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management mode. According to a piece by a bunch of
reporters over at Politico, he has hired a veteran campaign
and comm's strategist to help burnish his legacy at a
time when many and his party want him to exit
the stage in a sign of but which is so
weird because he was the most successful president ever, Like,
why would you want him off the stage? He was
so brilliant and I don't get it. In a sign
of Biden's intent to remain engaged publicly, is Inner Circle
tapped Chris Meagher? That's a Dickensian name, or well maybe
it's well it's me a g H E R. So
is that like, is that a like tough the gh like,
So it's a mepher either way. They tap this Chris Meager,
a former Biden deputy Press secretary and Defense Department spokesperson,
to help him transition past the first one hundred days
of the Trump administration. In case you are wondering why
that's important, it's because they get to keep their pr person.
They get to keep their comms guy or gal when
they exit the presidency for one hundred days, Like taxpayers
pick up the tab for their for their spokesperson for
one hundred days. So now he's shifting to his own
comms team. And slight problem with this is that, you know,
he does still get the Secret Service protection. But the
slight problem here is that to have the team around him,
they don't work for free. And while he does draw
you know, a presidential pension as I understand it, they
don't have any more revenue coming in. So yeah, we'll
get I'm gonna circle back. We're gonna sacky back on
that in in due time. Okay. But Meager has worked
for former Transportation Secretary Pete Booty Gig and Michigan Governor
Gretchen Whitmer. He played an instrumental role in booking Biden's
appearance on the View yesterday. That was his first live
interview since Trump's inauguration, So I thought, let's hear how
he did. How did it go? Right? He's been on
the View many times. These are palsy wowsies of his,
so they, you know, welcomed him in as a you know,
as a victorious conqueror that he is. And first question
right out of the gate was why do you think
the vice president lost? Why did Harris lose? And were
you surprised?
Speaker 2: I wasn't surprised, Not because I didn't think the vice
president most qualified person to be president. She is, She's
qualified to be president the United States of America.
Speaker 3: But I was surprised.
Speaker 2: I wasn't surprised because they went the route of the
sexister a the whole room. I mean, this is a woman,
she's this, she's a really I've never seen quite as
successful and a consistent campaign, under cutting the notion that
a woman couldn't lead the country and a woman of
mixed trace.
Speaker 1: I remember those campaign ads. I do not remember those
campaign ads. The most effective campaign ad, reportedly was the
Donald Trump is for you, Harris is for they them
that was That's the only ad that I can think
of that referenced anything gender related. But in Biden's mind,
what's left of it. He obviously believes that this the
only reason Harris lost was sexism and racism, because of course, right,
of course that would be what card he plays, or
cards there are two cards, I guess. But if that's
actually true, if this is what they believe, that this
is what Biden believes, if this is the kopium that
the Democrats are huffing, I don't see how they're going
to be able to get out of the forest that
they're in or the desert either way. Right, they're out
in the wilderness and they're trying to find their way back,
but they don't even know how they got there. They
don't so they can't retrace steps and say, oh, this
is how we got here, let's not do that again.
They can't find their way through. This is not good
for the Democrat party if this is in fact what
they believe occurred. But here's the thing, I don't believe that.
I don't believe that that's what they believe. I don't think.
I mean, yes, I'm sure there are racists out there
and sexists out there that did not vote for Harris
because they're racist and sexist, no doubt. Was it a
critical mass, No, it was not right. These are fringe
positions that very few people hold. So what are we
left to decipher out of that is that Joe Biden
and Democrats they know the reasons why they lost, they
just don't want to say for whatever reasons, but they
don't want to say, so they're going to smear more
than half the country as racists and sexist. That's what
he just did. He called Trump voters racist and sexist
because that's what the campaign messaging was about. It was
so prevalent that we all missed it, but it was
so prevalent that it swung the election for Donald Trump
over Kamala Harris. Yeah, like I said, I choose to
believe that he doesn't actually think this is the reason.
But that makes it kind of worse because he's just
smearing people with these nasty words, which I mean, look,
this is why the words don't carry the same power anymore. Right,
you use them against everybody that you disagree with, and
then people stop believing you when you use the words.
So let's pick it up again here.
Speaker 2: And they played that to a further on in addition
to that, Well, what one of the things happened if
you notice, And I'm gonna be shorter, Okay, I promise,
she said, don't be Joe Biden him anyway, make a
long story short, all kid aside. Think about it. Liberal
democracies all across America, all across the world lost.
Speaker 3: That's time.
Speaker 2: I think we underestimate the phenomenal negative impact that COVID
had and the pandemic had on people on attitude, on optimism,
on a whole range of things. So I was very disappointed,
but I wasn't surprised. And the only surprised me is
the excess to which they've gone in some of the
attacks they've made.
Speaker 1: The access to which that he This is not a
good This is not a strong start people. It's kind
of like his debate. It's not a strong start. Sexism, racism.
Oh and COVID A little bit of COVID sprinkling some
COVID there. That's that's why why liberal democracies all across America,
I mean the world, that's why populism is on the
rise because COVID. Look, I have no doubt COVID is
part of it. But see once again, it's like it's
your policies, guys, the things that you and COVID was
just one of the you know, one of the basket
of deplorable policies that you guys were advancing and still advance. See.
This is why I don't think he can actually say
why he thinks Harris lost. It's because the message. It's
not the messaging. It is the message. It is the
things that you guys stand for, and people rejected it.
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Listening to some of the highlights of the interview that
Joe Biden and Joe Biden sorry, doctor Jill Biden gave
to the view, it was a fra warm embrace of
an interview they did. They did ask a couple of
questions to allow the president to say what he wanted
about the cognitive decline. Biggest scandal in American political history,
at least in my lifetime. But I would submit it's
you know, it's up there with the Woodrow Wilson stuff,
but it's even worse because you have a we all
had a media complex that that lied to us, and
we could see that they were lying to us and
they didn't care, and it persists to this day. So
we've got tru or sorry Biden and Jill on the
on the view. And the next question he gets is
do you think you would have beaten Trump? Did you
have a chance I could have been a contender?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he still got seven million, A few revolts, yes, okay,
boom people didn't show up number one, number one number too.
The uh, they're very close in those those toss up states.
It was. It wasn't a slam dunk. And so look,
I you know, every time I've been on the show,
which you've been forced, I've been fortunately beyond more than once.
Thanks for having me. Is that we talk You guys
don't focus on as much. And I think it's good
polling numbers, but uh, nin for this way, he's had
the worst hundred days any presents ever had. Yeah, and
I would not say, uh honest, he's been a strong point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, m compelling and rich. Yes. Wow, that's uh,
I mean, this is some awesome content from Joe Biden.
Where is this guy during the debate? Oh? Actually, yeah,
this was him. He's not doing himself any favors here.
By the way, I one of the resources I use
online website, it's called it's called memorandom, like memorandum, but
meme oh random, and it's an aggregator, so it aggregates
headlines and it lumps them all together, so you'll see,
you know, in this case, it would be something like,
you know, Biden appears on the View, attacks Trump or whatever,
and then there would be all of these links to
all of the media outlets that are covering it, different
angles to it. It's all stacked up there, and it
is of the left, as has been for years. But Pete,
then why do you go there? Ah? I go there
to see which stories are moving and which stories the
left is focusing on. Ground news is another way to
see this too. But the mem random one today this
morning I wake up, So the view was yesterday, So
I wake up this morning, five am, fire up the
computer and I'm looking at it, looking at me Mirandom.
There's nothing on that page about Joe Biden on the View.
That's unusual, right, this is the former president and his
first live interview since he left office, and there's nothing
on the front page of me Mirandom. It's almost as
if they don't want people to be completely informed about
what transpired. Not on me Mirandom USA today I mean
there was reporting on it, outlets reporting reported on it,
but on the aggregation site. They don't want to link
you to all of those all of those articles. So
USA today their headline was Biden rebuffs age criticism, attacks
Trump on the view. Again, it's not about his age,
it is about his cognitive decline. These are different issues. Yes,
cognitive decline often occurs in your elder years, to be sure.
But if he was ninety five and sharp as attack,
or at least as sharp as they told us, he
was behind closed doors where we never could see him,
he would not have faced these types of questions. That
debate performance was not because he was old. That debate
performance was because of his cognitive decline, which you can
see simply by pulling up old videos of Joe Biden
giving a campaign speech from any time over the last
half a century. The guy has been on TV for
fifty years. We know who he is. We've seen him speak.
Stuttering at all. I'm just kidding. He never really ended. No,
he never had a stutter in public life. That was
only an excuse they threw at us to gaslight us again.
Oh he has a stutter. No, No, he he is
mentally declining he can't. I mean, you heard, you heard
his answers here, He's he's starting sentences, not finishing them.
He trails off. He miss uh, has malapropisms, He misstates words,
misstates h sayings like I think he said, you know,
to the excess that they did rather than the extent
that that that's the word that you should use in
that sentence. And he's constantly then covering ford by saying anyway, anyway,
you're gonna hear it. Throughout he ends so many of
these answers, or he pulls up in the mid sentence
with this anyway. He makes constant reference to this. I'm
gonna keep it short. You already heard him say that
once he did. He does this throughout the whole interview. Yeah,
I was told not to go on. I mean I
could keep going on all Oh you will hear the
the background noise. I think you can hear it over
the compression over the AM radio dial. But Joe Biden
speaks so softly, which we now have you know, like
this is now confirmed. All of this stuff is confirmed.
About the very low volume at which he speaks, that
they have to crank up the microphone settings so high
that you hear essentially what room noise, that's what you're hearing.
We started hearing this in the last year of his presidency.
There's so much room noise that you can hear when
he when he stops speaking for a second, and you'll
hear that's because the mics are so high that they're
it's like picking up the air conditioning vents, you know,
up in the ceiling and stuff. And I heard it
again in this interview, which is saying because he's on
a sound stage, right, he's miked up with a with
a little lapel mic two. Scott Jennings from CNN, Good lord,
you would think we do not work in radio anyway,
Scott Jennings. Sorry, just inside the building issue. Scott Jennings said,
between he said this on Twitter, between what we saw
of Biden today on the View and my understanding of
what's about to drop in the Alex Thompson Jake Tapper book,
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highlights of the Joe Biden appearance on The View yesterday,
and they asked him, first up, you know, were you
surprised the Veep lost? And he's like, no, sexism, racism, covid,
oh my. And then he was asked, do you think
you would have beat Trump? Well, you darn't do and
I would have. And then they said, well, some have
argued they've eaten I think this was Sonny host and
she was like, some have even argued, like, I can't
believe they would say such a thing. Some have even
argued that the timing of your exit so close to
the election hampered Kamala Harris. Please tell us that's that's
not what happened. Please please tell us that.
Speaker 4: Joe, what do you say to those critics?
Speaker 2: I say, number one, that there was still six full months.
She was in every aspect, every decision I made, every
decision we made, and I don't think, I hope I
don't do sound the wrong way. I don't think anybody
thought would be as successful as you were. I don't
think anybody thought we'd passed Recovery Act. I don't think
anybody thought we'd have we'd deal with a chips and science.
I don't think anybody think we'd have all.
Speaker 3: We got done.
Speaker 1: Okay, how was that responsive? Do you did your exit
six months before the election? That timing instead of allowing
a primary? Right, that's what Hoston doesn't ask, right. They
the Democrat Party closed ranks, locked down primaries so nobody
could challenge Joe Biden in the primary because they didn't
want him doing any debates. Right, So the party stiff
arms everybody else from running against him and then kicks
him out the door six months, you know, throw their coup.
They kick him out the door, and they stick Kamala
Harris in there, which they were saying, you can't get
rid of Joe because oh my gosh, have you seen Harris?
And then as soon as they got rid of Joe,
it's like Kamala Harris is the best, and he's now
answering this question. He's like, no, she still had six months. Oh,
and also, nobody thought we could get everything done that
we did, and we had so much success, and that's
of course why they wanted him to stay is because
he was so successful, and she was right there with
me on all of this. We worked together on all
of these things in.
Speaker 3: A close wace. Think about it.
Speaker 2: We got more major legislation paths to fundamentally change the
direction of the country than any president had a long,
long time.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, he's so close to getting it, yeah, to
transforming the country. And then they voted against you and
your veep. He's so close to getting it right. They
didn't like what you did.
Speaker 2: And so we're in a situation where we came to
office and we agreed on two things. One. I was
tired of just take and tired of trickle down economics.
And my dad just said, not a whole lot trickle
down in his kitchen table. And so I built this.
We built them for the middle out in the bottom up.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, the strongest economy in the world.
Speaker 1: Just campaign, that's a fact. See for the campaign talking
points of the world.
Speaker 2: We created more jobs than one term any president has
in American history.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, all right, this is the This one
drives me nuts. We created more jobs than any president
in history. No, the jobs were put on pause during COVID.
These weren't new jobs you created, and they tagged Trump
all the jobs lost, COVID, a global pandemic and states
locking down all over the place. That's what caused the
job losses. And then when you open the states back
up again, people go back to work because you are
allowing them to go back to work. Gov. Co created
the job losses and the job gains. Not you, Joe.
You had nothing to do with this.
Speaker 2: So my point is that we had a very successful
effort to change the direction of the country and we did,
and she was every single part of that.
Speaker 3: She wasn't and it wasn't like she was a BIA.
Look I realized, wait.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what he was like gagging on his
flim This is not a good performance.
Speaker 2: You know, I was a vice president once and it's
a it's a really you you are an integral part.
I was with Barak. He was a great president. But
you know, I just think that it Uh, it was
a very tough year across the board. But look what's
happened in the meantime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let me just follow up with this because
when the vice president was here, I asked her if
she would have done something differently than your administration over
the past four years, and because of all the successes
that your administration had. I think her response was, there
is not a thing that comes to mind now. That
answer was weaponized against her.
Speaker 1: Whoaa whoa, whoa whoa. Her answer is weaponized against her.
How how was that possible?
Speaker 3: She No.
Speaker 1: She got criticized for the answer because her answer was
pretty bad. You were running as Joe Biden part two.
I guess it would be Obama part four, So like
you're running is like I did everything that Joe Biden did.
We were together the whole way. And that's what Joe
was still trying to claim here, like we were all
together on all these issues, and she's gets as much
credit as I do for all of this stuff. Yet
people weren't happy with him, and they weren't happy with her.
They didn't like the things that Joe Biden was doing.
They blamed him for a lot of this stuff. They
weren't They didn't weaponize her answer. She failed to distinguish
herself from Joe. She had to be her own candidate,
and she couldn't do it, wouldn't do it, didn't know
how to do it.
Speaker 4: And there has been some reporting that you encouraged her
for there to be no daylight between the two of you.
Speaker 1: First, is that true?
Speaker 4: And do you think in retrospect that she should have
tried to differentiate all the wins that your administration.
Speaker 2: Well, look, first of all, I the non advisor to
say that number one, like I said, I was vice president.
I understand the role number one. Number two, I think
it was. I think she was talking about she wouldn't
have changed the successes we've had. Not opposed to that,
we wouldn't change anything at all.
Speaker 3: She has to be your own person, and she was.
Speaker 2: She was, And so I think that that was used
in a way that is contrary to what she meant
by when she said that. Now, and I think that
you know, she was part of every success we had.
Speaker 3: We'd argue like hell, by the way, no, no, no,
I'm good, that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah we should and say well what about this prevision?
Not Joe, I don't like that. Well yeah, anyway, we
worked it out. It was a mutual thing. But like
I said, Lay eight to five, if that election started,
I told you we were going to get any of
that done, None of you would have thought happened, not
because negative I mean it was it anyway as I say,
And something that we'd done pretty good.
Speaker 1: As we'd done pretty good, we done as they say,
What did he say that we say as in the
we say in the South.
Speaker 3: Anyway, as I say, And something that we've done pretty good.
Speaker 1: As they say in southern Did he try to say Delaware?
Did they say that in southern Delaware? Is there a
southern Delaware? So my takeaway on that is that we
were so awesome that people voted us out like they
couldn't handle all of the awesomeness. Megan Kelly from The
Megan Kelly Show, she said in her podcast last night
that she has been a guest on the View. She says,
the producers write all these questions, and the producers give
the questions to the guests in advance. They knew all
of these questions were coming. And what Joe Biden is
essentially saying is what democrats say whenever they lose, which
is it was a messaging problem, not the message. We
just didn't advertise all of our successes and how well
everything was working. People just didn't understand because we didn't
do a good job of messaging. It's always the same
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over and chat with Alex real quick. Hey Alex, welcome
to the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing good? How are you okay good?
Speaker 5: I just want to say I think Joe Biden is
as full of crap as a stink in depends. He's
the worst president, says Jimmy Carter. And that's saying something.
Often tell people that the main reason that I'm have
been a straight ticket voting Republican is have two people
to think for that, Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 1: You would not be alone in that. Yeah, Carter was
before my time, but the scars were deep. So yeah,
I know a lot of people who made the same conclusion. Alex, Thanks, man,
have a great weekend. I appreciate the call. Michael says
sexism and racism are the only excuses Democrats ever have
for why they lost, and Russ writes in when he
touts his successes, he mentions the Chips Bill and jobs.
I never heard an actual person ever mention the Chips bill,
and if you control for replacement jobs, government jobs, jobs
to foreigners versus citizens, and the percentage of people working
multiple jobs, he actually has one of the worst jobs
creation records in history. And Joe says or Joseph says,
if over half the country is racist and sexist for
not voting for Kamala, what does that say about Democrat
primary voters where she got a paltry two percent and
didn't even make it to her home state's primary in
twenty twenty. You're exactly right. Also, she got six million.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I would also bring up that she got six million
fewer votes than Biden did, but those were phony COVID
chicanery votes. Yeah. Yeah, the turnout during the twenty twenty
election was way higher for both Democrat and Republican candidates.
So he left that out. Now, so they the Biden's
were on the view, but Joe was solo for the
first segment. The second segment, then they bring out Jill Biden.
Sorry doctor, you call her doctor Jill, so doctor Jill Biden,
or as I call her, doctor Jilson. As a as
a tip of the hat to Edith Wilson. Edith Wilson
was the wife of Woodrow Wilson, who basically acted as
our president when Woodrow Wilson had like his fourteen thousand
strokes or whatever and he couldn't function, and so they
kept him hidden away and she would sign stuff in
his hand. They brought out doctor Jilson, and they asked,
first question, real hardball stuff, how is she adjusting to
private life? And she said, oh, you know, she grocery
shops now, and she's she's on a lot of airplanes.
She's flying around a lot, she's traveling a lot. And
Joe responds, sake a service.
Speaker 3: That's that's that's the benefit. Yeah, yeah, but it's also
manager not anyway.
Speaker 1: Of course, I don't even know what he said. I
cannot decipher what he was saying there, or to quote
Donald Trump, I don't even think he knows what he
just said. So as I said, he would repeatedly wander
off point, he would lose his train of thought. He
would say anyway an end the answer, or he says,
I'll stop talking so much. There have been a number
next question, there have been a number of deeply sourced
from Democrats, deeply sourced reports and books about his dramatic
decline and cognitive abilities in the final year of office.
Is before then too, but whatever, at least they're asking,
so she asked, are these sources all wrong?
Speaker 2: They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that number one.
Number two, you know, think of what.
Speaker 3: We're left for.
Speaker 2: We left for the circumstance where we had an insurrection,
I started nonsensus civil war. We had a circumstance where
we were in a position that we well the pandemic
because of the incompetence of the last outfit. I end
up over a million people dying, million people dying. And
we're also in a situation where we found ourselves unable
to deal with a lot of just basic issues.
Speaker 3: And uh, I won't go into it in interested time.
Speaker 1: What does that have to do with your declining cognitive abilities?
Why with a question about whether sources, democrats, sources are
wrong about your decline in cognitive ability, why are you
talking about what you were left with when you walked
in the door for a job that you asked for.
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