Rick Wilson & Kate Compton Barr

Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds and Congressman Troy Nell's won't seek reelection. We have such a great show for you today. The Lincoln Projects owner Rick Wilson joins us to discuss the numerous people in Trump's White House who are doing crimes. Then we'll talk to can't win victory Funds Kate Compton Barr about why she's a Democrat running in a Republican

As we know, there was a horrible shooting of two National Guards troops in DC. I'm going to shock you here, but the Trump administration is looking for someone to blame as always. But you know what's great. They brought out Christy Nome with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press to fed this all and can you guess how well it went?

I think you're going to play some sound now.

When we've at individual under this administration, we know who they are, why they are here and going through that. Unfortunately this individual, that entire process happened under Joe Biden's watch.

Well, but just to be very clear, We're going to go back to what happened on the Trump administration's watch. He was extensively vetted in order to serve alongside US service members as a part of the CIA trained Strikeforce. But in terms of what happened on the Trump administration's watch, just to be very clear, what vetting did the Trump administration do before giving this suspect asylum.

The vetting process, Kristen happens when the person comes into the country, and Joe Biden completely did not vet any of these individuals, did not vet this individual waited until he got into the United States, and then that application for asylum was opened under the Joe Biden administration when he was the president in the White House and allowed that to go forward with the information that they provided.

At the Department of home that we are bringing new information on vetting, new information to use, such as what do they do on Facebook, what do they do on TikTok and other social media platforms, and who are they talking to? Who are their conversations with and we use their biometric data information now to track to make sure they are who they say they are and they're here for their right intentions.

So we are going to talk about some of the steps the presidents taking, but it's just want to be very clear about this, because his asylum was approved in April of this year on the Trump administration's watch, So just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request?

Yeah, the vetting process all happened under Joe Biden's administer.

Was he vetted when.

He was wanted asylum?

Are you saying he wasn't vetted? Vetting?

Is vetting is happening when they come into the country, and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden's administration.

Oops, whats I mean? Look, I liked it when they said, well what about with the court orders? And she said, I give all the answers, I give all the decisions, I do all of it. So here's the good news, these people are morons. Truly, here's the bad news, these people are criminals.

Yeah.

It does not inspire confidence at all when you literally just stowwall at interview with the world's stupidest talking points and just do it in a folks the accent that makes us Sarah Palin sound fancy.

Sarah Palin is like an Albert Einstein compared to Secretary Christy.

I don't think that that's too far off, So Moley, another feature of the Trump administration loves freeing criminals like up to socializing things these days. This is like passion number two.

I feel like, here's the deal, my man. Donald Trump loves a pardon. He loves a pardon. He likes to pardon. He pardons all the time. He's very into partning. And why does he love to pardon? Why not? You know, I can't imagine that there's a reason that Donald Trump loves to pardon so much that wouldn't be totally legit, because I know Donald Trump is always the paragon of honesty and truth. So I assume his love of pardons just comes from his love of being a philanthropist.

Yeah, definitely, not to say Eddie, what on our side could do anything they want?

Certainly not think about when he pardoned everyone's favorite member of Congress, George Santos, who did lots of crimes, and he pardoned him because Donald Trump loves freedom.

I think he missed Santos' Twitter presence where he says really nasty insults the people all day, and he just wanted that back.

I think he wanted George Santos to be able to get back to his work with orphans and his philanthropy. Another volleyball guy, real stand up guy.

Speaking of stand up guys, the FDA is just filled with them ever since RFK brought in a bunch of kooks and wacos and they're now planning to change vaccine approval processes.

I think it's worth realizing that we were just talking about Secretary Christy, my favorite, and then we were talking about Whiskey Pete, another genius operator. But it's worth remembering the person who will ultimately have caused the most deaths besides Marco Usa. What's that Rubio and Elon take from the poor Mosque is ultimately going to be my man. RFK swims in Rock Creek Park candidate junior. So let's discuss they plan to change vaccine approval process, claiming that

Read, Sabi.

One of the things we have to always decipher is when Trump's trying to say something stupid to not talk about the Epstein files and his other failures as a president, and then when there saw that's really stupid, but also gets that a greater thing that they're going to try to do with this administration, and that is his new aggression where he says all of Joe Biden's autopen signed executive orders are all canceled out.

Yeah, go find the picture of Donald Trump in mar A Lago this weekend. I think that Tim Miller tweeted it out. He does not look great. He does not look great, but he's very worried about Joe Biden's autopen pardons. He can't do that, you know, Like, my man's just truth in it out right. He's truth socializing again and again and again, trying to find something that I'll stick.

Rick Wilson Welcome.

Back, Hey Molly, how are you. How's your Thanksgiving?

Just the best? Who doesn't love Paul Dray?

Absolutely we serve Duck this year.

Yeah, because Turkey is terrible. Let's start with a man called Steve. It turns out that being from a wealthy real estate dynasty does not necessarily make you a genius negotiator.

A negotiator.

Yeah, No, I mean, look, I think I think the most probably the ugliest, most devastating piece.

Folks.

You if you think you have a calibration on how corrupt this administration is, go read the Washington Post piece from this weekend on Witkoff and Kushner and Trump who do not care about Ukraine or America's security. They're trying to make personal financial deals with Russia. The classes of course betraying Ukraine, but they want to make these financial

It's dark.

Also important to remember that Witkoff is also negotiating with a guy who is also not serving in the federal government, my man Jared Kushner.

And look, Molly, what we've got here is Kushner and Witkoff and this clown show with Marco. They have now in order to make separate side financial deals, taken the bait with a Russian written, Russian design plan to end the Ukraine War. Oh it's going to end, all right, It's going to end with Russian troops and tanks in the streets in Kiev. And so these guys have shown us now abundantly clearly they are not about NATO American

And I think it's important to see that not only are they trying to cash in, but they're also just completely incompetent like Russia. You know, there's leaked transcripts of the phone calls with the Russian and Russian minister trying saying like this is how you negotiate with.

Trump, when wik Coff is on the phone saying to the Russians, here's how you manipulate Trump, Here's how you get Trump. Here's how you make Trump bark like a dog. I'm sorry, call me old fashion and traditionalist, but that strikes me as sort of treasony.

And also just incompetent, and that I think the wit coough incompetence really does. You know, they're corrupt, but they're awesome incompetent, and.

So right, you can be corrupt and stupid. It's it's a Venn diagram that overlaps very neatly with these people.

And by the way, thank god, because these guys were good at what they did, we would not have these, you know, leaks of the transcripts, leaks of the you know, we would not have the kind of reporting we're starting to see coming out. And by the way, think about if we had a mainstream media like we had in twenty sixteen, think about of the reporting we'd be getting every day, Tron the documents.

And now they're so afraid to cover a story. They're so afraid to stand up. They're terrified every minute of the damn day that they're going to end up on the new White House social media hate list.

Right, which was offline for a little bit today, which I think is a great metaphor for this admin.

It is a singularly perfect metaphor for this administration, because none of these people, when it comes to capability and competence of anything. Even their trolling is bad.

Right right right, you know, even.

Their trolling attempts are blame.

That gets us to this next story, which is in the New York Times today, which if you haven't read it, it's rat avoid, which is my man, everyone's favorite, and by by everyone, I mean no. One's favorite David David Sacks all in podcast bro, crypto king and also kleptocrat.

Yes, David Sachs, who is a man who is never not wrong. David Sax is wrong this ratio. Look, I get things wrong all the time, but David Sax is wrong. This ratio is cosmic. It is he is beyond the valley of human understanding. How much of a wrong dipshit he is about everything.

Except using his government connections to make money, and in which that good about that?

Yeah, pretty freaking good at that.

This is a guy who you know, Susie Wiles even said in that he re good piece. And it's like Susie Willer's like, no, you can't host this under the brand of your podcast.

Yeah, and does government.

Employee for Fox sake.

David's ax is basically a sort of mini Elon Right. Elon comes in, he does government deals, he slices and dices things he doesn't like, and that's what this is, except is smaller but more corrupt, but also more annoying for any numberle reasons.

Look, he's also the guy who is in charge of in the White House crypto and AI. And we know two things about this right now. We know that crypto is on a free fall right now, But I was told it was going to be the best thing since prepared mustard for people and our economy. Not so much apparently.

And the other thing.

He's doing is AI, which is increasingly people are figuring it out. The reason we're doing AI is to fire everybody.

Right. Well, that in itself is bad, but even worse is that it seems so far what we've seen is that it just it has, as far as I can tell, almost no use except like sloppy photos and bad search.

Well.

Look, I mean, we're only going to invest one point five trillion dollars right through the government, by the way, as what helps Sam Waltman, that's what it does.

Yeah, imagine if they spend that money on like healthwarding healthcare.

Fuck healthcare.

I mean, yes, we spend that money in healthcare, but like reporting or.

Like imagine Molly, if they spent that money in education and just straight up education for American kids, right, I mean, imagine that for one second.

You know, all the arts, all.

These all these studies that are coming out this week, Like you know, people no longer view college as a worthhole investment. Well, of course they don't, because now you know, you're talking about spending one hundreds of thousand of dollars and AI is about to suck out the very life out of every job sector that that doesn't involve, like turning a wrench or wiring a circuit.

I think that some of this sayah stuff is really exaggerated and so like, because I see a lot of shit that's just.

Your lips, for God's ear. But I still have very graves.

Let's move on to whiskey Pete, my.

Man, whiskey, love our boy Pete.

It turns out that active alcoholism is not I say, this is someone who's been sober since I was eighteen, not not the best qualification for doing.

You know, I think, I think there are a lot of people who have held that that is the case for some time now, that being a you know, five a day drunkard is not where you want to be. If you're any secretary of defense. Having known a few secretaries of defense, they generally are are men of probity and discipline, and they are not crazy people who spend more time on social media than they do working to defend the country.

But that's whiskey Pete. Right there, let's just talk about this.

He basically tweeted that he does war crimes.

Fucking you.

The answer was, I do war crimes. Fuck you.

Yeah, what are you going to do about it?

But not so unlike Secretary Christie, who was on the Sunday shows saying, I defy court orders. What are you going to do about it?

Yeah? By the way, christinome appears to increasingly be made out of some sort of synthetic material.

I like it.

We don't criticize plastic surgery on this podcast.

Listen, everything everything in its place, and everything that's measure right.

But second Christie, she certainly had a lot of.

Basically, she basically came out today and was in a position of saying.

Oh, well, I don't care, right, I do work.

I do work crimes, right, Yeah. I mean the question of whether, like notice the SYMPI I do war crimes, whiskey Pete. What I mean the reporting we saw today is that after they had blown up the ship, they may have, whiskey Pete, I have ordered for them to go back and kill the two other people that they thought may or may not.

Here's the thing, and I'm just I'm just gonna summarize this right off the bat. Everything that they say about the President has never issued in an illegal order or the or the administration has never issued an illegal order that was an illegal order, that was an illegal order. There is no such thing an American military doctrine in the Uniform Code of Military Justice that says no quarter given just doesn't exist.

It doesn't exist. In fact, we are required.

And the example that is cited in the Manual of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in this country. The example that is cited says uses a case of what if people are on a boat and they're and they're injured and out of combat, and what do you do?

Then?

Are you allowed to kill them?

And the answer is.

No, except if you're whiskey p and then the answer is yes. Even though you're not in a war, right you've declared war whatever, right you're you're not in a war.

But you're in a you're in a imaginary conflict with supposed drug dealers who are allegedly taking these boats that have like a two hundred mile range, and they're they have to stop to refuel like seven times if they're gonna get to America. But you better you better shoot him out of the water right now, because obviously Donnie will be unhappy unless you do.

Let's talk about what else we're seeing here.

So we have this poll that came out today that was pretty fucking devastating. It was, I mean that the morning console you saw that.

Yep. Look, Trump's numbers are basically cratering. They're not coming back. There's nothing he is doing, and frankly, nothing he can do, Molly to make this thing change. It's not gonna change.

Right.

He has killed his presidency. Anybody who doesn't get that by now he's not paying attention. He has killed his presidency economically and politically and temperamentally and morally and from corruption, and it's all going downhill from here. It is never going to get any better. This is not a world where where people are gonna wake up tomorrow go You know, Trump's had a really chaotic one hundred and ninety seven

He's not. But it is interesting to me that we have gotten ourselves into such a moment here where there is so we have these these these cratering numbers we have. He's underwater on everything. Yep, Affordability continues to be this sort of.

The bleed underneath everything with him is affordable right for economy is kill laying him. And here's the funny part of this. You know that thing we always talked to in the first administration, like there wasn't a lot of adult supervision, but there were occasionally people who would go, sir, we can't take this argument because no one will buy it.

Right right now, when he.

Says the economy is the best it's ever been, were the hottest country in the world, every single person in that White House it says, yes, sir, you're absolutely right. There's no there's no dispute. Here's a poll that says so, and it's it's all a lie and they're doing him a massive disservice. But I'm here for that.

Can we do carry on, Susie Wiles?

Can we do a minute on what the problem the Trump's big problem here because it is you know well, but it's also he has an unreality problem. Right His polls are he says his polls are great. He says, his numbers are great. He says, the economy is great.

And that's why we definitely haven't released the numbers because they're so great. We can't release those numbers.

But it is like when you have problems like that, when you get into a sort of unreality problem which his president has, there's no way out of it. Explain to us what that is about.

Yeah, Molly, A big part of this problem is once you've decided, once you go all in on the bullshit, once you go all in on saying the sky is purple and not blue, you know, and Donald Trump, you know, weighs one hundred and seventy five pousies more fit than an AVC, and all the other garbage, all of that stuff. It eventually adds up to where when you have to tell the truth about something, even if it's something that's

None of that.

You can't bullshit people away from what's really happening in their actual lives.

One of the things Trump does, though, which I think is interesting and I'd love you to talk about, is he'll say, well, maybe we'll do a check, a dividend check for techs. Sure, right, there's no way he can do this, right, there's this one.

There is zero mechanism for doing this. And I will tell you one other thing that I've heard over the weekend from a person who was involved in the first administration. Yes, told me that when they did the COVID checks, the stimulus checks for COVID, that was one thing. There is no appetite in Congress now at all to do a fake tariff check. He could not get it through the House. There are enough conservatives in the House. And I mean that in the old way, the small sea way in

Which gets us to the Mike Johnson problem, which is Donald Trump does not have a Speaker of the House who is a Mitch McConnell. He doesn't even have god Kevin McCarthy. He's got a man who basically has At this point, we are in discharge petition paloozo, which means a discharge petition is when the House decides, fuck leadership, these are things we want to vote on.

We're just going to bring them up ourselves.

We're just going to deal what we want. I mean, really, it is. It is the end. It is the end of the traditional speakership, all right, it is. It is a It is a total departure from what used to be. You know, remember, the House already decided, at least the Republicans said they're not going to be a part of the traditional tripartite government of having a legislative branch. They already decided that, they already said.

Up their power because they let Trump and Russ Vought take over.

That is correct, And because of that, we're now in a position where no one in the House can say no to Trump. Right, No one in the House can say stop it, you're being crazy, or we won't do this.

But can I just say, no one in the House leadership can. But Republicans in the House who are not in leadership, with these discharge petitions, have very vocally said, we don't have a fuck what Donald Trump wants.

I mean, there's a number of people that are supporting these discharge petitions. Is rising, not falling, This is not It's not going to ever get any easier. And in terms of the spending to do the imaginary doze checks or the imaginary tariff checks would require them to pass a spending bill, as we have seen, they are not great at passing spending bills.

Right, No, now, they are very much not great at passing spending bills. I think that is a great a mild way of plate, a mild way of placing.

Rick Wilson, Maud John Fast. Will you come back?

I sure will.

Kate Compton Barr is the founder of Can't Win Victory Fund and a candidate in the Republican primary for North Carolina's fourteenth congressional district.

Welcome to Best Politics, Kate bar Time, Ollie, thanks for having me.

So glad to have you. You're running for Congress and you're definitely gonna win. Absolutely, explain to us what the play here is.

Yeah, So I'm running for Congress in North Carolina's fourteenth congressional district, which is super jerrymanderd.

Who's the candidate you're running against? And what beliefs does he have about women?

Go? Yeah, So I'm running against the Republican incumbent Tim Moore, and I'm actually running in the Republican primary against him. So I changed my letter in order to run in the election that counts in our jerrymandered district.

Tim is known as a bit of a woman.

I would say. He actually got sued for.

Alienation of affection by the husband of one of Tim's girlfriends. So I don't know, folks should go look at a picture of him and decide how they feel about that.

Oh yeah, can you explain what that is?

Yeah?

So, alienation of affection basically means stealing someone's spouse in the South and out to be a thing you can get sued for down here.

So embattled North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore to run for Congress. So he already had some problems back in twenty twenty three when he originally ran. So he's only one term congressman. Yeah, and he has a lot of ladies. I think it's fair we don't talk about the way men look here because we don't want to objectify them.

Yes, correct, not hot though not.

Twing to do the opposite of objectifying him. He is a one term congressman, but he was actually the leader of the state House, and he did about five terms in the North Carolina State House.

And there he met lots of women. Apparently he did meet a lot.

Yeah, that's him there he is, because we're not talking about appearance. I also should throw out there that he's shorter than me. Just I mean, you could be seven feet tall.

Yeah.

And also he could have a lot of game, do you guys.

I mean, he clearly has a lot of work in there.

Yeah, because the fact that he has multiple girlfriends, so much so that ex husbands are suing him.

Yes, this has hurt. He drives a maserati. So maybe it's about the car.

Oh does he come from money?

Well, he has been a government employee for quite some time, and I think he's just done really well for himself in the stock market.

If you know what I'm saying. Wow, Wow, all right, So here we go.

This is Tim Morris. You run against Tim Moore. He has been a member of Congress for a year and change. Why are you running in a Republican primary in an.

R plus eleven ish? Yeah? Tell us why?

So?

I don't know if y'all saw North Carolina got further jerrymandered, Like our state legislature drew new congressional maps a few weeks ago, and we already had jerrymandered maps, so they just like pushed it farther to try to get yet another congressional seat. And basically what that means for voters is that there's no competitive congressional district in our state when you look at the general election, and we have to run where the competition actually happens, which is in

What does your Republican primary look like? Is in an open primary? What just sort of explained us the math of your North Carolina primary, Because like I feel like things are so bad for Republicans. I'm going to caveat this, and anyone who listens podcast knows this. But things are so bad for Republicans that plays like this would seem insane could theoretically work.

Yeah, the math is really interesting here. So in North Carolina, we have a partially closed primary, meaning that folks who are registered Republican can vote in the Republican primary, and folks who are registered unaffiliated can pull the Republican primary ballot.

The primary is on March third.

And North Carolinians are pretty smart and so the majority of North Carolinians, especially in my district, are registered unaffiliated because they know how this game works. The district has five hundred and forty four thousand people in it, and our estimated win number, because primary turnout is so low, is thirty three thousand votes.

And that's where it gets kind of nuts.

And why someone like me who's running a completely progressive platform could win a Republican prime.

Wow, what would you need? You would need how many votes to win?

Thirty three thousand? Wow?

Yeah, so tell me how you do this. So the district is thirty eight percent unaffiliated. Plenty of those folks are left leaning. A tricky piece of all of this is I'm kind of a woman with no party because the Republican Party obviously is not supporting my candidacy in any way. And then I'm not a Democrat, so the Democratic Party is not supporting my candidacy in any way, which means we don't have any builtrastructure infrastructure.

But that's also kind of awesome.

So we're going to go deep old school grassroots, like Neighborhood Captains a lot of lit drops. We are going to do like holiday gift bundles with hot chocolate and a cookie in them and some vote for Kate Barr stuff attached to it as part of that lit drop. I'm hoping to do something called drunk dairymandering out in Gastonia.

What does that mean? In January? What does that mean?

Yeah?

Yeah, So drunk dairymandering is when we invite people who are funnier than me and musicians who are more talented than me to come and be awesome, and then in the middle of it, I get kind of drunk and try to give everyone the history of jerrymandering.

So it's like hiding vegetables inside a grilled cheese.

Right, Yeah, does that work? Yeah?

Surprisingly, people will show up for a thing like that.

No, I meant hiding the vegetables and the grilled cheese.

Oh, it works on one of my children, but not that, right, Yeah, my daughter is.

Way too smart for that. I mean my kids.

I'm not allowed to talk about them, but if I were, I would say that that has never worked. But also I've never cooked for them. So the question here is someone in a blue state of blue city far away, what's appetite like for this? So far, it seems pretty high.

I mean, I've been running this for two weeks now, so it's early days and this is going to be a real sprint. But we had a town hall on Wednesday night and I booked a room that would hold twenty five people and we ended up with fifty folks there. So people are really curious about what's going on. We're also in this moment, at least my opinion, like we've used to think about politics on this continuum from Democrat to Republican and people kind of fell somewhere on that.

I think that there's a lot of burn it down going on here. And let me rephrase that. I know, just anecdotally, that there's a lot that people are very mad, and that they are mad at Trump for sure, but that my man, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the crowd there, they are not you know, it's not twenty sixteen, it's not Orange Man bad retweet if truth.

Yeah, yeah, it's really true. And I mean, I frankly share that feeling.

I think a lot of us do.

Yeah, and we're but we're in an opportunity where, you know, we're at the start of something new and it feels like chaos because it is, but we also have the chance to build something better. That's what I would like to be a part of. That's what I want to keep thinking about. It's not about party affiliation. It's about what does a better version of democracy look like on the other side of this, And I think that's a really interesting conversation to be having with folks.

Yeah, I think that's right. So let's talk a little bit about how you do this. So you do you do grasps roots? You come from grassroots World. Tell us your background a little bit.

Yeah, So I have a master's in public health, studied all the commie community organizers, and then I worked in behavioral science and persuasive communication for twenty years. Most of that was remotely for the University of Michigan, trying to

And then for a little bit and there I ran a.

Company just because I have add tell us about your organization. Yes, So in twenty twenty four I ran first date Senate as in the general election as a Democrat, and I ran what we call it can't win campaign where I just announced that I lost the day that I filed. And that means it was like a protest against jerrymandering the whole way through because in a Jerrymander district. The outcome is decided before votes are cast. It's just about

I flipped some our.

Votes to D votes, about five hundred of them by our count and I outperformed other state Senate candidates. And we were like, who knew that telling everyone you were a loser would actually motivate them to show up for you. But it kind of made sense, right. These are people that have not had any politician show up for them historically. Knocked on one woman's door. She'd lived in that house for forty years, she's eighty years old, and no candidate

It was very sweet. It's name was Many.

My daughter's never forgiven me for not bringing that dogs. That's like I almost never forgive you. I know, it's terrible. I mean, my husband would have filed paper. So I did prioritize the family or the puppy, but it.

Was touch and go.

Yeah.

But because that campaign actually had positive outcomes for reaching people, we launched something called the Can't Win Victory Fund, which is a political nonprofit that supports candidates running in Jerrymander districts that it's really hard to get support when you run in one of those districts, whether it be from a party or donors or whatever, because you're going to lose and everybody's focused on the winnable races. But that's

So, do you have other places where you're doing that and what is that?

Yeah?

Right now we're focused in North Carolina because North Carolina filing deadline is December nineteenth, so that's coming right up. We have been asked to work in Texas and South Carolina and Tennessee. We had been asked to work in Utah, but their maps look a little better, so we're going to kind of see what happens there.

And we'll just keep growing, frankly, as much as we can afford to.

Can you do just like a minute or two on like when your primary is and how it would work? Yeah, Republican primary in North Carolina.

Yeah, so the Republican primary is March third, and Republican voters and unaffiliated voters will have the opportunity to register for me.

Is their prevent and just is it just you and the incombent? That's it so far?

Okay.

If there are Democrats who want to be able to vote for me, they have until February sixth to change their voter registration to unaffiliated and they can do that either on the North Carolina DMV website or down at their local Board of Elections. It's super easy. It takes about two minutes and you can change it right back on March fourth, if you want to.

Right, that makes sense. I mean, being affiliated doesn't necessarily matter, especially if it's so jerry mandard.

Yeah, Actually being unaffiliated is a powerful voter tool if you don't plan to run for office. If you want to run for office, you have to be registered to either party or go collect signatures. Is an unaffiliated But being unaffiliated is a powerful voting tool for folks in this state because you can pick your primary ballot, so you can vote on the ballot that's going to determine your leader.

You really have been in it with the jerrymandering. We talk a lot about the idea that maybe this ends up backfiring, that this ends up giving them a dummy mander. Does that feel possible?

It does, And especially in a couple of districts like the Texas twenty eighth and thirty fourth, which are like right on the southern border.

Places like that, right, the thing that still gives me pause.

This is like a feature of jerrymandering that we don't talk about very much. Jerrymandering reduces the number of competitive districts, which makes voter suppression more efficient and economical because you have fewer places that you have to suppress the vote to get the outcome you want.

And so as I look at the places that we have ice.

And border patrol going, those places perfectly align with districts where we would be concerned where rather not we those districts perfectly align with places that Donald Trump would be concerned Latino voters would vote Democrat. So the whole state of North Carolina, because we have a really competitive Senate race in twenty twenty six, is.

Ripe for voter suppression tactics.

We even saw just two days ago the Greenland, Greensboro AT and CA and T. The Guildford County Board of Elections is closing some of the early voting sites in the student communities and in communities of color, beding that they don't have resources, but really really right. So the thing that makes me worried about counting on dummy manders or on a blue tsunami is that, even if we have the will for that, I'm worried we're gonna have a lot of.

Voters who are afraid to go to the polls.

Kate Barr, I hope you'll come back.

I would love to. Thanks for having me.

No moment soon Rick Wilson, Well, I junk fast, you are an amazing assistant.

Now I'm reading these.

On On did a really good piece about this in The Times about how if the fancier you are, the less you have to know how to spell or punctuate, which.

By the way, I'm not unfancy, but spelling and punctuation is not Jeffrey Epstein's trunk suit.

It's not his milieu. But speaking of which, he did spend a lot. He wrote a lot of emails to a lot of people, including.

Steve, our good friend, Steve scablrd Bannon.

So let's talk about these emails.

Well, he's helping Steve do travel arrangements from Europe. He's giving Steve advice on dealing with European political leaders because Bannon wanted to set up his Nazi Hogwarts school over in Italy.

Oh right, remember Nazi Hogwarts. I forgot about that from season one.

Oh I remember it very well because I played a small role in killing Nazi Hogwarts.

Michell.

Tell the story another time, but.

Yes, heartwarming. But in this story, you have a lot of emails between the two of them. There's a lot of let's see, Bannon wrote, there's a crazy jihad against you. I've never seen anything like it, and I've seen a lot. Yeah, I don't know.

That there is you know what, I'm just going to say, Brother Steve has a lot more explaining to do than he would like to admit.

By the way, every time he saw Trump criticism, he said, it's apo, dude, I do this for a living. The pieces are dropping are deeply researched anyway, So go on.

Yeah, well, okay, Steve, thanks for talking the lingo, Steve. Strangely, these people on the right who are hyperactively obsessive about all things regarding any Democrat, even vaguely adjacent to Jeffrey Epstein, there's been a massive wailing silence when it comes to his sloppy Steve and his buddy Jeff who when you read those emails, folks, Steve Bannon is helping him, and he said it to him, I can give you MAGA as a shield. I can help use MAGA to protect

Yeah.

I also think that we're going to see a lot of stuff. We're going to see a lot of emails, and we already saw Larry Summer's resign. I think, and look, Democrat, Republican, lock them all up. We don't care. It's a non partisan activity.

If it is Bill Clinton in there, so be it.

That's it, so be it. Yeah, go for it. Moving on.

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