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Amen Ismail needs no introduction.

Slate staff writer.

And we have brought him on for Shout

and Friday because I got to tell you, this is the Shout in Fridayest Shout in Friday that we've

yet had. And that is because this week, what happened that gave me the smiling devil emoji

energy is that the Democrats kind of kicked ass on Tuesday in the election. I mean, I'm not, I don't want to say it out loud. I feel like I could jinx it. I don't know. How do you feel about this, amen? I try not to like subscribe to any political party. Agree. But I am a Muslim American and I have a heart and I have empathy. And so I tend to skew one way or another. And if that tells you which party I usually vote for, I think that says it all. Yeah. I mean, it's really not about the Democrats, because I got plenty of bones to pick with them. It's more, it's the anti-Trump energy. Let's be real. Yeah. It's the you don't want your, the person working at your daycare with your kids to get deported. Yes. It's the you don't want your, uh, the person working at your daycare with your kids to get

deported. Yes. It's the, you don't want the buses to crash and you don't want airplay to fall out

of the sky, that kind of energy. I would like people who need food benefits to receive them.

It'd be nice if people could eat. It would be good. And if that makes me a monster, so we're,

so to give some context, so we're...

So to give some context, when we're talking about big wins for the Democrats this week,

we don't just mean like gubernatorial races, mayoral races, Zoran Mamdani.

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