Hey, everybody. Welcome to a very somber and stupid emergency broadcast of the Muckrake

podcast. I'm Jared DeSax. I'm here with Nick Houseman. How you doing, bud? You get some sleep?

I was in bed and I wasn't moving and my eyes were closed. So I suppose that does that count?

Man, I've had those kinds of nights before, for sure.

Yeah, but I was up early and right back on the phone and all the things you're not supposed to do.

And, yeah, it's not great.

Really, it is not great.

And it's a reckoning.

And having to look through the rights responses today has not made it any better.

I'll be honest with you. And by the way, of course, we're recording this and speaking about the 2024 election in which Donald Trump has

not just won a plurality of the votes. He has won the popular vote. Might very well go over 300

electoral votes. Nick, there is a lot for us to discuss in the next few days. We just want to get some

thoughts on the record. I think people want to hear from us. I have been dismayed by how

the right has reacted. I've been dismayed by how liberals have reacted, how Democrats have

reacted. It's bad enough that Donald Trump has won a second term and that we now have the

fight of our lives

on our hands, which is something that I thought was a possibility and something I've been

warning about for nearly a decade now. But on top of that, not only is there a vibe shift,

because a lot of people went into this thing thinking there was no possibility Donald Trump

could win. They got

hauled into the Harris campaign and sort of a messaging by a lot of influencers and personalities.

Also fantasies about what America is and what it has become. But watching the reaction starting

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