November 11, 2024 • 30 mins
Gracious winners and poor sports, President Biden says he is on board with a peaceful transfer of power while progressives literally meltdown on tik tok. The country has spoken loud and clear in a landslide and we have the best of it with our "did they really just say that" moments from this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gracious winners and poor sports. President Biden says he's on
board with a peaceful transfer of power, while progressives literally
melt down on TikTok. The country has spoken loud and
clear in a landslide, and we have the best of it.
Whether or did they really just say that? Moment's from
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
This is news bite.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary
honor of being elected your forty seventh president and your
forty fifth president.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
The outcome of this election is not what we wanted,
not what we fought for, not what we voted for.
The light of America's promise, He'll always.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Burn bright.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
As long as we never give up, and as long
as we keep fighting.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
I will do my duty as president. I'll fulfill my
oath and I wanted the Constitution. On January twentieth, We'll
have a peaceful transfer of power here in America.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
No right, come back to reality, please people, good god.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh my gosh, that's a progressive liberal on TikTok. Upon
hearing that Donald Trump is the forty seventh president of
the United States, she was just, oh my gosh, just
beside herself, this particular this particular driver, she and.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She's not alone.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
No, I know, utunately.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I was kind of shocked at the at the level
of not just emotional out given that they lost. These
people who supported Harris lost the election, but their perspective
in some of these meltdowns was kind of do they
do they understand that they sound like jackasses? Well, the
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one you heard, that's a female driver. She's driving and
taking pictures of herself on TikTok at the same time.
But you can hear the whole cut cut four oh two?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
No, no, no, why why why?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, yeah, the election was because we hate you personally.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
I missed the old days when people just had to
scream in their house alone.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Then here we have a girl. This one is interesting.
That one was a black female driver. You heard this
is a white girl that's covered with tattoos. I mean,
I don't I tell you this so you can get
you can build an image in your in your mind,
and she's sitting at a kitchen table looking like and
she is sobbing cut four one A.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
It's like.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
It's like I can feel the pane and the fear
from every single person I.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't know how to handle this.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
I don't know how to.
Speaker 9 (03:23):
Get through the next couple of days. Who knows how
long this is gonna take.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Four years, four years of lease, it's not gonna be
just a couple of days. Then this is a white
woman in her kitchen and she's been she's gonna be
okay because she says she is a white woman cut
four or.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
Three the bigotry and hatred that they stand behind, and
how I like, am trying to be a good person.
I'm not Catholic like they are, which is ironic because
because it's like religion supposed to make you love. But
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I could see it like breaking me and my parents
apart because they just don't get it, and they don't
get that they voted for some one who's gonna make
my friends' lives hell. My life's okay, a white woman
friends are not gonna be.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I saw that one and she says she's worried because
her parents voted the wrong way and now they're gonna
hate each other.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And if you really and her parents are bigots because
they didn't, I mean this is but I'm okay because
I'll be a white woman.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But it's my friends, I'm worried about not.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
For not for nothing, but if how someone votes in
an election is what divides you and your parents, there's
problems there.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Are have a value issue you need to work on.
Then this is one of my favorite. This is a
really hefty, uh white guy who rips his shirt off
when he hears that Harris is lost.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Cut four hundred.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Okay, I'm gonna win this day of Jesus Christ. I'm
so pissed off. God damn it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Just Torres's shirt right off his body. He was a
Harris shirt, by the way, there's just to right off
his So this is this is upon finding out that
their candidate, they're really bad candidate by the way, lost.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Well it was first of all bad candidate, but second
of all this this was the candidate that and we
talked about this before forced down America's throat. There was
no primary, there was no hey, who else wants to
be president? It was hey, here.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You go, good luck and three months.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
I gotta be honest, And I mean I thought there
was a time when I thought Harris was going to win.
I mean it was very close. Obviously, it was back
and forth, and we didn't we didn't know until obviously
we knew there.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Was a landslide victory.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
But but you know the problem is they talked about
democracy and undermined it the whole way by shoving a
candidate of any kind. I forget that it was Harris
of any kind down America's total I think I think
the Democrats, the higher up part of the Democrats. Boy,
did they miss read the room poorly.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Or what.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They did, and they're still misreading the room. I mean,
you heard the people having a stroke, just literally stroking
out why all because of this cut?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
One h two.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary
honor of being elected your forty seventh president and your
forty fifth president, and every citizen. I will fight for you,
for your family and your future. Every single day I
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will be fighting for you, and with every breath in
my body, I will not rest until we have delivered
the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve
and that you deserve.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, and why do they hate him?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Because because he wants to quote make America great again,
and he says that his election is going to be
the beginning of this one or two A.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
This will truly be the Golden Age of America. That's
what we have to This is a magnificent victory for
the American people that will allow us to make America
great again.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, that's why they're having a fit.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
We call him Grover Trump. Yeah, in honor.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Grover Yeah, Yeah, to come.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Back, get yourself at Grover stuff, the animal.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
And then put a Trump T shirt and Trump had
on it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You've got Trump orangewick? Sure, why not orange hair?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
We'll just die, just diet, It's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, what point that the president the next president elect
in the former president also allowed jd Vance, who was
there with him, to to say his piece up on
the stage cut twenty one.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Well, mister President, I appreciate you allowing me to join
you on this incredible journey. I thank you for the
trust that you have placed in me. And I think
that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the
history of.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
The United States of America.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I think he's right, by the way, Yeah, I was
gonna say, by the way, whether whether you like or
hate Trump doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was impressive.
Speaker 12 (08:25):
Think seriously, even.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
People, even people who love Donald Trump, yeah, are like, well,
he came back. He won that. I mean, there was
a down and out period for Donald Trump. Yeah, and
of course the polling, which I never trust anyway, showed
a different story than what actually happened with the polling
that matters, which is election day. But yeah, no, I
mean it was a comeback. And again, you can hate
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Donald Trump, but he still came back. If the team
you hate in baseball comes back and wins a game,
they came back. I mean, you can still hate the team,
but it's a great comeback. And this was a great
political comeback. No matter how you feel, you got to
at least say, well, it was a great comeback.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, and the president so agrees with you. And one
of the things that he said when he was up
there on the stage on Tuesday night, and we knew
tuesday night, which thank god who the winner is, because
I've said this to you last week too. Thank God
it was a landslide. Even if even if it meant
Harris one, I thought it needed to be a landslide.
So it was a definitive electoral response, and so there
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was no room for questioning. So the president, the forty
seventh president, the president elect was up there jd Vance
was up there. Do you know who did not take
to the stage Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Night, Yes, Kamala Harris, that would be correct.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Instead, she basically she vanished after Georgia was called for
Trump and her campaign co chair came out, Cedric Richmond
came out and had this to say, cut twenty two.
Speaker 13 (09:55):
I want to say good eating too, all of the
Harris campaign campaign family, thank you for all that you
have done.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Thank you for being here, thank you for being.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
Believing in the promise of America.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
We still have votes to count, We still have states
that have not been called yet.
Speaker 13 (10:20):
We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that
every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
So you won't hear from.
Speaker 13 (10:33):
The Vice President tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow.
She will be back here tomorrow to address not only
the hu family, not only to address her supporters, but
to address the nation.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I thought immediately when I heard that, the first thing
I thought, because it's not like they were in different places.
It's not like Cedric was in Washington and Kamala was
in Minnesota or something. They were both right there. Like
she was sitting in a room, probably in the behind him, yeah.
Why couldn't she have come out and said those things. Listen,
there's still votes to.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Count, yeah, exactly, Yeah. Instead she ran away and hid.
And not only that, how rich is it that you
have Cedric Richmond out there saying every vote counted when
he's talking about a candidate who ousted Joe Biden's fourteen
million votes and bigfooted him and stepped into his birth
on the Democratic ticket when she didn't get any primary votes.
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So I found that to be somewhat ironic to begin with.
And I thought it was bad when Hillary Clinton did that.
Fox hold it till the next day. But Hillary Clinton,
at least in twenty sixteen, came out the next morning
and said we lost. And she was not the most
gracious one in the world, but she but she conceded.
In this case, Kamala Harris didn't come out until you know,
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five PM, and basically she eventually, you know, pulled her
head out of or you know what, with a a
concession speech sort of. People call it a concession speech,
and she did admit she lost, but it wasn't exactly
a conciliatory cut.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Two hundred.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
The outcome of this election is not what we wanted
not what we fought for, not what we voted for.
But hear me when I say, hear me when I say,
the light of America's promise will always burn bright as
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long as we never give up, and as long as
we keep fighting.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Never give up, keep fighting.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And she she wasn't done with that with that phraseology
Cut two o five B.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
My allegiance to all three is why I am here
to say, while I concede this election, I do not
concede the fight that fueled this campaign.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So again she's talking about fighting, and then at the end,
at the very end, she talks about basically how she
thinks the Trump coming in power is the beginning of
a new dark age.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Cut two nine.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
There's an adage and historian once called a law of history,
true of every society across the ages. The adage is
only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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I know many people feel like we are entering a
dark time, but for the benefit of us all I
hope that is not the case. But here's the thing, America,
if it is, let us fill the sky with the
light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars, the light
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the light of optimism, of faith of truth and service.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
M It was bad enough that concession speech ben that
President Biden, the guy that she bigfooted out of his
campaign for president, had to come out and basically assure
people that there would indeed be a peaceful transfer of
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power cut to forty as.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
They did their duty as citizens. I will do my
duty as president. I'll fulfill my oath and I wanted
the constitution on January twentieth, we'll have a peaceful transfer
of power here in a.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
All right, thank God.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
By the way, and I know hindsight's always twenty twenty,
so we can look back on this. We had lots
of conversations when Biden left and Kamala was put in
and all that, but now that we know that Kamala lost,
it would have almost been better leave Joe in there,
hope to God that he can get enough votes to
be president, and then resign on January twentieth. Kamala would
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have been president right out of the gate. I'm not
saying that they would have done that anyway even if,
but right like, I mean, what would have been worse?
I mean, it wouldn't have been worse if Biden had stayed,
because the worst that could have happened to Joe Biden.
Is he lost? The best that could have happened, of course,
is he won. And then he could have said, listen,
I'm a little tired and I'm gonna step down, and
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here's your new president, Kamala Harris. She will guide you
through the next four years. Blah blah blah. So again,
Hindsight's twenty twenty. There were a lot of mistakes made
by the Dems in this whole thing. And again I
think I really think they misread the room poorly and
in a lot of places too. You know, the one
thing that's that's really amazing about what happened on election
night not that that Trump took those swing states. You
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know he started when they started falling, you knew things
were going right. He took Georgia, he took North Carolina,
and then then he went into Pennsylvania, so you knew that,
oh man, he took the swing states. He's going to win.
But the other thing that's amazing interesting, I guess is
maybe even more a good word, is a lot of
states that didn't vote for him. They flipped a lot
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of in Massachusetts, ten towns that voted him out in
twenty twenty flipped and voted for him. Now, he didn't
win Massachusetts, obviously, but a lot of places flipped.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
He turned New Jersey into a swing state. New Jersey
it was within five thousand votes and New York was
up thirteen percent in a Republican vote, which is massive.
So exactly, you're exactly right, that's what he did. It
was it was you knew that it was a moratorium
at that point, that that basically it was the landslide
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that the pew and and it had to be a
landslide for one of them to stop any questioning of
the election results.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
And it was.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
And as of right now, we don't know what the
House is going to do. It looks like I think
the Republicans will hold the House, but maybe not by much. Anyway,
when when you hear this, you might go, oh, we
don't know, but they do have the Senate.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Ye.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
And here's here's something interesting, uh that I have heard
mentioned but not as much as I would think. Is
if you remember, if everybody remembers the Democrats when they
held the Senate, they work they really wanted to get
rid of the filibuster because they wanted to run rough
shot over Hey we don't want.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
A sixty vote MC ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Now, and the Democrats should be down on their knees
thanking God that that didn't happen, because imagine if the
filibuster was gone and it was fifty two senators for
the Republican Yeah, and by the way, this is why
those things exist. I don't love the filibuster, I don't
hate the philibuster.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To stop a supermaturity from is exactly.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
And so the Democrats should be damn happy that they
didn't get what they wanted. Again, it's one of those
things like be careful what you wish for, because if
they if they had done that, oh boy, they'd be screaming.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You know. But here's the thing about this particular party,
or this particular incarnation of this party, I should say,
because you know, every everything evolves and changes, and I'm
not particularly enamored of the one that exists now, the
Democratic Party. They don't seem to learn anything. Their learning
curve appears to be flat. And I would it would
absolutely not surprise me if if they got the majority
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back at some point in time the next two years,
maybe in the midterms, that they tried to get rid
of that again. They tried to get rid of the
filibuster again, not realizing that they were so fortunate this
time around. You see it across the board and people
who didn't learn a lesson, one of which.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Was very interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You had you had President Biden coming out and being reassuring,
which I thought was a nice move on his part.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I thought that was terrific.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I was sad that he had to do that, but
he did it, and he did it in a reasonable
fashioning God bless him. Now not everybody was just reassuring.
The New York ag Leticia James, do you remember Letitius.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
She's the one who.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Made up She's the one who've basically made up crimes
for Alvin Bragg to go after Donald Trump with. She's
the one who ran in the first place on I'm
going to get Donald Trump, it doesn't matter on what.
And she came out after the election and had this
to say, which confuses me a great deal.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Cut one Ton.
Speaker 14 (19:27):
We did not expect this result, but we are prepared
to respond to this result, and my office has been
preparing for several months because we've been here before, We
faced this challenge before, and we use the rule of
law to fight back, and we are prepared to fight
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back once again because as the Attorney General of this
great state, is my job to protect an defend the
rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law, and
I will not shrink from that responsibility.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'm gonna say, my job is a press who is
to go out and make up laws, to prosecute people,
and to get what I want so I get the headlines.
I mean, that's just that's the most bizarre statement in
the world. The Department of Justice, by the way, is
making is moving to quash anything against President Trump because
they realized one that it was law fair and illegally
brought to begin with, and two that you can't go
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after a president and he's just been reelected.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So if you want to go after Ltitia.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You can have to wait at least four years. I'm
pretty sure that she won't be in office by that.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Well, what Letitia said is back asswards anyway, because she
wants to I'm going to defend the rule of law,
and you know how I'm going to do that. We've
been planning.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We're going to break your law, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Mean, I'm all for the rule of law. Right, people
should be held accountable if they break the law. But
you can't be at a playbook meeting before you know
what somebody looking in.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The mirror to the rule of law and seeing that
the problem is not Donald Trump or the rule of law.
The problems her and this vendetta she's had since before
she took office to go after Donald Trump. And she's
not the only one. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. You know,
instead of looking at the Democratic Party and say what
did we do wrong? Instead they're projecting, you know, evilness
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onto the opposition because they won. Scarborough and MSNBC's that
the Harris loss not because she was a bad not
because she was a bad candidate, which she was, who
had no policy which she didn't, who tried to run
on the cult of personality and celebrity endorsements, which she did. Instead,
he says, the reason why she lost is because Latino's
and blacks are misogynists and racists.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Cut one eleven.
Speaker 15 (21:49):
I just say really quickly too, Democrats needn't even sure
and they need to be honest and they need to say, yes,
there is there's misogyny, but it's not just misogyny from
white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men. It's misogyny from
black men. Things we've all been talking about who do
not want a woman leading them might be race issues
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with Hispanics. They don't want a black woman as president.
And I say, you know, the Democratic Party, I've always
found when you're sitting around talking, they love to just
sort of balkanize everybody into these separate groups and say, oh,
white people don't like women and black people. No, it
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is time for the Democrats to say, okay.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
And you and I have.
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Talked about this before. A lot of Hispanic voters have
problems with black candidates.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Don't like each other.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Everyone's a racist, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Why So, it's not that you didn't like Kamala Harris,
the fact she had no policies so that we thought
she was a dunderhead and arrogant and not giving the
American people to do. It's because we don't like black
women much is garbage.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Not so much talking about the color thing, but in
the gender thing. I saw somebody I forget who said,
because I've given credit flipping it through social media the
day after the election, and somebody posted something to the
effect of the reason women didn't vote for Kamala Harris
might be because they didn't want the first female president
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to be an idiot.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well, I think that's that's true. And you know who
really made this point, Well is Charlemagne the God, who
is a black man, very successful podcaster and broadcaster and
a Harris supporter. Supported Harris, very vocally supported Harris. But
he is bullbleep about this, chalking it up to racism.
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Thing cut one twelve.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
I know today Democrats are going to be looking for
someone to blame. Let me be the first to tell
you it's not just one thing. I personally feel like
Donald Trump speaks to people's grievances better than Democrats do.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
I know.
Speaker 12 (23:59):
People going to talk about misinformation in the dumbing Donna society.
I understand all of that, But you don't have to
be intelligent to know you can't pay your bills. You
don't have to be intelligent to know you can't afford groceries.
People will forget what you did, they will forget what
you said, but they will never forget how you made
them feel. And to millions of Americans, tens of millions
of Americans, they simply felt financially better when Trump was
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in office. I don't think it's fair to just chalk up,
you know, Trump winning to racism, sexism, homophobia, and anti semitism. Yes,
he tapped into all of the worst things America has
ever had the offer. And there are a lot of
people who agree with his rhetorican and voting for him
because of those reasons. But I truly believe most people
voted for him because they want more money in their
pocket and they want to feel safe.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I completely agree with with that lastpect. He's a reasonable guy, thoughtful,
looked inward and said, why did we lose this election?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And that's what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The Republicans did that when the Republicans, you know, were
in deep crap and they they had become the party
of you know, the rich, elite golfers, and they reinvented themselves.
And a lot of that was due to Trump in
the last four years, but they reinvented themselves as the
party of the working class.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That's what the Democrats have to do.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Look, we'll see what happens with the presidency, the second
presidency of Donald Trump, Grover Trump. So, but here's I
was talking about this earlier I said, listen, if you
want to get rid of Donald Trump electing president again,
because there's a whole bunch of people who want Donald
Trump just go away and never come back. Well, this
is his last term. He's not running again. If he
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lost and he was fit enough at eighty two, he
could have run again. So here's the thing that all
Americans have to think about, especially the ones who really
don't like Donald Trump, or the ones who've been screaming about, wow,
we want to change the way Washington as blah blah blah. Listen,
in four years jd Vance made very well run. But
in four years, you've got a reset button. We're gonna
start this really because Kamma's gone, right, Biden of course
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is gone. All the previous incarnations are gone. You got
jd Vance maybe if he decided to run, and a
whole new batch of Dems and Republicans who are going
to run for president in four years, there's your reset button.
You want optimism, you want something to look forward to.
I don't know how Trump's going to do his second term.
Hopefully people will give him some breath and let him
do his thing. I don't know how he's going to
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do but I do know this, like hate, love, hate whatever.
Anybody who was around this year or four years ago
or four years before that, reset, four years from now,
reset button. Now you can make whatever you want out
of the country. And by the way, if you f
it up again, it's on you.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Nicely put.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I think that's nicely put. We usually end each week
with a Bidenism, but President Biden really didn't give me
one this week because he did a good thing one
speech and it was it. But there is a moment
that was ludicrous, and I think we could end with that,
and that is Senator Claire mccaskell, a US senator sitting
US senator, was on MSNBC after Trump was announced to
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be the winner the forty seventh president cident, and she,
to be honest with you, disgraced herself and her state
cut one nineteen and that mission in that purpose, Claire
mccaskell will determine.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Okay, I'm okay, I make you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, I'm so proud.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
I'm so proud of her.
Speaker 16 (27:20):
I don't think people realize how hard it is to
get to where she was.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
As a woman.
Speaker 16 (27:26):
Getting elected DA It's not easy, guys. People don't trust
women to be in charge of making decisions about life
and death and crime and being frankly a supervisor in
some ways over police. Her fighting through the primary thicket
of California politics to become Attorney general really hard. I mean,
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this is really hard stuff for her to be selected
as vice president after what I think she would tell
you was a very disappointing presidential race where I think
she kind of lost her footing and was listening to
much to consultants frankly, and wasn't It didn't really exude
who she was.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Okay, So first of all, she's sobbing on national television
regarding the fact that her candidate lost. So that really
goes a long way to the argument that women should
be trusted with high difficult office, you know, when that happens. Secondly,
I don't think i'd be invoking primaries there because she's
talked about how she fought through the primary thicket of California.
So she made it through a single state primary, completely
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bypassed the entire primary system in the United States for
her party, and landed, you know, because she was the
last man. She was the only choice basically that they
had once they wanted to get rid of Biden.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
They had to go to the vice president because she.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Al Sharpton and a lot of serious black community leaders
said if you bypass her, we will make sure you
never win again.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So she was gifted that.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So I don't think i'd argue that she fought that
hard for this particular job. And can we point out
it may have been hard for her, That's not why
I elect a president because it was hard for them.
I elected president because I think that they have the
solutions to whatever problems that we have, not that they
worked hard to get there. Working hard to get there
is nice when you're in grade school and you get
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a gold star. It does not help you in a
presidential election. And nor should anybody vote because somebody worked hard.
That is a criteria. It is not the criteria. It's
one of maybe fifty. So it's like saying, you know,
you should have voted for her because she wears a
size eight shoe. This is this is a US senator.
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So I found that completely embarrassing. If she were my senator,
which she's not, thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Now, I'm embarrassed because I would have voted for her
if I knew she wore a size hshoe.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
How silly of me.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
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I am Nancy Shack.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
This is Newsbye.
Gracious winners and poor sports. President Biden says he's on
board with a peaceful transfer of power, while progressives literally
melt down on TikTok. The country has spoken loud and
clear in a landslide, and we have the best of it.
Whether or did they really just say that? Moment's from
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
This is news bite.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary
honor of being elected your forty seventh president and your
forty fifth president.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
The outcome of this election is not what we wanted,
not what we fought for, not what we voted for.
The light of America's promise, He'll always.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Burn bright.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
As long as we never give up, and as long
as we keep fighting.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
I will do my duty as president. I'll fulfill my
oath and I wanted the Constitution. On January twentieth, We'll
have a peaceful transfer of power here in America.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
No right, come back to reality, please people, good god.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh my gosh, that's a progressive liberal on TikTok. Upon
hearing that Donald Trump is the forty seventh president of
the United States, she was just, oh my gosh, just
beside herself, this particular this particular driver, she and.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
She's not alone.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
No, I know, utunately.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I was kind of shocked at the at the level
of not just emotional out given that they lost. These
people who supported Harris lost the election, but their perspective
in some of these meltdowns was kind of do they
do they understand that they sound like jackasses? Well, the
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one you heard, that's a female driver. She's driving and
taking pictures of herself on TikTok at the same time.
But you can hear the whole cut cut four oh two?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
No, no, no, why why why?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, yeah, the election was because we hate you personally.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
I missed the old days when people just had to
scream in their house alone.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Then here we have a girl. This one is interesting.
That one was a black female driver. You heard this
is a white girl that's covered with tattoos. I mean,
I don't I tell you this so you can get
you can build an image in your in your mind,
and she's sitting at a kitchen table looking like and
she is sobbing cut four one A.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
It's like.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
It's like I can feel the pane and the fear
from every single person I.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't know how to handle this.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
I don't know how to.
Speaker 9 (03:23):
Get through the next couple of days. Who knows how
long this is gonna take.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Four years, four years of lease, it's not gonna be
just a couple of days. Then this is a white
woman in her kitchen and she's been she's gonna be
okay because she says she is a white woman cut
four or.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
Three the bigotry and hatred that they stand behind, and
how I like, am trying to be a good person.
I'm not Catholic like they are, which is ironic because
because it's like religion supposed to make you love. But
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I could see it like breaking me and my parents
apart because they just don't get it, and they don't
get that they voted for some one who's gonna make
my friends' lives hell. My life's okay, a white woman
friends are not gonna be.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I saw that one and she says she's worried because
her parents voted the wrong way and now they're gonna
hate each other.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And if you really and her parents are bigots because
they didn't, I mean this is but I'm okay because
I'll be a white woman.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But it's my friends, I'm worried about not.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
For not for nothing, but if how someone votes in
an election is what divides you and your parents, there's
problems there.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Are have a value issue you need to work on.
Then this is one of my favorite. This is a
really hefty, uh white guy who rips his shirt off
when he hears that Harris is lost.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Cut four hundred.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Okay, I'm gonna win this day of Jesus Christ. I'm
so pissed off. God damn it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Just Torres's shirt right off his body. He was a
Harris shirt, by the way, there's just to right off
his So this is this is upon finding out that
their candidate, they're really bad candidate by the way, lost.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Well it was first of all bad candidate, but second
of all this this was the candidate that and we
talked about this before forced down America's throat. There was
no primary, there was no hey, who else wants to
be president? It was hey, here.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You go, good luck and three months.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
I gotta be honest, And I mean I thought there
was a time when I thought Harris was going to win.
I mean it was very close. Obviously, it was back
and forth, and we didn't we didn't know until obviously
we knew there.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Was a landslide victory.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
But but you know the problem is they talked about
democracy and undermined it the whole way by shoving a
candidate of any kind. I forget that it was Harris
of any kind down America's total I think I think
the Democrats, the higher up part of the Democrats. Boy,
did they miss read the room poorly.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Or what.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They did, and they're still misreading the room. I mean,
you heard the people having a stroke, just literally stroking
out why all because of this cut?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
One h two.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary
honor of being elected your forty seventh president and your
forty fifth president, and every citizen. I will fight for you,
for your family and your future. Every single day I
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will be fighting for you, and with every breath in
my body, I will not rest until we have delivered
the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve
and that you deserve.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, and why do they hate him?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Because because he wants to quote make America great again,
and he says that his election is going to be
the beginning of this one or two A.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
This will truly be the Golden Age of America. That's
what we have to This is a magnificent victory for
the American people that will allow us to make America
great again.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, that's why they're having a fit.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
We call him Grover Trump. Yeah, in honor.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Grover Yeah, Yeah, to come.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Back, get yourself at Grover stuff, the animal.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
And then put a Trump T shirt and Trump had
on it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You've got Trump orangewick? Sure, why not orange hair?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
We'll just die, just diet, It's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, what point that the president the next president elect
in the former president also allowed jd Vance, who was
there with him, to to say his piece up on
the stage cut twenty one.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Well, mister President, I appreciate you allowing me to join
you on this incredible journey. I thank you for the
trust that you have placed in me. And I think
that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the
history of.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
The United States of America.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I think he's right, by the way, Yeah, I was
gonna say, by the way, whether whether you like or
hate Trump doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was impressive.
Speaker 12 (08:25):
Think seriously, even.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
People, even people who love Donald Trump, yeah, are like, well,
he came back. He won that. I mean, there was
a down and out period for Donald Trump. Yeah, and
of course the polling, which I never trust anyway, showed
a different story than what actually happened with the polling
that matters, which is election day. But yeah, no, I
mean it was a comeback. And again, you can hate
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Donald Trump, but he still came back. If the team
you hate in baseball comes back and wins a game,
they came back. I mean, you can still hate the team,
but it's a great comeback. And this was a great
political comeback. No matter how you feel, you got to
at least say, well, it was a great comeback.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, and the president so agrees with you. And one
of the things that he said when he was up
there on the stage on Tuesday night, and we knew
tuesday night, which thank god who the winner is, because
I've said this to you last week too. Thank God
it was a landslide. Even if even if it meant
Harris one, I thought it needed to be a landslide.
So it was a definitive electoral response, and so there
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was no room for questioning. So the president, the forty
seventh president, the president elect was up there jd Vance
was up there. Do you know who did not take
to the stage Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Night, Yes, Kamala Harris, that would be correct.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Instead, she basically she vanished after Georgia was called for
Trump and her campaign co chair came out, Cedric Richmond
came out and had this to say, cut twenty two.
Speaker 13 (09:55):
I want to say good eating too, all of the
Harris campaign campaign family, thank you for all that you
have done.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Thank you for being here, thank you for being.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
Believing in the promise of America.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
We still have votes to count, We still have states
that have not been called yet.
Speaker 13 (10:20):
We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that
every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
So you won't hear from.
Speaker 13 (10:33):
The Vice President tonight, but you will hear from her tomorrow.
She will be back here tomorrow to address not only
the hu family, not only to address her supporters, but
to address the nation.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I thought immediately when I heard that, the first thing
I thought, because it's not like they were in different places.
It's not like Cedric was in Washington and Kamala was
in Minnesota or something. They were both right there. Like
she was sitting in a room, probably in the behind him, yeah.
Why couldn't she have come out and said those things. Listen,
there's still votes to.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Count, yeah, exactly, Yeah. Instead she ran away and hid.
And not only that, how rich is it that you
have Cedric Richmond out there saying every vote counted when
he's talking about a candidate who ousted Joe Biden's fourteen
million votes and bigfooted him and stepped into his birth
on the Democratic ticket when she didn't get any primary votes.
(11:28):
So I found that to be somewhat ironic to begin with.
And I thought it was bad when Hillary Clinton did that.
Fox hold it till the next day. But Hillary Clinton,
at least in twenty sixteen, came out the next morning
and said we lost. And she was not the most
gracious one in the world, but she but she conceded.
In this case, Kamala Harris didn't come out until you know,
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five PM, and basically she eventually, you know, pulled her
head out of or you know what, with a a
concession speech sort of. People call it a concession speech,
and she did admit she lost, but it wasn't exactly
a conciliatory cut.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Two hundred.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
The outcome of this election is not what we wanted
not what we fought for, not what we voted for.
But hear me when I say, hear me when I say,
the light of America's promise will always burn bright as
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long as we never give up, and as long as
we keep fighting.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Never give up, keep fighting.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And she she wasn't done with that with that phraseology
Cut two o five B.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
My allegiance to all three is why I am here
to say, while I concede this election, I do not
concede the fight that fueled this campaign.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So again she's talking about fighting, and then at the end,
at the very end, she talks about basically how she
thinks the Trump coming in power is the beginning of
a new dark age.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Cut two nine.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
There's an adage and historian once called a law of history,
true of every society across the ages. The adage is
only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
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I know many people feel like we are entering a
dark time, but for the benefit of us all I
hope that is not the case. But here's the thing, America,
if it is, let us fill the sky with the
light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars, the light
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the light of optimism, of faith of truth and service.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
M It was bad enough that concession speech ben that
President Biden, the guy that she bigfooted out of his
campaign for president, had to come out and basically assure
people that there would indeed be a peaceful transfer of
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power cut to forty as.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
They did their duty as citizens. I will do my
duty as president. I'll fulfill my oath and I wanted
the constitution on January twentieth, we'll have a peaceful transfer
of power here in a.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
All right, thank God.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
By the way, and I know hindsight's always twenty twenty,
so we can look back on this. We had lots
of conversations when Biden left and Kamala was put in
and all that, but now that we know that Kamala lost,
it would have almost been better leave Joe in there,
hope to God that he can get enough votes to
be president, and then resign on January twentieth. Kamala would
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have been president right out of the gate. I'm not
saying that they would have done that anyway even if,
but right like, I mean, what would have been worse?
I mean, it wouldn't have been worse if Biden had stayed,
because the worst that could have happened to Joe Biden.
Is he lost? The best that could have happened, of course,
is he won. And then he could have said, listen,
I'm a little tired and I'm gonna step down, and
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here's your new president, Kamala Harris. She will guide you
through the next four years. Blah blah blah. So again,
Hindsight's twenty twenty. There were a lot of mistakes made
by the Dems in this whole thing. And again I
think I really think they misread the room poorly and
in a lot of places too. You know, the one
thing that's that's really amazing about what happened on election
night not that that Trump took those swing states. You
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know he started when they started falling, you knew things
were going right. He took Georgia, he took North Carolina,
and then then he went into Pennsylvania, so you knew that,
oh man, he took the swing states. He's going to win.
But the other thing that's amazing interesting, I guess is
maybe even more a good word, is a lot of
states that didn't vote for him. They flipped a lot
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of in Massachusetts, ten towns that voted him out in
twenty twenty flipped and voted for him. Now, he didn't
win Massachusetts, obviously, but a lot of places flipped.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
He turned New Jersey into a swing state. New Jersey
it was within five thousand votes and New York was
up thirteen percent in a Republican vote, which is massive.
So exactly, you're exactly right, that's what he did. It
was it was you knew that it was a moratorium
at that point, that that basically it was the landslide
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that the pew and and it had to be a
landslide for one of them to stop any questioning of
the election results.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
And it was.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
And as of right now, we don't know what the
House is going to do. It looks like I think
the Republicans will hold the House, but maybe not by much. Anyway,
when when you hear this, you might go, oh, we
don't know, but they do have the Senate.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Ye.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
And here's here's something interesting, uh that I have heard
mentioned but not as much as I would think. Is
if you remember, if everybody remembers the Democrats when they
held the Senate, they work they really wanted to get
rid of the filibuster because they wanted to run rough
shot over Hey we don't want.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
A sixty vote MC ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Now, and the Democrats should be down on their knees
thanking God that that didn't happen, because imagine if the
filibuster was gone and it was fifty two senators for
the Republican Yeah, and by the way, this is why
those things exist. I don't love the filibuster, I don't
hate the philibuster.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To stop a supermaturity from is exactly.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
And so the Democrats should be damn happy that they
didn't get what they wanted. Again, it's one of those
things like be careful what you wish for, because if
they if they had done that, oh boy, they'd be screaming.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You know. But here's the thing about this particular party,
or this particular incarnation of this party, I should say,
because you know, every everything evolves and changes, and I'm
not particularly enamored of the one that exists now, the
Democratic Party. They don't seem to learn anything. Their learning
curve appears to be flat. And I would it would
absolutely not surprise me if if they got the majority
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back at some point in time the next two years,
maybe in the midterms, that they tried to get rid
of that again. They tried to get rid of the
filibuster again, not realizing that they were so fortunate this
time around. You see it across the board and people
who didn't learn a lesson, one of which.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Was very interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You had you had President Biden coming out and being reassuring,
which I thought was a nice move on his part.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I thought that was terrific.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I was sad that he had to do that, but
he did it, and he did it in a reasonable
fashioning God bless him. Now not everybody was just reassuring.
The New York ag Leticia James, do you remember Letitius.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
She's the one who.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Made up She's the one who've basically made up crimes
for Alvin Bragg to go after Donald Trump with. She's
the one who ran in the first place on I'm
going to get Donald Trump, it doesn't matter on what.
And she came out after the election and had this
to say, which confuses me a great deal.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Cut one Ton.
Speaker 14 (19:27):
We did not expect this result, but we are prepared
to respond to this result, and my office has been
preparing for several months because we've been here before, We
faced this challenge before, and we use the rule of
law to fight back, and we are prepared to fight
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back once again because as the Attorney General of this
great state, is my job to protect an defend the
rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law, and
I will not shrink from that responsibility.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'm gonna say, my job is a press who is
to go out and make up laws, to prosecute people,
and to get what I want so I get the headlines.
I mean, that's just that's the most bizarre statement in
the world. The Department of Justice, by the way, is
making is moving to quash anything against President Trump because
they realized one that it was law fair and illegally
brought to begin with, and two that you can't go
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after a president and he's just been reelected.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So if you want to go after Ltitia.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You can have to wait at least four years. I'm
pretty sure that she won't be in office by that.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Well, what Letitia said is back asswards anyway, because she
wants to I'm going to defend the rule of law,
and you know how I'm going to do that. We've
been planning.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We're going to break your law, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Mean, I'm all for the rule of law. Right, people
should be held accountable if they break the law. But
you can't be at a playbook meeting before you know
what somebody looking in.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The mirror to the rule of law and seeing that
the problem is not Donald Trump or the rule of law.
The problems her and this vendetta she's had since before
she took office to go after Donald Trump. And she's
not the only one. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. You know,
instead of looking at the Democratic Party and say what
did we do wrong? Instead they're projecting, you know, evilness
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onto the opposition because they won. Scarborough and MSNBC's that
the Harris loss not because she was a bad not
because she was a bad candidate, which she was, who
had no policy which she didn't, who tried to run
on the cult of personality and celebrity endorsements, which she did. Instead,
he says, the reason why she lost is because Latino's
and blacks are misogynists and racists.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Cut one eleven.
Speaker 15 (21:49):
I just say really quickly too, Democrats needn't even sure
and they need to be honest and they need to say, yes,
there is there's misogyny, but it's not just misogyny from
white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men. It's misogyny from
black men. Things we've all been talking about who do
not want a woman leading them might be race issues
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with Hispanics. They don't want a black woman as president.
And I say, you know, the Democratic Party, I've always
found when you're sitting around talking, they love to just
sort of balkanize everybody into these separate groups and say, oh,
white people don't like women and black people. No, it
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is time for the Democrats to say, okay.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
And you and I have.
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Talked about this before. A lot of Hispanic voters have
problems with black candidates.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Don't like each other.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Everyone's a racist, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Why So, it's not that you didn't like Kamala Harris,
the fact she had no policies so that we thought
she was a dunderhead and arrogant and not giving the
American people to do. It's because we don't like black
women much is garbage.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Not so much talking about the color thing, but in
the gender thing. I saw somebody I forget who said,
because I've given credit flipping it through social media the
day after the election, and somebody posted something to the
effect of the reason women didn't vote for Kamala Harris
might be because they didn't want the first female president
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to be an idiot.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well, I think that's that's true. And you know who
really made this point, Well is Charlemagne the God, who
is a black man, very successful podcaster and broadcaster and
a Harris supporter. Supported Harris, very vocally supported Harris. But
he is bullbleep about this, chalking it up to racism.
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Thing cut one twelve.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
I know today Democrats are going to be looking for
someone to blame. Let me be the first to tell
you it's not just one thing. I personally feel like
Donald Trump speaks to people's grievances better than Democrats do.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
I know.
Speaker 12 (23:59):
People going to talk about misinformation in the dumbing Donna society.
I understand all of that, But you don't have to
be intelligent to know you can't pay your bills. You
don't have to be intelligent to know you can't afford groceries.
People will forget what you did, they will forget what
you said, but they will never forget how you made
them feel. And to millions of Americans, tens of millions
of Americans, they simply felt financially better when Trump was
(24:21):
in office. I don't think it's fair to just chalk up,
you know, Trump winning to racism, sexism, homophobia, and anti semitism. Yes,
he tapped into all of the worst things America has
ever had the offer. And there are a lot of
people who agree with his rhetorican and voting for him
because of those reasons. But I truly believe most people
voted for him because they want more money in their
pocket and they want to feel safe.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I completely agree with with that lastpect. He's a reasonable guy, thoughtful,
looked inward and said, why did we lose this election?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And that's what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The Republicans did that when the Republicans, you know, were
in deep crap and they they had become the party
of you know, the rich, elite golfers, and they reinvented themselves.
And a lot of that was due to Trump in
the last four years, but they reinvented themselves as the
party of the working class.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That's what the Democrats have to do.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Look, we'll see what happens with the presidency, the second
presidency of Donald Trump, Grover Trump. So, but here's I
was talking about this earlier I said, listen, if you
want to get rid of Donald Trump electing president again,
because there's a whole bunch of people who want Donald
Trump just go away and never come back. Well, this
is his last term. He's not running again. If he
(25:29):
lost and he was fit enough at eighty two, he
could have run again. So here's the thing that all
Americans have to think about, especially the ones who really
don't like Donald Trump, or the ones who've been screaming about, wow,
we want to change the way Washington as blah blah blah. Listen,
in four years jd Vance made very well run. But
in four years, you've got a reset button. We're gonna
start this really because Kamma's gone, right, Biden of course
(25:52):
is gone. All the previous incarnations are gone. You got
jd Vance maybe if he decided to run, and a
whole new batch of Dems and Republicans who are going
to run for president in four years, there's your reset button.
You want optimism, you want something to look forward to.
I don't know how Trump's going to do his second term.
Hopefully people will give him some breath and let him
do his thing. I don't know how he's going to
(26:13):
do but I do know this, like hate, love, hate whatever.
Anybody who was around this year or four years ago
or four years before that, reset, four years from now,
reset button. Now you can make whatever you want out
of the country. And by the way, if you f
it up again, it's on you.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Nicely put.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I think that's nicely put. We usually end each week
with a Bidenism, but President Biden really didn't give me
one this week because he did a good thing one
speech and it was it. But there is a moment
that was ludicrous, and I think we could end with that,
and that is Senator Claire mccaskell, a US senator sitting
US senator, was on MSNBC after Trump was announced to
(26:58):
be the winner the forty seventh president cident, and she,
to be honest with you, disgraced herself and her state
cut one nineteen and that mission in that purpose, Claire
mccaskell will determine.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Okay, I'm okay, I make you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, I'm so proud.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
I'm so proud of her.
Speaker 16 (27:20):
I don't think people realize how hard it is to
get to where she was.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
As a woman.
Speaker 16 (27:26):
Getting elected DA It's not easy, guys. People don't trust
women to be in charge of making decisions about life
and death and crime and being frankly a supervisor in
some ways over police. Her fighting through the primary thicket
of California politics to become Attorney general really hard. I mean,
(27:46):
this is really hard stuff for her to be selected
as vice president after what I think she would tell
you was a very disappointing presidential race where I think
she kind of lost her footing and was listening to
much to consultants frankly, and wasn't It didn't really exude
who she was.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Okay, So first of all, she's sobbing on national television
regarding the fact that her candidate lost. So that really
goes a long way to the argument that women should
be trusted with high difficult office, you know, when that happens. Secondly,
I don't think i'd be invoking primaries there because she's
talked about how she fought through the primary thicket of California.
So she made it through a single state primary, completely
(28:29):
bypassed the entire primary system in the United States for
her party, and landed, you know, because she was the
last man. She was the only choice basically that they
had once they wanted to get rid of Biden.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
They had to go to the vice president because she.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Al Sharpton and a lot of serious black community leaders
said if you bypass her, we will make sure you
never win again.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So she was gifted that.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
So I don't think i'd argue that she fought that
hard for this particular job. And can we point out
it may have been hard for her, That's not why
I elect a president because it was hard for them.
I elected president because I think that they have the
solutions to whatever problems that we have, not that they
worked hard to get there. Working hard to get there
is nice when you're in grade school and you get
(29:15):
a gold star. It does not help you in a
presidential election. And nor should anybody vote because somebody worked hard.
That is a criteria. It is not the criteria. It's
one of maybe fifty. So it's like saying, you know,
you should have voted for her because she wears a
size eight shoe. This is this is a US senator.
(29:36):
So I found that completely embarrassing. If she were my senator,
which she's not, thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Now, I'm embarrassed because I would have voted for her
if I knew she wore a size hshoe.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
How silly of me.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
If you want to share your thoughts in the election
with Ben and I, you can contact us on x
we are at news Byte three or on Facebook at
news Byte. We upload a new episode every single Monday,
so check back next week and see what new offerings
we have. Meanwhile, I hope you are taking the election
a little bit better than some of those TikTok users are.
I am Nancy Shack.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
This is Newsbye.
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