1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: We got to start with, obviously, the big news, and 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: that is Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: of one hundred. He is the nation's longest serving former president. 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: And I am going to say that there are some 5 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: of you that probably hoping I'm going to talk about 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: his failed policies in the seventies. 7 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: I don't really care. 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: It was so long ago, and the American people, I think, 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: know what he did as president, and it ushered in 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan. Without Jimmy Carter, we never would have had 11 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: ron Reagan. And I will forever be grateful to Jimmy Carter. 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that sarcastically. I mean it for 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: that because Ronald Reagan did amazing things and revolutionize and 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: changed the Republican Party for the better and got rid 15 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: of the Cold War and communism in many parts of 16 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: the world. Without Jimmy Carter, we wouldn't have had ron Reagan. 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: And so that is a part of his legacy for 18 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: me anyway, and I am genuinely thankful for that. But 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: I also want to just take a moment and say this, 20 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter did something that I think is pretty incredible. 21 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: He went out of office being the highest rated most 22 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: or I should say, the most unpopular, the highest unpopular 23 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: rating of any president in certainly my lifetime, in modern 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: political history. And that is pretty bad when you think 25 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: about it. You know, you look at people that left 26 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: in disgrace, like Nixon, for example, Carter didn't leave with 27 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: some massive scandal. Carter just really, in many ways, had 28 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: bad policies that were failures and gasoline line shortages, and 29 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: the list goes on and on of basic things that 30 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: made him the most unpopular president in modern political times. 31 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: And yet he was able to re I don't know, 32 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: redefine himself is maybe a good way of putting it. 33 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: He was able to reinvent himself is probably the word 34 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: I really want to use. Because he went out as 35 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: a president that people didn't remember so much his presidency. 36 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: It was sure, it was four years, he was a 37 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: one termer and it was a disaster. But his legacy 38 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: at one hundred is this is a guy that helped 39 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: build a lot of homes for a lot of needy people. 40 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: That is pretty cool. That's incredible. Most presidents when they 41 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: leave office, they don't do a lot because you don't 42 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: want to look like you're doing something that's beneath you 43 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: or beneath being a former president of the United States 44 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: of America. There's a lot of presidents that afterwards they 45 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: just kind of ride off into the sunset. Reagan, in 46 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: essence did that, and then Alzheimer's obviously George Bush, I mean, 47 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: you know, he's he's painting and doing those types of things. 48 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton did, you know, his fundraising for AIDS in Africa, 49 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: and did some things with George Bush forty one and 50 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: George Bush forty three as well. But overall these kind 51 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: of stayed out of the limelight, done his speeches. Jimmy 52 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: Carter went away in disgrace and came back as a 53 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: as a kind and caring man that humbled himself to 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: do things that he wanted to do, whether it was 55 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: with religion and his faith or with building houses. And 56 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: I think that's something that we can all respect about 57 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter. I also think it's nice to have moments 58 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: where we look at people as human beings and not 59 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: just as a D or an R by their name. 60 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: You know, we've become so tribal and the Democratic Party 61 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: is dead. The Democratic Party that Jimmy Carter was a 62 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: part of his dead It's now a Marxist Socialist Communist 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: party masquerading as Democrats, and they're nasty, nasty people. We've 64 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: seen that in articles they've been written where they're rewriting 65 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: history won on Joe Biden. But also there's articles that 66 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,279 Speaker 1: have been published in the last week by major newspapers 67 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: demanding that Donald Trump not be able to take the 68 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: oath of office. That's where we are now, and I 69 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: will just say, look, even Donald Trump honored Jimmy Carter 70 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: by saying, we all owe him a debt of gratitude. 71 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: That's what Donald Trump said about Jimmy Carter upon hearing 72 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: of his death of the age of twenty. He gratually 73 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: remembered him as a man who did his best to 74 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: improve the lives of all Americans. I just heard Trump 75 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: said the news about the passing and President Jimmy Carter. 76 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,119 Speaker 1: Those of us who have been fortunate to have served 77 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: as president understand this is a very exclusive club and 78 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: only we can relate to the enormous responsibilities of leading 79 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: the greatest nation in history. The challenges Jimmy faced as 80 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: president came in a pivotal time for a country, and 81 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: he did everything as power to improve the lives of 82 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt 83 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: of gratitude. I really like the way that Donald Trump 84 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: handled that. It would be easy to score political points 85 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: there and say that you know, he was a disaster, 86 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: but if you look at his whole body of work, 87 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: his entire life until the age of one hundred, and 88 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: you look at him as a human being, not as 89 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: a political individual, I just got to say, it is 90 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: amazing what he accomplished becoming presidents. Amazing and then doing 91 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: what he did after just getting selacked by Ron Reagan 92 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: and picking himself up by the bootstraps and saying I'm 93 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: still gonna have purpose in my life is really incredible. 94 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: So I'll say this, my thoughts and prayers are with 95 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter's family. Anytime you have a former president that 96 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: passes away, we should pause and understand that this is. 97 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 2: Trump said, a. 98 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: Very exclusive club with an incredibly tough job, and he 99 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: didn't do well at that job as president, but he 100 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: did well in life after that, and for that we 101 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: should all have a lot of respect for him. So again, 102 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers for Jimmy Carter and his family. Now, 103 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: I want to get to another report that is out, 104 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 1: and this one is one that should make all of 105 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: you angry, and it tells you an awful lot about 106 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: the Biden White House. There's a new report out, and 107 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: of course this reporting comes as he's leaving the White 108 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: House and as he's lost the presidency. So now they 109 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: can actually report accurately on just how corrupt Joe Biden 110 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: really was and how he's weaponizing the government against Donald 111 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: Trump and other Americans. This new report is out now 112 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: saying that Joe Biden was angry and wanted Trump prosecuted 113 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: earlier and regrets picking Garland as his ag President. Joe 114 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: Biden reportedly quote one of the Department of Justice to 115 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: target then former President Trump for prosecuted for prosecution far 116 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: sooner and more aggressively than it did, and regrets naming 117 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: Garland as his attorney general. The report, published in The 118 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: Washington Post on Saturday, echoed reporting nearly three years ago 119 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: by The New York Times, which suggested in twenty two 120 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: that Biden was frustrated with the slow pace of Garland 121 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: a ponderous judge quote unquote, the Post noted quote in private. 122 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: Biden has also said he should have picked someone other 123 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: than Mere Garland as Attorney General, complaining about the Justice 124 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: Department's slowness under Garland and prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness 125 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: in prosecuting Biden's son Hunter. According to people familiar with 126 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: his comments, Ron claim Biden's incoming chief of staff pushed 127 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: for Garland. He stressed that Garland, a federal judge with 128 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: a sterling reputation for independence and fairness, would show Americans 129 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: that Biden was rebuilding a department badly shaken by Trump's 130 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: political attack, so that's why they apparently thought he should 131 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,119 Speaker 1: get the job. Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe 132 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: the decision had devastating results. Had the Justice Department moved 133 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 134 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty election and mishandling classified documents, they said the 135 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before 136 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: the election, costing Trump the White House. Others blamed the 137 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: Supreme Court and a Trump appointed judge in Florida for 138 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: repeatedly siding with the former president, delaying the cases. The 139 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: Justice Department declined to comment for the article in the Post. 140 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: Now the Biden. White House claimed throughout his presidency that 141 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: it was not politicized in the Department of Justice and 142 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: was in fact depoliticizing it, quote unquote. Democrats claimed that 143 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: the Department had been puticized by then Attorney General William 144 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: Barr Bill Barr as you know him, who refused to 145 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: release grand jury material related to the Special Council Moeller's 146 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: investigation to the so called Russian collusion. Barr noted that 147 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: it was against the law for him to release grand 148 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: jury materials. The Post admits on the others in Scarland 149 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: was picked. He had been blocked from confirmation by the 150 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: Supreme Court to the Supreme Court by Republicans in sixteen, 151 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: and his appointment was seen as a consolation prize as 152 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: well as a strike at the GOP. So you look 153 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: at this story, and the big takeaway is two things. One, 154 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: the media knew this story and they refuse to tell 155 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: it to you for four years. Why because they wanted 156 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: to help out Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris. But 157 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: now that he's gone, they're like, Okay, we're going to 158 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: actually tell you this bombshell story because now it doesn't 159 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: hurt Joe Biden. And it doesn't cost us anything if 160 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: we actually report the story. That is why the Washington 161 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: Post has done this, and it is disgusting. Now, this 162 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: isn't the only disgusting story, by the way, that's out there. 163 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 1: There is one that is rewriting history in a way 164 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: that is absolutely insane and absurd. It is part of 165 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: what Senator Cruz and I talked about in our podcast 166 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: that we do together, Vertict with Ted Cruz, and I 167 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: want to play for you what was in this article 168 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: and what the Senator had to say about it as well. 169 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 2: Take a listen. 170 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 3: Let's move to the Washington Post and I'm going to 171 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 3: do something unusual on this podcast. So I read this 172 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 3: article and my head exploded, and I texted you and said, 173 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 3: this is the most absurd, self satirizing article I've ever seen. 174 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 3: So I just want to go through it literally, line 175 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 3: by line. This is a major story in the Washington 176 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 3: Post banner headline on Drudge and it is entitled We're 177 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 3: just going to go through sentence by sentence. It's entitled 178 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 3: how Biden leads Joe Biden's lonely battle to sell his 179 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 3: vision of American democracy in his presidency's final chapter Biden 180 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 3: has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently. 181 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 3: And the guy who wrote this is a guy named 182 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 3: Tyler Pager. We're going to come back to him later, 183 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 3: So let's start earlier. This year, Representative James E. Cliber 184 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 3: And met President Joe Biden at the White House to 185 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 3: deliver a stern message Biden had to find a way 186 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 3: to revitalize his flagging campaign. Cliburne, who had been pivotal 187 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 3: to Biden's twenty twenty victory, also made a confession about 188 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,559 Speaker 3: his own long standing belief that substance is more important 189 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: than style and politics. 190 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 2: Quote. 191 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 3: I've come to the conclusion in recent days that I'm 192 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 3: wrong about that, the South Carolina Democrat eighty four remembers, 193 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 3: telling Biden the new environment that we currently live in, 194 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 3: style seems to carry the day more than substance. Your style, 195 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 3: he told the President, does not lend itself well to 196 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 3: the environment we're currently in. Clyburn's conclusion, which was shared 197 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 3: by anxious Democrats in the months before the president ended 198 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:44,239 Speaker 3: his reelection bid, undermined brought Biden's theory of presidential leadership. 199 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 3: After Donald Trump's assent, Biden believed that he just needed 200 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 3: to show Americans that traditional democracy still worked by listening, 201 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 3: but two experts working with Republicans, passing popular policies, and 202 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 3: voters would rally around him. Right, let's stop there. Okay, 203 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: so so far every word of this article. If this 204 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 3: was written by the Biden press office, it would not 205 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 3: be any different. And this entire article is hagiography. This 206 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 3: entire article is not journalism. It is not only trying 207 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 3: to praise breathlessly as we're going to go through Joe 208 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 3: Biden and cast him as a mighty titan, but it 209 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 3: is profoundly dishonest. So it starts with the frame that 210 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 3: Biden's great success is on substance, not style. And the 211 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 3: obvious implication of which we're going to get more is 212 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 3: that all Trump has his style. There's no substance. That's 213 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 3: the obvious implication. Let's take this last sentence after Donald 214 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 3: Trump's assent, Biden believed he just needed to show Americans 215 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 3: that traditional democracy still worked. We're going to get more 216 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 3: into democracy a second by listening to experts working with 217 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 3: Republicans and passing popular policies. All right, what experts did 218 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 3: he listen to? He did not work with Republicans. Every 219 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 3: damned thing he passed, he rammed through on a vicious 220 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 3: party line vote. He used budget reconciliation over and over 221 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 3: again with no Republicans and passing popular policies. Nobody helped 222 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 3: Donald Trump get elected more than Joseph Robinette Biden Junior 223 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 3: because his policies were so incredibly unpopular. All right, let's 224 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 3: keep going back to the article. Quote he succeeded in 225 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 3: phase one of his plan? Did he now enacting legislation, 226 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 3: much of it bipartisan, to reshape the nation's infrastructure, revive 227 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 3: the semiconductor industry, and fight climate change. Let's be clear 228 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 3: the climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act was a straight 229 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 3: party line vote, rammed through on reconciliation. But Phase two 230 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 3: never happened. The truth of Biden's presidency is that he 231 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 3: has failed in what, by his own count, his most 232 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: important mission. Making Trump's presidency seemed like an aberration. 233 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 2: Quote. 234 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 3: He governed through traditional processes and institutions, said Julians E. Zellezer, 235 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 3: a Moron presidential historian at Princeton University. It doesn't say moron, 236 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 3: but you're going to see that everything this guy says, 237 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 3: I know he's sadly a professor at MI alma mater. 238 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 3: He's a complete moron. Let's start with the traditional processes 239 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 3: and institutions. There's nothing traditional about weaponizing the federal government 240 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,479 Speaker 3: to go after your opponents. There's nothing traditional about prosecuting 241 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 3: and indicting the former president over and over and over again. 242 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 3: There's nothing traditional and using the institutions about opening the 243 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 3: border and having an invasion of our country. But here 244 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 3: the good Princeton professor quote, it didn't change the picture 245 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 3: where he started. This anger in the electorate towards institution, 246 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 3: this support for a pretty radical conservative vision that Trump embodied, 247 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 3: it didn't do anything to end the very intensezation that 248 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 3: exists in this country. Now. The idea that Trump is 249 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 3: a radical conservative is a is a bizarre idea. Trump 250 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 3: ran on securing the border, bringing down inflation, standing with 251 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 3: our friends, and defeating our enemies. That is, that is 252 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 3: very hard to characterize as a quote radical conservative vision. 253 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 3: But hey, the Princeton professor says it, and the Washington 254 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 3: Post breathlessly reports it. We're gonna go on here, but 255 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 3: but give me your thoughts so far. Then we'll go 256 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 3: back to the article. 257 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that this is how they want to 258 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: just rewrite history part of this and just be be 259 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: so delusional. 260 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: I am a little bit. It gets worse. I'm a 261 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 2: little bit shocked though. 262 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: If they, like, you know, how you're supposed to like 263 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: proofread before you print, if you're reading what you just 264 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: wrote that you just read, I would think there would 265 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: be a moment where you might be like. 266 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if this needs to see the 267 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 2: light of day. Yet here it is. They put it 268 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 2: out there. 269 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 3: All right, Let's keep going because it gets much much worse. 270 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 3: Previous articles in this series examined the pillars, Oh they're 271 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 3: so strong. The pillars, the pillars of Biden's leadership, how 272 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 3: he absorbs information, how he makes decisions, how he communicates 273 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 3: with Americans. They showed that Biden, even at the peak 274 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 3: of his glorious magnificent power, doesn't say glorious magnificent, but 275 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 3: it's just implied, struggled mightily to communicate his decisions and vision. 276 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 3: This article, based on interviews with more than two thousand 277 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: people close to Biden, reveals the ways in which his 278 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 3: theory of how to succeed in an era of American 279 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 3: politics dominated by Trump fell apart in the final phase 280 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 3: of his presidency, and how he's been publicly and privately 281 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 3: rethinking whether he should have handled some decisions differently even 282 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 3: some of his closest advisers without faulting. Biden conceded recently 283 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 3: that his style of governing did not always mesh with 284 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 3: today's politics. 285 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 2: Quote. 286 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 3: The president has been operating on a time horizon measured 287 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 3: in decades, while the political is measured in four years. 288 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 3: Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security advisor, said, with his lips 289 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 3: planted firmly on Biden's rear end. That last piece was 290 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 3: my come like, I want you go back and listen 291 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 3: to that sentence again. The president has been operating on 292 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 3: a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle 293 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 3: is measured in four years. 294 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 2: Now. 295 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 3: Look, kudos to the Biden White House for just having 296 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 3: the chutzpah to say, oh, Biden's presidency would be hysteric, 297 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 3: and you know, you really have to measure decades. Twelve 298 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 3: million people invading this country. Four years is too short 299 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 3: to measure it. We're going to screw up this country 300 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 3: for decades, you know, undermining our allies, causing two wars 301 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 3: a war in Ukraine and a war in Gaza. Like, 302 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 3: you're right, the harm from Biden will last decades, but 303 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 3: that's their entire spend. Well, yes, everything Biden did was 304 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 3: profoundly unpopular because all of his policies failed. But he's 305 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 3: really playing the long game. You foolish people don't understand. 306 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 3: This misery is good for you. All right, let's keep going. 307 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 3: Sullivan added that Biden's accomplishments, by their nature, will take 308 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 3: a long time to bear fruit. Quote, how to govern 309 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 3: at this moment to set the US up for long 310 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 3: term success has one answer, and how to deal with 311 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 3: midterm and presidential elections in the very short term might 312 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 3: have a different answer. He said, the president went with 313 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 3: doing things that really put America in a strong position. Ben, 314 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 3: what the hell have they done to put America in 315 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 3: a strong position in every part of the world. America 316 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 3: is weaker today than when Joe Biden entered the White House. Like, 317 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 3: this is absurd, And I got to say. The absurd thing. 318 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 3: We're gonna go back to this in a minute, is 319 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 3: the Washington Post just publishes this drivel like its news 320 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 3: that there's not a moment of reflection, there's not a 321 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 3: moment of facts. There's not a moment of reality, and 322 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 3: it's I mean, how do you react to that? Oh, 323 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 3: he's playing the long game. 324 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there's two things here. 325 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: One there's a part of me that's like I can't 326 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: believe it, And then there's another part of me it's 327 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: like good because if you don't learn from your losses, 328 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: then you're going to repeat the same mistakes that you 329 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: just made. And I think the Democratic Party learned nothing 330 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: from November. Nothing from losing the popular vote, nothing from 331 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: the resurrection of Donald Trump from two thy to twenty 332 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 1: twenty four, nothing from weaponizing the government, nothing from overspending 333 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: and no accountability, and honestly nothing, They've learned nothing from 334 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: having a president that quickly was incapacitated. So part of 335 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: me is like good, Yeah, keep writing these types of 336 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: articles because it's going to help conservatives like you and 337 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 1: I be able to be way more successful in getting 338 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: this country back on track. 339 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 3: Well, the ben the Post just reported that he absorbed 340 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 3: information like you know, some some sort of nobel you know, scientists, 341 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 3: Like just all right, let's let's go back as his 342 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 3: presidency and his fifty year political career wind down. Far 343 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 3: faster than he wanted. Biden has taken to acknowledging some 344 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 3: strategic mistakes, both big and small. Many of those missteps 345 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 3: resulted from his determination to restore the age old rules 346 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,199 Speaker 3: of the American presidency after Trump's term, a determination that 347 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 3: many of his supporters in retrospect consider a politically fatal error. 348 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 3: All right, so what are the age old rules of 349 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 3: the American presidency that he returned to. Earlier this month, 350 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 3: in a speech on his economic legacy, Biden admitted he 351 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 3: was stupid for not putting his own name on the 352 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 3: pandemic relief checks his administration sent out in twenty twenty one. Yeah, 353 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 3: that really was the problem. He just didn't sign the checks. Clearly, 354 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 3: Kamala would have won if Biden had just signed those checks. 355 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 3: That that was the pivotal issue. 356 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 2: Damn it. 357 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 3: I didn't see Joe Biden's name on those checks, So 358 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 3: forget it. But hey, Trump, by contrast, made a point 359 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 3: of signing his own relief checks in twenty twenty, and 360 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 3: Biden suggested that Trump got more credit for the economic 361 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 3: recovery because of it. Balderdash. Biden acknowledged that he had 362 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 3: quote screwed up. It is June twenty seventh debate against Trump. 363 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 3: You think as he struggled to put together sentences and 364 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 3: defend his policies as his rivals held forth with a 365 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 3: series of falsehoods. Evil liar who I hate named Donald 366 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 3: Trump that is not there, it's just implied, and called 367 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 3: him a criminal. He does not regret participating in the 368 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 3: debate justice performance that night. Now at this point, there's 369 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 3: a breakout quote, and you know what the breakout quote is. 370 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 3: It's Jake Sullivan saying the president is operating on a 371 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 3: time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is 372 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 3: measured in four years. So if you missed the central 373 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 3: political spin from the White House, then well that's your problem. 374 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 3: Let's keep going. He is also amused on changes of 375 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 3: the media, arguing that he did not get enough credit 376 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 3: for his accomplishments, especially on the economy, but inciting examples 377 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 3: like Richard M. Nixon's nineteen sixty debate against John F. Kennedy, 378 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 3: Biden has suggested that like Nixon, he has struggled to 379 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 3: adjust to a new media landscape. We pick what news 380 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 3: we want to hear. It's a totally different deal, Biden 381 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 3: said in a podcast interview this month. We've got to 382 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 3: figure out how we deal with this significant technological change. 383 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 3: If Nixon was more accustomed to television, he wouldn't have 384 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 3: perspired so much, and he would be president when he 385 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 3: beat Kennedy. I know that sounds silly, but think of 386 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 3: the changes taking place. Where do you go what is true? 387 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 3: We have no evidence anymore. I'm not sure how that 388 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 3: gets resolved. The President and his aides have acknowledged that 389 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 3: they struggled to communicate. See, that's the whole problem. The 390 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 3: record was phenomenal. They just failed to communicate it. Struggle 391 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 3: to communicate about the administration's efforts to lift the country 392 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 3: out of the pandemic. Frustrated that even as the United 393 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,680 Speaker 3: States fared better than other countries, Americans did not feel 394 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 3: the impact psychologically. You idiots, you're doing great. Why are 395 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 3: you so dumb that you don't realize it? And now 396 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 3: here's all right? 397 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 2: Now? 398 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 3: Remember so so far, there's two main themes that the 399 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 3: post is laid out. Number one, genius Biden is playing 400 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 3: for the history books for the decades rather than the 401 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 3: short term political cycles, so don't blame him for the 402 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 3: disasters of his policies. But Number two, that he wanted 403 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 3: to restore the norms of the presidency and the norms 404 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 3: of democracy. So this next paragraph is going to blow 405 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 3: your mind. In private, Biden has also said he should 406 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 3: have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as Attorney General. Well, 407 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 3: no kidding. He was the most partisan and political attorney 408 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 3: general in history and a disgraced the Department of Justice. 409 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 3: But no, no, no, no no, that's not Biden's complaint. 410 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 3: Biden quote complaining about the Justice Department's slowness under Garland 411 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 3: in prosecuting Trump and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden's son Hunter, 412 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 3: according to people familiar with his comments, So understand this 413 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 3: great titan restoring the norms of the White House. His 414 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 3: DOJ is the first Department of Justice to indict and 415 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 3: prosecute a former president and a leading candidate for president 416 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 3: who later got elected president in the history of our country. 417 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 3: It's never been done. Under Biden, they did it twice. 418 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 3: They absolutely weaponized the DOJ to go after his opponents 419 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 3: over and over and over again. They weaponized the FBI. 420 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 3: And his complaint is, damn it, they didn't do enough. 421 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 3: They should have been more vigorous, They should have indicted 422 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 3: him more. They should have indicted him faster. We should 423 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 3: have we should have attacked him from day one. I 424 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 3: mean it is And by the way, everything I'm saying, 425 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 3: there's not a word of that in this article that 426 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 3: they don't acknowledge. No other DOJ has indicted a president. 427 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:13,719 Speaker 3: They just report like a blinking, doe eyed four year old. Well, 428 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 3: his complaint was Biden didn't move fast. On the other thing, 429 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 3: he was too aggressive in prosecuting Biden's son. Now, mind you, 430 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 3: the Biden DOJ went to a court and tried to 431 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: enter a sweetheart deal that Biden got a slap on 432 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 3: the wrist in no jail time, and it was so 433 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 3: egregious that the judge threw it out only after public scrutiny, 434 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 3: including this podcast, which shined a great deal of light 435 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 3: on it. But he still says that's too much to 436 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 3: hold Hunter accountable. And by the way, the DOJ also 437 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 3: bent over backwards to protect Joe Biden. It that paragraph 438 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 3: may be the most astonishing paragraph of this entire article. 439 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: You look at this article and I think there's three 440 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: different points that I want to dive into with you. One, 441 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: what was the real purpose of writing it? I'm still trying. 442 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I get the whole rewriting of history, but 443 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: it's so extreme that I don't even think many on 444 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: the left could take this seriously. 445 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 2: Or am I wrong? So let's start with that. 446 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 3: Well, I think they have the audacity to believe that 447 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 3: that that they can, that that that they are, that 448 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 3: the newspaper, the Washington Post, is the first draft of history. 449 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 3: And and as said that this is not journalism, that 450 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 3: this is hagiography. The article continues, We've only done about 451 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 3: the first third of it. I'm not going to continue 452 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 3: reading the rest of it. It goes on to say 453 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 3: how Biden modeled himself after FDR and and and I 454 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 3: am just going to skip skip to the end because 455 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 3: the end is every bit as absurd as the earlier 456 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 3: parts we read. So here's the end of the article. 457 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 3: To show that he respects the peaceful transfer of power, 458 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 3: Biden is welcoming Trump, who openly challenged that transition. Biden 459 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 3: has repeatedly directed his aides to do all they can 460 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 3: to help Trump assume the presidency after years of calling 461 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 3: Trump unfit for high office. Now, mind you, every day 462 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 3: in the White House, Biden is doing everything he can 463 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 3: to frustrate Trump coming in, So what is he doing. 464 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 3: Number One, he pardoned Hunter Biden, which we predicted on 465 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 3: this podcast, because he does not want any accountability for 466 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 3: the rampant lawlessness of his son and the corruption of 467 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 3: selling access to himself, Joe Biden. Number two, he pardoned 468 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 3: every single federal death row inmate except for the three 469 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 3: most notorious. So of the forty, he parted thirty seven 470 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 3: of them. Again, we predicted that it was absolutely brazen. 471 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 3: Why because he knew Trump was going to actually carry 472 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 3: out the law, and so he's trying to frustrate that. 473 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 3: Number three, he's selling off the border wall for five 474 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 3: dollars a parcel because he doesn't want Trump to build 475 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 3: the wall. Number four, he's considering granting wholesale pardons. He 476 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 3: is actively trying to do by the way. Number five 477 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 3: Trump is that he wants federal workers to go back 478 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 3: to work. So Biden is signing contracts collective bargaining contracts 479 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 3: to make sure that federal workers can stay home because 480 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 3: he wants to tie up the next administration on litigation. 481 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 3: So but here, here's what the Post said. Biden has 482 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 3: repeatedly directed his aides to do all they can to 483 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 3: help Trump assume the presidency. Like what, utter and complete garbage. 484 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 3: And let me say something, Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. 485 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos should be ashamed of this garbage. If Jeff 486 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 3: Bezos cared at all about the integrity of the Washington Post, 487 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 3: this guy, Tyler Patron, I have no idea who this 488 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 3: numbskull is. He should be fired. He is not a 489 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 3: journalist anyone who writes this garbage that contains no facts, 490 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 3: It contains no no counterbalancing, countervailing side. It is simply 491 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 3: if Madison Avenue were hired to come in and let's 492 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 3: rewrite the Biden presidency to be exactly what we wanted it, 493 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 3: they couldn't write it more ridiculous than this. And by 494 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 3: the way, the editor who signed off on this should 495 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 3: be fired as well. This is you want to know 496 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 3: why nobody trusts the media, It's because they publish garbage 497 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 3: like this without even a tiny nod to facts or 498 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 3: the simple reality that we just saw a overwhelming election 499 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 3: where Trump won the popular vote of the seven battleground states, 500 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 3: who won all seven, Like someone at the Post should say, gosh, 501 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 3: maybe these incredibly popular policies that were so good for America. 502 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 3: Maybe people really didn't like it. Maybe waging a war 503 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 3: on oil and gas and driving energy prices was a 504 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 3: really bad idea and hurt a lot of Americans. Maybe 505 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 3: undermining our allies. Maybe giving Vladimir Putin a gift of 506 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 3: waiving sanctions on Nordstring two and causing the biggest war 507 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: in Europe since World War Two. Maybe that wasn't a 508 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 3: great idea. Maybe sending one hundred billion dollars to Iran, 509 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 3: who sends it to Hamas and Hansbala, who uses it 510 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 3: to fund a war on Israel, the worst war in 511 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 3: the Middle East in fifty years. Maybe that wasn't a 512 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 3: good idea. Maybe turning a blind eye and refusing to 513 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 3: prosecute anti Semitic terrorists all as their protesters terrorists is 514 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,479 Speaker 3: too strong. But antisemitic protesters who threatened violence, Maybe that 515 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 3: is a profoundly bad idea. Maybe watching the integrity half 516 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 3: of America believes the FBI and the Department of Justice 517 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 3: are completely unprincipled, because well, they've been completely unprincipled. None 518 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 3: of that that there isn't even the tiniest acknowledgment of facts. 519 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 3: This is the Washington Posts behaving in a way that 520 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 3: I think everyone connected with this article ought to be thoroughly, 521 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 3: thoroughly embarrassed when your principal points are we're aiming for 522 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 3: fifty years, not four, So as bad as our policies 523 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 3: are in fifty years, will claim they were great. And 524 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 3: Merrick Garland's problem was he wasn't political enough and he 525 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 3: should have indicted Trump even more, and he should have 526 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 3: covered up Biden's wrongdoings even more, and you don't acknowledge 527 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 3: any like this is a load of crap that ain't journalism. 528 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: Final question on this, because there's two articles now in 529 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: about what an eight day span. One of them was 530 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 1: an article that was written a couple days ago encouraging 531 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: Congress to stop Donald Trump and we mentioned on the 532 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: show from becoming president, and then now you have this one. 533 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: Is there a chance that the media has just gotten 534 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: so radical and is so far gone now that they're 535 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: actually just going to lose their influence over the American 536 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 1: people because this is no longer even looking like journalism, 537 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: and this is just two examples of just how insanely 538 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: biased they are. Is that the blessing in disguise here? 539 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's no doubt that the reputation of 540 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 3: journalism has gone down incredibly. You know, you see these 541 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 3: these corporate journalists screaming about you know, the American people 542 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 3: are not journalists now the fact Twitter or x has 543 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 3: completely transformed it where when they lie, the facts come 544 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 3: out immediately, and and and it drives these these liars crazy. Look, 545 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 3: we've talked before about how Trump broke the media. This 546 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 3: is this is an incredible example. And and by the way, 547 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 3: look today in most corporate media outlets, there's gonna be 548 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 3: some hagiography of Jimmy Carr. You know what, I'm okay 549 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 3: with that he lived till one hundred. It's the time 550 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 3: of his pathing. I think you can be respectful to 551 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 3: people when they pass Now, mind you, the media never 552 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 3: is to Republicans, but set that aside. It's one thing 553 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 3: to do it when someone passes away. It's another thing 554 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 3: to do it when you're just ignoring reality that the 555 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 3: American people rejected the obvious and incredible failures of the 556 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 3: Biden policies. And it's not even that they don't include it. 557 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 3: Much of what they say in the article is exactly 558 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 3: the opposite of reality. So when you hold Joe Biden 559 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 3: up as a paragon of returning to norms. Look look 560 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 3: on our open borders. No president in the history of 561 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 3: this nation, none has had a lawless policy of simply 562 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 3: defying federal immigration law and releasing the people. They apprehend 563 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 3: that was a massive issue in this election. They don't 564 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 3: acknowledge it at all. Instead, they say he's a champion 565 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 3: for democracy. This is at the same time they're arguing 566 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 3: to hell with democracy, block Trump from becoming president. They 567 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 3: went to court repeatedly, they tried to throw them in jail. 568 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,760 Speaker 3: They know, we saw multiple Democrat officials across the country 569 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 3: try to throw Trump off the ballot. Thankfully, the Supreme 570 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 3: Court unanimously reverse that because you know, nothing says defending 571 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 3: democracy like trying to stop damn pesky voters voting for 572 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 3: your opponents. 573 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: Make sure you share a podcast wherever you can on 574 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 1: social media. 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