The growing chorus of Democrats worried about Biden's run (07-02-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:36] lawmaker to publicly call on Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race. Doggett has been in the House since 1995. He's been there 30 years. I don't know how old he is, but that's quite a lengthy statement. Rebuild the country from the devastation of the pandemic and then insurrection, Trump

[00:01:04] wreckage, blah, blah, blah. Biden continued to run substantially behind Democrat senators. I wish the debate would have provided some momentum, but it did not. Failed to communicate effectively. Too much is at stake to risk a Trump victory.

[00:01:23] President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from evil and sorry, delivering us from Trump in 2020. He must not deliver us to Trump in 2024. So OK, so I don't think that the the current strategy that they have been employing, which I believe is the Kevin Bacon strategy here.

[00:01:51] Not working. I am as shocked as you are that it has not worked. But so there's Doggett. I saw Tim Ryan also believe. Well, I think he's now a former congressman. He is also out with with a similar message, although I did see that they spray painted Joe.

[00:02:12] Did you see that? Yeah, spray painted. Yeah. Dr. Jilson spray painted Joe to make him look healthier because that was the reason why he was staring blankly off into space with his mouth hanging open for long stretches of time during that debate.

[00:02:28] It was because the makeup artists in the CNN makeup room that they apparently made him look too pale. Which as I've said before, perhaps if Joe Biden had any experience whatsoever in the eye being on TV or something, he may have known and his handlers may have known.

[00:02:47] But him being the neophyte that he is, he just didn't. He got all Nixoned for that televised debate. Curse you, CNN. They're to blame. Them and all of the people that prepped him for a week that they just prepped him too much.

[00:03:04] They over prepped him for that debate. So that's tough. Oh, and then there was this Jake Tapper, former Democrat operative and now a CNN host. He says, Democrat governors held a call yesterday afternoon. Just governors, no staffers, no one from the campaign, no one from the White House.

[00:03:32] It was organized by Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota for the Democrat Governors Association or the DGA. On the call, Democrat governors expressed concern about what's going on with the POTUS. That's president of the United States, P-O-T-U-S.

[00:03:52] They know that if they come forward publicly with concerns, that will likely cause Biden to dig in more. Why? So you're saying that the Democrat pooh-bahs, if they make the pilgrimage to the White House and say, hey, this is your Barry Goldwater visit moment.

[00:04:11] You've got to step aside, Nixon, that kind of thing. It's two Nixon references in a single segment. Holy cow, I'm not even trying. But are you saying then that that would not work? So who has to go to Joe and say, give us the car keys.

[00:04:27] You can't drive anymore. Who would be those people? Was that Dr. Jilson and Hunter? They were also surprised that not a single one of the Democrat governors had heard from him, which I don't know why. Why would why would he call you guys?

[00:04:47] Why would he call any of the Democrats that are governors of states? I mean, it's not like there's a bunch of down-ballot races that could be impacted by, you know, top of the ticket problems.

[00:04:56] But Tapper goes on to report that there was discussion on the call about wanting to have a call with the campaign or the White House. Some discussion about having Vice President Harris come on the phone and address them. Why? Why would you do that to yourselves? My goodness.

[00:05:18] So she could give you that line she's been saying for like the last five years. So I look like, look to the future, unburdened by the past or something like she just says it at every single speech. There's like a compilation video. Have you seen this thing?

[00:05:37] It's just her saying the same line using the exact same hand motions where like she says look to the future and she kind of raises the right hand up a little bit, kind of like Michelangelo's painting where he was, you know, that he's touching the fingers like

[00:05:53] something like that, you know, like just kind of this aspirational hand up kind of look and then just, you know, looking to the future unburdened by the past. And then she turns and takes the left hand and goes makes a downward motion on the other

[00:06:05] side of her body. So there's the contrast, you know, and she does it the same way every single time. And the worst part is she delivers the line and in not a single instance. Okay, I did not watch the entire video.

[00:06:19] It was like almost five minutes and after a minute and a half, like I had the pair of scissors right next to my eyeball and I was ready to just jab it into my brain. And then I was like, I could just stop the video.

[00:06:30] I don't have to watch this, Pete. Don't do this to yourself. And so I just stopped it. So I don't know if she got better in her delivery, but it was not believable in any one of the clips.

[00:06:42] She doesn't deliver the line well in any one of the examples. Like you can tell that it was a crafted line and she thinks it's super, super powerful. And so she's doing the hand motion and she does the affected sighing kind of whispery kind of thing.

[00:07:02] You know, there's only one politician I've ever seen effectively use that whisper thing and it was Obama. Okay. No one else does it right. Joe doesn't do it. Joe tries to do it all the time.

[00:07:13] Although now I think maybe he just, that might just be his regular voice at this point. You know, that raspy thing. But that affectation that they do when they're like, I'm going to make a really powerful point. Like that, you know? Ugh.

[00:07:29] Why would you, why would you subject yourself to a conference call with Kamala? Anyway, Tapper goes on to say they are trying to set up a meeting at the White House or via zoom for those who can't come.

[00:07:41] Nothing on the books yet, but the White House does know of the request. Oh man, they're going to be so mad when they see Jake Tapper's Twitter feed, right? When they see that the tapster has got the, uh, the scoop here.

[00:07:54] Democrat governors are not coming in with any specific message, but they feel they need to hear from president Biden. Okay. You have no message, huh? Really? You just, you're demanding a meeting. You're, you're, you want to hear from the president for what reason? Why? Why now?

[00:08:14] What prompted this? Why did you guys have a call with no staffers on the line with nobody from the White House or the campaign? Like, why would you arrange all of this? What's the deal? By the way, is my good friend Ray available for comment on this?

[00:08:28] Was he part of this phone call? Roy Cooper, the governor of North Carolina, right? My good friend Ray, as he is known to Kamala and Hillary Clinton, um, like he was the former head of the DGA. So I gotta believe he was on the line.

[00:08:45] What does Josh Stein think about this? Our boy governor in waiting, right? Josh Stein, the attorney general of North Carolina. Maybe he got brought in on this because he's running for governor or is it only like you're

[00:08:56] not allowed to be in the DGA unless you actually become a G. So you're still just an AG. Maybe they don't let him in on those calls, but Ray could have been in on the call. Why not? Right? I'm sure he was actually. I'm sure he was.

[00:09:15] Maybe somebody will ask him. I wonder if he'll have any thoughts about it now that, uh, now that it's been reported. They held a call yesterday afternoon. They expressed concern about what's going on with the president. Oh, so they do. They there was a reason for the call.

[00:09:33] They're concerned and they want to call with the White House. They want to talk to Biden. Why? Do you think he's going to present himself differently than he has whenever he shows up and you guys? He was just in Raleigh and Ray was with him.

[00:09:47] So what do you think a phone call is going to do? Yes. So, um, RFK Jr. is the subject of a Vanity Fair oppo research hit piece that came out today, I believe, and it paints a picture of a man who lacks compassion, empathy and

[00:10:09] a moral compass and also, uh, working vocal cords. But I'm sorry. OK, all right. Fine. That's a cheap shot. Sometimes I take them. Fine. OK. Um, RFK took a photo with the barbecued remains of a dog and shared it with a friend.

[00:10:27] Kennedy reportedly implored a friend traveling to South Korea to try dog. Barack Obama was unavailable for comment. Look, eating a dog, eating dog meat does not preclude you from the presidency, as Barack Obama clearly showed. Next up, a former family babysitter accuses RFK of sexual assault.

[00:10:55] OK, that's that's pretty bad. She attended a meeting in the family kitchen with Kennedy and another young riverkeeper volunteer named Murray Fisher to discuss business when she felt Kennedy's hand moving up and down her leg under the table.

[00:11:11] She tried making sense of the incident in her diary, which I have read, says the author in the Vanity Fair piece. And then they have a quote from everything everybody says about the Kennedys and their babysitters. They had me worried. Like I have to watch out, be careful.

[00:11:30] And the other night in the kitchen with Murray, I could have sworn he was touching my leg and hand. It seemed like he thought I was somebody else or wasn't paying attention. Weeks later, she discovered Kennedy standing in her bedroom.

[00:11:42] She saw that her diary, which chronicled her daily activities and detailed her romantic life with a boyfriend, was open next to her bed. And she was shocked when a shirtless Kennedy, then 45, asked her to rub lotion on his back. She says she did it reluctantly and quickly.

[00:12:00] It was totally inappropriate. OK, so that's that story. Do you do while still married to his second wife, R.K. Jr. reportedly sent friends images of women's private parts and his friends were not sure if the photos were taken consensually. R.K.

[00:12:19] Jr. was allegedly cruel to his second wife and is blamed by some for her eventual demise. Kennedy advised the prime minister of Samoa. I'm a big fan of their cookies, by the way. Girl Scout cookies. Yeah. They're the official distributor of the Samoa cookies.

[00:12:37] Anyway, told the prime minister that the measles vaccine could be responsible for a measles outbreak on the island. Under public pressure, the prime minister suspended MMR vaccines and then kids began dying. Later, one of Kennedy's biggest critics, a pediatrician and a member of the FDA's advisory

[00:12:56] committee on vaccines, Paul Offit, told PBS that R.K. Jr. had everything to do with that. And that shows you how disinformation can kill. OK, so that's the those are the highlights from Vanity Fair as promoted by the intellectualist is the Twitter feed.

[00:13:13] But those were taken from the Vanity Fair story. So the plans continue to try to destroy R.K. Jr. Obviously, Democrats very afraid of his ability to draw votes away from Joe Biden in the general election, which, by the way, is one of the reasons why R.K.

[00:13:32] Jr. was blocked from the ballot in North Carolina. And now the House Judiciary Committee would also like a word with the State Board of Elections on that matter. OK, if you're listening to this podcast, you are obviously paying attention to the world around us.

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[00:14:32] Will you be ready when the lights go out? All right, here we go. This is a letter to Alan Hirsch, the chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Also to Ms. Cameron Brinson Bell, the executive director of the Board of Elections.

[00:14:48] On June 26th, 2024, the North Carolina State Board of Elections denied petitions filed by the political parties representing presidential candidates who otherwise have met the qualifications to appear on the November ballot in North Carolina. The Committee on House Administration and the Committee on the Judiciary are concerned that

[00:15:10] the State Board of Elections decision was politically motivated and may have been done to influence the 2024 presidential election by limiting the candidates for which voters may cast their ballots. Look, okay, committees, okay, even if they did it for those reasons, they're just trying to save democracy, right?

[00:15:34] That's all that you got to. Sometimes you got to burn the village in order to save it. You know, several political parties timely filed petitions with the State Board of Elections to allow each party's respective candidate to appear on the November ballot in North Carolina.

[00:15:53] However, the State Board of Elections denied these petitions by a party-line vote. The Board's three Democrat members voted to reject the petitions because the deadline to appear on the ballot is rapidly approaching. The State Board of Elections' decision, if not reversed, means that these three candidates

[00:16:10] will be left off the November ballot. The justifications put forth by the Democrat majority to deny these petitions underscore its political motivations to influence the election. For example, in its denial of one petition, the Democrat members voted to block the petition

[00:16:29] simply because the address of the party's chairman was not up to date on the petition sheets. More concerning, it appears that the State Board of Elections succumbed to the demands of Democrat organizations who repeatedly pressured the board to deny the petitions.

[00:16:48] The decision ensures that some otherwise qualified candidates will not garner votes in the November election, which will inevitably influence the election and potentially sway the electoral results at the Electoral College. They're talking about here.

[00:17:06] Therefore, to assist the committee's oversight, we ask you to produce all of the following documents and communications. We then list three different, you know, tranches, if you will. Three different areas. Basically, keep all your stuff. Don't get all Hillary Clinton on us here.

[00:17:24] Don't be wiping stuff with cloths or smashing blackberries with hammers, okay? Preserve all the records and then provide your response as soon as possible, but no later than five o'clock on July 8th. And that comes from Brian Stile or Steel, the chairman of the Committee on House Administration

[00:17:44] and Jim Jordan, the chair of the judiciary. So that letter went to our State Board of Elections. Whoops, wrong pile. Let's put you over there. Next up, Mark Hemingway writing at thefederalist.com headline, media are not upset Biden is senile. They're mad they can't hide it.

[00:18:10] Oh, I probably just freaked Pam out. I gave an extra ding. I gave like four of them there. Okay. Hemingway says at this point, it's impossible to deny the Democrats and their media allies

[00:18:23] have betrayed and endangered America by spending the last few years lying to us about Biden's age related mental competency. Right? Of course, it is only fitting that Ben Rhodes of all people would come around, however, circumspectly to admitting that as far as Biden's concerned, the wheel's turning, but

[00:18:45] the hamster is dead. Rhodes, aka the boy wonder of the Obama White House, is chiefly, isn't Ben Rhodes also, didn't they call him Hamas? Wasn't his code name Hamas around the White House because of his love of the Iran deal?

[00:19:04] Anyway, he is chiefly famous for admitting in print that he openly manipulated reporters on behalf of the president Obama to push his ill-advised Iran deal. Remember this? Because he said, quote, the average reporter we talk to is 27 years old and their only

[00:19:20] reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's so true. So true. So much of the gig, and I've talked about this for years, so much of the gig of being a reporter, being a journalist is institutional knowledge.

[00:19:41] And that requires you to be on a beat, to be on the job in a town for a lengthy period of time. It means you've got to develop sources, right? You got to make personal relationships with all these people and sources.

[00:20:00] So you don't get there by constantly bouncing around markets. And part of the problem that Charlotte had for a long time was that we were seen as a gateway to larger markets, right? We were a medium-sized market.

[00:20:16] Now I think we're, I forget where we are in the TV market side, but I think we're like at 21 or 22, something like that. So we're now a large market. The Charlotte media market is a large market.

[00:20:27] And so what that means is that a lot of the reporters who work in the Charlotte market are actually able to feed themselves. Yeah, that's why you have a lot of overweight reporters in bigger markets. No, I'm kidding. I'm just, it's just a joke. It's just a joke.

[00:20:44] But you have now the ability to do your work in a market that's large enough where you can actually support yourself. So in order to get to the much bigger markets, you either have to have like some sort of really famous and connected parent, right?

[00:21:04] You have to be a nepo baby or you've got to have really rich parents so they can have afforded to send you to school, an Ivy League school where you get the credential. And then you use that credential to gain access to the big paying gigs, right?

[00:21:24] There are some that yes, come up through the ranks. Absolutely. But that's what I mean. Like once you're in larger markets, the movement tends to kind of settle down somewhat. You're just kind of them bouncing around outlets in the major markets versus coming up.

[00:21:39] And so I'm happy that Charlotte's now a large market because you end up with reporters who stay longer. They develop the institutional knowledge and that's what so much of the job entails because you now know what happened.

[00:21:54] Like I can tell you what happened 20 years ago in Charlotte, the last time a billionaire wanted money for an arena. You know, I remember all of it because I was here for it. I was covering it. So anyway, I digress.

[00:22:10] Ben Rhodes said that's a sea change with the reporters that are coming up. He says they literally know nothing. Rhodes and his colleagues even brag that certain reporters were so dedicated to helping them push their foreign policy narrative that they would just quote, find everything and retweet it.

[00:22:27] Yeah. What's the old Michael Kinsley line that a gaffe in DC is accidentally telling the truth? And Ben Rhodes gaffe right there was telling the truth. John says regarding China, Joe's makeup was too pale at the last debate.

[00:22:47] I expect at the next one he will come out looking like Al Gore in his second debate. If you remember, he had the blush on his cheeks and his hair combed to look like Reagan. OK, well, they definitely can't do that with Joe.

[00:23:01] That's going to look really weird. Yeah. Seems you can eat whatever meat you want, including dog, and still be president. Unless of course you tell people it tastes like bald eagle. Sorry, I don't get it. Who would say it tastes like bald eagle?

[00:23:29] I don't get it. Oh, is that because it's our mascot? I got it. OK, I think I got the joke now. Sorry, that's my bad. OK, fine. That's my bad. I'll give you the I feel like a pity rimshot there, but OK, fine.

[00:23:43] Pete Steve Bannon just reported to prison for ignoring a congressional subpoena. So shouldn't he be expecting Attorney General Garland as his roommate soon? That's a very fair question, John. However, it is different because Democrat. OK, back to Mark Hemingway's piece.

[00:24:03] He says it's only fitting that Rhodes would come around, John Rhodes or sorry, Ben Rhodes, rather John Rhodes, former lawmaker Ben Rhodes, formerly of the Obama campaign.

[00:24:12] While Rhodes's admission was briefly scandalous, it was only notable because Rhodes had merely said out loud what everybody knew to be true. The Beltway Press Corps will print whatever Democrat politicians tell them to, no matter how outrageous or even dangerous for America's national security.

[00:24:29] Their policies are he goes on to say Hemingway goes on to say the media narrative has been landed on following the debate, which is more a matter of consolation than accuracy.

[00:24:42] It's that while Biden appeared frail and incompetent, his character still shined through standing next to a serial liar like Donald Trump, who lied throughout the whole debate. Oh, and did we mention Donald Trump is a lying liar? He lies, everybody. Did you know that he's a liar?

[00:25:00] One need not defend Trump's aggrandizing rhetoric and personal peccadilloes to acknowledge that it it's not obvious to most voters that Biden is the better or more honest person. Indeed, Biden's own lies, immoral behavior, embrace of racists, foreign corruption with his felonious sex trafficker of a son.

[00:25:19] These are all plenty egregious, even by Washington standards. But for those who insist that Biden is objectively more honest, particularly those in the media, here's a question you should be forced to answer.

[00:25:32] What lie did Donald Trump tell in that debate that was more damnable than Biden's claim that he's the only president this century that did not have any troops dying anywhere in the world?

[00:25:48] It was only a couple of months ago when Biden at the State of the Union was interrupted by the screaming of the anguished father of one of the 13 service members who were killed in Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

[00:26:02] Yet this protest barely registered in the media when we all know that such a heart rending display would be used as a cudgel against any Republican. Remember Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan? Remember her? I do. She's the one that set up camp out in front of George W.

[00:26:21] Bush's Texas ranch, which, by the way, was more had a smaller carbon footprint than Al Gore's home. But I digress. Right. Cindy Sheehan became a martyr for Code Pink and the left against George W.

[00:26:37] Bush. She was out there protesting, she would show up at all these events, Code Pink, then explodes onto the scene. That story gets told a million times. The story for Joe, see, it's different, it's Democrat.

[00:26:53] The dwindling number of people who still trust legacy media outlets such as The New York Times will no doubt insist their willingness to call out Joe's problems is a sign of their integrity now.

[00:27:01] However, this would only be a sign of integrity if they had called for him to drop out after it became obvious Biden was senile. And that, my friends, happened years ago. The about face occurred only after they started to panic that he could not win reelection.

[00:27:19] That's what's driving this now. It's not just that the debate made it impossible to deny Biden's cognitive decline. It's that the media's desperation to defend him is also laying bare the total moral and ethical collapse of journalism.

[00:27:37] If distrust between voters and our leadership class was already a problem, it's about to get a lot worse, he says. And it didn't have to be this way. He concludes the piece. It's a very lengthy piece, by the way.

[00:27:49] It's at the Federalist dot com. I highly recommend it. He says it didn't have to be this way. All Democrat leaders in the media had to do was to not be so craven in their desire to cling to power.

[00:28:02] In fact, had they been honest about how obvious Biden's condition was like a year ago, they might have a candidate who's winning the election this time. Right. Had they not participated in this charade, in this farce.

[00:28:19] Had they not just simply, you know, lapped up the lies from the left and regurgitated it to their audience, they may have been able to avoid this very position they now find themselves in.

[00:28:32] Oh, the irony. Instead, they so distrust with citizens, they empowered enemies who were taking advantage of an enfeebled leader. And they brought the country to the brink of domestic turmoil. And still, they have no intention of accepting responsibility for what they have done.

[00:28:48] They're not actually upset to have just discovered the man in charge of our nuclear weapons is senile. They're upset that they cannot continue to hide this fact from you any longer. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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