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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is quite hilarious that in Biden's farewell speech he
warns about an oligarchy and misinformation that basically sums up
the last four years of his administration. There's also speculation
that Biden recorded this address back on January sixth, and
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it was not recorded yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No surprise.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Everything Biden did was pretty much vague.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I hadn't heard about pre recorded, but what I haven't
seen today, which makes me wonder, hmm, maybe that's true.
Do you remember that when he made the announcement that
he was not going to seek reelection, we got afterwards
the White House photographer. Listen every time. White House photographers
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are amazing creatures because they have full, unfettered accents us
to the president, including to a limited degree. I mean,
it's not completely unfettered. Obviously, if the president needs to go,
you know, sit on the throne for a while and
read the Washington Post, the photographer is not going to
take snap a photo of him doing that. Although we
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do have historically a photograph of President Lyndon Johnson sitting
on the toilet yelling at his age. I forget what
they were talking about. I think it's the Civil Rights Bill.
Whatever they were doing. But we do have that, and
of course we have all sorts of I mean, there
are iconic photos of presidents.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But if you go back to that speech that he gave.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
When was that back in June or July sometime whenever
it was that he gave that speech, who cares? Who
cares about Biden at all? Tell you, I'll tell you
how much I care about it in just a minute.
But when he gave that speech, I maybe not during
this speech, but I know afterwards because the White House
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photographer will be in the Oval Office when that speech
is being given and or recorded, because the idea is
that this is a history of the presidency, and there
were always well, let me go back to the point
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I want to make about the Oval Office. When he
gave the speech about not running again. Afterwards, we saw
photographs taken by the White House photographer of all of
the family members that were sitting in the Oval Office
observing him. You know they were sad because Grandpa or
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dad or you know, doctor Jill Biden, who clearly is
an elder abuser, is sitting there watching him give the speech. Now,
if this is if at that speech last night was
supposed to be a speech for the ages, the modern
Gettysburg address, if you will, Washington's farewell. This was Biden's
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farewell to the nation. Don't you think that the family
would have wanted to gather around and watch and we
would see photographs. Now maybe there are let me explain
to you in just a minute why. I don't know
whether there are or not. But I would think if
this was, you know, the equivalent of Washington's farewell address,
that we would have photographs of the family gathered about.
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We'd see Hunter on his laptop watching porn while dad
was talking. Yeah that's right, snorting, you know, kind of
sniffling a little bit. And we'd see doctor Jill Biden
with her hands clasped looking at her like, you know,
you son of a bitch. We could have had four
more years in here, and here you are. I mean,
she just gritted. She would be gritting her teeth. And
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then the grandchildren would be all wondering. They all be
running around, going, hey, what we understand and we have
that that we got a cousin somewhere, but we don't
know where where that cousin is. Maybe we've heard someplace
like Arkansas's out of foreign country. We don't know where
it is, but we haven't seen those, have we now.
I haven't looked this morning because I had not heard
this story. White House photographers are amazing because they're everywhere
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everywhere there there there was always in the West wing
and outside the photographer's photographer's office. As I recall, Eric
Draper was the photographer during my time there. Eric had
outside his office a gigantic folder like a three ring binder,
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and every day he would print out the what he
thought were the most important photos of the day. And
if you had West Wing access like I did, you
could and I tended to do this. I would I
would go down and I would kind of flip through
and look at the photos. And if there was some
photo that where you know, I might be in the
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photo because we might have been at an event somewhere
or something, I would make a request for whatever the
number was on that photo, and I would get a
copy of that photo there is and someday and maybe
one of you'd like to do either one of you
will do this for me, or one of you will.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Go with me.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I would ask Dragon to go. But can you imagine Dragon,
and if flying the Dallas together and going to the
Bush Library, and you know, Dragon would be into shorts
and his hoodie. I'd be in, you know, my regular
blue jeans, my Salvage denim blue jeans and some sneakers
and an untucked shirt. And we coming in like a
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couple of goobers. And we'd like to know where the archives.
We went access to the archives because there's a photograph
that never appeared anywhere, and I've got to get this photograph.
Sometimes it was me, Colin Powell, Andy Card, and George Bush.
Now there may be other people, but I remember specifically,
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at some point after Pall and I had talked to
Bush about things that we were there to talk to
him about, Bush summarily announced meetings over because he stood up,
and of course when the president stands up in a meeting,
everybody else stands up. So he stands up and announces,
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I've got a pee and I've got to go to
another meeting. And I remember Powell and I looked at
each other and said, did we really need.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
To know that?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Thanks for sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, well, you know, we're glad to know that.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You know, at least we know you're interrupting the meeting
and you're finished with a meeting for a real good reason.
And then as you got to take away with us,
and you've got something else you want to do. So
as we're you know, he's standing, I mean he's sitting
in front of the resolute desk, and Poll and I
are on those two couches you always see. So we
stand up at the same time, and then Bush starts
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to walk between the couches to go over to the
door that would be to his left to go into
the little office area, and so I kind of step
aside for Bush to pass. And I'm wearing a new
suit that Tammer got in me for Christmas. This was
like in this has been in January of five, like
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late January five. I don't oh, I know why I
remember that, but it's the material. And I stand and
as he walks by, I'm kind of turning at the
same time he's walking by, and he notices the suit.
Now why he notices the suit, I don't know, but
he kind of spins me around to look at it.
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And you know how most American cut suits have a
vent in the in the jacket.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
In the back, a vertical spine. Yes, yeah, this.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
One does not, because it's a European suit and Bush
grabs the tail the backside of my suit kind of
yanks on it and pulls it up and says, wowning,
I can't believe you're wearing You're wearing this. This is
not probably not even an American made suit. And I'm
turning around looking at him, like, what the effor you doing?
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And and Eric is snapping photos of this, this entire encounter.
I search for those photos for days on end, because
it would be Bush yanking on my suit, me turning
around looking at him, trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What, like, what the hell are you doing? Yeah, what
the hell are you doing? Now?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I know he took pictures because he was in the
room for the entire meeting, and you know, he would
come around and he would lean down and take pictures,
So I know he's in there taking pictures. And I
knew he was taking pictures of this because I remember
turning back around he was and he had his camera up,
so I know he's taking photos.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, this is on the verge of digital photography versus film.
Now does he use film or was he switching that?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, that's a great question, dragon, And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It's so much easier to delete a digital photo versus
you know, something that's on thirty five millimeters.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, my guess is at that that that's January of five.
I think I had a nikon digital at that time.
So my guess is, you know, because Eric is a
wonderful photographer, he's from Santa fece from actually from Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
He's back down living in Albuquerque again.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
But if those photos exist, they would be in the
archives at the Bush Library. And I want to find
that photo. So you want to go with you?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh, I bet Alexa would go.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
She likes you.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I bet our favorite jew would go.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
He likes you. I bet the google that leaves the
rules of engagement you played today, I bet, But he
he just says, yeah, that might be kind of it.
Girl dad might go. Your girl dad might go. Now,
girl dad might go simply because he might think he
might be able to run into the commander in chief
and tell him about how screwed up the whole military is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
But you know, I think Bush probably already knows that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So somebody searched today and let me know, not today,
but like between now and nine fifty am.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So I've got time to announce it.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Before I leave the program, let us know whether you
can find any photographs from last night of the family
sitting around, and particularly if Hunter's on the laptop.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I really do want to see that. I want to
see that one.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And then I told Dragon this morning, remember the discussion,
the whole discussion about the whole moving process, and there's
this big dance going on right now. I'm going to
assume that it was Fox News because I don't listen.
I only watch CNN or MSNBC when i'm at home,
or the networks when i'm at home doing show prep
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when I'm in the car. If I'm not listening to
music because I'm so fed up with everything else, I'll
turn to Fox News on serious exam, just like I
did this morning, to see what's going on. And yesterday
at some point and I don't don't don't cross examine
me about who it was because I don't remember and
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I don't care there.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Was what there was.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It was either Peter Deucy or Aisha Hasney or whoever
the White House correspondents are for Fox News, and they
were on the South Lawn giving a report back to
New York about whatever they were talking about. See I
was just half assed listening. But here's what's stuck in
my head. Up all the things that's stick in my head.
They finished the report, and the anchor back in New
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York says, oh, let's just assume for moments Peter Deucy,
and the anchor back in New York says, oh, I
see the moving vans are already there. And I thought, oh,
yes see, I told you I talked about that, so
that this is going on. So now I wonder how
much stuff was in And this goes back to Lex's
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point about the rumors that was pre recorded. I know
because I always do this. Do you ever do this
when you're watching a movie, because in movies the camera
will have the camera's trying to move your eyes particular
places that it's just designed to make you watch certain things. Well,
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because I'm such a freaking contrarian if I'm in a
movie or watching a movie, or I'm looking at like,
look at Fox News right now, they got some guy
which we're gonna talk about in a minute, talking about
the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, the camera.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Is focused on the reporter in he's in Tel Aviv,
and but what am I looking at? I'm looking at
what's going on behind him? I'm looking at the scene.
I'm looking at the whole picture. I'm looking at the
person that's walking over here, back and forth, like what's
he doing? And then there's a person that's walking from
right to left carrying a box. What's he caring? Where's
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he going? Where is this? What's all that in the background.
That's what I do. And so now I last night
when he was giving this equivalent of the Gettysburg address,
if you notice the background. In fact, I've got a
screen shot up right now. I only see one, two, three,
four photographs. There's a there's a photo of Bo and
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his fatigues off his uh would be his left shoulder.
And then there's a photo of two people kind of
standing together, you know, shoulder to shoulder, probably a family
photo somewhere. And then there's a group photo over here
off his right shoulder. And then there's a picture of
and I bet this is a antique photo, and it
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would certainly be. This would be like, oh, who is
a Civil War photographer? I can't think of his name,
but there's a picture of two young boys. It's a
black and white photo. It looks like it's from like
the nineteen thirties or the nineteen twenties, or I bet
that's him and his brother. Did they have a sister.
I think they have a sister, and I bet that's
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an old family photos. So I think what they've done
is which may man, I got my tenfoil hat on.
They've taken everything else off the credenza behind him, and
there's only four photographs you know why the rest of
them have been packed up.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So now I'm thinking, Ah, she may be onto something.
It was pre recorded that way they could.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Now we should go back and watch it in full again,
because are there any edits? Do you see those spots
where they try to edit and there's this slight jerky
movement when you see the edit because they don't care
that much, you know, the people that are doing this,
they just don't care. They're like, can we just get
the old people out? We got new tenants coming in?
Can we just get the new tenants in? There's so
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much classier, there's so much better' so much younger, there's
so much there's so much more fun to be around.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They don't drool.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The makeup person doesn't have to worry about, you know,
wiping the drool you know, off the corner.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Of the mouth all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So last night we sit down and as usual through
our routine, we're watching you know, Fox thirty one, the
local Fox affiliate, because they've got Dave Frasier, who has
the who has Colorado's most accurate forecast. And I'm trying
to decide whether or not I'm going to be driving
to Oklahoma to see my mom over the presidential holiday. No,
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I'm sorry, Martin Luther King Holiday. You know, we got
so many holidays, Dragon, I just can't keep up with them.
We just, you know, we just got you know, we
got Juneteenth, we got MLK Day, we got National Friday,
Onion Day, we got all these things that we get
at iHeartMedia, So it's just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And so I'm watching that and they break in at
you know, six pm, eight Eastern to deliver the presidential address.
Tamraon normally watches Jeopardy. That's when I kind of tune
out and start kind of finishing up, wrapping up show prep.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And I noticed that she leaves it on, which I
find interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So I watch it for I'm guessing less than five minutes,
and after less than five minutes I am totally totally
tuned out.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I don't remember. I couldn't have told you anything he has.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Said in those five minutes because I'm too busy because
Dragon walks in this morning. And Dragon is such an
a hole. He's such a horrible, horrible individual. I missus, Redbeard.
I just I don't listen. You're a saint. I don't
understand it. But he walks in here, and what does
he do? He comes in here and he starts talking
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about old Mushmouth. You know that he was at He's
gone from a what a two year old stutterer or
a grade school stutterer to a guy that can't even
get his mouth to move right, to say the right words.
And it made me think, that's what I was watching
last night. I was watching the old man try to
give a speech and he couldn't read from the teleprompter.
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He couldn't get the words out. And Dragon, you didn't
did you watch any of it at all? None?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Okay, Well, he also had these very odd gestures last night,
like at one point he clasped his hands together, and
I thought, oh, now we're going to pray. Now we're
now we're going to He's gonna ask us to bow
our heads and in prayer, he's going to ask to
say a prayer for the nation or something. And then
he he he would lift up his hand and it
would be kind of shaking in and he would point
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his hand at the camera, like and and and you.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And you whipper stabbers out there.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You gotta you gotta start, you gotta pay attention because
the country's going down the tubes. I could have been
the only one that they could have saved me, and
you pushed me out. And Nancy, you'll ha, you'll bitch.
I can't believe that you did what you did. And
I'm I'm gonna come and get you and just weird gestures,
very weird gestures. And by the way, it's nice, really
that's a really nice tag houur or rolex that he
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has on his wrist. That must have been a gift
from Shi Jing Ping or Vladimir Putin or somebody. I
don't know, some some oligarchs gave him that. But anyway,
he delivers the farewell address, and according to Alexa, he's right.
He says the other for.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
The American people, and I wish to him come into
administrate success.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Do you think he really does. Do you really think
he's thinking to himself? You know, that guy that was
literally Hitler is now going to be sitting behind this desk,
and I wish him success.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I hope he can get the concentration camps set up
really soon, and I hope he has you know, the
brown Shirts and everybody else that literally that literally Hitler.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Trump is about to take office. Well, mister president.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Let's talk about what you say here about oligarchy, because
I've got a few thoughts about that. Hang type, be
right back.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Good money, Like I'm packing my bags, I'll never beats this.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He's packing his bags. Well m m.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The truth is I don't want any of you to
go with me on that trip, particularly you and particularly Dragon.
I mean, just think about that hit between here. Well,
first of all, I'm not going to drive. I can't
do that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, what's the flight time? Two hours, hour and.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
A half, yeah, hour and forty five maybe or something.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Probably you want to sit next to one of them
for that long.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, as opposed to driving for twelve hours?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, so no, And what do you mean them? I'm
also talking about you? Can you imagine you and me
in a car together for twelve hours. Who would die first?
The driver, and of course that would be me. No,
I don't know that that depends.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I'll just get my hot spot and I'll just watch
movies while you drive. Are you are you actually? Are
you a good driver? A bad drive?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Done? I'd like to think I'm a pretty good driver.
I make the trip every summer to go see my
dad in Utah, so I do that drive with the family,
you know, and they.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Let you drive. Yeah? Yeah, does missus Redbeard ever do.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
This every single minute of every single trip.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I hope she's not listening.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
There's if I could just just one thing, if I
just had one wish from the genie, it would be
to stop them. But we can only wish, ladies and gentlemen,
the President of the United States of America for.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
The American people, and I wish they didn't come into
administration success because I want America's succeed. That's why I
would tell my duty. I'm sure a peaceful and orderly transition.
Tom sure we lead by the power of our example.
I have no doubt that America is in a position
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to continue to succeed. That's why my farewell addressed to
I want to warn the country of some things that
give me great concern. This is a dangerous concert and
that's the dangerous conversation of power in the hands of
a very few ultrawealthy people, the dangerous consequences if their
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abusive power is left unchecked. Today, oligarchy is taking shape
in America of extreme wealth, power and influence That literally
threads our entire democracy are basic rights and freedoms and
a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see
the consequences all across America, and we've seen it before
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more than a century ago, with the American people stood
up to the Robert barons back then and busted the trusts.
They didn't punish the wealthy, just made.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The wealthy paid played by the rules. Everybody else had to.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Workers want rights to earn their fair share and know
they were dealt into the deal, and it helped put
us on a path to build the largest middle class,
most prosperous century any nation in the world has ever seen.
We've got to do that again in the last four years.
This is exactly what we've done. People should be able
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to make as much as they can.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
In the last four years that's what we've done.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So what is an oligarchy, Well, let's just go to
the dictionary, because that's a good place to start, right,
A small group of people having control of a country,
organization or institution.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
H I might conclude that.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Up until this last election that there indeed was a
small group of people having control of a country, organization
or an institution. In fact, I would argue that there
was a small group of people that had control of
the country. In fact, there was a subset of this
group that actually had the control, and that was the
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radical left wing Marxist wing of the Democrat Party, and
the Democrat Party pretty much had control of the country.
A small group of people having control of organizations, well,
those same people that controlled the Democrat Party, that controlled
the leavers of government therefore also controlled all of the
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NGOs that they money laundered money through in order to
implement their policies. And then a small group of people
having control of an institution. Oh, you mean like the
executive branch and the legislative branch. So I think the
oligarchy is already here, and it's the elitists in Washington,
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d C. But let's let's kind of spread it out
if if you go to uh, let's see Jeffrey a
just a quick Google search, will use the Google the Google.
This morning, Jeffrey Winters and Benjamin Page have described Columbia, Indonesia, Russia, Singapore,
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and the United States as oligarchies. The the iron law
of oligarchy states that all forms of organization, regardless of
how democratic they might be at the beginning, eventually and
in evidently developed oligarchic tendencies, thus making true democracy practically
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and theoretically impossible. Well, I've got I've got a little
buggaboo with the term democracy because we are not a democracy.
And because we're not a democracy, we're not governm by
mob rule. We're governed by you and me. Now, you
and me, all of us have not been very good
at exercising our power that we have over these elites.
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But we did so in this last election, and we
did so in the last election by basically saying that
we've had enough of this. We see now the practical
effects of these progressive Marxist policies, and we said enough
is enough. Now let's think about oligarchs. Go back to
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the definition of oligarch a small group of people. Let's
see a small group of people having control of a country,
organization or institution, the ruling oligarchy of military men around
the president, or if you just look at the term
oligark the noun individuals a very rich business leader with
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a great deal of political influence, particularly with reference to
individuals who benefited from the privatization of state run industries
after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Well, let's forget
about the collapse of the Soviet Union and just think
about the beginning part of that definition. A a a
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very rich business leader, great deal of political influence, particularly
individuals who benefited from the privatization of state run industries.
Did Elon Musk who exercises I don't think he exercises
great power in one sense, but he does exercise great influence.
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He has the ear of the president, but so do
a lot of other wealthy individuals. But then so do
other people that don't have great wealth. Pam Bondi, who
will be confirmed as the next Attorney General, She's not
a billionaire. Neither is Pete Hegseth cash Betel, whom I
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hope will be confirmed as the Director of the FBI,
not a wealthy man John Radcliffe, Director of the CIA,
not a wealthy individual. In fact, a lot of members
of this cabinet are not what I would consider to
be wealthy individuals. Yet they exercise great influence because the
President's going to turn to them for advice on policy decisions. So,
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as a republic, we have a built in mechanism that
prevents us from being an oligarchy. If there are a
lot of wealthy people, however that influence our elected elected leaders,
well that's our fault to some degree, because they're simply
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filling a vacuum. Now that vacuum is not limited in
scope or size, it's unlimited. It's like the economy. The
economy is not a defined you know, twelve inch pizza.
It's it's it's it's it's undefined. It's it's unlimited. Well,
so is our influence. But the problem is we fail
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to exercise that influence. Now, part of that is because
we're not well organized. Now we've organized into different trade associations,
we've organized into different lobbying groups, we've different organized into
different you know, uh, social organizations, whatever, you know, whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
We we we organize.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
As people, but oftentimes those organizations themselves don't collaborate with
one another, so we the people don't always have that
much influence on major issues until and here's here's the key,
until you piss us off. And when you piss us off,
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then our voices are heard. Then we go back to
doing our little worker bee stuff, and we do all
of these things and we just kind of let them
run them up until they go too far, and then
we rise up again. And that's one of my frustrations
about having been on the inside of that beast that
drives me crazy, is that it's only when we get
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pushed to our limits. And you know, maybe that's just
the way it is, and I can't change that. But
we have so much power. Three hundred and fifty plus
million Americans. Now, I know we're not all of voting age,
and we're not all that very well informed. There's a
really a lot of dumbasses among us too, but those
of us, if you take I don't have many talk
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shows there are in this country, but most talk shows
in this country are fairly conservative. They tend to be
right of center. And my little sphere of influence between
this program and the nationally syndicated program has I think
influence now where that is on the influence scale, I
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don't know. I've never taken time to measure it and
to figure out what my influence is because I'm just
too busy trying to talk about the things that are
going on around in the world. But you take all
of America that believes as we do, I finally have
the evidence that we're in the majority. Now if you
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look at the popular vote, that may only be one
point nine percent of us. In terms of the majority,
you know, fifty one point nine percent of us, but nonetheless,
that's that's better than being forty percent or thirty percent
or even worse. So we have great ability to influence
this nation. And then I would just conclude with one
other thing. Here's a guy who's been in public office,
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living off taxpayers for his entire live and he wants
to bitch about oligarchy. Give me a break. So I
didn't watch the speech. I thought I read that he
mentioned the ceasefire. So what did that mean that it
would have most likely been live? Wait a minute, you
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didn't watch the speech, because if you didn't watch the speech,
goober number zero nine four seven says this, Mike, you
were a textbook picture of an a hole. You didn't
watch that shad communist bo disciple mutter his way through
a teleprompter discourse. But it's your show, yes, master, So
(31:43):
I'm in a hold. They didn't watch the speech last.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Night, And I would like to point out to the
talkbacker that even the tonight show is recorded at like
noon and then they play it back, right.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, Yeah, I've been to the Letterman show back when
Letterman was on it. Yeah, it was like, you know,
two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, but then several of you, and I know you
all want to hear your numbers, but I'm not going
to give your numbers. But several people say that. For example,
KATVR showed a shot this morning, a picture of Uncle
Joe's family sitting to his left. Friends text, now, I'm
really fascinated by this particular text message, Michael. Friends texted
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me a photo of this as shown on TV. But
I can't text it to you now, I'm really curious
what you can email it to me. Michael Brown at
iHeartMedia dot com. Michael Brown at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Mike Sorry.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Jesse Water showed photos of the family after speech moderated
by Brett Baer says Fred Up and bruben Field. Okay, well, okay, great,
but to our point, it still could have been recorded
earlier in the day. Portions of the following program have
been re recorded. I'm fascinated by this too. There's a
there's another one. Uh oh, Dragon, But Mike and Dragon
(33:05):
eleven eighty four wants to know, are you gonna buy
Crumble Cookies? The company Crumble Cookies is for sale. I
heart Crumble Cookies. Now, my guess is just being the
contrarian that I am. It's for sale because they've reached
peak saturation and now their growth level has kind of
(33:25):
leveled off and they're no longer growing, and so now
they're going to try to cash out.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
When we take over, you say good riddance to the
pink sugar cookie.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, exactly, just terrible. But forty five twelve says this Mike.
Have you noticed that President Biden seems to have a
new batch of suits, shirts, and ties. I think I
saw an upgrade, particularly of his suits about the time
of the election, very nice suits, and I saw his
watch last night. But I also noticed that he was
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wearing French cuffs and cuff links, much like President Trump.
Let me tell you something, French cuffs and cuff links
are virtually a mandatory uniform of anybody working in the cabinet,
sub cabinet or the executive branch kind of in general.
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I've got so many French cuff shirts, so many cuff links,
including presidential cuff links, going all the way back to Nixon.
I've got Nixon presidential cufflings. And that was that was
a uniform. Yes, navy blue suits, dark gray suits, pinstripe suits,
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French white, French cuff shirts. And then everybody would look
and of course it perogrammalties and everybody would look at
your cuff links because it's so bizarre. I'm telling you.
It's a click Washington, DC. Is this click and everybody
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has a uniform that designates your status.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Is it similar to the business cards in American Psycho?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, yes, exactly, that's exactly right. Oh, I got you
know what?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I should instagram all of my different couplets. The people
guess which ones are which Reagan, Nixon, hw Bush got
them all
It is quite hilarious that in Biden's farewell speech he
warns about an oligarchy and misinformation that basically sums up
the last four years of his administration. There's also speculation
that Biden recorded this address back on January sixth, and
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it was not recorded yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No surprise.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Everything Biden did was pretty much vague.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I hadn't heard about pre recorded, but what I haven't
seen today, which makes me wonder, hmm, maybe that's true.
Do you remember that when he made the announcement that
he was not going to seek reelection, we got afterwards
the White House photographer. Listen every time. White House photographers
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are amazing creatures because they have full, unfettered accents us
to the president, including to a limited degree. I mean,
it's not completely unfettered. Obviously, if the president needs to go,
you know, sit on the throne for a while and
read the Washington Post, the photographer is not going to
take snap a photo of him doing that. Although we
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do have historically a photograph of President Lyndon Johnson sitting
on the toilet yelling at his age. I forget what
they were talking about. I think it's the Civil Rights Bill.
Whatever they were doing. But we do have that, and
of course we have all sorts of I mean, there
are iconic photos of presidents.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But if you go back to that speech that he gave.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
When was that back in June or July sometime whenever
it was that he gave that speech, who cares? Who
cares about Biden at all? Tell you, I'll tell you
how much I care about it in just a minute.
But when he gave that speech, I maybe not during
this speech, but I know afterwards because the White House
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photographer will be in the Oval Office when that speech
is being given and or recorded, because the idea is
that this is a history of the presidency, and there
were always well, let me go back to the point
(02:25):
I want to make about the Oval Office. When he
gave the speech about not running again. Afterwards, we saw
photographs taken by the White House photographer of all of
the family members that were sitting in the Oval Office
observing him. You know they were sad because Grandpa or
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dad or you know, doctor Jill Biden, who clearly is
an elder abuser, is sitting there watching him give the speech. Now,
if this is if at that speech last night was
supposed to be a speech for the ages, the modern
Gettysburg address, if you will, Washington's farewell. This was Biden's
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farewell to the nation. Don't you think that the family
would have wanted to gather around and watch and we
would see photographs. Now maybe there are let me explain
to you in just a minute why. I don't know
whether there are or not. But I would think if
this was, you know, the equivalent of Washington's farewell address,
that we would have photographs of the family gathered about.
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We'd see Hunter on his laptop watching porn while dad
was talking. Yeah that's right, snorting, you know, kind of
sniffling a little bit. And we'd see doctor Jill Biden
with her hands clasped looking at her like, you know,
you son of a bitch. We could have had four
more years in here, and here you are. I mean,
she just gritted. She would be gritting her teeth. And
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then the grandchildren would be all wondering. They all be
running around, going, hey, what we understand and we have
that that we got a cousin somewhere, but we don't
know where where that cousin is. Maybe we've heard someplace
like Arkansas's out of foreign country. We don't know where
it is, but we haven't seen those, have we now.
I haven't looked this morning because I had not heard
this story. White House photographers are amazing because they're everywhere
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everywhere there there there was always in the West wing
and outside the photographer's photographer's office. As I recall, Eric
Draper was the photographer during my time there. Eric had
outside his office a gigantic folder like a three ring binder,
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and every day he would print out the what he
thought were the most important photos of the day. And
if you had West Wing access like I did, you
could and I tended to do this. I would I
would go down and I would kind of flip through
and look at the photos. And if there was some
photo that where you know, I might be in the
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photo because we might have been at an event somewhere
or something, I would make a request for whatever the
number was on that photo, and I would get a
copy of that photo there is and someday and maybe
one of you'd like to do either one of you
will do this for me, or one of you will.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Go with me.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I would ask Dragon to go. But can you imagine Dragon,
and if flying the Dallas together and going to the
Bush Library, and you know, Dragon would be into shorts
and his hoodie. I'd be in, you know, my regular
blue jeans, my Salvage denim blue jeans and some sneakers
and an untucked shirt. And we coming in like a
(05:48):
couple of goobers. And we'd like to know where the archives.
We went access to the archives because there's a photograph
that never appeared anywhere, and I've got to get this photograph.
Sometimes it was me, Colin Powell, Andy Card, and George Bush.
Now there may be other people, but I remember specifically,
(06:10):
at some point after Pall and I had talked to
Bush about things that we were there to talk to
him about, Bush summarily announced meetings over because he stood up,
and of course when the president stands up in a meeting,
everybody else stands up. So he stands up and announces,
(06:31):
I've got a pee and I've got to go to
another meeting. And I remember Powell and I looked at
each other and said, did we really need.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
To know that?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Thanks for sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, well, you know, we're glad to know that.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You know, at least we know you're interrupting the meeting
and you're finished with a meeting for a real good reason.
And then as you got to take away with us,
and you've got something else you want to do. So
as we're you know, he's standing, I mean he's sitting
in front of the resolute desk, and Poll and I
are on those two couches you always see. So we
stand up at the same time, and then Bush starts
(07:04):
to walk between the couches to go over to the
door that would be to his left to go into
the little office area, and so I kind of step
aside for Bush to pass. And I'm wearing a new
suit that Tammer got in me for Christmas. This was
like in this has been in January of five, like
(07:26):
late January five. I don't oh, I know why I
remember that, but it's the material. And I stand and
as he walks by, I'm kind of turning at the
same time he's walking by, and he notices the suit.
Now why he notices the suit, I don't know, but
he kind of spins me around to look at it.
(07:46):
And you know how most American cut suits have a
vent in the in the jacket.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
In the back, a vertical spine. Yes, yeah, this.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
One does not, because it's a European suit and Bush
grabs the tail the backside of my suit kind of
yanks on it and pulls it up and says, wowning,
I can't believe you're wearing You're wearing this. This is
not probably not even an American made suit. And I'm
turning around looking at him, like, what the effor you doing?
(08:18):
And and Eric is snapping photos of this, this entire encounter.
I search for those photos for days on end, because
it would be Bush yanking on my suit, me turning
around looking at him, trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What, like, what the hell are you doing? Yeah, what
the hell are you doing? Now?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I know he took pictures because he was in the
room for the entire meeting, and you know, he would
come around and he would lean down and take pictures,
So I know he's in there taking pictures. And I
knew he was taking pictures of this because I remember
turning back around he was and he had his camera up,
so I know he's taking photos.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, this is on the verge of digital photography versus film.
Now does he use film or was he switching that?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, that's a great question, dragon, And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It's so much easier to delete a digital photo versus
you know, something that's on thirty five millimeters.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, my guess is at that that that's January of five.
I think I had a nikon digital at that time.
So my guess is, you know, because Eric is a
wonderful photographer, he's from Santa fece from actually from Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
He's back down living in Albuquerque again.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
But if those photos exist, they would be in the
archives at the Bush Library. And I want to find
that photo. So you want to go with you?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh, I bet Alexa would go.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
She likes you.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I bet our favorite jew would go.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
He likes you. I bet the google that leaves the
rules of engagement you played today, I bet, But he
he just says, yeah, that might be kind of it.
Girl dad might go. Your girl dad might go. Now,
girl dad might go simply because he might think he
might be able to run into the commander in chief
and tell him about how screwed up the whole military is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
But you know, I think Bush probably already knows that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So somebody searched today and let me know, not today,
but like between now and nine fifty am.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So I've got time to announce it.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Before I leave the program, let us know whether you
can find any photographs from last night of the family
sitting around, and particularly if Hunter's on the laptop.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I really do want to see that. I want to
see that one.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And then I told Dragon this morning, remember the discussion,
the whole discussion about the whole moving process, and there's
this big dance going on right now. I'm going to
assume that it was Fox News because I don't listen.
I only watch CNN or MSNBC when i'm at home,
or the networks when i'm at home doing show prep
(10:57):
when I'm in the car. If I'm not listening to
music because I'm so fed up with everything else, I'll
turn to Fox News on serious exam, just like I
did this morning, to see what's going on. And yesterday
at some point and I don't don't don't cross examine
me about who it was because I don't remember and
(11:18):
I don't care there.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Was what there was.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It was either Peter Deucy or Aisha Hasney or whoever
the White House correspondents are for Fox News, and they
were on the South Lawn giving a report back to
New York about whatever they were talking about. See I
was just half assed listening. But here's what's stuck in
my head. Up all the things that's stick in my head.
They finished the report, and the anchor back in New
(11:45):
York says, oh, let's just assume for moments Peter Deucy,
and the anchor back in New York says, oh, I
see the moving vans are already there. And I thought, oh,
yes see, I told you I talked about that, so
that this is going on. So now I wonder how
much stuff was in And this goes back to Lex's
(12:07):
point about the rumors that was pre recorded. I know
because I always do this. Do you ever do this
when you're watching a movie, because in movies the camera
will have the camera's trying to move your eyes particular
places that it's just designed to make you watch certain things. Well,
(12:28):
because I'm such a freaking contrarian if I'm in a
movie or watching a movie, or I'm looking at like,
look at Fox News right now, they got some guy
which we're gonna talk about in a minute, talking about
the ceasefire.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, the camera.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Is focused on the reporter in he's in Tel Aviv,
and but what am I looking at? I'm looking at
what's going on behind him? I'm looking at the scene.
I'm looking at the whole picture. I'm looking at the
person that's walking over here, back and forth, like what's
he doing? And then there's a person that's walking from
right to left carrying a box. What's he caring? Where's
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he going? Where is this? What's all that in the background.
That's what I do. And so now I last night
when he was giving this equivalent of the Gettysburg address,
if you notice the background. In fact, I've got a
screen shot up right now. I only see one, two, three,
four photographs. There's a there's a photo of Bo and
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his fatigues off his uh would be his left shoulder.
And then there's a photo of two people kind of
standing together, you know, shoulder to shoulder, probably a family
photo somewhere. And then there's a group photo over here
off his right shoulder. And then there's a picture of
and I bet this is a antique photo, and it
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would certainly be. This would be like, oh, who is
a Civil War photographer? I can't think of his name,
but there's a picture of two young boys. It's a
black and white photo. It looks like it's from like
the nineteen thirties or the nineteen twenties, or I bet
that's him and his brother. Did they have a sister.
I think they have a sister, and I bet that's
(14:09):
an old family photos. So I think what they've done
is which may man, I got my tenfoil hat on.
They've taken everything else off the credenza behind him, and
there's only four photographs you know why the rest of
them have been packed up.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So now I'm thinking, Ah, she may be onto something.
It was pre recorded that way they could.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Now we should go back and watch it in full again,
because are there any edits? Do you see those spots
where they try to edit and there's this slight jerky
movement when you see the edit because they don't care
that much, you know, the people that are doing this,
they just don't care. They're like, can we just get
the old people out? We got new tenants coming in?
Can we just get the new tenants in? There's so
(14:53):
much classier, there's so much better' so much younger, there's
so much there's so much more fun to be around.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They don't drool.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The makeup person doesn't have to worry about, you know,
wiping the drool you know, off the corner.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Of the mouth all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So last night we sit down and as usual through
our routine, we're watching you know, Fox thirty one, the
local Fox affiliate, because they've got Dave Frasier, who has
the who has Colorado's most accurate forecast. And I'm trying
to decide whether or not I'm going to be driving
to Oklahoma to see my mom over the presidential holiday. No,
(15:27):
I'm sorry, Martin Luther King Holiday. You know, we got
so many holidays, Dragon, I just can't keep up with them.
We just, you know, we just got you know, we
got Juneteenth, we got MLK Day, we got National Friday,
Onion Day, we got all these things that we get
at iHeartMedia, So it's just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And so I'm watching that and they break in at
you know, six pm, eight Eastern to deliver the presidential address.
Tamraon normally watches Jeopardy. That's when I kind of tune
out and start kind of finishing up, wrapping up show prep.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And I noticed that she leaves it on, which I
find interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So I watch it for I'm guessing less than five minutes,
and after less than five minutes I am totally totally
tuned out.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I don't remember. I couldn't have told you anything he has.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Said in those five minutes because I'm too busy because
Dragon walks in this morning. And Dragon is such an
a hole. He's such a horrible, horrible individual. I missus, Redbeard.
I just I don't listen. You're a saint. I don't
understand it. But he walks in here, and what does
he do? He comes in here and he starts talking
(16:42):
about old Mushmouth. You know that he was at He's
gone from a what a two year old stutterer or
a grade school stutterer to a guy that can't even
get his mouth to move right, to say the right words.
And it made me think, that's what I was watching
last night. I was watching the old man try to
give a speech and he couldn't read from the teleprompter.
(17:04):
He couldn't get the words out. And Dragon, you didn't
did you watch any of it at all? None?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Okay, Well, he also had these very odd gestures last night,
like at one point he clasped his hands together, and
I thought, oh, now we're going to pray. Now we're
now we're going to He's gonna ask us to bow
our heads and in prayer, he's going to ask to
say a prayer for the nation or something. And then
he he he would lift up his hand and it
would be kind of shaking in and he would point
(17:31):
his hand at the camera, like and and and you.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And you whipper stabbers out there.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You gotta you gotta start, you gotta pay attention because
the country's going down the tubes. I could have been
the only one that they could have saved me, and
you pushed me out. And Nancy, you'll ha, you'll bitch.
I can't believe that you did what you did. And
I'm I'm gonna come and get you and just weird gestures,
very weird gestures. And by the way, it's nice, really
that's a really nice tag houur or rolex that he
(17:58):
has on his wrist. That must have been a gift
from Shi Jing Ping or Vladimir Putin or somebody. I
don't know, some some oligarchs gave him that. But anyway,
he delivers the farewell address, and according to Alexa, he's right.
He says the other for.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
The American people, and I wish to him come into
administrate success.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Do you think he really does. Do you really think
he's thinking to himself? You know, that guy that was
literally Hitler is now going to be sitting behind this desk,
and I wish him success.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I hope he can get the concentration camps set up
really soon, and I hope he has you know, the
brown Shirts and everybody else that literally that literally Hitler.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Trump is about to take office. Well, mister president.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Let's talk about what you say here about oligarchy, because
I've got a few thoughts about that. Hang type, be
right back.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Good money, Like I'm packing my bags, I'll never beats this.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He's packing his bags. Well m m.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The truth is I don't want any of you to
go with me on that trip, particularly you and particularly Dragon.
I mean, just think about that hit between here. Well,
first of all, I'm not going to drive. I can't
do that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, what's the flight time? Two hours, hour and.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
A half, yeah, hour and forty five maybe or something.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Probably you want to sit next to one of them
for that long.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, as opposed to driving for twelve hours?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, so no, And what do you mean them? I'm
also talking about you? Can you imagine you and me
in a car together for twelve hours. Who would die first?
The driver, and of course that would be me. No,
I don't know that that depends.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I'll just get my hot spot and I'll just watch
movies while you drive. Are you are you actually? Are
you a good driver? A bad drive?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Done? I'd like to think I'm a pretty good driver.
I make the trip every summer to go see my
dad in Utah, so I do that drive with the family,
you know, and they.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Let you drive. Yeah? Yeah, does missus Redbeard ever do.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
This every single minute of every single trip.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I hope she's not listening.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
There's if I could just just one thing, if I
just had one wish from the genie, it would be
to stop them. But we can only wish, ladies and gentlemen,
the President of the United States of America for.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
The American people, and I wish they didn't come into
administration success because I want America's succeed. That's why I
would tell my duty. I'm sure a peaceful and orderly transition.
Tom sure we lead by the power of our example.
I have no doubt that America is in a position
(21:07):
to continue to succeed. That's why my farewell addressed to
I want to warn the country of some things that
give me great concern. This is a dangerous concert and
that's the dangerous conversation of power in the hands of
a very few ultrawealthy people, the dangerous consequences if their
(21:27):
abusive power is left unchecked. Today, oligarchy is taking shape
in America of extreme wealth, power and influence That literally
threads our entire democracy are basic rights and freedoms and
a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see
the consequences all across America, and we've seen it before
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more than a century ago, with the American people stood
up to the Robert barons back then and busted the trusts.
They didn't punish the wealthy, just made.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The wealthy paid played by the rules. Everybody else had to.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Workers want rights to earn their fair share and know
they were dealt into the deal, and it helped put
us on a path to build the largest middle class,
most prosperous century any nation in the world has ever seen.
We've got to do that again in the last four years.
This is exactly what we've done. People should be able
(22:30):
to make as much as they can.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
In the last four years that's what we've done.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So what is an oligarchy, Well, let's just go to
the dictionary, because that's a good place to start, right,
A small group of people having control of a country,
organization or institution.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
H I might conclude that.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Up until this last election that there indeed was a
small group of people having control of a country, organization
or an institution. In fact, I would argue that there
was a small group of people that had control of
the country. In fact, there was a subset of this
group that actually had the control, and that was the
(23:18):
radical left wing Marxist wing of the Democrat Party, and
the Democrat Party pretty much had control of the country.
A small group of people having control of organizations, well,
those same people that controlled the Democrat Party, that controlled
the leavers of government therefore also controlled all of the
(23:39):
NGOs that they money laundered money through in order to
implement their policies. And then a small group of people
having control of an institution. Oh, you mean like the
executive branch and the legislative branch. So I think the
oligarchy is already here, and it's the elitists in Washington,
(24:02):
d C. But let's let's kind of spread it out
if if you go to uh, let's see Jeffrey a
just a quick Google search, will use the Google the Google.
This morning, Jeffrey Winters and Benjamin Page have described Columbia, Indonesia, Russia, Singapore,
(24:29):
and the United States as oligarchies. The the iron law
of oligarchy states that all forms of organization, regardless of
how democratic they might be at the beginning, eventually and
in evidently developed oligarchic tendencies, thus making true democracy practically
(24:49):
and theoretically impossible. Well, I've got I've got a little
buggaboo with the term democracy because we are not a democracy.
And because we're not a democracy, we're not governm by
mob rule. We're governed by you and me. Now, you
and me, all of us have not been very good
at exercising our power that we have over these elites.
(25:16):
But we did so in this last election, and we
did so in the last election by basically saying that
we've had enough of this. We see now the practical
effects of these progressive Marxist policies, and we said enough
is enough. Now let's think about oligarchs. Go back to
(25:36):
the definition of oligarch a small group of people. Let's
see a small group of people having control of a country,
organization or institution, the ruling oligarchy of military men around
the president, or if you just look at the term
oligark the noun individuals a very rich business leader with
(26:03):
a great deal of political influence, particularly with reference to
individuals who benefited from the privatization of state run industries
after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Well, let's forget
about the collapse of the Soviet Union and just think
about the beginning part of that definition. A a a
(26:24):
very rich business leader, great deal of political influence, particularly
individuals who benefited from the privatization of state run industries.
Did Elon Musk who exercises I don't think he exercises
great power in one sense, but he does exercise great influence.
(26:49):
He has the ear of the president, but so do
a lot of other wealthy individuals. But then so do
other people that don't have great wealth. Pam Bondi, who
will be confirmed as the next Attorney General, She's not
a billionaire. Neither is Pete Hegseth cash Betel, whom I
(27:13):
hope will be confirmed as the Director of the FBI,
not a wealthy man John Radcliffe, Director of the CIA,
not a wealthy individual. In fact, a lot of members
of this cabinet are not what I would consider to
be wealthy individuals. Yet they exercise great influence because the
President's going to turn to them for advice on policy decisions. So,
(27:36):
as a republic, we have a built in mechanism that
prevents us from being an oligarchy. If there are a
lot of wealthy people, however that influence our elected elected leaders,
well that's our fault to some degree, because they're simply
(27:57):
filling a vacuum. Now that vacuum is not limited in
scope or size, it's unlimited. It's like the economy. The
economy is not a defined you know, twelve inch pizza.
It's it's it's it's it's undefined. It's it's unlimited. Well,
so is our influence. But the problem is we fail
(28:19):
to exercise that influence. Now, part of that is because
we're not well organized. Now we've organized into different trade associations,
we've organized into different lobbying groups, we've different organized into
different you know, uh, social organizations, whatever, you know, whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
We we we organize.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
As people, but oftentimes those organizations themselves don't collaborate with
one another, so we the people don't always have that
much influence on major issues until and here's here's the key,
until you piss us off. And when you piss us off,
(29:02):
then our voices are heard. Then we go back to
doing our little worker bee stuff, and we do all
of these things and we just kind of let them
run them up until they go too far, and then
we rise up again. And that's one of my frustrations
about having been on the inside of that beast that
drives me crazy, is that it's only when we get
(29:23):
pushed to our limits. And you know, maybe that's just
the way it is, and I can't change that. But
we have so much power. Three hundred and fifty plus
million Americans. Now, I know we're not all of voting age,
and we're not all that very well informed. There's a
really a lot of dumbasses among us too, but those
of us, if you take I don't have many talk
(29:46):
shows there are in this country, but most talk shows
in this country are fairly conservative. They tend to be
right of center. And my little sphere of influence between
this program and the nationally syndicated program has I think
influence now where that is on the influence scale, I
(30:09):
don't know. I've never taken time to measure it and
to figure out what my influence is because I'm just
too busy trying to talk about the things that are
going on around in the world. But you take all
of America that believes as we do, I finally have
the evidence that we're in the majority. Now if you
(30:32):
look at the popular vote, that may only be one
point nine percent of us. In terms of the majority,
you know, fifty one point nine percent of us, but nonetheless,
that's that's better than being forty percent or thirty percent
or even worse. So we have great ability to influence
this nation. And then I would just conclude with one
other thing. Here's a guy who's been in public office,
(30:56):
living off taxpayers for his entire live and he wants
to bitch about oligarchy. Give me a break. So I
didn't watch the speech. I thought I read that he
mentioned the ceasefire. So what did that mean that it
would have most likely been live? Wait a minute, you
(31:19):
didn't watch the speech, because if you didn't watch the speech,
goober number zero nine four seven says this, Mike, you
were a textbook picture of an a hole. You didn't
watch that shad communist bo disciple mutter his way through
a teleprompter discourse. But it's your show, yes, master, So
(31:43):
I'm in a hold. They didn't watch the speech last.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Night, And I would like to point out to the
talkbacker that even the tonight show is recorded at like
noon and then they play it back, right.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, Yeah, I've been to the Letterman show back when
Letterman was on it. Yeah, it was like, you know,
two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, but then several of you, and I know you
all want to hear your numbers, but I'm not going
to give your numbers. But several people say that. For example,
KATVR showed a shot this morning, a picture of Uncle
Joe's family sitting to his left. Friends text, now, I'm
really fascinated by this particular text message, Michael. Friends texted
(32:24):
me a photo of this as shown on TV. But
I can't text it to you now, I'm really curious
what you can email it to me. Michael Brown at
iHeartMedia dot com. Michael Brown at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Mike Sorry.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Jesse Water showed photos of the family after speech moderated
by Brett Baer says Fred Up and bruben Field. Okay, well, okay, great,
but to our point, it still could have been recorded
earlier in the day. Portions of the following program have
been re recorded. I'm fascinated by this too. There's a
there's another one. Uh oh, Dragon, But Mike and Dragon
(33:05):
eleven eighty four wants to know, are you gonna buy
Crumble Cookies? The company Crumble Cookies is for sale. I
heart Crumble Cookies. Now, my guess is just being the
contrarian that I am. It's for sale because they've reached
peak saturation and now their growth level has kind of
(33:25):
leveled off and they're no longer growing, and so now
they're going to try to cash out.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
When we take over, you say good riddance to the
pink sugar cookie.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, exactly, just terrible. But forty five twelve says this Mike.
Have you noticed that President Biden seems to have a
new batch of suits, shirts, and ties. I think I
saw an upgrade, particularly of his suits about the time
of the election, very nice suits, and I saw his
watch last night. But I also noticed that he was
(33:56):
wearing French cuffs and cuff links, much like President Trump.
Let me tell you something, French cuffs and cuff links
are virtually a mandatory uniform of anybody working in the cabinet,
sub cabinet or the executive branch kind of in general.
(34:17):
I've got so many French cuff shirts, so many cuff links,
including presidential cuff links, going all the way back to Nixon.
I've got Nixon presidential cufflings. And that was that was
a uniform. Yes, navy blue suits, dark gray suits, pinstripe suits,
(34:38):
French white, French cuff shirts. And then everybody would look
and of course it perogrammalties and everybody would look at
your cuff links because it's so bizarre. I'm telling you.
It's a click Washington, DC. Is this click and everybody
(34:58):
has a uniform that designates your status.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Is it similar to the business cards in American Psycho?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, yes, exactly, that's exactly right. Oh, I got you
know what?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I should instagram all of my different couplets. The people
guess which ones are which Reagan, Nixon, hw Bush got
them all
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