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Last time Tim Alberta, Politico’s chief political correspondent, was on the program, life in America was crazy, but in a typical, everyday, post-2016 kind of way. We figured that it was time to have him back now that we’re in the process of rushing towards a new form of crazy at Spaceballs-levels of ludicrous speed (“They’ve gone plaid!”). Tim takes us through some of the issues that voters in purple states actually seem to care about (Hint: The Hunter Biden drama isn’t one of them) while also touching on the confusing lack of a substantive foreign policy debate in this election cycle, the simpler times of the Christmas Tree tax and the Dubai ports deal, and the shocking value-add provided to one’s life by the purchase of an Arby’s gyro.
Show Notes:
–Get tickets for The Dispatch’s “What’s Next” event
–Tim’s most recent book, American Carnage
–Matt Glassman talks about the lack of a foreign policy discussion
–Jonah on the 2006 Dubai ports deal
–Congress slowly spending more time on memes
–KittyPooClub.com, enter promo code DINGO for 20% off your first order
–Bradleyfdn.org/Liberty to watch the latest episode of We The People with Justin Danhof
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Jonah is now actively downplaying the Hunter Biden scandal (he wishes the twitter ban of the Post story hadn’t happened because it gave the story more attention). Jonah and his guest (Politico’s Tim Alberta), then mind-read Biden to make him a moderate who really hope the GOP will hold the senate because that will temper the Dem radical left. If Jonah had a conservative guest as well as Alberta, that conservative might note that the reason that they have to mind read Biden to make him a moderate is because his moderation is not actually in anything Biden has said.
And you have Jonah repeating his claim that American constitutional and institutional norms can withstand a fed government where the radical dems control both houses of congress and the presidency.
But constitutional and institutional norms can’t contain Trump.
In short, we have a trip true the broken kaleidoscope that best represents the brains of TDS sufferers.
Pretty oblivious to ding current republicans for not detailing a health care plan at this point… there would be zero upside for doing this without a working majority in Congress. All you would get is weeks of hostile media nitpicking every detail offered with zero possibility of success. Go ahead and dump on the old republican establishment… which Jonah constantly compares so favorably to Trump… for getting NOTHING done when they had the chance, (except electing Trump in response to their myriad failures on health care, immigration, etc)… but it would be beyond stupid to detail a plan now without the power in hand to execute it…
Maybe the voters aren’t concerned about the Hunter Biden corruption scandal because they don’t know about it because of the media blackout. Most voters aren’t even aware of the way the Obama-Biden administration weaponized the DOJ against Trump.
Made it through the introduction before hitting delete. It’s cute that they think they will play a part in the future of conservatism after Trump. Those bridges have been burned.
I was disappointed to see these two repeat the line that Christine O’Donnell was “going around talking about witchcraft” in her 2010 Senate run. It’s lazy of them not to know that the clip that aired during the campaign was from a 1999 video that Bill Maher ran where she talked about dabbling in witchcraft when she was in high school. She then denied being a witch, which became the soundbite. You can call her unpolished at staying on message, but she wasn’t some proto-QAnon conspiracy monger who brought up crazy things.
They repeat stuff like that the way others repeat the Charlottesville Lie.