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't really make any difference because the election was over and it would just make it hard for Johnson to work on the transition I probably wouldn't have said anything until I was sure the transition was working okay. Because it would have been creating a problem that didn't need to be created because there was no benefit from it. It was good that we found out eventually. That part's good. I'm goi…

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it creates two movies. Half the country probably thinks it's real.

Anyway Democrat strategists are whining about the future, the party. And one of my favorites was Jamal Simmons, one of the Democrat strategists, and he said that their vibe is off. Our vibe is off. Got to burn down our image. See how he talked about image? He didn't say we have to improve our policies. He didn't say our policies need to be to match the American public. He's completely aware that their policies don't match the majority of the public. So instead of saying we need better policies he says we have to work on our image. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying that they treat it like it's an image problem and it worked under Clinton. It worked. But you're going to need a real candidate. If you don't have a candidate image is not going to get you anywhere because your policies are dead on arrival. So the fact that they haven't figured that out yet is amazing.

But when you poll Democrats about who they'd like to see run next time and you include let's see Noem and Governor Whitmer and then Harris if she ran again, the preference is none of the above. Even Democrats don't want any of the three leading likely candidates to come anywhere near the presidency or at least to run for it because they know they won't win. So that's pretty bad.

Even according to Breitbart after the election there's been a crash in public tolerance for illegal immigration, illegal migration. So now just 10% of Americans oppose Trump deporting illegal migrants with criminal records according to a New York Times poll. Only 10% oppose getting rid of the criminals. Again you couldn't even get 25% to support keeping criminals because it's just stupid. So the 10% who say yeah let's keep the violent criminals, I mean those are not serious people. They're not serious people anyway.

And just 19% strongly oppose deporting all immigrants who are here illegally. Trump it's a complete victory. Trump took the hardest topic and just owns it now. He won. Even CNN showing a recent poll shows his approval is at 48%. It's up from 39% just last year. Days before taking office a new high. Highest approval. Well Biden's the lowest approval. Everything's going his way.

Even the Washington Post has decided to soften its coverage. I guess both Washington Post and CNN decided they didn't want to do the over-the-top thing where everything is negative Trump no matter what is happening. And it looks like they're going to cover it more both-sides-ish which I see has already started. It's already begun. I think it's real. Because for example Washington Post says Trump already conquered DC and the tech leaders are flocking to him. Now normally that story would turn into that's how he's going to steal your democracy right? And instead of just saying a lot of tech leaders think he's on the right path, he'd be good for the country, that would be the story. But normally you expect the Washington Post to flip it into and with the help o

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f all these tech leaders that's how he's building his dictatorship to steal your democracy. But they left out that crazy part and just told the story. And the story was yeah he's doing really well converting people to his side. That's the story. And so they're just telling it. But MSNBC, I love their plucky loser approach. I don't think there's a single smart person who works at that network in m…

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