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Like an old 80s sitcom, this episode was taped before a live audience of about 90 regular listeners who carried on a vigorous commentary and questions in the Zoom chat, and we had a special guest at the very end—John Hinderaker in the (virtual) flesh! And since we actually recorded during happy hour for a change (and not Saturday morning as has been the case for the last several weeks), we rolled out several whisky choices for the episode.
Listeners may know that Lucretia, this week’s host, has been partial in the past to Glenmorangie, which the great Kingsley Amis noted “has been called delicate and mild, even faintly sweet.” This is not a description anyone would ever use about Lucretia, making this a dubious match. Tonight she had two varieties of Glenfiddich on hand, which Amis called “fruity and well balanced.” Maybe she’s better matched with Macallan, which Amis says is “powerful yet smooth.” That sounds more like it!
By popular demand, we took up a news items we didn’t get to last week in the crush of shocking news stories, namely Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel to torment Trump is unconstitutional. Steve invented a special judicial scale—the Silberman Scale from 1 – 10—for John Yoo to grade the opinion, and he gave it a solid 8, which is pretty darn good.
From there—oh my! Lucretia unveiled her handcrafted tin foil cowboy hat, as we kicked around whether the loss of trust in key government institutions (cough, cough—FBI—cough, cough, or cough—Secret Service—cough) is because they are merely incompetent and negligent, or whether their carelessness is deliberate. From there John Hinderaker gave us an update on the FBI investigation of the firebombing of his office building back in January, and finally we all gave our predictions for Kamala Harris’s running mate, but not until we rolled out the first of whiat is doubtless to be many weeks of ritual denunciation of Harris. So if you missed the live taping, pour yourself a nice, dry single malt and settle in.
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How wonderful a protege’ she must have been for Willie Brown to have bought her a brand new BMW….and some attorneys I know from SF tell me she never declared the gift as income….(Maybe she had an illegal driver to whom she never paid Social Security?_
BTW, Don’t Californicate Colorado was up when Denver was going to have the Winter Olympics—late 60s, early 70s.
And, Kammy is proceeding unburdened by what has been….
Haven’t heard that song in a long time!
Used to see it on MTV.
On substituting an existing U.S. Attorney in place of Jack Smith, aren’t U.S. Attorneys geographically limited? One of the dangers posed by a roving “special counsel” like Jack Smith is that he could go anywhere in the country looking for something to assert as a crime. And did assert crimes in two different jurisdictions. If Attorney General Garland substituted in the Florida U.S. Attorney, that U.S. Attorney getting the benefit of the investigation by an improperly appointed “special counsel,” thus tainting the evidence from the Smith investigation?
On the effort to distance candidate Kamala Harris from vice president Kamala Harris, my recollection is that early in the Biden administration the administration (including especially Kamala Harris) kept emphasizing the Biden-Harris administration (or sometimes even the Harris-Biden administration). Clearly an effort to connect Kamala Harris with all the anticipated wonders expected of the Biden administration so that the public would be eager to elect Harris when Joe Biden did not run for a second term (so was the assumption of 2021). That was of course before the Biden-Harris administration’s complete failure became so clear, and Kamala Harris’ lack of capability was widely displayed on a national scale. I noticed that part way through the Biden-Harris administration’s term they dropped the effort to label their work as the work of the Biden-Harris administration. And now the Harris people are trying to distance Harris from the Biden-Harris administration.
I’m shorting Let’s Go Brandon tee shirts.
John Yoo is a deep state swamp creature.
Did you see my reply a couple of weeks ago re: I also was at the Who concert at the Colisseum, where the Clash opened for the Who (and T-Bone Burnett opened for the Clash)?
I’m surprised the Google gods haven’t permanently removed it!
Far be it from me to nitpick, but having been born in 1957, my flashbacks from 1960 are clearer than young Steve’s. Ike didn’t need “three days” to think of a contribution by Nixon. As Abe Goldman would say: It’s worse than that. He said, “If you give me a week, I might think of one.”
Steve, they were not transparent about Challenger. We didn’t know the day of the launch what happened. Whistleblowers came forward subsequently and told about the meetings where NASA was warned the previous evening not to launch. They were punished for doing this.
https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/challenger-disaster/roger-boisjoly-challenger-disaster-whistleblower-dies-73/
Yes, I saw that reply Lucretia, and I was impressed to learn that you were in the mosh pit. Even though I was still in my early 20s at the time, I was in the stands. I flew to Los Angeles for the weekend of that concert (from Stockton, of all places). My first jet-set concert experience.
You mentioned that some were there for The Clash, some were there for The Who. I was there to see The Who, and I was thrilled by their performance. I had no objections to The Clash, I didn’t know much about them – I was barely out of engineering school, still living a starving student lifestyle. I didn’t own a stereo, and my Columbia Record Company membership with the first ten albums for 99 cents was still a few years away. I would not have remembered T-Bone Burnett opening for The Clash on a bet, so you win trivia honors.*
The review the next day in the Los Angeles Times was unequivocal: the torch had been passed from the aging, tired band The Who to the voice of a new generation, The Clash. That was not my take.
*I do however remember that Gary Wright opened for Peter Frampton at Colt Park in Hartford July 30, 1976, and that a band from California named Natural Gas opened for Gary Wright. Steve might know about Natural Gas, which as I understand it was a few castoffs from Humble Pie, which a few years earlier had included Peter Frampton.
That concert in Colt Park was my first concert, and coincidentally a couple of years earlier my older brother’s first concert was Humble Pie.
I’m listening to today’s podcast by Dan Bongino. There are texts about a suspicious character at 4:26. Trump should never have been allowed to speak before they resolved the situation. The Secret Service sent out sniper teams only if Trump’s rallies were within a day’s driving distance of DC. Lucretia is right again.
It keeps getting earlier and earlier, doesn’t it? Next we’ll find out that they knew about him days or weeks before the event.
I need a picture of @lucretia in her tin foil hat.
See here:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/podcast-the-3whh-on-tin-foil-versus-popcorn.php
That’s a fine hat!
And John Yoo is a reflexive deep state-defending swamp creature.
But John Hinderaker assured us that every single member of the United States Secret Service is dedicated to his job and would never let politics or personal animosity affect his work. Those dedicated Secret Service members took the same oath as James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, . . . so we can rest on John Hinderaker’s assurance. All is well in Secret Serviceland.
* edited to remove a repeat of John Brennan’s name. Not that he doesn’t deserve to be mentioned twice in any discussion of treasonous duplicity.