Bill Thompson

We're not doing these things.

And that's because it would erode the state's rights and the state's constitution and what made this state great.

Because what the legislatures would do is say, hey, Joe Rogan, you've made a lot of money and you've got a big podcast and a big voice and you've learned some lessons around the way and you were able to do that in Texas and you decided to come to Texas because we had all of these things that California didn't have.

We need you to go to the Senate for three years or six years or seven years, whatever it was back then,

and represent those same principles.

So when Obamacare comes through, you can say not only no, but fuck no, like I'm not voting for this thing.

And it was to protect the state.

But what the 17th Amendment did was it was redundant with the House of Representatives, which was, in the founders' eyes, the only popular vote part of the American government was the popular vote.

And then you had the way the president gets elected through electors, but you had the state Senate, which was appointed by the states.

So the legislatures, and I'll use North Dakota where I'm from, you'll have two big cities, Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota.

It's where the universities are.

It's where your crazy kids are.

Crazy thought exists.

Hyper crazy ideas.

But some of them are useful.

The rest of the state's agriculture, right?

So all of those legislators from all of those counties or those legislative districts would get together and say, we're going to put Bill Thompson.

That would never happen.

But in charge, he's going to be at the Senate representing North Dakota.

But he has to represent the whole state.