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You know, it's interesting, the media, the mob, it doesn't matter how wrong they are, how often they're wrong.
You know, more recently, you know, look at their wrong in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Jussie Smollett case.
They're wrong in Ferguson, Missouri.
They're wrong in Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman's case.
They're wrong with Richard Jewell going back many years ago.
They're wrong with Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
They're wrong with UVA, Cambridge Police, Duke Lacrosse.
Doesn't matter.
Four years peddling a hoax, a lie that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians.
And by the way, I guess I gotta give a little credit to the Washington Post.
Everything we reported on the Steel Dossier was total BS.
We're all the networks, the three networks.
We're the cable channels that spent every single minute, hour of every day lying to their audience.
And all the evidence was there available to them, but yet they ignored it all.
No apologies, no retractions, nothing.
And then they just move on to the next lie.
And now they right now the last thing they want to talk about is Joe Biden's horrific record.
So let's talk about January 6th.
Every second, every minute of every day, not the fact that Bill Back better new Green Deal socialism is dead.
And according to Kristen Cinema, so is their attempted power grab to pack the courts and getting rid of the filibuster.
We have some of the media's craziest moments of 2020.
Listen.
State after state, Fox News and Republicans, conservatives have whipped up a rural panic about so-called critical race theory.
This is just the latest outrage device over at Fox, is it not?
In a bad faith effort by Republicans to make critical race theory a wedge issue.
Violent-looking, angry, spewing parents outside of these schools, individuals intent on creating chaos for the sake of creating chaos.
These actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.
This becomes a security crisis in a sense for the nation.
It is dangerous to our children when the parents themselves are the school bullies.
That acting job of the crying, I can't even look at it.
Well, this is That is one of the worst acting jobs I've ever seen.
He committed a murder or two murders and attempted to murder someone else.
When Rittenhouse got emotional, it may have come across to the jury as a genuine expression of remorse.
Or on the other hand, maybe it was crocodile tears designed to elicit sympathy.
This is white privilege on steroids.
Ivermectin is something more often used to deworm horses.
Telling his 13 million Instagram followers that he was treated with several drugs, and he included Ivermectin on the list, a drug used for livestock.
Rogan said the word ivermectin, yes, that's the deworming medicine made to kill parasites And farm animals.
So things are clearly bad.
But they're being made even worse by people who have refused to take the vaccine and instead are swallowing horse paste.
We all knew it was violent.
We knew it was wrong.
We knew it was undemocratic Americans.
Well, so did the host at the Fox Propaganda Network.
This is the really stunning part.
Because they pretend like it wasn't a big deal now.
Oh my gosh, it was a tourist event.
If I want them shocked, the Fox News host was saying stuff in private different to what they say in public.
Shocked.
They were lying.
They knew instinctively in real time that this was a desperate moment, that the Capitol was being attacked.
They were pleading to the president, showing that they weren't really pu functioning as political functionaries, nothing resembling journalists in that that administration.
No matter how they try to downplay or blame Antifa or the left or provocateurs or whatever.
Their text tell the truth.
Only Donald Trump could call off the insurrectionists because they were his insurrectionists.
All right, joining us now to weigh in on the mob and the media.
Mark Simone, the host of the top rated morning show in New York on WORR, our affiliate in New York, and Joe Concha, Fox News contributor, calmness for the hill.
I think 2022 would be a great year to start his own media show.
Welcome both of you.
Our final show of the year is uh I head out on my long vacation.
I'm grateful, Mark Simone, that build back better new Green Deal socialism is dead because that increased the odds dramatically that I'd be called back from vacation.
Dad, it's going great.
Look everywhere I look, I see build back better hats.
People are wearing them everywhere.
You know, Biden.
They gotta rebuild Biden is probably more appropriate.
You gotta give Biden credit, though.
He's gonna be in the Guinness Book of World Records for buyer's remorse.
Uh I mean it is a disaster.
And he used to be pretty good at lying, but he can't even think of anything.
You know, they tell you build back better, five trillion dollars, but it won't cost anything.
And we're supposed to believe that's not gonna cost anything.
He is unbelievable.
Uh uh, the media uh set all kinds of new records.
You know, if you ever sometimes you meet somebody that went to Harvard, you feel a little intimidated.
You just remember Joy Reed went to Harvard.
Don't ever be intimidated by it again.
You don't have to be that bright to go there.
You know, this is your business, Joe Concha.
I don't know how you do your job every day because they would drive me nuts following them.
But you know, you had some real whoppers this year.
Oh, yeah.
I'm gonna go through this Olympic style in honor of the uh winter Olympics coming up in all places, China.
All right, bronze medal, Sean.
Here's the bronze medal.
All right, I'm quoting here.
Those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool.
It's almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms, embracing America.
It was a moment where the new president came to town and sort of convened the country in this moment of embrace, outstretching his arms.
That's CNN's police chief political editor, David Shallaghan is saying that.
I mean, you might as well said it to an Adam, you know, sorkin music theme.
I mean, for to say something like that.
And again, that's like the straight news guy.
Silver medal for media uh malfeasance.
Jen Saki's claim that, and uh this is how she said it actually.
Republicans are actually the ones who advocate defunding the police.
She said this with a straight face and didn't even say she heard about it at Band Camp.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
Good good live audience you have there, Sean.
Uh and I'd offer more examples from the White House press secretary, but this is only a three-hour program.
But the gold medal, I mean, this is secretariat running away with the type of gold medal.
Dana Melbank, Washington Post, actually claiming that Biden is getting worse media coverage and treatment than Donald Trump did.
I mean, because we see Biden authoritarian Hitler to Don L, right?
You can't make it up.
And look, look at the look at the uh the studies here, right?
I mean, from Harvard.
Not exactly a bastion of conservative sentiment.
They found that Trump in his first 100 days, 93% negative coverage.
NBC, 93% negative coverage.
New York Times, 89% negative coverage.
Joe Biden is not getting 93 and 89% negative coverage because you can't spin in a positive way.
Thank you.
Inflation at a 40-year high.
You can't possibly spin gas prices at a decade high.
You can't spin violent crime, smashing grads, being a nightly event in this country while the administration blames COVID.
I could go down the line.
But our media is trying to cover for Joe Biden, but Americans see right through it because they feel inflation, they feel violent crime, and they see people passing over this border to the tune of two million, Sean.
Thanks unbelievable.
You know, the thing is is they get away with lying every time.
How do they get away with it and then they never have to, you know, correct the record, Mark Simone.
Because the well, I you know, I like Jensaki.
She's a good example.
Every press secretary tries to charm you.
They try to sell you the story.
She just lies.
Here's the lie, write it down.
Doesn't even bother to try to convince you of anything.
They just do it.
They just know they can get away with it.
It's it's uh it's a cabal of uh corrupt media.
They all do it.
I I'm watching Lester Holt the other night, open the news with Mark Meadows and this, you know.
Ninety percent of America's going, who the hell is Mark Meadows?
How does w why is this the lead story?
Uh they look how hard they try to defend Cuomo.
You'll notice he's gone.
So uh Yeah, I I would notice that he's absolutely gone.
You know, I find Jen Saki, though, is getting more sarcastic all the time.
Oh, the transity of the uh treadmill.
Uh now lashing out at meat providers as being price gouging.
Um I mean, she makes what we we don't need to test illegal immigrants because they're not going to be here long anyway.
I mean, it she seems to be getting away with pretty much anything she wants to say, whether it's true or not true.
No, no, no.
She said the CBO score was a fake score.
It wasn't a fake score.
Yeah, and she just scowls at you, she gives you a dirty look.
You know, it's like one of these bad uh civil servants that when you stand in the window there just glaring at you, making it clear they don't care about you, they're not there to help you.
And uh and she gets away with it.
Kamala Harris, you can't even find her.
She's off somewhere giggling, not doing anything.
Uh giggling.
Always giggling.
Look at this uh supporter.
No, but you know what?
Give her credit.
She did a really good job with those act those child actors in that PR attempt uh to boost her image.
That was a great moment for her.
You know the supply chain crisis.
The media doesn't go after you.
This is the simplest problem in history.
It's just taking crates off a ship.
They can't even figure out how to do this.
It's just loading crates into a truck and driving.
That's all it is.
And you can't get enough trucks.
Quick break, we'll come back.
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More with Joe Kancha and our friend Mark Simone on the other side of the side.
All right, we continue our analysis of how corrupt the media is and politicians are.
Mark Simone and Joe Concha are with us.
You know, and a 40-year high with inflation, Joe Kancha, who's that hurting the most?
The poor in the middle class.
Yeah, exactly.
Because they can't absorb that cost, right?
So they have to now make choices in terms of the food they buy.
Or heating costs.
You think Biden's polls are bad now.
Wait till after this winter, because heating costs are supposed to go up fifty percent.
So now you have people deciding between do I heat my home or let's see, do I fill my gas my car up a gas when that's incredibly expensive, or what food do I buy?
But this is why, you know, we say the media gets away with it.
They do, but the people they're covering for, in this case, Democrats, the the Biden administration, they're they're not getting away with it because you see Biden, for example, there's one poll out this week that showed that twenty-two percent of likely voters want to see him run again for a second term.
Twenty-two percent.
And then you say, all right, what do Democrats think?
They'd fully back him, right?
Like 95% of Republicans backed or conservatives back Trump uh would during his era because you know the loyalty was overwhelming.
Uh-uh.
Only a third of Democrats want Biden to run again.
You know who they want to run more?
This this person named somebody else.
Literally, that's what they pick more.
Almost like, give me anybody but Biden.
And then the choices are Kamala, which we just talked about, probably not good.
Buddha Jets, uh supply chain crisis, that's on his resume, that's not good.
Andrew Cuomo, not available, Gavin Newsom may be recalled or at least a recall election facing him again.
Oh, I don't know, Mary Ann Williamson, uh, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie.
I mean, who do you got?
So I wrote a column.
Maybe she's the the next candidate.
That's true.
But uh I wrote a column yesterday, uh and I I said that Hillary very easily could run back in here, get get back in here, not because she's a great candidate either, because the competition is so poor that she probably sees an opportunity like, yeah, if that's who I have to go up against, I think I may jump back in.
And I think that's why you're hearing from her a lot more now.
She sees herself as as a viable uh candidate for 2024, believe it or not.
I think you're right.
I believe that too.
Mark Simone, you know, with the Clintons better than anybody.
Well, you gotta remember, the first time Hillary runs for president, she loses to a rookie, Barack Obama, 148 days in the Senate.
She he takes the nomination from her.
Second time she runs for president, a guy who's not even in politics, has never run for anything in his life beats her.
Donald Trump.
So she got no shot.
She's just the biggest loser ever.
Oh, I'm not saying she has a shot, Mark.
I'm saying that that she thinks that A, she she talks about stolen elections all the time, and apparently that's A-OK.
So she thinks that she was robbed, and now that this is her mantle, finally, to grab it.
I'm not saying that she will win.
I'm saying that she at least thinks she could get the nomination and then go from there.
So it's like the old lady in Sunset Boulevard, you know, the 100 years old think she's going to be in movies again.
That's Hillary Clinton.
Oh, man, that's rough.
That is cold.
That is cold.
Uh all right.
So what are the predictions for next year?
Because look, if I I don't see the capacity in the Democratic Party as it's currently configured.
I see no no capacity to change.
You got the progressive radical Democrats that run the show.
I don't know if Joe knows what day it is or not.
And now you've got Mansion.
Manchin is standing up for energy, and he's standing up against Bill Back Better New Green Deal Socialism.
You got Kristen Cinema, torpedoing the Democratic's new priority, passing voting rights legislation, and ending the filibuster.
She said, No, I'm not ending the filibuster.
So they're being stymied, but it also then puts a lot of pressure on Republicans.
They've got to take control of at least one of the two houses, hopefully both of them, in November.
Where is it headed, Joe?
Easily the house, right?
Because you only have to flip five seats.
And just to put in historical perspective, Barack Obama lost 63 seats in his first term, and that's after he passed Obamacare.
And at least with Obama, you felt like you were getting somebody who was coherent and was at least trying to do a good job.
You could just agree with them, but you never thought, boy, this person really shouldn't be present because he's not quite all there.
And he still lost 63 seats.
Uh so just to put that in perspective, given the.
I think he lost eight or nine Senate seats, too.
Yeah, he did.
He did.
So uh I was just about to get to that.
That yeah, they're gonna win, they're gonna take back the house quite easily.
That means Nancy Pelosi's retired for good.
Think about that benefit.
And then the Senate, all you have to do is have a neck flip of one seat, one.
And what are Democrats gonna run or not?
What is the bumper sticker, Sean?
I don't know, because it can't be the economy, and it can't be the border, and it can't be education.
Well, look at the states that are up for grabs in the Senate in 2022.
It's Florida, it's Georgia, it's North Carolina, South Carolina, it's New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, uh, it's Wisconsin, Ohio, it's Arizona, it's Nevada, it's Missouri.
I mean, every bellwether state.
Mark, how does it end?
Well, uh Republicans should win 50 at least in the House and 20 in the Senate.
But I saw this Biden speech yesterday, which obviously the committee wrote for him, and the whole speech was Republicans, don't stand for anything.
We don't know what they stand for.
So they'll try that, which is not true, of course.
I don't think that's gonna work.
I I think they're they're hoping that Roe v.
Wade gets overturned, they'll run on that.
That's my prediction.
Yeah, if they'll try, they stand for nothing, which means Republicans gotta have a Newt Gingrich type contract for America.
They've got to be really strong.
Agreed.
Thank you.
Uh I'm not the only one saying it.
Thank you very much.
All right, Joe Concha and Mark Simone.
We appreciate you both being with us.
When we get back, we'll hit the phones.
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Uh wrapping up the show for the year.
Linda, this has been every post-presidential election year is usually a tougher year.
This for some reason was not.
Why do you think that is?
Why do I think it was a harder year following the election?
No, well, it all it no, it's always like the hardest year.
Um, you know, because there's a program that delves deeply into politics every day.
But this is a year that it it just was different.
We just instantly went into okay, we've got to save our country mode, and and we pointed out and aggressively pointed out that which the media mob would never point out.
And you know, we started a year, and most Americans wouldn't say or didn't see, but now they do see that Joe Biden is a mess and his policies are a disaster.
I mean, I think it took a lot of, you know, a a lot of this came from us just staying on it hard all day, and by the way, and many others that do what we do.
You know, I think essentially what happened in the last year, if I'm really gonna sort of take high level, I i I felt like I couldn't keep up.
You know, and I felt like our audience and and us, we we did our best, and it just felt like every single day we were just gulping water, like every day was you know, a new thing on the COVID front, a new thing on what was happening internationally, you know, what we were doing to our troops, what was happening here at home, and suddenly all of these things that in four years we had no trouble with, we have had all of them in the past year.
And anybody who is unwilling to admit that is truly just watching CNN and NBC all day.
Because if you just open your eyes and go outside and use some common sense, you you don't need anybody to tell you what's happening.
You can see it.
I can see it.
My son can see it.
If people ever doubted conservatism works, we were able to show in one year the disaster that is socialism, and now everybody sees it, sees what we see.
You know, everything that I warned about, I tried to warn about last year in 2020.
That's why I wrote Live Free or Die, America and the World on the Brink.
This is we're we're at the on the brink point.
And uh but I feel a sense of hope and optimism as I go on vacation.
Uh, this is my one long vacation every year.
And because I really believe that now I uh uh never underestimate Republicans' abilities to screw up a great opportunity.
Um, and I mean that.
But with that said, I think America now understands they let me put it this way.
They would take mean tweeting and competence over the disastrous policies of Joe Biden, and he's not capable of putting out a tweet.
I think they would choose very differently now, and I think there's a lot of buyer's remorse in this country, and they really see Joe Biden the way we saw him early on.
And we were ahead of the curve saying things that nobody else dared would dare say, and everything is proven to be true.
I wish I was wrong.
We weren't wrong, and we're not I don't think we're gonna be wrong about America making a course correction in November of next year.
Here's my fear, and you and I have talked about this many times and have been talking about it for over a decade now, and I know we don't agree on this 100%.
But I I really feel very strongly that the Republicans are no different from the Democrats.
They're all in bed together.
There's a few standouts that are different.
You know, Jim Banks, whether it's, you know, Jim Banks or Jim Jordan or um, basically all the guests that we put on our program.
Basically different people we put on.
If I'm telling you I'm biased, I'm being honest.
Because I am.
I'm very biased to people who actually say things and then do the things that they say they're gonna do, right?
And there are so many rhinos and so many liars.
And so my fear is a lot of people will say, well, I'd rather vote for a Republican than put a Democrat in, where I'm kind of of the opinion, like if the Republican is Just as bad as the Democrat, then put the Democrat in.
You know what?
Because the last thing we need is another rhino giving us a bad name.
See, but you know that changed.
I have to disagree with it, because if you do that, then you're gonna end up with court packing.
If you do that, then you're gonna end up with Olympics.
But they're not standing in the way anyway.
The same thing is standing in the way.
With with with the Republicans we have, as weak as they are, they never I we're winning those battles barely.
Now, if the Democrats got more Senate seats, it would it would be an unmitigated disaster.
There's gonna be some tough Senate races.
That I'm warning everybody about now.
I agree with you on that.
Look, I'm but I'm not a Republican either.
I mean, the greatest example of Republican weakness to confirm what you're saying is true is you know, we had sixty-five votes since Obamacare was passed in two thousand and nine and ten uh to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Then when the moment came that they could actually do it in twenty seventeen, they didn't.
You know, in twenty seventeen, the exact bill with the exact same Republican senators that would re do a straight repeal of Obamacare when it mattered, seven Republican senators bailed on it.
It's a great example.
Mitch McConnell and company helping Biden twice by extending the debt ceiling.
I mean, those are all examples of what you're saying.
I'm not putting my faith hope in them.
No, but I'm putting my faith and hope in the conservatives that will stop them.
McConnell doing those things.
Collins, I'm I know we we all know their names.
We know you know, we talk about it all the time.
I know that I really listen that to me, they get biggest loser awards for 2021.
Um, Joe Biden gets biggest loser award for every year for the 47 years that he was in, you know, in office, and now his 48th is literally the worst ever.
Um I think 2022 is gonna be a real shakeup for the city.
I have a plan I will announce when I get back to prevent them from being able to be weak.
And you might say, what is that plan?
What is that plan, boys?
Uh let's say hi to Rhonda, Indiana.
Rhonda, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
I I am wondering if you're seeing the same thing um just among the American people that I am seeing here in flyover country, and that is a lot of hopelessness and fear.
Do you see that?
Uh yeah.
Well, give me more specifics because the fear of what?
The the the state of the country?
The state of the world.
Both, both, actually.
I feel a lot of people.
There are things to fear.
I mean, look, I'm gonna be very honest about it.
Um we we're in the middle of now another COVID wave.
I know because I spent all day on the phone helping people.
Um, so that's real.
Uh we have an economy that is teetering on the brink with a 40-year inflation high, and now we're gonna get higher interest rates and it's gonna impact the economy dramatically.
Uh then you got uh a weak president, and you see Russia on the border with Ukraine.
I'm worried about that.
I'm worried about the mullahs in Iran.
They think they're that they're emboldened and they might have their opportunity to attack Israel.
I fear that.
I fear that next year after the Olympics in 2022 in China, that China is gonna follow through on their territorial ambitions and try and take over Taiwan, and they will do it successfully, and Joe won't stop them.
Um and I don't I'm not talking about militarily.
So, yeah, all of these things, you know, the border's a mess.
I see a democratic party that wants to grab power like I've never seen in my life, an agenda that is so radical, I've never seen that in my life.
That there are things to be concerned about.
Some point a week from now, ideas will begin to percolate, and I write them all down.
And my ideas, my thoughts, my plans, I know where I'm heading, and that is, you know, to get this republic on better footing.
And it's gonna start in November of next year, but it really starts in January.
We've got to lay the foundation.
We've got to get good candidates.
We got to get these candidates on board to support the right policies so they can't be weak, as Linda rightly points out, they often are.
And and I think there's a way to do it, and I'll outline that when I get back.
So I want I don't want your heart to be troubled.
Now, with all that said, at the end of the day, you know what?
God's in charge, and you know, I put my faith there too as well.
That's a really good summary.
I can't talk that.
I just want to tell You this.
Next week, for the first time in three years, the oldest of our four sons is coming home for Christmas.
And the reason that is so miraculous is that for the last ten to twelve years, we watched his descent into the world of drugs.
It will be the first time in many years that he will be in our home with his three brothers, and he will be clean and sober, and he's on the path to redemption.
How long has he been clean and sober?
He's been clean and sober for just over a year, and it was just over a year that my husband, his father, went down to the homeless encampments where we knew he was, and he combed through the hell that is the homeless encampment in Texas.
He stepped over CCs over drugs.
Drug needles, he saw sites that traumatized him, and he knew that somewhere in one of those camps was our son.
He did not find him.
He came home and he sobbed when I picked him up and he said, I have failed.
And I said, No, no, no, you haven't failed.
It will do the work it's meant to do.
And a week later, we got a phone call that that he had been arrested and it saved his life.
It saved his life.
He was able to detox.
He was able to get into a good solid rehab program.
His mind is clear.
The Christmas card that he just hand uh painted and hand wrote testifies to the work of God in his life.
And that's why, Sean, I go through these days in light of everything that you just listed.
But I carry such a hope.
I carry such a light, and I want to share it with the people around me who are feeling all those uh feelings of fear that you rightly named.
This is still what you're describing is a miracle.
You know, you know what the odds are that this happens to somebody like your son?
It's under 15%.
It's very low.
And you know what's very low, but you know what?
You know, you never gave up on him, and you stayed in the fight, and you fought for him, and your husband fought for him, and now you get to welcome him back to your home this Christmas, and he gets to be with his family and get his life back, and you know, we'll be praying that he stays on, you know, stays on the wagon and the straight and narrow, and you know, hopefully he can find something that a purpose in his life that energizes him.
Sounds like he's artistic and smart.
I don't know what that means, maybe graphic design or design of some kind.
He sounds, you know, he sounds like he has special gifts.
Yeah.
And um, I'm very happy for you.
Yeah, you know.
Isn't that the example of Christmas Sean?
The the father, heavenly father who went sent his son into a dark and awful world, just like my husband went into the world of drugs.
You know, I thought there's no better picture of what happened at Christmas than that.
And if an earthly father can be that good and that passionate about the pursuit of his son, it is but a dim reflection of the Heavenly Father's pursuit of each one of us.
It's the Christmas story in a little nutshell.
It's a beautiful story.
You know, I mean, the hope that you can always take in the end as bad as things are down here, is that if the very hairs of our head are counted.
I mean, it's kind of hard for the human mind, I think, to comprehend, and I don't think it we're meant to comprehend the majesty and the mystery that is God.
And I just know it's real.
You know, for those that are atheists and say, well, the big bang happened.
I'm like, okay, well, where did all that energy come from?
And you really believe that all that energy came up, you believe not something came from nothing, that there wasn't a creator, and that it banged together, and you have universes within universes, and uh and the perfect scientific um creation just happened randomly.
No.
There is something greater than us.
We refer to that as God.
I believe it with all my heart, mind, and soul.
Yes.
Um I don't think I would be the person I am without God in my life, uh and acknowledging we've all sinned and fallen short.
But I, you know, I th this is a country that believes in those principles where we are endowed by our creator.
This is the intersection of politics and religion.
And that rights are natural rights.
They're God given rights.
They're not They're not given by politicians and governments.
They're given by God.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, God given rights, the natural state.
Doesn't mean that doesn't mean equal results.
Your son now, with your guidance and your love and his family's love, is hopefully going to take his life to where it should have been when he was born.
You know, like a lot of people, all of us at some point get off track.
I know I got off track of points in my life.
And I I've got to go back to the basics.
That's what I try to do on this long vacation.
I'm going back to basics.
And when I do that, I find it's it's good for my mental, spiritual, and physical health.
Um, God bless you and your family, Rhonda.
That's a beautiful story, and I wish you and your family the best.
A very merry Christmas.
God bless you all.
Wow.
Linda, what'd you think of that?
Amazing.
Amazing story, right?
We gives us all hope.
We know so many people that suffer, don't we?
It's unbelievable.
We do.
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And unless something really big breaks for the year.
Buckle up, rest up, enjoy your families, recharge, find God wherever you find it, and get ready to come back to fight for your country in January, because that's what I'm doing.
Anyway, I wish you and your family a great holiday.
Merry Christmas, great new year.
I'm coming back ready for a political battle of all battles.
The entire republic is in jeopardy, and we've got to win this next election.
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