Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You All Wrong with Molly Hemingway
and David Arsani. Just a reminder, if you'd like to email the show,
please do so at radio at the Federalist dot com. Molly, we
have a lot to talk about, and when I have these does anything in
our entire time of doing this have we ever had a more dramatic week than
the last week since we taped? I don't know. I always like jot
down notes for the podcast, so I don't forget. I'm like, it's
just filled up a whole page. I'm like, I don't know. So
I've kind of mapped out how maybe the discussion should go. I think we'll
probably end up freewheeling it, but I think it's worth are no usual way.
It's like we'll start talking and you'll just jump to my last point immediately,
but and then we'll work all way back. But we'll see how it
goes. I think, obviously the starting point for our discussion should be the
debate itself last week, which happened the day after we recorded our last podcast.
I actually had not an IU like viewed it before, you know,
you know, in the lead up to it, I thought that Biden would
probably be okay to some extent, like he had a week's rest. I
thought, you know, he would have like, you know, they would
have prepared him enough. But right off the bat, I was like,
this is insane. He was speed mumbling, he wasn't making sense, and
it was I think, and I wrote about this, I think the most
disastrous debate performance presidential debate performance in the history of the United States. None
has been more consequential and changing the trajectory of a candidacy and all that stuff.
Do you let me, what do you think? So I was really
annoyed. You know, on Fox, we have to do so much of
that preliminary stuff where we're like, what's going to happen at the debate.
I hate talking about what's going to happen. I always think what's going to
happen is going to happen, so me predicting something has no effect on what
will happen. But I just heard so many people saying this is gonna happen
and that's going to happen, and I just wanted to watch it. And
when I sat down, like you David, within five seconds and I tweeted
out, oh my goodness. It was just my mouth was open. I
could not believe how bad Biden was. And I say that as someone who
has been publicly talking about his advanced age for like six years now or something,
and or maybe five years. So it wasn't like I was shocked that
he's dealing with some mental acuity issues. But usually on big nights they get
him hopped up on goofy pills. His eyes are big as saucers, he's
shouting. Sure, he's never as good as the corporate media say he is,
but he's usually like functioning on big nights, like his two debates.
He was very shouty in that first debate in twenty twenty, where everybody was
awful. Trump was awful, He was awful, Chris Wallace was awful.
But I could not believe how bad it was. I was in absolute shock.
And I was on the sofa with my husband and he was just gooff
buying like a little boy. I mean, he doesn't laugh like this,
but he was laughing hysterically how bad it was. And I mean the whole
debate, I just kept putting my hands over my eyes. I would I
feel pain when other people are horribly underperforming even if I'm not like a political
ally of theirs, And it was painful to watch. It's very difficult for
me to watch someone embarrass themselves, even in like a movie. So it
was it's like, on one hand, as a human being, I was
like, this is insane, and I was sort of like like laughing.
And then as a columnist or whatever I do, I was like, this
is terrible for America. I can't believe this is happening, you know,
because we are I mean, he is obviously incompetent. So let's talk about
a few things, the debate itself, and then I'm going to get into
some of the other stuff. So I thought that the first of all,
let's recall I want you. Let's recall that Joe Biden to cut that video
on Twitter, like that WWFF or whatever it's called now, video, you
know, challenging and Donald Trump. So Donald Trump agrees to it. On
CNN, they come up with all these rules to try to help Biden,
cutting off the mic, all of that stuff. I think all of that
helped Donald Trump be more disciplined, like let he just let Biden sort of
hang himself answer after answer, And I thought, I actually thought Trump was,
as far as he goes, incredibly disciplined in this debate, not to
go off on tangents, not to kn't believe him saying these words, not
to gratuitously insult him maybe or mock him, even though he did land a
couple of big punches, especially with I killed Medicare or whatever moment. But
I think it helped Trump. So I do think that because Trump is who
he is, and I don't know, I think his campaign has been run
incredibly well for a couple of years now, and it's kind of the unremarked
upon story people act like, well, of course he was going to win
the nomination. In fact, he had a huge uphill climb after the midterms,
and he has been His campaign has actually been very disciplined the entire time.
And even when it comes to something like CNN was pretty clear about what
the rules were. You know, you had two minutes to answer a question,
and then there was a one minute rebuttal, and then there was like
a one minute at the discretion of the quote unquote moderators who are left wing
Democrat activists, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. But Trump seemed to actually prepare
for two minute responses and one minute rebuttals, whereas with Biden he just kept
being told like, you have forty eight seconds left, or you know,
he had so much time left. He didn't seem to have very well rehearsed
remarks. I do think that some of the constraints took away some of the
beauty of a Trump debate, Like if he is truly allowed to just let
his freak flag fly, he can land some amazing blows. And I'm not
saying he didn't have some amazing landing punches, but the restraint was better overall.
But it did you know, it was a restrained, disciplined debate performance
from Trump, which is what people always say they want, and I think
that's right. And it was very policy focused and not on personal attacks.
But do you kind of get what I'm saying, Like there was that beauty
of the you would be in jail kind of line or yeah, it was.
It undermined the fun factor of a Trump debate where he's just out there,
you know, you know, just going bananas, which can be very
funny. I don't think I think that people like that about him, though
already like him, and I'm not you know, I think a better or
more discipline debate will probably listen. I don't think debates are that important typically,
but this one, I think it was. This one was yeah.
But what I mean is like, I don't think that that's playing to that's
not playing to us. It's not something he should be doing in this election
right now. I think he needs to reach out to you know, he
needs to convince people in the suburbs, women in the suburbs, whatever,
that Biden is bad for their schools and children in the economy, and he
is a person who can run the country. But I think that does you
think anyone remembers anything Trump did in this debate, I don't. I mean,
I think this debate is all about Biden. You know, I'm not
saying that it was like the the super best debate I've ever seen from anyone,
But I actually think it wasn't just that Biden did poorly. I do
think it's that Trump did well, and he did well in an area that
he's normally not good at, which is restraint. So he did take advantage
of you know, when when Biden said we defeated Medicare, was that I
don't even remember that? And Trump took advantage of that his line about I
don't know what he said at the end of that sentence, and I don't
think he knows either. It was brutal, but it was for Trump by
Trumps standards, actually kind of like a nicely restrained insult that summed up,
It summed up everything. And he's very good at that, like not getting
bogged down in the details, but just kind of summing up what everybody's thinking.
And that's a big part of his appeal. So I do think he
did well. I thought his closing statement I okay. I thought it was
good, but not great. And I think that the problem was even though
he stayed extremely policy focused and he took on the debate moderators like appropriately and
didn't take the art should say, didn't take their bait which they were throwing
out like chum, I think he needs to do a better job of painting
a positive vision for the country in this campaign and in this and in a
debate performance. And so for me, the big thing that sticks out is
when they had a closing statement opportunity, he should have just gone soaring with
a beautiful picture of what life can be like, and he it just didn't
really inspire me at all. I agree when he said, you know that
we're basically a third world country. Now I've got I always said it.
I don't love I don't I don't like that. Actually I'm not saying things
aren't going bad, but I think it's just like a too negative, too
negative and too much of a Doumer kind of way about it. But everything
is it's hyperbole all the way down now in both sides. So I don't
really know, you know how that lands with Americans? Okay, so the
debate's a disaster. So immediately everyone has to admit that there's no way anyone
can say it went well right. It's that bad, which is maybe the
first time I've ever seen that in my life. So what do so now?
This is this is where it gets tricky. This this skuy and where
do we go? I think we should go to the cover up. There
was a media cover up. It's been going on for how many years?
You said, You've been talking about it for six years. But let's just
say they've been covering up Biden's cognitive problems since the twenty twenty election when he
ran out of his house. I mean, given that it's Biden you might
say they've been doing it for about five or six decades. I mean,
he's always been considered one of the stupider people in Washington, d C.
But go on, yeah, I mean he's a middling intellect, and he
has been a blowhard, you know, and an incompetent blowhard in the Senate
for years. The very idea that he's president is scary for anyone who's followed
his career. So yeah, they covered that up with us. Let's jump
around. I don't even care. So they're always saying, well, he's
a decent man. Would you rather pick the decent man over the lying Donald
Trump? Well, first of all, there's scant evidence that Joe Biden is
decent at all. I think he you know, the way he drops principles,
you know, left and right, he hasn't held one is you know,
shows that he's not. But the lying that he does, lying about
his personal life that he's always done, is just historic. There's no other
president who's lied about their life like him, none, zero, now from
the beginning. But more than that, this was the talking point. Well
Biden might have stumbled, but she had to face an avalanche of Trump lies,
and he was honest, like this was lit. I saw this over
and over again. It is Biden lied that Donald Trump called like off the
bat, lied that he called neo Nazis very fine people. He lied that
Donald Trump told people to inject bleach. He lied about something else personal I
forget right, like his first statement, and then he lied throughout on policy.
Right. I'm not saying Donald Trump's like this great truth teller. He
exaggerates a lot, but Biden lied as much, if not much more,
during that debate, right, So he stumbled and lied, and the idea
that he's a truth teller is insane. Who believes that he had to leave
the presidential race in nineteen eighty eight because he was considered one of the world
history's greatest liars and the media just cover that up like they've covered it up
for years. They will continue to cover it up. But yes, there
are two issues there. They say he doesn't lie when he's actually one of
the most prominent liars in American history. And then they say he's decent when
there's no evidence that he's actually a decent person. I mean, you can
take that on a really global scale, like when he said that no American
troops had died under his watch. That was a horrible lie, which covers
up his own failure to handle the withdrawal from Afghanistan properly and which led to
the suicide bombing that killed a dozen American Marines and soldiers. Like, that's
a horrible lie. It's a really evil lie. But they're all. And
then there are also like the personal lies and the personal lack of decency.
I mean, Donald Trump is kind of notorious from his Howard Stern days for
not treating women appropriately. He's been married three times, that's a that's a
problem for him. And also Joe Biden started dating his wife when she was
married to another man. That's not decent. And so I just hate this
idea. Or like he used his son to run the family business even though
it either helped cause, it either caused or helped contribute to his son's life
threatening addiction issues. That's not decent. I'm not even getting into, you
know, the diary from his daughter which alleges all sorts of, you know,
unspeakably bad things. The idea, how how about the stolen valor essentially
of saying that your son died in Iraq when he did not die in Iraq.
He constantly repeats that lie. I mean, that is a despicable lies,
not just some exaggeration or whatever, you know, New York Times says
it is. He also lined to Donald Trump said Hitler did some good things,
which I don't think is ever been proven. He just says it as
fact. In fact, he based his whole, uh sort of attack on
Donald Trump on the idea that he loves fascists and he is pro neo Nazis
and stuff like that, and the whole thing's made up. There was no
you know, so the people who complain, oh, CNN didn't do any
fact checking, Well, there's a lot of fact checking to do right off,
you know, his initial statement that they didn't do. Now, I
do think that with the very big exception of Dana Bash's like stupid badgering after
Donald Trump answered the same question like eighteen times that he needed to answer the
question differently or something that Donald that Joe Biden was doing so horribly that I
think they just kind of decided they were going to stare clear of the blast
zone and that that also was good. Like I have less complaints. I'm
going to have nothing but complaints about Jake Tapper and Dana Bash's propaganda careers.
But as far as actually their role in the debate, there's not much to
point out of. I mean, a lot of quote unquote moderators who are
actually activists are just horrific. They were not so bad. That was fine.
I mean, you know, the oftentimes they ask questions no one cares
about that they do like the climate crisis upon us. You know, what
are you going to do about? And stuff like that. No one really
cares. But I'm fine with that. I thought, I actually thought Trump
answered the question of will you accept this election? Well, he said,
yeah, if it's fair, blah blah blah, Like that's how you answer
that question. The idea that you should just accept it preemptively because people tell
you do is just not right. But here's what bothered me. Joe Biden
is a conspiracy theorist about the two thousand election, and he was. He
said that Trump wasn't the legitimate illegitimate president in twenty sixteen, and neither He's
never they never bring that up with him, Like, why is it okay
to to uh to deny certain elections and not others? I knows A rhetorical
question it's party's role in rigging elections. They don't ask about his his administrations
role in censoring American speech, which is interference in elections in a way to
rig them. They don't talk about his executive order which requires every federal agency
to get involved in the twenty twenty four election to help Democrats. I mean,
that's the functional effect of it, because they're all just Democrat propagandists.
So we should remember that when we go, oh, like, they weren't
so bad. They weren't so bad except they asked questions that help Democrats.
Yeah. Yeah, but you know, I think knowing how to answer that
those questions and answering them well is a good skill to having an election.
I mean, Biden, it was just semantic rubble every time, and then
he couldn't even finish the two minutes. And that was the almost the worst
and most embarrassing part where they're like, well, you have forty more seconds,
you have anything else to say, And he didn't have anything else to
say. So last week I wrote a piece and the headline was stop trying
to convince me Joe Biden isn't a confused, dotting old man. Literally,
from one week to the next We've gone from the videos of him wandering off
shaking hands with the Managiner people being a conspiracy theory being misinformation to everyone in
the media just turning around and treating it as fact. And there will never
be any explanation for how that happened, or why it happened, or how
they covered it up. And the same people are going to now become mouthpieces
for Democrats who want to get rid of Joe Biden. Let's not pretend they're
doing it for the truth. They're doing it because they got caught. They
couldn't gaslight after this debate anymore. And that was that. I want to
quote Charles Cook here. He had a tweet the other day it said,
if you're looking for a broader takeaway from all this, take how the press
covered up Biden's infirmity because it wanted to protect the Democrats and apply it to
literally every single thing that it does on any topic, in any year,
in any circumstance forever. Yeah. I realized that it's a really bad situation
the country is in, that the commander in chief is in competent. And
I don't want to like belittle that, because that's actually a national security threat,
but our corporate media working so hard to cover up that story for years
and gas lighting Americans who noticed what was going on as being part of some
deep, fake, cheap fake conspiracy theory. Cabal is evil. They are
enemies of the people because of what they do. There is no They are
really what enabled one hundred percent of Democrats to lie about Joe Biden's condition.
They are what enabled that entire lie of the twenty twenty election to take place.
Like he was hiding in the basement, then he was struggling, then
he was having gaffs the few times he was allowed out. Then he was
incomprehensible then, and they lied and they covered it up because they out of
their hatred for one man and his supporters. And that is evil. That
is enemy of the people type stuff. I know that's like really extreme language,
but they put the country in a very dangerous position there. They need
to never be believed on literally anything. Ever. Again, it's the same
thing with the Hunter laptop stuff. It's the same thing with the Supreme Court
ethics problem stuff. You know, It's the same thing with the Russia collusion
hoax. It's the same thing with everything like Charlie says in that tweet.
I mean there is literally no issue where they haven't done this. They've convinced
themselves that the truth isn't as important as saving democracy, which can mean anything
to them, and stopping Donald Trump. And then, by the way,
that then became stopping all Republicans because you saw what they were doing to dissantis
during COVID, like whoever was running now even if it was missing the same
thing who are concerned about curriculum in their children's school. You see what they
do to people who care about unborn children, Like they lie about literally everything
up to the point. And also like they actually embrace mental illness. You
know, you take how the AP says that if a man claims to believe
that he's a woman, you are required to call him a woman and you
are required to always refer to him as a woman. That is an embrace
of mental delusion. And the Biden, you know, syco fancy is just
part and parcel of that. I feel like, yeah, like one day
someone comes up with this nonsense and then everyone just follows and we all have
to do it. But aside from that, AP could if it was a
fair you know, and unbiased, non biased or news organization, and I
think it's one of the worst. Now, it would at least give the
other opposing view of why people did not do not feel comfortable doing that,
but it doesn't. It treats them like, you know, some kind of
bigots and so forth. I wanted to quickly read you from CNN story Carl
Bernstein Watergate fame, right, huge, you know, famous reporter saying telling
I forget who the host was that even you know his supporters as to say
that the debate wasn't a one off. There have been fifteen to twenty occasions
in the last year and a half of the president has appeared somewhat as he
did in that horror show that we witnessed. Yeah, we know, we
have videos of it that you told us, you hacks told us were fake.
But more than that, where was this guy last week or the week
before? Where were any of them last week? Politico has a big story
now about this, So obviously there's a huge effort now to push Biden out
Right, I think the media is all in on that. They just turned
one to eighty and now they're on that. I do before we get into
the media effort because I think that's actually a huge issue. The only thing
that's changed here is the media. I mean technically Democrats are by and large
still sticking by Yeah, their guy. But you mentioned Karl Bernstein. He
was one of the four authors on CNN's original Russia Hoaks story, which really
got the Russia hoax going. It was authored by Jake Tapper, Karl Bernstein,
and two other uote unquote reporters. What they did is they laundered an
info op from the FBI into the American people to subvert an American election.
That effort, that Russia collusion hoax went on for years. There were thousands
of stories. They won awards. Carl Bernstein won an award with Jake Tapper
for being willing to be used by James Coomy to launder this infooperation against the
American people. And they did it with no like there was nothing. You
might remember that I started opposing the Russia collusion hoax at the same moment that
Jake Tapper and Karl Bernstein embraced it, based on the same information. Meaning
I knew it was a hoax, and I'm not you know, I'm not
super smart or anything. They knew it was a hoax, and they ran
this you conspiracy theory info op because of their hatred for Republicans and for them
to be like, oh, we had so many troubles covering Biden's semility,
there were so many journalistic ops. There were no journalistic obstacles when it came
to running a conspiracy theory. But when there was like evidence before your eyes
and ears and like any kind of like four year old could figure out something
was going on, then there were journalistic obstacles. And that's why these people
are beneath contempt. And one hundred percent of the things that Jake Tapper and
Carl Bernstein say should be viewed with the suspicion that their career has has told
us they should be viewed with. And what's dangerous about that is that when
something real happens, we're not going to actually believe them anymore, you know.
I mean, I know people don't think about that, but if like
some like if Jake Tapper or CNN reported something that they had found that was
real and dangerous to the country, I wouldn't believe them anymore. Do you
have any I think Americans have completely lost trust in the media. Not that
they're reporting anything real. I see your face that you're incredulous, but I'm
just saying, yeah, I just feel like that's like, by the nineteen
eighties you should have figured out not to believe corporate media. Not by hey,
listen, they're the one, They're the highest funded, they have the
means to find things out, and I used to have to read between the
lines and figure stuff out. Now they just line. It's a completely different
ballgame. It's much worse than the eighties or nineties or two thousands, even
in my view, I mean, this is just propaganda now, not biased.
There's a difference a great old timey journalists that I've worked with in the
past, like they might have hated Republicans, but if there was a juicy
story to get a Democrat, they probably go for it, you know.
Jill Abramson, who was the executive editor of The Times, said this yesterday.
The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover up of the degree
of the president's feebleness and his serious physical decline. So what she's saying is
that the six figure making journalists that our team, you know, that the
newsroom there's teaming with not one could figure out that Joe Iver in ten columns
about it, that Joe Biden was not up for the job. Who are
literally close to him? Hey, if only there were video, if only
there was a transcript from a special Council named Robert her who who said that
months ago, where's his apology? Scarborough? Joe Scarborough called him like a
Republican dupe, you know, and destroyed, tried to destroy his reputation anyway,
Sorry about that too. I just want to say that Jill also said,
well, the reason why they didn't cover this was because of Trump.
They were worried that being honest as journalists in any way might help Trump be
elected by the American people, and they didn't want to have democracy on their
hands. Basically, they didn't want to allow the American people to know information
that guided their voting in a way that was opposite what journalists want politically.
So we might as well talk about the immunity decision that finally came down Supreme
Court. I forget what the split was, which I thought was quite narrowly.
I am a skeptic of immunity of it. There's no immunity clause for
the president and the Constitution, so I'm skeptical of the reverence it's given by
the courts. However, this decision was narrowly tailored. It made all the
sense in the world to me. But yet, of course there was a
hysterical freak out that now presidents are immune from all criminal behavior. Such a
mayor who is not just dumb but reckless, gave some example about it.
I think it was a seal team six, you know, killing their political
opponents and so on, and everyone went with it. And you know,
Nazi Germany's here again. And then the president shuffles out, can barely read
four minutes from a teleprompter to tell us to have the goal, to tell
us that he respects the courts and separation of power, as he's attacking the
Supreme Court of the United States, by the way, and that he has
never ended three and a half years usurp that separation. And then he shuffles,
doesn't take any questions. If you really still there, he would be
having had a press conference right anyway. I found that really distasteful. Yeah,
this is the least important thing, but my favorite thing about his you
know, three and a half minutes reading from a teleprompter to disabuse people of
the notion that he can't answer questions extemporaneously under any thing. But the friendliest
conditions was that he borrowed Donald Trump's orange makeup. This is weird. It
was so weird because you know, at the debate he had seemed almost like
translucent, he was so pale and you know, staring off into space.
And then when he came out at the White House, he was orange,
and you know, it barely works for Trump to be that orange, but
it was. There were two things from the Babylon But that made me laugh.
One is that they always have this thing about how their satire ends up
being fulfilled, and they call it prophecy fulfilled, that it ends up coming
true. So they'd had a piece years ago about how Joe Biden's campaign was
going to say like make America great a second time, and they pictured him
with like Donald Trump hare and or makeup, and they were like, yep,
this is true. And then the other day they had a thing about
like awkward moment when Joe Biden and Donald Trump run into each other at the
same fake tanning salon. But how weird is that? Did you see him
yea, did you see him say that? I'm sorry to jump in here,
but that Joe Biden claimed that he had gone fifteen time zones you know,
around the world before the debate, and he it was stupid and he
almost fell asleep and he was tired. First of all, he went to
Europe. Second, the Air Force one as a freaking bedroom. Thirdly,
he took a week off before the debate. It's just one ballaant lie after
the next. So the first lie that they told, you know, maybe
it's true. The first claim they made as soon as Joe Biden started doing
poorly is like, oh, we forgot to tell everybody he's got a really
bad cold. Then immediately after the debate they send him out to a diner
to breathe on and shake hands with people while he supposedly has a cold.
Yeah, and then they like kept him shaking hands with people while he supposedly
has a cold. Like and I don't know if it's because I have a
week in immune system, but I don't like it when people who are sick
go out and make me sick. So uh, anyway, that was a
weird. Yeah, I think you went to a waffle house or something.
Yeah, it's weird. Not only was we're Joe Biden and I, you
know, both in Europe at the same time. We're both in Italy at
the same time, and so I do understand. Like every time I fly
east, like to Europe for and then and then we're expected to go right
into meetings. I am one of those people who's like falling asleep in the
middle of the meeting as soon as I arrived in Rome and we had to
stay up like from eight am until a decent hour to sleep. That night,
I was falling asleep on my tour of the catacombs, like it was.
I am Joe Biden, like in my inability to handle now that happened
to me. If there's a two hour difference, if I go to Denver,
I like have to recover for like two days. I'm just saying,
so I get that. I actually that is like coming back is the easy
part, right, Yeah, because you get more time, right, and
maybe maybe takes a day or two, let's give it three or four,
let's say five days. But he'd been home for two weeks. The idea
that he took a week off of work, and then also once his team
started leaking against his advisors. His advisors are like, screw that this dude
didn't start debate prep until eleven am, and then he had to take a
few hours off in the afternoon for a nap, like they just started,
like making it seem even even worse. So their their explanations for his sinility
are not stacking up. But anyway, he is. He is, as
Politico says, dependably engage from ten to four. That was axios, I
think, but yet same thing. I loved that because that's good because nothing
bad happens outside of those hours. Globally. Speaking back to his statement against
the Supreme Court, you won't mention that he said he's like never he's never
like usurped the separation of power, or he like he respects the courts,
unlike Donald Trump, who ignores them. Yeah, so this is a guy
who part of his major campaign pledge or you know, boast, is that
the Supreme Court told him it was unconstitutional to steal money from law abiding American
citizens to pay off debts of people who could pay them off, you know,
but are choosing not to or who don't want to. And he's like,
Supreme Court told me I couldn't loot the treasury or like loot your money
to pay for a valued constituencies student loans. But I told them I'm going
to do it anyway. So the idea that he respects this, you know,
is I mean the same. The democratic part is just you know,
attacking the Supreme Court as we speak. So the whole thing's none. Yeah,
Well it was not that long ago. It was like a month ago
when every single norm associated with our court system was violated and Donald Trump was
victimized by a renegade judge who just made a hash out of rule of law
in his courtroom in order to secure a quick and easy conviction with a Democrat
jury, right yeah, And when people were like, gosh, he's violating
due process rights to secure this quick and easy conviction in what is a show
trial. The evidence he's allowing is not you know, how it should be
allowed, and what he's not allowing should be allowed, and the instructions to
the jury are not appropriate, and there are like a thousand grounds for overturning
this conviction because of how this judge has mishandled rule of law in order to
get this quick conviction in a show trial. And Joe Biden came out and
said the worst thing in the world you could ever do is criticize a judge
in our legal system like that is disgusting and horrible. But when actually competent
people, two justices accepting Sodama Or and Katanji Brown Jackson come out and say
here's how immunity is handled according to our constitutional system, he's like, we
got to burn these mofos down. And like again, our corporate media,
who are nothing more than Democrat propagandists who carried the water when Joe Biden said
you're not allowed to criticize a corrupt judge, say you are allowed to run
an insurrection against the Supreme Court and whip people up into a frenzy, even
though your previous efforts have already led to assassination attempts against sitting justices. And
again, this is why our corporate media are enemies of the American people.
Like the one institution we have that works is the Supreme Court. And I'm
not saying I agree with all their decisions. I don't, but the idea
that like they Okay, sorry to keep going here, but do you remember
Jack Smith filed his indictment last August about J six. You had a great
piece about it. That was about how this indictment was really about criminalizing speech.
So you have a out of control Biden DOJ that is criminalizing free speech
in an effort to help their boss's political prospects and in order to deal with
their hatred for one man and his people. So they violate all sorts of
norms and they put an insane case out there, and so the Supreme Court
ends up having to weigh in on something that they never should have had to
weigh in on, Like we handled presidential immunity through hidden law really well for
two hundred and fifty years, right, Like again, not how I love
it. Do I think FDR should have been held responsible for entering Japanese Americans?
Yes? Do I think that Joe Biden. I'm sorry that Barack Obama
and Joe Biden's killing of American citizens in drone strikes was beyond the scope of
their office. I do. But like, I also see the problem with
removing any authority from the presidency and what a disaster that would be for the
country. Okay, And so they clarify some stuff, they do it in
a really even handed way. They don't say that there's full immunity, and
they don't say that there's no immunity. And these people are willing to like
burn down the court over this very even handed decision. It's it's anything the
court does. First of all, the Court has not been reliably you know,
quote unquote conservative. There have been decisions lately that a lot of conservatives
didn't like. And yet the first time something doesn't go their way, they
pretend like this is a bought court is completely corrupt, this and that,
which is a lie. I saw someone some Democrats reet out, you can
vote for Trump, then you're going to get more elite and Clarence Thomas is
a stuff. I'm like, this should be the ad for like trumpt critical
Republicans to see because in fact is the most important thing. But the funny
thing is this court has upheld separation of power in such a powerful way.
Chevron. Just recently they gave power back to the Congress that it's supposed to
have and not the executive branch. With Dobbs. They gave back power to
the people, which the courts shouldn't have. Like the idea that they don't
care about separation of power is cuckoo, Like they just say. The truth
is it's all projection. They hate the court system, they hate unless it's
doing what they want. And Eddie Scarry has a great piece on this at
the Federalist on how like a New York Times podcast guy, I think it
was Michael Barbara. Yeah, I figured out like that the Supreme Court decision
is basically saying that you have to elect presidents and then deal with it,
and then if you don't like them, then you vote them out or you
like impeach them. And that is a very John Roberts style approach. And
it's consistent with how with what he said when he Obamacare through his hearings,
And I know, I know a lot of conservatives are frustrated with John Roberts
and for good reason, but he does seem to always kind of like try
to find the way that the system can fix itself basically, and essc he
said people are responsible for who they vote forea in essence he said that with
Obamacare, he said, you have made the decision to you know, this
is a democratic decision. Now you have to live with the consequences of that.
And the remedy to deal with presidents who do things that are unconstitutional or
whatever is impeachment And the big problem here that we're not that a lot of
people don't talk about, is that Congress has completely abdicated its responsibility and given
it to the executive branch. And now the presidents do way too much,
we expect way too much of them, and like the court's trying to fix
that in a very moderate way, I think, you know, in a
very incremental way. The Chevron decision basically said the unaccountable, unconstitutional fourth branch
of government does not have immunity, and you're left is freaking out about the
administrative state not having absolute immunity, but then they're freaking out about an actual
constitutional office. Well, how about the SEC decision. It's just a banana
court where there's no due process for people. They're just accused by the government,
judged by the government. And that is the worst thing that you take
away for for liberals or even like what is a title whatever, where you
just strip college students of all their due process rights, like democrat, it's
just complete Calvin ball. Whatever they say democracy is is there's no rhyme or
reason to it. And I don't know. I hate to be a doomer,
but I don't know how you come back from this because it's getting worse
and worse, and I just don't think the Democrats and many of their constituents
care about the constitutional republic anymore. And I think it's going to fall apart.
So you can't have a country where people don't respect its laws. Everyone
like Scalius once at every like two bits an or republic as a constitution.
It's following it that matters. And if you don't and presidents ignore it,
yeah, we're going to be We're gonna be a big trouble. Last thing
on this A lot of people are talking about will Biden survive or not?
What do you I'm not I don't like predicting these things either. I used
to think that Biden was no way going to bow out. I'm less sure
of that because there's a lot of pressure on him right now. So it
was interesting to see that what happened with the debate again, the vast majority
of Americans, Democrat and Republican, have been expressing concern about Biden's sanility for
a very long time. The idea that this is news to people is absurd.
What happened with the debate was that it made the media's job of carrying
water for the Democrats much more difficult. It's it made them feel embarrassed.
Now, normally the only thing they're embarrassed by is the prospect of a Republican
winning the presidency, particularly Donald Trump. That's usually the only thing that embarrasses
them. But in this case, they were like, this is actually embarrassing.
It makes us look like the propagandists we are, and usually because of
our control of all the institutions, we can cover that up better. And
so they lost confidence in their ability to drag Joe Biden across the finish line.
They are the ones who are pushing for Biden's removal. You noticed that,
particularly in the first couple days, there was unanimity among Democrats. They're
like, this is our guy, And I think that's because they realize the
problems with replacing him. Number One, you don't get to replace him from
the ticket without forcing him to step down, Like he either has to resign
or be twenty fifth amendmented. If he's not capable of running for president,
he's certainly not capable of being president. Like, if these issues are real,
they are a much bigger problem with the office he currently holds than the
one that he's running for, right, So the actual Democrats were like,
well, that would be a mess to lose a president, you know,
and then that would elevate Kamala and then we have to figure out who the
VP is and that has to go through you know, Congress, and it's
like challenging and difficulty. And they also knew that the money raised has to
go to Kamala, so it's not like they can sideline her. And she's
of course got lower favorability than even Joe Biden, who's like it, historically
low favorability ratings, and so they just kind of knew it was a mess.
And also it's like their whole campaign is supposedly about the importance of democracy,
and replacing the guy that the people voted for it is undemocratic. And
so it's the media we're pushing for it. But the media have a lot
of power. For one thing, they have a four years worth of stories
about Biden's embarrassing sanility that they can deploy to maximum effect because they're propagandists,
and they have this information that they've maliciously withheld against the American people that they
can now deploy to get rid of someone they view as a threat to their
continued power, and that is very difficult to battle. I do think the
Biden team is just hoping to get through Independence Day, recalibrate, figure out
the actual situation, see what power they have, how they can control it.
And I don't know, I really don't know. I love that the
top advisor in the White House right now is Hunter Biden. So men who
were told never talks business with Joe Biden, it turns out he's the one
you know. And the reporters are just openly writing, Hunter Biden is the
top advisor and he wants his dad to stay. They don't write, oh,
by the way, we claimed that they didn't have this kind of relationship
for many years when conservative media was reporting about the troubling Biden family business interests
and corruption. And they don't say like, oh, Biden needs to stay
in power for Hunter Biden to have any hope of staying out of prison.
And they don't say, like, Joe Biden needs to stay in power for
the Biden family to have any hope of collecting more money. But they say
Hunter Biden's the top advisor. I think that's important. He's there because he
has a strong moral compass right and obviously as good at decision making, is
a keen mind and all that. But also it makes me laugh because now
we have a convicted felon running the White House, so that's supposed to be
a very bad thing. Right, Oh, that's what I wanted to say,
So Biden, I'm just quickly. When he gave his little speech on
immunity, he also said no one's above the law, which made me laugh
out loud because his son got away with everything and he's getting weigh with a
lot too. As far as here in China goes on that, I feel
like I'm going to go screaming crazy on live television the next time I hear
democrats say the immunity decision means that Donald Trump could persecute his political opponents using
his DOJ. Oh Oh, is that a bad thing? Is it a
bad thing to use your DOJ to target your political opponents? Because if so,
there's a story as explosive as the one you've been, you know,
hiding about Biden's senility and like this idea that you can have Democrats all over
the country using lawfair to target political opponents. At the same time, they
claim that the biggest threat to the Republic is people using lawfair to target political
opponents. Is like, it's insane. Sorry, no, you're right.
I don't even I'm not a lawyer, but I read that decision and to
me, it seems like it actually protects presidents from being, you know,
having a rogue some rogue die going after them. I mean, it's definitely
going to make these convictions or whatever's coming in the lawfair stuff against Trump are
more difficult as far as the presidency agree with you and Biden stepping aside.
I think the logistics of it are actually quite difficult. People are going to
have to step aside. I don't know that. I'm sure people realize the
people. You know that the presidents and politicians like Joe Biden massive egos.
It's not that simple. Kamala is not popular. Everyone showed me, some
people sent me this, these polls that Kamala actually is doing better against Trump.
They forget something. All the negatives of Trump already baked into those polls.
Kamala has not been targeted by a massive campaign and hundreds of millions of
dollars. She has yet to really come under the kind of scrutiny that Donald
Trump has, or even Joe Biden. Moreover, what did she garner like
two percent of the vote when she ran in the Democratic primary? She is
not very popular even in her own party, So I don't know that that.
I like to say she got one percent more of the Democrat vote than
I did. Yeah, and then of course there's like other candidates, they'll
say new some or someone. Are you telling me that the Democrats are going
to push aside a black woman president vice president who literally to her job is
to step in for Joe Biden should he not be able to perform his duties
and then run a white dude. It just seems unlikely to me, even
though Democrats are hypocrites. But I think I think they'll go with her if
they push him out. I mean, she'll be the president. What would
you do would you want if you were a Democrat? Do you think that's
the better route or do you think sticking with Biden's the better route? Because
think about this every time now, every time there's a flub, a trip,
an incoherent sentence, it becomes it's amplified in a way that wasn't even
before. You know what I mean, it's going to be a tough summer
for him. I think what they might try to do is keep Biden as
president but replace him from the ticket, which they should not be allowed to
do, and they will put Gretchen Whitmer in as the VP, and then
I think an all female ticket like could work or might not work. I
think Gretchen Whitmer's political prospects have been overvalued because she's always had like weak opponents.
But I think that if you're running on killing babies and hysteria, that
maybe you know female ticket is the way to go. I don't know.
I think they genuinely have a mess on their hands. And that's the whole
thing. Like this just reeks of a mess, right, and that matters
too, Like there are a lot of unknowns that you don't know how the
electorate reacts to things for sure, right, so you're taking a chance every
time you switch gears or go with someone new, Like, you know,
there are a lot of candidates, from Rudy Giuliani to many others. We
can mention that everyone thought we're going to be super popular and we're in,
Like you don't really know, but we actually kind of do know that Kamala
Harris is politically toxic. Yeah, well, that's because she's not good at
being a politician. I mean, the way she speaks is great. Imagine.
Oh sorry, No, that's it. She's learning how to be president
and she's so bad at VP and so bad at any kind of executive authority.
And she's learning how to be president and dealing with the global unrest while
also running for president. But we have some four months of Biden here.
So did you know that Kamala Harris was tasked with the border and fixing the
border problem, Like that's going to be a problem. It's almost like feels
like Biden did that just to make sure that she wouldn't like under you undermine
him in some way. I don't know if he is even his conscious conscious.
You also think that every single person that aided and abetted this dangerous situation
for the country should be punished, and I mean by that the entire Democrat
Party and their media. There needs to be accountability. Like none of them
can be trusted. They all lied, each and every one of them falsely
claimed, with that exception of that one guy who ran for president, Dean
Phillips. Phillips, Yeah, and he was treated like he didn't exist.
Every single one of them needs to be held accountable for their lives. How
many journalists were held accountable for the lies of the Russia collusion hoax? None?
Maybe in the begin there was that one CNN story with the Alpha Bank
or whatever it was called. You remember that story, and I think you
fired that guy. But other than that, I don't think there's been any
three people lost their job. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm just saying
now that happens every day, and literally they just go on with their lives
like there's nothing, nothing wrong. All right, So that was fun.
Okay, it was a fun week. I hope next week's just as exciting.
I love content. Was not, all right, So let's talk about
culture. I know that you had a little bit of a cold last week,
so maybe you didn't or maybe you weren't in bad watching TV. So
so sick that I was actually like sleeping most days after our podcast last week.
But then I think by Saturday or so, I can't remember. I'm
losing track of time, but I was like so sick, I was in
bed, but I was able to be awake, and so I did watch
a couple of movies nice, and then I watched one with my kids earlier
this week. Okay, so the movies I watched in bed were The Russia
House. You love that, the soundtrack of that. I'm always looking for
you to find the vinyl for you. Thank you for that, David.
And yes, I love the soundtrack to The Russia House. But I was
like, maybe I should just watch it again. And it is not a
movie with like great reviews, I don't think, but I really like it.
I don't know why. And also I think, you know, it
portrays the military industrial complex as being willing to screw people over in order to
keep the arms shipments coming, and that resonates with me. And then I
also just stayed on the Sean Connery bandwagon and watched rewatched The Name of the
Rose, which, yeah, and I just like bleak, bleak movie,
right, It's very bleak, but it's like an interesting discussion of language and
semi autic. The book is excellent. Yeah, agreed, And then that
reminds me that I also rewatched The Judge, which I think is one of
the finest films of recent vintage. Is that with Robert Downey Junior or something
and Robert Duvall And it's extremely well done, extremely well written, and it's
just a reminder that they used to make movies for people that weren't like Marvel
movies. Okay, so sorry, I realized this is a ton of movies.
Then I also watched Titanic. Rewatched Titanic, which I have not seen
since I saw in movie theaters, and I don't know what you feel about
this movie. I realize it's one of the world's favorite movies. I loathe
everything about the movie except that it's kind of a good action flick. I've
never watched it and never will. It is so stupid. The storyline is
so, so, so stupid, and I do recognize, like, again,
amazing set, amazing depiction of the sinking of the Titanic, but it
is like, it's like, uh, the plot is so stupid that if
you like it, it makes me kind of judge you. I realize that's
a horrible thing, and I'm now going to get really angry letters from all
of the world's Titanic deboutas, oh, it's so bad. Like other than
the first Terminator film, I think I hate old James Cameron movies like I
hate those Avatar movies. Terrible. What about Aliens too with Sigourney Weaver that
one. I think that one's pretty good. But then there was a he
basically remade that movie where they is it called the Abyss maybe or something where
they go under water? Yep h I don't know. I just the whole
Titanic thing turned me off when it came out, and I'm like, I
just made a note never to watch it. I just want to say.
Part of the plot is that they're looking for this like really amazing diamond called
the Heart of the Sea that they know was on the Titanic and that they
think was in this like one safe And then there's this subplot where this lady
is telling the story. This lady who had access to the Heart of the
Diamond hard the Sea, you know, tells her story, and her story
is that she was Kate Winslet and she was madly in love with Leo DiCaprio
and they had it who wouldn't be eighteen hour romance that caused them to make
very bad decisions with the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the movie.
And I'm sorry it's like spoiler alert, No, I mean I get
the movie. She has this world's most valuable necklace, and instead of selling
it and giving the money to charity, she drops that necklace into the North
Atlantic and it's like, this is is that supposed to be romantic or something?
I don't even know. It's so so stupid. I hate it.
I love the I love the memes or whatever of the they like measure out
the door that Kate Winslet is on, and they're like, if she had
just moved over, like Leo, had plenty of room to just be on
it and survive. Is that you know? Do I have that right?
I do, But I was actually thinking about it the other night. I'm
not sure that's true. I think if they were both on it would have
merged in a way, submerged to die. So stupid that you would.
But what did you watch? I hope it's much better than my epic.
I didn't watch. I had good friends over and I didn't watch a lot,
but I did a lot of stuff. I did watch the Gene Wilder
documentary on Netflix, and boy, I just liked that guy a lot and
it was just fun to watch. You know, he's dead, he just
seemed like such a nice man. And and mel Brooks is on talking about
him, like mel Brooks is one hundred years old and his and I was
thinking about Biden because mel Brooks's mind is like sharp and he's still funny and
he remembers everything. And I'm like, that's just amazing. I love it.
And then they were like, you know, you know when you get
older and you haven't seen actress for a long time in their famous roles,
and when you do see it now that I am older, I'm like,
wow, they look so young like they they just showed like Anne Bancroft who
started her career with you Wilder, and she was just like this incredible beauty,
you know what I mean. And I don't know, I just it
was a sentimental sort of thing. But yeah, so Jane Wilder was great.
That's all I did. I went out. The only other thing they
did that was notable was I went out on a charter boat off of Virginia
Beach to go fishing in the deep sea and I caught so I throw in
my line and I would just catch these little fish right like Croker. So
after like ten minutes, I'm like, this is now just like a tap,
Like this is not fun at all, Like it's just a task to
remove him, throw him back. They're too little. So I did that
for like two hours. It was fun to be out in the ocean.
I love that I got a little the first time. Yeah, a day
fishing where you don't catch anything is still a great day. I love fishing.
I really am getting into it. Yeah, it's new for me sort
of. That's all I did. I can't remember. I think I watched
other stuff, but I forgot to write it down. I don't wait.
There's another thing that I started watching, which is season three of The Bear.
Oh yeah, so I didn't get great reviews, like very slow moving,
they say, I don't know, so I was. I was telling
Mark this because I think Mark is enjoying it, and I was like,
I don't like this. I didn't like last season except for there's this character
Cousin who his name is Cousin, who had an amazing like development in the
last season and that was good, oh so good. And I think he's
also like a ANTIFA supporting crazy lefty, but I just never just so he
So the main character is this guy named Carmi who runs this restaurant and then
he has a sidekick and she also runs the restaurant, and they're both like
kind of flat characters. They don't they're not very interesting, they don't have
a lot of development. And then like the one guy, all he does
is yell and he's a very unsympathetic main character. So I just kind of
like and then also I feel like the people making the show are sniffing their
own flatulence, Like they just really are into how they're a great show,
and to their credit, the first season really was pretty amazing, and so
it's just like becoming esthetically too much and it's just overthinking and under creating.
I felt like that a bit last season. I love the first season.
I love love shows where that are sort of feel realistic, where someone's building
a business or you watch someone like really get great at a craft they love,
you know, you know what I'm saying, Like stuff like that,
and that show it's so much hard in that first season and I just don't
think it's almost like they didn't expect to have a second season and they didn't
know where to go with the show, right, And it's a reminder like
the Brits always do a better job of this. It's like, Okay,
we had a good run. We're moving on to the project, and Americans
are like, we're gonna We're going to squeeze every last possible dollar out of
this franchise before we let it go. So that reminds me. I was
watching a guilty pleasure. I was watching the show called Suits, and the
first season whatever was good, and I'm on like season nine, and I'm
like, this show's been so terrible and so bad, but you just they
pull you in and you just want to see what happens to the characters.
So yeah, I'm embarrassed about that, but still you're good that I'm embarrassed.
All Right, Well, I'm gonna embarrass myself further next week. I
hope you do too, And until that be lovers of freedom and anxious for
the fray. Oh man, look at my life. I'm a lot like
you. Oh man, look at my life. I'm a lot like you.