Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong.
Speaker 2: And Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: The pardon sweeping covering offenses that Hunter Biden quote has
Speaker 3: committed or may have committed or taken part in over
Speaker 3: the past eleven years.
Speaker 4: Eleven years is a very specific and not rounded amount
Speaker 4: of time, So Haunter.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a pardon a.
Speaker 4: Few years, five years, ten years.
Speaker 2: It needs to be eleven.
Speaker 4: And if you would be so kind, make sure this
Speaker 4: upcoming New Year's Eve is also covered. Going to get Christy,
Speaker 4: I didn't know pardoners could after crimes you may have
Speaker 4: committed us. I'm surprised Biden didn't include the phrase on
Speaker 4: Earth one or any.
Speaker 2: Of the Earth in the multiverse.
Speaker 5: John Stewart had a lot of fun with the Hunter
Speaker 5: Biden pardon last night, pointing out that yes, eleven years
Speaker 5: is very specific. Why not twelve? Why not ten? There
Speaker 5: must be some reason you chose eleven and all the
Speaker 5: speculation that goes with that, and then just the damage
Speaker 5: it did to all those candidates that were out there
Speaker 5: for the entire election year saying, look at the difference
Speaker 5: between Republicans and Democrats. We let the Justice Apartment do
Speaker 5: its job and then live with the results. The Republican
Speaker 5: Party fights blah blah blah blah blah, right, and Trump
Speaker 5: claims it's all of politics. And then and then Joe
Speaker 5: Biden specifically puts out a statement saying the Justice Department
Speaker 5: is infected with politics and okay.
Speaker 1: Which happens to be in the case of Hunter Biden,
Speaker 1: the opposite of the truth in which he was cut
Speaker 1: to probably felonious sweetheart deals by a fixed Justice department,
Speaker 1: but he found the gumption to claim otherwise. This is
Speaker 1: outrageous in half a dozen different ways. The idea that
Speaker 1: a dad let his son off the hook for crimes,
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody gets that, and it may be wrong,
Speaker 1: and you might condemn it, but that's not where the
Speaker 1: focus needs to be. The focus, in my opinion, needs
Speaker 1: to be on the utterly insane eleven year period where
Speaker 1: anything you did during that period you'll never be prosecuted for.
Speaker 1: It's not like he got convicted and sentenced to five years.
Speaker 1: I'm commuting his sentence because he's my boy. No, this
Speaker 1: is a sort of blanket license for lawlessness backward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dispatch had a good piece on that.
Speaker 5: Today, some legal observers have pointed out that Joe Biden
Speaker 5: could have structured the part in a way that didn't
Speaker 5: undermine the credibility of the Justice Department but preempted targeting
Speaker 5: by the Trump administration, because Biden is claiming that, well,
Speaker 5: when Trump gets into office, he's gonna spend all his
Speaker 5: time trying to get Hunter Biden. Biden could have simply
Speaker 5: issued a pardon on any uncharged crimes, but let the
Speaker 5: tax and gun convictions stand, for instance, so that Trump
Speaker 5: couldn't have tried to find other stuff but said, you know,
Speaker 5: my son did these things and so he's going to
Speaker 5: pay the price. Or he could have commuted the future
Speaker 5: sentencing decisions in the two cases he was convicted in,
Speaker 5: just commuted those and left it alone from that. Instead,
Speaker 5: the President opted for a broad pardon and justified it
Speaker 5: by claiming political bias by federal prosecutors. Well that's David Weiss,
Speaker 5: who if you've been following this whole saga, remember him,
Speaker 5: he's the Special Council. Well, he isn't taking this allegation
Speaker 5: sitting down, writes the dispatch because Joe Biden basically called
Speaker 5: him out and said he's corrupt over the weekend, So
Speaker 5: weis his office filed a motion on Sunday in the
Speaker 5: tax case requesting that the judge closed the docket on
Speaker 5: the case and instead of simply dismissing it, which would
Speaker 5: preserve the record of the indictment, just so it continues
Speaker 5: to be there as opposed to going away. Prosecutors included
Speaker 5: a thinly veiled rebuttal to Biden's claims there was none
Speaker 5: and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective
Speaker 5: prosecution in the case. Weiss goes on to say, in total,
Speaker 5: eleven different federal judges appointed by six different presidents, including
Speaker 5: Hunter's father, considered and rejected the defendant's claims, including his
Speaker 5: claims for selective and vindictive prosecution. Wow, that's the Justice
Speaker 5: Apartment saying, oh no, don't go claim and work corrupt
Speaker 5: ufing liar. Yeah, yeah, six all those judges appointed by
Speaker 5: six different presidents, on the specific complaint of we're politicizing this,
Speaker 5: have all rejected that after looking at it. But you,
Speaker 5: Joe Biden, have found something somewhere that none of those
Speaker 5: judges saw.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous and maybe the senile Potus hooked all this up.
Speaker 1: I smell the unholy lavender perfume of fake doctor Jill
Speaker 1: in all of this, right, yes, we.
Speaker 2: Can in that.
Speaker 1: If Biden had merely said, look, he's my son and
Speaker 1: I love him. He screwed up while he's on drugs.
Speaker 1: He's paid back his taxes. I'm commuting his sentences, people
Speaker 1: would be angry and saying this is you can't be
Speaker 1: angry at Clinton for the Mark Rich thing. You can't
Speaker 1: be angry at Trump for Gerald Kushner's dad. You can't
Speaker 1: be mad at any of these presidents and then put.
Speaker 2: Up with this. We don't like this.
Speaker 1: You better be careful, presidents, or there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: price to pay. Okay, that would have been fine, but
Speaker 1: it went so far beyond that. Not only the blanket
Speaker 1: pardon for all sins that maybe were committed that we
Speaker 1: don't know about, which is I mean, that's like beyond
Speaker 1: what Ford gave Nixon fifty years ago. It's crazy, but
Speaker 1: the indictment of his own Justice Department, in the defiance
Speaker 1: of those eleven feral judges of all facts of the
Speaker 1: Sweetheart deal. Weis's cooked up that got tossed out by
Speaker 1: that good judge you in DC.
Speaker 2: Why would you do all that? It's it's horrible.
Speaker 1: This has gotten and it will continue to get quadruple
Speaker 1: the scrutiny of just commuting the sentences for the tax
Speaker 1: and gun crimes. The answer why you would do some
Speaker 1: of it is because you run a money laundering outfit
Speaker 1: and have for decades.
Speaker 5: Ben go that's got a bit of an Okham's razor
Speaker 5: to it. Or if that, you know, whatever's the most
Speaker 5: likely is usually the right answer. Here's an interesting angle
Speaker 5: from Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat.
Speaker 6: As a father, I don't know if a father that
Speaker 6: would have done the same thing, well, I would have
Speaker 6: done differently. My recommendation, as the counsel would have been,
Speaker 6: why don't you go ahead and pardon Donald Trump for
Speaker 6: all his charges and make it you know, it had
Speaker 6: been gone down a lot more balanced, if you will,
Speaker 6: I'm just saying, wipe.
Speaker 2: Them out for his legacy.
Speaker 6: I don't know from that standpoint, does it makes it difficult?
Speaker 2: Decent point from Joe Manchin.
Speaker 5: If you're believing that things got too political in our
Speaker 5: justice system during a hot presidential election, yeah, pardon hunter
Speaker 5: pardon Trump. Let's all just move forward and claim we're
Speaker 5: going to do better in the future, though we won't.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't want to get off on this tangent,
Speaker 1: but it is what he did, and the way he
Speaker 1: did it.
Speaker 5: Was unnecessarily politically just terrible. David Actionlrod Smart David Actelrod
Speaker 5: on CNN this morning said it was handled very poorly.
Speaker 5: There's all kinds of different options. You could do the
Speaker 5: thing you were talking about about, partning Hunter as a
Speaker 5: dad and everything like that, but I realize not everybody
Speaker 5: has these connections, and that's why I'm launching the come
Speaker 5: up with an acronym that is all about helping drug
Speaker 5: addicts get back on their feet, some program that's never
Speaker 5: going to do anything.
Speaker 2: But you say that sort of you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you'd promote legislation.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't even get a but it doesn't matter for
Speaker 1: how troops in the field and drug addicts and whomever
Speaker 1: else gets to second Chance or tax counseling or something.
Speaker 1: But they didn't even try, which is just either a
Speaker 1: sign of he doesn't give a crap, or well, it's
Speaker 1: probably that hey, let's do this for me, do this
Speaker 1: for me. On January twentieth. It's the twentieth right, Yep,
Speaker 1: Trump gets inaugurated. We are going to lose the pleasure,
Speaker 1: the joy of listening to one Carine Jean Pierre vomit
Speaker 1: up some of the most ridiculous word salads I've heard
Speaker 1: in my history of watching this stuff. I mean, she
Speaker 1: is a being asked to defend the indefensible, which is
Speaker 1: frequently the job of the Press secretary, but b she's
Speaker 1: uniquely terrible at it. And she was confronted with the absolute,
Speaker 1: undeniable dishonesty and hypocrisy of the whole hundred pardon thing
Speaker 1: by reporters who are fairly aggressive and thirty five Michael is.
Speaker 2: Just this is.
Speaker 1: Like her on core song on her farewell tour. This
Speaker 1: will be remembered.
Speaker 2: You have said repeatedly yourself since the election. The President
Speaker 2: has said for months no pardon was coming.
Speaker 5: I just I wanted to ask you, could those statements
Speaker 5: now be seen as lives.
Speaker 2: From the American people? Is there really credibility?
Speaker 7: Is you hear?
Speaker 2: Given now this announcement.
Speaker 8: First of all, one of the things that the president
Speaker 8: always believes is to be truthful to the American people.
Speaker 8: That is something that he always truly believes. And if
Speaker 8: you see the end of his I assume that you've
Speaker 8: read his statement and you look at the end of
Speaker 8: that statement, and he actually says that in the first line,
Speaker 8: in the last paragraph and respects the thinking and how
Speaker 8: the American people will actually see this in his decision making.
Speaker 8: And I would encourage everyone to read it full of
Speaker 8: the President's statement. I think he lays out his thought process,
Speaker 8: He lays out how he came to this decision. He
Speaker 8: came to this decision this weekend. So let's be very
Speaker 8: clear about that. He says it himself, it's in his voice.
Speaker 8: He said he came to this decision this weekend, and
Speaker 8: he said he wrestled with us and because he believes
Speaker 8: in the justice Simpson, but he also believes that the
Speaker 8: war politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage
Speaker 8: of justice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my favorite part is how those last two
Speaker 5: sentences don't go together. I believe in the justice system,
Speaker 5: but I believe it was infected with politics, So.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in the justice system. Let's hear the
Speaker 2: follow up, Michael.
Speaker 9: Does the president believe now and agree with President elect
Speaker 9: Trump that the justice system has been weaponized for political
Speaker 9: purposes and that it needs brute and brands reform.
Speaker 2: No, read the president's statement seriously. Read the president's statement.
Speaker 2: He said he believes in the Department of Justice. He does.
Speaker 8: He also believes that rural politics infected the process and
Speaker 8: it led to a miscarriage of justice.
Speaker 2: He believes his son was unfairly targeted.
Speaker 8: He said that what his political opponents have done to
Speaker 8: my son, that's his words, is cruel and enough is enough.
Speaker 5: I believe in marriage and the sanctity of marriage. I
Speaker 5: would never cheat on my wife. You're kissing her right now.
Speaker 5: I would never cheat on my wife.
Speaker 2: Why are you up your hand while you're saying this?
Speaker 1: Wow, she is either incompetent or shameless or just being
Speaker 1: put in an impossible position.
Speaker 5: That actually made my brain hurt. The dissonance that made
Speaker 5: my brain hurt is that is yeah. Does she know
Speaker 5: I just said two sentences that are one hundred and
Speaker 5: eighty degrees opposite each other.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just I just contradicted myself, like back to
Speaker 1: back words. So I understand the power that the Press
Speaker 1: secretary has and how if you have an ongoing relationship
Speaker 1: with them, you've got to be at least a little
Speaker 1: diplomatic as a reporter. But why don't Moore say you
Speaker 1: didn't come within a mile of answering my question, or
Speaker 1: you just said two things that are directly contradictory in
Speaker 1: the same paragraph.
Speaker 2: Sort them out for me, please.
Speaker 5: He believes in the justic justice system, he doesn't believe
Speaker 5: in the justice system.
Speaker 2: Those are between.
Speaker 1: If the justice system has been politicized, no, absolutely not,
Speaker 1: but politics perverted the justice system. Wow, all right, you're
Speaker 1: wasting my time in your sweetheart. I can't wait till
Speaker 1: you're gone. Now shut up. I'm psick with you. I
Speaker 1: don't care if I get access. Your mummified presidency is over.
Speaker 1: You even lying in my face for two years. Now goodbye.
Speaker 2: To get out. Somebody get her a parachute. We're going
Speaker 2: to toss her out of here.
Speaker 5: dB Cooper's style, which reminds me they may have figured
Speaker 5: out who dB Cooper was. Did you follow that story
Speaker 5: while we were on break?
Speaker 2: Very exciting. I saw a headline. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 5: They might actually have figured it out. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 5: I'm just not sure I care anymore. Oh, and some
Speaker 5: other stuff that we have to get to stay here,
Speaker 5: So there's craziness going on in South Korea right now.
Speaker 5: Like I'm looking with the TV, south Korean troops descend
Speaker 5: on Parliament as opposition politicians. So the president declared martial law,
Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. This has all been happening in
Speaker 5: the last couple of hours. Let's get a quick report
Speaker 5: from CNN and then a little more for you.
Speaker 10: This is essentially the first martial law in something like
Speaker 10: forty years in South Korea. They have enjoyed a peaceful
Speaker 10: transfer of power despite increasingly divided politics that have been
Speaker 10: plaguing Soul. The president un his approval rating has been
Speaker 10: absolutely abysmal. As the reason for this martial law, his
Speaker 10: opponents believe that what he's really trying to do is
Speaker 10: to try to push through his agenda, including getting a
Speaker 10: budget passed. He feels is impossible with his opposition in
Speaker 10: control in parliament right now. So by enacting martial law,
Speaker 10: essentially banning political activity, taking control of the media, banning
Speaker 10: people from gathering in protests, I mean, all of these
Speaker 10: things are now essentially illegal under martial law.
Speaker 5: So in one report, so this sounds like the president's
Speaker 5: going out of his mind, doesn't it?
Speaker 2: So this is this report.
Speaker 5: I see our friend Mike Leins is up on CNN
Speaker 5: talking about it, and some of the video it looks
Speaker 5: crazy around the parliament building. I mean, South Korea is
Speaker 5: a real country. It's not like some you know, Central
Speaker 5: South America nut job country. South Korea is a real country,
Speaker 5: and they got nutty stuff happening in there right now.
Speaker 5: But here's one report. We're route to the National Assembly
Speaker 5: now we've confirmed members of law enforcement at the behest
Speaker 5: of the president are blocking politicians from getting back into
Speaker 5: the National Assembly. Lawmakers want to get back there and
Speaker 5: undo the declaration of martial law. So the lawmakers are
Speaker 5: trying to get back into Parliament to vote and saying no.
Speaker 5: Apparently they've got enough division of power the same way
Speaker 5: we do that they could say no, you don't get
Speaker 5: to have a martial law, but the president has got
Speaker 5: the cops keeping them from getting back in, so they
Speaker 5: can't do it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is the first declaration of martial law since
Speaker 1: they ended their military dictatorship in the late eighties. But
Speaker 1: this is the sort of stuff that like Trump derangement syndrome,
Speaker 1: people think Trump will do right. I mean, where you
Speaker 1: would have the military or the cops, stopping Congress from
Speaker 1: being able to do something that would not happen in
Speaker 1: our country. Right, But I mean, it's got a very
Speaker 1: January sixth look to it. I'm watching it on television
Speaker 1: right now. Pretty violent push and shoven trying to get
Speaker 1: the doors open, trying to get the doors closed, depending
Speaker 1: on whether you're the I don't know if those are
Speaker 1: cops or military, all of them, but people are pouring in.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're all politicians or just human beings.
Speaker 2: But that's quite a mess. So the head.
Speaker 1: Of the president's own party set in a Facebook post
Speaker 1: that the president's martial law declaration is wrong and he
Speaker 1: would work with the citizens to stop it.
Speaker 5: Hey, we got another great clip about this. Maybe we'll
Speaker 5: get to when we come back from the commercials. This
Speaker 5: is kind of exciting to watch a fully mature economy,
Speaker 5: Western civilization sort of place.
Speaker 2: Boulevart and one of our allies and one of our allies,
Speaker 2: right fun.
Speaker 5: You say, old fathead in North Korea has got to
Speaker 5: be watching this and thinking.
Speaker 2: Or thinking you're doing it all wrong.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, shoot everybody and the rest exactly.
Speaker 2: You shoot a couple editors, you have fire amount of cannons.
Speaker 2: What are you doing here? Feed them to dog? Who pops?
Speaker 2: And feed them to dogs?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Oh we've got more on the way.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 3: There are police officers on the phone who are wondering
Speaker 3: what is going on, who are calling their captains. You
Speaker 3: can overhear them in Korean saying what are we doing?
Speaker 3: What is happening right now? There are people who are
Speaker 3: leaving bars, who are leaving restaurants, calling their moms, calling
Speaker 3: their dads, calling their children, saying I'm coming home right now.
Speaker 3: This has not happened within the twenty first century. A
Speaker 3: declaration of martial law something that remains in memories of
Speaker 3: people from the nineteen eighties when South Korea was still
Speaker 3: under a military dictatorship.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well South Korea has gone nuts again, at least for today.
Speaker 5: So the president of South Korea declared martial law. It
Speaker 5: looks like to keep his version of Congress Parliament from
Speaker 5: counterbalancing any some of the things that he wants to do.
Speaker 5: So he declared martial law so they couldn't get back
Speaker 5: in and vote on various things. Well, one thing they
Speaker 5: want to do, they wanted to do is get back
Speaker 5: in and vote no, we're not going to have martial law, because,
Speaker 5: as you just heard from those reports there, everybody you
Speaker 5: know in Seoul is like, what the hell's going on?
Speaker 5: I mean, this is really weird. I mean I can't
Speaker 5: leave the school, I can't leave my place at work.
Speaker 5: The police don't know what they're supposed to be doing. Well,
Speaker 5: enough of the parliament got back in to the building
Speaker 5: and we were watching it on TV live. I mean
Speaker 5: it had a January sixth look to it. I mean
Speaker 5: they were fighting through cops who were probably conflicted as
Speaker 5: to whether or not they should have been following the
Speaker 5: president's orders or not trying to get back into the building.
Speaker 5: But enough of them got back into the building, and
Speaker 5: the South Korean National Assembly has decisively rejected the martial
Speaker 5: law declaration, with one hundred and ninety of the three
Speaker 5: hundred lawmakers voting in favor of the motion to block
Speaker 5: it by law. President Youwn must comply, and it's most
Speaker 5: likely believed that an impeachment procedure will begin immediately.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, Well, this is a real test of the
Speaker 1: institutions of that particular democracy. Obviously, the next twenty four
Speaker 1: hours ago is going to or so rather is going
Speaker 1: to be really telling do they convene the impeachment vote
Speaker 1: to the police and military, you know, accept the wishes
Speaker 1: of the legislatu.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's classic, has been this way through all through history.
Speaker 5: Are the cops in the military going to follow the
Speaker 5: president or not? Or the law or the law, And
Speaker 5: that's way it always goes. And you know, going back
Speaker 5: to Christmas Day ninety one, is that when it was
Speaker 5: when Yelton was staying out on the tank, the military said, nah,
Speaker 5: we ain't going to do it.
Speaker 2: We ain't firing in all these people. We ain't doing it.
Speaker 5: And then it's over that direction, or sometimes it goes
Speaker 5: the other way see Tieneman Square nineteen eighty nine. The
Speaker 5: military does fire on all the people and the little
Speaker 5: rebellions over.
Speaker 1: Tell you what to pull back the camera a little
Speaker 1: bit and get a broader view, folks. One of our
Speaker 1: most important allies modern democracy is having a near coup
Speaker 1: and never has any babies anymore and is demographically disappearing.
Speaker 1: China's on the war path has similar demographic problems. Even
Speaker 1: their allies now are starting to get pissed off about Jack.
Speaker 1: This will gratify you, cheap Chinese crap getting dumped into
Speaker 1: their markets and putting their manufacturers out of business.
Speaker 2: Man, there is instability in the air.
Speaker 5: And something I was reading I'm not smart enough to
Speaker 5: completely understand, but we just the Biden administration just announced
Speaker 5: some new sanctions that's going to really make it difficult
Speaker 5: for China to get the best computer chips or make
Speaker 5: the best computer chips. And then so they blasted back
Speaker 5: with some terraf for ban or something on dual use
Speaker 5: things that could be used for military purposes that you
Speaker 5: can if you want to claim anything. So there's that
Speaker 5: level of economic warfare going on, which is just the
Speaker 5: burbling under the surface of the real warfare that is
Speaker 5: practically inevitable. Inevitable between the United States and China. But
Speaker 5: Trump is going to over the next four years as
Speaker 5: he heads into his eighties. He's obviously inheriting the whole
Speaker 5: Israel hamas hezbela really Israel Iran thing, and then the
Speaker 5: Russia Ukraine thing, and then China. Is not all that
Speaker 5: stuff is going to play out during his first term.
Speaker 2: It ain't gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: No, Although it's remarkable the extent to which already the
Speaker 1: winds have shifted in the Middle East, as Trump has
Speaker 1: made his support for Israel and against Iran, which is
Speaker 1: unmistakably clear.
Speaker 2: On that front.
Speaker 5: I just came across this tweet from Mark Penn, who,
Speaker 5: if you're not super into politics, and you shouldn't be,
Speaker 5: you don't know this name. He was an advisor to
Speaker 5: the Clintons back in the day and would go on
Speaker 5: all the Sunday shows, hardcore democrat. But he tweeted out
Speaker 5: Joe mentioned this earlier. Trump basically said, Hey, give back
Speaker 5: the hostages or we're going to hit you so hard,
Speaker 5: like hit or you harder than you've ever been hit before.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Mark Penn, the Democrat, the Clinton Knight, said Wow, finally
Speaker 5: a president who, in response to Hamas propaganda, threatens Hamas
Speaker 5: instead of Israel, that they better release the hostages or
Speaker 5: face the consequences. The world has been stuck for over
Speaker 5: a year waiting for this simple, forceful, moral clarity. This
Speaker 5: is why Iran returned its hostages when Reagan took office
Speaker 5: after thumbing its nose at Carter, and why Isis lost
Speaker 5: its caliphate under Trump while surging in power and territory
Speaker 5: under Obama.
Speaker 1: Right, I've got to admit and I'm not proud of this.
Speaker 1: I guess it's very hard to resist as a human being.
Speaker 1: But you get used to a certain modus operandi and
Speaker 1: it stops.
Speaker 2: You lose your sense.
Speaker 1: Of how dumb and bad it is, just because it's
Speaker 1: always there. The Joe Biden foreign policy and we have said,
Speaker 1: why is he not threatening to escalate against Hamas instead
Speaker 1: of continually saying.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't want to escalate.
Speaker 1: Where the hell was give us our hostages back, or
Speaker 1: we're gonna liquidate you.
Speaker 2: Where was that?
Speaker 1: When Trump says it, you realize, oh, that's right, that's
Speaker 1: worth the greatest superpower on earth. Why are we tiptoeing
Speaker 1: around afraid of hurting people's feelings? Oh, it's disgusting.
Speaker 5: So I'm almost finished with that Bob Woodward book that
Speaker 5: nobody read, but one of the more interesting things that
Speaker 5: came out of it, and I've found it highly enjoyable
Speaker 5: because I love this stuff. The TikTok reporting on how
Speaker 5: everything played out with the Hamas October seventh, the response
Speaker 5: same with Ukraine and everything just great. The Bob Woodward books,
Speaker 5: he calls him the first draft of history, and then
Speaker 5: later people will use his reporting to add to it
Speaker 5: the history books about these major events. But just weeks
Speaker 5: before Hamas invaded Israel, MBS in Saudi Arabia was ready
Speaker 5: to do a deal with Israel fully normalizing relations, which
Speaker 5: would have included the United States will protect Saudi Arabia
Speaker 5: if they're ever attacked, or Israel if they're ever attacked,
Speaker 5: and vice in both of those countries. So Israel would
Speaker 5: have come to Saudi Arabia's defense and Saudi Arabia to
Speaker 5: come to Israel's defense if Iran ever attacked. And they
Speaker 5: were ready to do that deal when Hamas invaded, and
Speaker 5: then MBS still wanted to do it, still wants to
Speaker 5: do it this day because he thinks it's the best.
Speaker 5: He's worried about Iran. He thinks the best thing for
Speaker 5: his country is to be normalized with Israel and be
Speaker 5: under the umbrella of the United States protection. Who wouldn't
Speaker 5: want that? But his street won't allow that. He said,
Speaker 5: he said, half the people in this country are younger
Speaker 5: than me, and I'm thirty four, whatever he is, and
Speaker 5: he said, they are just horrified at the Palestinian deaths.
Speaker 2: And all that sort of stuff. I can't normalize. Now,
Speaker 2: where is.
Speaker 1: The utterly dishonest and mostly incompetent mainstream media in reporting
Speaker 1: that very easy to understand sequence of events. Israel was
Speaker 1: about to do a giant deal mutual self defense with
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. Iran couldn't have that, and so they sent
Speaker 1: their attack dog Hamas to blow up our deal. Expression
Speaker 1: f up the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so obvious that narrative ought to be
Speaker 1: known by every American. It ought to be as familiar
Speaker 1: as you know, any other much discussed historical development. But
Speaker 1: now it's been clouded in the god the woke college student,
Speaker 1: genocide settler, colonial Oh, for the love of Heaven, cut
Speaker 1: the crap. Oh, you pick up your cut the crap, armstring,
Speaker 1: getdy t shirt at armstring. Giddy dot com flying off
Speaker 1: the shelves. Seriously, can we cut the crap? Here?
Speaker 5: You can usually tell who talked to Woodwork in his books.
Speaker 5: It's pretty easy because the quotes are clearer and they
Speaker 5: tend to get seen in a better light. But it
Speaker 5: seems pretty clear that the Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln
Speaker 5: was talking to Woodward and his description at the very
Speaker 5: beginning of this thing of his dealings with ELCSI, the
Speaker 5: guy who runs Egypt, and how they absolutely no way
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Speaker 5: You know, I don't want to rehash the election at all.
Speaker 5: But we did miss the Kamala Harris video that got
Speaker 5: put out by the DNC while we were on vacation
Speaker 5: that got roundly criticized, or just a big giant what why.
Speaker 2: Did they put that out?
Speaker 5: She sounded like a crazy She sounded like a drunk,
Speaker 5: crazy person.
Speaker 2: Did you see that. I don't think I had.
Speaker 5: To her to her luck. I think it got obscured
Speaker 5: by Thanksgiving. It was like two days before Thanksgiving. She
Speaker 5: was on a zoom call to supporters. It was like
Speaker 5: one of the final you know, thanks for all your
Speaker 5: help things, and the DNC, for whatever reason, grabbed thirty
Speaker 5: seconds of it and put it out on their official platform,
Speaker 5: and it went everywhere. She looks crazy, she sounds drunk,
Speaker 5: and it's just like, whose idea was this? The only
Speaker 5: thing people can think is that like it was an
Speaker 5: attempt to undermine her, like kind of throwing her under
Speaker 5: the bus without her knowing it, like this is our candidate,
Speaker 5: this is why we lost.
Speaker 2: Don't blame us.
Speaker 1: So now the DNC is like libs of tiktoking right exactly, because.
Speaker 5: Nobody can figure out, why would you put that out?
Speaker 5: Why would you grab some of that private conversation and
Speaker 5: put that out for.
Speaker 2: Her and to see, yeah, you nailed it. That's it.
Speaker 1: They want her the hell out of the way. She's
Speaker 1: a loser and a half wit. They don't want any
Speaker 1: sniff of her saying I didn't have a long enough
Speaker 1: time to get Joe held on too long, I couldn't
Speaker 1: get my campaign up, and no want to.
Speaker 2: They want to nip that in the bud. Right right, right,
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 5: Maybe we should grab that audio so you can hear it,
Speaker 5: because you probably all missed it too. It happened very
Speaker 5: much like you when we come back, stay here. A
Speaker 5: couple of things that I think are interesting enough to
Speaker 5: mention about the election and the results. The podcast America
Speaker 5: people that were, you know, the crowd that got Obama elected.
Speaker 5: They'd included David Ploof, who was running Kamala Harrison's campaign.
Speaker 5: He said last week, and I thought this was damned interesting.
Speaker 5: He said, we never had internal polling showing us ahead.
Speaker 5: We would see these national polls in various states and think,
Speaker 5: I don't know where they're getting that. So that's why
Speaker 5: Mark Haupron was regularly and I was passing it along
Speaker 5: and his newsletter saying internal polling shows Trump's gonna win
Speaker 5: this thing.
Speaker 2: It just he said that.
Speaker 5: Just he said, I can't share that stuff. But they're internal,
Speaker 5: and so they confirmed that last week. We were never
Speaker 5: ahead in our polls ever. Wow, So they at no
Speaker 5: point had any reason to think they were gonna win.
Speaker 5: Then there was a different get together of some sort
Speaker 5: with people that worked on the campaign that was so
Speaker 5: full of crap it was unbelievable, with one of the
Speaker 5: women running her campaign saying we just couldn't break out
Speaker 5: of this narrative, this ridiculous narrative that she wouldn't do interviews.
Speaker 5: We were doing interviews constantly, but somehow the narrative took
Speaker 5: hold that she wouldn't answer questions like what.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about?
Speaker 5: She went like thirty days without talking to anybody, then
Speaker 5: did a softball interview. She failed. I mean, what do
Speaker 5: you figure that's dishonesty or you know, delusion. I don't know,
Speaker 5: it's hard to say. I find that sort of thing fascinating.
Speaker 2: Do we all?
Speaker 5: Maybe we all do this, We fail at a job,
Speaker 5: you know, a marriage or career, whatever, and we come
Speaker 5: up with a story in her own head so that
Speaker 5: we're not to blame. I don't know, but I found
Speaker 5: that fascinating. She seemed like she actually believed that. And
Speaker 5: then there's this. So I'm actually going to read you
Speaker 5: what Joonah Goldberg wrote about it last week before we
Speaker 5: play it for you. So, Kamala Harris does some sort
Speaker 5: of thing with big donors and everybody, and people were
Speaker 5: worked on the campaign and it was like a private
Speaker 5: ish thing, although nothing stays private anymore where she was
Speaker 5: talking to those.
Speaker 1: People, probably trying to siphon some money out of some
Speaker 1: final money to retire their debts. But anyway, and the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party puts out a thirty second snippet of it
Speaker 1: for some reason, and Joanah Goldberg tweets it out and
Speaker 1: I saw it lots of places.
Speaker 2: He said, this is un good.
Speaker 5: It feels like a QVC segment where it ends with
Speaker 5: her finishing her margarita and saying, and that's why our
Speaker 5: healing crystals are fifty percent off.
Speaker 2: For the first one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: Here's Kamala Harrison, something put out by the Democratic Party.
Speaker 7: I know this is an uncertain time. I'm clear eyed
Speaker 7: about that. I know you're clear eyed about it. And
Speaker 7: it feels heavy and I just have to remind you
Speaker 7: don't you ever let anybody take your power from you.
Speaker 7: You have the same power that you did before November fifth,
Speaker 7: and you have the same purpose that you did, and
Speaker 7: you have the same ability to engage and.
Speaker 1: Inspire, and you have the same lack of ability to
Speaker 1: say something that's.
Speaker 5: Not vapid it was. Maybe it struck you all the
Speaker 5: same way it did me. It's like, oh yeah, because
Speaker 5: it'd been several weeks since we'd heard from her, It's like,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, that's Kamala Harris. She can't freaking say anything.
Speaker 5: And the question, of course, is why did the DNC
Speaker 5: put that out Remember, don't forget you still have the
Speaker 5: same power.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: What was the point of that greeting card? Rhetorics strung
Speaker 1: together poorly? I mean, I get that it's vaguely uplifting.
Speaker 1: We can still do this. It's a setback, but hang
Speaker 1: in there. But it's just so poorly dumb, all right,
Speaker 1: So why would you Why would you put that out there?
Speaker 1: I almost feel like it was a this is who
Speaker 1: she was?
Speaker 2: Remember, So yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I so am not the
Speaker 1: sort of person who would respond to that sort of rhetoric,
Speaker 1: even if it was skillfully right.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't so there.
Speaker 5: So there's that they never had her ahead in any
Speaker 5: of their internal polls.
Speaker 2: That's something.
Speaker 1: Next Hour a lot of stuff to squeeze in, including
Speaker 1: some some more commentary on the utterly outrageous and indefensible
Speaker 1: blanket immunity. You shouldn't even call it a pardon, but
Speaker 1: the blanket immunity Joe Biden gave his son and really
Speaker 1: de facto his entire money laundering empire. Some folks that
Speaker 1: we haven't heard from, including some folks from lefty media
Speaker 1: who are laying it on pretty thick, among other things.
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Speaker 5: This might actually be my final comment on the Kamala
Speaker 5: Harris campaign of all time, which is probably good. But
Speaker 5: I do think some point, I don't know how long
Speaker 5: they have to wait because they're young. A lot of
Speaker 5: those you know, big did in democratic people that we're
Speaker 5: working with her. At some point they're going to write
Speaker 5: books and say we got a loan in a room
Speaker 5: with her and realized what we're working with and just
Speaker 5: tried to It's like when football teams have a quarterback
Speaker 5: that's not very good and you just give them easy
Speaker 5: plays and handoffs, easy throws. You just try to minimize
Speaker 5: the damage. He realized, this is not the guy that's
Speaker 5: gonna win it for you.
Speaker 2: Right. I think you've said it exactly correctly. The fans
Speaker 2: are yelling, he's got to roll out and throw the ball.
Speaker 1: We've got to throw the ball, and the head coach
Speaker 1: is thinking, he can't throw the effing ball. I'm not
Speaker 1: having him throw it because he's not capable of it.
Speaker 1: So shut up, somehow, drink your beer.
Speaker 2: Someday they will tell that story and it'll be awesome.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty