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Millions of Conservative Votes Vanish in Blue State Blackout plus City of Angels becomes City of Anger · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I played for you Kamala Harris and how she
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  Speaker 1: wants to completely destroy the fundamentals of this country. She
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  Speaker 1: wants to pack the Supreme Court, even kick justice off
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court when they give rulings she doesn't like.
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  Speaker 1: And then she wants to get rid of the electoral
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  Speaker 1: College all together. Now you may be asking yourself this
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  Speaker 1: question why all of this is coming because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: get their way. Donald Trump won Conservatives one and when
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  Speaker 1: you hate the other side and you don't respect the
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  Speaker 1: law or the wishes of the citizens of this country,
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  Speaker 1: well that's exactly what you would do, especially if you're
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  Speaker 1: a communist and Marxist are a socialist. Stacy Abrams is
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  Speaker 1: now coming out explaining why Democrats are so distraught over
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  Speaker 1: the Scotus ruling against racially jerrymander districts. She also is
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  Speaker 1: upset at the power that the Democratic Party is going
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  Speaker 1: to lose. Now, before I play her comments, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to go back and set the stage to how
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  Speaker 1: we got to the point where we are right now.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have been acting like they're the victims of gerrymandering
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  Speaker 1: for decades, but the reality is that's not true. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have actually been masters of gerrymandering, especially in deep blue
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  Speaker 1: states where Republican voters are essentially a race from congressional
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  Speaker 1: representation altogether. And if Americans want proof, just look at
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  Speaker 1: the states where there are literally zero Republican members of
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  Speaker 1: Congress in the US House representing the Conservatives in those
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  Speaker 1: states right now. States include Connecticut zero republicans, Delaware zero republicans,
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  Speaker 1: Hawaii zero republicans in Congress, Massachusetts zero republicans in Congress,
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire another zero, Rhode Island zero, Vermont zero, and
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  Speaker 1: effectively Maine has no Republican representation in Congress whatsoever. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you just think about that for a second, that
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  Speaker 1: is millions of Americans that have been disenfranchised living in
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  Speaker 1: those states that vote Republican and presidential elections, governor races,
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  Speaker 1: Senate races, and local elections. Yet somehow, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to congressional districts, Republicans are entirely wiped off the map
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  Speaker 1: on purpose. In fact, this has been part of a
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  Speaker 1: long term political strategy in blue states. Democrats perfected the
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  Speaker 1: art of concentrating Republican voters into a few districts as
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  Speaker 1: possible and then spreading them so thinly that they can
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  Speaker 1: never actually win representation. Meanwhile, those same Democrats are going
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  Speaker 1: on television every day now pretending that they are defenders
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  Speaker 1: of quote, fair maps and democracy. Yeah, the hypocrisy is
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote unbelievable, but it's really not if you've been
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to what's been happening all over the country
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  Speaker 1: for decades.
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  Speaker 2: Just take Massachusetts for example.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans routinely receive hundreds of thousands of votes statewide, yet
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  Speaker 1: Democrats hold every single congressional seat. The same thing happens
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  Speaker 1: in Rhode Island, the same thing happens in Connecticut, the
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  Speaker 1: same thing happens in Hawaii. Republicans may as well not
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  Speaker 1: exist according to the congressional representation. And this isn't just
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  Speaker 1: about geography. It's also about power because congressional districts determine
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  Speaker 1: who controls the House of Representatives. That determines who has
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  Speaker 1: the committee chairmanships, who is in charge of the investigations
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  Speaker 1: or impeachments, who's in charge of spending, border security, taxes, regulations,
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  Speaker 1: literally everything. That's why the Democratic Party has been doing this,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why now Republicans are fighting over the map
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  Speaker 1: so aggressively. But Here's what Democrats never want to admit.
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  Speaker 1: They were perfectly fine with aggressive redistricting when they controlled
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  Speaker 1: the process, and for decades, Democrats used urban political machines,
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  Speaker 1: court systems, state legislatures, and activist groups to shape districts
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  Speaker 1: in their favor. In many states, they created maps so
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  Speaker 1: lopsided that competitive congressional races effectively disappeared altogether. Now suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: when Republicans fight back in states like Texas and Florida
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  Speaker 1: or Tennessee, Democrats scream from the hilltops and yell racism.
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  Speaker 2: The media narrative is.
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  Speaker 1: Well always as saying, if Republicans redraw maps, it's called
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  Speaker 1: an attack on democracy. But when Democrats literally implement the
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  Speaker 1: same maps, it's called protecting representation and minorities. Americans they're
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  Speaker 1: tired of the double standard, especially if you're a conservative.
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  Speaker 1: And the numbers, by the way, they don't lie. Just
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  Speaker 1: look at Illinois, one of the most aggressively gerrymannered states
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  Speaker 1: in America. Republicans regularly receive forty five percent in statewide votes,
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  Speaker 1: yet Democrats dominate the congressional delegation because the maps are
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  Speaker 1: perfectly engineered to maximize democratic seats. Maryland became infamous for
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  Speaker 1: bizarrely shaped districts designed specifically to weaken Republican voters. New
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  Speaker 1: York Democrats openly laughed and attempted aggressive mid decade redistricting
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  Speaker 1: to gain more congressional seats before the courts were forced
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  Speaker 1: to step in, and California system may technically involve a commission,
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  Speaker 1: but the end result is still a delegation overwhelmingly tilted
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  Speaker 1: towards the left, towards Democrats. And state were millions and
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  Speaker 1: that's not exaggeration. Millions of Republicans live and vote. And
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  Speaker 1: here's the broader point. Americans need to understand. Carry mannering
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  Speaker 1: is not some unique Republican phenomenon, if you even want
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  Speaker 1: to call it that, It is a bipartisan political weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are decades late to the game. The difference is
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are finally fighting back and it's about time after
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  Speaker 1: years of taking it on the chin watching Democrats dominate
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  Speaker 1: the process. Even major media outlets are now forced to
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  Speaker 1: admit that redistricting wars are escalating nationwide, both parties aggressively
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  Speaker 1: pursuing partisan advantages ahead of the midterm elections. And let's
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  Speaker 1: be honest about why this matters.
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  Speaker 2: So much.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, the margins in Congress are raizor thin. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a handful of districts that can determine who becomes
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  Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, which party controls investigations, whether tax
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  Speaker 1: cuts survive, whether border security legislation passes, and whether Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's agenda that America clearly voted for moves forward or
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  Speaker 1: gets buried. Now, that's why Democrats are panicking. That's why
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  Speaker 1: people like Stavecy Abrams are coming out on TV playing
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  Speaker 1: the race card and also warning about what Republicans are
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  Speaker 1: about to do and how it can be so damaging
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  Speaker 1: because they've been the masters of it for years. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to Stacy Abram on MS now talking about
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  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson saying redistricting brings back fairness and what she
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  Speaker 1: now says the problem.
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  Speaker 3: Stacy, could you talk a little bit about how this
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  Speaker 3: ruling will affect black representation not only at the federal level,
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  Speaker 3: but at the state level. I'm thinking state lawmakers, county commissions,
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  Speaker 3: city councils. To what extent will this ruling affect representation
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  Speaker 3: and the representation, particularly of voters of color at the
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  Speaker 3: levels below the federal level.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, and that's why I think this is such an
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  Speaker 4: important conversation to have at this moment. In a competitive
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  Speaker 4: authoritarian nation, which is what America is now, democracy is
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  Speaker 4: about ensuring that we have shared power and shared voices.
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  Speaker 4: It does not guarantee you victory, but it guarantees you access. Authoritarianism,
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  Speaker 4: especially competitive authoritarianism, attempts to diminish your ability to use
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  Speaker 4: those same democratic institutions to your benefit. With these new maps,
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  Speaker 4: we know that analysis by Fair Fight and Black Voters
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  Speaker 4: Matters show that we could lose nineteen to twenty congressional seats,
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  Speaker 4: but we could.
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  Speaker 2: Lose up to one hundred and ninety one state legislative seats.
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  Speaker 4: And in the South, those state legislators draw city council districts,
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  Speaker 4: county commission districts, school board districts, and they draw state
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  Speaker 4: legislative lines. And so if you want to know if
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  Speaker 4: your child is going to have fair and equitable access
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  Speaker 4: to education, that will be diminished if your families can't
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  Speaker 4: participate in elections and elect leaders who value your education.
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  Speaker 4: If you want healthcare, in the South, it's the state
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  Speaker 4: legislature that decides whether you have access all of the
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  Speaker 4: things that disproportionately harm communities of color will now be
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  Speaker 4: decided by people who disproportionately like and vote against the
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  Speaker 4: needs of people of color. But what we have to remember,
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  Speaker 4: and this is why I started the Ten Steps campaign,
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  Speaker 4: this is a national fight. It may start in the South,
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  Speaker 4: but as national implications progress, that serves the most disproportionately
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  Speaker 4: harmed communities lifts everyone. But if we do not do so,
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  Speaker 4: if we allow the suppression of black and brown votes,
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  Speaker 4: we are harming their neighbors, and we're harming the US.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why we cannot allow the South to be
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  Speaker 4: left behind.
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  Speaker 1: There it is the South cannot be left behind. The
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  Speaker 1: same Democrats who've been jerrymannering for decades are now playing
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  Speaker 1: the race card. So let's not be lectured by the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats on fairness while they maintain states with zero Republican representation.
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  Speaker 1: Don't pretend Parson maps are evil only when Republicans are
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  Speaker 1: the ones drawing them now, and don't act like millions
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  Speaker 1: of conservative voters in blue states somehow deserve no voice
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  Speaker 1: in Congress, because that's exactly what they've been doing for the.
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  Speaker 2: Last twenty plus years. The left.
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  Speaker 1: They spent decades building political fortresses in blue states and
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  Speaker 1: accusing Republicans of doing precisely the same thing elsewhere, and
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  Speaker 1: now the country's waking up to it. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, this debate is really about political power,
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  Speaker 1: who has it, who keeps it, and who controls Washington.
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  Speaker 1: And if Democrats know that, if Republicans continue gaining ground
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  Speaker 1: with working class voters, Hispanic voters, union households, suburban parents,
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  Speaker 1: and independents, then the only way to maintain power is
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  Speaker 1: in some places, is through district maps designed to protect
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  Speaker 1: incumbents and lock in those advantages. Well, now that seems
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  Speaker 1: to be all over and Republicans are doing exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they should do fighting back. Quick break, Ben Ferguson Show
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  Speaker 1: more coming up. You remember those wildfires that started in LA.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how the reservoirs were empty, and remember the competence
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  Speaker 1: because of the leadership in LA, including an incompetent fire chief,
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  Speaker 1: and the bickering and fighting back and forth as houses.
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  Speaker 2: Burned to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you would think they would have learned from those
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  Speaker 1: empty reservoirs. Apparently they've learned nothing at all, because some
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  Speaker 1: of them are still bone dry as we speak, and
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  Speaker 1: that's having a real impact on the election in LA.
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  Speaker 1: The political liberal radical establishment in LA is facing a
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  Speaker 1: nightmare scenario that they never thought was even possible. A
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  Speaker 1: conservative outsider is surging in one of the bluest major
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  Speaker 1: cities in America, and Democrats they're openly panicking, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're worried they may lose control of the narrative and
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  Speaker 1: a city that they've dominated for decades and destroyed with
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  Speaker 1: crime and drugs and pretty much every other liberal idea
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  Speaker 1: that's been a disaster. Now, let me also explain to
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  Speaker 1: you exactly who's in this race. You have a guy
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  Speaker 1: by the name of Spencer Pratt. He's a former reality
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  Speaker 1: TV personality. By the way, LA makes a lot of those,
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  Speaker 1: But they want you to think that that means he's
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  Speaker 1: not a serious candidate. And how did he turn himself
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  Speaker 1: into a political insurgent. Well, it's pretty simple. His house
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  Speaker 1: burned down in those fires and that irritated him. Because
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  Speaker 1: this race has become much bigger than just Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: it's also getting a lot of attention. It's becoming a
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  Speaker 1: national warning sign for Democrats who are mismanaging cities with
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  Speaker 1: high crime and high poverty and failing schools. For years,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats treated LA like an untouchable political territory. It's a
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  Speaker 1: city where progressive politics dominated nearly every institution, city hall,
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  Speaker 1: the media, Hollywood, academia, activist organizations, and most local elections.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans weren't even expect to competes seriously there anymore. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: and then suddenly, according to recent polling, proud As surge
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  Speaker 1: in second place in the mayoral race, ahead of major
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  Speaker 1: establishment back candidates and within striking distance of the woman
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  Speaker 1: in charge of LA, Karen Bass. This could be a
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  Speaker 1: political earthquake. Democrats understand something very clearly. If a conservative
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  Speaker 1: populis style candidate very much like Donald Trump could become
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  Speaker 1: competitive in La, then no democratic run city in America
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  Speaker 1: is truly safe anymore, especially after there's a major moment
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  Speaker 1: like a wildfire or anarchy, riots or things like that.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly why it's happening, because voters in La, well,
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  Speaker 1: they've had enough of the politics and they're furious. What
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  Speaker 1: are they angry over out of control homelessness, They're angry
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  Speaker 1: over crime. They're also angry over the costs of living,
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  Speaker 1: and they're furious over the failed leadership that very much
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  Speaker 1: caused those wild fires to grow. They're furious over government
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  Speaker 1: incompetence even after the fires happen, and they're especially furious
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  Speaker 1: over the aftermath of realizing that the people that claim
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  Speaker 1: they were going to be there to help them rebuild
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  Speaker 1: have done anything but do that. In fact, they've showed
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  Speaker 1: no effort to follow up on rebuilding a city that's
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  Speaker 1: been destroyed. The Palisade fires show just how bad the
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  Speaker 1: democratic machine actually is, and that is the issue that
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  Speaker 1: has now changed everything.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Prout has aggressively positioned himself as the candidate of anger, frustration,
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  Speaker 1: and revolt against city Hall. He's telling voters what many
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  Speaker 1: residents already feel that the political class running LA has
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  Speaker 1: not only failed the city, but has failed them. And
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  Speaker 1: what's fascinating is how he's he's doing it. He's not
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  Speaker 1: running like a traditional Republican either. He's running like a
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  Speaker 1: populist who said enough is enough and are you with me?
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  Speaker 1: His campaign style mirrors what we've seen nationally in outsider movements,
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  Speaker 1: social media dominance, viral videos, anti establishment rhetoric, blunt language,
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  Speaker 1: and direct a tax on city leadership. He's also had
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  Speaker 1: a constant focus on quality of life and the failures
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  Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. He's talking about homeless encampments that
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  Speaker 1: are out of control. He's talking about the feedenal crisis
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  Speaker 1: and the dead bodies. He's talking about public safety and
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  Speaker 1: how really no one feels safe in LA anymore. He's
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  Speaker 1: also talking about urban decline, something Democrats don't want to admit.
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  Speaker 1: And he talks about taxpayers feeling totally abandoned while the
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  Speaker 1: political elite lecture them and take their money. Remember, LA
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  Speaker 1: is insanely expensive to live on top of the out
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  Speaker 1: of control taxation, and Democrats they're deeply uncomfortable because there
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  Speaker 1: are issues where voters increasingly believe conservatives actually have an advantage.
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  Speaker 1: That is the real story here. Now, this race is
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  Speaker 1: exposing the widening disconnect between progressive activists, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter movement that then turn into abolish the
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  Speaker 1: Police that then turned into burn down cities. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: ordinary working class voters, many of them that were Democrats
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  Speaker 1: who simply voted for them over and over again until now.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what really should terrify Democrats nationally. Pratt's
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  Speaker 1: support is not just coming from Republicans. Even Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: supporting him. As Jesse Waters put on his show, La
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  Speaker 1: is Thirsty, and they still don't have the water they
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  Speaker 1: need to fight the next big fire.
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  Speaker 2: As he described on his show.
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  Speaker 5: You Know Who could use some water. La, nine months
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  Speaker 5: after sixteen thousand homes burnt to a crisp, the reservoirs
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  Speaker 5: are still drier than the Sahara.
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  Speaker 2: The reservoir's empty right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's literally just up on the hill and we're just
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  Speaker 5: flying the drone over the reservoir and it's bone dry.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the best part. You can go up in my street.
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  Speaker 7: This is the reservoir that they also drained when they
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  Speaker 7: were fixing the other one.
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  Speaker 6: They said, let's drain this one.
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  Speaker 7: So there's actually two reservoirs they were draining, the Palaces
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  Speaker 7: Zebra and the Santienees.
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  Speaker 5: Two reservoirs, both empty during peak fire season. Why well,
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  Speaker 5: the city drained them to use for drinking water, not
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  Speaker 5: for fighting fires. Now, the repairs cost twenty mil and
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  Speaker 5: Bass doesn't have the cash. So La finds the money
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  Speaker 5: for needles, crack pipes, hotels for illegals, but not twenty
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  Speaker 5: mil to keep Malibu from turning into a brisket or
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  Speaker 5: the taps from running dry prats breathing down pink pantsuits
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  Speaker 5: neck in the Poles, but come up short well and
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  Speaker 5: his trailer to Texas.
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  Speaker 8: If care Basquets reelected or Nitia gets elected, I will
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  Speaker 8: be done with trying to live in LA and I'll
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  Speaker 8: go find somewhere that my kids will not have to
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  Speaker 8: see naked zombies and I can have the last American
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  Speaker 8: dreams somewhere.
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  Speaker 7: But I will not rebuild if these people are in charge.
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  Speaker 7: Because what would I be putting money into.
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  Speaker 5: Oh glad, you asked, Bence, Because maybe a set of
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  Speaker 5: government grills for every tweaker on skid row, because Bess
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  Speaker 5: wants to put the tooth fairy.
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  Speaker 2: On city payroll. Also on homelessness.
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  Speaker 9: At the Petry earlier this week, you were talking about
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  Speaker 9: comprehensive health care for the unhoused, and you talked about
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  Speaker 9: how many of the unhoused, because of their meth use,
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  Speaker 9: lose their teeth. That's right, Who would pay for the
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  Speaker 9: dental care for the unhoused?
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  Speaker 10: When I say comprehensive healthcare, it's actually what people can
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  Speaker 10: get from medical. The problem is is that the linkage
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  Speaker 10: isn't made with the people and the services indexas well.
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  Speaker 10: It's we already paid for it. It's already paid for.
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  Speaker 10: It's the linkage that hasn't happened.
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  Speaker 5: Empty reservoirs, free teeth for metheaddicts, barbecue bands, migrant breast
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  Speaker 5: in plants, no wonder ballots are booming when I.
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  Speaker 6: Got coffee and in the line, we have a ballot.
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  Speaker 6: Get your ballancy it.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you so much like Let's Go.
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  Speaker 5: Democrats tried to roast Pratt for crashing at the hotel
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  Speaker 5: bel Air after they deep fried his house. Big mistake
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  Speaker 5: because they just gave him a brand new title in.
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  Speaker 2: What's Los Angeles Palisade?
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  Speaker 7: In my backyard is where I spend most of my
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  Speaker 7: daddy's seeding, humming birds, relaxing audible, avoiding all the bombs
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  Speaker 7: outside of the school, win a couple of bolties.
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  Speaker 2: Since the World's No Good.
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  Speaker 7: Started making trouble in my neighborhood, I got it one
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  Speaker 7: little fire. My mom got scared and said, you're moving
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  Speaker 7: in with Harvey Levin and bel Air.
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  Speaker 5: The Pratt Factor's red hot moms are storming the for
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  Speaker 5: the Prince.
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  Speaker 11: If you're a mom and you have been listening to
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  Speaker 11: what he's been saying, you should know that he is
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  Speaker 11: advocating for the safety and security of our families and
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  Speaker 11: specifically for mothers to be able to walk their against
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  Speaker 11: the school into hearts and if you had any voting power,
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  Speaker 11: please exercise that power because moms should be supporting frame.
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  Speaker 5: Chelsea Handler didn't get an invite to the Pratt party,
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  Speaker 5: so she hopped on Insta and tried to crash it.
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  Speaker 2: Watch if you're seeing this video.
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  Speaker 7: This is a reminder that a straight white male former
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  Speaker 7: reality star that has no previous experience in government should
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  Speaker 7: not be a.
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  Speaker 10: Legitimate political candidate.
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  Speaker 2: Have we learned anything yet?
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  Speaker 5: The backlash has Pratt picking up allies by the hour
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  Speaker 5: TMZ transitioned.
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  Speaker 2: They're telling the straight white lady to wise up.
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  Speaker 12: What the hell is Chelsea Handler? Straight white male? That
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  Speaker 12: makes somebody disqualified?
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  Speaker 2: This is her point, was privileged right.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, you're not supposed to about their straight white males.
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  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. I mean, it's ridiculous to say that.
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  Speaker 12: It is absurd to say, well, this is white people
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  Speaker 12: hate the left right now? Well, and George Washington, a
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: straight white male.
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  Speaker 5: Bass couldn't take on the straight white male by herself.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Pratt says she cooked up a back room deal with Ramen.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: The noodle guys.
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  Speaker 6: Nythia Ramen is conspiring with Karen Bass.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Remember when Nythia shocked everyone and jumped into the mayor's
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: race at the last minute, inexplicably, just days after endorsing Karen.
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  Speaker 6: Why would she do that? Why is it Karen upset?
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Why do they never attack each other?
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: Because Karen saw that I was a serious threat, she
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: made Nythia jump in the race to block me out
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  Speaker 7: from the number two slot.
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  Speaker 5: M the ladies toward the city got fleeced by fraudsters,
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: handed out needles to homeless chunkies, and then pointed their
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: fingers at Trump like the voters wouldn't notice. Even other
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Democrats are like girls enough, But.
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  Speaker 2: We can't put everything on Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 12: We have the highest homelessness in the United States of America,
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  Speaker 12: the highest gas prices, the highest utilities, the highest home
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  Speaker 12: prices people can't afford rent.
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  Speaker 6: And those happened under Democratic policies.
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  Speaker 1: So now you understand why not only is LA a
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  Speaker 1: major race, but also the California governor candidates race with
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, a Republican at eighteen point five percent, the
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  Speaker 1: billionaire Democrat liberal Tom Steyer at sixteen percent, Chad Beyonco,
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  Speaker 1: a Republican at thirteen percent. Yes, two of the three
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  Speaker 1: top leading California Gubern Touro candidates are Republicans right now
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  Speaker 1: because it's not just La, it's literally the entire state
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  Speaker 1: they have destroyed. And that's exactly why the Democratic Party
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: is freaking out right now, trying to figure out how
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: do they hold on to a place they never thought
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: they could possibly lose. Growing real concern now inside the
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  Speaker 1: intelligence and military circles that Cuba is once again becoming
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  Speaker 1: a staging ground for America's adversaries, and this time the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: concern is not Soviet nuclear missiles. It's drones, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them, Iranian drones and Russian drones, and the possibility
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  Speaker 1: that hostile regimes are quietly building a launch platform with
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: striking distance of the United States of America. Ninety miles
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  Speaker 1: for a drone is nothing, and let's be clear, they
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: can also fly very low. You could describe it as
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: under the radar. Now, there's no clear public evidence that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Cuba has launched any attacks on the United States of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: America or that an imminent strike is about to happen
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: or even underway. But what is raising alarm bells is
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the increasing military cooperation that we have seen between Cuba
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  Speaker 1: Iran and Russia and even China. Now you think about
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the three countries that hate the United States the most.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Iran chance death to America. Russia, we know hates America,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and China, yes, they hate America. All of these nations
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  Speaker 1: openly talk about their hostility to American power and American influence.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think the sounds far fetch, remember history.
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  Speaker 1: Back in nineteen sixty two. You basically have the same
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  Speaker 1: type of leadership in Cuba, and the Cuban missile crisis
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  Speaker 1: brought America literally to the brink of nuclear war between
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the Soviet Union and the United States of America because
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Soviet weapons were placed on that island. Today, the weapons
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  Speaker 1: are much smaller, they're a lot cheaper, and they're harder
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  Speaker 1: to detect, and they're even easier to get into a country.
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  Speaker 1: Modern drones have changed warfare entirely. We've witnessed this on
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  Speaker 1: the battlefield in the Middle East and especially between Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: and the Russia war. Iran has become one of the
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  Speaker 1: world's leading exporters of expensive but deadly drone technology. The
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Iranian drones, for example, have been used extensively by the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Russians in Ukraine. That's how good they are, and these
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: drones are relatively cheap to produce, They're difficult to intercept
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  Speaker 1: in large swarms, and they're capable of carrying large explosives
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  Speaker 1: over long distances. Russia has used them to terrorize civilian infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: to attack power grids, and overwhelm the air defenses in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Now imagine that type of technology position in Cuba. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: dozens or hundreds and hundreds of drones stored in warehouses,
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  Speaker 1: hidden and shipping containers, or assembled in covert facilities just
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  Speaker 1: miles from the United States of America's homeland. Suddenly, this
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  Speaker 1: changes everything from a military standpoint. ERTs warn that drones
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: don't need massive runways or obvious missile silos. They can
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: be launched from trucks, they can be launched from fields,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: they can be launched from cargo ships or improvised sites
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  Speaker 1: that you never detected beforehand. And a coordinated swarm attack
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  Speaker 1: targets ports. It can target military bases, It can target
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  Speaker 1: our fuel depots, our airports, or even civilian infrastructure that
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  Speaker 1: could create chaos for Americans. It could also attack our
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: power grid. And that's exactly why intelligence officials in the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: US are increasingly focused on this type of warfare. America's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: enemies know they cannot defeat the US military head to head,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: so instead, what they've all decided to do is look
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  Speaker 1: for ways to exploit our vulnerabilities, create fear, disrupt our economy,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and undermine public confidence. And drones fit that strategy perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: Over the past several years, Cuba has dramatically deepened its
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  Speaker 1: ties not only with Russia. There's also another very interesting
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: data point. Over the last several years, Cuba has dramatically
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  Speaker 1: deepened their ties with Moscow and Tehran. Russian naval vessels
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  Speaker 1: have visited Cuba ports multiple times. Cuban officials have met
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: openly with Iranian leadership. Economic agreements have been agreed to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and signed. They've even signed intelligence cooperation, and they've signed
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: military coordination that have all expanded as these countries aligned
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  Speaker 1: themselves against the United States of America. Now, Iran, meanwhile,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: has aggressively expanded its influenced throughout Latin America. US officials
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: have repeatedly and openly warned that Iranian networks have been
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: operating in Venezuela, They're operating in Nicaragua and other parts
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of the region. HESBLA linked operatives have reportly used parts
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of Latin America for fundraising as well as logistics and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: elicit finance operations for decades. Add drone technology into this
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: equation and suddenly the Western hemisphere starts looking a lot
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  Speaker 1: more dangerous. And that brings us to Donald Trump's whole
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: promise to make sure that the Western hemisphere is safe.
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  Speaker 1: And there's another layer, by the way of this story
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that you need to understand as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's the border crisis.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: For years, critics have warned that an unsecured southern border
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: creates vulnerabilities far beyond illegal immigration. If hostile foreign actors
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  Speaker 1: wanted to move equipment, operatives, electronics, or drone components into
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the United States of America, an overwhelmed border system provided
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  Speaker 1: that opportunity. You now combine those concerns of millions of
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: people who we don't know who they are, that are
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: in this country right now with aversaro regimes operating close
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  Speaker 1: to the US mainland, who could even stage an attack
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that is coordinated from people within the United States of America.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Imagine what that could look like. Military analysts have increasingly
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: warned about what's known as gray zone warfare that's actions
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  Speaker 1: deliberately designed to stay below the threshold of open war
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: while still damaging an enemy. Cyber attacks, infrastructure sabotage, drone incursions,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: GPS interference, disinformation campaigns, as well as economic disruption all
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: on the table. In fact, many of them have been
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  Speaker 1: used on the United States of America by China and Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is what has been described to me as
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  Speaker 1: the battlefield of the future, and America's enemies are watching
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: this carefully. Russia has already demonstrated how effective drone warfare
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: can be in Ukraine. They've actually really learned a lot
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and mastered the art. Iran has shown how proxy groups
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: aren't with drones can threaten US troops and allies across
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the Middle East. China is also rapidly expanding its own
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: drone and AI warfare capabilities. The terrifying reality is that
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  Speaker 1: a drone doesn't need to carry a massive explosive payload
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  Speaker 1: to cause major disruption. A strike on an electrical substation,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: fuel pipeline, shipping port, or crowded transportation hub could create
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: panic as well as economic shock waves, which is exactly
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: what Cuba, Russia, and China and Iran would love to happen.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So think about what happens when small drones disrupt airports
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  Speaker 1: in Europe. Several years ago, all the fights were grounded,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the security systems were overwhelmed. Now you do that type
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of coordinated attack using military grade systems, and it's on
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a whole other level. Now, this is why national security
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  Speaker 1: experts are now increasingly calling for stronger homeland defense systems,
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  Speaker 1: specifically focused on drone threats. It's something the present has
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: also agreed we need. Many American military bases are still
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: vulnerable to low flying drones. Ports and civilian infrastructure often
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: lacks sophisticated counter drone systems, and local law enforcement agencies
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: are largely unprepared for mass drone instances as well. Now,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the Pentagon has spent billions preparing for traditional warfare, but
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the next threat may not come from bombers or missiles,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: but from swarms of inexpensive unmanned aircraft launch very close
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to home. And Cuba's geographic position matters enormously. From Havana
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to Key West, it's roughly ninety miles. That's it, a
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: relatively short flight for modern drone systems. Again, this is
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: all about looking at what could happen before it happens,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: because history teaches us something important. Major threats are often
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: ignored until it's too late. The four nine to eleven
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: war existed before Pearl Harbor. There were warning signs as well.
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  Speaker 1: Before the Cuban missile crisis exploded into public view, Soviet
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: activity was already well underway, and in the modern air
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the speed of warfare house accelerated dramatically. A drome swarm
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  Speaker 1: launch from close proximity could give decision makers only minutes
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  Speaker 1: to react, and that is why the American public should
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: be aware of this. We shouldn't panic, but we should
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: absolutely pay attention to the growing military cooperation between Cuba,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I ran in Russia, and the present clearly as demanding
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: stronger border security, serious homeland security defense investments, and aggressive
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: intelligence monitoring. Now, the real question is, if there is
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  Speaker 1: a large stockpile of drones in Cuba, is it America's
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: job to make sure that we make those inoperable. I
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if that's on the table right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something we should all be taking a look
• 33:02
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• 33:05
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