1 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,160 We're back with another edition of The Federalist or a radio hour. I'm Emily 2 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:23,960 Kashinski, culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email 3 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,039 the show at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on ex at 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,000 fdr LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and to 5 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:34,960 the premium version of the Federalist dot com as well. I'm joined today by 6 00:00:35,079 --> 00:00:39,600 Christopher Bedford. He's a contributor with us at The Federalist, and he's wearing 7 00:00:40,119 --> 00:00:43,399 one half of a tracksuit because it's March, and that means he's ready for 8 00:00:43,399 --> 00:00:47,560 Saint Patrick's Day. Even though it's not even the same week as Saint Patrick's 9 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,159 Day, Chris is celebrating. I've been I've actually been working on my Saint 10 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,200 Patrick's Say mix for some time now because it's not surprise because I get to 11 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,799 Saint Patrick says this year. Sarah's being pretty generous about it. I get 12 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,159 a Saturday throw a party, yeah, and then Sunday where we don't throw 13 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:08,040 a party. I take Christopher to the eight am Mass and then the nine 14 00:01:08,079 --> 00:01:12,879 am pub and he's with he gets to come with me and Gray and whoever 15 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,000 else comes until Sarah picks him up in time for lunch. We should specify 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,599 that Christopher is your little guy and not your three years old. Well, 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,560 what's funny is it's it sounded almost like you were referring to yourself and you 18 00:01:23,599 --> 00:01:30,840 had some sort of personality disorder. Multiple personality Christopher, Yes, so to 19 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:36,959 be very clear, you were talking about someone else. Now it is state 20 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,760 at the Union Day here in Washington, d C. Meaning streets are closed 21 00:01:40,799 --> 00:01:46,040 and it is maddening. You can probably tell I just had this experience driving 22 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,439 around Capitol Hill, Chris. I'm glad. I'm glad you got caught in 23 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,719 traffick. Yeah, well that's a Chris was alerting some friends of ours that 24 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:56,959 traffic was really bad, and you found the last week. I was like, 25 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,519 I was sitting for an hour in traffic in DC and you were like, 26 00:01:59,599 --> 00:02:01,719 fact check false. I just drove right through. But I think it 27 00:02:01,799 --> 00:02:06,640 was you described the location of the traffic incorrectly, So I think it was 28 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,919 your fault. That aside. Stay of the Union Day here in Washington, 29 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:15,439 d C. It's lovely. It's like sixty five degrees and Joe Biden is 30 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,800 prepared to address the nation tonight. Chris, and what we've heard so far, 31 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,280 what are they going to give him? This is actually a very interesting 32 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:30,280 question, I think because it's obviously something I think that's obviously something a lot 33 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,759 of presidents throughout history. It's like, it's not tell us to point out 34 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:40,280 how many pills and other uppers and downers and this and that. American presidents 35 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,560 have been on and they have their own personal doctor takes care of them like 36 00:02:44,599 --> 00:02:49,800 a rock star. Yeah. But whatever that doctors giving him lasts about half 37 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:53,759 the length yes, bad cocaine. I think half the length of time it's 38 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,639 supposed to last. You see it, like he comes out and it's like 39 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,199 ba ba ba by like some in a college bar, coming out of the 40 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:04,479 bathroom and being like and then it starts to the kind of slow down and 41 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,199 just slumping us to go back for some mark, like starts a puzzle and 42 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,840 then just trails off. Yeah, it's it's really wild. It's not working. 43 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:15,759 I mean, based on how long it lasted for his I need to 44 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:22,240 come out and address the fact that the special prosecutor, a special investigator, 45 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,120 found that I was too senile to stand trial. He came out to the 46 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,759 press conference. It was one of the most important ones he's ever done. 47 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,680 And it lasted less time than it takes for the average US president to enter 48 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,800 and get to the podium in the State of the Union. Because it's not 49 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,439 Remember, it's not just he walks out like he normally does. He does 50 00:03:40,479 --> 00:03:46,960 this like you know, shuffle over the stage and just reads off of something 51 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:55,280 for an hour. It's like fifteen minutes of greeting senators and congressmen and shaking 52 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:00,800 hands and recognizing people, yeah, and talking to living people, not people 53 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,840 who are dead. And then you get down there and then they have to 54 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:10,680 wait till the applause stops, and Democrats are talking about how Republicans are probably 55 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,520 going to try and trip them up because they wanted to go out, they 56 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,560 wanted to go off script because he can't, and they want to show the 57 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,720 American people that he can't. And I actually, I think that would be 58 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:27,199 pretty funny. So I have right in front of me the Axios pre well, 59 00:04:27,319 --> 00:04:29,959 let's just say the Axios State of the Union teas, which is clearly 60 00:04:29,959 --> 00:04:32,800 informed by conversations with the White House. And this is what typically the White 61 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,800 House brings reporters in before a State of the Union. Usually that's another preday 62 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:42,720 though right either way. So President Biden will use Tonight's Say of the Union 63 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,279 Addressed to admit that prices are still too high in some areas, but argue 64 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,040 things were worse under former President Trump. That's according to the White House Chief 65 00:04:50,079 --> 00:04:55,480 of Staff in an interview with Axios, and Axos continues, this is like 66 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,680 pepsi arguing against coke, Like you're not. You shouldn't have to spend so 67 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:01,560 much of your State of the Union in your final year before the election talking 68 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,959 about the other guy, Biden and what could well be the most important speech 69 00:05:04,959 --> 00:05:10,399 of his presidency. The article continues, aims to project fighting optimism to an 70 00:05:10,439 --> 00:05:14,519 audience with plenty of doubts about the nation's vigor and of that of the eighty 71 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,360 one year old presidents. Biden needs a cure for what some advisors call quote 72 00:05:19,439 --> 00:05:25,839 trump amnesia, the notion that the chaos and unpopularity of Trump's presidency has receded 73 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:30,040 from some voters memories nearly four years on, well completely has I mean, 74 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,839 did you see the SNL Shang Gis skit with the Trump sneakers? Yes, 75 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:41,800 now that's just one of like a thousand and one examples of the social stigma 76 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,680 they try to stigmatize going outside, not wearing a mask, not using their 77 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,160 proper pronouns, liking Donald Trump to such a level. And I think it's 78 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,600 the fevers really started to break where a lot of people are saying, well, 79 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,199 I mean, I think it's okay to be open. You have celebrities 80 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,000 and comedians coming out and saying this guy. You got rappers talking about it. 81 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,120 I mean, the stigma that they've tried to attach, like you are 82 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:08,360 a bad person if you like Donald Trump, it just doesn't it doesn't fit. 83 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:14,040 The whole narrative's falling apart. And just to try and be like Donald 84 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:16,360 Trump is evil. I mean you think I've asked some of my friends this, 85 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,160 Some of my friends who don't work in politics as went to high school 86 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:24,199 with, So do you guys remember why Trump was so bad in the first 87 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,079 place? And they're like, ah, it's hot on the border, none 88 00:06:28,079 --> 00:06:31,920 of it works, it's it's it's it was meaningless. Stories there were constantly 89 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:38,439 ginned up. It's funny. Uh Ben had an interesting point in his column 90 00:06:38,439 --> 00:06:42,240 this morning about how the Democrats were talking about how bad needs to create some 91 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,800 breathing space. Ben dominant, Yeah, yeah, and he's like a man 92 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,120 of Trumpet says Trump. People have said that there would have been a whole 93 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:53,720 segment in them Miss NBC about how Hitler needed Liebenstrom because it and you're trying 94 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,360 to think back of the scandals of the Trump administration. They were that stupid 95 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,319 over and over again, and no one remembers oh leyden Thrown. That's what 96 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:08,040 you were trying to say, Yeah, Laban's realm. I'm sorry, I'm 97 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:17,600 talking to Wisconsinate. I was trying to translate from Chris so wow, I 98 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:24,240 got dark. Uh you're talking about living living space, yes, yes, 99 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,839 living room so yes. I thought that point from Ben was very interesting. 100 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,639 And Eddie Scary, who was actually sitting right next to us and was on 101 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,560 this podcast, is very weak. My colleague Overrette, the Federalist, he 102 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:42,120 said, he sent a really interesting and I just think actually very dark. 103 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:46,120 I'm trying to pull it up right now, a very dark. Yeah. 104 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,800 This was also in the Axios point, so the American Dream. Biden addition, 105 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:54,879 he tweets quote just a little bit of leftover money. And this is 106 00:07:54,920 --> 00:08:00,240 also in the Axios piece because right after the quote unquote breathing room point, 107 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,160 they specify as this is a quote from Jeff Science, the White House Chief 108 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,279 of staff, quote just a little bit of leftover money at the end of 109 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:11,120 the month. That's what their quote unquote breathing room. Not Laban's realm, 110 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:18,279 but breathing room is defined as and Chris that actually struck me as almost European 111 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:22,079 right, that if you're redefining the American dream not to be sort of the 112 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,759 sky is the limit upward mobility, but quote just a little left over at 113 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,879 the end of the month. What for Netflix. I mean it's a bleak 114 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:37,360 I mean that seems to me to be a very bleak concession and the whole 115 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,480 But it's not just Biden. I mean that seems to be a very bleak 116 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:43,600 concession from the left, that this is something that they forwardly told a news 117 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,840 organization that is a very bleak vision for the American dream, and that was 118 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:56,759 in the context of talking about optimism and vigor. Yeah it's it's Jimmy Carter 119 00:08:56,879 --> 00:09:00,360 esque. Yes, yeah, it's it's not a good moment and the whole 120 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:03,679 thing. Reading through it, reading through their talking points this morning, and 121 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,720 reading through some of the columns about it, I was destruct with how this 122 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:15,360 White House is once again about messaging. That's all they can think in terms 123 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,600 of is messaging with the TikTokers they bring in, the influencers, the pronouns, 124 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:26,559 the virtue signaling, the signs, the rainbow lights. Everything that they're 125 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,399 doing is just about how do we message this better? And they can't come 126 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,360 to grips with the reality that their policies are awful. You can't message a 127 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:37,200 border that's been taken over. You can't message your way to the fact that 128 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:43,919 anyone entering DC recognizes that the local homeless shelter has been turned into a refugee 129 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:48,360 camp. You can't message your way out of the fact that people can't find 130 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:52,759 work. That Yeah, sure there are a lot of jobs that there, 131 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,120 jobs that are being taken up largely by immigrants. But if you're a white 132 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,000 guy in your fifties or sixties and you got laid off the last two years, 133 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,320 your chances of being hired in the last two two or three years are 134 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,759 extremely low. So, well, this is I was actually just going to 135 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:13,120 mention. This is the Bernie Sanders quote to Jeff Sener the Washington Post about 136 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:16,159 Biden in the State of the Union. Bernie Sanders says the bubble is extraordinary. 137 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,360 Democrats seem to think, many of them that only if we can explain 138 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,919 all that we have accomplished the Lord. Yes, it sounds just like you. 139 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,120 It's exactly right, But that ignores the pain the ordinary people are now 140 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:35,639 experiencing. And this is your point that this Biden administration and the broader Democratic 141 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:41,080 Party and actually the sort of Beltways inability to understand why Americans feel badly about 142 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,559 the economy. Paul Krugman writing, this is all just vibes. This is 143 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,320 not, you know, real sacky. On MSNBC immigration, Yeah, talking 144 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,519 like I love in Virginia, a lot of people care about immigration. Oh 145 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,360 it was bad, Yeah, that was really really bad. Stephen Miller came 146 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:01,600 out with some points first, like a quarter of Virginia residents at this point 147 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,360 are foreign are the children and six I think one of six are foreign born 148 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:09,879 in like a quarter are the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, and twever 149 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,440 on northern Virginia. It's it's a it's a massively changing state. And for 150 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,279 her to I don't know where part of Virginia she must live in, maybe 151 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,279 or May which is extremely insulated. You're go into my neighborhood it's like a 152 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,240 time machine back to nineteen ninety five. People are nice, they fly the 153 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,279 America. The only only place to fly is like the not the American flag 154 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:33,919 is the town hall, which right now actually has a WHW. Well, 155 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,559 last month they flew the black Power flag. It was not a single American 156 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,240 flag at the Alexandria town Hall. It was like twenty Black Power flags. 157 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:46,360 Well, so actually, also Stephen Miller was talking about this, like in 158 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:52,879 the context of how MS thirteen has a very big presence in northern Virginia. 159 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:56,279 Just in the last couple of weeks there was a murder child. There's a 160 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,840 murder of a child by someone who who is not here legally. To your 161 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:09,559 point, Chris, the resettlement of migrants has absolutely affected northern Virginia because people 162 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,159 were busted into Washington, d c. And then are being moved into these 163 00:12:13,159 --> 00:12:18,279 different spaces. There are legitimate problems, they're not These are not problems of 164 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:24,840 xenophobia. There are legitimate economic problems. There are legitimate problems in the schools. 165 00:12:24,399 --> 00:12:28,240 These things are very real for people. And if you're repeatedly telling them 166 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:35,960 that a either they aren't seeing what they're seeing with their eyes or they what 167 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:41,639 they're feeling based on what they're seeing is racism. You're not gonna have a 168 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:46,799 lot of success convincing them everything is fine. Yeah, it's not about messaging, 169 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,639 they think, just like Bernie, Just like Bernie Senders said, it's 170 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,240 about a lot more just messaging is about the actual pain and people are feeling. 171 00:12:56,519 --> 00:13:01,080 So I don't think. I don't think. I think he's gonna being 172 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,639 the messages what ahead of us today. I don't see him. It's past 173 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:09,399 his bedtime. It's not like they can just I bet they would love to 174 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,639 tell people, hey, no applause this time. Well just let them get 175 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:16,799 through it. But you saw that Mike Johnson said that to Republicans, right, 176 00:13:18,759 --> 00:13:20,120 Mike Johnson is, so this is from the Hill. I pulled this, 177 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,000 call me out. I've messed something. I brought my computer today so 178 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,799 it makes it easier for me to just flip through the different stories I wanted 179 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,840 to talk about. Speaker Mike Johnson is urging GOP lawmakers to maintain decorum when 180 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:35,240 President Biden delivers the State of the Union address Thursday night. After Republicans had 181 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:39,639 a number of outbursts during last year's speech. Johnson made the request during a 182 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,720 closed door GOP conference meeting Wednesday morning. Three Republican lawmakers who attended the gathering 183 00:13:45,039 --> 00:13:48,600 told The Hill quote, decorum is the order of the day, Johnson told 184 00:13:48,639 --> 00:13:52,039 members. According to one lawmakers, one lawmaker he said, we should carry 185 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,559 ourselves with good decorum. Another member said, what do you think about that, 186 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:58,559 Chris nuts? Really? I think nuts to that? Really? 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Everything was moving in the right 219 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:47,840 direction. Crime was down, gentrification projects, we're moving forward. There are 220 00:16:47,879 --> 00:16:49,679 some areas of the city that were seriously neglected, but they've been they were 221 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,840 working on it. Everything was moving in the right direction. And everything is 222 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,759 completely backslided to the point right now where we've got a higher crime rate than 223 00:16:56,799 --> 00:17:03,559 Baltimore, which is insane. I am shocks to hear. It was still 224 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:07,680 incredibly high real estate values, unlike Baltimore. We could buy a mansion for 225 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,240 less money than it takes to furnish it. Well. I was just talking 226 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:11,839 to someone about that yesterday. In fact, there's some beautiful homes in Baltimore. 227 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,839 The problem is here in Baltimore. But now we're in DC and the 228 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,759 recall Charles Allen efforts brought out a lot of Republicans, a lot of Democrats, 229 00:17:21,279 --> 00:17:22,559 a lot of folks who are working from all sides of the aisle on 230 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:29,000 this thing. In the vitriol from local activists on Twitter, the local hill 231 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:36,400 Is Home account posting people's home addresses who had these signs out front, and 232 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,920 it's kind of shocking because I was out there. I don't know what for 233 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,839 some reason, I was traveling for work, so I was on Twitter, 234 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,119 which is like a dark place to be in life, yes, and were 235 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,200 responding to some of these people who were saying, what's wrong with DC, 236 00:17:49,279 --> 00:17:55,039 and well, my family got run out, there's a kid was shot on 237 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,799 my block. There was thirty shots fired over the weekend. Last weekend, 238 00:17:57,799 --> 00:18:02,759 there were thirty shots f all like within the two block radius on Independence Avenue 239 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,400 in Washington, DC, the nation's capital, a walk from the Capitol, 240 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,920 and they're all just saying that, they're basically saying that I'm an awful person 241 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,480 for noticing this, and how dare I like the American left here in d 242 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:22,839 C is viciously, viciously defending rot and decay, yes, and murder and 243 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,799 anti social activity, like defending it, like jealously defending the way if somebody 244 00:18:27,839 --> 00:18:33,640 they were acting like if someone had insulted my wife on Twitter completely unjustly, 245 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:41,759 was how they were defending crime and decay an urban blight, and uh man, 246 00:18:41,799 --> 00:18:44,880 I'm just sick of all this talk like, oh, we just need 247 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,839 to bring America together. No, screw them, like, screw them all. 248 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,720 This actually reminds me a lot of the controversy that swirled around Tucker last 249 00:18:52,759 --> 00:18:57,079 week, when well, in the last couple of weeks, Tucker created controversy. 250 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,119 It sounds a news cursed on Twitter today, I saw that it was 251 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,920 yesterday, Actually was yesterday. I saw it this morn, So yeah, 252 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:10,680 I was kind of surprised by that. Actually, but Eddie WOWI ed our 253 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,279 colleague Eddy just had some sort of video playing. I don't know what it 254 00:19:12,319 --> 00:19:18,079 was, but I assumed that it was Tucker probably anyway. But so the 255 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:23,960 controversy swirling around Tucker where what he was saying in the Moscow subway station was 256 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:30,319 this is a country that doesn't have the resources of our own. And by 257 00:19:30,319 --> 00:19:32,759 the way, he agreed with Lex Friedman that he probably could have said it 258 00:19:32,799 --> 00:19:36,359 better, and I agree with that very strongly. I think the messaging could 259 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,440 have been different, it could have been better. But he was saying, 260 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,000 this is a country that doesn't have the resources our own, and they have 261 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:45,559 beautiful, clean subway stations, like we can do both. And he repeatedly 262 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:49,000 said to Lex Freedman, like I know that because I've seen it. I 263 00:19:49,079 --> 00:19:53,359 lived in the country when we did have both. But somewhere along the way 264 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,160 we decided we didn't want both. That it was the cost of freedom, 265 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:03,119 the literal price of freedom, as John's Stewart said, to have urine soaked 266 00:20:03,279 --> 00:20:10,960 public transportation cities that are dirty and disgusting. That's the little price of freedom. 267 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,720 And it's a decision we made. Yeah, it's conscious. It's a 268 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:19,240 caustious decision. Our city is not going through the Great Depression, it's comitting 269 00:20:19,279 --> 00:20:26,160 suicide. These are active policies that were put forward by people like Charles Allen 270 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,680 to destroy the city, and they're viciously defending it. And it's not spreading 271 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,720 equity, it's spreading harm. Well, no, it is. It is 272 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,160 spreading equity right like it's it's spreading. What it's trying to do is bring 273 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:42,160 everybody except the very, very very tippy top into It reminds me of this 274 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,359 is a tangent. It reminds me of what they did to us in high 275 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:51,319 school when they changed the grading system some progressive teachers at my public school district 276 00:20:51,519 --> 00:21:00,000 in suburban kind of suburban Milwaukee, I don't even know. But in Waukeshall, 277 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:02,839 Wisconsin, we'll just leave it at that, Waukesha, the County of 278 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,279 Waukesha. It took a long time to get to. I'm still not even 279 00:21:04,279 --> 00:21:14,079 there really, Waukershaw County, they tried a new grading system that basically moved 280 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:19,880 everybody into the middle. So it was a way to avoid strategymation. Yes, 281 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,240 it was a way to avoid stratification, so you were failing less and 282 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:29,640 rewarding less, and the grading was basically just concentrating everyone in the middle. 283 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:33,640 And it really sucked. Nobody liked it, nobody was happy with it. 284 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,640 I know that that's happened in different places around the country too. Listeners probably 285 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:41,240 have had experiences with that, But it's sort of the same philosophy of what's 286 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,599 happening economically, it's like we will protect although with one caveat, which is 287 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,039 that they're going to protect the very, very wealthy, and that's how you 288 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,799 end up with oligarchy. And DC's kind of got that. DC's got a 289 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:56,799 lot more tension than most American cities do, a lot of racial tension in 290 00:21:56,839 --> 00:22:00,279 this city in the first place, because there is basically permanent black underclass in 291 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:07,880 DC with a completely transient white population that is come from the ivy leagues and 292 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,519 from this and that who move here and you know, by their NAT's cap 293 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,519 and get a million dollar house in the Hill, and like, there's just 294 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,720 not a lot of mixing. It's not like a Nashville or some other cities 295 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:22,960 where people all grow up together. People are from the city. Well, 296 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,680 one thing, back to the point about decorum. You say, we live 297 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:33,160 in a post decorum country, and I think that's very interesting. Here's Tim 298 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,599 Burchett talking to the Hill. He said about heckling Biden. Will they do 299 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,359 it? Somebody asked me that earlier, and I said, does the Baptist 300 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,000 Church get a bus? Of course they will, because he's going to say 301 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,480 some very offensive things. He's gonna attack us. I think we just need 302 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,359 to try to be a little classy consider where we're at. Let the other 303 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,440 side do that. You know, they did it to Trump and nobody said 304 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,920 boo. But when we do it, we're going to get made an example 305 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:59,079 of it. Really interesting there where he says, of course they will quote 306 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:03,279 because he's gonna say some very offensive things. Yeah, right, right, 307 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:10,039 And I guess Chris, you've been covering Zis yes, right, will remember 308 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:15,839 the speech in Philadelphia? Yeah, I do. I mean basically opening that 309 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:21,079 ultra maga umbrella and putting all of the deplorables under it. I mean saying 310 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:26,359 that people's people deserve to be surveilled people, I mean Catholic churches on his 311 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:33,000 watch, and the FBI even like that, aside the demonization of fellow Americans 312 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:37,079 side, just when you have the reality of a completely it seems like it 313 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,079 even seems strange to be going through these motions and asking about the decorum, 314 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,400 but like going through the motion of the State of the Union treating it like 315 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,000 a totally normal quote unquote reset in an election year, it's just bizarre. 316 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:52,359 I mean, we've had so many what millions of people just walk into the 317 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,640 country who will be here in all like worldhood and meanwhile they're purp walking a 318 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,279 blazer reporter in an orange schumpsuit. Definitely, we have people who will be 319 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:06,079 here indefinitely, living in the shadows, in debt to cartels. It's a 320 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,359 nightmare. And this is to the tune of millions of people on his watch. 321 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:11,839 We have a hot war in the Middle East, we have a hot 322 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,839 war in Ukraine. It's not about to get better, by the way in 323 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:18,920 the Middle East, and it's not about to get better in Ukraine. It 324 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,400 just and I know we've had obviously very difficult moments in State of the Union 325 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:29,599 addresses before, but Chris, I mean, there's something unprecedented. I think 326 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:37,359 about living in a country where this is a president who believes that young children 327 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:42,519 should be able to pursue changes to their biological sex, who has allowed millions 328 00:24:42,519 --> 00:24:47,200 of people to walk in with very little criticism from the media until right now. 329 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,440 And that will be an issue in the United States in terms of security. 330 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,119 I mean, you saw the sixty minutes footage of Chinese nationals literally flooding 331 00:24:53,119 --> 00:25:00,799 through the wall in certain sections, like going through what of the wall, 332 00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:07,039 the barbed wire coming. I mean, it's just it feels strange. Yeah, 333 00:25:07,559 --> 00:25:11,039 you're gonna watch. I'm gonna watch. You have to watch. Yeah, 334 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,920 yeah, Sarah wants to do a dry night tonight. That's gonna be 335 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:18,319 tough. Oh yeah, during the scene. Did you watch Super Tuesday? 336 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,000 I did. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch a second of it, 337 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,599 not one really second. I mean the coverage. Well, you saw 338 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,160 Rachel Matdow, so you did watch that. I saw that on the internet 339 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,519 the next morning, Jensaki and Rachel Mattow and Joy and Reid laughing. Because 340 00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:38,240 Virginia shares a border with West Virginia. That's why people are concerned about immigration. 341 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:45,480 Those toothless West Virginians. They are just affecting Virginians to be xenophobic. 342 00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:51,160 I did watch The Bachelor. Oh yeah, Maria, that was a surprise. 343 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,359 Well, don't spoil it for people who didn't watch The bachel on Monday. 344 00:25:53,599 --> 00:25:59,400 Don't do that. Four days later, I listen. I don't watch 345 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,039 The Bachelor. I watched like one season, like ten years ago, because 346 00:26:02,039 --> 00:26:04,359 my roommates at the time wanted me to watch it. But I'm pretty sure 347 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,519 a lot of people DVR it or watch it on streamers like on the weekends. 348 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,680 Big mistake, big misske. He can't be doing that. The podcast, 349 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,160 the Twitter spoils it. The podcast, the Twitter, So we should 350 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:23,400 address Do you know who's giving the Republican response? Some woman? Yeah? 351 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:27,960 Do you know who it is? Now? It's Katie Britt. Chris's face 352 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,200 right now is totally blank. Longtime staffer to, longtime staffer to Richard Shelby 353 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:40,640 of Alabama. Oh yeah, the future of the Republican Party is Richard Shelby 354 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,599 staffers. Is she in Congress from one? Wait, I'm actually surprised that 355 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,839 you don't have a strong opinion on Katie Britt. Nope. So she's first 356 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,960 term Republican center from Alabama. She was Richard Richard Shelby's chief of staff for 357 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,920 a very long time. Shelby was a longtime Democrat turned Republican as the South 358 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:03,079 started to sort of shift, and was basically one of the most centrist, 359 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,359 one of the most moderate Republicans that you could imagine, and by the Senate 360 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:15,200 standards. So that's really saying something and has been really remade. Obviously, 361 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,279 she's running, and she was running in Alabama, and you know that's a 362 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:23,839 state right now that's very different from when Richard Shelby initially ran so and ran 363 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,440 over the course of his career. So a maga firebrand, I mean, 364 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:33,240 I think was the way that she was branded by her campaign. She's very 365 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,920 smart by her campaign by the Republican Party. So it's no surprise at all 366 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,720 that they chose her to deliver the response. They really want her to look 367 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:47,359 like the face of the Republican Party her husband played for. I'm going to 368 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,839 get this wrong or Alabama listeners are going to kill me. It was either 369 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:55,599 Forbama or Auburn. I forget which one. Alabama listeners are going to go 370 00:27:55,759 --> 00:28:02,720 nuts. But anyway, all this is to say Katie Britt is I don't 371 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,319 want to cast dis versions here because I also don't think we've seen quite enough 372 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,960 of her as a senator. Oh that is this of her? You have 373 00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:15,559 seen none? I'm just wondering, team coach. Yeah, yeah, how 374 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:22,319 substantive? Same? How how substantive? Uh? The policy part of the 375 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:29,079 Katie Britt is meaning on conservative sort of priorities as opposed to the sort of 376 00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:33,400 old school Chamber of Commerce priorities that I think Richard Shelby like very much represented. 377 00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:37,240 She's she's young, she's very pretty, so I get why Republicans are 378 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:44,759 going with her. She's she's articulate. She sounds great when she talks. 379 00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:47,920 I sound like Joe Biden talking about Barack Obama. What did he say? 380 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:55,079 Was articulate? Oh? Was so bad? So bad? Harry Reid had 381 00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:59,319 some great quotes to like, he's clean, He's clean. Yeah he did. 382 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,119 I forgot that in peace. So anyway, that's the Republican response to 383 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,680 the say the Union or watching the Tucker response. The Tucker reponse is live. 384 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,759 Yes, we watched it. It was a weird clip they posted. 385 00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:12,160 But he's gonna be live, And you know, I'm actually really excited about 386 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:19,000 that because I'm glad that Tucker took the time he needed to not have to 387 00:29:19,079 --> 00:29:25,200 answer to his Fox overlords and just fill every single show with like forty five 388 00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:33,319 second interviews with different personalities. But it's much better now to actually see him 389 00:29:33,359 --> 00:29:37,279 re engaging in some of the news of the day. And he just opened 390 00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:41,400 a beer. That's what everyone heard. Okay, it's a soda water. 391 00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:42,720 He wants everyone to know it's not a beer, it's a soda water. 392 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,480 Although it's pretty, he's a light. It's a bad life. I'd like 393 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,640 to see him re engaging. I mean Republicans have kind of Republican politicians have 394 00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:55,319 completely lost what they're supposed to think. Without Tucker, they're yelling at them. 395 00:29:55,599 --> 00:30:00,519 Yea, yeah, that's good. I mean, don't believe the bs. 396 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:04,480 The Watchdout on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps 397 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:08,079 unpack the connection between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. 398 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,319 What's next for the Biden propaganda machine. Biden nomics one over like a lead 399 00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:17,119 balloon. Ahead of Biden's State of the Union address, he plans to address 400 00:30:17,359 --> 00:30:22,279 shrink flation while blaming grocery store chains for gouging its customers. Whether it's happening 401 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:25,279 in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 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I will say saying the Republican Party is the party of hard working 410 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,400 parents and families, same as opposed to the evil already of college educated white 411 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,000 women trying to destroy the West. I think that's actually saying parents and families. 412 00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:07,440 I think actually is good messaging. Yeah, I agree, And I 413 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:12,119 understand where Mike Johnson is coming from on the question of decorum, because this 414 00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:15,079 is I don't know if I brought this up on the show when you were 415 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,160 here or not, but Sam Goodldeg is a lobbyist and did a really interesting 416 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:30,839 actually report showing that the lowest income districts have people associated with the populist caucuses, 417 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:36,000 whether it's Justice Democrats or the Freedom Caucus. The highest income caucuses, 418 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:37,880 you know, the districts are on average or higher income, are like the 419 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,160 moderate no labels caucuses, the you know, let's all work this out type 420 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,960 of caucuses. But all that is to say, you know, typically you 421 00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:51,480 see Freedom Caucus or on the left like Justice Stems or even but that's not 422 00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:55,880 even true, because Nancy Pelosi herself what tore up the freaking speech, did 423 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:00,680 her little sarcastic clap and was applauded all over the media for and was treated 424 00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:04,599 not like she had been breaching to corum. And that's where you get Freedom 425 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,640 Caucus members hooping and hollering, or ex Freedom Caucus members or adjacent an annoying 426 00:32:09,759 --> 00:32:13,920 soccer mom screaming at the ref. Yeah, and so it's like they're channeling 427 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:17,200 something that's really real. I don't disagree with that. I also think Tim 428 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:22,680 Burchett is right that the rules are different for Republicans, and uh, you 429 00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:25,480 know, if if in an election year you want to look like you're better 430 00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:29,400 than Democrats, maybe there's something to that. I don't know. I don't 431 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:30,720 have a hard position in the argument, because on the one hand, I 432 00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:35,440 think the House of Representatives should be representative, and I think if you represent 433 00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:43,119 a district that you know is being flooded to the point of daily danger on 434 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,759 the border in Texas, maybe you do want to hoop and holler. I 435 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:49,759 mean, I want to see some hoop and holler. I can tell you 436 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,000 do You're in You're halfway in a track. I want to see senators fighting 437 00:32:53,079 --> 00:32:55,480 on the floor of the US Senate with knes. I want to, you 438 00:32:55,559 --> 00:33:00,200 know, make America great. Do you want that as old men just weigh 439 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,559 on on each other with the canes? Yeah, that happened on the floora 440 00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:05,640 Senate. No, I know, but you want us to go back to 441 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,720 the cane whaling, just beating on each other like it like every every once, 442 00:33:09,839 --> 00:33:14,839 every once in a while, like a South Korean Senate brawl will just 443 00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:19,079 erupted and go viral, just like eighty guys just wailing on each other when 444 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,440 men were men. No good stuff, Well, actually there is. I've 445 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:29,440 been watching Canadian Parliament clips because my YouTube algorithm has been delivering them to me, 446 00:33:29,599 --> 00:33:35,880 which sounds like three minutes of hell. But actually my algorithms are so 447 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,480 screwed up to because I watched to completion this video of these very fat women 448 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,359 touring Disney World and giving advice like this came up in my algarithm like a 449 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:52,359 month ago. Parks. Yeah, talking about how which restaurants have have chairs 450 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,839 that don't have arms, like and I afford it. It's like twenty people. 451 00:33:54,839 --> 00:33:59,839 It's like the funniest thing I've ever seen, and now it is Instagram 452 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:04,720 thinks that I'm just like really interested in fat content, like just and also 453 00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:07,079 it's like it's like very fat people dancing. And also the worst thing is 454 00:34:07,159 --> 00:34:09,960 Instagram thinks sound like a Disney adult. Yes, I get a lot of 455 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,639 Disney content. Now I'm like no, no, no, no no, 456 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:15,480 I just thought that was funny. This is one hundred percent your fault because 457 00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:20,480 I was scrolling Instagram like three days ago and plus sized parks came up and 458 00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:22,920 I immediately sent it to people, being like, this is one of the 459 00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:24,840 saddest things I have ever seen. And the one game the whole waye there, 460 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,400 Sarah's like you're an awful person. The one thing that actually I was 461 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:32,199 like, they're they're looking for restaurants that have chairs without arms, Like that 462 00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:37,119 really struck me, Like this is not this is not worth but this is 463 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:42,639 not worth having to think down to the restaurants with chairs, like, don't 464 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:49,239 normalize this, because that is making people's lives miserable, just blasting around Disney 465 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:54,719 World, Like there's so many obvious reasons that you know being sick is bad, 466 00:34:55,320 --> 00:35:00,880 but even the less obvious ones like which chairs you consider this is this 467 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:04,639 is not worth normalizing. I don't know, I got like it's just like 468 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,920 really out of fashion right now. But I just kind of have this attitude 469 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:13,760 that like, extremely fat people are funny. But that's not new. Yeah, 470 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,800 that's as old as it gets. That's supposed to do anymore, not 471 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,519 supposed to like you're not supposed to get a tuba and like follow the fact 472 00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:23,599 and the grocery around them boom boom. Because it's stigma and stigma it needs 473 00:35:23,639 --> 00:35:29,760 to be combatd at every turn. Unless it's stigmatizing perfectly normal Christian beliefs, 474 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,719 then stigma is exactly the culture of shame. It's just for different things we 475 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:37,239 do. We do have a culture of shame. All right, Christopher Bedford, 476 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:42,360 you deserve shame and a beer. I want to grab one of those 477 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,039 beers that I got. Okay, you're very polarizing with the listenership. You 478 00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:50,400 know that, right, you know that. No. I assume that there's 479 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,199 people who love me and people who fear how much they love me. They 480 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:58,840 is two camps. You're one or the other. All right, Christopher Bedford, 481 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,800 thank you so much for stopping by today's edition of Federal Austradio Hour. 482 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,719 Thanks for having me. You are so welcomed. I already checked out. 483 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,840 Sorry, okay, we'll be back soon with more. Until then, be 484 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,039 lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray.