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that everything that you knew about the Republicans was wrong, and that as long as you follow the rules that they follow, they love you. They love you. You just have to follow the same rules. That's it. It's easy. But the progressives are over there trying to decide, huh, should we be progressives? Should we be more DEI and really identity politics? Or should we be more like Bernie? Or what? Thos…

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professional male black athletes, putting on the hat and saying you know what, I've listened to both arguments, going Trump. You watch the UFC fighter types, every different race and religion, and you see how much they love Trump. And you say to yourself, huh, that's a lot of people who like Trump, all different kinds.

Here's how Trump did it. When I look at Trump's celebrity endorsements, here's what I say. Big tent. Big tent. Hey, it's a big tent and you're welcome. Everybody's welcome. When the Democrats put a celebrity on, they're going to tell you that the Republicans are and you should try to crush them, stay away from, and basically that you're the good people and the other people are. And people are like, well I'm not so sure, because my neighbor is a Republican and he just mowed my lawn for free. But you're telling me he's bad? Like how's that work?

So I think that Trump quietly, just quietly doing what makes sense, common sense, attracted people from every domain who appreciate common sense, such as having border control. So you get some Joe Rogan, you get your RFK Juniors, you get your Tulsi, and suddenly it's hard not to notice that everybody who likes common sense solutions seems to be moving toward Trump. And it doesn't matter what their color or race or religion is. And I think that Trump did it the right way. So he used the celebrity endorsements as evidence that it's safe. His biggest problem was making it safe to say that you're on his team. And that's what the celebrity endorsements did.

And by the way, that wasn't Trump making it happen. I've said this before. I think the public dragged Trump across the winning line, the finish line. I don't think he pushed himself over. I mean he did a great job, so not taking nothing away from Trump's performance. It was amazing, one of the best you've ever seen. But still it took people taking big risks in their personal and professional lives to say, you know what, I'm putting this hat on. And Musk was the biggest one, the biggest risk, maybe will be the biggest winner. But when you watch other people take a big risk like that, it's very inspiring. So I think Trump used it the right way by kind of ignoring it and letting it happen on its own, and then it formed on its own and then it helped drag him across the winning finish line anyway.

So the DNC vice chair, according to The Hill, Ken Martin, he criticized the party for losing. And he said, quote, we don't know how or why we lost. Now that's the most honest person. Like he's the one I'd listen to, because he goes on, I think he was on, might have been NewsNation, no he was on CNN with Jake Tapper, and he said this directly. This is a direct quote. We don't know how or why we lost. Now that is exactly right, because I'm observing that everybody's speculating like maybe we should have done this, maybe we should have done that. But when you put all that speculation together, the summary is we don't know how or why. And I don't think that they can find it, because think of the irony of this.

So this is the DNC vice chair and he's appearing on CNN and he's talking to Jake Tapper and he's saying we don't know how or why we lost. He's on CNN. He's talking to Jake Tapper. People get the news from CNN and Jake Tapper. CNN decided what people saw and MSNBC decided what people saw. So it almost didn't matter what the Democrats were doing if there's somebody else who decides what people see. So I don't think that he was quite realizing the irony that he was talking to the problem, Jake Tapper. Now not specifically Jake Tapper, but CNN. So if you appear on CNN, you say I don't know why we lost, and CNN is one of the primary formers of your message, I think maybe you should turn a little bit of that scrutiny on the media and say maybe it's the person I'm talking to. Maybe if you had not pushed the fine people hoax, which Jake Tapper did, maybe people wouldn't be leaving for that reason.

Some of the most important people who left the party say directly it was, and they say it out loud, is because when I found out the fine people hoax was a hoax, that's when the whole Matrix opened up and I could see that the Democrats were just lying. So Jake Tapper was a big part of pushing that and other hoaxes. If you can't recognize that the media is the ones causing the Democrat

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s to fail, how could they possibly recover? And they can't tell the media that the media is the problem because then the media won't invite them to be on anymore. It's an unsolvable problem. Yeah, I can't see any system or tweak or anything. The only way you could solve this problem is replacing all of the people at the same time, and of course there isn't any way to do that. All right. Colin Rug…

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