"donald trump how stunning you probably know by now but it's fresh enough and bears repeating so here's my favorite factoid from this wild election night the new york times analyzed return data and found that trump improved on his 2020 margin in 2367 counties with his margin decreasing in only 240 counties but here's the truly stunning bit trump improved his performance in every single kind of county you can imagine urban counties he did better in those than he did in 2020 by 5.2 points suburban counties where we were told for weeks"

"it's amazing and like, i agree with you that bibi was like showing what was possible, but now that trump's there, i mean, trump does say he wants to end the wars, and i mean, nobody wants war, i mean, it's kind of a canard that the left always says, oh, you want the war, but he's also, remember, the other thing he says is, we don't win wars anymore, and he is clearly aware that the iranians have been trying to kill him for four years, so. look, i think the next couple of months are going to be particularly interesting, because if you recall, and i think some of our listeners may recall as well, that in his lame duck presidency, obama took the opportunity to pass some, as trump would say, some pretty nasty resolutions in the united nations. i think the likelihood of a biden administration doing some sort of desperate last minute attempt to screw israel is pretty high. the chances that that then leads to some kind of counter reaction from israel that actually puts israel in a much better position to actually not just end the war, but to actually win the war decisively, completely, including either collapsing or getting very close to retaliating against the iranian regime, i think it's pretty high. the phrase regime"

" and that is you are not charles de gaulle in dc france be an opposition not a resistance and there is a huge difference when you cheer on and act as if people who are undermining the elected government of the united states are actually heroes preventing fascism you're undermining our democracy and it's not good so don't be the boys who cried wolf who cried collusion again now of course new senator adam schiff is going to go back to his old tricks but there should be a segment of the democrats who are like we're not going to go down this road anymore it doesn't end well for us we don't get anything done we end up looking like joe mccarthy 2.0 i don't think you're going to convince like jen rubin of the washington post but you are going to be able to convince a segment and trump can influence this if he decides that in this period of transition to his second inauguration he's magnanimous he should i mean i'm not saying like you know he's going to appoint he's going to point in his cabinet he should say i want to be president for all americans i want to work with democrats who want to work with me and if he does that he's going to be president for all americans that he shrinks the pool of the inevitable alleged resistance types i mean look he already like basically appointed a"

"we killed two ideas, hezbollah and hamas. exactly, and we have like seven more ideas, okay, look, i don't know if you saw it, but this morning alone, like something like three hours after the election was called, the houthis announced unilaterally, they're ending all aggression against israel, these are people who were firing missiles on tel aviv two and a half months ago."