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Teas and seas apply. Hi, everybody, welcome back to another installment of cognitive dissidents, our monthly roundtable show with me, Mike,

the Parallel Systems broadcast and Parallel Mike podcast.

I'm Monica Perez from the Monica Perez show. And I'm Hurore from Geopolitics and Empire.

Well, welcome back both. It's really nice to see you. And yeah, we've got plenty to talk about

tonight. We're not going to run out of ideas. We finally made it to the election and Trump has been officially declared the winner without any major setbacks. No October surprises, which was interesting. And I'm looking forward to getting both your takes on this one. You are both American citizens. So I'd love to find out really just what the general mood's been in the last, let's say,

40 hours in the last few days and particularly today. So I'll begin with you, Monica, because you

are over there in the US and then we'll go to you, Hawaii. So Monica, how are things in the US?

And what's the vibe like over there? Well, there's definitely an air of euphoria that is, so it's so separated here, left and right.

And so I was listening to Fox this morning, which is the kind of Republican station.

And they had a lot of guests on and the constant theme, and this was also true during the election,

I won't go off on a tangent until you want to talk about the run-up, but it is really coming

through that they feel like this is like a divine moment. There's definitely a lot of, like,

this was God's answer. We are on the right track now. God has saved this country.

There's there's euphoria in the markets. You can probably speak to that better than I can, Mike,

but there seems to be some irrational exuberance in the markets. And then on the side of like a CNN and

the left stuff, it seems to me like nobody cried this

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