6-7-25 The Weekend Hour 3: Was Elon Musk Bound To Fail in Washington? Why?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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on the program. So I spent almost six years in Washington, DC.
Went in as someone who had grown up in politics

(01:07):
and thought I knew everything about politics, and it was
like running a race and I show up during the
inauguration of my soon to be new boss, George W. Bush,
and find that I've Wow, I don't know squat. At

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least I knew the basics. It's like i'd been to
basic training and I and I had. I understood my
I had the mental memory of how things are supposed
to work. I had the experience, at least the state
and local level of how things are supposed to work.

(01:50):
I had through my education, through my bachelor's and my
doctorate degree, that I understand my law degree kind of
how things are supposed to work. And then I had
the reality of Washington, d C. And I kind of
think that's what happened to Elon Musk, although I don't think.
I'm not really sure that he had the muscle memory.

(02:13):
He had a different kind of muscle memory, but not
the kind that I had. It was only a few
months ago that Musk took two X to share a
confession with his followers. He has over two hundred million followers.
He wrote, I love at real Donald Trump as much

(02:33):
as a straight man can love another man. Well, I
guess he learned this week. Whether it's a straight love
or a gay love or a bisexual love or whatever
kind of love it was. That Wow, it was a
pretty violent breakup and it cost him billions of dollars.

(02:57):
That public breakup sent Tesla stock crashing by seventeen percent.
Now I've been checked the day and see where it's at.
But that's a humongous loss on paper. That's a giant loss.
This is like a soap opera drama. And then it
exploded again. It's almost like you know, you've seen the

(03:19):
fireworks where you know, they send the aerial bombs up
and there's one giant burst and then you can kind
of see some of the other bombs within that bomb
kind of going off and they start to burst, and
pretty soon you've just got a huge, just multi bursting
mushroom cloud, if you will, of fireworks. That's kind of

(03:40):
how this whole thing broke up occurred because it exploded
again when President Trump threatened to pull Musks billions of
dollars that he has in federal contracts, and then Musk
was the next bomb to explode. And then he returned
the favor by claiming that Trump hasn't released the Epstein
files because he's impledd in the Epstein files, and it

(04:02):
just kept going and going and going, and I found
kind of I think I knew that we had reached
peak stupidity when we got to the Epstein files, because
that's where Musk wasn't thinking. That's where he was. Well,
I think he wasn't thinking at all through most of it,

(04:22):
because if if Trump's implicated in the Epstein files, those
would have been released by Merrick Garland, those would have
been released by Christopher Ray and the FBI. Those would
have been released and be and be demanded to be
released by the Democrats. Now, of course they probably don't
want to release them because it's going to probably implicate

(04:44):
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump indeed may have flown in
Epstein's playing somewhere, but I don't think this is I've
never seen any evidence allegation that Donald Trump was ever
on the island engaging, you know, sex with with prepubescent teens.
It was an eruption, a blow up, an explosion that

(05:08):
people have been predicting forever. I'm not really sure that
I talked about it publicly, but I know there were
times when I watched, in fact, this happened to me. I'll
tell you a really quick story that exemplifies what I'm
talking about. Presidents don't like to be upstaged at all.

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They know, whether they talk about themselves and the first
person or third person, they know that they are the
most powerful person on earth, and there are protocols and
their procedures, and there are ways that they show that
power to the world, and one of which is the
way they exit, for example, Air Force one or Marine one.

(05:58):
I was with Bush on Marine one and we had
landed on the south lawn of the White House. And
I know, and I knew that the president exits first.
In fact, you wait until he saluted and he's starting
to walk off before you can start getting off the helicopter.
I know that's the protocol. But the helicopter was full

(06:23):
that day, very full, and we had a couple of
senators on the on the helicopter with us. So I'm
sitting in a jump seat across from the president that
the Marine one lands, the Marines open the door and
I stand up and just move slightly to my right

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just so that the President has room to move. And
I'm going to since I'm just the lowly undersecretary, I'm
going to allow the US senators to exit behind the president,
and I'm going to wait for them. I'm just at
a protocol and courtesy. I'm going to wait for them.
Bush misunderstood my actions and thought I was getting ready, right, Yeah,
he thought. I honestly believe he thought I was getting

(07:07):
ready to walk down the stairs before he did, and
he kind of took his hands and grabbed both of
my shoulders and kind of planted me, and I laughed
at I just said I'm not going anywhere, and he
looked at me and went, oh, oh, I'm kind of
like oh. I didn't realize it, but it dawned on

(07:27):
me at that point that I think he really thought
I was going to walk down the stairs before he did.
I think that's the mistake that Musk made. He actually
did walk down the stairs before the president did. Now
I've heard all the stories about that. One example is
that there was an argument outside the Oval office near

(07:47):
where the chief of Staff's office is. That it's situated
kind of awkwardly. There's there's a couple of doors in
the Oval office, one where the secretary sits, and over here,
as you're facing outward from the resolute desk, there's a
door to the left there's a couple of doors in
the left, but one that leads to a hallway that
goes across the hallway to the Roosevelt Room and then

(08:08):
goes down just a little bit to where the Chief
of Staff's office is. And apparently in that doorway, Elon
Musk and the Treasury Secretary of Scott Pssent got into
a heated shouting match, so much so that some staffers
had to break them up, and that Trump intervened and
they brought the argument inside the Oval office. And Trump

(08:31):
was put in the position of having to make a
choice who sides the on, and he made the only
right decision. He's going to be on the side of
his Treasury secretary because he has to work with him
in the future. Musk is there as a special government employee,
pretty much as a volunteer, so you always take the
side of the staff, at least publicly. So when I

(08:55):
heard that, and when I saw some of the ways
that Mosque was kind of upstaging Trump, I thought, yeah,
at some point Trump's can get tired of that. But
the biggest twist in this drama is why the pair
originally fell out disagreement over that big beautiful bill. The

(09:17):
Reconciliation bill that is going to increase both the national
debt and the deficit and is at the same time
going to reduce some spending. But that breaking point would
not have been reached if Musk had accomplished what he
had set out to do in DC. And we'll get
to that next Just the Weekend with Michael Brown. The

(09:39):
text line is three to three one zero three. Keyword
Micha or Michael. I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back
to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you
with me. That this hole kerfuffle between the big boys

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that are comparing their sizes and their bank accounts is
playing into the hands of the Democrats, and they jumped
on it immediately. Jamie Raskin, Of.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Course, should Democrats be embracing you on Musk right now.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
So, first of all, the wretched, ugly gargantua and bhilth
that they're trying to drive through Congress will throw fourteen
million Americans off of their Medicaid and drive millions of
Americans off of their snap benefits, which.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Is fact check falls, but nonetheless.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Nutrition, which is food for people. Elon Musk called it
a disgusting abomination. Because of the fact that it also
will add two and a half to three trillion dollars
to the national debt, right, and he's right about that.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, it's going to be
somewhere in that neighborhood. So, you know, I think it's

(10:58):
all to the good that he is forcing members to
really focus on what they're voting on. Here, there's been
this effort to jam it through.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
In the middle of the night we pulled. You know,
I have to pause because this is a great example
of when when do Democrats become deficit or debt hawks?
When do they suddenly become concerned about government spending? It mean,
it happens all the time, they never act on it,
but when do they get concerned about it anytime Republicans

(11:29):
try to do something about it? Because if the roles
were reversed and this reconciliation bill was before a Congress
that was controlled by the Democrats, uh, there wouldn't be
any spending cuts. There's there's billions of dollars in cuts. Now,

(11:50):
granted there is billions of dollars in increases too, but
Democrats wouldn't have any cuts. So always find it really
ironic that people like Jamie Raskin will go on television
and tell some CNN you know, talking head that won't
ask any follow up questions. Oh well this, you know this.
Republicans are waking up to what they're really voting on. No,

(12:10):
they know exactly what they're voting on, and because of
this little spat, you're going to take advantage of it
to try to mislead the public about what's really in it.
I would encourage you to think about the bill this
way because I don't like the bill, but I do
want the bill passed because I know how Washington works,
and I'm not going to get one hundred percent of

(12:32):
what I want. This is why, as much as I
love Ran Paul from Kentucky and Thomas Massey from Kentucky,
as much as I love them and their political philosophies,
I disagree with them about the practicality of their philosophies.
I want to cut government spending. I want to reduce

(12:52):
the debt, so if I can get some of that,
well at the same time as a trade off, I
still get some spending increase. At least I at least
get people to start thinking about it. And I'm willing
to take that because if I don't, if I don't
accept that part of the bill, that means that I
lose the tax rates and everybody who pays taxes will

(13:17):
face a humongous tax increase. But nobody talks about that.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
To all nighters the week before last back to back,
I hadn't done that since college, but they.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Were, oh, I have done a back to back all
nighters since college. I know, because you guys don't work.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Anyway, trying to make sure nobody knew what was actually
in the bill, and now we have.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
I mean, wasn't Nancy Pelosi the one that said that
we have to pass the bills to know what's in
the bill? You see, they it's the same bull crap
over and over and over. And must doesn't get this.
He just does not understand how Washington works. So the

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seeds of the meltdown of this fight germinated, and they
grew into a full bloom in the wake of the
election because Trump had pledged to crack down on government
spending and he appointed Musk, the most successful, probably the
most successful entrepreneur in history, to try to whip the

(14:22):
brooded US government into shape. So here comes Musk, he's
got a charge from the President. He's on a new mission.
This is like he's this is a new company to him,
and he's approaching the Department of Government efficiency this mandate
from Trump, just like an entrepreneur would. I've got to
go in and I've got to break things and stir

(14:43):
things up, which I love, which I wasn't done. But
I also recognize that sometimes you can set the bar
too high for success. I didn't know. I wanted to
believe that he's pledged to slash at least two trillion
dollars from the federal budget was achievable, and Musk kind

(15:06):
of hinted, at least quixotically, that doing so many bit
was going to be easy. I never thought it would
be easy, but I thought he might be able to
accomplish it. But he couldn't. By January, before Trump was
even inaugurated, Musk was already talking about, well, we're gonna
try to cut one trillion dollars. Now, having left the

(15:28):
White House and failed, Musk now starts to shift the blame.
He was stigny by a federal bureaucracy impervious to reform. Well,
that was there the day you showed up, mister Musk,
that wasn't going anywhere in the end, those claims that

(15:51):
managed to root out about one hundred and sixty billion dollars.
I'll take it, don't get me wrong, but that's nowhere
near a trillion dollars. He said last week, kind of
in a mood of self pity. The federal bureaucracy situation
is much worse than I realized. Well, I give him

(16:15):
credit for recognizing that, and I don't blame him for
not understanding that. He may be the Da Vinci of
our times. He may be a renaissance man, and he
may be one of the smartest entrepreneurs ever, but when
it came to DC and politics, that's an entirely different world,

(16:36):
entirely different priorities. And while you may be accustomed to
breaking down barriers and making things happen, you've never tried
to break down something like the federal bureaucracy. Now, if
you take one hundred and sixty billion dollar figure at
face value, which I don't think we should, but let's
do it the way that Musk went about doing it

(17:01):
might have cost taxpayers nearly as much. There's a nonpartisan
research group that estimates that the efforts will cost one
hundred and thirty five billion dollars because of the way
they went through firing federal workers, offering them, offering these buyouts,
some ending up in lawsuits. So the and this is

(17:23):
true about everything in Washington. You save, you know, a
dollar here, but you spent a dollar and ten cents
trying to get rid of that one dollar. I'm not
saying it's impossible to do. I'm just saying that you
have to be much much more precise about how you
go about doing it. And how would that be. Let's

(17:46):
wait into that a little bit. So wee came with
Michael Brown. Hang tight, I'll be right back tonight. Michael
Brown joins me here.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
the Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey, welcome back to the
Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
I appreciate you tuning in the text lines. Always open
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Use the keyword Mike or Michael. Do me a favor,
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do that right now. Now, I want to move on

(18:23):
and talk about something else. But before I do, there
are a couple of text messages that I want to
share with you about Elon Musk, because there's not much
else to say about the fight except a few things. One,
shut up, take it behind closed doors to Steve Mannon,
who's asking for the execution of Elon Musk or the

(18:45):
deportation of Elon Musk, or the cancelation of his contracts.
Shut up, sit down, and shut and go away. None
of that's helping. All that's feeding into the Democrats. And
Trump's taking the high road, which I find fascinating. But
I think he's taking the high road because I think
you really does have a lot of respect for Elon Musk,

(19:08):
and I think he would like to remain friends. And
he also knows I'm the president and he's not. Trump's
getting an entirely different attitude. And then somebody points out
on the text line something that I think we should
not ignore because I do believe it's true. Guber number
eighty two thirteen writes Brownie. You've got to remember that

(19:29):
Elon Musk is strongly Aspergers and that's probably a lot
of the problem. I have both a son and a
grandson who are the same. Navigating social situation is particularly difficult.
If you don't know what Asperger's is, go look it up.
But you know it because you've watched how uncomfortable he

(19:50):
is in those social settings. You've seen the gy rating,
you know gestures, you've seen the For those of us
who don't have Aspergers, you've seen in Elon Musk that
uncomfortableness that is exemplified when he's in a situation where

(20:11):
he's not comfortable, not quite sure what to do, yet
is full of excitement. And we also have a guy
and I don't I'm not criticizing this, but I'm just
saying that this is just a statement of fact. He's
here's a guy who, for I think legitimate medical reasons
uses you know, adderall and ketamine and I'm sure other

(20:35):
you know drugs. But I also recognize that well, there
may be indeed a medical use for those drugs. And
I'm not saying that Elon Musk is the same as
Michael Jackson, but I will say this, when you're that
rich and you have access to ketamine and adderall and
god knows what ever else, you probably also have the

(20:58):
ability to say to your medical provider, your doctor, your physician,
whomever it might be, that hey, just give me extra
or just here, I'll just do the decision administration myself.
I'll just pay you whatever. You know, who knows. I'm
not speculating. I just know that he's known to use

(21:18):
those things, and there are legitimate reasons for using those things.
I also know this oftentimes because I've throughout my career,
I've known very wealthy people who will take advantage of
that wealth and unfortunately use it to their disadvantage. You
were number thirty six ninety six writes this, it takes

(21:40):
a true genius to do something as stupid. That's what
Musk has done. It's a very well written sentence because
it's absolutely correct. It takes a true genius to do
something as stupid as what Musk has done. Being that
smart thirty six ninety six writes breads a certain amount

(22:02):
of arrogance that can't be overcome. Albert Einstein had exactly
the same problem. It's sometimes hard to see the obvious,
and when you decide that what is true isn't true,
there's no convincing you otherwise. That's why we don't have teleportation. Well,
that may or may not be true, but the rest
of the text message is spot on, absolutely spot on.

(22:30):
But the other big news over the past week or
so has been whom I refer to as kream abdul
jabbar but cream. Jean Pierre. Remember her, the person who
became Joe Biden's press secretary because she checked certain boxes female, lesbian, black,

(22:54):
I don't know what else, short, I don't know, funky
hairdoo whatever. I think she also fit a fifth category,
and that is just dumb as a box of rocks.
Because to be the press secretary for Joe Biden means
you had to go out there and just be dumb
as a box of rocks. And she proved herself excellent

(23:17):
at doing that. Well, she's now out or coming out
with a book, a book that I will not be buying.
I think the very first time that I saw her,
she was standing behind the podium in the White House
briefing Room, the Brady Briefing Room. She was reading from
that giant binder she always had, like a third grader

(23:40):
giving a book report. And what do I mean by that?
You know this just you can picture it in your mind,
her head down She's sounding out the words in a
steady mono tone, seemingly oblivious to the reporters gathered in
front of her, and I remember thinking, that's who the

(24:01):
President chose to be his press secretary. Now, as we
now know, that probably wasn't the case. I doubt that
Joe Biden himself had very little to do with it.
He didn't know what was going on in his own
White House staff, at least of all, the hiring of
any you know, any hiring decisions or who was going
to be a spokesperson. I bet it was doctor Jill

(24:22):
Biden and the other three or four that were running
the day to day operations who decided that they indeed
needed a gay black woman doing that job a diversity higher. Sure,
Kaream Abdul Jabbar was amateuristly unprepared, but she checked more
boxes than an Amazon delivery driver. I think I stole

(24:43):
that from someone. Someone else used that line. Well, And
what happened to any American voter who voiced concerns like
I had about her competency, Well, we of course were
called racist, sexist homophobes. Because liberals don't have any other
move identity politics. That's all they know, But guess who

(25:06):
secretly agreed with this the entire time. Anonymous Biden staffers,
not the ones that picked her, with the ones that
had to work with her. Over at Politico. Eli Stokels,
who's a former political reporter here in Colorado, Beason. He's
got on to bigger and better things at Politico. He
wrote this, Kareem. Jean Pierre's announcement that she's leaving the

(25:28):
Democratic Party time with the roll out of a new book,
has detonated long simmering grievances among her former White House
colleagues about Jean Pierre's pursuit of celebrity and personal media
exposure while serving as then President Joe Biden's press secretary.
He writes, the attention grabbing ploy lit up Democratic and
Biden alumni texting groups and reignited frustrations that burned for

(25:53):
years about Jean Pierre. According to seven former Biden administration officials,
that I grabbed an inimpathy to in order to describe
private conversations the first former official set of Jean Pierre's
book project, Everybody thinks this is a grift. And if
anybody can spot a grift, it's anybody that was on

(26:16):
Team Biden. Now. One of those unnamed sources, according to Politico,
called Cream Abduljubo one of the most ineffectual and unprepared
people I've ever worked with. Well, wasn't that the Biden
White House except for the ones that were actually running it?
Because anybody that ever watched her for more than fifteen

(26:37):
seconds knows that. I'm not sure why any Democrat in
twenty twenty five doesn't want to put his or her
name behind the statement. Absolutely everybody agrees with, especially now
that the subject is a turncoat. But again, that's the
Washington d C that Elon Musk did not understand, and
that's the Washington DC that I fully understand. Oh, they'll

(26:58):
stab you in the back the first cham if they have.
They'll smile you, it's to your face. They'll shake your hands,
they'll ask for favors, they'll even give favors. They'll do everything.
But the minute they have the opportunity to throw you
under the rug, they'll do it. And so now here
we are just with all the other quickie cash grab

(27:21):
books about you know, disastrous White House administration, like Jake
Tapper's book, which I did read, by the way, I
don't know if I've told you guys or not. This
was a big to do on the local program. I
really did want to read Jake Tapper's book. I didn't
want to give you Jake Tapper the money. So I
discovered that Barnes and Noble has a very lenient return policy.

(27:46):
As long as you don't bend the binding of the book,
you don't hurt or you know, cracker scratch up or
spill coffee or anything on the dust cover, as long
as it no markings in it as though it. If
you return it as the it's never been read, you
get your full money back. So it went to Barnes
and Noble. I bought the book, took it with me

(28:07):
to New Mexico, read it over Memorial Day weekend, took
it back, got my money back. The book and partly interesting,
But my summation of the Jake Tapper book is the
only maybe not the only thing, but the primary thing
I learned was that the four people actually running the
White House. The names of them doctor Jill Biden, her

(28:31):
chief of staff, some guy named Raschetti, and two others,
oh Mike Donellan and ron Klayton. Those are the four
that are actually making all the decisions. So do you
think they cared about how bad KJP was? Not at all.
In fact, that's probably exactly what they wanted. Now, with

(28:57):
regard to a book, let's think about that when we
get back, because I'm not quite sure I'm not going
to buy the book, even with a return policy like
being inn has, I ain't buying the book. I'll be
right back as usual. I want to thank everybody for

(29:18):
tuning into the Weekend with Michael Brown. I appreciate everyone
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time to listen. So how much you think about kjp's book.

(29:45):
So she's declared that she's left the Democrat Party, that
she's now an independent, So I'm not really sure who
her target audience is supposed to be. Now, most Republicans
like me probably don't like her for lying about Joe's senility,
his cognitive decline, and quite frankly, I suppose everything else

(30:06):
they came out of her mouth. And now the Democrats
hate her because she's abandoned their ship as it continues
to sink beneath the waves of the Trump movement overtaking
the country. But then I wonder, who's got thirty bucks
to read a bunch of ghosts written bull crap about

(30:26):
how none of what happened was her fault. The name
of the book is Independent, A look inside a broken
White House outside the party lines. Oh so she's independent,
which is risable, and she's going to tell you about
how the Biden White House was broken, as if she
herself had nothing to do with it. Go ahead, you've

(30:49):
gold girl, you go. It's that old white man's fault
that you told all of those lies for him. Apparently
MSNBC has not even mentioned her as a former contributor
this week. She used to work for MSNBC, so they
must be in mourning thoughts and prayers to MSNBC. She

(31:11):
did go on the View, which was freaking hilarious.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Here's the thing the Associated Press. If you look at
this social press, they are the oldest wire in the
press briefing room. And you think about journalists, you think
about the reason they're in the press briefingroom. You think
about the reason they're in the pool. It's called the
protective pool. They're thirteen members of the plot trying not
to get toulwonky here. And their job is to provide
unbiased information to the American people because of the American

(31:38):
people deserve that.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
And when oh, wait a minute, she is telling us
that we deserve unbiased information. The woman who sat behind
that podium with her gigantic binder reading answers, who usually said,
I'll refer you to the Justice Department, I'll refer you
to the Department of Defense. I'll refer you to anybody

(32:02):
but myself. Oh, I don't know how. I'll go talk
to the president sometime or I don't know or know
or no or no, I'm not. I refuse to answer
that kind of question. That's just stupid.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Oh that, and the White House Press Team decides to
step in and override the White House Correspondence Association, who
they have the job of doing that. Then what we're
looking at is state TV.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
So she says that we have state run media. I
hate to tell her, but you know what the definition
of the cabal is, Well, it includes the state run media.
The people that lie to you all the time, yeap.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
What we're looking at is what Russia is doing. What
we're looking at is what North Korea is doing, and
we are doing that. They are attacking the fiber of
the freedom of the press. They are destroying it because
they want to be covered in a friendly way.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Look, I was in that position for two and a
half years. It is an exercise what we did in
the press briefing room, what the president did when he
took questions from the press.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
He is, well, when the president took questions from the press,
I I gotta go find that. Oh, it happened every
single day, right, sometimes for thirty minutes, forty five minutes,
an hour, hour and a half on Air Force one,
you know, going to Marine one he took over. Yeah,
oh no, that was the guy before him and the

(33:26):
guy in there now, yeah, not her boss.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Is an exercise of a democracy. And we have to
remember that when the press briefing room was televised.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's not just televised here in.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
The United States, right, it's televised globe.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
But a lot of people don't know that.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
And right people are wondering, other countries are wondering, what
are we saying, as the United States, what is it
that we want to do? And it is an exercise
of democracy. It is the cornerstone of democracy. The freedom
of the press is the fourth of state, and we
are supposed to be leading that as the most powerful
country in the world.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Desperate to stay relevant, I won't claim to be above
Sheldon Freud at all. And right now I'm luxuriating in
the squabbling among both Democrats and Republicans. It's yet another reminder,
if you need a reminder, that politicians and their sycofints

(34:22):
are greedy, shameless, power mad egomaniacs who really wouldn't give
a damn if you dropped dead in front of them
right now. They don't care about you, and you're under
no obligation whatsoever to give them your time, your money,
or your soul. None of them, but the Democrats, they
have a look on the bright side. They've lost KJP,

(34:45):
creamed ab Boulgebar, but Joe Walsh has decided that he's
going to leave the Republican Party and join the Democrat Party,
So I guess we're all even right now. Right, Good
riddance Joe Waltz Walsh, He's always been hapless but picking
the same day is Cream abdul Jabbar defects from the
Democrat Party to announce his own defection from the Republican Party.

(35:06):
That's pretty delicious, Joe Walsh wrote in twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen,
on November Braid, I'm voting for Trump on nob nine.
If Trump loses, I'm gotting my musket. You in but idiots,
absolute idiots. But that's the world that we live in,

(35:30):
isn't it idiocracy? Absolute idiocracy? And Cream abdul Jabbar kind
of personifies exactly that kind of world that we now
live in. And she'll be out there continuing to talk
about just how bad everything is. The current Press secretary,
do you.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Say anything to a late concerns that unfavorable coverage will
be punished in.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
This new presssstory.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
I think that's the same individual who said from this
podium numerous times that the commander in chief was mentally
and physically up for the job, which we knew was
a lie. Many people in this room knew it was
a lie. Many of you were admonished for asking questions
about that truth. And so when it comes to truth
and transparency, this administration, this White House is setting the example.

(36:16):
This president is taking far more questions than his predecessor,
Joe Biden did on a daily basis, and that will continue.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
You know, Caroline Levitt does something that I think is fascinating.
No binders, no notes. She knows exactly what's going on.
Thanks for tuning in. I'll see you next Saturday. Everybody
have a great weekend.