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This is Undaunted Life a Man's Podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys.
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Man, the political season.
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You thought it was going to end.
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You just thought it was going to end.
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But all the smart people were like, yeah, that's probably not going to end on election night.
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And yes, they were right.
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But guys, here's the deal.
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I know a lot of you don't really like the political talk.
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It's not really the thing that you're into, even though politics is essentially in everything
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and affects everything.
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But I do feel like we need to take a little bit of a break from politics for a while,
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at least on this podcast.
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I know you guys are getting tired of hearing me talk about it.
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I'm getting tired of hearing me talk about it.
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So this is going to be hopefully the last political podcast that we have for a while,
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because I've had a lot of other subjects that I've wanted to get into and things that,
1:28
even since this summer, that I wanted to talk about that.
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But the news cycle just hasn't really allowed for that.
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And so we're going to make a transition.
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But today, we're going to talk about how the election is essentially over.
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And I know for some of you right out of the gate, we're 60 seconds into this podcast.
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And you're like, wait, what are you talking about?
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Are these liberal talking points?
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Blah, blah, blah.
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But but guys, essentially, this is this race is over, right?
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I know that the Donald Trump administration is kind of gathering some things right now.
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The media has declared Joe Biden the winner, which is not how this works.
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The media doesn't declare that it has to happen through the vote.
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The vote talents have not been certified yet in any state.
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That's not going to happen for several more weeks.
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Trump's legal team, they're getting together some filings and they're preparing lawsuits
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in multiple states.
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But at the end of the day, none of this is really going to matter, I don't think.
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Because Democrats in the mainstream media, they're calling you insane.
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If you question the validity of the results, and guys, I'm old enough to remember,
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when for years, they said that Trump was put in place by the Russians.
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And even after that wasn't proven, they were like, oh, no, this is still a conspiracy.
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Or the Hunter Biden story was a Russian conspiracy hoax and those types of things.
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So yeah, basically, you can suck it, guys.
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You set it for four years.
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It's nonsense.
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Biden at this point, he's calling for unity, which basically means we will unify as long
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as you agree with every single thing that we say.
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Otherwise, we'll burn your business down kind of a thing.
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But this is what it ultimately boils down to, guys.
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The odds of Donald Trump displaying information that tilts the elections back into his favor
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in states like Arizona and Georgia and Michigan and Nevada and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
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are incredibly slim, incredibly slim.
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I know it's not over.
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There's a long fight to be had, but it's incredibly, incredibly slim.
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Slimmer still are the odds that he's able to prove in a court of law, which you have to do,
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that widespread voter fraud took place to such a degree that it undermines the election results
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in those key battleground states.
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It's almost zero that the possibility of that happening.
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There's an overwhelming likelihood that Joe Biden will be taking up residence in the White
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House in January.
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Again, if you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, you can go back to my episode
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where I talked about the reasons to vote for Donald Trump, where I said that I was
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planning on voting for Donald Trump, which I did.
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So I obviously don't want that to happen.
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And guys, if I'm wrong, if a month and a half from now, we get the court cases and they're all
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done because just a reminder, remember when Gore did all the stuff back in 2000 between
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him and Bush and there was all the stuff that was taken to the courts, that was settled on
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like December 12th or 13th, right?
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So that was almost a month and a half of court cases and that was over one state, Florida.
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Like we may have court cases in half a dozen different states, right?
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So this is going to take a while to suss out.
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But I will happily come on this podcast and eat crow if I'm wrong.
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And the Donald Trump administration and Rudy Giuliani and all these other people,
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they're able to find this level of corruption that actually swung the election
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in the favor of Joe Biden that actually changed the results of the election.
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I will gladly come in here and do that.
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But I just don't really see that that's going to happen.
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So I think we need to be realistic about what things look like from here.
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But a quick message for all of you real quick, before we get into the meat of today's podcast,
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if you're still listening, I know there's some conservatives that are pretty [inaudible] off right
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now, it is what it is.
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But here's a quick message for all of you, including the Christians that just couldn't
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bring yourselves to vote for Donald Trump for whatever reason.
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And you chose to vote for Joe Biden for president, okay?
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I want you to remember your reasons when you see what Biden and Kamala Harris do
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in their administration, that the things that they're planning on doing.
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I want you to remember your reasons when they try to codify Roe v. Wade into law,
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into actual law.
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Kamala Harris has already said she was going to do that.
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I want you to remember your reasons when they forced through the so-called equality act
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that directly infringes on your religious rights, especially if you're a business owner or a school.
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I want you to remember your reasons when Biden puts liberal activist judges on the Supreme Court
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and other federal appeals courts.
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I also want you to remember your reasons when your tax bills go up.
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I want you also to remember your reasons when he potentially locks the country down
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again and requires everyone to merit wear a mask because COVID or something, okay?
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When those things happen and all the other things that I can't even think of off the top of my head,
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I don't want to hear your complaints.
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I am not interested in your complaints.
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You can clutch your pearls and you can be frustrated, but don't come to me with that
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because we knew this was going to happen.
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If you walked into the ballot booth and you pulled the lever for Joe Biden or filled in the bubble
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for Joe Biden, you should have known this was all coming because they've been signaling it
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for months at this point.
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There was no surprise here.
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And also to the people that voted for Biden for president,
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but then voted Republican everywhere else down ballot.
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The overwhelming majority of you did that because you just couldn't get past Donald Trump's
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personality and I understand that to a degree.
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So it gave you a bit of a warm fuzzy to vote for Joe Biden because he seems like he will be more
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presidential, but I would just like to remind you that we had a quote on quote presidential
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guy in the White House for eight years and he was deeply corrupt and horrible for America and
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terrible for religious people.
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His name was Barack Obama.
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And again, go back to the episode where I talked about Donald Trump because I gave you
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laundry list of the things that I don't like about the man.
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But as a religious person, have you felt vilified over the last four years?
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Like as a follower of Christ, have you felt vilified and I had even a good buddy of mine say,
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you know, Trump probably doesn't even believe half the things that he's saying right now.
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And I would agree with that sentiment.
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I've told you before, I don't think Donald Trump is actually pro life,
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but I don't care what you feel in your heart.
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I care what you do if you're running the entire government.
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That's what I care about.
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So for instance, let's say in your heart of hearts, you are pro life.
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Do you think, you know, from the moment of conception that that is a human being,
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it's worthy of protection and all those different things, but as president of the United States,
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you're like, ah, but we can't really do anything to legislate that.
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You can't legislate morality and everything that you do in the light is pro choice.
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What, which would you rather have?
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Would you have the guy that actually believes that that doesn't do anything about it?
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Or the guy that maybe doesn't feel that way, but everything he does legislatively is towards that
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direction. So again, all you people that are like, Joe Biden seemed more presidential,
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and this is a return to normalcy.
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I want you to remember the reasons why you voted for that guy when we see what happens to the
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country moving forward. Okay.
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So before we get into the main reason why I think that Donald Trump probably lost his
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election, I have a few random thoughts that I want to go over.
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I want to try to go over these quickly.
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So let's go ahead and launch in here.
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So the first thing is, isn't it interesting how none of the glitches, right?
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So there's a lot of glitches like, oh, well, 6,000 votes were supposed to go to Donald Trump,
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and they actually went to Joe Biden whoopsie.
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None of those glitches in the voting system or the irregular irregularities that we're seeing,
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which basically in guaranteeing the vote tallies, none of those went against Joe Biden.
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Like none of them, they only went against Trump.
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I haven't seen a single thing. Again, this is a conspiracy theory, but have you seen
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a single case in the United States so far where a gaggle of ballots was supposed to go for Trump,
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but you know, accidentally or that was supposed to go for Biden, but they went for Trump or,
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you know, have these people that found, you know, a thousand ballots for Joe Biden in the trash,
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right? Like, did you, did you see any of that?
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That's at least very interesting.
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Another random thought is it's, it's not what you believe happened.
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Guys, it's what you can prove that happened, right?
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It's not what you believe. It's what you can prove in court.
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So a lot of you believe that there was chicanery going on and guys, I think you're right.
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I think there's enough smoke around here to realize like, man, maybe not enough to swing the
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election. But gosh, there was some nefarious stuff going on in a lot of these districts,
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and they all seem to be going one way. And every time the vote, the vote tallies change,
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it seemed to be at like three or four in the morning. That's not nothing, right? It's not nothing.
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So, but again, guys, it's not what you believe. It's what you can actually prove.
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Now, the random thought is regardless of what side you're on, you should want the department
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of justice to thoroughly investigate these allegations of voter fraud, right?
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Because obviously, if you're a Trump person, if you're a Republican, you want them to investigate
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it and you're, you're hoping that they find it and they find it to the degree that it actually
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flips the election back to your boy. But if you're a Biden person, right, you should want the same
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thing. Because if they investigate it and they don't find widespread voter fraud and they did a
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thorough investigation and everyone basically says that, then that's good for you. Because
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a year down the road when a Trump person's like, "Oh, Trump's still the president and Biden's
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the fake president." You can be like, "Nah, bro." They looked at it. No dice. Kind of the same thing
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when it was the same argument whenever the Mueller report came out and there was no there there.
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And you were like, "All right, Democrats, shut up. Shut up for the next couple of years because
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you got nothing. You got nothing." So, again, we should want these investigations to go through
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this election is technically not over. It is probably realistically over, but technically,
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it's not over. We have to let the justice system play out. So, let's let it play out.
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Another random thought to conservatives or Republicans. If Biden is certified as the winner,
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after all of this, all of this stuff that we have to go through, just accept it and move on,
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right? You know, if he's certified as the winner, don't pull this, not my president crap. Again,
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I couldn't stand that when George W. Bush was president. I couldn't stand that when Donald
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Trump was president for those eight years that Barack Obama was on the at the helm of this country.
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He was my president. Now, I didn't vote for him. I voted for John McCain. I voted for Mitt Romney,
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which I significantly regret at this point, but he was my president. The United States people
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spoke and they spoke and he was the president, okay? So, if that's what ends up happening,
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just accept it and move on. Don't be ridiculous. Another random thought. It's very interesting
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that people all across the country were boarding up their businesses just in case Trump won,
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not the other way around, right? In every major city, you saw people boarding up their businesses
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days before the election, because if Trump won, they knew that the top was going to blow off this
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thing. Black Lives Matter and Tifa, pretty much every agitator group was going to be going and
12:06
trying to destroy everything to tear it down the system or whatever. But have you seen any of that?
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Because I talked to people that had it on good authority, that if Biden was declared the winner,
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that these right wing militias and these dudes and trucks with Trump flags, we're going to start
12:20
destroying businesses and setting stuff on fire. Has anyone done that yet? I've seen some gatherings
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at the state Capitol, which are peaceful assemblies, right? Lawful assemblies. But isn't that interesting?
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When my side loses, they might scream and yell and all that, but they're not going to destroy
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your livelihood. When the other side loses, they want to burn it all down. Something to think about.
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Another random thought, things actually turned out pretty well for conservatives and Republicans.
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I think in the last podcast, I said that the Republicans actually lost seats in the House of
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Representatives. I think at the time that was accurate, but it ended up not being accurate.
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So I definitely want to correct the record. They actually made gains in the House of Representatives.
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We don't know exactly how many yet because there's still some things going in, but they gained in
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the House of Representatives when they were supposed to be a blue wave. They're likely to keep the
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Senate. As of right now, there's going to be two runoffs likely to run offs in the state of Georgia
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in January. It's likely that they keep at least one of those seats to make it a majority there
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in the United States Senate. They gain in state houses. They gained in governorships. They made
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tremendous gains in the minority communities. Like unbelievable vote tallies for Donald Trump,
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from black men, from Latinos, from basically every group for Trump went up, except for like
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college days white men or college educated white men. That was the only group that came down for
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him, which is interesting. But there are some pretty good things to look at in the future.
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But I guess that really rolls into the next brand of thought, which is that I'm not terribly
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optimistic that the next crop of Republicans or whoever the next guy or gals going to be
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can gin up the same level of excitement that Trump did. I'm not super optimistic about that.
13:58
Because if we look forward to 2024, there's a lot of people whose names are kind of circulating
14:02
as maybe the next GOP presidential candidate. So you've got obviously have Vice President Mike
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Pence. You have former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who would be my choice for what I've seen so far.
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I think she's absolutely fantastic. You have Senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott, you have House
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member from Texas, Dan Crenshaw, even though with Dan Crenshaw, I know a lot of guys, especially
14:20
on this podcast really like him. I don't know that he has the national name recognition, right? He
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hasn't been in Congress for very long, but he's been thrown around. You know, if Senator from
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Texas, Ted Cruz, Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, Senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse, Governor
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of Florida, Ron DeSantis, Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, even Tucker Carlson, you know, the Fox News
14:35
host, he's been thrown out there. But then there's the obvious thing and what the betting odds have
14:40
right now is that Donald Trump might run again. Right? If he if he loses, which is very probable,
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he may run again in 2024. Now he will be four years older. And then all those people that
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were like, but Joe Biden's too old. Well, essentially, Donald Trump will have been that old right by
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that point. But then there's also Donald Trump, Jr. There's Ivanka, there's people that think Eric
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has Eric Trump has has that kind of an idea. But the the point I guess I'm trying to make is
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these inroads were made by Donald Trump in the Donald Trump administration.
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I don't know if Pence or Haley or Scott or Crenshaw or Cruz or Rubio or Sasse or San
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DeSantis or Abbott or Carlson or any of those other people that are going to be thrown out there
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have that same level of appeal. Because I remember when Donald Trump was at a black church here,
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I don't know how recently he was maybe in a few years ago, he basically was like, guys,
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what do you have to lose? Like you've had democratic control of these cities and of these policies
15:31
for half a century. And look at what it's done to your community, right? Is your community better
15:36
off than than it was even 50 years ago in terms of, you know, the relative success of your groups?
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He's like, what do you have to lose? Like, is my is my gal Nikki Haley going to say that? I don't
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know. Is the guy I rolled with last time Marco Rubio going to say that? I just don't know.
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Because I think people more Latinos rolled out to support Donald Trump than did Marco Rubio back
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in the day. So interesting, something to watch for. But also another random thought here is
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here are the interesting media narratives to watch out for because we're about to see
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a bunch of sleight of hand guys. And don't worry, I promise we're going to get to the meat of the
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podcast, but there's going to be some sleight of hand and the very first sleight of hand is the
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one that you saw immediately, which guys, congratulations. COVID-19 has been cured. We are good to go.
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They are partying in the streets, guys, like Joe Biden parties, and they're all having a good
16:24
time. They're right next to each other and they're passing around champagne bottles and sharing it.
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It's great. And here's the other thing. Remember me saying that COVID-19 was cease to exist if
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Joe Biden won? Do you remember all the other commentators saying the exact same thing, right?
16:38
But isn't it amazing? If you turn on CNN, I would urge you maybe right now pause this if
16:43
you're not in the car or something like that. Turn on the television, turn on CNN.
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Isn't there something missing from the screen on CNN? It's the COVID ticker because for months,
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no matter what they were talking about, they could have been talking about puppies and marshmallows,
16:57
but on the screen was the number of cases, right? And the number of deaths and the number of this
17:02
because COVID was a losing issue for Donald Trump, right? But magically, magically, it doesn't exist
17:09
anymore. We're not even talking about, we're not talking about these super spreader events,
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like all these Biden celebration parties that happened all across the country, right? Because
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COVID exists, really, unless you're riding for Black Lives Matter, you know, celebrating Joe Biden
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winning, likely celebrating the Lakers winning a championship. Essentially, I had it on good authority
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guys that your loved ones had to die alone and that you had to say goodbye to them via FaceTime.
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I had it on good authority that your children had to receive their educations online, which is
17:45
essentially useless. I also had it on good authority that your business, your business that you saved
17:50
up for maybe even a generational business had to go under had to go out of business in order to
17:55
protect the public. It was required for public safety, right? Unless it's for BLM or Joe Biden
18:04
or a team you like, like there was this one guy on Twitter that early in the morning, he was posting
18:10
pictures and videos of the Biden, you know, rallies and all these people celebrating how great it was
18:15
in about 12 hours later, he was sent a tweet out because a Clemson lost a Notre Dame at Notre Dame,
18:20
so the students rushed the field, right? There's no social distancing when you rush the field.
18:23
He posted a picture of that. He's like, oh, man, this is pretty bad when we're still in a pandemic.
18:27
It's like, dude, a couple of meals ago, you were saying the exact opposite,
18:32
because you don't really agree with what these white college students are doing on the field,
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but you know, all these people celebrating, biting, biting all good, right? So that's an
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interesting media narrative. And by the way, Pfizer, which announced Monday that, you know,
18:45
they've got clinical trials that they've got 90% success rate on their COVID-19 vaccine.
18:50
A lot of people are saying, oh, well, that wasn't political bull crap. That was absolutely political.
18:55
You're telling me that Pfizer waits six days after the general election, even though they already
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had the information, they waited six days to announce their vaccine breakthrough, a vaccine
19:06
breakthrough that happened because of Operation Warp Speed, which was headed by a guy named Donald
19:12
Trump. And people are like, well, why would Pfizer want to go against Donald Trump and blah, blah,
19:16
because Donald Trump is one of the few major political candidates ever to say that pharmaceutical
19:21
pricing is absolutely insane in that he wants to bring it down. So of course, Pfizer would play a
19:26
political game because Joe Biden's not going to say something like that. You know, might say it at
19:30
a rally, but he's not going to take steps to actually change it, right? Another interesting
19:34
media narrative that we're going to see shift is that Biden is the one that's going to make the
19:37
economy bounce back, right? Because we've seen the economy bounce back with the Pfizer news that
19:42
happened on Monday, Monday, like the economy, absolutely skyrocketed. So we might see that U-shaped or
19:47
V-shaped recovery, but it'll be technically during the Joe Biden administration, right? So there's
19:52
going to be some nonsense going on there. And the last thing here is look at how all these other
19:56
countries love the United States again, like a buddy of mine posted on Facebook. Oh, good. We're
20:02
not the laughingstock of the world anymore. Can I just go ahead and say I could give a crap with
20:06
people in the other parts of the world think about the United States, right? Because if you're in
20:11
France right now, I don't care what you think of the United States. And guess what? You shouldn't
20:14
care what I think of France. It shouldn't matter because I'm not French. I don't live there.
20:21
I don't have to be under that regime or under that government, right? So I could care less. Like,
20:26
I saw these polls beforehand of like in Belgium and the Netherlands and the UK and, you know,
20:30
Italy and all these places. And there are approval ratings for Joe Biden versus Donald Trump
20:35
coming into this election. And it's like, I could not care less about that, not one bit less about
20:42
that. But again, it's going to be like, Oh, all these other countries love us again. Isn't that
20:45
him? Isn't that a miracle? Isn't that great? So those are just some of my random thoughts.
20:49
And here's the thing, we'll go and flow into the main part here. I have a main reason why I think
20:53
that Donald Trump probably lost this election, right? Probably. But there are several other
20:58
contributing factors and reasons that I want to go over. I think that they're pertinent for me to
21:02
go over first before I get to that. So let me flow on those three. And then I'll get to the main
21:06
reason why I think he lost the very first reason that I think that he lost or something that I
21:10
that led to his probable loss is the mainstream media, because of course, have you ever in your
21:18
life for some of you guys that listen to this year, you're way older than I am. Have you ever in your
21:22
entire life seen a political candidate have this amount of opposition from the mainstream media?
21:28
Maybe you saw it, but maybe it was a few decades ago when the mainstream media wasn't like it was
21:33
now. There wasn't these 24 hour news. There wasn't this news cycle that we see with Twitter,
21:39
essentially with the journalists going on there. We didn't see any of that. Now, Donald Trump
21:44
had a hand in that because he was basically always poking the bear that was the media.
21:48
But at the same time, the mainstream media had it out for him. They had it out for him,
21:52
you know, since before he even decided he was going to run as the Republican nominee,
21:56
right, to run to become the Republican nominee. They had it out for him for whatever reason.
22:00
He was, he was just Donald Trump. He was, you know, the guy from, you know, the rich billionaire
22:05
mogul before that. And he was the guy from the apprentice. And then all of a sudden,
22:08
he went to get in the political, political sphere. And he started like poking at him and saying that
22:12
they were fake news along the way. And it's like, Oh, we gotta try to destroy this guy.
22:16
The mainstream media literally had it out to destroy this man. And the thing is, is he gives
22:21
you plenty of things to poke at, right? He gives you plenty of targets to hit just because of his
22:25
personality, right, which I've talked about a lot in previous podcasts. But that is a massive
22:30
factor because the number of people that think that Donald Trump is a blatant white supremacist
22:36
racist is astounding. And they believe that because the media constantly tells them that,
22:41
right? Have you seen the compilation video? I think it's of like three or four dozen times
22:45
where Donald Trump explicitly decries white supremacy and the KKK and David Duke and neo-Nazis
22:52
and everything. But then we constantly kept hearing from the media, our media betters,
22:56
right? The CNNs and MSNBCs and the Slates and the New York Times and the Washington Post
23:01
that he's never decried white supremacy. Now, there are times when he should have decried
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it much more clear language, but that would be like me praying for every blind person to be
23:09
able to see color to assume that Donald Trump's going to be precise in his language moving forward.
23:13
But every opportunity he got, he decried it. But you will literally still hear people say,
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Oh God, got to get that orange racist out of office. Racism is such a specific and blatant and evil
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charge if you don't have the goods to prove it. And they think they've got the goods because
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they got this quote over here or that quote over there, most of which have been taken out of context.
23:33
But we believe that because it's a narrative, right? And the mainstream media also propagated
23:38
the polling, right? Which is not one of the main reasons I'm going to specify here.
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But the polling is a big reason. A lot of polling is meant to actually suppress voting
23:47
because if you think your guy's going to lose, right? There's no way that Donald Trump can win.
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Why are you going to donate to the campaign? You might as well throw the money in the trash, right?
23:53
You know, do I really want to go sit in line for three hours to vote? Because you know, he's just
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not going to win in the state. He's down by 17 points, right? He was supposed to lose by double
24:01
digits in Wisconsin. And it looks like he might lose by 10,000 votes or 20,000 votes or something
24:05
like that, not by points and points, maybe a point or two, right? So again, it's going to suppress
24:11
the vote. But the mainstream media is obviously complicit in Donald Trump likely losing the next
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main reason that Donald Trump likely probably lost is big tech. And we've talked about this.
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I did an entire podcast episode that big tech is not your friend, right? The Hunter Biden story,
24:25
two weeks before the election. Also, you can't share it on social media. New York Post has her
24:29
Twitter account completely frozen. You know, the day of the election, there were people that were
24:34
pointing out in the afternoon, they were pointing out these things, these irregularities and oh,
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hey, you know, I'm supposed to be inside right now watching the vote go on because I'm a campaign
24:44
watcher. And they're not letting me in because I'm a Republican, but all the Democrats are in there.
24:48
And all those stories were seemingly not being allowed to be posted on Twitter or Facebook or
24:53
they were in the process of being fact checked. There were conservative news sites that all the
24:58
sudden for the months leading up to the election, like the last month or two, all their traffic was
25:03
going down. They weren't showing up in Google searches. YouTube videos were mysteriously
25:08
disappearing. Or there were community guidelines violations that were being brought up at these
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unbelievably in opportune times where people would actually be on to where they could see the video,
25:17
but now they can't see the video because it's been taken down or it's been temporarily paused or
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not being able to be distributed or shared, right? So big tech absolutely had a hand in this.
25:26
Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg, who again, he's an individual citizen, but he also runs one of the biggest
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companies on the hit in the history of the world, right? Facebook, one of the most important companies
25:35
in the history of the world, giving tens of millions of dollars or at least millions of dollars
25:40
to these organizations that are basically going in and trying to win specific counties and communities
25:45
in these swing states, right? So we cannot pretend like these tech overlords are neutral because they're
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not. And I know a lot of guys are there's a lot of stuff around parlor like joining parlor right
25:55
now, which is basically conservative Twitter. But how long until that's just another one of the
25:59
other ones? Because when you get drunk on power, you don't want less power. So I don't really trust
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that that's going to end up being the savior of social media by any stretch of the imagination.
26:08
But tick big tech absolutely had a huge, a huge impact on Donald Trump likely losing this election.
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And the last one before we get to the main one is COVID-19. I mean, my goodness, in January of
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this year, it looks like Donald Trump is just going to run away with the election. It wasn't
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going to matter what the mainstream media said. It wasn't going to matter what big tech did.
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Donald Trump was going to win because it was trending towards Bernie Sanders as a representative
26:38
of the Democratic ticket. And at that point, you essentially, you definitely keep the White House,
26:44
you definitely keep the Senate, you might regain the house and you're going to lose just about
26:47
every other thing down ballot because every Democrat was going to basically have to sign on to Bernie
26:52
Sanders's insane socialist agenda, like in all of his communist tendencies, right? It was going to be
26:57
a horrible, horrible election for Democrats in January. The market is at all time highs.
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You know, black unemployment, lowest, it's maybe ever been Latino unemployment, lowest,
27:09
it's maybe ever been wages are going up. Everyone's happy. Everyone's loving things. And then there's
27:14
every now and then a, you know, just go back to your mind in January, every now and then there's
27:18
this mention, you know, maybe on the second or third page in the newspaper or maybe the third
27:22
or fourth segment down as you're watching Fox News or CNN about this COVID-19 thing, this pandemic,
27:26
that's kind of, you know, or this, you know, virus has broken out in China. And you know,
27:30
we got to keep it under wraps and then slowly it became what it is today, right? And then we had
27:37
lockdowns, which essentially crushed the economy. We had, you know, every, basically every world
27:43
leader that's not New Zealand, because they're on an island by themselves, kind of bungled this,
27:47
right? And it was a godsend literally a godsend. I'm not saying godsend the virus, so don't at me.
27:53
But it was literally to Democrats, it seemed like a godsend, right? Because they had nothing on
27:58
Donald Trump. They tried to impeach him, didn't work. You know, they released his tax returns.
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It's like, oh, so he's not that rich. Okay, no big deal moving on. There's no, you know,
28:06
he wasn't getting peed on by Russian hookers there. They had nothing. He was Teflon Don,
28:10
there was nothing sticking to him. And then a global pandemic hits pretty much the entire economy
28:15
for the entire world shuts down, right? Donald Trump had some crazy things he said in his media
28:20
interviews. A lot of people thought he did a good job and then he didn't do a good job and then,
28:24
oh, he's got 200,000 people's blood blood on his hands. It became a very easy media narrative.
28:29
This is Donald Trump's fault. If Hillary Clinton was in office, your grandma wouldn't be dead today,
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right? That was that was the thing. COVID-19 has a huge impact on whether or not Donald
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Trump wins this election, which again, I just don't see anyway that he actually wins this.
28:44
So in the mainstream media, big tech, COVID-19. But here is the main reason. So thanks for sticking
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in for about a half hour to get to the main reason why I think that Trump probably lost his
28:53
election himself himself. He should take a lot of responsibility for this likely loss.
29:06
Because there is a simple rule and you've probably heard Ben Shapiro point this out a lot of times,
29:13
the simple rule of politics is to make yourself easy to vote for and make the other guy hard to
29:19
vote for. Donald Trump just could not do that. He constantly had to be the center of attention.
29:24
He constantly had to be the guy that everyone was talking about. He again,
29:30
just go back to the first debate performance. We might look back here in a decade to that first
29:35
debate as the time that Donald Trump lost the election. You've got the entire country watching
29:40
tens of millions of people and he wouldn't let Joe Biden talk. And every time Joe Biden talks,
29:45
he gaps. Every time he lets him talk, he says something like, yeah, of course, we're gonna stop
29:49
fracking in Pennsylvania, right? He just says things like that. But he wouldn't let him talk. He came
29:54
off like an ass like he just looked so stupid in that first debate. It was so embarrassing watching
30:01
that. And again, just a reminder, guys, I'm not just piling on him here. I voted for the guy.
30:05
I voted for him happily. And I still hope somehow he wins if it's within the law and within the
30:10
the actual election regulations, right? But he has done himself a disservice with those voters
30:17
that would have gone to him because of his policies. Because again, I said in my in my last
30:22
podcast where I talked about this, that I chose to vote for Donald Trump because of policy,
30:26
not because of personality. I ignored his personality because I liked his policy so much.
30:31
And the thing is, is when Mike Pence is out there talking about the Trump message and the policy,
30:36
everyone's like, yeah, yeah, that's amazing. We like that. But when Trump says it and when Trump,
30:40
you know, flames people on Twitter and, you know, goes, you know, scorched earth at a media member
30:45
at a press conference, like his base really likes that. But does the stay at home mom in
30:49
Pennsylvania like that? Does, you know, the, the nurse in Wisconsin like that? Is that really
30:55
something that's going to get them to switch their vote? Because here's the thing, the Democratic
30:59
platform and policies, most people are, I won't say most people, but a lot of people don't like that.
31:03
And if the numbers hold up, it looks like Donald Trump is going to lose a second term
31:08
because of tens of thousands of votes, probably less than 100,000 votes total.
31:12
And more votes were cast in this election total than any other election ever. Joe Biden looks to
31:17
receive the most votes in the history of presidential elections. And Donald Trump will get number two,
31:23
more than either Barack Obama, a win, you know, more than any other Republican candidate ever.
31:28
A lot of people voted for him is going to come down to maybe less than 100,000 votes,
31:31
maybe significantly less than that. But you have to look at the combination of what the last four
31:37
years have been and compound that to be like all the rhetoric on Twitter, all the flaming,
31:42
all, all the dunking on people. And on all those things, he made himself incredibly hard to vote
31:48
for. So I was talking with a good buddy of mine who chose to vote for Joe Biden. This is a guy
31:52
who is ideologically a Republican. He's probably fiscally conservative and, and you know, more,
31:58
you know, liberal when it comes to social issues, which I've told you before, my issues with that.
32:01
As a worldview, but he literally said it this way. He said, Kyle, I can't have a vote for Donald
32:06
Trump on my record. Like he was literally looking at it like a report card. Like when he looks back
32:12
and he's talking to his grandkids about the people he's voted for, he could not bring himself to
32:17
voting for a guy like Donald Trump. He couldn't have it on his record, as he said. And it's hard
32:24
to argue with a guy like that. But I did. And for months, I was like, but just ignore Donald Trump,
32:29
like let's just call him XYZ, right? And let's just look at the policies of XYZ versus the policies
32:35
of a Joe Biden or a Kamala Harris. Like let's just look at the things that they think, the things
32:40
that they've said, the positions they've shifted on magically in the last year to 18 months. But
32:46
Donald Trump always had to be the center of attention. He had to have his name on the COVID-19
32:51
relief check. The only one that ever came. He always had to be the center of attention.
32:55
And when you're the center of attention, the referendum on the election is on you.
32:59
Right? That's always how it goes. And so for the sake of the country,
33:05
I wish that Donald Trump could have toned it down a little bit. And for some of you that are big
33:08
time Trump people, it's like, no, he had to tone it up and he can't just be the the moderate
33:12
Republican and all that. It hasn't worked. It didn't work for Romney. It didn't work for McCain.
33:15
It didn't work for HW the second time. You know, whatever thing like, I get it.
33:20
But can you imagine what this election would have been like if over the last four years he had
33:29
maybe just tweeted once a week. Maybe his tweets were just positive about the country. Maybe they
33:34
were unifying in their message while at the same time attacking these evil ideologies that were
33:39
coming out of the Democratic Party. Would that have been beneficial? I think it would have been.
33:42
Because again, people talked about teleprompter Trump. Like every time he does a speech from
33:49
teleprompter, it's like, man, where'd that come from? But when he's flowing and kind of being a,
33:53
you know, a comedian on stage and all that, yeah, there's some some funny moments that I've certainly
33:57
laughed and I think he's an entertaining guy. But again, if you have to think about it from the
34:00
shoes of a fence straddling voter, what is that doing for them? They're not getting the warm fuzzies
34:07
by voting for you because you don't seem presidential, which is supposed to mean something, even though
34:11
I don't think it actually should or does. So there's a lot of finger pointing to go around.
34:16
Again, I think the Republican Party is in pretty good shape moving forward. If they can continue
34:21
to get the vote out for certain people, again, I I'm not incredibly optimistic about some of the
34:28
people that might come up in their ability to get that same type of excitement. But we'll see.
34:33
Again, just kind of wrap up here. If I'm wrong about this, guys, if I've jumped the gun and,
34:38
you know, six, seven, eight weeks from now, it's found that there was this tremendous amount of,
34:42
you know, just crap going on and all these different races and they were able to shift it
34:47
over to the Trump side legally. Then yeah, I'll absolutely come on and eat my words. But
34:52
assuming when all this is ratified, I will do probably another podcast is kind of summing up the
34:56
Donald Trump presidency going over some things that he's been able to do and some of the thoughts
35:00
about the country moving forward. But as of right now, the main reason why I think that Donald Trump
35:04
probably lost this election is because of himself. All right, guys, before we let you go,
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we are going to do a quick resilience boost. As you know, by now, we are a men's ministry in our
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mission is cultivating manly resilience. Specifically, we do that by providing you content like this
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podcast that helps you forge spiritual, mental and physical toughness. So the article I have for you
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is a complete divergence from anything that we've talked about. But on Albert Mueller's podcast,
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a couple of days ago, he talked about JRR Tolkien, who wrote the Lord of the Rings because there's
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news coming out that Amazon is trying to do a Lord of the Rings show, but they're all they plan on
35:34
doing sex and nudity and violence and stuff like that. So they're trying to do Lord of the Rings,
35:39
Game of Thrones style, it's seemingly the case. But he talked about this, this letter that JRR
35:45
Tolkien wrote to his son back in the day on the subject of sex. So how to talk about sex to your
35:52
son? I thought it was incredibly interesting, just a discussion of that, but also the article
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itself. So I've got that article for you here. So even if you're not a Lord of the Rings fan,
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which I would not consider myself one of those as well, I haven't read the books, I fell asleep,
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you know, halfway through the second movie, never watched the third one, it's just not really my
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thing. But again, this is a, this is a masterful writer, apparently, and this is a very, very famous
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guy, having a very candid discussion with the sound about a very sensitive topic. How many,
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how many times can you say vary in just a few sentences? But I think that's going to be an
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interesting thing for you guys to read, especially if you have sons that are kind of in that age
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