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Jimmy Carter Passes plus the Media Finally tells the TRUE Story of Biden Corruption · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: We got to start with, obviously, the big news, and
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Speaker 1: that is Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age
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Speaker 1: of one hundred. He is the nation's longest serving former president.
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Speaker 1: And I am going to say that there are some
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Speaker 1: of you that probably hoping I'm going to talk about
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Speaker 1: his failed policies in the seventies.
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Speaker 2: I don't really care.
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Speaker 1: It was so long ago, and the American people, I think,
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Speaker 1: know what he did as president, and it ushered in
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Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan. Without Jimmy Carter, we never would have had
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Speaker 1: ron Reagan. And I will forever be grateful to Jimmy Carter.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that sarcastically. I mean it for
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Speaker 1: that because Ronald Reagan did amazing things and revolutionize and
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Speaker 1: changed the Republican Party for the better and got rid
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Speaker 1: of the Cold War and communism in many parts of
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Speaker 1: the world. Without Jimmy Carter, we wouldn't have had ron Reagan.
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Speaker 1: And so that is a part of his legacy for
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Speaker 1: me anyway, and I am genuinely thankful for that. But
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Speaker 1: I also want to just take a moment and say this,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter did something that I think is pretty incredible.
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Speaker 1: He went out of office being the highest rated most
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Speaker 1: or I should say, the most unpopular, the highest unpopular
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Speaker 1: rating of any president in certainly my lifetime, in modern
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Speaker 1: political history. And that is pretty bad when you think
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Speaker 1: about it. You know, you look at people that left
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Speaker 1: in disgrace, like Nixon, for example, Carter didn't leave with
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Speaker 1: some massive scandal. Carter just really, in many ways, had
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Speaker 1: bad policies that were failures and gasoline line shortages, and
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Speaker 1: the list goes on and on of basic things that
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Speaker 1: made him the most unpopular president in modern political times.
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Speaker 1: And yet he was able to re I don't know,
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Speaker 1: redefine himself is maybe a good way of putting it.
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Speaker 1: He was able to reinvent himself is probably the word
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Speaker 1: I really want to use. Because he went out as
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Speaker 1: a president that people didn't remember so much his presidency.
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Speaker 1: It was sure, it was four years, he was a
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Speaker 1: one termer and it was a disaster. But his legacy
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Speaker 1: at one hundred is this is a guy that helped
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Speaker 1: build a lot of homes for a lot of needy people.
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Speaker 1: That is pretty cool. That's incredible. Most presidents when they
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Speaker 1: leave office, they don't do a lot because you don't
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Speaker 1: want to look like you're doing something that's beneath you
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Speaker 1: or beneath being a former president of the United States
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Speaker 1: of America. There's a lot of presidents that afterwards they
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Speaker 1: just kind of ride off into the sunset. Reagan, in
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Speaker 1: essence did that, and then Alzheimer's obviously George Bush, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's he's painting and doing those types of things.
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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton did, you know, his fundraising for AIDS in Africa,
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Speaker 1: and did some things with George Bush forty one and
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Speaker 1: George Bush forty three as well. But overall these kind
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Speaker 1: of stayed out of the limelight, done his speeches. Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Carter went away in disgrace and came back as a
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Speaker 1: as a kind and caring man that humbled himself to
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Speaker 1: do things that he wanted to do, whether it was
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Speaker 1: with religion and his faith or with building houses. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's something that we can all respect about
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter. I also think it's nice to have moments
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Speaker 1: where we look at people as human beings and not
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Speaker 1: just as a D or an R by their name.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've become so tribal and the Democratic Party
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Speaker 1: is dead. The Democratic Party that Jimmy Carter was a
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Speaker 1: part of his dead It's now a Marxist Socialist Communist
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Speaker 1: party masquerading as Democrats, and they're nasty, nasty people. We've
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Speaker 1: seen that in articles they've been written where they're rewriting
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Speaker 1: history won on Joe Biden. But also there's articles that
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Speaker 1: have been published in the last week by major newspapers
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Speaker 1: demanding that Donald Trump not be able to take the
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Speaker 1: oath of office. That's where we are now, and I
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Speaker 1: will just say, look, even Donald Trump honored Jimmy Carter
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Speaker 1: by saying, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.
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Speaker 1: That's what Donald Trump said about Jimmy Carter upon hearing
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Speaker 1: of his death of the age of twenty. He gratually
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Speaker 1: remembered him as a man who did his best to
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Speaker 1: improve the lives of all Americans. I just heard Trump
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Speaker 1: said the news about the passing and President Jimmy Carter.
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Speaker 1: Those of us who have been fortunate to have served
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Speaker 1: as president understand this is a very exclusive club and
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Speaker 1: only we can relate to the enormous responsibilities of leading
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Speaker 1: the greatest nation in history. The challenges Jimmy faced as
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Speaker 1: president came in a pivotal time for a country, and
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Speaker 1: he did everything as power to improve the lives of
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Speaker 1: all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt
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Speaker 1: of gratitude. I really like the way that Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: handled that. It would be easy to score political points
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Speaker 1: there and say that you know, he was a disaster,
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Speaker 1: but if you look at his whole body of work,
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Speaker 1: his entire life until the age of one hundred, and
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Speaker 1: you look at him as a human being, not as
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Speaker 1: a political individual, I just got to say, it is
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Speaker 1: amazing what he accomplished becoming presidents. Amazing and then doing
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Speaker 1: what he did after just getting selacked by Ron Reagan
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Speaker 1: and picking himself up by the bootstraps and saying I'm
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Speaker 1: still gonna have purpose in my life is really incredible.
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Speaker 1: So I'll say this, my thoughts and prayers are with
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter's family. Anytime you have a former president that
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Speaker 1: passes away, we should pause and understand that this is.
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Speaker 2: Trump said, a.
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Speaker 1: Very exclusive club with an incredibly tough job, and he
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Speaker 1: didn't do well at that job as president, but he
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Speaker 1: did well in life after that, and for that we
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Speaker 1: should all have a lot of respect for him. So again,
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Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers for Jimmy Carter and his family. Now,
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Speaker 1: I want to get to another report that is out,
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Speaker 1: and this one is one that should make all of
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Speaker 1: you angry, and it tells you an awful lot about
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Speaker 1: the Biden White House. There's a new report out, and
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Speaker 1: of course this reporting comes as he's leaving the White
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Speaker 1: House and as he's lost the presidency. So now they
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Speaker 1: can actually report accurately on just how corrupt Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: really was and how he's weaponizing the government against Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump and other Americans. This new report is out now
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Speaker 1: saying that Joe Biden was angry and wanted Trump prosecuted
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Speaker 1: earlier and regrets picking Garland as his ag President. Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden reportedly quote one of the Department of Justice to
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Speaker 1: target then former President Trump for prosecuted for prosecution far
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Speaker 1: sooner and more aggressively than it did, and regrets naming
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Speaker 1: Garland as his attorney general. The report, published in The
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Speaker 1: Washington Post on Saturday, echoed reporting nearly three years ago
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Speaker 1: by The New York Times, which suggested in twenty two
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Speaker 1: that Biden was frustrated with the slow pace of Garland
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Speaker 1: a ponderous judge quote unquote, the Post noted quote in private.
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Speaker 1: Biden has also said he should have picked someone other
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Speaker 1: than Mere Garland as Attorney General, complaining about the Justice
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Speaker 1: Department's slowness under Garland and prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness
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Speaker 1: in prosecuting Biden's son Hunter. According to people familiar with
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Speaker 1: his comments, Ron claim Biden's incoming chief of staff pushed
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Speaker 1: for Garland. He stressed that Garland, a federal judge with
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Speaker 1: a sterling reputation for independence and fairness, would show Americans
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Speaker 1: that Biden was rebuilding a department badly shaken by Trump's
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Speaker 1: political attack, so that's why they apparently thought he should
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Speaker 1: get the job. Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe
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Speaker 1: the decision had devastating results. Had the Justice Department moved
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Speaker 1: faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty election and mishandling classified documents, they said the
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Speaker 1: former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before
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Speaker 1: the election, costing Trump the White House. Others blamed the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court and a Trump appointed judge in Florida for
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Speaker 1: repeatedly siding with the former president, delaying the cases. The
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Speaker 1: Justice Department declined to comment for the article in the Post.
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Speaker 1: Now the Biden. White House claimed throughout his presidency that
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Speaker 1: it was not politicized in the Department of Justice and
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Speaker 1: was in fact depoliticizing it, quote unquote. Democrats claimed that
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Speaker 1: the Department had been puticized by then Attorney General William
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Speaker 1: Barr Bill Barr as you know him, who refused to
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Speaker 1: release grand jury material related to the Special Council Moeller's
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Speaker 1: investigation to the so called Russian collusion. Barr noted that
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Speaker 1: it was against the law for him to release grand
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Speaker 1: jury materials. The Post admits on the others in Scarland
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Speaker 1: was picked. He had been blocked from confirmation by the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court to the Supreme Court by Republicans in sixteen,
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Speaker 1: and his appointment was seen as a consolation prize as
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Speaker 1: well as a strike at the GOP. So you look
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Speaker 1: at this story, and the big takeaway is two things. One,
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Speaker 1: the media knew this story and they refuse to tell
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Speaker 1: it to you for four years. Why because they wanted
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Speaker 1: to help out Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris. But
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Speaker 1: now that he's gone, they're like, Okay, we're going to
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Speaker 1: actually tell you this bombshell story because now it doesn't
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Speaker 1: hurt Joe Biden. And it doesn't cost us anything if
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Speaker 1: we actually report the story. That is why the Washington
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Speaker 1: Post has done this, and it is disgusting. Now, this
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Speaker 1: isn't the only disgusting story, by the way, that's out there.
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Speaker 1: There is one that is rewriting history in a way
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Speaker 1: that is absolutely insane and absurd. It is part of
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Speaker 1: what Senator Cruz and I talked about in our podcast
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Speaker 1: that we do together, Vertict with Ted Cruz, and I
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Speaker 1: want to play for you what was in this article
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Speaker 1: and what the Senator had to say about it as well.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: Let's move to the Washington Post and I'm going to
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Speaker 3: do something unusual on this podcast. So I read this
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Speaker 3: article and my head exploded, and I texted you and said,
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Speaker 3: this is the most absurd, self satirizing article I've ever seen.
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Speaker 3: So I just want to go through it literally, line
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Speaker 3: by line. This is a major story in the Washington
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Speaker 3: Post banner headline on Drudge and it is entitled We're
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Speaker 3: just going to go through sentence by sentence. It's entitled
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Speaker 3: how Biden leads Joe Biden's lonely battle to sell his
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Speaker 3: vision of American democracy in his presidency's final chapter Biden
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Speaker 3: has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently.
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Speaker 3: And the guy who wrote this is a guy named
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Speaker 3: Tyler Pager. We're going to come back to him later,
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Speaker 3: So let's start earlier. This year, Representative James E. Cliber
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Speaker 3: And met President Joe Biden at the White House to
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Speaker 3: deliver a stern message Biden had to find a way
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Speaker 3: to revitalize his flagging campaign. Cliburne, who had been pivotal
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Speaker 3: to Biden's twenty twenty victory, also made a confession about
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Speaker 3: his own long standing belief that substance is more important
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Speaker 3: than style and politics.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 3: I've come to the conclusion in recent days that I'm
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Speaker 3: wrong about that, the South Carolina Democrat eighty four remembers,
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Speaker 3: telling Biden the new environment that we currently live in,
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Speaker 3: style seems to carry the day more than substance. Your style,
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Speaker 3: he told the President, does not lend itself well to
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Speaker 3: the environment we're currently in. Clyburn's conclusion, which was shared
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Speaker 3: by anxious Democrats in the months before the president ended
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Speaker 3: his reelection bid, undermined brought Biden's theory of presidential leadership.
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Speaker 3: After Donald Trump's assent, Biden believed that he just needed
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Speaker 3: to show Americans that traditional democracy still worked by listening,
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Speaker 3: but two experts working with Republicans, passing popular policies, and
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Speaker 3: voters would rally around him. Right, let's stop there. Okay,
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Speaker 3: so so far every word of this article. If this
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Speaker 3: was written by the Biden press office, it would not
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Speaker 3: be any different. And this entire article is hagiography. This
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Speaker 3: entire article is not journalism. It is not only trying
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Speaker 3: to praise breathlessly as we're going to go through Joe
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Speaker 3: Biden and cast him as a mighty titan, but it
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Speaker 3: is profoundly dishonest. So it starts with the frame that
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Speaker 3: Biden's great success is on substance, not style. And the
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Speaker 3: obvious implication of which we're going to get more is
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Speaker 3: that all Trump has his style. There's no substance. That's
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Speaker 3: the obvious implication. Let's take this last sentence after Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump's assent, Biden believed he just needed to show Americans
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Speaker 3: that traditional democracy still worked. We're going to get more
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Speaker 3: into democracy a second by listening to experts working with
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Speaker 3: Republicans and passing popular policies. All right, what experts did
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Speaker 3: he listen to? He did not work with Republicans. Every
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Speaker 3: damned thing he passed, he rammed through on a vicious
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Speaker 3: party line vote. He used budget reconciliation over and over
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Speaker 3: again with no Republicans and passing popular policies. Nobody helped
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump get elected more than Joseph Robinette Biden Junior
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Speaker 3: because his policies were so incredibly unpopular. All right, let's
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Speaker 3: keep going back to the article. Quote he succeeded in
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Speaker 3: phase one of his plan? Did he now enacting legislation,
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Speaker 3: much of it bipartisan, to reshape the nation's infrastructure, revive
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Speaker 3: the semiconductor industry, and fight climate change. Let's be clear
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Speaker 3: the climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act was a straight
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Speaker 3: party line vote, rammed through on reconciliation. But Phase two
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Speaker 3: never happened. The truth of Biden's presidency is that he
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Speaker 3: has failed in what, by his own count, his most
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Speaker 3: important mission. Making Trump's presidency seemed like an aberration.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 3: He governed through traditional processes and institutions, said Julians E. Zellezer,
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Speaker 3: a Moron presidential historian at Princeton University. It doesn't say moron,
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Speaker 3: but you're going to see that everything this guy says,
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Speaker 3: I know he's sadly a professor at MI alma mater.
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Speaker 3: He's a complete moron. Let's start with the traditional processes
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Speaker 3: and institutions. There's nothing traditional about weaponizing the federal government
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Speaker 3: to go after your opponents. There's nothing traditional about prosecuting
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Speaker 3: and indicting the former president over and over and over again.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing traditional and using the institutions about opening the
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Speaker 3: border and having an invasion of our country. But here
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Speaker 3: the good Princeton professor quote, it didn't change the picture
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Speaker 3: where he started. This anger in the electorate towards institution,
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Speaker 3: this support for a pretty radical conservative vision that Trump embodied,
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Speaker 3: it didn't do anything to end the very intensezation that
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Speaker 3: exists in this country. Now. The idea that Trump is
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Speaker 3: a radical conservative is a is a bizarre idea. Trump
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Speaker 3: ran on securing the border, bringing down inflation, standing with
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Speaker 3: our friends, and defeating our enemies. That is, that is
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Speaker 3: very hard to characterize as a quote radical conservative vision.
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Speaker 3: But hey, the Princeton professor says it, and the Washington
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Speaker 3: Post breathlessly reports it. We're gonna go on here, but
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Speaker 3: but give me your thoughts so far. Then we'll go
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Speaker 3: back to the article.
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that this is how they want to
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Speaker 1: just rewrite history part of this and just be be
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Speaker 1: so delusional.
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Speaker 2: I am a little bit. It gets worse. I'm a
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Speaker 2: little bit shocked though.
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Speaker 1: If they, like, you know, how you're supposed to like
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Speaker 1: proofread before you print, if you're reading what you just
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Speaker 1: wrote that you just read, I would think there would
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Speaker 1: be a moment where you might be like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if this needs to see the
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Speaker 2: light of day. Yet here it is. They put it
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Speaker 2: out there.
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Speaker 3: All right, Let's keep going because it gets much much worse.
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Speaker 3: Previous articles in this series examined the pillars, Oh they're
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Speaker 3: so strong. The pillars, the pillars of Biden's leadership, how
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Speaker 3: he absorbs information, how he makes decisions, how he communicates
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Speaker 3: with Americans. They showed that Biden, even at the peak
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Speaker 3: of his glorious magnificent power, doesn't say glorious magnificent, but
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Speaker 3: it's just implied, struggled mightily to communicate his decisions and vision.
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Speaker 3: This article, based on interviews with more than two thousand
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Speaker 3: people close to Biden, reveals the ways in which his
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Speaker 3: theory of how to succeed in an era of American
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Speaker 3: politics dominated by Trump fell apart in the final phase
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Speaker 3: of his presidency, and how he's been publicly and privately
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Speaker 3: rethinking whether he should have handled some decisions differently even
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Speaker 3: some of his closest advisers without faulting. Biden conceded recently
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Speaker 3: that his style of governing did not always mesh with
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Speaker 3: today's politics.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 3: The president has been operating on a time horizon measured
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Speaker 3: in decades, while the political is measured in four years.
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Speaker 3: Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security advisor, said, with his lips
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Speaker 3: planted firmly on Biden's rear end. That last piece was
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Speaker 3: my come like, I want you go back and listen
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Speaker 3: to that sentence again. The president has been operating on
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Speaker 3: a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle
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Speaker 3: is measured in four years.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: Look, kudos to the Biden White House for just having
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Speaker 3: the chutzpah to say, oh, Biden's presidency would be hysteric,
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Speaker 3: and you know, you really have to measure decades. Twelve
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Speaker 3: million people invading this country. Four years is too short
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Speaker 3: to measure it. We're going to screw up this country
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Speaker 3: for decades, you know, undermining our allies, causing two wars
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Speaker 3: a war in Ukraine and a war in Gaza. Like,
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Speaker 3: you're right, the harm from Biden will last decades, but
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Speaker 3: that's their entire spend. Well, yes, everything Biden did was
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Speaker 3: profoundly unpopular because all of his policies failed. But he's
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Speaker 3: really playing the long game. You foolish people don't understand.
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Speaker 3: This misery is good for you. All right, let's keep going.
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Speaker 3: Sullivan added that Biden's accomplishments, by their nature, will take
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Speaker 3: a long time to bear fruit. Quote, how to govern
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Speaker 3: at this moment to set the US up for long
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Speaker 3: term success has one answer, and how to deal with
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Speaker 3: midterm and presidential elections in the very short term might
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Speaker 3: have a different answer. He said, the president went with
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Speaker 3: doing things that really put America in a strong position. Ben,
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Speaker 3: what the hell have they done to put America in
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Speaker 3: a strong position in every part of the world. America
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Speaker 3: is weaker today than when Joe Biden entered the White House. Like,
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Speaker 3: this is absurd, And I got to say. The absurd thing.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna go back to this in a minute, is
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Speaker 3: the Washington Post just publishes this drivel like its news
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Speaker 3: that there's not a moment of reflection, there's not a
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Speaker 3: moment of facts. There's not a moment of reality, and
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Speaker 3: it's I mean, how do you react to that? Oh,
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Speaker 3: he's playing the long game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there's two things here.
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Speaker 1: One there's a part of me that's like I can't
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Speaker 1: believe it, And then there's another part of me it's
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Speaker 1: like good because if you don't learn from your losses,
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Speaker 1: then you're going to repeat the same mistakes that you
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Speaker 1: just made. And I think the Democratic Party learned nothing
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Speaker 1: from November. Nothing from losing the popular vote, nothing from
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Speaker 1: the resurrection of Donald Trump from two thy to twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, nothing from weaponizing the government, nothing from overspending
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Speaker 1: and no accountability, and honestly nothing, They've learned nothing from
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Speaker 1: having a president that quickly was incapacitated. So part of
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Speaker 1: me is like good, Yeah, keep writing these types of
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Speaker 1: articles because it's going to help conservatives like you and
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Speaker 1: I be able to be way more successful in getting
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Speaker 1: this country back on track.
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Speaker 3: Well, the ben the Post just reported that he absorbed
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Speaker 3: information like you know, some some sort of nobel you know, scientists,
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Speaker 3: Like just all right, let's let's go back as his
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Speaker 3: presidency and his fifty year political career wind down. Far
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Speaker 3: faster than he wanted. Biden has taken to acknowledging some
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Speaker 3: strategic mistakes, both big and small. Many of those missteps
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Speaker 3: resulted from his determination to restore the age old rules
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Speaker 3: of the American presidency after Trump's term, a determination that
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Speaker 3: many of his supporters in retrospect consider a politically fatal error.
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Speaker 3: All right, so what are the age old rules of
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Speaker 3: the American presidency that he returned to. Earlier this month,
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Speaker 3: in a speech on his economic legacy, Biden admitted he
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Speaker 3: was stupid for not putting his own name on the
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Speaker 3: pandemic relief checks his administration sent out in twenty twenty one. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that really was the problem. He just didn't sign the checks. Clearly,
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Speaker 3: Kamala would have won if Biden had just signed those checks.
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Speaker 3: That that was the pivotal issue.
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Speaker 2: Damn it.
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Speaker 3: I didn't see Joe Biden's name on those checks, So
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Speaker 3: forget it. But hey, Trump, by contrast, made a point
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Speaker 3: of signing his own relief checks in twenty twenty, and
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Speaker 3: Biden suggested that Trump got more credit for the economic
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Speaker 3: recovery because of it. Balderdash. Biden acknowledged that he had
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Speaker 3: quote screwed up. It is June twenty seventh debate against Trump.
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Speaker 3: You think as he struggled to put together sentences and
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Speaker 3: defend his policies as his rivals held forth with a
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Speaker 3: series of falsehoods. Evil liar who I hate named Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump that is not there, it's just implied, and called
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Speaker 3: him a criminal. He does not regret participating in the
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Speaker 3: debate justice performance that night. Now at this point, there's
21:49
Speaker 3: a breakout quote, and you know what the breakout quote is.
21:53
Speaker 3: It's Jake Sullivan saying the president is operating on a
21:56
Speaker 3: time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is
21:59
Speaker 3: measured in four years. So if you missed the central
22:02
Speaker 3: political spin from the White House, then well that's your problem.
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Speaker 3: Let's keep going. He is also amused on changes of
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Speaker 3: the media, arguing that he did not get enough credit
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Speaker 3: for his accomplishments, especially on the economy, but inciting examples
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Speaker 3: like Richard M. Nixon's nineteen sixty debate against John F. Kennedy,
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Speaker 3: Biden has suggested that like Nixon, he has struggled to
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Speaker 3: adjust to a new media landscape. We pick what news
22:26
Speaker 3: we want to hear. It's a totally different deal, Biden
22:28
Speaker 3: said in a podcast interview this month. We've got to
22:30
Speaker 3: figure out how we deal with this significant technological change.
22:34
Speaker 3: If Nixon was more accustomed to television, he wouldn't have
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Speaker 3: perspired so much, and he would be president when he
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Speaker 3: beat Kennedy. I know that sounds silly, but think of
22:41
Speaker 3: the changes taking place. Where do you go what is true?
22:44
Speaker 3: We have no evidence anymore. I'm not sure how that
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Speaker 3: gets resolved. The President and his aides have acknowledged that
22:49
Speaker 3: they struggled to communicate. See, that's the whole problem. The
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Speaker 3: record was phenomenal. They just failed to communicate it. Struggle
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Speaker 3: to communicate about the administration's efforts to lift the country
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Speaker 3: out of the pandemic. Frustrated that even as the United
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Speaker 3: States fared better than other countries, Americans did not feel
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Speaker 3: the impact psychologically. You idiots, you're doing great. Why are
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Speaker 3: you so dumb that you don't realize it? And now
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Speaker 3: here's all right?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 3: Remember so so far, there's two main themes that the
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Speaker 3: post is laid out. Number one, genius Biden is playing
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Speaker 3: for the history books for the decades rather than the
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Speaker 3: short term political cycles, so don't blame him for the
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Speaker 3: disasters of his policies. But Number two, that he wanted
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Speaker 3: to restore the norms of the presidency and the norms
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Speaker 3: of democracy. So this next paragraph is going to blow
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Speaker 3: your mind. In private, Biden has also said he should
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Speaker 3: have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as Attorney General. Well,
23:51
Speaker 3: no kidding. He was the most partisan and political attorney
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Speaker 3: general in history and a disgraced the Department of Justice.
23:56
Speaker 3: But no, no, no, no no, that's not Biden's complaint.
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Speaker 3: Biden quote complaining about the Justice Department's slowness under Garland
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Speaker 3: in prosecuting Trump and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden's son Hunter,
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Speaker 3: according to people familiar with his comments, So understand this
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Speaker 3: great titan restoring the norms of the White House. His
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Speaker 3: DOJ is the first Department of Justice to indict and
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Speaker 3: prosecute a former president and a leading candidate for president
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Speaker 3: who later got elected president in the history of our country.
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Speaker 3: It's never been done. Under Biden, they did it twice.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely weaponized the DOJ to go after his opponents
24:41
Speaker 3: over and over and over again. They weaponized the FBI.
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Speaker 3: And his complaint is, damn it, they didn't do enough.
24:47
Speaker 3: They should have been more vigorous, They should have indicted
24:49
Speaker 3: him more. They should have indicted him faster. We should
24:52
Speaker 3: have we should have attacked him from day one. I
24:55
Speaker 3: mean it is And by the way, everything I'm saying,
24:59
Speaker 3: there's not a word of that in this article that
25:02
Speaker 3: they don't acknowledge. No other DOJ has indicted a president.
25:06
Speaker 3: They just report like a blinking, doe eyed four year old. Well,
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Speaker 3: his complaint was Biden didn't move fast. On the other thing,
25:17
Speaker 3: he was too aggressive in prosecuting Biden's son. Now, mind you,
25:22
Speaker 3: the Biden DOJ went to a court and tried to
25:26
Speaker 3: enter a sweetheart deal that Biden got a slap on
25:29
Speaker 3: the wrist in no jail time, and it was so
25:31
Speaker 3: egregious that the judge threw it out only after public scrutiny,
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Speaker 3: including this podcast, which shined a great deal of light
25:38
Speaker 3: on it. But he still says that's too much to
25:41
Speaker 3: hold Hunter accountable. And by the way, the DOJ also
25:45
Speaker 3: bent over backwards to protect Joe Biden. It that paragraph
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Speaker 3: may be the most astonishing paragraph of this entire article.
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Speaker 1: You look at this article and I think there's three
25:59
Speaker 1: different points that I want to dive into with you. One,
26:04
Speaker 1: what was the real purpose of writing it? I'm still trying.
26:06
Speaker 1: I mean, I get the whole rewriting of history, but
26:08
Speaker 1: it's so extreme that I don't even think many on
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Speaker 1: the left could take this seriously.
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Speaker 2: Or am I wrong? So let's start with that.
26:17
Speaker 3: Well, I think they have the audacity to believe that
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Speaker 3: that that they can, that that that they are, that
26:24
Speaker 3: the newspaper, the Washington Post, is the first draft of history.
26:28
Speaker 3: And and as said that this is not journalism, that
26:32
Speaker 3: this is hagiography. The article continues, We've only done about
26:36
Speaker 3: the first third of it. I'm not going to continue
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Speaker 3: reading the rest of it. It goes on to say
26:40
Speaker 3: how Biden modeled himself after FDR and and and I
26:44
Speaker 3: am just going to skip skip to the end because
26:46
Speaker 3: the end is every bit as absurd as the earlier
26:48
Speaker 3: parts we read. So here's the end of the article.
26:52
Speaker 3: To show that he respects the peaceful transfer of power,
26:56
Speaker 3: Biden is welcoming Trump, who openly challenged that transition. Biden
27:02
Speaker 3: has repeatedly directed his aides to do all they can
27:05
Speaker 3: to help Trump assume the presidency after years of calling
27:09
Speaker 3: Trump unfit for high office. Now, mind you, every day
27:13
Speaker 3: in the White House, Biden is doing everything he can
27:16
Speaker 3: to frustrate Trump coming in, So what is he doing.
27:19
Speaker 3: Number One, he pardoned Hunter Biden, which we predicted on
27:22
Speaker 3: this podcast, because he does not want any accountability for
27:26
Speaker 3: the rampant lawlessness of his son and the corruption of
27:29
Speaker 3: selling access to himself, Joe Biden. Number two, he pardoned
27:35
Speaker 3: every single federal death row inmate except for the three
27:40
Speaker 3: most notorious. So of the forty, he parted thirty seven
27:43
Speaker 3: of them. Again, we predicted that it was absolutely brazen.
27:47
Speaker 3: Why because he knew Trump was going to actually carry
27:50
Speaker 3: out the law, and so he's trying to frustrate that.
27:52
Speaker 3: Number three, he's selling off the border wall for five
27:55
Speaker 3: dollars a parcel because he doesn't want Trump to build
27:58
Speaker 3: the wall. Number four, he's considering granting wholesale pardons. He
28:04
Speaker 3: is actively trying to do by the way. Number five
28:07
Speaker 3: Trump is that he wants federal workers to go back
28:09
Speaker 3: to work. So Biden is signing contracts collective bargaining contracts
28:15
Speaker 3: to make sure that federal workers can stay home because
28:18
Speaker 3: he wants to tie up the next administration on litigation.
28:21
Speaker 3: So but here, here's what the Post said. Biden has
28:25
Speaker 3: repeatedly directed his aides to do all they can to
28:29
Speaker 3: help Trump assume the presidency. Like what, utter and complete garbage.
28:33
Speaker 3: And let me say something, Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
28:37
Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos should be ashamed of this garbage. If Jeff
28:41
Speaker 3: Bezos cared at all about the integrity of the Washington Post,
28:47
Speaker 3: this guy, Tyler Patron, I have no idea who this
28:49
Speaker 3: numbskull is. He should be fired. He is not a
28:52
Speaker 3: journalist anyone who writes this garbage that contains no facts,
28:57
Speaker 3: It contains no no counterbalancing, countervailing side. It is simply
29:05
Speaker 3: if Madison Avenue were hired to come in and let's
29:09
Speaker 3: rewrite the Biden presidency to be exactly what we wanted it,
29:13
Speaker 3: they couldn't write it more ridiculous than this. And by
29:16
Speaker 3: the way, the editor who signed off on this should
29:19
Speaker 3: be fired as well. This is you want to know
29:22
Speaker 3: why nobody trusts the media, It's because they publish garbage
29:26
Speaker 3: like this without even a tiny nod to facts or
29:36
Speaker 3: the simple reality that we just saw a overwhelming election
29:42
Speaker 3: where Trump won the popular vote of the seven battleground states,
29:45
Speaker 3: who won all seven, Like someone at the Post should say, gosh,
29:50
Speaker 3: maybe these incredibly popular policies that were so good for America.
29:56
Speaker 3: Maybe people really didn't like it. Maybe waging a war
29:58
Speaker 3: on oil and gas and driving energy prices was a
30:01
Speaker 3: really bad idea and hurt a lot of Americans. Maybe
30:06
Speaker 3: undermining our allies. Maybe giving Vladimir Putin a gift of
30:10
Speaker 3: waiving sanctions on Nordstring two and causing the biggest war
30:13
Speaker 3: in Europe since World War Two. Maybe that wasn't a
30:15
Speaker 3: great idea. Maybe sending one hundred billion dollars to Iran,
30:19
Speaker 3: who sends it to Hamas and Hansbala, who uses it
30:21
Speaker 3: to fund a war on Israel, the worst war in
30:23
Speaker 3: the Middle East in fifty years. Maybe that wasn't a
30:25
Speaker 3: good idea. Maybe turning a blind eye and refusing to
30:28
Speaker 3: prosecute anti Semitic terrorists all as their protesters terrorists is
30:33
Speaker 3: too strong. But antisemitic protesters who threatened violence, Maybe that
30:37
Speaker 3: is a profoundly bad idea. Maybe watching the integrity half
30:42
Speaker 3: of America believes the FBI and the Department of Justice
30:46
Speaker 3: are completely unprincipled, because well, they've been completely unprincipled. None
30:52
Speaker 3: of that that there isn't even the tiniest acknowledgment of facts.
30:58
Speaker 3: This is the Washington Posts behaving in a way that
31:02
Speaker 3: I think everyone connected with this article ought to be thoroughly,
31:06
Speaker 3: thoroughly embarrassed when your principal points are we're aiming for
31:12
Speaker 3: fifty years, not four, So as bad as our policies
31:15
Speaker 3: are in fifty years, will claim they were great. And
31:20
Speaker 3: Merrick Garland's problem was he wasn't political enough and he
31:23
Speaker 3: should have indicted Trump even more, and he should have
31:26
Speaker 3: covered up Biden's wrongdoings even more, and you don't acknowledge
31:32
Speaker 3: any like this is a load of crap that ain't journalism.
31:38
Speaker 1: Final question on this, because there's two articles now in
31:42
Speaker 1: about what an eight day span. One of them was
31:47
Speaker 1: an article that was written a couple days ago encouraging
31:49
Speaker 1: Congress to stop Donald Trump and we mentioned on the
31:52
Speaker 1: show from becoming president, and then now you have this one.
31:59
Speaker 1: Is there a chance that the media has just gotten
32:03
Speaker 1: so radical and is so far gone now that they're
32:06
Speaker 1: actually just going to lose their influence over the American
32:09
Speaker 1: people because this is no longer even looking like journalism,
32:14
Speaker 1: and this is just two examples of just how insanely
32:17
Speaker 1: biased they are. Is that the blessing in disguise here?
32:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's no doubt that the reputation of
32:24
Speaker 3: journalism has gone down incredibly. You know, you see these
32:28
Speaker 3: these corporate journalists screaming about you know, the American people
32:33
Speaker 3: are not journalists now the fact Twitter or x has
32:36
Speaker 3: completely transformed it where when they lie, the facts come
32:39
Speaker 3: out immediately, and and and it drives these these liars crazy. Look,
32:45
Speaker 3: we've talked before about how Trump broke the media. This
32:49
Speaker 3: is this is an incredible example. And and by the way,
32:52
Speaker 3: look today in most corporate media outlets, there's gonna be
32:58
Speaker 3: some hagiography of Jimmy Carr. You know what, I'm okay
33:02
Speaker 3: with that he lived till one hundred. It's the time
33:04
Speaker 3: of his pathing. I think you can be respectful to
33:08
Speaker 3: people when they pass Now, mind you, the media never
33:10
Speaker 3: is to Republicans, but set that aside. It's one thing
33:16
Speaker 3: to do it when someone passes away. It's another thing
33:21
Speaker 3: to do it when you're just ignoring reality that the
33:27
Speaker 3: American people rejected the obvious and incredible failures of the
33:32
Speaker 3: Biden policies. And it's not even that they don't include it.
33:36
Speaker 3: Much of what they say in the article is exactly
33:40
Speaker 3: the opposite of reality. So when you hold Joe Biden
33:43
Speaker 3: up as a paragon of returning to norms. Look look
33:48
Speaker 3: on our open borders. No president in the history of
33:52
Speaker 3: this nation, none has had a lawless policy of simply
33:58
Speaker 3: defying federal immigration law and releasing the people. They apprehend
34:03
Speaker 3: that was a massive issue in this election. They don't
34:06
Speaker 3: acknowledge it at all. Instead, they say he's a champion
34:09
Speaker 3: for democracy. This is at the same time they're arguing
34:12
Speaker 3: to hell with democracy, block Trump from becoming president. They
34:16
Speaker 3: went to court repeatedly, they tried to throw them in jail.
34:20
Speaker 3: They know, we saw multiple Democrat officials across the country
34:24
Speaker 3: try to throw Trump off the ballot. Thankfully, the Supreme
34:27
Speaker 3: Court unanimously reverse that because you know, nothing says defending
34:31
Speaker 3: democracy like trying to stop damn pesky voters voting for
34:35
Speaker 3: your opponents.
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