01:00 Where was the MSM on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline? https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/07/02/2024/mixed-signals-special-blame-the-media
03:30 Joe Biden Must Go Because The Desperate Nature Of The Situation Will Prevail Over Precedent (7-2-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K-xB2alFDA
11:20 Japan’s pacifistic and helpless tradition since WWII, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution
15:00 Joe Biden and the tragedy of liberal denialism, https://www.ft.com/content/d431b97f-7431-4066-bd80-9dab3b215fea
23:00 Hunter Biden seeks advice from his crack addict son Hunter
27:55 Should He Stay or Should He Go (Joe Biden, That Is)?, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/impolitic-with-john-heilemann/id1529346075?i=1000660927668
35:00 Are RW conspiracy theories always right? No! https://www.salon.com/2023/12/24/disturbing-pattern-the-most-unhinged-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-of-2023/
56:20 WSJ: Was There a ‘Biden’ Presidency?, https://www.wsj.com/articles/was-there-a-biden-presidency-election-voters-ec0839e4
1:01:00 Dem Elites SHUTDOWN Biden Replacement Talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9XmQn55Bgg
1:27:00 Americans will vote for Trump as the lead in America’s reality show for the next four years
Podnotes AI Transcript:
Speaker 0: Mate 40 here. So the news media is still in an app absolute fury, trying to get to the bottom of Jay Biden cognitive decline at what it means for American politics there is just to rage of the part of Democrats in particular, but they’ve been deceived and lied to by the Biden administration and the But administration shows absolutely no capacity for a understanding where people are so enraged, but I’m gonna give credit to the mainstream media, Alright. They are still making this that number 1 story. They’re doing really solid reporting. So here’s the top of the…
The New York Times right now. Alright. Biden lapses are said to be increasingly common. Right. This is New York Times.
Biden laps are said to be increasingly common and worrisome them, and they’ve dramatically improved over increased over the past few weeks and months, as Right. This is New York time. Right, driving the news agenda still on top of the Joe Biden cognitive decline story. And if the situation were reversed, let’s say that Donald Trump was president and he was exhibiting all the signs that Joe Biden, is showing. How do you think the right wing media would cover him?
I don’t think that they would show as much enthusiasm for facts as the mainstream media is doing with regard to Joe Biden. So the right wing media talked a lot about the 20 20 elections being rigged, but they never bothered to make a substantial case doing And where was the right wing media in the reporting Biden cognitive decline? You got… Videos, and you got snarky remarks, and it was just the the accepted wisdom that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline. But nobody in the Right wing news media cad to nail down the story, the closest that we got.
This story, getting subs was the Wall Street Journal, finally, running. A story on Joe Biden cognitive decline about 3 months ago. But the Wall Street journal didn’t have the story nailed down because all of the people that they were quoting, about Jay Biden cognitive decline were Republicans. Right, who had a vested interest Jill Abrams. Right?
She’s a left winger a former editor of the New York time. She says it’s clear. The best news reporters in Washington have failed in the first studio journalism to hold power accountable. Why didn’t the Republican party? Spend a hundred thousand dollars or million dollars and fund solid investigative reporters about Joe Biden cognitive health.
Right? The the Republican party could have released a substantial report. On this, and they couldn’t be bothered to do that. At jo Abrams says else duty to poke through White house smokes screens and find out the truth Biden White house clearly succeeded in a massive cover up of the degree of the president’s fee in a serious physical decline. Shame on the White House press corps for not.
Having pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the press? Yes. That’s true, but why didn’t that the right way media do the same thing. Right? The presidency decline was a hard story to report.
Even by those who wanted to get it like the Wall Street Journal and their story did not deliver because they used mostly named G sources. If off journalists had push, the story was report. I worry that too many journalists didn’t try to get the story because they did not want to be accused of helping to elect Donald Trump, but there is no excuse for abandoning our first duty, which is to report the truth. President Biden should be held accountable for his obvious lapses of mental acuity. But it’s astonishing for the entire country, including made seasoned reporters to be as shocked as everyone by the ugly and painful reality of Biden debate performance, and it is laughable and immoral, But Democrats to blame the press now for over reacting to that reality.
The reports of how Bad Biden was, certainly not exaggerated nor other reports of Democrats in. Panic, and there’s been a lot of wise commentary about what’s going on in this story. But I think this was about the the wisest thing that I’ve heard Least today. A very wise man here.
Speaker 1: May falling here. So won’t that these attractive traits is helpless losses. Unnecessary might helpless us this kind of very unattractive. And it seems dominating majority opinion in American politics right now. That it’s just another world that Joe Biden will become the nominee the democratic party for president in the United States.
And Joe Biden is manifest unfit to be president in the United States Right? You made that clear us those United his disastrous performance had a debate with donald Trump. Anything that kills me about majority pun reaction is that the biden inspected capable of operating is president the United States. Is just not capable of campaigning president of the United States. So buying apparently has a hard time getting going before 10AM, and he a hard time operating after 4PM.
So it has about 6 hours a day. Where he can do what. And and this acceptable the president of the United States. Right, if we get into a nuclear crisis and need the president of the United States to make the call, whether or not we launch significantly nuclear weapons. Is That that can’t be deb bolt onto to his staff.
So right you’re hear from the Biden team, is that he has a highly competent staff. And when you’re are verdict Biden, you’re also innovating for his highly hydrocarbons. Staff. But this is the same side. Who’s been making the argument of for the past 5 years the democracies is on the ballot, and the voting joe Biden of both democracy.
But people didn’t vote joe and stuff. I he case he’s not been up to the office of president in United States, since he took office. Right? He was saved from having a campaign by Covid and like a frail old man who had that vacant checked stare back in 20 18. And now the cognitive declines apparently become particularly pre perceptive.
Over the past few months in 20 24. And then he’s another element of the learn helpless. But seems to dominate much of American political disco discourse among elites right now and that is as well, by all the rules or the procedures. By all the precedent according to the by laws. Jay Biden is going to become the democratic nominee the president because the laws say that because he won the delegates.
And if he’s determined to run that is the democratic nominee for president, no 1 can stop him. So this is the legal perspective. So what’s more powerful. Right? Is it the situation?
Is of the law at I contend to you that the situation has more power than the law. But the dominant discourse money about to right now is that the law says that Biden…
Speaker 0: So another way of stating that is that sometimes the narrative, the culture. Fine it is more important than the law. Right? Law gets his power from the narrative.
Speaker 1: It’ll gonna be the democratic home president. But… When following the law resulted in his suicidal choice. Right? Running to biden the president of United States the sign a choice for this.
The Democrats are also the country at the United States of America is in peril right now because a senior old man who signed is checked out much of the time mentally. And just cognitive in if it’s not there is in the
Speaker 0: Okay. So what are the more pom lines that I hear in the news media? Is and and among people in general, particularly among the elite is, how depressing our state of politics is and how depressing is… J biden cognitive decline. And so I think it’s accurate to say there.
Things to worry about Joe biden cognitive decline. They’re are dangerous to the United States. But to say that it’s depressing is pom because you’re assert that you understand the highly complicated nature of reality, and you have no idea how good the next president of the United States will be because certain people will succeed in certain circumstances, in different situations, other people will succeed. We don’t know whether this Joe Biden cognitive decline is overall good or bad for the country. Right?
There are reasons to be concerned. There are reasons to be worried. But sometimes a less active president is a more effective president. Sometimes an employee does less is… Better suited for your best interest than the employee who does more.
Right? Often politicians who do less, right? A better for the country than politicians who do more. So absolutely no reason to be depressed about the United States of America and its political situation right now just because of Jay Biden obvious decline. Alright?
It may very well be a blessing that Joe Biden is in cognitive decline because they’ll open up other the possibilities
Speaker 1: as the president in United states. So at a law order. Like, I love the law. Everything’s things are more important such as eyeball in the house. Got and detection of your people.
And so America’s is incredibly individual country and this resort in individual countries. It’s probably the most individual country. Everything has been? You have to negotiate more things in more depth in the United States in any other country which I’m aware because it’s so individual and therefore, they’re so they’re Right.
Speaker 0: You have to get an agent or you have to get an attorney for more things in the United States. The law and negotiating contracts. And the just the intrusion of of legal details and the necessity of of negotiating so many details. Right? Seems to penetrate and overwhelm life more in the United States than any other country of which I’m aware.
Speaker 1: Common dealing. Like you definitely have to negotiate far more of life in. United States compared to Australia, which on a world stage is probably in the top 10 of individual countries. But you still have to negotiate much more. Your interactions and contracts and your procedures in United States and Australia are avail these other individuals.
Countries are in canada, Because in a country there’s not as individual, but they have more of a sense come a feeling, more of a sense of nationwide. Right, this situation would be governed more by norms, right? Without meaning understanding what is right wrong in my boss. But in the United States because we have so little social trust. We don’t tend to evolve as many of these decisions to norms because we don’t share living the norms because we’re so varied, so diverse.
There’s a little social provisions and social trust. And say we have overwhelmingly depend upon law and precedent and procedure, which more than any other country, Now, is the law. A veto in this extreme situation, and I can thank to you. What it’s not a death
Speaker 0: And Steven j James has popped into the chat. He says, I am bullish on America. My time here has made me realize his place is much more going for it than the black pillars had me believe even the majority hispanic areas run fine.
Speaker 1: The United constitution is not a death deadline, and I’ll can you some commodities. But I know a lot of Japanese, and they will contend to me that depending to be limited in the steps that it can take to defend itself because of it’s cost was impose upon it by the United States. And so Japanese have come to love the lone hopelessness. They’ve developed by noting well, our constitution was imposed on us by the united states and it’s be a limit that’s what we can do to build up military to defend ourselves, and so we have to rely on the United States of military protection. This is like women I dated.
And once we get locked into that intimate relationship. And they now I wanna keep coming back. Right? They… That becoming more and more help us and start uploading onto me.
More and more things they perfectly people doing themselves such as a Google search or all sorts of things that tech they think, oh, this will make me more feminine, more attractive and lock me into this relationship with 40 if I can be helpless but 40 loves me because I’m fake. And initially, right, that has been a turn on. As they were to sweeping into woman’s life and transform. But and rescue her. Right?
That there was a brief period where that was a turn, It quick it becomes a turn off. And Japan has operated. Even though it’s security situation increasingly dying with Rise of China, but this balloon helpless us oh, well, because the constitution that the Us opposed upon us as we have to rely on American protect. Rein Or, if breaking a constitution is when he’s required to survive. And that the Japanese is ready to break the constitution or to change the constitution.
Like, constitution cannot not be death disarmed. Similarly, there’s the fourth moment remember Dedicated H. And then jews gonna abide by this command. And they would not fly back on the south And as a result, they were sm. While this didn’t last very long July very quickly the rabbi.
20 20 years ago. In point that you need to fight to survive Sa has absolutely fight. So you can’t just check out from your responsibilities. Was sa assessment doing work.
Speaker 0: Okay. So press 1 in in the chart if you think Biden is gonna go and step step down from running for for president. Right? So I contend that the situation is more powerful than the law and legal precedent. So all the laws or the precedent are that Joe Biden is…
Going to be the democratic nominee that he’s won the delegates. He’s he’s won the competition, he’s he’s the man according to law, according to president, according to the dominant view from Pun from the experts. Alright? Is just locked in that Joe Biden is gonna be the democratic nominee. I say the narrative is so powerful about Joe biden cognitive decline.
The situation is so horrifying about Joe biden cognitive decline that the power of the narrative and the situation of Joe Biden cognitive decline will prevail over all the legal precedent that Jay Biden already has the nomination locked up.
Speaker 1: Working picking up weapons protect. Because Said so. And those jews who took that attitude. Got white doubt. Well the jews who were willing to pick up weapons and fly back on the sabbath of they survived.
In 19 73, israel round attacked on your and Jews grabbed their weapons and after couple of days of significant losses and Setbacks, that they they call back and I went eventually alone. Approximately 2000 years ago Into his life in Israel. The jewish law of not learning an interest meant that funds balloons had essentially dried up is the Rabbi hook came along with an accommodation to the law. Allowing someone got ball so that when you lend money to Fellow due, this business, it wasn’t alone it was investment, any he created way that you could lend money to Essentially interest, but thought lending is coin investing. So America, general say some democrats democratic in particular.
They a choice. You wanna just go along with the blowing happiness that Joe biden won delegates. He has the right to be democratic nominee present. And he’s clearly on unfit for office. Clearly unfit the campaign.
Or with the dam heartbreaking breaking. See if we can only maintain our allegiance of law within certain narratives. Right, law also depends on upon narrative. And so the narrative that we have to follow the law is a powerful narrative, and that’s perhaps the most powerful narrative right now with regards. But if another narrative if it became more powerful such as that your biden is manifest unfit to be present united…
Speaker 0: Okay. So that… Is my presentation of situation versus law. And sometimes the power of the situation is more important than the power of the law. So Yeah.
The Mainstream media never nailed down the story of Jay Biden cognitive decline, but neither to did the right wing media neither did the Republican party. Alright. If you’re interested in defeating Joe Biden, right? Why didn’t you invest some resources into nailing down the story of his cognitive decline? And if you’re concerned about Voter fraud, this the great steal of the 20 20 election.
From the perspective of many republicans, why didn’t 1 single 1 just nail down that story and not 1 did. If you were concerned about the un unconstitutional need sure of all these various lockdown downs. And if you think that the elite response to Covid was ridiculous and terrible and stupid and an idiotic and in a crime. Right? Why didn’t you nail down that case?
Right? Why didn’t you put together the arguments in a coherent fashion? So, yeah, the the mainstream media failed on their story, but I have far more respect for the mainstream media respect for facts. In many areas in life than I do for the right wing media. But why did the mainstream media, the liberal media have such a giant blind spot here.
Right? Is there any wider lesson and the most elite prestigious columnist working today is Jan Ganache? He’s Sri lanka Origin He writes for the financial times, and he says, is is there anything that we can learn? Is this of a piece with a pattern of behavior on the an low American left. Right?
If the Democrats had simply chosen a better candidate than Hillary Clinton in 20 16, right, they likely would have defeated Donald Trump, but Joe Biden would have defeated did Donald Trump in 20 16? And so what is it about left liberal did in particular in the anglo world that creates this m adaptive reality distortion field. And, Jean anc gan says the test of seriousness in politics is an appetite to confront one’s own side. Bill Clinton did that with the sister soldier moment in 19 92. But on this score liberals are absent.
Right? And failing to say the obvious about Joe Biden is just 1 example. Everybody knows he’s unfit for public office. He should not be president of the United States right now. And anyone who’s enabling that the the the ridiculous Joe Biden administration.
Alright? It’s just falling down on the job if you’re in in journalism or if you consider telling the truth important. So another example of liberal left blindness is constant eva about the work movement. Right? So the left tries all sorts of lines that workers is just good manners that right wing are making it all up that cancel culture often fails, so what’s the first that define the police means Let’s think hard about constructive reformer of the police.
Right. So what is it about the liberal left that makes it soak Crave. Right. Why is the liberal left just walking on egg shells in so many areas such as the obvious nature of Joe Biden cognitive decline? Like, why does does the left think, oh, there are no enemies to to the left of us?
So even now after that, Thursday night debate, Fiasco, Democrats are couch the mis about Biden in highly ambiguous language. Right? The the passive voice is getting a strenuous workout. Right? What?
Has the priority is this nineteenth century victorian gentleman Etiquette of the Buffett enlightened identity. Right. Rather than going with your visceral impulses, obviously, he is unfit. So maybe that is the source. So generally speaking, Children of the enlightenment.
Right? People on the liberal left have an enlightenment world view, and that usually carries with that a respect for facts, except in certain things. Alright, such as group differences, and in in certain things that just hit too close to home respect for facts goes away. And the nature of of liberal left identity is that you can’t you can’t trust your basic impulses. They need to be refined and disciplined.
And and enlightened and elevated and it here here is 1 summary of the essence of the liberal left perspective that the as and self control or protestantism Right. Right. The liberal left perspective on life is a secular type of protestantism. So the… Essentially, the and self control of the liberal left Buffett identity is aimed against 1 thing.
The spontaneous enjoyment of life and all that it has to offer. So the liberal left buffet, high Iq perspective on life is that we have to be highly skeptical of our spontaneous reactions, and we have to refine them and keep becoming ever more reflective, Mean noticing the effect of our and behavior on other people so that we don’t say or do anything that might, in particular disadvantage communities of color. So there’s some killer blindness here. It’s it’s elevated, alright, edward drawing room etiquette to an absurd degree. So you can’t talk about obvious group differences.
Alright? People who are at ease with talking about differences between men and women, differences between members of different religions, different ethnic groups, But people who are at ease with noticing group differences have always had a much easier time noticing that Joe Biden was cognitive checked out. But if you have… If you understand the nature of life is that different people have different gifts, and there are different gifts with different phases of life and cognitive sharpness is not usually a gift of people are 81 years of age. Right?
If you’re that kind of realist, then you had no problem for years noting that the Joe Biden was was not cognitive there. Right but people on the left and people among our elites and and the dominant center left that runs most of our institutions, perhaps 1 thing that blocked them from saying the obvious was this notion of age. Right? For for real, for people on the right. There’s no such moral category.
There’s age, or sexism or racism or islam homophobia or a homophobia, we understand that these are just natural human reactions that can be healthy unless taken to an extreme degree. Right, many of the predisposition that lead to a woke or a left wing or a liberal world view are healthy in moderation. It it’s when they become extreme that they go wack. And the liberal less inability to say you can go too far, with diversity and inclusion and equity. Right?
You can go too far with racial theo in a way that synchronize various marginalized groups such as blacks, homosexual, Puerto Ricans, indigenous, Mexicans, etcetera. Right, this this synchronizing of different groups and saying that they may be must be held off limits to public criticism. Right? That’s another gigantic interference, with an accurate understanding of reality. It is crazy that Joe Biden is getting much of his advice Right, From his crack addict son, hunter Biden.
I mean, what the hell?
Speaker 2: Debate. Longtime allies distancing themselves from the big guy, and in the midst of the code read, a new influential, Biden advisor has emerged.
Speaker 3: We’re now learning that hunter Biden is attending some of the president’s meetings at the White House staying close to his father post debate.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a good idea after all, hunter the smartest man Joe knows.
Speaker 4: He is the smartest man I know. I mean, in for a pure intellectual capacity.
Speaker 5: I spent more time on my hands and knees, picking through rug, smoking anything that even remotely resembled crack cocaine. I probably smoke more parmesan cheese than anyone anyone that ?
Speaker 2: Well, that’s a reassuring. Ukrainian an expert, a professional artist. I do like his artwork. I’ll say that. Suspended lawyer.
And now it looks like he’s trying to have the nuclear football. Hey, anything’s possible. But the reaction from senior White House. Staff has been less than inviting check this out an Nbc reporter, posting quote, the reaction from some senior White House staff has been, what the hell is happening. The White House says it’s no big deal.
Speaker 6: Why is the president’s son involved or look the president as , is very close to his family. He spent time with his family as you all know and reported at Camp David, Hunter came back with him and walked with him into… Into into that meeting that prep that speech prep. And, , and he ended up spending time with his dad and his family that night. That is basically what happened.
Speaker 7: It is does the question though
Speaker 6: would be is he participating in meetings with senior advisers. What I can say is that he came back with his dad from Camp David. He walked him into the speech prep, and he was in the room.
Speaker 2: Maybe Joe’s pleading to hunter because he’s unwilling to tell him the hard truth.
Speaker 0: Right. The Biden don’t really have advisors they only have employees. Steven James has a good point of a seen now. Old man can be present in the United States and everything rolls along just fine perhaps the presidency is overrated kamala could probably even do it. Yeah.
In many circumstances, the presidency is overrated. Right? 99 percent of the time doesn’t matter much to 99 percent of people who is president of the United States. But then you occasionally have emergencies where it does matter, For example, Joe Biden has gotten in the United States much more deeply involved. In the disastrous Ukraine war and in the Middle East war between Israel and and its enemies, then I think Donald Trump would have done And so we are closer to a nuclear exchange with Russia.
We’re are closer to some complete disaster due to Joe Biden foreign policy, which has been the worst most dangerous foreign policy since before World war 2. Right? So if if that kicks off into a major disaster. Right? That’s that’s due to Joe Biden.
There are occasions. Where I the president can make the call such as the release of nuclear weapons. Right? You’re you’re under some kind of attack and the United States needs to fight back, then it it takes the president of the United States to make the call. How many times sensitive things does the president even need to be shop for anyway?
Yeah. Most of the time you’re gonna be fine with a checked out, see now at president. And Stephen James says, yes. The Republican party is equally sat with Donald trump, Donald Trump’s a deeply flawed person. Who who is accurately criticized by the mainstream media at at times.
The only way to get rid of Donald Trump is to elect him, can you imagine if they have to go through all this again in 4 years with an 82 year old trump. Right? So if if Donald Trump was president in the United States and he was had this degree of cognitive decline. I don’t think the right wing media would be covering themselves with glory. Right?
When Trump when the presidency the right wing media overwhelmingly just cave to him. Yeah. Many things can probably wait till Joe Biden has his nap and had porridge. Yeah. Usually, that’s fine.
But then there are things like the Cuban missile crisis. Right? Occasionally, A president can make a significant difference. Right? Most of the time, not so much, but you really wanna take the chance.
In politics is John H podcast. And here he talks to political strategist David Axel rod. Do from the Democrats and Mike Murphy and anti trump republic.
Speaker 4: Oops. I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly that I used to. I don’t bed debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know.
I know how to tell the truth. III know right for wrong. And I know how to do this job.
Speaker 8: So David Ak, Mike Murphy. The legendary hacks on tap here. And I have so many…
Speaker 0: So another thing that struck me about the story. Just so many thinks just like pouring into me about this story, and I always have have a tendency to try to extrapolate lessons, but you’ll notice that the more Biden goes into decline and the more he becomes removed from reality. The board desperately, his family tries to protect him and they keep making his life smaller and smaller and narrow and narrow, and the circle around Biden gets smaller and narrow and smaller and tighter and tighter. And it’s it’s like that with all of our m adaptive tension patterns. Right?
The more disconnected we get from reality, the more we have to tense up to try to pull our way through life, opposed to reality, and we get smaller and tighter and smaller and tighter and tighter and weirder, and that’s the same dynamic that’s happening with the with the Jay Biden administration, and I love what Mickey Ka says here. It’s not in my business, But I think a draft of Joe Biden resignation speech should be written by someone who is in Aa. Alcoholic anonymous because of the need for total honesty, because the false things that Joe biden has told himself when he convinced himself that he was good to go for 4 more years, are probably similar to the false things that Addicts tell about themselves. Record just he could just have Peggy nun it right it. Yeah.
That there is a a quality in 12 set programs that I have not found Elsewhere. It it’s the best tool of which I’m aware for coming to terms with how 1 has contributed to one’s own feelings and developing a moral inventory, so it usually begins by making a list of your biggest resentment. Alright. So I had a list of rabbi that I resent because they asked me to leave their Synagogue. So that was the activating event Rabbi asked me to leave their synagogue.
Then why was a… So resent for because it reduced my chances to score with women, Bent it reduced my social health. It reduced my self esteem. Right, it reduced chances of, getting jobs and connections. So it it reduced, , it threatened my my pocket book, it threatened my financial security, my emotional security, my my sexual life, my my love life, my my standing in the community, it diminish my opportunity to be close to the people I wanted to be close to.
I became isolated and marginalized. My life was devastated by these objections. Alright. So now I’ll come to terms with the harm that that was inflicted on me, then, I the next column is what role
Speaker 9: did I
Speaker 0: play. Well, I created all this because I was conducting myself online in a way. That the orthodox Jewish community cannot count. Alright? I was trying to join a community and simultaneously defying and dirty the community.
Right? And so if I had simply had a normal level of appropriate behavior for an Orthodox you. I wouldn’t have had these problems. I was the cause of my problems. And so as I go through my various resentment, I’d never had much of relationship with my father.
Well, why is that? Because from a very early age, I wanted to live my life as freely as possible outside the home, so I’d… I’d learned to Code switch. I behave 1 way inside the home, and then I completely disregard everything that my father held sacred outside the home, Hence, I put myself on a collision course with my father, and I kept doing things that would and apart, my father, and eventually, he found out about them, and and that caused irr damage to my relationship with my father. So I played a significant role in destroying my relationship with my father.
My father told me not to touch your stereo, but I used it anyway and I broke it. I did countless things like that. So The 12 step model is an excellent model for for coming terms with reality, and it sounds like it’s something that Joe Biden. His team should be doing.
Speaker 8: Funny things. I… First of, I wanna say you guys, your podcast on Friday with Puff in the way that Bay was excellent. And and just riddled with with with intubation… Doom, and I I appreciate that.
And I guess, before I ask you about that Joe Biden thing from North Carolina on Friday I’ll just to ask you at this hour as we sit here on Monday, July the first doom is your level of of alarm slash apocalyptic dread over the state of things higher or lower than it was on a Friday?
Speaker 10: Certainly not lower. I mean, it is what it is. It’s not gonna change. , the problem with this was the president His team asked for this debate. And they did it to try and And a swag concern.
So about his condition and his acuity and so on. And it just deepened those concerns in. It maybe, , will see what the polling implications of that are, But the problem is he’s starting from the… A baseline of losing and instead of picking up and gaining, , he may have hardened positions
Speaker 0: Now this is a fun time to be on the right. And and Donald Trump is playing it correctly. He’s behaving. In a more disciplined fashion than we’ve ever seen him do before. He’s delaying.
His announcement of who his vice president will will be to allow the national media focus to remain on Joe Biden cognitive decline in all the democratic leaders who have been lying for him Except for the majority leader of the senate, alright, Chuck Schumer has not been going on Tv. Speaking up for Joe Biden, but there would be many ridiculous sentiments on the right. And and and 1 of them is that Every every right wing conspiracy theory, it is correct. So what the hell? Right.
That begins with Glen Green ward post. Cnn amid something embarrassing many immediate failed to report on Biden cognitive issues because they feared blow back from the White House and Democrats are worst each stories anchored the White House and the liberal Twitter sphere the most. That is not insane. This is not the media in general. They’re talking about beat reporters.
Alright. When you have a beat, such as the White House so the Los Angeles Lakers is where you’re showing up every day. Beat, reporters really break, brave stories because they’ll then lose access to all their sources. So it it’s only unbelievably embarrassing if you fail to honestly confront the incentives that beat reporters operate under. But it’s not embarrassing It’s not bizarre.
It’s not unusual that beat reporters don’t pursue stories that will make their tenure as a beat reporter impossible. I remember I I had an offer to write an Internet column about the pornography industry, and it was the most lucrative offer I’d ever had. But it’s in the aftermath of my appearance on 60 minutes, which I think I could in 2003. And I’d said some critical things about the pornography industry, And so the person who was extending the offer to me to write a regular daily blog on the the point industry. Hey, you said, well, I I don’t think anyone talk to you in the industry now that you’ve said these critical things.
And so I had to assure him that I still had enough sources. It’s hard to write a irregular column or on a very specific industry or on a specific facility, if everyone there hates you. Right? And and so this is just a dishonest perspective that is unbelievably embarrassing that the reporters, don’t write stories that would make their job impossible. And so Mike Ben’s responds on his question has a right wing conspiracy theory ever been wrong.
At what a ridiculous question? Of course, all the time. Think about Pizza gate. Think about the various there is about some, , European economic group, all the theories about the Un ruining allies. Right?
The Un has very little power, the world. Health organization has very little power. The Covid lockdown downs overall right policy, Covid vaccines overall with the right policy. So most right win conspiracy theories have been bogus, just most left wing conspiracy theories are being bogus. And so I don’t care for this tendency among right wing pun to give the people what they want by, like lamb the powers that be un unfairly.
Right? The powers that be deserve accurate criticism. Right? They deserve to be held accountable, but they do not deserve inaccurate criticism, and they don’t deserve ridicule when their behavior does not warrant ridicule. It it’s just too easy to say the the the pros powers that that run our lives are insane.
Like, Tucker Carlson would do that they hate you. Right? The the leaders of our country, they just all hate you. Alright? That’s just playing to a low iq audience giving them what they want.
If if right wing, conspiracy theories are always right as Mike Ben says, then who are the brave truth tellers retailing these right wing conspiracy theories. Right? You’re talking about people such as Alex Jones, and Tucker Carlson and Jack Ob and milo and that cat turd fellow. But none of them are intellectually rigorous. Alright.
So if if right wing conspiracy theories were consistently standing up, then then who who are the people who are are spreading these consistently correct right wing conspiracy theories. Alright? The the right wing pun who are the equivalent of alex Tucker castle jack for Soviet Milo and Cat are not intellectually rigorous impressive people, They are sometimes entertaining, but they’re not exactly truth fellas.
Speaker 10: So, , I mean, I
Speaker 0: I David Axel Runs.
Speaker 10: My my phone’s been ringing off the hook or my text has been blowing up or whatever you want and say, I mean, there’s a lot of concern. I don’t I don’t think that’s a… Not exactly news. It’s not even puck worthy.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Right. I… I just, , take a little shot on the way there. Mike, are you are you are you in a better place or worse place or…
Speaker 0: So Puck is a subscription news analysis site that caters to the highly educated, highly intelligent and the high achieving.
Speaker 8: Just the same place you we’re on running.
Speaker 9: I’m a little worse, but here’s here’s what’s going on my… Well, , he was say he
Speaker 10: more grumpy. Let’s point that out.
Speaker 9: Yeah the a kip had the great quote, a toasted of the irish, the race god made mad. Their wars are all happy. Their songs are all sad. So simon sad song mode right now. I would like to have a happy war, but that would require a candidate.
Speaker 0: Book favorite for Trump’s Vp. Pick is Tim Scott? No. No way. I I would prefer Jd Events.
Right. If if Trump picks Jd Vance, That that means that that Trump wants to to keep Magnet going in a younger generation.
Speaker 9: So I… Here’s what I’m here’s what I’m wondering. The Biden folks are up stamping out dissent. Right? And if Biden It was a bad night, then it’s the easiest thing in the world to fix.
You go put him on television in a 2 way town hall.
Speaker 0: Right. That’s what… The Biden team keeps saying that it’s just a a problem that people don’t understand how awesome Jay biden really is and they just have to do a better job with their public relations. But that’s absurd. Right?
Jay Biden could not stand up to the scrutiny of any normal Tv news interview.
Speaker 9: You go sit down of Leslie. Saw, why isn’t any of that happen? Well, that makes me think, oh. That this is the guy we got and that makes me think bad trouble. I don’t like their reaction of this phony logic of well.
If we don’t Have Biden, we have Harris and Harris is worth Biden so we have to have Harris. , it’s logic trick like we are
Speaker 8: have to buy…
Speaker 9: Excuse me. We have to have Biden. So I , I wanna see it the next 72 hours to see if they do it. I… They’re tam down the descent well, but the public polls are gonna start coming out, and I’m seeing some private stuff, and it ain’t great.
Speaker 10: You I’m so.
Speaker 9: I have a feeling they’re gonna have a new panic by next weekend. And unless Biden can go out and fix this with television and interact. Real voters, journalist, somebody. It’s gonna be a long month.
Speaker 10: Let me let me just say.
Speaker 0: Right. I suspect there’s gotta be a tidal wave of Chin democratic politician speaking out and saying Joe Biden must go, and at a certain point the pressure will become too much. And against no precedent, Joe Biden will step aside.
Speaker 10: Yeah about that, that 1 of… I mean, it’s really interesting reading these stories and talking to people. Calls are being made to calm people. They’re being made by General Male Dillon. They’re being made by Jeff Z, The White House chief of staff.
They’re being made by Steve Ro, who’s a counselor to the president. They’re not being made by the president. He’s not he’s not calling people, and I don’t know what what that means, but it it seems odd to me. That, , if you… If there are questions about you, then and you’re…
You should be calling your key people and telling them 8, hang in there. I’m okay. Right. You’re not doing that
Speaker 9: to the call.
Speaker 10: Yeah. So your point Murphy is right.
Speaker 0: So first of all, during the debate. Right? Biden team leaked that he had a cold. But then after the debate, Joe biden went out, he then gave for for him a strong speech in what was it North Carolina the next day, Joe Biden himself. Has never used the cold excuse.
And it there appears to be no empirical basis for claiming that Joe Biden has a code. Now this is what the the Biden team is is trying to argue Right? To Joe Biden says to doing is, I wasn’t very smart. I was trying to travel around the world a couple of times, went through 15 times zones. I didn’t lift listen to my staff.
Then I came back and I nearly fell asleep on stage. Alright. This was 11 days before the debate. Right? He had 11 days to rest up for the debate.
And has Joe biden ever been someone who takes accountability. Right? He’s he’s always been a hack. He’s always had among the lowest possible Iq for his position. He was lucky to be born and to grow up in Delaware.
Right? Very small state, much much easier to become a a senator from from a small state, he he doesn’t have a track record of taking accountability and making apologies and staying connected to reality. And so his team is just spinning out, light and deception after light and deception.
Speaker 10: But the the fallacy of the whole thing, and I know this and this is why you raise it is nobody really believes it was just a bad night.
Speaker 9: Right. Until unproven, and there’s a lot of not unproven going on.
Speaker 8: Right. Well, there’s a… So just to now to come back to the to the to the clip we played because this is almost too un sophisticated a question to ask the tub because it’s so… It’s… But I it…
I find it so bonkers. And that they put him out on Friday, and, , he’s lifelike and and energetic and he reads off the tele well and they literally are going around saying to people that that shows something like he’s bounced back. I find it just like almost insulting, and I know that that there are donors and elected who find a consulting also. Which just kinda like, yeah. He went out there and red off the prompt in a in a animated way.
What does that prove? But they actually cut of with a straight face. It’s not like it would’ve fine to do that bit and then do 60 minutes on something.
Speaker 0: So a friend says that Twitter considers at a mistake, if you don’t capitalize Muslim. Alright? Oh, of, various religions. But not Christian. Right?
No problem on Twitter. No prompts if you they ought to capitalize Christian. It’s just like many newspapers, And I think the associated press, they capitalize black, but they don’t capitalize white. Because blacks are real and and white is just a fake identity.
Speaker 8: Monday or something. But… To just do that dent rope blind,
Speaker 9: , that’s the big 1 He did the whole rope line.
Speaker 8: Didn’t seem that commissioner can do that. Doesn’t that seem crazy to you to hang so much on that, like, just as a matter of, like, trying to end their credibility. They just seem foolish to me. To be talking to, like, political reporters or elected or donors and saying, did just see him on Friday?
Speaker 10: Yeah. I mean, this is so this is a endemic and deep problem.
Speaker 0: Right. Here’s a a comic with with a good… Because like
Speaker 11: you think someone’s ruined your life, you’re right. It’s you. Like that’s a mic drop isn’t it? Nietzsche had the great line on resentment. Said if you think someone’s ruined your life, your right.
It’s you.
Speaker 0: Yeah. It’s a line that Jay Biden should take in.
Speaker 10: That can’t be solved with palliative. , I I mean, I don’t have any… I’ll take any joy in this at all. I mean, I really… …
Speaker 0: So what would Trump, what could Trump achieve in the second term, more of what he achieved in the first term. For the first time, we had an answer to illegal immigration, He substantially reduced refugee intake. He’s substantially reduced immigration intake. He reduced, American foreign policy that was intervening all over the world. He was the first president in 20 years not to start a new war.
So he changed the direction of American trade policy and he dramatically increased the income. And the wages of the least educated Americans, Right? The first president to make a significant dent in that, needed category in about 70 years. And he got 3 conservatives on the Us Supreme Court,
Speaker 10: I worked with Joe Biden. I was thrilled to be working with him when he was Vp, He brought a point of view and an energy. To our discussions that was really valuable that were really valuable. And I think he’s , then Murphy and I could probably debate this, but I think he’s done a lot of really, really significant his… Yes, historic things as president, all of that.
Speaker 0: So where do we have to look forward to from a second Trump term here is an analysis by a young female Lesbian He’s frightened to death of…
Speaker 12: Re reelected. You may here the first 15 promises he is made if he is reelected. You may have heard of project 20 25, but this is from agenda 47, and you can read all of these on his website. First, he promises that he will carry out the largest domestic. Deportation operation in history.
Who will also ask for the death sentence for anyone convicted of human trafficking. He will close the Department of Education and return all education standards to the states to decide. He will put prayer back into school and he will criminal any race based advantage programs, He will end the Affordable Care Act. He will ban gender affirming care for adults and children and he will ban any federal dollars from going towards gender affirming care. Which means anyone with government provided health care will no longer be able to access gender affirming care except for viagra and Cia, those will still be available.
He will propose a constitutional amendment that gives a term limit to congress. He will deploy the Department of Justice to investigate the Biden crime family and any of his… Adversaries or political rivals. He will immediately pardon all of the January 6 and who will create a task force to investigate anyone who arrested charged or imprisoned a January 6. He will increase the penalties for underage criminal offenders, strengthen immunity for police officers and deploy the Nash guard to patrol woke cities.
On day 1, he will reassess our participation in Nato and says that every European country needs to pay the United States for protection. He will also restore the wonderful travel ban for Muslims coming to America. He will build freedom cities. This is 10 new cities built on federal land, He will award them to areas with the best development proposals, and he will prioritize moving young families to these freedom cities. He will kill e vehicles and e vehicle legislation, seeking to replace that with the development of a flying car.
He believes that we could create a car that vertically takes off. All He will remove all of the limits on American natural gas exports and drill baby drill for oil domestically. He will impose a tariff of up to 6… Percent on Chinese imports. He will extend the 20 17 tax cuts and drop the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 15 percent, He will push congress to pass legislation that would give every American the right to concealed carrie anywhere at any time.
And he will revoke any gun restrictions or legislation that seeks to inhibit people’s ability to own guns that’s been passed in the last several years. He will demand that Europe pay back all the money we gave Ukraine, and then he will use all of that money to recruit for the American military. And he will take billions and billions of dollars from private university endowments by taxing, finding, and suing the universities, He specifically named Harvard in this 1, and then he will use that money to create the American Academy. It is a free online college that will be free of woken that he will force employers to recognize as a bachelor’s degree equivalent. So that’s agenda of 47.
Speaker 0: Okay. I much of it sounds ridiculous, but also some of it sounds great, and, none of it exactly frighten me. So thank you.
Speaker 10: Is true. But when I hear the first lady, say, that we’re not gonna let 90 bad minutes erase, , a a historic 3 and a half year. Record, that is not the point. That is not… That is the…
That’s a problem because elections are not about the last 4 years,
Speaker 0: And Steven Jj this makes a great point here. How do I feel about the anti Trump argument that Trump galvanized left? Yes. Donald Trump or effectively galvanized left than he did the right? Right.
The things got worse since 20 16 due to the over reaction to Trump. Yeah. There’s a very good court case to be made here. That’s why I’m so much more humble than I was say, prior to 20 18. Alright prior to 20 16 election, I thought Yeah.
Maybe this is the flight 93 election, but you can make a very good case that America would have been better off with Hillary Clinton as president. Think about all the online censorship that happened under Trump, and then calm down under Joe Biden. Yeah. So That’s that’s my new attitude that we have to be humble in in the face of reality. We we we just don’t know.
We don’t know what’s gonna happen. Right? Reality is just we’re too complicated for us to get on our high horse. And make any strong proclamation. It’s interesting to bat the ideas back and forth.
Obviously, that’s what the I do on a show But I’d like to think that I don’t do with a great deal of pom. Right, we have to be humble, before the the reorder nature of reality.
Speaker 10: They’re about the next 4 years. And the question on the table is whether the president can… Function effectively in the next 4 years. And now the the verdict from from the public is resounding known and you’re left with the very, very difficult argument that Yeah. He’s…
Maybe he’s not, but the other guy is worse. I believe the other guy is worse. There’s no doubt and what masked by… Biden bad performance was the fact that Trump had a terrible debate.
Speaker 0: Alright. That’s David Axel Rod. And no. Trump didn’t have a terrible debate. He had perhaps his best debate.
So I really… I like Tucker Carlson, and I simultaneously recognize that much of what he says is absurd that he’s a drama queen that he he’s playing to an increasingly lower your audience often. So Tucker says, if you gotta put Trump in jail, at better be for a very serious crime that everyone agrees you committed it. Yeah. I agree with that.
Otherwise, you risk destroying the system completely if forever. I agree with that. That’s ridiculous. Right. Even with these various prosecution of Donald Trump, it has not even come close to destroying the American legal system completely and forever.
So Tucker says we’re in legitimate danger. Yeah. There are dangers now as there have been dangers every single month of the history of the United States. Democrats need to pull back. Alright.
So, Tucker says Biden collapse makes this a much more perilous moment. Than it was. Okay. You can you can make an argument for that, but we… We’ve had a sen aisle checked out old, man, not capable of more than about 6 hours of work a day for the the past 3 and a half years, as president of the United States, and things haven’t exactly gone to hell.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Which didn’t matter. Trump was too… Excuse me, Biden was too busy exploding, and you’re totally right this 90 bad minute thing is about to turn into a hundred and 80 very bad days. It’s like, what, it’s not gonna happen again.
Will show us. I think they have about a week.
Speaker 0: Right. The mainstream media is obsessed about this joke biden cognitive decline story.
Speaker 9: To get Biden really out there, or this thing is it’s gonna be a different fit all of a sudden.
Speaker 10: If they could would.
Speaker 9: Right. That’s that’s my point. It’s easy to fix if he can fix it yet, he’s not out there.
Speaker 8: I mean, you guys would have had… If you guys… If you guys had a candidate who performed like this, and he could… And he… And you…
And you were confident that he would just go out and do well, Like, would you not have had him on 60 minutes by by Sunday? I mean, that’s yes. I you… I think about campaigns in the past is, like, Bill Clinton’s on 60 minutes, Like, , Jerry Flowers breaks and , it’s like, I. Pretty easier out there doing an interview within within 24 hours, maybe 48, but you’re not, like, hey, maybe we’ll do a town hall debate nick town hall meeting next week.
Or we’ll do some an interview with that with an influencer like, , 10 days from now. It seems like get
Speaker 10: up of it
Speaker 9: and do a photo shoot and turn off changes can’t david for
Speaker 10: . Yeah that was… Unbelievable. That that was really really unbelievable that that’s where they they weren’t gathering to talk about the campaign. They were gathering for an annie le of its photos shoot, which V released the cover of to today with the first lady saying we’ll make our own decision.
here’s
Speaker 0: So I I hate to say that Elliot Platt might have been right about something, but here’s the Wall Street Journal an op ed. Taking an Elliott b perspective.
Speaker 13: Was there a Biden presidency? Scranton Joe was a f leave for a White House spent on W appease. By Home and W Jenkins junior. 07/02/2024, 05:20PM Eastern time. Is it time to rethink our picture of the Biden administration?
Thursday’s debate appears to have been a spin of the wheel by Joe Biden or his team. They hope the coming and going of his lucid moments. He clearly has them, could be stage managed to coincide with the 90 minutes in Atlanta. The format without an audience with microphone silence so candidates couldn’t speak over each other, minimized stimuli to give mister Biden the best… Chance to husband his thoughts and energies.
If so, they could cli a picture of a president ready to handle a second term and put him mostly under wraps again. It didn’t work and no pill can fix the problem. I can only refer you to a column here on 04/06/2021 on why a Joe Biden presidency looked so little like a Joe Biden presidency. It looked instead, I said, like the presidency of a man of diminished capacities acting out 1 long reaction to kamala Harris playing the race card on him in the 20 20 primaries. There’s a reason I added un kindly, that tele target the elderly.
Now at least the obvious discord between claims about mister Biden robust health and a need to keep him hidden has been resolved? In the new light, how are we thinking about his administration’s continuing g aimed at younger voters as if mister Biden can wave away their student debts. A climate policy that in record time degenerate into corporate welfare and organized labor pay, a border policy that amounted to ab border enforcement. Then mister Biden disco disconcerting robotic in vacation on every Charlottesville anniversary of the bulging veins of racist protesters. There’s His administration adopted a habit from day 1 of equating opponents with white supremacists.
Why was mister Biden lending his… Presidency to un activist groups to pursue an agenda for which he had no mandate. As worrisome, a visibly diminished presidential candidate, he seemed to keep on passively as Obama intelligence officials helped him get elected by falsely portraying his son’s laptop as a Russian plot. Was he even consulted? His incoming team then advised him to appease, park, Vladimir Putin by rev
Speaker 0: Okay. So good question. Was there a Biden presidency? Alright? Elliot Black could have written a column like that.
Speaker 10: What I hope. Here’s what I hope. I hope that
Speaker 0: the… The David Axel rod, you can tell He’s not mike Murphy or John H because he speaks so slowly.
Speaker 10: Decision they make, and it is his decision. The decision they make. Is a decision that has in mind, his his legacy, his reputation, this is a president who ran for president in 2000. You , all right now,
Speaker 9: we just won’t show it. Then he’s the selfish guy. It’s too selfish guys. 2 ego man all about them.
Speaker 0: So I hear Democrats naturally talking about Joe Biden great legacy. I I’m unaware of any anything positive in in his life. I mean, how exactly would America being crippled if Biden had never entered politics and instead just become another used car salesman.
Speaker 9: Not about you. And then his total k for Biden. So Boy if he’s not back and forth with reporter on Real Tv in an interview in 48 hours and the bad polling start to pile on them. They think they got a headache now with the party bucking, I think they have no idea what their influence.
Speaker 10: John You’re a V viewer of these interviews. Though. Yeah. You. When was the last great interview that Joe Biden gay.
Speaker 8: Well, I wouldn’t say great, but when he was
Speaker 0: Yeah. It’s been it’s been a long time since Joe Biden gave a a great interview. And, so Joe mentioned, Us senator was prepared on Sunday to go on talk shows and say the truth. Pat that Joe Biden should obviously. Step down.
But senate majority leader chuck schumer and various democratic elites manage to william out during.
Speaker 14: The establishment rigging the process. We’ve got even more details from you that don’t just have to do with the Dnc. Let’s put this up there. On the screen. Here we have Ron K, the former chief of staff to the president and then the person who also helped him prepare for the debate.
He says it is 1…
Speaker 0: Yes. It’s 100 percent certain until it isn’t. And if the media makes it their number 1 story, Joe biden cognitive decline. Alright? You’re gonna see the damn, break as more and more Democrats call for Biden to step down until it becomes un for him to stay in the race.
Speaker 14: Hundred percent certain that Biden staying in the race. Big money donors, he say, don’t get to dictate the nominee of the Democratic party. Well, it’s not like the voters really got to dictate the nominee of that’s party either because there was no primary. They didn’t even get to vote. There was no debate.
There was nothing. They were hidden by people like you, behind the curtain before we could no longer deny reality in front of all of our eyes. Let’s go to the next 1, please because
Speaker 1: this is actually…
Speaker 0: It is studying how well man essentially decided he’d run for president even though he was clearly cognitive impaired, and the incentives were so strong. It’s that nobody important on his side tried to stop him. And the difficulty in reporting this story of Jay Biden this cognitive client was just too much for everyone.
Speaker 14: Be a craziest 1. This is quote, behind the curtain. Inside the Biden salvation plan. Let’s leave this up there just so I can read from it. A massive political P, personal campaign is underway.
To reject calls for president Biden to drop his reelection race and rally Democrats to move on from the public debate and about his age and his future. Biden has 0 interest in stepping aside. First lady, Jill Biden, key family members agree The in ent, Biden is duck tough her.
Speaker 0: So Republicans must absolutely just stay, say substantially quiet, not do anything news worthy. Allowed us to remain the fix of the media allowed us to dominate the news.
Speaker 14: Views and avoided no press conferences is now considering both. He is looking for a town hall, or a big 1 on 1 this month. During a family gathering a camp, David, Biden family members, including Hunter went through with the long scheduled session with celebrity photographer adding Le. The Biden insisted the president would stay in the race. They are all in and want him to stay, behind the scenes, Biden friends are now blaming long time aids who prepped Biden.
Speaker 0: So I’m just thinking about health. The bigger your embarrassment from your own in. The more vicious you’ll be in response. So Israel was absolutely embarrassed on October 7. Their defensive system.
And their military intelligence a political elite were caught with their pants down, Israel, mounted absolutely pathetic defense. And Hamas terrorists just ran wild in the country for 3 days. And I think a large part of the reason that the Israeli response, particularly in the initial weeks was so vicious and bloody towards civilians was just this rage at their own incompetence. Right? The the Israeli military, political and intelligence leadership could not handle their own feelings of rage and humiliation.
That that they they lashed out at at the palestinian because your notice as the months of fighting go on, the Israelis become more more effective at reducing civilian deaths. So initially, the pal… The Israelis just wanted just slaughter. Palestinians ind inappropriately, which is the normal natural human reaction to having your own side slaughtered. But then after a few months, and overwhelmingly negative world reaction to the unnecessary civilian death toll in in Gaza than the Israeli israelis started becoming much more selective about who they were slaughtering.
But the Israelis were just filled with rage, due to their own incompetence. I think Donald Trump must still be filled with rage and part of him must know that he lost the 20 20 election due to his own incompetence he could have just portrayed average competence with regard to Covid. He would have easily won reelection. But he lost because of his own incompetence. Right?
Republicans lost the 20 18 midterm elections, because of Republican chief Donald Trump incompetence. Donald Trump did not get much done in his first time because he has never shown much leadership ability. He’s never been a particularly effective leader that he’s not been a great businessman. And that must make him filled with rage. And so, yeah, I I believe he wants Vengeance because he doesn’t wanna confront his own incompetence.
He doesn’t wanna to confront his own role in his own humiliation, and there’s so much rage on the the part of the Democrats and the media right now against the Biden administration because they don’t wanna confront their own role in failing to investigate Joe Biden cognitive decline, and there are so much rage on the part of the Biden administration against everybody else but pointing out the obvious, Right, nothing is more humiliating than when your own shortcomings are exposed and the whole world realizes that it’s your fault. Right? That you’re incompetent. Right? That’s what Israel felt after October 7, it’s what the Bush administration felt after 09:11.
And so because the bush administration couldn’t deal, couldn’t handle the humiliation of the 09:11 attack in their own incompetence and stopping that attack George w Bush even ran for president and made it part of 1 of the presidential debates, that he was to reduce racial profiling of arabs. Right? That’s what he was saying in 2000. So the bush administration was incompetent with regard to the 09:11 attack that and then they try to deal with their own humiliation by these unnecessary disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Joe Biden and his team must be absolutely filled with rage right now and having their own incompetence and completely exposed And if they have the opportunity to…
Or, they’re they’re gonna lash out in some massive way unless the narrative just becomes overwhelming against them. And I think Joe, president, Donald Trump will be often a very nasty petty president. Donald Trump is often a very petty, V. Self centered neolithic man. He he’s deeply flawed.
I still support him, but I recognize His his very deep flaws.
Speaker 14: They complained about everything from the data heavy answers to his makeup to briefing on the camera angles. The president smoothed it over, he called former half, chief staff or Ron Claim, who I just referenced to lead the team and 1 of the things he talked about was that while he doesn’t blame him for Prep, that they will continue forward. The campaign spokesperson said that the age who prepare prepared Present Biden have been with for years Ron K is expected to lead Biden prep for now The second debate, and to be fair, claim has let debate prep for every president since Bill k.
Speaker 0: Steven J James is a good point. Crazy that we totally forgot about Ron sanders. Remember, he was the great Republican hope. He got so much press. Wasn’t about 2 and a half, 3 3 years ago.
Alright. He was the overwhelming favorite and Republicans and Fox news in particular just completely threw in with Ron des santos, but as more Thoughtful, observers noted at the time, people are actually knew Run sanders, he’s robotic, and he’s not going to be able to unleash the kind of enthusiasm that Donald Trump is. Now, I am 100 percent convinced that Run des is a far more effective executive than Donald Trump. Right? I I would I would suspect in most situations, Alright.
Run Des santos would run rings around Donald Trump as an executive. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the Charisma to get elected.
Speaker 14: Clinton so. It kinda makes sense. Really though, is inside this survival strategy. Number 1 is they want to quote dismiss bed wedding. They want to continue to go after anybody…
Speaker 0: What a ridiculous ludicrous insulting term for people who are just pointing out the obvious The the president has no cognitive clothes. Right the the president just is not equipped cognitive to handle his office little. Campaign for another time.
Speaker 14: He who was breaking ranks and say that they’re bed wet, or their coward words that they’re not sticking by the president. They’re trying to turn this into their access Hollywood moment. Boat Number 2, quote, they wanna squeeze polls for juice. Biden allies are circulating polls and focus groups. Showing that the debate did little to change the dynamics of the race, not actually true though, considering the poll that we just showed you in our last segment.
Number 3, This is the most important.
Speaker 0: I think about how embarrassing it must be to be a democrat right now. Right? Donald Trump was frequently embarrassing for Republican. Can it took their politics too seriously or it took their Pro Trump sympathies too seriously. This is the best analogy.
I can come up with Dallas cowboys. National football League fan, and the cowboys were overwhelming favorites to win their first playoff game, in January, of this year against the Green bay packers, and the cowboys were blown out. And so I just started laughing And even though I was a Donald Trump supporter in 20 15 20 16, I I didn’t take my support too seriously, and so when he would behave in a petty childish absurd way. Right? I didn’t find it in embarrassing.
I I just recognize recognized it. He was in some ways E before in some ways he was v in some ways he was petty that he was just a deeply forward person. So I didn’t remember feeling embarrassed by Donald Trump. Right? He behaved embarrassing, but it it never need…
I never vote any embarrassment, but to have as president of the United States, someone so cognitive impaired as As joe Biden, I would suspect that for hardcore court democrats, is that not embarrassing?
Speaker 14: They want a warn of chaos. So remember that Gen Socket I played for everybody earlier. But Biden allies are making plain and private conversation, the peril of an open convention. So the
Speaker 0: And Gl Med says, yeah, that the pants soil brigade cause out the bad wet.
Speaker 14: Risk of picking a democrat even more unpopular than Biden, namely vice president, Kamala Harris. So what they’re doing is they’re stabbing their own vice president in the back. They’re like see, She’s even more unpopular. Can we can’t run with her. They’re wanna, quote, limit descent.
They’re orchestrating supportive tweets by Clinton, by Obama, the ones I showed to you yesterday. Those are happening after quote furious back channel by allies. They’re keeping all elected leaders close, Chuck Schumer, h Jeff. They’re like listen guys, you’re sticking with me and you’re not going anywhere. Getting the donor class to chill out, they’re getting specifically Jeffrey Katz of Dream works fame.
You’re to work the phones and to go after anybody who is saying that it is biden… Biden to drop out Quote, they want to prove vitality. That’ll be an interesting 1. Basically, they wanna do the Bait and switch that they did yesterday, which is their, like, look, look how good he is on these pre scripted rallies surrounded by supporters. Why can’t he have been like that at the debate.
Speaker 0: So the chat says that Michelle Obama is the best band for the job. Right. I I enjoy… The breaking point show that I was just playing, but probably more important to hear from the political experts, David Axel Rod and Mike Murphy.
Speaker 8: Overseas. On the trip to… 1 of these trips I mean was in…
Speaker 0: Talking about last
Speaker 8: time France in… And and there’s not been a some cataclysmic Biden interview that you can point to in the last year where he went sat down with a network anchor or something, and it just completely fell apart. So I don’t really know what to make of that, except I totally agree with you guys… But here’s the thing that’s… I agree you with all all things you’re saying, and I think, , the The other thing as I listen to you guys the other day I thought about this over the weekend, It’s like, , to to go back to a campaign strategy 01:01.
You’re at unpopular incumbent, what do you have to do? You have to make the race of choice Right to referendum.
Speaker 1: Right
Speaker 8: right? And and and that was what this debate. It’s always… That’s what they always been trying to do with trump This debate was supposed to be the the place where that really got boot bootstrap in a way. And instead, not only did he did he focus on the fitness questions about himself that are his biggest the problem.
Speaker 10: He never also the contrast.
Speaker 8: And he also guarantee that now he is going to be under microscopic scrutiny for the next caller now. It’s all gonna be about him. It’s just gonna be everyone fly speck everything he does. Sometimes it’s not too hard to fly spec, but, , it’s just gonna be a… Constant question of?
Did he mess this up? Did he mess that up? Is that a sign of slippage? Is he, , like, it’s just… I don’t really…
How do you changed that? Well, this is another question for a for for for later on I know how you guys would approach to change that. But here’s the other thing that rebuttal me is how is it possible? They… , you think about their strategy of this weekend and you said, Mike you said, calling to send.
And and and and trying to quiet doubts. Right? He But he basically, Bill Clinton and Barack obama came out and supported him. There’s not a single elected official right now. I believe at state or federal level who’s come out and called on him to drop out.
There’s no big donor. There been some donors who have a few like, whoa, we should have a conversation, but there’s really not been a big defect from the donor class. If you’re if you’re Biden you’re trying to get through this weekend or buy these 72 hours, you could look up and point to, that… Those all things is as success. Right?
You would say, I… We’ve kept the party maybe gru and private, but they’re not crumbling in public. We got through this weekend and we engineered it even with the anti il thing so that it became clear by the end of…
Speaker 0: There’s no way to make this go away. Right. This is is 1 of those things that once you’ve seen it, you can’t forget it.
Speaker 8: By the fact that they, so 2 synchronized stories and Ap and your york times that both said basically the same thing. The family’s all for it, jill, , all for it. Hundreds all for it, which is always very
Speaker 10: top interesting. Addition.
Speaker 8: But he’s… And then and then while, here, , we had a this morning on… Well, to… What do you guys think about that? They got through the weekend?
Is that? And how do you explain that?
Speaker 10: There’s First of all, I don’t… I I mean, there’s… There are 2 conversations going on 1 public and 1 private private. No were people you haven’t… , there are a lot of people you hadn’t heard from.
There were people like, Jamie Ras who said they would come.
Speaker 0: Right. Every. Intensely identifying Democrat in America right now is des.
Speaker 10: Conversation. He was honest about and said there were conversations Right going on. But there make no mistake. I mean, there’s there’s real concern and among people who have great affection for Joe Biden. I mean,
Speaker 0: I re… I… The last time I feeling this glorious as a republican was after Trump won the 20 16 election. And and I guess there were various highlights, not many during his first time. But this sustained gi feeling that I’ve had since the debate Thursday night.
So it… It’s going on 5 days now. I still have a gi feeling.
Speaker 10: In that… But the reality is , they’re worried about the house. They’re worried about the senate. They’re they’re he’s running behind, he’s now running behind the the democratic ticket. And the question is how far behind can he run before you in peril their chances to win the house and to win the senate.
So… And obviously, everyone is concerned about what he has pitched a lot of his campaign around, which is beating Donald Trump. So , I think there are people who don’t wanna leap ahead of them. I heard Debbie Ding on. Tv yesterday.
And she was it was… If you listened carefully, you… Yes. You might say she… I mean, she said, basically, what she said was As of now, he is our candidate, and he’s been a great president, and as between him and Donald Trump, , that’s the choice.
That’s the choice I have and the choice is easy. That. That to me is a non answer answer. So, I think 1 of the most interesting things that the with data points I’d point to is the fact that Lara Trump was out there condemning democrats for thinking about replacing. Biden she said it would be a in a front to democracy.
So let’s just breathe in the irony of that for a second. And and then
Speaker 8: fragrant very fragrant.
Speaker 10: But I mean, the fact that the…
Speaker 0: Great comment in the chat, Donald Trump will likely dig up another Christian fundamentalist to scare. People about replacing you.
Speaker 10: The the the the circle of the Wagon is happening among, , the Biden family and the Trump family.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I think they’ve stopped the bon fire. And, of course, as never trump republicans are kinda chuck. Oh, maybe the the Democrats have been calling Republicans coward for so longer getting a little taste of the, won’t go public. But when the next wave of public poll come and if they’re bad, the panic gonna start and that bon fire is gonna blaze up again.
And and I don’t see any of that going away unless again, Joe Biden can get out there, and there still be a time lag and really be good answering question. Back and forth sharp mental stuff. And, , I think they know that. So why isn’t it happening and that begs a question of can here, not… So the panic is totally capable of getting worse.
The other… I think they’re doing which irritates me. Curious what David thinks. Attacking making this argument
Speaker 8: are attacking pod… Attacking podcast like. That’s a yeah. Just now just just a bunch of bunch of podcast to
Speaker 9: drill hiring and know it all and everything Yeah. I bumped can do a Biden person here in Washington. And I said, I I talk, but I’m on my way to do the cover shoot for bed wedding magazine. , Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10: But but the the point being the lot of competition for that by the way.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah. No long line. Long line at the photo studio. But their argument they have this phony magician card trick argument.
It… It’s not like a lie, but it’s an assumption they’re treating as a fact, which is… Well, it’s either gotta be Biden or Harris, and he’s better than Harris. So therefore it has to be Biden, which isn’t really true. It’s hard to do it.
But it’s not impossible if the stakes are really high.
Speaker 8: We are gonna take a quick break to do some business, but we’ll be back at into Jiffy with David, but definitely not cheer.
Speaker 15: But, obviously, there was a a big problem with Joe Biden debate performance, and there’s also just a tremendous reservoir of a fact action and love for Joe Biden in our party. And so this makes it a difficult situation for everybody, but they are very honest and serious and rigorous conversations taking place at every level of our a party?
Speaker 8: So I would ask this question. Do if David, do of any on serious or rigorous conversations taking place that involve the Biden campaign?
Speaker 10: Well, I’m surely the… I have no doubt that that they are getting an ear full. And they are having a lot of conversations. I I have no doubt about that. They’re doing what a competent campaign should do, which is they’re reaching out, , the…
With the exception that the candidate is…
Speaker 0: Okay. Looking at the chat, my gi is tempered by images of 300 pound e quiz stuffing ballot boxes. I I don’t believe there’s any evidence that Voter fraud has decided any significant American. Elections something not for for president or for the Us senate. Stephen James says if it makes you feel anybody the united Kingdom is 48 hours away from electing a left wing bureau, a London lawyer thinks some women have a penis.
Right. But he’s center left. Now center right in British terms is centrist in American terms, So the British political spectrum has definitely shifted much more to the left than in the United States same with Australia.
Speaker 10: It’s not, which I think is a steak, but if he if he… Unless he can’t. But, I I know that they they are they’re not they’re not isolated. Right. They’re not isolated from the reality.
The question is how much information being filtered to the president. Right and what does he know? Yeah. Because let me tell you something. Joe Biden is a guy who always believes that he can win.
He’s very competitive. He’s got a chip on his shoulder and that chip it, , is deserved in the sense that he won race in 2020, nobody thought he could win. , So he’s like, , his at attitude… Well, I haven’t talked to him or anything…
Speaker 0: Right. That’s of absurd that Joe Biden just did a stunning political job. Just that the circumstances converge it in his favor so that with Covid, he didn’t have to get out there in campaign and Donald Trump looked particularly incompetent. And that’s how Biden grief through.
Speaker 10: The people around him. , I’m sure what part his attitude is, , I’ve heard this… I’ve heard of this crappy before. But this is qualitatively different. And, the question what’s filtering to him.
Right.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I mean, I really people are hearing it. I even first firsthand basis on that. And it… And they’re spending a lot of time blasting fire ex.
It. , freaked out donors, etcetera.
Speaker 10: Right? Yeah. But I mean, I I mean, I’ve heard from donors. I’ve heard from office holders. I’ve heard sure.
And some of whom, , have been most of whom, maybe all of whom have been star supporters of Biden. It’s not with a, trace of happiness that they’re… Right. But they’re genuinely concerned because here’s the thing. I mean, everybody’s sort of touched about how to get him through the next 4 and a half months.
In an election that’s about selecting a president for the next 4 years.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 10: And that’s , I mean, it’s not… You… If you say take 1 step back from all of this, , you can sorta of see the problem.
Speaker 8: Well, and this goes to through to a thing, and David and I talked about this the other day, and this is the that step back thing, which is… I just don’t understand anybody who watches that debate and doesn’t think. Doesn’t see what you’re seeing, which is something… Anybody’s who’s ever known in an has seen before. , it’s…
And again, this… You hear… Okay. He’s he’s lucid from 10 to 04:10 in the morning until the 04:00 the afternoon. Okay.
Like, the president of United States let’s… We can count on him being lucid for 6 hour a day. It’s kinda not like that job. Right? It’s a 24 7 job.
Do you have a right to
Speaker 10: expose is why it people.
Speaker 8: Right. Of course, Of course, it’s the hardest job of the world.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 8: And and I and I find that, like, this is the thing that I don’t…
Speaker 0: Xavier Donald Trump is the only president who is not. Dramatically aged in office.
Speaker 8: Don’t think. And Mike, you can speak to this a little bit, but, like… Because I wanna ask you what you think well could change the calculus elections you could start to bring elected or donors or whatever out in the open with what they’re saying. Because I agree with David. The private car conversations among donors at elected is much much harsh and is much more.
I wouldn’t necessarily say majority of people who think that he should… Or throw the towel, but there’s a much larger segment of the democratic political class, donor and elected that thinks that it should at least be on the table and many of them are like, he’s gotta go. III… The what they don’t seem to get and what’s different about the… It you were the bed wedding thing.
It’s like they’re pissed. I’ve seen democratic donors be panicked before, but But they’re not just panic. They’re pissed. They feel like they’ve been lied to. That’s donors and elected who feel like the kit…
Like the… Like they… Like the White House and the campaign. Hid the ball in them, and and kept telling them that Biden was better than he is, and they looked at it on Thursday. And now there’s this there’s panic plus resentment like an anger over having been kind of taken hostages by by the guy.
And I think that’s a really volatile situation for them to have to deal with.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah they
Speaker 9: have a gas lighting problem. , if they’ve been saying, oh, we got it. We’re on top of it, we won before. We have… It figured it out, and we’re gonna have a big debate and we’re gonna show that Trump thing or 2, and it all turned out to be false.
And they know the stakes are high. I donors tend to freak anyway, but they’ve given them plenty of good reasons right their live on Tv to freak over.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I mean, and the the argument that the argument that you gotta go with him because it’s too… Risky to do anything else is, , sort of… It becomes a battle risk set and the risk set assessment took a huge shift. .
And so I don’t know what’s gonna… Look, I’ve said from Jump street that it’s up to him, , even when I was talking about the wisdom of the race, and people were saying you someone should run against them. He would’ve have been the nominee of the democratic party, I believe even if someone had run against them him and no 1 wanted to weaken him in the battle against Trump.
Speaker 0: Right?
Speaker 10: And, , we you can argue and retrospect with his right now but I really believe he He would have prevailed in that primary. And so, , people didn’t speak up and they didn’t raise their concerns. Now we’re down to last straws and the argument is being made well. It’s too risky now to… And the question is really where is where’s the greatest risk.
Where’s is the greatest risk?
Speaker 9: Because everything’s risky. But if he’s a surefire loser.
Speaker 0: And the chest says… Trump must spend an hour a week and the salon getting his hair colored to maintain his image. But if he didn’t do it. Alright. If he got a bad hair job, it just be entertaining.
It would just be hilarious. He would be the the butt of jokes. But the guy is seemingly ind. So even with with the worst hedge up in the world, Alright, He would just carry on, and I heard this from Rob Long, 1 of the writer producers on the Tv show cheers. That every 4 years during the presidential campaign, Americans get to vote for who they want to have the leading role in the country’s number 1 reality show.
And right now, I think people want Donald Trump to have that leading role In America’s reality show because in part, he’s just so damn entertaining,
Speaker 9: which may be the real consensus in another 10 days. Then, , I mean, what what I believe their spin is. Is that you can’t you can’t undo Harris. So therefore, it has to be Biden. And I I think that’s an assumption and it would be very difficult, but I’m not sure that’s a fact in this circumstance.
Yeah. If Biden anointed somebody, particularly, like W first female president, finished the job hillary started. There would be a surge of love for Joe Biden. She’s good. Yeah there’s the wrist that she screws up un embedded all that But if she had 3 or 4 days, and all of a sudden, the devs are up 6 points, in the key states, 5 or 6, and their winners.
I don’t think the convention does blow.
Speaker 10: I I’m not sure that I’m not sure that the ointment strategy is feasible or desirable. I mean, I think… That there has to be some… There would have to be some sort of competition. And, , I gotta say,
Speaker 0: Yeah. So the betting sides put the odds of Donald Trump being the next president of the United States at about 65 percent. So, yeah the odds certainly to be seem to be in his favor right now.
Speaker 10: I mean, I haven’t seen any data on this, but I’m not sure about even the harris argument at this point. I’m I’m not even sure.
Speaker 9: No. I agree with that. She might be better than Trump although little, boy. I I can’t say Enthusiastic about, but she’s gonna be a candidate of find runs anyway because everybody will say, well, she starts in a year.
Speaker 10: Right? So I I… , I don’t know. I find the whole thing very depressing. Honestly.
Speaker 9: We can tell. Yeah.
Speaker 10: No. No. We’re gonna have…
Speaker 9: We’re gonna have to go check on you.
Speaker 8: Matter at.
Speaker 0: And why are these men depressed because they have an exaggerated sense of their own importance and exaggerated sense of their own capability. Of understanding the the wording and incredibly var nature of reality that is beyond the can of any anyone individual. You might as well sit back and enjoy the show.
Speaker 8: If the is the polling… So the the polling question is a big question. I have I have donors. Significant donors basically saying, here Give you… I’ll read you 1 of these just because, this is the kind of thing I hear.
I heard all weekend long.
Speaker 10: I don’t wanna hear it unless there’s 7 figures. You gotta a buy your way on here.
Speaker 9: It’s a pretty gotta
Speaker 8: be this pretty big this pretty
Speaker 9: a unit or more here. None of these none
Speaker 10: of these 50 grand exactly.
Speaker 9: Loud
Speaker 10: nozzle. Exactly.
Speaker 8: This… But this but what he says he he says, look, I said, that a lot of daughters are like, I wanna abandon it him, but are you guys really sure this the way right to go. Let’s look all the pulse and be frank and if few days. I think this will come down to the obvious inner inter group, but to me, the worst case scenario would be if the numbers held reasonably well, and then they were able to say see we’re okay. And then this person says the irony of course is all of us who asked how these Trump donors could knowing stand behind someone so obviously ill equipped for the office.
In 1 case it’s temperament, disposition and moral character and biden this case, it’s obvious cognitive decline. But the playing games to the san of the… Thanks the office is the same. And I… So the number…
Like, he’s, like, how long this been now, a bunch of… When do you think we’ll get numbers? When do you think we’ll get numbers? I looked at that Cbs poll, and I’m, like, man. 27 percent of registered voters who think Joe Biden is mentally equipped to be president United States.
How do you get elected president? If only 27 people like percent the people that control. Think think you’re think you’re… You have well cognitive health to service press me
Speaker 10: and I’ll tell you what the Biden people would say, I’m… Sure in re report. , first of all, 50 percent thought or 49 percent, think Biden… Trump’s not confident. And they also think that he is is corrupt and Yeah.
I mean, I’m not I’m just… I’m not… I’m endorsing the argument. That’s the argument they’ll make. They either they will make it compared to what argument.
Yeah. Well, they can’t fix it. I don’t believe they can fix it. I mean, yes, but if he went out there and did, , 5 events a day and did, , if he did, , if he pulled the… Straight talk express Murphy out of moth balls and, , did that kind of thing.
But
Speaker 0: Yeah. So Joe Biden is the least left wing of any possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. So Elliot Black might be right that Kamala Harris won’t mobilize the right, the the way that Donald Trump mobilize the left.
Speaker 10: , I mean, god can’t. He’s not up. He’s can’t he he can’t do that. He can’t do that. I mean…
Speaker 8: I mean, 45… According to this poll, 45 percent, of registered Democrats, think that he should step aside. And we’re in… Is July first.
Speaker 0: Yeah. And I I think that number’s is only gonna grow. And what happens if the Democrats don’t like Kamala harris.
Speaker 7: Mister the Democrats Kamala Harris. A gavin News, gretchen W, the list goes on and know all I don’t know, You’ve named 4 or 5 people. Where is their consensus? You got to build consensus, and there is not consensus right now. If you pick a white man over the kamala harris, black women I can tell you this we’re gonna walk away we gonna blow the party up.
Speaker 2: Wow. Here we She sounds. South Carolina senator Tim Scott. Thank you for joining me.
Speaker 0: Tim Scott. Care hearing it I I constant stand to to listen to him.
Speaker 8: The convention next month and half of the democratic party thinks he should step aside. I just can’t I know how you look at those numbers and not just be like, holy fuck. And that’s just like the first the first real poll that we’ve seen after the debate that are really on the issues we care.
Speaker 9: They’re gonna be more.
Speaker 8: So, like, what are the numbers… Yep, Mike, but either 1 of you. What what are the numbers that you could that you think could come in in the battleground? States. That were une unequivocally where you could walk where someone like Ted Kaufman and and say Valerie, who are more, like, t to reality, I would I would say, You, she didn’t want dates ballard didn’t wanted him to run in 20 20.
You’d be out 10 block talks him out of the race once before in in 8 in the 88 race. They can walk it and go, mister president, this dog won’t hunt. But Should not gonna happen? What’s the number have to be? You have to lose 5 points in the Battleground stage?
Speaker 9: Think downside what margin losing, but it takes a couple days for this stuff to cook and cable television on all channels now, not just Fox wall to wall, can the president handle the job, And that… That’s gonna that’s gonna build and people are probably in the field now or media polls are about to go on the field, and there’s gonna be, , a building effect and they’ll start trickling back and in , so I think it’ll compound, but I I would say a week from today. There will have been some. , Cbs, I don’t think put out a ballot number. You but they might tomorrow.
And my guess is it was on the pole, and more will pop up. I mean, we remember how the new alternatives already tied tied them in not twice with their swing state pulling. Another 1 of those coming. It’s not gonna be better. I can’t give you an exact number, but if he’s losing every swing state and nationally, and he’s…
We haven’t seen him function other than reading the prompt for 8 minutes from a crowd. I my view is the fuel for the fire is going to grow, not the minute. Unless he can surprise all of us and go do it. And I know there are people around Biden who answer that what he’s going to. You wait and see.
Speaker 10: Yes. I know. But I mean, they’re saying what they should say they’re doing. Right.
Speaker 1: Right. Right
Speaker 10: pretty much through, but they’re tread they’re tread water here trying to keep from drowning. And, yeah. I mean, I listen. They have…
Speaker 0: So if we add national cohesion, if we had social trust, Alright. If we had a sense of being 1 country. This wouldn’t be decided by law. It wouldn’t be decided by precedent. It would be decided the way these things have decided in Japan.
By a common understanding what’s in the national interest. But we’re so diverse we’re so varied. We have so little social cohesion of social trust that it’s it’s hard to get people to rally around a concept like the national interest because people feel very little for each other.
Speaker 10: In their employ tons of numbers crunch, and, they need to take… The data they’re getting and determine what the, , likelihood of of winning is and
Speaker 0: So what I think what happen is that J biden will step down and that the Democrats will nominate someone else. I’ll go with the Gavin News. Right? Gavin News as the presidential candidate, not Kamala Harris as his vice presidential. Candidate.
Because when something cannot continue, it eventually stops. And so I think the situation is more important than the law and and the president precedent and procedure and that Jay Biden has already won these delegates enough to become the democratic party nominee for president? No. The situation is un. It’s unbearable.
A majority of Americans simply do not believe that Donald that Jay Biden is cognitive up to the task of being president in the United States including half of of Democrats. Has Texas turned Blue yet I Acc luxe walking about this every single day back in the 20 18. Yeah. No. Texas has not turned blue, and it’s not gonna turn blue this year but or any time in the foreseeable future?
Do I think the Trump winning will be bad for the far right? Yes. Because if Trump wins, many people are on the margins of America now will have higher paying jobs. And America will be less m adaptive intervening in the world. And so life will get better for many Americans on the margins.
And so the constituencies that would otherwise turn to Far right politics will instead be getting married and having kids.
Speaker 10: I think and then make a a decision. What they shouldn’t do is ignore that though. What they shouldn’t do is say, yeah, but that’s now and, , it’s it’s it’s already like. I said the other night on Cnn I… Remember this old yogi bar thing about the shadows in yankee stadium, and he said it, he was playing left field 1 day and he said it gets late early out there.
It’s late. It’s not early. It’s late. And time, and and because after a while, there’s no option, these next these next 10 days to me are like, yep. This…
These are historic days. Historic.
Speaker 8: So it’s… So it’s… So here go…
Speaker 9: Quickly chant… They’ve got a republican convention coming that is not gonna be pretty subtle they’re just gonna sled ham crazy old man now.
Speaker 8: Yes. Well, I’ll get to that in 1 second, but I do wanna ask you this a lot. This question. 1 more question about this The polling could… So 1 thing you could imagine.
Speaker 10: Hi, By… Let me just interrupt you for a second. So Murphy H must like write questions out in. Shit We ought to think about for our pun.
Speaker 8: No. I just trying down work. You should see Behind. This those these questions just say things you gotta you gotta step aside. Shit is the…
, we’ve we’ve now… It’s notable to me that’s Chuck, who, there’s been reporting now, backing up my favorite. It sores the daily mail, which is that chuck… Which is that chuck has been saying to people that he’s open to an alternative if if Biden shot the Brit bed in the debate, which you obviously, , shot the bed in a, in an epic in historic way. And Chuck has not been on television at all.
In this period, everybody else has done on Tv. Chuck is put out as a paper statement or a Twitter statement or whatever. But chuck not getting in anywhere to be found. And and and I… You you saw H kim, Jeff on Friday, being…
He’s been a little bit more out front over the weekend be more biden. But on Friday, he was, like, gonna see how he does on North Carolina. I’ll let . I mean, those 2 guys who are totally obsessed by money. For prudential reasons because of their…
Know, their status within the caucus. Is there a world where, I guess, David, and someone who knows Biden well does that weigh with him more? He’s not listen to Obama Clinton, which is my view of why they put those statements out because they knew that if they didn’t put those statements out. Yeah. Thanks.
If they didn’t if they stayed Silent, Biden would be more likely to run. It’s to stay on the ticket guys. I think that… They’re buying him time. Right?
Speaker 10: Listen, Joe Biden is a creature of the United States senate. That’s where he spent much much of his life. And III think he he probably would be sensitive to arguments about the house and senate. And, , the prospect of Trump with…
Speaker 0: Right. When the polls become overwhelming that the Democrats are heading for an epic defeat, then Joe Biden Will feel increasing pressure and we’ll finally drop out.
Speaker 10: The 55 seats senate and the house. Is, , that’s that’s
Speaker 9: terrifying verifying.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: That’s my… That’s the… That’s a definitely on that plane to Portugal, and that’s upstairs.
Speaker 10: Yeah. And 1 make trail behind you.
Speaker 9: Pelosi because she’s kind of a peer she retired. She’s tough. She’s culturally from his world. I think she could be influential.
Speaker 10: Yeah. She could say kid.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Kinda listen to youngster. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I mean, she’s she’s the party elder. But, she’s been very supportive so far. And , she may be concerned about the process moving forward if she can be persuaded, maybe that… It could be…
It could, , lead to something better she might move. But she’s certainly a sensitive. I mean, look, I’m hearing about districts where , biden is not only trail. At districts where he’s where he was… Districts he won by 10 points where he’s behind right now.
Right. Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, La County 10 days, at, , 10000000 people as big as Michigan and Georgia. 10 days before the debate, is favorable was 52. His unfavorable 46, and that’s a county won 71 percent of the vote. Now he’s going win it, but there were huge problems with this candidacy see before the debate. So it’s not like, oh, think god.
We had a lead now we’re in a tight race. No No No. So it… There’s there’s trouble out there. They wanna a fire it.
Speaker 8: Jeez. For a second, there Murphy sounded a look like like Trump, you’re fire you’re fine.
Speaker 0: So when will Joe Biden make the decision? Say way that alcoholic decide to stop drinking when the pain of continuing on the path that he is on outweighs, the pain of taking a different path, then J Biden will take a different path. Right. When he’s facing an epic defeat, and the democratic body faces a historical blow out, then the pain of continuing on with his denial path will become overwhelming for the Biden administration and Jay Biden will drop out.
Joe Biden Must Go Because The Desperate Nature Of The Situation Will Prevail Over Precedent (7-2-24)
The majority opinion is that it’s just inevitable that Joe Biden will become the nominee of the Democratic party for president of the United States because that’s the law. That’s the precedent. That’s the procedure. He’s made it through the various bureaucratic hurdles and he’s the presumptive nominee and only Joe Biden can turn down the honor.
I think the situation of Biden’s cognitive decline will outweigh precedent.
Biden is unfit to be president of the United States. He made that clear at Thursday night’s debate.
What kills me about the majority of pundit reaction is that they claim Joe Biden is capable of operating as president in the United States, it’s just that Biden is not capable of campaigning for president of the United States.
According to Axios, Biden has a hard time getting going before 10 am, and he has a hard time operating after 4 pm. And this is acceptable for the president of the United States?
If we get into a nuclear crisis, only the president of the United States can make the call whether or not we launched nuclear weapons. That can’t be fobbed off onto his staff. So you hear from the Biden team that he has a highly competent staff and when you’re are voting for Joe Biden, you’re also voting for his staff. But the staff can’t push the nuclear button.
Who’s been making the argument of the past five years that democracy is on the ballot, and that the vote for Biden is a vote for democracy. The Democrats who are led by a senile man. The people didn’t vote for Joe Biden’s staff. And he clearly has not been up to the office of president in the United States. So who’s been running the show?
Biden was saved from campaigning in 2020 by Covid. He was a frail old man who’s had that vacant checked out stare since 2018. And now the cognitive decline has accelerated over the past few months.
I hear from the political elite that we must follow the rules. Joe Biden is going to become the Democratic nominee for president because the law says that. He won the delegates in a rigged primary.
Is it the situation or is it the law that will decide this? I say it is the situation. It is more important than precedent. Joe Biden is a suicidal choice for the Democrats and for America.
The United States is in peril right now because its president is a senile old man who’s not up to the job.
There are things that are more important than the law such as the survival of your people.
America is an incredibly individualist country and so everything has to be negotiated because there’s little common feeling. We’re diverse and we have little in common with our fellow citizens.
So should the Democrats just give up and accept Biden as their nominee? No. Don’t give in to learned helplessness.
Japanese contend to me that Japan is limited in the steps that it can take to defend itself because of its constitution imposed upon it by United States after WWII. The Japanese have come to love learned helpless and relying on the United States for military protection. This is like some women I dated. Once we get locked into that intimate relationship and they know I want regular sex, they become more and more helpless. They think their lack of capability makes them more feminine and more attractive. Luke loves me because I’m pathetic. And initially that was been a turn on. I was able to sweep into a woman’s life and rescue her. That lasted a month and then they felt like a millstone around my neck. After six weeks, the sex was half as good as it was at the beginning and I’m looking to leave.
If breaking your constitution is what is required to survive, then break away. If they want to survive, the Japanese must be ready to break the constitution or to change the constitution. Law and the constitution should not be a death warrant.
Similarly, there’s the fourth commandment to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Over 2200 years ago, some Jews would abide by this command and they would not fight back on the Sabbath and as a result, they were slaughtered. But this didn’t last long in Jewish life. The rabbis decreed that if on the Sabbath you need to fight to survive then you should fight. You can’t just check out from your responsibilities because God said to keep the Sabbath. Jews who took that attitude got wiped out. The Jews willing to pick up weapons and fight back on the Sabbath, they and their progeny often survived. In 1973, Israel was attacked on Yom Kippur, and Jews grabbed their weapons and won.
Approximately 2000 years ago in Jewish life in Israel, the Jewish law of not loaning money at interest meant that funds for loans had dried up. Rabbi Hillel came along with an innovation to the law, allowing loans to be classified as investments with returns.
Law depends upon narrative. And so the narrative that we have to follow the law is a powerful narrative, and that’s perhaps the most powerful narrative right now with regards to Biden, but if another narrative became more powerful such as that Biden is unfit to be president of the United States, Biden will step down.
Biden and his family are at war with reality. They’re going to lose. And even though legal procedures say only Joe Biden can decide to step away from the presidency, he has to find support for his narrative. If it becomes untenable to hold on to his story, he’ll have to give it up and with it, the presidency.
I am a convert to Orthodox Judaism. If I encountered Orthodox Jews who said to me that we don’t count you as Jewish, we won’t count you in a minyan, at a certain number of rejections, I’d have to give up my story and step away from Orthodox Judaism. We depend on others to support our narratives or we abandon our stories.
So we have all sorts of laws on the books that are enforced or not enforced depending on the situation and the dominant narrative. After George Floyd died, a dominant narrative with regard to policing was that we had too much of it and the police should back off from enforcing the law because when you enforce the law, you get racially disparate results.
You win against reality. Joe Biden will step aside for the good of the country when his narrative encounters too much opposition. So it’s just a trickle right now of Democratic politicians asking Biden to step aside. This trickle will turn into a flood.