WEBVTT - Mary Trump & Stephen Vladeck 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.160 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.400 today's best minds. And the Biden administration has banned unpaid 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.320 medical bills from appearing on credit reports. We have such 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.840 a great show for you today, The Mary Trump Shows 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.960 Own Mary Trump stops by to talk about what Trump 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.479 tool point OH may look like. Then we'll talk to 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.200 the Shadow Docket author Steven Gladock about the Supreme Court's 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.640 upcoming decision on corporate transparency. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:34.599 But first the. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.560 News Smili, Happy new year to you and the listeners. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.680 We're back in full force again. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.840 Yes, and we're back and not a moment too soon. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.080 So let's talk about I would say my least favorite 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.520 social network, Meta and the Facebook. I'm going to shock 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:56.640 you here. When wearing nine hundred thousand dollars watches to 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.560 press conferences, Mark Zuckerberg continues as a cent into doing 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:01.240 bad things. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.160 Yeah, so it turns out that if you don't regulate 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.920 tech companies, they do not regulate themselves. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.399 Who could have seen this coming? Who could have. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:15.839 Seen absolutely not regulating companies and then them just doing 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.000 whatever the fuck they want? 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.040 Definitely not numerous segments we taped on this podcast. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.160 Yes, Meta is embracing trump Ism. And while the poor 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:29.840 Man's Elon Mark Zuckerberg was often pretended to be a Democrat, 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.240 it turns out that being a billionaire is its own 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:39.560 special religion, its own political party, and so basically Met 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.000 has gone all in on Trump. They have added Dana 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.800 White to their board because it was easier than adding Eric. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.600 They are no longer going to fact check in fact, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.360 they're just going to have community notes. And the reason 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.920 they're going to do this is because it's cheaper and 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.120 also because it's what Republicans want. And also they're going 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:06.640 to move their jurisdictions. Shockingly, you'll be shocked to hear 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.720 from the state of California to the state where all 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.040 Republicans love love to be where you and I know 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.960 it well, the state of Texas, where Elon is a 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:25.200 special VIP and the judges do a lot of stuff 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.360 that the right really loves. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.799 I think one of the things that really full under 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.760 the radar is that former UK Conservative Nick Craig left 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.960 Meta and then they replaced him with Republican Joel Kaplan, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.079 who I'm sure is going to just help that fever 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.000 swamp of misinformation to just brewin brew and brew over 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:44.760 on Facebook. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.440 Yeah, I mean, Nick Laid, let's get too high on 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.280 our own supply here. All these people care only about 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.600 one thing, which is meta making more money for zuck 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.440 You know however that works. But I would like to 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:01.560 say that Zuckerberg since he's become red pill, and by redpilled, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.400 I mean whatever, who the fuck cares? 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:04.200 This guy sucks. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.080 Zuckerberg cited the recent election as a driving force in 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:12.240 his company's decision, slamming government. Yeah, the government that didn't 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.680 regulate him at all. With that government, very mad at them, 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.080 and Legacy media, which he killed as pushing the company 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.520 to censor more and more. Yeah, sure, sure, good stuff, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.920 Mark Zuckerberg. You'll remember Facebook had some involvement in the 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.800 Rhingen genocide. Looking forward to see what other crimes of 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:39.080 humanity they are able to help with during the Trump 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.080 two point zero. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.320 Speaking of the hells Gate, Molly, we're back to someone. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.760 I thank god. I bear no relationship to District Judge 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.560 Aileen Kennon and her latest decision to help mister Trump. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.240 What are you seeing here, Aileen? 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.160 She is auditioning for a job on the Supreme Court. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.400 Because every time she has a minute, she does whatever 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.480 she can to help her man, Donald Trump. You'll remember 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.680 she was the judge for the document's case, and what 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:11.400 did you do? She just was like, my guys, okay, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.560 and now here we are. She has an order to 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.120 prevent Smith and the Justice Department from moving forward with 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.560 releasing the report until the Twelfth Circuit Court of Appeals 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.359 has time to review the emergency motion by Trump's co 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.600 defendants to block the reports released. So probably a lot 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.640 of stuff has been seen, maybe some of it hasn't. Again, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.919 Trump has successfully used lawyers to punt all of his 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.719 legal travails. Now he's going to be president again, it's 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.919 hard to think of. You know, this is what happens 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.560 when you're affluent and you're white and you can afford 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:53.599 endless lawyers, is that you can put off punishment indefinitely. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.039 And that is where we are. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.040 So Judge jay Leen has her you know, she may 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.680 have her own motive for this, for her own career, 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:06.680 but this is certainly not how any of this is supposed. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.599 To work, So Molly. One of the more weird sense 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.560 of Trump's recent thoughts since the election has been that 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:19.640 he's going to control of the Panama Canal and annex Greenland. Today, 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.680 in an interview, he said he would not rule out 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.600 using military force for it. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:25.279 Yeah. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.560 I mean I was elected to make things cheaper, right, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.479 that was what the voters wanted him to make things cheaper. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.080 They wanted him to curb inflation. Here's how not to 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:41.200 do that. Invade Greenland. I try to annex Canada. Look, 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.880 I think this is in troll. Trump really loves to 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.640 get libs angry, wants them to seem hysterical, wants them 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.880 to see you know, this is this Steve Bannon flood. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.479 The zone was shit thing where you have so many 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.159 things going on and so many dangers from Trump that 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.080 you can't tell the forest from the tree. Is I 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.359 truly believe that Donald Trump is not going to go 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.960 to war with Canada. And I think that it's more 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.120 important that people focus on his nominees, you know, and 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.880 pressuring members of the Senate to use their Article to 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:23.560 duty to really hold good hearings about people like Cash Battel, 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.840 and not worry about Trump invading Greenland because nobody wants that. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.240 He was not elected to do that, and the whole 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.560 idea that he would change the name to the Gulf 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.919 of America from the Gulf of Mexico. It's a troll. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.600 I really think it's worth not falling for it. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.800 Yeah, well, in fun, you and I are the biggest 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.160 fans of Palace intrigue. But I do have to say 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.600 I'm popping the popcorn for a thing that we all 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.240 inevitably knew would happened, which is Maggie Haberman saying that 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.360 Trump is quite sick of Elon being around. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:56.080 Yeah. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.159 I mean, we've seen this reported everywhere, but mag he 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.440 is the person who really does know what's going on 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.160 in Morlago, unfortunately for her, because I don't know how 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.960 great it is to know that kind of stuff. But 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.200 there has never been room and Trump one point h 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.720 for a co president, and it's hard for me to 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.440 imagine that Trump will start now. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:17.320 Now. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.120 Elon is very distracted by trying to manage elections in 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.560 other countries. I think he feels that his success with 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.640 Trump has given him a kind of Perhaps he's really 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.920 good at politics, and he can get far right parties 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.160 installed in all of the major countries. I think that 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.040 if you watch his Twitter is what he's trying to do. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.400 I wonder how much any of that will work for him. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.400 But I do think if Trump, I think Trump is 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.400 going to get sick of him and he has you know, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.080 he's the richest guy in the world, controls all these satellites, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.520 controls all of these government contractors. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:52.600 Something's got to give. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:53.760 Let us. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.920 Mary Trump is the host of The Mary Trump Show 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.360 the author of Who Could Ever Love You? 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:07.760 A family memoir. Welcome back to Fast Politics, Mary. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.600 Trump, Hello, Molly dog Fast. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.480 I'm glad to have you here because we laugh to 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:13.320 keep from crying. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.560 Yes, indeed, we're doing it already. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:18.960 Yeah, we're doing it already. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.360 And it's not because we don't see the seriousness of 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.400 this moment. In fact, we absolutely do see the seriousness 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.560 of this moment, which is why I honestly I love 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.480 you and we're friends, and I know how much you 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.920 hate doing the media stuff that I make you do here. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.840 Well hate is a strong word, but you know. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.920 I mean this is like I think of you as 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:48.439 understanding the States and also being here because you feel 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:49.600 that you must. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:51.400 Yes, I think that's fair. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.920 First, I want to talk about how we feel we've 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.720 been failed, because I have done a lot of talking 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.320 about the ways in which I have failed people. You know, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.520 I feel that I was wrong about the election. I 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.320 feel that I was overly optimistic. I had a lot 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:09.280 of priors that I used information to confirm. Now I 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.520 would like you to talk, because I think of you 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.439 as thoughtful and also courageous about the ways in which 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.559 we feel we've been failed, first by the mainstream media, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:25.600 of which there are numerous ways, and then by Democrats 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.280 more broadly. So talk to me about how the media 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.000 has failed us. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.160 I want to start with yesterday one because it's top 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:34.720 of mind for obvious reasons. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.640 It was yesterday, so we've got a recncy bias going on, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.200 but also because it was, up until four years ago, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:47.320 the anniversary of a completely mundane ceremonial process that most 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:48.640 Americans didn't even. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.040 Know existed, which was simply the certification of the Electoral 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.440 College votes to make official whoever was the winner of 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.840 the presidential election. Now it's a different anniversary. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.360 It is the anniversary of, you know, Donald's attempt to 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.360 overturn the results of a free and fair election, which 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:12.800 resulted in a mob attacking the capital. And I think 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:17.520 what we've learned in large part because of media complacency, 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.880 because of media corporate media's compulsion. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.000 I guess to. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.920 Normalize the abnormal as long as it benefits Republicans. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.000 We learned the answer to a very. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:32.720 Important question that practically nobody was asking, which is, was 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:37.600 the insurrection Donald incited on January sixth, twenty twenty one successful? 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:43.480 And yesterday, as his electoral College victory was certified without 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.319 incident with the usual ceremony and banality. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.760 We learned that the answer to that question is yes, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.160 it did. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.520 So I do not think there is enough condemnation to 0:10:55.600 --> 0:11:03.680 go around for the fact that this magic, monumentally history 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:10.640 altering incident on January sixth was memory hold, was made benign, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.760 was turned into a pro Republican talking point in what 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.360 universe is that possible? 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.680 So I lay that mostly at the. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.880 Feet of the Republican Party, of course, because they actually 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.480 had the power to do something about it. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.440 I lay it at the feet of Merrick Garland. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.680 Again, for those of you listening, if you've forgotten who 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.280 Merrick Garland was, it's completely unoffendable. As far as I understand, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.840 he was Attorney General of the United States, who still 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.360 has two weeks to score us over. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.480 But we'll get to that later. But also the media 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.559 who just lost interest, like. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:50.040 The idea that Donald was presented as a normal, reasonable 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:55.240 candidate for the presidency without every single opening, you know, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.320 lead paragraph and every article about him mentioning that he's 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.040 a perpetrate or the big lie, a man who incited 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.520 an insurrection against his own government is an adjudicated rapist, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.680 on and on and on and on. Is one of 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:14.520 the greatest, gravest failures I've ever witnessed. Yeah, so that's 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.600 one big way the media has failed. It's not new, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.040 but it's also hasn't always been this way. The focusing 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.360 on the horse race and ignoring the stakes of things, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.880 just the failure to fact check, as if that were 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:33.160 some onerous task that's not the business of journalists right right, again, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.400 all of which redounds to the benefit of the party 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.720 that's trying to get away with a line all the time. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:44.600 I Mean, what I am struck by is the way 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:50.280 in which billionaires are not good stewards for the mainstream media. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:57.000 Is that weird shocked in which that is really amazing. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:02.959 You know, we were told in early years Trump one point, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:07.320 oh that billionaires would save the media because they were 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:14.320 deeply patriotic and in fact they just completely suck. And also, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.160 I might add, with the exception of Mark Cuban, who 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.319 I think has done some good stuff, but is also 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.640 not willing to buy the Washington Post. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.280 And you know, like you think. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:30.040 About Catherine Graham during the period known as Watergate, Trump 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.199 one point oh made Watergate look like Lincoln. Trump two 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:38.160 point oh will make Watergate right. Look, you know, like 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.960 the teapot dome scandal. I'm going to get somebody writing 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.200 into me about the true horribleness of the teapot dome. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.640 Probably right. But the point here. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:52.120 Is that the grand family provided the kind of moral 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.520 compass that the Washington Post needed in order to bring 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:02.160 down the Nixon administration. The Bezos owned Washington Post, in fact, 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:08.400 is largely against that kind of journalism, with some exceptions 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.440 we'll see what happens. But they have been, you know, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:18.920 largely very much for supporting Trump and his machinations and voluntarily. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:20.960 I think you could argue that. 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:26.080 The million dollars that Bezos, Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and others 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.960 have given to Donald's inauguration is kind of a ransom, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:36.000 you know, yes, exactly, because none of them gave money 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.040 to Joe Biden or you who did gave much less, right, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.080 So why because they. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.280 Knew that Biden, no matter what they did, Biden wasn't. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.480 Going to go after them. But they know that Donald will. 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.400 But they're going beyond and above and beyond the call. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.920 Because if we talk about media, we also have to 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.000 talk about social media. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:01.920 Bezos's Amazon is throwing forty million, setting forty million dollars 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:08.000 on fire to promote a Milania Trump documentary, which I 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.440 don't think there's a big audience for that, but I 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:11.480 mean I could be wrong. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:16.280 It hard for me to imagine. I mean, what are 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:16.640 they doing? 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.320 It'd be lucky if they could fill the movie theater 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:20.920 at mar A Lago for that one. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.400 Who wants it? Does even Mlani want that? 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.480 Well, she probably wants the forty million bucks? 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:31.240 Yeah, yeah, come on, yeah exactly. It's a good point. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.000 We've got Musk now saying on Twitter he's they're going 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.280 to be promoting quote unquote positive posts and suppressing negative posts. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.480 We know what that means, and now meta isn't good 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.480 to fact check anymore. Right Again, all of which were 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.360 downs to uh, the person and the party that means 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.040 to do us the most hard. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.120 Right, But I want to point out here we are 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.760 at this moment where government regulation like government said we're 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.720 not going to regulate tech companies for any number of 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.680 reasons they did. They said, we're not going to regulate tech, 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.359 We're going to let tech regulate itself. And Tech decided 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.920 not to regulate itself because why the fuck would they. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.080 Now we have Meta saying that they're going to put 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.680 they're not going to fact check, and they're going to 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.680 put Dana White on the board of Meta because Dana 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.520 White is why why do you put Dana White on 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.080 the board of Meta? Because you love wrestling or boxing 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.880 or whatever sport it is. He does what sport is it? 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.960 It's not wrestling, It's it's like MMA, but it's. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.400 Not Yes UFC. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.720 You put Daana White and which the two of us 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.720 are like, I'm like, it's boxing, it's wrestling. You put 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:47.280 Data White board of Meta because you love fighting, and 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.320 that is why No, you put Dana White on the 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.840 board of Meta because Dana White is a Trump or 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.200 and you want Trump to love you, and you think 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.080 that if you put Dana White on your board, it's 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.880 a little less obvious than putting Junior on the board, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.720 But you probably should have just put Junior on the 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.600 board discussing on well. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:06.760 He's in Greenland, so he's busy. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.680 I'm having a real serious conversation about this idea that 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.920 you have to cover Trump and you shouldn't sainwash Trump. Yes, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.600 but also you should not swing at every punch, and 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.720 so the Gulf of America is never going to happen, 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:35.520 and it's better to just say Trump is saying, like, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.000 if you think about that press conference that Trump had yesterday, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.520 because you're listening to this today and today is Wednesday 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.240 when this podcast comes out. If you are listening to 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.359 this podcast and you're thinking about that unhinged presser, the 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.800 first of many of the Trump two point zero unhinged pressers, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.840 if you're thinking about it, think about focus on the 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.760 part where he said he wasn't going to be able 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.520 to bring prices down because it was really hard, versus 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.040 the fact that he was going to make it the 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.400 Gulf of America versus the Golf of Mexico. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.960 Agree, disagree, and discuss. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.040 Yeah, I completely agree with you that we cannot let 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.639 everything get our it hooks into us. We should know 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.720 by now that all of his rantings and ramblings do 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:25.840 not equally matter, and that much of the strategy is 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.920 to overwhelm us, is to exhaust us and demoralize us. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.000 And you know, we don't do ourselves any favors. And 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:35.959 you know, sometimes like there are things that he might 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.960 be serious about and that might actually have serious implications, 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.439 but you know, we can't do anything about that. We 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.960 can't do anything about the fact that cash Pttel might 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.600 be director of the FBI. I mean, Democrats good have 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.880 but they decided it wasn't worth their while. I guess 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:50.440 I don't know. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:54.480 And they can't. They still can't. Right, Well, let's. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.000 Go back to that, but continue and then we'll go 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:56.520 back to that. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.480 Yeah, so he's ranting about the Gulf of America. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.840 If I you're one more person post one of his 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.560 posts and say, oh, he's really losing it now. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.280 Well he's been losing for seventy years, Okay, so what 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.520 Oh he's really unhinged, like it's a day ending and 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.800 why Yeah, Like, we can't do that anymore, right, we can't. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.440 Analyze everything like because you know, the main reason, besides 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.879 the fact that it's a waste of our energy, what 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.600 I learned they're at this selection is nobody cares Nobody 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.960 cares if he's mentally ill. Nobody cares if he is 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:35.040 neurologically impaired. Nobody cares how many times he lies or 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.919 how many times he got convicted of crimes or what 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:38.760 he got away with. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.240 Nobody cares. This is what enough people in America wanted, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:43.600 So here we are. 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.840 And I would also add, for example, people don't necessarily 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.360 care that he's a narcissist, like he's a narcissist, but 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.120 you know, I want to point out like a lot 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.159 of people are narciss a lot of politicians are narcissists, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:58.200 and a lot. 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.159 Of most yeah, eactly, and a lot. 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.360 Of celebrities are a narcissists. Why Trump, I think got. 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.399 Reelected was because people for a number of reasons, but 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.720 part of it was that the anti Trump coalition did 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.080 not come out for Harris. Now I'm not sure that's 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.000 Harris's fault as much as it's the fault of a 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.040 coalition that has very specific ideas of what a president 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.760 should look like or what they want a president to 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.280 look like. But I want to point out here that 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.760 as we're looking at this, what I think is really 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.520 relevant and important is that they said things were too expensive. 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:37.760 A lot of voters said they didn't like that things 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.359 were more expensive. They didn't like that three hundred dollars 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:41.960 worth of groceries didn't. 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.399 Look the way it did four years ago. They didn't 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:44.760 like that. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.040 They wanted more groceries for three hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.640 whatever the amount of money you pay weekly for groceries. 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:56.800 They wanted more. This, in my head, is the mandate 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.000 that he was given. Not a huge mandate, but he 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.440 did win the popular vote. So here he is at 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.960 this press conference saying what all of us knew when 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.600 he was running for office, which is you can't really 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:09.000 make things less expensive. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.160 Well, and kind of what's worse is that corporate media 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.959 knew that too. Corporate media now telling us how brilliant 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.200 the binding economy was. They did not bother to tell 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.480 us that in the run up to the election. And also, yeah, 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:26.720 so again it's all based on smoke and mirrors. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.840 And the problem really is that not only. 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:34.399 Will the people who voted for him not get what 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.119 they wanted, they and all of us are going to 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:37.840 get a lot. 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.040 Of things that they did not. 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:44.360 Want, exactly with Greenland, for example. 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.040 Yeah, so let's talk about Democrats, because I think you 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:48.880 have a really good point before when you were talking 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:53.199 about how are Democrats going to oppose the really scary 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:57.919 nominees and who are the scariest of the nominees. So, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.639 for example, Donald Trump has decided that he would like 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:06.920 Cash Pattel to be the head of the FBI. Cash Pattel, 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:12.159 author of the famous nuna's memo, has been around national 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.800 security on the Republican House side, written a lot of 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:19.720 really crazy stuff. Is in my mind, the scariest of 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:20.240 the picks. 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:24.200 Discuss let's narrow down to the four obvious ones Tulsa 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.040 gottwerd As A d and I peteg Seth a DoD 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:29.960 Bob Kennedy. 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.080 And Health and Human Services Cashpitel. F In the context 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:36.520 of Cash Battel, he's dangerous because he will. 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:41.600 Absolutely be the guy going down the enemy's list and 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:42.800 wreaking advetage. 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:45.359