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The midterms humbling that many expected comes reality overnight.
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More planes are in trouble in European skies as bomb threats continue to rain down.
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A high-profile celebrity has lost their high court injunction to avoid being named for whatever allegations are being made against them.
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And has America finally seen through the Messiah?
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That plus more in today's show.
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Well, hello everybody.
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It is Wednesday, the 4th of November.
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Hope you're well wherever you are in the world.
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Well, what many expected in the US midterms has come to fruition overnight.
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The Democrats have taken control of both the House and the Senate in a pretty landslide victory.
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Now, not all results have been accounted yet, but we know that the Democrats are going to win.
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So in the Senate to start with, they need 50 seats to make a majority.
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52 have already gone the way of the Democrats, which is up six.
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And obviously the Republicans are down six with just 41 seats from the previous election.
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That compared to the House of Congress.
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The Democrats have so far won 196 seats, which is up 16.
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Republicans are down 116, and it's a 218 to win a majority.
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There's still a fair few votes to be counted.
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Same with the Senate as well.
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However, it's clear who has control of both of them, which is a complete flip on what it was yesterday when the Republicans had both the House, Senate, and of course the presidency as well.
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Now, many will suggest that this will define Trump.
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This will be his parting memory, if you like, in terms of people's perception of him, which is true, along with the pointless war started, the rising gas prices, and the incredible arrogance of a man who many people once considered bizarrely a bit of a god, a bit of a messiah.
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And I think what I find very, very interesting here is firstly, who do you think Trump's come out and blamed?
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Anyone but himself for a star.
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This story here is hilarious.
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He's come out and said that he would have won by a landslide and they lost because of poor candidates.
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I would was trying to get people in that were people that frankly, let's say that I didn't get along with, but for purposes of the party, I went along with it, and the base would tell me hundreds of thousands of people would just say they weren't for you.
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I did about these people.
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It's just a point in time, bro.
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It's just a point in time.
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It's the way it's it was a mood in the air, I guess.
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And you know, if you look, I shouldn't feel guilty because virtually I saw you on your show the other night saying that almost never does the sitting president, no matter how good or bad, or Republican or Democrat, he or she is, but no matter how good the president is, uh you lose.
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I know in America the political system is slightly different, well, it's very different actually, where you vote for your leader and then you vote for representatives in different states, but really you're voting for a party.
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And the leader of the party is de facto who the people are really voting for.
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If you have a president of a particular party that everybody loves and the country seems to be thriving, the likelihood of that particular party winning both the House and the Senate and the Congress are very high.
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Of course they are.
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In the same way in Britain, if you've got a head of a leader, head of a party that's very popular, that people believe would be a great prime minister, they know the only way that's going to happen is if they vote for that particular party.
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I would suggest that very few people vote for the constituency candidate in their particular area, whatever party it is that they they stand for.
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Most people don't even know their name, they vote for the party.
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And it's obviously the same in America.
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So this is, of course, a direct reflection on people's views of Donald Trump and his presidential term, which is an incredible thing, really, given when the man was re-elected.
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He was re-elected, as I say, under the kind of premise of being this god in many people's minds.
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He'd survived assassination attempts.
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He'd gone like that at just the right time, and the bullet missed him.
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You know, there was all these attempts to silence him, to stop him from returning to the White House, and he defied it all.
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And what's he done since?
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Any form of a legacy that that man may have had in certain people's minds, he's gone.
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He sold it all for the old friend Israel.
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Like I say, he started a war in the Middle East that no one wanted.
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And as a result, fuel prices, gas prices are now at record highs.
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Billions and billions and billions have been spent on the war, and further billions and billions and billions will need to be spent on repairing the damage caused by the war to their bases in the Middle East, as we covered on Monday.
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So, who is surprised by these results?
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And I'm certainly not, and I would suggest large people, large quantities of people in America, including people on the right, would not be surprised by these results at all.
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And I did have to say, I've seen one tweet this morning which has really made me smile because when people like this are starting to question and starting to point out certain facts, well, maybe you're on to something.
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Matt Walsh, the the right-wing commentator who's a presenter at Daily Wire, has said Trump launched an unpopular and pointless war, gas prices are too high, people can't afford groceries, Trump abandoned the America first message.
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This is why the Republicans are getting crushed.
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It's very simple.
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You can see my little comment there.
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Don't tell me you're finally questioning who owns Trump, mate.
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Shapiro won't be happy.
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And he won't be, because, you know, Israel clearly owns Donald Trump.
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He did an interview yesterday as well where he spoke about his approval rating in Israel and that if Americans didn't want him, he'd move there.
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He's done literally everything he possibly can to give them everything he wants, everything they possibly want, at the expense, both financially, militarily, economically, of America.
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And he's done it shamelessly.
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He's proudly proclaimed to be the most pro-Israel president ever.
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He's moved their embassy to Jerusalem, all those things that he's done.
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We could come up with a whole week's worth of programs just listing those.
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And he's now surprised that America don't actually want him.
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They don't buy into his policies.
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He was brought in, he sold the dream of America first.
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You know, we're going to start everything at home, we're going to bring manufacturing back, we're going to control the borders, we're going to get people prospering, we're going to bring back economic stability.
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And where is all of that?
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It was all given up for a war thousands and thousands of miles away that benefits nobody sat in the 50 states right now.
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So this is a very expected result.
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But this is where the caveat is.
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What are the Democrats going to do?
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The Democrats are the party that went to war in Libya, the Democrats are the party that went to war in Syria, previously under Clinton, the Democrats are the are the ones that went to war in Eastern Europe, in Yugoslavia.
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They're the ones who oversaw a number of massive transfers of military and financial aid to Israel under Obama.
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As I say, they got rid of Gaddafi for him, they destabilized Syria for him.
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For them, sorry, for Israel.
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So what's going to be any different?
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Alongside that, you're now bringing back in the whole woke identity politics agenda, the climate change agenda, which we has kind of been on the back burner under the Trump administration, but now all of a sudden that's going to come back.
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So as Americans, what's your real choice?
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Your choice is between the president of Israel, basically, and divisive, hard-left, woke identity politics narratives run through your country where people get cancelled for having an opinion that's not acceptable anymore.
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Where we'll see crazy green agendas that just add to the destruction of the environment, not the assistance of it.
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So what's your choice, America?
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And we have the same choice here in Britain.
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The very same choice.
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All the parties are on the same page when it comes to Ukraine, all the parties are on the same page when it comes to a number of major issues.
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And during COVID, all those parties in pretty much every country, everywhere in the world, were on the same page.
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So what was your choice then?
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And this is where the sham of politics becomes reality.
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Because what change are you actually expecting to make?
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Yeah, you might remove Donald Trump and he'll probably lose, well, he will lose the presidency, of course, at the next election unless something happens because he can't stand again.
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But it wouldn't shock me if something happened.
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But what are you replacing him with?
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Yes, you'll take control of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, but again, what changes?
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The thing that's also important just to mention here is a lot of people will say, well, this will destroy the last period of Trump's presidency because he won't be able to get anything through.
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He won't get congressional approval to do this or that.
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Well, last time I checked, he didn't get congressional approval for the war in Iran in the first place.
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So why would he ask for it this time?
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Congress has done nothing to halt Trump's actions in the Middle East.
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And in America, as the president, you have the ability to sign an executive order.
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Which is bypasses all of these things.
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I want this to happen.
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There you go, done.
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It's now a law.
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One man, one woman, one person has all that control and all that power to basically do whatever they want.
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So you only really have to control one person in order to control the outcome of a particular situation that you want to create.
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How is that democracy in a country of over 325 million people that one person is able to swish a pen and wield such power?
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Like get into a war in the Middle East that's lost billions of dollars, lives, created global supply chain chaos, created oil shortages, caused massive rises in gas prices across your nation.
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One person has had the power to do that.
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That doesn't sound particularly democratic to me.
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Now, me and Gareth were talking about this yesterday.
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And on one level, you could say, okay, well, Trump's going to lose a lot of power and influence now because he's lost control of the House and the Senate.
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Although, equally, you can look and say, okay, could this make him even more dangerous?
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Because he's got nothing to lose now.
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Now, he doesn't have anything to lose anyway, in the sense that he doesn't have to fight for re-election.
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But people around him potentially do, you know, JD Vance's and others.
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So would it shock me if Vance now distances himself from Trump?
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Potentially resigns or steps away, or certainly doesn't be seen to be quite as close to him as he once was.
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And he's kind of done that already with this Iran war because people are not associating Vance with this war as much as they would have done.
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You know, we remember for a period of time there, Vance was seen as, you know, the guy that was saying more.
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You remember the famous White House falling out with Zelensky.
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It was Vance that was leading that conversation.
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It was Vance that poked Zelensky and caused and provoked that whole conflict.
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And the same thing happened a couple of times with other people as well, where Vance was very much seen front and centre in those conversations.
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With this war, he's not been seen like that.
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He's been very much in the background.
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He said a few things here and there, but he's not been the one at the front page saying this, that, and the other.
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It's been Trump and it's been Pete Hegsef that have been the two people that people would associate with this war.
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They've been the faces of it.
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So there's a deniability, a kind of plausible deniability there that's been created around J.D.
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Vance.
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Now, whether that continues, whether he steps forward more and more, who knows?
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But I think Trump could be even more dangerous because he's got nothing left to lose.
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And we know the guy has got an absolutely out of control ego, a narcissistic ego.
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We've seen that.
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You see that from the comment immediately as soon as these results come in.
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People agree with what I'm doing on Iran, but they probably weren't willing to deal with the short-term consequences of paying more for gasoline, Trump says.
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And he says he understands that.
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He doesn't agree with it, but he would say it's a short-term problem for a long-term gain.
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And then he goes on to say, I wasn't on the ballot.
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If I was, we'd have won by a landslide.
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How egotistical and arrogant you have to be to say that when the facts say the exact opposite.
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Trump's one of those people that clearly is very, very fragile and therefore needs to keep telling people how great he is, needs to keep telling people how powerful he is, how clever he is.
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I mean, this is a man that's released papers showing that he's got 10% body fat on his physical on his physical examinations.
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I mean, at what point do you have to be that egotistical to release that when everyone can see you're clearly not?
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10% body fat is an elite athlete.
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Look at him.
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Does he look like an elite athlete?
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I mean, just just things like that that are really pathetic show the mentality of the man.
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And the mentality of that man is the mentality of his actions, the country.
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Him on the world stage.
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It's the playground bully throwing his weight around.
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And now he's lost.
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He's gonna have to somehow justify this, and he's tried there by saying that poor candidates, he wasn't on the ballot, but he's gonna have to try and justify this in not just the country's minds, in his own mind.
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Because the second characters like Trump look in the mirror and go, actually, you know what?
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I'm not as popular as I thought I was.
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I've not done as good a job as I'm telling myself I have, and people are telling me with their vote, I've got to look in the mirror here and try and take some responsibility.
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People like Trump with that mindset don't do that.
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They're incapable of that.
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And those can make some very dangerous people.
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Very dangerous people, especially when they have nothing left to lose, which he doesn't now.
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So I would expect there to be probably lots of arguments in the coming days between Democrats and Republicans, between Trump and whoever the Democrats elect as their House leaders and speakers and so on.
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I expect there to be multiple high school arguments and back and forths, and probably a load of excuses coming out of America, coming out of the White House for why this has happened.
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And probably essentially a massive family rift.
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But ultimately, all of these people answer to the same force and answer to the same master.
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That's why, going back to the conversation about democracy, regardless of who is in power, the same agenda continues.
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Whether it's on Israel, whether it's on climate change, whether it's on war, whether it's on economic stability or economic devastation, the same agenda continues.
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If you're watching with us on YouTube or Twitter, thank you for joining me.
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If you head over to iconic.com, you can watch the rest of the show where we're going to talk about a couple of interesting stories.
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I touched on one yesterday, which was the multiple bomb threats on planes across Europe.
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It was four when I made the video.
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It's now seven, including some flights from the UK.
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And also another one which has led to a lot of speculation last night.
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A celebrity in the UK has lost a high court injunction bid to keep their name out of allegations made against them.
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So it's clearly a very high-profile person who's had a series of allegations made against them of a certain type.
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I'll leave that to you to decide.
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And they don't want to be named.
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Now, they've lost that appeal, but they will stay anonymous pending another appeal.
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So clearly, this person doesn't want their name out there associated with whatever these allegations are, which you know, innocent until proven guilty.
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But if someone made allegations against me that I knew were factually inaccurate and I could prove were factually inaccurate, I wouldn't want to stay anonymous.
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I'd want to expose whoever made these allegations against me.
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So I don't know.
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It's a strange one, but there's a lot of speculation about who it is.
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I'm going to be careful what I say, obviously.
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I don't want to be sued, but we'll have a chat about that over on iconic.com.
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I'll see you there.
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Two latte, please, one decap.
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Thank you.
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I've just seen the most horrendous news on the Epstein Funds.
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The midterms humbling that many expected comes reality overnight.
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More planes are in trouble in European skies as bomb threats continue to rain down.
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A high-profile celebrity has lost their high court injunction to avoid being named for whatever allegations are being made against them.
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And has America finally seen through the Messiah?
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That plus more in today's show.
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Well, hello everybody.
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It is Wednesday, the 4th of November.
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Hope you're well wherever you are in the world.
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Well, what many expected in the US midterms has come to fruition overnight.
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The Democrats have taken control of both the House and the Senate in a pretty landslide victory.
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Now, not all results have been accounted yet, but we know that the Democrats are going to win.
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So in the Senate to start with, they need 50 seats to make a majority.
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52 have already gone the way of the Democrats, which is up six.
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And obviously the Republicans are down six with just 41 seats from the previous election.
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That compared to the House of Congress.
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The Democrats have so far won 196 seats, which is up 16.
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Republicans are down 116, and it's a 218 to win a majority.
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There's still a fair few votes to be counted.
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Same with the Senate as well.
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However, it's clear who has control of both of them, which is a complete flip on what it was yesterday when the Republicans had both the House, Senate, and of course the presidency as well.
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Now, many will suggest that this will define Trump.
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This will be his parting memory, if you like, in terms of people's perception of him, which is true, along with the pointless war started, the rising gas prices, and the incredible arrogance of a man who many people once considered bizarrely a bit of a god, a bit of a messiah.
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And I think what I find very, very interesting here is firstly, who do you think Trump's come out and blamed?
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Anyone but himself for a star.
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This story here is hilarious.
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He's come out and said that he would have won by a landslide and they lost because of poor candidates.
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I would was trying to get people in that were people that frankly, let's say that I didn't get along with, but for purposes of the party, I went along with it, and the base would tell me hundreds of thousands of people would just say they weren't for you.
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I did about these people.
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It's just a point in time, bro.
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It's just a point in time.
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It's the way it's it was a mood in the air, I guess.
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And you know, if you look, I shouldn't feel guilty because virtually I saw you on your show the other night saying that almost never does the sitting president, no matter how good or bad, or Republican or Democrat, he or she is, but no matter how good the president is, uh you lose.
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I know in America the political system is slightly different, well, it's very different actually, where you vote for your leader and then you vote for representatives in different states, but really you're voting for a party.
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And the leader of the party is de facto who the people are really voting for.
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If you have a president of a particular party that everybody loves and the country seems to be thriving, the likelihood of that particular party winning both the House and the Senate and the Congress are very high.
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Of course they are.
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In the same way in Britain, if you've got a head of a leader, head of a party that's very popular, that people believe would be a great prime minister, they know the only way that's going to happen is if they vote for that particular party.
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I would suggest that very few people vote for the constituency candidate in their particular area, whatever party it is that they they stand for.
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Most people don't even know their name, they vote for the party.
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And it's obviously the same in America.
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So this is, of course, a direct reflection on people's views of Donald Trump and his presidential term, which is an incredible thing, really, given when the man was re-elected.
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He was re-elected, as I say, under the kind of premise of being this god in many people's minds.
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He'd survived assassination attempts.
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He'd gone like that at just the right time, and the bullet missed him.
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You know, there was all these attempts to silence him, to stop him from returning to the White House, and he defied it all.
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And what's he done since?
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Any form of a legacy that that man may have had in certain people's minds, he's gone.
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He sold it all for the old friend Israel.
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Like I say, he started a war in the Middle East that no one wanted.
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And as a result, fuel prices, gas prices are now at record highs.
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Billions and billions and billions have been spent on the war, and further billions and billions and billions will need to be spent on repairing the damage caused by the war to their bases in the Middle East, as we covered on Monday.
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So, who is surprised by these results?
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And I'm certainly not, and I would suggest large people, large quantities of people in America, including people on the right, would not be surprised by these results at all.
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And I did have to say, I've seen one tweet this morning which has really made me smile because when people like this are starting to question and starting to point out certain facts, well, maybe you're on to something.
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Matt Walsh, the the right-wing commentator who's a presenter at Daily Wire, has said Trump launched an unpopular and pointless war, gas prices are too high, people can't afford groceries, Trump abandoned the America first message.
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This is why the Republicans are getting crushed.
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It's very simple.
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You can see my little comment there.
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Don't tell me you're finally questioning who owns Trump, mate.
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Shapiro won't be happy.
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And he won't be, because, you know, Israel clearly owns Donald Trump.
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He did an interview yesterday as well where he spoke about his approval rating in Israel and that if Americans didn't want him, he'd move there.
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He's done literally everything he possibly can to give them everything he wants, everything they possibly want, at the expense, both financially, militarily, economically, of America.
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And he's done it shamelessly.
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He's proudly proclaimed to be the most pro-Israel president ever.
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He's moved their embassy to Jerusalem, all those things that he's done.
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We could come up with a whole week's worth of programs just listing those.
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And he's now surprised that America don't actually want him.
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They don't buy into his policies.
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He was brought in, he sold the dream of America first.
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You know, we're going to start everything at home, we're going to bring manufacturing back, we're going to control the borders, we're going to get people prospering, we're going to bring back economic stability.
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And where is all of that?
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It was all given up for a war thousands and thousands of miles away that benefits nobody sat in the 50 states right now.
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So this is a very expected result.
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But this is where the caveat is.
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What are the Democrats going to do?
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The Democrats are the party that went to war in Libya, the Democrats are the party that went to war in Syria, previously under Clinton, the Democrats are the are the ones that went to war in Eastern Europe, in Yugoslavia.
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They're the ones who oversaw a number of massive transfers of military and financial aid to Israel under Obama.
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As I say, they got rid of Gaddafi for him, they destabilized Syria for him.
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For them, sorry, for Israel.
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So what's going to be any different?
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Alongside that, you're now bringing back in the whole woke identity politics agenda, the climate change agenda, which we has kind of been on the back burner under the Trump administration, but now all of a sudden that's going to come back.
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So as Americans, what's your real choice?
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Your choice is between the president of Israel, basically, and divisive, hard-left, woke identity politics narratives run through your country where people get cancelled for having an opinion that's not acceptable anymore.
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Where we'll see crazy green agendas that just add to the destruction of the environment, not the assistance of it.
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So what's your choice, America?
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And we have the same choice here in Britain.
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The very same choice.
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All the parties are on the same page when it comes to Ukraine, all the parties are on the same page when it comes to a number of major issues.
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And during COVID, all those parties in pretty much every country, everywhere in the world, were on the same page.
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So what was your choice then?
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And this is where the sham of politics becomes reality.
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Because what change are you actually expecting to make?
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Yeah, you might remove Donald Trump and he'll probably lose, well, he will lose the presidency, of course, at the next election unless something happens because he can't stand again.
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But it wouldn't shock me if something happened.
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But what are you replacing him with?
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Yes, you'll take control of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, but again, what changes?
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The thing that's also important just to mention here is a lot of people will say, well, this will destroy the last period of Trump's presidency because he won't be able to get anything through.
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He won't get congressional approval to do this or that.
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Well, last time I checked, he didn't get congressional approval for the war in Iran in the first place.
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So why would he ask for it this time?
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Congress has done nothing to halt Trump's actions in the Middle East.
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And in America, as the president, you have the ability to sign an executive order.
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Which is bypasses all of these things.
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I want this to happen.
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There you go, done.
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It's now a law.
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One man, one woman, one person has all that control and all that power to basically do whatever they want.
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So you only really have to control one person in order to control the outcome of a particular situation that you want to create.
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How is that democracy in a country of over 325 million people that one person is able to swish a pen and wield such power?
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Like get into a war in the Middle East that's lost billions of dollars, lives, created global supply chain chaos, created oil shortages, caused massive rises in gas prices across your nation.
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One person has had the power to do that.
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That doesn't sound particularly democratic to me.
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Now, me and Gareth were talking about this yesterday.
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And on one level, you could say, okay, well, Trump's going to lose a lot of power and influence now because he's lost control of the House and the Senate.
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Although, equally, you can look and say, okay, could this make him even more dangerous?
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Because he's got nothing to lose now.
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Now, he doesn't have anything to lose anyway, in the sense that he doesn't have to fight for re-election.
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But people around him potentially do, you know, JD Vance's and others.
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So would it shock me if Vance now distances himself from Trump?
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Potentially resigns or steps away, or certainly doesn't be seen to be quite as close to him as he once was.
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And he's kind of done that already with this Iran war because people are not associating Vance with this war as much as they would have done.
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You know, we remember for a period of time there, Vance was seen as, you know, the guy that was saying more.
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You remember the famous White House falling out with Zelensky.
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It was Vance that was leading that conversation.
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It was Vance that poked Zelensky and caused and provoked that whole conflict.
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And the same thing happened a couple of times with other people as well, where Vance was very much seen front and centre in those conversations.
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With this war, he's not been seen like that.
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He's been very much in the background.
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He said a few things here and there, but he's not been the one at the front page saying this, that, and the other.
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It's been Trump and it's been Pete Hegsef that have been the two people that people would associate with this war.
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They've been the faces of it.
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So there's a deniability, a kind of plausible deniability there that's been created around J.D.
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Vance.
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Now, whether that continues, whether he steps forward more and more, who knows?
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But I think Trump could be even more dangerous because he's got nothing left to lose.
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And we know the guy has got an absolutely out of control ego, a narcissistic ego.
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We've seen that.
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You see that from the comment immediately as soon as these results come in.
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People agree with what I'm doing on Iran, but they probably weren't willing to deal with the short-term consequences of paying more for gasoline, Trump says.
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And he says he understands that.
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He doesn't agree with it, but he would say it's a short-term problem for a long-term gain.
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And then he goes on to say, I wasn't on the ballot.
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If I was, we'd have won by a landslide.
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How egotistical and arrogant you have to be to say that when the facts say the exact opposite.
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Trump's one of those people that clearly is very, very fragile and therefore needs to keep telling people how great he is, needs to keep telling people how powerful he is, how clever he is.
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I mean, this is a man that's released papers showing that he's got 10% body fat on his physical on his physical examinations.
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I mean, at what point do you have to be that egotistical to release that when everyone can see you're clearly not?
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10% body fat is an elite athlete.
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Look at him.
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Does he look like an elite athlete?
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I mean, just just things like that that are really pathetic show the mentality of the man.
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And the mentality of that man is the mentality of his actions, the country.
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Him on the world stage.
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It's the playground bully throwing his weight around.
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And now he's lost.
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He's gonna have to somehow justify this, and he's tried there by saying that poor candidates, he wasn't on the ballot, but he's gonna have to try and justify this in not just the country's minds, in his own mind.
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Because the second characters like Trump look in the mirror and go, actually, you know what?
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I'm not as popular as I thought I was.
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I've not done as good a job as I'm telling myself I have, and people are telling me with their vote, I've got to look in the mirror here and try and take some responsibility.
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People like Trump with that mindset don't do that.
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They're incapable of that.
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And those can make some very dangerous people.
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Very dangerous people, especially when they have nothing left to lose, which he doesn't now.
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So I would expect there to be probably lots of arguments in the coming days between Democrats and Republicans, between Trump and whoever the Democrats elect as their House leaders and speakers and so on.
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I expect there to be multiple high school arguments and back and forths, and probably a load of excuses coming out of America, coming out of the White House for why this has happened.
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And probably essentially a massive family rift.
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But ultimately, all of these people answer to the same force and answer to the same master.
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That's why, going back to the conversation about democracy, regardless of who is in power, the same agenda continues.
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Whether it's on Israel, whether it's on climate change, whether it's on war, whether it's on economic stability or economic devastation, the same agenda continues.
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If you're watching with us on YouTube or Twitter, thank you for joining me.
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If you head over to iconic.com, you can watch the rest of the show where we're going to talk about a couple of interesting stories.
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I touched on one yesterday, which was the multiple bomb threats on planes across Europe.
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It was four when I made the video.
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It's now seven, including some flights from the UK.
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And also another one which has led to a lot of speculation last night.
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A celebrity in the UK has lost a high court injunction bid to keep their name out of allegations made against them.
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So it's clearly a very high-profile person who's had a series of allegations made against them of a certain type.
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I'll leave that to you to decide.
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And they don't want to be named.
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Now, they've lost that appeal, but they will stay anonymous pending another appeal.
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So clearly, this person doesn't want their name out there associated with whatever these allegations are, which you know, innocent until proven guilty.
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But if someone made allegations against me that I knew were factually inaccurate and I could prove were factually inaccurate, I wouldn't want to stay anonymous.
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I'd want to expose whoever made these allegations against me.
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So I don't know.
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It's a strange one, but there's a lot of speculation about who it is.
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I'm going to be careful what I say, obviously.
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I don't want to be sued, but we'll have a chat about that over on iconic.com.
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I'll see you there.
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Two latte, please, one decap.
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Thank you.
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