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Media Weeps: Leftists in Angry Disbelief, ZERO Lessons to be Learned from Kamala's Crushing Loss · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is verdict with Centater Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: with you and Senator I gotta tell you, victory is sweet.
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Speaker 1: It's even more fun watching the media meltdown continue after
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Speaker 1: having to deal with the reality that not only did
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump win, we got the Senate and it's clearly
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Speaker 1: looking like we actually may make gains on the House side.
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Speaker 1: And they can't handle it. It's a total meltdown.
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Speaker 2: Look, the corporate media are losing their minds. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's a German word shoden freud, which is taking pleasure
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Speaker 2: or joy from the suffering of others. It's not a
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Speaker 2: pretty sentiment, But I gotta say, watching these hardcore leftists
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Speaker 2: just scream out in agony that the voters voted and
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Speaker 2: voted in the way they didn't like it truly is
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Speaker 2: And you know, you know what's striking their rage, their anger.
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Speaker 2: Not a one of them has actually learned a lesson.
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Speaker 2: Not a one of them has paused to say, huh huh,
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Speaker 2: maybe being radical leftists and opening up the border and
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Speaker 2: threatening people's homes and screwing up the economy and driving
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Speaker 2: up the cost of everything and screwing up the country
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Speaker 2: and bringing the world to war and undermining Israel and
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Speaker 2: creating an environment where anti Semis take over college campuses
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Speaker 2: and threaten our kids. Maybe that's a bad thing. Maybe
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Speaker 2: having moms fear for the safety of their kids is
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Speaker 2: a bad thing. None of these leftists are saying that. Instead,
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Speaker 2: they're just screaming orange Man, bad raar, And it really
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Speaker 2: is striking. Although we're going to wrap up by pointing
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Speaker 2: out the one man in America on the Democrat side
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Speaker 2: who is not sad and who was actually full of joy.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not going to tell you his name, but
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Speaker 2: it rhymes with bo Jiden.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I've never seen a bigger grin on that man,
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Speaker 1: and we'll change his name for a little bit. Ever,
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Speaker 1: I think at any point, including even on days when
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Speaker 1: he thought it was probably the best day of his life,
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Speaker 1: these clips we'll have this.
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Speaker 2: So let me just say, Joe Biden understands chaden freud
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: I said it on election night. The only place more
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Speaker 1: happier right now than the war room we were in
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Speaker 1: where do you want to start? Because the media a
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Speaker 1: meltdown has just been fun to watch. I've watched more
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Speaker 1: MSNBC on purpose and see it in the last forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours than I have in a very long time because,
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Speaker 1: like you said a moment ago, they haven't learned from
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Speaker 1: this loss. They're just crying and angry over this loss.
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Speaker 1: But they didn't pay attention to American people at all.
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Speaker 2: No, not at all.
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Speaker 4: All.
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Speaker 2: Right, let's start with Morning Joe because Morning Joe is
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Speaker 2: is it's a good place to start. It's it's where
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Speaker 2: lefties start their morning. So let's start there.
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Speaker 5: I want to talk about economy for a second. A
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Speaker 5: few weeks ago. Three weeks ago, somebody who's going to
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Speaker 5: be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said,
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Speaker 5: oh my god, Trump's gonna win.
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Speaker 1: I go, why is that?
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Speaker 5: He goes, I just I went to the grocery store.
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Speaker 1: Butter's over three dollars.
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Speaker 5: I kind of laughed, and I said, I said, well,
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Speaker 5: that's kind of reductive, isn't it, said it to myself.
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Speaker 5: To him, I smiled, and I said, good point, But
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Speaker 5: it actually what everything we're hearing after the election.
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Speaker 6: Is seven what's on the seven dollars?
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Speaker 1: What's on butter is seven dollars?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: What is it framed in gold?
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Speaker 4: Okay?
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Speaker 1: Anyway from where you go?
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Speaker 5: Okay, well, yeah, okay, Well anyway, My point is this, Willy,
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Speaker 5: the rent is too damn high. And this guy was saying,
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Speaker 5: the cost of butter is way down, too high, and
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Speaker 5: so I thought it was a bit reductive.
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Speaker 1: It ended up being.
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Speaker 5: Just the point that if you look at the cost
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Speaker 5: of groceries, if you look at the cost of grass,
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Speaker 5: of gas, if you look at the cost of things
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Speaker 5: compared to four years ago, it was a very simple
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Speaker 5: answer for working class Americans. Things just cost too much. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 5: no question about it. By the way, seven, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean I love how the fact there. He He's like,
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Speaker 1: oh wait, it's seven, it's seven dollars. This is the
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Speaker 1: elitism of the left. They have no idea what's happening
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Speaker 1: in real America. And Mika's like, a dude, it's not
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Speaker 1: three dollars, not four dollars, not five dollars. I six
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Speaker 1: is seven dollars for butter, and he couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, if you guys would have figured out before
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Speaker 1: election day, maybe you wouldn't have suck so bad.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Ben, let me call a little BS on you.
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Speaker 2: What wait, do you have any idea how much butter costs?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 7: You have no idea, dude. I do a lot of
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Speaker 7: the grocery shopping, Okay, So I in Cosa Cruz. I
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Speaker 7: am not the grocery shopper, like like, I just that's
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Speaker 7: that I go. There are things that are on my plate,
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Speaker 7: things that are on Heidie's plate. I am not the
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Speaker 7: grocery shopper, although I will say tonight I went and
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Speaker 7: bought some cheddar cheese because Caroline decided to make backed
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Speaker 7: baked mac and cheese, and so she sent me out
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Speaker 7: to buy Cheddar. So I bought Cheddar, but I if
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Speaker 7: you asked me how much is butter? I would have
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Speaker 7: no idea, And so I actually googled. I'm like, all right,
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Speaker 7: three dollars seven dollars beats the hell out of me.
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Speaker 7: So I googled how much is butter? And let me
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Speaker 7: just tell you what Google said. So, unsalted butter curbside
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Speaker 7: at Target is four dollars and twenty nine cents.
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Speaker 2: Landa Lakes have stick Salted butter is four dollars and
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Speaker 2: fifty nine cents. And then some weird ass thing called
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Speaker 2: carry gold pure Irish butter. How much you think that is?
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Speaker 1: I'm and see iris Prout's next level. It tastes a
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Speaker 1: lot better. By the way, I'm gonna that stuff is legit.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go eight nine bucks.
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Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty five dollars.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's another level that I've never seen before.
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Speaker 2: Like this like coated and gold maybe that like and
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Speaker 2: by the way, dollar general butter is three dollars. Now,
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Speaker 2: this may be in Houston, I don't know, Maybe in
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Speaker 2: DC it is seven. At Kroger a land of Lake
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Speaker 2: salted buttered two pac is nine ninety nine.
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Speaker 1: So, by the way, you need to try you some
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Speaker 1: if we're talking about butter. Here, if you've never tried
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Speaker 1: carry gold butter on a bagel or toast, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: it is unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I look, I am not not a terribly fancy
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Speaker 2: I'm not a cook, and I'm not a terribly fancy eater.
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Speaker 1: But do you want to know the true reason why
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Speaker 1: I do grocery shopping? Sure, it's it is maybe the
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Speaker 1: first and only time I'll ever throw my wife under
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Speaker 1: the bus on the show. It's because I know how
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Speaker 1: much money I save when I go to the grocery
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Speaker 1: store instead of her going, Because when she goes, it's
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Speaker 1: like the organic and all that stuff starts speaking to her,
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Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, chickens that were coddled for
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Speaker 1: six months before they killed. The chicken is like, you know,
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Speaker 1: eight ninety nine a pound, and I'm like, I'm going
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Speaker 1: with a three point fifty three eighty four dollars pound chicken.
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Speaker 1: So I just go for economic reasons because I save
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Speaker 1: so much money when.
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Speaker 2: I Yeah, look, I have to. When I do grocery shopping,
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Speaker 2: I either buy junk or I buy fruit. I like fruit,
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Speaker 2: so I'll go pick out fresh fruit and get you know,
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Speaker 2: grapes or cherries or nectarines. And so I'll buy fruit,
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Speaker 2: and then i'll buy junk. I'll buy things like, you know,
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Speaker 2: lunchables like the you know, remember Heidi's vegetarians. So I'll
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Speaker 2: get you know, those things like the cracker and cheese
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Speaker 2: and little piece of ham or something.
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Speaker 1: If you're bacheloring it up for everybody listening. And I
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Speaker 1: think I know the answer to that. But if your batcher,
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Speaker 1: if it's just you grocery store buying for you, what
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Speaker 1: is that? Is it a lunchible or is it? I mean,
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Speaker 1: because usually I remember can of soup. All right, So
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Speaker 1: you've been to my apartment in DC. It is literally
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Speaker 1: a bachelor kitchen. Like there's nothing in the kitchen.
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Speaker 2: I may have like some three week old leftovers with
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Speaker 2: mold growing on them. He's in three bottles of beer.
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Speaker 2: And and that's pretty much like it's just an empty
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Speaker 2: fridge and and and so here look at here at home,
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Speaker 2: I'll have tortillas with melted cheese like that. That's my
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Speaker 2: favorite late night stack is snack is take take take
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Speaker 2: a slice of cheese, throat on a tortilla, nuke it
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Speaker 2: for for a minute, roll it up and and and
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Speaker 2: that that I like, and then chunky soup.
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Speaker 1: But I'm but I am not uh are you at
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Speaker 1: least an ATV tortilla guy, because that's mandatory in our house.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'll eat any kind of tortio mission. Tortillas are good,
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Speaker 2: like HB what like, I'm I am not a food snob.
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Speaker 2: It's actually I like good food. I just like crappy
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Speaker 2: food too. I'm like just kind of across the board.
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Speaker 1: See, my boys love it when when the wife's out
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Speaker 1: of town, because we just go to the grocery and
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Speaker 1: I might give whatever you want, and we'll buy the
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Speaker 1: frozen pizzas, and we'll buy the like like you said,
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Speaker 1: like the lunchables, whatever it is. The toaster strots might
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Speaker 1: get it all boys, Mom's gone rules are off.
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Speaker 2: So today today for breakfast last lunch, I ordered on
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Speaker 2: delivery breakfast tacos and I had a chariso egg and
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Speaker 2: cheese taco for lunch.
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Speaker 1: I love it. That's the American dream right there.
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Speaker 2: Yah, it's good stuff. But anyway, the point it is
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Speaker 2: kind of amusing the back and forth between Joe and
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Speaker 2: Mika and they're suddenly realizing, well, inflation is really bad.
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Speaker 2: Now let's go let now, let's go to the sort
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Speaker 2: of bitter, bitter angry leftists. And of course by that
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Speaker 2: I mean the view which there is. There are no
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Speaker 2: bit more bitter or no no more angry leftists. Take
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Speaker 2: a listen to the views, explain it and.
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Speaker 1: Paying the picture. They came out in all black the
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Speaker 1: day after the election, just so people know, if you
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Speaker 1: don't want some view like it was a funeral, they
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Speaker 1: were wearing all black on the view. That's it. That's rich, right.
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Speaker 2: They are rich, and and they hate they hate average Americans.
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Speaker 2: They look down on us. And here let listen, and
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Speaker 2: I'm going to prove that that statement is not not
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Speaker 2: too extreme because because you're going to see Sonny Hostin
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Speaker 2: demonstrating just how much she despises average Americans.
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Speaker 8: And finally, we talk a lot about these different demographics
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Speaker 8: and these assumptions of where they're going to go. Latinos
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Speaker 8: in Texas a district that's ninety seven percent Latino went
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Speaker 8: seventy five percentage points for Donald Trump.
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Speaker 9: Why misogyny and the no was on.
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Speaker 8: The border crisis is on their doorsteps, and they were
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Speaker 8: begging people to care about it for years.
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Speaker 4: But we need to take some less that was.
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Speaker 10: Not who was there?
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's whooping masad and sexism.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, she's talking about South Texas, she's
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Speaker 2: talking about Hispanics and apparently, and it wasn't just Hispanic
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Speaker 2: men that we're voting for Donald Trump, it was Hispanic
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Speaker 2: women too. So apparently Hispanic women are motivated by misogyny
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Speaker 2: and sexism. They just don't like women. That's the only explanation.
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Speaker 2: Not that having eleven and a half million people invade
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Speaker 2: your state, invade your community, threaten your kids, not having
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Speaker 2: one hundred and ten thousand people die of fentonyl and
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Speaker 2: drug overdoses, none of that. No, no, no, it's just you
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Speaker 2: hate women. If you didn't vote for Kamala Harris, you've
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Speaker 2: got to just you got to say, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I'm willing for my family to be sacrificed because I
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Speaker 2: am a woke leftist. I mean, listen to the contempt
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Speaker 2: that there's no part of Sonny that's trying to say,
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Speaker 2: huh an overwhelmingly Hispanic district when overwhelmingly for Trump. And
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Speaker 2: by the way, in Texas, Trump carried Hispanics and I
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Speaker 2: carried Hispanics. I carried Hispanic State by six points, and
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Speaker 2: no part of Sonny could say, well, why is that is?
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Speaker 2: Is there maybe something about the current radical agenda of
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Speaker 2: the left that is turning people off? Nope, Nope, Apparently
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Speaker 2: everyone's just a racist and a bigot. That's the only
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Speaker 2: explanation possible.
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Speaker 1: And it didn't get any better, by the way, because
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Speaker 1: if you move from Sonny hoston, you go over to
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Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow. She took a different approach, and that was
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Speaker 1: a tirade where she basically fearmongered what this country is
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Speaker 1: turning into. It reminded me a lot of twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: except there's more hatred for Tharump now than there even
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Speaker 1: was in sixteen. But take a listen to MSNBC's like
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Speaker 1: obituary for America.
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Speaker 11: But now, history doesn't end, time doesn't stop. Now we
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Speaker 11: have the benefit of knowing, you know, how that's gone
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Speaker 11: in every other country that has been through a democracy
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Speaker 11: to authoritarian transition, and sadly there are a lot of
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Speaker 11: We have the benefit of seeing what's happened in those
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Speaker 11: other countries, though, and what we know is that the
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Speaker 11: more ground the authoritarian takes, the harder it is to
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Speaker 11: ever get that ground back.
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Speaker 4: And so the first order of business is to stop.
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Speaker 11: Them from taking any uncontested ground right from the outset.
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Speaker 11: When it comes to what our system of government is
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Speaker 11: and what our democracy is from other countries' experiences, that quickly,
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Speaker 11: I mean now, in the next few weeks, if not
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Speaker 11: the next few days, they are going to start pushing
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Speaker 11: to see how far the country is going to let
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Speaker 11: them go.
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Speaker 4: Without pushback, without protest. And part of this is.
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Speaker 11: Because it's just psychologically advantageous for them to do this now.
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Speaker 4: Right, They're counting on the.
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Speaker 11: Half the country that voted against them, half the country
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Speaker 11: that doesn't want to give up our system of government.
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Speaker 11: They're counting on all those tens of millions of Americans
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Speaker 11: to be despondent, to feel powerless, to check out, which
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Speaker 11: of course would mean letting them do what they want,
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Speaker 11: letting them run the table.
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Speaker 4: What they really don't.
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Speaker 11: Want is for the half the country that voted against them,
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Speaker 11: half the country that.
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Speaker 4: Wants to keep our democracy.
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Speaker 11: What they really don't want is for those tens of
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Speaker 11: millions of Americans to wake up tomorrow feeling scrappy.
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Speaker 4: As hell.
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Speaker 1: So there's your pep talk, Senator, it's there. We've got
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Speaker 1: a tyrant and a dictator, and half of America must
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Speaker 1: not be silent even though the majority of Americans and
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to throw this in liberal's faces all
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Speaker 1: the time. Donald Trump just won the popular vote too.
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Speaker 1: So the majority of Americans said Donald Trump is who
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Speaker 1: they want, not you, not Kamala Harris. And so you
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Speaker 1: need to stop acting like the majority of the country
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Speaker 1: was just disenfranchised. They were not. And the popular vote
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Speaker 1: proves that.
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Speaker 2: Ben explained something to me. I at times have trouble
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Speaker 2: understanding what passes for think processes among radical leftists. Rachel
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Speaker 2: Maddow just said, those Americans want to save our democracy
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Speaker 2: need to rage against how the damn people voted. But like, okay,
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Speaker 2: wait democracy, to quote Enigo Montoya, you keep on using
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Speaker 2: that word. I do not think it means what you
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Speaker 2: think it means. Like she's claiming to be a defender
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Speaker 2: of democracy, and her answer is screw the voters for
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Speaker 2: voting for something I don't like. And I, Rachel Mattow,
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Speaker 2: I the left, we should impose our views on you
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Speaker 2: whatever the damn voters say. It doesn't matter, we're going
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Speaker 2: to impose it. Why, Because we believe in democracy so
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Speaker 2: much we want to ignore what the voter's voted for.
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Speaker 1: This goes back to what the Democrats did in twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: and at least they're consistent when they don't get their way. Now,
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Speaker 1: their job, they feel like their job is to, Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: we just overthrow the well other people we have a
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Speaker 1: carer against.
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Speaker 2: Play the next play, the next Rachel mattowclip.
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Speaker 11: Then the decisive result of this election gives us not
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Speaker 11: just an answer to the question as to what Americans
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Speaker 11: want to do along those lines, it also gives us
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Speaker 11: a really big to do list as Americans. If you
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Speaker 11: are an American citizen who does not want to ashcan
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Speaker 11: the American system of government, who doesn't want a strong
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Speaker 11: man authoritarian system where the whole government is one guy
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Speaker 11: and everything else just exists to serve him. If that
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Speaker 11: is not the kind of country that you want, then
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Speaker 11: yesterday's election means you have more to do for your
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Speaker 11: country than you have ever done before, because now is
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Speaker 11: when the rubber really hits the road, right, We don't
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Speaker 11: just flip a switch and the American system of government
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Speaker 11: is gone.
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Speaker 4: Democracy is gone. It doesn't work like that.
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Speaker 11: I mean not to be boring here for a second,
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Speaker 11: but just getting very real. We now are just another
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Speaker 11: one in the list of countries that has decided to
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Speaker 11: you know, hey, what the heck, let's try the strong
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Speaker 11: man thing. Let's let democracy go. Let's put in an
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Speaker 11: all power or full guy instead.
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Speaker 4: See how it goes.
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Speaker 11: There are many more countries in the world and by
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Speaker 11: that kind of a system than there are governed by ours.
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Speaker 11: We are the only two hundred and forty eight year old,
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Speaker 11: multi racial, pluralistic democracy in the world. And shall we
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Speaker 11: keep it? A lot of our fellow Americans.
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Speaker 4: Say we shouldn't.
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Speaker 11: Now we know now, we know for sure, But a
18:20
Speaker 11: lot of Americans, tens of millions of Americans, say we
18:24
Speaker 11: should keep that system, which means time to fight for it.
18:29
Speaker 11: And yes, Americans did fight for it by working on
18:31
Speaker 11: this election, by trying to get the candidate elected who
18:35
Speaker 11: was both the Democrat and the small d Democrat. She
18:39
Speaker 11: didn't win the strong man candidate one instead. But now
18:43
Speaker 11: history doesn't end.
18:44
Speaker 4: Time doesn't stop. Now we have the.
18:47
Speaker 11: Benefit of knowing, you know, how that's gone in every
18:51
Speaker 11: other country that has been through a democracy. To authoritarian transition,
18:56
Speaker 11: and sadly.
18:56
Speaker 4: There are a lot of them.
18:58
Speaker 11: We have the benefit of seeing what's happened in those
19:00
Speaker 11: other countries, though, and what we know is that the
19:03
Speaker 11: more ground the authoritarian takes, the harder it is to
19:08
Speaker 11: ever get that ground back.
19:11
Speaker 4: And so the first order of business.
19:12
Speaker 11: Is to stop them from taking any uncontested ground.
19:16
Speaker 1: Right from the outset, I mean, what else can you say?
19:20
Speaker 1: These people are deranged at this point on the media.
19:23
Speaker 2: Yes, so, Rachel Maddow just said that Americans just voted
19:26
Speaker 2: to end are quote multi racial, pluralistic democracy now number one.
19:31
Speaker 2: The fact that they voted shows they didn't vote to
19:35
Speaker 2: end democracy. Now, technically speaking, we have a republic, not
19:38
Speaker 2: a democracy, but it is a democratic republic. It is
19:41
Speaker 2: a republic where the representatives are elected by the people.
19:43
Speaker 2: And in this case, the voters not only voted for
19:46
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, they voted for Republican senators. Not only to
19:49
Speaker 2: give Republicans a majority in the Senate, it looks like
19:52
Speaker 2: they voted for a majority in the House too. And
19:54
Speaker 2: you know what the leftists hate the fact that the
19:56
Speaker 2: people voted for a policy agenda that includes low taxes
20:00
Speaker 2: and low regulations and lots of jobs. That include spending
20:03
Speaker 2: restraint and inflation under control. That includes the federal government
20:06
Speaker 2: not waging war on American energy production and driving up
20:09
Speaker 2: costs and driving up inflation. That includes securing the damn
20:13
Speaker 2: border and not allowing eleven and a half million people
20:15
Speaker 2: to invade this country, not making billions of dollars for
20:18
Speaker 2: Mexican drug cartels, not allowing children to be traffic. It
20:22
Speaker 2: includes not losing three hundred thousand children, which is what
20:25
Speaker 2: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has done. And by the way,
20:28
Speaker 2: when she's talking about you know, we just voted to
20:31
Speaker 2: end a multi racial, pluralistic democracy. Well just a minute ago,
20:35
Speaker 2: Sonny Houstin was saying, those damn Hispanics, how could they
20:38
Speaker 2: vote for this. Let's be clear, it doesn't what matter
20:42
Speaker 2: if you're a white man or Hispanic or African American.
20:48
Speaker 2: If you don't vote the way leftists want you to,
20:51
Speaker 2: they hate you. I'll tell you in Texas, in this
20:53
Speaker 2: last election, I want a majority of Hispanics. I won
20:56
Speaker 2: twenty percent of African American men in the state of Texas.
20:59
Speaker 2: Now that were fifty percent or higher, but twenty percent
21:02
Speaker 2: is a high water mark. And in Rachel Maddow's world.
21:07
Speaker 2: Those people who voted for me, who voted for Donald Trump,
21:10
Speaker 2: they don't count as African Americans. It is truly. And
21:15
Speaker 2: let me make another point. They're going on and on
21:18
Speaker 2: about an authoritarian. An authoritarian Donald Trump was president for
21:21
Speaker 2: four years. He didn't do anything that was authoritarian. He
21:24
Speaker 2: followed the law. By the way, the reason we're going
21:26
Speaker 2: to get good laws passed is we didn't just elect Trump.
21:29
Speaker 2: We elected a Republican Senate in a Republican House. So
21:32
Speaker 2: the democratic system worked and people said, we don't like
21:34
Speaker 2: your policies, we're going to switch back to the ones
21:36
Speaker 2: we like. And the administration that has been dictatorial has
21:42
Speaker 2: been Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. You want to talk
21:43
Speaker 2: about authoritarian, Having a president say I'm going to defy
21:48
Speaker 2: federal immigration laws and just let people go. That's authoritarian.
21:52
Speaker 2: It's lawless. Having an administration say I'm going to give
21:55
Speaker 2: away a trillion dollars and a student loan giveaway that
21:58
Speaker 2: is totally contrary to federal law to be struck down
22:01
Speaker 2: by the Supreme Court. That is authoritarian. Having an administration
22:05
Speaker 2: issue an edict you must get a COVID vaccine, or
22:09
Speaker 2: we will fire you. We will fire you from the military,
22:11
Speaker 2: will fire you from the federal government, will force your
22:13
Speaker 2: private employer to fire you. We don't care if you
22:16
Speaker 2: want to choose to get this vaccine or not. We
22:18
Speaker 2: will force it on you. By the way, that was
22:20
Speaker 2: struck down by the Supreme Court as well. You know
22:22
Speaker 2: what you call all that authoritarian and the leftist. They
22:26
Speaker 2: never acknowledge a moment of that. And let me be clear,
22:29
Speaker 2: let's go back to the view. So as you know,
22:31
Speaker 2: I've been on the view three times with my last
22:36
Speaker 2: several books. You know, the last book I wrote, Unwoke,
22:39
Speaker 2: the view said nope, we won't have you on because
22:41
Speaker 2: it went so badly for them, because they can only
22:44
Speaker 2: sit there and lie when they don't actually face facts
22:48
Speaker 2: to the contrary. And so they want to live in
22:52
Speaker 2: an utterly fact free environment where they can lie to
22:55
Speaker 2: the American people.
22:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do it well. They do it well every day.
22:59
Speaker 1: And proof of it is they've been acting since election day,
23:02
Speaker 1: which I think is the most surprising. But also for me,
23:05
Speaker 1: part of me just says, I'm kind of glad they
23:07
Speaker 1: don't get it. It's going to make it easier for us.
23:09
Speaker 1: To win elections and move forward, because it seems like
23:12
Speaker 1: they refused to admit when they lost, why they lost,
23:16
Speaker 1: and how they lost, and they didn't listen to the
23:18
Speaker 1: American people.
23:19
Speaker 2: All right, go back to the view play the next
23:21
Speaker 2: clip from Sonny again.
23:23
Speaker 9: And I'm profoundly disturbed that the fourteenth Amendment of the
23:26
Speaker 9: Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection
23:32
Speaker 9: from becoming president of the United States.
23:34
Speaker 4: I think that going.
23:36
Speaker 9: Forward, the convicted felon box unemployment applications better be taken off,
23:40
Speaker 9: because if you can be the president of the United States,
23:43
Speaker 9: they need should not be prevented from employment in this country.
23:47
Speaker 9: Because I remember applying for my jobs as a federal
23:51
Speaker 9: prosecutor and there was a box for convicted felons. Well,
23:54
Speaker 9: and so that box better better be taken off. And
23:57
Speaker 9: I think our healthcare system is now at risk. I
24:00
Speaker 9: think no caloride for anyone. Yeah, economists have made clear
24:05
Speaker 9: that he's going to increase the debt by seven point
24:08
Speaker 9: seventy five trillion dollars. I'm worried about mass deportation and
24:13
Speaker 9: internment camps. And I'm also worried about Elon Musk warning
24:16
Speaker 9: Americans to prepare for temporary hardship.
24:20
Speaker 2: All right, so let's break several things down. First of all, saying,
24:24
Speaker 2: take the felon box off off of the job application.
24:29
Speaker 2: You know, the irony is, there's only one reason that
24:31
Speaker 2: Trump is a convicted felon, because her party, the radical
24:34
Speaker 2: left Democrats, abuse the justice system to go after and
24:37
Speaker 2: try to subvert democracy. By the way, one of the
24:40
Speaker 2: great things the Department of Justice is dismissing all those
24:43
Speaker 2: cases because now that he's won, the DOJ has a
24:45
Speaker 2: long standing rule that it won't prosecute and can't prosecute
24:48
Speaker 2: a sitting president, and it looks like all these cases
24:50
Speaker 2: are going to be thrown out. So understand, the only
24:52
Speaker 2: reason they can call him a convicted felon is because
24:55
Speaker 2: they were a bunch of authoritarian zealots who abused the
24:58
Speaker 2: justice system to try to stop the voters from doing
25:01
Speaker 2: what they just did on Tuesday. And then her comment,
25:05
Speaker 2: I'm worried about mass deportation and in tournament camps. Let's
25:08
Speaker 2: break that down one piece at a time. Mass deportation, well,
25:12
Speaker 2: you know what she should worry about that if you're
25:14
Speaker 2: a drug trafficker, if you're a human trafficker, if you're
25:16
Speaker 2: a felon, if you're a murderer, if you're a rapist,
25:18
Speaker 2: We're going to find you. We're going to arrest you,
25:19
Speaker 2: We're going to get you out of this country. You're
25:21
Speaker 2: going to be deported. And I'm sorry, Sonny, that you
25:23
Speaker 2: are lamenting it, but I also feel confident that you
25:26
Speaker 2: have armed security protecting you at all time, and you're
25:28
Speaker 2: not worried about Venezuelan and gangs taking over your apartment
25:30
Speaker 2: building because you don't actually live in an apartment building.
25:33
Speaker 2: The rest of America is going to feel a lot
25:34
Speaker 2: happier when we're deporting violent criminals that your party let
25:38
Speaker 2: in and then in tournament camps. And let's break it
25:41
Speaker 2: into a couple of pieces. Number one Benjamin History quiz
25:46
Speaker 2: which president of the United States set up internment camps.
25:49
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with a Democrat? Is it a
25:52
Speaker 1: final answer? Can I put that in my jeopardy with
25:54
Speaker 1: all my money on it?
25:55
Speaker 2: Not only a Democrat, but the granddaddy of them all,
26:00
Speaker 2: a lion of the left, FDR Franklin Delan R. Roosevelt,
26:03
Speaker 2: who I'm pretty sure on the view if they reference
26:06
Speaker 2: FDR that they require Gregorian monks in the banks. Back
26:09
Speaker 2: to saying, ah, of course they don't believe in monks either,
26:12
Speaker 2: so they wouldn't let that happen. But FDR set up
26:16
Speaker 2: internment camps for Japanese citizens, wildly on constitutional, wildly illegally illegal.
26:22
Speaker 2: Thankfully we now recognize that as a grotesque abuse. But
26:26
Speaker 2: that's never been done by a Republican Donald Trump was president.
26:29
Speaker 2: Were there any internment camps? No, but it doesn't stop
26:32
Speaker 2: the left from their fever dream. And by the way,
26:35
Speaker 2: you know, what she really means is internment camps. She
26:38
Speaker 2: means detention facilities for illegal immigrants, which she'll call to
26:41
Speaker 2: tournament camps. And to be clear, Kamala Harris promised when
26:44
Speaker 2: she was running for president that on her first day
26:47
Speaker 2: she would shut down all the ice attention camps. So
26:49
Speaker 2: a detention camp for someone who enters the country illegally
26:53
Speaker 2: is not an internment camp. What's the difference?
26:55
Speaker 3: All Right?
26:56
Speaker 2: This is where hopefully verdict does some good. If you
27:00
Speaker 2: have a murderer and you convict him of murder and
27:03
Speaker 2: you send him to jail, is the jail and internment camp? No?
27:07
Speaker 2: Why because he's been convicted of a crime. If someone
27:11
Speaker 2: crosses into this country illegally and they are detained, and
27:13
Speaker 2: they're detained a detention facility. Is that an internment camp?
27:16
Speaker 6: No?
27:17
Speaker 1: Why?
27:18
Speaker 2: Because the law provides you can't cross any illegally and
27:20
Speaker 2: you can be detained for doing so while your deportation
27:23
Speaker 2: proceedings are pending. An internment camp. What FDR did is
27:27
Speaker 2: he rounded up Japanese citizens who had not broken any law.
27:30
Speaker 2: They were American citizens of Japanese descent, so they were
27:34
Speaker 2: law abiding Americans living their life. And FDR said, if
27:37
Speaker 2: you're of Japanese descent, we're going to arrest you and
27:40
Speaker 2: throw you in a camp simply because you're Japanese and
27:43
Speaker 2: we're in World War two and we're at war with Japan.
27:46
Speaker 2: That was grotesquely bigoted, and it was directly contrary to
27:50
Speaker 2: the constitution. You can't arrest someone who's a law abiding
27:54
Speaker 2: American citizen who hadn't broken the law. But of course,
27:58
Speaker 2: on the view everything I just said, they don't have
28:00
Speaker 2: anyone who says that. Instead, they just nod vapidly and said, yes,
28:03
Speaker 2: he's an authoritarian. It's terrible, and they ignore that their
28:06
Speaker 2: party is the one who has been engaged in authoritarian lawlessness.
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Speaker 1: thing that I also thought was really shocking, just of
30:00
Speaker 1: the takeaway is look, whether I'm on a campaign that
30:04
Speaker 1: wins or a campaign that loses. One thing I've always
30:08
Speaker 1: learned early on in my career is you better take notes.
30:14
Speaker 1: And the notes can be Hey, we won, but what
30:16
Speaker 1: can we do better next time? What did we mess
30:18
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Speaker 1: from your mistakes when you win, and you learn from
30:32
Speaker 1: your mistakes when you lose. There seems to be no
30:35
Speaker 1: self awareness here at all from the Democratic Party in
30:39
Speaker 1: general over this loss, and this loss was big. You
30:43
Speaker 1: look at California and how many people voted actually for
30:47
Speaker 1: concerts there at numbers that were historic in some areas.
30:50
Speaker 1: New York, look at the numbers there historic in some areas. You,
30:55
Speaker 1: for example, having an almost ten point margin of victory
30:58
Speaker 1: over a can it they pump money in the state.
31:01
Speaker 1: It was a good old Texas ass whooping. As I
31:04
Speaker 1: described it on Fox Business Channel earlier, that there seems
31:08
Speaker 1: to be no self awareness at all, and is that
31:11
Speaker 1: going to be their downfall moving forward? I kind of
31:14
Speaker 1: hope it is. Yeah.
31:15
Speaker 2: Look, unfortunately, I wish some Democrats would recognize we've gotten
31:19
Speaker 2: to extreme. Let's adjust, let's let's move towards the middle,
31:22
Speaker 2: let's find common ground that would be good for America.
31:24
Speaker 2: I don't think they're there yet. I think it is
31:27
Speaker 2: going to take a couple more as you put a
31:31
Speaker 2: good old fashioned ass whippings to let them change. And
31:35
Speaker 2: you mentioned California. Listen, California is going to play a
31:38
Speaker 2: pivotal role in ensuring that Republicans have the majority in
31:41
Speaker 2: the House Representatives, and yet California Democrats are I want
31:44
Speaker 2: you to listen to Eric Swalwell, who you know. I mean,
31:47
Speaker 2: he really liked the folks on the view. He's just
31:50
Speaker 2: kind of a hard, angry leftist. But I want you
31:52
Speaker 2: to listen to his analysis of why the Democrats lost.
31:57
Speaker 3: People resent when you talk to them like you're trying
31:59
Speaker 3: to win a Harvard Law School mood court competition, as
32:03
Speaker 3: opposed to just you know, talking to somebody.
32:06
Speaker 2: At a bar or at the bus stop.
32:08
Speaker 3: And I think we would be better served if we
32:11
Speaker 3: led with our personality rather than policy. And our personalities
32:15
Speaker 3: can reflect our values, our principles, what we care about.
32:19
Speaker 3: But too often we're just not plain spoken enough and frankly,
32:24
Speaker 3: we're too nice and too modest, and we stand on virtue.
32:28
Speaker 1: I mean, basically, if you didn't vote for us, you're
32:32
Speaker 1: all a bunch of deplorables, garbage Nazis. We hate you
32:38
Speaker 1: all and you're stupid.
32:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to say when Eric Swalwell's diagnosis of
32:44
Speaker 2: the problem of Democrats is that they're quote too nice,
32:48
Speaker 2: too modest, and stand on virtue like that truly is
32:53
Speaker 2: disconnected from reality. This is while Kamala Harris is screaming
32:56
Speaker 2: Trump is hitler, this is we left us on TV
32:59
Speaker 2: are saying he's authority is going to set up in
33:01
Speaker 2: tournament camps. This is wal Joe Biden is calling the
33:04
Speaker 2: people who voted for Trump garbage. This is while Mark
33:09
Speaker 2: Cuban is insulting every woman who voted for Donald Trump.
33:12
Speaker 2: And I love how he said, well, our problem is
33:16
Speaker 2: we're trying to win a Harvard moot court. Well, Eric,
33:19
Speaker 2: one of us has actually been in Harvard moot courts,
33:22
Speaker 2: and one of us has won arguments before. And I
33:24
Speaker 2: will tell you Kamala Harris has many problems, but being
33:27
Speaker 2: too much of an effective advocate in a Harvard moot
33:30
Speaker 2: court that ain't one of them. That's not Kamala's problem,
33:33
Speaker 2: I can assure you. And in fact, the word salad
33:37
Speaker 2: that was the special of the day from Kamala Harris.
33:39
Speaker 2: The reason she told the word salad is because your
33:43
Speaker 2: policies are indefensible. And my favorite part of that clip
33:46
Speaker 2: with Swalwell is he said, well, maybe we should stop
33:50
Speaker 2: talking about policies and just lead with our personalities. And
33:53
Speaker 2: I get it. If your policies are complete garbage, if
33:56
Speaker 2: their failures, if they don't work for the American people,
33:59
Speaker 2: what else do you you have other than to try
34:01
Speaker 2: to like Woo people with a bunch of smoke and
34:04
Speaker 2: mirrors and distraction. But no aspect of what he said
34:09
Speaker 2: there is any reflection of, gosh, maybe we got too
34:15
Speaker 2: extreme now. Instead he's saying we need to be even
34:19
Speaker 2: more extreme. And I gotta tell you, unfortunately, there're gonna
34:23
Speaker 2: be more than a few leftists who react just like that.
34:25
Speaker 1: Even late night comedy, they were not funny, Stephen Colbert.
34:29
Speaker 1: He was angry and just frustrated. And here's what he
34:34
Speaker 1: said to America.
34:35
Speaker 10: I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. Well, well it happened again.
34:50
Speaker 12: After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate
34:53
Speaker 12: need not to go to jail, Donald Trump has won
34:55
Speaker 12: the twenty twenty four election. Indep It's almost like you
35:02
Speaker 12: rehearse that. The deep shock and sense of loss is enormous. Okay,
35:08
Speaker 12: but let's look at the bright side. This way, at
35:10
Speaker 12: least there'll be a peaceful transfer of power. Mike Pants, Ali,
35:14
Speaker 12: Ali Oxen free. All day yesterday I was walking around
35:18
Speaker 12: proudly wearing my eye voted sticker. Today I wore my
35:22
Speaker 12: I am questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of
35:24
Speaker 12: humanity sticker. Yeah, they give those out, They give those out,
35:29
Speaker 12: yeah at the Bakesdale right outside. Now, as a late
35:34
Speaker 12: night host, people will often say to me, come on,
35:37
Speaker 12: part of you has gotta want Trump to win because
35:40
Speaker 12: he gives you so much material to work with.
35:43
Speaker 10: No, no, no, one.
35:46
Speaker 12: Tells the guy who cleans the bathroom, Wow, you must
35:49
Speaker 12: love it when someone has explosive diarrhea. There's so much
35:52
Speaker 12: material for you to work with.
35:54
Speaker 2: Come on, now, do you understand that?
35:59
Speaker 5: Not good?
36:00
Speaker 2: I wish you wish.
36:02
Speaker 4: So many of us wish this.
36:03
Speaker 12: Hadn't happened, But that is not for us to decide.
36:06
Speaker 4: This is a democracy.
36:08
Speaker 12: That's democracy with a capital duh. And in this democracy,
36:13
Speaker 12: the majority has spoken and they said they don't care
36:16
Speaker 12: that much about democracy. And I want to take a
36:19
Speaker 12: moment to congratulate Kamala Harris on Tim Walls on running
36:23
Speaker 12: an amazing one hundred and seven days came, well, come.
36:27
Speaker 1: On, that was extraordinary, right out of the great His
36:32
Speaker 1: definition of extraordinary and mind center are very different. But
36:35
Speaker 1: I do think there's a bigger point.
36:37
Speaker 2: Actually, to be fair, though you would agree their campaign
36:39
Speaker 2: was extraordinary.
36:40
Speaker 1: It was extraordinary. Is extraordinarily bad and thank them for
36:43
Speaker 1: doing it? That's true, Yes, it was extraordinary on that front.
36:47
Speaker 2: But see there's common ground you and Stephen Colbert on
36:49
Speaker 2: the same page.
36:50
Speaker 5: Ha ha ha.
36:51
Speaker 2: That's very true. So there's a bigger theme here. By
36:55
Speaker 2: the way, tell me Ben it likes Stephen Colbert. Have
36:58
Speaker 2: you ever dressed up as a giant COVID vaccinations shout
37:01
Speaker 2: and danced around publicly?
37:03
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, never gonna happen. Never gonna happen. But this
37:07
Speaker 1: is the part that I grint about. I feel like
37:10
Speaker 1: we've actually broken the media now. And I got to
37:14
Speaker 1: give some credit on Musk for doing this when he
37:15
Speaker 1: bought X and it started to change things and people
37:18
Speaker 1: were actually able to get their views out there and
37:20
Speaker 1: not be silenced and censored the way that they were before.
37:24
Speaker 1: And what I think has happened now is if you
37:27
Speaker 1: are a conservative, even a moderate, being talked to by
37:32
Speaker 1: late night television in this way is the reason why
37:37
Speaker 1: I think they're actually putting themselves into irrelevancy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, one of the things striking you look at
37:43
Speaker 2: Colbert when he's like complaining about the election result in
37:47
Speaker 2: all of his crowd is cheering with him. It's clear
37:49
Speaker 2: only leftists go to Stephen Colbert. Only leftists watch when's
37:53
Speaker 2: the last time you watch Steven Colbert, Just seriously.
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Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. Years years to love watching Leno and Letterman.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Leonard, Leonard Letterman. I would watch all the time
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Speaker 2: Letterman's Top ten list and a real shift in late
38:09
Speaker 2: I like comedy. I like late night comedy. I watch comedies.
38:12
Speaker 2: I've grown up on SNL. I like good comedy. And
38:16
Speaker 2: by the way, I laugh at comedy making fun of Republicans.
38:19
Speaker 2: There's plenty to make fun of Republicans if you have
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Speaker 2: a good comedian. They ought to make fun of everybody.
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Speaker 2: And I mean there's a lot to laugh at. And
38:25
Speaker 2: in the age of Trump, late night comics are just
38:29
Speaker 2: so consumed that they just give partisan rants. And by
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Speaker 2: the way, one of the big shifts. So a decade ago,
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Speaker 2: it was a regular part of politics to go on
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Speaker 2: late night shows. I've been on Stephen Colbert, I've been
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Speaker 2: on Jimmy Kimmel, I've been on Fallon, I've been on Leno.
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Speaker 2: It used to be a regular part. When is the
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Speaker 2: last time you saw any Republican on late night shows?
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Speaker 1: We're not welcome if you're a fake Republican, if you're
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Speaker 1: a kids.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, no, if you're but an actual Republican,
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Speaker 2: the they simply do not have them on, and as
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Speaker 2: a result, they're infinitely less funny. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: A Sinel did the same thing with Kamala Harris and
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Speaker 2: Tim Kaine. They had both of them on, but not
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Speaker 2: not their Republican opponents, and then they got in trouble
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Speaker 2: with the FCC because they were violating federal law. And all.
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Speaker 2: All right, Colbert is one thing, but I want you
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Speaker 2: to listen to Jimmy Kimmel because again, I know Kimmel,
39:21
Speaker 2: I've you know.
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Speaker 1: Good old Texas and we're talking about as women's earlier.
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Speaker 1: You gave him a good old Texas ass whoop when
39:28
Speaker 1: you were not that long ago, when you guys played
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Speaker 1: basketball against each other. Let's just make sure we remember,
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Speaker 1: remind the audience of that.
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Speaker 2: I will never forget, so so play Kimmel that this
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Speaker 2: is his comedy monologue.
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Speaker 4: Let's be honest.
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Speaker 6: It was a terrible night last night. It was a
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Speaker 6: terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of
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Speaker 6: thousands of hard working immigrants who make this country go.
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Speaker 4: For healthcare, for.
39:57
Speaker 6: Our climate, for scran for journalism, for justice.
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Speaker 10: For free speech.
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Speaker 6: It was a terrible night for poor people, for the
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Speaker 6: middle class, for seniors who rely on social security, for
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Speaker 6: our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, or your truth.
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Speaker 1: He's crying, and half of what he said, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is just more than it.
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Speaker 2: Was a terrible night for free speech, Like that's just hysterical.
40:28
Speaker 2: His side are the censoring. We will silence you, we
40:31
Speaker 2: will control you, we will ban you. You know, it
40:35
Speaker 2: was like everything he said, it was a terrible night
40:39
Speaker 2: for women. Now, to be clear, this is the same
40:41
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel that used to co host The Man Show
40:43
Speaker 2: and he would have women in bikinis jumping up on trampolines.
40:46
Speaker 2: So he's not exactly on the vanguard of women's rights.
40:51
Speaker 2: But Jimmy Kimmel no longer is a comedian. He's just
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Speaker 2: an angry leftist. He's not quite as woke as Steven Colbert,
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Speaker 2: but he's like one to one thousandth away. And you
41:05
Speaker 2: know what, as a result, it's just not funny. And
41:07
Speaker 2: so I will say this. You mentioned my playing hoops
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Speaker 2: with him, so back in twenty eighteen, I challenged him
41:14
Speaker 2: to one on one basketball. We played. It was terrible,
41:17
Speaker 2: terrible basketball. As ESPN broadcasted that night. If doctor Nasmith
41:23
Speaker 2: had seen what happened here today, he would have invented
41:26
Speaker 2: a different sport. But at the end of the day,
41:29
Speaker 2: my terrible basketball was slightly better than his terrible basketball,
41:33
Speaker 2: and I won eleven to nine, which forever and ever
41:36
Speaker 2: will be an ass kicking that Jimmy Kimmel has to
41:39
Speaker 2: live with. And as a result of it, I've lived
41:41
Speaker 2: free in his head for the last six years. And
41:43
Speaker 2: so he about once a month goes on a rant
41:46
Speaker 2: attacking me, and in fact, like when my last book
41:50
Speaker 2: on Woke came out, he hired a drag queen to
41:54
Speaker 2: read excerpts of my book to five year olds, which
41:58
Speaker 2: was kind of bizarre, but I thanked him for helping
42:00
Speaker 2: me sell copies of the book. And then my standard
42:03
Speaker 2: response whenever he lashes out is I have a video
42:07
Speaker 2: that we've compiled that we call Buckets and Blocks, and
42:10
Speaker 2: it consists of nothing but shots of me scoring on
42:12
Speaker 2: him and shots of me just swatting his shot back
42:16
Speaker 2: and actually fouling the hell out of him a whole lot.
42:19
Speaker 2: And so that's my response every time, is gush, Jimmy,
42:21
Speaker 2: you seem angry, but it's really a shame that you're
42:24
Speaker 2: gonna have to live with that loss forever.
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Speaker 1: You know. One of the things it's also interesting about
42:28
Speaker 1: this conversation is the fact that Democrats who said, well,
42:33
Speaker 1: you know, we were trying to save democracy were screwed.
42:36
Speaker 1: Now we got a dictator of tyrant coming in are
42:39
Speaker 1: actually the ones acting like that. Governor Newsom has already
42:43
Speaker 1: come out saying, I'm calling a special session to prep
42:47
Speaker 1: the battle against incoming Trump administration, calling it a special
42:52
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Speaker 1: administration ever, issues that could to impact his state.
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Speaker 2: Look, they're going to resist on every front. They're going
43:05
Speaker 2: to fight because why because they hate democracy. That's the irony.
43:10
Speaker 2: They talk about democracy constantly, But what they mean of
43:13
Speaker 2: democracy is we will force you to obey us whether
43:16
Speaker 2: or not the voters want it. They don't actually want democracy.
43:18
Speaker 2: If they want a democracy, they wouldn't have prosecuted Trump
43:20
Speaker 2: four different times because they would have trusted the voters.
43:22
Speaker 2: They like power, and they mask their lust for power
43:27
Speaker 2: in calling it democracy. But I gotta say there's at
43:30
Speaker 2: least one Democrat right now who is celebrating, who is
43:33
Speaker 2: smiling ear to ear, who may well be the happiest
43:37
Speaker 2: man in the world, and that would be Joseph Robinette Biden.
43:42
Speaker 2: He is joyful. And I'm going to wager you twenty
43:45
Speaker 2: bucks that Joe Biden and Jill Biden they both pulled
43:49
Speaker 2: the lever for Donald Trump when they voted on Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me because if you go back to
43:56
Speaker 1: this coup, and to quickly remind people it was it
44:00
Speaker 1: was the Democratic mafia and the fam the five families.
44:04
Speaker 1: It was the Shumer, Pelosi, Obama Clinton's that were in
44:10
Speaker 1: this and Harris, those five families had a coup. I
44:15
Speaker 1: think they probably threatened him with a twenty fifth amendment
44:17
Speaker 1: if you don't step aside, we're going to do this too,
44:20
Speaker 1: because we don't want to lose and we think we
44:22
Speaker 1: can win. With Harris and Joe Biden, I have not
44:26
Speaker 1: seen him have a bigger grin on his face when
44:29
Speaker 1: he did this Rose Garden conversation. Whatever.
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Speaker 2: Well, look, the whole thing started. I mean, I think
44:34
Speaker 2: Biden found out about it when he woke up with
44:38
Speaker 2: his dog, Major's head in his bed and he was
44:42
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44:45
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44:51
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45:03
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45:15
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45:21
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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's good to see you all, particularly good to
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Speaker 13: see my granddaughters in the front row. Here at been
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Speaker 13: Halloi honey. For over two hundred years, America has carried
48:07
Speaker 13: out the greatest experiment in self government and history of
48:11
Speaker 13: the world. And that's not hyperbole.
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Speaker 1: That's a fact.
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Speaker 4: For the people.
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Speaker 13: The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
48:19
Speaker 13: do it peacefully. And we're in a democracy. The will
48:23
Speaker 13: of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke with President
48:29
Speaker 13: elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
48:33
Speaker 13: assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
48:37
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48:42
Speaker 1: That's what the American people deserve.
48:45
Speaker 13: Yesterday I also spoke with Vice President Harris. She's been
48:50
Speaker 13: a partner and a public servant. She ran an inspiring
48:54
Speaker 13: campaign and everyone got to see something that I learned
48:58
Speaker 13: early on to respect so much her character. She has
49:02
Speaker 13: a backbone like a rammod. She has great character, true character.
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Speaker 13: She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and
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Speaker 13: her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.
49:13
Speaker 13: You know, the struggle for the soul of America since
49:18
Speaker 13: our very founding has always been an ongoing debate and
49:24
Speaker 13: still vital today. I know for some people it's a
49:28
Speaker 13: time for victory to state the obvious. For others, it's
49:32
Speaker 13: a time of loss. Campaigns your contest of competing visions.
49:39
Speaker 13: The country chooses one or the other. We accept the
49:43
Speaker 13: choice the country made I've said many times, you can't
49:49
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49:54
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49:59
Speaker 13: can and do no matter who you voted for, they
50:03
Speaker 13: see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.
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Speaker 13: It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent,
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Speaker 13: hope we can restore the respect for all our election
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Speaker 13: workers who busted their next and took risks at the outset.
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Speaker 13: We should thank them, thank them for staffing voting sites,
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Speaker 13: Many of them are volunteers who do it simply out
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Speaker 13: of love for their country and as they did as
50:52
Speaker 13: they did their duty as citizens. I will do my
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Speaker 13: duty as president. I'll fulfill my oath and constitution. On
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Speaker 13: January twenty, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power here
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Speaker 13: in America. To all our incredible staff, supporters, Captint members,
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Speaker 13: all the people have been hanging out with me for the.
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Speaker 1: Last four years.
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Speaker 13: God love you as my mother would say, thank you
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was a different Joe Biden. You could
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Speaker 1: even say a joyous Joe Biden. He was not what
51:28
Speaker 1: you would normally think. And you gotta look at it
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Speaker 1: and go, man, he was living it up on election
51:33
Speaker 1: I like you guys threw me out and guess what,
51:36
Speaker 1: you didn't get the prize after all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And look, I am certain that Joe Biden looked
51:42
Speaker 2: at his family, looked at his top staff and said,
51:44
Speaker 2: if it had been me, I do want he believed. Sure,
51:48
Speaker 2: he believes it through and through. And I don't think
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Speaker 2: he will ever forgive Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and
51:55
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer for throwing him overboard, doing it unceremonial lee
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Speaker 2: and saying we want Kamala instead. And look, we'll never
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Speaker 2: know what that alternative reality would be. I mean, Biden's
52:07
Speaker 2: first debate was a disaster. That's undoubtedly true. But I
52:12
Speaker 2: will tell you on election night, Biden did better everywhere
52:19
Speaker 2: than Kamala did like Kamala or let me frame it
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Speaker 2: in the obverse, Kamala did worse than Biden did everywhere,
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Speaker 2: and Joe Biden, I think, is celebrating and not even
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Speaker 2: that quietly. And you know what, I'm celebrating too, because
52:36
Speaker 2: it means the country. It's morning in America again and
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