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Plan see in effect Plan C. That what's Plan C,
We don't know yet, but that's what we're doing. Okay,
Plan C for the shutting down of the government, but
not the essential workers who are basically like everybody. And
then the ones that that gets sent homent are not essential,
but well we'll pay them back to so it's basically
like a vacation for them. This is government efficiency, everybody,
all right. So, right now, as I understand it, House
Republicans are trying to hammer out some sort of continuing
resolution to fund the government for some period of time,
not really sure, but some period of time for some
amount of money, maybe a disaster relief bill, thrown in
there too, so there's a couple different components to this. Also,
the White House Press briefing gets under way of twelve fifteen. Now,
I normally don't dip into that or jip it, as
they say in the biz, which means join in progress jip.
But today I feel like I might be somewhat interested
in the line of questioning that the White House Press
Corps will choose to pursue. Namely the Wall Street Journal
report with fifty sources that said Joe Biden was basically
infirmed from day one. I also just saw this, haven't
even read it yet, but the New York Post headline
Biden lacked energy for phone call with House Armed Services
Committee chairman before the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. What did I
say yesterday? I said this, like, maybe now we'll be
able to tell the stories of what was really going
on in Biden world. And I remember getting some pushback
on that. No, no, Pete, that's not going to happen.
They're going to still protect them, Like I'm not so sure.
Those are pretty big stories, and so we're gonna we're
to pasaki back to all of that too. But I
might jip it I don't know, but I got to
start with this continuing resolution. Well, let me see here,
what do I want to do? Because I was going
to start with the plan because I understood that they
were going to be fixing to vote. Hm hmm, twelve fifteen.
I call the audible and start with the Biden stuff.
I finished with that yesterday. Okay, we're going to start
with the Biden stuff. So that's see, that's how I
make these decisions. I have a trusted group of advisors
on this, all right, Yeah, much like Joe Biden. Okay,
so the Wall Street Journal, Oh sorry, I almost forgot
to mention, much like the Department of Defense forgot to mention,
we do not have like eight hundred troops in Syria.
We actually have just a smidge more, just a little
bit a tenC ween. See it's like two thousand, see,
like more than double. But you know, Pentagon math, What
can I say? I do? Wonder? Is this also a
product of not having a functioning commander in chief? The
Wall Street Journal report shows how Biden's close knit circle
of advisors sought to swindle the public, the press, and
even Biden's legislative allies and cabinet appointees about the rapidly
deteriorating state of the president's mental health. Non compassmantis. That
is the Latin for what we are describing here. He
is mentally incompetent because he's an idiot. He's just gone.
Jeff Blair, writing a National Review, quotes Kingsley Amos' response
to being proven right about Stalinist Russia, saying, quote, we
told you so, you bleep in fools, except he didn't
say bleeping. There are so many anecdotes piling up chronologically
and escalating despair as the lengthy expose proceeds that by
the end of the Wall Street Journal report, you are
left reeling with anger at the near criminal irresponsibility of
Biden and his staff. In the spring of twenty twenty one,
a national security official explained to another quote, he has
good days and bad days. I mentioned this quote yesterday.
He has good days and bad days. Jeff Blair says,
I read this with a clenched fist. In spring of
twenty twenty one, that is to say, a month or
so after he took all thins, our commander in chief
was already having good days and bad days. I want
to say this again at the beginning of his presidency,
Joe Biden was showing visible signs of major mental decline.
All of this was concealed from the world, and this
guy ran for reelection. What in the world. This is
the biggest scandal the presidency has ever seen, He says,
I would submit it's this may like depending on how
bad this was, because this is just sort of the
first run at this kind of a story. People are
going to be writing books about this, okay, And this
isn't like the olden times when it took a really,
really long time for a lot of people to get
up to speed, because you know, books were the only
way that you could communicate this stuff, and you had
a media that just would never go back and cover
this stuff. There's too much media now right. Everybody's got
their own printing press, so you can't contain this any longer.
Blair says, it's the biggest scandal the presidency has ever
seen because it runs to the core of what the
presidency is supposed to be. For practically his entire term,
I would submit it was his entire term. Joe Biden
has been If not non compost mentis on a rare
good day, then at least severely mentally diminished or periodically incapacitated.
By the way, Do you think that's why Russia did
what it did. Do you think that they were unaware?
Do you think Vladimir Putipoot was unaware of the mental
fragility of Biden? Do you think he didn't know that?
Do you think he doesn't have spies inside the US
government that would report back, like, whoa this guy he's
out to lunch. At no point during his time in
office has Joe Biden been fit for the presidency? Think
about that. Think about all of the stuff that Joe
Biden supposedly signed off on. You would not be able
to sign contracts, You would not be able to sign
your signature to anything if you are in this kind
of a mental state. Yet this guy is signing into
law trillions of dollars in debt. That's what he did.
That's what he did. The withdrawal from Afghanistan, the forgiveness
of Oh, hang on a second, we got news on
that too. Somebody in the administration is now canceling more
federal student loans. Another fifty five thousand people are getting
ding student loan quote unquote forgiveness, which isn't theirs to forgive.
It isn't those bureaucrats or the administration officials. It's not
their debt to forgive. It's ours. It's mine. I have
to pay that back. That's not forgiveness. That's a buy off.
The closest parallel Edith Wilson. That's why I've been calling
her doctor Jilson all this time, Joe Biden, doctor Jilson.
That's why because what she has been doing with her
husband and for her husband, and instead of her husband,
is exactly what Edith Wilson did when her husband became incapacitated.
She could not give up the ring.
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you must be as well. Wow, there's only like six
people there? What's going on?
Speaker 1: One? Two, three, four, five six? There are not a
lot of people sitting in the seats at the White
House Press briefing, which was supposed to start at twelve
fifteen but hasn't yet. Why are people so disinterested? Well,
I guess because it's Christmas. Is not a lot going
on up up on Capitol Hill or at the White House.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: No no big stories to respond to, no breaking developments
going on with like government shutdowns or anything like that.
So I guess it makes sense that people wouldn't be
very interesting. I'm sure it'll fill up. Oh, I'm sure
it'll fill up. So the White House Press Briefing we
are waiting, and when it starts up, I will I'll
be sure and bring it to you if I can.
Got a message from Steve who says, Pete, I and
many others already knew that the cheese had slid off
of Joe's cracker before he took office. I am mad
as hell. Yeah, same, I've been saying. I've been saying
this for the entire duration of Joe Biden's term. It
has gotten worse and worse and worse. And honestly, the
gaslighting over the four years it did make me question
whether I was reading too much into stuff or whatever.
But I remember seeing these same signs, these same symptoms
when it was my grandfather. So I knew what I
was looking at, and half the country knew what they
were looking at, and probably more than half the country,
but we were being gas lit. Ace of Spades. Ace
of Spades HQ is the website on the new found
you know, focus of the press Corps about you know,
the mental abilities, the cognitive acuity of the incoming president
or of the president or he says yeah, we're yeah,
we media really let Biden lie and lie and take
foreign money. But we'll correct that by getting tough on
who's coming in here, Oh, that's right, a Republican. That
is always the game they play. They have the blinders on,
they're sniffing the throne, and when it's a Democrat and
then incomes a Republican and it's like, we are truth tellers.
We are firefighters rushing into the blaze of democracy in
order to save the people. They claim that they are
a new kind of journalist. They would never have covered up,
you know, powerful people lying like Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson
is the historical parallel to Joe Biden. His wife Edith
concealed from the public the stroke that Wilson had had
in nineteen nineteen. She acted as de facto president for
the rest of his term, and her incompetence destroyed the
effort to ratify the Versailles Treaty in the Senate, ensuring
the failure of his internationalist legacy. Much the same could
be said about the historically disastrous economic, immigration, and international
policy drift of the Biden era, as might as might
well be expected from a president who began his term
already asleep at the wheel. That's what the Wall Street
Journal has uncovered that a lot of people already knew,
way too many people knew for the entire tenure of
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All right, so shall we hang on a second?
Speaker 3: Created this mess? That's the reality. That's the fact, and
the presidence.
Speaker 1: Is the dipping in on the White House forrest briefing.
Speaker 3: This is not the first time we've been here, and
the President has had this approach before. He understands the
Congress works. He's been around for some time. He understand
what strategy works here.
Speaker 1: It doesn't.
Speaker 4: This done so This is.
Speaker 3: Not this is not the first time that we're running
the fact that you would.
Speaker 4: About the president and his outreach. I just mentioned he made.
Speaker 1: The fact that you would get up there and say
this stuff after that Wall Street Journal report is just astounding.
The level of huzba, as they say.
Speaker 4: But this is the mess.
Speaker 5: That was created by Speaker Johnson.
Speaker 1: Oh stop needs to fix this.
Speaker 5: That's what the American people need to be very clear about.
Speaker 1: Now. Very clear, very clear, very clear. I'm clear, you're clear.
The President's been very clear up.
Speaker 4: His side of the bargain here.
Speaker 6: You hear that message from you, But why aren't we
hearing that directly from the president.
Speaker 5: Yes, we've seen or heard his president. This is a
strategy that we have done many times before.
Speaker 1: We're aware, Yes, we know the strategy.
Speaker 3: For Republicans in Congress, in the House specifically to fix
they created this mess. There was a bipartisan agreement, there
was there was a bipartisan.
Speaker 4: Agreement to come in front of cameras, always a bipartisan agreement.
Speaker 1: She does not want to talk about that. Huh. This
is a great question.
Speaker 3: We want to do and what we want to what
the president wants to make sure we do is he
stands to ready to help get a bipartisan.
Speaker 1: Deal breaking news the president can stand to see.
Speaker 3: And you know this is something that republicankins should own.
Speaker 1: Here, she has no other talking.
Speaker 3: Point, doesn't reflect and what the deal, what that by
person deal that they came up with, obviously with Democrats,
And you know they're showing Republicans are showing a disregard
for the American public.
Speaker 6: Lstly, some leading Democrats are calling Elon Musk President Musk
or co President Musk. What is the White Houses and
President Biden's reaction to this labeling of Elon Musk and
whether or not House Republicans are listening more to this
billionaire than the president.
Speaker 3: What I can say is Congressional Republicans at the direction
and you all know this.
Speaker 4: You will reported this of President.
Speaker 5: Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: Are and me to pay.
Speaker 1: The way and me I sent stuff on Twitter to five.
Speaker 3: Trillion dollars to Nash to our national debt. That's what
this decision does. I mean, you're talking about what cuts
for billionaires, les, social Security, slashing medicare, slashing headstart, what
are you talking? Congressional Republicans did what they did because
of what the President alex said.
Speaker 1: What is she even talking about? There's no plan.
Speaker 3: That's the reality. You guys all reported this. That's why
we are where we are today. So this is for
Speaker Johnson to fix. This is the mess that he created.
He needs to fix this. I get a bipartisan agreement.
There is a bipartisan agreement.
Speaker 1: Is a bipartisan he hits the table too much? Isn't
that support a four bill strategy that we've seen discussed today.
Speaker 5: Which can separate our cr from a pharm of extension,
a disasterate and with.
Speaker 1: The President support splitting it up.
Speaker 3: And says clean bills, there is a buyer. I'm going
to get very repetitive here because it is true and.
Speaker 1: You have nothing else in your notebook.
Speaker 4: Partisan agreement.
Speaker 3: There's a deal that was agreed upon and that's what
they need to move forward with.
Speaker 4: And when I mean day, I.
Speaker 1: Mean see, this is the problem. There was a deal
that was agreed upon by four people, by leaders. That's it.
There are four hundred and thirty one other people they
didn't get there, or five hundred and thirty one other people.
They didn't get all of them on board. They were
just like here's our deal. We're going to negotiate this. Now,
go get your people and Johnson couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: John Stevens this morning. But this is a Biden problem.
But Republicans can help solve it. They will. I imagine
there's goible to be some of what you just signed.
Speaker 3: But in response to that, Congressional Republicans made their decision
because of what the President elect said, at their direction,
the direction of the President elect, in the right direction
of Elon Musk, there was a.
Speaker 4: By person deal on the table and we're moving forward.
Speaker 3: The Speaker agreed to do this, to move forward with
the bipartisan deal, and they stop that because of what
the President elect said and what Elon Musk said. They
wanted to clear away for their billionaire friends tax cut
five trillion, five trillion to the national debt with tax.
Speaker 1: Cuts, to do you spend trillions that we didn't have.
Speaker 4: That's the reality. You've all reported this, We've seen this.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's her hitting the desk every time.
Speaker 3: What was being put out there by the President elect
and Elon Musk.
Speaker 5: There's no hiding from that. That's the reality.
Speaker 3: Uh And and so you know we're talking about this
is not politics here.
Speaker 4: We're talking the American people.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she is so bad.
Speaker 4: Who need it?
Speaker 3: And so political playbook said had to say what they
had to say about this.
Speaker 4: Trump picked the fight.
Speaker 3: He picked the fight, and it was Trump well with
him and Elon Musk who sank the bipartisan deal.
Speaker 5: You can't it's the facts or change history here.
Speaker 1: I love how the she just automatically assumes that the
bipartisan deal was a good deal because it was bipartisan.
And the fact that the process I went over this
yesterday right did not include any of the members of Congress.
It was just these as Mike Lee calls them, the firm,
the four leaders House and Senate Majority and Minority leaders,
and they hammer out whatever deal they they're wanting to do.
This was the Democrats last bite at the apple, and
now they're crying that they're not going to get to
swallow it. It's like they took the bite, or they
were going to take the bite. Maybe they got off
a little bit and then somebody smacked them in the
back of the head and the spit out the piece
of the apple. No, they want their apple back. It's
a terrible analogy. I know, Caringe. Jempierre will not say
whether Joe Biden is going to stay in DC to
try to help get a deal done. She keeps saying
that this is Speaker Johnson's mess. There was a bipartisan deal.
I think she has said the word bipartisan I think
about thirty two times at this point, saying that basically
they need to go back to the fifteen hundred page
cramnibus and that's not happening. That is not happening. That
was Plan A that went down in flames. Plan B
was the House running Donald Trump's idea, which was to
eliminate the debt ceiling and just do a clean CR
with disaster relief, and that went down in flames. And
so now they're working on a Plan C, Plan C,
and I would recommend clean CR disaster relief, two different bills,
and then go home. Make Democrats vote against it all
just a continuing resolution and disaster relief, and then they
go home. Nothing gets passed. That's all on Democrats. And
if the House Democrats vote for it, now you're going
to jam up the Senate Democrats. All right, let me
see what she's saying.
Speaker 4: Now, it's happening.
Speaker 3: The President looks forward to it, and we certainly will
have more to share as we get closer, like we
normally do win in Acona Strip. Should we expect domestic
travel for the President in January?
Speaker 6: Is he going to be out there doing any farewell
speeches on policy issues in other parts of.
Speaker 1: The country, so nobody is asked and.
Speaker 5: Will certainly have more to share about what January.
Speaker 1: Nobody has asked yet about the Wall Street Journal dementia report.
Speaker 7: Trying to ask us a different way President, the American
people really haven't heard from him on whether or not
the government is going to shut down. Wouldn't the message
hit differently if the President we're out there, this is
so stupid.
Speaker 1: This is so stupid. So you hear what they're doing
right there. The reporters are asking is he non compassment this?
But they're asking it in the frame of will he
come out and talk about this topic. They know why
he won't come out and say these things. He cannot,
but they don't want to put Coringe in some sort
of awkward position. She's been lying to you, you dupes.
Speaker 4: Make it harder to offshore jobs to China.
Speaker 1: We're talking about She's still talking about the fifteen hundred
page monstrosity Plan A that again went down in flames.
That's not going to pass, it's not being revived, and
they're desperately trying to cling to that as their talking
point after we've already gone past that where it planed B.
Now that got shot down last night, and so now
they're trying to develop a Plan C, which would be
too Simply do a continuing resolution, keep funding the government
right through two or three weeks a month, maybe do
the disaster relief without a pay for it. Would be
new debt, no doubt about it. One hundred billion dollars
we have spent. We have spent twice as much on Ukraine.
So make Democrats vote against this and if it doesn't pass,
which by the way, I don't even know if Republicans
will all get on board with those two things.
Speaker 7: Any thoughts or feelings on the President elect and Elon.
Speaker 1: Musk again with this, like how many different ways can
you ask this stupid question to get the same stupid
talking point answers like this is willful on the part
of the press corps. Here, this is willful. You just
had fifty sources tell you that the president has been
basically mentally incapacitated for the last four years, And you're
asking about Elon Musk, and you're asking about why Joe
Biden isn't coming out and making a speech with a
biparson agreement, the bipartisan agreement not too long ago, the
shrug of the soldiers and the pounding of them. She's
so bad? Has agencies?
Speaker 6: Has the government started informing employees who might aid furloughed?
Speaker 4: You know those specific posts, especially headed into the holiday season.
Speaker 5: Are they being informed that they might not get their paycheck?
Speaker 1: So why do you think this is happening like this?
What do you think all these reporters from all these
different outlets, and all of them I don't see Peter
Doocy there, but so far they're all asking the same
question about the shutdown, Right, why do you think they're
doing it? I would submit this is pack journalism. This
is all of them not wanting to be the proverbial
floater in the punch bowl. They're all on the same side.
Look at us, we're all journalists. And oh, I'll ask
it a different way and I'll get in a good answer.
And now here comes the crafting of the narrative. We
got to do all of these stories about the shutdown
and how it affects real people and all that. Eryl
Atkinson at a fantastic post about this very thing from
her time at CBS during one of the other shutdowns,
and how they could not find literally could not find
people to talk to that were affected by the last
shutdown under Obama, and so they had to like go
to Democrats and say, hey, can you give us some
example of people that are affected. They literally asked Democrats
for their stories. Very easy for them to fix this,
It's not very easy to fix.
Speaker 4: Move forward, Keep your work. Republicans in Congress, keep your work,
keep your work.
Speaker 1: Nobody on China.
Speaker 6: In the final month of administration, we're talking to high
level of hawks between US.
Speaker 1: In China, including story. Okay, a question on China. But
Republican lawmakers did not promise you, Jack crap. Okay, they
didn't promise you anything. Mike Johnson might have made some
promises that he would put all this stuff together on
a bill, and maybe he promised you that he could
get the votes, and now he can't. That deal is dead.
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