Harris presides over Trump's victory certification (01-06-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] So let's see. So we, uh, let's head on over here and take a look. Hey, there's J.D. Vance. Um, this is what's going on in the joint session of Congress right now. Okay, so there's some people, they're all milling around chit-chatting and talking and waiting for the certification of the, uh, of the vote to occur. And let me kind of pick up from, uh, the last hour's topic a little bit.

[00:00:58] Which is this idea that, you know, Joe Biden just did this, this new order to ban all of the offshore drilling. And I'm not sure he actually did that.

[00:01:12] And this is the problem when you have a president that is, uh, non-compass mentis, right? When he is, uh, out to lunch. He's been in cognitive decline for years. It's gotten much, much worse. You probably heard, uh, the audio clips where he cussed and snapped at reporters about how,

[00:01:31] I met with more world leaders, any of you, whatever. Okay, dude, you've been in the Senate for like 700 years. You should know more world leaders than these 24 year olds that, you know, got the white house correspondent gig because their parents were producers at NBC or something, right? Like that, that, that should not, you should not be.

[00:01:56] Like touting that as a, as some sort of bona fide. Now, to be fair, the 24 year old probably doesn't know what they're asking you about because they don't know any world leaders either.

[00:02:05] But the point here is that Joe Biden has been in cognitive decline for a long time. And this is one of the reasons I believe, uh, why, uh, the Democrat party was punished by voters because we've been gaslit.

[00:02:24] And until that June debate, June 27th, I believe the debate between Trump and Biden media was carrying water and running interference for the, and playing along with the administration's, um, sheltering operation of Joe Biden.

[00:02:45] Wall Street Journal did the big expose on this a couple of weeks ago.

[00:02:51] So Chuck Schumer appears on meet the press over the weekend.

[00:02:57] And, um, anybody else give up watching all of these shows?

[00:03:01] I used to watch all of these shows on Sunday mornings.

[00:03:04] I would, I would just, I used to be on one of these shows.

[00:03:07] I mean, it wasn't national.

[00:03:08] It was final edition on the local public television, uh, station reporter round table kind of a deal.

[00:03:17] I used to do that every Friday for years, talk about local issues, uh, on TV.

[00:03:23] And I, and so I would, I would watch all of these other national shows because it was a good way to, you know, find out what had happened and what's going to happen.

[00:03:33] And you get these interviews with the newsmakers and such, and I don't watch these things anymore, but they still do them.

[00:03:42] Um, I was as surprised as you, I, they still do them.

[00:03:46] So Chuck Schumer appeared on meet the press and to her credit, the host, Kristen Welker, who I think moderated one of the debates.

[00:03:58] Um, I don't remember, I mean, it was Trump versus a Democrat, but I don't remember which one, whether it was Biden or Harris, but she asked Schumer.

[00:04:10] About whether the Democrats and the administration misled Americans about Joe Biden's mental prowess.

[00:04:20] Despite reports showing Biden's mental fitness was lacking even before he was elected.

[00:04:27] And here is what Chuck Schumer said.

[00:04:30] I want to play you a little bit of something you said last year.

[00:04:33] Take a look.

[00:04:34] I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly or sometimes several times in a week or usually several times in a week.

[00:04:43] His mental acuity is great.

[00:04:45] It's fine.

[00:04:46] It's as good as it's been over the years.

[00:04:48] All this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.

[00:04:53] Leader Schumer, what do you say to Americans who feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them about President Biden's mental acuity?

[00:05:03] Look, we didn't.

[00:05:05] And let's let's look.

[00:05:06] Let's look at President Biden.

[00:05:08] He's had an amazing record.

[00:05:10] The legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since the new since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in 235 judges, a record.

[00:05:23] And he's a he's a patriot.

[00:05:26] He's a great guy.

[00:05:27] And when he stepped down, he did it on his own because he thought it was better not only for the Democratic Party, for America.

[00:05:34] We should all salute him.

[00:05:35] We should all salute him.

[00:05:38] What do you think about that?

[00:05:41] Why is he saying this?

[00:05:44] They just need the lie.

[00:05:47] To last a little bit longer.

[00:05:51] So once again, why?

[00:05:54] Why are you still saying this?

[00:05:56] Why would you still be saying this?

[00:05:59] Because they need the lie for another two weeks.

[00:06:03] After Trump is inaugurated, I suspect you're going to start hearing a lot of different tunes being sung on this matter.

[00:06:15] But right now.

[00:06:17] They need the lie a little bit longer.

[00:06:20] Why?

[00:06:21] Good question.

[00:06:23] They need the lie a little bit longer so they could do more stuff like the oil drill ban.

[00:06:27] Right.

[00:06:29] You got a lot of stuff that people like all of the commutations that he signed off on.

[00:06:36] We don't know who is actually running the country, which is terrifying.

[00:06:45] We have no idea.

[00:06:48] And when you start looking back and piecing this stuff together, kind of sort of makes sense why the defense secretary would just go MIA for days.

[00:06:59] And nobody knows where he is.

[00:07:01] Remember that one?

[00:07:02] Because he's not having regular conversations with the White House or staffers.

[00:07:07] Or maybe Lloyd Austin told some staffers, but the staffers never told the president.

[00:07:11] Or I don't know.

[00:07:13] Maybe Austin gave a phone call to some Zoomer or some millennial and they don't answer their phones.

[00:07:23] Lloyd Austin being older, he's a boomer.

[00:07:26] And so he probably didn't text because they don't like texting so much.

[00:07:31] It's like a generational communication failure or something.

[00:07:35] I don't know.

[00:07:35] But it kind of now makes more sense when you realize that Biden was being insulated from everybody, including his own cabinet members.

[00:07:45] So if nobody's having a Schumer, who says he has he's talking to Joe several times each week, this makes his lie all the more egregious because he is still claiming that Biden is as good as he has been.

[00:08:07] And the proof of this is his amazing record.

[00:08:11] Which to me sort of gives away the game, because if you're going to point to a person's record, but we don't know if they're actually responsible for that record.

[00:08:19] You're making an assumption there.

[00:08:21] You're making an assumption that Joe Biden's record is, in fact, his.

[00:08:25] And we don't know that.

[00:08:27] Right.

[00:08:27] We don't know if he actually did these things or if it was his staffers who drew up something and just said.

[00:08:34] Here's your second helping of tapioca pudding.

[00:08:37] Now sign this paper.

[00:08:38] You'll get this second helping if you sign this order.

[00:08:43] And then he does it.

[00:08:45] It's as good as it's been over the years is what he says.

[00:08:49] I don't even know what that means.

[00:08:50] That's not actually encouraging at all.

[00:08:53] That's not encouraging.

[00:08:54] And then he called it right wing propaganda.

[00:08:58] He said it's all it's just all wrong.

[00:09:00] That is, mental acuity has declined.

[00:09:02] That's all wrong.

[00:09:03] I'm sorry.

[00:09:05] When you're calling out for dead people in the middle of speeches.

[00:09:09] You're telling me that that's the sign of non.

[00:09:14] Declining mental acuity.

[00:09:15] That's improving mental acuity.

[00:09:17] Give me a break.

[00:09:17] Are we to believe that this one 82 year old man is somehow more astute and more with it than he was at age 60?

[00:09:28] Like the one guy in world history, in human history, who gets better as he gets older.

[00:09:35] His mind gets sharper as he gets older.

[00:09:38] Into his 80s.

[00:09:39] That is truly impressive.

[00:09:42] And it's a lie.

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[00:10:57] So we are now proceeding through the certification of the Electoral College tally.

[00:11:03] Who's going to win?

[00:11:06] It's going to be Trump.

[00:11:08] So let's see here.

[00:11:09] It appears therefrom that Kamala D. Harris of the state of California received five votes for president,

[00:11:14] and Tim Walz of the state of Minnesota received five votes for vice president.

[00:11:20] That's New Mexico.

[00:11:24] I think New York is going to come next.

[00:11:26] Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of New York seems to be regular in form and authentic,

[00:11:32] and it appears therefrom that Kamala D. Harris of the state of California received 28 votes for president.

[00:11:39] Tim Walz of the state of Minnesota received 28 votes for vice president.

[00:11:47] Oh, gosh.

[00:11:48] She just pulled ahead.

[00:11:49] She's got 186 now.

[00:11:51] He's got 164.

[00:11:53] Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of North Carolina seems to be regular in form and authentic,

[00:11:59] and it appears therefrom that Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida received 16 votes for president,

[00:12:05] and J.D. Vance of the state of Ohio received 16 votes for vice president.

[00:12:14] All right.

[00:12:14] He closed the gap.

[00:12:15] It's now 180 to 186.

[00:12:17] Okay.

[00:12:17] Spoiler alert.

[00:12:18] He does win.

[00:12:19] Trump wins.

[00:12:19] So that's basically how it goes.

[00:12:22] They do all of this formality.

[00:12:25] You've got Vice President Kamala Harris standing up there behind the microphone up at the top chair,

[00:12:32] Mike Johnson sitting in the seat next to her.

[00:12:37] Look, just politics and personalities aside,

[00:12:43] that's got to be a tough thing to do is to stand up there.

[00:12:50] You know you've lost, and you're standing up there, and you have to –

[00:12:57] it's kind of silly.

[00:12:58] Like, they show the certificates to the vice president.

[00:13:01] She looks at them and then hands them to somebody else as if, like, this is the proper check system that they're using.

[00:13:08] I don't know.

[00:13:09] It's formality.

[00:13:10] But, like, she literally gets handed a stack of the certificates, these – it's on a notice.

[00:13:20] It's a certificate of authenticity or something like that.

[00:13:23] And they give it to the vice president.

[00:13:26] She then hands it to somebody who reads it.

[00:13:28] That's who you just heard read it.

[00:13:30] And then it gets handed to somebody else.

[00:13:32] And that's the process they're going for.

[00:13:35] But that's got to be difficult to be standing up there, participating in this process when you know you've lost.

[00:13:46] Everybody in the room knows you've lost.

[00:13:47] Everybody watching on TV and C-SPAN knows you've lost.

[00:13:54] And she just has to stand there with this – I don't even know what kind of an expression this is.

[00:13:59] She's zoned out.

[00:14:01] She's no – there's no joy, no cackling.

[00:14:08] It's like she's doing the stiff upper lip thing.

[00:14:10] Anyway, so, like, I saw – like, at a personal level, I recognize that's got to be tough for her.

[00:14:17] She's got a bit of shininess going on.

[00:14:19] I don't know if it's warm in the room or not.

[00:14:23] But anyway.

[00:14:25] One of the other things Joe Biden did, I mentioned, was the commutations and of all of the bad people that were convicted on various things.

[00:14:35] Commuted a whole boatload of sentences for them and punishments and wiped a lot of records clean.

[00:14:40] Hundreds of them.

[00:14:41] Biggest one ever, right?

[00:14:44] And then he did a round of medals.

[00:14:48] A round of medals.

[00:14:49] He's – he handed out the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people.

[00:14:55] That is the nation's highest civilian honor.

[00:15:00] And again, I'm not sure that he did these.

[00:15:05] I'm not sure these were his decisions.

[00:15:09] But if they were, or the staffers, doesn't matter, because the optics still look awful.

[00:15:17] And again, that's why he's doing it on the way out the door.

[00:15:20] And one of the other things I note, he did not give Kamala Harris a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[00:15:26] Obama gave him one.

[00:15:28] Caught him off guard.

[00:15:30] He was surprised.

[00:15:31] Remember, he got all emotional.

[00:15:32] He did not do that for Harris.

[00:15:35] I'm not reading anything into that.

[00:15:36] I'm just simply pointing it out.

[00:15:38] All right.

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[00:15:54] Did you ever get them transferred?

[00:15:56] And then the room gets all quiet.

[00:15:57] All eyes are on Dad who says,

[00:16:00] Oh, you know, well, I've been meaning to, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

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[00:16:44] Breaking news.

[00:16:45] Donald Trump has won the Electoral College.

[00:16:49] Here's how it, here's how the vote sounded when Kamala Harris presiding over the proceeding

[00:16:55] had to announce the results that she lost.

[00:17:00] The state of the vote for the President of the United States as delivered to the President of the Senate

[00:17:05] is as follows.

[00:17:07] The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for President of the United States is 538.

[00:17:14] Within that whole number, the majority is 270.

[00:17:19] The votes for President of the United States are as follows.

[00:17:23] Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received 312 votes.

[00:17:29] Kamala D. Harris.

[00:17:31] Oh, she tried to get past the applause.

[00:17:37] So now half of the chamber is applauding the Republicans.

[00:17:45] Oh, gavels them down.

[00:17:48] Kamala D. Harris of the state of California has received 226 votes.

[00:17:55] Loser.

[00:17:57] She is the loser of the race.

[00:18:07] I guess, right, so she's just gaveling everybody now.

[00:18:10] The whole number of electors appointed to vote for Vice President of the United States is 538.

[00:18:17] Within that whole number, a majority is 270.

[00:18:20] The votes for Vice President of the United States are as follows.

[00:18:25] J.D. Vance of the state of Ohio has received 312 votes.

[00:18:30] Yay!

[00:18:31] Okay, I'm going to do this again.

[00:18:33] I mean, I kind of, I saw where that was going.

[00:18:36] What with Trump having secured 312 also, I thought it was a betting man.

[00:18:43] Tim Wells of the state of Minnesota has received 226 votes.

[00:18:48] This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the United States,

[00:19:11] each for a term beginning on the 20th day of January 2025, and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the journals of the House and the Senate.

[00:19:29] Thank you very much.

[00:19:31] And that's it.

[00:19:32] So they're done.

[00:19:33] That's how it happened.

[00:19:35] I got to tell you, it's pretty anticlimactic.

[00:19:38] I just, I kind of felt I knew where it was headed.

[00:19:41] So the Presidential Medal of Freedom was handed out to 19 people by Joe Biden, who I think may have sniffed Hillary Clinton's hair when he put it around her neck.

[00:19:51] It looked like, I mean, just saying it looked kind of like that's what he was doing.

[00:19:56] He leaned in.

[00:19:58] I, you know, I will look, I give the guy credit.

[00:20:00] He was able to, to clip the back of the ribbon that the medal is attached to.

[00:20:08] He got that.

[00:20:08] You know, he didn't do like the, put it over her head, like the Olympic style, you know, they do it where the person goes up there and then they turn their back to the president.

[00:20:17] And then the president takes the medal and puts it around them and then clips the back.

[00:20:22] I don't know what kind of clippage clipping assembly is on the back of the ribbon, the neckband part.

[00:20:32] But for a guy, 82 years old, has problems going upstairs, you know, like that's, I'm impressed.

[00:20:39] He did a good job.

[00:20:40] Look, I give credit where it is due.

[00:20:42] Okay.

[00:20:43] So credit where it is due.

[00:20:44] He did a good job, at least on the couple of video clips that I saw of him doing the medal presentations.

[00:20:51] So Hillary Clinton, who helped to fabricate the Steele dossier, wiped all of her emails and servers and stuff while she was engaged in more than likely illegal activity with the Clinton Foundation and sending all sorts of stuff over unsecured servers.

[00:21:10] She got a medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor.

[00:21:18] She deserved that, obviously.

[00:21:23] Oh, and George Soros got one.

[00:21:25] That guy is still alive.

[00:21:26] Did you know that?

[00:21:27] George Soros is still alive.

[00:21:30] 94 years old.

[00:21:35] I was just pausing there so you could fill in your, in your head, you know, like real evil never dies joke.

[00:21:41] You could, that's why I did that.

[00:21:42] Anyway, I didn't make the joke.

[00:21:44] I'm just saying if you wanted to, I gave you space to do that because I'm a giver.

[00:21:48] So 94 years old, George Soros, according to the New York Post, he has been one of the most prolific fundraisers for the Democratic Party in recent history.

[00:21:59] The Hungarian-born hedge fund billionaire gave more than $175 million to Democrats during the 2022 midterms.

[00:22:09] In 2024, he funneled another $60 million for House and Senate Democrats and other left-wing causes through his Democracy Political Action Committee.

[00:22:20] Soros, who has shifted tens of billions of dollars of his personal net worth over to his Open Society Foundations, which funds a multitude of leftist projects around the world, has also heavily invested in races to install far-left district attorneys in major American cities.

[00:22:42] I watched a clip.

[00:22:45] I can only assume it was from a Halloween episode because Joe Rogan, the podcaster, MMA announcer, actor, comedian guy.

[00:22:58] Joe Rogan's podcast, he was dressed up, I think, as a wrestler or something.

[00:23:04] I couldn't really tell.

[00:23:05] He had like this really crazy blonde wig on and some silly shirt.

[00:23:09] So, Elon Musk was with him.

[00:23:14] And Elon Musk was dressed weirdly as well.

[00:23:16] I couldn't really tell what his costume was.

[00:23:18] So, I assumed it was a Halloween episode.

[00:23:22] I want to assume it was a Halloween episode.

[00:23:25] Moving on.

[00:23:26] Elon Musk talked about George Soros.

[00:23:31] Soros.

[00:23:31] And he said, you know, Soros is very good at identifying areas where money can be made.

[00:23:45] We're in arbitrage, where things are losing value or things are undervalued and he recognizes that it hasn't has an actual value that's greater.

[00:23:54] So, if he can somehow change a dynamic, he can make it worth more money.

[00:23:58] And what he realized, what Soros realized years ago was that all of this money that people pour into the national races, particularly the presidential races, has a lower value.

[00:24:10] The dollar you spend at that level has less value because there's so much money at that level.

[00:24:18] And what Soros realized was you could have a very high value for your investment dollar at the local races.

[00:24:27] There's way more benefit.

[00:24:30] It yields way more.

[00:24:32] $20,000 at a local race, $100,000 at a local race can upend society, create the chaos, increased crime that Soros obviously was interested in creating.

[00:24:45] And so, that's where he put his money.

[00:24:48] He did it with the Secretary of State's project.

[00:24:50] He did it with DAs, sheriff's races and such.

[00:24:53] North Carolina is a good example of that very thing.

[00:24:59] San Francisco is sort of the poster child.

[00:25:01] New York City, Los Angeles, same thing.

[00:25:04] All right.

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[00:26:17] Michael says, ew, gross, Pete.

[00:26:19] You did not have to talk about Joe Biden sniffing Hillary Clinton's hair.

[00:26:25] That's true, though.

[00:26:26] I did not have to.

[00:26:27] But I did.

[00:26:29] But I did.

[00:26:31] Well, look, if I had to see it, you have to, well, visualize it, too.

[00:26:37] Yeah, because he like he leaned in when he did the metal put, you know, Joe takes the metal and he goes to hang it around her neck and he's behind her.

[00:26:46] And so when he does the first part where he's got to, like, you know, reach one arm, you know, one arm over her right shoulder, one arm over her left shoulder and then, like, grab the other side of the metal.

[00:26:58] So then he could come back around and clip it to the back.

[00:27:03] He had to lean closer to to her head.

[00:27:06] And.

[00:27:07] I mean, that hair is just right there in his face.

[00:27:10] It's not going to sniff itself.

[00:27:12] So, I mean, what choice did he have?

[00:27:13] I don't know.

[00:27:15] But George Soros also.

[00:27:19] Got a medal.

[00:27:20] No, Joe did not sniff his hair.

[00:27:22] Mainly because George didn't show.

[00:27:25] And so Joe gave the medal to George's son, Alex.

[00:27:31] Alex Soros, who has now become the king of the Soros empire.

[00:27:38] On the political side.

[00:27:42] Going to continue the work that daddy did.

[00:27:45] And.

[00:27:48] You may have seen some of these pictures.

[00:27:51] Where all of these.

[00:27:53] Democrat.

[00:27:54] Politicians were going to, like, kiss the ring.

[00:27:58] At his apartment is like multimillion dollar.

[00:28:01] Manhattan apartment.

[00:28:03] Penthouse, you know.

[00:28:04] And so, like, all these people are making the pilgrimage over to Alex Soros's penthouse.

[00:28:11] And then they're getting pictures taken and he's tweeting them out.

[00:28:16] He's posting these pictures like, like trophies that he has taken.

[00:28:22] In case you need a list of all the politicians that I've got in my pocket.

[00:28:26] Let me take this phone from my pocket and show you their pictures.

[00:28:29] There you go.

[00:28:33] Joe Biden also awarded medals to several Hollywood A-listers.

[00:28:38] George Clooney not on the list.

[00:28:40] Don't know why.

[00:28:43] Bono.

[00:28:45] The front man for U2.

[00:28:48] The band U2.

[00:28:50] Bono.

[00:28:51] And honestly, Bono's a pretty good choice.

[00:28:54] Right?

[00:28:55] I mean, aside from that whole Akatung baby.

[00:28:59] No, I'm kidding.

[00:29:00] I actually like that album.

[00:29:01] That one was fine.

[00:29:02] It was the one, the Zoropa one, which was like, that's just awful.

[00:29:05] And then the one that they, by the way, I found that stupid album that they crammed down onto us.

[00:29:12] When I was doing my iTunes cleanup over my vacation.

[00:29:18] And I open up my account.

[00:29:20] You know, I have to wipe everything, whatever.

[00:29:21] And there it is.

[00:29:22] I've got this whole U2 album in my iTunes account.

[00:29:25] I did not ask for this.

[00:29:27] I don't want that.

[00:29:30] But, like, I bailed.

[00:29:31] I bailed after Zoropa.

[00:29:33] Actually, the last album I bought from them was Akatung Baby.

[00:29:37] Anyway, Bono's done a ton of work trying to fight global poverty.

[00:29:42] And, to his credit, like, he started off in an antagonistic relationship with George W. Bush on this issue.

[00:29:53] You know, making all these demands for more government interventions and programs and such.

[00:29:59] And, to his credit, I will say, Bono has come to the realization that the free market is the really only way to alleviate the kind of grinding poverty that has afflicted humankind throughout our entire existence.

[00:30:21] He's come around.

[00:30:24] He's come around.

[00:30:28] And not just me.

[00:30:30] Like, you know, I've been a firm believer in the free market, its ability.

[00:30:35] But now, U2.

[00:30:37] Terrible pun.

[00:30:38] I apologize.

[00:30:39] But, moving on.

[00:30:40] Michael J. Fox.

[00:30:42] The Back to the Future star.

[00:30:45] But, I can understand why he would get it, too, because of all of the work that he has done in raising awareness for Parkinson's.

[00:30:52] Right?

[00:30:54] So, I get that one as well.

[00:30:57] Also, everybody loved him.

[00:30:59] If you weren't a kid in the 80s and 90s, watching him as Alex P. Keaton, and then Back to the Future, Marty McFly.

[00:31:10] Like, if you weren't around for that era, Michael J. Fox was the it dude.

[00:31:16] The it guy.

[00:31:18] Whatever they call that.

[00:31:19] I don't say...

[00:31:20] Yeah, I mean, what was it?

[00:31:23] Like, Teen Wolf.

[00:31:24] Remember that one?

[00:31:25] Yeah.

[00:31:29] Magic Johnson.

[00:31:30] He also got a medal.

[00:31:32] But, I kind of feel like he's done a lot of work raising awareness for HIV causes.

[00:31:39] Right?

[00:31:40] So, there's that.

[00:31:41] Then Ralph Lauren.

[00:31:44] Because, Jill is a huge fan of his work.

[00:31:47] I think that's how he got it.

[00:31:49] And then there was Lionel Messi.

[00:31:52] He's a soccer player.

[00:31:54] And he didn't show.

[00:31:58] Yeah, he didn't go.

[00:32:00] And so, everybody, like, on Twitter, on conservative Twitter, was like, yeah, go Messi and all this.

[00:32:06] I don't know.

[00:32:06] The guy's got, like, five kids.

[00:32:08] Probably just, you know, they had other things to do.

[00:32:11] Doesn't need to go.

[00:32:12] Denzel Washington.

[00:32:13] Anna Wintour.

[00:32:15] Aka, the devil.

[00:32:17] From the Devil Wears Prada.

[00:32:19] The devil.

[00:32:21] So, between her and Soros, two devils actually got the...

[00:32:25] Too soon.

[00:32:26] All right.

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