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Remember the good ol’ days when a president could be talked out of his worst impulses? So do we. This week the guys had a chance to chat with one of the people our current president should have listened to: Wisconsin Representative (and Marine Intelligence Officer) Mike Gallagher.
The Congressman takes us through the poor leadership, political and operational failures, and the dangers we face now that Afghanistan has collapsed. (And if you can, please donate to this GoFundMe campaign to help the family of Rob’s friend Habib.) The hosts also get a chance to chat about progressive colonialism and Peter’s good feeling about the California recall.
Music from this week’s podcast: Memory Motel by The Rolling Stones
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One thing for sure, Military Veteran/Congressman Mike Gallagher is way out ahead of Radio Show Host Mike Gallagher, in every way.
One credible explanation is that the equipment was left for the Afghan military to use, but somehow everyone forgot that the Afghan military had been specifically trained and equipped to rely on American air support and intelligence-gathering, which was withdrawn. Which is another level of Joe’s screw-ups.
That ignores stuff like “binary choice” etc. Rob doesn’t get to decide they’re BOTH unfit, so have someone else instead.
He traded someone who was “unfit to be President” for someone who is unfit to be Dog Catcher. Good job!
Also, Rob’s criteria for Trump being unfit had little if anything to do with Trump’s performance in office. Rob simply found him “loathsome.” Well, boo hoo, Rob. Even if I agreed with him on that, I’d take “loathsome” without a bunch of dead Marines, any day of the week, and ten times on Sunday.
That Trump was unfit was always a debatable claim. That Biden was unfit was once a slightly less debatable claim, but now it has been proved that he is unfit beyond a doubt.
We are experiencing the cataclysmic Presidential melt down the (D)/MSM/NT had predicted was just around the corner all 4 years of Trump’s term.
James,
Please….please….work on making commercial breaks more structured and rational. You unnecessarily, even rudely, interrupted Robb Long early in the podcast, and then not long thereafter that you interrupted Congressman Gallagher.
Uhhh….
Not really.
Having seen the process in action, thats not actually how the podcast happens. He usually does the commercial breaks at the end, and then they are dropped throughout the show.
Agreed. The proper logic problem is: Given (before the election): P1 T is not fit for office; P2 B is better fit than T; Therefore the choice was to elect B.
The decision from this was made.
After time passed we look back and ask in light of the Afghan situation, would the plans of T > B for handling this?
Through T, Pompeo, Pence, and others we understand the reality of the “Trump Deal”, and its condition-based approach. We also understand that multiple violations by the Taliban began to occur after the deal and a quick response was done by Pompeo/military/T, which seemed to keep the Taliban “in line”. We also know that these retaliatory, “get in line!” actions *stopped* when B took office. B also made so many additional changes (dates, communications, tactics, etc.) that there is a clear difference between T and B’s plans.
Knowing all this we state: P1 T is not fit for office; P3 B is not fit for office; Q1 is a result that is better for the nation; Q2 is a result that is worse for the nation;
Choice for B over T was wrong, it’s like science man!
After the main body of the podcast is recorded we always have a post-show recording session with James that lasts about 10 minutes. He records 1-2 spots and the “Let’s have ourselves a podcast” line and everything is rearranged in postproduction.
The interruptions were my decision, that is I made the call to interrupt Rob because I didn’t want to keep the Congressman waiting and I made the decision where to place the 2nd spot which was recorded in post.
Join us on the zoom call on any Friday to see how the sausage gets made!
Some of us knew that before the election, based on watching B “in action”(more like “inaction”) for 30+ years. It wasn’t necessary to see exactly how B would screw up this one particular thing, before reaching that conclusion.
People looked at Trump and the chaos he creates around him and said to themselves, “Well, Biden can’t be any worse.”
And then Joe said, “Hold my ice cream cone…”
To paraphrase, What Trump created wasn’t chaos; he created truth, and the other side called it chaos.
That is exactly right.
Yeah. Turns out a good portion of Americans
can’t handle the truth
(Insert Jack Nicholson meme here)
Did you expense the Lap Dances?
That you can’t tell that the spots were inserted later is a testament to the producing and editing skills of @ejhill.
And James pretending that he was indeed interrupting…
Thank you!