All righty, hello everyone and welcome to it. It is the Derrick Hunter podcast for the 22nd of June 2023.

All is good to zoom keyboard stock to me. As is my name, keyboard stock. I'm just horrible at German, but the words I got in there anyway, it's my birthday and I can cry if I want to, but I'm not going to cry.

I'm going to do a show. Although if you read my column today at townhall.com, you'll see that I was crying yesterday and I'm still laboring over that. It's right here and sealed and I'm not really sure if you don't know what it is.

Look it up at townhall.com. Anyway, I appreciate you listening download and sharing, telling a friend, all that good stuff. Happy birthday to me. Thanks for all the wishes and the tweets and the emails and the gifts and all of that. I really appreciate it.

Oh, I had that virtual physical. Somebody wrote, was it was it was a Michelle that wrote me? Somebody wrote me about the virtual physical and making fun of it. The virtual physical virtual. Oh, it sure felt literal. It sure felt literal. Michelle, I knew it would be a Michelle, filled me up with air just in an unpleasant experience, but you know, good news, good results. So anyway, thank goodness for that.

Ain't cheap, but you know, health ain't cheap. Anyway, we've got a lot of stuff to get to and as much time as we need to get to it, but I'm going to try and make this as quickly as possible because.

Well, it's my birthday. Well, actually tomorrow's my birthday as I record this, but still you get the idea of it. There were two major stories up there on Capitol Hill yesterday that.

Really, you just sit there and you realize that we are not going to be able to get along with Democrats. We are not going to be able to get along with Democrats. And I honestly, I'm okay with that. I don't want to get along with these people. If this is who they are, if this is how they are, I don't want anything to do with them. They're gross. I'm not talking you're running the middle Democrat voter or anything like that. I'm talking about your your Democrat politician.

They are gross people. And they are disinterested in any semblance of the truth or reality or anything of the net that sort.

And with that in mind, I just don't want, I don't like sharing a country with them. They are butchering and bastardizing what made this country great, what made this country unique.

What I find most annoying about the left is all these places that they all the things they want to do in this country due to this country exists somewhere else.

They exist in all sorts of configurations across the globe. They could easily go there. And on local levels, they exist. They exist.

So they have California, for example, they always say, what's the fifth largest economy in the world? What's the fifth largest economy in the world?

That's great. Why are people leaving? If it's so wonderful, if it's just about the economy size, why are people fleeing it? It sounds like Utopia.

They're not fleeing because they're afraid of earthquakes. They're not fleeing because, oh my goodness, they're afraid it's going to fall into the ocean or there'd be a wildfire come along and sweep them up. No, they're leaving

because the way government exists and the progressive policies that have been implemented in that state make it wildly uncomfortable to live it. They do. It does.

It's unbearable. If it's this paradise on earth, people wouldn't flee from it, but people are fleeing from it. How illegal aliens are like, I don't want to go to California. Look, I'd much rather be in Tijuana.

So they have what they want. They could move to Philadelphia. If you notice, they're not. They move from blue states to red states. They don't move from blue areas to other blue areas.

There's no major exodus from California up to Portland or Seattle going, well, you know what? Let us just go north, young man. That's instead of going west, young man, Horatio, Alger, let's go north, young or young non-birthing person or whatever they're calling men these days. But no, they are fleeing for redder pastures. Why because things are better there? Things are better there. And that's what's the problem with the Democratic voter.

They don't seem to realize what they're voting for. There is no connection between the smoking and the ability or inability to run up a flight of stairs. They can't make that connection in their reptilian brain.

Hey, we've had Democrats roll this city control this city for 60 plus years and every now we're just death rate murder rate going up and up crime rates in Washington DC. There's something like four car jackings or something like that for every square block or something. If something ridiculous like that is a record number of car jackings in Washington DC. Why because they kind of decriminalized car jackings and they're just going, I don't get it. Boy, where did we go wrong? Well, I have an idea.

Collecting idiot leftist progressive Democrats, not look, there were at a point there was at a point anyway, sane ish Democrats swear to God, they're really were. They don't exist anymore. They're gone. They're just gone. Where did they go? I don't know. Maybe they all became Republicans who the hell knows, but it is telling that these people existed at one point.

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