Americans rejected Democrats' dumbassery (11-06-2024--Hour2)

[00:00:04] What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to 3 on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content, like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to thepetekalendershow.com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button, get every episode for free, write to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support.

[00:00:28] Let me get to some calls and emails to start off the hour. First up here is Jarrett. In an email says, Pete, does this mean that felonious Braxton Winston has to get a real job now? Braxton Winston, the former city councilman, ran for labor commissioner, lost yesterday. Very good thing that he did. Yeah, I don't know. He works in like the theater industry.

[00:00:57] He like runs like lighting or sounds or AV. I forget. Yeah, so we'll see. I suspect he may not be gone from the political scene. He may try to run for something else. By the way, all of you Democrats that are all about the fair maps. Did you notice no Republicans on the Mecklenburg County Commission again?

[00:01:25] The only Republicans running for the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners lost. Any chance we could redraw those maps to ensure that there's like, I don't know, one Republican to represent all of the Republicans that still do live and work and vote in Mecklenburg County or no? Is that too much to ask for a fair map there?

[00:01:48] I know how much you love the fair maps. All right, let's go to the phone lines. Here is Ross. Welcome to the show. Hi, Ross.

[00:01:55] Hi. Hi. I've been writing since 1030 this morning.

[00:02:00] Okay. Well, you were not on the board. You were not on the board when I took over at noon, so.

[00:02:05] Yeah, I fell off and had to come back. That's not your fault.

[00:02:08] Okay.

[00:02:09] What I wanted to say, I'm a senior citizen pushing 80. I've been through a lot of stuff, of course, a lot of elections.

[00:02:18] But when Trump got the presidency, I burst out into tears.

[00:02:24] The reason for that this would change the life of my son-in-law, my daughter, my granddaughter, and the direction that we're going to go in this country right now.

[00:02:37] Not only for Republicans, but in my opinion, for a lot of Democrats.

[00:02:41] And I think we Americans have to realize, Pete, that, and you know this, you're a smart guy, that thousands and thousands of people in this world would love to have gone through what we went through in elections in America, just to have the chance to go to the poll and vote.

[00:03:00] We take this. I've been in five continents, Vietnam, et cetera.

[00:03:03] We take this for granted. And, you know, the right to just simply have elections, you know, they're not perfect.

[00:03:14] And that's – but –

[00:03:17] Well, I will – let me relay that there was a story that was told in the movie Charlie Wilson's War by Philip Seymour Hoffman to Tom Hanks.

[00:03:27] And he was telling him about this old story. I think it may have been out of Afghanistan or something.

[00:03:34] But it is essentially a progression of bad things and good things that happen to an individual.

[00:03:42] And at each step along the way, the village says, oh, that's a good thing that happened to that person.

[00:03:47] And this elder would say, we'll see. And then a bad thing would happen.

[00:03:53] And, oh, that's a terrible thing that happened. The elder would say, we'll see.

[00:03:57] And every time the thing that they thought was good turned out to be bad and the thing that they thought was bad yielded a good result.

[00:04:04] And the point there is that you just don't ever know. We don't know.

[00:04:07] Right? We'll see how – we'll see how Trump governs in this next four-year lame duck term.

[00:04:14] Right? There are going to be different challenges he's going to face.

[00:04:17] He's not going to get all of it right. Nobody can. So we'll see.

[00:04:21] That's true. One more thing I'd like to say, and I'll let you go, and I appreciate your patience.

[00:04:25] Yeah, sure.

[00:04:27] My school-teaching mother taught me at 14. She said, John, you've got, of course, in this country and world, black people, white people, yellow people, whatever.

[00:04:37] She said, what makes them is not the car they drive, the house they live in, the clothes they wear, their bank account.

[00:04:46] What makes these individuals is their character.

[00:04:50] Mm-hmm.

[00:04:52] And that has rang through my head. I've been in sales. I've just completed 50 years in direct sales, believe it or not.

[00:04:59] And I would see this all the time.

[00:05:01] And I'm not – I try to be a Christian and not be in the judging business.

[00:05:08] You understand what I'm saying?

[00:05:09] Yeah. No, it's – if you look at the person as the person, right?

[00:05:14] And I think that was what we saw rejected yesterday.

[00:05:17] There was a – there's a writer, her name is Bridget Phetasy, and she says, there's going to be a lot of ink spilled about why Americans elected Trump and Republicans.

[00:05:27] But I can sum it up.

[00:05:28] Quote, he's not Hitler.

[00:05:30] I'm not racist.

[00:05:33] And, yeah, I mean, I think that this was just a – people are fed up with this.

[00:05:37] And it's just been getting worse and worse, and I think that's what we saw in large part yesterday.

[00:05:42] Ross, I appreciate the call.

[00:05:44] Or John.

[00:05:45] Let me go over to Mark and get him on the program.

[00:05:48] Hello, Mark. Welcome to the show.

[00:05:50] Hey, good morning.

[00:05:51] Hey.

[00:05:52] Or afternoon, I guess now.

[00:05:53] Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:54] It's late night.

[00:05:55] So, yeah, three quick things.

[00:05:57] And actually, I would like your take on my comments.

[00:06:01] So, related to the electoral and popular vote with Trump and then secondarily – or actually, let me start secondarily with the mainstream media's reaction.

[00:06:12] Because as I went through last night, I was flipping – and even this morning, I always flip over to, like, CNN and MSNBC to kind of see what, you know, how their heads are exploding.

[00:06:24] So – and then the third comment about North Carolina governor race.

[00:06:28] But I was pleasantly – I'm pleasantly surprised at the – looks like a million and a half and hopefully climbing popular vote that Trump got.

[00:06:39] I was – I've said for a year if he was going to win, he would win electorally again and not the popular vote.

[00:06:46] And my rationale is somebody who enjoys history.

[00:06:51] If you track – and I won't go through all this, just a summary – basically, writing – the ability to vote and the requirement to vote since the founding of the country has just continually diminished.

[00:07:07] So the bar has gotten lower and lower and lower.

[00:07:11] So you take that as point one.

[00:07:13] And then point two, if you look at just the rural city divides, right, you know, blue and red, which has also sort of been a trend since the beginning of the country.

[00:07:24] But it's exasperated because of the diminishing requirements state – instituted by states for the right to vote.

[00:07:34] It's inevitable in my mind that Republicans would always – we're going to get a point that we'll always lose – we'll always lose popular votes.

[00:07:46] And hence the replacement strategy and that type of thing that I think is a real –

[00:07:50] Well, but Mark, I don't know if I agree with that.

[00:07:52] How do you explain what we just saw?

[00:07:54] Well, no, that's why I said I led with being pleasantly – well, okay, I'm going to explain it because this was a full run.

[00:08:01] I mean, how could you – everything was screwed, right?

[00:08:06] I mean, it wasn't like a one or two thing.

[00:08:09] It was the economy, the border, you know, men in the bathrooms.

[00:08:15] I mean, what – the Democrats can't even articulate what the Democrats stand for.

[00:08:19] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:21] So just because it was a clean sweep, you know, across every – I mean, the Arabs.

[00:08:26] I mean, it's like, who have they not offended?

[00:08:29] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:29] Or where have they not screwed up?

[00:08:32] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:32] Even from a Democrat – well, so –

[00:08:34] Well, so –

[00:08:35] Well, so –

[00:08:35] Right, well, okay, so –

[00:08:36] You know, bypassing the primary, et cetera, et cetera.

[00:08:39] You know, I mean, so I don't – I think that in and of itself is how he, in a real blip, took the popular vote.

[00:08:50] Well, I have said for several years now, the parties are realigning.

[00:08:55] So these coalitions that traditionally made up the parties are shifting.

[00:08:59] And this is the most pronounced episode in that realignment.

[00:09:05] Right, because of the different things.

[00:09:06] And I get it.

[00:09:07] I mean, it's a welcome respite, if you will, in spite.

[00:09:12] I just – but back to my earlier point of the degrading requirements and the rights, you know, the voting requirements.

[00:09:19] I don't know what you mean by that, Mark.

[00:09:21] I don't know what you mean by that.

[00:09:22] Explain – what do you mean by the degrade – so what, you want to, like, restrict people's access to voting?

[00:09:29] Well, not restrict.

[00:09:30] Okay, that's a nice flip of the term.

[00:09:32] But, no, I mean, if you go back historically, I mean, it was different by state, et cetera.

[00:09:36] But in general, the premise of the founding fathers, and it goes back to landowners.

[00:09:40] Yeah, you want – so that's what I'm – well, that is a restriction, Mark.

[00:09:43] So, okay, so you want to go back to only landowners get to vote?

[00:09:47] Well, I think you could modernize that.

[00:09:49] And I don't want to go down too far in the rabbit hole.

[00:09:50] Like pay taxes?

[00:09:52] Right, right.

[00:09:53] So you want to – right.

[00:09:54] So you do want to restrict the access to voting.

[00:09:58] That is going to be an electoral winning argument.

[00:10:01] I don't – it may not be.

[00:10:03] Oh, no, it definitely won't be.

[00:10:04] But that's my point.

[00:10:05] If you look at every amendment down from the founding fathers across from an amendment perspective

[00:10:11] and from a state right to vote, basically it's degraded the vote.

[00:10:15] And I think the premise of you have to have skin in the game, which leads to my sort of last comment on that theme,

[00:10:21] skin in the game.

[00:10:22] You have to have skin in the game to have the right to vote, right?

[00:10:24] So if you look at the major cities that are carrying the states from a blue perspective, what are those cities becoming?

[00:10:33] They're becoming serfdoms, kings and serfs, right?

[00:10:38] So – and so the serfs get the free stuff at the benevolence of a happy, you know, king or queen, right?

[00:10:51] And that's the model that the Democrats have been playing for decades.

[00:10:56] And it doesn't appear to be working anymore.

[00:10:59] Well, again, this is an anomaly just because there are so many things offending so many people at so many levels.

[00:11:06] The Christians – I mean, you know, the top list of ten, right?

[00:11:12] So, again, pleasantly surprised they took the popular.

[00:11:15] And my last comment, and I'll let you continue on with the comment.

[00:11:19] I've actually – there was a guy a couple days ago that was citing a lot of stats along these lines that got me thinking it

[00:11:24] because I've been talking about this for years.

[00:11:26] And I'd like to see a credible research paper looking at, like, let's take the 50 percent, quote-unquote 50 percent that pay federal taxes,

[00:11:36] and how many are active voters, and then what's those trend lines?

[00:11:41] Because, again, that's another supporting data point to sort of my theory.

[00:11:46] I don't think you win elections, Mark, by subtraction.

[00:11:51] And that's what you're describing.

[00:11:53] You can have all of these ideas.

[00:11:56] I'm not saying you can't have the ideas or opinions and stuff, but at a practical level, you don't win elections by subtraction.

[00:12:04] You're not going to win people over by convincing them to give up their right to vote.

[00:12:11] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:12:12] So at some point that I wonder, like, why am I wasting time going over these ideas when there's no practical way to implement them?

[00:12:21] Right.

[00:12:22] Right.

[00:12:22] So you would agree with that, right?

[00:12:24] There's no way anybody is going to run for office, let alone get a critical mass of political and constituent support to change voting rights to eliminate half of the voters.

[00:12:37] I'm not saying half of them.

[00:12:39] Well, if you're saying it's based on property taxes or, quote, skin in the game or paying some sort of income tax or whatever,

[00:12:46] whatever you decide to do, you're going to be subtracting voters and you're going to be accused of all sorts of things as to why you want to do that.

[00:12:57] And it's just it's an electoral loser, absolute loser.

[00:13:01] And anybody close to that blast zone is going to get obliterated.

[00:13:06] So I just I don't under.

[00:13:07] Yeah, I don't know why.

[00:13:10] I don't know why you'd spend a lot of time thinking through like the pros and cons of that idea,

[00:13:15] knowing that the cons are so overwhelmingly against you, you could never implement it.

[00:13:18] So anyway, that's just me.

[00:13:20] But, you know, your mileage may vary.

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[00:14:26] No, I don't know what to make of.

[00:14:28] I think Mark was his name, the caller before the break there.

[00:14:33] Like we just saw the first Republican president to win or the first Republican candidate to win the popular vote in like 20 years.

[00:14:45] I don't know why that would prompt a reexamination of.

[00:14:50] Who should be able to vote like you won if there is a.

[00:14:54] And again, like you have you're free to have a different opinion.

[00:14:57] I view the parties as being in the middle of a realignment and it seems to be breaking for Republicans.

[00:15:04] So lean into that.

[00:15:08] If you can get because the numbers.

[00:15:10] I mean, we've got we have we have double digit movement from Democrats to Republicans.

[00:15:18] In blue states, New York saw the largest.

[00:15:23] That's nuts.

[00:15:25] That is nuts.

[00:15:26] It went from a D plus 23 to a D plus 12.

[00:15:31] He chopped it in half.

[00:15:35] New Jersey went from a D plus 16 down to a D plus four.

[00:15:42] And you got similar numbers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, Maryland and Delaware.

[00:15:52] So keep doing the thing that that you just did.

[00:15:55] That would be my recommendation.

[00:15:56] But again, what do I know?

[00:15:58] I'm just a radio host.

[00:15:59] Nick Gillespie from Reason dot com.

[00:16:03] He said exit polls are fascinating, especially when compared over previous Trump runs in 2016 and 2020.

[00:16:11] He pulled just 36 percent of the 18 to 29 vote.

[00:16:16] All right.

[00:16:17] So one out of three 18 to 29 year olds in 16 and in 20 went for Trump in 2020.

[00:16:23] Biden pulled 60 percent of it.

[00:16:25] Harris dropped down to the Hillary Clinton level.

[00:16:30] Trump declined among white voters from 2020 when he pulled 58 percent.

[00:16:34] His Latino vote increased from 32.

[00:16:37] Two.

[00:16:40] In in the in the last run.

[00:16:43] So he's been gaining in each election among Hispanic voters.

[00:16:49] This time he pulled a majority of them.

[00:16:52] Fifty three percent.

[00:16:53] Oh, sorry.

[00:16:54] Sorry.

[00:16:55] Harris pulled 53 percent.

[00:16:56] He pulled 45 percent.

[00:16:59] But that's still better than he did last time.

[00:17:02] I've said this for years also.

[00:17:05] When all of the racial groups vote.

[00:17:09] They don't have to vote for Republicans, but if they split their votes, particularly black voters, if they split their votes like white voters do and Hispanic voters do.

[00:17:20] Democrats are cooked.

[00:17:23] Because they need 90 percent of black voters to go for them.

[00:17:29] And and they're starting to lose them.

[00:17:32] And I would submit they are starting to lose them because of the positions that the Democrat, the awful's, the affluent white female leftist awful's that they are driving these policies and these ideas and these, you know, planks in the platform that a lot of the people in the Democrat coalition do not agree with.

[00:17:55] A.G. Hamilton, he's a writer at or on Twitter, but also at a couple of different publications.

[00:18:02] But he says he put out a tweet earlier today saying, will Democrats recognize how they drove themselves into such a hole as to lose to Trump or will they instead blame voters?

[00:18:15] Will the mainstream media have any self-reflection on why so many voters ignored them near the end or will they just blame their audience for not trusting them anymore?

[00:18:27] Yeah, I mean, this is what Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, this is what they have to examine among themselves.

[00:18:35] See, this is why when you win, you don't do a lot of this kind of self-examination because what you did want, you won.

[00:18:41] Why would you need self-examination?

[00:18:43] What we did worked.

[00:18:44] Keep doing that.

[00:18:45] But when you lose, you have to examine.

[00:18:49] All right, let's go to the phones here.

[00:18:51] Let's talk with Kevin.

[00:18:53] Welcome to the program.

[00:18:54] Hey, Kevin.

[00:18:55] Hey, Pete.

[00:18:56] It's been a very long time since I've spoke to you.

[00:18:59] As a matter of fact, last time I was showing off my dog who walked himself with his leash in his mouth at Home Depot.

[00:19:04] I called you some former host's name and you were gracious enough not to call me out on it.

[00:19:10] Oh, it's totally fine, Robert.

[00:19:14] Right on.

[00:19:16] So, I mean, the great thing about, you know, if you love politics, what a great time to be alive, man.

[00:19:22] I mean, the conversation could go on so many directions, but I'll stick with, you know, what I said I was coming in with.

[00:19:29] And that's how worried or scared is Iran?

[00:19:32] And I know there's the obvious Ukraine.

[00:19:35] Putin's probably happy because he's getting, you know, Trump's at the end of the day a real estate genius, you know.

[00:19:42] So he's getting ready to make a real estate deal in Ukraine somewhere.

[00:19:46] Somebody's giving up some territory.

[00:19:47] Maybe.

[00:19:49] Well, here's the thing.

[00:19:50] I don't know what Trump is going to do on that stuff.

[00:19:54] Yeah, true.

[00:19:54] I mean, that's part of the wild card nature of a Trump presidency.

[00:19:59] And sometimes that's good from a foreign policy standpoint when your adversaries don't know what the hell you're going to do, you know.

[00:20:08] Well, as well, I have a different, I'm not a WWE fan.

[00:20:12] Don't hate me for that, people.

[00:20:13] I know it's the South and all.

[00:20:16] Give me Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair any day, though, even though they made it to WWE old school, right?

[00:20:21] Right.

[00:20:21] But I have a whole different take on Trump now because that showmanship he learned from Vince McMahon, his good friend.

[00:20:30] And I learned that through watching the documentary about that scumbag.

[00:20:34] Hmm.

[00:20:35] Yeah, I have not seen that.

[00:20:38] Yeah, you have to.

[00:20:39] You'll have to check it out.

[00:20:40] Yeah, look, that is part of Trump's persona.

[00:20:43] He is sort of a carnival barker kind of a guy.

[00:20:47] And that, and, oh, Kevin's gone.

[00:20:49] And, like, that's one of the things that makes him, all right, I saw Megyn Kelly a couple weeks back talking about how, like, her relationship with Donald Trump, you know, going back years.

[00:21:01] Hasn't always been smooth.

[00:21:05] And she talked about that, you know, that interaction that they had had.

[00:21:09] And he got very mad at her for asking the questions and this and that.

[00:21:13] She eventually was invited to Mar-a-Lago and met with him.

[00:21:20] And they basically, you know, buried the hatchet.

[00:21:25] And he, but he said to her on the way out, he said, you know, but they're not going to be talking about us so much anymore.

[00:21:31] Sometimes it's good when they do.

[00:21:34] And that right there is a window into his thinking.

[00:21:39] I also saw some guys from the Daily Wire talking yesterday and how Trump, it's not that he forgives people.

[00:21:50] It's that if you say, hey, you know what, you're okay now?

[00:21:55] He just shifts gears.

[00:21:56] And it's like, okay, cool, you know, you're fine again.

[00:21:59] And what do we need to do to fix this stuff?

[00:22:02] Like, that's his approach to stuff.

[00:22:04] And if you think about it in a different way, and I think the example was John McCain.

[00:22:11] Here was John McCain who had the opportunity to fulfill a campaign promise to repeal the Obamacare monstrosity.

[00:22:19] But because of his petty grievance against Donald Trump, he said no.

[00:22:24] Was that putting country over personality?

[00:22:28] No, it wasn't.

[00:22:32] So when Trump now welcomes people back into the fold and says, okay, now you're okay again.

[00:22:38] Now I called you Ron DeSantis and all this, but now you're fine.

[00:22:41] Now it's okay.

[00:22:42] Little Marco and all of that.

[00:22:45] So, although I did notice low energy Jeb has never made it into the fold.

[00:22:51] So I just, and I don't know what to make of that.

[00:22:54] But I think it's the thing that makes him dangerous to the bureaucracy.

[00:22:59] Is that he just, he doesn't know what he's not supposed to say.

[00:23:03] You know?

[00:23:04] It's like, oh no, no, no, no.

[00:23:05] Don't say that.

[00:23:08] You're like, what?

[00:23:08] I don't care.

[00:23:09] I'll bomb them.

[00:23:10] I will bomb Iran.

[00:23:11] I will bomb them.

[00:23:12] I will tell them I will bomb them.

[00:23:14] I will bomb them so many ways.

[00:23:15] They won't even know the ways I bomb them.

[00:23:17] Right?

[00:23:18] And like, you don't say that.

[00:23:20] Well, he just did.

[00:23:21] And that's it.

[00:23:22] And I think that's why a lot of people like him.

[00:23:25] And a lot of people hate him.

[00:23:28] And you can send an email to Pete at the Pete Calendar Show dot com.

[00:23:33] I've got a message here from David.

[00:23:36] Pete, do you think Democrats still want to expand the Supreme Court and end the filibuster rules in the Senate?

[00:23:42] No, of course not.

[00:23:43] That was what they wanted to do when they could abuse power.

[00:23:47] Not when the Republicans can do it.

[00:23:51] He says, we need to ask them now so they stop calling for this nonsense.

[00:23:55] Which I will say, that's one of the nice things about having Trump win the popular vote here is that they can't even say, well, we won the popular vote.

[00:24:06] It's all off the table.

[00:24:09] All of it's off the table.

[00:24:10] There is no doubt.

[00:24:12] There isn't.

[00:24:13] And which is why I suspect we didn't see any violence.

[00:24:16] Right.

[00:24:18] Like when you keep calling for the democracy and then the democracy gives it to you good and hard, you don't get to riot.

[00:24:25] That's kind of I think that's one of the rules.

[00:24:29] Also, another North Carolina specific positive, the constitutional amendment passed.

[00:24:35] So that means noncitizen voting is against the Constitution of the state of North Carolina.

[00:24:42] And there still remains a super majority in the Senate.

[00:24:46] The biggest disappointment, David says, was Jeff Jackson still conning people.

[00:24:49] Yeah.

[00:24:50] And and that's the thing, too.

[00:24:52] Like, I understand people who are, you know, sad and upset that Harris lost.

[00:24:57] I've been there.

[00:24:58] I'm not with Harris, but like I've I've seen politicians lost lose that I wanted to win.

[00:25:05] I would have preferred Dan Bishop win.

[00:25:07] I thought he'd be a good attorney general.

[00:25:09] So like it's not all it's not all victories for the Republicans here.

[00:25:14] So, yes, celebrate your wins, but also recognize there's still a bunch of work to do in North Carolina.

[00:25:20] The party still has some problems to fix.

[00:25:25] Stephen, welcome to the program.

[00:25:27] Hello, Stephen.

[00:25:28] Hey, Pete.

[00:25:29] I wanted to say that, you know, I was thinking about this all morning and he he didn't just beat Kamala.

[00:25:35] He beat the entire Democratic Party.

[00:25:38] He beat their machine.

[00:25:39] He beat the Democratic media.

[00:25:41] He beat the Democratic Hollywood.

[00:25:44] And it's probably leaders all over the world that are so happy that he won.

[00:25:49] I'm sure Putin's happy because he knows that I think he's going to help Putin save face.

[00:25:55] But I think the whole world is happy.

[00:25:56] I think they're relieved that there's some sanity in the country again, because whether we like it or not, we're a big.

[00:26:04] We affect the world in many different ways.

[00:26:07] And I think that hopefully he's able to keep it sane and keep it rational and everything works out for everybody around the world, not just us.

[00:26:15] Well, the world is I believe the world is a safer place when America is strong.

[00:26:20] I do believe that.

[00:26:22] Yeah, exactly.

[00:26:23] And they know that they don't have to.

[00:26:25] Other countries don't have to worry about.

[00:26:27] Oh, my God.

[00:26:28] You know, I mean, in a way, it keeps everyone good.

[00:26:32] Hopefully it keeps everyone on their best behavior.

[00:26:35] It keeps everyone from having to feel like I want to invade some country.

[00:26:40] I don't know.

[00:26:41] I just I just it keeps everything in check, it seems to me.

[00:26:44] But you're right.

[00:26:44] You're exactly what you said.

[00:26:45] Yeah.

[00:26:46] Stephen, I appreciate the call.

[00:26:47] I think there is.

[00:26:48] I think there is some truth to the idea that Trump could negotiate or help to bring about some sort of a resolution to the war in Ukraine.

[00:27:00] I don't know what that looks like.

[00:27:01] I'm not saying I would support whatever resolution they're able to come up with.

[00:27:07] But I think it just like, you know, only Nixon could go to China kind of a thing.

[00:27:12] That it takes, you know, somebody who is who's got the political capital to do it.

[00:27:18] Now, the other thing to keep in mind here is the argument that Ron DeSantis made during the primary.

[00:27:24] And it still holds true, which is Donald Trump is a lame duck president.

[00:27:31] So then people are going to be coming for J.D. Vance.

[00:27:36] Right.

[00:27:38] The honeymoon is over because he is already in position to be the heir apparent to MAGA.

[00:27:47] Right.

[00:27:50] So, I mean, assuming he doesn't get on Trump's bad side.

[00:27:55] But seriously, like the knives are going to be out for that guy because anybody else who wants to be president is going to have to probably go through him first.

[00:28:06] So Dan says, here are the top three things I learned last night from the mainstream media coverage.

[00:28:11] Number one, according to Van Jones, it was the Republicans who called Trump a fascist.

[00:28:15] Number two, simultaneously, Kamala ran a perfect campaign.

[00:28:18] According to Joy Reid, and did not have enough time to properly campaign.

[00:28:22] Oh, that was one of the things.

[00:28:23] I was joking about this before I even came on the air last night for coverage at 10 p.m.

[00:28:27] We were out in the hallway waiting and I was talking with Brett Winterbull.

[00:28:33] And we were saying, like, I'd already seen this narrative starting to be crafted, which is, if only she had had more time.

[00:28:44] Well, whose fault was that?

[00:28:47] Right.

[00:28:50] According to some bloviator on MSNBC, there were no shenanigans affecting polling places on Election Day until Trump ran for office.

[00:28:57] So that's what Dan says.

[00:29:04] What he learned last night.

[00:29:07] How much time I got?

[00:29:09] Not a lot.

[00:29:09] Let me see.

[00:29:13] Back in the 60s, Dennis says, during the Jurassic era, when I went to college, we thought of getting a degree as BS.

[00:29:20] Getting an MA meant more added to go get a PhD was to pilot higher and deeper.

[00:29:29] There you go.

[00:29:31] Yeah.

[00:29:31] So that was the earlier tweet I read from a woman who put PhD in her bio on Twitter and then denigrates everybody and accuses everybody of being these horrible things.

[00:29:43] And I think what we saw yesterday was a was a repudiation of that was a shut up.

[00:29:49] We are not interested in listening to your denigration any longer.

[00:29:54] All right.

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