If you want to really drive him crazy, you say 12 more years.

12 more years, 12 more years.

Because we caught them doing some really bad things.

Well, we were very divided under President Obama, very divided.

People have no idea how divided. They didn't talk about it as much. They didn't say it as much. But we were really coming together.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm your co-host, Chair DeA Sexton. A regular co-host, good friend, Nick Houseman, indisposed at the moment.

No power whatsoever.

He lives in the Golden State where there are fires and natural disasters and where they are learning about the climate catastrophe,

probably sooner than a lot of the rest of us.

So unfortunately, I'm flying solo today.

My apologies.

I miss Nick as well.

It is weird to be doing this without him.

And we're supposed to cover the Republican National Convention tonight,

live streaming for those of you who are patrons.

And if you want to join us, that will be over at patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

Hopefully, Nick has his power back by then.

Because every night this week at 9 p.m., we're going to be diving into the madness of the Republican National Convention together.

I'm sitting here on a stormy afternoon in southeastern Georgia.

It is gloomy overcast,

apropos for what I would say is the beginning of a national convention,

which is a more or less important of doom,

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