1 00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:20,760 We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jasinski, 2 00:00:20,839 --> 00:00:23,480 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show 3 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,079 at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on Twitter at fdr LST. 4 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,320 Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts into the premium version of 5 00:00:31,359 --> 00:00:35,799 our website as well. I'm joined today once again by Christopher Bedford, executive 6 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,920 editor over at the Common Sense Society. Chris, Welcome back. Do you 7 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,159 ever wake up in the morning and just say it's Bedford Day. It's like, 8 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,880 look, I could jump up with a song in your heart. This 9 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,600 is the background information is that we do typically record on Thursdays, so it 10 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:53,159 is really Bedford Day on Federalist Radio Hour. Sometimes the podcast doesn't air that 11 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,240 Thursday because of the schedule. There are lots of dates that we have to 12 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,159 work around, but Thursday really is Bedford Day. It's exciting, it's a 13 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,200 routine. It's been auteen for a couple of years now. Even though you 14 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,480 don't even work here anymore, we still let you in. It's not constructs 15 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:10,680 hold us back. He just makes himself at home in the office still with 16 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:12,920 there's a we have sort of a madman esque like, I know I need 17 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,480 a drink. Yeah. He One time I walked in it was like eleven 18 00:01:15,519 --> 00:01:19,159 thirty in the morning. He just had a glass of rum. Nothing makes 19 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:23,239 it into it just rum. I mean no, I mean I've already accomplished 20 00:01:23,239 --> 00:01:25,959 a lot by the time I see you here. I've dropped Chris Frawford school 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,319 or camp. I've today, I've gone to Jiffy Loup to fix a jeep, 22 00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:33,079 made it to confession, haven't I had a cup of coffee. I'm 23 00:01:33,239 --> 00:01:40,400 I'm ready for a whiskey. You've read. I'm just gonna actually keep talking. 24 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,480 Well, you pour yourself a whiskey and we'll air all of this. 25 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:51,760 Not a big poor Chris. No, it's a morning. A man has 26 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,159 to draw a line somewhere. I'm one of those people is very prone to 27 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,400 suggestion, Like I can see someone let light a cigarette in a movie. 28 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,760 I'm a cigarette smoke. I just want a cigarette. If someone there has 29 00:02:01,799 --> 00:02:06,239 one, I'm probably gonna grab on ours. Like someone has a drink like 30 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,800 that does look good. I'm I'm the people that the government text us from, 31 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,000 like you're not allowed to advertise us anymore. On Hollywood movies or the 32 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:16,319 Coaches. You just watch boogie nights and get all kinds of weird ideas in 33 00:02:16,319 --> 00:02:20,599 your head. Yeah, I want to do that. That does look good. 34 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,840 Yeah, well, we're not going to talk about actually, we are 35 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:30,080 going to talk about cocaine, aren't we again? Yeah, no, we're 36 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:30,960 not gonna talk We're not doing that. We did, we did enough of 37 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:37,199 that and then you went on a bender and you just we can't talk about 38 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:39,039 cocaine ever. Again, no one's allowed to do cocaine anymore, and nobody's 39 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,159 allowed to say cocaine because as soon as they say cocaine, chrisus like, 40 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,319 oh, the beast is held by frail and fragile bars. But the good 41 00:02:47,319 --> 00:02:51,599 news is that it's it's morning. So you're you're sort of limited by that 42 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,479 important boundary. You've had to do your own life. But Chris, you 43 00:02:53,560 --> 00:03:00,280 have an article out in the Telegraph with the headline Biden's foulmouth outbursts can't change 44 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,280 reality. He's lost it. It was fun to get my first British headline. 45 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:07,599 They have that special style of writing. Yeah. So there's an article 46 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,879 on actually us that came out that was I think it was a bunch of 47 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:15,280 seriously, perfectly well coordinated from inside the White House leaks called Old Yeller, 48 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:19,319 and it was about Joe Biden's awful temper, which is not a secret in 49 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,400 washing in DC. It's been known for decades. He's got an awful temper. 50 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,199 If you're a justice on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, you know 51 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:30,280 that he's got a pretty vicious streak to him. If you're his granddaughter, 52 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,919 you know he's got a pretty vicious streak his seventh granddaughter, who he refuses 53 00:03:34,919 --> 00:03:37,919 to acknowledge just by pushing himself as a family man all the time and has 54 00:03:37,919 --> 00:03:39,680 his age to say that if you've been on the other side of him from 55 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:45,520 political political negotiations, or if you've been back in the day in line waiting 56 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,039 to go to your cell out when he would shove past you and say something 57 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,280 rude, you get out. No. It happened to my friend Daniel Turner, 58 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:53,840 who's been on this podcast many times, got pushed aside. He's got 59 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,520 I'm a senator and the consummate gentleman, by the way, the most polite 60 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,520 man you'll ever meet, yes, but also a New Yorker from Queens So 61 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:03,120 I push too far well, absolutely lose it. You also even know this 62 00:04:03,159 --> 00:04:08,439 if you're an Irishman at that Yeah, true, well Turners an Irishman, 63 00:04:08,479 --> 00:04:11,680 but he's also Italian, half Italian half Iris self loathing. Now, yeah 64 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,599 he's got he's got our looks and they're cooking the But you also know that 65 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:17,360 if you're Hunter Biden and one of the one of the WhatsApp messages that was 66 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,959 leaked to think to Naomi Biden, where he was saying, I just you 67 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,600 know, granted he was in the throes of things, it's like, I 68 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:26,439 just hope that you don't have to make money for this whole family. You're 69 00:04:26,519 --> 00:04:29,879 lucky debt Pops is not going to take half of your salary away from you. 70 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,600 I hope that never happens to you. Thanks. So Joe Biden the 71 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,759 only person, the only people this is a surprise to that Joe Biden is 72 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,160 a vicious son of a gun, would be the American people, because he 73 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,399 sold himself completely and totally as a grandfatherly consoler in chief. Right, It's 74 00:04:43,439 --> 00:04:47,839 like your average just guy hugs you, who takes some of the awful tragedies 75 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,800 he's experienced, losses he's experienced in his life, and allows him to empathize 76 00:04:51,879 --> 00:04:55,920 at a very high level with these folks and just be that the hugger, 77 00:04:56,079 --> 00:04:59,759 be someone who's there for you and make you feel good. That's kind of 78 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:04,240 a they've sold, but now they're trying to bring it back, like no, 79 00:05:04,399 --> 00:05:10,040 this guy's with it now that NPR and a headline earlier the Spring is 80 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,680 saying a quote significant majority of the American people think that Joe Bridon's brain function 81 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:18,360 is a serious cause of concern for him to be president. They want to 82 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:25,120 say, not only is he high functioning, clearly not true, but he's 83 00:05:25,399 --> 00:05:28,639 so high function he's angry. I mean these quotes about how he's, how 84 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,560 he's how he's got a temper if you read the the article, or like 85 00:05:31,879 --> 00:05:34,920 the problem is he knows more than the briefers. Yes, he likes to 86 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:40,279 play a game called stump the dummy or stump the dump up something. Stump 87 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,240 the chump was one of them. Whi's like, he goes in there and 88 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:46,040 he's going to interrogate you deeply. It's like the way they talk about it 89 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:49,399 is the way people talked about briefing. My grandfather talked about briefing Robert McNamara, 90 00:05:49,519 --> 00:05:54,639 where like you could go through one hundred and ninety two slides and he'd 91 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:57,120 be like, wait a second, that one doesn't seem to work with slide 92 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,680 three, right, And like this is a guy who had just a brilliant 93 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,600 mind and was in his youth. That ain't Joe Biden. The idea that 94 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:08,439 he's like the whole idea is that he loses his temper. But actually it's 95 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:11,439 a sign that he respects you in this op ed or in this article that 96 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:15,079 was leaked, and that it's really just because he's burdened by his genius. 97 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,439 He knows so much more than his staff, who, by the way, 98 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:21,959 literally tell him when to talk and when not to talk. Yeah, where 99 00:06:23,319 --> 00:06:26,639 to stand when not to stand. How they have to move the bags around 100 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:29,279 on the stage it's bad to make sure it doesn't fall down and get a 101 00:06:29,319 --> 00:06:31,879 face bruce, which happened. Yeah, we we have a leadership that's so 102 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,199 old, like so old it is face bruise old, which is a very 103 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:41,399 ancient style. I don't even mind old leadership so long as like, for 104 00:06:41,439 --> 00:06:45,319 instance, do I think you know is an ideal that we have so many 105 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:48,879 leaders who are in advanced age and seem to be clear older than the oldest 106 00:06:48,879 --> 00:06:54,480 member of the oldest the oldest premieer of the Soviet Union. That's an interesting 107 00:06:54,519 --> 00:07:00,240 statistic. But I will say there's something about the wisdom gleaned from so many 108 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,920 years spent in public service that you know, you go into the Senate and 109 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,680 there are people who've worked there for a really long time who have these like 110 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:13,279 this vast institutional knowledges, and it's incredible. But that's obviously not what's happened 111 00:07:13,279 --> 00:07:15,680 with if people who are clinging to power because power. Joe Biden is the 112 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:21,519 best example of this. Is their tether to money is like they have camped 113 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:28,920 out in the swamp and are fastly clinging to that power because it's all they 114 00:07:28,959 --> 00:07:33,240 have. And that is I think incredibly pathetic and means that they're doing it 115 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,920 with no sense of virtue, like it is long past their due date right 116 00:07:36,959 --> 00:07:42,920 like they do not they do they lack the faculties to continue serving. That 117 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 is abundantly clear. When it comes to Joe Biden, his family knows it. 118 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,160 They still encourage allowed him to run. Dan Feinstein is an example of 119 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,480 that obviously as well. I would say, even you know, you can 120 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:56,560 maybe make that argument about Nancy Pelosi and then you have Done Trump and Bernie 121 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,680 senators coming out and no, according to like playbook and you know, girl 122 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:05,920 girl Boss coverage of DC, Nancy Pelosi is just the queen. But to 123 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:11,160 compare her tenure under Barack Obama to her ten year under Joe Biden and Donald 124 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,959 Trump is it's just just doesn't work well. And so this is like again 125 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,839 not comparable, barely comparable her level her ability to succeed earlier in her career, 126 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:20,360 and that's just natural. Yeah, you have. But then you have 127 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:26,600 Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, who again are older and obviously very different political 128 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:31,879 backgrounds, but they're clearly competent, like you can see it in public. 129 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,919 They do still have the faculties to govern like they can still they have the 130 00:08:35,639 --> 00:08:39,120 the physical and mental capacity to do the work that they need to do. 131 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:41,360 It affects us all differently, it does, and it's just a stark, 132 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,039 stark contrast too. Like you you know who's got it, you know who 133 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,440 doesn't, and it's just abundantly clear that Joe Biden is not in that situation. 134 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,559 I want to ask you about this theory, which is based on this 135 00:08:52,639 --> 00:08:58,840 Axios story that you wrote about in your piece. I imagine what happened. 136 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,799 Aton has this story, gets a bunch of aids on background, goes to 137 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,559 the White House with it, and the White House is like, this is 138 00:09:07,639 --> 00:09:09,559 actually what's happening. It's a sign of respect. We're going to send some 139 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,480 people who will tell you on background that when this happened to them, it 140 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,039 made them feel like they this was their moment that they were really part of 141 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,399 the White House staff. It's a rite of passage, etcetera, etcetera. 142 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,559 Just it's his way of showing respect. And this story turned out that way 143 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:31,600 because access was bullied by the White House into adding and massaging this story by 144 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:35,159 adding that framing. That's possible, but there's really no there's no real complaints 145 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,360 about Joe Biden anywhere in it. There's some people say that they get worried 146 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,679 about going into that meeting, but it's if that is the case, then 147 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,639 it's really expert press handling. But I honestly think that, well, no, 148 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,240 it's not. It's not expert press handling. It's them being pathetic. 149 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:58,320 It's it's actually as being very willing to massage a story, or being very 150 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,000 willing to get by the White House. The White House may not have even 151 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,679 hand to bully them. They may have just been able to say, well, 152 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,279 okay, we're canceling this interview, or that we're trying to show how 153 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,720 intense the president is. How do you think they intentionally planted a story about 154 00:10:11,799 --> 00:10:16,480 Biden being quote old yeller. I don't think they shows a headline about the 155 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,039 dog that got put down at the end. Pretty awkward, right. I 156 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:22,080 didn't write that, and I didn't write that in the article because I don't 157 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,519 want to know how a call from Secret Service. But it's like I know 158 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,559 the end of that movie. The British tabloid headline would have just been like 159 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:33,320 put them down, exclamation boy and exclamation point. When I was studying in 160 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:39,000 London and internet readers, digests and everything, they had this show out because 161 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:41,000 everyone in everyone in London hated Joke W. Bush with a passion, like 162 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:46,000 a really unseemly passion for the Dixie Chicks had their moment if you heard, 163 00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:50,240 if they heard your accent in a bar, somebody like guaranteed would get in 164 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:54,559 your face right about like what a global warming? And Iraq? The thing 165 00:10:54,639 --> 00:10:58,679 is the English, you know, is that buy and large. There's two 166 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:05,320 types of Englishmen emaciated, skinny ones and globular fat ones. So like an 167 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,080 American boy who's gone at the gym and played a sport can throw them over 168 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,039 a table. Like there's some big Englishman out there, but not a ton 169 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,759 rugby. You say, yeah, yeah, exactly. It wasn't difficult to 170 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:20,360 get out of those situations, but they were really demented about it. And 171 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 there was all these advertisements in the subway that had an obvious look alike. 172 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,960 It was for a series in England. It was called like Killing the President, 173 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,720 and it was like a dramatization. It was obvious George w. Bush 174 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:35,840 getting shot and black and white on all these ads. And I was so 175 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:41,399 picked at that, so annoyed sitting there as an American, like it made 176 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:45,320 me more more pro Bush to be there, which I'm not. You started 177 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:52,519 dressing like George Washington style hat, my style of dress and my ugly mug 178 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,759 made it so that I could walk into any pub with all my American friends 179 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,320 and the bounce would nod to me and say hey, and they just stopped 180 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,960 my friends. Okay, here's the rule for Americans. And when I spoke, 181 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,519 people are shocked because no one thought I was American, which is not 182 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:11,120 a compliment if you're seeing like elbow patches. Yeah, like I wore like 183 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:16,399 fred Shermans and stuff like cap that like weird, pinkish like balding thing. 184 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,720 That's basically the entire Ireland, England and Scotland is US. I was shocked 185 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,039 when I went to say, it's like Euros of Wisconsin in South Dakota and 186 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,399 stuff that, like everyone all the men are over six feet, the women 187 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,759 are five to eleven. Everyone can go out in the sun, a lot 188 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:33,159 of blonde people. I'm like, what are this strange muscular people, And 189 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:39,080 it turns out it's just where the Germans went. Massachusetts is like not even 190 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,679 white people, it's like pinkish people. And the sas level the Sandavian is 191 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:46,879 the Germans. Yeah, they're not even eating corn syrup. They're eating actual 192 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:52,080 corn. You don't put that stuff in a syrup. I'm like, gosh, 193 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:56,840 how could you so actually, no, they're definitely eating corns. Well, 194 00:12:56,919 --> 00:12:58,399 you get down in Nebraska. It was noticeable. We get down from 195 00:12:58,399 --> 00:13:03,519 South Dakota down in Nebraska. South Dakota like women who could be models in 196 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:07,639 New York just selling socials of coronic gas. Stations in the Brandon Omaha, 197 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:15,759 I would say conservatively forty percent of the people I saw were limping. It 198 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:18,480 was the health disparity was wild, but also so was the accessor It was 199 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,039 in Cris incredible. Well, yeah, that's the It is truly the double 200 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,279 edged sword. On that note, that's why I'm always healthy, no poison 201 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,399 in my body. I was going to say, just just tobacco, whiskey, 202 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:39,480 and meat. You don't even vape. I'm not a vepist. The 203 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,840 Washedout on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps unpack the 204 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,759 connection between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. Is Biden's 205 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:52,639 economic plan. Truly, working wages are going backwards as new regulations are costing 206 00:13:52,759 --> 00:13:56,080 ten thousand dollars per American. 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I still 211 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:16,840 don't think that's I would be really surprised at the White House planet the story. 212 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,519 My impression of it is that it's gossip that was sort of it was 213 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,080 becoming impossible for somebody like Alex Thompson not to report the story out, like 214 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:26,519 so many people were telling these anecdotes, and then when you go to the 215 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:30,519 White House for comment, the White House was like, well, we've seen 216 00:14:30,559 --> 00:14:33,720 it on the campaign shown. Why didn't they report in the earlier when he 217 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:37,600 got in that steelworker's face for asking him about the Second Amendment, right and 218 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:39,360 whatever he asked him. I'm sure he was like, you're gonna take our 219 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,519 guns away, but he said it such a measure tone it wasn't even picked 220 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:46,159 up on the audio. Yeah, and Joe Biden told him he was full 221 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,639 of expletive. And then when his aid said okay, it's enough, he 222 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:50,480 put his hand in her face, right in her face, and said hush, 223 00:14:50,559 --> 00:14:54,519 yeah, hush, And I sorted the ranted him like we saw that. 224 00:14:54,639 --> 00:14:58,200 We saw him caught on a hot mic calling Peter Doocy one of the 225 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,919 only people which possibly challenges him a dumb son of actually son of a gun. 226 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,960 We've seen over and over in his main streak, So for like I 227 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:09,639 don't know. In twenty twenty three, for actually, like we can no 228 00:15:09,679 --> 00:15:15,159 longer ignore this story. Joe Biden's a jerk. Yeah, Mike, no 229 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,000 way, I just I woke It's like I woke up and started to write 230 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,039 that story on it. Now. I guess maybe it's possible, but it 231 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:24,679 where's the breaking news? Everyone seen? How's it? Well? So in 232 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,200 this this is the This story was published Monday, which is the day after 233 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,320 I think Marine Dad's columns or Sunday columns, the day after her column about 234 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:39,159 Joe Biden ignoring cruelly ignoring her. His seventh grandchild from London Roberts and Navy 235 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,320 Joan Roberts is the name of the baby. I think it is almost four 236 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,840 years old. An hour is four years old now that Hunter Biden had with 237 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:48,799 London Roberts, a stripper, and has has fought tooth and nail not to 238 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,600 allow that child to use the last name Biden. I don't know how you 239 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:54,720 win that. It must be part of a settlement, because I could. 240 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:58,720 I think it could change my name to Hunter Biden tomorrow at a court. 241 00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:02,840 Yeah, he didn't own that name. I think he's the father, so 242 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:07,399 he probably has some say and not you can change people's names. Well, 243 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,519 so his argument is people find this out in divorce court often it's like you 244 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,080 actually don't own your name. The argument is that Hunter Biden's argument as the 245 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,840 father of the baby, and they've been fighting over child support as well, 246 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:22,279 but as the father of the baby, Hunter Biden says that name will just 247 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:27,159 cause the baby pain. And you know they're dueling. There is a question 248 00:16:27,159 --> 00:16:33,759 of the motivation of the mom. Maybe the name is part of an attention 249 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,600 or as part of the child's support bids thing, whatever it is. I 250 00:16:37,639 --> 00:16:41,679 don't know. It's discussing that this baby's life has been litigated literally in the 251 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:48,720 court since she was born because the father will not come to terms with his 252 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:53,759 responsibilities as a father, and neither will his family and particularly his own father. 253 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,399 It's all just pathetic and sad. But Alex Thompson's story coming out the 254 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,279 day after Marine down story there, I am actually curious because Biden's entire pitch 255 00:17:03,359 --> 00:17:07,119 the American public is, as you write, grandfatherly right. He says, 256 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,240 this is he was going to restore normalcy, sability, decency. If anybody 257 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:15,119 is rude to anyone in my White House, that person will be fired that 258 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,799 day. He made the promise. There you go. I was out on 259 00:17:17,799 --> 00:17:22,079 the base stage in the mc donald Trump and he said, anyone who raises 260 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,279 their voice or a big little someone will be fired that day. We're not 261 00:17:25,559 --> 00:17:30,440 right. So if you run in the kindergarten, they're going to get on 262 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,960 yellow light and then they're gonna get on the a red light and I'm going 263 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,039 to move their safety pin from one to the other. Well, but this 264 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:38,799 is a good I'm glad you can still at least yellow people in one workplace 265 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:45,000 in America. That is so true. That is so true. Biden is 266 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:52,119 restoring hostility to the workplace where it belongs. Style places with low air conditioning 267 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:57,519 in dress coach and without the no feminine rules of engagement. And you should 268 00:17:57,519 --> 00:18:00,880 be a smoke inside. That would double the productivity of newsrooms. Yes, 269 00:18:02,079 --> 00:18:06,640 no women, No, I'm not gonna we can be secretaries. But the 270 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,240 thing is man. That is not a men's job. So there was this 271 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,440 bishop, I think he was in South Dakota who didn't want to actually get 272 00:18:12,519 --> 00:18:18,319 rid of the a dispensation had been given by the Vatican to allow for female 273 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,839 ultraservers, which he wasn't too into he wanted. He wasn't gonna say no 274 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,680 women because he thought that would alienate the parents. So what he said was 275 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:32,279 no makeup. Everyone must wear these same shoes, which are like plain black 276 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:34,160 shoes, and everyone must like this is the way the people. It's two 277 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:38,920 acceptable modes. One from any one for women to wear your hair to get 278 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:44,200 the buzzy. Don't say like I'm in the workplace the air conditioning to start 279 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,400 smoking inside it is it's freezing in here, but it's nasty outside. Of 280 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,839 course, igut, I guess it's accepted about the ultraservers I agree with that. 281 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:56,119 So this is actually, though, the one of the big I think 282 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:02,759 implications of the story as you write about, is Joe Biden's main pitch to 283 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:07,000 the American public about normal cy, civility, and decency increasingly going to be 284 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:11,039 undercut by the reality of Biden's presidency, no matter how hard the media tries 285 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:12,480 to keep it under wraps. And this is where I want to turn to 286 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:18,519 Christopher Ray. That may seem like an Olympic level gymnastics move to transition from 287 00:19:18,559 --> 00:19:22,599 one to the other, but I actually really think Joe Biden's pitch as it's 288 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,480 not just about him being grandfather, That's part of it. It's also about 289 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:30,119 normalcy, right, Like, there was something about the calm grandfather entering the 290 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:34,759 Oval office after the erratic reality television show host that he wanted to impress on 291 00:19:34,799 --> 00:19:38,599 the public. This was going to feel like the America they knew before Donald 292 00:19:38,599 --> 00:19:44,720 Trump. And so if you thought Donald Trump sullied the White House that we 293 00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:48,200 had to be talking about Stormy Daniels every day, and uh, if I 294 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:55,839 thought that was too much, here we have this normal, kind, decent 295 00:19:55,960 --> 00:20:00,480 grandfather and at the same time, you know, you now have these Marine 296 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:03,599 Dowdy of Alex Thompson's story. And on the political level, so that's the 297 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,640 personal level. On the political level, we have nothing close to normalcy. 298 00:20:07,759 --> 00:20:11,839 And it is certainly not Donald Trump's fault. It is plainly at this point, 299 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,920 fairly even Joe Biden's fault, Joe Biden, the dj and the FBI's 300 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,079 fault. That you have Christopher Ray in front of Congress yesterday, and it 301 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:22,119 is a disaster. It is a disaster for the administration. I mean, 302 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,400 I think Joe Biden might have restored some sense of normalcy had we lived in 303 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:33,000 a pre progressive state and something before Woodrow Wilson. Essentially where a president as 304 00:20:33,319 --> 00:20:37,160 demeanor like Calvin Coolis can really kind of define the actions of their administration. 305 00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:44,720 But we don't have that. We've got we have a war state administration bureaucracy 306 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:48,559 that is a war footing bureaucracy that is actively under Since Donald Trump, they 307 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:52,720 got their courage to really be very open and the agendas that they push and 308 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:57,200 absolutely wild things and push boundaries everywhere. And Joe Biden has won his White 309 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,759 House as zero interest in controlling it because they like it. Yeah, And 310 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:06,440 I don't think even if Joe Biden did have an interesting constraining I don't see 311 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,680 him having the capacity to actually do so. A much more vibrant and younger 312 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:12,519 Joe Biden would not have the capacity I think to do so at least would 313 00:21:12,519 --> 00:21:18,920 be very pushed very hard. So. But whether or not the American voters 314 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:26,680 care or reject that, it still is thanks a lot suburban Republican women a 315 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:33,039 lot about feels the vibes of these different guys, and Joe Biden still has 316 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:37,119 still has probably significantly better vibes than Donald Trump does to a more sensitive soul. 317 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:42,400 Although the senility I think has has gotten to a point where it was 318 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,519 bad in twenty twenty, but it's much much worse now. Not gonna even 319 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:48,640 to hide him as much on the campaign trail as I previously. But if 320 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,759 it's just scripted events, I mean, then there's a certain sector of society 321 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:59,359 that's just kind of close off entirely to that. I was having dinner unfortunately, 322 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,960 probably my life, and I was some old family friends a few weeks 323 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,200 ago, and I was actually complimenting Biden on something talking to someone else, 324 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,160 and I said, well, you know, he was just too senile to 325 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,240 get this warning. So we actually pushed it through, talking about the withdrawal 326 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:15,960 from Afghanistan, that where the generals had lied to Obama, they'd lied to 327 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:21,839 Trump and again and Joe Biden's ignored them. And our host flipped, absolutely 328 00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:25,640 flipped. One's a doctor, retired doctor, one's a nurse, saying you're 329 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,039 not a doctor, how dare you? Joe Biden is perfect. You will 330 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:33,440 not be insulted in this home. It got really ugly, but it was 331 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:40,799 a glimpse into a set of people who just really hate Trump so much. 332 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,960 Well, the view, I mean, did you see the view actually defending 333 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:51,000 vigorously defending Joe and Hunter Biden's treatment of Navy the seventh grandchild. It was 334 00:22:51,279 --> 00:22:55,039 exactly to your point, that's awful. It was utterly brain dead. They 335 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:57,559 were blaming conservatives for making an issue of it. Marine down is obviously not 336 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:03,640 a conservative like known conservative marine doubt, but that was their line, Like 337 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,039 it was, their brains could not compute, and it was just reflexive. 338 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:14,079 You know, they made COVID partisans, they made masks partisans. Seems partisans. 339 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,480 So the doctor taps on your knee and you reflexively kick out. For 340 00:23:17,519 --> 00:23:19,799 so many people, that's what it is. You criticize Joe Biden when he's 341 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:23,559 in this binary Trump versus Biden, you're immediately just going to kick out and 342 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:29,279 say Rebublican's bad, when in fact we're talking about a man who who claims 343 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:30,599 to be so decent and claims to be I mean, he talks all the 344 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:34,920 time about how he loves being a grandfather, ignoring a child that is his 345 00:23:36,319 --> 00:23:38,559 own flesh and blood, his son's flesh. Another reality, aside from the 346 00:23:38,599 --> 00:23:44,559 fact that most American families, almost all American families have seen close hand the 347 00:23:44,559 --> 00:23:47,119 effects of age on loved ones and how it changes people, which is why 348 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,319 we all recognize it. And Joe Biden, a lot of American families know 349 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,680 the reality of children born out of marriage or unexpected children. It's this is 350 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,920 it's the sad reality of our modern society that that's it's become more and more 351 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:06,799 and more common and parents. It does strike a chord with people who reject 352 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:12,119 the idea of rejection as opposed to I can't believe you did that. What 353 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,480 were you thinking? Where's the baby? I can't wait to cuddle it. 354 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:18,400 Think it's like the reaction, maybe a more sane reaction so people can feel 355 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:23,240 it, but we're just so tribal at this point. I don't I don't 356 00:24:23,279 --> 00:24:26,160 really know if people are going to vote on it. This was an interesting 357 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:32,039 So I was watching Molly on Special Report last night, so Wednesday after Ray 358 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,519 testified, and they went to one Williams First and Special Report and asked about 359 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:41,480 race testimony, and one Williams trotted out a line of defense about Christopher Ray 360 00:24:41,559 --> 00:24:47,720 being a member of the Federalist Society and being how could you possibly it is? 361 00:24:47,759 --> 00:24:53,799 It's sort of laughable to imagine Christopher Ray as this arch anti Republican villain 362 00:24:55,039 --> 00:24:57,960 who is sitting atop his purchase, this kind of guy and and pulling the 363 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:00,880 strings. What do you mean by it's kind of true? I don't think 364 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,880 he is an arch villa, and I think Republicans are kind of going up 365 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,759 to the wrong people or it's the DOJ this play, and it's just Christopher 366 00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:10,319 Ray is probably a company man in a stude who's not prepared to fight back 367 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,400 against the fully politicized FBI. But that makes him he's not an arch He's 368 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,680 not pulling strings. I don't think I think he's I think he's a company 369 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:22,039 man. I think he's a people pleaser. I don't think he's like raided 370 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:27,119 the pro life doctor. Yeah. I don't think there's any answers behind that. 371 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:32,119 And we saw that when he kind of pushed back on Adam Shift to 372 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,720 be like he's like, you know, there was domestic parism before January six, 373 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,359 And when he pushed back on another Democratic congresswoman, she said, actually, 374 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,480 the attacks on abortion centers haven't been happening. We've been seeing attacks on 375 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:47,720 pro life center now. I love Ship Roy's line of questioning on this when 376 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,480 Ray said when he was hacking, He's like, how about this obvious abuse 377 00:25:52,519 --> 00:25:55,759 of power. What about this obvious anti Christian targeting by the FBI, what 378 00:25:55,839 --> 00:25:57,319 about this crack down? What about dropping this case? He's like, I'm 379 00:25:57,319 --> 00:26:00,319 not going to question the judgment of my allegians, and ship Roy goes, 380 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:04,319 that's your job, hired. What are you talking about? Like, your 381 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,200 job is to oversee and question the judgments of the people who work for you. 382 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,880 I think that Christopher Ray is very much just a company man who's gonna 383 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,640 he was he was, he was cut out of the loop on the anti 384 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,319 Catholic stuff out of the Richmond office, and he cracks down and of course, 385 00:26:21,559 --> 00:26:26,000 you know disciplinary measures, you're never actually going to see those. I 386 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:30,680 don't think he's remotely capable of writing the ship of the FBI and rooting out 387 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,880 the partisanship in it and getting it back to where it should be. But 388 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,079 I don't think that's He's not a comy. He's not those guys who let 389 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:42,359 it down that path. He's not an America Garland of the DOJ. He's 390 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:49,240 just kind of a stooge. That's very much the person that should be the 391 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:56,000 target of conservative approbrium, though because increasingly the idea of being a company man 392 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:02,240 at the FBI means rubber stamping instigations, and that is in some ways, 393 00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:07,920 it's like, it's interesting because to the point that one Williams was making about 394 00:27:08,039 --> 00:27:11,680 Christopher Ray, it's it's laughable to think of him as the sort of anti 395 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:17,519 conservative arch villain. And Molly had a great response to that, by the 396 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:18,640 way, But what did she saying, because I'm sure she thinks that might 397 00:27:18,759 --> 00:27:21,960 just gave you like a really cucky answer. I don't know, I don't 398 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,799 know. I mean she she laid out the case, you know that the 399 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,119 sort of thirty thousand foot big picture case of what Christopher Ray has overseen, 400 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,039 since it's what he's overseen a is awful. Yeah, I just don't know 401 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,759 if he's I don't think he's ordering it, and I don't think he's controlling 402 00:27:36,759 --> 00:27:38,559 it. And I think he's just trying to So I think that's what's interesting, 403 00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:44,519 right, I think that's what's interesting because actually it is true that a 404 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:48,519 lot of the leadership like call me or whatever at the FBI probably did vote 405 00:27:48,519 --> 00:27:52,079 for like both bushes, um, you know, right, like they really 406 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:56,319 probably are like generally supportive. Ine, Yeah, did you read his book? 407 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,200 Did you? Okay, you didn't read the whole thing. Oh, 408 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,400 then I would be like, Chris is insane. There was just at the 409 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,240 beach. There's this one part where he's writing about his first day at the 410 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,720 FBI and his predecessor had this rule, like only white shirts. That was 411 00:28:11,759 --> 00:28:15,200 his rules. We're gonna be very traditional. And he's like, on my 412 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,680 first day at the FBI, I wore a blue shirt. No one said 413 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:23,400 anything, but they noticed. It's like you fruitcake, you absolute fruitcake. 414 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,599 Be careful, your head's gonna hit the ceiling fan if you floating higher. 415 00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:33,319 Unreal And that's like the I think this the ridiculous way he's he's a whack 416 00:28:33,319 --> 00:28:36,680 out. I don't think you'd ever see chrispher Ray talking like that. Well, 417 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,920 Christopher Ray has overseen the collision between big tech and the FBI, which 418 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,839 has been pretty pretty immense. And yeah, but this is I actually think 419 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:52,240 that's a really interesting point because there is this class of elite leaders in Washington, 420 00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:56,440 DC. Some of them are lobbyists, some of them work for you 421 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,160 know, the FBI, the DJ just like the pull political class is probably 422 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,599 the best way to put it. And a lot of them probably are like 423 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:08,799 registered Republicans or they'll they'll vote for you know, Evan McMullin if they're forced 424 00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:15,240 to, or they vote that maybe they know, voted for Mitt Romney. 425 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,640 Those kinds of people, Um, they voted for Obama and oh wait and 426 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,119 then they got upset about the economy and they pulled the trigger for Mitt Romney 427 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,319 in twenty twelve. There are a lot of those kinds of people who are 428 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,039 now making decisions that feel totally normal to them, like, of course we 429 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,599 should work with of course, of course Facebook and Twitter should be meeting every 430 00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:37,039 single week with the FBI. Actually, what we saw after the Missouri v. 431 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,680 Biden ruling on CNN and MSNBC, one of the one of the people 432 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,759 I think this was on MSNBC that was saying, this is not really you 433 00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:48,119 know, if this censorship stops or this collusion stops, that's not really a 434 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,799 world we want to live in. That is a totally normal, seemingly nonpartisan 435 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:59,359 or even like transpartisan viewpoint among the political class, among the whether you are 436 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:06,400 like saying, sort of deranged anti Trump weirdo, or you are just the 437 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:10,519 yes man, like a Christopher Ray, that seems obvious to you at this 438 00:30:10,599 --> 00:30:14,319 point, and so even I think that's what's so dangerous about this time in 439 00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:18,839 history at the FBI is like, these people have immense power and they are 440 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,559 convinced that the other side, you know that it's Republicans. It's the shift 441 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:29,039 of the Overton window is so massive, saying Republicans and Democrats versus the unwashed 442 00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:33,920 unwashed masses, and the unwashed masses are becoming so dangerous they need to be 443 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,599 controlled. Where you're having weekly meetings with the FBI and Twitter and Facebook, 444 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,000 and they're sending FBI agents over to Twitter, which thank goodness Elon Musk got 445 00:30:41,079 --> 00:30:47,559 rid of. Yeah, the windows shifted so much on that. I remember 446 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,119 one of the last press conferences of the Obama presidency after Trump had won the 447 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:56,519 election, was this fast reporter after reporter for reporter begging the White House Press 448 00:30:56,559 --> 00:31:00,200 secretary, I can't remember it was Gibbs or somebody, what do you going 449 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,240 to do about this? This information the obvious lives on social media. That 450 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,519 obviously got the worst dictator in the world ever elected president. And it was 451 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:12,720 to his credit the spokesman was like, there's a First Amendment. Government cannot 452 00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:17,400 do this. Well, I have been seeing the Press secretary of the White 453 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,960 House having to remind the press over and over again that he's not allowed to 454 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:25,559 control their speech. Was just creepy and weird to watch. And the future 455 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:27,480 White Houses were like, but what if? What if we actually do it? 456 00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:33,799 Jensaki like commanded Facebook, Yeah, just censored, you must do this. 457 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,480 Yeah, but the windows shifted. I mean I wrote a piece for 458 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,640 the for the Common Sense Society substack on Friday, which everyone subscribed to immediately, 459 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,319 the about the shift in just a few years ago. There is interesting 460 00:31:47,359 --> 00:31:51,359 stuff on it. I've been reading it. Yeah, there's a few years 461 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,799 ago. The idea of we need to call our cattle herds because farts are 462 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:59,000 leading to cow farts are leading to global warming was like a really stupid thing 463 00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:01,279 that maybe would say, but everyone has laughed at. The New York Post 464 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:05,000 would mock Fox News, wo run a couple of numbered segments on it and 465 00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:07,680 make fun of it. Move on the Five would talk about it. And 466 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:13,519 now you see it from the ostensibly moderate mayor of New York City, mayor 467 00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:15,480 of the world. You see it not just in Europe, in the Netherlands, 468 00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:20,680 where they're forcing cattle farmers to cull their hords or herds or shut down 469 00:32:20,759 --> 00:32:23,960 their business because they say that nitrogen emitted by literal life and the food that 470 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,799 we eat is going to kill us all with a global warming. And you're 471 00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:32,160 seeing it from the American moderates, and people are just saying, Yeah, 472 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,920 we're gonna band pizza upns now no more, We're not going to burn wood 473 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:42,000 anymore. These are these are stone age technologies heat eat meat and cooking it 474 00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:45,960 with fire. But we're gonna get rid of it because and so the what 475 00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:50,559 was wild, I'm not even gonna get into the trans stuff is now so 476 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,839 normal that people just The New York Post makes fun of it, Fox News 477 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,079 makes fun of it, The Daily Color makes fun of it, The Federals 478 00:32:57,079 --> 00:33:00,640 makes fun of it, California does it, and ten you're lighter law of 479 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,480 the land, right right. It's a rapid, rapid shift. And that's 480 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,240 where I think the Christopher Rays of the world are so dangerous. Yeah, 481 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:09,240 you know, let's say, for the sake of argument, he is not 482 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:15,279 on that sort of level of weirdness as James Comey. But he's just you 483 00:33:15,319 --> 00:33:17,200 know, this rubber stamp yes man. People aren't fighting back, they're not 484 00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:22,039 rolling back. If he is a rubber stamp yes man, it's because he 485 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,559 fundamentally shares the worldview that so many people in elite circles who don't send their 486 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,920 kids to the same school, don't worship in the same places, aren't in 487 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,079 the proverbial bowling leagues or the modern equivalent of that, with the so called 488 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,079 unwashed masses, that they are able to sort of brush aside, cast aside 489 00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:42,160 the Trump. Anybody who voted for Trump that they know in their life is 490 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,039 probably a wealthy Trump voter, and probably they don't know many of those to 491 00:33:45,079 --> 00:33:50,759 begin with, but they really don't. They've probably read one of these books 492 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:57,720 or they listened to a podcast about why rural disenfranchised people, Hispanics, whites 493 00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:02,720 are interested in Donald Trump, but they don't fundamentally respect those people or see 494 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:08,679 their dignity because they don't spend time immersed in the same communities with people around 495 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:14,360 the country. You're just normal, decent folks who have been screwed over by 496 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,280 the system, lied to by the media, as we all have been over 497 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,480 and over again, and see Donald Trump is the answer to that, and 498 00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:23,960 are good, fundamentally good people who just happen to have a disagreement with them. 499 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,800 They don't see them that way. Anymore because they're insulated from it. 500 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,679 Charles Murray writes about our transition to super zips that you know, we don't 501 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:36,719 share the same spaces, we don't share the same taste interests anymore, and 502 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,320 that is a change from earlier times in American history. And when you have 503 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:45,199 powerful people isolated in those super zips, you're going to have exactly what we 504 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,639 see at the FBI right now. It's it's like not just a class issue, 505 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:52,119 but it's now sort of been translated into this Sorr'm already talked about that 506 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:53,960 and responses Supreme Court. We'reing you got attacked a lot in social media, 507 00:34:53,960 --> 00:35:00,119 but you actually read the articult super interesting about how great we've gotten read of 508 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,320 the affirmative action thing. But we haven't solved the problem of American colleges being 509 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:10,719 elite institutions at the higher levels that produce basically elite bug eating warm people have 510 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:16,840 nothing to do with the normal. And you know, Jeffersonian America classles America 511 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:22,119 is absolutely a gas at the society that we've built. Ben I think Ben 512 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:28,719 wrote it. Had a good article in the Spectator about earlier this week about 513 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,599 two viral moments from two America's Yes, I loved that. And one was 514 00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:36,719 the picture from Jimmy Kimmel's eight million dollars Idaho fly fishing lunch, you know, 515 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,519 which is a pretty cool thing to have. And then the picture I 516 00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:44,599 don't even know those people Jennifer Anderson, Jimmy Fallon, Courtney Cox and O 517 00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:47,119 those people, John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, Adam Scott, Jason Bateman. 518 00:35:47,199 --> 00:35:52,400 Wasn't he an American psycho? Jason Bateman? Patrick Bateman is the care Yes, 519 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:59,519 Shirley Applebee, a guy from snow Patrol. Jake Tapper was there for 520 00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:01,639 some reason, Like it's like I'm going fly fishing in then Idaho. M'st 521 00:36:01,639 --> 00:36:06,159 to invite Jake Tapper. I mean I could see inviting like according coxs mallivery 522 00:36:06,159 --> 00:36:08,440 amount of Jennifer Aniston, But I don't know about the rest of those guys. 523 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:15,280 Uh. And then you compare that to you know, Donald Trump at 524 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:20,840 their UFC fight. Oh that taking pictures like Joe Rogan's there, guy like 525 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,880 like Guy Fieri is like shaking hands in the president. What's that awesome comedian 526 00:36:25,159 --> 00:36:29,400 who was there taking taking pictures of them? Are good? Up? Bro? 527 00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:35,239 Uh, that's the tale of two completely different Americas and the moral scorn. 528 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,840 Did that table of like unhappy wealthy people has Yes, for all those 529 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,760 people who are an absolute blast at UFC is wild. I want to know 530 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:51,199 if they actually fly fished at the Idaho Lodge. Probably. I mean I 531 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,440 used to go on these trips and I really had a good time on them, 532 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,320 where there's a lot of if you have enough money, you can do 533 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,159 these awesome trips that are basically stimulated manhood. Yes, yes, they're like 534 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,239 the Rutaporia. But fly fishing is difficult. Yeah, I got But if 535 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:08,880 you had pretty bad fly fishing, she probably has a like a property caretaker. 536 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,320 Who I hope someone warned, Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, 537 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,400 I hope someone war them because first time I went fly fishing in Wyoming I've 538 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,039 been fly fishing, showed up in like a bathing suit in a T shirts. 539 00:37:20,039 --> 00:37:22,920 So if she weared the beach not again. All all my guys are 540 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,239 dressed like Tuskegee Sandman, Like, just's not an ounce of skin showing. 541 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,679 Yeah, I'm like hey, and like I like your style, dude. 542 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,800 And I didn't have bold move, I didn't have the right glasses. I 543 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,679 can see through the water yeah, so I'm just I'm just looking at broad 544 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,440 reflection. I got hooked by Alex Pappas like five times. I got zero 545 00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:44,760 fish and I got sun poison name so bad that I was like under a 546 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,559 hot water shaking with cold and dry heaving in the shower, and no one 547 00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:51,400 believed I was sick because I wasn't complaining. I was like, I'm gonna 548 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,199 skip the guys drunk again. They dragged me out to dinner, and they 549 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,719 only realized when you went to the million dollar cowboy bar afterwards, and I 550 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,559 didn't even order a beer. I just sat there. They're like, oh, 551 00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:02,840 man, Bedford must be ill. So if you do, go fly 552 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,800 fishing at Jimmy Kimel's lodge, dress appropriately, get the right sunglasses. We 553 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,920 hope you're listening, Olivia Month. And in fact we know you're listening because 554 00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:16,000 something tells me when you think Olivia Moun, you think conservative podcasts, Well 555 00:38:16,159 --> 00:38:19,760 she turns in for a Bedford Day. Yeah, well, oh that's right 556 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,880 she does. In fact, I think she sometimes drops us a line at 557 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:27,239 radio at the Federalist dot com and says, this is Olivia Month. Really 558 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:32,159 enjoyed Chris Bedford's recent appearance no, no, tell him to keep being him, 559 00:38:32,199 --> 00:38:35,679 never gonna stop. Let Chris be Chris. All right, well, 560 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,559 Chris, thank you so much for joining us. You can read Chris's article 561 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:45,079 over at the Telegraph, and you can follow his work at the Common Sense 562 00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:49,079 Society sub stack, where he's the executive editor. Absolutely all right. Well, 563 00:38:49,079 --> 00:38:52,079 you've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emilija 564 00:38:52,119 --> 00:38:54,119 Shinski, culture editor here at the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more. 565 00:38:54,280 --> 00:39:07,639 Until then, people lovers of freedom and anxious for the prey held o