Who Is This Jerry Mandering?

Democrat states have made their living from gerrymandering their own states and now that Republicans are doing it in Texas, Dems are crying about it.

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Tuesday morning, fifth day of August. I'm West Thanks for
joining me. I hope everybody had a great start to
the school year. I think most of the kids are
in school. There's a couple in my neighborhood that I
saw that were not in school yesterday during the day
when they probably should have been. But I'm guessing that

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whatever school they go to just hasn't started yet. So
I'm aware that there are some and this isn't just
one of those clown he's kind of a clown, but
not just one of those complete clowns in the neighborhood.
He's somebody who goes to a good school. I'm assuming
that they just haven't started yet. And I know that
there are a few that are getting started later this week,

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and maybe even some getting started as late as Monday
in our area I've mentioned yesterday. I know we got
people that listen all over the country. We've got friends
that at least one whose kid goes back to school
after Labor Day, So you know, depending on where you are,
but if you're in an area where school started back

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this week. I hope you're a kid had a good
first day yesterday. Both of mine did. No complaints, no
real drama, nothing too exciting. I do know that there
are a couple of schools, I guess in the Muskogee
County area that have now the metal detectors and the
entrance way. A couple of them apparently were active yesterday.

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I didn't know that they would be active. I know
there's some that are going to be becoming active as
we get through this first week of school, and it
will have an impact on time getting in the door,
getting in the building, getting the kids in. I may
have to open schools a little bit earlier. I know
that there's a certain amount of time, there's a window
that they allow for kids to get into the school.

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But it is what it is. And sadly, this is
again part of our theme for yesterday, that this is
who we've allowed ourselves to become capable of and what
we have to do. But hey, I'll take more reassurances
as long as I know that the schools are doing
what they can. I like it. I like the idea

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of being able to do the maximum amount of things
and having someone there to police it and also make
sure that people aren't coming into the schools. All those things.
These are the things that we've talked about for a
long time. Why don't they do these things? Why aren't
we doing these things? And I know that there are
some statistics that go in both directions when it comes

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to metal detectors and things at schools. And you get
some people who want it to just be politics and
let it be a gun grab and say, why would
you do these things? We could just take all the guns.
And you know, I was very briefly at one of
the shopping malls here at Peachtree Mall over the weekend,

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and I was ex the mall and I don't go
into that mall very often, and I was going in
for a very specific purpose. And I was leaving and
someone was running inside and they said, oh, there's been
a gunshot of some kind. And I thought what. And
I saw people running to their cars and it was
a bit of a pandemonium outside. It was chaotic, and

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I said, well, I kind of assessed the situation saw
that it seems safe for me to be lined to
my vehicle and leave, which is what I did. And
I don't know where the specific shooting took place. I
saw some posts later that said there was some sort
of a fight that broke out and then a gun
came out. I smelled what certainly smelled like gunpowder in

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the air. I don't know where the shooting took place,
but I was told that it was inside the mall
or near the mall, and I was told which store
it was near. All I can tell you is, again,
this is what we've allowed ourselves to become. This is
what's going on, and the less we do to try
to take preventive measures, the less we do to actually

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enforce the laws prosecute people that break the laws. I
think we have this weird thing that we've been doing
for a while now where we just kind of say
people can just do whatever. We're not going to prosecute them.
We're not going to actually hold them accountable for what
they've done. We're not gonna, you know, we can't put
them in jail. You can't just leave them in jail.

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What are they gonna do when they're in jail. They're
gonna be in jail, They're gonna be punished for what
they've done. But we have this mindset now where you know,
raping somebody and then you just get out and that's it. Oh,
they came in the country illegally. They came from hardships.
They came from countries where it's okay to do what
they did, to have a relationship with someone under age.

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That's where they come from. Imagine trying to use that
defense for just about anybody else, right, I mean, we
went through this a cultural shift that took place when
you know, just a few generations back, when you could
be fourteen years old and get married. You know, that

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was something that could happen, and you could get married
to a twenty year old man and be a fourteen
year old girl, and that was the tone of society
back then. But a lot of people don't go back
and look at that with anything other than you, Oh
that Jerry Lee Lewis, and you believe that, and you go,
I mean, sounds horrible by today's standards. You got to

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put yourself kind of in that tone of when it happened.
To say, am I saying it's not terrible by today's standards.
I'm just pointing out the fact that you have to
look at it from the lens of the time when
it happened and then say, well, that's when it happened.
We do that with we're supposed to do that with everything.

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Doesn't mean we're going to go back and go well
it should be that way. Now, that's not what anybody's saying.
People just want to judge what people did fifty sixty
one hundred, two hundred years ago to today's standards. But anyway,
how about we just judge it from the standards of
if you break the law and you get prosecuted for
breaking the law, and there's going to be some kind of punishment,

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and if you've come into the country illegally and you've
broken the law, you get sent back where you came from.
You know, I mean, I understand people are having a
hard time grasping this concept that you know, there's people
in the country illegally and that that itself is breaking
the law. They don't understand that. But anyway, that's not
even what we'll talk about today. I want to talk

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about these this jerrymandering situation we got going on as
we have. Texas is working on doing some redistricting. The
left says that they're doing it because Trump wants more
seats in the House, and he wants the redistricting to
be done. And this is supposed to be something that

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only happens right after a census. There should only be
redoing the districting basing based on that. A few things
to process here, first of all, and we know that
you have the legislators in Texas that left, they got
out of Texas, and then that's when Governor Abbott said, well,
I'm gonna have them arrested. I'm going to prosecute them

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because they're supposed to be there. They're obstructing us being
able to do our business from a government standpoint. So
I just a couple of things to go with this,
and we can go into a few layers of this.
But the first thing I'd like to point out is
keep in mind we have Democrat legislators that left Texas
in the name of standing up for what's right and

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preventing the actual government of the state of Texas to
conduct business. And this comes after the This comes right
after we had a sitting member of Congress House of Representatives,

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Eric Swalwell, who is one of those people who is
basically saying that he was sent home along with like
the the on a federal level. Congress was not able
to do business. They were sent home because they were

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trying to He says that Congress was trying to keep
anybody from talking about Jeffrey Epstein, and they were all
sent home. And he made all these videos. We talked
about these last week, made all these videos where it
was him, you know, lifting weights. I should be at
work right now, but instead I'm pumping iron at the gym,

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or you know, I should be at right now, and
stead I'm in a pool playing basketball. That's what you
do when you're an adult man. You get in a
pool and play basketball by yourself and make videos of it.
Now that I got anything against playing pool basketball, I'm
a fan. I like it, don't really do it by

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myself and make videos of myself doing it. But anyway,
it's very Uncle Rico, isn't it that aside? We had
that as the battle cry, if you will, for someone
who some think maybe one of the potential they call him.
I think it's ridiculous, but they call him one of

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the possible rising stars for the Democrat Party for the
next presidential cycle. And this is someone who was critical
of saying we were sent home and we're not there
doing work. And then Democrats in Texas say, well, we're
going to run away so that we're not going to
do work. So that's interesting. That's one aspect of this.

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I've heard a few Democrats also point out on a
national level, just say, hey, we tried to implement a
few years ago a legislation that would stop gerrymandering. Period.
It's redistrict and if you don't know, it's just redistricting
a state, and it does start to it's supposed to

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make adjustments for population changes. God knows, we've had population
changes over the last few years. Because while illegals that
come into the country aren't able to vote, or they're
not supposed to be able to vote, they come into
the country, but they do count when it comes to representation,
so they go to a district or they go to

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an area, and it does end up helping some I
think California is set to gain two or three more seats,
even though people are leaving California, but there's the possibility
that California could pick up some seats because of that.
And I think New York is close to picking up

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one based on the number of migrants that are there.
It's an absurd thing to begin with, because they do count.
And that's one of the reasons that this has been
allowed to take place. It's one of the reasons that
they let people just come into the country that and
they know that whenever at some point we have this

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decree and they say, you know what, we're going to
just allow them to stay. We're going to give them
a path to citizenship, and about eighty percent of the
time they end up voting for Democrats. That's the other reason.
So we have this redistricting that they want to do
in Texas. And yes, there was an opportunity at one

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point for Democrats push legislation that we're going to stop
doing this, We're not gonna do this anymore. And Democrats
all voted for it, Republicans all voted against it. It
didn't pass. Now some Democrats are saying this, I got
to make that clear on the explanation of what I
just gave. That comes from Democrats and they say that
that's how it went down. So when states that have

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a long history of ridiculous redistricting gerrymandering, they're all blue states.
They're all blue states for the most part, And I'm
talking about the ones that have absurd levels of it,
places where Republicans get forty to forty seven percent of

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the vote in the state but only have like twenty
percent representation in the state, and it's because of this redistricting,
this gerrymandering. And you look at some of the states
and you can see where like the blue heavy areas
are or the red heavy areas are. But most of

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the states that are notoriously good at this. But can
I say good? Because this is something that if you
do it correctly, you can control more seats in the
House of Representatives. California, Illinois, Oregon, Massachusetts. We're talking about

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states that have been able to manipulate this for such
a long time and then all of a sudden they
got it to a point where they went, Okay, now
we're going to stop it. Why would Republicans vote to
stop it when they could see the wave coming that
they were going to get an opportunity to try to
course correct some of this? Is it something that is

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a ridiculous thing when you just hear about it on
the surface, Sure it sounds Bad's like, oh my gosh,
they're trying to But we don't hear about it when
the left does it, we hear about it when the
right does it, and we go, oh, my gosh, this
is terrible, what a horrible thing to happen. I can't
believe this is something that people really do. But when
the left does it, it's you know, under cover of night,

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very little conversation about it. Maybe one or two news
networks talks about it, but for the most part, it
just happens and that's it. So yeah, I would say,
based on this whining explanation of but we tried to
stop it, it's like trying to stop a game when
you're ahead and I given the other team a chance

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to try to come back, right, isn't that what that
sounds like. So yes, it's a mess in Texas, and
eventually it's going to happen. They can try to be
heroic and feel like they're doing something heroic with it,
but in the end, what's going to happen is what's
going to happen, and Republican are probably going to pick

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up seats in Texas. Of course, you've had Gavin Newsom
say oh and do the same thing in California make
you lose some So in the end we'll see how
it all plays out, but it's a bad look for
a party that's struggling already. It's a bad look because
right now Democrats are losing, they're continuing to lose, and

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I understand they want to hold on to whatever seats
they can hang on to because I think one of
the seats up they could be lost is Jasmine Crockett seat,
and that's one of their people. They think, oh, she's
going to be a star, even though she's been anything,
but she's been quite the clown. So of course they
want to dig in and try to stop it from happening.
And they're trying to call attention to it and say,

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look at what these Republicans are doing. Just days really after,
Eric Swallwell says they won't let me work, They're not
letting us conduct business, and that was his battle cry
for these Republicans aren't letting us do business, and I'm
trying to work. And then less than a week later,

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or about a week later, Democrats just bail on the
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