Media Weeps： Leftists in Angry Disbelief, ZERO Lessons to be Learned from Kamala's Crushing Loss
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Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson, and Joe Biden are here to talk about the one man in America who is not sad, and who is actually full of joy after a devastating loss to Donald Trump in Tuesday night's mid-term election.
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It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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And Senator, I got to tell you, victory is sweet.
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It's even more fun watching the media meltdown continue after they're having to deal with
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the reality that not only did Donald Trump win, we got the Senate and it's clearly looking
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like we actually may make gains on the House side and they can't handle it.
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Look, the corporate media are losing their minds.
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You know, there's a German word, schadenfreude, which is taking pleasure or joy from the suffering
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It's not a pretty sentiment, but I got to say, watching these hardcore leftists just scream
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out in agony that the voters voted and voted in a way they didn't like, it truly is.
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Their rage, their anger, not a one of them has actually learned a lesson.
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Not a one of them has paused to say, huh, maybe being radical leftist and opening up the border
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and threatening people's homes and screwing up the economy and driving up the cost of
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everything and screwing up the country and bringing the world to war and undermining Israel
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and creating an environment where anti-Semites take over college campuses and threaten our
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Maybe having moms fear for the safety of their kids is a bad thing.
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Instead, they're just screaming, orange man, bad, rawr.
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And it really is striking, although we're going to wrap up by pointing out the one man in
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America on the Democrat side who is not sad and who is actually full of joy.
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And I'm not going to tell you his name, but it rhymes with Bo Jiden.
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Yeah, I've never seen a bigger grin on that man and will change his name for a little bit
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ever, I think, at any point, including even on days when he thought it was probably the
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It's going to be quite interesting to play some of these clips.
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So let me just say Joe Biden understands schadenfreude as well.
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The only place more happier right now than the war room we were in was the White House
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and sitting there just going, you guys thought you'd be better without me.
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Yeah, Joe Biden grinning from ear to ear and having a very interesting press conference.
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I can tell you this week I have been running on fumes.
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Because the media meltdown has just been fun to watch.
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I've watched more MSNBC on purpose and CNN in the last 48 hours than I have in a very
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long time, because like you said a moment ago, they haven't learned from this loss.
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They're just crying and angry over this loss, but they didn't pay attention to American people
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Let's start with Morning Joe, because Morning Joe is it's a good place to start.
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It's it's where lefties start their morning.
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A few weeks ago, three weeks ago, somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris
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came up to me and said, oh, my God, Trump's going to win.
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And I said, I said, well, that's kind of reductive, isn't it?
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Um, but it actually what everything we're hearing after the election is, it is the seven.
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But OK, well, yeah, OK, well, anyway, my point is this, Willie, the rent is too damn high.
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And this guy was saying the cost of butter is way damn too high.
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It ended up being just the point that if you look at the cost of groceries, if you look
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at the cost of grass, of gas, if you look at the cost of things compared to four years
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ago, it was a very simple answer for working class Americans.
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I mean, I love how the fact there he's he's like, oh, wait, it's seven.
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They have no idea what's happening in real America.
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And Mika's like, dude, it's not three dollars, not four dollars, not five dollars, not six
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I'm like, if you guys would have figured that out before Election Day, maybe you wouldn't
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OK, so I in Casa Cruz, I am not the grocery shopper.
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I go things that are on my plate thing, things that are on Heidi's plate.
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I am not the grocery shopper, although I will say tonight I went and bought some cheddar
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cheese because Caroline decided to make back baked mac and cheese.
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But I if you asked me how much is butter, I would have no idea.
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I'm like, all right, three dollars, seven dollars beats the hell out of me.
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So unsalted butter curbside at Target is four dollars and twenty nine cents.
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Land O'Lakes half stick salted butter is four dollars and fifty nine cents.
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And then some weird ass thing called Kerrygold pure Irish butter.
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OK, that's that's another level that I've never seen before.
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Maybe that like and by the way, dollar general butter is three dollars.
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A Land O'Lake salted butter two pack is nine ninety nine.
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So by the way, you need to try you some if we're talking about butter here.
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If you've never tried Kerrygold butter on a bagel or toast.
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I'm not a cook and I'm not a terribly fancy eater.
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But so you want to know the true reason why I do grocery shopping?
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It's maybe the first only time I'll ever throw my wife under the bus on the show.
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It's because I know how much money I save when I go to the grocery store instead of her going.
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Because when she goes, it's like the organic and all that stuff starts speaking to her.
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And it's like, you know, chickens that were coddled for six months before they killed the chicken is like, you know, eight ninety nine a pound.
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And I'm like, I'm good with a three fifty three eighty four dollar pound chicken.
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And so I just go for economic reasons because I save so much money when I do shopping.
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Look, I have to admit, when I do grocery shopping, I either buy junk or I buy fruit.
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So I'll go pick out fresh fruit and get, you know, grapes or cherries or nectarines.
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I'll buy things like, you know, lunchables like the, you know.
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So so so I'll get, you know, those things like the cracker and cheese and little little piece of ham or something.
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If you're bacheloring it up for for everybody listening.
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But if you're bachelor, if it's just you grocery store buying for you, what is that?
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I mean, because usually I remember a can of soup.
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I may have like some three week old leftovers with mold growing on them.
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And that's pretty much like it's just an empty fridge.
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And so here, look, here at home, I'll have tortillas with melted cheese like that.
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That's my favorite late night snack is take take take a slice of cheese, throw it on a tortilla.
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See, my boys love it when when the wife's out of town because we just go to the grocery
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and I might get whatever you want and we'll buy the frozen pizzas and we'll buy the like
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like you said, like the Lunchables, whatever it is, the toaster strudels.
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So today today for breakfast last lunch, I ordered on delivery breakfast tacos and I
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But anyway, the point, it is kind of amusing the back and forth between Joe and Mika and
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they're suddenly realizing, well, inflation is really bad.
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Now let's go to the sort of bitter, bitter, angry leftists.
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And of course, by that, I mean the view, which there is, there are no bit more bitter or
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Take a listen to the views explaining the picture.
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They came out in all black the day after the election.
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Just so people know, if you don't watch the view, like it was a funeral, they were wearing
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They are rich and they hate, they hate average Americans.
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And here, listen, and I'm going to prove that that statement is not.
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Not too extreme because, because you're going to see Sonny Hostin demonstrating just how
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And finally, we talk a lot about these different demographics and these assumptions of where
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Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97% Latino, went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump.
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And they were begging people to care about it for years.
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And by the way, she's talking about South Texas.
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And apparently, and it wasn't just Hispanic men that were voting for Donald Trump.
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So apparently, Hispanic women are motivated by misogyny and sexism.
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Not that having 11.5 million people invade your state, invade your community, threaten
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Not having 110,000 people die of fentanyl and drug overdoses.
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Listen, if you didn't vote for Kamala Harris, you've got to just, you've got to say, you
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know what, I'm willing for my family to be sacrificed because I am a woke leftist.
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I mean, listen to the contempt that there's no part of Sonny that's trying to say, huh,
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an overwhelmingly Hispanic district went overwhelmingly for Trump.
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And by the way, in Texas, Trump carried Hispanics and I carried Hispanics.
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I carried Hispanics statewide by six points and no part of Sonny could say, well, why
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Is there maybe something about the current radical agenda of the left that is turning
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And it didn't get any better, by the way, because if you move from Sonny Hosted, you go over
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She took a different approach, and that was a tirade where she basically fear-mongered what
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It reminded me a lot of 2016, except there's more hatred for Trump now than there even was
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But take a listen to MSNBC's, like, Obituary for America.
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Now we have the benefit of knowing, you know, how this has gone in every other country that
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has been through a democracy to authoritarian transition.
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We have the benefit of seeing what's happened in those other countries, though.
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And what we know is that the more ground the authoritarian takes, the harder it is to ever
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And so the first order of business is to stop them from taking any uncontested ground right
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from the outset when it comes to what our system of government is and what our democracy is.
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From other countries' experiences that quickly, I mean, now, in the next few weeks, if not the
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next few days, they are going to start pushing to see how far the country is going to let them
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And part of this is because it's just psychologically advantageous for them to do this now, right?
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They're counting on the half the country that voted against them, the half the country that
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doesn't want to give up our system of government.
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They're counting on all those tens of millions of Americans to be despondent, to feel powerless,
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to check out, which, of course, would mean letting them do what they want, letting them
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What they really don't want is for the half the country that voted against them, the half
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the country that wants to keep our democracy, what they really don't want is for those tens
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of millions of Americans to wake up tomorrow feeling scrappy as hell.
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We've got a tyrant and a dictator and half of America must not be silent, even though the
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majority of Americans, and I can't wait to throw this in liberals' faces all the time,
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So the majority of Americans said Donald Trump is who they want, not you, not Kamala Harris.
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And so you need to stop acting like the majority of the country was just disenfranchised.
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I, at times, have trouble understanding what passes for think processes among radical leftists.
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Rachel Maddow just said, those Americans who want to save our democracy need to rage against
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But, like, okay, wait, democracy, to quote Inigo Montoya, you keep on using that word.
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I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Like, she's claiming to be a defender of democracy, and her answer is, screw the voters for voting
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And I, Rachel Maddow, I, the left, we should impose our views on you, whatever the damn voters
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Because we believe in democracy so much, we want to ignore what the voters voted for.
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This is, goes back to what the Democrats did in 2016.
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When they don't get their way now, their job, they feel like their job is to, okay, we
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We have a clear attempt against whoever's sitting there.
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Then the decisive result of this election gives us not just an answer to the question as to
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It also gives us a really big to-do list as Americans.
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If you are an American citizen who does not want to ashcan the American system of government,
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who doesn't want a strongman authoritarian system where the whole government is one guy
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and everything else just exists to serve him, if that is not the kind of country that you
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want, then yesterday's election means you have more to do for your country than you have
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Because now is when the rubber really hits the road, right?
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We don't just flip a switch and the American system of government is gone.
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I mean, not to be boring here for a second, but just getting very real, we now are just
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another one in the list of countries that has decided to, you know, hey, what the heck?
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There are many more countries in the world governed by that kind of a system than there are governed
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We are the only 248-year-old multiracial, pluralistic democracy in the world.
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A lot of our fellow Americans say we shouldn't.
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But a lot of Americans, tens of millions of Americans, say we should keep that system,
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And yes, Americans did fight for it by working on this election, by trying to get the candidate
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elected who was both the Democrat and the small-D Democrat.
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Now we have the benefit of knowing, you know, how this has gone in every other country that
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has been through a democracy to authoritarian transition.
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We have the benefit of seeing what's happened in those other countries, though.
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And what we know is that the more ground the authoritarian takes, the harder it is to ever
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And so the first order of business is to stop them from taking any uncontested ground right
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These people are deranged at this point on the media.
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So Rachel Maddow just said that Americans just voted to end our, quote, multiracial,
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Now, number one, the fact that they voted shows they didn't vote to end democracy.
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Now, technically speaking, we have a republic, not a democracy, but it is a democratic republic.
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It is a republic where the representatives are elected by the people.
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And in this case, the voters not only voted for Donald Trump, they voted for Republican
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senators, not only to give Republicans a majority in the Senate.
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It looks like they voted for a majority in the House, too.
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The leftists hate the fact that the people voted for a policy agenda that includes low
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taxes and low regulations and lots of jobs, that includes spending restraint and inflation
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under control, that includes the federal government not waging war on American energy production
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and driving up costs and driving up inflation, that includes securing the damn border and
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not allowing 11 and a half million people to invade this country, not making billions of
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dollars from Mexican drug cartels, not allowing children to be trafficked.
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It includes not losing 300,000 children, which is what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has done.
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And by the way, when she's talking about, you know, we just voted to end a multiracial,
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Well, just a minute ago, Sonny Hostin was saying, those damn Hispanics, how could they vote for
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It doesn't matter if you're a white man or Hispanic or African-American.
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If you don't vote the way leftists want you to, they hate you.
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I'll tell you, in Texas in this last election, I won a majority of Hispanics.
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I won 20 percent of African-American men in the state of Texas.
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Now, I wish that were 50 percent or higher, but 20 percent is a high water mark.
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And in Rachel Maddow's world, those people who voted for me, who voted for Donald Trump,
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They're going on and on about an authoritarian and authoritarian.
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By the way, the reason we're going to get good laws passed is we didn't just elect Trump.
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We elected a Republican Senate, a Republican House.
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So the democratic system worked and people said, we don't like your policies.
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We're going to switch back to the ones we like.
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And the administration that has been dictatorial has been Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Having a president say, I'm going to defy federal immigration laws and just let people go.
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Having an administration say, I'm going to give away a trillion dollars in a student loan giveaway
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Having an administration issue an edict, you must get a COVID vaccine or we will fire you.
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We don't care if you want to choose to get this vaccine or not.
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By the way, that was struck down by the Supreme Court as well.
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And the leftists, they never acknowledge a moment of that.
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So, as you know, I've been on The View three times with my last several books.
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You know, the last book I wrote, Unwoke, The View said, nope, we won't have you on because
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it went so badly for them because they can only sit there and lie when they don't actually
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And so they want to live in an utterly fact-free environment where they can lie to the American
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And proof of it is how they've been acting since Election Day, which I think is the most
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But also for me, part of me just says, I'm kind of glad they don't get it.
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It's going to make it easier for us to win elections and move forward because it seems
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like they refused to admit when they lost, why they lost and how they lost.
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Again, I'm profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent
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someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States.
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I think that going forward, the convicted felon box on employment applications better be taken
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off because if you can be the president of the United States, then you should not be prevented
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from employment in this country because I remember applying for my jobs as a federal prosecutor
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And I think our health care system is now at risk.
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Yeah, economists have made clear that he's going to increase the debt by $7.75 trillion.
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I'm worried about mass deportation and internment camps.
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And I'm also worried about Elon Musk warning Americans to prepare for temporary hardship.
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First of all, saying take the felon box off of the job application.
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You know, the irony is there's only one reason that Trump is a convicted felon because her
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party, the radical left Democrats, abused the justice system to go after and try to subvert
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By the way, one of the great things, the Department of Justice is dismissing all those cases because
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now that he's won, the DOJ has a longstanding rule that it won't prosecute and can't prosecute
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And it looks like all these cases are going to be thrown out.
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So understand the only reason they can call him a convicted felon is because they were
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a bunch of authoritarian zealots who abused the justice system to try to stop the voters
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And then her comment, I'm worried about mass deportation and internment camps.
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If you're a drug trafficker, if you're a human trafficker, if you're a felon, if you're
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a murderer, if you're a rapist, we're going to find you.
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We're going to get you out of this country.
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And I'm sorry, Sonny, that you are lamenting it.
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But I also feel confident that you have armed security protecting you at all time.
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And you're not worried about Venezuelan gangs taking over your apartment building because
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you don't actually live in an apartment building.
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The rest of America is going to feel a lot happier when we're deporting violent criminals
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Which president of the United States set up internment camps?
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Can I put that in my jeopardy with all my money on it?
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Not only a Democrat, but the granddaddy of them all, the lion of the left, FDR, Franklin
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Delano Roosevelt, who I'm pretty sure on the view, if they reference FDR, they require
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Gregorian monks in the banks back to saying, oh, of course, they don't believe in monks
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But FDR set up internment camps for Japanese citizens, wildly unconstitutional, wildly illegal.
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Thankfully, we now recognize that as a grotesque abuse.
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But it doesn't stop the left from their fever dream.
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And by the way, you know what she really means is internment camps?
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She means detention facilities for illegal immigrants, which she'll call the internment
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And to be clear, Kamala Harris promised when she was running for president that on her first
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day, she would shut down all the ICE detention camps.
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So a detention camp for someone who enters the country illegally is not an internment camp.
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This is where hopefully verdict does some good.
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If you have a murderer and you convict him of murder and you send him to jail, is the
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If someone crosses into this country illegally and they are detained and they're detained in
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a detention facility, is that an internment camp?
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Because the law provides you can't cross any legally and you can be detained for doing so
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while your deportation proceedings are pending.
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An internment camp, what FDR did is he rounded up Japanese citizens who had not broken any
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They were American citizens of Japanese descent.
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So they were law-abiding Americans living their life.
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And FDR said, if you're of Japanese descent, we're going to arrest you and throw you in a
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camp simply because you're Japanese and we're in World War II and we're at war with Japan.
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That was grotesquely bigoted and it was directly contrary to the Constitution.
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You can't arrest someone who's a law-abiding American citizen who hadn't broken the law.
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But of course, on The View, everything I just said, they don't have anyone who says that.
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Instead, they just nod vapidly and said, yes, he's an authoritarian.
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And they ignore that their party is the one who has been engaged in authoritarian lawlessness.
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Senator, one other thing that I also thought was really shocking just of the takeaway is,
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look, whether I'm on a campaign that wins or a campaign that loses, one thing I've always learned early on in my career is
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And the notes can be, hey, we won, but what can we do better next time?
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What did we mess up that we don't want to make the same mistakes?
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I have a notebook of every campaign I've been involved in.
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And I go back through it during campaign season and read it because you learn from your mistakes when you win
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and you learn from your mistakes when you lose.
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There seems to be no self-awareness here at all from the Democratic Party in general over this loss.
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You look at California and how many people voted actually for conservatives there at numbers that were historic in some areas.
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New York, look at the numbers there, historic in some areas.
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You, for example, having an almost 10-point margin of victory over a candidate they just pumped money into the state.
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It was a good old Texas ass-whooping, as I described it on Fox Business Channel earlier.
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There seems to be no self-awareness at all.
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And is that going to be their downfall moving forward?
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Yeah, look, unfortunately, I wish some Democrats would recognize we've gotten too extreme.
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I think it is going to take a couple more, as you put it, good old-fashioned ass-whippings to let them change.
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Listen, California is going to play a pivotal role in ensuring that Republicans have the majority in the House of Representatives.
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And yet, California Democrats are, I want you to listen to Eric Swalwell, who, you know, I mean, he really liked the folks on The View.
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But I want you to listen to his analysis of why the Democrats lost.
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People resent when you talk to them like you're trying to win a Harvard Law School moot court competition, as opposed to just, you know, talking to somebody at a bar or at the bus stop.
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And I think we would be better served if we led with our personality rather than policy.
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And our personalities can reflect our values, our principles, what we care about.
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But too often, we're just not plain-spoken enough.
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And frankly, we're too nice and too modest, and we stand on virtue.
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I mean, basically, if you didn't vote for us, you're all a bunch of deplorables, garbage, Nazis.
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Yeah, I've got to say, when Eric Swalwell's diagnosis of the problem of Democrats is that they're, quote, too nice, too modest, and stand on virtue.
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This is while Kamala Harris is screaming Trump is Hitler.
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This is while leftists on TV are saying he's authoritarian and is going to set up internment camps.
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This is while Joe Biden is calling the people who voted for Trump garbage.
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This is while Mark Cuban is insulting every woman who voted for Donald Trump.
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And I love how he said, well, our problem is we're trying to win a Harvard moot court.
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Well, Eric, one of us has actually been in Harvard moot courts, and one of us has won arguments before.
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And I will tell you, Kamala Harris has many problems, but being too much of an effective advocate in a Harvard moot court, that ain't one of them.
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And, in fact, the word salad that was the special of the day from Kamala Harris, the reason she told the word salad is because your policies are indefensible.
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And my favorite part of that clip with Swalwell is he said, well, maybe we should stop talking about policies and just lead with our personalities.
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And I get it. If your policies are complete garbage, if they're failures, if they don't work for the American people, what else do you have other than to try to, like, woo people with a bunch of smoke and mirrors and distraction?
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But no aspect of what he said there is any reflection of, gosh, maybe we got too extreme.
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No, instead, he's saying we need to be even more extreme.
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And I got to tell you, unfortunately, there are going to be more than a few leftists who react just like that.
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Stephen Colbert, he was angry and just frustrated.
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After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need not to go to jail, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election.
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This way, at least there'll be a peaceful transfer of power.
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All day yesterday, I was walking around proudly wearing my I Voted sticker.
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Today, I wore my I am questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity sticker.
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Now, as a late night host, people often say to me, come on, part of you has got to want Trump to win because he gives you so much material to work with.
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You must love it when someone has explosive diarrhea.
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I wish you wish so many of us wish this hadn't happened.
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And in this democracy, the majority has spoken and they said they don't care that much about democracy.
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And I want to take a moment to congratulate Kamala Harris on Tim Walls on running an amazing 107 day campaign.
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His definition of extraordinary and mindset are very different.
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Actually, to be fair, though, you would agree their campaign was extraordinary.
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By the way, tell me, Ben, like Stephen Colbert, have you ever dressed up as a giant COVID vaccination shot and danced around publicly?
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I feel like we've actually broken the media now.
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And I got to give some credit to Elon Musk for doing this when he bought X and it started to change things.
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And people were actually able to get their views out there and not be silenced and censored the way that they were before.
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And what I think has happened now is if you are a conservative, even a moderate, being talked to by late night television in this way is the reason why I think they're actually putting themselves into irrelevancy.
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Yeah, look, one of the things striking, you look at Colbert when he's like complaining about the election result and all of his crowd is cheering with him.
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It's clear only leftists go to Stephen Colbert.
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When's the last time you watched Stephen Colbert?
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And I used to love watching Leno and Letterman.
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Yeah, Leno and Letterman I would watch all the time.
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And by the way, I laugh at comedy making fun of Republicans.
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If you have a good comedian, they ought to make fun of everybody.
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And in the age of Trump, late night comics are just so consumed that they just give partisan rants.
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So a decade ago, it was a regular part of politics to go on late night shows.
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When is the last time you saw any Republican on late night shows?
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If you're a fake Republican, if you're a Kinzinger or a Liz Cheney or a Liz Cheney, yeah.
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And as a result, they're infinitely less funny.
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And by the way, SNL did the same thing with Kamala Harris and Tim Kaine.
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They had both of them on, but not their Republican opponents.
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And then they got in trouble with the FCC because they were violating federal law.
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We were talking about ass whoopings earlier.
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You gave him a good old Texas ass whoop not that long ago when you guys played basketball against each other.
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Let's just make sure we remind the audience of that.
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Let's be honest, it was a terrible night last night.
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It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go, for healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.
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It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors, for relying on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for victory.
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And half of what he said, by the way, is just more than half.
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His side are the censoring, we will silence you, we will control you, we will ban you.
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You know, it was, like, everything he said, it was a terrible night for women.
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Now, to be clear, this is the same Jimmy Kimmel that used to co-host the Man Show, and he would have women in bikinis jumping up on trampolines.
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So, he's not exactly on the vanguard of women's rights.
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He's not quite as woke as Stephen Colbert, but he's, like, one one-thousandth away.
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So, back in 2018, I challenged him to one-on-one basketball we played.
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As ESPN broadcasted that night, if Dr. Naismith had seen what happened here today,
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But at the end of the day, my terrible basketball was slightly better than his terrible basketball,
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and I won 11-9, which forever and ever will be an ass-kicking that Jimmy Kimmel has to live with.
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And as a result of it, I've lived rent-free in his head for the last six years.
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And so, he, about once a month, goes on a rant attacking me.
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And, in fact, like when my last book, Unwoke, came out,
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he hired a drag queen to read excerpts of my book to five-year-olds,
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But I thanked him for helping me sell copies of the book.
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And then my standard response whenever he lashes out is I have a video that we've compiled
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that we call Buckets and Blocks, and it consists of nothing but shots of me scoring on him
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and shots of me just swatting his shot back and actually fouling the hell out of him a whole lot.
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And so, that's my response every time is, gosh, Jimmy, you seem angry,
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but it's really a shame that you're going to have to live with that loss forever.
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You know, one of the things that's also interesting about this conversation
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is the fact that Democrats who said, well, you know, we were trying to save democracy,
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we're screwed now, we've got a dictator and tyrant coming in,
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I'm calling a special session to prep the battle against incoming Trump administration,
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calling it a special legislative session focused on potential state litigation,
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against the Trump administration over issues that could impact his state.
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Look, they're going to resist on every front, they're going to fight, because why?
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They talk about democracy constantly, but what they mean of democracy is,
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we will force you to obey us, whether or not the voters want it.
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If they wanted democracy, they wouldn't have prosecuted Trump four different times,
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They like power, and they mask their lust for power and calling it democracy.
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But I've got to say, there's at least one Democrat right now who is celebrating,
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who is smiling ear to ear, who may well be the happiest man in the world,
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He is joyful, and I'm going to wager you 20 bucks, that Joe Biden and Jill Biden,
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they both pulled the lever for Donald Trump when they voted on Tuesday.
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It wouldn't surprise me, because if you go back to this coup, and to quickly remind people,
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it was the Democratic mafia and the five families.
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It was the Schumer, Pelosi, Obama, Clintons that were in this, and Harris.
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I think they probably threatened him with the 25th Amendment.
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If you don't step aside, we're going to do this to you,
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because we don't want to lose, and we think we can win with Harris.
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And Joe Biden, I have not seen him have a bigger grin on his face
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when he did this Rose Garden conversation, whatever the hell you want to call it.
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Well, look, the whole thing started, I mean, I think Biden found out about it
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when he woke up with his dog Major's head in his bed.
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And he was just screaming and screaming and screaming.
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And for those of you all too young to get the reference,
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that's a reference to The Godfather, where the movie producer
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who refuses to cast a young Frank Sinatra has this prize racehorse
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that the Godfather decapitates and puts the horse's head in the bed.
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It was the five families they met, and they said,
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I don't think it's an accident that Joe Biden put on a MAGA hat
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And I do not think it is an accident that Jill Biden,
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When he came out, he was grinning from ear to ear in the Rose Garden.
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Particularly good to see my granddaughter sitting in the front row here.
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For over 200 years, America has carried on the greatest experiment
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in self-government in the history of the world.
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For the people, the people vote and choose their own leaders,
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And I assured him that I'd direct my entire administration
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to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.
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Yesterday, I also spoke with Vice President Harris.
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She ran an inspiring campaign, and everyone got to see something
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that I learned early on to respect so much, her character.
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And she and her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.
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You know, the struggle for the soul of America since our very founding
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has always been an ongoing debate and still vital today.
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I know for some people, it's a time for victory, to state the obvious.
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I've said many times, you can't love your country only when you win.
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You can't love your neighbor only when you agree.
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Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for,
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is see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.
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I also hope we can lay the rest of the question about the integrity
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It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent.
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I also hope we can restore the respect for all our election workers
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who busted their necks and took risks at the outset.
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Thank them for staffing voting sites, counting the votes,
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Many of them are volunteers who do it simply out of love for their country.
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And as they did, as they did their duty as citizens,
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I'll fulfill my oath, and I will honor the Constitution.
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On January 20th, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power here in America.
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To all our incredible staff, supporters, cabinet members,
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all the people who have been hanging out with me for the last 40 years,
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and I don't think he will ever forgive Nancy Pelosi
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for throwing him overboard, doing it unceremoniously,
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And look, we'll never know what that alternative reality would be.
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Like Kamala, or let me frame it in the obverse.
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Kamala did worse than Biden did everywhere.
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I'm celebrating, too, because it means the country.
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Don't forget, we do this show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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