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Thank you very much for your support. This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

We've got the votes and screw the rest of you.

And Dr. Kabita Patel. These might be some of you. And Dr. Kavita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments,

you know, with all the bombshells, didn't catch people's eyes. Hello and

Welcome to Words Matter from the DSR Network. Each week, Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues

facing our country as we head into another incredible election cycle,

although every day seems like there's something going on norm that is incredible.

We're going to do kind of a longer pod in the sense that we're combining our general audience

and our members only and it's mostly because we're heading into the holiday season and and have wanted to leave room for our members to be able to send us questions and anybody send us questions during the

Thanksgiving week where we're all going to hopefully take a break and give

thanks for the incredible norm I will give we'll give a we'll give thanks maybe at the end of this

pod and maybe we'll end with kind of what we're thankful for because I think we're

about to get into some things that are pretty unthankful or some pretty thankless people and that's namely every single one of our

elected so-called leadership on the Republican side in the House of Representatives

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