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monday it is groundhog day it doesn't feel like Groundhog Day with Bill

Crystal. You know, Bill Crystal is always keeping me fresh. I'm sad to report that Pung Satni

Phil has seen his shadow. So we will have six more weeks of winter, which the people of the

South, we know that already. And I think it's an underappreciated abdication of this administration

right now that like red state Republicans don't have heat and electricity and their schools aren't open for weeks.

And like Mississippi and Tennessee and Texas and the administration and DHS is, you know, they're focused on other matters.

I don't know.

Not really constituent service oriented.

We blue state, Virginians don't have. Our Fairfax County schools are staying closed again today. But I don't blame them. I mean, honestly, it's not safe. I mean, the kids have no place to wait on the sidewalk for the buses and stuff because it's like piles of ice everywhere. But somehow Fairfax County should have, like, is it impossible for them to have ice breakers as well as normal snow plows?

I don't know.

I guess it's very unusual, though, to get, honestly, a week of some freezing temperature and stuff.

Anyway, it's been cold.

Yeah, some local government failures, but I will say just in a normal administration, you would see DHS and FEMA and the president and vice president even and the National Guard troops surging towards the places where they've been weather-related deaths and people are out of their home they don't even talk about it. It's not even a thought, right? In the old days it would be like, well, maybe they could deploy some National Guard to help out with some of the tasks to free up board, the soap power operators, zero. No. They're busy.

They're arresting the worst of the worst, Tim, and deporting him to El Salvador and stuff. It's really making us safer as a country and better off, I think, you know. And Christy had another nip-tuck appointment last week, so she couldn't be focused on this. All right, well, we have much bad news to discuss, and a little bit of good news too.

We've a little bit of some political good news,

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