It's a pretty daunting agenda and it's a very daunting moment and we're not going to get quick answers.

And we have to take a deep breath and recognize we are not going to solve this problem in the immediate few days and weeks.

We're not going to come up with, okay, here's the man. This is American pragmatism.

Take a pill, get a quick fix.

That's not going to work.

That's not going to work.

We have to take a deep breath, take a look at the long view, and figure out how we're going to get through what's going to be a very very rough at least four years we'll

be lucky if it's just four years

oh miss be hey hey hey hey everybody um welcome to the bituation room uh hope everyone is um still drunk

honestly like that is my ultimate hope for you um i sobered up a little I hope everyone is still drunk, honestly.

Like, that is my ultimate hope for you.

I sobered up a little bit ago, but I got, you know, a solid four hours of sleep,

drank way too much whiskey, and watched these results roll in.

And then, you know, at 7 a.m. Eastern had a pang of fear that I would pick up

my phone and, oh yeah, look, Michigan went to Donald Trump. Donald Trump has won the presidential

election. This is the Bituation Room.

We're a progressive leftist show.

We platform not only funny comedians and good folks, but smart thinkers, elected representatives,

activists, organizers, people have been in this struggle for decades and decades and

decades. And I'm going to

give you my thoughts about this election, but I just wanted to open up and say that this show has

never been a Trumpy focus show. It has responded to these fascistic times, but it really was about and is about creating a space where we can have, you know, real radical strategic discussions while also being silly and funny and being able to not take ourselves so seriously in the way that oftentimes,

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