11-7-24 - 9am - Votes in 2020 & 2024 and Biden Speech & Reaction

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Michael, Has anybody else noticed some interesting math? Now, I
know you don't do math live on the radio, but
there's about one hundred and thirty million voters in two
thousand and eight, twenty twelve, twenty sixteen, and even this
year twenty twenty four. But somehow in twenty twenty there
was almost one hundred and fifty five million voters. Seems interesting.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ought to look into that. FJB. There's that FJB. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'd argue that all the votes have not been counted yet.
Well as we can look back at twenty twenty and go, yeah,
these are the total number of votes that have been counted.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't think that. I don't think that's the point
he's trying to make. No, yeah, yeah, the point he's
trying to make that I've actually I actually thought about earlier.
I was going to mention him that I thought, yeah,
I don't want to go down that rabbit hole. But
here we are going down that rabbit hole. Uh, give
you any idea what we're doing here? I wanted to
talk about the people that turned out to vote and

(01:02):
how Democrats are not learning from that, which is signed
with me. I don't care if they learn from it
or not. But I think you and I need to
understand it at the same time that we're waiting for
Biden to come out and give his first speech. In fact,
pretty much the first thing you said at all, except
for a few stops at ice cream shops during the campaign,
and we want to take that live. So we'll take
that live when we get to it. But there were

(01:25):
some eighty one million votes cast for Joe Biden in
twenty twenty. The current number for Kamala Harris is sixty
eight million. That's some thirteen million shy of what was
cast for Kamala Harris. And the sixty eight million for

(01:50):
Kamala Harris on Tuesday is fairly in line. If you
were doing a bar graph, it would be fairly in
line with all previous save for the past six presidential elections.
And yet twenty twenty, when we had COVID, Biden's numbers
skyrocketed to eighty one million, and many people have speculated,

(02:14):
maybe that's sign of cheating, Maybe that's the sign of
there was some shenanigans going on. Who knows, but it
is an interesting data point to at least consider. But
while we're waiting on Biden. Let me get started with
what I wanted to talk about and why the Trump
victory is, for millions of people around the country an

(02:39):
indication that identity politics is probably dead. We started the
program out this morning with a description a bunch of
these whiny little whims crying all these tears because, oh
my gosh, the world's coming to an end because Donald

(02:59):
Trump was elected, and they're acting or reacting with all
this shock is oh my gosh, I just cannot believe.
And of course they're angry too. But the best question
they're asking, which Democrats don't seem what to want to answer,
is why did so many Latinos, gen xers, men, women, blacks,

(03:24):
I mean, every little group you can possibly think of,
with maybe the exception of gays and transgenders. And I
don't for all you gave people out there. I'm not
trying to lump gaze and transgenders into the same bucket,
because I know you're tired, I know you're separate. Do
they really not understand why they lost those groups or

(03:48):
do they not want to understand? Think about for how
long we were told we were bigots, we were racing.
We don't want to defund the cops. We don't want
open borders, we don't want mandated racial quotas. We thought

(04:09):
that with the election of Barack Obama, as Barack Obama
reminded us incessantly, he was a post racial president and
that race was no longer a factor, and in fact,
we were supposed to be going back to a meritocracy.
We didn't want to be called some sort of transphobic
or whatever phobic you want to attach to whatever prefix,

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simply because we didn't want doctors experimenting on children with
pseudoscientific transgender medicine. And we didn't certainly didn't like being
labeled conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists for simply asking questions about
COVID or why is the FBI, the CIA, the Department

(04:55):
of Homeland Security, Why is the security apparatus of this
country engaged with the giant tech companies in mass censorship?
Now I don't know if why those were the main
reasons that these voters voted for Trump, because if you

(05:17):
go back again, the polls indicate that the top issues
were the economy including inflation, and immigration including crime. But
elections at least since well, I'd say in the latter

(05:39):
half of my lifetime since I've been voting. Elections are
one on the margins. And what made the difference between
twenty twenty and twenty twenty four was the defection of
those traditionally Democrat voters to Donald Trump and Republicans. Not
just for Trump, but look at the Senate and look

(06:00):
at what's probably going to happen in the House. We
were tired of being you know, we're not woken off.
We're not you know, we should accept cancel culture. But
think about what Trump did. Trump was able to gain

(06:21):
unprecedented ground across the entire spectrum of the electorate. He
broke the mold on Blacks, Latinos, even Muslim voters in
Key Area. What about LATINX LATINX. That was one of
the things that in show prep yesterday, in addition to

(06:44):
illegal immigration, the whole LATINX latin X however you pronounce
it was a huge turn off for the Hispanic community.
What yes, and yet they just kept insisting on doing it.
Young people. We were told incessantly prior to the election

(07:05):
that Trump's going to lose young people. But young people
swung to the right, Stop and savor that for a moment,
generations behind us swung to the right. And then think
about elites versus working men and women. And by elites,

(07:28):
I mean those in the media, those in government, those
who are in the billionaire class. Don't the millionaire class
is nothing anymore. Lots of people are millionaires because they've
got a lot of equity built up in their homes.
For example. I'm talking about the elitists, the ones that

(07:49):
think they know better than us how to live our
own lives. Trump won over huge segments of the working class. Interestingly,
the one place where Kamala Harris improved over Joe Biden
was with those ultra high income voters, college educated white women,

(08:12):
and white people in general. Yeah, you go look at
the stats. Those are the only places where Harris improved
over Biden. If you took just that little fact alone,
that should be enough to draw some reasonable conclusion that

(08:33):
identity politics does not work, or calling us conspiracy theorists
because we have questions about censorship, we have questions about COVID,
we have questions about you know, forcing us to wear
masks or not wear all of those things I think
came into play. And then when you think about and

(08:56):
I'm not picking on about I want to point out
Bill Malusion. Bill Millusion of Fox News Channel was the
only reporter that I know of that consistently and incessantly
covered the invasion on the southern border, drones, speaking Spanish,

(09:17):
doing everything he could to interact with all of those
people coming across the border to find out where are
you going, why are you coming here? Where'd you come from?
All of that and the rest of the cabal silence.
If you want to consider why the election of Trump

(09:39):
is a feeling of both relief and vindication, then they,
the Democrats, ought to consider that it has more to
do with the absolute repudiation of totalitarianism, the very thing
that they kept telling us that we were going to
get that if Donald Trump got re elected. Oh my god,

(09:59):
tyranny was on the horizon donald Trump. Remember fascism and
Nazi that's all they did. That's all they had. Bochism, whatever, progressivism,
identity politics, radical leftism, Marxism, all of that has really

(10:21):
sped up over the last decade. And for those of
us who felt like, wait a minute, you're just projecting
what you really are onto us. So whether you were
a libertarian, you were a conservative, you or a constitutionalist,

(10:42):
even if you were a moderate. At some point you
got tired of being accused of everything that they actually
were engaged in. Some people even felt persecuted for those views,
whether in a big way or a small way. At
some point, I can tell you personally, I got sick

(11:04):
of it. I got sick of just constantly and I would,
you know, we would joke about it on air, Oh brag?
Can I say that word? Is that? Is that a
word that we can use anymore? Even the word fat?
Remember you use the word fat? And I would can
you say fat? On air? Can you call somebody fat?

(11:26):
That's my way of being a smart ass, sarcastic ahle
to point out that, you know what, I'm sick and
tired of me having to carefully choose my words, although
I did, and I still use them, right, So I
used them to point out how stupid it was to
ask can you use the word fat? Now, let's go
back in history, go back to twenty eleven. Do you

(11:48):
remember Occupy Wall Street? Do you remember the first Black
Lives Matter protest back in twenty thirteen? For the Democrats,
that was all normal, that was all part of not
only did they want it they encouraged it, and they
helped finance it. And then everything starting in twenty eleven

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twenty thirteen, give or take, became racist, and everything became suspicious.
And nothing was more suspicious than not agreeing one hundred
percent with the progressive Marxist left. So then Trump gets elected,
and that previously and that puts wokeism in cancelation culture, racism, fascism, tyranny, everything,

(12:38):
all of the projection gets turned on to us. Fascist
was actually being used by very serious people like the
New York Times establishment democrats. Remember we were told by
Maxine Waters, get in their face, disrupt their dinner. By

(12:59):
the way, point of order here, disrupting somebody's dinner is
not a constantly constitutionally protected First Amendment protest. If I'm
sitting on a sidewalk cafe and you walk up and
start screaming and disrupting and pushing and shoving and doing
all that, no, not only are you not engaged in

(13:21):
protected free speech, but you're probably engaged in an assault
and battery. You're probably also engaged in any incitement of violence,
none of which is protected by the First Amendment. Those
are not the protests of which I speak ordinary. No,
I don't want to use the word ordinary Democrats like

(13:47):
Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Remember Chuck Schumer going
out onto the grounds of the Supreme Court and yelling
at Justice Gorsa much, Justice Kavanaugh, You're going to weep,
reap the whirlwind. You will pay. This is going to
cost you dearly. Threatening a senior US senator, threatening physically

(14:14):
threatening the United States Supreme Court. It's not progressivism, that's Marxism.
That's tyranny, and that's what they've been engaged in since
at least Occupy Wall Street. Then you fact you fast
forward from Occupy Wall Street to COVID and again, the

(14:40):
criticism I have of Trump is that he could pitch
he entirely capitulated to the pharmaceutical industry and to the
healthcare industry. Oh six feet of social distancing. Remember I've
told you before that we spent I think it was
thirty billion dollars on ground zero. And I finally asked

(15:02):
Andy Carr one day, Hey, the President told me I
got to spend thirty billion dollars on ground zero. Where
do we get that number? How's that number break down?
That's just a number, he said, so that's the number
we got to spend. Now, that's how we got six
feet of social distancing. Somebody just pulled that number out
the butt and it was probably Tony Fauci or doctor

(15:24):
Burke's doctor scarves sold Jill. No, wasn't doctor Jill. It
was before. It was before doctor that's true before. But
she is a doctor, that's right. And by the way,
I'm even sick of that. You know, she's she's a
doctor of education. Now, there's anything wrong with that, But

(15:46):
to insist that she'd be called doctor Jill Biden is
a little little pretentious, Just a little pretentious. So where
are we on a post mortem of Tuesday? Where are we?
Is it a blip or is it a trend line?

(16:07):
I don't know. I think it's too early to tell.
But if we had to find a point by which
we start measuring whether it's a trend lined or it's
just a blip, I would say it was the summer
of twenty twenty when we shut down schools. It was

(16:33):
mostly peaceful protests. Black Lives Matter was running amock, burning
down cities in Minnesota, we might point out, and everything
was fine. And Obama gave a speech at Stanford urging
government regulation of social media platforms, i e.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Censorship, Morning fair face, Morning ding dong.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Hey, So.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
Using the Democrats thinking, since the Supreme Court made that decision,
hasn't Wooden, Joe and Kamela had unfettered power ever since
that that ruling was enacted.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yep, weird. Huh, Yeah, they didn't have a problem with it. Nope,
isn't that weird. The President of the United States of America,
who is Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Walked out onto the
Rose Garden and spoke to a group of a couple

(17:37):
dozen people.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I didn't get to see the crowd, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh, CNN showed the crowd. At least when cn showed
the crowd, they were still gathering together, including John Podesta.
So here's what the President had to say. We'll just
take it.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Thank you. Good to see this. Chap had the staff together.

Speaker 6 (17:59):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Please, thank you,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 7 (18:14):
It's good to see you all, particularly good to see
my granddaughter sitting.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
In the front row. Here. Hi been Hawaii, honey. For
over two hundred years.

Speaker 7 (18:23):
America has carried out the greatest experiment in self government
and the history of the world.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
That's not hyperbole, that's a fact.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
For the people.

Speaker 7 (18:34):
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy. The will
of the people always prevails.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yesterday I spoke.

Speaker 7 (18:46):
With President elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory,
and I assured him I direct my entired administration to
work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
That's what the American people deserve.

Speaker 7 (19:03):
Yesterday I also spoke because Vice President Harris, She's been
a partner and a public servant. She ran an inspiring
campaign and everyone got to see something that I learned
early on to respect so much her character. She has
a backbone like a ramrod. She has great character, true character.

(19:24):
She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and
her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.
You know, the struggle for the soul of America since
our very founding has always been an ongoing debate and
still vital today. I know for some people it's a

(19:46):
time for victory to state the obvious. For others, it's
a time of loss. The campaigns, the contest of competing visions.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
The country chooses.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
One or the other. We accept the choice the country made.
I have said many times, you can't love your country
only when you win. You can't love your neighbor only
when you agree something. I hope we can do no

(20:18):
matter who you voted for. We see each other not
as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Bring down the temperature.

Speaker 7 (20:27):
I also hope we can later rest the question about
the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest,
it is fair, and it is transparent, and it can
be trusted win or lose.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
I also hope we can.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Restore the respect for all our election workers who busted
their next and took risks at the outset. We should
thank them, thank them for staffing voting sites, counting the votes,
protecting the very integrity of the election. Many of them
are volunteers who do it simply out of love for

(21:05):
their country and as they did as 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 America to all our incredible staff supporters, cabinet members,

(21:29):
all the people who have been hanging.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Out with me for the last four years. God love it.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
As my mother would say, thank you so much. You
put so much into the past four years. I know
it's a difficult time. You're hurting. I hear you, and
I see you. But don't forget. Don't forget all the
we accomplished. Been a historic presidency, not because I'm president,
because what we've done. When you've done a presidency of

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all Americans, much of the work we've done is already
been felt by the American people, with the vast majority
of it will not be felt we felt over the
next ten years. We have it. We have legislation we passed.
It's just only now just really kicking in. We're going
to see over two million dollars worth of infrastructure work done,

(22:18):
changing people's lives and rural communities and communities that are
real difficulty because it takes time to get it done.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
There's so much more. It's going to take time, but
it's there. The road ahead is clear, assuming we sustain it.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
There's so much, so much we can get done and
will get done based the way the legislation will passed
and it's truly historic. You know, we're leaving behind the
strongest economy in the world. I know people are still hurting,
but things are changing rapidly. Together, we've changed America for

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the better. Now we have seventy four days to finish
the term, our term. Let's make every day count. That's
the responsibility we have to the American people.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Look, folks, you all know it in their lives.

Speaker 7 (23:15):
Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable. Setbacks are unavoidable,
but giving up is unforgivable. We all get knocked down,
but the measure of our character is my dad would says,
how quickly we get back up. Remember, a defeat does
not mean we are defeated.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
We lost this battle. America of your dreams is calling
for you to get back up.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
That's the story of America for over two hundred and
forty years in counting.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
It's a story for all of us, not just.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
Some of us.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
The American experiment and doors to be okay. But we
need to stay engaged, we need to.

Speaker 7 (24:05):
Keep going, and above all, we need to keep the faith.
I'm so proud to have worked with all of you.
I really mean it. I sincerely mean it. God bless
you all, God bless America, and make God protect our truths.

Speaker 8 (24:23):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Michael.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
What is he done? He's done, He's done.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
He's been a good five minutes, maybe five and a
half minutes. Yeah, he did the whispering, he started us strong,
did the whispering, did the yelling, then finished up.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
So I took some notes, took notes. Good to see
the cabin and the staff together, and I thought, yeah,
for the first time since when. I mean, he had
the photo op a few months ago. But I don't know.
I wonder how many cabinet meetings there actually were over
the past four years four Do you think they're that many?

(25:15):
Then he reminded me of something. For over two hundred
years this country, you well, two hundred and forty plus,
but he said, for over two hundred years, who will
be the president of the United States? I don't what
do you call this? Is this a subsque subsquest centennial,
the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the country idea? Well,

(25:36):
whatever it is, whatever centennial it is, Donald Trump will
be president on that on that day, on that July fourth,
So do you think we'll have one giant, big ass party.
Trump will throw the biggest party ever on that birthday.

Speaker 9 (25:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
And then of course he had to use the phrase
a peaceful and orderly transition as opposed to an insurrection,
which is what he was really thinking, probably had it
written in his notes, but you don't want to say it.
And then he told us the truth. Kamala Harris was
a partner by his side all the time. She ran

(26:16):
an inspiring campaign which allowed us to see something that
he saw early on true character. Yeah, we saw it
all right. We saw it in her ability to make
really lousy choices and to not follow the advice of

(26:37):
her campaign strategists and to kind of can you f
it up much more than she did. Yeah, let's see
ongoing debate struggle for the soul of America. Yeah, it
is a struggle for the soul of America. However, the
struggle for that soul has kind of not always been

(26:58):
a long term It's been not We've had troubles. Obviously,
the Civil War was a struggle for the soul of
the country. But then you get Woodrow Wilson in the
March of progressivism through FDR and LBJ, and it just
kind of starts to crater and then he said, this,

(27:20):
we accept the choice that America made. Then why didn't
the Democrats accept the choice that America made when Trump
was elected four years ago? Well, actually eight years ago?
What then? Oh that was then? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:38):
This is now?

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, all right, all right? And then he said, which,
which is I think hilarious? His is a historic presidency
because of what we've done that is absolutely gospel truth inflation, immigration,
and he says everything that they accomplished is being felt

(28:01):
by the American people. That shows you how out of
touch they are. They do not and will not cannot
recognize that everything that we feel, whether it's at the
gas pump, at the grocery store, and our taxes, wherever
else it is, is because of what they've done.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
That goes along with this text message from Sarah says
the only thing that Biden said that was factual is
to damage his administration will take years to repair. And
he has seventy four more days to really screw us over.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yes, And then he said the legislation that we the
historic legislation we've passed, is only now kicking in. And
I thought, uh oh, because then he goes to talk
about we still have trillions of dollars to spend. That's
where Donald Trump can put an almost immediate impact on
the economy. Resind that spending. That spending has yet to

(28:54):
be committed. So stop it and stop it now.

Speaker 10 (28:58):
Hey, Michael, is there any status on the House. Have
we gained control? I either Republicans gained control in the House.
I'm not seeing anything.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Well, let me look. Let me see what I can
find out. House House house curly stands at two six
Republicans one to Democrats. So we're still twelve seats. Who
are we waiting on?

Speaker 9 (29:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oregon four, California twenty five, Arizona number eight, California thirty four,
California sixteen. Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on, dang
it Oregon, California, Arizona, California, California, Virginia, Virginia, Colorado. Five
were still went in California five that they had been determined. Jeff,

(29:54):
I thought Jeff Crank had that one in Arizona number five. Well,
that's at least according to the to the ongoing tabulation
on the Wall Street Journal. So I don't know. So
Biden just gave this somewhat conciliatory speech. I mean as

(30:15):
best as you can expect from him. I don't think
Alexandria Cassier Cortez got the message.

Speaker 9 (30:23):
I'm not here to sugarcoat what we all are about
to collectively experience. But I think that what we can
do to prepare is build community.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
We do not have.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
A choice.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
We don't have a choice. Our choice is to build.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
Our choice is to continue to fight. Our choice is
to win. Our choice is to have each other. We
are about to enter a political period that will have
consequences for the rest of our lives. We cannot give up.

(31:17):
We now find ourselves in a time in history that
has precedent.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
And what president do you think she's talking about? Dragon
We're entering a time of history that has precedent.

Speaker 9 (31:32):
We find ourselves, I believe in a time where there
are let's say, peers, in history of mass movements of
people that mobilize, come on take one another, in times
of fascism and authoritarianism. And this is the era that

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we are pulling.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Is to enter the age of Hitler, is what she's
trying to say, but she doesn't have the goal to
say it.

Speaker 9 (32:07):
Donald Trump has talked about turning the military on US citizens.

Speaker 7 (32:14):
Said he

Speaker 2 (32:17):
The insanity continues