Hello, everyone. It's Michael Shermer, and it's time for another episode of the Michael

Shermer show. This, a special solo commentary on, yes, the election. I recorded a commentary

before the election, and so I thought I'd follow up. I'm calling this post-mortem 2024. Well,

the results of the 2024 presidential election are in.

Trump took 312 electoral votes versus Harris' 226, clean sweep of the electoral college,

and he also ran the table with the swing states, and earned 3,204,000 more votes than

Harris overall. The overall count was 75,244,000 more votes than Harris overall.

The overall count was 75,243,164, if you're counting for Trump,

versus 72,037,991 for Harris.

Again, 75.2 million versus 72 million.

Okay, so there's our difference.

I was in Dubai the week of the election for a

conference on the future, which seems apropos in as much as Trump is already changing the future

of this country, as he works tirelessly to put into place his agenda as outlined during his campaign.

As I record this, it remains to be seen how much

change he can implement after he becomes president on January 20, 2025, but there's a good

chance it will be substantial. In my previous commentary before the election, in which I

uprated those who threatened to leave the country if Trump wins.

Already, many of them have changed their minds, such as Trump's former attorney and fixer

Michael Cohen, who sounded irritatingly perplexed that anyone ever took him seriously.

Well, I didn't. I ended with two quotes, which I will repeat here with additional commentary since they still apply.

The first is from John Stuart Mill, I call it Mills Maxim, quote,

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