01:00 Donald Trump was not playing 3D chess
02:00 Democrats are not playing 3D chess, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-biden-crisis-deep-state-theory
03:00 Twitter is still the number one public space
04:00 Alex Thompson from Axios, https://x.com/AlexThomp
08:00 The conservative media provided strength to people to believe their own eyes, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=156067
09:00 The gap between your eyes and the arbiters of truth, https://www.thefp.com/p/joe-nocera-mind-the-gap
25:00 Mark Halperin: Joe Biden is still the most likely Democratic nominee “probably by far”, https://the-smerconish-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/mark-halperin-joe-biden-is-still-the-most-likely-democratic-nominee-probably-by-far
1:00:35 Colin Liddell joins, https://x.com/ColinLiddell3
1:03:45 Colin Liddell on Donald Trump, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2024/07/nuanced-and-balanced-supreme-court.html
1:08:00 Britain’s Conservative party can’t control immigration
1:11:48 Nigel Farage
1:14:50 France’s National Rally party surges, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2024/07/french-electoral-system-that-no-one.html
1:19:00 Japan’s politics
1:28:00 Will other countries be emboldened by Biden’s decline?
1:30:00 The trite analysis of Matt Goodwin, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-trite-analysis-of-matt-goodwin.html
1:38:00 Bronze Age Pervent
1:38:30 Academic Agent, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2023/12/midwit-academic-agent-bails-out-of.html
1:39:00 Millennial Woes
1:40:00 Matt Forney
1:41:30 Richard Spencer a fed?
1:43:00 Milo
1:46:00 Bari Weiss talks to Alex Thompson of Axios, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-president-biden-drop-out/id1570872415?i=1000661099340
2:45:00 Journalists were afraid of reporting on Joe Biden’s decline because they didn’t want to help Trump
2:53:25 How Did The WASHINGTON PRESS Corps Miss Biden’s DECLINE?
2:58:30 Psychiatrist: What the Biden-Trump Debate Reveals about their Mental Health, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdEb1hN-3DE
2:59:00 Donald Trump, Joe Biden appear to have ADHD
3:02:00 Joe Biden shows the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease
3:19:00 The Hard Truths About Biden’s Dicey Position, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-hive-by-vanity-fair/id1232383877?i=1000661155156
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