The MAGA Meltdown Marathon — And the Week’s Not Over - Error Code Show
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This week delivered multiple full-blown MAGA meltdowns, and we’re breaking down all of it. First up: Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham, where his comments on H1B visas and Chinese college students landed… badly. Then, over in Congress, the attempt to stop the discharge petition on the Epstein files fizzled out, adding even more fury to an already rough week. We dig into why the messaging flopped, how the political strategy backfired, and why MAGA supporters have been in full “rage-posting” mode ever since. Buckle up — this episode is busy.
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Shock of all shocks, MAGA's having another meltdown.
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But we've actually got multiple this week. Ah!
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Okay, so let's run through this really quickly,
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okay? So first MAGA started melting down. because
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Trump was doing an interview with Laura Ingraham
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and he was starting to talk about H1Bs again
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and he was talking about we need to bring Chinese
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people into our universities, right? And this
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sent the America first mega faithful fucking
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spinning. I have been all over Twitter and shit
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for the last couple of days and they were losing
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their minds, right? Like straight up getting
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mad at Trump finally, they were like, they're
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like, oh, so this was all just bullshit. And
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the funny thing to me was there was so many people
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being like, yeah, we told you, we told you mega
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faithful people that his whole thing was bullshit.
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It was all bullshit. Right. And so they've been
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freaking out about that interview with Laurie
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Ingram for a good two or three days now. Then
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yesterday. The House Oversight Committee. got
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a hold of some emails that they got a hold of
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from the Epstein estate, approximately 22 ,000
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of them, right, that had not been released prior
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to this. And so they were like, here you go.
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And they fucking dumped all of them. Now, they
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did it in a stupid way in that they're not searchable.
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They're all image files. Oh, my God. They're
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all it's just it's it's horribly organized. So
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I am sure that over the next few days, stuff's
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going to be trickling out. But a few things have
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already started coming out. Right. There is some
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there are some emails that intimate that Donald
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knew the whole time what Jeffrey was up to, like
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shock of all shocks. Right. Anybody who's not
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part of the MAGA faithful. I don't think we really
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learned anything new. It confirmed a lot of things.
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Right. It it opened up some more like like lines.
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Right. But I don't think there was anything necessarily
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new in it. The biggest thing that you could basically
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say is it confirmed a lot. And what you can say
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is until Epstein was arrested in 2019. and, you
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know, killed himself in prison. This guy was
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running around. I mean, some of the people he's
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emailing are everybody from New York Times reporters
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to former White House counsels under Democratic
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administrations, people connected to the Obama
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administration, the Clinton administration, like
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the Trump administration. Like this was this
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guy was a black hole. gravitational pull for
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people who wanted power right and and so you
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really see this guy was up in some elite circles
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which we kind of already knew but it just again
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it confirms he was really well connected and
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that's why he got away with what he got away
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with for so goddamn long Some of the YouTube
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chats bring up the fisher between the Alliance
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of Convenience Stores. So that's the other thing
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that came out. This is again more maga meltdown.
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Yesterday, before Adelina Grohalva was sworn
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in, the White House summoned Lauren Boebert to
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the Situation Room at the White House to try
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and convince her to take her name off that damn
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discharge position. They were calling Nancy Mace
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and apparently she was just ducking their phone
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calls for three days. They were trying to get
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those two to take their names off the discharge
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petition before Adelina Grijalva was sworn in
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because they knew the minute she was sworn in
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her name was going on that thing. Yesterday she
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was sworn in and her name went on it and to actually
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my surprise neither Nancy Mace nor Lauren Boebert
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pulled their names off. Right, so the discharge
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petition is going through Supposedly, it's gonna
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get voted on next week and the rumor that's going
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around the Republican caucus right now Is that
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it's not gonna just be the 218 that there's about
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40 to 50 more Republicans that when it hits the
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floor are gonna vote. Yes So that's kind of the
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broad overview J You saw, I'm sure all this stuff
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kind of floating around. I guess a few questions
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to you. Were you surprised by anything that came
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out of those emails first off? I mean, no, I'm.
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Definitely not not yet. I mean, like you said,
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there's a lot to go through. I didn't realize
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that they were all like image files, right? I'm.
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Which like, I mean, I can write a Python script
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to take in all the image files and translate
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them into a word doc, by the way. But I'm sure
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someone's already done it and they're already
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coming through it. But I didn't learn anything.
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The thing that really is disgusting to me is
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calling women. up and urging them to like change
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their vote so that the Epstein files are not
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released is like the most disgusting thing that
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I don't know I I want to say this is the most
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disgusting thing I've seen from our little Cheeto
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man but I I'm sure that's not true To me what's
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interesting about this is they're talking out
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both sides of their mouths, right? They're simultaneously
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being like, what? There's nothing to worry about.
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Trump, it's fine. Like, what? We've already told
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you everything. There's nothing to see here,
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right? While at the same time trying to do everything
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in their power to make sure this discharge petition
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doesn't happen, right? Which makes them look
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guilty as shit. Right and the the mega on that
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side they're they're sticking to the talking
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points like see there's nothing in here that
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says he Specifically raped one girl, you know
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like But it's like yeah, but the whole thing
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is adding up Right at the very least you knew
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Everything you knew everything Donnie you knew
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Okay, and you've been defending him and you've
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been defending glade and you knew all of it What
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do you think of that? Do you think that the rumor
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is true that when the vote finally comes out
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next week, they're going to have 40 or 50 more
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Republicans jump on? Do you think this is finally
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the crack start and show that you I between this
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and the election results last week? I don't think
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this White House has been weaker. Yeah, I I feel
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like you have to. change your vote you you already
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know it's getting released like it's not you
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can't stop it and Oh see I think they can't I
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think they're going to stop it I don't think
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they're actually going to come out because let's
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let's go spicy mister Rogers right okay so we
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got at least 218 votes in the house that's awesome
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right so it's going to pass the house That same
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bill has to go to the Senate and not be filibustered
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in order for it to not be filibustered You got
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to have every Democrat plus 12 Republicans Decide
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yeah, we're gonna let this vote go through right
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because you got to get past that that pesky filibuster
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that we were just talking about with the shutdown
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and Even then then it has to go to Donald Trump's
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desk and you think he's not gonna veto it Okay,
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so he vetoes it now it goes back Now you need
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to get a veto proof majority in the Senate. You
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got to get 67 66 66 Senators to go. Yep. Fuck
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you. We're doing this and I don't see it happening.
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I think the cracks are showing but I don't think
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You're gonna get 18 Republicans in the Senate
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to dump on him now Not yet I don't know, you
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know, I I don't know I We We've seen crazier
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stuff like we really have like we're living in
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a world of Baja blast pie and we're living in
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a world where Anakin went within 30 minutes to
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just hack in and slash in younglings in the Jedi
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temple. Maybe I'm too optimistic. I need to go
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back to being hangry, but I Don't know I think
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there's hope you know, I Need I I kind of hope
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I'm wrong Right. I kind of hope I'm wrong I Really
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do but I yeah, I I think it's gonna get to him.
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He's gonna veto it and now here's the thing that
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could put another crack in the armor Right like
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again this White House right now the fact that
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he couldn't get Boebert or Nancy Mace to back
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off That means that they're politically the White
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House is weak right now and everybody knows it
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I mean in the in the world of cracks like this
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is a pretty gaping Crack. Well, and again, I
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think after the election results last week, after
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the whole Utah thing, the California thing, I
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think everything else, I think the Republicans
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are almost to the point where they've they're
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about this close to just giving up on the midterms,
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where they're just like, we know we're screwed
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and there's nothing we can do about it. So fuck
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it. And so he's already a lame duck. He can't
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run for reelection. Right. His agenda has been
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completely derailed. It looks like the Supreme
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Court is going to overturn the whole tariff thing,
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and they don't have the fucking votes to institute
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it through the Senate. It's not going to happen,
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right? They've shown that the Senate just, you
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know, they don't have the willpower there. They're
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not going to nuke the filibuster, right? Because
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there's enough Senate Republicans that are worried
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that they're going to be in the minority soon.
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And that tells you what they're thinking about.
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They're like, fuck man, we're going to be in
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the minority soon. How many Senate seats are
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up? In twenty twenty six. Thirty three. Seats.
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With a lot of Republican incumbents. Who what
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do I see? North Carolina could be a problem for
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the Republicans. Ohio could be a problem for
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the Republicans. Believe it or not, Florida might
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turn into a problem for the Republicans. I don't
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know. I think that's a. I'm not going to finish
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that sentence. Who Colorado could be a problem
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Or is gonna be another Democrat yeah, I said
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there's There's gonna be some problems with them
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Um, I don't know which way this is gonna swing
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The Democrats have to net. What, three seats?
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Where could they do it? Who is the weakest ones?
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North Carolina. Ohio was only an R plus five.
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Alaska is an R plus six. Florida is an R plus
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five. I think they could hold on to Georgia.
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Michigan, they can hold on to. Yeah, it's going
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to be interesting. Yeah, I don't. Somebody in
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the YouTube chat brought about Yang or Elon leaping
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down from the shadows to take him down politically.
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Elon already. basically fighting and threw it
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out there once. If you remember a couple of months
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ago, this might have been six months ago, as
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he was getting pushed out of the White House.
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Elon very publicly said he's like, yep, he's.
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He's in the. He's in the he's in the Epstein
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files. He absolutely is in the Epstein files.
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Elon already said it. Answer another question
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made. Yeah, I think Collins could finally lose
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your seat. It's possible. And Ohio's a pick up.
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There is a chance to pick up the Senate. I think
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the House is pretty much I think that the Republicans
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have basically said that's a foregone conclusion
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that they're going to lose the House. I don't
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think they care. I think this thing got out of
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control for them. I think this administration
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went so far so fast that they just Has been a
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dumpster fire. Oh, also apparently affordability
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is a con job just to throw that out there, too.
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You know, I do love when he learned the word
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affordability. I I really love the fact that
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like our little baby president, when he learns
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like a new word like groceries and affordability,
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it's like my. Favorite thing, I still can't.
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Understand. How to order this Baja Blast pie.
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You have to go online. You have to go in person.
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Yeah, but I can't even like order. No, you have
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to go in person. See, he's Jay's still in this
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Baja Blast place. So we're going to leave politics
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alone. Right. For more of that, watch the entire
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live stream. What do you guys think? Has the
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mega meltdown just begun? Let us know what you
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think down in the comments below.