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So like we all know how 2016 turned

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out and I think yeah,

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you have a very good Like paragraph

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here about like you said Donald Trump's

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victory in 20 in the 2016 presidential election

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completely transformed the Republican Party Over

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the course of a single night all the power

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held by a thousand bickering factions and

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local power brokers was subsumed into a single

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man disputes over ideology

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policy commitment to the cause whatever They

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were now rendered all as irrelevant

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as the great man has shown them to be

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After years of watching their party seemingly

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lose and betray them time and time again Conservatives

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now had a winner someone who spoke

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about treated and beat their hated enemies

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in a way nobody else did it was electric

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To this day they are willing to follow and essentially

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have followed Donald Trump into the depths of hell

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for giving them this What's like

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now? It's Trump's era How does Rhonda

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Santa see himself in that and like how does he set himself

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up to run for governor Which was he was successful

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in doing? Yeah, well the thing with the governor

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thing that was an open seat and

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it was always gonna be his best shot I think that

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was like his intention

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and that was the one thing to Santa's did that was actually

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good It is just like kind of shows. I

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think it was him following his

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instincts as a right-wing authoritarian nerd

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in that moment But in that time

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the right was so unified That like

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all the energy you could put in towards impressing

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that was basically the energy you put towards

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doing anything as a Republican politician She's

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just getting Trump's endorsement

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And this is like I can't even really call it clever because

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they were all trying to do it but he was able

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to suck up to Trump like nobody else could

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and it's really funny to see

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how like Trump kind of like

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Like describes it in retrospect Like he

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says like it like really what people point

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out is a critical moment where he does get Trump's

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it's like kind of quasi endorsement for the first

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time

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is they were on a Plane together

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going to a rally in South Florida for

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Roy Moore in 2017 which

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Yeah So

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this is that's a backdrop if you need to keep in mind here

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and the way Trump has said it, DeSantis goes

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up to him and he asked him if he wants like

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to be in, like if he can endorse him. And

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Trump says that he told the scientists he was a lousy

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candidate and that the Santa started crying.

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And then he said that, um, he couldn't, the scientists

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couldn't even win if George Washington or Abraham

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Lincoln came back from the dead and started campaigning

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for him.

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And then he endorsed him like two weeks later, but

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I

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mean, we say he doesn't have any political talents.

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He has one. He is very good at sucking

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up. Yes. He's a, he has that,

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he has that nerds instinct. Like, Oh, who is, who's

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the big man on campus? Get suck up

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to them. But the problem with that is that

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it's very hard if you're one of those guys to run

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as the guy people are supposed to suck up to, because

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if you're, if that's what you do, that's your native instinct.

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It just, you got the stink on you. Yeah.

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Yeah. You can't be the guy if you

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are always trying to find who the guy is.

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You can't run as Ron DeSantis when that's,

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he's never run. He's never won as himself outside

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of the 2012 race. That's the only race

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out of all the ones that I've tracked where I can definitively say,

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yeah, that was him

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like actually winning as Ron DeSantis.

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And he was running against school board members. It was total

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nonsense. It was anybody could have done that. Yeah.

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Um, another LBJ comparison. LBJ

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was a prodigious,

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uh, suck upper. He

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was, he, he could dick ride

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like five guys. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Yeah.

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Uh, Sam Rayburn, Richard,

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right. Him at once. That's for sure. He

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was like a terminator. He'd roll into the, uh,

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the Capitol. And he would just like look for lonely

3:37

old closet cases from the South. Just

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go over and be like, I will be your kind

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of erotic son and go to ball games

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with you. Yeah. Rayburn Rayburn

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Rayburn was like a, uh,

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he was written like a closeted gay character

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in like a YA novel, like easy

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enough that even a seventh grader could go, Oh, he's

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gay. Yeah. There's an awesome

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quote from Rayburn.

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He's just like sitting with LBJ like

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alone in a room. He's like, you know I always wish

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I could have a son a

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boy who I could look after and he's just

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staring at him. It's like

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come on man LBJ

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was such a suck-up that he had Rayburn

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over for dinner a lot And

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one time like he was LBJ

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is one of the worst husbands in history Ladybird

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made turkey hash and he was like what the

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fuck. He's the speaker of the house. You

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stupid bitch

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Turkey hash and like

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flip the table over like terrible

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They're like just a horrible guy

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and a complete suck-up

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But he was able to like dick ride

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all these guys and then you know

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Not like taking in stride and then years

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later be like, all right now you have to dick

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ride me Like he was

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he was he had a two tool dick, which

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Ron DeSantis does not Yeah, he was pulling

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on that a record movie dream like action

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That's

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how you understand politics