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Speaker 4: Fifty five karsite talk station, and it's that time. Post
Speaker 4: presidential election day or now we'll get here from Judge
Speaker 4: Ownenapolitano every Wednesday at this hour and advance apologies from
Speaker 4: Chuck Ingram for not doing a personalized message.
Speaker 2: He knew you were coming on. It's just that he
Speaker 2: had so much traffic issues going on here locally, he
Speaker 2: just didn't have time. It's been kind of a I
Speaker 2: don't know. I'll use a military term that you might
Speaker 2: be familiar with. You're Honor Charlie Foxtrott kind of traffic
Speaker 2: situation day here, so i'll extend to pology.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with that term. But I'm also spoiled rotten
Speaker 1: by waking up on every Wednesday morning eagerly anticipating what
Speaker 1: he's gonna say.
Speaker 2: I know, listen, man, I know the comments are always
Speaker 2: directed to you, But I get as big a kick
Speaker 2: out of him as you do, because Lord knows what
Speaker 2: he's going to come out of his mouth. So anyhow,
Speaker 2: it's always a pleasure to have you on the program. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I know I've got your column here. What if voting
Speaker 2: is fruitless? Which is well, the title can serve as
Speaker 2: an interesting spring into your response or your reaction to
Speaker 2: the It looks like a clean sweep. Donald Trump handily
Speaker 2: one not just the electoral college, but the popular vote
Speaker 2: as well, by more than four million, and control of
Speaker 2: the Senate now in Republican hands by at least a
Speaker 2: couple We have some ountliers that haven't been settled yet.
Speaker 2: The House looks like it's going to be in the
Speaker 2: Republicans' hands as well. I just clearly Kamala Harris. Harris's
Speaker 2: messages of name calling didn't resonate with the American people.
Speaker 1: I think that Joe Biden has been a terrible president
Speaker 1: domestically and foreign policy wise, and this was visited upon Harris,
Speaker 1: who attempted to defend him and couldn't distance herself from him.
Speaker 1: And the people are sick and tired of Ukraine, Gaza
Speaker 1: and high prices. I mean, high prices are caused by
Speaker 1: the Fed, the majority of whom we're appointed by Donald Trump. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: high interest rates, high prices hit everybody. She couldn't have
Speaker 1: a clear message on Gaza. I don't know if she
Speaker 1: agrees with Joe Biden or not. Her husband and her
Speaker 1: daughters are Jewish, and she frequently retreated to that as
Speaker 1: a defense to her support of him. Notwithstanding the slaughter
Speaker 1: of innocence there. Ukraine is utterly indefensible. So the people
Speaker 1: wanted a change, and they voted for it. I did
Speaker 1: not expect this at all. I went to bed early
Speaker 1: and woke up expecting, you know when I usually get
Speaker 1: up at four point thirty, probably after you get up,
Speaker 1: expecting you know, litigation and recrimination and vote counting and recounting.
Speaker 1: And by the time I finished brushing my teeth, the
Speaker 1: whole world had declared Donald Trump the victor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the efforts by the Republicans to get the vote
Speaker 2: out early in or this sort of stop the steal.
Speaker 2: We need to overwhelm the Democrats with voters, get out early,
Speaker 2: vote early. And you know the number of Republicans that
Speaker 2: came out and voted early, really, I mean historic. You
Speaker 2: can't even say anything other than that. So they reduced
Speaker 2: that in a sea change.
Speaker 1: In people's thinking. I was thinking about my teenage years
Speaker 1: of JFK and LBJ and even Nixon. The Democrats never
Speaker 1: lost as badly as they did this time. The last
Speaker 1: time they lost this badly was nineteen eighty and nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four, both of Reagan's victories. This is a tumultuous
Speaker 1: trouncing of them, and it should be laid at the feat.
Speaker 1: As I said earlier of Joe Biden. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: a political analyt, as you know. I'm much more on
Speaker 1: the theoretical, long term what if side of things. But
Speaker 1: living in the world that we live in and having
Speaker 1: my own podcast and working at Newsmax, you know you
Speaker 1: can't there's Chris seeing a squirrel. You can't help but
Speaker 1: have opinions and want to share your analysis.
Speaker 2: That's mine well and fair enough. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see all morning long. All the listeners and my guests
Speaker 2: this morning of all shared the common belief slash recommendation
Speaker 2: that Donald Trump should immediately take the high road welcome
Speaker 2: open arms a new Republican voters who at minimum held
Speaker 2: their nose to vote for him. He did make some
Speaker 2: significant inroads in the Hispanic community as well as the
Speaker 2: Black community, according to the the polling data that's come out.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's in his character. I would advise
Speaker 1: him to do the same thing. I would advise him
Speaker 1: to call up people like Governor Whitman of New Jersey
Speaker 1: and the Congresswoman Cheney and say welcome back. But that's
Speaker 1: really not him. He's far more interested in punishing those
Speaker 1: who irritated him than joining him. But maybe we'll see
Speaker 1: a different Donald Trump. What will Joe Biden do? Will
Speaker 1: he invite the Trumps to the White House? Here's an
Speaker 1: interesting one for you. Will he pardon Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: save him from having to fire his own prosecutor?
Speaker 2: It remains to be seen. He's still facing state charges though,
Speaker 2: and I don't think the presidential pardon can reach down
Speaker 2: to state charges.
Speaker 1: Now, No, no, it can't, Brian. He's facing a sentencing
Speaker 1: on November twenty six, two days before Thanksgiving. Now I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that the sentencing will go forward. If it does,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it would be custodial. The Georgia case
Speaker 1: will probably seed without him. There are sixteen co defendants
Speaker 1: in that case. The state can try all of them
Speaker 1: and then either give up the ghost on Trump the
Speaker 1: world will be very different four years from now, or
Speaker 1: decide to try him them. But they certainly can't try
Speaker 1: him in state court while he's the President of the
Speaker 1: United States and the case is not ready to proceed
Speaker 1: in the two months remaining in Biden's presidency.
Speaker 2: Well, turning back to your column, what if voting is fruitless?
Speaker 2: You ask a lot of rhetorical questions, of course, designed
Speaker 2: to get people's juices flowing and to contemplate things. And
Speaker 2: one of the ones I highlighted, what if the fatal
Speaker 2: cocktail of big government and democracy ultimately produces dependency? Now
Speaker 2: you elaborate on that one, But aren't we there already
Speaker 2: with the number of people who are led to the
Speaker 2: umbilical court of the federal government to basically live, sleep,
Speaker 2: and get their clothing and shelter in pretty much everything else.
Speaker 2: We've given the people the opportunity to choose not to
Speaker 2: work and yet still live quite comfortably by contrast to
Speaker 2: the rest of the world.
Speaker 3: You know, in a.
Speaker 1: Great book by an Austrian philosopher I'm looking for it
Speaker 1: on my shelf by the name of Hans Hermann Hauppa
Speaker 1: h Oppe called democracy the god that failed. He argues
Speaker 1: that when the people realize that they can legally and
Speaker 1: peacefully vote themselves a share of other people's wealth, they
Speaker 1: will continue to do so. And Jefferson and Hamilton foresaw this.
Speaker 1: The two of them hated each other and never agreet
Speaker 1: in anything except this. When the public learns that the
Speaker 1: public treasury has become a public trough. They will only
Speaker 1: send to Washington those who promise to return to them
Speaker 1: the biggest piece of the pie. And that's what we
Speaker 1: have to The government recognizes no restraint on its power
Speaker 1: to transfer wealth, to start wars, to incur death, to
Speaker 1: cause death, to incur debt, to spy on everybody, to
Speaker 1: make a mockery of the Bill of Rights. The government
Speaker 1: just recognizes no limits on that. Half of the decisions
Speaker 1: made in the House of Representatives are made behind closed doors.
Speaker 1: The Democrats vote in lockstep with their leadership. The Republicans
Speaker 1: vote in lockstep with theirs. Unlike the Senate, there is
Speaker 1: no debate whatsoever on the floor of the House. Each
Speaker 1: member is given thirty or sixty seconds. Ask our dear friend,
Speaker 1: Congressman Messi, how fruitless this is. Some of his most
Speaker 1: eloquent and articulate speeches were given to an empty, empty
Speaker 1: House of Representatives, because they all know how everybody's going
Speaker 1: to vote. No matter what anyone says, that style of government,
Speaker 1: secret party oriented, big government, pro war pro a transfer
Speaker 1: of wealth will continue no matter who's in the White
Speaker 1: House and who controls the Congress. That's the thesis of
Speaker 1: my piece.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Now, I wrote that obviously yesterday, before I knew the
Speaker 1: outcome of the election. Trump may try some radical things.
Speaker 1: He may try to abolish the Department of Education. He
Speaker 1: may try to abolish Homeland Security, although I doubt it.
Speaker 1: He likes police. The Department of Homeland Security employs one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand Did you know this plane clothed cops? Wow,
Speaker 1: that's five times the number of FBI agents there are.
Speaker 1: What do they do? What do federal police do? They
Speaker 1: don't direct traffic, they don't investigate crimes. What do they do?
Speaker 1: While we don't know?
Speaker 2: Always bringing up interesting points, Judge entered Apolitano.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to give the good people of Cincinnati heartburn.
Speaker 1: Most of them are probably quite happy at the outcome
Speaker 1: of the election.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. You can't say that.
Speaker 1: My job is to is to stir the pot from
Speaker 1: the perspective of a person who believes that the Constitution
Speaker 1: is supposed to mean what it says.
Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you, your honor, If the city
Speaker 2: of Cincinnati and the county in which it sits, Hamilton County,
Speaker 2: had its way, it would be President Kamala Harris Or,
Speaker 2: President of elekt Kamala Harris H and a whole big
Speaker 2: blue wave is true.
Speaker 1: I thought Cincinnati was a Republican.
Speaker 2: Who has not been Republican since Ken Blackwell was mayor
Speaker 2: back in the nineties. You got a this is this
Speaker 2: is like four.
Speaker 1: Decades Dennis did Dennis cousinich win.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know that's it didn't cross my field
Speaker 2: of vision.
Speaker 1: He was running as an independent and he told me
Speaker 1: he was leading both of his opponents. He of course,
Speaker 1: is the former congressman from that district. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, we have Bernie Moreno is now our new senator
Speaker 2: in place of Shared Brown, which is a welcome, welcome
Speaker 2: change in my listening audience. So Joe said, no Sinach lost.
Speaker 2: So there's a Joe strecker man with the with the
Speaker 2: incident internet search. He can answer any question on a
Speaker 2: Moment's no.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That is a longtime friend. But thank you, Joe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and thank you your honor. As we usually do,
Speaker 2: we'll end the program on Judging Freedom, your podcast, which
Speaker 2: is wildly popular, I know because you have some great
Speaker 2: guests on and of course always offering your wonderful commentary
Speaker 2: and insight.
Speaker 1: Who's on today, Oh, I have Colonel Douglas McGregor, Professor
Speaker 1: John Meerscheimer, Professor Jeffrey Sachsville Giraldi, Aaron Monte have my
Speaker 1: first team on today, not to talk politics, but to
Speaker 1: talk about Israel, which is really at war with itself
Speaker 1: right now, especially after the leak of classified documents showing
Speaker 1: the Prime minister that's in Yaho sabotaged the peace negotiations
Speaker 1: and Ukraine is dying in slow motion. That's really where
Speaker 1: we're going today. But I will ask colonel McGregor if
Speaker 1: he who was in the Trump Defense Department, if he
Speaker 1: expects much difference in American foreign policy in the new
Speaker 1: Trump Defense Department. He'll probably say no, because the last
Speaker 1: thing Donald Trump said two days ago about the Defense
Speaker 1: Department was his shortlist was Tom Cotton and Mike Pompeio.
Speaker 1: These are classic warhawks running the Department of Defense. So
Speaker 1: World War three get ready.
Speaker 2: From the Man City, he would lay hands and solve
Speaker 2: the conflicts when his first day in office. I've always
Speaker 2: been wondering how he was going to accomplish that. Well,
Speaker 2: now find we have an opportunity to find out. Judge
Speaker 2: ended up Allton, my dear friend, until next Wednesday. Best
Speaker 2: of health, thanks for your commentary.
Speaker 1: Back at you, Brian, always a pleasure.
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