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This is the podcast for the week of March 6th, 2006. It's not safe for work.

Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where our lead story is Republicans in Disarray.

It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.

You know, rather than spending half the podcast rapid-firing the dozens of special election results at you, like some cable TV programs do.

We'd like to thank Charles Gabba for providing this brief and eloquent summary.

Quote, Dems have overperformed by 13 points on average across 93 special elections so far, unquote. Democrats in disarray, indeed.

So instead, we're going to spend some time talking about why this is happening and how pundits

and political professionals

are coping with the fact that none of them have the faintest idea what they're talking about

anymore. The reason this is happening is that Republicans made a lot of promises to a lot of people

in 2024, a lot of stupid people, a lot of credulous people, and they are failing spectacularly

at delivering on any of these promises. Instead, under, and I want to make this clear,

unified Republican leadership. I think that's the title of this podcast, Luke now.

Unified Republican leadership.

Everything is getting much, much worse.

But worst of all, Trump has broken two of the most solemn vows he made to his cult,

vows that brought him their obedience and loyalty.

Yeah, instead of releasing the Epstein files, the Republican president named Donald Trump

has turned the federal government into one giant Epstein file cover-up machine, and the

MAGA base have bought themselves stupid Watergate.

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