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Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and Senator, I gotta tell ya, victory is sweet.
It's even more fun watching the media meltdown continue after having to deal with the reality that not only did Donald Trump win, we got the Senate and it's clearly looking like we actually may make gains on the House side and they can't handle it.
Look, the corporate media are losing their minds.You know, there's a German word, schadenfreude, which is taking pleasure or joy from the suffering of others.
It's not a pretty sentiment, but I gotta say, watching these hardcore leftists just scream out in agony that the voters voted and voted in a way they didn't like, it truly is.And you know what's striking?
their rage, their anger, not a one of them has actually learned a lesson.
Not a one of them has paused to say, huh, maybe being radical leftist and opening up the border and threatening people's homes and screwing up the economy and driving up the cost of everything and screwing up the country and bringing the world to war and undermining Israel and creating an environment where anti-semites take over college campuses and threaten our kids, maybe that's a bad thing.
Maybe having moms fear for the safety of their kids is a bad thing.None of these leftists are saying that.Instead, they're just screaming, orange man bad, rar, and it really is striking.
Although, we're going to wrap up by pointing out the one man in America on the Democrat side who is not sad, and who is actually full of joy.And I'm not gonna tell you his name, but it rhymes with Bo Jiden.
Yeah, I've never seen a bigger grin on that man, and we'll change his name for a little bit, ever.
I think at any point, including even on days when he thought it was probably the best day of his life, it's gonna be quite interesting to play some of these clips We'll have that for you.
So let me just say Joe Biden understands Schadenfreude as well.
Yeah, I said it on election night.The only place more happier right now than the war room we were in was the White House and sitting there just going, you guys thought you'd be better without me.How you like me now?
Yeah, Joe Biden grinning from ear to ear and having a very interesting press conference.We're going to dive into that in a moment.
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I've watched more MSNBC on purpose and CNN in the last 48 hours than I have in a very long time.Because like you said a moment ago, they haven't learned from this loss.
They're just crying and angry over this loss, but they didn't pay attention to the American people at all.
now not at all i'd let's start with morning jokers morning joe is is a it's a good place to start it's it's where lefty start their morning so let's start there i want to talk about economy for a second uh... a few weeks ago three weeks ago uh... somebody who's going to be voting uh... for kamala harris uh... he came up to me and said on my god trump's gonna win i go why is that because i just i went to the grocery store butters over three dollars i kinda laughed and i said i said
Well, that's kind of reductive, isn't it?Said it to myself.To him, I smiled and I said, good point.But it actually, everything we're hearing after the election is... I'm just saying, the seven.What's that?
What's that?Butter is seven dollars?
What?Is it framed in gold?It depends on where you go. Okay, well, yeah, okay, well, anyway, my point is this, Willie, the rent is too damn high, and this guy was saying the cost of butter is way damn too high.And so I thought it was a bit reductive.
It ended up being Just the point that if you look at the cost of groceries, if you look at the cost of gas, if you look at the cost of things compared to four years ago, it was a very simple answer for working class Americans.
Things just cost too much.
Yeah.Yeah, no question about it.
I mean, I love how the fact there he's like, oh wait, it's seven?It's seven dollars?This is the elitism of the left.They have no idea what's happening in real America.
And Mika's like, dude, it's not three dollars, not four dollars, not five dollars, not six, it's seven dollars for butter.And he couldn't believe it.
I'm like, if you guys would have figured that out before election day, maybe you wouldn't have sucked so bad.
Okay, Ben, let me call a little BS on you.
I can't wait.Do you have any idea how much butter costs?
Oh, you have no idea, dude.I do a lot of the grocery shopping.
Okay, so in Casa Cruz, I am not the grocery shopper.There are things that are on my plate, things that are on Heidi's plate.I am not the grocery shopper, although I will say tonight
I went and bought some cheddar cheese because Caroline decided to make baked mac and cheese, and so she sent me out to buy cheddar.So I bought cheddar.But if you asked me how much is butter, I would have no idea.And so I actually googled.
I'm like, all right, $3, $7 beats the hell out of me.So I googled how much is butter.And let me just tell you what Google said.So unsalted butter curbside at Target is $4.29. Land O'Lakes half stick salted butter is $4.59.
And then some weird ass thing called Kerrygold pure Irish butter.How much do you think that is?
Oh, and see, Irish butters next level, it tastes a lot better, by the way.That stuff is legit.I'm gonna go eight, nine bucks.Okay, that's another level that I've never seen before.
Like this, like, coated in gold, maybe that, like, and by the way, Dollar General butter is $3.Now this may be in Houston, I don't know, maybe in D.C.it is $7. Um, at Kroger, a Land O'Lakes salted butter, uh, two pack is $9.99.
Um, so... By the way, you need to try you some, if we're talking about butter here, if you've never tried Kerrygold butter on a bagel or toast, oh my gosh, it is unbelievable.
Yeah, look, I am not a terribly fancy... I'm not a cook and I'm not a terribly fancy eater, but... So you want to know the true reason why I do grocery shopping?
Sure.It's maybe the first and only time I'll ever throw my wife under the bus on the show.It's because I know how much money I save when I go to the grocery store instead of her going.
Because when she goes, it's like the organic and all that stuff starts speaking to her.And it's like, you know, chickens that were coddled for six months before they killed the chicken is like, you know, $8.99 a pound.
And I'm like, I'm good with a $3.50, $3.80, $4 a pound chicken.So I just go for economic reasons because I save so much money when I do shopping.
when I do grocery shopping, I either buy junk or I buy fruit.I like fruit, so I'll go pick out fresh fruit and get grapes or cherries or nectarines.And so I'll buy fruit, and then I'll buy junk.I'll buy things like Lunchables.
Remember, Heidi's a vegetarian, so I'll get those things like the cracker and cheese and little piece of ham or something.
If you're bacheloring it up for everybody listening, and I think I know the answer to this, But if you're a bachelor, if it's just you, grocery store, buying for you, what is that?
Is it a lunchable or is it, I mean, because usually I remember a can of soup.
All right, so you've been to my apartment in D.C.Yeah.It is literally a bachelor kitchen.Like there's nothing in the kitchen.I may have like some three week old leftovers with mold growing on them.He's not lying, folks.Three bottles of beer.
And that's pretty much like it's just an empty fridge. And so here at home, I'll have tortillas with melted cheese.
That's my favorite late night snack, is take a slice of cheese, throw it on a tortilla, nuke it for a minute, roll it up, and that I like.And then chunky soup.But I'm not... Are you at least an ATB tortilla guy?
Because that's mandatory at our house.
Oh, I'll eat any kind of tortillas.Mission tortillas are good, like H-E-B.You don't discriminate.I am not a food snob.Actually, I like good food.I just like crappy food, too.I'm just kind of across the board.
See, my boys love it when the wife's out of town because we just go to the grocery store and I'm like, get whatever you want.
and we'll buy the frozen pizzas and we'll buy the like you said, like the Lunchables, whatever it is, the toasters, strudels, I'm like, get it all boys.Mom's gone, rules are off, we don't have to worry about organic.
So today for breakfast last lunch, I ordered on delivery breakfast tacos and I had a chorizo egg and cheese taco for lunch.
I love it.That's the American dream right there.
Yeah, it's good stuff.But anyway, the point, it is kind of amusing the back and forth between Joe and Mika, and they're suddenly realizing, well, inflation is really bad.Now let's go to the sort of bitter
bitter angry leftists and of course by that i mean the view which there is there are no bit more bitter or norm no more angry leftists take a listen to the views explaining the picture they came out in all black the day after the election just so people know if you don't watch the view like it was a funeral they were wearing all black on the view
That's rich, right?They are rich and they hate average Americans.They look down on us.
And here, listen, and I'm going to prove that that statement is not too extreme because you're going to see Sunny Hostin demonstrating just how much she despises average Americans.
And finally, we talk a lot about these different demographics and these assumptions of where they're going to go.Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97% Latino, went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump.Why?Misogyny.No, it's on the border.
The border crisis is on their doorstep.And they were begging people to care about it for years.Misogyny and sexism.We need to take some lessons.That's what that was.
The lessons are not misogyny.
Knock, knock.Who's there?
misogyny and and and sexism yeah and by the way she's talking about south texas she she's talking about hispanics and and apparently and it wasn't just hispanic men that were voting for donald trump it was hispanic women too so apparently
Hispanic women are motivated by misogyny and sexism.They just don't like women.That's the only explanation.Not that having 11.5 million people invade your state, invade your community, threaten your kids.
Not having 110,000 people die of fentanyl and drug overdoses.None of that.No, no, no.It's just you hate women.
If you didn't vote for Kamala Harris, you've got to say, you know what, I'm willing for my family to be sacrificed because I am a woke leftist.I mean, listen to the contempt.There's no part of Sonny that's trying to say, huh.
An overwhelmingly Hispanic district went overwhelmingly for Trump and by the way in Texas Trump carried Hispanics and I carried Hispanics.I carried Hispanics statewide by six points and no part of Sonny could say well why is that?
Is there maybe something about the current radical agenda of the left that is turning people off?Nope.Apparently everyone's just a racist and a bigot.That's the only explanation possible.
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And it didn't get any better, by the way, because if you move from Sunny Hostin, you go over to Rachel Maddow.She took a different approach and that was a tirade where she basically fear mongered what this country is turning into.
It reminded me a lot of 2016, except there's more hatred for Trump now than there even was in 16.But take a listen to MSNBC's like obituary for America.
But now history doesn't end, time doesn't stop.Now we have the benefit of knowing how this has gone in every other country that has been through a democracy to authoritarian transition.And sadly, there are a lot of them.
We have the benefit of seeing what's happened in those other countries, though.And what we know is that the more ground the authoritarian takes, the harder it is to ever get that ground back.
And so the first order of business is to stop them from taking any uncontested ground right from the outset, when it comes to what our system of government is and what our democracy is.
From other countries' experiences, that quickly, I mean now, in the next few weeks, if not the next few days, They are going to start pushing to see how far the country is going to let them go without pushback, without protest.
And part of this is because it's just psychologically advantageous for them to do this now, right?They're counting on the half the country that voted against them, the half the country that doesn't want to give up our system of government.
They're counting on all those tens of millions of Americans to be despondent, to feel powerless, to check out. which of course would mean letting them do what they want, letting them run the table.
What they really don't want is for the half the country that voted against them, the half the country that wants to keep our democracy, what they really don't want is for those tens of millions of Americans to wake up tomorrow feeling scrappy as hell.
So there's your pep talk, Senator.It's it's there.We've got a tyrant and a dictator and half of America must not be silent, even though the majority of Americans and I can't wait to throw this in liberals faces all the time.
Donald Trump just won the popular vote, too.So the majority of Americans said Donald Trump is who they want, not you, not Kamala Harris.And so you need to stop acting like the majority of the country was just disenfranchised.They were not.
And the popular vote. proves that.
Ben explain something to me.I at times have trouble understanding what passes for think processes among radical leftists.Rachel Maddow just said those Americans who want to save our democracy need to rage against how the damn people voted.
Like okay wait democracy to quote Inigo Montoya you keep on using that word I do not think it means what you think it means. Like, she's claiming to be a defender of democracy and her answer is screw the voters for voting for something I don't like.
And I, Rachel Maddow, I the left, we should impose our views on you whatever the damn voters say.It doesn't matter.We're going to impose it.Why?Because we believe in democracy so much we want to ignore what the voters voted for.
This goes back to what the Democrats did in 2016, and at least they're consistent.When they don't get their way now, they feel like their job is to say, okay, we just overthrew the will of the people.
We have a clear intent against terrorism.Play the next Rachel Maddow clip.
then the decisive result of this election gives us not just an answer to the question as to what Americans want to do along those lines, it also gives us a really big to-do list as Americans.
If you are an American citizen who does not want to ashcan the American system of government, who doesn't want a strongman authoritarian system where the whole government is one guy and everything else just exists to serve him, if that is not the kind of country that you want,
then yesterday's election means you have more to do for your country than you have ever done before.Because now is when the rubber really hits the road, right?
We don't just flip a switch and the American system of government is gone, democracy is gone.It doesn't work like that.I mean, not to be boring here for a second, but just getting very real.
We now are just another one in the list of countries that has decided to, you know, hey, what the heck, let's try the strongman thing.Let's let democracy go, let's put in an all-powerful guy instead, see how it goes.
There are many more countries in the world governed by that kind of a system than there are governed by ours.We are the only 248-year-old multiracial, pluralistic democracy in the world.And shall we keep it?
A lot of our fellow Americans say we shouldn't.Now we know.Now we know for sure.But a lot of Americans, tens of millions of Americans, say we should keep that system, which means time to fight for it.
And yes, Americans did fight for it by working on this election, by trying to get the candidate elected who was both the Democrat and the small-D Democrat. She didn't win.The strongman candidate won instead.But now history doesn't end.
Time doesn't stop.Now we have the benefit of knowing how this has gone in every other country that has been through a democracy to authoritarian transition.And sadly, there are a lot of them.
We have the benefit of seeing what's happened in those other countries, though.And what we know is that the more ground the authoritarian takes, the harder it is to ever get that ground back.
And so the first order of business is to stop them from taking any uncontested ground right from the outset.
I mean, what else can you say?These people are deranged at this point on the media.
So Rachel Maddow just said that Americans just voted to end our, quote, multiracial pluralistic democracy.Now, number one, the fact that they voted shows they didn't vote to end democracy.
Now, technically speaking, we have a republic, not a democracy, but it is a democratic republic.It is a republic where the representatives are elected by the people.And in this case, the voters not only voted for Donald Trump,
They voted for Republican senators, not only to give Republicans a majority in the Senate, it looks like they voted for a majority in the House, too.And you know what?
The leftists hate the fact that the people voted for a policy agenda that includes low taxes and low regulations and lots of jobs, that includes spending restraint and inflation under control.
that includes the federal government not waging war on American energy production and driving up costs and driving up inflation.
That includes securing the damn border and not allowing 11.5 million people to invade this country, not making billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels, not allowing children to be trafficked.
It includes not losing 300,000 children, which is what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has done.And by the way, when she's talking about, you know, we just voted to end a multi-racial pluralistic democracy,
Well, just a minute ago, Sonny Hostin was saying, those damn Hispanics!How could they vote for this?Let's be clear.It doesn't matter if you're a white man or Hispanic or African-American.If you don't vote the way leftists want you to, they hate you.
I'll tell you, in Texas in this last election, I won a majority of Hispanics.I won 20% of African-American men in the state of Texas.Now, I wish that were 50 percent or higher, but 20 percent is a high water mark.
And in Rachel Maddow's world, those people who voted for me, who voted for Donald Trump, they don't count as African Americans.It is truly, and let me make another point, They're going on and on about an authoritarian and authoritarian.
Donald Trump was president for four years.He didn't do anything that was authoritarian.He followed the law.By the way, the reason we're going to get good laws passed is we didn't just elect Trump.We elected a Republican Senate, a Republican House.
So the democratic system worked and people said, we don't like your policies.We're going to switch back to the ones we like.And the administration that has been dictatorial
has been joe biden and kamala harris you want to talk about authoritarian having a president say i'm going to defy federal immigration laws and a lot just let people go that's authoritarian it's lawless having an administration say i'm gonna give away a trillion dollars in a student loan giveaway that is totally contrary to federal law it has to be struck down by the by the supreme court that is authoritarian having an administration issue of an edict
You must get a COVID vaccine or we will fire you.We will fire you from the military.We'll fire you from the federal government.We'll force your private employer to fire you.We don't care if you want to choose to get this vaccine or not.
We will force it on you.By the way, that was struck down by the Supreme Court as well.You know what you call all of that?Authoritarian.And the leftists, they never acknowledge a moment of that.And let me be clear.Let's go back to the view.
So as you know, I've been on The View three times with my last several books.
You know, the last book I wrote, Unwoke, The View said, nope, we won't have you on because it went so badly for them because they can only sit there and lie when they don't actually face facts to the contrary.
And so they want to live in an utterly fact-free environment where they can lie to the American people.
Yeah, they do it well.They do it well every day, and proof of it is how they've been acting since election day, which I think is the most surprising, but also for me, part of me just says, I'm kind of glad they don't get it.
It's going to make it easier for us to win elections and move forward, because it seems like they refuse to admit when they lost, why they lost, and how they lost, and they didn't listen to the American people.
All right, go back to The View.Play the next clip from Sonny again.
Again, I'm profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming President of the United States.
I think that going forward, the convicted felon box on employment applications better be taken off, because if you can be the President of the United States, then you should not
be prevented from employment in this country, because I remember applying for my jobs as a federal prosecutor, and there was a box for convicted felons.And so that box better be taken off.And I think our health care system is now at risk.
I think economists have made clear that he's going to increase the debt by $7.75 trillion. I'm worried about mass deportation and internment camps, and I'm also worried about Elon Musk warning Americans to prepare for temporary hardship.
All right, so let's break several things down.First of all, saying take the felon box off of the job application.
You know, the irony is there's only one reason that Trump is a convicted felon, because her party, the radical left Democrats, abused the justice system to go after and try to subvert democracy.
By the way, one of the great things, the Department of Justice is dismissing all those cases because now that he's won, the DOJ has a long-standing rule that it won't prosecute and can't prosecute a sitting president.
And it looks like all these cases are going to be thrown out.
So understand, the only reason they can call him a convicted felon is because they were a bunch of authoritarian zealots who abused the justice system to try to stop the voters from doing what they just did on Tuesday.And then her comment.
I'm worried about mass deportation and internment camps.Let's break that down one piece at a time.Mass deportation, well, you know what?She should worry about that.
If you're a drug trafficker, if you're a human trafficker, if you're a felon, if you're a murderer, if you're a rapist, we're gonna find you, we're gonna arrest you, we're gonna get you out of this country.You're gonna be deported.
And I'm sorry, Sonny, that you are lamenting it, but I also feel confident that you have armed security protecting you at all time, and you're not worried about Venezuelan gangs taking over your apartment building because you don't actually live in an apartment building.
the rest of America is going to feel a lot happier when we're deporting violent criminals that your party let in.And then internment camps.And let's break it into a couple of pieces.Number one, Benjamin history quiz.
Which president of the United States set up internment camps?
I'm going to go with a Democrat.Is that a final answer?Can I put that in my Jeopardy with all my money on it?
Not only a Democrat, but the granddaddy of them all, the lion of the left, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who I'm pretty sure on The View, if they reference FDR, they require Gregorian monks in the banks back to saying, aww.
But of course, they don't believe in monks either, so they wouldn't let that happen. FDR set up internment camps for Japanese citizens, wildly unconstitutional, wildly illegal.
Thankfully, we now recognize that as a grotesque abuse, but that's never been done by a Republican.Donald Trump was president.Were there any internment camps?No, but it doesn't stop the left from their fever dream.
And by the way, you know what she really means is internment camps? She means detention facilities for illegal immigrants, which she'll call detournment camps.
And to be clear, Kamala Harris promised when she was running for president that on her first day she would shut down all the ICE detention camps.So a detention camp for someone who enters the country illegally is not an internment camp.
What's the difference?All right, this is where hopefully verdict does some good.If you have a murderer and you convict him of murder and you send him to jail, is the jail an internment camp? No.Why?Because he's been convicted of a crime.
If someone crosses into this country illegally and they are detained and they're detained in a detention facility, is that an internment camp?No.Why?
Because the law provides you can't cross in illegally and you can be detained for doing so while your deportation proceedings are pending.An internment camp, what FDR did, is he rounded up Japanese citizens who had not broken any law.
They were American citizens of Japanese descent.
So they were law-abiding Americans living their life and FDR said if you're of Japanese descent we're going to arrest you and throw you in a camp simply because you're Japanese and we're in World War II and we're at war with Japan.
That was grotesquely bigoted. and it was directly contrary to the Constitution.You can't arrest someone who's a law-abiding American citizen who hadn't broken the law.
But of course, on The View, everything I just said, they don't have anyone who says that.
Instead, they just nod vapidly and said, yes, he's an authoritarian, it's terrible, and they ignore that their party is the one who has been engaged in authoritarian lawlessness.
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Senator, one other thing that I also thought was really shocking, just of the takeaway, is whether I'm on a campaign that wins or a campaign that loses, one thing I've always learned early on in my career is
You you better take notes and the notes can be hey we won, but what can we do better next time?What did we mess up that?We don't want to make the same mistakes.
I keep a notebook I have a notebook of every campaign I've been involved in and I go back through it went in during campaign season and read it because there's you you learn from your mistakes when you win and you learn from your mistakes when you lose
there seems to be no self-awareness here at all from the democratic party in general over this loss and this loss was big you look at california and how many people voted actually for conservatives there at numbers that were historic in some areas
New York, look at the numbers there, historic in some areas.You, for example, having an almost 10 point margin of victory over a candidate.They just pump money into the state.
It was a good old Texas ass whooping, as I described it on Fox Business Channel earlier.There seems to be no self-awareness at all.And is that going to be their downfall moving forward?I kind of hope it is.
Yeah, look, unfortunately, I wish some Democrats would recognize we've gotten too extreme.Let's adjust.Let's move towards the middle.Let's find common ground.That would be good for America.I don't think they're there yet.
I think it is going to take a couple more, as you put it, good old-fashioned ass-whippings to let them change.And you mentioned California.
Listen, California is going to play a pivotal role in ensuring that Republicans have the majority in the House of Representatives.And yet, California Democrats.
All right, I want you to listen to Eric Swalwell, who, you know, I mean, he really liked the folks on The View.He's just kind of a hard, angry leftist.But I want you to listen to his analysis of why the Democrats lost.
people resent when you talk to them like you're trying to win a Harvard Law School moot court competition, as opposed to just talking to somebody at a bar or at the bus stop.
And I think we would be better served if we led with our personality rather than policy.And our personalities can reflect our values, our principles, what we care about.But too often, we're just not plain spoken enough.And frankly, we're too nice.
and too modest, and we stand on virtue.
I mean, basically, if you didn't vote for us, you're all a bunch of deplorables, garbage, Nazis, we hate you all, and you're stupid.
Yeah, I've got to say, when Eric Swalwell's diagnosis of the problem of Democrats is that they're, quote, too nice, too modest, and stand on virtue, like that truly is disconnected from reality.
This is while Kamala Harris is screaming Trump is Hitler.This is while leftists on TV are saying he's authoritarian and is going to set up internment camps.This is while Joe Biden is calling the people who voted for Trump garbage.
This is while Mark Cuban is insulting every woman who voted for Donald Trump.And I love how he said, well, our problem is we're trying to win a Harvard moot court.
Well, Eric, one of us has actually been in Harvard moot courts, and one of us has won arguments before.And I will tell you, Kamala Harris has many problems, but being too much of an effective advocate in a Harvard moot court, that ain't one of them.
That's not Kamala's problem, I can assure you.And in fact,
the word salad that was the special of the day from Kamala Harris the reason she told the word salad is because your policies are indefensible and I my favorite part of that clip with Swalwell is he said well maybe we should stop talking about policies and just lead with our personalities and I get it if your policies are complete garbage if they're failures if they don't work for the American people what else do you have other than to try to like woo people with a bunch of smoke and mirrors and distraction
But no aspect of what he said there is any reflection of, gosh, maybe we got too extreme.No, instead he's saying we need to be even more extreme.
And I got to tell you, unfortunately, there are going to be more than a few leftists who react just like that.
Even late night comedy, they were not funny.Stephen Colbert, he was angry and just frustrated.And here's what he said to America.
I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.Well.Well.It happened again. After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need not to go to jail, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election.It's almost like you rehearsed that.
The deep shock and sense of loss is enormous.Okay, but let's look at the bright side.This way, at least there'll be a peaceful transfer of power.Mike Pence, olly olly oxen free.
All day yesterday, I was walking around proudly wearing my I Voted sticker.Today, I wore my I Am Questioning My Fundamental Belief in the Goodness of Humanity sticker.Now, they give those out.They give those out at the bake sale right outside.
Now, as a late night host, people often say to me, come on, part of you has got to want Trump to win because he gives you so much material to work with.No, no.
No one tells the guy who cleans the bathroom, wow, you must love it when someone has explosive diarrhea.There's so much material for you to work with.Now, you understand that?That good?
I wish, you wish, so many of us wish this hadn't happened, but that is not for us to decide.This is a democracy.That's democracy with a capital D.
And in this democracy, the majority has spoken, and they said they don't care that much about democracy.And I want to take a moment to congratulate Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on running an amazing 107-day campaign.
His definition of extraordinary and mindset are very different, but I do think there's a bigger point to be made.
Actually, to be fair though, you would agree their campaign was extraordinary.
It was extraordinary.It was extraordinarily bad, and thank them for doing it.That's true.Yes, it was extraordinary on that front.
See, there's common ground.You and Stephen Colbert are on the same page.That's very true.
So there's a bigger theme here.
By the way, tell me, Ben, like Stephen Colbert, have you ever dressed up as a giant COVID vaccination shot and danced around publicly?
Yeah, no, never gonna happen.Never, never gonna happen.But this is the part that I grin about.I feel like we've actually broken the media now.And I gotta give some credit to Elon Musk for doing this when he bought X and it started to change things.
And people were actually able to get their views out there and not be silenced and censored the way that they were before.And what I think has happened now is, if you are a conservative, even a moderate,
being talked to by late night television in this way is the reason why I think they're actually putting themselves into irrelevancy.
Yeah look one of the things striking you look at Colbert when he's like complaining about the election result and all of his crowd is cheering with him it's clear only leftists go to Stephen Colbert.Only leftists watch.
When's the last time you watched Stephen Colbert?Just seriously.
I'm not kidding.Years.Years.And I used to love watching Leno and Letterman.
Yeah, Leno and Letterman I would watch all the time.Letterman's top ten list. And a real shift in late... I like comedy.I like late-night comedy.I watch comedies.I've grown up on SNL.I like good comedy.
And by the way, I laugh at comedy making fun of Republicans.There's plenty to make fun of Republicans.If you have a good comedian, they ought to make fun of everybody.I mean there's a lot to laugh at.
And in the age of Trump, late-night comics are just so consumed that they just give partisan rants.And by the way, one of the big shifts.So a decade ago, It was a regular part of politics to go on late night shows.I've been on Stephen Colbert.
I've been on Jimmy Kimmel.I've been on Fallon.I've been on Leno.It used to be a regular part.When is the last time you saw any Republican on late night shows?
We're not welcome.None of them.If you're a fake Republican, if you're a Kinzinger.Oh, if you're Liz Cheney or Kinzinger.
No, no, no.But an actual Republican.
they simply do not have them on and as a result they're infinitely less funny and by the way SNL did the same thing with Kamala Harris and Tim Kaine they had both of them on but not their Republican opponents and then they got in trouble with the FCC because they were violating federal law and all right Colbert is one thing but I want you to listen to Jimmy Kimmel because again I know Kimmel I've
You gave him a good old Texas, we were talking about ass whoopings earlier, you gave him a good old Texas ass whoop not that long ago when you guys played basketball against each other.Let's just make sure we remind the audience of that.
I will never forget.So play Kimmel.This is his comedy monologue.
Let's be honest, it was a terrible night last night.
It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.
It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine.
for nato uh... he's crying and and half of what he said by the way is just more than it was a terrible night for free speech but look like that's just hysterical his side are the censoring we will silence you we will control you we will ban you uh... you know it was look like everything he said it was a terrible night for women now to be clear
This is the same Jimmy Kimmel that used to co-host The Man Show, and he would have women in bikinis jumping up on trampolines.So he's not exactly on the vanguard of women's rights, but Jimmy Kimmel no longer is a comedian.He's just an angry leftist.
He's not quite as woke as Stephen Colbert, but he's like one one-thousandth away And you know what?As a result, it's just not funny.And so I will say this.You mentioned my playing hoops with him.
So back in 2018, I challenged him to one-on-one basketball.We played.It was terrible, terrible basketball as ESPN broadcasted that night. If Dr. Naismith had seen what happened here today, he would have invented a different sport.
But at the end of the day, my terrible basketball was slightly better than his terrible basketball, and I won 11-9, which forever and ever will be an ass-kicking that Jimmy Kimmel has to live with.
And as a result of it, I've lived rent-free in his head for the last six years, and so he about once a month goes on a rant attacking me.
And in fact, like when my last book, Unwoke, came out, he hired a drag queen to read excerpts of my book to five-year-olds. which was kind of bizarre, but I thanked him for helping me sell copies of the book.
And then my standard response whenever he lashes out is I have a video that we've compiled that we call Buckets and Blocks, and it consists of nothing but shots of me scoring on him and shots of me just swatting his shot back and actually fouling the hell out of him a whole lot.
And so that's my response every time is, gosh, Jimmy, you seem angry, but it's really a shame that you're going to have to live with that loss forever.
You know, one of the things that's also interesting about this conversation is the fact that Democrats who said, well, you know, we were trying to save democracy.We're screwed now.
We got a dictator, a tyrant coming in, are actually the ones acting like that.Governor Newsom has already come out saying, I'm calling a special session to prep the battle against incoming Trump administration
calling it a special legislative session focused on potential state litigation against the Trump administration over issues that could impact his state.
Look, they're going to resist on every front, they're going to fight, because why?Because they hate democracy.That's the irony.
They talk about democracy constantly, but what they mean of democracy is, we will force you to obey us, whether or not the voters want it.They don't actually want democracy.
If they wanted democracy, they wouldn't have prosecuted Trump four different times, because they would have trusted the voters.They like power. and they mask their lust for power and calling it democracy.
But I gotta say, there's at least one Democrat right now who is celebrating, who is smiling ear to ear, who may well be the happiest man in the world, and that would be Joseph Robinette Biden.
He is joyful, and I'm gonna wager you 20 bucks, that Joe Biden and Jill Biden, they both pulled the lever for Donald Trump when they voted on Tuesday.
It wouldn't surprise me because if you go back to this coup and to quickly remind people It was that it was the Democratic Mafia and the family the fit the five families.
It was the Schumer Pelosi Obama Clinton's that were in this and Harris those five families had a coup.I think they probably threatened him with the 25th Amendment.
If you don't step aside, we're going to do this to you because we don't want to lose and we think we can win with Harris.
And Joe Biden, I have not seen him have a bigger grin on his face when he did this Rose Garden conversation, whatever the hell you want to call it.
Look, the whole thing started, I mean, I think Biden found out about it when he woke up with his dog Major's head in his bed.
and any was just screaming and screaming and screaming and for those of you all too young to get the reference that's a reference to the godfather where where the the movie producer who refuses to cast a young frank sinatra uh... has this this prize racehorse that that uh... that the godfather decapitates and puts the horse's head in the bed and and it really was it was the five families they met and they said uh... mister biden your services are no longer needed
And you know what?I think Joe Biden is pissed.I don't think it's an accident that Joe Biden put on a MAGA hat in the middle of the election.I do not think it is an accident that Jill Biden, when she went to vote, dressed in all red.
I think that was quite deliberate.But listen to Joe Biden.Listen to the joy that he is emanating today.
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Now, take a listen to Joe Biden, and I'll say it again.When he came out, he was grinning from ear to ear in the Rose Garden.
Yeah, it's good to see you all.Particularly good to see my granddaughter sitting in the front row here.Hi, how are you, honey?For over 200 years, America has carried out the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world.
That's not hyperbole.That's a fact. We're the people.The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they do it peacefully.And we're in a democracy.The will of the people always prevails.
Yesterday, I spoke with President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I assured him that I'd direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.That's what the American people deserve.
Yesterday, I also spoke with Vice President Harris.She's been a partner and a public servant.She ran an inspiring campaign, and everyone got to see something that I learned early on to respect so much, her character.
She has a backbone like a grandma.She has great character, true character.She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.You know,
The struggle for the soul of America, since our very founding, has always been an ongoing debate and still vital today.I know for some people, it's a time for victory, to state the obvious.For others, it's a time of loss.
Campaigns are contests of competing visions.The country chooses one or the other.We accept the choice the country made. I've said many times, you can't love your country only when you win.You can't love your neighbor only when you agree.
Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, is see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.Bring down the temperature.I also hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system.
It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent.And it can be trusted.Win or lose.I also hope we can restore the respect for all our election workers who busted their necks and took risks at the outset.We should thank them.
Thank them for staffing voting sites, counting the votes, protecting the very integrity of the election.Many of them are volunteers. who do it simply out of love for their country.
And as they did, as they did their duty as citizens, I will do my duty as president.I'll fulfill my oath, and I will honor the Constitution.On January 20th, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power here in America.
To all our incredible staff, supporters, cabinet members, all the people who've been hanging out with me for the last 40 years, God love you, as my mother would say, Thank you so much.You put so much into the past four years.
I know it's a difficult time.
I mean, this was a different Joe Biden.You could even say a joyous Joe Biden.He was not what you would normally think.And you got to look at it and go, man, he was living it up on election night.Like you guys threw me out.And guess what?
You didn't get the prize after all.
Yeah, and look, I am certain that Joe Biden looked at his family, looked at his top staff, and said, if it had been me, I'd have won.He believes it.
He believes it through and through, and I don't think he will ever forgive Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer for throwing him overboard, doing it unceremoniously, and saying, we want Kamala instead.
And look, we'll never know what that alternative reality would be.I mean, Biden's first debate was a disaster.That's undoubtedly true.But I will tell you, on election night, Biden did better everywhere than Kamala did.
Like Kamala, or let me frame it in the obverse. Kamala did worse than Biden did everywhere.And Joe Biden, I think, is celebrating, and not even that quietly.And you know what?I'm celebrating, too, because it means the country.
It's morning in America again, and we're turning the country around.
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