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So well.
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I've told you that my very first foray into politics
was a six year old when my parents were with
some friends of theirs campaigning for who would eventually become
the first Republican governor of the state of Colorado. Guy
the name of Henry Belman. Who went on to become
a US Senator for several terms and then came back
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and ran the Department of Human Services and then ran
for governor again. He was an old wheat farmer from
Billing's Oklahoma. Great guy. I mean, he was just a
wonderful old man that was not always an old man.
But he's just a wonderful old guy. And maybe it's
because of that lifetime of political involvement. I'm not nearly
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as interested in who's to blame for Harris's loss, how
much money she spent. I mean, we've talked about all
of those things as I am and seeing more so
how Donald Trump's victory revealed just once again something that
you and I just know is true, and that is
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how out of touch the fourth estate is journalism, the media,
how disconnected they are from those of us who live, oh,
I don't know, somewhere between Hollywood and Manhattan. When it
became obvious that Trump was going to win, David ing Nations.
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We in fact, we played some sound bites yesterday from
David ing Nacius. He's a columnist at the Washington Post.
He appears almost all the time, almost every single day
on Morning Joe with Mieky Brazinski and Joe Scarborough. He
wrote this, this election makes me realize how little I
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understand the American character in twenty two four. I am
mystified by this outcome. That's the bubble they live in.
Now you would think, stop and think about how tight
that bubble is. Because David Ignacius or anybody that is
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working for the networks out of New York, they work
in Midtown Manhattan. ABC's on the Upper West Side, CBS
and NBC are kind of in Midtown Manhattan. Fox News
is in Midtown Manhattan. Or if you work on the
on the West coast, if you work on the left coast,
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you work in Los Angeles. Now what's interesting about those
two places. Those two places are going through a crime wave,
most of which is brought on by illegal immigration. They're
all sanctuary cities. Mayors in both places have just decried, bemoaned,
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bitched and hollered and cried like little babies curled up
in a fetal position about how we don't have any money,
we can't keep affording to do this, and oh, it's
just all's so bad. I mean, they live in that bubble,
they live it, but they don't see it. They don't
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see it. When David Ignacious takes a car into if
he even takes a car into the Washington Post in
downtown d C, do you think he looks up? Do
you think he ever looks out the car window, as
you know, whatever driver is provided to him by the
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Washington Post, or if he's taking an uber he's certainly
not riding the metro that I that I can possibly imagine.
Do you think he's actually looking out the windows? Does
he see feel understand what it's like for a for
a working whether it's a bureaucrat or somebody working on
K Street or whatever else inside d C, a crime
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infested craphole city. He's oblivious to that. The same is
true for the people that live in in Los Angeles,
a predominantly Democrat city kicked out George Gascone, the George
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Soros supported district attorney who who lost on November five
because Los ange Los Angelesos were fed up with the crime,
they were fed up with everything. The same thing happened
in San Francisco. But I'm focusing on LA and New
York and d C because that's where the media is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
David Ignacious, I don't agree with hardly anything David Nacius
writes or says on television, or that he writes in
the Washington Post. But he's a smart guy. He's not
an idiot. He's got he He has an above average IQ,
I would assume. Yet he may very well know more
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about I don't. I don't know the pick pick some
crabhole country in Africa. He may know more about that
than he does Middle America. And when I say middle
of America, I'm not necessarily talking about flyover country. I'm
talking about everything outside. Everything outside, say, and I'm going
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to include San Francisco again, even though it's not really
a media hub, it's a tech hub, so I guess
I should include it. But outside, I'm talking about every
geograph location outside Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D C.
And New York because I'm talking specifically about journalism here,
with the dash of tech giants thrown in. If he
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knows more about all of those other places, doesn't even
understand the revolt that's occurring. I mean, did he did
he see the Madison Square Garden rally, that so called
Nazi rally? Did did he see what was occurring? When
Trump during the break from that stupid trial in Manhattan,
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when he would go to the barbershops, did did he
see any of that? Did he see the smashing grabs
in San Francisco? No? So if he didn't see that,
where he where he where he lives and breeds and
mates and does everything else. Do you think he saw
anything going on in Denver? Do you think he saw
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anything going on in Wolsenburg. Do you think he saw
anything going on in Houston Harris County or Oklahoma City
or Omaha? Did he see anything going on in Salt
Lake City or Missoula, Montana? Did he see anything, for
that matter, even going on in Chicago? If he saw
anything going on on the South side of Chicago or
in Gary, Indiana, he averted his eyes and he didn't look.
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He looked back down at his laptop, he looked back
down on his phone, and he completely ignored Middle America.
And I think that's why he is so mystified by
how Donald Trump, a man that everybody told us was Hitler.
By the way, speaking of Hitler, did when Mika and
Joe went Tomorrow Logo last Friday to meet with Trump,
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did they realize they were meeting with the guy that
they had called a fascist in Hitler for the past
seven years. When you think about any again, focus on
David ing Nations for a moment. If he knows more
about what's going on in Paris or London or Rio
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than he does what's going on in this country, that
really might explain why he has indeed mystified about how
Trump got elected, because how could a fascist that's going
to usher in the Fourth Reich, how could he possibly
have won? Some of these elite journalists, ensconced inside a
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bubble inside a bubble, actually do venture out sometimes into
uncharted territory. That's that's the flyover country. But I'm expanding
the definition of flyover country. Generally we think of flyover country.
You know, there's a great New Yorker magazine cover. It's
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it's a very iconic cover of the New Yorker magazine
which shows, you know, all of the density of Manhattan,
and then on the as you're looking at the cover
of the New Yorker magazine, it's it's it's oriented north
south and you and you see Manhattan and then you
see the Hudson River, and then everything west of the
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Hudson River. Is just a barren landscape. Well that was
typically known as flyover country. Well, I think that now
flyover country has a subset, and that's the very cities
that they live in that are being consumed by crime.
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Crime that is predominantly fed by illegal immigration, which is
fed by the cartels, which feeds the drug epidemic. Now,
I know that you have to have consumers of the
drugs to have a market to sell you your wares.
But their policies the left, the policies of the journalists,
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because the journalists and the Democrat Party are one and
the same thing, they've created the demand for that drug
and that crime because of these socialist policies that create
a society that doesn't value meritocracy, that doesn't value hard work,
that doesn't value the Judeo Christian ethic of Actually, you know,
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you're here very for a very short period of time,
considering how long eternity is. You're here very for a
very short period of time. Even if you believe in reincarnation,
you're still here for a short time. And so during
that short time you want to live a purposeful life.
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I don't know that they get that. They don't really
know understand the people who live in this expanded version
of flyover country that I'm describing, people who eat lunch
at diners, people who go to McDonald's. Did you see
the picture of Trump Force one they were flying, I assume,
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from mar Lago to go to that UFC fight in
Madison Square Garden. And there was let me think of
I can recall, so there was the former and future president.
Seated next to him was Elon Musk. Across from Elon
was Bobby Kennedy Junior. Next to Bobby Kennedy Junior was
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uh Donald Trump Junior. And photo bombing the photo of
them sitting all eating McDonald's was House speaker Mike Johnson,
and I quoted and I commented on X last night.
The thing that fascinated me about that photograph was not
the fact that they were eating McDonald's. After all year
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with the few. You're with the former and future president
of the United States, Donald Trump, and he loves McDonald's.
And he had a dragon, if I recall correctly, Trump
had in front of him obviously large fries. I mean,
because why would you go to McDonald's and get smaller
medium fries If you're going to go to McDonald's. You
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get a large fry, right, So he's got a large
fry on his trade and he's got a big Mac
and a fley of fish. Apparently those are his two
favorite things. Elon Musk had I think a quarter pounder
with cheese and ten chicken McNuggets. Bobby Kennedy had some
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sort of sandwich I assume was a quarter pounder, maybe
a big Mac, I don't know, and large fries. Don Jr.
I wasn't paying any attention. Poor old Mike Johnson didn't
have anything. He's photo bombing the picture. But you know
what fascinating me about the entire photo. People everybody was
commenting about, Oh my god, Bobby Kennedy Jr. Who is uh,
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you know, against all this poison? Is eating poison.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I wasn't fascinated at all by the fact that he
had a big mac or something and a large order
of fries. I was fascinated by the fact that he
had a regular coke sitting there. And I know it
was regular coke because it was one of those plastic,
you know, small bottles of coke. And it wasn't a
diet coke. It was a sugar laden regular coke. That's
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what surprised me about the photo. But when you go
to someone's house, you don't bitch about what they're serving
for dinner. Even if you don't like it. You put
it on your plate. You might kind of push it around,
you kind of play with it a little bit. Ook
at it, Yeah, you poke at it. You might take
a little bite here or there, you know, just to
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you know, show your guests, your your host that you're delicious.
That was show. I'm fine, no no more, I'm stuffed.
I'm really stuffed. I'm not very hungry tonight. So when
you're in somebody's house, and they were in somebody's house,
they were in the President's house. It happened to be
his flying house, but they were in his house, and
so you he what the you know what the host ordered,
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and he ordered McDonald's found the hill areas. So back
back to ignatious and all these elitists that live within
a bubble within a bubble, they just don't really know
or understand how people who live in flyover country that
we go out to eat sometimes at McDonald's because we
can't afford to go to the to the fancy Italian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That we want to go to.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
H You might go to the Red Lobster, except they're
all closed because of bankruptcy, so you can't even go
to the Red Lobster. They don't They don't understand or
themselves understand people that might go to church on Sunday.
They don't have a nanny, you know, the people in
flyover country. You don't have nannies from Central America that
are watching the kids all the time. They just don't
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get it. So why are they mystified by Trump's victory.
They're mystified because they're so out of touch with what
real Americans are. Now, maybe you're offended by my phrase
real Americans. Do journalists love this country? I don't think
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they love the country and the current iteration that we're
living in, and I mean post November five. They wanted
the previous iteration. They wanted the iteration where the government
was dictating that, you know, we're going to spend trillions
of dollars to forcibly convert to some sort of you
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know all, you know, a net zero economy with net
zero and always love the phrase net zero because that
means you're still going to have some emissions, but we
want to offset them. They live in this fantasy land,
utterly live in a fantasy land. They're just disconnected from
Middle America, which means that if you pay attention to them,
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you better do so with a grain of salt or
you're going to get adopted.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Me.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Good morning, Michael Dragon, this is your favorite juice. And yeah, Michael,
you know you're right. I don't eat pork, but if
I get invited somewhere for dinner, you know, on distrib with.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Pork, I will not.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
You know, I will not say no, thank you. You know,
if I was invited, I would eat it. But a
lot of times my friends are gracious enough not to
bake porks most of the time. So yes, thank you,
have a good day.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, not that either Dragon or I would ever invite
you over for you know, dinner.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But on the.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
On the chance that your name might get sneaked onto
some sort of invitation list, and we were having like
I don't know, but he pulled pork sandwiches or something.
We make an exception for you. Wouldn't force you to
eat it, or would we, I don't know, on a
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kind of like this morning, on a really crisp November morning,
one hundred and sixty years ago, one hundred and sixty
one years ago, President Abraham Lincoln woke up and it
was a beautiful, cloudless fall day, and he started to
make a couple of slight corrections to a short speech
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that he was going to give that morning. He was
going to speak at a ceremony to dedicate the Soldier's
National Cemetery honoring the dad who had fallen in the
pivotal Civil War battle that had occurred in Gettysburg a
just months earlier. He was a home of David Willis.
David Willis was a mover and a shaker, and he
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had been instrumental in securing the money to establish the
cemetery at getty Now. The night before, he had told
a crowd outside his house asking for a speech, that
it was best not to speak when he didn't have
anything to say. Now, what I find fascinating about this date,
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one hundred and sixty one years ago is that nobody
really expected Lincoln to come to Gettysburg. Lincoln rarely left Washington,
d c. So when he was sent the invitation, it
was mostly seen as just this grand gesture and instead
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the big get for the ceremony was a guy by
the name of Edward Everett. Everett took the stage at
Gettysburg at around eleven am Eastern time, and for two hours,
two freaking hours, he delivered his remarks honoring the men
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who had perished just three months, only ninety days earlier,
who had died on that hallowed ground where he stood
and pontificated for more than two hours. Two minutes and
two hundred and seventy two words later, Lincoln delivered his
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signature squeaky voice edged with the Kentucky twain, and history
tells us that Lincoln stepped down from the podium as
the choir began to congregate, and Lincoln himself believed unequivocally
that he had failed to meet the moment. After a
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two hour speech by Edward Everett in two and a
half minutes, two undred seventy one words, Lincoln thought that
he had failed to do what he had been asked
to do. He delivered these words. Fourscore and seven years ago,
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our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
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met on a great battlefield of that war, and we
have come to dedicate a portion of that field as
a final resting place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. It is all together
fitting and proper that we should do this, But in
a larger sense we cannot dedicate, We cannot consecrate, We
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cannot hollow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have concentrated it far above our poor
power to either add or detract. The world will little
note nor long remember what we say here, but it
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can never forget what they did here. It is for us,
the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so
nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from
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these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain, that this nation under God shall
have a new birth of freedom, and that government of
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the people, by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth. November nineteen, one hundred and sixty
one years ago, those words delivered, and I just thought
it was kind of fitting to recall that today because
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considering everything this nation has been through, the turmoil, the elections,
all of the battles that we have fought, fought, the
battles that we will continue to fight, that those words
probably mean now not comparing what we're going through today
to what occurred at Gettysburg. If you've never been to Gettysburg,
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I would encourage you to go. Before you go, I
would encourage you to read a little bit about what
occurred on that battlefield, because it's really eerie as you
walk or drive along the pathways and the roadways and
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the stillness, the absolute quietness, and realizing all of the
souls that perish there, and then you think about Lincoln's words,
it is rather for us to be here dedicated to
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the great task remaining before us. Now, this is one
hundred and sixty one years ago, but I want you
to think about those words in the context of one
hundred and sixty one years later. Today, It is rather
for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take
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increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolved
that these deads shall not have died in vain, that
this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people, by the people, for
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the people shall not perish from the earth. November nineteenth,
eighteen sixty three. Maybe it's time for us, you know,
we're going to hear and we get inundated, absolutely inundated.
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I think about Edward Everett. Can you imagine sitting there?
You know, it was a crisp, cool day, kind of
like today is right here in Denver, a crisp, cool day.
Everyone's kind of wrapped up, maybe even shivering a little bit.
I don't recall reading or remembering whether there was much
wind that day, but they're cold, and Edward Everett is
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droning on for more than two hours. Doesn't know his audience,
does he. Lincoln thinks he knows his audience. And in
those short two hundred twenty one word two hundred twelve
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DYSLEXI here in those two hundred plus words, delivers them,
and steps off the stage and thinks that he has
utterly failed, that he has not filled his mission to
dedicate that cemetery, and he has said more in those
two hundred words than can you tell me one thing
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that Edward Everett said that day? Not a single word
if he asked me today, did anybody ever teach you
any thing about Edward Everett?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
All I know is that Edward Everett spoke for more
than two hours, and nobody remembers a damn thing that
he said. Lincoln stepped down, thinking that he had failed
in the one singular thing he was asked to do
that day. What's the lesson for us? One hundred and
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sixty one years later, we've rededicated ourselves. We have an
opportunity to change the direction of the country. We have
an opportunity to see that we go back to the
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roots of this country, and that it's going to take
a lot of bumps, bruises. We're going to get detoured,
we're going to hit barricades, we're going to hit potholes
where it's going to be worse than driving a Colorado
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street or a Colorado highway. But Nonetheless, we ought to
rededicate ourselves that as Trump And this leads into what
I'm going to talk about next, as we realize what
Trump is doing, he is being the transitional president. And
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I'll explain why next.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Are we just going to let the stolen balor of
Governor Walls just die a quiet death? Because I take
extreme um prints to that. Being a former military wife,
a daughter, granddaughter, great granddaughter, and niece and daughter in
law of military men, that is just the most heinous
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thing one could do, other than leave a military comrade behind.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh, somebody might pick it up. I don't know. I'm
not I'm not trying to be little or or or
minimize your concern, but there is this post election relief. Uh,
they're gone there now. He's going back to Minnesota. She's
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back at the Naval Observatory in d C. Cooking whatever
she's going to be cooking, and she and Doug are
trying to figure out what they're going to do next. Uh,
probably moved back to California and try to run for governor,
because well, what else is she.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Going to do?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Who would hire her? I'm really curious. Ye, maybe some
Democrat law firm inside d c inside the Beltway might
hire her to be a rain maker or something. I
don't know, but I mean, why, why why would you
hire her? So I'm gonna start and carry this topic
over to the next hour. But yesterday Trump named Sean Duffy,
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who is a former Wisconsin congressman, to the cabinet as
Transportation Secretary. And the very first thing I started seeing
on x was, oh, another one of Trump's Fox News appointments,
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which caused me. When I read it, I was just like, really,
this is the best you've got. I asked, let me
see if I can find it now? Where is it? Here?
It is? If your resume including serving as an assistant
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district attorney, a US congressman, a host on a Fox
Business channel talk show, and you're nominated for positioning Trump's cabinet,
why will the media call you? And my answer to
that question was a Fox News talk show host, and
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they ill ignore all of the rest. The point being,
the media has not changed one bit. I don't care
how many times Joe and Mika make a visit tomorrow lago.
They're not going to change. Sean Duffy is as qualified,
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if not more qualified. In fact, I would argue that
he's more qualified than Pete Budajig, the mayor of you know,
a town in Indiana that loves trains. What's Pete Buddhajig
done to modernize the FAA. What's he done to modernize
anything in terms of air traffic control? He hasn't done anything.
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Seawan Duffy as a lawyer, a district attorney, a congressman,
and it happens to also have decided to take a
job as a Fox News host. That's all the media
can report, and in so doing, the media continues to
do a disservice. Well, I think that Sean Duffy is
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one of the kind of perfect nominees to the cabinet,
not just because of his political career, but he's already
more qualified for the transportation job than mayor p But
it's a perfect symbol for the transfer of political and
cultural power that we're witnessing in the country, made definitive
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by the election outcome, and that is that you like
it or not, we thought it was time to transfer power.
We've done it, and I'll explain why
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Oh? Heck no, Oh, this is why I hate the audience.
So I hate the goobers.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's a mutual thing.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You know, there's some kind there, there's some sort of
uh maybe it's in the water, Maybe it's in the
Maybe it's some subliminal thing we do in the airwaves
as it kind of penetrates their brain that makes their
neurons actually fire snapsies really works pretty well. That's pretty
damn clever that that's the pay attention.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So well.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I've told you that my very first foray into politics
was a six year old when my parents were with
some friends of theirs campaigning for who would eventually become
the first Republican governor of the state of Colorado. Guy
the name of Henry Belman. Who went on to become
a US Senator for several terms and then came back
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and ran the Department of Human Services and then ran
for governor again. He was an old wheat farmer from
Billing's Oklahoma. Great guy. I mean, he was just a
wonderful old man that was not always an old man.
But he's just a wonderful old guy. And maybe it's
because of that lifetime of political involvement. I'm not nearly
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as interested in who's to blame for Harris's loss, how
much money she spent. I mean, we've talked about all
of those things as I am and seeing more so
how Donald Trump's victory revealed just once again something that
you and I just know is true, and that is
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how out of touch the fourth estate is journalism, the media,
how disconnected they are from those of us who live, oh,
I don't know, somewhere between Hollywood and Manhattan. When it
became obvious that Trump was going to win, David ing Nations.
(02:35):
We in fact, we played some sound bites yesterday from
David ing Nacius. He's a columnist at the Washington Post.
He appears almost all the time, almost every single day
on Morning Joe with Mieky Brazinski and Joe Scarborough. He
wrote this, this election makes me realize how little I
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understand the American character in twenty two four. I am
mystified by this outcome. That's the bubble they live in.
Now you would think, stop and think about how tight
that bubble is. Because David Ignacius or anybody that is
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working for the networks out of New York, they work
in Midtown Manhattan. ABC's on the Upper West Side, CBS
and NBC are kind of in Midtown Manhattan. Fox News
is in Midtown Manhattan. Or if you work on the
on the West coast, if you work on the left coast,
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you work in Los Angeles. Now what's interesting about those
two places. Those two places are going through a crime wave,
most of which is brought on by illegal immigration. They're
all sanctuary cities. Mayors in both places have just decried, bemoaned,
(04:08):
bitched and hollered and cried like little babies curled up
in a fetal position about how we don't have any money,
we can't keep affording to do this, and oh, it's
just all's so bad. I mean, they live in that bubble,
they live it, but they don't see it. They don't
(04:28):
see it. When David Ignacious takes a car into if
he even takes a car into the Washington Post in
downtown d C, do you think he looks up? Do
you think he ever looks out the car window, as
you know, whatever driver is provided to him by the
(04:51):
Washington Post, or if he's taking an uber he's certainly
not riding the metro that I that I can possibly imagine.
Do you think he's actually looking out the windows? Does
he see feel understand what it's like for a for
a working whether it's a bureaucrat or somebody working on
K Street or whatever else inside d C, a crime
(05:14):
infested craphole city. He's oblivious to that. The same is
true for the people that live in in Los Angeles,
a predominantly Democrat city kicked out George Gascone, the George
(05:36):
Soros supported district attorney who who lost on November five
because Los ange Los Angelesos were fed up with the crime,
they were fed up with everything. The same thing happened
in San Francisco. But I'm focusing on LA and New
York and d C because that's where the media is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
David Ignacious, I don't agree with hardly anything David Nacius
writes or says on television, or that he writes in
the Washington Post. But he's a smart guy. He's not
an idiot. He's got he He has an above average IQ,
I would assume. Yet he may very well know more
(06:25):
about I don't. I don't know the pick pick some
crabhole country in Africa. He may know more about that
than he does Middle America. And when I say middle
of America, I'm not necessarily talking about flyover country. I'm
talking about everything outside. Everything outside, say, and I'm going
(06:50):
to include San Francisco again, even though it's not really
a media hub, it's a tech hub, so I guess
I should include it. But outside, I'm talking about every
geograph location outside Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D C.
And New York because I'm talking specifically about journalism here,
with the dash of tech giants thrown in. If he
(07:16):
knows more about all of those other places, doesn't even
understand the revolt that's occurring. I mean, did he did
he see the Madison Square Garden rally, that so called
Nazi rally? Did did he see what was occurring? When
Trump during the break from that stupid trial in Manhattan,
(07:40):
when he would go to the barbershops, did did he
see any of that? Did he see the smashing grabs
in San Francisco? No? So if he didn't see that,
where he where he where he lives and breeds and
mates and does everything else. Do you think he saw
anything going on in Denver? Do you think he saw
(08:02):
anything going on in Wolsenburg. Do you think he saw
anything going on in Houston Harris County or Oklahoma City
or Omaha? Did he see anything going on in Salt
Lake City or Missoula, Montana? Did he see anything, for
that matter, even going on in Chicago? If he saw
anything going on on the South side of Chicago or
in Gary, Indiana, he averted his eyes and he didn't look.
(08:24):
He looked back down at his laptop, he looked back
down on his phone, and he completely ignored Middle America.
And I think that's why he is so mystified by
how Donald Trump, a man that everybody told us was Hitler.
By the way, speaking of Hitler, did when Mika and
Joe went Tomorrow Logo last Friday to meet with Trump,
(08:47):
did they realize they were meeting with the guy that
they had called a fascist in Hitler for the past
seven years. When you think about any again, focus on
David ing Nations for a moment. If he knows more
about what's going on in Paris or London or Rio
(09:12):
than he does what's going on in this country, that
really might explain why he has indeed mystified about how
Trump got elected, because how could a fascist that's going
to usher in the Fourth Reich, how could he possibly
have won? Some of these elite journalists, ensconced inside a
(09:36):
bubble inside a bubble, actually do venture out sometimes into
uncharted territory. That's that's the flyover country. But I'm expanding
the definition of flyover country. Generally we think of flyover country.
You know, there's a great New Yorker magazine cover. It's
(09:56):
it's a very iconic cover of the New Yorker magazine
which shows, you know, all of the density of Manhattan,
and then on the as you're looking at the cover
of the New Yorker magazine, it's it's it's oriented north
south and you and you see Manhattan and then you
see the Hudson River, and then everything west of the
(10:21):
Hudson River. Is just a barren landscape. Well that was
typically known as flyover country. Well, I think that now
flyover country has a subset, and that's the very cities
that they live in that are being consumed by crime.
(10:42):
Crime that is predominantly fed by illegal immigration, which is
fed by the cartels, which feeds the drug epidemic. Now,
I know that you have to have consumers of the
drugs to have a market to sell you your wares.
But their policies the left, the policies of the journalists,
(11:05):
because the journalists and the Democrat Party are one and
the same thing, they've created the demand for that drug
and that crime because of these socialist policies that create
a society that doesn't value meritocracy, that doesn't value hard work,
that doesn't value the Judeo Christian ethic of Actually, you know,
(11:28):
you're here very for a very short period of time,
considering how long eternity is. You're here very for a
very short period of time. Even if you believe in reincarnation,
you're still here for a short time. And so during
that short time you want to live a purposeful life.
(11:48):
I don't know that they get that. They don't really
know understand the people who live in this expanded version
of flyover country that I'm describing, people who eat lunch
at diners, people who go to McDonald's. Did you see
the picture of Trump Force one they were flying, I assume,
(12:11):
from mar Lago to go to that UFC fight in
Madison Square Garden. And there was let me think of
I can recall, so there was the former and future president.
Seated next to him was Elon Musk. Across from Elon
was Bobby Kennedy Junior. Next to Bobby Kennedy Junior was
(12:35):
uh Donald Trump Junior. And photo bombing the photo of
them sitting all eating McDonald's was House speaker Mike Johnson,
and I quoted and I commented on X last night.
The thing that fascinated me about that photograph was not
the fact that they were eating McDonald's. After all year
(12:59):
with the few. You're with the former and future president
of the United States, Donald Trump, and he loves McDonald's.
And he had a dragon, if I recall correctly, Trump
had in front of him obviously large fries. I mean,
because why would you go to McDonald's and get smaller
medium fries If you're going to go to McDonald's. You
(13:19):
get a large fry, right, So he's got a large
fry on his trade and he's got a big Mac
and a fley of fish. Apparently those are his two
favorite things. Elon Musk had I think a quarter pounder
with cheese and ten chicken McNuggets. Bobby Kennedy had some
(13:40):
sort of sandwich I assume was a quarter pounder, maybe
a big Mac, I don't know, and large fries. Don Jr.
I wasn't paying any attention. Poor old Mike Johnson didn't
have anything. He's photo bombing the picture. But you know
what fascinating me about the entire photo. People everybody was
commenting about, Oh my god, Bobby Kennedy Jr. Who is uh,
(14:02):
you know, against all this poison? Is eating poison.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I wasn't fascinated at all by the fact that he
had a big mac or something and a large order
of fries. I was fascinated by the fact that he
had a regular coke sitting there. And I know it
was regular coke because it was one of those plastic,
you know, small bottles of coke. And it wasn't a
diet coke. It was a sugar laden regular coke. That's
(14:26):
what surprised me about the photo. But when you go
to someone's house, you don't bitch about what they're serving
for dinner. Even if you don't like it. You put
it on your plate. You might kind of push it around,
you kind of play with it a little bit. Ook
at it, Yeah, you poke at it. You might take
a little bite here or there, you know, just to
(14:47):
you know, show your guests, your your host that you're delicious.
That was show. I'm fine, no no more, I'm stuffed.
I'm really stuffed. I'm not very hungry tonight. So when
you're in somebody's house, and they were in somebody's house,
they were in the President's house. It happened to be
his flying house, but they were in his house, and
so you he what the you know what the host ordered,
(15:08):
and he ordered McDonald's found the hill areas. So back
back to ignatious and all these elitists that live within
a bubble within a bubble, they just don't really know
or understand how people who live in flyover country that
we go out to eat sometimes at McDonald's because we
can't afford to go to the to the fancy Italian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That we want to go to.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
H You might go to the Red Lobster, except they're
all closed because of bankruptcy, so you can't even go
to the Red Lobster. They don't They don't understand or
themselves understand people that might go to church on Sunday.
They don't have a nanny, you know, the people in
flyover country. You don't have nannies from Central America that
are watching the kids all the time. They just don't
(15:55):
get it. So why are they mystified by Trump's victory.
They're mystified because they're so out of touch with what
real Americans are. Now, maybe you're offended by my phrase
real Americans. Do journalists love this country? I don't think
(16:18):
they love the country and the current iteration that we're
living in, and I mean post November five. They wanted
the previous iteration. They wanted the iteration where the government
was dictating that, you know, we're going to spend trillions
of dollars to forcibly convert to some sort of you
(16:39):
know all, you know, a net zero economy with net
zero and always love the phrase net zero because that
means you're still going to have some emissions, but we
want to offset them. They live in this fantasy land,
utterly live in a fantasy land. They're just disconnected from
Middle America, which means that if you pay attention to them,
(17:00):
you better do so with a grain of salt or
you're going to get adopted.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Me.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Good morning, Michael Dragon, this is your favorite juice. And yeah, Michael,
you know you're right. I don't eat pork, but if
I get invited somewhere for dinner, you know, on distrib with.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Pork, I will not.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
You know, I will not say no, thank you. You know,
if I was invited, I would eat it. But a
lot of times my friends are gracious enough not to
bake porks most of the time. So yes, thank you,
have a good day.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, not that either Dragon or I would ever invite
you over for you know, dinner.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But on the.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
On the chance that your name might get sneaked onto
some sort of invitation list, and we were having like
I don't know, but he pulled pork sandwiches or something.
We make an exception for you. Wouldn't force you to
eat it, or would we, I don't know, on a
(18:11):
kind of like this morning, on a really crisp November morning,
one hundred and sixty years ago, one hundred and sixty
one years ago, President Abraham Lincoln woke up and it
was a beautiful, cloudless fall day, and he started to
make a couple of slight corrections to a short speech
(18:33):
that he was going to give that morning. He was
going to speak at a ceremony to dedicate the Soldier's
National Cemetery honoring the dad who had fallen in the
pivotal Civil War battle that had occurred in Gettysburg a
just months earlier. He was a home of David Willis.
David Willis was a mover and a shaker, and he
(18:55):
had been instrumental in securing the money to establish the
cemetery at getty Now. The night before, he had told
a crowd outside his house asking for a speech, that
it was best not to speak when he didn't have
anything to say. Now, what I find fascinating about this date,
(19:20):
one hundred and sixty one years ago is that nobody
really expected Lincoln to come to Gettysburg. Lincoln rarely left Washington,
d c. So when he was sent the invitation, it
was mostly seen as just this grand gesture and instead
(19:43):
the big get for the ceremony was a guy by
the name of Edward Everett. Everett took the stage at
Gettysburg at around eleven am Eastern time, and for two hours,
two freaking hours, he delivered his remarks honoring the men
(20:07):
who had perished just three months, only ninety days earlier,
who had died on that hallowed ground where he stood
and pontificated for more than two hours. Two minutes and
two hundred and seventy two words later, Lincoln delivered his
(20:31):
signature squeaky voice edged with the Kentucky twain, and history
tells us that Lincoln stepped down from the podium as
the choir began to congregate, and Lincoln himself believed unequivocally
that he had failed to meet the moment. After a
(20:54):
two hour speech by Edward Everett in two and a
half minutes, two undred seventy one words, Lincoln thought that
he had failed to do what he had been asked
to do. He delivered these words. Fourscore and seven years ago,
(21:18):
our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
(21:39):
met on a great battlefield of that war, and we
have come to dedicate a portion of that field as
a final resting place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. It is all together
fitting and proper that we should do this, But in
a larger sense we cannot dedicate, We cannot consecrate, We
(22:03):
cannot hollow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have concentrated it far above our poor
power to either add or detract. The world will little
note nor long remember what we say here, but it
(22:24):
can never forget what they did here. It is for us,
the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so
nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from
(22:45):
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain, that this nation under God shall
have a new birth of freedom, and that government of
(23:08):
the people, by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth. November nineteen, one hundred and sixty
one years ago, those words delivered, and I just thought
it was kind of fitting to recall that today because
(23:32):
considering everything this nation has been through, the turmoil, the elections,
all of the battles that we have fought, fought, the
battles that we will continue to fight, that those words
probably mean now not comparing what we're going through today
to what occurred at Gettysburg. If you've never been to Gettysburg,
(23:56):
I would encourage you to go. Before you go, I
would encourage you to read a little bit about what
occurred on that battlefield, because it's really eerie as you
walk or drive along the pathways and the roadways and
(24:19):
the stillness, the absolute quietness, and realizing all of the
souls that perish there, and then you think about Lincoln's words,
it is rather for us to be here dedicated to
(24:41):
the great task remaining before us. Now, this is one
hundred and sixty one years ago, but I want you
to think about those words in the context of one
hundred and sixty one years later. Today, It is rather
for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take
(25:03):
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolved
that these deads shall not have died in vain, that
this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people, by the people, for
(25:24):
the people shall not perish from the earth. November nineteenth,
eighteen sixty three. Maybe it's time for us, you know,
we're going to hear and we get inundated, absolutely inundated.
(25:45):
I think about Edward Everett. Can you imagine sitting there?
You know, it was a crisp, cool day, kind of
like today is right here in Denver, a crisp, cool day.
Everyone's kind of wrapped up, maybe even shivering a little bit.
I don't recall reading or remembering whether there was much
wind that day, but they're cold, and Edward Everett is
(26:10):
droning on for more than two hours. Doesn't know his audience,
does he. Lincoln thinks he knows his audience. And in
those short two hundred twenty one word two hundred twelve
(26:30):
DYSLEXI here in those two hundred plus words, delivers them,
and steps off the stage and thinks that he has
utterly failed, that he has not filled his mission to
dedicate that cemetery, and he has said more in those
two hundred words than can you tell me one thing
(26:53):
that Edward Everett said that day? Not a single word
if he asked me today, did anybody ever teach you
any thing about Edward Everett?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
All I know is that Edward Everett spoke for more
than two hours, and nobody remembers a damn thing that
he said. Lincoln stepped down, thinking that he had failed
in the one singular thing he was asked to do
that day. What's the lesson for us? One hundred and
(27:23):
sixty one years later, we've rededicated ourselves. We have an
opportunity to change the direction of the country. We have
an opportunity to see that we go back to the
(27:45):
roots of this country, and that it's going to take
a lot of bumps, bruises. We're going to get detoured,
we're going to hit barricades, we're going to hit potholes
where it's going to be worse than driving a Colorado
(28:06):
street or a Colorado highway. But Nonetheless, we ought to
rededicate ourselves that as Trump And this leads into what
I'm going to talk about next, as we realize what
Trump is doing, he is being the transitional president. And
(28:27):
I'll explain why next.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Are we just going to let the stolen balor of
Governor Walls just die a quiet death? Because I take
extreme um prints to that. Being a former military wife,
a daughter, granddaughter, great granddaughter, and niece and daughter in
law of military men, that is just the most heinous
(28:51):
thing one could do, other than leave a military comrade behind.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh, somebody might pick it up. I don't know. I'm
not I'm not trying to be little or or or
minimize your concern, but there is this post election relief. Uh,
they're gone there now. He's going back to Minnesota. She's
(29:20):
back at the Naval Observatory in d C. Cooking whatever
she's going to be cooking, and she and Doug are
trying to figure out what they're going to do next. Uh,
probably moved back to California and try to run for governor,
because well, what else is she.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Going to do?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Who would hire her? I'm really curious. Ye, maybe some
Democrat law firm inside d c inside the Beltway might
hire her to be a rain maker or something. I
don't know, but I mean, why, why why would you
hire her? So I'm gonna start and carry this topic
over to the next hour. But yesterday Trump named Sean Duffy,
(30:04):
who is a former Wisconsin congressman, to the cabinet as
Transportation Secretary. And the very first thing I started seeing
on x was, oh, another one of Trump's Fox News appointments,
(30:24):
which caused me. When I read it, I was just like, really,
this is the best you've got. I asked, let me
see if I can find it now? Where is it? Here?
It is? If your resume including serving as an assistant
(30:47):
district attorney, a US congressman, a host on a Fox
Business channel talk show, and you're nominated for positioning Trump's cabinet,
why will the media call you? And my answer to
that question was a Fox News talk show host, and
(31:08):
they ill ignore all of the rest. The point being,
the media has not changed one bit. I don't care
how many times Joe and Mika make a visit tomorrow lago.
They're not going to change. Sean Duffy is as qualified,
(31:28):
if not more qualified. In fact, I would argue that
he's more qualified than Pete Budajig, the mayor of you know,
a town in Indiana that loves trains. What's Pete Buddhajig
done to modernize the FAA. What's he done to modernize
anything in terms of air traffic control? He hasn't done anything.
(31:54):
Seawan Duffy as a lawyer, a district attorney, a congressman,
and it happens to also have decided to take a
job as a Fox News host. That's all the media
can report, and in so doing, the media continues to
do a disservice. Well, I think that Sean Duffy is
(32:19):
one of the kind of perfect nominees to the cabinet,
not just because of his political career, but he's already
more qualified for the transportation job than mayor p But
it's a perfect symbol for the transfer of political and
cultural power that we're witnessing in the country, made definitive
(32:44):
by the election outcome, and that is that you like
it or not, we thought it was time to transfer power.
We've done it, and I'll explain why
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