Nov. 12, 2024

Why Did People Vote For Trump?

Why Did People Vote For Trump?
We've all heard variations on the question: What motivated a majority of Americans to cast their vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 Election? Ricochet's Dave Carter was on the receiving end of just such and inquiry from a high school class mate he knew years ago in his hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana. This episode, without any guests or interviews, provides Dave's answer. It is, as he says, "respectfully tendered," in the hope that whether or not there is agreement on policy issues, the listener will be disabused of the idea that Trump voters are motivated by racism, sexism, selfishness or any other nefarious motives. But here, take the next 20 minutes and listen for yourself.
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Soldier storyteller, this story of Hell Razor.

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It's Dave Carter, and this is the Dave Carter Show.

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I have Dave Carter, and it's my pleasure to walcommut

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to the services today.

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How's it going, folks, How you doing baby?

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Anything interesting happened in the last I don't know how

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long since our last get together. Anything in the news. Perhaps,

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Let's see, we had Veterans Day. So let me offer

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my sincere thanks and enduring gratitude to my fellow vets.

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Thank you so much for your service. So many sacrificed

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so very much for the cause of freedom for their

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fellow Americans. And I think the result of the twenty

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twenty four presidential election underscore the point that most Americans

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prefer to live their lives as free men and free women.

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But not everyone sees the recent election in the same light.

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About a week ago, I posted on social media something

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that was written by a friend of mine, a priest

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actually back in Memphis. And he wrote, and I quote,

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to think God ordained of filthy, minded, adulterous, wealthy man

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with evil in his heart to preside over a nation

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challenges my self righteous understanding. But he did and that

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sinful man by Grace gave us the psalms hashtag King

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David unquote. Now I'll perk your ears up a little bit,

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won't it. That'll set you back and get you to

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thinking a bit, which was a good thing. That was

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the point. So in the comments on that post, a

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wonderful and gracious lady from my hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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She and I graduated in the same class back at

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Late Charles High. She responded to the post with a

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simple link. Now, she's more of a progressive mind than I,

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so I didn't exactly think she'd be doing backflips and

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dancing the boogoloo over the election results. But what I

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heard when I clicked the link was the gentleman posing

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some rather probing questions, and they deserve answers, and she

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deserves answers. The gentleman's name is Rory Nicholas. I don't

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know who he is. I wouldn't know from a can

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of paint, but I'm gonna play his clip, a clip

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of his remarks rather so you can get a sense

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of the concerns, at least some of the concerns from

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the other side of the political spectrum.

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The reality is that as a country, we had the

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opportunity to take the higher road, to stand for something

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higher than our basest instincts, to stand for equality and fairness,

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to stand for the overall good of everyone. But over

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half of y'all kept us from taking it, and the

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whole world was watching. And you know who else was watching,

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Your non white friends, your non straight friends, your wives,

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your kids, your dollars. So to anyone who actually does

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claim to value those higher ideals, you know, the ones

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I mentioned earlier, the ones we were taught as kids

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in Sunday School. Yeah, Christians, remember Sunday School. If you

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claim to hope any of those same values, but all

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at the very same time enamored with Trump and perfectly

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pleased for the outcome of the election, me and millions

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like me deserve an explanation.

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Well, what's the answer to a question like that? Mister

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Nicholas asked variations on that question for around six minutes.

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It's a sincere question, of course, accompanied by accusations that

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those who voted for Donald Trump placed no value on kindness, generosity,

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loving ones neighbor, being accepting and having empathy, showing understanding

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and being truthful, being ethical in business, being sensible, level headed.

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We are bullies, selfish, and total are holes. Now that's

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as specific as he gets. Okay, he speaks in broad

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generalizations and platitudes, doesn't put any meat on the bones

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of his argument to prove or validate his multiple accusations

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and assumptions. Fine, but I will respond with specific points

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tendered respectfully to explain why a clear majority not only

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voted for Trump but rejected a continuation of progressive governance.

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NBC leading Legacy network announced that its exit polls showed

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that the number one concern of voters was what the economy? No, immigration,

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perhaps no, those were among the top issues, of course,

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but the number one concern of those who voted democracy.

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That's right, democracy itself was the top concern. But it

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wasn't of the January sixth variety. But how can that?

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As Democrat and former Congressman Harold Ford Junior said after

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the election, it turns out that for most folks, democracy

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means being able to afford to put food on the

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food on the table, or a gas in the car

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so you can get to work, being able to walk

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down the streets safely, not having your communities and cities

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overrun with illegal migrants who are subsidized with your earnings.

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Turns out there for a lot of folks, democracy means

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not having their daughters beat to a pulp by boys

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playing in girls' sports, and not having boys in the

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girl's bathroom or locker room, and not having children who

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aren't even old enough to purchase a cigarette or get

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a tattoo unilatterally decide to sterilize themselves and chop off

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body parts because they're not yet fully formed minds want

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an irreversible sex change. Evidently, for a majority Americans, democracy

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means that the safety and well being of Americans takes

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priority or other concerns. As commentator and host of the

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number one late night show in America, Greg Guttfeldt put it, quote,

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this is the biggest political comeback in history. But it's

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not just Trump's. It's the American people's forgotten and maligned

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by an elite class who assumed wealth and status kept

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them immune from their problems plaguing everyone else. Crime, inflation,

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the border, homelessness. That assumption was a mistake. Every mugging,

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every rape ignored, every female athlete called called transphobic for

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resisting men in locker rooms. Every hard working couple called

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racist for expressing concerns or concerns over illegal immigration. This

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is their comeback too. Now, I'll drill down harder on

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this in a little bit, but I want to point

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out a larger point that I think Rory Nicholas and

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some others than the left, perhaps including my dear classmate,

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are missing, or perhaps they haven't noticed yet, but I

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suspect that we are seeing a political and cultural realignment

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that bodes well for democracy in America as a whole

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going forward. Here, let me play a clip from an

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ABC News Sunday show this last week. This is an

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exchange between ABC's Jonathan Carl and Charlemagne the God.

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What do you make of the demographics here? I mean

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Trump got one out of every three voters of color.

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No, yeah, really yeah, when you say color, you mean

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like black, brown, everything. Oh well, I think that, you know,

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people have different issues that they care about, and I

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think that there's nobody out there that's a single issue voter.

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I think some of this is a backlash to race

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and gender and identity politics. But man, most people, they

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just care about keeping food on the table and keeping

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a roof over their head. And I think sometimes people

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forget about that. I think that they forget about, you know,

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the working class. And for whatever either, Donald Trump speaks

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to the grievances of the working class in a real way.

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And I keep telling folks, people will forget what you did,

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they'll forget what you said, but they'll never forget how

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you made them feel.

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Now, please stays with me for just a minute here,

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because this is a seismic shift, folks. If one in

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three voters of color went with Trump, that suggests that

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this is no longer a question of race. Now for

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a few more numbers from the Washington Post analysis of

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the election, we see that Trump won forty six percent

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of the Latino vote, which, according to the Post, is

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the highest number for a Republican presidential candidate in at

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least fifty years. Trump also won fifty five percent of

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Latino men, which suggests that they have just as much

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interest in their wives and girlfriends and daughters remaining safe

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from predators of all races as any husband or boyfriend

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or father would tell me. Roy, is anyone else discussed?

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Is is that disgusting and unkind? In fact, Trump won

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the most heavily Latino County on the US Mexico border.

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Now that's Star County in Texas. He won by a

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sixteen point margin. So you tell me, here's the Latino

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community along the US Mexico border unkind, bullying, selfish, or

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xenophobic for wanting safe communities. The Post also reports that

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Trump enjoyed a six point margin of victory in Dearborn. Dearborn, Michigan,

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the country's first Arab majority city. Nationwide, there's an eleven

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point difference in the gender gap showing men were more

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likely to vote Republican than women, which, according to the Post,

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is quote actually a somewhat normal gap, and it would

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suggest this wasn't largely about men being unwilling to vote

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for a woman, to which I say, well, duh, it

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never was about that. So what does it all mean? Well,

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let us go to former National Wrestling Association World heavyweight

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champion Tyris Murdoch for a SYNOPSI.

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I think this is probably the greatest multi cultural landslide

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in the history of this country. This was a movement

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of every shade, didn't matter who you slept with, whatever,

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everybody came together, you know. And but the only thing

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is making me mad? Is everyone's mad at us blacks.

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He didn't do it alone, okay, you know, like and

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how the Asians just get off the hook. They wasn't

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on this too, you know. But it was across the board.

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And I think it was a beautiful thing. But that's

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what happens when you listen. That was what put him

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over the top. That he would sit and talk with

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someone like me and take an idea that I had

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and all of a sudden it's in the news as

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a possible policy. He would talk to the gardener, he

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would talk to the drive, He would listen to people's

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concerns and be like, Okay, I want to try it.

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I don't know if I can fix that. So hey, RF,

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why don't you come on here? Telsea Gawick. He brought

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people together and he listened. He wasn't will explain in everybody.

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So I think that's what this was really about. I

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think that's why there's no buildings burning tonight. And we

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had no problem walking into work because it was a

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universal you to the administration.

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Now you see, you see it. It wasn't about race,

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It wasn't about acceptance of people who are different with

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different beliefs, lifestyles, religions, et cetera. This may be hard

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for some to hear, but the civil rights movement was successful.

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Doctor King's dream about in America that judge people not

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on the color of their skin, but on the contents

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of their character was dead on, absolutely correct, and has

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been embraced as the American creedo for decades now. This

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election was about a broad spectrum of American society majority,

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as it turns out, who was just worn out and

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tired of being forced into predesignd boxes according to precisely

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the categories that doctor King warned us about and then

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told to hate people in the other boxes and categories.

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They're tired of being told that race or color, or

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gender or sexual orientation is dispositive of character in proof

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of one's role as either oppressor or oppressed. That's not equality.

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That's the very definition of racism and sexism, and when

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it becomes the law of the land, it's tyrannical. If

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you're looking for multiculturalism, take a look at the demographics

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of the majority of vote on election day. People of

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all colors, backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, etc. Came together to reject

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the division that's been imposed on them for nearly four

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years now. They've listened to it, they've lived through it,

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and now they've made their decision. They've rejected it, and

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they've rejected something else as well, again from the Washington Post,

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which isn't exactly a bastion of conservative thought. The Post

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editorial board concluded that a big part of why Harris

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lost the election is quote Harris in the White House's

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constant denial of Biden's mental acuity issues destroyed the party's believability,

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and Americans voted accordingly. Quote. According to The Washington Post,

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the credibility problems that miss harris repeated defense of Biden's

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alleged sharpness illustrated was part of the reason the Democrats

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met defeat. The editorial criticizing Harris for denying Special Council

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Robert K. Hirs's claim from February that Biden, according to

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her quote was a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with

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a poor memory. Unquote. Her made the assessment in his

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reports on the investigation in the Biden's classified documents case.

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Vice President Kamala Harris didn't just call Special Council Robert K.

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Hir's report quote gratuitous inaccurate and inappropriate unquote. When it

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came out in February, she claimed that he was clearly

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politically motivated and impugned his integrity. S at the Washington Posts,

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she said, quote the way that the presidence demeanor in

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that report was characterized could not be more wrong unquote.

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Then all the world saw proof of Joe Biden's cognitive

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incapacitation in his debate with Donald Trump. The Democrats had

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a losing hand, and they had to act fast. But

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we knew, we all knew that they had been lying

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to us all along, and we knew that Kamala Harris

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was a huge part of that lie that hurt them. Now,

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though it lasted just one hundred and ten days, the

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Harris campaign was the first one billion dollar campaign in

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American history. They spent five hundred and eighty million dollars

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on staff. The Washington Examiner reports that Harris's campaign dropped

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one hundred thousand dollars to recreate Alex Cooper's Call Me

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Daddy podcast set so she could travel to Harris instead

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of the other way around. Now, I don't know if

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that's an unethical expenditure, but it sure is weird. She

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paid Oprah seven figures for her appearances and paid millions

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for Lady Gaga, Lizzo, and a variety of other pop

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stars who know a great deal less about current issues

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than I care or care to know about them. After

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a cool billion dollars spent, Kamala Harris' campaign concludes with

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one twenty million dollars in the red. They blew through

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well over a billion dollars in one hundred and ten

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days and still came out in the red. I guess

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it's easier, you know, when you're spending someone else's money. Meanwhile,

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Donald Trump raised three hundred and eighty one million and

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spent three hundred and forty five million, including ten million

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on staff for his part. Elon Musk put his fortune

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and safety on the line to back Trump, as did

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Rfk and many more. So, you have a one billion

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plus dollar law that ends up in the red compared

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to a three hundred and eighty one million dollars whin

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with money left over. Now, who do you trust more

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to manage the federal budget? Or is it unkind, or

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racists or selfish to ask that question? You see what,

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Regardless of what the Rory nicholases of the world want

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to think. Americans aren't bullies. We don't lack good sense.

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We are level headed. We do stand for equality and fairness.

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We learned a lot in Sunday School. We learn that

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love comes in all colors. We learn the value of

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treating others as we want to be treated. We learn

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that ostracizing people and mistreating them on the basis of

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immutable characteristics is repugnant. We also learn that freedom is

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our birthright and that no one has the right to

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take away the right to free speech, self defense, national sovereignty,

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or the sovereignty of the individual. We learn that your life,

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your liberty, and your property cannot be taken away without

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due process of law. As Charles C. W. Cook has written, quote,

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one way of understanding this is that voters have worked

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out that whatever they say are emphasizement running Democrats aggressively

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use the bureaucracy to advance and enforce whatever novel social

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ideas their active as friends came up with. Last week,

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Biden did it too, Or, as Bernie Sanders recently observed, quote,

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if you're an average working person out there, do you

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really think that the Democrat Party is going to the

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mats and taking on powerful special interest in fighting for you.

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I think the overwhelming answer is no, unquote, so we

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voted accordingly. Actually, it's a renaissance if you think about it.

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It's a renaissance that embraces values like liberty, growth, and

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free speech while rejecting identity politics, race baiting, and censorship.

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It's just that simple, and there's nothing evil or unkind

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about it.

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Thank you everyone, Thank you everyone, Thank you.

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Okay, let's get to business.

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Let's get to business, all right.

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I used to see on every TV, you.

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Smile any face.

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Who doesn't love a yellow stool bless right?

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Can you raise your hand if.

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You love a yellow school less d right?

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I used to see.

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On every TV, your smile any face look back at me.

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You need to get to go. I need to be

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able to get where you need to go to do

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the work and get home.

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In the countrre with the girl next door.

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People's funding pound on the floor, accusations that you tried

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to deny revelation, and rumors begin to fly.

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This is just an epic disaster. Twenty million or twenty

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million or eighteen dollars in debt. It's incredible, and I

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raised millions of that. I have friends that I have

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to be accountable to and to explain what happened, because

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I told them it was a margin error race. I

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was promised General mally Dillon promised all of us that

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cars would win, even put videos out saying that Harris

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would win. I believed her, My donors believed her, and

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so they wrote massive checks. I just I feel like

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a lot of us are in this led.

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You think about.

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Tavia gets on hair from weeping me in door for

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at night, but Joy cometh in the morning.

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I think.

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Eva gets on hair when we invest in clean energy

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and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children

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can breathe clean air and drink clean.

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Water before crowd around your house going to pack off pounds,

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speculate and what they might find out you don't.

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Conversation day Garter show.

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All right, now, let's hang on a minute.

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There we go.

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Well, that was a good combination of sober analysis and

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a bit of mischief, wasn't it. I mean, actually I

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probably short changed the mischief a little bit, but you know,

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that's how it goes. There were some very serious issues

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that needed to be addressed, and I could go on

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a lot longer with at a certain point you run

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the risk of your listener's ears falling off, so I

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wanted to avoid that if at all possible. Besides, there'll

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be enough time to address a lot of this stuff

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going forward, so you know there's that now coming up soon.

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I'll have my friend and talk radio star Brian Rust

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on the program to analyze what's happening and what needs

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to happen as President Trump puts together his staff and

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his plan to enact a program that he now has

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a popular mandate to enact. Also, in a few weeks,

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talk radio star Brian Russ and I will be recording

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a podcast in front of a live audience, which of

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course is better than the Dead ones, and it'll be

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at a Ricochet meet up coming up here on Panama

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You'll hear them on that podcast page. So again, go

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heard on today's program, including Kamala Harris, without whom this

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wouldn't have been nearly as much fun. And as always,

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my sincere thanks to you or the listener. I'm Dave

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Carter and I'll see you next time.

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