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Speaker 2: Look, look, I think but I think bad Bunny changed

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Speaker 2: Well, there was a very interesting column in the Wall

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Speaker 2: the Mellon Foundation narrowly supported the arts and humanities. One

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Speaker 2: This new ideological mission is notable because of Mellon's great

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Speaker 2: A University of Virginia grant proposal notes that Mellon's five

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Speaker 2: Melon funded personnel building programs almost uniformly espouse a distinctly

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Speaker 1: Right by the way, I'm just thinking about that. They're like,

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Speaker 2: Well, the person who got it Zalika Ibba or Remi.

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Speaker 2: Melon has bankrolled many professors notorious for their activism. At

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Speaker 1: And we'll give you faculty. We get to pick them

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible, and you go back to find the

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Speaker 1: I want to make it Virginia real quick as well.

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Speaker 2: Well and look understand that there is no such thing

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Speaker 2: if Virginia has a criminal illegal alien, if Virginia has

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Speaker 2: refuse to cooperate with ICE, refuse to handle handle hand

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Speaker 2: murderers over to ICE, and instead, what Abigail Spanburger is

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Speaker 2: saying is the people of Virginia would rather that the

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Speaker 2: murderer has been released into their communities and prey on

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Speaker 2: their children. She's also, quite dramatically this week signed a

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Speaker 2: redistricting bill that is nothing short of radical and unfortunately.

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Speaker 2: So let's do the math. Virginia has eleven congressional seats

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Speaker 2: right now. The current delegation is six Democrats five Republicans.

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Speaker 2: Virginia just had a takeover of Democrats of the state

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Speaker 2: legislature and the governor's mansion. They redrew the map and

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Speaker 2: they went from six Democrats and five Republicans to a

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Speaker 2: map that is designed to produce ten Democrats and one Republican. Now,

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Speaker 2: now what does the math mean? So Virginia is is

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Speaker 2: a pretty it's a blue to purple state. In twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, forty seven percent of the state voted for

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. So Kamala won Virginia. But but fifty three

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Speaker 2: to forty seven. It was a very close cl tight.

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Speaker 2: The forty seven percent of Virginians who voted for Trump,

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Speaker 2: they are now going to get nine percent of the

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Speaker 2: congressional representation in the state. Wow, how about the fifty

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Speaker 2: two percent of Virginia who voted for Harris You know

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Speaker 2: how much they get? How much ninety one percent. There

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Speaker 2: you go, fifty two percent of the state. The Democrats

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Speaker 2: get ninety one percent of the congressional representation. Now on Twitter,

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Speaker 2: you could hear the left he saying, ah ah, but

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Speaker 2: Texas did it. This is all about Texas. Okay, let's

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Speaker 2: look at the math. Texas, fifty six percent of Texans

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Speaker 2: voted for Donald Trump. In the new map that Texas drew,

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Speaker 2: that fifty six will get seventy nine percent of the seat.

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Speaker 2: So look, it is drawn to favor the party in power,

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Speaker 2: but it is not remotely as brazen. By the way, California,

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Speaker 2: their new map all so is designed to give the

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Speaker 2: Democrats more than ninety percent of the congressional delegation. And

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Speaker 2: you know what, the Northeast is even worse. You look

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Speaker 2: at at at states like Maine, states like New Hampshire,

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Speaker 2: states like Vermont, states like Rhode Island, states like Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: where states like Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Do you know how many

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Speaker 2: Republican members of Congress elected Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: I want to say it's one or zero zero, all of.

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Speaker 2: New England, all of New England. They're just like Republicans

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Speaker 2: don't exist. We will erase you.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, by what happens with this? Is

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Speaker 1: this going to be a back and forth tit for

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Speaker 1: tat when you see this type of egregious so then

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Speaker 1: other states are going to have to counter it. Is

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Speaker 1: that just how we're going to go?

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Speaker 2: So there was a left wing democrat. I responded to this,

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Speaker 2: and I tweeted out a brazen abuse of power and

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Speaker 2: an insult to democracy. And I went through the numbers

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Speaker 2: you just talked about. And this left winging Democrat state

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Speaker 2: senator came back, who never heard of and actually didn't

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Speaker 2: even know about this until someone of my staff told

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Speaker 2: me told me about it. But she responded by saying,

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Speaker 2: you all started it and we efing finished it. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, she did not abbreviate efing.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: So she's a charming and lovely person.

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Speaker 1: Clearly, yes.

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Speaker 2: And you know, there's something richly ironic about it, because

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Speaker 2: every Democrat loves to preen about how much they love democracy,

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Speaker 2: and yet it's quite evident that they don't care at

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Speaker 2: all about democracy. What they care about is keeping democrats

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Speaker 2: in power. That is practically the only thing they care about.

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Speaker 2: I want you to listen to Abigail Spanberger talking about

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Speaker 2: jerry mandering. What she thinks about it, give a.

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Speaker 3: Listen, because Republicans have to depend on redistricting and stealing

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Speaker 3: votes and taking seats like they did in North Carolina

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Speaker 3: in order to actually be able to win elections.

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Speaker 1: So well, we're just going to steal them right back,

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Speaker 1: by golly right, there's your liberal logic one on one.

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Speaker 2: But it is also the degree it is far more brazen.

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Speaker 2: As I mentioned Texas, fifty six percent of the state

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Speaker 2: voted for Donald Trump. The new map, if Republicans win

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Speaker 2: in the seats that were drawn, the new map will

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Speaker 2: produce seventy nine percent of the congressional delegation to be Republican.

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Speaker 2: That is a difference of twenty three percent. So that's

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Speaker 2: an additional twenty three percent. What did Virginia do. They

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Speaker 2: went from fifty two percent voting for Kamala Harris to

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Speaker 2: getting ninety one percent. That is thirty nine points higher.

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Speaker 2: That is a massive and it's a grotesque jery matter.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm quite confident if they could

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Speaker 2: have drawn at eleven zero, they would have. You know

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Speaker 2: that there are five districts that slice through northern Virginia

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Speaker 2: to get all the liberals that work in the federal government,

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Speaker 2: and they basically like take a slice of liberals from

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Speaker 2: northern Virginia and then stick it with rural Virginia's to

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Speaker 2: rob them votes of the rest of the state. That

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Speaker 2: that is ridder.

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