After a week of brutal news, a little glimmer of hope. Republicans have officially flipped

Louisiana red. After eight years of Democrat rule, Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry

just won the Louisiana governorship. And he didn't just win by a little. He won by a lot by over

25 points. And not only is Landry a Republican, he's a conservative. And not only is he a conservative,

he's a Trump endorsed conservative, which given that regardless of whether you love or hate

Trump, it is looking like the Donald will almost certainly be the GOP nominee in 2024. That means

that maybe just maybe Republicans actually have a shot of retaking some power after all. I'm Michael

Noles, that's the Michael Noles show.

Welcome back to the show. Over there in California, Gamora by the sea, things have gone from

bad to worse. They now have a pro prostitution bill that has women wearing dental floss

thongs just out in public, brazenly selling their bodies for sex to men. And the local residents

don't really like it, but they can't quite articulate why not. And they can't quite express why not

through their political institutions. So New Selenie's hellscape gets worse and worse by the day.

We'll get to that in a second. First though, speaking of conservatives winning elections,

Jim Jordan is trying to become the speaker of the house. The only problem I have with that is

that I like Jim Jordan too much. And I think he's a good guy and quite conservative. So I wouldn't

wish that terrible job on him. But you know the crazy chaos. The chaos was that Kevin McCarthy was

the speaker. He got ousted by a handful of his own Republicans and then all of the Democrats.

Then Steve Scalise, who is a little bit more establishment, he ran for it. He gets the nomination

of the GOP caucus. He doesn't get the votes to become speaker. He drops out of the speaker race.

Then Jim Jordan, who is a terrific guy, he gets the nomination of the GOP caucus. Still unclear

if he's going to get the votes. But a very promising sign for Jim Jordan is that he's got the

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