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Nov. 9, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Rush Limbaud documented to be almost always right, 100% at a time.
A new special opinion audit in from the Sullivan Group in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Man, there is so much to say.
There are so many vibrantly great feelings to share.
We have not lost our country.
It turns out it might even be fair to say we were we really weren't even that c well, we are close.
I have to, we're close, but we have not lost the country.
We learned also that it was not necessary to go through these past eight years.
I don't want to rewrite history, but my point here is that the Democrats can be beat if they are approached in the right way.
One of the problems that we have had to endure as voters and as citizens is that our party has not believed that.
Our party has not believed that Democrats can be beat.
And Donald Trump has shown how to do it.
It took a political outsider, somebody with no fingerprints on anything to do with the way Washington works, quote unquote, demonstrates how you beat an opposing political party.
How many times I've shared this story with you?
I've had Mitt Romney come to my studio.
I've had Rand Paul come to my studio.
I've had Republican presidential candidate after candidate come to this studio and talk to me about their campaign, their ideas, how they want to go about winning, and each one of them.
Each one of them, I've not mentioned all the names, I don't, it's not important.
They all believe it.
That they and they all told me we can't win Rush with Republican votes alone.
We can't win with Republican.
And I I look what what do you mean we can't win with Republicans?
We have got to be able to cross the aisle, and we have got to be able to engage in group politics.
No, no, no.
I I said that you guys are going about this the wrong way.
All you need to do is approach the American people as citizens, as the American people, to hell with what group they're in.
We're human beings.
We all want the best for ourselves and for our country.
Now the opponents don't look at life that way.
They do look at people as as victims and members of groups.
But we can beat them.
I've always known we could beat them.
And my point, folks, my purpose here, people have asked me why are you still doing this.
29 years.
Beating the left has always been what this is about.
In addition to whatever I must do in the in the in the realm of broadcasting in order to succeed.
The substance and the content portion of this program has always been, whether it's been humor, whether it's been satire, whether it has been serious commentary, it has always been about beating the left.
For 29 years, that's what this program has been about.
And I have never understood, and I do not understand people on our side who do not believe that, who do not hope that, who do not also share that sentiment, and furthermore, who don't think it's possible.
We have been validated the things that we feel and think about our country, the direction it was going, we have been validated by virtue of what the American people did yesterday.
Now, I have made notes throughout the night as I was watching the various cable networks and their coverage.
And I've thought about how do I want to approach this day with you today, because really there's so much to say, and there's so much to share.
And so many observations that I that I want to make, and I thought, okay, well, maybe I could just do my stream of consciousness and share with you note by note as I made them.
Or maybe try to come up with a more organized presentation of things.
Uh, or just react as as things happen as the program is taking place today.
And I figured that regardless of the approach that I take, I'm gonna get it all said, regardless in what format I design it and presented, uh, present it.
It's all going to be said.
It may take three days or three hours here today and a couple hours tomorrow to get it all said, because there's a lot.
There's a lot to react to.
There is there are so many teachable moments that have occurred in this entire campaign.
Uh, And there is so much uplifting and positive about what happened.
There is so much that is beautiful and American and Americana that is still worth believing in and still worth promoting and still worth fighting for.
And all of this was demonstrated last night.
If we want, we can go through the motions and feelings.
Schaden Freud.
We can feel comfort in the misery of others.
And by the way, they are everywhere.
They're not just on the Democrat side.
There's a lot of unhappy people on our side here for a whole host of reasons.
There have so many people were wrong.
So many experts so wrong about everything they said.
So many people were right at the same time.
And I do want to try to unpack all of it.
And we have some audio sound bites that are going to help me in terms of bouncing off things that others have said.
We're going to get your phone calls in on this.
I know you're chomping it a bit.
That telephone number is 800 28282.
And if you want to send an email, we check those.
I see the stock market's up about 170.
I thought about it last night we went to bed.
They said it was going to plunge 900 on the opening, and Dow Futures were down 900.
There are some interesting things to ponder.
All these people that donated gazillions of dollars to Hillary's foundation and Bill's Foundation, buying policy, whatever they thought they were getting by donating to Hillary, what do they do now?
Do they want their money back?
What are they going to get for it?
You realize the angst that there must be, you can see it, you can feel it, the angst, the shock, the disappointment over the entire Democrat Party, the entire left wing, and even some on our side.
One of the things I kept hearing last night, you can always learn, folks, the media will always be predictable.
The Democrats will always be predictable.
When it was finally clear last night that Hillary was going to lose, they began to demonstrate who they really are, started talking about how it's going to be necessary for Trump to approach them.
Trump's going to have to reach out to them.
Trump's going to have to be inclusive.
Trump's going to have to do this.
Trump's gonna Trump doesn't have to do anything.
He probably will.
Trump is the winner.
Trump won.
If Trump wanted to, he could play this the way Obama did.
Uh won.
Uh, whatever you want to do.
Well, you just go stop, listen to Roch Limbaugh.
That's not how things.
No, no, Washington.
That's what Obama said two weeks into his administration to uh a bunch of Republican leaders.
And then, and then everybody started saying, no, this is not an ideological election.
You can always count when the left loses, it's not because of their ideology.
And they came through last night.
This is not an ideological election.
This has nothing.
This is an up and down election.
This is not left and right.
This is people up, people down, this is economics.
Wrong, folks.
It is always ideological.
Big government was told to take a hike last night, just like big government was told to take a hike in the Brexit vote.
Last night, yesterday, was a total repudiation of big government.
It was a total repudiation of the Obama presidency and every aspect of it.
It was a total repudiation of the Democrat Party by people.
The people I always describe as those who make this country work.
The people who define the character and who define the values of our country were the winners in what happened yesterday and what has been going on the last eight years was repudiated and was pushed back against and defeated.
It's important to point out, listening to Paul Ryan today.
It was the new Paul Ryan.
He went out and spoke before Hillary did.
I've never seen Paul Ryan this enthusiastic.
I've never seen Paul Ryan this optimistic.
He was generally optimistic.
He was he was enthused and he seemed surprised at the same time.
Donald Trump heard a voice out in this country that no one else heard.
A lot of people heard It.
A lot of people are that voice.
People didn't have to hear it.
We have been shouting it.
People who missed the voice didn't think it was there.
It's not that they didn't hear it, it's that they didn't think it was there.
If there is a lesson for the GOP, this victory has been there all along.
You could have had this victory in 2008.
We could have had this victory in 2012.
But it's obvious and apparent now that many in the Republican Party never thought this was possible.
And they really didn't think it was possible with Donald Trump.
They really were prepared to be embarrassed and humiliated, losing the House, losing the Senate, and yet look what happens.
We hold both.
So now we have the House, and now we have the Senate, and now we have the White House, and now we have no excuses.
There aren't any excuses anymore.
The Republican Party has been given the full reins of this government and this country.
And there is a mandate behind it.
There's nothing mysterious about this.
There's nothing to unpack.
There's nothing to try to understand.
There's nothing confusing about it.
It is dead straight, simple, what the American people voted yesterday and last night.
And it is a full repudiation of Obamacare.
It's a full repudiation of Obama economic economics.
It's a full repudiation of our culture and the way the Democrats go about dealing with people.
Hillary did it in her in her concessions.
By the way, a lot of people are saying it was the best speech Hillary ever has given.
And maybe it was because of the circumstances.
I liked it myself because of the circumstances.
In fact, at one point, she reached out...
And to all you little girls, I was saying to myself, stay away from Carlos Danger.
But she didn't say that.
But I wouldn't have been surprised if she had said that.
But she was still addressing everybody in her group there.
And by the way, that was the largest crowd she's ever drawn in this campaign for her concession speech.
Again, the circumstances.
But rattling off all these groups.
LGBT, women, one armed amputees south of uh Houston in New York.
I mean, groups.
Victims.
The way they see the country is not the way this country is.
This is not a nation of victims.
It is not a nation of people who are discriminated against and denied opportunity, but that's what they see when they look out and see America.
Did you hear what Van Jones said?
I have a question.
I'm sure this question is going to be controversial as it can be, but I'm going to ask it anyway.
Van Jones, you'd see it, and we even have the audio soundbite.
Let me find this.
I didn't know it.
Number eight, listen to Van Jones.
He is the resident communist.
Well, one of many resident communists at CNN.
He was in the first Obama administration till he was shamed out of it.
And he was on their special coverage last night talking about Trump being on the way to winning.
This is what he said.
This was a whitelash.
This was a whitel against a changing country.
It was a whitelash against a black president in part.
And that's the part where the pain comes.
And Donald Trump has a responsibility tonight to come out and reassure people that he is going to be the president of all the people who he insulted and offended and brushed aside.
So you see how this works.
Trump has got to bend fences.
Trump has to come to us, the offended, the aggrieved, the disadvantaged.
Trump has to approach us.
Trump.
Donald Trump has just schooled everybody on how you win.
It is everybody else should be approaching Donald Trump.
But here's my question, folks.
Van Jones of CNN says that this is a whitelish.
What is he complaining about?
He's complaining that white people voted their interests.
To Van Jones and to a lot on the left in the Democrat Party, white people voting their interests.
Dangerous and not legitimate.
That fact alone, as far as Van Jones is concerned, and probably many others on the left disqualifies Trump's victory in their minds.
And it's what scares the heck out of them to boot.
A whitelash.
Why is it not legitimate to honestly discuss the white vote?
White people are still the majority in America.
There are massive demographic shifts taking place, but white people are still the majority.
Somebody needs to tell me why it's wrong for white people to vote their interests.
When it's not wrong for African Americans to unify and monolithically vote their interests.
Women monolithically unify, vote their interests.
Muslims monolithically unify, vote their interests.
Gays and lesbians unify monolithically vote their interests.
Feminists unify, vote their interests monolithically.
That's how the Democrat Party wins.
All of these different constituency groups think, act, and vote alike.
And when they do it, they call it progress.
They call it overcoming.
They call it other things that I frankly find despicable.
But when white people do it, it's not permitted.
When white people do it, it's not good.
When white people do it, it's bad.
So exactly when did it happen that all white people became bigots?
When did it happen?
Because it has happened in the minds of the left in this country and in the minds of the Democrat Party, that is exactly the case.
And white people, and they're the ones that said, I didn't say this, by the way.
Van Jones called it a white lash.
All the commentators last night on TV said white people came together and voted against it.
They're the ones claiming it.
Why is it illegitimate for white people to do exactly what every other group in the Democrat constituency does?
Is it because we really are not going to have a majority system?
Is that what the Democrats really oppose, a majority system?
They want to turn the country into the tyranny of the majority and have the minorities and all of the additions of all the minorities dominate and rule.
Because otherwise, this doesn't make any sense.
White people and Christians are the two groups that it is politically correct to slander.
It's perfectly okay to slander.
Donald Trump won because he was the only candidate unafraid to appeal to them and face down the consequences of doing so.
I have to take a break here, an obscene profit timeout.
I will further explain this and ask additional questions about it.
We come back.
Don't go away.
All right, so Obama's out now speaking.
So we had Paul Ryan go to, we had Hillary now.
No, Obama's speaking.
He's out there in the Rose Garden.
What?
No, we're not going to gym Obama.
People don't tune in to listen to Obama.
People tune in to listen to me.
I'll tell you what Obama's doing.
Obama's being his usual arrogant self.
He's out there saying, I'm encouraged.
I'm encouraged by what I heard Donald Trump say.
Leslie, uh, I really am a current.
You just are so pathetic.
It's hard for me to remain civil.
What do you mean you are Ian Current?
Donald Trump just defeated everything you stand for.
That's what happened last night.
And it Didn't we didn't need this guy to win in 2008?
He could have been defeated.
The Democrat Party agenda was creamed last night.
This was not a racial election.
Van Jones is not right.
This was not a whitelash.
Every way they choose to characterize their loss is going to be wrong until they admit that what they stand for was rejected.
Their policies, their agenda was told to take a hike last night by all kinds of people.
The average black construction worker in Michigan, the legal Mexican mechanic in Texas, has a lot more in common with the average white American laborer than say some elitist Obama family of Martha's vineyard vacationers.
This was a coalition of all colors and stripes and backgrounds that came together last night to send this policy regime packing.
Yes, greetings, welcome back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
So we'll continue to use this half my brain in order to keep it uh balanced, fair and all that.
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Look, I I can't sit here and let this stand.
Barack Obama.
I know what he just said.
He said we're all rooting for Trump success.
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.
So he's going to follow the example the Bush White House set for him in working with Trump in the transition.
He said, remember we're all on the same team.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Barack Obama has not treated us as though we're on his team in these eight years.
And that is precisely the point.
This has been an us versus them administration.
By design.
By design.
That's that's who they are.
Barack Obama said some things about America's next president that are going to be very hard to take back.
Don't care how gracious you are, when you accuse the president elect of being the president of the KKK.
And Barack Obama was out there as a tack dog.
He was a pit bull just like the media was a bunch of pit bulls when it came to Trump.
Now they're going to become, you know, they're leg humping poodles here when they deal with Democrats, but they're going to become pit bulls when dealing with Trump.
You know it and I know it.
This election was not about.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Clinton, you were you didn't lose because you're a woman and the nation is sexist.
You didn't lose because the American people don't want a woman to clap to crash through the glass ceiling.
You lost because your ideas were rejected.
You lost because your ideas have been on display for the last eight years and people don't want any more of it.
It's not complicated here.
This election was not affected by a bunch of white people deciding to take their country back because of their race.
It had nothing to do with that.
But the Democrats believe firmly that it was.
Van Jones calling it a white lash.
I have a little bit more time to develop this.
Let me just, I want to ask this question again, folks.
Why is it perfectly fine for the Democrats to assign to every constituency of every group a monolithic group think?
All women are for abortion.
All women are feminists.
All blacks are a part of black lives matter.
All union members are socialists and hate capitalist.
They do this.
This is how they look at people.
The first thing they do is put people in groups and then treat everybody in those groups as mind-numbed robots.
For example, as far as the Democrats are concerned, all American Muslims think like care.
All Hispanic voters are for lawlessness.
All Hispanic voters are for open borders, they tell us.
All Hispanic voters are for amnesty.
It's not true.
They tell us that all women are pro-abortion.
And on and on it goes, group by group by group.
Except when it comes to white people.
When white people behave in the eyes of Democrats, exactly as their other groups do, then all of a sudden it's not permitted.
That's called a whitelish.
Why?
I just have a simple question.
Why is it not legitimate to discuss white people and their interests?
Why is it wrong for white people to vote their interests?
The only way that can be the case.
The only way that it can be wrong for white people to vote their interests is if you believe every white person is a bigot.
If you believe that every white person is a racist, and I am here to tell you that that is the message the Democrat Party and the American left attempt to convey as they run around and continue to do everything they can to tar and feather and impugn and diminish every majority group in this country for the express purposes of tearing it down.
But this election had nothing to do with white people wanting their country back on racial concerns.
This election had nothing to do with white people being mad at other people who are not white, and simply showing up to express their anger and outrage and try to take away power from people who are not white.
That's nothing to do with this.
This election was about the direction of the country.
70% of the people in this country told the pollsters who refused to listen.
The pollsters refused to see the crowds, the pollsters refused to assign legitimacy to anything having to do with Trump, including his voters.
The pollsters have made the biggest mess of their business in the history of their business.
Every pollster except two, well, three, got this totally wrong because of their own closed-mindedness, because of their own bigotry.
The people voting for Donald Trump have been there since July of last year.
What they think has been out there since July of last year, who they are and what they care about.
You can learn about it, you could know it since July of last year.
They weren't interested because they assigned bigotry to every damn one of them.
They assigned racism to every one of them, they assigned sexism to every one of them.
And they disqualified every Trump supporter on that basis and said there's no way these people can win.
There's not that many of them.
And we don't have to pay them any attention, and we don't have to show them any respect.
And you see what happens.
Now the news networks are actually talking about opening bureaus in Macon and Racine, Wisconsin, for example, because it's a foreign country to them.
The Midwest may as well require visas for these people to go visit.
This will only last for two weeks, by the way.
Every time the left loses, they'll go through two weeks of apparent introspection where they will admit they're out of touch and admit they missed things, and after two weeks it's all over, and they go back to their arrogant supremacy and superiority act and start impugning and criticizing and ripping to shreds everybody and everything that's not them.
So enjoy it for these next two weeks while the game is played again, just like it was after 2002, just like it was after 2000, 2004, 2008.
Every time they lose, they go through this self-inspection introspection for a couple of weeks to make everybody think that there's learning and studying, and then they revert to who they really are, which is arrogant, contemptuous, and condescending of us.
Never more visible in the coverage last night.
They would not accept what was happening right before their very eyes.
As Trump was winning.
And what was Trump winning?
And this is nothing that bugged me last night.
First, we go through the day, and all we've got is exit polls.
And they started treating the exit polls as gospel again because that's what they do.
That's all they know.
They couldn't wait for the first polls to close.
Yes, they were counting down until 7 o'clock for the first polls to close.
Well, what happens at 7 o'clock?
The votes start being counted.
There's nothing to learn at 7 o'clock in the states where polls close, unless you want to go by the exit polls and Consider them gospel.
Which that's all they've got, that's what they do.
Well, the vote is done.
By the time polls close, a vote is done.
There's nothing that can happen to change it unless there's fraud.
So all you have to do is wait for the count.
But they treat it as though it's still in progress and still malleable and still fluid and can still change.
No, we're just counting.
There's nothing more that can happen after the polls close in a state.
You might be able to count the uh early votes if they haven't counted yet, maybe count the absentees, but a state's vote is done when they close the polls, and it is what it is.
You just have to wait.
And what goes on between the polls closing and the state announcing the results is nothing except counting.
And yet that process of counting, they keep telling, look at Trump is gaining ground.
Trump's not gaining ground on anything until it's over.
Hillary's not losing ground until it's over.
I know they got a TV show to do, they gotta keep people watching, they gotta keep people glued, so they make it look like it's a football game where you score here, another team comes back and scores.
That's not how this happens.
After you vote, it's over, they count, they report, and that's it.
Unless there's cheating, of course.
So in the midst of all that's when we get this analysis of what's really going on, and we learn as they start getting closer to the realization that Trump's gonna win this, then they start showing their true colors.
Well, you know, Trump's got to reach across the aisle.
Trump's gonna have to make amends.
Trump is going to have to send us an olive branch.
One.
Well, poor one Williams.
Last night was painful to watch on Fox News.
I'll explain in greater detail as the program continues to unfold here.
Uh but it is crystal clear what happened, and one of the problems we have, ladies and gentlemen, is that not enough people have the ability to see what really happened, is leave it at that, or the desire to, or the talent to.
I don't know what it is, but what happened last night is not hard to translate.
The Democrat Party was told to go take a hike.
The agenda of Barack Obama was told to go take a hike.
It was specific.
People voted against what is happening in the country.
They don't like the direction the country is going.
The crowds at Trump's rally were real.
They were based on issues.
Trump was substantive.
These people never took the time to actually listen to what Trump was saying.
They were too busy being offended that Trump was saying offensive things about people in protected groups because of political correctness.
So they never really even took the time to listen to what he was saying.
They'd already made up their mind he's a bigot.
They already made up his mind.
He's gauche and boorish and embarrassing, and it never bothered them and I OTA, that they never really knew what he was saying and standing for.
And that's why they're shocked.
Last night and today.
They can't understand it.
They can't understand why this country would vote for such a reprehensible scum human being.
That's not how Trump's voters see him at all.
They see Trump as the embodiment of what they believe, and what they believe is this country should not ever be in decline.
This country should not ever look past in its future to its past and say those were the good old days.
America's best day is tomorrow and next week and next month.
That's what everybody living in this country wants it to be, and they don't want to be led by people who don't see the country that way.
They don't want to be led by people who see the country as a populated by a bunch of incapable, incompetent, sad sack victims.
This has always been a nation of doers.
This is a nation of people who can and want to do.
They don't want to sit around and be among the 94 million not working.
They do not want to have to view their government as Santa Claus.
It was clear as a bell what happened last night.
Big government, this was an ideological outcome last night, much as the left and the drive-bys would try to tell you it wasn't.
Oh yeah, it's an up or down election, Mr. Limbaugh.
I wasn't left or right.
There was nothing left or right.
We're so far past the idea.
No, we're not beyond ideology at all because the left is purely and totally ideological.
All they are is a bunch of community organizing left wing rabble rousers.
There's no up or down about them.
There is nothing but far left and further left.
And so far left, they're out of sight.
They are pure 100% leftists, and the purpose for this program has been to defeat them for 29 years.
And somewhere along the lines of Republican Party stopped being interested in that.
Here comes Donald Trump.
Whether he knew he was defeating the left or not, I don't care.
He was standing up against what has been happening.
He was standing up against liberalism.
He was standing up against the apparently unstoppable encroachment of the left on this country.
And whatever his instincts are, he knew and knows it's not good.
It's leaving people behind.
It is leaving a nation in tatters, a nation in decline, and the people who run the Democrat Party seem to be very comfortable with that because it's a means of securing their power over an increasingly dependent population.
That's not how Donald Trump sees America.
And so a number of Americans, we didn't lose a country, we haven't lost the country.
It was demonstrated last night.
We are not outnumbered.
What happened last night was a beautiful thing.
Liberalism, big government, whatever you want to call it, was told to take a hike.
The policies of Barack Obama, name them.
Obamacare, the Iran deal, uh open borders immigration, everything.
It was as specific an election outcome as I have seen in my life.
Nothing nebulous here.
Nothing hard to see, nothing hard to figure out.
It's right in front of everybody's eyes.
Some people just don't want to see it.
Or they do see it and are scared to death and want to try to make it about something else.
Quick time out, my friends, back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Couple of other mantras going around out there.
If one thing I got sick and tired of hearing last night, it was this.
Massive Hispanic turnout.
I heard this all over Fox.
I heard it everywhere I turned.
This mass that before, while the votes are being counted.
Before, not anywhere near all of them had been counted.
And of course, the in in intermittent count doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't mean until you get to the final number.
But every intermittent increase or decrease for Trump, we were greeted with, well, this is what happens.
We've been telling the Republicans for years.
Massive demographic shift, fewer and fewer white people, more and more Hispanics, Republicans are not getting on board.
This massive Hispanic turnout in Florida, in North Carolina, massive early voting Hispanic.
Trump didn't have a prayer all night long because the Republican Party hadn't seen the future.
Everybody who said that has egg on their faces, and they've been wrong about it for eight years.
One thing we can say for certain, Donald Trump didn't reach out to Hispanics to win this election, and he won the election.
He didn't reject them.
He went to everybody.
He treated people as human beings.
We're all Americans.
We have similar values because we're Americans.
It doesn't matter what our skin color is or gender or orientation.
That's why he won.
He didn't groupe things, which is what both political parties have become.
And that means they have a different message for each group, which means you don't end up knowing what either party really stands for unless you were really studying this and happen to know, and I happen to know what the Democrats stand for, and I know what the Republican Party is doing.
And then there was another one that shot up.
This one started, having Juan Williams was the first I heard say this, and then I got the soundbite roster today, and I find there's a whole montage of it.
And it goes something like this.
Well, people might have disagreed with Hillary Clinton, but no one was afraid of her, like millions are afraid of Donald Trump.
Well, you know what that is.
That's a carryover from some of the erroneous coverage of Trump from the beginning of this campaign.
The attempt to stereotype and stigmatize and impugn Trump.
Just like they do everybody who is either a conservative or a Republican or not a liberal and not a Democrat.
Let me tell you something.
I have been afraid of Barack Obama since he was inaugurated.
I was afraid of Obama during the campaign.
I was afraid of Hillary.
I'm afraid of what they're going to do to the country.
I'm afraid of not being able to stop it.
What do you mean nobody's afraid of Hillary Clinton?
What do you mean nobody's afraid?
They just disagree.
I can give you about how many tens of millions of people last night that were afraid of Hillary Clinton and wanted no part of a Hillary Clinton presidency coming on eight years of Obama's.
Oh, but no, no, no.
No, people just disagree with Hillary.
She's a fine, nice woman, but people are afraid of Trump.
I just, you know, part of the fun of winning is watching these lame excuses the leftists come up with to explain why they lost, and they never ever are honest with themselves.
Their ideas get rejected every time they end up being on a ballot.
And I'm just getting warmed up, folks.
So you sit tight because there's much more.
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