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So we uh, let's head 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,600 on over here and take a Hey, there's jd Evance. 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,640 This is what's going on in the Joint Session of 12 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:41,000 Congress right now. Okay, there's just some people. They're all 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:46,039 milling around chit chatting and talking and waiting for the 14 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:52,759 certification of the of the vote to occur. And let 15 00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:55,799 me kind of pick up from the last hour's topic 16 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:01,079 a little bit, which is this idea that you know, 17 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,359 Joe Biden just did this this new order to ban 18 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:09,840 all of the offshore drilling. And I'm not sure he 19 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,560 actually did that. And this is the problem when you 20 00:01:13,599 --> 00:01:19,840 have a president that is non compassmentis right when he 21 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,959 is out to lunch, he's been cognitive decline for years. 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,040 It's gotten much much worse. You probably heard the audio 23 00:01:28,079 --> 00:01:31,840 clips where he cussed and snapped at reporters about how 24 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:37,920 I met with more world leaders any of you whatever. Okay, dude, 25 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,159 you've been in the Senate for like seven hundred years. 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,439 You should know more world leaders than these twenty four 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,120 year olds that you know got the White House correspondent 28 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:52,599 gig because their parents were producers at NBC or something 29 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,680 right like that. That should not you should not be 30 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,760 like touting that as as some sort of bona fidie. 31 00:01:59,799 --> 00:01:59,959 Speaker 2: Now. 32 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,319 Speaker 1: Not to be fair, the twenty four year old probably 33 00:02:02,359 --> 00:02:04,519 doesn't know what they're asking you about because they don't 34 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,560 know any world leaders either. But the point here is 35 00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:13,360 that Joe Biden has been in cognitive decline for a 36 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:16,400 long time. And this is one of the reasons I 37 00:02:16,479 --> 00:02:23,919 believe why the Democrat Party was punished by voters because 38 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,120 we've been gas lit. And until that June debate June 39 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:31,360 twenty seventh, I believe the debate between Trump and Biden. 40 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,599 Media was carrying water and running interference for the and 41 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:45,039 playing along with the administration's sheltering operation of Joe Biden. 42 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:49,680 Wall Street Journal did the big expose on this couple 43 00:02:49,759 --> 00:02:55,319 weeks ago. So Chuck Schumer appears on Meet the Press 44 00:02:55,599 --> 00:02:59,919 over the weekend, and anybody else give up watching all 45 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,960 all of these shows. I used to watch all of 46 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,439 these shows on Sunday mornings. 47 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:04,719 Speaker 3: I would. 48 00:03:04,759 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: I would just I used to be on one of 49 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,520 these shows. I mean it wasn't national, it was final 50 00:03:09,719 --> 00:03:17,400 edition on the local public television station, report a roundtable 51 00:03:17,479 --> 00:03:19,360 kind of a deal. I used to do that every 52 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,919 Friday for years, talk about local issues on TV. And 53 00:03:25,439 --> 00:03:28,000 so I would. I would watch all of these other 54 00:03:28,199 --> 00:03:31,280 national shows because it was a good way to, you know, 55 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:33,840 find out what had happened and what's going to happen. 56 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,400 And you get these interviews with the newsmakers and such. 57 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:42,159 And I don't watch these things anymore, but they still 58 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:45,879 do them. I was as surprised as you they still 59 00:03:45,879 --> 00:03:51,080 do them. So Chuck Schumer appeared on Meet the Press, 60 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,400 and to her credit, the host Kristin Welker, who I 61 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:01,360 think moderated one of the debates I don't remember. I 62 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,520 mean it was Trump versus a Democrat, but I don't 63 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,000 remember which one, whether it was Biden or Harris. But 64 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:14,439 she asked Schumer about whether the Democrats and the administration 65 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:22,279 misled Americans about Joe Biden's mental prowess, despite reports showing 66 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:27,920 Biden's mental fitness was lacking even before he was elected. 67 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:30,519 And here is what Chuck Schumer said. 68 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,759 Speaker 4: I want to play you a little bit of something 69 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:33,839 you said last year. 70 00:04:33,879 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 5: Take a look. I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly, 71 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:42,439 or sometimes several times in a week, or usually several 72 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:46,160 times in a week. His mental acuity is great, it's fine. 73 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,839 It's as good as it's been over the years. All 74 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,079 this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined 75 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:52,560 is wrong. 76 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 4: Leader Schumer, what do you say to Americans who feel 77 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,879 as though you and other top Democrats misled them about 78 00:05:00,959 --> 00:05:02,560 President Biden's mental acurity. 79 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,079 Speaker 5: Look, we didn't, and let's look. Let's look at President Biden. 80 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,879 He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one 81 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:18,240 of the most significant groups of legislation since the New 82 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:22,360 Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred 83 00:05:22,399 --> 00:05:25,920 and thirty five judges of record. And he's a patriot, 84 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,199 he's a great guy. And when he stepped down, he 85 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:31,920 did it on his own because he thought it was 86 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:34,519 better not only for the Democratic Party, for the America. 87 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,480 We should all salute him. We should all salute him. 88 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,639 Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Why is he saying this? 89 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:50,439 They just need the lie to last a little bit longer. 90 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,720 So once again, why why are you still saying this? 91 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,079 Why would you still be saying this? Because they need 92 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:07,199 the lie for another two weeks after Trump is inaugurated. 93 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,120 I suspect you're going to start hearing a lot of 94 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:16,759 different tunes being sung on this matter. But right now, 95 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,839 they need the lie a little bit longer. Why, good question. 96 00:06:23,439 --> 00:06:25,120 They need the lie a little bit longer so they 97 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,439 could do more stuff like the oil drill band. Right, 98 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,000 you got a lot of stuff that people like, all 99 00:06:32,079 --> 00:06:37,040 of the commutations that he signed off on. We don't 100 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:43,319 know who is actually running the country, which is terrifying. 101 00:06:45,959 --> 00:06:50,000 We have no idea. And when you start looking back 102 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,279 and piecing this stuff together, kind of sort of makes sense. 103 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:58,759 Why the Defense secretary would just go Mia for days 104 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,639 and nobody he knows where he is, remember that one. 105 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:05,439 Because he's not having regular conversations with the White House 106 00:07:06,439 --> 00:07:10,160 or staffers, or maybe Lloyd Austin told some staffers, but 107 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:13,079 the staffers never told the president or I don't know, 108 00:07:13,279 --> 00:07:17,439 maybe maybe just you know, Austin gave a phone call 109 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,839 to some zoomer or some millennial and they don't answer 110 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:26,480 their phones. Lloyd Austin being older, I think he's a boomer, 111 00:07:26,639 --> 00:07:29,600 and so he probably you know, didn't text because they 112 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,920 don't like texting so much. It's like a generational communication 113 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,360 failure or something. I don't know, but it kind of 114 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:39,879 now makes more sense when you realize that Biden was 115 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:45,959 being insulated from everybody, including his own cabinet members. So 116 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,079 if nobody's having an Schumer who says he has he's 117 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:56,639 talking to Joe several times each week, this makes his 118 00:07:56,839 --> 00:08:01,279 lie all the more egregious because he is still claiming 119 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:07,720 that Biden is as good as he has been, and 120 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,040 the proof of this is his amazing record, which to me, 121 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,959 he sort of gives away the game because if you're 122 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,279 going to point to a person's record, but we don't 123 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:20,600 know if they're actually responsible for that record, you're making 124 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,040 an assumption there. You're making an assumption that Joe Biden's 125 00:08:24,079 --> 00:08:27,920 record is in fact his, and we don't know that, right. 126 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,480 We don't know if he actually did these things or 127 00:08:30,519 --> 00:08:33,480 if it was his staffers who drew up something and 128 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,799 just said, here's your second helping of tapioca pudding. Now 129 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:40,279 sign this paper. You'll get this second helping if you 130 00:08:40,399 --> 00:08:46,200 sign this order. And then he does it. It's as 131 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,840 good as it's been over the years, is what he says. 132 00:08:49,519 --> 00:08:51,840 I don't even know what that means. That's not actually 133 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,360 encouraging at all. That's not encouraging. And then he called 134 00:08:55,399 --> 00:08:59,960 it right wing propaganda. He said, it's all it's just 135 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:03,240 all wrong that his mental acuity has declined. That's all wrong. 136 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,399 I'm sorry. When you're calling out for dead people in 137 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,399 the middle of speeches, you're telling me that that's the 138 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:17,360 sign of non declining mental acuity, that's improving mental acuity. 139 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,480 Give me a break. Are we to believe that this 140 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:24,200 one eighty two year old man is somehow more astute 141 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,240 and more with it than he was at age sixty? 142 00:09:28,399 --> 00:09:32,600 Like the one guy in world history, in human history, 143 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,720 who gets better as he gets older, his mind gets 144 00:09:36,759 --> 00:09:40,639 sharper as he gets older into his eighties. That is 145 00:09:40,759 --> 00:09:44,879 truly impressive, and it's a lie. 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I think New York is going to 176 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:26,320 come next. 177 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 6: Madham President. The Certificate of the electoral vote of the 178 00:11:29,639 --> 00:11:32,919 State of New York seems to be regular, inform and authentic, 179 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,960 and it appears therefrom the Kamalaed Harris of the state 180 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,919 of California received twenty eight votes for President. Tim Walls 181 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:42,720 of the state of Minnesota received twenty eight votes for 182 00:11:42,799 --> 00:11:43,480 Vice President. 183 00:11:47,879 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, she just pulled ahead. She got one hundred 184 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,679 and eighty six. Now he's got one sixty four. 185 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 2: Madam President. The Certificate of the electoral vote of the 186 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,000 State of North Carolina seems to be regular, inform and authentic, 187 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:02,840 and it appears therefrom that Donald J. Trump of the 188 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,200 state of Florida receives sixteen votes for presidents and JD. 189 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,559 Vance of the state of Ohio receives sixteen votes for 190 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:10,360 vice president. 191 00:12:14,159 --> 00:12:15,799 Speaker 1: All right, he closed the gap. It's now one to 192 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,879 eighty to one eighty six. Okay, spoiler alert, he does win. 193 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,679 Trump wins. So that's that's basically how it goes. They 194 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:27,559 do all of this formality. You got Vice President Kamala 195 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:32,080 Harris standing up there behind the the microphone up at 196 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,120 the you know, the top chair, Mike Johnson sitting in 197 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:40,519 the seat next to her. Look just politics and you know, 198 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,320 personalities aside. That's got to be a tough thing to do, 199 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:53,360 is to stand up there. You know, you've lost and 200 00:12:53,399 --> 00:12:57,799 you're standing up there and you have to which it's 201 00:12:57,879 --> 00:13:01,080 kind of silly, Like they show the certificates to the 202 00:13:01,159 --> 00:13:03,200 Vice president. She looks at them and then hands them 203 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,799 to somebody else as if like this is the the 204 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,240 proper check system that they're using. I don't know it's formality, 205 00:13:10,519 --> 00:13:15,759 but like she literally gets handed a stack of the certificates. 206 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:22,279 These these it's on a notice, it's a certificate of 207 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,240 authenticity or something like that, and they give it to 208 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,120 the Vice president. She then hands it to somebody who 209 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:29,679 reads it and that's so you just heard read it, 210 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,639 and then it gets handed to somebody else, and that's 211 00:13:32,759 --> 00:13:36,519 that's the process they're going through. But that's got to 212 00:13:36,519 --> 00:13:43,240 be difficult to be standing up there participating in this 213 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,720 process when you've you know, you've lost. Everybody in the 214 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:49,720 room knows you've lost. Everybody watching on TV and c 215 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:56,120 Span knows you've lost. And she just has to stand 216 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,440 there with this I don't even know what kind of 217 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:04,559 an expression. She's zoned out. There's no joy, no cackling. 218 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,039 It's like she's doing the stiff upper lip thing. Anyway, 219 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,879 So like I saw, like at a personal level, I 220 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,279 recognize that's got to be tough for her. She's got 221 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:20,000 a bit of shininess going on. I don't know if 222 00:14:20,039 --> 00:14:25,679 it's warm in the room or not, but anyway, one 223 00:14:25,679 --> 00:14:27,879 of the other things Joe Biden did I mentioned was 224 00:14:27,919 --> 00:14:32,679 the commutations and of all of the the bad people 225 00:14:32,759 --> 00:14:36,960 that were convicted on various things, commuted a whole boatload 226 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:39,799 of sentences for them and punishments and wiped a lot 227 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,960 of records clean hundreds of them. Biggest one ever, right, 228 00:14:44,399 --> 00:14:50,000 and then he did a round of medals, around of medals. 229 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,440 He handed out the Presidential Medal of Freedom to nineteen people. 230 00:14:55,519 --> 00:15:02,639 That is the nation's highest civilian honor. And again I'm 231 00:15:02,679 --> 00:15:06,600 not sure that he did these. I'm not sure these 232 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:12,440 were his decisions. But if they were or the staffers 233 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:18,559 doesn't matter, because the optics still look awful. And again 234 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,399 that's why he's doing it on the way out the door. 235 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,279 And one of the other things I note, he did 236 00:15:22,279 --> 00:15:26,919 not give Kamala Harris a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Obama 237 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,399 gave him one. Caught him off guard. He was surprised. Remember, 238 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,720 he got all emotional. He did not do that for Harris. 239 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,919 I'm not reading anything into that. I'm just simply pointing 240 00:15:37,919 --> 00:15:40,519 it out. All right, I hope you had a happy 241 00:15:40,559 --> 00:15:43,200 holiday season. But tell me if something like this happened 242 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,159 at your house. 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When Kamala Harris, presiding over 263 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,759 the proceeding, had to announce the results that. 264 00:16:59,639 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 7: She The state of the vote for the President of 265 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,680 the United States, as delivered to the President of the 266 00:17:05,759 --> 00:17:09,799 Senate is as follows. The whole number of the electors 267 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:13,119 appointed to vote for President of the United States is 268 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,039 five hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the 269 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,039 majority is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President 270 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,440 of the United States are as follows. 271 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: Donald J. 272 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,799 Speaker 7: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred 273 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:28,920 and twelve votes. 274 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 3: Kamala de Harris, she tried to get past the applause, 275 00:17:37,599 --> 00:17:42,319 so now half of the chamber is applauding for Republicans. 276 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:46,839 Speaker 1: Oh, gavelson down. 277 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,319 Speaker 7: Kamala de Harris of the state of California has received 278 00:17:52,319 --> 00:17:54,119 two hundred and twenty six votes. 279 00:17:55,759 --> 00:18:08,039 Speaker 1: Louser, she's the loser of the race. I guess sorry, 280 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:09,720 since she's just gaveling everybody now. 281 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 7: The whole number of electors appointed to vote for Vice 282 00:18:14,519 --> 00:18:17,000 President of the United States is five hundred and thirty eight. 283 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,640 Within that whole number, a majority is two hundred and seventy. 284 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,799 The votes for Vice President of the United States are 285 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:24,720 as follows. 286 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:25,400 Speaker 2: JD. 287 00:18:25,519 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 7: Vance of the state of Ohio has received three hundred 288 00:18:28,519 --> 00:18:29,279 and twelve votes. 289 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: Yay, okay, I'm going to give this again. I mean, 290 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,200 I kind of I saw where that was going well, 291 00:18:37,279 --> 00:18:38,920 with Trump having secured pree twelve. 292 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 8: Al so I how was the betting man Tim Walls 293 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:47,599 of the state of Minnesota has received two hundred and 294 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,759 twenty six votes. 295 00:18:59,039 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 7: This announcement of the state of the vote by the 296 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,480 President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration 297 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:11,000 of the persons elected President and Vice President of the 298 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:16,119 United States, each for a term beginning on the twentieth 299 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:21,039 day of January two thousand and twenty five, and shall 300 00:19:21,079 --> 00:19:25,880 be entered together with the list of the votes on 301 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,839 the journals of the House and the Senate. 302 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:32,839 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and that's it. So they're done. 303 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:36,680 That's how it happened. I got to tell you, it's 304 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,799 pretty anticlimactic. I kind of felt I knew where it 305 00:19:40,839 --> 00:19:44,319 was headed. So the Presidential Medal of Freedom was handed 306 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,359 out to nineteen people by Joe Biden, who I think 307 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,160 may have sniff Hillary Clinton's hair when he put it 308 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,279 around her neck. It looked like I'm just saying, it 309 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,359 looked kind of like that's what he was doing. He 310 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,400 leaned in. I will look. Give the guy credit. He 311 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:06,599 was able to clip the back of the ribbon that 312 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,039 the medal is attached to. He got that, you know, 313 00:20:09,079 --> 00:20:11,400 he didn't do like the put it over her head 314 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,880 like the Olympics style. You know they do it where 315 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,759 the person goes up there and then they turn their 316 00:20:16,799 --> 00:20:20,079 back to the president, and then the president takes the 317 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,920 medal and puts it around them and then clips the back. 318 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,319 I don't know what kind of clippage clipping assembly is 319 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,200 on the back of the ribbon the neck band part. 320 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,480 But for a guy at eighty two years old has 321 00:20:35,519 --> 00:20:39,599 problems going upstairs, you know, like, that's I'm impressed. He 322 00:20:39,599 --> 00:20:41,839 did a good job. Look, I give credit where it 323 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,519 is due. Okay, so credit where it is due. He 324 00:20:44,519 --> 00:20:46,640 did a good job, at least on the couple of 325 00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:51,720 video clips that I saw of him doing the metal presentations. 326 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:58,039 So Hillary Clinton, who helped to fabricate the Steele dossier, 327 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,039 wiped all of her emails and serve and stuff while 328 00:21:01,079 --> 00:21:05,480 she was engaged in more than likely illegal activity with 329 00:21:05,519 --> 00:21:08,680 the Clinton Foundation and sending all sorts of stuff over 330 00:21:08,799 --> 00:21:13,519 unsecured servers. She got a Medal of Freedom, the highest 331 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:24,279 UH civilian honor. She deserved that obviously. Oh and George 332 00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:27,319 soroscot one. That guy is still alive. Did you know 333 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:34,799 that George Soros is still alive ninety four years old. 334 00:21:35,759 --> 00:21:37,599 I was just pausing there so you could fill in 335 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,359 your in your head, you know, like real evil never 336 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,279 dies joke you could. That's why I did that. Anyway, Look, 337 00:21:43,319 --> 00:21:44,960 I didn't make the joke. I'm just saying, if you 338 00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:47,240 wanted to, I gave you space to do that because 339 00:21:47,279 --> 00:21:50,720 I'm a giver. So ninety four years old George Soros, 340 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,480 According to The New York Post, he has been one 341 00:21:53,519 --> 00:21:58,240 of the most prolific fundraisers for the Democratic Party in 342 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:04,039 recent history. The Hungarian born hedge fund billionaire gave more 343 00:22:04,039 --> 00:22:07,359 than one hundred and seventy five million dollars to Democrats 344 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,400 during the twenty twenty two mid terms. In twenty twenty four, 345 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:15,160 he funneled another sixty million for House and Senate Democrats 346 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:21,720 and other left wing causes through his Democrasse Political Action Committee. Soros, 347 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,920 who has shifted tens of billions of dollars of his 348 00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:30,240 personal net worth over to his Open Society Foundations, which 349 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:34,359 funds a multitude of leftist projects around the world, has 350 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,200 also heavily invested in races to install far left district 351 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:46,440 attorneys in major American cities. I watched a clip. I 352 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,839 can only assume it was from a Halloween episode because 353 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:58,759 Joe Rogan, the podcaster, MMA announcer actor comedian guy Joe 354 00:22:58,799 --> 00:23:02,759 Rogan's podcast. He was dressed up, I think as a 355 00:23:02,799 --> 00:23:05,920 wrestler or something. I couldn't really tell. He had like 356 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,440 this really crazy blonde wig on and some silly shirt. 357 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,279 So Elon Musk was with him, and Elon Musk was 358 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,480 dressed weirdly as well. I couldn't really tell what his 359 00:23:17,519 --> 00:23:22,680 costume was, so I assumed it was a Halloween episode. 360 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,839 I want to assume it was a Halloween episode. Moving on, 361 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:33,400 Elon Musk talked about George Soros and he said, you know, 362 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:42,319 Soros is very good at identifying areas where money can 363 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:48,640 be made in arbitrage, where things are losing value, where 364 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,279 things are undervalued, and he recognizes that it hasn't has 365 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:55,680 an actual value that's greater. So if he can somehow 366 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,359 change a dynamic, he can make it worth more money. 367 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,759 And what he realized, what Soros realized years ago, was 368 00:24:01,799 --> 00:24:04,519 that all of this money that people pour into the 369 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:10,559 national races, particularly the presidential races, has a lower value. 370 00:24:11,279 --> 00:24:15,119 The dollar you spend at that level has less value 371 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:19,319 because there's so much money at that level. And what 372 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:24,240 Sorrows realized was you could have a very high value 373 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,839 for your investment dollar. At the local races, there's way 374 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,720 more benefit. It yields way more. Twenty thousand dollars at 375 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,200 a local race. One hundred thousand dollars at a local 376 00:24:36,279 --> 00:24:42,759 race can upend society, create the chaos increased crime that 377 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:47,119 Soros obviously was interested in creating, and so that's where 378 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,279 he put his money. He did it with a Secretary 379 00:24:49,319 --> 00:24:52,720 of States project, he did it with DA's sheriffs races 380 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:58,839 and such. North Carolina is a good example of that 381 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,039 very thing. San Francisco, Go is sort of the poster 382 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,599 child in New York City, Los Angeles, same thing. 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You 404 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,319 can message me on Twitter or email at Pete Calendar. 405 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:17,039 Is it right? Okay? Pete at Thepete calendarshow dot com? 406 00:26:17,799 --> 00:26:20,319 Michael says, ew gross, Pete, you did not have to 407 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:26,039 talk about Joe Biden sniffing Hillary Clinton's hair. That's true 408 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:29,519 though I did not have to, but I did, but 409 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:30,039 I did. 410 00:26:31,319 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 3: Well. 411 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 1: Look, if I had to see it, you have to 412 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,880 well visualize it too, Yeah, because he like he leaned 413 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,400 in when he did the metal put. You know, Joe 414 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,119 takes the medal and he goes to hang it around 415 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,039 her neck, and he's behind her and so when he 416 00:26:47,079 --> 00:26:49,880 does the first part where he's got to like, you know, 417 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,319 reach one arm, you know, one arm over her right shoulder, 418 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,640 one arm over her left shoulder, and then like grab 419 00:26:56,759 --> 00:26:59,200 the other side of the metal so then he could 420 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,720 come back around and clip it to the back. He 421 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:08,279 had to lean closer to her head, and I mean, 422 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:10,720 that hair is just right there in his face. It's 423 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,240 not gonna sniff itself. So I mean, what choice did 424 00:27:13,279 --> 00:27:19,839 he have. I don't know. But George Soros also got 425 00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:23,079 a medal. No, Joe did not sniff his hair, mainly 426 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:28,519 because George didn't show. And so Joe gave the medal 427 00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:34,880 to George's son Alex. Alex Soros, who has now become 428 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:42,720 the king of the Soros Empire on the political side, 429 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:48,759 going to continue the work that daddy did. And you 430 00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:51,839 may have seen some of these pictures where all of 431 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:58,640 these Democrat politicians were going to kiss the ring at 432 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:04,079 his apartment is like multi million dollar Manhattan apartment penthouse, 433 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,200 you know, And and so like all these people are 434 00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:10,440 are are making the pilgrimage over to Alex Soros's penthouse 435 00:28:11,799 --> 00:28:15,759 and then they're getting pictures taken and he's tweeting them 436 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:21,279 out he's posting these pictures like trophies that he has taken. 437 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,799 In case you need a list of all the politicians 438 00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:27,759 that I've got in my pocket, let me take this 439 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:30,079 phone from my pocket and show you their pictures. There 440 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:37,240 you go. Joe Biden also awarded medals to several Hollywood 441 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,039 A listers. George Clooney not on the list. I don't 442 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:49,160 know why. Bono the frontman for You Two, the banded 443 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:55,519 You Two Bono, And honestly, Bono's a pretty good choice, right, 444 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:00,240 I mean, aside from that whole Aktung Baby, h I 445 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:02,799 actually liked that album. That one was fine. It was 446 00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:05,839 the one, the Zuropa one, which was like, that's just awful, 447 00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:08,079 and then the one that they by the way, I 448 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,960 found that stupid album that they crammed down onto us 449 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,200 when I was doing my iTunes cleanup over my vacation 450 00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:20,599 and I open up my account, you know, I have 451 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,680 to wipe everything whatever, and there it is. I've got 452 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,079 this whole YouTube album in my iTunes. I did not 453 00:29:26,119 --> 00:29:31,920 ask for this. I don't want that. Like I bailed. 454 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:35,319 I bailed it after Zuopa. Actually the last album I 455 00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:38,839 bought from them was Aktung Baby Anyway, Bono's done a 456 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,559 ton of work trying to fight global poverty, and to 457 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:49,799 his credit, like he started off in an antagonistic relationship 458 00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:54,119 with George W. Bush on this issue, you know, making 459 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:59,079 all these demands for more government interventions and programs and such. 460 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,400 And to his credit, I will say, Bono has come 461 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:11,480 to the realization that the free market is the really 462 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:16,279 only way to alleviate the kind of grinding poverty that 463 00:30:16,319 --> 00:30:23,079 has afflicted humankind throughout our entire existence. He's come around. 464 00:30:24,839 --> 00:30:31,400 He's come around, and not just me, Like you know, 465 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:35,200 I've been a firm believer in the free market, it's ability, 466 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,079 but now you two terrible pun I apologize, But moving 467 00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:44,279 on Michael J. Fox, the Back to the Future star, 468 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000 But I can understand why he would get it too, 469 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:50,319 because of all of the work that he has done 470 00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:55,799 in raising awareness for Parkinson's right. So I get I 471 00:30:55,839 --> 00:30:58,920 get that one as well. Also, everybody loved him. If 472 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,000 you didn't like if you were you aren't a kid 473 00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:06,359 in the eighties and nineties watching him as Alex P. 474 00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:11,119 Keaton and then Back to the Future Martin McFly, like, 475 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,839 if you weren't around for that era, Michael J. Fox 476 00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:18,839 was the it dude, the it guy, whatever they call that. 477 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,920 I want to say, Yeah, I mean, what was it? 478 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:31,279 Uh teen Wolf? Remember that one? Yeah? Magic Johnson. He 479 00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:34,319 also got a medal, but I kind of feel like 480 00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:39,680 he's done a lot of work raising awareness for HIV causes. Right, 481 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,920 So there's that, then Ralph Lauren, because Jill is a 482 00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:48,480 huge fan of his work, I think that's how he 483 00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:53,519 got it. And then there was Lionel Messi. He's a 484 00:31:53,559 --> 00:31:59,319 soccer player and he didn't show. He yeah, he didn't go. 485 00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:04,440 And so everybody, like on Twitter, on conservative Twitter, was like, yeah, 486 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,039 go Messy and all this, Like, I don't know, guy's 487 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:10,480 got like five kids, probably just you know, the other 488 00:32:10,519 --> 00:32:13,599 other things to do. Doesn't need to go. Denzel Washington 489 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,720 and a wind Tour aka the Devil from The Devilwar's 490 00:32:18,759 --> 00:32:23,680 Prada the Devil So between her and Sorrows two, Devil's 491 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,480 actually got it too soon? All right. That'll do it 492 00:32:27,519 --> 00:32:30,160 for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I 493 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,319 could not do the show without your support and the 494 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:35,400 support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So 495 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,519 if you'd like, please support them too and tell them 496 00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:39,519 you heard it here. You can also become a patron 497 00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:43,799 at my Patreon page, or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, 498 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:46,599 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 499 00:32:46,599 --> 00:32:49,160 while I'm gone.