It's Over for Our Crumbling Legacy Media

The election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States is sending shockwaves across the country and around the world, and he's still almost two months away from being inaugurated.
Nobody is more apoplectic about it all than legacy media. Some are trying to play nice. Others are abandoning the little sanity they have left. But there are a few that are actually trying to figure out how to continue their existence under the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, transgender members of the military appear to be on their way out. We covered this and other topics, including why President Trump should NOT allow his appointees to have their backgrounds checked by the FBI, on today's episode of The JD Rucker Show.
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You're listening to the jd Rucker shows. Let's begin. It
was what I consider would be a very good weekend.
I had family in town. Everything's looking look at Hunky Dory.
We're in Thanksgiving week now. Of course Maga is rolling along.
We did have did have the surgeon general debacle. I
may talk about that later. I talked about it over

(02:15):
the weekend. I expressed my opinion, went semi viral with
that opinion, and I think I might might bring it
up again for today's show. But I am going to
bring up a topic that is likely going to get
me banned on on YouTube, uh and probably Facebook as well,
for those of you if you're watching on YouTube, if
you're watching on Facebook, or any of the various non

(02:38):
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Even Apple Podcast hasn't banned me yet spot if I did,
granted that was a long time ago, but others have not.
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(02:59):
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Speaker 3 (03:00):
There.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I've got my substacks, my rumble, my ex gab, all
the various places where I post my stuff. Getter. I'm
getting getting some pretty decent traction over on Getter. My
shows do very well there, Praise God for that. But yeah,
I'm probably gonna get banned on the other the non
free speech platforms because we're going to talk about something

(03:21):
that President Trump did this weekend allegedly. Now I haven't
we haven't gotten confirmation directly from President Trump yet that
he is indeed going to do this, but there are
credible reports that he is going to be removing as
many as fifteen thousand members of the military. Now you
might be wondering, what do they do wrong? Do they
not pass their physical fitness tests?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
They do?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
They are they the traders? Do they go a well,
what do they do? No, they just they're just mentally ill.
We're talking, of course, about those who suffer from gender dysphoria.
He is going to allegedly, we'll get confirmation hopefully soon,
hopefully before before inauguration. Day, which is when some people
think it's going to happen. But we will. We will

(04:05):
allegedly have or watch the President Trump administration and probably
under the guidance of Pete Hayseth Lord Willing, that they
will be able to remove transgenders from active military duty.
That's a lot of people, fifteen thousand. That's one report
that I saw. Maybe it's more, maybe it's less. I
don't know, Maybe they're just talking about certain type of people.

(04:26):
We haven't gotten full confirmation of this, but as I
posted over on x I said, gender dysphoria is a
mental illness. It is always it was always considered as such,
and has never been scientifically removed from that classification. Wokeness
made it quote unquote hate speech, which is why I'm
at risk on YouTube and Facebook whatever. To classify the

(04:50):
ailment properly. Removing the mentally ill from the military is
a bold and righteous move by President Trump again, if
he is indeed going to do that, which I wholeheartedly
s support him doing so. We want a war fighting machine,
which is where the US military has always been. What
we don't want is a laboratory for dysfunctional thought. And

(05:13):
and you might say, oh, that's that's discriminatory, that's bigoted
to say that it's it's dysfunctional. Thought. It literally, until
very recently it was considered the gender dysph you was
considered widely as a form of schizophrenia. Okay, it doesn't
quite depending on who you ask, it doesn't quite fall

(05:35):
under the the the realm of being a psychotic disorder,
which is, by the way, if we're talking about a military,
active duty military and enlistment, you a psychotic disorder is prohibitive.
In other words, if you if you are are diagnosed
with a psychotic disorder, you cannot serve in the United

(05:56):
States military. Now granted, technical speaking, according to to you know,
the the latest science, gender dysphoria does not qualify as
a psychotic disorder. But it is a mental disorder. It
is a mental illness. And until we acknowledge that again

(06:18):
because it used to be acknowledged by everybody, but now
now it's like all of a sudden again hate speech.
It's uncool to say that, you know, we have to
we have to, I guess, appease people and say oh no, no, no,
you're totally a woman, I mean, ma'am, that's what we're
supposed to do. I don't do it. I get in

(06:39):
trouble sometimes with certain people out here in comy Fournia
who don't. Don't. They say that I'm I'm a bigot
because I'm misgendered. No, I just I just refer to
people based upon their biological sex. We've got a great
show here today.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
You know what, before we get into the rest of
the show, let's go ahead and play this clip. This
is this is?

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Who was this? U? Gosh, I don't have it on here. Well,
I know one of them is Nancy Mason. Forgot the
the journalist's name. Oh, her husband was just picked. Uh
uh camposts. God, gosh, I heard the Fox News lady.
She's she's really good. She's very good. And they both
refer to to congress Congressman McBride as he, uh the

(07:25):
the first transgender congressman. They referred to to him as
he and the and the left just just went berserk.
Watch watch this.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Even that's why millions of women are supporting me. That's
why we're winning the message. And so many women now
today feel more brave and have more courage because I've
been speaking out. They feel like they are going to
be supported. Now we're going to see this all across
the country, and we're hearing from folks all around the world,
women from all sorts of countries now coming out and
supporting us in our effort.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Yeah, for the record, that trans member of Congress has
said that he will he will actually abide by the
rule and not use the women's restroom in Congress. I
think Marjorie Taylor Green came out with an idea. She said, well,
maybe we should just have a Democrat women's bathroom and
a Republican women's bathroom, and then the Democrats can just
open the doors to the trans. And also what AOC

(08:17):
said about not being able to recognize I mean, I've
seen Rachel Levine. I know that's not a woman, so
I don't understand this idea. But Nancy Bates, you've taken
a lot of abews for standing up for the rights
of women, especially in their private spaces, and we appreciate that.
Thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
We've read and heard various post mortems from leftist journalists
over the last three weeks about why the Democrat Party
lost so badly during the twenty twenty four election. Vast
majority of these post mortems are are comical. It's because
we're America's racist, America's sexist, America's bigoted. Some of them
have actually been pretty spot on when they the ones

(08:57):
that are highlighting the extreme wokeness of the Democrat Party.
They are correct. I would say a majority of Americans,
maybe not a vast majority, but a good majority of
Americans have just become so sick of it. Even Democrats
are sick of the radical wokeness. They might be like, yeah, like,
we believe in pro choice, we believe in in you know,
various other things, but we don't think that you need

(09:19):
to force men to be in women's bathrooms. We don't
think that you have to to pander tow and cater
to the LGBTQA plus supremacy agenda. We don't think that
you have to. I mean, the extreme wokeness of the
Democrat Party does obviously a huge part of it. But
there is one other major reason that I've heard someone

(09:40):
the right talk about. I haven't heard anybody on the
left until, oddly enough, this weekend we saw one leftist
journalists nail it, and it's I was shocked when I
saw that it was actually Abby Phillips somebody I vehemently
disagree with on pretty much everything. I could count on
zero hands the number of times I've agreed with her,

(10:01):
at least in the past. Now I have to add
a hand in there, and I gotta say she got
one right. According to an article from Bright Bart, CNN's
Abbie Phillips says Democrats have a bigger problem than wokeness,
and according to the article, it's because, she says that
is because they have catered to the elite class for
far too long. Phillips issued her diagnosis of the Democrat

(10:22):
Party's issues when speaking at the Institute of Politics for
the Harvard Kennedy School of Business last week. And this
is a quote from Phillips. Democrats are in that place
now where they have to break out of it, and
I think it is a real problem. It's not as
simple as wokeness or whatever. It's about people who are
being incentivized to think about issues in a particular way. Okay, well,
that definitely caught my attention, so I read further later.

(10:44):
She says, I have observed that elites increasingly talk only
to each other. Uh huh, true, and come to believe
that because there is consensus among them that consensus is
shared broadly, and there are not enough voices that are
confident enough to disagree and to resent alternatives. And we
as a society need to find better ways to uplift

(11:04):
divergent voices otherwise we will become victims of group think.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
There needs to be more courage among people to speak
out and to voice divergent opinions otherwise, you know, I
think it's a real issue, and it's not just the
Ivy League. I think it's elitism in general. And she
she didn't. When I say she nailed it, she she's
still she missed it by a little bit, but not
not her mentality. She missed the conclusion. Yeah, her conclusion is,

(11:32):
you know, there needs to be more divergent thoughts amongst
the left, you know. And then within these these group
think portals, these these echo chambers, you know, the elites
have to start listening to other people who are gonna say, hey,
maybe we should do this, maybe we should do that.
And that is quite true, but it's worse than that.
And where she missed is that they don't. It's not

(11:53):
that they don't you know, that their agreement on the
solutions is wrong. That's true, that is part of it.
But it really is that they don't understand the problems,
especially when you see and we saw it throughout the campaign.
We saw people go out there these We saw Kamala
Harris herself do it a couple of times. We saw
Tim Walls really well, I mean, let's not count him.

(12:15):
Pretty much everything he said was wrong. But we saw
a lot a lot of the proxies, okay, a lot
of the surrogates for the Kamala Harris campaign, as well
as a lot of Democrat politicians politicians themselves completely miss
it when it came to understanding the core problems. People
were sick and tired of paying so much, and you
had far too many of them saying, oh, the economy

(12:35):
is not so bad. You know, hey, actually this is
the best economy in a long time. You guys, just
you you little people are just too ignorant to understand it.
And you had these celebrities especially. It was always very damaging,
extremely damaging when you had celebrities and especially Hollywood stars
going out there and saying, look, this economy is great.
I don't know what everybody else is talking about, but

(12:57):
this economy is fantastic. And when you have like Joe Scarborough.
Think it was after the election when he said it,
but this sentiment was shared throughout the campaign, was that
he couldn't believe it. It's like, oh my gosh, you're
telling me eggs or five bucks and it's like, uh now,
actually they're like eight bucks. He's like what, that's crazy.
He had no idea, of course, because he is amongst
the elitists. The problem with the Democrat Party isn't just

(13:20):
the wokeness, and it's definitely not just the delusion, even
though both of those play a large role in everything.
The problem with the Democrat Party is that the people
that are in charge, the people that are actually out
there trying to set policies, try and set messaging, these
people are oblivious to the actual problems shared by tens
of millions, if not hundreds of millions of American citizens,

(13:42):
and that's why they lost. I am vehemently opposed to
our tax dollars being spent on media at all. Okay,
it's not just because it's propaganda. I would be against
it if it was right leaning propaganda. Let's say there
was a conservative version of MP you are out there,
I would be opposed to it. The only way that

(14:03):
I would be okay, at least somewhat okay with our
tax dollars being spent on media is if it was
completely unbiased media, and such a thing just doesn't exist.
It doesn't matter. I don't care. You know who who
claims to be unbiased, they're not. We're humans. There is
bias and it's going to come through every time. Unfortunately,
our media that is funded by taxpayers, such as NPR,

(14:26):
it is radically leftist. We're not just talking about a
little bit leftist. We're talking about people that are against
the truth. And if you don't believe me, here is
Catherine Mayer, CEO of NPR saying the quiet part out loud.

Speaker 8 (14:41):
But one of the most significant differences critical from moving
from polarization to productivity is that the wikipedians who write
these articles aren't actually focused on finding the truth. They're
working for something that's a little bit more attainable, which
is the best of what we can know right now.
And after seven years there, I actually believe that they're

(15:02):
onto something that for our most tricky disagreements. Seeking the
truth and seeking to convince others of the truth isn't
necessarily the best place to start. In fact, I think
our reverence for the truth might become might have become
a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from
finding consensus and getting important things done.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
By golly, we can't let the truth get in the
way of our of our narrative. We can't let it
slow down the agenda. That is essentially what she is saying. Thankfully,
with the rise of DOGE, the Department of Government efficiency,
we should see I would hope that that NPR and others,

(15:50):
any other state funded media would be would be the
first on the chopping block. And Marjorie Taylor Green, who
is heading the House subcommittee on DOGE, has said that
that that is the case, that they should be looked
at as being on the chopping block, and if they
do get cut, praise God for that, because, like I said,

(16:12):
left leanding, right landing doesn't matter. Our tax pair dollars
should not be spent on media at all. Contrary to
popular belief, there is nothing in the law, nothing, nothing
in the constitution, that requires FBI background checks for appointees
by the president, for anybody in the White House at all,

(16:35):
not even for the President himself. You would think that
bas upon everything we're hearing through corporate media, everything we're
hearing from from far too many senators, that this is like,
oh my gosh, this is such a such a horrible, horrible,
awful illegal thing. No, it's not. Okay, they want you
to believe that, but it's not. The Only people that
are required to get FBI background checks are members of

(16:56):
certain law enforcement agencies. Otherwise, it's the Defense, counter Intelligence
and Security Administration that does background checks after somebody is
hired for a role. For them to be able to
get top secret clearance, security clearances have to go through
that type of background check. FBI is not involved, and

(17:16):
I'm all in favor of that. Look, that's that is
part of the rules, and it's legitimate. It makes sense, okay,
because those people, that's what they do. They're looking for threats.
What the FBI is going to be looking for is dirt.
That's why you have Democrats and Rhinos, far too many
of them. It's coming out and saying, well, you know,

(17:37):
I'm not comfortable with voting for it Trump's nominees if
they don't go through an FBI background check. Look, that's
the that is the Senate flexing their muscles. That is
the narcissists in the Senate pretending like this is like
something like, oh my gosh, this is just so so crazy. No, no,
it's not. They're not looking for They don't really think

(17:59):
that Tulsi is a national security threat. They don't really
think that Pete Haikseth is going to be giving nuclear
codes to North Korea. Okay. What they want is to
subvert the Trump administration, and that does include a whole
lot of rhinos out there that are trying to prevent

(18:20):
Agenda forty seven from being fulfilled. So they're going to
hide behind the FBI background checks and say, well, you know,
we need the FBI background checks in order to do this.
What they're really looking for is the dirt. They don't care.
They don't think that Pete Haigseth is going to do something,
is going to be a trader. They want to find
dirt so that they can expose him as being, you know,

(18:40):
being involved with some sexual misconduct with of course no charges,
but hey, you know, if they can get the FBI
to stir up some dirt for them, strip some dirt
against Robert F. Kennedy Junior, so that they can keep
him from fulfilling his role, from making America healthy again,
because by golly, just about every Senate, the vast majority

(19:01):
of them, they they are fully fed and just just
they are. They are in love with big pharma and
big food. I mean that their campaigns, their their cronies,
their relatives, they all have their hands out to big
pharma and big food, and well, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

(19:22):
He sure short does put a put a potential dampening
effect on their personal profits. That's it, That's all they
want to do. That's why it bugs me when you
when you start seeing especially look, there are certain people
that just hate Trump, okay, and then you can you
could count most of the Democrats for that, and you

(19:43):
can even count some a lot of the Republicans for that.
But the ones that are out there that that are
sort of they seem to be in favor of Trump,
or at least publicly they are. But then they're they're like, well,
but we should get the the FBI background checks in place.
We should go. You know, this is this is part
of our tradition in the Senate. Those guys, those are
ones that you should really be concerned about. According to

(20:03):
Mike Engelman a real hickory on, as he says, more
Senate Republicans other than the Gang of four McConnell, Collins, Murkowski,
and Thune are now openly speaking out against confirmation of
Trump nominees without a lengthy process and FBI background checks.
Maybe it's the rhinos who need to be investigated, traders.
It is true that these people, many of them, not

(20:25):
all of them. Some of them again are there are
certain ones out there that are just they just hate Trump.
That doesn't matter them at all. But there are some
that are doing it for self protection. They really want
to try to find a way to stop certain Trump
appointees from ever seeing the light of day. And I
would say that right up there, you know the people
that you notice that the ones that are going after, right,

(20:45):
they're going after Tulsi Gabbard heart saying she's a Russian agent.
You know, Tammy Duckworth and Adam Schiff out there slandering,
slandering Tulca Gabbard as a Russian agent. You know she
can't be trusted. Well, she's she's going to be in
charge of intelligence. And we know that that senators love,
love access to the intelligence industrial complex and and the

(21:09):
vast amounts of money that it's able to make for them.
Who else Pete Haggseth Hmm. Could it be that the
that this man who's who's adamantly opposed to certain military
actions that are that are that are currently in play
during the Biden administration. Could it be that that Pete
Haigseth is is going to be helping to cut off

(21:29):
the the outstretched arms of the senators that are reaching
into the military industrial complex. All, I'd say so. And
of course then RFK Junior, well duh, Big Pharma and
big Food they own most senators, so it makes sense
for them to want this, but they shouldn't get it.
Trump needs to stick to his guns on this. The

(21:50):
moment that he allows the deep state to start start
weaving their tentacles into his his appointees, that's the moment
when we're going to start seeing situations such as what
we saw with General Michael Flynn. Okay, General Michael Flynn
should have been in the last Trump administration, but thanks
to Mike Pence and the FBI, they stop that. We

(22:12):
can't let that happen again. Trump has an opportunity here
to get his people through and Republicans in the Senate
need to get in line again. If they say it's
because they're fearful for national security, I have to stress
that to get security clearance, all these people after they're hired,
after they're confirmed by the Senate, they still have to

(22:34):
go through at background check. It just won't be the
FBI that's digging through dirt and looking for ways to
smear these people. It will be an organization that their
job is to make sure that there's no national security threats.
That should be enough for every single senator out there,

(22:54):
at least every Republican senator. And if they tell you otherwise,
they're lying. After Trump was elected president, I received a
couple of communications from people on one via phone text
and the other one via Twitter X direct message, people
asking me, hey, now that Trump's back in office, is

(23:15):
the economy going to get better? And I said, yeah,
in some ways, it definitely will, obviously. I mean just
Trump's presence alone will have a dramatic impact on the economy,
and it will we'll take things to the next level.
But with that said, the threats still remain. Trump Harris
didn't matter. They're still pushing They being the powers that
be are still pushing for central bank digital currencies. They're

(23:36):
still pushing for dedollarization and the rise of bricks. They're
still pushing for the advancement of a worldwide economy. And
while Trump will do everything in its power to prevent that,
to at least slow it down, some of it is
not within even the power of the United States of
America itself. And this is why there is no reason

(23:58):
you can see by the gold prices, there's no reason
to doubt physical pressures metals as a proper way to
hedge against what is coming, because it's still coming. You know,
there were certain scenarios that would have happened if Kamala
Harris had won, and there are certain scenarios that will
happen now that President Trump has won. And those scenarios

(24:19):
still point in the same exact direction. That's the reason
why even central banks are still buying up as much
gold and silver as possible. That's why banks, financial institutions
are recommending to their people buy as much gold and
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dot com slash gold. All right, let's have a little fun.

(25:05):
It is after all this it is Thanksgiving week. I
pray that you all are are giving thanks the proper way,
and that means, of course with prayer, with honoring your family,
with honoring your friends, and of course with honoring Jesus Christ,
our Lord and Savior. But I also hope that you're
honoring the tradition of Thanksgiving by eating turkey and not

(25:27):
eating beef. There was a somebody had said that apparently
there's a lot of people that eat beef. Beef Wellington
is popular. I think that's what they said, Bef Wellington
or some other beef dishes. I've been on this earth
for half a century and I have never not had
turkey on Thanksgiving. This is America. So but hey, my

(25:49):
good friends over at wickedlynews dot com came up with
a nice story Gobbled up the Weird, Gobble Up the weird.
The five strangest Thanksgiving side dishes ranked. Now, let's see,
and I'm coming into this one blind. So I saw
this story and I'm like, you know what, I want
to react to it. I don't want to read it.
Most stories I read ahead of time. This one we're

(26:09):
gonna react together. So so here we go, and I'm
gonna skip past the intro and go straight towards what
they're saying. Oyster stuffing. Wow, this is from the nineteenth century.
Stuffing is sacred, But oysters in breadcrumbs, then that's next level.
Popular In the late eighteen hundreds, this dish was all
about showcasing your family's wealth, because nothing says happy harvest

(26:32):
like shellfish in your turkey, right yaoza. While it sounds
strange today, oyster stuffing was has its loyal fans who
swear by the salty, briny twist. Now, okay, so I'm
gonna go ahead and grate that as a no for me.
But here's the reason. Number one. I like dressing, not stuffing.
This is something that you know. Stuffing it in the

(26:54):
bird itself I think is overkilled. There are other things
that you put inside the bird. I don't know. What
they are because my wife handles all that, but her
turkey comes out fantastic. Here's the thing, though, her dressing
she makes out of corn bread. It is just absolutely spectacular.
As much as I like oysters, I can't. I can't
ask for anything different, anything to be changed about her

(27:16):
her corn bread dressing. So I'm gonna know on that one,
all right. Next, cranberry candles. All right, jello molds and
this from the nineteen fifties. Jello molds were the MVP
of mid century American cooking, but cranberry candles took the
obsession to all new and creepy heights. Picture this, a
gelatin based cranberry concoction shaped into a cylinder, complete with

(27:39):
a hollowed out center for an actual candle. Sounds like
a lot of work for a very little payout. But yes,
someone thought desserts and fire hazards made a good combo.
All right, So my verdict on this one is a
definite no for a couple of reasons. Number one, I'm
not a huge fan of cranberry, so I don't mind, okay,

(28:00):
And I have my cranberry whatever when it's time. The
Sometimes if there's no other options, but I'm not a
fan of putting non edible objects and mixing them with food. Okay,
I like to just go at it. I like to
eat whatever's on my plate, and if it's not edible,

(28:20):
it shouldn't be on my plate. That's just me, all right. Next,
boiled carrot pudding. This is from the Victorian era, long
before pumpkin pie became the go to Thanksgiving dessert. Boiled
carrot pudding was all the rage. Yuck. This dense sweet
concoction combined grated carrots, sweat I don't even know that

(28:43):
is yet, beef, oh, beef, fat, yummy, right, and spices
like nutmeg and cinnamon. It was all then boiled together
in a cloth and served with a sauce. Think of
it as a bizarre ancestor to carrot cake, but without
the delicious cream cheese frosting to save it. What's up?
This sounds ghastly. Now I'm gonna disagree there, all right.

(29:04):
I'm gonna go ahead and throw out my first approval.
I think that this is probably pretty good, okay, And
I keep in mind, I'm not a huge fan of
sweet sweets. Okay. I like my desserts, but I kinda
I like them a little bit less sweet, like I
prefer carrot cake without the the the icing. Okay, I

(29:26):
just I don't like sweets, like really really sweet sweets,
unless it's ice cream. You know, there's a certain degree
of sweetness with ice cream. But I generally don't eat
much sugar anymore anyways, So so yeah, but I would
try this one for sure. Probably wouldn't like it, but
but I might. Next green being salad with bananas. I'm

(29:47):
not even gonna read that. I'm just gonna look at
that picture and I'm gonna picture it. And I can
already tell you there's nothing that they can say about
this dish from apparently from the nineteen seventies that would
make me think, huh, I can't wait to get my
fork dug deep into that green bean salad with bananas.
Not gonna happen, all right, And I guess this is

(30:08):
the last one, right, the last one. Pickled walnuts from
the colonial era. Back in the seventeen hundreds, preserving food
was a necessity, but some preservation methods bordered on madness.
Into the infamous pickled walnuts, a dish made by soaking
young green walnuts in brine and then pickling them in
vinegar and spices. Yes, this is beyond nutty, very nice.

(30:30):
The result was a bitter, tangy garnish that colonists, how
almost said colonialists. The colonists would pair with roasted meats
or pies. While it's mostly fallen out of favor, thank god,
pickled walnuts have a niche fan base that swear they're
worth the effort. We're very skeptical. And I'll say this,

(30:53):
it sounds like something I would definitely try. Okay, I've
got a white palette that sounds like it might be interesting. Okay,
let's just let's just throw it out there as I
would try it, and I might actually like it, you know.
And I'm not a big fan of walnuts either, but
I am a big fan of pickled stuff. So hmm,

(31:14):
we will see. Hopefully none of that made you all think, Man,
who in the world am I listening to? This guy
is crazy when it comes to food. Yes, I guess
I am crazy. Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney made a great
point over the weekend, or actually I think it was
this morning. At some point she was talking to the media,

(31:36):
and she highlighted an important aspect of this Trump team
that I haven't noticed. Okay, what she said was is
that he's putting together a team now that he has
his full cabinet as of last Friday at least appointed,
He's put together a team of good communicators. And that's
something that Republicans have never done a very good job of.

(31:57):
And I started thinking about it, and it's like, absolutely,
she's right. You know, you look, think back, think back.
Would you do you recall any interviews, for example, or
any any appearances at all by Rex Tillerson, the first
Secretary of State under the first Trump administration. I don't
recall him at all going out there and explaining what

(32:18):
we're going to do, what's happening with the with the
State of Affairs in the State Department, what's happening with
their form relations. I don't recall him saying anything. Now,
I could imagine Marco Rubio, as long as he's got
a bottle of water nearby, that Marco Rubio could get
in front of a camera or get in front of
a crowd an audience. He could take questions from reporters,

(32:39):
and he would do a fine job of explaining what
it is that he's working on it at any given
moment or what his team is working on. I should
say once he is the Secretary of State. I mean
that's and you go up and down the list, you know,
I mean everybody we've mentioned today and then throwing pretty
much everybody else. Okay, Pete haik Seth. The guy is

(32:59):
a natural born communicator, Kay, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It's
he's he knows his stuff. And no he's not a doctor,
but he might as well be with everything that he knows.
Is when when he's head of AHHS. Of course, Taulcy
Gabbard grants, she does come across a little bit challenging
to talk to, but she doesn't shy away from the
camera at least, you know, she does talk. When she

(33:21):
does talk, that's something different, and that's basically what Claudia
Tenny was saying.

Speaker 9 (33:27):
Here.

Speaker 10 (33:27):
Watch President Trump has completed his cabinet level appointments and
presented America with a team ready to implement the agenda.
America voted for it all wrapped up as you probably
were just beginning to enjoy your weekend on Friday night.
Joining us now to talk about that and much more
is New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenny Congresswoman, Good morning. What's

(33:50):
your overall impression on this Trump cabinet team.

Speaker 11 (33:54):
I think this is sensational. I mean, we have a
great group of people who are experienced, much more experienced
than anyone Joe Biden picked for sure, and also people
who can convey the message. I think that's what's so
important and something that Republicans tend to lack is the
ability to get people on board that can actually explain.
You've got some people with media experience also in addition

(34:14):
to like like Pete Hegseth has you know, he was
a major in the army, but he also has a
lot of strong messaging experience.

Speaker 12 (34:21):
He's bold, he's.

Speaker 11 (34:22):
Written a book, he can communicate well. And this is
all just making the Democrats melt down. But when you
look at the at the picks of Joe Biden, most
of them weren't even qualified for the offices.

Speaker 13 (34:32):
It's insane.

Speaker 11 (34:33):
You know, you have Javier Basserra, you know, being the
HHS director.

Speaker 13 (34:37):
He's a lawyer.

Speaker 11 (34:37):
He knows nothing about about medicine or medical issues. And
so I think it's really interesting who Trump picked. And
also what I love about this is. It shows how
open minded President Trump is and how optimistic he is.
He's giving people a chance to talk about and rise
to the occasion on a lot of issues that are
important to the American people that made up this sort

(34:59):
of mosaic of supporters that President Trump has. So I thought,
I think it's going to be a really exciting, very
exciting year.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
It's kind of funny that Real America's Voice put up
as as their b roll on the side while while
Claudia Tinny was speaking, they put up Susie Wiles. That's
one thing. Of all the people out there as far
as communicators within the Trump administration, Susie Wilds is not
one of them. She might be able to communicate great
for all I know, but she is I mean, she
is extremely camera shy. She always has been. You know,

(35:31):
She's not the She is the behind the scenes person
who just wants to be completely behind the scenes at
all times. She doesn't want to be in front of
a camera. She doesn't want pictures taken, she doesn't want
to do interviews. She just wants to strategize, which is
fine for chief of staff. Again, I have I have
qualms about about Susie wilds, but those are well, we're
going to give her a chance. Okay, we're just where

(35:53):
we're gonna do it now. One one communicator within the
administration that I truly I think she'll do a fantastic
job is in coming White House Press Secretary Carolyn leave
It Now, she is, she's great, but she wasn't my
first choice. Okay, not for any other reason, but she's
just kind of young. Okay, she does have experience talking

(36:15):
to the press, especially you know, going up against journalists
that oppose her. So so I think she'll she'll do great.
I think she'll be she'll be fantastic. Okay, I don't
want to take anything away from her, but I was
actually rooting for Scott Jennings, CNN panelist. This guy, I mean,
maybe it's just the casual way that he does it.

(36:36):
He's able to just swat away the left and leftist
journalists just like there. They're nothing to him, and it's
I kind of like that that cockiness about him. But
with that said, he didn't get the job. So so well,
you know, great, I look fine, I will see I
think that, like I said, Carolyn leave It will be
just fantastic. With that said, Scott Jennings. Having him over

(36:58):
at CNN maybe the only thing that's saves that network
from from going down the same same disastrous path as
MSNBC is currently currently on. There, they're about to implode.
We'll see if if Elon Musk really does buy them.
He's acting like he is. I mean, just at first
I thought it was Okay, that's a funny joke, haha,
But he keeps talking about it, so it's kind of like,

(37:21):
I mean, either he's taking the joke too far or
maybe maybe it's not a joke. We will we will see.
With that said, Scott Jennings over at CNN has has
continued to I think, help improve their ratings people. Actually,
I mean it's the only He's the only person on
CNN that I ever watched. I never actually turn on
CNN or MSNBC or Fox News for that matter, on

(37:41):
the television. I don't watch much TV myself, but I
to watch clips. I see clips on X, I see
clips on on various other places where I see clips,
and it's when it's CNN, it's almost always going to
be Scott Jennings, and he highlighted an important point about
Trump's Trump's appointments and the agenda that's coming up that

(38:03):
I think needs to be need the transition, we'll call it,
and let's just let Scott speak fro himself.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Well, the first thing I would point out is that
in the CBS News Yugo poll that was released this morning,
sixty percent of the American people approve of the way
Donald Trump is handling his transition so far. So with
all the picks and all the news that's come out
of mar A Lago, there is widespread approval from the
American people that hey, it seems like it's going okay.
We need a couple of years of political peace in
this country. When Donald Trump got elected, there was no peace,

(38:33):
and it was constant dragging him down and investigations that
were bogus, and so on and so forth. This government
needs to be allowed to operate. Republicans won the election,
they have the presidency, they have the House, they have
the Senate. Democrats need to fall in line here a
little bit. They could be loyal opposition, but that doesn't
mean you have to be totally obstructive. I think if
they are, it's going to hurt them politically. The American

(38:54):
people say, we need some action, and they and Donald
Trump and the Republicans ought to be able to take
that action. It's the mandate delivered by the American people.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah, he doesn't need anybody defending him. He can he
can do all the talking on his own. I like
how the Chiron seeing and Kiron said, you know, Senate
prepared for for fiery confirmation hearings. We'll see. Look, I'm
still very helpeful. I don't think this is the case,
but I am hopeful that we will have a speedy
and they can make it quote unquote comprehensive if they want.

(39:24):
As long as they do it fast, you know, they can.
They can flex their little muscles in the Senate and say, oh,
look what we did. You know, the rhinos, and then
the Democrats can can do their their belly aching. But
at the end of the day, just get him in there.
Let's let's get going. The American people want this, this
is what we've voted for, and it's up to us,
by the way, to inform our our senators that they

(39:47):
need to get with the program. We need action. We can't,
we can't, there's no time. Okay, Trump is inheriting a
world that is on fire. Okay, we need his people
in place, the people that he selects, We need them
in place as quickly as possible. No lollygagging by the Senate. No,
no stalling. And this will be the real test of

(40:09):
John Thune. Is he gonna stall? Is he gonna Is
he gonna, you know, do his part to continue Mitch
McConnell's legacy of opposing the Trump agenda. Yeah, my gut
tells me, Yeah, that's exactly what he's going to do.
But again, look, I don't want I don't want to

(40:31):
attack people for what I think they're going to do.
I want to warn them not to do it. Okay,
so this is my warnings John Thune and any Republican
senators that are going to try to to subvert Agenda
forty seven. Okay, this is my warning. But that said,
until they actually come out and do it, until they

(40:52):
they are bad actors, not just bad thinkers or bad talkers,
but until they are bad actors, I'll give them the
benefit of the doubt. Another person, I'm going to give
him the benefit of the doubt, even though it's it's
crazy to say this, but John Fetterman over the weekend
came out and said that he's going to actually look
at at the appointments that that Donald Trump is putting forth,

(41:17):
and he's he's he says that there's some that he
actually likes. He's he I think he used the word enthusiastic,
he's actually enthusiastic about. He did say there's some that
he just absolutely positively won't vote for, you know, but
I would say that that all the other what forty
six of his colleagues on the left in the Senate,

(41:37):
they're they're going to vote against every single one of them,
Which is funny because that's not the tradition they like
to talk about tradition in the Senate. The tradition in
the Senate is that you give your you know, if
you're if you are the opposition party to the presidency,
whether you have a minority or a majority, you still
give the appointees. You give them a chance, you know.

(42:00):
And this is what I mean. I like twenty people,
twenty Republicans voted to confirm Merrick Garland. Okay, twenty Republicans.
Do you think that any any of those, any Democrats
are going to vote to confirm Pam Bondia. I hope
they do. Okay, I hope that they're like, hey, you
know what, there's no need for us to unify against.

(42:20):
It's a lost cause she's going to get through, So
we don't need to vote in unison. Maybe with certain
ones that are more controversial, certain ones that maybe some
of the Rhinos are going to vote against, then I
could see the Democrats bonding together. You know, you don't
want to confirm somebody if anyway, the point is that
I hope that I'm gonna take John Fetterman at his word,

(42:41):
which is hard for me to say because I've never
I've always all of that. I've always kind of liked
the guy, okay, just because of his goofiness. It just
seems pretty based as far as a Democrat goes. But
I've never trusted him. Okay, I don't think he should
be a senator. I wish that we had put up
some to the other than doctor Memtaz to go up

(43:02):
against him. But hey, you know that's the past where
we're focus in the future here at the jd Rucker Show.
So with that said, I'm hopeful that Fetterman is a
man of his word, at least partially, and I'm very hopeful,
not expecting it, but hopeful that Democrats and Rhinos will

(43:23):
fall in line, and let's just get get this administration
going with the right people in the right place as
quickly as possible.

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meds over the weekend today relatively lengthy discussion about doctor

(45:43):
Janet Neshiwatt, the appointee by Donald Trump to be the
next surgeon General. I knowed just a quick few things.
I knowed. Number one, thankfully, surgeon general is not an
important role. It's more ceremonial, if anything like that. That
she does not engage in setting policy of healthcare otherwise,

(46:06):
So so there's that. Then I noted that, of course
she has she was very much a vaxed nanny and
a masked nanny during her time in the in the
private sector, and she really really pushed Operation Warp speed
in New York City as a result. But the main

(46:28):
concern that I had about her is that she was very,
very proactive and aggressive in her support for Facebook censorship
of dissenting voices, those that were trafficking in misinformation, as
they like to say. You know that that that censorship
mentality is dangerous. That's the most dangerous thing to me.

(46:51):
I want to throw out one more though, she's got
to toss this out there. Now, a lot of people
are gonna say, oh, but she's changed her stance. Look,
people can change the stances. I'm not against that. I
get it. Okay, there's a lot of people who are now,
for example, very avid Trump supporters who were very much
opposed to him in twenty sixteen. You know, we got
to see what he did and through his first term

(47:13):
it's like, okay, cool, yeah, we're hopping on the Trump train.
I get it. People can can change their minds. But
she has a tendency to change her mind on apparently everything,
because because what she portrayed before she was appointed as
a Surgeon General certainly doesn't reflect what we as the
Maga Maga nation would would want in anybody to in

(47:39):
the Trump administration. This one, in particular is about abortion,
and it's pretty damning if you ask me.

Speaker 15 (47:47):
Law that might be passed, bill that might be passed.

Speaker 13 (47:50):
But as a.

Speaker 15 (47:50):
Doctor, I'm concerned for safety. I'm concerned. Are we going
to see an uprising back alley abortions? Am I going
to see young teenagers trying to involuntarily hurt themselves by
trying to self abort their fetuses out of fear and
not knowing what to do and not having alternative.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
As I've said many times, I am not supportive of
President Trump's stands on abortion. It's definitely better than the
Democrat stance. He says, keep it to the states. Well,
the states decide, that's great. Hers is a bit more
aggressive because she's actually promoting the idea of abortion. Okay,
She's not just saying, you know, let's stay out of it.

(48:32):
She's saying, no, Alabama. This is during when Alabama passed
their restrictive abortion laws. She was saying, hey, you know,
she was using the what I consider to be one
of the biggest lies told in all of politics, not
just in regarding abortion, but just in all of politics.
And that's the notion of back alley abortions happening becoming

(48:58):
common as a result of of abortion getting out lawed. Look,
I am a purist, Okay, so I get it. I
take offense to maybe not a fence, I get I
get annoyed. It really chaps my Khakis when Republicans and
conservatives have exceptions, you know, well, you know, let's just

(49:20):
stop abortion at twenty weeks or eight weeks or whatever. Look,
I'm a I oppose abortion completely totally, So maybe I'm
not the right person to tackle this issue, but I
will say that when you have somebody in the Trump
administration who uses those lines, the back alley abortion line

(49:46):
and trying to promote the idea of keeping keeping it
a choice open to anybody, well, I am very skeptical
of her. To say the least leftist media in general
is having a huge collective meltdown as we speak right now.

(50:06):
They are feeling the heat. They know that they've failed.
They should consider maybe some drastic maneuvers, and some of
them are already in play. CNN is firing people, MSNBC
is on the chopping block.

Speaker 14 (50:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
The only one that's surviving out of all of this
is Fox News, and we'll see what happens with them. Look,
they've got some reckoning of their own coming. I know
that a lot of you are Fox News fans. I
am not. I do believe that they are controlled opposition,
And even though they do have some good show hosts,
some good show hosts on there as an organization, as
a company, they are opposed to MAGA, opposed to Donald Trump,

(50:44):
and truly anti American in many many ways. This is
still I believe Paul Ryan's company and the people the
executives in charge are it's only for the sake of
self protection that they even even pretend to occasionally align
themselves with with American values. But with that said, there

(51:08):
are were a couple of massive meltdowns. First, there was
the meltdown of Axios founder Axios CEO Jim vander High.
This guy was, I mean, he just he hates Elon
muskets very clear. This is the guy that that launched
he founded Politico, sold it, Winton did Axios, which is

(51:29):
basically Politico two point zero, right, and uh and he's
having he's having a fit. And then the second meultdown happened.
In response to Jim vander Hig's meltdown. You had the
panel led by Joe Scarborough from Morning Joe who who
had a an even more outrageous meltdown. Let's watch watch

(51:51):
both of those combined.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on
Twitter every day or x Today saying like we are
the media, you are the media. My message to Elon
Musk is both you're not the media.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
You having.

Speaker 13 (52:12):
You having a blue check.

Speaker 5 (52:14):
Mark a Twitter handle in three hundred words of cleverness doesn't.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Make you a reporter.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
You don't do that by popping off on Twitter. You
don't do that by having an opinion.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
You do it by doing the hard work.

Speaker 16 (52:30):
Yeah, come on, so who First of all, I've got
to say, extraordinary content.

Speaker 13 (52:38):
It needed to be said.

Speaker 16 (52:40):
It continues to need to be said when all of
the garbage is flying around on social media, lying about reporters,
lying about the hard work they do, lying about the
hard work editors do, lying about everything up and down
about not only they're alternative set of facts, but alternative
set of facts about what people.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Like you do or are if social media.

Speaker 17 (53:04):
People lying every day, every hour, every minute about the news.

Speaker 13 (53:11):
What you do matters.

Speaker 17 (53:14):
What the New York Times does matters, What the Wall
Street Journal does matters, What Jonathan Lemir does matters, What
the Financial Times does matters, What NBC News and MSNBC
reporters do matters, It matters.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
He's right, He's right. What they do matters. The problem
for them is that they lie. That's what they do,
and it does matter. It's finally starting to matter. It
didn't matter nearly as much before because there weren't people
such as the aforementioned Elon Musk such as Joe Rogan,
such as Tucker Carlson, These people that are calling out

(53:57):
the various lies being told by corps media, legacy media,
they are the problem. And the funny part is they
know it. They are so passionate, not because they feel
like they're on the righteous side. They're entitled, They feel

(54:17):
like they deserve to be heard, even if what they
tell is lies. You cannot convince me. It is impossible
to convince me that any of those people on that panel,
or Jim vander High, or anybody in corporate media actually
thought for a second that Hunter Biden's laptop was not real.

(54:41):
If they had seen any part of it, they would
have known, Holy cow, this is real. They lied, They
baldfaced lied to all of us. They had a narrative.
They hated Donald Trump, they needed Joe Biden to win.
They knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was a problem, and
so they lied to us, and as a result, they

(55:05):
have decimated this nation. Corporate media is responsible for the
border crisis. Corporate media is responsible for the destruction of
our economy. Corporate media is responsible for the Ukraine War
because it wasn't for corporate media hiding willfully and intentionally

(55:27):
lying about the Hunter Biden laptop. It has been reported
that seventeen percent of people who voted for Joe Biden
would not have voted for Joe Biden if they knew
the Hunter Biden laptop was real. Seventeen percent. That's more
than enough to have switched the results of the twenty

(55:48):
twenty election. So for Joe Scarborough to go out there,
for Jim Vanderhid to go out there, for these these guys,
these entitled journalists, to go out there and feel like
they have the right to lie to us, that we
that I am not a journalist because because I don't

(56:10):
have a fancy studio, because I don't have a multimillion
dollar series of corporate interests backing me, corporate interests that
do include big Pharma across the board. Axios is funded
by corporate interests. MSNBC, their advertisers are corporate interests. I

(56:31):
do not have a single co The closest thing that
I have to a quote unquote corporate interest is my pillow.
That's it. Okay. Otherwise, all the sponsors, all the wonderful
people that make this show possible, these are tiny companies,
companies that you've probably never heard of companies that couldn't

(56:51):
afford thirty seconds on MSNBC. They come to people like me,
and I do it because because I believe in their products.
I wholeheartedly and truly believe in everything that my sponsors do.
You can't say the same thing about legacy media. They
are in pardon my French, but they are whores, not

(57:16):
just whores for the money, but horse to the narrative.
They say what they're supposed to say, not the truth.
They say what they're told to say. They were instructed
to hide the Hunter Biden laptop, and I'm using that
as the example. Look, I think all of us, anyone

(57:38):
watching this show right now, could name off twenty if
given enough time, and it wouldn't take a lot of
time for many of you, would take literally a matter
of minutes the most. If you sat there for half
an hour, you could figure you could count off twenty times.
Corporate media directly lie to you. And we're not just
talking about getting things wrong. Look, look, I will get
things wrong. Any journalists who reports anything is eventually going

(58:02):
to get something wrong at some point. But I can
tell you that what I report I truly legitimately believe.
Joe Scarborough and Jim vander High cannot say those words truthfully.
They will repeat things that are based around the narrative.
They will say things that will support the agenda. And

(58:26):
if that means that they have to lie to you
and to me and to America and to the world,
they feel entitled to be able to do that. They
feel like they have earned their ability to lie. Now, look,
I don't have the corporate sponsors of an MSNBC. I

(58:48):
don't have quite as many viewers, even though I might
actually be approaching it considering how few people are watching
MSNBC nowadays. I don't have Joe Scarborough's his audience. My websites,
my various websites, do not have the same reach of axios.

(59:08):
But just because they have more money behind them, just
because they have more credentials, they have awards, dinners, doesn't
mean that they have a monopoly on being the media.
Elon Musk is right, we are the media. He is
the media. Users of X are the media, not all

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of you. I would say the vast majority of people
are the media. They're not sitting there going to action
and trying to be journalists. Okay, they don't sit there
and comb through it, trying to see what the latest
is so that they can put out their commentary or
anything like that. But to some extent, anybody who shares information,
news opinions on x or anywhere on social media, to

(59:52):
some extent, they are journalists. By the very definition of
the word. They are journaling. It's the easiest way to
put it. So don't tell me that what you do matters,
but what I do does not matter. Don't tell me
that because you have Jim Vander how you have a

(01:00:12):
fancy dinner where they're supposed to honor you for your contributions.
They're honoring you for your lies. They're honoring you for
your deceit. They're honoring you because you have been successfully
evil enough to take money from corporate interests, to take
money from very bad people, to take orders from those

(01:00:35):
who want to lie to the American people. That's why
you're being honored, because of your evil. As far as
Joe Scarsborough and Mika Brazinski and who I saw Al
Sharpton on there and some other people in the panel,
they're clapping at his words, clapping at his passion and
his truths. Those truths, too, are life. You are the media.

(01:01:02):
I am the media, and there's nothing they can do
anymore to stop that. The door's been opened. Pandora's box
is unleashed. So yeah, they feel entitled. But I'm feeling
a little cocky lately because for the first time in

(01:01:25):
well in my life, I do feel like we have
an opportunity to finally close the door on legacy media
and open the door to the truth. I've got a
crazy one for you that you probably did not have

(01:01:46):
on your bingo card. Is henn trying to be legitimately
more fair and balanced? I know he just got off
a rand about Joe Scarborough and Jim vander Hide, but
and I I was lumping in corporate media to include CNN.
They are definitely legacy media, corporate media, and they are

(01:02:06):
unhinged in many ways, and they're feeling the heat. But
maybe they're feeling so much heat that they don't want
to fall under the same scrutiny, the same tierran tyranny
is the wrong word, the same retribution that MSNBC is
falling under. To be fair, you know, they've always been
the closer of the two of the two major left

(01:02:26):
wing media cable news networks. They are the ones that
are a little bit less unhinged. They've always been somewhat too.
I wouldn't say to the right of that's I mean,
he can't not be to the right of MSNBC. But
they've been been closer to the center than MSNBC has,
to the point that even I think everybody recalls that
that episode of or that that segment of Stephen Colbert's

(01:02:49):
show where Caitlin Collins was on there and and he
said something about them being fair and balanced, and the
audience started laughing, and she was legitimately surprised. She's like,
what was that? Was that supposed to be a laugh line?
You know? Because I think that many of them, true
do think that maybe that they're they hate Trump, That's clear,

(01:03:10):
most of them do, but I think they try to
be fair, at least in their own minds. Right anyway,
So CNN segment this morning talking about Trump, the popularity
of Trump's transition house so so much more popular than
it was during following the twenty sixteen election. And it's true,
and the facts that you're about to hear, the statistics,

(01:03:32):
the surveys or whatever that you're about to hear, that
is the news. But I think almost not necessarily bigger news.
But a secondary narrative here is that they weren't they
being the two gentlemen who were reporting on this. They
weren't standing there gnashing their teeth. Okay, they were reporting

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the news, asking serious questions and coming up with some
serious responses. And mean, look, I'm not gonna ever watch CNN. Okay,
And I know I mentioned earlier pretty much the only
clips I ever watched are through through are of Scott Jennings.
But well that's said. I mean, if they do report

(01:04:15):
like this generally speaking on a regular basis, who knows,
maybe they've got a future. I'm not gonna watch him.
You're probably not gonna watch him, but maybe, just maybe
they won't go down the road of MSNBC. Let's watch this, lady.
Put it there. It is.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Take a look here president Trump's transition net approval. You
go back to November at twenty sixteen. Look at this,
it was just a plus one point, just a plus
one point, that.

Speaker 13 (01:04:39):
Is well well well below the historical norm.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Look get where we are today, significantly higher, plus eighteen
points at seventeen points higher on the presidential transition net
approval rating. The bottom line is this If eight years
ago Americans were lukewarm on Donald Trump, at this particular point,
they're giving him much more of the benefit of the doubt.
A lot more Americans are on love with this transition.
This much more meets the historical norms where normally presidents

(01:05:04):
get that boost coming out of their victory. And what
we're seeing here is Donald Trump's presidential transition is getting
a thumbs up and dare I say two thumbs up
from the American people.

Speaker 18 (01:05:14):
And you know, we're still on the appointment phase at
this point, but it does give insight to sort of
where this team is thinking to lead some of these
key departments. Of course, I mean, but how do people
feel about the prospects of his presidency given the context
of some of these bigs.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
Yeah, it's not just that they like what Donald Trump
is doing right now. They're optimistic for the future. So again,
let's compare ourselves now versus where we were eight years ago.
And what you see eight years ago, fifty three percent
of Americans were scared or concerned the majority towards the
upcoming Trump term. Look at where we are now. The
shoe is on the other foot. Fifty three percent of

(01:05:48):
Americans are excited or optimistic. It's flip flop where a majority,
a narrow majority. Eight years ago, we're scared or concerned
about the upcoming Trump term. Now what we see is
that the majority is excited or optimy mystic about the
Trump term. So what we're just seeing is very different
numbers from where we were eight years ago. Eight years ago,
folks really were not that in love with the Trump transition.

(01:06:09):
Now they are and more than that, looking forward to
the upcoming Trump term. Four eight years ago, the majority
we're scared of concern. Now the majority are excited or optimistic.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
I mean they weren't flipping out, they weren't gnashing their teeth.
They were actually just reporting the news as it was.
And so maybe there is a future for CNN somewhere,
some some way. You're not gonna watch them. I'm not
gonna watch them, but maybe they can keep other people
watching them. And if they do go down that road
of trying to just report the news, who knows, maybe

(01:06:42):
they can survive. Speaking of survival, I do have you
know my good friends, there's really only a couple of
people in Hollywood that I actually like, and two of
them I actually know very well. Neil McDonald and Dean Kine.
These guys are are fabulous. I'm gonna be interviewing both
of them, I believe, not together, but but one at

(01:07:05):
a time. I'll be interviewing them here in the very
near future talking about being Conservatives in Hollywood, being Christians
in Hollywood, and how how they are able to to
not just survive but thrive in many ways. With that said,
I do have a it's it's a sponsored clip, but
I'll admit it was. It was actually, it was actually

(01:07:28):
very enjoyable. Let's let's let's see uh Neil, Neil and
Dean interacting together.

Speaker 13 (01:07:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
How do you That's incredible.

Speaker 19 (01:07:42):
It's kind of like being an FBI agent. You're always
kind of monitoring them and making sure everyone's safe.

Speaker 13 (01:07:46):
Makes good sense.

Speaker 20 (01:07:46):
You know, I'm actually a real agent, but an agent,
I'm actually a deputy sheriff.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
You really are there many many years?

Speaker 13 (01:07:51):
Are you serious? For real life? Real life?

Speaker 12 (01:07:54):
Unbelievable? Yeah, so you're a sheriff.

Speaker 19 (01:07:56):
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Speaker 20 (01:08:01):
Never never drafted to Major League Baseball like you for
the Pittsburgh pirates. Knuckleball.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
How do you hit a knuckleball?

Speaker 12 (01:08:07):
You don't, You don't, you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
That's the whole points and beauty of it.

Speaker 19 (01:08:10):
You know, we may have always played on different sides,
you know, being the superhero the super villain villain, but
we have a lot more in common than I thought
that we did.

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Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
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Speaker 12 (01:09:03):
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Speaker 21 (01:09:07):
Hold on back, d D who's the super villain now?
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(01:09:30):
and not.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
I really love the new ex I'll admit here's an admission.
I'm guilty. I have finally gotten back into what was
formerly known as Twitter after years of being against it.
There was a time, believe it or not, there's a time,
true story. I was the two hundred and twenty first

(01:09:52):
person in the world to gate get one hundred thousand
followers on Twitter. There was at the time. I don't
know if it's still there. Maybe it is, But at
the time there was a list and and this is
we're talking was it twenty two thousand and nine, twenty ten? Uh,
we're talking there. There just weren't a whole lot you had.
Like this is back in the day when the two

(01:10:13):
biggest accounts were were Ashton Kutcher and CNN Breaking, which
wasn't even affiliated with CNN. Later they ended up buying it,
and but neither account is even active anymore. Those are
the two big ones. They were racing for like a
million followers. Today it's like, it's like any random joke
can get to a million followers if they put up
put in enough effort and have some great content. Right. Well,

(01:10:34):
I was into Twitter for a while and then I stopped.
I gosh, I guess it was probably round twenty eighteen
ish when I went. When I say stopped, I mean
I like just I think I rased the app from
my phone completely and didn't go on to Twitter for
like eight months or something like that. It was crazy,

(01:10:55):
so very very odd time in my life. But but
still so I sort of got back into it a
little bit and I played around on gab I still do.
I played around on Getter and Parlor and truth Social
and and all these other other social sites. I've left
Facebook long ago and I've never gone back, nor am

(01:11:17):
I ever going back. Sorry, left Instagram really anyway, The
point being is that I am back this last couple
of weeks. Really, ever since the election, I have become
more focused on Twitter. And when I say focused, it's
that I'm starting to realize that that what Elon Musk
has done has been nothing short of of great. It

(01:11:39):
really has been. He has made Twitter X great again,
and so I do spend more time there. But really,
and and to be clear, it's not because oh I
want to be popular, It's because that's where the information is.
That's where most of the videos that I find that
I post here, or on Theelibertydaily dot com or on
Conservative Playlist dot com or wherever that I post him.

(01:12:01):
Chances are probably eight out of ten I find them
on on Twitter or X sorry. And so yeah, it's
in news. I get the breaking news from there. We
posted a story first one to post about how Kim
dot com was earlierly this morning, like two am. Kim
dot com says that he suffered a major stroke and

(01:12:23):
was in recovery. We were able to get that news,
and we were the first news outlet to put it out.
Nobody else. We beat everybody. And that's thanks to Twitter,
because we were watching various Twitter feeds anyway, and it's
X not Twitter. Point being is that I also on Twitter.
I saw this post. This is from two years ago.
This was not very long after Elon Musk had bought

(01:12:45):
bought it. And Mehdi Hassan MSNBC. I think maybe CNN,
but I think he's he's MSNBC. I don't know. I
don't watch him but just watch this. This is I'm
not gonna set it up. This is just this is embarrassing.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
Elon Musk was supposed to be a vanguard of personal freedom,
a genius who's brilliant with rocket ships and electric cars
would bring Twitter to space age greatness. Instead, the microblogging
platform that once enabled regular people to speak truth to power,
the very powerful networking and organizing tool that helped to
herald in the Arab Spring and the summer of racial

(01:13:22):
justice protests, that social media network that made the world
a little smaller is now on the brink of collapse technologically, economically,
and culture.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Wow, they're failing in their technology is failing their their
finances are close to collapse. They're culturally close to collapse.
What an idiot? I mean? You know, I've had my qualms,
I've had problems with and I still do. I still
have some healthy skepticism about Elon Musk, just because it's

(01:13:58):
not against him. I'm so glad what he's done so
far for the nation, what he's done for for AX,
what he's done for President Trump, fabulous, great stuff. What
he's going to do with Doge promises to be amazing
stuff as well. Okay, so so my qualms they go
back towards his his adoration concerned. But also you know,
he says, oh, we got a fear Ai, but then

(01:14:20):
he buys an AI company. Oh you know, we've got
a fear of China. But then he's he's deeply embedded
with China, and of course there are his his past
connections with the world economic form. All I'm saying is
that if you are going to plant a billionaire bad
guy to who can sway the right, Elon Musk is
the guy. I'm not saying that's the case. I personally,

(01:14:42):
I'm starting to come around with the idea that maybe
he is one of the good guys. But I'm not
one hundred percent there yet. I'm at about seventy five percent.
There's still still a twenty five percent chance of the
guy who who wants to put chips in your brain
that can connect to the Internet and then have control
over the Internet through Starlink, that maybe maybe there's some

(01:15:04):
some reason for concern. That's all I'm saying. I'm not
ripping on Elon. I'm giving him a chance, and and
and again. For the last one five six months, he's
been absolutely fabulous Okay, you could make the case, and
I think that it's a fair case that he contributed
tremendously to President Trump's victory if he hadn't bought X,

(01:15:28):
if X was still the censoring, you know, radical leftist
organization that it was spying on us, giving air information
over to to the government, and doing all the things
that they were doing before he took over. If they
were still doing that, then there's there really is a
good chance that Trump wouldn't wouldn't have won. Okay, and

(01:15:48):
then his endorsement, his his promises, everything that he's done,
he's he seems to be on the good side. But again,
if he were a bad guy, he wouldn't do anything differently.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying, all right, enough enough
sort of ripping on Elon for now, for today, We'll
say that he is he seems to be a good guy. There,

(01:16:13):
I said it, Okay, seventy five percent chance that he is.
He is on on the right side. Here for those
of you who do because I am spending a lot
more time on X. For those of you who want
to to follow me, I strongly suggest doing that, not
just because I'm cool, but because sometimes you actually get
sneak peaks some of the pre recorded segments of this show.

(01:16:34):
I will put them on X before I put them
anywhere else. Believe it or not, crazy stuff there, So
follow me jd Rucker okay x dot com slash jd
Rucker is my handle there, and hopefully that'll be my
handle going forward. Lord Willing, I will be back very
soon with another episode, but in the meantime, you'll stay strong,

(01:16:54):
stay safe, and God bless