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Gavin Newsom's rented twitter persona; CA’s mysterious maps; BlueAnon on the Smithsonians
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Texas Dems Surrender, MAGA Gavin, NOVA Schools & a Flawed Climate Study On today’s 10 Minute Drill: Texas Democrats finally surrender on redistricting after weeks of political theater. California Democrats push the “nuclear option” to...
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Texas Democrats surrender as their state moves ahead with their new maps. We take a look at Gavin Newsom's new Twitter, Rent a Personality. And we're gonna talk about some scary Northern Virginia school districts and just what they're trying to do. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up.
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Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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The TikTok Texas Democrats have officially surrendered.
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Democratic lawmakers from Texas just arrived and it looks like they are about to board. They're boarding now?
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Yeah, they're boarding a private jet. You'll notice they took their dark money funded private jet back to the state and they're trying to put lipstick on a pig by arguing that this meaningless trip to Illinois actually had some victories for them. They're trying to take credit, for example, for California's new redistricting nuclear option. But I think the reality is the primary outcome of the Texas Democrats fleeing to Illinois is starting a national conversation about how unfair the congressional map of blue states like Illinois actually is, which has given Texas Republicans a lot more firepower for their effort to make fairer maps in Texas. Earlier this week, we talked about Gavin Newsom and California Democrats redistricting nuclear option, where they were intending to take their already wildly gerrymandered state congressional maps and gerrymander them even further in an effort to counter Texas maps. In order to do that, they need to break their own law first by throwing out their incredibly popular independent redistricting commission, which was passed overwhelmingly back in 2010. People like it because it gives their congressional maps the veneer of independence. If they already are far more gerrymandered than Texas's new maps. So far, the process for California's nuclear option has not gone very well. We're going to take a look at some of the hearings and proceedings there first. Let's take a look at this. This is California State Senate Elections Committee Chair Sabrina Cervantes.
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Voters deserve to know who drew these maps. That's what we are asking. Don't they deserve to know who drew these maps?
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Again, this is the most transparent process in the nation.
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So then who drew the maps?
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Can we ask a few questions? A theme of the questions that Democrats are really struggling with is who drew the maps? When Gavin Newsom began this nuclear option crusade, he promised that this would be an incredibly transparent process. And he also promised there would be no special interests involved. Here.
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Madam Majority Leader. I understand. I heard all that. Who drew the maps? It's a very simple question. Names, preferably.
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The Assembly.
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The assembly did it. Okay. I'm in the assembly, and I did not draw these maps.
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Well, you're not the leadership.
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I am a part of that group. So by association, I have been lumped in Mr. Bennet. So I'm asking, who drew these maps? The legislature drew the maps. Who's specifically in the legislature? The legislature drew the maps. This is transparency that we don't get to know who drew the maps. The legislature drew the maps.
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That was Assemblywoman Ally Macedo asking some very basic questions. And as you hear Democrats laugh and act like it's absurd to want to know who drew these maps, especially when she's being told the assembly drew the maps, members of the committee drew the maps, but she's sitting with members of the committee who are all acknowledging they did not draw the maps. And so the who drew the maps? Mystery only grows. Here is assembly woman Gail Pellegrino.
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My question is, who is responsible for the maps? Specifically, who do we let California voters know are responsible for the maps that they are being presented with?
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Yeah, I mean. I mean, I think it was a collaboration.
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There were several people involved. Who specifically. I don't have the full list right here with me, but we can go. When I go to a restaurant, I don't need to meet the chef. I just enjoy the food.
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When I go to a restaurant, I don't need to meet the chef. That is what California Democrats think of your right to transparency about who is drawing your congressional maps. But it doesn't end there. Democrats brought in an attorney to testify about the redistricting maps and proposals. But when Republicans on that panel asked this person as a witness basic questions about who he was, here's what happened.
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Who are you? One more time. I'm sorry. Here to answer technical questions with who? With the law firm Wilson Redshift. And who are you representing today?
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I think we've gone over this.
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That we.
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That we're not going to get into that today. And happy to answer any legal questions. I've sat through a lot of congressional hearings in the House and Senate, and for a witness to tell an elected official, we're not gonna get into that today. And again, it's not a very difficult, abstract question about their political views. It's literally, who are you? And this guy's saying, we're not gonna get into that today. Well, we looked up who he is. His name is Tom Willis of Olson Remcho. His website says he represented the governor's office and the state Assembly. Now for the most transparent process, you're bringing in witnesses who you won't even tell people who they are. You can't tell people who drew the maps and you can't tell people who's funding this entire campaign. I would say there's a transparency problem, but here's a look at some of the public comments from the public comment period.
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And I'm here to speak for the 16,000 people that wrote in, took their time to write comments and you don't have the time to look at them and you won't put them in as part of this meeting.
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A part of the process required for something to get on the November ballot is to have a comment period. But as this woman just shared, they're ignoring the comments and throwing them out. This is a box checking exercise. Another person got up and talked about what he thinks the legislature should actually be focusing on and spending taxpayer dollars on. I'm a taxpayer who would definitely love to see our money going to better things. 230 million could definitely do things like helping rebuild the Palisades or communities that have been imp impacted by recent wildfires. Even the Business Roundtable has come out against Gavin Newsom's plan.
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Here, Cheryl Ocio Gonzalez, on behalf of California's Business Roundtable, one of the early sponsors of California's independent redistricting process, we urge you to reject both bills and keep our process free of politics.
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And now there's a news story from the Daily Wire reporting that Gavin Newsom is trying to raise money for this and his potential 2028 campaign everywhere but California. What does that tell you? One of the biggest risks the Democrats plans here. First, obviously, legal challenges. There is a lawsuit about this. There is an effort to delay this because they're jumping so many different steps in the legal process to do this. We already know Gavin is willing to break the law for this map. But the other big risk to this is the popular pushback. We've talked about polling that shows over 60% of Democrats disapprove of Gavin Newsom's plan to circumvent their popular independent redistricting commission. The more of this that gets out there, the more Californians of all political stripes are going to say this is bad and we don't like it. So let's talk a little bit about Gavin Newsom. But first, to set the table here, it's important to remember, as we talked about earlier this week, Democrats brand is in the basement The Democratic brand is in the basement. It is total and complete garbage. Just yesterday the New York Times reported that Democrats are facing a voter registration crisis and have lost ground to in all 30 states that track partisan voter registration. And as we've seen, polls show us that no Democrat leader is actually breaking through. Democrats seem to hate everyone. Enter Gavin Newsom, who wants to try something new. Unfortunately, it's not anything new at all. It's the same thing that Democrats and comedians have been doing for the last decade. An impersonation of Donald Trump. Here's Dana Perino attempting to give some helpful advice about his latest shtick.
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Stop it with the Twitter thing. I don't know where his wife is. If I were his wife I would say you are making a fool of yourself. He's got a big job as governor of California, but if he wants an even bigger job, he has to be a little bit more serious.
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Gavin Newsom responded, suggesting that the problem here was that people just don't get the cleverness of the 5D chess humor move they're doing with an impersonation of Donald Trump. Here's Jon Favreau, former Obama aide, also helpfully explaining it's pretty clearly a parody of Trump. Thanks John. Because with your intellectual superiority we weren't able to keep up with the fact that you guys were trying the groundbreaking comedic tactic of an impersonation of Donald Trump. Only a Democrat in 2025 would think that they had invented the wheel by coming up with the grand comedic idea of doing an impression of Donald Trump because nobody has ever tried that before. I of course am a big fan of everything that Saudi Arabia has to offer from the oil. January 20 I, Donald J. Trump would become the 45th president of the United States. Abu Begar Al Baghdadi is dead. He died like a dog. So again, it's not that we don't get it, it's that it's not funny. And you have to consider the fact that Democrats brand is in the basement and the guy who might be their best hope, the best idea he has for leadership is to do a two bit Donald Trump impression that's now lasted for over a week. It kind of reminds me of Michael Scott when he beats the dead horse of a joke.
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If you don't take out his battery, he just keeps going all day.
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The guy with the biggest platform in the Democrat party is using all of his time and energy on this goofy Twitter shtick instead of, for example, rebuilding after the Pacific Palisades wildfire, completing their high speed rail system. That's tens of billions of dollars in debt or dealing with the massive, massive cris they've created with things like giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants that have resulted in accidents like what we saw in Florida over the weekend where three Americans were tragically killed because an illegal immigrant who got his commercial driver's license in California without being able to read road signs. This is just the latest reminder that Democrats view their problems not in terms of substance or ideas, but as a simple messaging fix. These are the same people that brought us Dark Brandon, brought us Brat Summer. We've prepared a tiny trailer to show you how that progression has gone from the makers of Dark Brandon and Brat Summer. We bring you the latest in substance free marketing ploys to make unpopular Democrats cool.
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MAGA Gavin.
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It's a Twitter rent a personality. And the only reason that it works is because media acts like it's an extension of Gavin and and not a Halloween costume of Gavin pretending to be somebody that he's not. But until Democrats come to terms with the fact that their problems are with their ideas and that everybody thinks their ideas are terrible and not simple messaging tweaks, they're going to continue to face this existential crisis. We turn now to a terrible development in Northern Virginia. When a mother of a nine year old attending swim lessons at an Arlington public school's high school pool complained about a naked man loitering in the locker room, school district staff said there was nothing they could do because he claimed he was a woman. After the Department of Education investigated Arlington and four other Northern Virginia school districts, the Office for Civil Rights concluded that their policies allowing self identification into self segregated spaces violates Title 9. So again, as you look at that picture of that terrifying person, remember, that is who elected officials in Arlington county believe your daughter should have to share a bathroom or a locker room with. That person has been found multiple times to have exposed himself to young women. And Arlington county thinks that's just fine. President Trump's civil Rights division of his Department of Justice is stepping in now. 5 Northern Virginia School districts are going to lose federal funding. Nikki Neely of Defending Education weighed in on this. Let's be very clear. Local administrators are making a conscious decision to forfeit federal funding for poor children rather than protect the sanctity of girls only spaces in K12 schools. One thing we've talked about extensively here on 10 Minute Drill is the fact that climate activists have done considerable damage to their own movement. When they have put politics ahead of things like the science and things like rigorous research, we have another example of that. When a study published last year in the peer reviewed journal Nature found that climate change would cost the globe $38 trillion per year by 2050, ultimately reducing GDP by 19% over the next 24 years, many media outlets were quick to jump on it. Climate change will make you poorer, CNN warned. The Guardian reported on the study under the headline Climate Crisis Average World incomes to diminish by nearly a fifth by 2050. Reuters and Forbes also carried articles on the study, and the Associated Press reported that new study calculates climate change's economic bite will hit about $38 trillion a year by 2049, according to the activist publication Carbon Brief. Only one other study received more mentions in the media in 2024. The study has been cited by organizations influencing policy across the globe, including the World bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the US Congressional Budget Office. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse cited the study last year and again in July, both times entering the study into the Congressional record. However, as is often the case with studies like this, we have talked about world weather attribution and so many other institutions that exist to tell us that climate change is responsible for everything in our lives. Once you pulled back the layers of this research, in this study we found that it was actually a bunch of crap. However, the study, referred to as the Potsdam Study has since been found to have serious flaws. When these are corrected, according to the researchers who uncovered the problems, it reduces the study's estimate of climate damages through 2100 by 2/3. This means the estimates aren't statistically different than zero. The estimates aren't statistically different than zero is a nice sciency way of saying this blew up and is meaningless. So once again you have a left wing survey telling everyone the world's going to end. It is cited by every mainstream media outlet under the sun saying the world is ending. Please panic. It is used to create new policy by organizations from the U.S. congress to the World bank, only for us to find out corners were cut and it's actually all made up. Imagine that. However, Senator Whitehouse, who touted the study, didn't respond to requests for comment asking if he intends to correct the Congressional record. Imagine that. From brat summer to brat summer we talked last week about how J.B. pritzker's word salads are actually word sausages. J.B. pritzker has made new news when he has announced that Illinois will be giving college tuition assistance to illegal immigrants. Slap in the face Major Blue State Governor Signs Bill Opening Financial Aid to Illegals Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law opening student financial aid to all residents regardless of immigration status, including for illegal immigrants. So in the same week that we find that California's sanctuary policies of giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants has resulted in the death of three Americans, JB Pritzker is out with his own one up to try and also create a bigger immigration crisis by giving free college tuition to illegal immigrants funded by the taxpayers of Illinois, whether they like it or not. Talk about brought Sommer As a user of social media, one trend that I have personally tracked and followed in the last 10 years, particularly since Donald Trump came on the scene, was the rise of the resistance. Ladies, these are people on social media, often also on MSNBC and other left leaning media outlets, who are there to raise conspiracy theories about President Trump. We often refer to those conspiracy theories as Blue Anon, the left's version of QAnon. Here's one that I followed just this last week.
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A lot of us are feeling it. Anger is a fire. It's a spark. But a spark only matters if it lights a larger fire, and a fire only matters if we keep it burning. To explain what's happening at the Smithsonian right now and why this echoes so precisely the Gleichschaltung, the alignment of cultural Life in the 1930s in Germany.
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That was MD Global Machine, an American Instagram user living in Germany who is a leader of the Blue Anon resistance. And the word that she used there, Leiceschlang, was the process of the Nazi party taking control over all aspects of Germany. It is otherwise known as coordination or Nazification. In her video, she explains exactly how her Resistance blueinon followers should take action. She gives them scripts for what to say when they call their elected officials to resist President Trump's efforts to to review these exhibits. One thing that she argues is that the Smithsonian should be independent from politics. But what she's missing there is what we talked about yesterday in our review of why the administration is actually doing this. The administration wants to get politics out of these exhibits because as it is now, you can't look at a display of a dinosaur without also seeing a plaque about how fossil fuels are destroying the environment and the world around us. But if I may add one more thing, consider the absurdity of Blue Anon Queen, MD Global Moment commenting on American free speech and free expression from Germany, a place that has no free speech and no free expression, we recently covered a 60 minute segment where law enforcement was arresting people by the dozens for criticizing their elected officials online this woman is criticizing her elected officials from Germany, and she has the power and freedom to do it because this is the United States of America. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us here on 10 Minute Drill. Please, like, subscribe, tell a friend, join us next week.