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This is Deep State Radio, coming to direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C.

and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm your host David Rothkopf, coming to you on a weekend here in Washington, D.C., where it's rainy and horrible.

But we have two sunny personalities here to lift our spirits.

The beginning with the Washington's most famous purveyor of Hopium, Simon Rosenberg, the man who called the last election right.

How you doing, Simon? Good. It's great to see you again, David.

Very good to see you. And also the old with sunny David corn of mother Jones. How you doing, David?

Okay, I'm sure I've always been called sunny before, but I'm certainly not as sunny as Simon is.

No one is. We all sort of hold up our hands and warm them to Simon's glow.

Well, let me offer a kind of assignment-esque mixed take on this past week.

During this course of this week, we have seen all sorts of news developments, some of which have shown the Republican Party lurching ever more extremely to the right.

We're kicking people out of legislatures who they don't agree with yet again to battles with cartoon characters, they don't agree with passing legislation that is ever more extreme.

The week ended with the North Carolina legislature clearing the way for more gerrymandering.

And at the same time, even as they do that, we also have seen a whole bunch of stories that show that the leader of the Republican Party Donald Trump is in deeper and deeper hot water.

This week, we saw his vice president go and testify before the grand jury. Well, we didn't see it, but we know it happened.

We saw him getting in deeper and deeper to a whole lot of other kind of legal trouble.

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