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I laughed soooo much the entire time, this was the most fun I’ve had in a hot minute with politics. Am pretty sure I now have an official crush on Michael Moynihan 🔥🔥🔥🔥👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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The FP subscription is the money best spent! I just finished watching your coverage, whole five hours in more or less one go. What an exquisite bunch of people, both professionally competent and authentically invested and fun. And not shying away from alcohol when needed. You have my subscription for as long as I live 🍸🍸

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What a night but The Free Press & guests presented interesting analysis and a sense that no matter what, there is a path forward. There are moments to be seized and I hooe this moment can be seized in a positive way to make things work better. Thanks for making something homespun and fun and serious and something not afraid of the truth.

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does anyone think choosing Shapiro would have changed things?

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My initial instinct is that it would have helped but I may be understating how much support she would have lost from Progressives due to the pick. She was a bad candidate with the equivalent of Sarah Palin as her running mate and did not go through a primary, tough road.

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A great outcome after all the tension. But I'm uneasy about what happens next.

As we saw, the Dems practically handed the presidency to Trump by backing a brainless figurehead who wasn't chosen by the party, and who refused to state any intelligible positions for the record. That, mind you, was after a Dem lock-step denial of Biden's obvious dementia and shameless corruption for 4 years. What more could they do to alienate voters?

The lack of a real contest suggests that the DC deep state deliberately made a horrific multi-layered mess through Biden-Harris, and they are now leaving the mess for Trump to clean up, betting on his failure.

And it's a toss-up, even with the great team he's chosen, whether he can do enough to turn the tide. Many of America's woke "code" creators and wreckers of society are unelected and will keep the power to sabotage the Trump Team.

Over the next year, we can expect that:

- Big Media will memory-hole who is really to blame for the filthy dysfunctional house that now needs an overhaul.

- Big Social-Media will censor the historical truth as 'dangerous misinformation' (thanks to the Biden admin's sneaky deal with them).

- The rogue intel-alphabet agencies and compromised courts will step up their chasing of right-wing activists as 'domestic terrorists' -- while giving real-life terrorists room to do their violent thing (for motives that are always "unclear").

- All of the above will refuse to say "terrorist" and "Muslim" in the same sentence, leaving the Muslim Brotherhood to proceed with its plan to "crush the Empire" of America.

https://vimeo.com/1016826375

Sorry to be so pessimistic. But IMO it's too early to celebrate... the battle is only beginning.

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I was dreading watching any sort of election coverage last night, but decided to check out your feed. I was very impressed. It was a truly enjoyable, refreshing, out of the box experience. I really appreciate the variety of guests and viewpoints that you brought onto the show. I also loved how low-budget the whole show was, and I mean that as a sincere complement. Not overly scripted, much more spontaneous and real. Loved having your 9-year old election commentator - way more interesting than any of those in the MSM! Excellent, excellent show. Thank you.

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I spent a few minutes watching MSNBC and CNN. Not one pundit or panelist gave a moment or a thought to the reason people voted for Trump. It was a vote against Democrat policies: Biden's which we lived with and Harris's which we had to imagine and fear. How is that not the foremost thought by these Talking Heads. The only thing they spoke about on CNN was these Americans disregard for Trump's failings. Which I can only interpret as them saying, how can these people be so stupid? It's not insulting in a way because they are so obviously missing the point. If they can't see why people held their noses and voted for Trump, I can't help them, or certainly listen to them.

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I can’t watch or listen to Nick Gillespie. Please make him go away.

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If you ever take the time to read all the comments on any of the Honestly comments section, this wouldn't have been a surprise.

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Batya’s beehive hair was stunning. It was like an orthodox Jewish version of Amy Winehouse: “they tried to make me go to reform, and I said no no no”

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1:05 central time and the show is over. I hope everyone put's on a smile and makes an effort to get along.

We've had a year of lawfare and name calling to no end so let's act like grownup's for a change.

This is and always will be the greatest country in the world so let's show a little class.

God bless our nation.

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I agree with Chris well done to the crew of The Free Press! Thanks everyone! See you all again in 4 years!

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Excellent job tonight to all at the FP for very smart, very entertaining election coverage! Thank you for all you do! ⭐️

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Thank you, Bari and The FP, for your show tonight. It was yet another example of how The FP is differentiating itself in today’s new media world.

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I’m fine with Fox

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Loved it. Bari is amazing but I would rather have a drink with Michael

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Thank you to the TFP. That could not have been easy for the crew. Kudos.

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