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00:00:47.000Bottom line is, I'm a little optimistic because President Trump keeps making good decisions.
00:00:51.000It's almost as though all the myths that we were told about how Donald Trump was going to come into office and then immediately staff up complete idiots around himself.
00:00:58.000It's almost as though those were untrue.
00:01:00.000We're told that by the most intelligent people.
00:01:02.000After all, Donald Trump had fired people like General James Mattis.
00:01:06.000After all, Donald Trump had been at odds with so many members of his prior administration.
00:01:12.000He would be forced to dip into the bottom of the barrel.
00:01:14.000And thus far, I see precisely zero evidence that that is indeed the case.
00:01:18.000The people who are apparently doing the staffing on a wide variety of issues include people like the vice president of the United States, elect J.D. Vance.
00:01:30.000You also have a bunch of Trump world insiders like Susie Wiles, like people like Brian Hook is involved in the foreign policy team.
00:01:37.000In other words, the people who are going to go into the Trump administration are not going to be jokers.
00:01:41.000They're going to be very serious people with a very serious portfolio.
00:01:45.000As mentioned, Donald Trump late yesterday announced that he would be tamping the campaign co-manager Susie Wiles as the White House chief of staff.
00:02:16.000I mean, she is really a solid political fighter.
00:02:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Susie Wiles, who led President Trump's presidential run, will become his White House chief of staff when he retakes the presidency next year, the campaign said on Thursday, making her the first woman to hold that role in American history.
00:02:30.000Remember that time when he wouldn't surround himself with strong women, according to Mark Cuban?
00:02:34.000Yeah, I feel like he's, um, I feel like she's a woman.
00:03:04.000And she is not the type of person who is going to take kindly to people who do not have Team Trump's best interests at heart.
00:03:12.000So that is an excellent pick by President Trump.
00:03:15.000Again, she's well-respected on pretty much every side of the Republican political spectrum.
00:03:20.000Now, the question as to how she negotiates in Congress, that one is still open.
00:03:24.000Usually the chief of staff has a lot of congressional negotiations.
00:03:26.000The good news for her is that while she doesn't have tons of experience at doing that, because, again, she was campaign manager in 2016 and 2020 in part, and she didn't really involve herself in legislative affairs, she will be negotiating with Mike Johnson in the House.
00:03:39.000In the Senate, the Senate leadership battle is still wide open at this point.
00:03:43.000There's a lot of speculation about who is going to take over as the Senate majority leader because Mitch McConnell has announced he's going to step down.
00:03:50.000There's some rumors that Rick Scott, for example, is trying to run for it.
00:03:54.000Those are more than rumors he does want the Senate majority leadership position.
00:03:56.000There are some members of the base who are very hot on Rick Scott, so he's a possibility.
00:04:00.000John Thune is a very solid possibility.
00:04:02.000Most of the more established members of the U.S. Senate are probably going to back Thune or John Cornyn.
00:04:07.000Honestly, any of those people will be perfectly capable of negotiating with President Trump, and will do a fine job in that role.
00:04:13.000Okay, meanwhile, President-elect Trump and his senior advisors are privately assembling shortlists of candidates for top jobs in the incoming administration.
00:04:20.000Apparently, Trump's transition team, according to the Wall Street Journal, is being led by co-chair Howard Lutnick, who is, of course, involved in the campaign.
00:04:39.000He was Trump's former ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence.
00:04:43.000Rick would do an amazing job in that role.
00:04:45.000Other potential candidates include Keith Kellogg, an octogenarian retired three-star army general and former NSA to Vice President Mike Pence, former Defense Department official Elbridge Colby, and Robert O'Brien, who was the last NSA under Donald Trump.
00:04:59.000Some of the people mentioned for Treasury Secretary include Scott Besant, KeyScore Group founder, as well as billionaire investor John Paulson.
00:05:06.000Secretary of State, a few of the possibilities mentioned are Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, as well as Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
00:05:15.000Both of those would be excellent picks.
00:05:17.000Other potential candidates include O'Brien, Grinnell, and former senior State Department official Brian Hook, who is largely seen as the person compiling lists on who precisely should go into the foreign policy establishment.
00:05:28.000We'll get to Brian Hook in just a moment because he's been speaking publicly about what the administration's Iran policy is, and it is already bearing fruit.
00:05:34.000They haven't even taken office yet, and action is already happening to bring down conflict in the Middle East.
00:05:41.000As far as Secretary of Defense, some names that have been thrown out.
00:05:43.000Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
00:05:46.000Trump did give him a shout-out, as you'll recall, Wednesday morning in his victory speech in Florida.
00:05:50.000Also, Republican Representative John Ratcliffe, who has served as Trump's DNI, is being put forward as a possible DOD head or CIA head.
00:05:59.000Mike Waltz, a congressman from Florida.
00:06:02.000He also is being considered as a possible DOD leader.
00:06:05.000Homeland Security, we're hearing Chad Wolf, who'd be great.
00:06:08.000We're hearing Tom Homan, who would be great.
00:06:09.000The bottom line is all of these names are good.
00:06:12.000Legitimately, all of these names would be not just acceptable, but excellent.
00:06:16.000And the markets are picking up on this.
00:06:18.000Washington is open for business, as Axios puts it.
00:06:21.000Mark Andreessen, an investor who backed President Trump in this race, he tweeted out this morning that he believes that we are going to be seeing unprecedented economic growth.
00:06:31.000He He says, quote, America is an economic coiled spring.
00:06:33.000We should be growing at least 4% annually, ideally 6% to 8%.
00:06:36.000Growth has been brutally suppressed since before I was born.
00:06:40.000The payoff for all Americans will be incredible.
00:06:42.000That is the mood in the business community.
00:06:44.000As Axios reports, buckle up, President-elect Trump plans fast action on a business-friendly agenda of tax cuts, deregulation, and expanded energy production, his advisors tell us.
00:06:54.000By the way, all of this stuff does have a downward effect on inflation, because when you have more productivity, that means more supply, and that then keeps up with demand, and then the prices drop.
00:07:09.000According to Axios, Trump plans to load his White House and cabinet with business and tech-friendly executives and stretch the powers of the presidency to force quick changes.
00:07:18.000Behind the scenes, Trump advisors believe they wasted early opportunities to grow the economy in his first term because they didn't know how to staff.
00:08:02.000The other power players are Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, and Linda McMahon, who headed the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term.
00:08:10.000You're watching a bunch of CEOs come out, basically celebrating Trump's win.
00:08:22.000You're starting to see business people get real enthusiastic about what is coming down the pike, and they should be.
00:08:29.000Meanwhile, some of the supposed regulators, the more extreme regulators, they're going to be gone.
00:08:35.000So, for example, Gary Gensler, who's been awful.
00:08:38.000He's the head of the Securities and Exchanges Commission.
00:08:40.000He's been focused largely on preventing business from making investment.
00:08:46.000Wall Street executives are happy to see him go.
00:08:47.000He is going to be tossed out immediately.
00:08:50.000Some of the possibilities to replace him would be Dan Gallagher, Chief Legal Officer at Robinhood and previous SEC Commissioner.
00:08:58.000Meanwhile, over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is Elizabeth Warren's Orwellian institution to crack down on the markets, Trump is going to install a new leader at the CFPB. One name that has been floated is Todd Zwicky, a law professor at George Mason University.
00:09:17.000The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC. The chairman resigned in May.
00:09:23.000Now, the Trump administration is poised to loosen the reins somewhat at the FDIC to allow banks to actually do their business.
00:09:30.000And it is going to be a boom time in American life.
00:09:34.000Meanwhile, Elon Musk is going to go in there and he's going to start cutting.
00:09:38.000According to the Wall Street Journal, lessons from the Elon Musk School of Management shed light on how the billionaire will go about slashing government spending in a new Trump White House.
00:09:47.000We know, for example, that when Elon Musk took over X, he fired 80% of the workforce.
00:09:52.000Increasing efficiency is something that Elon Musk is very much familiar with.
00:09:57.000Now again, he's not gonna be able to cut trillions of dollars from the budget.
00:10:00.000But there will be a rare window of opportunity to pursue spending cuts for sure.
00:10:07.000And a lot of these government contracts were done on a no-bid basis.
00:10:10.000You could see him reopen all of that and bring down costs solely on that basis as well.
00:10:14.000Meanwhile, federal workers are preparing for cuts and they're preparing for the possibility of forced relocation because Donald Trump is talking about taking many of these departments and moving them outside of Washington, D.C., which is great.
00:10:25.000Gets rid of the entire swamp entirely.
00:10:29.000So what you would see, presumably, is like the Department of Agriculture would move out.
00:10:33.000You would see other departments moved out of Washington, D.C. Schedule F would strip job protections from many career federal employees in policy roles.
00:10:48.000As the Wall Street Journal says, Wall Street has rarely been more excited by an election.
00:10:52.000U.S. stocks' capitalization rose by $1.62 trillion on Wednesday, their fifth best one-day showing ever following Donald Trump's decisive election victory.
00:11:01.000Investors are celebrating, said Jack Ablin, the chief investment officer at Crescent Capital in Chicago.
00:11:06.000The enthusiasm is especially heated in a few areas.
00:11:09.000Banks and other financial companies climbed.
00:11:11.000Investors expect regulatory scrutiny will ease.
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00:13:57.000Now, when it comes to foreign policy as well, foreign policy is going to be a very different look.
00:14:05.000Already, Team Trump is announcing a maximum pressure campaign against Iran, which of course is the proper strategy against Iran.
00:14:12.000They're going to dramatically increase sanctions on Iran.
00:14:14.000They're going to throttle its oil sales as part of an aggressive strategy to undercut Tehran's support of violent media proxies and its nuclear program, according to people briefed on President Trump's early plans.
00:14:24.000When he takes office on January 20th, Trump's approach to Iran is likely to be colored by the knowledge that its agents tried to assassinate him and former top national security aides after they left office.
00:14:33.000Plus, Iran is believing to be seeking revenge for the 2020 Trump drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's covert paramilitary operations.
00:14:41.000People tend to take that stuff personally, said Mick Mulroy, a top Pentagon official for the Mideast in Trump's first term.
00:14:47.000If he's going to be hawkish on any particular country designated major adversaries, it is, in fact, Iran.
00:14:52.000They're going to choke off Iran's oil income.
00:14:54.000They're going to diplomatically isolate Iran.
00:14:57.000Brian Hook, who oversaw Iran policy at the State Department in Trump's first term, is now in charge of the Trump transition for the State Department, said Thursday the president-elect had no interest in seeking to overthrow Iran's rulers.
00:15:07.000But, of course, what he means by that is that the conditions are going to be made ripe for the Iranian people to do what they should do and overthrow Iran's rulers.
00:15:15.000Here is Brian Hook, again, former top State Department official.
00:15:18.000He's going to be in charge, apparently, of not just Iran policy, but staffing of the State Department.
00:15:22.000That place needs to be cleaned out stem to stern.
00:15:28.000And Brian Hook needs to go in there with a chainsaw and just start cutting people.
00:15:31.000Here's Brian Hook explaining about foreign policy.
00:15:36.000But in my personal experience, I know that when we deter the Iranian regime, you have the countries that you described who are on the front lines of Iranian aggression doing everything they can to be a part of that deterring Iran.
00:15:52.000President Trump has no interest in regime change.
00:15:55.000The future of Iran will be decided by the Iranian people.
00:15:58.000We've said that repeatedly over four years.
00:16:01.000But what President Trump did say in Riyadh was that he would isolate Iran diplomatically and weaken them economically so that they can't fund all of the violence that's going with the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ, and these proxies that run around Iraq and Syria today, all of whom destabilize Israel and our Gulf partners.
00:16:25.000He, of course, is exactly correct about all of that.
00:16:27.000Now, the anchor over at CNN then asks about, well, how are you going to do the Abraham Accords when the Saudis have said that they want a Palestinian state?
00:16:34.000And Brian Hook properly says, hey, we provided a peace plan when we were in office.
00:16:39.000And it provided a Palestinian state possibility after a bunch of conditions.
00:16:43.000And we were ready to move forward with that.
00:16:45.000That's the plan we're going to use moving forward here.
00:16:48.000If you look at the really important work that Jared Kushner did when he was essentially leading so much of the diplomacy in the Middle East, he put forward a political and economic vision for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians that many Arab governments officially said was a credible, good faith effort, and they called for both sides to come to the table.
00:17:13.000That plan, which Israel endorsed, Had a path to a two-state solution.
00:17:19.000This war, the October 7th attack by Hamas, has really not put anybody in much of a mood to be talking about this subject, because obviously Hamas doesn't believe in a two-state solution, nor do they want a ceasefire.
00:17:32.000And after what Hamas did on October 7th, there are many Israelis right now who are focused on other things, specifically keeping them safe from this kind of evil terrorism that they endured on October 7th.
00:17:46.000That is a realistic view of the situation.
00:17:50.000The reason that the Saudi foreign minister has been talking about the Palestinian state so much is because Joe Biden has been talking about the Palestinian state so much.
00:17:57.000It's not possible for the Saudi kingdom to be anti-Palestinian state more than the Americans.
00:18:03.000Well, the reality is, do you think the Saudis want a Palestinian state that will be sponsored, funded, giant terror apparatus against Saudi?
00:18:50.000Within one day, within one day, Qatar, which is a cutout for the Iranian regime, Qatar sort of plays this weird middle-of-the-road path with regard to Iran, where they share oil fields with Iran, so they're very friendly with Iran, but they then try to present themselves as negotiators with the West, which is why you'll see Qatar Airways that is advertised in Western stadiums and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:19:10.000Well, Qatar, knowing that Trump is coming in...
00:19:12.000Has apparently, according to Khan News, which is Israeli's public broadcast system, has now notified Hamas officials staying in Qatar.
00:19:18.000They are no longer welcome and they must immediately make preparations to depart.
00:19:24.000That's all it took was Donald Trump winning.
00:19:29.000And Qatar was like, oh man, he's going to come in.
00:19:31.000He's going to punish us for being friendly with Hamas, isn't he?
00:19:33.000Probably should kick these people to the curb.
00:19:36.000It just shows you what a change the Trump administration is from the Biden administration.
00:19:41.000What's the Biden administration doing?
00:19:42.000Well, meanwhile, according to the Washington Free Beacon, just before Tuesday's presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government, even as it determined the government's leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and fomenting violence in breach of American law.
00:19:58.000The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and to end their so-called pay-to-slave program, which hands money to imprison terrorists for killing Jews.
00:20:12.000Those violations should trigger American sanctions, but the Biden-Harris administration used its executive power to waive the sanctions.
00:20:19.000So they are removing sanctions from the terror-sponsoring Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority.
00:20:27.000The State Department told Congress, quote, And not coincidentally, it turns out the Biden administration's willingness to humor all of the stupidity and garbage trotted out by Hamas and its media allies has real consequences.
00:20:52.000So, last night, there was a pogrom over in Amsterdam.
00:20:57.000So while you have complete mentally ill people like Jen Rubin over at the Washington Post declaring that Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel president in American history, who won a giant chunk of Jews in New York, in New Jersey, in Florida, in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, while she declares that he's Hitler, actual little Hitlers are running around in the streets of Amsterdam beating up Jews.
00:21:21.000That's exactly what happened last night in Amsterdam.
00:21:23.000So what happened is that there was a soccer match Between a soccer team called Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax, which is a national team in Amsterdam, based in Amsterdam.
00:21:36.000And on the way in, apparently, some of the Israeli fans were shouting rude things about, I guess there was some sort of scrum in which Israelis and Palestinian advocates were shouting at each other, and some Palestinian flags, which had been put out there in order to tick off the Israelis, were torn down.
00:21:53.000What is an actual pogrom is what happened after the match.
00:21:55.000So after the match, apparently Israelis and Jews walk out of the match.
00:21:59.000They're not protected by police outside the stadium.
00:22:02.000And from what I am told by people who are on the ground, there were bands of young radical Muslims at basically every street corner waiting for people to attack them.
00:22:13.000And so you end up with film like this in Amsterdam.
00:22:47.000Sagiv Barzani, according to the Wall Street Journal, a fan who attended the game, said that he and other Israelis fell to the ground as they tried to escape the attackers.
00:22:54.000A planned demonstration against the Israeli team had been moved away from the stadium.
00:22:57.000Protesters still tried to go there and then clashed with police.
00:22:59.000After the game, according to Barzani, his head was stomped on as people chanted, Free Palestine.
00:23:04.000One fan was being punched in the face, another one being cut in the face with a key.
00:23:09.000People were being thrown into the canals of Amsterdam.
00:23:14.000People were punching and kicking people, including in Amsterdam's Central Dam Square.
00:23:18.000One clip filmed from inside a car driving on the sidewalk showed it hitting a pedestrian who rolls over it and onto the ground as a voice is heard saying, drive over him.
00:23:25.000Another video showed a man trying to offer his money to assailants who screamed, for the children and free Palestine now.
00:23:33.000So again, just wonderful behavior here by the pro-Khamasniks who have now spread throughout the West.
00:23:42.000When you're running around the streets beating up Jews, that's what you call a pogrom.
00:23:45.000That is legitimately the definition of a pogrom at this point.
00:23:49.000It was so bad that the king of the Netherlands, Willem Alexander, called up the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, and apologized.
00:23:58.000He said, quote, we failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again.
00:24:02.000Early this morning, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof updated the president on all actions being taken and added his strong condemnation of the incidents.
00:24:10.000Meanwhile, Gert Wilders, who of course has been the big winner of the last election in the Netherlands, he said, He also added, That this is the consequence of what happens when you allow unchecked radical Islamic immigration into your country.
00:24:41.000He says they governed for 10 years and looked the other way for 10 years.
00:24:44.000We're not allowed to talk about Islam as a source of anti-Semitism.
00:24:47.000They did not dare to kick criminals out of the country.
00:24:49.000And now we have a Jew hunt in Amsterdam.
00:24:52.000Well, I mean, those are the wages of propaganda that was winked at and nodded at by the Biden administration, by a West that decided unfettered immigration from areas that hate the West was a genius idea, that softness on terrorism was actually going to be a benefit to the West.
00:25:09.000All that's about to come to a screeching halt under Trump 2.0, because what the United States does has radical ramifications for the rest of the world.
00:25:19.000In just a moment, We'll get to the situation over in the Senate.
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00:28:03.000Alrighty, so, meanwhile, The Senate of the United States, one of the big questions was going to be if the Democrats took over, whether they're going to kill the filibuster.
00:28:12.000And Mitch McConnell came out yesterday and said, listen, we have a system of laws in this country and customs in this country, and we're not going to kill the filibuster.
00:28:19.000Remember, these are the people who are supposed to be the threat to the system.
00:28:22.000We were told democracy is ending, according to the left.
00:28:25.000Well, it seems like when you're in the majority and then you say you're going to uphold the filibuster, that's a pretty good indicator that perhaps actually democracy is not ending.
00:28:34.000I think one of the most gratifying results of the Senate becoming Republican, the filibuster will stand.
00:28:44.000There won't be any new states admitted that give a partisan advantage to the other side.
00:28:51.000And we'll quit beating up the Supreme Court every time we don't like a decision to make.
00:29:05.000It means that we are going to have predictable government for the first time in quite a long time.
00:29:10.000Because I do not think that the Trump administration has any intentions of overrunning their appointed executive authority under the Constitution.
00:29:18.000Meanwhile, John Thune, who's a real possibility for a Senate majority leader since Mitch McConnell is stepping down.
00:29:23.000Right now, the sort of inside scuttlebutt suggests that it's between Thune, who would be good.
00:29:28.000I know there are a lot of people out there who are suggesting that he would be terrible.
00:29:30.000And by the way, they're kind of using Mitch McConnell as an example of what a bad majority leader looks like.
00:29:34.000Hate to break it to you, Mitch McConnell is the most effective Senate majority leader in Republican history.
00:29:39.000You like the Supreme Court the way it is, right?
00:29:41.000You like what President Trump did during his first term?
00:29:44.000Almost none of that is possible without Mitch McConnell being an incredibly effective leader.
00:29:48.000That's not the same thing as necessarily going on TV a lot and being charismatic.
00:29:53.000You don't have to be Newt Gingrich to be an effective Senate majority leader.
00:29:55.000You have to wheel, you have to deal, you have to manipulate.
00:30:05.000I think going into it, if you look at the polls, obviously everybody expected a tight race, but it was a very convincing, resounding win for President Trump and literally up and down the ballot.
00:30:18.000We outperformed 2020 in 48 states and across all demographic groups and actually did better in 2300 counties around the country.
00:31:11.000If they don't want to kowtow to the Russians, don't kowtow to the Russians.
00:31:15.000If you schmucks had actually done what you were supposed to before the Ukraine war, none of this would have happened.
00:31:19.000Instead, Germany decided to power its entire economy on unicorn farts and Russian oil.
00:31:24.000That seems to be the predictable response is that Russia feels like it has leverage over Europe.
00:31:31.000Maybe Donald Trump will force you guys back into the realm of reality.
00:31:35.000According to the Washington Post, although they'd been preparing for months for a possible Trump comeback, European policymakers were facing the reality the continent is nowhere near Trump-proof, a realization made more stark this week by the collapse of the coalition government in Germany, Europe's largest economy and political heavyweight.
00:31:49.000While German politics are effectively paralyzed, and while European economies are struggling, policymakers acknowledge there's only so much leaders on the continent can do to deter Trump from launching a trade war, to reduce their dependence on the U.S. security umbrella, or to maintain American backing for Ukraine.
00:32:02.000So maybe they should do it themselves.
00:32:06.000By the way, I know many European leaders, secretly, quietly, a lot of the European leaders, not the big ones who you hear about, you know, not the Emmanuel Macrons, the other European leaders, the ones who actually live under Russian threat, many of them are ecstatic that Trump was elected because they think that Joe Biden is a weakling because he is.
00:32:22.000Well, joining us on the line is the brand newly elected senator from the state of Montana, replacing the execrable John Tester.
00:32:33.000Thanks, and thank you for your help up here.
00:32:35.000You know, for those of you who don't know, Ben came up and did a fantastic event for us in Kalispell in the final weeks of the election, and it was events like that that really helped people crystallize what's at stake, because we had to save this country, and we did, and from coast to coast, all socioeconomic classes, all races, colors, creeds, a mandate was delivered that America wants to put America first again, and that's what we're going to do.
00:32:57.000So, Tim, obviously, you beat Tester pretty soundly here.
00:33:01.000You ended up flipping the seat by some 60,000 votes, 50,000, 60,000 votes.
00:33:05.000In a state like Montana that doesn't have a giant population, that is a solid margin.
00:33:13.000The state of Montana has been a red state.
00:33:15.000They've been hesitant to kick out John Tester because he's been masquerading for a long time as sort of a populist blue-collar guy.
00:33:21.000And I think that's one of the stories of this election, is that people who masquerade got tossed out of office.
00:33:27.000Yeah, the Democrat Party, as I've been saying, the D on the ballot no longer stands for Democrat, it stands for deception.
00:33:32.000You know, this campaign ran by the Democrats up and down the ticket from Kamala Harris all the way to the bottom were campaigns of deception.
00:33:39.000I mean, as you will know, at the same time Kamala Harris was running commercials that were pro-Israel and places that would help her and pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas and places that were not.
00:33:48.000You had Bob Casey and John Tester and Slocken and all these others running campaigns talking about how they were Close to Trump, supported Trump's policies.
00:33:55.000Meanwhile, their voting record belied that and showed the truth that they have been 100% supporters of the Biden-Harris-Obama regime.
00:34:05.000People were tired of the mainstream media complex.
00:34:07.000Another podcaster I love, Sean Ryan, who's a former SEAL like me, and he did a fantastic video in the wake of Joe Rogan's podcast with President Trump.
00:34:16.000Three-hour marathon where no stone was left unturned.
00:34:19.000Where he said, what we just saw was the collapse of the credibility of the legacy media complex that has been manufacturing lies and false narratives that have been manipulating the voters of America for 50 years.
00:34:30.000And like John Thune just said in that audio clip you played, Americans said enough is enough.
00:34:49.000And we are going to put our interests first.
00:34:52.000And as you heard me say at our rally, you know, it's been a key part of my message.
00:34:55.000It's not too much to expect for the American people to expect from their government that they've elected and that they pay for every day with more and more burdensome taxes.
00:35:04.000It's not too much for them to expect that that government should do what's best for them first.
00:35:09.000And that has not been what's happened the last three and a half years, and we're going to fix it.
00:35:14.000Tim, one of the things that has happened is, as you say, people have not put America first.
00:35:17.000When America is strong, America ends up first, and the rest of the world benefits from that.
00:35:22.000That is the message of President Trump's first term.
00:35:24.000I think that's what you're going to see in his second term as well.
00:35:57.000And the business leaders, a lot of whom have you alluded to, it's kind of like the European leaders.
00:36:02.000You know, they've been afraid to come out and stick their neck out.
00:36:04.000Thank God for Elon Musk making an unequivocal endorsement saying, I'm one of the most successful business leaders in America.
00:36:10.000And I can tell you without hesitation, without question, without qualification, that Donald Trump and the conservative policies he's championing are good for business, they're good for my employees, and we need to put them in the driver's seat.
00:36:21.000Because what we've seen in the last three and a half years, it really was a more extreme extension of the Obama policies from 08 through 16, which is anti-business, which is more regulation, which is take your fate and instead of owning it yourself, hand it to the government and hope that they do better.
00:36:49.000I mean, look at Lena Kahn, who's our FEC chair, who functionally has zero business experience of any kind.
00:36:54.000She's an academic who wrote a bunch of papers, and they've put her on the bridge of the American economy, the most powerful economy in the history of the world, and she's done terrible, terrible things with it.
00:37:04.000And the number one Most important single axiom of the American economy that frankly is what set America apart since day one.
00:37:12.000America's magic has never been our government or our military.
00:37:15.000It's been the fact that we were the first country in history to have been based on the entrepreneurial spirit, the achievements of the individual, and the unleashing of the power of the individual.
00:37:25.000And that's realized through a free market economy and ultimately through small business.
00:37:31.000And what we've seen is a war On small business, a war on ingenuity, a war on hard work, and that's going to end.
00:37:37.000Donald Trump is going to get full support from the Senate.
00:37:40.000It's very clear that, you know, what the Senate needs to be It's not a rubber stamp for Donald Trump, but an engine for him, an engine to help him get these things done.
00:37:49.000Instead of just responding to his policy desires, we need to be a partner with his White House and with his appointees to ensure that we aren't just clearing the path for a bunch of executive orders that can get undone by the next president like we've been seeing these last few administrations.
00:38:03.000We need to pass laws that enshrine these priorities in law that can't simply be undone by the next administration, like securing the Borg.
00:38:10.000Enough of this executive order to secure the border back and forth.
00:38:13.000We need to pass a law that will withstand judicial review at every step of the way to ensure that our border is secure so we can protect the lives and livelihoods of our people.
00:38:26.000Tim Sheehy, one of the things that's amazing about you, you are an energetic dude.
00:38:29.000I mean, that is a long campaign, and I can sense that you are raring to go.
00:38:32.000And as you say, you know, Senate needs to be an engine, needs to be moving fast because, you know, you never know what the next election is going to bring, which means you've got a two-year period to do an enormous amount of things.
00:38:41.000And I know you're going to be a leader in doing that.
00:38:44.000Senator-elect Tim Sheehy from Montana, again, congratulations, and we'll see you in D.C. Thanks, man.
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00:39:53.000The people I'm trying to make fun of are not like normal American citizens who may have been misinformed or who may have a different belief system.
00:39:59.000The people I'm making fun of are the people at the top of the heap.
00:40:03.000The people I'm making fun of are the people at the top of the economic heap who should know better, who do know better, and who are lying.
00:40:09.000When they say that this is going to be Hitler, when they say that it's going to be brown shirts, when they say it's the end of America, none of that is true, and they know it's not true.
00:40:15.000And you can tell they know that it's not true.
00:40:18.000Those people, I don't even think that it's okay to laugh at them.
00:40:24.000Because if you're a person who's deliberately misinforming the American public, we should laugh at you.
00:40:29.000And frankly, I think we should encourage you in your downward spiral if that downward spiral means that you lose more.
00:40:35.000Speaking of people who just keep losing, Joy Reid, who is not a repository of Joy, she is out there blaming Latinos, of course, because Donald Trump won, according to some exit polls, 46% of the entire Latino vote.
00:40:48.000So that means that Joy Reid, because she's higher on the intersectional hierarchy than Latinos, she gets to say whatever she wants about Latino people now.
00:40:56.000Also Latino men, who despite the utter disrespect shown by Trump and his promise to deport some of your mixed class, mixed status families, most of them voted in a 55% majority to make the deportations happen.
00:41:12.000Y'all voted with Stephen Miller and David Duke and against your own sisters who chose Kamala Harris with 60% of their votes.
00:41:20.000So you own everything that happens to your mixed status families and to your wives, sisters, and abuelas from here on in.
00:42:24.000Keep just yelling at the American people about how terrible they are for not having elected this absolute nothing burger of a candidate on a terrible agenda that Americans hate.
00:42:32.000Please keep telling Americans how they're the worst people ever.
00:42:39.000Democrats, we have to be very clear of calling them on who they is.
00:42:43.000Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has a Project 2025 agenda that wants to implement that.
00:42:48.000And anyone who voted for those policies need to be clearly counted on that.
00:42:53.000When you see what happened on Tuesday, it was...
00:42:57.000In particular, white men and white women who unfortunately decided to not vote for the vice president, yet they elected black women in the Supreme Court in Michigan, yet we had victories in Ruben Gallego's no win in Arizona, yet we had victories in North Carolina.
00:43:12.000It was the fear of a black and South Asian woman that we have to speak about.
00:43:18.000And if we're not clear about race, gender, and class, we are ignoring the truth of what's happening in the country right now.
00:43:25.000I mean, can I just point out that white people actually voted for Trump at a lower clip than they voted for him in 2020?
00:43:52.000Here she is, explaining how it's all misogyny and sexism that is responsible for Kamala Harris' loss.
00:43:59.000The fact of the matter is, this race may not have been decided by any one individual factor, but misogyny is very, very real in this country.
00:44:10.000As another widely known woman of color in office, I knew that Sexism and racism were real, but it was not until I got subjected to a national stage that I actually was shocked at how bad it is.
00:44:32.000You know, you grow up with it, but there is something about being on the receiving line or just nationally exposed to millions of eyeballs at once That you feel that fire hose and you actually understand how deeply ingrained it is.
00:45:03.000Okay, so I have some more tears for you.
00:45:05.000How about professor and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillian-Copham urging Dems to double down on identity politics, like on Comedy Central, because it's been working so well, they need more of it.
00:46:23.000Meanwhile, the actual tears are breaking out.
00:46:26.000Apparently Harvard professors have been canceling class, which is exciting because probably the kids are learning more not being in class than being in class.
00:46:33.000According to the Harvard Crimson, students awoke to a somber campus following Donald Trump's re-election to the presidency early Wednesday.
00:46:39.000My heart dropped a little bit, one student said.
00:46:43.000Apparently, professors have decided to cancel some classes.
00:46:46.000They encourage students to process in the aftermath of the election, adjusting course requirements in kind.
00:46:52.000Courses like Sociology 1156, Statistics for Social Sciences, and Applied Math 22A, Solving and Optimizing, as well as several general education courses, including the Ancient Greek Hero and Popular Culture in Modern China, canceled their classes Wednesday, made attendance optional, or extended assignment deadlines. - or extended assignment deadlines. - Man, you know, one of the more fun experiences of my life actually, I remember the 2004 election.
00:47:15.000I was at Harvard Law School during the 2004 election.
00:47:17.000I remember that night, John Kerry, who was from Massachusetts, of course, he had set up his victory party just a few stops away on the line.
00:47:28.000And I remember everybody was prepping for a Kerry victory, and then, of course, he lost.
00:48:13.000They apparently took it from inside some sort of pantry somewhere without any makeup, looking like an outtake from 10 Cloverfield Lane.
00:48:23.000Here is Ezra Klein and the rest of the photogenic crew at the New York Times explaining how everyone will die and the earth will explode in a ball of fire because Donald Trump is going to win.
00:48:34.000The worst version of a Donald Trump administration is very, very bad.
00:48:38.000One that is not only extremist, but also effective in that extremism.
00:48:43.000Emboldened by a series of Supreme Court rulings, perhaps bolstered by support in both houses of Congress, Trump will fulfill his promise to be a dictator on day one.
00:48:55.000He sends troops into neighborhoods like my own to try to round up undocumented immigrants.
00:49:34.000But there's not going to be any adults in the room this time.
00:49:37.000The worst version of a Trump administration that seeks various forms of retribution against Trump's enemies, real and perceived, uses the power given to him to harass and undermine this political opposition.
00:49:53.000This leads to substantial resistance, mass protest, and also drives his enemies into a cycle of radicalization, intensifying That was Ross Douthat.
00:50:10.000He's the only one who talks about the left here.
00:50:15.000or using our existing institutions will reverse the consolidation of power.
00:50:21.000They are democracy ending if really manifest in the ways that he and other conservatives have discussed them.
00:50:31.000And I have a great fear that that's exactly what's going to happen over the next four years.
00:51:12.000Nicole Wallace over on MSNBC, she has announced that she is deleting her Twitter.
00:51:15.000Well, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split, you lady.
00:51:20.000I have this sort of insatiable interest in every bit of wisdom you can impart, and as a journalist, I hear you about girding ourselves for this moment.
00:51:31.000As a human, I deleted Twitter today as an act of self-preservation, and because I was no longer able to find the things I was interested in, I'm seeing a lot of things that I'm not.
00:52:06.000I'm going to have to take the weekend to rest up and recover and then come back with my A-game because frankly, I'm short on sleep, but I'm high on life because it was a good week and hopefully next week will be just as good.
00:52:19.000In just a moment, we're going to get to the resistance.
00:52:21.000Yes, Democrats are trying to figure out how they resist.
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