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I'm John Ida Rola, and that's it. No more, no co-host, okay? We're running a tight, lean ship here. Doggy might be done in the government,

but we're still highly efficient on this program, which means that we're just going to make

everything worse. We're not going to save any money. It'll actually cost more money and lead to a lot of lawsuits. But anyway, we do have a lot of fun news to talk about. And usually I say that highly sarcastically, but we've decided we sometimes do this like on Friday shows, we're actually gonna be starting with a good news block and mostly polling, but good polling, and it's December 2nd, by the way.

There's a special election today, which is almost certainly going to be good news for our side.

Not necessarily a victory in the special election down in Tennessee,

but the polling seems to indicate that it's almost certainly going to be way more competitive

than it would otherwise be. And so I think a lot of people might be setting themselves up to think that only if the Democrat miraculously wins that that would be a good sign of things to come, that's not the way that I'm pre-receiving it, I guess, perceiving it. Is that a word? I'm gonna start using that. But anyway, in addition to that good news, we also have the other sort of news that we've grown accustomed to. A little bit more updates on Pete Hagsith, apparently committing war crimes and now throwing someone

under the bus to take the bullet forum, I guess. We've got others in the Trump administration

a little bit nervous about prosecutions that could come if the Republicans are someday not in power,

and a whole lot more besides.

A lot of xenophobia. They're taking a hard pivot. I guess towards immigrants maybe because

the recent elections showed that their anti-trans thing isn't to carrying enough weight for them

anymore. So they've gone back towards immigrants. That's going to be a lot of fun for everyone. Definitely a good thing. And that's all in the

first hour. Coming up for the aftermath, we will be talking a bit more about the death of Doggy.

Some of the interesting projection that Elon Musk has been doing about Doggy and what it

accomplished in recent interviews, that's going to be fun and a whole lot more besides. So in advance of that, please hit the like button, share the stream. If you're watching live, you can send us comments, tweets, super chats, all that. Maybe I'll even, probably not, but maybe I'll even remember to give out a blue apron gift card, which will be a lot of fun. With all that said, why don't we jump in our first topic?

I'm absolutely convinced that we're going to grow the House majority and keep the majority

in the Senate in the House and allow President Trump four years and not just two,

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