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This is what's going on in the Joint Session of
Congress right now. Okay, there's just some people. They're all
milling around chit chatting and talking and waiting for the
certification of the of the vote to occur. And let
me kind of pick up from the last hour's topic
a little bit, which is this idea that you know,
Joe Biden just did this this new order to ban
all of the offshore drilling. And I'm not sure he
actually did that. And this is the problem when you
have a president that is non compassmentis right when he
is out to lunch, he's been cognitive decline for years.
It's gotten much much worse. You probably heard the audio
clips where he cussed and snapped at reporters about how
I met with more world leaders any of you whatever. Okay, dude,
you've been in the Senate for like seven hundred years.
You should know more world leaders than these twenty four
year olds that you know got the White House correspondent
gig because their parents were producers at NBC or something
right like that. That should not you should not be
like touting that as as some sort of bona fidie.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Not to be fair, the twenty four year old probably
doesn't know what they're asking you about because they don't
know any world leaders either. But the point here is
that Joe Biden has been in cognitive decline for a
long time. And this is one of the reasons I
believe why the Democrat Party was punished by voters because
we've been gas lit. And until that June debate June
twenty seventh, I believe the debate between Trump and Biden.
Media was carrying water and running interference for the and
playing along with the administration's sheltering operation of Joe Biden.
Wall Street Journal did the big expose on this couple
weeks ago. So Chuck Schumer appears on Meet the Press
over the weekend, and anybody else give up watching all
all of these shows. I used to watch all of
these shows on Sunday mornings.
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 1: I would just I used to be on one of
these shows. I mean it wasn't national, it was final
edition on the local public television station, report a roundtable
kind of a deal. I used to do that every
Friday for years, talk about local issues on TV. And
so I would. I would watch all of these other
national shows because it was a good way to, you know,
find out what had happened and what's going to happen.
And you get these interviews with the newsmakers and such.
And I don't watch these things anymore, but they still
do them. I was as surprised as you they still
do them. So Chuck Schumer appeared on Meet the Press,
and to her credit, the host Kristin Welker, who I
think moderated one of the debates I don't remember. I
mean it was Trump versus a Democrat, but I don't
remember which one, whether it was Biden or Harris. But
she asked Schumer about whether the Democrats and the administration
misled Americans about Joe Biden's mental prowess, despite reports showing
Biden's mental fitness was lacking even before he was elected.
And here is what Chuck Schumer said.
Speaker 4: I want to play you a little bit of something
you said last year.
Speaker 5: Take a look. I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly,
or sometimes several times in a week, or usually several
times in a week. His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
It's as good as it's been over the years. All
this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined
is wrong.
Speaker 4: Leader Schumer, what do you say to Americans who feel
as though you and other top Democrats misled them about
President Biden's mental acurity.
Speaker 5: Look, we didn't, and let's look. Let's look at President Biden.
He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one
of the most significant groups of legislation since the New
Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred
and thirty five judges of record. And he's a patriot,
he's a great guy. And when he stepped down, he
did it on his own because he thought it was
better not only for the Democratic Party, for the America.
We should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Why is he saying this?
They just need the lie to last a little bit longer.
So once again, why why are you still saying this?
Why would you still be saying this? Because they need
the lie for another two weeks after Trump is inaugurated.
I suspect you're going to start hearing a lot of
different tunes being sung on this matter. But right now,
they need the lie a little bit longer. Why, good question.
They need the lie a little bit longer so they
could do more stuff like the oil drill band. Right,
you got a lot of stuff that people like, all
of the commutations that he signed off on. We don't
know who is actually running the country, which is terrifying.
We have no idea. And when you start looking back
and piecing this stuff together, kind of sort of makes sense.
Why the Defense secretary would just go Mia for days
and nobody he knows where he is, remember that one.
Because he's not having regular conversations with the White House
or staffers, or maybe Lloyd Austin told some staffers, but
the staffers never told the president or I don't know,
maybe maybe just you know, Austin gave a phone call
to some zoomer or some millennial and they don't answer
their phones. Lloyd Austin being older, I think he's a boomer,
and so he probably you know, didn't text because they
don't like texting so much. It's like a generational communication
failure or something. I don't know, but it kind of
now makes more sense when you realize that Biden was
being insulated from everybody, including his own cabinet members. So
if nobody's having an Schumer who says he has he's
talking to Joe several times each week, this makes his
lie all the more egregious because he is still claiming
that Biden is as good as he has been, and
the proof of this is his amazing record, which to me,
he sort of gives away the game because if you're
going to point to a person's record, but we don't
know if they're actually responsible for that record, you're making
an assumption there. You're making an assumption that Joe Biden's
record is in fact his, and we don't know that, right.
We don't know if he actually did these things or
if it was his staffers who drew up something and
just said, here's your second helping of tapioca pudding. Now
sign this paper. You'll get this second helping if you
sign this order. And then he does it. It's as
good as it's been over the years, is what he says.
I don't even know what that means. That's not actually
encouraging at all. That's not encouraging. And then he called
it right wing propaganda. He said, it's all it's just
all wrong that his mental acuity has declined. That's all wrong.
I'm sorry. When you're calling out for dead people in
the middle of speeches, you're telling me that that's the
sign of non declining mental acuity, that's improving mental acuity.
Give me a break. Are we to believe that this
one eighty two year old man is somehow more astute
and more with it than he was at age sixty?
Like the one guy in world history, in human history,
who gets better as he gets older, his mind gets
sharper as he gets older into his eighties. That is
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now proceeding through the certification of the Electoral College tally.
Who's going to win? It's gonna be Trump. So let's
see here.
Speaker 6: It appears they're from the Kamala Ed Harris of the
state of California received five votes for president and Tim
Walls of the state of Minnesota received five votes for
vice president.
Speaker 1: That's New Mexico. I think New York is going to
come next.
Speaker 6: Madham President. The Certificate of the electoral vote of the
State of New York seems to be regular, inform and authentic,
and it appears therefrom the Kamalaed Harris of the state
of California received twenty eight votes for President. Tim Walls
of the state of Minnesota received twenty eight votes for
Vice President.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, she just pulled ahead. She got one hundred
and eighty six. Now he's got one sixty four.
Speaker 2: Madam President. The Certificate of the electoral vote of the
State of North Carolina seems to be regular, inform and authentic,
and it appears therefrom that Donald J. Trump of the
state of Florida receives sixteen votes for presidents and JD.
Vance of the state of Ohio receives sixteen votes for
vice president.
Speaker 1: All right, he closed the gap. It's now one to
eighty to one eighty six. Okay, spoiler alert, he does win.
Trump wins. So that's that's basically how it goes. They
do all of this formality. You got Vice President Kamala
Harris standing up there behind the the microphone up at
the you know, the top chair, Mike Johnson sitting in
the seat next to her. Look just politics and you know,
personalities aside. That's got to be a tough thing to do,
is to stand up there. You know, you've lost and
you're standing up there and you have to which it's
kind of silly, Like they show the certificates to the
Vice president. She looks at them and then hands them
to somebody else as if like this is the the
proper check system that they're using. I don't know it's formality,
but like she literally gets handed a stack of the certificates.
These these it's on a notice, it's a certificate of
authenticity or something like that, and they give it to
the Vice president. She then hands it to somebody who
reads it and that's so you just heard read it,
and then it gets handed to somebody else, and that's
that's the process they're going through. But that's got to
be difficult to be standing up there participating in this
process when you've you know, you've lost. Everybody in the
room knows you've lost. Everybody watching on TV and c
Span knows you've lost. And she just has to stand
there with this I don't even know what kind of
an expression. She's zoned out. There's no joy, no cackling.
It's like she's doing the stiff upper lip thing. Anyway,
So like I saw, like at a personal level, I
recognize that's got to be tough for her. She's got
a bit of shininess going on. I don't know if
it's warm in the room or not, but anyway, one
of the other things Joe Biden did I mentioned was
the commutations and of all of the the bad people
that were convicted on various things, commuted a whole boatload
of sentences for them and punishments and wiped a lot
of records clean hundreds of them. Biggest one ever, right,
and then he did a round of medals, around of medals.
He handed out the Presidential Medal of Freedom to nineteen people.
That is the nation's highest civilian honor. And again I'm
not sure that he did these. I'm not sure these
were his decisions. But if they were or the staffers
doesn't matter, because the optics still look awful. And again
that's why he's doing it on the way out the door.
And one of the other things I note, he did
not give Kamala Harris a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Obama
gave him one. Caught him off guard. He was surprised. Remember,
he got all emotional. He did not do that for Harris.
I'm not reading anything into that. I'm just simply pointing
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Donald Trump has won the Electoral College. Here's how it.
Here's how the vote sounded. When Kamala Harris, presiding over
the proceeding, had to announce the results that.
Speaker 7: She The state of the vote for the President of
the United States, as delivered to the President of the
Senate is as follows. The whole number of the electors
appointed to vote for President of the United States is
five hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the
majority is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President
of the United States are as follows.
Speaker 1: Donald J.
Speaker 7: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes.
Speaker 3: Kamala de Harris, she tried to get past the applause,
so now half of the chamber is applauding for Republicans.
Speaker 1: Oh, gavelson down.
Speaker 7: Kamala de Harris of the state of California has received
two hundred and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1: Louser, she's the loser of the race. I guess sorry,
since she's just gaveling everybody now.
Speaker 7: The whole number of electors appointed to vote for Vice
President of the United States is five hundred and thirty eight.
Within that whole number, a majority is two hundred and seventy.
The votes for Vice President of the United States are
as follows.
Speaker 2: JD.
Speaker 7: Vance of the state of Ohio has received three hundred
and twelve votes.
Speaker 1: Yay, okay, I'm going to give this again. I mean,
I kind of I saw where that was going well,
with Trump having secured pree twelve.
Speaker 8: Al so I how was the betting man Tim Walls
of the state of Minnesota has received two hundred and
twenty six votes.
Speaker 7: This announcement of the state of the vote by the
President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration
of the persons elected President and Vice President of the
United States, each for a term beginning on the twentieth
day of January two thousand and twenty five, and shall
be entered together with the list of the votes on
the journals of the House and the Senate.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and that's it. So they're done.
That's how it happened. I got to tell you, it's
pretty anticlimactic. I kind of felt I knew where it
was headed. So the Presidential Medal of Freedom was handed
out to nineteen people by Joe Biden, who I think
may have sniff Hillary Clinton's hair when he put it
around her neck. It looked like I'm just saying, it
looked kind of like that's what he was doing. He
leaned in. I will look. Give the guy credit. He
was able to clip the back of the ribbon that
the medal is attached to. He got that, you know,
he didn't do like the put it over her head
like the Olympics style. You know they do it where
the person goes up there and then they turn their
back to the president, and then the president takes the
medal and puts it around them and then clips the back.
I don't know what kind of clippage clipping assembly is
on the back of the ribbon the neck band part.
But for a guy at eighty two years old has
problems going upstairs, you know, like, that's I'm impressed. He
did a good job. Look, I give credit where it
is due. Okay, so credit where it is due. He
did a good job, at least on the couple of
video clips that I saw of him doing the metal presentations.
So Hillary Clinton, who helped to fabricate the Steele dossier,
wiped all of her emails and serve and stuff while
she was engaged in more than likely illegal activity with
the Clinton Foundation and sending all sorts of stuff over
unsecured servers. She got a Medal of Freedom, the highest
UH civilian honor. She deserved that obviously. Oh and George
soroscot one. That guy is still alive. Did you know
that George Soros is still alive ninety four years old.
I was just pausing there so you could fill in
your in your head, you know, like real evil never
dies joke you could. That's why I did that. Anyway, Look,
I didn't make the joke. I'm just saying, if you
wanted to, I gave you space to do that because
I'm a giver. So ninety four years old George Soros,
According to The New York Post, he has been one
of the most prolific fundraisers for the Democratic Party in
recent history. The Hungarian born hedge fund billionaire gave more
than one hundred and seventy five million dollars to Democrats
during the twenty twenty two mid terms. In twenty twenty four,
he funneled another sixty million for House and Senate Democrats
and other left wing causes through his Democrasse Political Action Committee. Soros,
who has shifted tens of billions of dollars of his
personal net worth over to his Open Society Foundations, which
funds a multitude of leftist projects around the world, has
also heavily invested in races to install far left district
attorneys in major American cities. I watched a clip. I
can only assume it was from a Halloween episode because
Joe Rogan, the podcaster, MMA announcer actor comedian guy Joe
Rogan's podcast. He was dressed up, I think as a
wrestler or something. I couldn't really tell. He had like
this really crazy blonde wig on and some silly shirt.
So Elon Musk was with him, and Elon Musk was
dressed weirdly as well. I couldn't really tell what his
costume was, so I assumed it was a Halloween episode.
I want to assume it was a Halloween episode. Moving on,
Elon Musk talked about George Soros and he said, you know,
Soros is very good at identifying areas where money can
be made in arbitrage, where things are losing value, where
things are undervalued, and he recognizes that it hasn't has
an actual value that's greater. So if he can somehow
change a dynamic, he can make it worth more money.
And what he realized, what Soros realized years ago, was
that all of this money that people pour into the
national races, particularly the presidential races, has a lower value.
The dollar you spend at that level has less value
because there's so much money at that level. And what
Sorrows realized was you could have a very high value
for your investment dollar. At the local races, there's way
more benefit. It yields way more. Twenty thousand dollars at
a local race. One hundred thousand dollars at a local
race can upend society, create the chaos increased crime that
Soros obviously was interested in creating, and so that's where
he put his money. He did it with a Secretary
of States project, he did it with DA's sheriffs races
and such. North Carolina is a good example of that
very thing. San Francisco, Go is sort of the poster
child in New York City, Los Angeles, same thing. All right,
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Michael says, ew gross, Pete, you did not have to
talk about Joe Biden sniffing Hillary Clinton's hair. That's true
though I did not have to, but I did, but
I did.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Look, if I had to see it, you have to
well visualize it too, Yeah, because he like he leaned
in when he did the metal put. You know, Joe
takes the medal and he goes to hang it around
her neck, and he's behind her and so when he
does the first part where he's got to like, you know,
reach one arm, you know, one arm over her right shoulder,
one arm over her left shoulder, and then like grab
the other side of the metal so then he could
come back around and clip it to the back. He
had to lean closer to her head, and I mean,
that hair is just right there in his face. It's
not gonna sniff itself. So I mean, what choice did
he have. I don't know. But George Soros also got
a medal. No, Joe did not sniff his hair, mainly
because George didn't show. And so Joe gave the medal
to George's son Alex. Alex Soros, who has now become
the king of the Soros Empire on the political side,
going to continue the work that daddy did. And you
may have seen some of these pictures where all of
these Democrat politicians were going to kiss the ring at
his apartment is like multi million dollar Manhattan apartment penthouse,
you know, And and so like all these people are
are are making the pilgrimage over to Alex Soros's penthouse
and then they're getting pictures taken and he's tweeting them
out he's posting these pictures like trophies that he has taken.
In case you need a list of all the politicians
that I've got in my pocket, let me take this
phone from my pocket and show you their pictures. There
you go. Joe Biden also awarded medals to several Hollywood
A listers. George Clooney not on the list. I don't
know why. Bono the frontman for You Two, the banded
You Two Bono, And honestly, Bono's a pretty good choice, right,
I mean, aside from that whole Aktung Baby, h I
actually liked that album. That one was fine. It was
the one, the Zuropa one, which was like, that's just awful,
and then the one that they by the way, I
found that stupid album that they crammed down onto us
when I was doing my iTunes cleanup over my vacation
and I open up my account, you know, I have
to wipe everything whatever, and there it is. I've got
this whole YouTube album in my iTunes. I did not
ask for this. I don't want that. Like I bailed.
I bailed it after Zuopa. Actually the last album I
bought from them was Aktung Baby Anyway, Bono's done a
ton of work trying to fight global poverty, and to
his credit, like he started off in an antagonistic relationship
with George W. Bush on this issue, you know, making
all these demands for more government interventions and programs and such.
And to his credit, I will say, Bono has come
to the realization that the free market is the really
only way to alleviate the kind of grinding poverty that
has afflicted humankind throughout our entire existence. He's come around.
He's come around, and not just me, Like you know,
I've been a firm believer in the free market, it's ability,
but now you two terrible pun I apologize, But moving
on Michael J. Fox, the Back to the Future star,
But I can understand why he would get it too,
because of all of the work that he has done
in raising awareness for Parkinson's right. So I get I
get that one as well. Also, everybody loved him. If
you didn't like if you were you aren't a kid
in the eighties and nineties watching him as Alex P.
Keaton and then Back to the Future Martin McFly, like,
if you weren't around for that era, Michael J. Fox
was the it dude, the it guy, whatever they call that.
I want to say, Yeah, I mean, what was it?
Uh teen Wolf? Remember that one? Yeah? Magic Johnson. He
also got a medal, but I kind of feel like
he's done a lot of work raising awareness for HIV causes. Right,
So there's that, then Ralph Lauren, because Jill is a
huge fan of his work, I think that's how he
got it. And then there was Lionel Messi. He's a
soccer player and he didn't show. He yeah, he didn't go.
And so everybody, like on Twitter, on conservative Twitter, was like, yeah,
go Messy and all this, Like, I don't know, guy's
got like five kids, probably just you know, the other
other things to do. Doesn't need to go. Denzel Washington
and a wind Tour aka the Devil from The Devilwar's
Prada the Devil So between her and Sorrows two, Devil's
actually got it too soon? All right. That'll do it
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