Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: And I remember when Elon Musk coasted, and this is
Speaker 3: well before he was a Trumper, this is three or
Speaker 3: four years he was just the richest man in the world.
Speaker 3: And a number of the cast members I'm saying that
Speaker 3: live like they wouldn't. They didn't want to deal with him.
Speaker 3: They didn't exactly boycott, but they made it plain. And
Speaker 3: I was thinking, really, you have Elon Musk on.
Speaker 2: Your show for a week. You could talk to.
Speaker 3: One of the most interesting, brilliant people the world has
Speaker 3: ever produced, even about this issue that bothers you so
Speaker 3: much that he's so rich and lots of people aren't.
Speaker 3: But no, you don't want to even deal with him.
Speaker 2: That's what I hate about.
Speaker 3: The last.
Speaker 2: That's what I hate about the left.
Speaker 1: From Bill Maher on Friday Night, He, like a lot
Speaker 1: of older liberals, horrified by the way his party looks
Speaker 1: at the world and thinks, yeah, that's why we lost.
Speaker 2: Most people don't feel this way about things. So there
Speaker 2: you go. Well, well and just.
Speaker 1: A breathtaking arrogance of it. I have nothing to learn
Speaker 1: listening to anyone else, including Elon Musk, one of the
Speaker 1: most astounding entrepreneurs ever, you know, stride the earth. I
Speaker 1: know what I know, I think what I think. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear anybody else's opinion, and in fact,
Speaker 1: their opinion is disinformation and should be shut down.
Speaker 2: We should censor it.
Speaker 1: I have two friends that texted me over the weekend
Speaker 1: that they lost old friends when their friends found out
Speaker 1: that they voted for the Republican candidate for president. Like
Speaker 1: in one case, they've been friends, like best friends for
Speaker 1: twenty five years, and their friends said, I'm embarrassed for you,
Speaker 1: I'm ashamed of you, and I cannot have anything to
Speaker 1: do with you anymore after being best friends for twenty
Speaker 1: five years. How crazy is that? That really is beyond
Speaker 1: rational reckoning. I mean, that's not the way a rational
Speaker 1: human being being. No, it is not unless they believe
Speaker 1: all of the madness, like you know, the crap Oprah
Speaker 1: was spewing or whatever, the Nazi stuff. Yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 1: I know in this particular case because I said, what
Speaker 1: was their main thing? And it was because all the
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five thing. They believe the worst versions
Speaker 1: that were out there. A lot of it was complete
Speaker 1: crap about Project twenty twenty five. This person was married
Speaker 1: to somebody who's Spanic is Hispanic and believes their marriage
Speaker 1: is going to be annulled by the government or something.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're nuts now, do you not know
Speaker 2: you're nuts?
Speaker 1: Well, in the purveyors of that sort of nonsense too,
Speaker 1: I think somebody needs to call them out for being
Speaker 1: completely immoral desperation to get well, it's not it's greed
Speaker 1: to get clicks and attention, so.
Speaker 2: You throw out more and more nutty news.
Speaker 1: And it exists absolutely on the right as well, the
Speaker 1: whole q andon adjacent click bait, hyper paranoid media thing.
Speaker 1: It's Oh, it's evil. It needs to be called out,
Speaker 1: but on both sides anyway. Yeah, wow, lifelong friendships are
Speaker 1: decades long friendships. You're dead to me. You voted for Trump? Uh,
Speaker 1: the majority of America did, like most of the states,
Speaker 1: all of the swing states. In New Jersey he almost won.
Speaker 1: But we're insane. Nazis. Really way more black, Hispanic and
Speaker 1: Asian people voted for Trump than ever have voted for
Speaker 1: Republicans in the past.
Speaker 2: What do you think that is they've internalized white supremacy
Speaker 2: or the word.
Speaker 1: Yes, groceries are too expensive, and the borders are open
Speaker 1: ding the crime is rampant. Well, all right, he almost
Speaker 1: starting into a tangent on a tangent on a tangent
Speaker 1: about crime.
Speaker 2: But don't get me started.
Speaker 1: So Trump's transition team is up and running and going
Speaker 1: full speed. A lot of resumes being kicked around, a
Speaker 1: lot of consideration given to a lot of people. The
Speaker 1: journal was trying to make kind of a big deal
Speaker 1: of the fact that instead of big like what they
Speaker 1: call him the briefing books or whatever that the president's
Speaker 1: got in the past, Trump really prefers like a website
Speaker 1: where he can see the picture and the resume and
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of clips of them doing TV interviews
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And there's almost there's just the
Speaker 1: people who wrote this article. There's almost a bit of
Speaker 1: a tone about Trump the video. He can't read a book.
Speaker 1: He's plus you know how important looks are and all.
Speaker 1: But honestly, you know, I've been a Trump critic, but no,
Speaker 1: that makes perfect sense to me. Well, there's a website
Speaker 1: instead of like a book to flips through.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: There's been some mention of the American tradition of one
Speaker 1: president at a time and the incoming president not making
Speaker 1: a big show of blah blah blah. I think what's
Speaker 1: going on there is our current president's brain don't work,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to send the message to America and
Speaker 1: the world we are up and running. We got a
Speaker 1: guy and he's he's already you know, talking to Putin,
Speaker 1: talking to she, talking to everybody, getting people in line.
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that the Washington Post editorial board
Speaker 1: wrote a piece saying Democrats are paying the price for
Speaker 1: hiding Biden's infirmity. Raise my hand, quick, quick thing you
Speaker 1: might want to mention. He's still president today. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the Democrats are in trouble for hiding the fact
Speaker 1: that Guiden's brain doesn't work. He's president right now and
Speaker 1: for some these more days. How disturbing is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 1: And again the Washington Post saying Democrats fame the price
Speaker 1: for covering that up is just too rich.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's come on.
Speaker 1: Come on, where were your endless articles pointing out what
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of America were able to figure out
Speaker 1: on their own. Yeah, and like all of the infamous
Speaker 1: videos of him wandering around glassy eyed or babbling incoherently
Speaker 1: you said were misinformation or out of context or edited. No,
Speaker 1: he's freaking senile and constitutions. All right, sir, that's that's good.
Speaker 1: Now enjoy your jello.
Speaker 2: Eighty five percent of America knew it.
Speaker 1: Washington Post, and you were like part of the fifteen
Speaker 1: percent that was.
Speaker 2: Denying it, you lion liars.
Speaker 1: I'll read from some of that later, but I mean
Speaker 1: they even point out when the White House made up
Speaker 1: that term deep fakes to try to cover a couple
Speaker 1: of things, like what oh no, No, they were cheap fake,
Speaker 1: cheap fakes, right, that made up the term cheap fakes
Speaker 1: to cover up a couple of things. Wow. Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the transition team is up and running. There have
Speaker 1: not been many names named except for this one. This
Speaker 1: fella gonna be in charge of the border.
Speaker 4: Well, look, I've been clear at President Trunction clear, public
Speaker 4: safety threats and national security threats will be the priority
Speaker 4: because they have to be. They propose, most dangerous country.
Speaker 4: So we're going to prioritize those groups, those who always
Speaker 4: have final orders, had those that had due process, a
Speaker 4: great tax pair of Spence and our federal judge as
Speaker 4: you must go home, and they didn't. They became a
Speaker 4: future there.
Speaker 1: So that's Tom Holman, who is the head of the
Speaker 1: Border Guards under Trump. So his crazy revolutionary, racist, radical
Speaker 1: position is those who've gone through the entire due process
Speaker 1: and have a notice to deport outstanding against them, we're
Speaker 1: going to.
Speaker 2: What's the word deport them?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Sanity, please come back to us, Sanity,
Speaker 1: We've missed you terribly. Trump did make a curious announcement
Speaker 1: about the transition, which we'll get to in a second afterward.
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Speaker 1: the announcement that was over the weekend was kind of funny.
Speaker 1: The President announced that and I quote, I will not
Speaker 1: be inviting former Ambassador NICKI Haley or former Secretary of
Speaker 1: State Mike Pompeio to join the Trump administration, which is
Speaker 1: currently information. I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with
Speaker 1: them previously and would like to thank them for their
Speaker 1: service to our country. And when I heard that, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, you know, there's like three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: million people in America, are you going to announce all
Speaker 1: of them that are not going to be in the administration.
Speaker 1: I got to believe Nicki Haley thought she might be
Speaker 1: Secretary of State or something big, not after he didn't
Speaker 1: use her at all on the campaign trail. That was
Speaker 1: proof that she was on his papoo.
Speaker 2: List, the poopoo list.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Now the slap at Nicky's revenge him for
Speaker 1: her running against Trump and being critical of him. I mean,
Speaker 1: she supported him in the general, but Trump Trump holds grudges.
Speaker 1: The ban I'm Pompeo is really interesting to me because
Speaker 1: he was CIA director you may recall, and then Secretary
Speaker 1: of State through all four years. He lasted the entire term,
Speaker 1: unlike I could go through the list right, and Pompeo
Speaker 1: considered a run for president, but then when Trump made
Speaker 1: noises that he was in, Pompeo immediately got out. So
Speaker 1: why the preemptive stiff arm against Pompeo.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that one's pretty obvious.
Speaker 1: Pompeo's a big Ukraine is vital to US interests that
Speaker 1: they don't lose to Russia. Guy and he's not gonna
Speaker 1: Trump's not gonna have him at a high level. I
Speaker 1: think Trump's willing to give away quite a bit to
Speaker 1: get this Ukraine Russia thing ended. I think it's more
Speaker 1: than that. That absolutely could be a factor. But according
Speaker 1: to those who study the behind the scenes Trump team,
Speaker 1: Don Junior is wielding much greater influence than he did
Speaker 1: the first time around, which was Don Jr. The really
Speaker 1: good looking one with the beard. Yeah, Kim Gilfoyle, who's
Speaker 1: never mind, never mind, never mind your little dog. Plastic
Speaker 1: surgery sounds great on the way in, but b or
Speaker 1: the first couple times, Yeah, golly golly gee. Anyway, but
Speaker 1: Don Junior behind the scenes, and one of his favorite
Speaker 1: guys is Tucker Carlson, that whole crowd, and Pompeo is
Speaker 1: an old school hawk. He's a piece through strengths guy,
Speaker 1: which Trump shares. But he's also a if we have
Speaker 1: to appreciate American power around the globe, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: it guy, which is very much the Tucker Carlson way.
Speaker 1: And according to j D Vance's latest incarnation, JD's not
Speaker 1: swinging that way.
Speaker 2: And also.
Speaker 1: JD's the guy for twenty eight barring other developments because
Speaker 1: Trump is a one termer this time around, obviously, So
Speaker 1: anybody who might challenge JD from gaining stature by holding
Speaker 1: a cabinet position is probably not going to get the gig.
Speaker 1: You're not going to see up and comers in the cabinet,
Speaker 1: they think, you get to see established folks who are
Speaker 1: clearly not going to run for president. So you think
Speaker 1: with the plastic surgery, you get used to your new look,
Speaker 1: and then that is how you slowly get down the
Speaker 1: road to look in like a freak.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people can delude themselves. We all do it all
Speaker 1: the time because you're thinking, yeah, I'm looking pretty good.
Speaker 1: Then you see a picture of candid picture of yourself
Speaker 1: and you think, good lord damn.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah that happens.
Speaker 1: Or do they give you like if you get five
Speaker 1: plastic surgeries, it's like a card at the yogurt shop.
Speaker 2: The sixth ones free and you think, wow, I've given
Speaker 2: me one for free. I should get the I got.
Speaker 1: There a little dangling. Maybe we'll get this tightened up.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right.
Speaker 1: One more note on the one online Maga Acolyte tweeted
Speaker 1: Sunday that the stop Pompeo movement is great, but it's
Speaker 1: not enough right now.
Speaker 2: We need maximum pressure to keep all.
Speaker 1: Neocons and warhawks out of the Trump administration. And if
Speaker 1: we had time, I would dwell on those two terms.
Speaker 1: But Don Junior retweeted his ascent agree one.
Speaker 2: Percent. I'm on it.
Speaker 1: Neocons and warhawks huh okay, we can parse those terms.
Speaker 1: Later on, Trump called Putin over the weekend, so do
Speaker 1: not escalate. And remember we got a lot of troops
Speaker 1: and equipment in Europe, so that was fairly strong talk.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what he's gonna try to do.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the warhawkish, that's gonna be something to
Speaker 1: watch the WAPO saying, hey, Dems, why did you hide
Speaker 1: Biden's being senile.
Speaker 2: I do want to get to that at some point.
Speaker 2: A lot of other stuff too. Stay here.
Speaker 1: Thas you want to talk about today, I do want
Speaker 1: to talk about my trip to Vegas with my son
Speaker 1: for his birthday slash Christmas present, when we went to
Speaker 1: the Eagles concert at the Sphere, and I want to
Speaker 1: talk about everything that is Vegas and seeing eighty year
Speaker 1: old men playing.
Speaker 2: Rock and roll music.
Speaker 1: But a couple of texts we got First of all,
Speaker 1: jd Vance will be the first Marine vice president. Wishing
Speaker 1: the Marines a happy birthday, I said to Marine's birthday
Speaker 1: was today. It's yesterday, the tenth. Okay, And why is
Speaker 1: Tesla's stock up so much? Katie brought us a headline
Speaker 1: that Tesla is now worth over a trillion dollars. Tesla
Speaker 1: stock shot up after the election.
Speaker 2: Tesla stock is up.
Speaker 1: We got this text because of the anticipation of relaxation
Speaker 1: and regulations for autonomous vehicles. One of the seriously overlooked
Speaker 1: parts of Trump economy are often republic economies doing well
Speaker 1: is the regulation cutback that happens under red administrations that
Speaker 1: I don't think most journalists understand what all those regulations
Speaker 1: due to you and your ability to start your business
Speaker 1: or run your band or understanding whatsoever. Right, that's a
Speaker 1: big deal anyway. So there's that, and I believe Elon
Speaker 1: will hyper charge that too with his whole government efficiency name.
Speaker 2: That's one of his main tasks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be fun to watch because he'll be very
Speaker 1: open and outspoken and definitely has a large platform obviously
Speaker 1: to talk about the difficulties of trying to reign in
Speaker 1: wasteful government. That could be huge, and this story got
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of attention over the weekend and should.
Speaker 5: A federal investigation at FEMA after the agency fired a supervisor.
Speaker 5: FEMA Administrator Dan chris Well says the unnamed supervisor man
Speaker 5: a survivor assistance team and told her workers not to
Speaker 5: go to homes with the yard signs supporting President elect
Speaker 5: Donald Trump. Chris Well is not naming the supervisor nor
Speaker 5: saying when or where the incident happened, but Governor Ron
Speaker 5: Desanti says it was in Florida.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in Florida.
Speaker 1: Somebody with FEMA was directing people if you see a
Speaker 1: Trump sign in the yard, don't help those people. Can
Speaker 1: you freaking believe it?
Speaker 2: It's insane?
Speaker 1: Hey, Trump haters, I guess it doesn't matter now he's
Speaker 1: a two term president and you know.
Speaker 2: And that's the maximum.
Speaker 1: But just keep doing things that hurt your side or hurt.
Speaker 2: What you want. What the hell is wrong with you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I remember coming across this story last week, and I
Speaker 1: probably should have brought it up, but I thought it
Speaker 1: has something to do with that Trump supporters are making
Speaker 1: anti FEMA statements and we want everybody to stay safe.
Speaker 2: So stay away from from any Trump sign houses.
Speaker 1: But it's just, well, he current just people who live
Speaker 1: in that particular ideological bubble who think, yes, that's something
Speaker 1: I will say out loud in front of other people
Speaker 1: and there will be no backlash.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, I was happy to see the FEMA directors horrified
Speaker 1: and vows to get to the bottom of it. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about another concert later that I
Speaker 1: went to. The lead people in the Eagles are seventy
Speaker 1: seven and seventy eight years old, a youth rual rebellion,
Speaker 1: the rock and roll music.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: But as we've talked about before, and I don't know
Speaker 1: why this is, why can't you still sing and play
Speaker 1: exactly the same as when you were young until you're
Speaker 1: very old?
Speaker 2: Why is that?
Speaker 1: Joe Walshon and Don Henley, for instance, when they would
Speaker 1: walk around, they're shuffling around like Joe Biden and they talked,
Speaker 1: they well we started to banding. They sounded like old men,
Speaker 1: but when they sang and played, they sounded like it
Speaker 1: was nineteen seventy seven. They were seventy seven, but they
Speaker 1: sounded like there was nineteen seventy seven when they sang
Speaker 1: and play and was it legit or were they lip
Speaker 1: syncing like some sort of phony.
Speaker 2: No, no, it was legit. But I just popstars these days.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to see that that's true as a guy
Speaker 1: who plays some music, that you can do it well.
Speaker 2: But how come you can't walk or talk but you
Speaker 2: can sing and play it? Just it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Why when I'm add I hope I can play a
Speaker 1: slide guitar like Joe Walsh.
Speaker 2: I can't now, so that would be weird.
Speaker 1: But Wapo says, why were you hiding the President's brain?
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: A zoo in Scotland is trying to recreate a rivalry
Speaker 6: online with Thailand's Moo Dang by introducing Hagis, a newborn
Speaker 6: pygmy hippo. The only problem is Hagis is fugly as hell.
Speaker 6: Police in South Carolina are warning residents to stay indoors
Speaker 6: with doors and windows shut after forty monkeys escaped from
Speaker 6: a medical research facility. Even worse, they were researching extra
Speaker 6: strength viagra.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, like hippo joke too, because that's super cute
Speaker 1: hippo that everybody like this one's fugly?
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do America wants a hot hip.
Speaker 2: Ho Oh.
Speaker 1: So that San Francisco forty nine er who won the
Speaker 1: magat wore the MAGA hat and photo bombed in an
Speaker 1: interview after the game got fined a few thousand dollars. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize yesterday he did the YMCA dance after
Speaker 1: a sack, and Trump has come out and praised him online.
Speaker 2: So the great Nick Bosa.
Speaker 1: He reacts to the fine with the YMCA. That's hilarious,
Speaker 1: I found out.
Speaker 2: Pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's all the politics all the time in the NFL,
Speaker 1: to the point that I didn't watch for like a
Speaker 1: season and a half. A guy throws on a MAGA
Speaker 1: hat and that's just that's outrageous.
Speaker 2: Please, they're damn helmets. Splat.
Speaker 1: They are displaying Black Lives Matter slogans, some of them
Speaker 1: some Marxist organization. Okay, they've kind of migrated away from
Speaker 1: the hardcore stuff. Now it's problem like it takes all
Speaker 1: of us. Oh okay, great, glad you got that on
Speaker 1: your helmet. Now I see the world in a completely
Speaker 1: different way. You've really persuaded me.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: The editorial board of the Washington Post writes a piece
Speaker 1: opinion piece trying to protect Biden. Democrats sacrifice their credibility.
Speaker 1: You don't say, yeah.
Speaker 2: Others did too. But we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: And they start with her report, which you might remember.
Speaker 2: So Robert Hurr.
Speaker 1: Did the investigation into whether or not Joe Biden should
Speaker 1: be charged with hanging on to classified documents rememory. He
Speaker 1: had him in his garage next to his corvette and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, And he came out and said,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna charge Biden because a jury could reasonably
Speaker 1: conclude that he's quote a sympathetic, well meaning.
Speaker 2: Elderly man with a poor memory.
Speaker 1: In other words, I can't charge the guy because his
Speaker 1: brain doesn't work so bad. The juria will just think, well,
Speaker 1: he couldn't do it. He couldn't do it on purpose
Speaker 1: because his brain does mark well well. Anyway, the Washington
Speaker 1: Post starts with that story because of the way Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris attacked her over that a guy.
Speaker 2: In the Justice Department working for Merrick.
Speaker 1: Garland, the sitting Vice president, attacked him and called the
Speaker 1: report gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. Kamala Harris went on to
Speaker 1: say the way that the president's demeanor in that report
Speaker 1: was characterized could not have been more wrong, and the
Speaker 1: Washington Post says, at that moment, Kamala Harris gave up
Speaker 1: all credibility because everybody could see with their own eyes
Speaker 1: that Biden was a even if you don't agree with
Speaker 1: sympathetic and will, meaning you certainly agree with elderly man
Speaker 1: with a poor memory who you know doesn't exactly always
Speaker 1: know what he's doing. And her has been repeatedly vindicated
Speaker 1: during the intervening nine months since that report came out.
Speaker 1: The interview transcripts when they came out, bolstered his conclusions.
Speaker 1: Of anything, the truth was worse than what mister her described.
Speaker 1: It is now acknowledged almost universally that mister Biden should
Speaker 1: not have sought a second term, but the Democratic establishment
Speaker 1: denied the obvious and propped him up politically, even as
Speaker 1: evidence of his decline mounted. Yeah, outside of the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: I might point out, hey, their editorial board.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Prominent Democratic politicians changed their tune only after a disastrous
Speaker 1: debate performance in June made it impossible to conceal Biden's
Speaker 1: frailty from the public any longer, forced him to confront
Speaker 1: the possibility of an electoral disaster of November. The credibility
Speaker 1: problems that Miss Harris's repeated defense of mister Biden's sharpness
Speaker 1: illustrated were part of the reasons for the democrats defeat,
Speaker 1: So they just flat lay at her and the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party's feet the decision to try to cover that up
Speaker 1: as a big portion of.
Speaker 2: The loss, which obviously it is. Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Democrats have tried to make fidelity to science, facts
Speaker 1: and truth their distinguishing characteristic as a party. The White
Speaker 1: House's aggressive cover up of mister Biden's decline undermined that claim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd call horsecrap on that claim, But go on, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you can write that piece without acknowledging
Speaker 1: that maybe we should have We were feeling the same way,
Speaker 1: and maybe we should have written some articles like that
Speaker 1: to wit February ninth of this year, Washington Post Editorial Board,
Speaker 1: talking about her report and the kindly old man who
Speaker 1: can't remember yesterday. Yet, there is nothing new about mister
Speaker 1: Biden's memory lapses, malapropisms, and rambling, sometimes embroidered anecdotes. This
Speaker 1: has been an aspect of his political persona since he
Speaker 1: was a much younger man and it is plainly not
Speaker 1: improved with age a couple of quotes from Biden. Still,
Speaker 1: critics are right that mister Hurt did not need to
Speaker 1: lay it on quite so thick. Another among the other
Speaker 1: reasons that it was unfortunate is that it detracted from
Speaker 1: a part of the report that presented mister Biden in
Speaker 1: a favorable light, especially in contrast to his life November opponent,
Speaker 1: former President Trump, blah blah blah. Biden's just fine. He's
Speaker 1: always been like this. I'm summarizing it. And that's from
Speaker 1: a news story. No, that's from the editorial board. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's the editorial board themselves. Wow, because they wrote yesterday
Speaker 1: mister Biden's allies concocted terms such as chief fake, cheap fakes,
Speaker 1: his allies.
Speaker 2: You mean you, because it sounds like it was you.
Speaker 1: Mister Biden's allies concocted terms such as cheap fakes to
Speaker 1: dismiss embarrassing video clips in which mister Biden appeared dazed, confused, tired,
Speaker 1: and inaudible.
Speaker 2: Yeah he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they do concede that voter concerns about mister
Speaker 1: Biden's agent mental acunity and are not only widespread, but
Speaker 1: also perfectly legitimate.
Speaker 2: I'll grant him that. But then he said, but.
Speaker 1: It's important to consider Biden in contrast to his opponent.
Speaker 1: If a guy is completely senile an unable to serve
Speaker 1: even another year of his term, which I was saying
Speaker 1: out loud for a long time, and now the entire
Speaker 1: world degrees, saying, well, the metal acuities legitimate, But you
Speaker 1: got to compare him to Trump. Okay, guys absolutely drooling,
Speaker 1: staring into space, munching on jello within a year. And
Speaker 1: you're saying, well, it's not leave to any conclusions. All right,
Speaker 1: Editorial board, all right, fine, different topic, but also Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: So the Washington Examiner is reporting fifty thousand Russian and
Speaker 1: North Korean troops have descended on the Kursk region and
Speaker 1: are likely to attack in the coming days.
Speaker 2: This is a pretty big story.
Speaker 1: Depending on how it turns out, and I think they're
Speaker 1: trying to do it in the waning days of the
Speaker 1: Biden administration. I'm still making my way through the Bob
Speaker 1: Woodward book Wars, which is a really interesting book, and
Speaker 1: like all of Bob Wardwart's books, gets such unfair treatment
Speaker 1: when they first come out with all the political shows
Speaker 1: trying to find a quote here and there and turn
Speaker 1: it into a he said, she said, as opposed to
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 2: It's a TikTok recount.
Speaker 1: Of how the whole war in Ukraine came about, what
Speaker 1: we knew, what we didn't know, what decisions were being
Speaker 1: made by who when it's freaking fascinating, but people are
Speaker 1: only interested in the gossip.
Speaker 2: Part of it.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of what was that movie that the
Speaker 1: Little Dog dies of cancer and everybody's heart is broken,
Speaker 1: But it was pitched as a comedy Marley and they
Speaker 1: kept Marley and me. That's right with the one of
Speaker 1: the Wilson's and Jennifer Aniston, Right, Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: But the part I wanted to mention was the disagreement
Speaker 1: between Sullivan and Biden toward the beginning about whether or
Speaker 1: not we should bluff about having putting American troops in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden decided to take it off the table. He
Speaker 1: made a statement out loud maybe you remember this, maybe
Speaker 1: you don't, when he said there will not be US
Speaker 1: troops in Ukraine. Jake Sullivan hated that from the kind
Speaker 1: of tried and true foreign policy theory of you never
Speaker 1: take anything off the table. Why would you take anything
Speaker 1: off the table, which has been true for thousands of years. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's argument was, and I think it makes sense,
Speaker 1: is if I don't take it off the table, then
Speaker 1: that's first of all, IM going to be asked about
Speaker 1: it constantly. That'll be the only thing to's asked about.
Speaker 1: And anything less than that will be seen as a retreat.
Speaker 1: And there's no way we're going to put troops in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: So anything less than that about anything we give Ukraine
Speaker 1: or will seem like it's half measures, and I think
Speaker 1: it'll do us more harm than good.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You can believe that or not believe that. I think
Speaker 1: it's a really interesting conversation. There are all kinds of
Speaker 1: think tanks. I mean, this was a huge deal behind
Speaker 1: the scenes of whether or not to tell putin, Hey
Speaker 1: you keep doing this and we'll put US troops there,
Speaker 1: or that's on the at least act like that's a possibility. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in isolation, I get that that's it's it's an opinion question,
Speaker 1: and I understand that that's legit. I could see people
Speaker 1: taking the other side of it. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: you're defying thousands of years of wisdom because you couldn't.
Speaker 1: I just don't agree that. Later saying no, we're not
Speaker 1: putting people in as somehow a retreat, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: And secondly, when you look at the broad mosaic of
Speaker 1: the Biden foreign policy, we're not going to.
Speaker 2: Do anything and don't don't.
Speaker 1: We're not going to escalate. Please don't escalate. Its every decision. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been way too tepid from the beginning to the end.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing it points out in the Woodward
Speaker 1: book when they talk to Trump. Woodward talks to Trump
Speaker 1: and Trump makes the point that when the Russians went
Speaker 1: in in twenty fourteen, while Obama's the president, Obama refused
Speaker 1: to give anything that could be used to fight a war,
Speaker 1: anything at all, And Trump said, Obama gave him blankets
Speaker 1: and pillows. I gave him the first actual weapons and
Speaker 1: his Woodward points out Trump was the first one to
Speaker 1: give Ukraine any weapons, including anti tank missiles or anything
Speaker 1: like that, where Obama was just about meals and blankets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Putin was expecting more of the same from the
Speaker 1: Biden administration.
Speaker 2: Meals, blankets and that sort of stuff, But they wouldn't
Speaker 2: have the guts to push back in any way.
Speaker 1: And those are some major decisions that don't get enough
Speaker 1: attention in terms of setting up the psychology for a
Speaker 1: guy like Putin, whether or not he was gonna be
Speaker 1: able to pull off an invasion or not. Barack Obama
Speaker 1: said freaking blankets and pillows as pushback to an invasion.
Speaker 2: Well, no, he would.
Speaker 1: He would get a reset button and go over there
Speaker 1: and talk to Putin and just persuade him with his suave,
Speaker 1: ivy league rhetoric.
Speaker 2: I have no idea do you where this is gonna land?
Speaker 2: With Trump?
Speaker 1: His whole I can end this in one day, which
Speaker 1: I assume is like, you know, build the wall.
Speaker 2: Mexico will pay for it.
Speaker 1: It's a it's meant to be hyperbole, but he does
Speaker 1: want to wrap up the war, and and he's made
Speaker 1: a lot of noises that he's not super into Ukraine.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care if Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Winds or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was tempted to go with yet another
Speaker 1: email from anti support from Ukraine folks, but A, we
Speaker 1: don't really have time, and B I'm just tired of
Speaker 1: the I think we're gonna I think this is going
Speaker 1: to play out soon before Trump even gets into office, though.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have a pretty good idea if
Speaker 1: Putin goes in like it looks like he might in
Speaker 1: the next couple of days with fifty thousand troops into Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Hard Trump's gonna make some noises about that. I don't
Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah, the thea the Trump watching is so
Speaker 1: interesting because he has certain impulses, for instance, you know,
Speaker 1: resisting the temptation of what people call and it's a
Speaker 1: clear shane that has no meaning forever wars or endless
Speaker 1: wars or wars everywhere.
Speaker 2: You're warhawk, you're a neocon.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, to have somebody out negotiate him
Speaker 1: and out tough guy him is abhorrent to Trump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's how that dynamic plays out.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the best way to run foreign
Speaker 1: policy is whether or not your president gets butt hurt
Speaker 1: and it feels like you're punking him, but you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it takes.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as I was discussing with a close relative who
Speaker 1: will remain nameless, I would rather have a bully than
Speaker 1: a coward.
Speaker 2: In charge of foreign policy.
Speaker 1: This could be a major deal is putin gonna send
Speaker 1: North Korean troops into Ukraine. They're lined up on the
Speaker 1: border and NATO has drawn a line on that, so
Speaker 1: it could be quite a week and next hour the
Speaker 1: North Korean troops, how are they likely to behave found
Speaker 1: some really interesting perspective on that from North Korean military defectors.
Speaker 1: Awesome lots of stuff all the whites to hear. We've
Speaker 1: mentioned this already. We both know people who have had
Speaker 1: long term good friendships end over this election, Like your
Speaker 1: friend of decades who you're really close with, finds out
Speaker 1: you voted Trump and they just they can't even talk
Speaker 1: to you anymore. First of all, I'd like to know,
Speaker 1: are there any examples of it going the other direction.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard one.
Speaker 1: And judging by the statistics I've seen, it's much much
Speaker 1: much more rare going in the other direction. We just
Speaker 1: got this text. I just left a voicemail and I
Speaker 1: think I sounded awful. It's about my fear. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: skip that. My fifty three year old son on election night,
Speaker 1: he began texting me cruel and vitriolic messages. He has
Speaker 1: literally removed me from his life. Says he will move
Speaker 1: out of the country and not tell me where he is,
Speaker 1: says I've betrayed him and his brother by my vote,
Speaker 1: and will not talk to fascists. He is typically mellow
Speaker 1: and manages his job in single life. The last text
Speaker 1: word to me was f off needless to say, my
Speaker 1: heart is broken.
Speaker 2: Wow. That is a disease.
Speaker 1: I was talking with a woman who said she cried
Speaker 1: for three days over her oldest best friend, saying I'm
Speaker 1: embarrassed by you, I'm ashamed of you, and I can't
Speaker 1: talk to you anymore.
Speaker 2: When found out that she voied Republican a guy that
Speaker 2: I talked to this weekend.
Speaker 1: His daughter lives out of state, she said, I will
Speaker 1: no longer come to see you.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be associating with you.
Speaker 1: And then when she said her last text to him
Speaker 1: was goodbye, and then his first name not dad.
Speaker 2: Wow. You people are wow. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: That is so unhealthy and so sad and so completely unnecessary.
Speaker 2: I would like to have some sort.
Speaker 1: Of mandatory national telecast where we discussed this and talk
Speaker 1: to those people. I would probably start with Haye. The
Speaker 1: nature politics is hyperbole. Most of this stuff is made up.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's wildly exaggerated when it's true. So apparently
Speaker 1: you've swallowed you You've believed some stuff that the people
Speaker 1: speaking didn't believe at all.
Speaker 2: They're trying to scare you into voting. Let's start there.
Speaker 1: Secondly, let's look at the voting trends of every single
Speaker 1: demographic in America except for college educated white women. And
Speaker 1: they all moved in that direction, every single one of them.
Speaker 1: They're always think about that. Yeah, got some emails on
Speaker 1: the topic, two anonymous rights against my better judgment. I
Speaker 1: decided to see what my college acquaintance has had to
Speaker 1: say about the election.
Speaker 2: On Instagram.
Speaker 1: We have one woman offering well wishes to anyone who's grieving,
Speaker 1: a man who posted merely a black square, and a
Speaker 1: woman with a link to all the nearby counseling centers
Speaker 1: and suicide hotlines.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and.
Speaker 1: Another who shares that quote a heart is a heavy
Speaker 1: burden to carry. You know. I'm happy with the result,
Speaker 1: but if it had gone the other way, it would
Speaker 1: have changed my weekend one tiny bit, not the tiniest
Speaker 1: bit emotionally, not either my friendships or relationships with family
Speaker 1: or friends. It's because I'm well, I hate to brag,
Speaker 1: but sane it wasn't even across my mind really got this. Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll just say anonymous and San Jose funniest thing I've
Speaker 1: encountered since the election. My left wing San Jose was
Speaker 1: my Chinese dry cleaner said, why.
Speaker 2: Do you not vote for Trump?
Speaker 1: I can only understand about half of what she says,
Speaker 1: even after fifteen years. But I said I didn't vote
Speaker 1: for Trump. She gave me a high five. We've talked
Speaker 1: about how much inflation has affected her business and why
Speaker 1: she's had to charge me the new prices. It's the economy, stupid, right.
Speaker 1: People didn't vote in favor of fascism. They voted in
Speaker 1: favor of the border and the crime and the economy
Speaker 1: getting better.
Speaker 2: Giemoney, as I said this, John Wan, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Turley said this right after the election, roughly ten
Speaker 2: minutes ago the end.
Speaker 1: The filibuster movement suddenly went silent in the morning. The
Speaker 1: rights of the minority will suddenly become the cause celeb
Speaker 1: of Washington. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. I feel
Speaker 1: like I traveled over the weekend. I feel like I
Speaker 1: saw way more Maga Trump stuff than I usually do.
Speaker 1: I feel like people are feeling okay about being out
Speaker 1: and proud about it. I think Armstrong and Getty