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Today is Tuesday, January 17th, 2023.

Thank you so much for joining me.

I want to begin with a type of juxtaposition, the things that make conservatives outraged versus the real threat to society that stems and comes from conservatism.

I'm speaking specifically about the everyday outrage that comes from

conservatives and their ability to ignore stories like this one coming out of New Mexico.

The Republican candidate for state representative who lost his election turned around and

hired men to shoot up the homes of four Democratic leaders in the

state. A Republican former candidate for New Mexico's legislature who police say claimed election fraud.

There, there's the outrage, right?

Election fraud from Republicans.

This is the standard talking point. Election denialism. If they lose

their races, they don't think that it is physically or humanly possible for them to lose.

And now it has gone so far as this particular candidate

by the name of Solomon Pena, who lost his 22 run

for State House for District 14 in New Mexico. He hired people to shoot the homes.

Now, I am curious, you know, maybe I guess he just wanted to scare them I'm not sure why you would

put yourself in the way of a felony but I'm not sure if the intention was to

murder them but one has to assume when you pull a trigger, you intend to kill.

But the homes, the garages and the cars were shot up and Solomon Pena actually participated in one of the shootings.

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