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Slack.com slash DHQ. At least 12 senators, including Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn, Josh

Oli, and other strong conservatives, will vote against certifying the Electoral College

vote this week, given the irregular and in some places unconstitutional way that the

election was conducted, they are proposing an emergency 10-day audit of the election,

which seems fair to me. The left gave us 15 days to slow the spread. Well, we'll give

them 10 days to certify the vote. What a way to start the year. I'm Michael Knowles,

this is the Michael Knowles Show.

Welcome back to the show. Welcome to the new year. I hope you all had a good Christmas

and I hope you all had a good New Year's and I hope you all had a good quanza, apparently

Kamala Harris did, which we will get to a little later. My favorite comment from last year,

the last episode we did of last year, from AW. 1967 Song of the Year, Respect by Aretha

Franklin, 2020 Song of the Year, WAP by Cardi B. We have come so far. We have. That shows

you everything you need to know about progress. Progress, not always bending the arc of history

toward justice and happiness and hope and all that sort of stuff. Sometimes things can

get worse and things may be getting worse. It's still very much up in the year, 2021,

feeling a lot like 2020. Everyone thought 2020 was so bad that it's going to end and

then 2021 is going to be really great. Well, 2021 feels a bit like a hangover. To me,

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