Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov - Trump Triggers Redistricting Chaos as GOP Pushes Power Grab Nationwide
Episode Date: May 1, 2026Jessica Tarlov and Aaron Parnas break down the battle to redraw congressional districts, as Republican-led states like Louisiana move quickly to implement new maps ahead of the midterms — while Demo...crats signal they’re ready to retaliate in states like Illinois, Colorado, and New York. With primaries just weeks away in some states, one key question looms: is this a strategic power play, or a logistical and legal mess waiting to unfold? Plus: new concerns about federal involvement in election data, as the DOJ seeks access to ballots and voter rolls in key states. Jess and Aaron also unpack the end of the record-setting 75-day DHS shutdown, which exposed growing fractures within the Republican party. Did Jeffrey Epstein leave a suicide note, and has it been kept from the public? New reporting — and a lawsuit — seeks to uncover the truth. And, as the Iran war nears the 60-day mark, are there realistic prospects for a way out? Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov Follow Prof G, @profgalloway Follow Raging Moderates, @RagingModeratesPod Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RagingModerates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Jessica Tarlev.
And I'm Aaron Parnas.
And this is raging moderates.
Let's talk about gerrymandering.
Louisiana is suspending their plan to make congressional primaries,
despite the fact that early voting was about to begin
because of this week's Supreme Court decision that undermined a key.
plank of the Voting Rights Act, the Republican-controlled legislature will redraw the map.
President Trump thanks the state's governor for, quote, moving so quickly, so not doing in Indiana.
And House Speaker Mike Johnson says Southern states should consider redistricting ahead of the midterms in November.
We should know that Speaker Johnson himself stands to gain from the redrawn maps as a Republican incumbent in Louisiana.
Meanwhile, Democrats could be ramping up retaliation in states like Illinois and Colorado with House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffrey saying all options are on the table.
I want to also note that we've seen that Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, has announced that he is not redrawing for the midterms.
I argued on the five, this is a really big issue for 2028.
And beyond the midterms, it'll be like zero or one seats gain, maximum three to four.
But what's your take on the gerrymandering wars right now?
Well, I've said it's from the beginning.
It's a race to the bottom.
And I don't like gerrymandering.
I don't think anyone likes gerrymandering.
It's why in 2021, Democrats put forth a bill to end.
partisan gerrymandering nationwide,
and every Republican voted against it.
I mean, even Republicans, many,
if you ask them, do you support gerrymandering?
They would probably say no.
Your co-hosts on the Five said they don't like gerrymandering.
So, I mean, like, we're in the situation
where we're in this race to the bottom.
But I'm of the belief that, okay,
since they're going to do it, we should do it too, right?
Like, screw it.
Why fight with one hand tied behind our back?
Now, I will say what's dangerous to me
is the cancellation or suspension of elections,
the state of emergency declared in Louisiana,
that's scary to me because votes have already been submitted.
Absentee ballots have already been tallied.
And so you're essentially nullifying votes as an election's ongoing.
Could that be the – could you set the stage for the cancellation of,
for example, in November election if there is a hurricane in Louisiana and you just want to redo it?
I mean, like, you never know where things go at this point.
So it's concerning.
It's a race to the bottom.
And I just, I would like to see national gerrymandering ban be passed and national independent redistricting committee established.
That's what I would like.
Yeah, that would be nice.
And I think, you know, when people look at the breakdown and how many seats there were to be gained in the states based on their partisanship, you know, they see a lot of shiny toys, like 52 seats in California, for instance, if we did that 17 in Illinois, et cetera.
But I'm curious as to how successful you think some of these southern governors are going to be in actually getting these hairbrained ideas through.
Like in Tennessee, for instance, it's already eight to one.
There's only one Democratic seat in Memphis.
They want to get rid of that.
South Carolina only has one Democratic seat.
It's Jim Clyburn seat.
They want to get rid of that.
I mean, everything will obviously get tied up.
in the courts, but do you think that they are going to be successful with anything pre-min terms?
In Louisiana, potentially, I think. But what is success? I don't know how you define success
for a lot of these Republican governors, because Jeff Landry could suspend this election.
Let's say he gets it through, but I'm already hearing that they're not going to eliminate both
black majority districts. They're only actually going to eliminate one. The one.
The one. So if you're going to do this for just one district, is that really a success when you
have another one you theoretically could? Are you going to go back next cycle and redistrict again
before 2028. I mean, and then in Georgia, like you said, they're not doing it. I don't, Tennessee says
they're going to do it, but saying it is a lot easier than actually getting it done. We have
six months until election day. So it is, I mean, we're going to have to see. I mean, I don't know
that ultimately they'll be that successful. And also, I mean, when you talk about success, just look at what
Democrats have done compared to what Republicans have done in this gerrymandering battle. If anything,
I mean, Democrats are out on top right now.
And so, okay, Tennessee goes through with it.
Let's say Maryland and Governor Moore wants to do it tomorrow too, right?
Like, it's this constant race to the bottom.
And ultimately, I just think you're going to get out members of Congress that have been established
and just cycle in a new generation of members of Congress in these new districts.
But on the numbers game, I think it's relatively going to be a wash.
Well, I hope so.
Part of that definitely is due to the good work that Democrats did in response to the Texas gerrymander
and asked voters what they wanted to do in California and Virginia and picked up a lot of seats.
Two questions. Do you think so it was a big deal when Indiana, the legislature rejected Trump's overtures for redistricting there.
There were a number of Republican members who ended up getting death threats, got into very public tangos with the president over that.
Do you think any of the southern states are going to, I mean, Brian Kemp with the 2026 thing, you know, Brian Kemp has always.
been more of a normal human being than the average Republican in the Trump era.
But do you think we'll see any pushback like we did in Indiana or generally speaking?
I mean, I think they've learned their lesson in a way. I don't think they want death threats.
And even in Indiana, I mean, like, yeah, you got the pushback and they didn't do it.
But Indiana is still a ruby red state. And if Trump told them to jump, they'll say how high tomorrow.
So I really just, I don't think we'll see it elsewhere.
And then this is a framing question that I have for you. Mostly I want you to do my work for me for when I go back on the five and talk about it. So there are two camps that I'm seeing in terms of how to talk about the Supreme Court ruling and the gerrymandering fight. So there is one camp that is all in on talking about the racial dynamics of this. And it is undoubtedly an attack on black representation in the country. Like there's no two ways about it.
Republicans have a very smooth way of framing it that like it's us that's obsessed with race, et cetera, even though they were crying racial foul when Virginia lost some rural representation.
They were like, well, what about the white people? And I was like, this is the same conversation here.
Right. So that's one way to talk about it. And the other way to talk about it is to talk about gerrymandering as a national plague on the nation, the policy solution to it, which is the gerrymandering ban, the Democratic.
have been supporting and the implications for elections without really heavy emphasis on the racial
component. What do you think is the most effective way? Because I've done it both ways. I think both,
you know, have their resonant points. But it does feel like we can sometimes get lost in having
like a hyperbolic fight. And, you know, there are a lot of people out there talking about, you know,
this is a Jim Crow redux, et cetera. And maybe.
Maybe it's just my perch in conservative media that I find those battles much tougher to wage
and win. But I'm curious what you think.
Well, I think I have a nuanced response to this, and it's kind of splitting the hair a little bit.
And I think it depends on which audience you're talking to. If you're talking to a majority
conservative audience, the racial argument won't play. On the five, the racial argument won't play.
But at the same time, you can't just eliminate an argument just because it won't play.
And I think that a lot of people, when talking about gerrymandering, forget that black Americans
fought for representation for decades. And this is a Jim Crow Redux in a lot of ways in terms of
trying to roll back the Voting Rights Act. Now, they didn't eliminate Section 2, but they did anything,
I mean, pretty much eliminating it without eliminating it. That's kind of where we got.
And you have to recognize that in any argument you put forth. Now, at the same time,
I think it all goes to a larger argument, which to me is the electoral college and just the way
apportionment works in the United States.
of America, the system that we kind of operate in. I think it is generally a problematic system
when a majority vote getter doesn't become president of the United States. This idea of this electoral
college system where you apportioned votes based on how big the population is and then you
apportioned congressional seats based on population, it almost seems very archaic. And yet
when you're having these arguments about national gerrymandering ban or anything, I don't
you can have those arguments without bringing up race. And I also don't think you can have those
arguments without talking about, well, is the system really working the way it was intended to work?
And I would say it's not. Now, that's a whole constitutional convention and all that jazz.
And I would love to have a constitutional convention tomorrow on a whole host of issues.
But I think there needs to be a bigger argument, a bigger conversation here about our electoral
system and the way kind of gerrymandering plays into it. You can go into campaign finance,
or all this stuff. And I also think you need to have a conversation about, is the Supreme Court,
this modern day Supreme Court, too powerful in the sense that it is actively, from Citizens
United to today, it is actively changing the electoral system as we know it. And there's
nothing Congress or the president even can do about it.
I think the president would say that he did a lot about it since he picked a bunch of folks
super big part of it. Thomas's concurrence was like bone-shilling, actually. I mean, right.
Yesterday, everyone was like, oh, I think it was like Kaylee McEnany. She printed it out and was like
reading it. Like it was, you know, the most beautiful poem she'd ever heard in her life. And I was
like, this is that shit, what we're hearing now. I just wanted to add, I thought it was very cool.
James Talarico, our fave in Texas, posted that the first bill that he's going to bring if he wins in
November is a nationwide gerrymandering ban. And I think it is going to go in the conversation
with corruption and the us versus them. And like, you're getting a raw deal. And will be used
rhetorically by a lot of Democratic candidates. And probably some Republicans who will then ignore
the fact that they could have voted for it and didn't. Just to note that the Cal Shea markets
currently have the likelihood of redistricting before the midterms at 83 percent in Florida,
which is strange because it's a violation of their state constitution. That's in court.
and Louisiana and the odds rising quickly in New York and Alabama.
Kathy Hokel is raring to go.
So you were doing some great reporting on the attempts to control elections this fall.
You already mentioned this a little bit.
In the last few weeks, the DOJ demanded Wayne County, Michigan to turn over ballots from the 2024 election
and are now also asking for the full-on-redacted voter rolls.
What's going on there?
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of they're trying to relitigate the past.
the DOJ demanded voter rolls, all ballots, anything from Wayne County, which is Detroit,
a majority black minority area that is highly democratic, voted against Donald Trump significantly.
And so they're trying to, in my opinion, at least, influence the upcoming midterm elections
by scaring off poll workers, by scaring off election officials, by trying to purge voter rolls.
It's not just in Wayne County.
They've requested it from 48 states in the District of Colleges.
So it's, I mean, they're trying to do it nationwide.
And even Republicans are saying no.
Yeah.
From my understanding.
Because I, because I, it is actually such an un-Republican concept to have the federal
government play a role in state elections.
Republicans, the parties of states' rights, they love states' rights.
They love it for Roe v. Wade.
Now they love it.
Now they don't like it when it comes to elections, right?
Like, let Wayne County administer its elections.
Let Michigan administer its elections.
Keep the federal government's pause out of states.
And that's how it should be.
That's how it's been done.
But this Trump administration that wants to buy a stake in Spirit Airlines and buy a stake in big tech companies and do all this stuff, I mean, they're moving towards socialism, even if they don't like socialism.
Totally.
State-run capitalism is what we call.
Yeah.
You know, what the Chinese do, essentially.
It was interesting to see this move for 2024 roles because we know that they're obsessed with 2020 and, you know, Tulsi Gabbard hanging out in front.
Fulton County, like, hiding in the corner there.
Yeah.
And when I saw this headline come in, I was like, oh, like, it's every election now that they think that there was fraud in.
And someone, I think he was Mitch McConnell's general counsel.
He wrote a piece, I think it was in the National Review about, to your point, how this is such anathema to being a Republican that you would try to federalize elections.
For sure.
I don't know what that word means, but yes, I agree with you.
The opposite of, right?
Oh, thank you.
I didn't take the SAT, so I don't like SAT words.
Because you took the ACT or like you were just gifted up?
No, I skipped a few years.
Okay.
Trump also spoke out yesterday about the filibuster saying Republicans need to get rid of it.
Let's take a look.
There will be very little voting cheating if we do the Save America Act.
And the way they're going to do that is to terminate the filibuster.
So I thought he'd forgotten about the Save America.
America Act, frankly. I'm not sure what jogged his memory. Also, Greta Vancestrian looked really
unhappy, which is generally how her taste looks at this point. But where do you think the Save
America Act situation stands? Obviously, Ken Paxton, who's still leading in the polls for the
nomination in Texas for Senate. That's like his big thing. And I think he's said that if Trump
gets it through, then he'll drop out and let Cornyn be the nominee.
but what's your take?
Yeah, I mean, I think the SAVE Act is still dead on arrival.
I don't think it's going anywhere.
You still need a filibuster-proof majority to pass it.
You don't have enough Republican support to eliminate the filibuster.
And Thune has said he won't get rid of the filibuster.
So this is just posturing.
It's just posturing.
But I will say this.
If they do somehow eliminate the filibuster, like,
I think you're going to see a blue wave of epic proportion.
Like, I really do.
I don't think buyer beware here for them.
You think eliminating a filibuster
is a story that resonates with average Americans.
Okay.
It's not the eliminating the filibuster story that it resonates.
It resonates.
It's the breaking down of congressional norms that I think resonates of like your passing
Save Act and whatever while we're paying a record amount for gas.
But I don't know.
I feel like we're so past it.
It's almost laughable, like how far in the dust we have left all of the norms that I worry
that anything really resonates.
Like when you look at, obviously,
Trump's support and Republican support
has been eroding over time.
But the real jolt to it was, like,
going to a war, right, that no one wanted.
It wasn't because you didn't ask Congress
to go to the war.
It was just like this thing is happening.
And I feel like everyone has kind of accepted
the fact that we live in a system
with no checks and balances.
Like, King Charles, good on you for that line.
But in general, I don't know.
what really resonates with people anymore besides huge blunt actions and their grocery bill.
Well, speaking of price increases, we're back to tariffs again a minute ago.
We're putting tariffs on the EU again.
Breaking news.
Barang, do your breaking news on region moderate.
Trump says he's pleased to announce that he's going to be announcing 25% tariffs on cars and trucks coming from Europe because Europe is not complying with our trade deal.
So we're back to tariffs.
Buy your cars now.
But also illegal.
The Supreme Court said illegal.
I do love how King Charles got the exemption,
the exemption for scotch and whiskey because he wasn't totally shitty to Trump when he was visiting.
It's insane.
I mean, like we live in a complete feed-ep episode every single day.
I know.
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The DHS shutdown is finally done.
75 days long.
Trump signed the measure into law.
Yesterday, Speaker Johnson initially rejected the bill that came to the House from the Senate as a joke,
but an internal memo from the White House saying it would be unable to pay DHS personnel
starting in May if the House didn't act, help grease the wheels.
Here's Speaker Johnson speaking after the bill was passed.
Don't doubt the House Republican majority.
We always delivered for the American people.
We did it again in spite of the challenges and we continue to do that.
He's so dishonest though because he doesn't mention that they jam through the ICE and CBP
funding through reconciliation.
So it's not like it makes it sound like the Democrats caved.
They did not.
They still voted for a clean bill.
It came from the Senate, right?
It had no funding for ICE in it.
So if you're feeling let down by Democrats,
they stuck to their preferial guns
for as long as they could enforce them
into a reconciliation process
to get that, what is it,
$75 billion that they got through.
But what do you think the upshot
of any of this is, or it's much of a muchness?
Much of a muchness.
I mean, what upshot?
Like, it's just like, who cares at this point anymore?
Like, seriously, like, who does,
Is this what average American is going to be like, oh, my God, we're out of a government shutdown.
And most people wouldn't even know we're in a government shutdown because Trump just found money to pay people.
That's my point about the filibuster. Yeah.
Well, yeah.
But it does have, or it could potentially have implications for immigration enforcement.
This is the part that I was a little bit afraid of because it has felt like they've taken a real break from it.
That Mark Wayne Mullen understands that what Christy Noem and Greg Bevino was doing is not going to be acceptable to a wide swath of Americans, even.
more moderate Republicans.
Tom Holman has kept a very low profile since Minnesota, right?
Like, I think I've literally not seen Tom Homan since ICE left Minnesota.
They did see him in the green room at Fox once.
But I have not seen him like...
Oh, did he?
Did he see that?
Yeah, he said that the Pope should go on an immigration raid with him.
Yeah, that's going to happen.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Like this Pope who I just appointed a new bishop in Westford.
Virginia, who was an illegal immigrant to try crossing the border three times.
Like, that Pope is going to go out an immigration raid with you.
But do you think that they're going to ramp back up the deportations?
Because I have seen some swirl online from prominent voices saying that Mullen doesn't
understand the assignment and that people did want these mass deportations.
They just don't want, you know, public killings like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
I think they will after November.
Not before November.
I think they're going to wait until after the midterms.
I think they know that if they start back up before the midterms, it's not good.
Bad news bears.
Bad news bears.
Okay, I love that.
Yeah, I know millennial talking points.
Don't make me feel so old.
It's because I've said bad news bears on previous episodes, I'm sure.
It's incredible to me how far down the list of topic priorities Iran has gotten like yesterday
in the five.
We didn't even talk about the war.
It's crazy.
is the 60 days deadline for the conflict, no congressional approval in sight.
I didn't even understand what happened last night.
Like, they tried to reclassify it in such a way so that it wouldn't be subject to a war powers vote.
I don't.
It feels like Republicans are actually legitimately angry about this at this point.
But let's listen to Pete Heggs-Seth and then I want to get your take.
On Iran, ultimately, I would defer to the White House and White House counsel on that.
However, we are in a ceasefire right now, which our understanding means the 60 day clock pauses or stops in a ceasefire.
So you're not in.
It's our understanding just so you know.
Okay.
Well, I do not believe the statute would support that.
I think the 60 days runs maybe tomorrow.
And it's going to pose a really important legal question for the administration.
We have serious constitutional concerns and we don't want to layer those with additional statutory concerns.
I yield back.
That was it.
That because we're in a ceasefire, they should get those two weeks back.
Do you think that argument is going to carry any weight with folks who are expecting to vote on this?
I shouldn't.
I mean, we're not in a ceasefire.
I don't know what BS they're spewing.
We have a naval blockade right now on Iran.
That's an act of war under every international law of war.
We are not in a ceasefire.
Are you as fascinated, though, as I am with the fact that the blockade isn't actually working
and how the Iranians are just sneaking their oil out.
They're putting, like, a banner on the vessel that says we're Iraqi and just going about their business.
And I don't know.
I don't have the numbers on exactly how much crude oil is getting out.
But I feel like the fact that we're hearing less about folks who depend on that oil being really upset means that there must be some decent amount getting out the door.
Yeah, 100%.
I mean, but at the end of the day, like, the administration is going to violate the law.
again, they should pull out U.S. forces today if they don't get congressional authorization. That is the law.
A ceasefire does not mean that hostilities have ended. It means that hostilities have ceased temporarily.
You need a permanent agreement to end the war. I mean, I don't know. Because it's like any, what's any, are they going to listen to a court? Are they going to listen to Congress? Like, who did they have to listen to at this point? I don't even know.
Me. And you, basically.
Good luck.
Yeah. What's the deal with the Epstein's suicide note situation?
I would love to know. Apparently there's a suicide note that they found in the coffers of a New York City courthouse. And it was found by a cellmate of Epstein's when Epstein died. And it's just been sitting in this vault. And we don't know what it says. I'm very suspect of it. I don't think Epstein took his own life. So that's kind of where I'm at.
But you don't think he took his own life?
Like, how far do you go in the conspiracy, I guess?
Like, do you think that somebody—
And I shouldn't even call a conspiracy.
Like, Julie Kay Brown doesn't think that Epstein killed himself.
And I don't think anyone has spent more time steeped in Epstein than Julie K. Brown.
But do you think that this is a note that he was coerced into writing or someone wrote for him or—
Let me reframe what I said.
I don't think the investigation was thorough enough to determine.
termined conclusively that Epstein took his own life. That's where I'm at. How about that? It's not that I don't know. I ultimately don't know what happened. He may have taken his own life. He may have not. But I think that the fact that the inspector general of the DOJ that investigated Epstein's death didn't look at this note tells me everything I need to know.
Do you think that they secretly have read it and ingested it and had conversations about what the implications are? And then we're like it would be really better if this was in a box at the bottom.
That's a ton of speculation that I don't have an answer to. I have no idea.
All right. You're no fun today.
Lastly, Senate voted unanimously to ban senators and their staff from participating in prediction
markets like Polly Market and Kalshi, effective immediately.
Chuck Schumer is urging the House to pass a similar measure, which I imagine that they will.
What do you think is going to happen with the regulation of these prediction markets?
I mean, I hope they're highly regulated, especially Pauly Market.
Kalshi is a little different, but Polly Markets.
It's not even a U.S.-based company.
It's not regulated by the CFTC to conduct business in the United States, I believe.
So that's a whole different conversation.
I think this prediction market rise is one of the most dangerous things
that's happening inside the United States of America right now
because it is so unregulated.
I don't, like, for example, if there was a prediction bet about how long this episode would go,
I can filibuster it on my own and make a ton of money off of it.
And there's nothing stopping that from happening, really.
I mean, you have these insider trading regulations, so, but it's very, it's not regulated like the stock market is.
It's not like indicting someone for insider trading.
It's interesting that soldier that was indicted in the Southern District of New York for betting on the Maduro raid, he wasn't indicted for insider trading.
He was indicted for the use of classified information.
I don't know that you can even indict someone on insider trading charges because of how unregulated the market is.
And also, I don't even know that is it gambling.
Is it a prediction market?
Is it something like a stock or is it something like sports betting?
No courts answered that clearly enough for me yet.
The Supreme Court hasn't weighed in.
So I think there needs to be a lot more regulation and a lot more conversation, especially
as it relates to people in power.
Yeah.
I mean, life always moves too quickly for the courts, especially when technology is involved.
I agree with you with the difference.
Like CalShe doesn't allow bets on war, for instance, and things like that, which I think
is important since there's an argument.
that, you know, people have been making a ton of money off of war,
which is American lives lost, Iranian lives lost, Lebanese lives lost,
Israeli lives lost, all of it.
And that there were inside information, potentially,
there was a big story about someone on Pete Higgs' team.
And then we also, you know, know things like John Jr. and Eric Trump
are making a ton of money off of the war.
So what's the difference, right?
Like, at this point, I don't even know.
Actually, and I could just go on and be like,
I could do a whole episode listing.
all the ways that they're making money.
Final thing that I just wanted to note,
it's not even a topic.
I just want to say that Trump's net worth
has nearly tripled in his second term.
It's up to $6.5 billion.
That is not happening without cheating.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, but I was doing like a soapbox thing
for the audience.
Oh, go ahead.
I mean, I'm basically done.
Like, there are a bunch of criminals.
And it's just astounding.
Like, the cognitive dissonance
or the willingness to just come
completely ignore the fact that the coffers, crypto and live, like in your hands, are just open to the highest bidders and the whole world knows that you can just put a token in and then you're going to get what you want. And this links to everything. I mean, I couldn't. It was frustrating on a number of levels. You know, we had Senator Rand Paul on earlier this week and he has a bill about, you know, making sure that the ballroom goes through the normal approval processes and privately funded. And I asked him, like, well,
what are people getting for this money?
He's like, well, I don't know if we have laws
that are going to make it so that we could find that out.
You're the guy to make the laws.
Like, you now have somebody who has taken every Norman shattered them
who has meant every rule that we ever thought that we needed
to have a sane and functioning society.
And you don't want to do anything about it.
It's like...
Clip that.
Clip that.
Good.
Clip it.
Okay.
That's great.
Yeah.
Once I got on my soapbox.
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