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newsletter, which you better be signing up for. Go to the bulwark.com, get that triad. He has a

provocative one today, let's say, a thinker, where he suggests maybe a more creative way for Democratic governors to fight back against

the authoritarian takeover. And let me say there's no bad ideas in a brainstorm. And,

uh, I certainly would rather have some fucking creative ideas for what Democratic governors could

be doing to push back about this rather than, you know, the moaning and belly aching about, you know, that we've

seen from some, from some quarters. So JVL, why don't you just start us out by making the pitch,

the headline, a modest proposal, send Blue State National Guards to D.C. Yeah, so listen,

like you said, there are no bad ideas. And today, Axios has a story that

Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, has a really interesting idea, which is that

she's going to try really working with Donald Trump. And I think great, again, no bad ideas.

Good for her to try that. We'll see how it works out. I said there are no bad ideas in a

brainstorm. We'll see how that works. They're bad actions.

They're bad, you know.

But what I said, and this is not an original idea.

Somebody on Blue Sky suggested this weekend, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

And it is what if, so over the weekend, we had the President of the United States requesting that some red state governors in Ohio and West Virginia and South Carolina

send their National Guard troops into Washington, D.C. to help fight crime, I guess.

We'll just pretend fight crime, I guess. And I thought, well, huh, West Moore is sitting right there. I mean, we care a great deal about

government deficiency, Doge, right? And Doge is a way of life like Buddhism. It would be much

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