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Suzan Erem

Journalist

Nov 1, 2026

8:11
I don't have that radical position on trans rights when in reality, nobody would have been talking about it if you just centered your message on the economy.
8:18
Or I swear, I feel like I'm in Alice in Wonderland, but I feel like after the Sunday ad that just came out that these D.C. guys are looking at the Republican advertising and saying, oh, you need to respond to this trans attack.
8:32
You need to respond to, you know, Hinson saying you want boys and girls locker rooms.
8:37
When you're right, nobody out here is talking about it.
8:41
Most of us have been successful in saying, you know what? Who cares? The real issue is we can't.
8:47
The real issue, by the way, is that labor and delivery departments are shutting down and women have to drive an hour and a half to have a baby.
8:54
And babies don't wait that long sometimes, right? The real issue is that people now are going to have to prove that they're too disabled to work and in too much pain to just get their benefits that they've been getting.

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30:02
What are you worried about? We're all going to
41:55
Is local control becoming a bipartisan rural issue now? Because I know this seems like it's blowing up all over the country.
42:01
So this was a great piece by Raj Patel, who's like an international author, and Jim Goodman, a farmer in Wisconsin.
42:08
And they compared CAFOs, is what they're called, confined animal feeding operations.
42:12
We've heard of them as CAFOs.
42:14
These are these 5,000 head hog horns, okay? They call them barns, but mostly they're just giant manure pits, okay? And those with data centers, because 30 years ago, for example, in Iowa, we had local control to keep those things out.
42:30
Our county supervisors, as we call them, we could pressure them to keep these giant stink bombs out of, our communities.
42:39
So what did the industry do? They lobbied to make it a state law.
44:14
Talk about what losing a rural hospital can do to a town.

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