Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton, and I plumb forgot to check and see who won the election. I went to bed early last Tuesday, and I plum forgot to check and see who won the election.

I went to bed early last Tuesday, and then I woke up the following day and had a lot to do.

Had to work on the shed and just forgot to check, you know.

But this morning, I went down to my local bookstore to get a coffee and purchase a couple of tomes

that I've been meaning to crack open, and I remembered to buy a newspaper and see who won the election.

And it turns out that Donald Trump won the 2024 election. So if you're in the same boat as me,

and you just didn't even think to check in on this particular issue until about a week later, I am breaking it to you.

But for most people, for most people, I imagine that you probably checked the outcome of the election within a day or two of when the election took place.

It's not news to you.

I will note that I am in a very different place with this election than I was back in 2016. In 2016, when Donald Trump

defeated Hillary Clinton, I was besought. In fact, there is a picture of me. I was working at

News Corp at the time at Fox Business, and there's a picture of me where I have my hands on my head, and I'm just gaping at the television screen. And I'd been like that for 30 consecutive minutes. And somebody thought it was so funny, they took a picture of me. I was very much addled by that election.

And while I remain not a Trump guy, I wasn't rooting for

him. My reaction,

this election is just

a lot more

grounded. I am

merely frustrated and

disappointed. Now, granted,

it is possible that my brain has melted.

Media has been weird these last four to eight years.

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