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ard stuff. Now what would be the best way to bond, you know, to find something in common between Putin and Trump which would make both of them better at negotiating with each other? Which is your ideal situation. You don't want one of the people to think they went away oh I got bullied into something. You want both of them to think this is a good negotiation. I'm going in this strong. I'm going i…

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me in memory because we knew that winning the popular vote changed everything. I did not want to be in a situation where Trump won the electoral vote but not the popular vote. That was not where I wanted to be at all.

And I think that some of the reason that Democrats are quiet is because there is no strategy that cleanly gets you past the fact that a majority of Americans who voted were on the other side and think you did a bad job and your package of policies wasn't good enough. Now if it were not the majority at the same time that the major media is in favor of Democrats, I mean that's a hell of a message. Just think of waking up. Imagine this. Imagine you went to sleep and when you went to sleep you were the moral authority of the country. You were the good guys. Not only were you the good moral ethical authority of the country because you're a good Democrat unlike those terrible terrible MAGA people but you were also in the majority. So you were the good people and you were in the majority.

And then you wake up and you find out you're not in the majority and there was a good reason for it. You weren't the good people after all because you were the ones pushing the wokeness and the lies. And then you watched your leaders, the same leaders who told you that if Trump became elected he would be Hitler like actually literally like Hitler. He would round up people in camps and all this. And then one minute after the polls call the winner those same Dem rats who told you with serious faces you're all going to be rounded up, they all said well peaceful transfer of power I guess the system worked. Better luck next time.

And then tens of millions of Democrats said wait a minute how do you square that? How does peaceful transfer of power ever hook up with we're electing Hitler? That's the wrong answer. If he's really Hitler you should not be bragging about a peaceful transfer of power. You should be talking about your underground resistance which will try to kill them as soon as they can. Now of course I'm against that. No violence please. But the point is at least that would be consistent. If the things you told your own people were anywhere near true you should not be rolling over and accepting this new dictator for a day.

So I think that this spell maybe got broken. And I saw some more talk today about the fine people hoax changing somebody's mind and how much it broke their brain. I forget who it was. I'll get to it. But think about how important winning the actual total vote was. Not just the electoral vote. Being the majority by like a solid five million or whatever it is now changes everything. You can no longer see yourself as the safe reasonable people who are trying to protect the world from these weirdos who have weird opinions. It turns out that the weirdos were the majority. Literally the weirdos. Remember when Walz and them had this brilliant idea that they'll call the Trump supporters weirdos? Why do you call people weirdos? It's only because you think they're the minority. Turns out there were more weirdos than there were anti-weirdos. I love my weirdos by the way. More weirdos please. The more the better.

Oh you got a winner in Pennsylvania Senate. Winner good.

Anyway let's see what else has happened here. So this is what Colin Rugg did a good job of summarizing on X. The things that Trump said. He had ten things he wants to do to effectively get rid of the deep state. So I think it's worth reading all ten of them to you. So I won't go into detail but just get a sense of what Trump said.

Now here's the thing I love about Trump and one of the things he got right the first time he ran. As soon as he was elected he started doing presidential stuff like he didn't wait until he was sworn in. Like anything he could do legally that was presidential like he visited the

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Ford plant and some other plant and tried to keep American jobs here and it was just sort of brilliant because it gave you a first look at what a Trump presidency would look like. And you're like oh wow he's already on the job. He's definitely putting in the work. For me I like that. So here he is again telling you what he has in store and he's very specific. That's ten things. Here they are. Imm…

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