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Prayers answered, hope restored, the American dream lives.
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This loud, proud American couldn't possibly be any happier with the results of the 2024 presidential election.
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My American dream lives, and the American dream of many, many more, is restored.
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A major step was taken in the unification of America.
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Safety, prosperity and opportunity are three big priorities for the United States of America, and I am so damn excited to talk about it today the impact on my little family, my small business about it today the impact on my little family, my small business, and just how excited I am to hear about all these damn tariffs.
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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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If you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations, uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right.
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Where you need to be Back on time, we can back on time.
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You are right where you need to be.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
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What it do, what it hot I'm diggity deal, hot damn.
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Am I so excited to be back with you?
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Oh, it's true, it's damn true.
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Why?
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Because I love you.
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I love everybody right now.
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I love everybody.
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Oh America, how I love thee.
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Listen, y'all already know I'm a loud, proud American, born and raised loud, proud American.
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When you come out the womb and you get welcomed to the room with the last name Liberty, oh you better bet your ass, from C to shining C, you're going to find the most patriotic S-O-B in me.
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Oh me, you understand so.
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I am born and raised loud, proud American.
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That's the reason for this patriotic me.
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You understand.
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So I am born and raised loud, proud American.
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That's the reason for this patriotic season.
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You understand, we doubled down on our business and our plan because we love this country.
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And there was some moments of doubt.
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There was some extremely dark days.
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We struggled through four difficult, depressing years.
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But the end is in sight.
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The light will shine through the night.
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I don't know, I don't know why I'm rhyming so damn much, but it's got to be because I'm so damn excited.
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Oh, you bet your ass.
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I am excited, ass.
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I am excited.
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I'm rambling because I have so many things in my mind, so many thoughts, so many feelings, so many emotions coming straight from the heart.
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Right now I am so proud, excited and encouraged by this country.
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We're going to get things rocking and rolling here.
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We're going to come out the gates hard and fast.
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Let's connect this week to last week.
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Last week, when I was recording this podcast, I was sitting on the couch side by each okay, instead of side by side, that's for the French people out there listening Side by each, my wife and I and our little baby.
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For the very first time in both of our lives, we were voting for a president with the thought and direction and hopes and dreams and fears of our little daughter in mind.
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First time parents voting for an election.
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I can't think of a time greater in American history where a president had a major or bigger effect on child safety than this election right here.
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I am confident.
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All through the history of America, the land before time, from the first election to the latest election, people considered the impact on their children, on the next generation, generation.
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I'm sure that was the case, but this is the first time it was that specific case for me and my wife and I don't feel like there's ever been a more dependent time on child safety and a president than right freaking now, the things that have happened in this country, the things that have been happening right in my own little town, the craziness of litter boxes and bathrooms between grown men being in little girls' bathrooms.
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All the craziness grown men in women's sports, little boys in little girls' sports all these crazy, absurd things that we never could have envisioned or imagined in the history of this great country.
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All those things that were at stake.
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I don't think we've ever had a presidency with a bigger impact on child safety and the future of our next generation.
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So just that in itself major weight on our shoulders for this election.
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The overall safety in general of this country.
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All the illegals that have flooded into this country what is it?
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18 million illegals right now, obviously based off of just the things we've seen, these homicides, that these people that are coming over here.
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They're not all here to start a future.
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They're here to destroy America.
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They're here to, in all honesty, as ridiculous as it sounds, to rape and pillage this country.
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We've seen it countless times already.
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Think about all those stories, all those people like Lake and Riley, all those just horrific things that have happened in this country.
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So the vote for our future, for our safety, for the protection of our children.
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Think about the weight of all of those things.
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And then I think of myself as a small business owner literally on the verge of either closing or expanding our business.
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All those things hinged on one result.
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All those things were dependent on which way the presidential election went.
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I know that's crazy to say, but it is the God's honest truth.
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I was beyond fearful for what might happen, for the future of my beautiful little daughter, and I was literally on the verge of closing or doubling down on our business.
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For those of you that are first-time listeners and you're asking yourself what the hell is this guy talking about?
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Well, share.
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The Struggle podcast is a podcast that talks about our struggles.
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We come on here and we share those things that we're struggling with, those things that we, as I'd like to say, are growing through not going through Over the past four years.
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We have grown through some shit.
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The truth is, when you are bold enough and you are brave enough to turn on a microphone and to share your soul and your deepest fears and emotions.
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There is strength that comes to you by sharing those things and there is strength that is multiplied, because a story shared is a story multiplied and a strength multiplied, you understand, by sharing things, being brave enough to express those things.
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People learn from your fears, people learn from your struggles.
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They get courage to grow through their own things when they hear you growing through yours.
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That's the fundamental basis of this podcast.
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That's why we come on here week after week for 227 consecutive weeks, and we share our souls.
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Now, the meat and potatoes of all this is that this podcast wouldn't be possible if it wasn't brought to you by a little brand called Loud Proud American.
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That brand just happens to be my own brand, the brand of my family, a brand that represents the American spirit, with an unrelenting commitment to provide only made in American products.
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We are a patriotic brand.
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We are a brand that 100% buys into, believes and commits to American manufacturing.
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We are creating American jobs and we are spreading American love.
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We are a patriotic brand and over the past few years being on the road, I have been blown away by some of the resistance that we have experienced, some of the negative things that have been thrown at us that have been said about us Considering us a political conspiracy group, accusing us of being racist because of our belief in the American flag.
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I do not know at what point in this great country the American flag became a symbol of hate, but it is disgusting and I'm encouraged that those things I do feel will be going away.
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I've spoke to many, many people that love our product but say they're afraid to wear our product in their own little town for what people might say.
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I've talked to many parents that said they've had to go pick their children up from school because they were wearing our patriotic product and they were dress coded in their own school and kicked out of class because they had an American flag on their shirt.
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So I say this to you if we got four more years of this current administration, it would have been very, very hard for even the most red, white and blue patriotic flag-waving SOB like me and you to continue and remain steadfast in being patriotic.
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I've made the joke about we might go from a loud, proud American to a quiet, defeated American, because it would be hard to remain patriotic and the truth is I think people would become more and more afraid to be patriotic that they would be bullied, they would be yelled at, shouted at, they would be segregated for being patriotic.
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So not only would it be hard to find people that are still believing in this country and being patriotic, it would also be hard to find people that were not afraid to stand up to society and show they're patriotic.
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With all those things said, I was going to, or leaning towards, closing our business or massively scaling it back to the point where we only did two or three events a year and I went back to working a full-time job, versus some other news that we'll be sharing with you in the future, based off of our belief in this country and what is now going to happen to my great brand, thanks to President-elect Donald J Trump.
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So this election, there was so much weight on our shoulders sitting on the couch trying to record this episode of the podcast last week live, with election results coming in, so we could always go back to remember and listen to, to hear and feel the emotion, the fear and the optimism all at once in our hearts and in our voices.
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So when we go back to last week and we connect the dots, y'all can feel the anxiety right, you can understand, there was a lot of optimism but there was a lot of fear in the same breath, because it just went back and forth based off of what was populating our screen.
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Same breath because it just went back and forth based off of what was populating our screen.
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So, as I'm here today, rambling and running hard and fast, showing off great, freaking emotion, it's because I am so proud to be American, I am so unbelievably encouraged by what we saw on our TV screens.
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Y'all, we did it.
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Oh, my God, oh my God, we did it.
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Oh, look at him.
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Yeah, just keep clapping, baby.
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Okay, you might be the only one in the room, yeah, you might be the only son of a bitch in the room, but you clap, y'all.
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You want to just do some snaps too?
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You can snap.
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Yeah, you can snap, just like you're a little storyteller, like at a coffee shop or something.
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Look at you snapping, oh, and then back to the clap.
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He's got the snaps and the claps.
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Look at him.
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Oh, so proud of you, you little voter, going out there and voting and leaving your opinion and letting your voice be heard and getting that little sticker that says I voted.
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I'm proud of you and I'm proud of each and every freaking one of you, regardless of which way you voted.
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I'm extremely encouraged by the way things went.
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But if you don't believe what I believe, then that's fine, we can have a conversation about that.
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That's one of the great things went.
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But if you don't believe what I believe, then that's fine, we can have a conversation about that.
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That's one of the great things about America is the ability to have a conversation, free speech, the ability to agree to disagree.
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You understand, we had those things taken from us in the past four years.
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Freedom of speech was being taken from us.
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God bless Elon Musk, which, by the way, I got all my news during the election on X aka Twitter, and I was bouncing back and forth from Newsmax and Fox and it was crazy to see let's just put this out there for a quick second.
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Newsmax called Pennsylvania for the president I would say 20 minutes, maybe 40 minutes, before Fox News called it and Newsmax announced Donald Trump as president-elect, at least bare minimum 30 minutes before Fox went out and made the announcement.
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Now President Trump gave his speech, which was a great speech, beautiful speech.
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It was a huge speech.
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A beautiful speech, very optimistic speech, unified speech, huge.
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He gave his acceptance speech, everything was kumbaya, rah, rah, rah, and I said I got to see how the other side is living right now.
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I got to see how the you know mainstream narrative pushing media is living right now.
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And I switched over and they hadn't called it.
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They still had him at 266 electoral votes and they were literally trying to depict a pathway for Harris to still win the presidency.
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Listen to this.
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I'm going to tell you, right now, the wife and I, we stayed up to nearly four in the morning watching this election.
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I'm going to tell you, the wife was putting the baby down.
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Newsmax called Pennsylvania for President Trump and I lost it Because I knew at that point, game set, match, it was over and the dawn was back.
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Match, it was over and the dawn was back.
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The just elations, just the excitement, knowing I'm not going to close my business and my little girl is going to be safe, those things I just I just lost it.
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And then I could not sleep.
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I didn't want to sleep.
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I cried, I smiled, I laughed, I clapped, I lost my lid.
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We were up till about four in the morning and the next morning they still hadn't called it for Donald J Trump on all the other networks.
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Pretty crazy.
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They were still kind of clinging to hope and just hoping that there was a way to fix this election.
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But, as I've been hoping for and praying for is a little rhyme that says too big to rig.
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You needed this election to be so big that they couldn't mess with it, and you didn't have the benefit of being able to mess with and manipulate mail-in ballots the way you did during COVID, when you made people too fearful to actually go and vote in person.
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So, which is another funny little thing right there that we need to think about, because we're not turning the clocks back to 2020.
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But what I'm going to say about 2020 is this Over 10 million people did not come back to vote in this election.
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Over 10 million people, I think that the Democrats, I think that Harris lost, like I want to say, 15 million votes compared to Biden.
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Where did those people go, y'all?
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Where did they go?
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You know where they went?
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Back to heaven.
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Okay, because those people that voted in 2020, they were already dead.
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Okay, they were already dead.
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I know personally of someone that their family member received a ballot for a sibling that had passed on years ago.
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So let's just say this these people didn't all of a sudden just decide the 2024 election was less important than the 2020 election.
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They were made up, okay, that's why that first election was stolen.
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But I'm going to say this we talk about we need to grow through things instead of go through things, and, as difficult as it was and as overwhelmingly challenging as it was, we grew through some stuff over the past four years, and what I'm going to say is this President Trump has learned so much over the past four years.
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This country has learned so much over the past four years.
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I think that there's some people in this country that would not have supported a reelected President Trump four years ago, but they've been through hell.
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They've seen how this country was failing.
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They can envision another four years of this administration and how bad this country would be.
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My fear of not recognizing this country was shared by so many people in this country.
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There are so many more people in this great country that are now optimistic and they're willing to listen.
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They are willing to talk, to discuss, to work together to unify this country.
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This country is more unified right now than it has been in a long, long time.
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We needed to go to the depths of hell.
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Sometimes you have to experience the valley to enjoy the peak.
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We needed to go through some shit and we have been through some shit.
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America, we have suffered through some shit.
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That's a lot of shit.
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I'm saying shit a lot.
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Hope y'all aren't offended by my shit talking.
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The great poet and philosopher Curtis James Jackson once said sunny days wouldn't be special if it wasn't for rain.
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Joy wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't for pain.
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That poet and philosopher, also commonly known as 50 Cent y'all.
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But that's the truth.
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I don't think that this country would have been so accepting of President Trump if it wasn't for what we have just been through, what we just had to grow through.
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I think there's a great opportunity for this country to be united and to get back to really what made this country no pun intended great again.
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When I looked at the results of this election and you see the absolute landslide victory for President Trump in areas that people never even expected, he destroyed this election.
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Okay, he crushed this election, which I'm just going to put this out there to some folks in case you didn't know.
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The only states where Harris won in this election every single one of those states he won are the only states that do not require a voter ID, so that's a little fun fact for you.
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Not saying there's any connection there, but there could be.
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You know a little clinky dinky, but I've never seen that map so red.
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That tells me that all the people in this country that feel the way I feel that are thinking the way I think.
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We are the majority, we are not the minority.
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Mainstream media, for the past five, six, seven years, have been trying to control the narrative.
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Mainstream media has been trying to tell you that you are alone.
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If you are a patriotic son of a bitch that believes these certain ways, that is, a God-fearing individual that respects certain things, you are alone.
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You are weird, you are a stranger and you are a bully.
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You are somebody that should be ashamed of the way you think.
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Mainstream media has been pushing a narrative where people have been afraid to buck up.
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People have been afraid to stand up and say how they feel.
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The premise of Loud, proud American this company that we have, that we've founded, formed and built has been stressing the fact that it has never been more important in this country, more critical in this country, to be a loud, proud American than it is right now, because if we don't stand up, we don't buck up, get up and express how we feel and stand up for what we believe in.
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This country will be taken from us, it'll be stolen from us and we will never get it back.
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America, we got it back.
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There is far more loud, proud Americans out there than these woke, crazy lefties that we are seeing all over our news feeds, our social media feeds, our mainstream media feeds.
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We are not alone.
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We are not the silent minority anymore.
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We are the active, loud, outspoken majority.
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America, you showed that we are not alone.
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This country still bleeds red, white and blue.
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This country is still patriotic.
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Like me and you, I woke up feeling oh so optimistic.
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I went to bed realizing it's time to dream bigger than you ever did before.
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It's time to hope for and imagine, believe and achieve all those things you ever wanted.
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That maybe you were shooting too short, cinderella, that it was time to shoot higher than the stars.
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You understand.
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I woke up with a new focus on life.
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I'm telling you this.
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The day after the election, we went out for a coffee.
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We had to run some errands, we went to Walmart.
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It was the wife, my beautiful little baby, beautiful little girl, me and my mother.
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Clearly, I'm wearing a loud, proud American One Nation t-shirt, a loud, proud American hat.
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I got camouflage shorts on and guess what?
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I've got red, white and blue American flag hey, dudes on.
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And I am tiptoeing through the damn tulips of Walmart.
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I was just so bound for glory, just loving life.
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Our baby was smiling.
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Little Paisley Rain, she was smiling, counting her blessingsley rain.
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She was smiling, counting her blessings.
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She could just feel how positive we were.
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It was radiating off of us just how encouraged we are about this country and these opportunities.
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It is literally so affectious that our two-month-old baby could pick up on our positive energy and this negative weight that had come off of our shoulders, stopping in the street to yell and scream and applaud our neighbors, strangers, stopping us having conversations with us.
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An unbelievable time.
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And I got to say this the last time that I felt that America was thus unified in our direction and in our focus, that I felt that America was thus unified in our direction and in our focus, our commitment to this country, to being patriotic, was on September 12, 2001.
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As sad and ridiculous as that is to say on September 12, one day after 9-11, on September 12th, one day after 9-11, as down in the dumps, depressed, afraid and scared as this country was, we were unified and we were patriotic.
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I have never seen so many American flags in all of my life Attached to cars going down the road, everybody buying flagpoles.
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Those flags were sold out across town on everybody's shelves because they were being flown everywhere.
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We were patriotic, we were unified.
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We were going to bring to justice any son of a bitch that was involved in that heinous act.
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We were going to show everybody you don't mess with us.
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We have not been as unified as September 12th until November 6th 2024.
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I'm not comparing the situation here.
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I'm not saying anything like that.
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You can't compare to what happened on 9-11.
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I'm not saying that.
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I'm talking about the surefire act of a unified country Going to bed.
