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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, DC and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm David Rothkoff, your host, coming to you from Stormy Washington, DC.

It's always stormy in Washington, but today the weather is stormy.

We haven't talked about politics per se in a while, and I thought this would be a good data to do it.

We've got two great people to discuss the state of US politics with.

The first is our friend Jen Rubin of the Washington Post.

Also the host of a great new podcast. If you listen to two podcasts a week, please also listen to that one.

You only listen to one per week. Well, you're lucky, Jen's here.

But that's Jen Rubin's green room. Welcome Jen.

Thanks. It's nice to be here. Nice to be, you know, it's like a busman's holiday now when I'm on other podcasts. I kind of noticed different things.

Oh, that's how you do it. Oh, that was good. I'll have to comment. Happy that.

Happy too much of that here. I'm sure. But in any event, we are also joined by our friend, political savant, the man who called it right and the purveyor of Hopium himself, Simon Rosenberg. How are you doing Simon?

Well, it's going to be here with you. It's good to have you here. So, you know, it does seem a little bit perverse that it's July.

The election is not until next November. But when you sort of back time it in like six months, five months, we're going to start primaries for the Republicans.

And next month, we're going to start debates for the Republicans.

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