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Trump Wins, Media Loses (11-6-24)
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Live Election Coverage (11-5-24)
02:00 What Bibi is doing on election day – he fired his defense minister, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/world/middleeast/netanyahu-fires-gallant.html
03:50 The most important election ever is hyperbole but to be human is to exaggerate the importance of whatever you pay attention to
06:20 Commentary magazine: No, This Won’t Be the Last Election Ever, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vAvXwSTXmM
09:00 Democracy was on the ballot in 2022
25:45 Eli Lake: Trump and the art of the bullshitter, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honestly-with-bari-weiss/id1570872415
34:00 Democrats go silent
1:10:00 Kip joins
3:09:00 Colin Liddell joins from Japan
3:15:00 Japan – South Korea – Taiwan
3:17:45 Britain’s new Tory leader is a black woman, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2024/11/total-implosion-of-tory-party-elects.html
4:01:45 Kamala Harris watch party at Howard
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Election Eve 2024 (11-4-24)
01:00 The latest from Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WeJ4iC4CM
07:45 Democratic pros worried about early vote, particularly in Pennsylvania, https://x.com/2waytvapp
20:00 If Trump wins decisively, what will it mean for the news media? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaFb0D3rdxA
21:00 Megyn Kelly makes the case for Trump
26:30 Harris vs Trump: Predictions are Futile, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZTD5AhwuY
30:00 Pollster Robert Cahaly’s 2024 Predictions & the importance of Elon Musk buying X, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ChJzyMhIkI
33:00 Both campaigns have big exuberant events, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCx8SgsXwlw
34:40 Sarah Isgur says that winning campaigns have a lot of staff hooking up, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTzldHsvG4
36:15 Why Trump’s Conduct Hasn’t Tanked His Chances, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xx2SI8kLZ4
40:00 Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine: Who’s done better? JD Vance v Tim Walz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swdZoafddWQ
55:00 2024 Pre-Election Extravaganza | Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0AgNL0NHg
56:45 Kamala’s Moby Grape problem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Grape
57:30 Kamala’s changing message
58:30 Private polls vs public polls
1:04:00 Kamala campaign got trolled out of its strategy of hiding Kamala from interviews
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Decoding The Election (11-3-24)
01:00 Polls show a surge for Kamala while votes cast indicate black turnout is down and Trump is in pole position
02:00 Mark Halperin says Kamala will have trouble winning Wisconsin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1IEDpSiciY
04:00 News media unfair to Donald Trump
08:00 Hugh Hewitt storms off Washington Post livestream
17:00 Chuck Todd: Trump HQ grows ‘nervous’ as he fails replicate his 2016 wins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRM3Ukg_fHI
29:00 Trump’s a lousy fascist, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/trump-would-make-a-pretty-poor-fascist
31:00 Nikole Hannah-Jones: How dare some white women disagree with all Black women!, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nikole-hannah-jones-how-dare-some
37:15 Trump political director James Blair says his team feels confident of victory
56:30 Rich Baris on the polls, https://www.iheart.com/podcast/82-the-afternoon-addiction-wit-28403290/episode/garret-talks-to-pollster-rich-baris-233885363/
59:50 NYT Patrick Healy: Our 61 Focus Groups Make Me Think Trump Has a Good Chance of Winning, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/opinion/election-focus-groups.html
1:16:00 Make Politics Great Again, https://americanmind.org/features/what-trump-should-do-if-he-wins/make-politics-great-again/
1:22:45 Israel, Iran, Trump, Harris – with Dr. Micah Goodman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MGg6Oe5_7A
1:28:00 Israelis hope this is their last war with Hamas & Hezbollah and the beginning of a ten-year war with Iran
1:37:00 The Map of Los Angeles | John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZ87v_0gS0
1:46:30 “Iran Can’t Afford a War. It’s Out of Options and Running Out of Time” | Ep. 37 Prof. Ali Ansari, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtP-YtdqwhI
1:59:30 Understanding early election night, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-polls-with-henry-olsen/id1495239983
2:09:15 The comeback of Donald Trump, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comeback-of-donald-trump/id1743666262?i=1000675025383
2:11:30 Syrian Girl arrested for getting double teamed in the bathroom of a pizza restaurant, https://rumble.com/v5db4h1-s02e14-15-brain-damage.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp#
2:21:00 Trafalgar polls: A State-by-State Analysis Before Election Night, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCSxUhaXV4
2:28:00 Peanut the Squirrel has taken over RW twitter
2:35:30 Donald Trump ADHD Poster Boy | Trump/ ADHD | Episode 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSGFX0f-Uts
2:48:00 Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campaign-lewandowski-conway/680456/
2:57:00 The right without wrong, https://jacobin.com/2024/10/the-right-without-wrong
3:01:00 Steve Sailer on the Jacob article, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/jacobin
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3:06:40 Kip joins to discuss the World Series
3:09:00 Kip melancholy about the death of a neighbor
3:15:00 Did we evolve to be gullible? https://www.amazon.com/Not-Born-Yesterday-Science-Believe/dp/B0847SM7V8/
3:18:00 Kip’s history of selling mortgages
3:32:00 I started noticeably aging about age 44
3:34:00 Do the stars determine our fate?
3:43:00 I quit gambling in high school
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Trump has pole position as Kamala rambles (11-1-24)
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Republicans sound confident of victory (10-31-24)
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Exposing LA’s Biggest Tax Cheat
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Understanding conservatives who now vote for the Democrats (10-30-24)
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Trump Has Momentum Heading Into The Final Election Week
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MSM Labels Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally Racist (10-28-24)
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