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en if she went to jail, you're not going to see the files. So there's no path that would produce the files. And I think Luna, and by the way I give her credit as well as Massie, it was a pretty good try. But as soon as they included that you can redact things for national security or to protect the victims, as soon as that was part of it, there was no chance you would see them. You're just going t…

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promise it will include some Democrats, but they will be in the minority. What would Democrats say to that? Would Democrats say no, we do not want a stronger form of auditing? Right.

So you tell me, is that the best idea you've heard so far? Because as you've seen in many negotiations, nothing gets solved until both teams can claim victory. If the Republicans could claim victory over strengthening the anti-fraud, pro-auditing part of the world, then they can claim victory. They say, you know, it's not perfect, but we can really get to the bottom of this if you give us another year. So I would say extend it for not three years. You might get that three years down to a year or something reasonable. But go for the audit. And again it's not audit versus not audit. You would have to revise how you audit to make it credible. And that's the part that can be improved.

Well, here's another persuasion lesson. I hope you've been as amused as I am that Trump is good at cursing at just the right amount and Democrats are bad at it. So when Trump curses, it guarantees that that will be the big quote the next day. It puts a focus on things and he never overdoes it. You know, you can tell that he very carefully selected where he's going to put that f-word. But it turns out that JD Vance has the same skill. And for why Democrats can't do this, I don't know. But the context here is that I guess JD Vance was giving a speech. It was at I think it was at Turning Point USA and he was defending his wife because apparently both Jen Psaki and Nick Fuentes have said bad things about her. I don't know what Jen Psaki said, but Nick Fuentes is a, let's say, a white supremacist. I'm not sure what he is, but he has some negative things to say about her ethnicity. And I of course do not approve of that.

But JD Vance did the first thing he did right is he directly defended his wife. You do that first. And here's what he said. He goes, "Let me be clear. Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat shit." Oh, he said it in an interview. All right. It wasn't during a speech. It was doing an interview with UnHerd. And then he went even better. He goes, "That's my official policy as vice president of the United States. My official policy is that Jen Psaki and Nick Fuentes can eat shit."

Now the first thing that's brilliant about this is that he paired Jen Psaki with Nick Fuentes which is just brilliant there because you know they don't really have much in common except maybe they said something about his wife but putting them together really makes you go what? And it dismisses Fuentes in a way that Republicans wouldn't mind at which is really you're like a Democrat. He's not like a Democrat, but it's a good approach. And I think you can confirm that JD Vance is noted as a prolific curser. So when he pulls out the sword, it's in the context of protecting, you know, defending his wife. Who minds that? Every one of you say, "Oh, okay." If you're defending your wife, your spouse, if you're defending your spouse, yeah, there's no limit on the words. If you're defending your spouse, there's not really any limit on what you can do. We all get that.

Let me make an appeal that I think would be compatible with some of you but not all. There is definitely an anti-Indian America

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n sentiment within the Republican party. Would you agree? Would you agree that there's a sort of a rolling anti-Indian American sentiment in the Republican party? Well, I think that conflates people's complaints about employment, you know, the H-1B stuff, and it conflates that with who they are as a people. I have lived in California for all my adult life and so I'm always surrounded by and espec…

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