Hosts: Adam Sommer, Rachel Parker, Sean DillerTrue Or False : The Missouri Senate primary just had a snow globe flip moment - Greitens assault/Sheena Greitns - and Trump’s statement of “not an endorsement” of Billy LongGreitens on “War Room” - Rachel Really troubling behaviorHas denied assault allegations https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/exclusive-eric-greitens-addresses-ex-wifes-abuse-allegations/Trump’s thing for Billy Long https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-senate-candidate-billy-long-hopes-trumps-support-will-shake-up-gop-race/39530780#Sean - how does this race impact national picture if it slides into the truly competitive column? 538 polling https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/missouri/Real Clear politics pollinghttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/Missouri.htmlYeah…No… : The confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and specifically this GIF from the national GOP on twitter: https://twitter.com/gop/status/1506282786843410432?s=21Hawley’s obsession with porn and sexhttps://theintercept.com/2022/03/23/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-confirmation-child-predators/Ted Cruz searching his own name on twitter after his question about racist babiesMarsha Blackburn Defining a Woman - I personally defer to the Billy Joel song “She’s Always A Woman to Me”Cory Booker nice moment cuts throughhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/24/cory-booker-doesnt-let-gop-ugliness-tar-ketanji-brown-jacksons-historic-moment/Amazing the difference of how Justice Barrett was questioned as a Mother but Judge Jackson was questioned as a black womanSilver lining - Manchin signals support for confirmation so should be a go538 - Public opinion is in favor of confirmationhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-broadly-want-the-senate-to-confirm-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-supreme-court/Buy or Sell : John Fetterman, Lt. Gov. of Pennsylvania - is the absolute model Heartland POD candidate He is doing well in the race - https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/599666-how-fetterman-is-pulling-away-in-pennsylvaniaAs LT. Gov he has been working on wrongful convictionsSide note: great website https://johnfetterman.com/Joined Big Brothers at age 23, winds up joining Americorp, getting his GED and eventual his Masters in public policy from Harvard, started a GED program, then became mayor of his town for 13 years before, officiated one of the first same sex marriages in the state, and opposed a new highway going through his town on grounds of environmental racismPro legalization of MJ and not at all shy about it “the idea that we have allowed a plant to be illegal in this country is absurd”The Big One - Are we in a cold civil war?We have talked about project blitz - but one thing we have not really touched on is the way it’s being used to pass what amount to federal nullification lawsState’s rights arguments are flying aroundThe distinction of local control v. states rightsVoting Rights restrictions Anti-trans rights billsGun laws like SAPA in MissouriState laws to contradict federal laws in trade, forien policy, just about any category you can imagine. Attacks on schools that teach based largely on the principles of federalism - even through the white washing of the civil war and the South’s war effort based largely on Slavery as the motivator doesn’t do justice to the brutality of slavery it DOES cheer on a President that suspended habeas corpus and intended to use federal power to take property and redistribute it
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