat up

727
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 7: with one of their swastika flagpoles. This particular group that

728
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 7: is there likes to engage people and get them to fight.

729
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 7: I'm told this is just not who Tennessee is. And

730
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 7: with the leadership that we have, with someone just xenophobic

731
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 7: and racist talking NonStop and with this anti immigrant stuff,

732
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 7: is just really making it a safe place for these

733
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 7: folks when the majority of Tennesseeans do not want this.

734
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 7: That's the problem. Marsha Blackburn voted against capping insulin prices

735
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 7: in the state with the highest incidents of diabetes she

736
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,879
Speaker 7: voted against the child tax credit, she voted against negotiating

737
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 7: drug prices for seniors. She voted to repeal the ACA

738
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 7: every time it came up. She's done nothing for regular

739
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 7: Tennessee families, just hard working Tennessee families. She works for

740
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 7: the wealthy and well connected, and she works for the lobbyists.

741
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: It's so insane. What's it like on the ground in Tennessee.

742
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,280
Speaker 1: Do voters understand what's happening?

743
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 7: Well, voters do understand what's happening. And that's the really

744
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 7: great thing. Since over a year ago when we went

745
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 7: to the well and they tried to expel me, but

746
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 7: did expel my two colleagues, Rep. Jones and Red Pearson,

747
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 7: who were black, There's been a movement that is happening,

748
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 7: and it's bringing people to the Democratic Party to our

749
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 7: values because Tennesseeans are overwhelmingly now eighty percent want some

750
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 7: type of gun sense legislation like universal background checks or

751
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 7: safe storage laws or URPO laws. They want these things

752
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 7: to happen. They want to keep their communities safe. Eighty

753
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 7: percent of Tennesseeans want to see some form of abortion here.

754
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 7: We don't all agree on exactly where that line is.

755
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 7: But they don't believe we should force ten year olds

756
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 7: to carry pregnancies, or that women who have health issues

757
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 7: should be able to make that decision based on their health,

758
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 7: and that no woman should be forced to carry her

759
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 7: violent rapist baby. I mean, we give more rights to

760
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 7: a rapist in forcing a woman to carry their child

761
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 7: than we give to a woman who's a victim of

762
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 7: a violent front.

763
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: Well they're men, you know. Well yeah, but that's absolutely

764
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: true and really important. So here's my question for you,

765
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: is Tennessee, like Kansas, have they created a world in

766
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: which their laws are so extreme that they drive soccer

767
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: moms to vote Democrat people? Who? I mean, do you

768
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: think that's what's happening on the ground right now?

769
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 2: Oh?

770
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 7: I know what's happening. I had fifty Republicans in might kickoff.

771
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 7: That's never happened before. I know that right now. Currently,

772
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 7: in the last Vanderbilt Pole, which is a couple of

773
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 7: weeks ago, I'm beating Marshall with women forty nine to

774
00:42:59,360 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 7: forty three.

775
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, because women hate this because it's so stupid.

776
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and so in the overall I'm not that far behind.

777
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 7: And this last time she dropped two points. I increased

778
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 7: by four. If that happens again, I'm in the league.

779
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 7: I'm out performing Biden by eleven points. So what we're

780
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 7: seeing on the ground is people who are fed up.

781
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 7: I've got people coming to me all the time. I

782
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 7: had a couple come to one of my I'm going

783
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 7: to all ninety five counties. I think it's important to

784
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 7: talk and to listen to everyone in Tennessee.

785
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: But also that's how you win. It's bay going all

786
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: ninety five counties.

787
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, and a couple come up, and you know, they

788
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 7: said that they had been Republicans their whole lives, they'd

789
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 7: never even donated to a candidate, but they donated to me,

790
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 7: and that they were voting Democratic this year. And I

791
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 7: always ask people when they come, you know, from the

792
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 7: other party or from independent or Republican, what brought them there?

793
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 7: And they said, well, we're Evangelicals, and You're like, WHOA,

794
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 7: we're evangelical Christians and we do not believe that the

795
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 7: Republicans are representing those Christian values. And I was like wow. Typically, though,

796
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 7: ninety percent of the time, somebody who comes to the campaign,

797
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 7: it's typically because when I ask them the questions, it's

798
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 7: usually dobs and gun violence is what they said. Yeah,

799
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 7: and then next to that is probably the hatefulness and

800
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 7: divisiveness of my party.

801
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Louisiana, which is not that far from you,

802
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: but is a very different state. There was recently a

803
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: report that came out from Rise Louisiana, which is a

804
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: group that talks about abortion rates, and one of the

805
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: things that they noticed was that in these states that

806
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:42,760
Speaker 1: are forced birth states, they do not have adequate medical

807
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: care for women in the first trimester.

808
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 7: Talk about that, Oh, there's no question. In Tennessee. One

809
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 7: third of Tennessee has no obgyn none and then more

810
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 7: than a third has no delivery room. So we're talking

811
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 7: about forcing a ten year old to carry a pregnancy

812
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 7: that may be an hour, two an hour and a

813
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 7: half away from a hospital. And we know that children

814
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 7: who are pregnant diet two times the rate of women

815
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 7: who are pregnant, and Tennessee we go back and forth

816
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 7: between number one, two, and three in maternal mortality. So

817
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 7: we're putting women and girls at risk with this. And

818
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 7: then on top of that, since dobbs obgyns wanting to

819
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 7: do their residency have dropped coming to Tennessee, our applications

820
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 7: for residents in OBGYN have dropped twenty one percent because

821
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 7: if you want to be at OBGYN, you can't get

822
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 7: the full practice there, so you have to do Tennessee

823
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 7: plus another state so you can get the rest of

824
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 7: your practice to be certified. So obviously people were choosing

825
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 7: to go to a state where they can stay in

826
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 7: one place. And what we know about residence is the

827
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 7: majority of them stay where they did the residency. So

828
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 7: what we're doing is creating this vast you know, it's

829
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 7: going to be a loss of Obgyan's where we already

830
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 7: have a problem, you know, every year that follows no exactly.

831
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: I mean, look, this is the thing that Republicans are

832
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: doing to their red states, right. They're making it so

833
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: that you're not going to have doctors that you need.

834
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just unbelievable.

835
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 7: Right, And what they don't even understand. I was talking

836
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 7: to a friend of mine the other day. Her daughter

837
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 7: is finishing up her residency in some very specialized cardiology

838
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 7: field and she doesn't even want to come to see Tennessee.

839
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 7: She wanted to come back to Tennessee, but she's not

840
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 7: going to come because she doesn't want to practice here

841
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 7: because of the way they're coming after physicians, whether it's

842
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 7: with interocrinologists, with transgender treatments, anything.

843
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: It's so funny. It's not funny, but it's funny. It's

844
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: funny because it's odd. Is that, Like, you know, I'm

845
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: someone who had two pregnancies, one of twins, and I

846
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: have seen just how they're perilous, right, I mean, pregnancy

847
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: is yeah, perilous. Here we have these Republicans who they

848
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:04,479
Speaker 1: just don't care.

849
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 3: Right.

850
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 7: We have one member in our state house that literally

851
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 7: told a woman she came to him to tell her

852
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 7: about her miscarriage and how she had to go out

853
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 7: of state to take care of this, and how she

854
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 7: had to leave behind her child and her husband, and

855
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 7: so that her husband had to take care of her

856
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 7: child so she had to go by herself. And he goes,

857
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 7: you already have a child, and she said yes, and

858
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 7: he said, well, you can only have a miscarriage on

859
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 7: your first pregnancy.

860
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: I mean, morons, That's what it is, right, I mean,

861
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing is that that's how we got here,

862
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: is that they don't understand women's health. Then they don't

863
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: want to talk to me about what you need right

864
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: now to win.

865
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 7: Oh well, what we need are people to get out

866
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 7: and vote. Here's what we know in twenty eighteen, Marsha

867
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 7: won by two hundred thousand votes. That we know that

868
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 7: there are three hundred thousand Democrats who haven't gone to

869
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 7: the polls in the last few cycles because they feel,

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Speaker 7: you know, sort of beat down or that their vote

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Speaker 7: doesn't count. So we're getting those people out to vote.

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Speaker 7: We need to get everyone out. But in order to

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Speaker 7: do that, we need volunteers, we need donations. Campaigns cost money,

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Speaker 7: that's the reality of it, and so we need to

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Speaker 7: get raised enough money to get our message out on

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Speaker 7: all media markets across the state. Marsha's been in DC

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Speaker 7: for twenty one years, hasn't done a thing for the people,

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Speaker 7: but her name is well known and like I said,

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Speaker 7: twenty one years and so we've got some catchup to

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Speaker 7: do in the media and just getting our word out there.

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Speaker 1: Gloria, I really appreciate you. I think of you as

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Speaker 1: really doing the good work here and it's so important.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll come back before the election.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, thank you so much for having me on. I

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Speaker 7: really appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: They're all no more perfect on Jesse Cannon, Mali Joung

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Speaker 4: Fast I'm going to shock you here.

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Speaker 3: The media is buying the bullshit and the messaging.

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Speaker 4: What are you seeing here?

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Speaker 1: It's weird to watch this RNC, which was filled with

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Speaker 1: people who have either done time or gotten pardons, people

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Speaker 1: like Peter Navarro. We got Paul Manafort walking around. We

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Speaker 1: have a speaker two nights ago whose parents were arrested

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Speaker 1: for tax fraud. You know, the theme of this year's

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Speaker 1: RNC is getting away with crimes, and you know, Trump

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Speaker 1: is perhaps the real star of this getting away with crimes.

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Speaker 1: But my fuckery involves some mainstream media's wrapped attention and

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Speaker 1: inability to describe these people as they are. A lot

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Speaker 1: of these people are criminals, right, people who've been charged

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Speaker 1: with crimes, people who sat through jury trials and were

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Speaker 1: found guilty, people like Donald Trump, and we should call

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Speaker 1: people what they are. It's not partisan to describe things accurately.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's partisan to not describe things accurately, and

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Speaker 1: that is why this is our omen of fuckery. That's

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Speaker 1: it for this episode of Fast Politics. Tune in every Monday,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and Friday to hear the best minds in politics.

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Speaker 1: Makes sense of all this chaos. If you enjoyed what

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Speaker 1: you've heard, please send it to a friend and keep

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Speaker 1: the conversation going. And again thanks for listening.