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 Hey, welcome to Don Talk for Thursday, November 5th, 2026.

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 Hey everybody, welcome to Don Talk. It's Thursday, November 5th. We have, let me get this thing

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 in my ear so I don't feel like I'm half deaf. There we go. I tell you these in-ear monitors

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 sometimes i just don't know if i'm uh i'm equipped for that anyway i want to i want to thank you for

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 being here um you're probably not here while i'm doing this live but i'm trying out a new format a

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 new show basically it's a rebranding of it's not even a rebranding it's just it's a concept i had

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 several years ago and i'm attempting it yet again yet again which one of these is the volume for

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 this one it's not that hello hello hello oh there it is it was a little too loud a little too loud

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 so yeah we had an interesting week this week um i don't know if you if you were aware but we had

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 this little thing called the midterm elections that happened tuesday and i am not one to gloat

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 because in all my years on this spinning green and blue globe that we're on,

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 I have discovered that any time I let myself gloat,

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 karma has a tendency to come and bite me in the ass for some reason.

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 But I'm going to gloat just a tiny, tiny little bit

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 because there are a lot of there's a lot of firsts that happened after the the midterm

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 elections and you know we still have a we still have a handful of races that need to be called

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 alaska we may not know anything about alaska until honestly around the 18th of november

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 they've got rank choice voting which i 100 support those who don't support it they don't

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 support it for one of two reasons one they don't understand it two they can't cheat at it

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 so that whole kerfuffle out there with dan sullivan and daniel j sullivan and the you'll have to

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 you'll have to pardon me but i cannot remember the the democratic uh candidate's name right now

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 There's just a few hundred votes between her and the Republican incumbent, who is Dan Sullivan.

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 And quite honestly, you know, the Republicans, especially Donald Trump, everybody was going apeshit crazy over the fact that there was another guy on the ballot with the same-ish, very similar name.

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 And the funny thing is, if you've seen any of the news reports, they actually had people, Alaskans, is that how you say it? Alaskans? They had Alaskans looking at the actual ballot and questioning, could you not understand this?

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 And they were like, yeah, it's perfectly fine to understand it, which I thought was interesting because it clearly says Dan or Daniel Sullivan, I can't remember which one, and in parentheses, Republican incumbent.

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 So unless you don't know anything about your elected officials in your state, then it would reason that that's clear.

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 It's rather clear.

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 So anyway, there was concern.

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 You know, those on the left, and I pride myself as being someone that's left of center,

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 they were confident that they'd be able to flip the house.

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 Less confident about flipping the Senate.

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 And holy bejesus, have they flipped the house?

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 I am looking at a report.

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 It's currently 3.56 p.m., almost 4 p.m. on this Thursday afternoon, November 5th, 2026.

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 In good old South Central Georgia, 251 seats in the House.

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 They gained, as of right now, gained 39 seats.

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 39.

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 It's 251 Democrats, 155 Republican.

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 You needed 218 to, quote, win.

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 But they also flipped the frickin' Senate.

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 They gained seven seats.

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 We were all concerned that even if we got the 51st seat, it might as well have just been 50.

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 And then, of course, J.D. Vance, being the vice president and a Republican, would have broken the tie on anything.

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 And the reason why is because of the asshole Fetterman.

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 Because with him, you never know which way the wind's going to blow.

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 There's a very good chance that he would vote against any Democratic initiative and vote with the Republican Party.

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 He might as well switch parties, honestly.

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 But as it stands right now, and there's still the potential to gain another seat or two in the Senate,

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 the Democrats have the majority.

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 It would have been fantastic for them to get over 60,

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 but that was just not going to happen.

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 I don't even think there was enough races to run

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 to be able to get that, honestly.

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 I can't say that for sure, so don't quote me on that.

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 So we have a Senate at 54 Democrats, 44 Republicans.

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 We currently have a House, 251 Democrats, 155 Republicans.

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 And I've heard, I've seen or heard some rumblings that there's the potential that they could get to like 255 or something.

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 I'm like, okay, that's great.

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 But we are where we are.

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 And right now, I think that's good enough, right?

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 So I'm looking at the Guardian.

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 Democrats flipped four more House seats, taking lead to nearly 100.

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 The Democrats have flipped another four House seats, extending their lead over the Republicans.

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 In the lower chamber, 251 to 155, with 29 races left to call.

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 Here are the latest results.

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 Arizona's 6th Congressional District U.S. Marine veteran Democrat Joanna Mendoza beat two-term Republican incumbent Juan Kismani.

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 And if I screw up any of these names, I apologize to all of those folks.

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 Colorado's 5th Congressional District, Democrat Jessica Killian, a former Army captain,

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 beat first-term incumbent Republican Jeff Crank,

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 who was criticized by relatives of Virginia Guilfrey for refusing to meet them.

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 Is she the one from the Epstein files? I think she may be.

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 North Carolina's ninth congressional district, Democrat Richard Ojeda beat two-term Republican incumbent Richard Hudson in a seat that has been red for the last 14 years.

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 Ohio's 10th congressional district, Democrat Christina Knickerbocker beat veteran Republican congressman Mike Turner.

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 So we're still waiting for a number of closely watched contests to be called.

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 These, of course, include the final two U.S. Senate races, Mississippi and Alaska.

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 Those are tight.

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 Mississippi, I did not know this, but Mississippi is kind of interesting.

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 They don't allow automatic recounts.

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 You know, here in Georgia, I think if it's within one and a half percent, you get an automatic recount.

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 But I think they're going to have to pay some money.

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 Because quite honestly, I've been getting, this gentleman in Mississippi, I've actually

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 been getting texts about asking for money.

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 So I'm thinking, okay, number one, I don't live in Mississippi, but I get it.

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 You know, sometimes we want to, we look at the whole and we want to make sure that we

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 can get as many Democrats in there as possible so we support other Democratic candidates in

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 There's no law against it.

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 Last time I looked, I think, God, there must be like a 50 to 75 vote difference, maybe 100.

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 It's tight, tight, tight, tight.

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 But in both of these scenarios, Democratic candidates are hoping to oust Republican incumbents to bolster their new majority in Congress.

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 As I've said, Democrats have a 54-seat majority.

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 We're still waiting on those results.

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 For Alaska, it literally could be November 18th.

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 Democrats have flipped another eight House seats,

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 We've already talked about that.

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 Democrats are leading Republicans 251 to 155.

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 Twenty-nine races left to call,

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 as a number of GOP representatives felt the weight of the blue wave

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 that has swept their party out of power.

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 We're still waiting on some key House results in toss-up districts

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 where Republican incumbents are hoping to hang on.

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 And, of course, these include Lauren Boebert

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 in Colorado's fourth congressional district.

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 I'd already seen some reporting that she had lost, but maybe it's just really, really, really close.

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 Virginia Fox in North Carolina's 5th, Jeff Van Drew in New Jersey's 2nd.

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 Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt's hoping to keep South Carolina's 1st Congressional District red.

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 This is the seat the GOP firebrand Nancy Mace currently holds.

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 Nithya Rahman, I guess I said that name right, was elected to serve as the mayor of Los Angeles,

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 barely getting a narrow win over incumbent Karen Bass.

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 It was in a major shakeup in local politics.

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 It's going to reflect the growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the city.

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 She was a progressive urban planner that had served on L.A.'s city council since 2020.

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 She caused a stir when she entered the race earlier this year,

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 hours before the filing deadline and shortly after endorsing Bass for re-election.

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 And her campaign was once viewed as a long shot.

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 armie dylan a key ally of donald trump has resigned from her position leading the justice

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 department civil rights division in a statement blanche said today he accepted her notice

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 dylan is the first high-ranking justice department official to leave after the midterm elections in

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 which democrats took control of congress democrats are expected to use that power to aggressively

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 investigate executive agencies including the justice department this is this goes back to

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 something that a video I put out on my Instagram account. I believe it was yesterday. I caution

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 the Democratic Party to not squander the opportunity that they have been given,

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 not squander the opportunity that the American people have given them for the next two years.

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 I realize that there are people out there that they want to go balls to the wall and as soon as the Democratic majorities take hold in January, they want to impeach Trump, they want to impeach Hegseth, they want to impeach that person, investigate that, etc., etc., etc.

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 Okay, that's one way. But here's the thing. The American people did not make the decision to put the Democratic Party in control of the House and the Senate so they could spend their time going after Trump, going after his cronies.

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 Does he need a check on his power?

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 Hell yeah, he does.

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 And I'm not against that.

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 They need to just do it the right way.

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 And there's going to be some instances where I know they're going to have their oversight committee and they're going to subpoena people.

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 They do need to do some investigations.

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 But first and foremost, they don't need to let that blind them to the fact that the reason

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 why they are there is probably one simple word, a word that Donald Trump was trying

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 to convince everybody was a Democratic hoax all the way back to 2025, affordability.

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 And there's probably a handful of ways that they need to tackle the affordability issue.

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 Number one is put the kibosh on Trump's, some would call it illegal war, but it's definitely unethical, war against Iran.

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 Iran was not in the middle of making a nuclear weapon.

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 We already had a great deal with them that the Obama administration had negotiated, of which Trump tore up in his first term because, of course, nobody makes a deal better than me.

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 It wasn't his deal.

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 So, of course, he couldn't.

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 He couldn't have it.

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 Plus, he hates Obama.

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 But that right there, that entire scenario needs to be curtailed or kiboshed.

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 We need to get out.

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 Even if we have to leave with our tails between our legs like we did in Vietnam.

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 This is Trump.

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 Trump never went to Vietnam.

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 Mr. Bonespurs himself never went to Vietnam.

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 Never was in the military.

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 Well, now he's got his own personal Vietnam.

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 And if we need to leave, we need to get out and we need to suffer the consequences of what he's done to our country, the Strait of Hormuz, because it was it was completely open and free before he started this mess.

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 And I'm not sure there's a way for us to get out of this conflict and have that open back up the way it was before.

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 I would like to think we can figure a way out, but I'm not sure.

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 But that's the reason why gasoline and diesel fuel are so damn high.

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 Has nothing to do with the Democrats.

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 Those on the right love, love, love, love to claim that the average price of a gallon of gasoline

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 was way higher under Biden than it is now.

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 That is a lie.

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 There are a lot of things during the Biden administration

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 you'll see that he did the very best that he could.

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 He brought the inflation down.

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 I think we peaked at like 9% or 10%,

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 and it was all due to COVID and all the extra money

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 that was flooded into our economic system

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 to help keep everybody afloat, right?

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 That's just the way inflation works.

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 And with the CHIPS Act and all these other things, the Inflation Reduction Act that the Biden administration passed and signed in the law, when Trump took over, as he did the first term, he took over a pretty good economy.

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 And then he trashed the shit out of it, just like he did during the first term.

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 I believe there's a possibility that if COVID had not happened, Trump probably would have gotten his second term in 2020.

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 But just like the scenario we have now with affordability, where diesel is six and seven dollars a gallon, depending on I think there may even be some places as high as 10.

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 I can't vouch for that, so don't quote me on that.

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 is because our Republican governor, and I will give kudos to Brian Kemp,

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 even though he is a Republican governor, he has done some pretty good things for the state of Georgia.

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 He's also stood up to some of the bullshit and shenanigans of Trump and the Trump administration.

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 I'm not saying I would have ever voted for him because I just can't bring myself to vote for a Republican anymore.

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 I haven't voted Republican since George W. Bush.

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 I was always a Republican voter up until George W. Bush.

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 I did not vote for his second term.

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 I completely flipped parties from his first term to his second term, and I've been voting Democratic ever since.

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 But Kemp actually has been a pretty good governor for the state of Georgia.

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 And the fact that he has suspended the $0.33, $0.33, $0.33, $0.34 gasoline tax here in the state of Georgia has helped tremendously.

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 He's done this before.

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 That's the only reason why our gasoline is not $4 and $5 a gallon around here.

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 But that means that the state coffers are taking a beating on some of that.

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 But these are the things that the Democrats need to, in my opinion, they need to focus on affordability.

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 They need to focus on getting a handle on our health care system here in the United States and health insurance.

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 And they need to do something about ICE.

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 And even connected to that, we need a comprehensive plan of figuring out our immigration policies and getting this crap straightened out.

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 Because the United States is as powerful and full of wealth, not just in money, but in diversity and intelligence and all of these things that make this nation what it is.

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 It's all due to immigration.

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 None of us are originally from here.

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 None of our descendants are originally from here.

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 And what I mean by that is, well, the only ones that can truly, truly, truly say that their descendants are originally from here are the Native Americans.

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 We can claim that we've got descendants that go back to the original 13 colonies.

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 But I'm making a different distinction here.

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 We came over here and we took this land, all right?

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 It's what people do.

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 It's what we as humans apparently do.

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 and bring their experiences and a little bit of their culture.

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 It's what makes the United States great.

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 It would be nice if he were removed, but then again, I don't know who the hell Trump would try to put forth in his position.

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 Do what the American people voted you into those seats to do.

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 this was not a vote for democratic policies or a platform or anything like that.

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 $4 plus gasoline per gallon, $6 plus on diesel fuel per gallon.

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 Groceries, two years ago, I had a target of $150 per week for my groceries for a family

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 be under the 150 we're picking up our groceries tomorrow i'm already over 200 and it's nothing

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 going to be a little bit on the higher side, but even your 93% lean beef, your 80-whatever,

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 Something that's happened here, of course, in Georgia, and I was actually shocked.

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 We have not had a Democratic governor for the state of Georgia since the early 2000s, when basically, I think it was a, I want to say it was a 2002 election, and, oh God, I'm having a brain fart, I can't remember who it was, it wasn't Nathan Deal, it was, you'll just have to forgive me,

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 This is the one I was talking about.

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 If Cologne wins, it would be an astonishing upset in the state that Donald Trump carried by 22 points in 2024.

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 The Democrats have not won a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi since 1982.

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 I mean, the Republican Party slash MAGA, you might as well just say it's MAGA.

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 They've got their own issues, but sometimes the Democrats just can't get out of their own damn way.

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 There's also the thing about the Supreme Court.

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 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is not rushing to retire despite an election result

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 that could make replacing him much harder for Donald Trump.

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 the 76-year-old justice plans to remain on the court through its current term,

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 giving Trump a possible chance to nominate a replacement before the Democrats take over.

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 But Alito had already made his intentions clear.

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 I don't like him, but I'm glad he's got enough foresight to do his damn job and not kowtow to Trump so that Trump can continue to stack the Supreme Court.

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 He's too busy with his golden ballroom and reflecting pool and his triumphant arch and all this other nonsense golf course because nothing says that I'm going to solve the affordability crisis for the American people quite like cutting down several hundred trees and spending a shit ton of money for a golf course.

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 All right, well, I think that's where I'm going to wrap it up.

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 Just wanted to jump on here and do a quick little deal with Don Talk.

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 We have a text number.

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 It's also, you can leave voicemail, 229-520-5957.

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 really didn't make any sense to even worry about it. But you can shoot me a text or call it and

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 water that your boat is floating on though. Anyway, that's it for Don Talk. Take care of

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