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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

The numbers to call tonight, 503-2-5-0-860.

That's 503-2-2-2-5-2-6.

You know, it's odd.

It's Monday.

Welcome to Monday. And over the weekend, I had, I appeared on the Richard C. Hogan's show. And that was great. I had a great time because it was fun talking about topics that went bombarding me with, you know, who's at fault for the loss of the election and all this

stuff. And it just seems to me that there's just so much that you can take, you know, when you're

reading this stuff. I mean, after election defeats, political writers and political commentators

are quick to entertain or explain how the loss is all added up and how mistakes are made.

And what usually would be like maybe a few days of analysis,

it's wound up being weeks of throwing politicians under the bus and pointing out that the difference between a Trump win as opposed to a Democratic win is that Biden and his team, well, they're

giving us the illusion that the transition of power will be peaceful and surrendered without

contention.

Part of this illusion was the invitation for Trump to meet with Biden in the Oval Office.

Amid the hollow smiles and handshaking, Biden has said that his transition team are already set for a warm welcome to Trump at the White House.

Well, let's go back to last Thursday, where James Ponder and I did a show called Political Purgatory.

And talking about that moment in time, that transition period, say, in what, 11 weeks, 10 weeks, and it's, you know, counting down, of course.

So, Ponder and I reported that we're in this political purgatory where the

weeks of transition can be used to basically screw everything up and leave a mess for Donald Trump.

A lot of people like that show because they were feeling the same way I was feeling. And today,

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