Month: November 2025

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. While the congressional map wars continue and would-be candidates wait for the smoke to clear, here’s who made the list:

WINNER: Gov. Greg Abbott Goes After Muslim Extremists in Texas

After recent events in Michigan—and England, Gov. Greg Abbott continues to ramp up his efforts to ensure that Sharia Law gains no foothold in the Lone Star State. This week, the governor declared the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations, prohibiting them from buying land. Yesterday, Abbott ordered the DPS to investigate both groups. The Muslim Brotherhood has spawned many organizations, including Hamas, and CAIR often serves as an apologist voice for Muslim violence, including following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. CAIR insists it is a civil rights organization, and it is suing Abbott for going after them, but comments by its leadership (including referring to Zionist groups as “enemies”) disproves that characterization.

Here at TPPF, we noticed that CAIR recently testified against the new comprehensive social studies curriculum. It prefers the vague and unstructured standards that are currently in place that have allowed misinformation and ideology to be leaked into what K-12 students study. Texans can be thankful that Abbott is making it clear we’re having none of that in Texas.

WINNER: TrumpRX & Jelly Roll

A great winner leading up to Thanksgiving is the news this week that country music star Jelly Roll has lost 200 pounds. The formerly very fat guy—he once weighed over 500 pounds – is another good sign that health is in and the whole “body positivity” propaganda movement, which declared that obesity is just a lifestyle choice, is over.

Much of this is due to the GLP-1 medications including Ozempic and Wegovy, which were designed to treat diabetes, but turned out to be the most effective weight loss drug in history so far.

The only problem is that the drugs are very expensive and so far, lots of the people showing big weight loss are movie stars and celebrities who can afford a medication that can cost over a thousand dollars a month—and is not usually covered by insurance.

President Trump announced last week that he intends to change all that. He calls it TrumpRX, and it will lower the prices of the drugs so that regular fat people can more easily afford them. Ozempic, the most expensive, would drop from $1350 a month to $350 a month in his plan—still pricey, but manageable. Currently, the medication is administered through shots, but oral versions are being developed, and Trump hopes to provide the initial doses at $150 a month.

The U.S. has more obese people than any other country in the world—74% of the country is overweight. If President Trump can pull this off, it could be more transformational than anything he’s done so far. Granted, world peace and securing the border are enormously important, but this is so much closer to home. Three out of four people are overweight, and Trump has a plan that could change that.

If he can pull this off, depending on the time line, he probably doesn’t need to worry about the mid-terms, and certainly can make sure Republicans keep the White House and everything else in 2028. Can’t you see a giant red graph chart on the White House lawn showing trillions of pounds lost? Make America Thin Again!

Winner: A College Degree Still Matters

A new report by Axios this week suggests that maybe we don’t know as much as we think we know. Texas is leading the way in bringing back campuses that that support open inquiry and debate. But nobody likes what is going on in higher education today, and we often hear that a college degree doesn’t matter much anymore.

Currently, only 20% of Republicans say a college degree is “very important,” compared to 43% of Democrats. Another 40% of Republicans say college is “fairly important,” but most people have had it with the astronomical costs, the woke culture and degree programs that don’t seem to line up with job opportunities.

But newly released census data reported by Axios and others shows that college graduates who are now 25 or older earn more than twice as much as their counterparts who are only high school graduates. According to the data, the median income of someone with at least a bachelor’s degree is $132,700, while a high school grad median income is $58,410.

Earnings for college-led households rose 6% over the past two decades, compared with a 3% increase for high school graduates.

That’s something to ponder as Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced this week that she is ready to shut down the U.S. Dept. of Education. She says that if the recent government shutdown proved one thing, it was that the bureaucrats at the Department of Education aren’t needed. Six weeks out, and nobody missed them.

LOSER: The Latest Jasmine Crockett Update

For those who are keeping a list, which includes me, the really dumb thing that U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas did this week was announce that her team had pulled together a more complete list of people who had taken campaign contributions from the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including Mitt Romney, George Bush and the National Republican Campaign Committee. That’s not true, of course. It turns out Crockett and her crackerjack team did not consider that there might be more than one Jeffrey Epstein in America. In fact, National Review found over 300 in a quick search including almost a hundred in New York alone. Crockett’s team also neglected to check contribution dates, since several of her big expose’s charged Epstein, the sex offender, with donating to Republicans after he was dead. I often cringe when President Trump describes one of his enemies as being a “low-IQ individual,” but when he says it about Crockett, he clearly has a point.

WINNER: Walking Back EVs

California continues to deny a Politico report from a couple of weeks ago that they are pulling back on their plan to phase out gasoline powered cars by 2035. President Trump is trying to overturn the policy, but, while Newsom and his crew continue to talk smack about the White House effort, Axios is reporting that state regulators realize that their requirement that all cars be electric by 2035—which is now 9 years away—is not realistic or even practical.

California has been the spear carrier in banning gas-powered cars, and other blue states were looking for it to lead, but the fact is that electric cars aren’t affordable, particularly without the tax incentives to buy them, and there aren’t enough charging stations. Recall that Biden appropriated $7.5 billion to build hundreds of them across the country, but couldn’t manage to even construct one.

In more good news for our fossil fuel producing state, the VA announced this week that they are pulling the plug (get it?) on the $77 million Biden had allocated to put charging stations on military bases.

WINNER: Texas UIL Blocking Foreign Student Recruitment

While the whole country continues to look for ways to unravel what is happening to college football—and all college sports (see former college athlete and TPPF Board Member Cody Campbell’s analysis here), it turns out that the University Interscholastic League Legislative Council is taking steps to block foreign exchange students from participating in high school varsity sports in Texas.

One coach noted that rules regulating American kids from going from one school to another to play sports are very strict, but foreign students are now marketing themselves on social media, catching the eyes of coaches and being recruited to enter the country as exchange students to play.

Under the proposed rules change, foreign exchange students will still be allowed to play in sports—they just won’t be able to participate on varsity teams. The rule still has to be approved by Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath.

WINNER: Texas Emergency People

Former President Joe Biden did many dumb things, but one of the dumbest was when he accused Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of not calling him back about disaster aid following Hurricane Beryl in 2024. Trying to make some kind of weird political point, Biden accused Patrick, who was acting governor at the time, of being unreachable even though he was in the state’s Emergency Operations Center for days, working alongside Biden’s federal FEMA employees.

The roar back from the Lt. Governor resulted in an unprecedented editorial from the Houston Chronicle where they admitting they had been wrong to believe Biden, and saying that Patrick was right and Texas is way ahead of FEMA. In addition to Lt. Gov. Patrick, the Chronicle praised the longtime director of the Texas Department of Emergency Management, Nim Kidd.

So it is not surprising that the Trump administration is now considering moving FEMA to Texas, at least partly because Nim Kidd turned down the FEMA job right after Trump was re-elected because he didn’t want to leave the Lone Star State. Nobody does. We’ll see what happens.

Gig’em, Wreck ‘em, Hook ‘em

In what may have been the best game anywhere this year (or any year), the maroon tribe over at Texas A&M managed to pull off the largest comeback victory in Aggie history, after being down 27 points to South Carolina at halftime. The Aggies are now 10-0 for the season, No. 1 in the SEC and at No. 3 in the national rankings.

Things didn’t go so well for the Longhorns last week, when another piece of the dream died. Even though the betting lines all favored Georgia over Texas going into the game, fundamentalist orange bloods—and many who are orange blood adjacent—believed that if the stars were aligned, the Longhorns could come out on top. But, of course, the stars were out of whack and Texas dropped 7 points, to No. 17 in the national rankings

Up in Lubbock, the Red Raiders of Texas Tech are No. 1 in the Big 12 and they share No. 6 in the national rankings with my beloved Oregon Ducks. Tech easily demolished Central Florida on Saturday after their big College Game Day win against BYU the week before.

Texas A&M will take on the unranked bulldogs of Samford (not a typo) University in Alabama on Saturday at 11 a.m. in College Station while Texas plays Arkansas in Austin at 2:30 p.m. Texas Tech isn’t playing this weekend.

WINNERS & LOSERS will be off next week for Thanksgiving, but in case you missed it, I want to share my story of what happened in the Massachusetts Bay that first Thanksgiving—complete with the socialism and the number of Indians that were actually at the big dinner.

According to [William] Bradford, not long after the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they found that the collectivity they had instituted in the colony bred “confusion and discontent and retard[ed] much employment” because men did not want to work without pay for other men’s families. And so, a little more than a year after the first Thanksgiving, they decided to divide up the land they had so that everybody had a share and could grow what they wanted. Productivity increased, and the colony began to prosper, attracting more and more immigrants and ushering in the great migration from England.

Read the rest of the article here.

Sherry Sylvester is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the former Senior Advisor to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.

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Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Now that the shutdown is finally over, three Texas football teams are in the Top 10 and the Northern Lights are blasting out all over the Lone Star State, here’s who made the list:  

LOSERS: How Did the Democrats Lose the Shutdown War?

It was great seeing the headline in the Washington Post proclaiming the Democrats had lost the shutdown battle after that newspaper spent 40 days proclaiming that the blue team was winning. Granted, the liberals at the WaPo predict that Republicans will ultimately lose on the health care issue, and maybe they will, but, in fact, nobody ever really understood what the Democrats were trying to prove.  

It’s no surprise Americans were confused. A report from the Media Research Center found that broadcast coverage of the shutdown almost exclusively favored the Democrat narrative. Fully 87% of news reports were pro-Democrat while only 13% focused on Republican talking points, including the fact that Democrats had voted in March to end the subsidies to Obamacare that they were now demanding be restored.

Using their own eyes, Americans could see despite the barrage of biased media coverage that the military weren’t being paid, until Trump paid them. The Democrats didn’t care. Then, after thousands of flights were cancelled because air traffic controllers weren’t being paid, Democrats still didn’t care. They didn’t even care when poor people lost their SNAP benefits. On Day 40, when the Dems announced they wanted to push on with the shutdown until Thanksgiving, the entire country roared back, “Noooooooo!”

After almost six weeks of shutdown, at a cost estimate of anywhere between $7 billion and $15 billion a week, eight Democrat senators heard them and broke the logjam. The majority of Democrat lawmakers are outraged at the defection of the eight and, as they try to regroup, most seem to think all their problems will be solved if they get rid of their minority leader, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, who couldn’t hold his caucus together and refused to endorse New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

They have no idea why they lost.  

P.S. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, gets a high five for being the only Texas Democrat to vote to end the shutdown.

WINNER: Dan Patrick Wins on THC Ban

The bill that ended the government shutdown was also a big win for Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick because it includes a ban on the THC products that the Lt. Governor campaigned for during the last legislative session. The budget bill that President Trump signed on Wednesday also caps the amount of allowable THC, the intoxicating compound found in marijuana and hemp products, at 0.4 milligrams. The ban will eliminate the sale of most edibles, which have been marketed to children.

The Lt. Governor got another win this week when his former opponent, Mike Collier, announced he will run against him for the third time. Collier is an accountant from Houston who is popular with political reporters, but he’s never caught on with voters. When Collier ran as a Democrat in 2022, Patrick defeated him by almost a million votes. This time he’s running as an Independent.

WINNER: Texas A&M Targets Woke Curriculum

The regents at Texas A&M established new regulations this week to require academic presidential approval of classes that “advocate” race and gender ideology to ensure that nothing is taught that shames any race or ethnicity. The guidelines also prohibit advocating gender ideology that is disconnected from the biological realities of sex.

The word “teach” was changed to “advocate” in the final version of the regulations, but that didn’t appease the A&M faculty, who insist they won’t be able to teach anything—including the Holocaust and World War II—under the new regulations.    

Offices pushing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs were closed down on Texas campuses in 2021, but weeding out DEI in the curriculum is much more difficult. Remember that the mission of DEI professionals, stated on their website, is to “engage in ongoing ways to incorporate alternative narratives in the curriculum and provide robust learning opportunities on the history of racism, colonization, and conquest on how higher education and other sectors of society have been complicit in maintaining systems of privilege.”

The new regulations at Texas A&M are designed to flush out those “alternative narratives,” and eliminate the “opportunities” to teach history as a singular reflection of systemic racism. Keeping in mind that a large percentage of the faculty at A&M shared that mission when they were hired and you can understand why they are pushing back so hard now.

If you want to know more about how progressive ideology permeates curriculum, take a look at this study of syllabi by three professors at the Claremont Colleges released this week from campuses around the country. They found that there is virtually no ideological diversity in course readings and lectures. For example, a book like “The New Jim Crow,” released in 2010, argued that mass incarceration of African-Americans reflects the same systemic racism as slavery. That book appears more than any other book in criminal justice courses throughout the country. Meanwhile, Dr. James Forman, Jr., a professor at Yale Law School, wrote “Locking Up Our Own,” which disagrees with “systemic racism theory” in “The New Jim Crow.” It appears in fewer the 4% of criminal justice classes, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize. The study authors argue that on this issue and others, including America’s policy toward Israel and abortion, college courses only teach the progressive side of the argument.

Senate Bill 37, passed last session in Texas, gives the power to monitor curriculum back to Boards of Regents and takes it away from faculty members whose track record is poor. Kudos to Texas A&M for hacking a path through this jungle. 

WINNER: The Spirit of Ronald Reagan

Reagan believed that our education system must be rooted in the “self-evident truths of Western civilization.” That’s the exact opposite of DEI, which is why it is especially fitting this week that TPPF presented Chancellor Brandon Creighton and House Education Chair Brad Buckley our Ronald Reagan Award for their work transforming education in Texas.

Both championed school choice and Education Savings Accounts which finally busted the teachers’ union monopoly on our public schools and will give parents the right to send their child to the school they believe is best.

Creighton, who has been selected as the incoming chancellor at Texas Tech University, is the author of Senate Bill 17, which ended DEI on Texas campuses and Senate Bill 37, which reformed university governance and curriculum reform (see above.)

The leadership of Creighton and Buckley has not only changed Texas education, it will change the future of our state going forward, unleashing the potential of millions of Texas kids.

LOSER: Wacky Democrat Candidates Update

Democrats had hoped to gain another U.S. Senate seat next year by finally knocking off Republican stalwart Susan Collins, R-Maine. Collins, a moderate who frequently draws the ire of President Trump, often leaves both sides angry up there in the Pine Tree State as she tries to represent all sides of that purple state. But a Democrat poll was leaked this week showed her likely Democrat opponent, Graham Platner, is not strong enough to beat her based on past statements on social media where he called himself a communist, denigrated the police and called white people in rural Maine “stupid” and “racist.”

You gotta wonder why they wasted money doing a poll.

LOSER: Wacky Democrat Candidates Update—Part 2

California State Sen. Scott Weiner is said to be the leading candidate to replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who announced last week that she is going to retire. One of Pelosi’s claims to fame is that she was a special guest on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Weiner also revels in his San Francisco drag queen base, and has floated the idea of adding “Drag Queen 101” to the K-12 public school curriculum.

Of course, drag queens aren’t trans, so apparently there was at least one voter in San Francisco who wondered where Weiner stood on the issue of men in women’s sports. Weiner provided a clear answer this week. In a town hall, Tish Hyman, a Grammy nominated singer, asked him to respond to this question:  

“As a lesbian woman who was attacked in the women’s locker room at Gold’s Gym this week by a self-identifying trans woman with a documented history of domestic violence, I’m deeply concerned about women’s safety in female-only spaces.”

Weiner replied that, if he is elected, he’ll make protecting all women, including men who think they are women, a priority. By all means, California, send this guy to Congress.  

WINNER: Olympics Look at Banning Men in Women’s Sports

In related news, this week the International Olympic Committee (IOC) indicated it is taking steps to ban men in all female sports—a move undoubtedly pushed forward after a man beat a woman’s face in during a boxing match in the last summer Olympics in Paris.  

The hero of the story appears to be Dr. Jane Thornton, director of medicine and science of the IOC, who said their research shows that anyone who goes through puberty as a male has permanent advantages over females, and it cannot be mitigated by hormone treatment. The plan is to have this all sorted before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

WINNER: BBC Admits Doctoring Trump Jan. 6 Footage

Using the same tactics CBS used to try to make Kamala Harris sound coherent, the British Broadcasting Corporation in England admitted this week that they had edited Donald Trump’s speech to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021 to make it appear he had told the crowd to storm the Capitol.

An apology from the media is always news worthy—plus, the Director General of the BBC and the CEO of News and Current Affairs both quit, saying they were appalled at the lapse in journalistic standards and insisting it had never happened before.

President Trump threatened to sue them for a billion dollars if they didn’t apologize and retract the news report. The story is fun to watch because the Brits say things like “dodgy edits” as well as that funny way they pronounce the word “controversy.” You can view the story here.

LOSER: Gavin Newsom in Houston on Saturday

A couple thousand people showed up to see California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Houston on Saturday for a rally after his big redistricting win in last Tuesday’s election, which catapulted him to the top of the Democrat presidential ticket.

As noted last week, Newsom chose to speak in the Lone Star State while millions of Texans were cheering on either Texas A&M or the Texas Tech Red Raiders both of whom had defining games last Saturday. Newsom apparently doesn’t get how much Texans love football.

Not only did he show up in the middle of college game day—as mentioned, we have three teams in the Top 10, and that’s just among the flagships—but then he left to fly to an international climate change conference where they plot ways to get rid of fossil fuels, which we produce here, big time. Newsom just doesn’t get Texas.

WINNER: Christmas Cookies Ice Cream

They say its back by popular demand, but I am wondering where you go to actually slam your fist on the counter and demand that an ice cream flavor be re-instated—but that’s beside the point. The good news is that Blue Bell Ice Cream—which as we all know is based in beautiful Brenham, Texas—announced this week that Christmas Cookie flavored ice cream is back just in time for Christmas season. Of course, we haven’t gotten through Thanksgiving yet, but go ahead, stock up.

Gig ‘em #3, Wreck ‘em # 6 Hook ‘em #10

The No. 3 rated Texas Aggies are the heavy favorites in tomorrow’s game against South Carolina. Coming off what proved to be an easy victory over Missouri last week, they are playing at Kyle Field at 11:30 am. No. 10 ranked Texas has the tougher game against the No. 5 ranked Georgia Bulldogs. That game is in Atlanta at 6:30 Texas Time. Meanwhile, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, ranked No. 6, are coming off their smashing victory against BYU last Saturday, cementing their spot at the top of the Big 12 and pushing them into undisputed playoff territory. Everyone expects them to beat Central Florida tomorrow. The game starts at 2:30 p.m. in Lubbock.

Today is Day 14 of the YouTube TV/ESPN Split—manage however you can and have a great weekend. 

Sherry Sylvester is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the former Senior Advisor to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.

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Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. The dust is still setting after Tuesday’s election and I’m stuck in an airport dealing with a cancelled flight, so here’s how it looks to me:

Election Night: Texas Wins, Country Loses

The good news of the night was all in Texas. All 17 Constitutional amendments passed—property taxes, water infrastructure, dementia research and everything else. Austin voters had the good sense to turn down tax-hiking Proposition Q and, in San Antonio, voters defied their left-wing mayor and voted to support things they like—the San Antonio Spurs and the Rodeo.

In the Senate District 9 Special Election in North Texas, the casino gambling crowd was bombed back to the Stone Age, despite pouring millions into the race. There will be a run-off in late January between a Democrat and a Republican for the right to serve the remainder of the term of Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock, but the district leans Republican. That special election runoff will happen just days before early voting begins for the real election, so it will be one of those frequent voter confusion exercises.

In the rest of the country, Democrats and their progressive left-wing alliance ran the table, taking both of the gubernatorial races that were up, electing a socialist as mayor of New York City and passing the California redistricting plan that will add enough new Democrat house seats to cancel out the new Republican house seats we added in Texas.

Granted, those victories were all in blue territory, but they were also the result of high inflation, the longest government shutdown in history and a shifting narrative on immigration. Voters blame all that on President Donald Trump, whether he deserves it or not. Conservatives who insist that the problem was that Trump was not on the ballot may be forgetting what a great advantage it was to have the blithering Kamala Harris at the top of the Democrat ticket. The only relevant question in politics is: “compared to what?”

One big loser of the week was CNN’s pollster Harry Enten who declared just last week that the Democrat party was “in the basement,” and the Democrat brand was “garbage.” He’s supposed to be unbiased, so it’s hard to chalk up his big miss to wishful thinking, but for the rest of us, it’s back to the battle stations. Being right about the issues is never enough.

WINNER: Pelosi is Finally Quitting

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this week that she will retire in 2027 after serving 39 years in Congress. That gives us lots of time to compile our lists of the worst things that former Speaker Pelosi has done to the American people. For me, her decision to tear up President Trump’s first State of the Union address when he handed it to her in 2020 marked an awful historic moment, which was memorialized on TV. Pelosi said it made her feel “liberated.” Democrats frequently call Trump a threat to democracy, but what could have been a bigger threat than that petulant, hateful action symbolizing a rejection of one branch of our government by another?

Pelosi is one of 62 Democrats in Congress who are over the age of 70–which is why the young socialists are challenging so many of them. It’s a generational war as well as an ideological one.

WINNER: Fingers Crossed—Texans Go to Supreme Court on Pornography

Llano County, Texas removed 17 pretty clearly pornographic books from their public libraries in 2021. Calling it a “book ban,” a group of left-leaning residents sued them in federal court, saying their First Amendment rights had been violated.

A federal judge ruled against Llano in 2023 but this spring, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the county’s removal of certain books was government action not related to the First Amendment. Here’s the case.

Calling it government censorship, the plaintiffs have asked the Supreme Court to take the case and it looks like they have agreed. The controversial books include “Gender Queer,” a comic book-style memoir that has become the poster book for lefties who insist that children should be exposed to pretty much everything. It was in hundreds of schools in Texas. I read it so you didn’t have to.

My Review of Gender Queer is here. I read it before the numbers of kids identifying as non-binary sharply declined early this year, making it clear it was some kind of contagion, undoubtedly exacerbated by books like this. Let me know what you think.

LOSER: The Shutdown—Day 37

I wrote last week that air traffic controllers will ultimately decide when the government shutdown will end, but now it looks like the Democrats think the chaos is benefiting them politically, so they want to keep the shutdown going.

I am in Denver trying to get to Lubbock for Texas Tech’s game tomorrow. I will survive either way, but that doesn’t mean air traffic controllers shouldn’t be paid, and that air traffic is snarled across the country. This is a political game of chicken and it is not likely to end well for the party in power. The Senate is voting this morning so perhaps we’ll see some movement — but the signs aren’t good.

WINNER: Wreck ‘em & Gig ‘em

ESPN’s College GameDay will be streaming live from Lubbock on Saturday morning as the Red Raiders of Texas Tech take on BYU. GameDay starts at 8 a.m. so if you are not in Lubbock, tune in (you may be watching online since YouTube is fighting with Disney) to see if you see anyone you know. Kick-off is at 11 a.m. The No. 3 ranked Aggies are playing Missouri tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. Texas has a bye week. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is speaking in Houston at noon on Saturday. Guess he isn’t a college football fan. Not surprised.

Have a great weekend.

Sherry Sylvester is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the former Senior Advisor to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.

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