The Rise of Jeff Bezos Backlash, Tiktok's Murder-For-Hire Scandal, & The Epstein Class Wins in KY
PDS Published 05/20/2026
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should talk about why a ton of people are freaking out about Jeff Bezos right Right. A lot of it stemming from the CNBC interview that he did that sparked a lot of backlash and we'll start with a bit. That's probably gone. The most I pay billions of dollars in taxes.
And it's a perfect again, if people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate. But don't pretend you know that this, that that's going to solve the problem.
You could you could double the taxes I pay.
And it's not going to help that teacher in Queens, so that did not go over well with a ton of people, including fellow billionaire in California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer, who This is bullshit.
I promise you, tax billionaires invest in schools.
And you had New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani saying, I know a few teachers and queens who would beg to And generally you had others saying that the optics of a billionaire that's sitting in his rocket factory saying that him paying more in taxes, that it wouldn't help anyone is arguing.
Hey, let's put that little theory to test.
Try it out, see what but also, I'll say, in fairness, his tax commentary came amid a larger conversation about wealth inequality and how to address Right.
And actually his main point was that if you really want to help low income Americans, they should pay no taxes at that it's kind of a tale of two economies.
So you have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling politicians are using the kind of age old technique.
So there's this tale of two economies, and they're using this age old technique of, you know, picking a villain and pointing fingers.
But the problem is that doesn't solve anything.
A nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year, his 12th, more than $12,000 a year in taxes.
Does that really make sense? So people talk about making the tax system more progressive.
How about we start by having the nurse and queens not pay taxes. Why somebody at all.
the bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It's only 3%.
We can find 3%. now.
One of the things I'll say with that is that according to the Tax Foundation, if you look into it, the nurse with a $75,000 salary that's being talked about is not actually in the bottom group of Right?
In 2023, the bottom half of taxpayers made around $54,000 or but there are politicians who agree with this kind of earlier this year, for example, you had Senator Cory Booker proposing something called the
Keep Your Pay Act, which calls for the first $75,000 income to be tax free in households filing joint returns.
so, you know, there is a conversation we had, though at the same time, you have people saying him saying the thing about him not paying millions more in taxes.
And don't tax people that are making under $75,000 that that is seemingly disconnected or adverse to each but also, I'll say that was far
from the only subject that Bezos sparked outrage on when it comes to his personal massive right.
When it came to charitable donations, he said that he plans on giving away most of his wealth during his lifetime. But he also If I do my job right? Right.
Value to society and civilization.
From my for profit companies will be much, much larger than the then the good that I do with my charitable
and there we saw that you quickly had people questioning the good of his for profit companies because their efficiency comes at a you know, there have been reports on high rates of warehouse worker injuries
at Amazon, workers saying they struggle just to afford food and some even saying Jeff Bezos.
Companies exploit taxpayers to be successful, saying they receive enormous tax breaks and subsidies and forced taxpayers to subsidize the poverty wages they pay their employees, driving their profitability.
and that is others say, sure is company is going to prove the lives of a lot of people.
But Bezos is so rich, why doesn't he just do both and up his charitable giving as especially since on the Forbes Billionaire list is philanthropy score sits at a two out of also of note
with all this is that when it comes to his own enterprises, he spoke about the mass layoffs that recently happened at the Washington are you the interviewer, noting that in the past, Bezos referred to the paper as a public trust, so why not subsidize the business to maintain that?
And to that, he the post needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet, enough to be desperate.
Yes, that's a question. And let me tell you why. Because it's a measure of its relevance.
If people won't pay for our product, we're not doing it's not good enough product. I don't want it to be a charity.
It doesn't need to be, and it shouldn't there you go.
People questioning how laying off hundreds of reporters is going to improve or make the product more and that, as you had others noting that at least some of the paper's big subscriber loss, it's
actually because of basis own personal as we've talked about, they lost 10% of their subscribers after Bezos said that the paper should not make an endorsement in the 2024 election,
and more dropped after he said that he'd reshaped the paper's editorial many believing that he made those moves to curry favor with though I will say he pushed back on claims that he is a pro-Trump businessman.
I'm on the side of America and and that is so important. And that's where business leaders should be.
we get perceived as being like, you know, Partizan or whatever. Like, I was helping Obama every chance I could.
I was helping Biden every chance I could.
but then also with that he gave Trump some Trump has lots of good ideas. And he's done a lot of he's been right about a lot of things.
You have to give him credit where credit is I'm comparing him to his first term, and I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term.
and his choice there to call Trump mature and disciplined. It took some people by surprise, and it kind of did absolutely nothing to help.
The fact that people see him as being in the president's people arguing, okay, just look at some of the posts on this man's Truth social page and tell me that he is mature.
you know, with all that said, I then got to pass the question off to you of what are your thoughts here with do you agree with his takes or like the take, or do you think that he's underplaying what he himself can do to better the country?
also do you see him as a nonpartisan figure as he says that he why or why not? Really.
Any opinions and reactions repeat the next up in some crazy news we should talk about today.
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There's a bitter custody battle between an influencer and a former boy band member that's now been escalated into federal murder for hire Right. So this is Gabriela Gonzalez.
She's a 24 year old content creator with roughly half a million followers on both her TikTok and Instagram She posts lifestyle and travel content, along with videos documenting her day to day life as the mom of a seven year old daughter, lavender.
I became a single teen mother at, I would just say 17 because I was basically taking it by
Five years ago, being alone was like the worst thing that could have happened to me. And now being alone is the best. Right.
And then Lavender's father is the other big player in this story, and that's Jack Avery.
He's a former member of the boy band Why Don't We, which had some moderate success in the 20 We're in a big key thing with all this is that Gabriela and Jack are not together fact, they've been locked in a bitter custody
battle over lavender for years back in 2021, Gabriela reportedly started painting Jack as an unfit and dangerous parent in at the same time, her dad, Francisco Gonzalez, reportedly
hired a Pi to collect photos and videos of Jack trying to find evidence of him smoking, drinking, or just anything that could be used against him in Right.
And that appears to be when things started to snowball, because from there, Francisco allegedly talked to Gabriella's new boyfriend, Kai Cordray, to try to recruit someone to threaten and harass
and because of his position as a surf instructor in Hawaii, they settled on a retired MMA fighter living in though it doesn't actually look like the person got involved at any
it was Gabriella that kicked things to the next level, because it was around this time that she began to openly talk about wanting Jack dead and hiring a hitman to do the
She and Kai even allegedly went online to find an assassin on the dark in May of 2021, it looks like Kai made an account on a murder for hire site under the screen
name Lizard King, 69, with prosecutors saying that they identified Jack as the target, gave an address and even said that Jack, quote should be killed by whatever method was and Francisco reportedly gave Kai $14,000.
That was transferred into crypto and used his front money for this whole first $10,000 under the guise of payment for web services and then another 4000 later these three masterminds they very quickly caught the attention of the feds.
I mean by September of 2021, Kai was reportedly talking to an FBI agent who was posing as a hitman from the site where they posted Jack as the agent
really spoke with Kai on the phone about Jack as the target payment and proved the death, with Kai allegedly saying that Gabriela wanted Jack dead and that her father would pay for and Francisco
then allegedly confirmed his involvement by texting the agent of password established in a previous And then about a year later, prosecutors say that Gabriela talked to Kai on a recorded call
about those communications with the supposed hitman and how to respond to the threat of exposure. now. Through all this.
Jack says that he was warned that someone was trying to kill him, saying that FBI agents had contacted him to give him a heads but it wasn't until just recently the Gabriela, her father, and Kai
were finally arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and solicitation to commit which if they are convicted, that means them facing 25 years to life in state
had the LA County District Attorney's office releasing a statement saying this was a lengthy investigation that was initiated by the FBI and officially turned over to our Most fathers raised their children to respect the law.
But here we have a dad who allegedly helped his daughter and her boyfriend break the law in the most sinister way imaginable. right.
So as far as what happens from here, we have to wait to see Gabriella's arraignment.
It happened yesterday, but it ended without a plea, and her lawyer requested more time to review the evidence. She is scheduled to go back and tomorrow.
But what we do know is that Jack has filed for a domestic violence restraining order from Gabriela and full legal and physical custody of their his filing saying that the ongoing harassment and safety concerns caused him fear of death, chronic anxiety, depression and PTSD.
adding, Gabriela attempted to kill me by hiring a hitman. Gabriela is not stable and not able to act in the best interest of our Which. Yeah, that that seems about right.
That's kind of actually if anything, putting it and it kind of gets thrown on top of the pile of just news stories that remind us that the influencers of the people that we see on our phones or whatever
never really know what's going on behind the And then there's more we got to dive into in just a minute.
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but then diving right back into the news.
One of the things that we learned from the elections last night is that the Republican Party is the party of Donald Trump, though he is playing with fire.
in the big races that cemented both of those things.
Was Thomas Massie losing in Kentucky, Brad Raffensperger just getting crushed in Georgia.
but also given the numbers, especially those in Kentucky, you have many wondering, what is this going to mean in a general election, right. Especially if Trump remains as unpopular as he is right now.
and to really get to that place responsibly to talk about answer that question. We have to look at Kentucky first, right? Especially Congressman Thomas Massie. Thomas Massey's a terrible congressman.
He's been a terrible congressman from day one. Dealing with him is just a horrible I don't think he's a Republican.
I think he's actually I think he's actually a Democrat. It's not easy beating incumbents. But we have a great guy running against Massie.
Massey's a terrible, I think, the worst congressman the Republican Party has ever known reality. Massie votes with the Republican Party most of the time.
but mask opposed Trump's tax and spending budget package last year that so-called big beautiful bill because he said it would drive up the federal deficit. He also, of course, famously led the charge to release the Epstein files.
And he's opposed the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.
and with that condemned, American aid to Israel and criticized the influence of the pro-Israel lobby in American politics. so all of that kind of together.
It made him Trump's number one target, as well as the target of the very same pro-Israel lobby that he spoke out against.
$19 million was spent to benefit Massey's Trump backed opponent, a former Navy Seal, by the name of Ed Gallrein, including nearly $9.4 million from AIPAC and other pro-Israel interest groups.
but with that, Candace Owens would become a vocal supporter of Massey actually has a different take on this whole thing, saying that whatever the result, the money spent on this election showed that Trump has lost control of MAGA
and adding having to run to the Zionist Mafia to spend a record breaking amount on a congressional seat means he knows fully. Well the party no longer marches to his command.
Tucker Carlson not only pushed a similar narrative, he took his message straight to the Israeli media this week. retelling the country is channel 13. That Netanyahu, the media and donors, they pushed Trump into a war against Iran.
donors to Donald Trump, people in the media class here were effectively working on behalf of the Israeli government
The Israeli Prime Minister pushed the US president, who turned out to be far weaker than I understood, into a war that hurts the United States.
with that, you've got people saying, you know, while they think that Owens and Carlson, they are conspiracy theorists on a number of fronts, you have many arguing that Massey's raised
it shows that there is a real conversation to be had around how money is being spent on politics in the States, especially because in this case, the money appears to have paid off.
gallery in divided Massey with around 55% of the vote.
and so one of the things you ended up seeing was Marcy kicking off his concession speech by saying. I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede.
And it took a while to find editor Gal Ryan in Tel Aviv.
as he also peer to criticize the total loyalty that Trump's demanded from the Republican Party.
If you always vote with the president, if the if the legislative branch always votes with the president, we do have a king.
If the legislative branch always vote which votes, whichever way the wind is blowing. Then we have mob rule.
But if the legislative branch and the representatives and the senators that serve with that always follow the Constitution.
We have a republic.
then as far as other reactions, you had a lot of people kind of linking Marcy's defeat to the Epstein files getting released. Senator Chris Murphy posting. So there you have it.
If you lead a campaign against powerful pedophiles, you get drummed out of the Republican Party, as well as Marjorie Taylor Greene writing, releasing the Epstein files was our demise. But it was worth every single bit.
Because now everyone knows the truth.
at the same time, you also had other reactions like that of Randy fine, who wrote this is Donald Trump's Republican Party. The rest of us get the privilege of living in and.
Well, Marcy, he's definitely not the first person that Trump's taken aim at for being unlawful in his eyes. he definitely will not be the last. Get the thumbs up or the thumbs down.
with that in mind, you just got to look at John Cornyn of Texas.
and he'll be defending his seat in the primary this next Tuesday against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. a huge thing with that one is that Paxton was actually endorsed by Trump yesterday.
the specifics of his support was very interesting, with Trump writing, Ken is a strong supporter of terminating the filibuster and very importantly, the Save America Act.
well, then also adding John Cornyn is a good man. And I worked with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough. and that endorsement, it stands out for two reasons.
One while Cornyn and Paxton were kind of neck and neck for a while, Paxton's kind of jumped ahead. And so he seems like he's he's more of the sure thing.
so you have some claiming that Trump's jumping on now so he can take credit.
but then also too this endorsement stands out because unlike with Massie or Cassidy, even Cornyn has never really seriously broken ranks within the party.
fact, just last week, he proposed this bill that would name a Texas highway in honor of the president. go. Maybe I should then also add a third thing.
And that is that Democrats, you know, they are happy because Paxton, they see, is maybe they're the easier opponent to beat in a general election. but that then brings us to the final state.
It's my own Georgia. right with Georgia.
You have outlets like Politico now reporting that the MAGA takeover of the Georgia GOP is nearly complete, the Georgia Republican Party chair, Josh McCune telling the outlet It's key
to success in a Republican primary in Georgia today, to either have the president's endorsement or be able to make the case to voters that you're certainly a Trump aligned candidate.
in regards to the Senate, everyone knew that Jon Ossoff was going to win. He didn't even have a Democratic primary challenger.
on the Republican side, it's now down to a Trump backed candidate by the name of Mike Collins and a guy by the name of Derek Dooley.
who I will say, despite the lack of an endorsement from Trump, has sort of styled himself as a pro-Trump candidate, including a Georgia First slogan.
and well, that race is going to be very enlightening to watch, one of the biggest ones is obviously the governor's race. Right. Especially when you take in all the context in the history right.
Brian Kemp, who is among several state officials who rejected Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he's leaving office because he had his term limit.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who famously refused Trump's demand that he find enough votes to help him win, you know, leading to Trump to brand of an enemy of the people that are making death threats against him and his family.
In some ways, he seemed, at least early on, the obvious choice to replace Kemp. but we saw even just from original polling. Is that his principled stance? It cost him.
that is even though he resisted openly criticizing Trump during his campaign.
in the end, he didn't even finish top two.
instead, what we're seeing is that there's gonna be a runoff between Lieutenant Governor Bert Jones, who's backed by Trump, and billionaire Rick Jackson, who isn't backed by Trump, but also whose campaign has clearly marketed him as a Trump aligned candidate.
and whoever ends up winning between those two are going to face former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance bottoms, who secured the Democratic nomination as the party's going to try to win the office for the first time in 24 years.
was one the note of an effort to break a decades long streak. The state failed yesterday.
because as we've talked about in previous shows with the Georgia Supreme Court, a sitting justices reportedly never lost reelection in the state, at least in more than a century. and because recent decisions by the U.S.
Supreme Court, they've left the states with more leeway in matters like reproductive and voting rights.
The the Georgia Supreme Court, it was kind of under a watchful eye, a lot of money and attention went into trying to make history.
or with former President Barack Obama, the state Democratic Party and pro-abortion rights groups backing miracle rank and and Jen Jordan.
as far as what ended up happening is that they both lost, though by greatly different means.
Bethel narrowly defeated Rankin with around 51% of the vote, and Warren went against Jordan with almost 60% of the vote.
and I'm actually going to end today's show with a little, opinion section on this because I think it is an important thing. There's something to learn here. And remember.
but for right now, it brings us back to the question of how a Trump backed candidate is going to fare against Democrats in the general election, right, especially in more competitive races.
Because in New York Times, he had a poll this week found that Trump's approval rating among Republicans, it's still at 82%. but overall, his approval ratings down to 37%.
nearly 2 in 3 voters disapprove of both of his handling of the economy and the war in Iran.
so there is a very real possibility that, you know, being a full throated MAGA diehard, it's exactly what you need to win the Republican nomination. But exactly what you do not want in a close race come November.
especially if people who are aligned with Massie, who are obviously even in Kentucky, not the majority of Republican voters.
there enough usually reliable Republican voters that all of a sudden have soured on the president and people who align themselves with him? right. Well, an 82% approval rating among Republicans is fantastic.
if you have made that other 18% really want you to go fuck yourself and you as far as the independents, you really soured them.
are they generally screwing themselves? be might be.
But also a big thing to remember is there is a lot of time between now and November 4th. Situations change. Opinions change. And I mean a number of these things are going to run off.
So even those races haven't fully been finished. but hey, with that in mind, I got to put this question off to you. What are your thoughts here?
is Trump accidentally setting up Republicans for a failure come November, at least in competitive races? Or is that, hope you have an Copium. And then there's more we got to dive into in just a minute.
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and it starts with Trump saving his and his family's asses and a deal with the IRS that protects them from further investigations and prosecutions related to any current tax inquiries. right.
And this is actually in addition to the anti weaponization funds settlement that we talked about yesterday, which the DOJ said that the Trump family wouldn't get a payout from.
now a report saying that cutting these investigations short it saves them over $100 million. And so of course people have questions. looking at the deal itself.
It's actually illegal for the president and most other executive officials to make decisions around IRS audits. but that law doesn't hit the attorney general.
the same attorney general that used to be his personal attorney.
And apparently that's how they work this around, sure enough, Todd Blanche is the one who signed the official document.
but also, even with that, you have experts saying that the IRS would need to act to make the release of claims effective, which could raise additional questions about whether there has been unlawful political interference
in the audit process, calling this a breathtaking abuse of the tax and legal system.
with also Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying it's a get out of jail free card for the president, adding sued the government he runs, had his own DOJ settle the case and pocketed the prize.
special IRS protection for the Trump family that is self-dealing with a government seal.
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but then we also have to talk about how Republican Bill Cassidy just sided with Senate Democrats on legislation to force Trump out of the war with Iran.
Cassidy flipping after losing the Louisiana primary to the MAGA backed candidate, Julia Letlow. Yeah.
Isn't it funny how when they lose power or they decide they're not going to run again, all of a sudden they become a different person.
yeah, you know, Cassidy wasn't able to get back in Trump's good graces, and he voted against him in his impeachment trial over the J. Six riots.
Trump also added a little insult to injury, posting that Cassidy's disloyalty to the man who got him elected is now a part of legend, and it's nice to see that his political career is over.
the with that, you had Cassidy going back to Washington, saying that he was proud of his work to uphold the Constitution and that he would carefully consider how he would vote on Trump's priorities moving forward.
and so I guess Trump's war with Iran, it didn't make the cut.
Now, with him saying on social media, well, I support the administration's efforts to dismantle Iran's nuclear program.
The white House and Pentagon have left Congress in the dark on Operation Epic fury, saying until the administration provides clarity, no congressional authorization or extension can be justified.
now, with all this Democrats, they've been trying to push the War Powers Resolution for months, but they couldn't get the votes that they needed to make it happen until now. Right.
With that, there were three Republicans that were absent on Tuesday who could come back and turn things around with their votes.
They maintain their stance on the war, but still your report saying that this is a sign of just how uneasy Republicans are becoming with the war, you've got Chuck Schumer claiming Republicans are starting to crack and momentum is building the check.
Trump.
and I won't be holding my breath, to see how that plays out outside of Congress and the, the country in general is feeling the effects of this war, especially at the gas station.
got reports saying the gas prices have hit $4 a gallon in all 50 states, with seven states even paying at least $5 a gallon. there's a very real cost here. It's costing Americans millions of dollars a day.
It's putting a strain on small businesses, and it's driving up inflation. any of experts saying it.
If the Strait of Hormuz stays closed through mid-summer, things could get even worse than this. right.
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But then the final thing today, I kind of want to just end on a little bit of an op ed section, just me talking to you opinions, all Because last night as I was driving back home, there were some elections
that were win, some that were losses, some that I was just shocked and really one of the biggest takeaways was that reminder of not everyone is as invested and knowledgeable about what's happening right now, and that is in no way a got people out there just trying to survive.
They've got two jobs to pay bills or their health care. They've got kids.
And, you know, a Tuesday in May, they're not thinking page three of the election about the Georgia Supreme Court races, who, by the way,
do not have a D or an R next to their even though the Georgia Supreme Court is seen as being controlled by Republicans 8 to 1 or 9 to and a lot of it made me puzzled about a thing
that really people have thought about for years and years, and that is how to break through to kind of low information voters, especially on something that is that is not top of Because when you actually look at the data, it is insane.
right. So both Georgia Supreme Court incumbents.
They Bethel beat Miracle Rankin 51 to 49, about a two point race, roughly 43,000 votes out of nearly 2 million that were But Warren beat Gen Jordan 59 to 41.
It was an almost 19 point race, about 360,000 votes it's a two wins for the Republican appointed incumbents. The streak is intact.
And I can't I just can't stop looking at all the Rincon and Jordan. They campaigned together, every press conference, every interview.
When we had them on the show together, when they were endorsed by Obama and Kamala Harris, they were endorsed signs people have in their yards. It has both of their names on They were a package deal.
That was the whole strategy. but the demo.
They gave Rankin almost 947,000 votes and gave Jordan 781,000, which is a roughly 165,000 vote gap between the two candidates
who ran the exact same campaign before anyone's like, oh, well, you know, maybe they like this person more over this issue.
They were essentially the same person, just with different names on the a while by the way, more Democrats in Georgia went out to vote than Republicans.
Jon Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent who is literally running against nobody.
He pulled in around 100 to 150,000 more votes than the entire Republican Senate field combined.
so if you get a lot of people that are voting down ballot, you expect Democratic wins left and but that brings us to the Georgia Supreme Court race technically being considered nonpartisan.
So you don't get a D or an R next to the so this is anecdotal, but based off of people that I was talking a lot of people just didn't know who they were voting for.
They knew, hey, I got to do this and the governor's race.
Hey, you know, I know Asaph, I know maybe a person here or there, but when it came to to miracle in Jen versus Bethel and one, there were a lot of people that thought that everyone on their ballot was a Democrat because Georgia has an open primary.
So when you go to the polls, you ask for, oh, I want a Democratic ballot or a Republican but then also to you had a number of people going, well it wasn't a Partizan race.
So I kind of just tried to use context clues to go, who's the Democrat a lot more people assumed a name like miracle would be that of a Democratic whereas Jen Jordan that already
sounds maybe neutral enough, but also where name on the ballot was Jennifer our Jordan. right.
And then actually with that, you know, as I was explaining that to someone last night, as we were seeing the results come in, they were like, well, you know, that's kind of on the you're casting your ballot and you're unsure or something, just Google but here's the thing.
In Georgia, you cannot use your phone inside of the voting booth that it's a legal under state law, it's a fair game.
I wasn't aware of that the first time that I voted about what was it, a year and a half or whatever I was casting my ballot, someone got yelled at. I was like, Holy shit. so this time around, when I went to vote, you know, I had paper.
You can have paper.
That's fine, but you can't use your so ultimately, I ended up just kind of feeling I feel frustrated, I don't feel angry. A lot of people have been expressing anger.
I'm not angry at the and I really don't think that the answer is to to shame voters who guessed The answer, I think, is just making sure that by the time
that a voter walks into the booth, they already know which name matches their a big part of what I'm feeling is kind of more frustration with the DNC, or at least the makeup of what it is right now. Right?
Because this feels like more of a campaign problem, a party infrastructure some will also argue that it's a ballot design problem or a state law problem.
But that's kind of a step two thing.
It all comes down to information I say all this not acting like I have the answer that magically reaches regular people who are just busy
with their lives as what I do know is that until the information gap closes, like this is the result you're going to see in the further down the ballot and it's part of the reason why you're seeing Kemp and others trying to make more races nonpartisan.
so while I personally see the results of these Georgia Supreme Court races as a not maybe not necessarily generational fumble, I've seen some people saying that maybe more of a decades ish ish fumble.
can see that the Dems and or the people that are not Trump aligned in Georgia, they are fired up.
They just need to be directed then my friends, your beautiful bastards is the end of your Wednesday Philip DeFranco show. DAB into the Thank you for watching.
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This fund is going to pay Jan six rioters. That is law and order leaving this country. There's something that feels weirder about the last three weeks.
What is MAGA versus lib coded? There's no in between.
I feel like you are doing this because, you know, I like middle ground, gray area, Drake, MAGA or lib coded sometimes questions or questions and then sometimes questions are weapons.
I don't know if you guys know is this whole episode of kind of smiling more? It's because I saw monster trucks. Someone's got to tell my gas stations that the war is done.
