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Aug. 4, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show

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Democrats SABOTAGE Texas REDISTRICTING, May Be CHARGED

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tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Good afternoon, Rumblers.
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		So yeah, with that, let's get into the story.
		From NBC News, Texas Democrats decamped to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting.
		There's a lot of scrab awards in that title.
		Let's see what NBC has got.
		Showdown over redistricting in Texas played out here on Sunday as dozens of state Democrats took refuge roughly a thousand miles away from home, saying that they had fled to Texas to deny quorum.
		It's Republican efforts to add as many as five congressional seats to the map.
		Culminated with Texas governor, a Republican, threatening to expel the Democrats from, why is it glitching when I scroll?
		Anyway, threatening to expel the Democrats from the Texas state house and potentially extradite them, saying they may be felons.
		The Texas state House Democrats filed off of buses and Ubers into a crammed county party headquarters at a strip mall Sunday night, standing alongside Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to rail against what they charged was a racist, unfair, and undemocratic attempt to overhaul the lone star state's political map.
		That's quite a drinking game.
	You would probably develop alcohol poisoning pretty quickly if you read a mainstream outlet article covering Democrats and the word undemocratic was used, but neither here nor there.
	Texas House Democrats chair, caucus chair Gene Wu said that he believed about 57 Democrats had left the state with the bulk staying in Illinois for the at least the immediate future.
	Other House Democrats were in Boston and Albany, New York.
	So if you haven't been keeping up with the redistricting battle, Greg Abbott is trying to claw back a few seats for the Republicans in Texas.
	It looked like about four or five maybe up for grabs.
	So redrawing the map, this is something that happens quite often, redrawing the map, allocating districts, or moving the borders around.
	It's a really, really important thing because this is what makes or breaks the house.
	And so Greg Abbott, he's drawing this new map.
	He's building a team together to draw this new map.
	And it is going to be more favorable to the Republicans.
	Like we're going on the offense.
	We're trying to claw back some seats here.
	And obviously the Democrats aren't happy about this.
	And the reason that this showdown is happening in Texas, because this happens in plenty of states, but the reason Texas is having this specifically is their quorum, which is the amount of representatives that need to be present in order for a bill to be passed.
	Most states, it's like half, but in Texas, two-thirds of the House need to be present for a vote, for the vote to take place.
	So that's why Texas, because if you remember about three, it was July 2021, there was a similar thing where Greg Abbott was trying to tighten up voting, you know, rules around voting, like with the voter, the mail-in ballots and voter IDs and that sort of thing.
	And the Democrats threw a hissy fit over that, and they left the state.
	They all went to like DC and camped out there and had a great time.
	So on the taxpayer dollar, presumably.
	So Texas actually does have a propensity for this to occur.
	So we're seeing it again here.
	Some of these quotes are hilarious.
	Governor Abbott is doing this in submission to Donald Trump so that Donald Trump can steal these communities' power and voice.
	We will not be complicit in the destruction of our own communities.
	We are not here to play political games.
	We're here to demand an end to this corrupt process.
	So we'll get into why this is so funny that this is the line that they're using, that they're playing political games, corruption.
	First, let's read Greg Abbott's statement.
	So Greg Abbott released a statement this morning.
	It's a huge statement, but he's railing on these Democrats that have left the state and they're trying to gum up.
	They're basically gaming the system.
	Because the point of the quorum, as Greg Abbott gets into, right here.
	This Trincy ends now.
	Democrat House must return to Texas.
	He basically goes on to explain.
	Where is it?
	Here we go.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sorry.
	These absences are not merely unintended and unavoidable interruptions in public service, like a sudden illness or a family emergency.
	Instead, these absences were premeditated for an illegitimate purpose, what one representative called breaking quorum.
	So the purpose of being absent, obviously, would be like if you're sick, had a death in the family.
	I have a pretty good reason.
	The purpose isn't, if you're an elected official, isn't to, you don't get your way.
	You're not happy about legislation that's getting passed.
	So you cheat the system to gum up the way things go.
	So yeah, Greg Abbott totally has the right to go hard on him.
	And this last line down here is really because the Texas attorney, let's see, Attorney General considered whether Texas law allows for determination that a legislator has vacated office or if they intentionally broke quorum.
	So he's tired of playing around.
	2021, they had this situation and it delayed this bill by like two Months.
	Eventually, of course, the Republicans were able to pass it.
	So it was just a big show for nothing.
	This time, they want to nip this in the bud quite quickly.
	So they're determining whether or not their elect House members can just be considered vacating.
	Maybe they just vacated their seat.
	But this last line is really what everyone's talking about.
	So in addition to abandoning their offices, these legislators may have also committed felonies.
	Many absentee Democrats are soliciting funds to evade the fines they will incur under House rules.
	Any Democrat who solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept such funds to assist in the violation of legislative duties or for any purpose of skipping a vote may have violated bribery laws.
	And he shows the penal code there.
	The same could be true for any other person who offers, confers, or agrees to confer such funds to fleeing Democrat House members.
	I will use my full extradition authority to demand the return to Texas of any potential out-of-state felons.
	So here's the hammer.
	Greg Abbott is dropping the hammer.
	This is a beautiful thing.
	This is how you do it.
	You don't let them play these games.
	You don't let them dance around, get their sound bites.
	You drag them back or you kick them out or you arrest them.
	And this is a beautiful thing.
	For the longest time, the Republicans would have just rolled over.
	They would have conceded.
	They would have said, okay, well, maybe we can tone it down on this legislation a little bit.
	Greg Abbott is saying, no, just stop acting like children.
	And if you continue to do this, we will determine how you're funding this little field trip of yours.
	Of course, the Democrats in the House in Texas are all feeder kids for the most part.
	So they have these dramatic videos.
	James Tallarico, who this dude is, this dude is a trip.
	He does this whole thing.
	He does this routine where he talks about how, as a Christian, you should be supporting abortion and gay marriage and these sorts of things.
	So he's already pretty interesting guy.
	But let's see what he has to say.
	He's a Texas state representative.
	Let's hear him explain why they're all on the run and they don't want to deal with this.
james talarico ▲ ● ▼		This is State Representative James Tallarico from Texas.
		If you're seeing this video, my Democratic colleagues and I have just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop Trump's redistricting power grab.
		Trump told our Republican colleagues to redraw the political maps here in Texas in the middle of the decade to get him five more seats and protect his majority in Congress.
		They're turning our districts into crazy shapes to guarantee the outcome they want in the 2026 elections.
		If this power grab succeeds, they will hang on to power without any accountability from the voters.
		But Texas Democrats are fighting back.
		We're leaving the state, breaking quorum, and preventing Republicans from silencing our voices and rigging the next election.
		We are not fighting for the Democratic Party.
		We are fighting for the Democratic process, and the stakes could not be higher.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So in case you missed it, they actually are fighting for the Democratic Party.
		They flee to Illinois.
		Out of all the states, if you're really mad about gerrymandering, if you're trying to make this your point, the last state in the United States you would flee to would be Illinois.
		Look at these districts.
		What is going on?
		I mean, it's like a bowl of spaghetti.
		Illinois is like the poster child.
		Even the most blue of Democrats kind of tug at their collar when the gerrymandering conversation comes up with Illinois because it is so egregious.
		This was the last House elections.
		It was a fairly close.
		The popular vote was fairly close, 2.8 million to 2.5 million, six-point spread.
		Democrats go in 14 seats out of the 17 seats.
		So if that doesn't tell you how much the Democrats have decimated the state of Illinois just to pry these seats off of them, I don't know what will.
		So it's so funny that this is the state that they've decided to flee to.
		This is like what Tallarico said.
		No, they're fighting for the Democratic Party.
		This is a partisan game.
		That's why he's invoking Trump so much because he's trying to rally the troops.
		He's trying to make it sound like Trump is the one doing this, which is hilarious because this is what every governor, every Republican governor in America should be doing because of stuff like this.
		I mean, I think it'd be nice maybe if we all had these non-partisan election committees to decide the redistricting, but that's just not the world we live in.
		We're in a cold, cold war right now and cold civil war, I would say.
		And the redistricting process is the ultimate example of this.
		Yeah, when it comes to Illinois, principles go out the window.
		It's all about how many seats can we squeeze out of this state.
		Because, I mean, Illinois, you go to Illinois and it's really just Chicago.
		That's really sunk the state and the rest of the state.
		Like you see here, it's a close.
		If you think Illinois, you think maybe it's a deep blue state.
		It's really not.
		Six point spread.
		You can see right here.
		And then they only get three Republican seats out of that.
		I mean, that's just absolutely absurd.
		We had Jasmine Crockett.
		Everyone loves her.
		Her seat's probably on the line.
		Her seat's probably on the line.
		She's probably cooked.
		She was in the state house just going crazy, having a temper tantrum.
		I'll show you the video.
		Apologies in advance, but you got to see it.
		It's pretty funny.
unidentified		I don't think that it's an accident that Donald Trump picked up the phone, called down the Texas, told Abbott what he was going to do.
		And like a small, ridiculous child, he just fell in order.
		I don't think any of that was an accident.
		But what I can tell you is that we will not be an accident.
		We, the people of Texas, will be very intentional about making sure that they hear us, about making sure that we call them out on what they're doing.
		This is racist what they are doing.
		Let me hear you.
		We're going to be coming up with policies that will help all...
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So I think that's going to be the Democrat tagline for this battle is we are not an accident and they are racist.
		It's a really compelling message.
		The Trump Vance agenda, obviously providing a vision for the future possibilities, what America could be capable of.
		But the Democrats, you don't want to sleep on their marketing here.
		This is actually really excellent.
		We are not an accident.
		Jasmine Crockett 2028.
		Yeah, she's powerless.
		There's nothing they can do.
		They were used to under the Biden era and by extension, the Obama era, where they basically had free reign to do whatever they want.
		There was a rubber stamp.
		They could just claw as much power away from Republicans as they possibly could using whatever mechanism they wanted to.
		So this Trump, the Trump era is very shocking to them that they can't just stand around with signs and scream and not get their way.
		Yeah, there's nothing you can do about it, Jasmine Crockett.
		We're coming for your seat.
		Sorry about it.
		That is what it is.
		It's going to get even worse.
		So Texas is worse for Democrats.
		Texas is just the beginning.
		The Supreme Court is considering a ban on race-based voting districts.
		So in the 65 Voting Act, there was a, well, I'll let Bloomberg explain this.
		This is from Bloomberg.
		The United States Supreme Court indicated that it would consider outlawing the use of race and drawing voting maps, setting up a blockbuster showdown with implications for a dozen of congressional districts with predominantly minority populations.
		Expanding the Louisiana case already on their docket, the justices on Friday said they will consider arguments that the 1965 Voting Rights Act no longer provides legitimate basis for map drawers to intentionally create majority black, majority Hispanic districts.
		The clash could also upend state and local legislative districts, giving it the potential to have a seismic impact on elections at every level of the U.S. system.
		The U.S. House had 11 majority black and 31 majority Hispanic districts for the 2022 election, according to Bloomberg News analysis of the most recent American community survey data.
		Yeah, it comes at a time.
		The Texas Republicans are pushing to redraw their lines in an unusual mid-decade redistricting.
		Yeah, it's so bizarre.
		Oh, yeah.
		Democrats in California and New York have already said they will reopen their districts in response.
		Yeah, so yeah, so race-based districts, obviously crazy.
		This should just not be a function of, let's see if I can get the frame better here.
		There we go.
		It should not be a function of politics.
		We should not be having districts allocated towards races.
		That's just a terrible idea.
		It's just going to create more division.
		Is everyone getting a district now, right?
		I mean, you know, if you like, if you're, you know, if you're a vegetarian, are we going to have like vegetarian districts?
		I mean, where do you draw the line here?
		Like swagged out white boys?
		Do we get our own district?
		I mean, that'd be pretty sick, I think.
		But probably not a good idea.
		It's probably not healthy for the future of the country.
		But with this precedent, maybe it provides that.
		We'll see.
		But needs to go.
		And when it goes, states like Alabama, Louisiana, obviously, these states where they have these race-based districts.
		This will be abolished and we will move towards the post-racial society that was promised to us.
		And this is a major, major roadblock in the way, obviously.
		Not every Republican wants to win, unfortunately.
		This seems to be the case.
		I thought we learned our lesson in 2016 that loser Republicans are no longer in control.
		But some Republicans still want to lose.
		Congressman Kevin Kiley, Keely, however you say it, Republican from California.
		This is from Eric Daughtry, by the way, is filing legislation to ban mid-decade redistricting nationwide.
		All 50 states will be banned from drawing a new congressional map before the 2030 census.
		He wants to stop a damaging redistrict war.
		So this is what we call an example of someone that doesn't know what time it is.
		I don't think he realizes that we're not in the 1980s anymore.
		This isn't like a battle of principles or a battle of ideas.
	We're in a battle of two factions in America that have wildly different visions for what America is.
	And people are bought into those visions with all their heart and soul.
	So obviously redistricting is going to be a major part of that.
	You want your side to win.
	You view the other side winning as the end of your country as you know it.
	Kevin Kiley seems to think that this is, we're still like, oh, we just, we're a few tweaks away from fixing it.
	We just need to be more sensible and moderate.
	If you ask me his real motivation, if you see here, he's a Republican from California.
	It's because of this.
	Gavin Newsom, this is from The Guardian.
	Gavin Newsome may call special elections the redraw California congressional maps.
	So he's obviously using this Texas situation as a precedent or a way to justify.
	There's a word out there I'm looking for.
	I don't have it.
	A way to justify totally carving up California.
	California is already pretty bad, but he wants to use this Texas thing as an excuse to go crazy.
	Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, may call a special election in November to begin the process of redrawing the state's congressional maps in response to Texas's plans to change its own maps to help Republicans keep the majority in the House of Representatives.
	Trump is pushing Texas.
	California is viewed as the best opportunity for Democrats to pick up seats through gerrymandering, but voters will first have to approve changes to an independent redistricting commission that was given the power to draw congressional districts in 2010.
	Speaking at a Thursday press conference, Newsom said a special election would be called likely in the first week of November to approve the changes.
	So if you don't know, California has, and a few other states have this, they have an independent commission that draws the maps for them.
	These are approved by the voters.
	And this allows, in theory, for every voter in the state to have proper representation.
	This was actually, I think, a policy of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010 by the end of 2010s to have an independent commission to prevent gerrymandering.
	Of course, Gavin Newsom, he said, yeah, we're just going to hold a special election to completely sidestep that because, yeah, we don't need independent.
	It's principles.
	On one hand, they'll argue about how we need to uphold our democracy and how Trump's attacking everything about America that's good or whatever.
	And the other hand, they're like, yeah, we're going to completely toss out this well-liked bipartisan commission so we can get revenge on a state halfway across the country.
	Here's just a look at what California's map looks like right now.
	It's not as bad as Illinois.
	It's still pretty bad.
	It's a 60-40 state, but the Republicans only got 12 of the 52 seats in the last election.
	You don't see the huge spaghetti lines like you do in Illinois until you look down here and LA.
	Well, let's see if it'll let me zoom in.
	I don't think so.
	But you can kind of see from here.
	If you look down in the LA and Southern California, that's where you start to see, you know, they get a little creative with their districts there.
	Of course, Gavin Newsom believes that he'll be able to basically just squeeze out the rest of these Republicans.
	I've seen a few proposals of how they can get it done.
	All that means is Republicans got to keep their foot in the gas.
	You need to ignore people like Kevin here who want everyone just to calm down, relax.
	Guys, hey, what are we doing here?
	We're better than this.
	We're principled.
	This is damaging.
	You know, the reality is he's a representative, I think, one of these two districts.
	He's in Northern California.
	He doesn't want Texas to win because it's going to cost him his job.
	It's a very self-serving cause he's taken here.
	So we got to get rid of this mentality, guys.
	We got to drop this charade, this principles, this MU principles, I think is the term that's been given to it.
	Because if you keep tracking this, I think John Doyle made this point is we'll all have our backs against the walls, guns pointed at the back of our heads, and we'll turn to each other and say, gee, could you imagine if we did this to them?
	Can you imagine the freak out?
	That's the situation we're in.
	We're trying to save this country.
	We're trying to win this country back.
	We don't have time to do this principled thing where we're just going to win them over with principles.
	It's like you got to play.
	You got to play the game.
	Trump realizes this.
	Trump understands better than anybody.
	You got to play the game.
	And that's why he has such loyalty in the GOP because we're tired of sticking to our principles and getting our teeth kicked in.
	And so Trump, Trump knows what time it is.
	Trump knows what time it is.
	Yeah, it's hard to get out.
	There's a lot of teas in there.
	I wanted to sort of shift gears, really talk about Trump's sort of mentality a little more.
	This is from The Guardian.
	Trump administration denies daily quota for immigration arrests.
	So let's see.
	In a new court filing, attorneys for the Trump administration denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite reports and prior statements from White House officials about pursuing a goal of at least 3,000 deportations or deportation arrests per day.
	In May, reports from both The Guardian and Axios revealed that during a meeting with ICE leaders on the 21st, that's the British, they do this deal right here.
	What's going on?
	I'm so glad we're independent.
	May 21st, the White House advisor Stephen Miller and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people per day.
	Following that report, Miller appeared on Fox News in late May and stated that under President Trump's leadership, we were looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day.
	He added that Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day.
	However, in a court filing on Friday, lawyers representing the U.S. Justice Department said that the Department of Homeland Security had confirmed that neither ICE leadership nor its field offices have been directed to meet any numerical quota or targets for arrests, detentions, removals, field encounters, or any other operational activities that ICE or its components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law.
	So there's been a lot of freaking out on the left about these ICE raids.
	I just want to walk through.
	So 3,000, this is, they're denying there's a quota.
	That's neither here nor there.
	This is the really interesting thing: this is the number of arrests that we're seeking in the MAGA movement.
	3,000 arrests per day times 365.
	That's 1 million about what was it, 1.0.
	So let's just say 1 million.
	You know, you miss a few days, 1 million times four over four years.
	So 4.3 million deportations over the Trump era.
	You're seeing all this pushback, all this freak out from the left, and they're citing this 3,000 per day like it's this barbarically high number.
	That's going to result in 4.3 million deportations.
	There's estimates of illegal immigrants in the country, like upwards of 30, 40 million.
	So this is a very, very small, very small dent.
	So if this truly is, if there's not even a quota here, if this is just kind of a dream to get 3,000 out per day, we're missing the mark.
	And the Guardian's kind of reporting this like it's scandalous.
	Trump claimed here at the bottom here, Trump claimed that he would target between 15 and 20 million people who are undocumented in the U.S. for deportation.
	As of 2022, there's 11 million undocumented living in the U.S. That's that's like the safest estimate.
	If you go to Costco, you know it's much higher.
	I mean, come on, go to Costco, look around.
	It's much higher than 11 million.
	So, yeah, 3,000.
	It's actually would need to get a lot higher than that.
	Luckily, the DOJ, or the DOD, sorry, is on the case.
	Leaked memo from Hegset's brother calls for U.S. Army to help with deportations nationwide for years to come.
	This is from The Independent.
	A leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security suggests that the Trump administration is considering using the U.S. military to boost its ongoing mass deportation agenda, while acknowledging that the deployment of troops in LA earlier this year wasn't perfect, according to a new report.
	The memo was allegedly written by DHS senior advisor Phil Hegseth, the brother of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
	The New Republic published the text on Saturday.
	President Donald Trump has already used the U.S. military personnel in his aggressive deportation campaign.
	In June, Trump nationalized approximately 5,000 National Guard members and sent them to LA to push back against protesters demonstrating against ICE raids in their neighborhoods.
	In addition to the National Guard members, Trump also sent 700 Marines to stomp out the violent insurrectionist mob.
	Most of the military members sent to LA have since pulled out of the city.
	So what they're talking about here, obviously, you remember this wasn't that long ago during the ICE protests in LA, is the National Guard and the Marines were sent there primarily to defend the federal building because these rioters are totally out of control.
	What's being proposed here is using the military to boost the agenda.
	What does that look like in principle?
	I actually looked through a few stories.
	It doesn't look like that was disclosed of how this would look in practice.
	But as we saw earlier, if the loose quota is 3,000 arrests per day, that gets us to 4.3 million.
	Now that we got this ICE funding or Homeland Security funding through the Big Beautiful Bill, we have a war chest to play with.
	Along with that, we have DHS considering using the military for deportations.
	We do actually have potential to hit that 11 million.
	Where is it?
	Yeah, they had 11 million undocumented immigrants number.
	We actually do have a chance of winning the country back and achieving that agenda.
	I think it's a beautiful thing.
	I think this is fantastic.
	I'm glad that this is being considered.
	I'm glad this is being talked about because I do think that's what we need.
	I don't think people realize how angry Americans are about legal immigration.
	I don't think people realize the feeling of having your country stolen from you under your nose.
	That's the feeling that a lot of Americans have.
	So when they run these stories that they're considering using the military, I think most of these people in these writing rooms are probably pretty scandalized by that.
	But the majority of Americans are sitting there like, yeah, that's a good idea.
	Yeah, that probably would help us achieve that number a lot quicker.
	So yeah, fingers crossed.
	I think they're cooking.
	They're cooking something up over the Trump admin.
	I can't wait to see these.
	We're seeing a lot of hiring at a lot of ad placements for hiring more ICE agents.
	The compensation package is pretty competitive.
	So I do think those deportation numbers hopefully will exceed 3,000.
	Stephen Miller's on the case.
	That man is a legend, and he is not going to arrest until every illegal immigrant is out of the United States.
	So God bless Stephen Miller.
	Well, I want to wrap up this news segment, this first half hour of the show.
	We're going to get into the second half of the show here with an interview.
	So thanks for watching.
	And here we are.
	This is for the second half.
	We're going to interview.
	We got a big interview coming up.
	We're going to talk to Tony Ortiz of Current Revolt.
	He's a Texan.
	He knows Texas like the back of his hand.
	We're going to talk to him about this whole Greg Abbott situation.
	He's going to break it down for us.
	He's going to give us the inside baseball.
	Really exciting stuff.
	So let me just preview this story for you real quick.
	This is from the post-millennial.
	I know we discussed it early on the show, but you got to hear it again to really understand the magnitude of the situation we're dealing with.
	So this is from the post-millennial.
	Greg Abbott threatens to remove Dem lawmakers from office if they don't show up for the redistricting vote.
	A standoff is intensifying in Texas after more than 50 Democratic state lawmakers fled the state to block a vote on a redistricting proposal.
	Republican Governor Greg Abbott warned late Sunday that he would pursue legal action to remove the lawmakers from office if they fail to return to Austin by Monday, August 4th, 2025 to vote on the proposal.
	Abbott's pressure follows a walkout by Democrats seeking to deny the Texas House a quorum, the minimum number of legislators required to conduct business.
	By leaving the state, Democrats effectively froze all legislative activity during a special session set to expire later this month.
	Their primary objective was to halt a GOP-drawn congressional map that could secure five additional U.S. House seats for Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
	We obviously have the statement here from Greg Abbott.
	At the end here, he discusses, in addition to abandoning their offices, these legislators may have also committed felonies.
	Many absentee Democrats are soliciting funds to evade the fines that they will incur under House rules.
	So Greg Abbott's going in.
	He's not playing around.
	We need to talk to Tony.
	We need to figure the situation out.
	So I've got Producer Andrew here.
	He's going to get Tony wrapped roped in here.
	We're going to discuss this.
	I think it's relieving to see some Republicans with Backbone.
	Greg Abbott, he's not playing around.
	So it's a fantastic thing.
	Hey, Tony, can you hear me?
unidentified		Yes, I can.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Hey, dude, what's up?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		How's it going?
unidentified		Doing well.
unidentified		How are you?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I'm doing well, man.
		Yeah, so we're covering this Greg Abbott situation.
		You know, this is big talk.
		This is huge, right?
		He wants to prosecute these Democrats.
		He wants to nip this in the butt as quickly as possible.
		I was referencing that they actually had a similar situation in 2021.
		So perhaps there was lessons learned.
		I know there was legislation passed as well to prevent something like this from happening.
		But what are you seeing?
		I mean, do you think it's likely that Abbott does actually pursue charges against these Democrats?
unidentified		Yeah, whether he pursues charges or not kind of doesn't matter.
		It's whether or not that actually he has grounds to, like legal grounds to, right?
		You know, Abbott's upset because, and justifiably so, because Democrats have taken off.
		They're doing a quorum bust, right?
		And this is the third time they've done that.
		They did this in, I believe, 2003 when we did redistricting then.
		They took off.
		It failed.
		We passed redistricting anyway.
		I believe in 2020, they did it again.
		Sorry, 2021, they did it again when Texas was trying to pass stricter voter ID requirements.
		Democrats, of course, call that racist because they believe minorities can't get driver's licenses for some reason.
		And they took off again.
		And then that didn't work.
		We passed it anyway.
		So now here we are in 2025 and they're doing it again for redistricting.
		And it's likely going to pass anyway.
		We've got laws in place that fine the representatives $500 per day.
		And if I recall correctly, I don't think they can even use their campaign accounts.
		I think it has to come from their personal funds.
		And so, you know, Abbott, Governor Abbott has now stated that, you know, he's going to consider their seats vacant.
		And I think a lot of the legal behind that isn't necessarily the way he wants it to be.
		So I don't see anything happening to them from as far as them losing their seats, but they definitely are likely to pay some fines.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		Well, I mean, so what is your, what is your relationship with Texas, obviously, for the viewers that maybe don't know you, you know, who are you and kind of what's your, what's your calling card?
unidentified		Yeah.
		So I run currentrevolt.com.
		We are a Texas-based online newsletter.
		We cover just Texas politics and we've broken several big scandals that have made nationwide news quite a few times, even just recently.
		So we're kind of like a national inquirer or a TMZ of Texas politics covering like cheating affairs and other types of those similar type scandals across Texas and the politicians.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I love that.
		So we're seeing some of this language from these Texas these Texas reps and they're saying Trump's applying pressure.
		Trump's the one applying pressure.
		Is this something that Abbott's been thinking about doing for a while?
		Or is there some truth to that that Trump's really the one putting the pressure on Abbott?
unidentified		There's probably some truth behind that, right?
		Abbott's the, you know, Abbott and especially Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick are very close with Trump, Patrick especially, and they want to be in his favor, right?
		Maybe they're going for some cabinet positions.
		You know, Abbott has long been rumored as wanting to run for president one day.
		He's been governor for quite a long time.
		And so it doesn't surprise me that they're just gearing up to kind of secure the elections going forward.
		You know, Democrats do this all the time.
		It's kind of ironic that the Democrat reps in Texas have taken off to do two different states.
		Some went to Illinois and some went to New York, which are some of the most gerrymandered districts in the United States.
		So it's kind of ironic that they're upset about gerrymandering, but they're literally going to the Democrat states that are the worst for it.
		And so Democrats have, and I think you know this, Democrats have been, have done a really good job of when they get power, they execute on that power.
		They do things.
		They pass laws.
		They bring down their Democrat hammer on stuff that they want, right?
		And Republicans traditionally, they win and then they don't do anything.
		They just kind of sit around.
		And now we're seeing kind of a change in policy where Republicans of Texas have won.
		And now we're flexing our power to get better districts.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		We saw there was a rep in California who was like doing the whole McPrinciples routine where he was like, oh, we don't want to start a redistricting war.
		That would be really mean.
		And it's like the most Republican thing ever that we're actually finally starting to use and use our power and flex it.
		And then these like hall monitors come along, these self-appointed AHR managers come along and say, guys, guys, hey, wait, wait a second.
		Because I mean, what's going to happen is that guy's going to lose his seat if Abbott pushes forward because in California, they're going to redistrict and try and wipe out whatever Republican seats they haven't gerrymandered away yet.
unidentified		Yeah, the funny thing about California, they're attempting or they're threatening to redistrict.
		But what's interesting about California is they have a California, California's rules or elections for redistricting are based off an independent group and an independent redistricting system.
		And so in order for, I think Gavin Newsome has threatened to redistrict California.
		In order for him to do that and execute on that, not only will it require, it'll actually require a special election that requires voter approval to modify the independent redistricting system.
		So he's going to have to call an election.
		People are going to have to vote for it and modify their existing rules.
		And it's looking that people are estimating it's going to cost over $200 million just to do it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Yeah.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I'm kind of curious with the special election that's coming up.
		I think they eyed September possibly for the election.
		I'd be curious how radical Democrats in California are, if there actually is potential or if there's potential for pushback on this, maybe they do want to keep their commission.
		I'm not sure.
		I'm not sure.
		It's going to be a test of Gavin Newsom's effectiveness to be Democrat leaders if he can really stir up a good narrative for Democrats in California as to why they should get rid of this.
		I don't know.
		It's quite fascinating, like we kind of touched on earlier to see this mentality from Republicans to get really nervous when we start winning a little too much.
		We're seeing this with that rep. Trump's the one that's obviously led the charge of wiping those people out from the GOP.
		What is it about Texas?
		It seems like Texas does produce quite a good number of effective politicians.
		What do you think it is about Texas that does?
		Because you see this thing with these deep red states like South Carolina.
		They actually produce pretty horrible Republicans because I think they know it's such a safe seat that it doesn't really fire people up.
		So they don't feel the need to run.
		And then you see these like swing districts where like, you know, Republicans lose half the time and they produce these like rock star candidates.
		What is it about Texas though?
		It does feel like there is a higher density of solid Republicans that come out of Texas.
unidentified		Yeah, I think from the outside looking in, it does, it does appear that way, right?
		As someone who covers it day to day, and literally the only thing we cover is Texas.
		There's a lot more nuance to it.
		And obviously there's a lot more nitpicking that we can do, right?
		Texas, for example, has only been Republican, I think, for like 30 or 40 years.
		It used to be a Democrat state.
		And as far as like things that we've gotten past, I mean, it was just, I think, two sessions ago that we got constitutional carry for handguns and for not whatnot.
		So like we're not as conservatives as we should be, right?
		We're definitely better than most, but not as good as we should be.
		You know, grassroots activists in Texas would cite that we have a lot of rhinos, right?
		And that does seem to be a problem that we have a lot of like very soft, squishy Republicans.
		But as you mentioned, Trump's kind of been at the top charging and leading the narrative to kind of kind of bully and lead the charge on Republicans and conservatives being a little more active with what they're doing rather than sitting back and letting Democrats walk all over them.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, multiple people have said that Texas, and it's true, that Texas, it really is kind of the linchpin of this MAGA movement because, I mean, the amount of electoral seats that are at stake.
		Obviously, there's a lot of concern from Texans of the state going blue with out-of-state migration.
		I've pointed out previously that there is exit polling, for example, the Cruz versus Beido Senate race, where it actually looked like out-of-state voters voted Republican and Native Texans voted Democrat.
		I don't know.
		Have you noticed some of these trends?
		Have these maybe these trends have changed since then?
		I mean, what do you suspect would be the future of Texas?
unidentified		Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned that because so very few people know that polling.
		It's 100% true.
		We found that like Native Texans vote Democrat more than out of state.
		We are seeing a trend of people that come here and they are aware of the reasons why they come to Texas and they start voting Republican, right?
		So that is trending well.
		The state is, as far as demographics go, Hispanics are now, I think, the majority in Texas and whites are now the minority, which is funny.
		You got to wonder if they're going to change, if whites will start be able to capitalize on minority benefits and stuff.
		That would be funny.
		But it's really funny.
		The narrative from Democrats is now like, oh, this redistricting, we can't do it because it's racist towards the Latinos and the blacks.
		And it's very silly messaging because we're starting to see for them, because Latinos are starting to trend more towards Trump.
		The Democrat base has lost the Hispanic vote.
		And we can go into hours as to why they've done that.
		But they basically just have white liberals and blacks left as far as a voting base.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Well, I mean, we saw the huge, the huge swing in the Rio Grande Valley just in the last, really just since the Trump era in the Trump era.
		There are some fears that when you pick off groups that were not previously Republican or previously hardcore Democrat, they do have to concede on some issues.
		I think so people are a bit fearful that if you really push hard for the Hispanic vote, that you maybe have to lighten your messaging on immigration.
		But if anything, Trump was the most anti-illegal immigration candidate probably in the modern era.
		I would say for sure in the modern era.
		And Hispanics turned out in huge numbers.
		I mean, what kind of dynamics is the Texas GOP experimenting with, and especially in the Rio Grande Valley?
unidentified		Yeah, I think when it comes to Hispanics that can vote, so legal Hispanics, they are probably the most anti-immigration, probably more than white people.
		Kind of ironic.
		I think the trend is like, you know, Hispanics come here.
		They either they're born here and they appreciate being here, the ones that can vote, right?
		Or they work hard to get here and make a good life.
		And so that the ones that just hop the border and skip the line and break the laws, they make them look bad, right?
		And they want them out of here.
		They don't want them here.
		I fall into that category.
		I don't want, it's a, I'm Hispanic and it's a sense of embarrassment to see these Hispanics that hop over here and commit crimes or other like sexual deviant acts on young children.
		And they make an embarrassment of them, of themselves and other people in the race.
		And so, yeah, they want them out of here.
		And I think that as far as concession goes, concessions go in the Republican Party, you're not seeing too many, right?
		We've still been really, really hard on immigration.
		I haven't seen any concessions as far as to appeal to the Hispanic vote.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		I mean, I went to high school in San Antonio and, you know, I've been known to throw back a puffy taco every once in a while.
		So I'd head down to the south side of San Antonio.
		And you would be stunned to see some of the discussions you'd overhear some of the discussions at these restaurants regarding immigrants.
		So I'm like, you know, geez, I mean, this would make, you know, Stephen Miller look like a liberal.
unidentified		The funny thing, the funny thing with Democrats is they assume that Hispanics are all like the same, right?
		They assume that like Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Mexicans, Spanish, Venezuelans are all the same.
		They all hate each other.
		They're all like racist towards each other, right?
		Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Mexicans, they all don't like each other for multiple reasons.
		And so when the Democrats throw, lump them all into one giant like voting block, it does create problems and they start to appeal to them and then they realize it doesn't work.
		Whereas I think I've seen the Republican Party really hasn't tried to shill so much to Hispanics.
		It's more have been like, hey, join us, be an American, be a conservative, be a patriot, rather than like trying to lean into like the pandering.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's and it's worked so well compared to like, you know, I'm not picking on him specifically, but just from what I can recall is like Bush was like much more on the nose pandering to Hispanics, like, you know, speaking really broken Spanish and like making an enchilada and be like, yeah, come vote for us.
unidentified		I don't know.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		And Trump gets up.
		He's like, they're all going home.
		No more Spanish.
		You're never going to press two for English again.
		And everyone and like South Texas is like, yeah, that sounds great.
		Yeah, I'm an American.
		I'm a patriot.
		So sign me up.
		So it's a beautiful thing.
		Another question.
		Well, and I'm glad you touched on the fact that Hispanics hate it.
		They do this Thing Democrats, where they like lump these groups together, like Native Americans is just Native Americans, broadly speaking, even though there's like a million tribes.
		And they do the same thing with Hispanic, where they're like a Mexican and Puerto Rican are like on the same team.
		If you ever ask a Puerto Rican what they think about Mexicans, it like sounds like a Klan rally.
		I mean, it's like ridiculous.
		You're sitting there like, geez, can you say these things out loud?
		You're going to get arrested if you're not careful.
unidentified		But anyway, the Asians are the same way, too, right?
		Like all the demographic of voters are, they kind of hate each other.
		Some of the most racist people I've met have been other Hispanics or other Asian people.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Literally, yeah.
		And it's like, bro, you're on the same team, I would assume.
		No, they're not.
		It gets wild.
		But that's kind of one question I want to talk about because why is it that the Hispanic vote in California and the Hispanic vote in Texas diverge so dramatically?
unidentified		Yeah, it's a great question.
		You know, I often wonder if the vibe of California is just such a beautiful place that it just kind of makes you lazy and it just makes you just kind of appreciate the weather and everything.
		And you're just like, ah, this is all great and life's easy and we're just going to vote Democrat.
		I mean, I really can't, as somebody that just watches Texas, I can't really speculate too much.
		But you also got to wonder that the conspiracy theories of like non-non like non-citizens are voting in these elections.
		And maybe that's kind of skewing some things too.
		But, you know, you're seeing, I think it's, if I recall correctly, California is facing a kind of a population drop.
		They're starting to see a population drop where Texas is increasing.
		So people are starting to wake up and they're leaving the state.
		I think it was In-N-Out just recently announced their headquarters is leaving California.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Where they go to like Nashville.
unidentified		Nashville.
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		So they're losing a lot of like their their established hardcore industries.
		Like In-N-Out was their brand.
		Back like, what, 10 years ago, if you wanted a burger from In-N-Out, you had to go to California to get it.
		And now it's left.
		And now their headquarters are leaving too.
		So California, minus their weather, is losing a lot of their charm and a lot of the things that make them California.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		I mean, that is kind of the last, really the only thing California has going for it at this point is the natural beauty.
		I mean, Texas, you go to the beach in Galveston once.
		That's a radicalizing experience.
		There's like sewage like sloshing up on the ocean and you're just like, yeah, get all these illegals out of here.
		I don't want to give me like a victory here.
		It's brutal.
		Yeah.
		So that's kind of interesting.
		I mean, Texas really is emerging as the hub for industry.
		You know, Austin obviously is this burgeoning tech hub.
		I mean, from you as a Texan, do you think this is sustainable?
		You think this will continue to be the trend going forward?
unidentified		Yeah, I mean, we're getting our own stock exchange soon, right?
		A Texas stock exchange.
		I think ATT has already committed to it, as of other industries, right?
		There's a lot of investment in like Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining and other things like that.
		You have a lot of companies coming here.
		The biggest problems we're facing are energy, which is something that even Democrats are talking about.
		So that's going to be a big concern is energy and energy consumption and then water.
		Something that a lot of people aren't talking about enough is our lack of available water, right?
		Something I think that a lot of people forget a lot of these Bitcoin mining facilities and these storage facilities, they require a lot of water to cool and to operate.
		And we just don't have enough of it.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, the population growth, I think that's part of the reason that's being contributed to the necessitating the redistricting or redistricting is because the population has grown so quickly in very specific regions just in the last five years that that does necessitate a reshifting around of some of these lines.
		I mean, there's this by 2030, I mean, the amount of electoral districts Texas could have, I've seen the projections, like they could pick up like four or five, especially because New York and Illinois are bleeding people left and right.
		What kind of, what does that do for the mentality?
		Because when you meet people from the Sun Belt specifically, they are much happier, much more optimistic.
		And then you meet people from the Rust Belt, there is kind of a sense of nihilism.
		This is coming from someone that lives, you know, up more in the Rust Belt area.
		Is that just due to the growth?
		I mean, Texas really is kind of the place to be right now.
unidentified		Yeah, you know, I've been here since 04, so quite a long time.
		And the population growth and trap, you can see it everywhere in traffic and restaurants and property taxes, right?
		It's been insane to kind of put it into terms.
		I bought my home in 2016 for like 180K and now it's worth like 250, 260.
		So just 10 years later, that big of a growth.
		And that sounds really great, but also the property taxes come with that.
		So my taxes have gone up like crazy.
		Traffic is insane.
		You know, it's kind of getting a little, no, I wouldn't say unsustainable, but it's getting a little annoying as a Texan that's been here for a long time, all the people that are coming here.
		But with that comes opportunity, right?
		And a lot of growth.
		You know, as somebody, I live in the burbs outside of Dallas, which I'm very happy to be at.
		But Dallas proper, the city, one of the things it faces a lot that I think any major city faces is increasing homeless and crime.
		And that's, of course, because it's run by Democrats.
		It's not legislated properly against.
		And it'll probably continue to get worse until it gets better.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Kind of shifting gears.
		Not really.
		It's still very Texas related.
		Obviously, there's a lot of concern over Cornyn's performance as senator.
		Rightfully so.
		What have you heard on the Corn and primary front or people trying to go for corn and seat?
		What have you heard?
unidentified		Yeah.
		So Cornyn's up for a reelection and he's running against, I'm sorry, Attorney General Ken Paxon is running for his spot.
		Right.
		And so Cornyn's often viewed as the establishment choice, not very well liked.
		He's kind of been wishy-washy on a lot of Trump stuff, right?
		Whereas Ken Paxton's been a huge ally for Trump and Paxon is well beloved by the grassroots.
		Cornyn just announced today that he was endorsed by Rick Perry, which like, and I, somebody, I actually really love Rick Perry.
		I think he's hilarious.
		There's a photo of Rick Perry with like a pistol.
		And then he's been arrested before.
		He's got a really funny mug shot.
		And I think he's on a run.
		He shot a coyote once.
		So I kind of think Rick Perry is a badass.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's kind of sick.
unidentified		But they made this announcement on like one of the worst days to make this.
		We've got like all these Democrats fleeing and they're talking about arrests and fines.
		And they announce like, we've got basically World War III going on here in Texas.
		And then he announces, oh, we've got an endorsement from Rick Perry.
		And it's everybody's like, okay, yeah.
		Anyway, so, but yeah, it's kind of, it's, I don't like to make predictions as a journalist too much, but it is looking like Paxton's got it in the bag, minus some major scandal.
		And I don't know what kind of scandal it would have to be.
		I think that Paxton is just kind of walking into that spot.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Do you think with the Paxton Abbott, you know, that front, do you think that it seems the base really wants these Democrats arrested or held responsible for doing this?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, do you think that plays well for them in upcoming elections if they are able to pull something off?
unidentified		Actually, I think it plays well for both parties, right?
		If you're a Democrat and you're seeing your rep out there like fleeing the state in order to fight against This stuff, like you're gung-ho about it, right?
		And I'm seeing it, you know, my state rep is a Democrat.
		They're sending out text messages for fundraisers, right?
		All these Democrats are using this opportunity to raise money and also to, when they're up for reelection, to say, you know, I, I'm a strong Democrat.
		I fought for you.
		I even fled the state to avoid this, right?
		And Republicans are using this as well to fundraise and to say, hey, you know, these Democrats are horrible.
		You need to vote for me because I'm going to fight against this.
		There's already been two bills filed today by both the Senate and the House that pushes harder penalties if politicians leave for more than seven unexcused days.
		House rep Briscoe Kane filed that bill, seven unexcused absences, and they are meeting.
		Their office is considered vacant.
		And that was filed today.
		The irony being that we don't have a quorum, so it can't get passed.
		So yeah, it's been filed, but unless the Democrats come back, nothing's going to happen.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, the extradition, why don't so much trouble saying the word extradition that Abbott has proposed.
		I mean, how does that play out?
		Was he sending the National Guard up there?
unidentified		I don't think it plays out at all.
		The idea of extraditing people across state lines doesn't work.
		If they fled somewhere in Texas, yeah, DPS would be breaking down their door, handcuffing them, and then dragging them to the Capitol.
		But that's the whole reason that they fled out of state.
		The ability to enforce these sorts of things, especially arrests outside of the state, are almost zero.
		So I don't think it's going to play at all.
		The only thing that they are facing is these fines, right?
		We passed some laws, I believe it was last session, that anytime they are absent for a quorum break, they have a $500 daily fine.
		But of course, Democrats are fundraising off of this.
		And you had, what was it, the Illinois governor?
		What's his name?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Pritzer, JB Pritzker.
unidentified		Pritzker funded their plane, the chartered their plane for them and is, I'm assuming, paying for their other expenses.
		And Abbott's calling that a bribe, which is really interesting.
		There's laws that basically say if you take money in exchange to vote or not vote a certain way, that is considered a bribe.
		So you can also call that donations, right?
		Donations do that.
		Donors do that.
		But he's considering that a bribe.
		And they're also looking at filing charges, bribery charges against not only the reps, but also people that are giving money to the reps for being gone.
		So we'll see how that plays out in court.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that would be a beautiful, that would play so well with the bass.
		That would turn him into rock stars overnight.
		But yeah, this tends to happen at these stories.
		We get really excited.
		And then they just kind of just show up.
		The bill gets passed and then you forget about the story.
		Fingers crossed, that really happens.
		One question, what's up with the James Tallarico guy where he gets up and he's like, if you're a Christian, you're not gay, like you're not a Christian.
		What is that guy?
		What is going on in Texas?
		Where are these people coming from?
unidentified		Yeah, Tallarico's an interesting guy, right?
		I gauge a lot of political stuff, especially with the general voting base or at least the independent voting base based off some friends.
		They call them some political normies.
		They're like normies in politics, right?
		And so every once in a while, I kind of do a temperature check to see what's up.
		And, you know, Tallarico, House Representative Tallarico, was on the Joe Rogan podcast.
		And so I did a temperature check on the normies and they were like, wait, we really like this guy.
		And I'm like, oh, man.
		Yeah.
		It's, you know, I don't think the Democrats have any chance of gaining any ground in Texas.
		They say it every year that Democrats are a threat.
		It's not going to happen anytime soon.
		But Tallarico is somebody that's likely going to run for governor one day of Texas.
		And, you know, he's this very odd, like leftist, huge pro-gay Democrat pastor, right?
		Which is kind of an oxymoron in a sense.
		And he says a bunch of really, really crazy stuff.
		If you're a Christian, you just kind of, your head kind of explodes hearing him kind of make arguments for this.
		Yeah, he's likely to run for governor, but he's a single man.
		And he's probably going to have to find a wife and kid to run just because that's the kind of thing you need nowadays to play for bigger office.
		And so we'll see if he can find a wife here really quickly to run for office.
		Yeah.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's a valiant effort.
		Maybe they can do some, Pritzker can do some fundraising for him.
		Right.
		Yeah, it's kind of like Beto 2.0 where they'd get like in love with this random house member and then they try to convince everyone he's like the guy.
		And then he just ends up being really weird and like eats dirt and stuff.
unidentified		Yeah, it happens every year.
		You know, Beto ran, what was it, two, three times, lost.
		Colin Allred's now running on his second time.
		He's going to lose again.
		Tyler Rico will probably run for a higher office and lose too.
		And they say it every year, like, oh, the signs are everywhere.
		The lines are out the door.
		That doesn't matter.
		Texas is huge.
		Texas is bigger than most countries.
		So it doesn't really matter if there's a bunch of signs or a bunch of lines in a city for a guy.
		It doesn't really reflect the entire voting base of Texas.
		Texas is so ginormous that people often forget that the rural areas, the areas that these politicians don't go to, have a massive influence on statewide elections.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I had one more question.
		The mood of Democrats nationwide, but specifically in Texas, we saw it on full display with Jasmine Crockett melting down these last few days.
		They really do have this sense of being powerless.
		Do you think when they're cornered, do you think they have any more tricks up their sleeve?
		Or do you think this is just a new era and this is just they're going to have to just complain all the time?
		It's one of those Texas allow them any tools.
unidentified		Yeah, I don't think that there's minus quorum breaks.
		There's really nothing else that they can do, right?
		You know, Democrats have the same tired messaging where it's always just racism.
		Everything's racist.
		You know, the redistricting is racist.
		And it's just very exhausting.
		And I think it's, it's played out now.
		If Democrats were smart and if they actually wanted to win, they would turn back to being normal.
		We're talking like the 90s era of Democrats where they're just like moderate leftists, right?
		I think a lot of people could probably relate to some of the stuff that they push, but they're so insane with the transgender stuff and the body mutilation and all of that.
		It's gone too far.
		That's why you're seeing a lot of these companies kind of start to swing their advertising from like these disgusting, fat, androgynous models to like attractive women, like the Sydney Sweeney thing, right?
		Because we're returning back to like some normalcy.
		We're finally starting to see some like real, like what people expect to see in our advertising, our movies and our culture.
		And Democrats, again, if they were smart, they would embrace it, but I don't see they're not.
		So I don't see them doing that anytime soon.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, dude, well, I appreciate it, man.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Do you want to give a shout out or tell people where to find you?
unidentified		Yeah, if you're a Texan watching this, you can find us at currentrevolt.com and you can subscribe there.
		We put out a newsletter every morning with just Texas news.
		Or if you're on Twitter and you like what I've said and you're interested in Texas politics, you can follow me at Current Revolt.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Dude, well, Tony, dude, I appreciate it.
		Thanks for the chat.
		That was great.
		So we'll catch you next time.
unidentified		Yep.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		See you, man.
		All righty.
		Well, that was The noon hour.
		I think it went okay.
		You know, it's kind of tricky filling in because it's like once a month.
		So it's hard to really get into the routine.
		I don't know if you noticed with Tony, like I asked the first question and then I was like, by the way, who are you?
		Like, you know, how do people like know who you are?
		So it gets a little tricky, but you know, more reps, more repetition.
		We'll get better.
		Practice makes perfect.
		Well, this isn't really practice.
		This is the game, but it is what it is.
		So thanks for bearing with me.
		You can find me on Twitter and Instagram.
		We're sorry, X and Instagram at RealTape Brown.
		We will have IRL tonight at 8 p.m.
		It looks like it's gonna be a fill cast.
		So it's gonna be a really good time.
		So we'll see you there.
		We'll hang out.
		And yeah, we'll see you next time.
		Appreciate it.

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