Radio Show Hour 1 – 2026/05/09

[00:00:01] You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program. And here to guide you through the murky waters of The Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.

[00:00:45] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's live broadcast of TPC with Keith Alexander serving that selection up as a tribute to the Memphis garbage workers who went on strike.

[00:01:16] And their descendants are showing out again, but I don't know if it's going to have the exact same effect. Welcome to tonight's live broadcast, everybody. It's Saturday evening, May the 9th. James Edwards and the aforementioned Keith Alexander here with you. And we are in a good mood tonight. A lot has happened since just last week.

[00:01:40] And it just is an amazing thing, life is, that how week to week, even day to day in some cases, especially it seems as though in the Trump era, fortunes can change and things can develop. And I am not so sure that what we're going to be talking about tonight is not one of the most interesting... It's a sea change. ...political turn of events in recent history. Yes, indeed. What are we talking about?

[00:02:08] Well, we're talking about the Supreme Court decision in Calais that basically said that you're going to interpret Part 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 65 according to the plain meaning of its language. In other words, no racial discrimination. Blacks are going to have to adjust to a world where they're not the beneficiaries of official legal favoritism. And as Jackie Gleason used to say on his TV show, oh, how sweet it is.

[00:02:36] So here's what we're talking about, as Keith just said. We are going to be offering for the bulk of the first two hours tonight... Lou Moore is going to join us and help us unpack this. We need a political professional on. And Lou is certainly a political savant. And he's going to break it down in ways that you're not going to hear anywhere else. But we're going to offer commentary and his expert analysis on how the dominoes are falling in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights Act.

[00:03:05] Now, on last week's show, we touched on it very briefly with Greg Johnson. But I know I wanted to save the comprehensive deep dive for when Keith could join us. And Lou is going to be on as well. So that makes it even more delightful. But this, as I said, may prove to be one of the biggest political bombshells in recent history. Governor Gavin Newsom of California has declared that, quote,

[00:03:32] Well, my only question is, what took them so long? I've been recommending that they get rid of that ninth congressional district in Tennessee for years. And apparently, somehow, the message got through to the people at the state legislature finally.

[00:03:57] But, you know, the real question is, what took the Confederate states so long to do this, the ex-Confederate states? Because the blue states, you know, you were showing me a list of states where, for example, in New Hampshire, 48 percent of the votes cast for president are for the Republican. But all 10 of their congressional seats go to Democrats. And it's that way in Massachusetts.

[00:04:27] It's that way in so many of these states. And it's incredible. And you had the Indiana Senate try to not redistrict, according to, you know, helping the Republicans. Apparently, they thought that wasn't cricket or something. And the result has been that six out of eight of them have been voted out of office.

[00:04:51] Well, you know, it's time to start taking off the gloves and play by the same rules that the Democrats do. And if you do that, we will have a never-ending majority in the House of Representatives. And it's, you know, the states can never be higher than they will be in what this year's November election and in the following 19 –

[00:05:19] 2028 presidential election. And, you know, it's time to stop playing patty cake with these people and get down to brass tacks. All right. Let's go through – there has been such a flood and inundation of hot takes and hysterical reaction. I have just tried to screenshot and save as many as I could. And we'll just give you a sampling tonight. But throughout the South, this is happening.

[00:05:47] And it very well may keep the balance of power on the Republican side of the aisle, if that matters to people. Well, it ought to matter to people because that's what the whole ballgame is about. Well, so here – but Memphis is a place they're really keying in on. That's the only district in the state of Tennessee that is a blue state – a blue district. And it's because Memphis has a majority black population.

[00:06:17] Well, let me tell you, this is long overdue. We've had this crazy guy named Steve Cohen there since 2002. He's been known to do things like when some old lady accidentally barely bumped the back of his car, he got out of his car and started jumping up and down on the hood of her car. That's the type of people we've had representing us in Congress. Well, so it's interesting about Steve Cohen. I mean, Steve Cohen was one of the ones who – about ten or so years ago,

[00:06:46] when the political cesspool became a topic of the congressional record, and they started – it was a weird thing. The show came up as part of a congressional hearing on immigration. And I guess that we had had on – was testifying, and they asked about his appearance. And then all of these congressmen and women, congresspersons, began to take the microphone

[00:07:11] and denounce me and you and Eddie at the time, who was with us then, and the show in general. And I'm not talking about some Democratic lawmakers you'd never heard of. I'm talking about the late Sheila Jackson Lee. I'm talking about Hakeem Jeffries himself. And, of course, Steve Cohen, who was the representative here in Memphis and still is. Steve Cohen is such a bad actor that he was trying to take credit falsely for being a father of an illegitimate child,

[00:07:39] thinking that would give him street cred with the brothers in Memphis when everybody knew that he was a homosexual. Well, allegedly. But, you know, certainly not married. Never married. No children. Here's the thing about it, though, is he took the microphone and he said, oh, yes, I know these guys. They're in my district and they're reprehensible. I want to be sure to go on the congressional record to let you know that I think this program is reprehensible.

[00:08:04] And anyway, it's – the point I bring that up, the point is who would have thought 10 years ago that this show could potentially outlive the career of Steve Cohen, who is almost certainly going to be voted out now. Now, the governor, Bill Lee of Tennessee, has already signed this into law. So unless the Tennessee Supreme Court invalidates this, and I don't think they're going to, then this is set. And then the SPLC.

[00:08:31] I mean, it's probably wishful thinking to think that this investigation is going to end them. But, I mean, imagine TPC outlasting the SPLC and Steve Cohen. Even Pat Buchanan, when Pat came on the show one of the times he came on, he was talking about Steve Cohen because Steve Cohen had embarrassed himself by trying to join the Congressional Black Caucus, and they slammed the door in his face. Well, like I said, the tide has turned.

[00:08:54] I think the SPLC and the safe black districts that had been carved out for blacks in the South are a thing of the past. We're going to start having, you know, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And I don't think, and the blacks are just absolutely outraged that they are not being treated as a favored category of people anymore.

[00:09:23] They're going to have to play by the same rules as the white people. Here is a... If we don't get any Republican representation in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, despite the fact that 40% or more of the population votes Republican, why are they complaining about not getting representation in the South when, you know, generally 60%, 70%, 80% of the vote is for Republicans? All right. We're going to get to those numbers.

[00:09:52] But here is the headline out of Memphis. Tennessee House passes new congressional map, removing the state's only Democratic black majority district. Again, this is great news. And then you have, of course, there's two black members of the state house here in Tennessee, and they're both named Justin. There's one Justin that looks like Little Richard, and he's up from Nashville.

[00:10:19] And then there's one Justin from here in Memphis who went to an all-white college in Maine, and he was very well-dressed and spoke like a white man. And then he came down here and grew an afro and started speaking in this performative, theatrical, fake, and contrived... Black preacher dialect. It sounds just like Martin Luther King, which had, you know, Martin Luther King himself had this fake, you know, performative, theatrical delivery. But anyway, and he shows up with an afro, and he's wearing African tribal garb,

[00:10:49] and they're burning Confederate flags in the state capitol. But this stuff isn't working anymore. This is what we'll talk about when we come back. All of this stuff, them showing out and crying racism, it's not working now. It is calling for politicians, major media outlets, and nonprofits to hype white on black murders aggressively, or even claim that blacks are living in fear of white people. Lends for simply being black. Hard to believe, but that's what was done. And some people still want to do that.

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[00:13:08] So again, even though, well, here's the New York Post headline. As furious redistricting battles continue, we reveal the Republican plan to add 14 seats throughout the Old South following last week's Supreme Court ruling. So this is going on throughout the South and all the old Confederate states, except for Virginia, which I believe is going to maintain their Republican congressional seats

[00:13:37] because the Virginia Supreme Court has spiked Governor Spanberger's proposal to do away with and make it all blue like the other Democratic states are. Very interesting turn of events there. We'll get Lou Moore's thoughts on that in just a moment. But Tennessee seems to be getting, at least for now, a lion's share of attention because of Memphis. And here again is another headline. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has officially signed the state's new congressional maps into law.

[00:14:04] Tennessee will soon have nine Republicans and zero Democrats in Congress. And the Democrats' screeching did not work. And, Keith, that's what I've been talking about. I mean, you know, it wasn't that long ago where blacks crying racism and throwing these temper tantrums would make white men just fall over themselves, especially white elected officials. And now not so much. But let me ask you this important question.

[00:14:31] And that is, what was – I mean, I don't care how the language reads because I know it's going to read flowery. What was the original intent of the Voting Rights Act in the 60s? I imagine – I'm just guessing here – that the intent was to ensure, sort of like congressional affirmative action, that blacks who are unqualified and have no business holding a seat in Congress

[00:14:56] would be guaranteed at least some seats that they would have never won under fair elections. Well, the original intent was to allow – you know, they said it was important because they invoked the sanctimonious slogan, one man, one vote. Well, what do you do when the man can't be bothered to vote? That was the problem they had with black voters in the South and basically everywhere in the United States at that time.

[00:15:23] So what they were looking for was a way that basically subliminally allowed voter fraud, allowed people to vote – proxy voting on behalf of black people that were allowed to vote but couldn't be troubled to vote. But if you just look at the language of Part 2, it just basically says no racial discrimination.

[00:15:49] It said race will not be a factor in drawing these districts. Now, that has, in actual practice, resulted in favoritism for blacks and no favoritism for whites. In fact, whites were being punished by having these gerrymandered districts prepared

[00:16:13] and made so that they were assured of voting in a black congressman or woman. And that is, you know, directly contrary to the language of the statute, just like in the 64th Civil Rights Act. It says race will not be a factor in college admissions or in job selection, things like that.

[00:16:39] And the way that the courts interpreted it was to say that there was going to be favoritism in favor of blacks. And this is just going to race neutrality. You're not going to make race a factor. And the blacks and the Democrats are squealing like a stuck pig about it. And that's the thing. Another headline here. So the one from Nashville is Justin Jones.

[00:17:08] That's the one who looks like Little Richard. And the one from Memphis is Justin Pearson. He looks like Sly and the Family Stone. Yeah, the one from Memphis is the one that looks like Sly and the Family Stone. And he is the one who has taken on this role-playing as Martin Luther King with the... His bombastic oratory is his trademark now. But if you look at him in college when he was wearing suits and going to these all-white colleges up in Maine, he speaks very proper and all that. Anyway, so it's all fake. I mean, they were all fake back in the 60s.

[00:17:38] But Representative Justin Jones burns the Confederate flag protesting Tennessee Republicans' vote to use the map that eliminates the lone Democratic seat. Now, these two guys have also been expelled from the Tennessee House for similar disruptive behavior a couple of years ago. But then their black constituencies reelected them and sent them back, and they got reseated. But they're basically just applying the ointment.

[00:18:05] But it wasn't, again, that long ago when you could do these pathetic sit-ins basically where you go and you sit at the lunch counters at Woolworth's, and you defecate, as Drew Lackey said on this program. You know, they would defecate and urinate in people's yards. But all of this acting out, it's just not getting the same results that it's used to. I wonder what has changed in that regard.

[00:18:33] Well, what has changed is, one, we didn't have TV cameras to record all of that outrageous behavior in Selma and other places, Birmingham, that the people that were there and the policemen that were there actually had a front-row seat to. But what has happened is that now you have phone cameras, stuff like this.

[00:18:57] We have a media presence, things like our radio show, where the other side gets to be given a hearing. And that's why basically we've got a more even-handed situation. And this is a big step towards even-handedness now. You know, the blacks, if they were in charge, would never favor whites. Whites don't need to favor blacks. They don't need to favor anybody.

[00:19:27] They need to follow the language of the statute and be race neutral. You know, Keith, I've got to tell you, I haven't been this happy over a political development since election night 2016 when I saw all of those hideous, awful women. I saw their hearts and their souls get crushed.

[00:19:48] They were all there at Hillary Clinton's victory party expecting to shatter that glass ceiling and then just to see that despair begin to settle over their faces when they found out it wasn't going to be their night. I felt so euphoric that night. It tingled. I mean, I had heart flutters. I was so happy to see them, to see such evil people suffering.

[00:20:17] And to see it now again, to see, you know, the blacks in Memphis are saying that Memphis needs to secede. Oh, you know, it just drips with the heart. They're now secessionists, yeah. The thing is, this is a wonderful development. The left has always punched above its weight because of Jewish liberal control of the media, Jewish liberal control of the electronic media, Jewish control of academia and the judiciary. But guess what?

[00:20:46] The tide has turned now, finally. And, you know, people are trying to use the Iran war as a stick to beat the Republicans with. You may be mad with Trump, but let me remind you of one thing. Trump is not on the ballot in November, so you can't vote for him or against him. But if you want to punish the white race in America, vote for the Democrat.

[00:21:13] Democrat, that's not going to – what that's going to do is the first thing that the Democrats will do if they win control of the House and the Senate, what they're going to do is they're going to stack the Supreme Court so we never win another Supreme Court case, and then they're going to make Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia states, and we will never again – we'll be living under a liberal tyranny for the rest of our lives. All of that's true, and I'm not a Republican, and, Keith, you're not either.

[00:21:43] Although, I will say this about you, Keith. You were the Republican nominee for a couple of things, most recently property assessor. You got over 40 percent of the vote. You made a Newsweek article about you. And the Republican Party, after you won the nomination in a contested primary, I may add, to be their nominee a few years ago, they expelled you from the party and returned your $25 membership check.

[00:22:09] Well, you know, and I'm so broad-minded, I don't even hold that against them. Because right now, for better or for worse, they are the party for white people in America. Well, it's a different day now. I mean, that was, what, over 10 years ago? I mean, this is a different – That's when, like you said, basically, a Republican politician would rather plead guilty to pedophilia than be accused of racism. But that has changed. That day has changed. That has changed.

[00:22:39] It tied his turn. That has changed in the age of Trump. And say what you will about Trump, but if it wasn't for Trump, I mean, he has deserved direct credit for this because he appointed the Supreme Court justices who made this possible. Everything we're talking about right now would not have been possible without Trump. That doesn't absolve him of the disaster in Iran, but this is also true. Here's another headline. 99% white Tennessee House Republicans just passed a map stripping majority black Memphis of congressional representation.

[00:23:09] State Representative Justin Pearson – no, that's the Martin Luther King. That's Sly and the Family Stone. That's that one. On the floor. These maps are racist tools of white supremacy. We shall overcome. And he says that Tennessee just erased Memphis and the rest of the South is doing the same in their states. I will say this, though, about Republicans here in Tennessee for the most part. It is – they're not white nationalists, okay? They don't agree with us on everything.

[00:23:39] But I am glad they are in charge as far as state legislatures go. I'll give you one example of the state of Tennessee versus the city of Memphis. The city of Memphis exhumed Nathan Bedford Forrest. They renamed Forrest Park. They did all of that ghoulish stuff of digging up his bones. But the state of Tennessee still has Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. And it's right off the interstate. You see the sign. Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. So you know where Jared Taylor goes to Montgomery Bell State Park?

[00:24:07] About an hour west of there, equidistant between Memphis and Nashville, is Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. And it's a very popular park. It has cabins. That's where I met – my wife was going there the day I drove her to church camp. They were going to Nathan Bedford Forrest Park. It's on a lake. It's on the lake up there by Paris, Tennessee. What's the name of that? Well, you know, what has happened is that the state of Tennessee's legislature has learned to loathe Memphis.

[00:24:36] And believe me, it wasn't just something that sprang up. They had been a thorn in the side of the state legislature for years. And now it's finally bearing fruit for us. We'll be right back. Stay tuned. How would you like to help this program reach more people and earn silver at the same time? Call or text 801-669-2211 for complete details. Paul, I'm Mary Rose.

[00:25:03] A fragile ceasefire appeared to be holding Saturday after the U.S. struck two Iranian oil tankers while the country that hosts the U.S. Navy's regional headquarters said it arrested dozens of people it alleged were linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. A tax Friday cast out on the tenuous month-old ceasefire that the U.S. has insisted is still in effect. President Trump says there will be a three-day ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine, along with an exchange of prisoners.

[00:25:32] Posting on Truth Social Friday, Trump said the truce would last from Saturday to Monday, saying, quote, I am pleased to announce that there will be a three-day ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Russia had previously announced a two-day unilateral ceasefire to mark its May 9th World War II victory day on Saturday. Ukraine previously stated that it, too, had offered a truce, but this had been ignored by Moscow.

[00:25:56] Trump also wrote, talks are continuing on ending the war, adding that we are getting closer and closer every day. Bill Alexander, Washington. The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure worried residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife that they are not in danger from the anticipated arrival there of a Hansa virus-stricken cruise ship. Saturday, he issued an unusual direct message to them saying he understood their concern, but that the public health risk is low.

[00:26:27] The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval. Federal aviation officials are investigating after a passenger jet struck and killed a pedestrian on the runway at Denver International Airport. Officials say it happened late last night when Frontier Flight 4345 struck a person walking on a runway. The pilot aborted the takeoff and passengers were evacuated.

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[00:30:17] Davey Jones. Oh, yeah, Davy Jones. Yeah, we were playing some Monkees songs. I was, being an old boomer, I gave James the names of a couple of songs that he wasn't aware of, and he played one of them, and I think he really liked it. One of them was from the coasters, and yeah, but I was... Well, we had that one, look out, here comes tomorrow, which you hadn't been familiar with. And I know all of the Monkees catalog pretty well, but yeah, just, we're in sinking mood today. Do you want to go ahead and sing one real quick?

[00:30:47] No, I don't think so. I could hide beneath the wings of the bluebird as it sings. Oh, Lord have mercy. All right, well, let's get back down to work now. We're all in a pretty good mood. And Davey Jones with a vibrato. The 6 o'clock alarm would never ring. All right, we've got Lou Moore with us now.

[00:31:13] The former congressional chief of staff to a true, I hate to use the word maverick because it's been tainted by John McCain. The media kept calling him that, but a true maverick, Representative Jack Metcalf from the state of Washington. I mean, this is a guy who was, you know, in the same room with Willis Cardo and didn't have a heart attack. He served Congressman Metcalf in Washington. So he's been there and done that. He was Ron Paul's presidential campaign manager, the host of the Hour of Decision.

[00:31:43] I hesitate to tell you all about the Hour of Decision too much because you won't have any need for us anymore once you start listening to Lou here. Unfortunately, it's the same name as Billy Graham's TV show back in the early 50s. But this is the good Hour of Decision, Lou Moore's program. And you can find it at LibertyNewsRadio.com. Lou, it's great to have you back on tonight.

[00:32:03] And I appreciate you making an extended appearance with us tonight to help us better understand the political bottom line of this seemingly critical shift of power. But first of all, welcome back, my friend. It's great to have you. Well, thank you, James. I'm telling you, you might have surpassed Mack the Knife. That was the last time I heard you say. Well, tell me, do you think that this particular thing is a watershed moment or is this a false dawn, Lou?

[00:32:32] Well, I think it's a continuum of a pattern, Keith. And what that pattern is is increasing partisanship in America because the two parties now each pretty much have staked out territory issue-wise. And, you know, we used to have a liberal wing of the Republicans, a conservative wing, a liberal wing of the Democrats, and then some of your brethren down there in the South and whatnot. You know, now it's pretty much, you know, for several years.

[00:33:01] And with Trump, it's become much more partisan. There's much more intensity because it's more partisan. And, I mean, they're getting down to it now. Smash mouth politics is here. Down to the nitty-gritty as we boomers said back in the 60s, right? Right. Yep. That's a fact. So, yeah. Okay. But I think – go ahead. No, by all means, Lou, you go ahead. No, no.

[00:33:23] I was just going to say, I mean, that's the first thing this tells me is we're just continuing to advance down this road where things have just gotten really partisan. The Democrats got there before we did. You know, there haven't been any Southern Democrats that were conservative in the past 50 years, at least to my taste. But the Democrats were totally sold out to liberalism and have been ever since the 60s.

[00:33:51] Well, Nick Fuentes is a Democrat now, so we may talk about that. I think when John Stennis and James Eastland retired, that was the last of the Southern Democrats. Well, I mean, all of that. The party realignment, of course, is, you know, well settled. But here's the thing, Lou. So I want to ask your opinion on this. I love Lou for so many reasons, but I wouldn't say it's chief among them is the fact because he's just a good guy and has become such a great friend over the last couple of years.

[00:34:18] But the fact that he can come on, having been an operative in the GOP machine at the highest levels of power and come on here and give us prescient commentary, no-nonsense, professional, grounded, and sober analysis. I don't want to ask you this question along those lines. So Keith has been talking about it earlier tonight, but this is what's going on in the blue states.

[00:34:41] And I think what we're talking about at large is the increasing polarization of politics throughout the country. Massachusetts votes 36 percent Republican, zero red seats. Connecticut, 42 percent, zero red seats. We're talking about congressional seats. Congressional seats. Maine, 46 percent. That's almost 50 percent in Maine, zero House Republicans from that state.

[00:35:10] New Mexico, 46 percent of its electorate vote Republican, zero members of the House. So we're just coming around to the Democratic pattern of redistricting, and I don't know how they have the gall and the nerve to really complain about it. New Hampshire, 48 percent. It goes on. Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, even 38 percent. Delaware, 42 percent. Over all those states, not one Republican seat.

[00:35:39] And what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right, Lou? But the thing about it is it would appear to me that you're going to reach a point in time, perhaps we're already there, where there will be no swing districts. If a Republican, if a state is Republican-controlled, it will be all Republican seats. If it's Democratic-controlled, it's going to be all blue seats. I mean, that's astonishing, is it not? Yeah, but it's not. But I have to tell you, that's not going to happen everywhere.

[00:36:06] And this is why, James, you've got to have enough votes to carve all – you know, let's take Ohio right now. And they're bragging about Ohio. Caroline Rand and some of these Trump operatives are bragging about Ohio that we've picked up two seats. Well, one of them is now R1. That's statistically not even a Republican district. They just moved Republican precincts into a district that is still going to be extremely competitive.

[00:36:33] In other words, some states you can't have – if there's five districts, you can't have five R20 districts. You know, there might only be R4, R5. Well, that don't cut it. That don't cut it because we're – one of the biggest things, the partisanship is one big factor. The other big factor is we're having a wholesale change in the party system, and it's still taking place. And guess who is the farthest behind in this process?

[00:37:02] Members of Congress. We have a ton of Republicans in Congress that are not MAGA. They're not America first. They're not with the populist trend. Well, that's what happened to Indiana, though, right? Think about what happened to Indiana. All those rhinos, those Mike Pence Republicans, six out of eight of them got given their walking papers. Were turfed out. They were.

[00:37:26] And that was, for all – in my opinion, the many miscues, not just of President Trump, but even more so of his political operation, which we can get into if you want to. But this was, without doubt, a victory of the Trump political operation in Indiana, although one of those six, they didn't endorse until the last minute. They messed up and actually gave the one guy no help at all. I forgot his name now.

[00:37:52] But anyhow, there are six that have come in to take out rhinos who wouldn't redistrict. But redistricting and Trump, it's not the same thing. They won't be able to in this cycle. But they won't be able to. That actually brings up a great question that I had for you, Lou, because as you'll recall, you and I were engaged in a little operation in the Southwest last winter.

[00:38:16] And I can remember being on the phone with you waiting with bated breath to see how the Supreme Court was going to rule on Texas's redistricting plan and their new map, which did get pushed through. But that was back in December. And now here we are in May. But the way I read it is that these new maps will hold for the midterms this year. That seems astonishingly close to the election for a map to be overturned. But is that I'm not going to look that gift horse in the mouth? I mean, I'm just asking.

[00:38:46] I'm sorry. This is a simple question. I mean, so, for instance, Tennessee, which we've been talking a lot about. We're down here in Memphis, and it's one of the flashpoints of this whole thing. Is that if that Memphis wants to succeed now? All right. But is that going to happen in November? Well, will this new map be what people are voting for? I'm pretty sure it will be.

[00:39:09] I mean, if there is problems in the court chain of court appeal between the, you know, the county people in the state and the U.S. Supreme Court, you know, they could bog it down to where it's difficult to administer an election. But, you know, COVID showed us. I mean, Brian Kemp, a total hypocrite. I mean, they had already had issued a ton of votes down in Georgia, and he canceled the election because of COVID and moved it back.

[00:39:35] So, you know, they can really do what they want on all this stuff. The Constitution just says that the second Tuesday in November has to be the national election. Other than that, it's whatever these guys decide to do. But I think... Well, I think rhinos like Brian Kemp, their days are numbered. I think that Indiana was an indication of that. And what I wanted to ask you is this.

[00:39:58] You know, why can't we assure them if places like Maine that have 46% of their electorate voting Republican can totally wipe out the Republicans when it comes to congressional districts, but we can't? Well, I mean, with the situation in Maine, there's some good areas in Maine. And, you know, you got to get a legislature to go along with that. So that has to do with the legislative districts, and that has to do with who they're electing to their state legislature.

[00:40:26] That's the way it is. What we were talking about, Tennessee does have, as far as state legislatures go, I'm not talking about as far as this listening audience goes, but as far as state legislatures go, Tennessee's got a good one. Yeah. For example, they are taking the Shelby County Schools away from local control. The controller said it's the most dishonest thing that he'd ever seen, the way that they were running it. We'll be right back.

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[00:43:00] Look what you've done to me. Look, it really is Davy Jones. Me and my whole world. I can't believe you.

[00:43:25] You've brought the sun to me with your smile. Isn't it good? I'm telling you today. Something unknown to me. But it was all still ahead of us, Keith.

[00:43:50] That was one of the things that I really enjoyed being able to do through radio was, you know, we got to meet a lot of these guys and talk to a lot of these guys. I remember. We used to have rock shows here in Memphis. I remember hanging out with Davy Jones, my wife and I. Davy Jones, before he passed away. And Neil Sedaka, who we talked about. He died a couple of months ago. And we interviewed a lot of them. We interviewed a lot of these guys. Tommy DeVito, who put together the four seasons.

[00:44:18] There would have never been a Frankie Valli without Tommy DeVito. Tommy DeVito came on the show, stayed in touch with him until he died. A lot of them are dead now. Most of them are. Anyway, but that's just, that was a fun one. That was one we didn't mention. Let's come back to the living and Lou Moore. All right, Lou. So what did you think about the Supreme Court of Virginia overturning the attempt there to make Virginia,

[00:44:44] like all of these other Democratic states that have zero Republican members in the House, and they got spiked, even though the governor of Virginia is a Democrat. Yeah, well, what's probably as impactful or more impactful for this cycle, for sure, is the Virginia Supreme Court ruling and then Ron DeSantis' aggressive activities with his legislature in Florida.

[00:45:10] And in the case of Virginia, there were, my understanding is there were some Republican justices that were coming up for renewal, and they thought, well, they would suck up to the governor and not overturn this. But looking at the Bolshevik regime that Spanberger is running up there, I think the calculation for them was we're out no matter what. So we're going to stick it in our eye on the way out. And, of course, it was egregious what they did there.

[00:45:40] Procedurally, I mean, it was terrible. It was sloppy. It was rushed. And it was not legal, from my understanding, of how ballot initiatives are supposed to work in Virginia. Well, I think they've pointed out to our audience the two wild cards in the deck as to answering the question, why can't we do what the Democrats do in Maine and New Hampshire and other areas like that, where they have almost 50 percent Republican voters but no congressional representation?

[00:46:10] The two wild cards are the state legislature and now we're seeing two, the Supreme Court. The state Supreme Court. And now that the... And the U.S. Supreme Court. Yeah, well, also, you see now that the state legislatures have weighed in so we know where they are. Now the next wild card, and we don't know what it's going to be in any of these places, is going to be the state Supreme Court. I will tell you this, Lou, and agree with me if... Agree or disagree with me. Disagree with me if I'm wrong.

[00:46:39] But at least here in the South, I would take your garden variety Republican member of the House over your garden variety Democratic member of the House. So say what you will about Trump and Iran and Jewish power and influence running him and all of that, as a lot of the dissidents do. But I'm looking at this map, and I would rather it be this way than the alternative. Is that a fair assessment? Oh, yeah, totally. I'll be 100%.

[00:47:09] But again, you know, my caveat is, are all these districts really going to be Republican because the voter pool is shifting? And I'll give you a perfect example. In 2024, the Soros operation, I mean, they're as sharp as razors. They have a huge grassroots operation. And they were going all through the Southwest and other places, registering Hispanic men who voted for Trump because they had no idea they were going to vote for Trump.

[00:47:36] And there's been huge shifts, James, huge shifts in some of these special elections, local elections, down in the valley there by the Rio Grande Valley, 40 and 50 point shifts back to the Democrats among Hispanics. And I think that's a big deal. I mean, we can get into Trump or whatever, but Trump's base is in bad shape.

[00:48:04] And that affects this redistricting. These things are not static. Just because people voted one way in 2024. I mean, Ohio is still almost 40% independence. You can't change a district in Ohio and then automatically say, oh, this is a Republican district now, which is what I'm hearing on TV. It doesn't work that way. It does not work that way. What about this? Save Act. What is the Save Act going to happen? How is that going to affect all this?

[00:48:32] Well, the Save Act isn't going to pass because there's senators. I got one that lives by me here that is sabotaging that right now. And so that's not going to be a factor because it's not going to pass. I mean, I don't see it passing. I mean, there's three things right now that affect this redistricting. I'm kind of going back to an earlier question or what Keith raised. There's legislatures. And in some states, there's commissions that do it. The legislature has passed off to a so-called bipartisan panel or commission.

[00:49:01] And those are usually just incumbent retention projects. And I can talk to you. I can give you some concrete examples in Washington State where I did politics for 30 years, how that works. The second way is this Voting Rights Act down in the South. And we can talk more about the impact. We've seen the impact of what that did by how it was interpreted and how that's changed now with the Supreme Court ruling.

[00:49:23] And then the next one coming up, but it isn't going to affect this cycle, it doesn't look like, is if the Supreme Court rules that in the census they cannot count aliens any longer as apportioning them into districts. That's going to be another 20 seats. Yeah. Imagine what that's going to do to California's congressional representation. A hundred percent, Keith. A hundred percent.

[00:49:48] And so, you know, that's another, you know, the Democrats have been rigging this thing seven ways to Sunday for a long time. I mean, they just have. And in Republican states, the Republicans have rigged it through the legislatures. Not nearly to the extent that the Democrats. Well, to your point, Lou and Keith, you know, the Republicans aren't quite as greedy as the Democrats are in the states that they control, even under the best possible interpretation of this, Lou.

[00:50:13] And what you said is exactly the kind of commentary I wanted you to bring tonight because it's something that a lot of people aren't looking at. Just because a district was read in the most recent cycle doesn't mean it will be going forward because of Trump's mishaps and whatever else. If Trump demoralizes the Republican base, if we allow that to happen, then we're going to get it.

[00:50:36] But even in the best possible interpretation of these maps, the Republicans are still leaving, even though Tennessee would be all red, two seats in North Carolina, one in Georgia. Interestingly, they're going to vote out Clymer in South Carolina, it looks like. And that's not a done deal. That's not a done deal. But it looks like they will. But the thing is, you know, this gets back to the Republican Party is changing. The voter pool is changing.

[00:51:05] People's ideas are changing. And these legislatures in the state of Utah, in the state of South Carolina, in the state of Nebraska, I can go down the list. They're not controlled by America First patriots. They're controlled by George Bush rhinos. And the Speaker of the House of South Carolina has held up this process. The governor has wanted to do it, McMaster. I can't remember his name, Speaker of the House, has said, absolutely not.

[00:51:32] And so now there's a ton of pressure on him, particularly after this, what happened up in Indiana. But that is not a done deal. It's not a done deal. No, no, no. As I said, they'll have to put the same type of pressure on Nebraska and all these other places where rhinos live and thrive that they did in Indiana. I think what Lou's talking about is it. Go ahead, Lou. I'm sorry.

[00:51:54] And I got to say, I'm a little bit bitter in making that comment in that I live in the state of Utah, which is overwhelmingly Republican. I know where you're going. We gave a seat to the Democrats. And we're going to have a Somali who is buddies with Ilhan Omar and that crooked guy that tried to rig the Democrat convention so he could be mayor of Minneapolis.

[00:52:20] He's best friend of the guy who's going to be our next congressman from Salt Lake City in Utah. And this all has to do with the rhinos that run this state. Well, you know, the thing in Utah, that's a whole other issue. But, I mean, the fact that Utah, as you said, gave a seat to a Somali in this lily-white Republican conservative. What's wrong with people in Utah? What has got into something in the water? Keith, you only gave me 90 minutes.

[00:52:49] So you didn't give me one. And we weren't even getting into Utah because that's already a done deal. And I don't mean to go Utah-centric on you guys, but I'll tell you, there's many things wrong here. We're talking about Memphis. You talk about Utah. I mean, it's natural. I think the Democrats are going to have to expand AIPAC five times in order to capture every state legislature, though.

[00:53:12] I think that really, at least in the South, which is what we're familiar with, I think that a new day has dawned and the Republicans are no longer going to play footsie with the Democrats. They're definitely doing better. But, I mean, they are still leaving some black or Democrat districts in the South. Where? Well, Georgia's going to have one. North Carolina's going to have two. Florida's going to have two or three by the best possible. And Louisiana might leave one.

[00:53:40] But you see, guys, there are so many factors that go into redistricting. I mean, the fact these politicians are just beside themselves, these incumbents, that this issue has turned into this partisan football because the whole game of incumbents is protect my district lines. And I'm happy to have George over here, who's in the other party, protect his district lines if I can protect my district lines. So, in Louisiana, the music's playing. And we'll come back to this.

[00:54:09] Lou's with us for the entire second hour for extended play. But this Louisiana district is hilarious to me. It looks like a seatbelt. Imagine as you wear a seatbelt, ladies and gentlemen. You have this district that looks to be about 10 miles wide and about 300 miles long from the northwest corner of Louisiana. It's a real gerrymandering. Going down to New Orleans, it looks like. But they thought that that was a legitimate. If you're a Democrat in the south, call the moving country.

[00:54:36] That district in Louisiana is fascinating to me, the way they drew that line. It's just a straight shot across in a diagonal fashion, a sliver of a district. But it looks like it's going to be gone. We'll see what Lou says. Stay tuned.