August 28, 2023 • 20 mins
Ricochet Editor-in-Chief Jon Gabriel is in for Jim. Today, Jon and Greg examine new polls showing more than three-quarters of Americans and nearly 70 percent of Democrats think Joe Biden is too old to be president for another four years. So do the Dems roll the dice on Biden anyway and hope Trump is even less popular? Do they push Biden out ad gamble on Kamala Harris? Or do they find someone else entirely? They also groan as the Biden Energy Department demands changes to make ceiling fans more energy efficient. But the laughably minimal energy savings will be dwarfed by the $86.6 million per year that manufacturers will need to spend to comply with the new rules. Finally, they cringe as the Biden administration clearly plants a question with compliant reporter about COVID and both the reporter and Biden make the ruse painfully obvious. Finally, they remember Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as "Joe the Plumber," whom the media went after with full venom because he dared to challenge Barack Obama about tax policies during the 2008 campaign.
Timestamps:
1:03 - Overwhelming majority of Americans think Biden is too old for another term.
8:58 - Biden administration's war on ceiling fans
15:44 - Media's pathetic enabling of Biden
19:04 - Remembering "Joe the Plumber" and the media's horrific treatment of him.
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Timestamps:
1:03 - Overwhelming majority of Americans think Biden is too old for another term.
8:58 - Biden administration's war on ceiling fans
15:44 - Media's pathetic enabling of Biden
19:04 - Remembering "Joe the Plumber" and the media's horrific treatment of him.
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(00:03):
Welcome to the three Martini Lunch grabsstool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
and Jim Garritty of National Review.Three Martini's coming up. Very glad you're
with us for the Monday edition ofthe three mar teeny Lunch. Jim Gearritty
is still away. If you arenot reading his dispatches in the Morning Jolt
from his visit to Ukraine, itis required reading, not for the show.
(00:26):
You can still listen to it tous without that, but it's for
your own edification. The reporting he'sdoing over there is excellent, so please
check it out in the Morning JoltJim. We'll be back later this week,
but happy to be joined today inthe next couple of days by John
Gabriel. He is the editor inchief at Ricochet dot com and he is
also the Undisputed King of Stuff andhost of the King of Stuff podcast found
(00:48):
at ricochet dot com. And John, always good of you to fill in.
Thanks for being here, oh thanksfor having me. Appreciate it,
and yes, I echo your thoughtsabout reading mister Garrity's dispatches from Ukraine.
That is excellent reading for everyone.It is, indeed, it is indeed.
Okay, we've got good, bad, and crazy martinis for conservatives today,
and the question on the good martinius, can conservatives actually do anything about
(01:11):
this? They should be able to. There's a new poll out from Associated
Press and NRC that shows that Americansvery much think that Joe Biden is too
old to be president, probably evennow, but the official question is too
old to effectively serve another four yearterm as president. Seventy seven percent of
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Americans US adults think that that's thecase. That includes eighty nine percent of
Republicans, which you might expect,but also sixty nine percent of Democrats and
seventy four percent of independence. Incontrast, Donald Trump, people say fifty
one percent say he's too old tobe president for another four years. His
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negatives are rising due to other issues. Shall we say, then people thinking
he's too well for the job.So we've known this for a while now,
John that people think that Biden's tooold. The other polls show that
he's not up to the job mentally. You put those together, you've got
a huge majority of Americans who don'tthink he should be president for the next
four years. But that leads toa curious issue for the Democrats here,
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because what do you do. You'vegot the guy who nobody's seriously challenging right
now, Robert Kennedy's nowhere close Maryand Williamson is not serious, and so
as of right now, he's reallygot a glide path to the nomination.
But if you're going to get ridof him, first of all, do
you need to if you think thathe can beat Trump. If you do
(02:36):
get rid of him, do yougo with a vice president who's less popular
than him, or do you tryto kick him both out and go to
one of these governors that people keeptalking about. Yeah, it is quite
a pickle for the Democrats. Ithink they enjoyed having Biden in office.
I've called it before the Biden regency, kind of like in the old medieval
(02:58):
days when a king was entering hisdotage and his advisers thought, oh,
this is great, we can justrule in his stead and he can give
a speech every once in a while. He had someone every once in a
while, and we'll get the jobdone, basically. But now it's you
can't really carry that on anymore.His trip out to Maui was especially bad.
(03:22):
Well, he interrupted his Tahoe vacationfor that. A week earlier,
he was on vacation in Delaware wherehe was asked about the wildfires. No
comment. So it's getting really badfor the Democrats. But as you say,
they have a very weak bench.They've made no preparations. They for
(03:43):
some reason, Biden went and pickedKamala Harris, who he should have just
watched her campaign flame out before Iowato understand. She is not the most
competent administrator, not the most likableperson. Voters just don't care for her.
You have someone just chomping at thebit in Gavin Newsom but trying to
(04:06):
sell you know, basically Patrick Batemanof American Psycho to the Heartsman is not
very palatable, I don't think toanyone. And the only other option is
just to pick some random governor orsomething, but that carries its own dangers.
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Do you choose a white governor andpass over Kamala That would be pretty
ugly. And most of these governorsare not wildly popular in their own states.
They haven't been terribly effective either,and they're boring. You know,
you can get a senator, youcan get Amy Klobuchar, Doug Bergham beat
her in a charisma contest. Ithink we're not. So it is just
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a mess for them, and Idon't know how they extract themselves from that.
And you mentioned too, just theundesirable ranking of Donald Trump. We
all just seem barreling towards this outcomeof Republican that nobody wants and a Democrat
that nobody wants. And yeah,I'm sure both have their diehard supporters,
(05:14):
but boy, I've seen polls andthey go from sixty to seventy percent for
people when they talk to people ofall parties. We don't want either of
these guys. Can you please giveus another two other options? I think
everybody can agree on every side ofthe aisle that when you scan the country,
are these the two best people wehave? I don't think so.
(05:35):
But the two parties are big messesright now. Your comparison of Gavin Newsom
to Pat Bateman now has me wonderingif Gavin Newsom is ever obsessively compared business
cards or talked about the excellence ofPseudio or Huey Lewis and the news with
more people than we want to admit. But what's the democratic play here?
(05:56):
As long as Trump is winning.Do they assume that that Biden can win
again and they just roll the diceon a guy who really shouldn't be in
public anymore. Or do they haveto make a change because every time he
does come out, since he isthe president, he's got to do it
once in a while. It's atotal embarrassment. What do they do?
I think they keep him unless there'ssome like really bad health of that that
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happens, especially in the public eye, and it doesn't even need to be
you know, like this is aserious medical condition. It's collapsing on stage
in the middle of the speech.It's Mitch McConnell style of just freezing up
for a couple of seconds when he'ssupposed to be responding. They might pass
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over that last one, but itwould have to be something very public where
everybody just came out and said,Okay, now this isn't working anymore.
But boy, that's going to beso tricky. It's like diffusing a time
bomb in the movies, because anybodythey pick there's going to be controversy from
their own side. For some reason. They don't represent this kind of micro
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group. They don't represent union's enough, they don't represent social justice enough.
So it's going to be a trickyone, that's for sure. Yeah,
there's the identity politics that you mentioned, and so if there is going to
be a massive change, meaning notjust pushing him aside and rolling the dice
on Kamala, which would also definitelybe rolling the dice, the way to
diffuse that problem with Kamala is tohave another black woman that the party will
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pretty much accept as a replacement.And the only person I think who can
fit that bill, of course,is Michelle Obama, the former First Lady.
Ye keep an eye out. Idon't think she wants the job.
I think she's very very happy livingin the lap of luxury and not having
to deal with that. But ifthere's anybody that's going to come in and
avoid a massive food fight if theydo change horses here late in the game,
I think she's the one that they'llgo with. But a lot of
(07:50):
ifs. All right, Well,it's going to be a Biden rich episode
of three Martini Lunch today. Thistime we're going to be taking a look
at a new policy from the Bidenadministration. So it's less to do with
him and what's coming out of hisEnergy Department, and former Michigan Governor Jennifer
Granholm, who's running that department intothe ground. But according to Fox Business,
(08:11):
ceiling fans are now the latest targetand the Biden Administration's Green Agenda sparking
pushback from Republicans and manufacturers. TheDepartment of Energy is proposing a rule that
would require ceiling fans to be moreenergy efficient, arguing the move would save
US households on energy costs, butthey don't. According to the Energy Department's
(08:33):
analysis, John, the new ruleswould save households about thirty nine dollars over
the lifespan of the fan. Thirtynine dollars over the lifespan of a fan.
Meanwhile, the cost to manufacturers associatedwith the increased equipment will total eighty
six point six million dollars per year. And I don't know, John,
(08:56):
I just got a hunch they mightpass those extra costs onto consumers, which
would mean you'll be paying a lotmore for your fan. And it's going
to take you a number of centuriesfor those energy savings to add up and
even come close to evening out.So what do you make of this latest
bad example of policy and even worsemath. This is totally fine, this
(09:18):
is okay because won't go into effectuntil twenty twenty eight, they promised.
I don't know how that helps anything. Okay, so we can put off
a couple of years until nobody canown a ceiling fan anymore. It's just
crazy. They are just going downthe list of one appliants after the other.
They've announced similar things for water heaters, for dishwashers, for refrigerators.
(09:39):
The list goes on and as everybodyhis experience. Right now, we have
just called the washing machine repairman becauseour new sleek washing machine is down again.
He was out here two weeks ago. So we all know that.
They keep saying these things are moreefficient, but they cost vastly more,
(10:03):
they take longer to operate, theydon't do as good a job. It's
just happening again and again and again. And ceiling fans. I don't even
know that that registered as an appliance. And these are already energy efficient.
It's a fan. You know you'llhave a fan on your desk during the
summer. These are not These arenot high wantage appliances. They are not
(10:26):
complicated, and this constant need tojust mettle and tweak and mettle and tweak.
It's just enough already. I don'tknow why the Republicans aren't going just
full hog bringing up bills and shuttingthis stuff down because no consumer wants this.
It just absolutely no consumer wants todeal with this. And we've already
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dealt with inflation all these other economicinsecurities. And it seems to be the
Biden administration's policy and especially the administrativestate that they're running just to make American
lives a little bit worse in everythingthat we do. Again, Republicans have
really have to jump on it,and not by appearing on Fox and yelling,
(11:11):
but pushing legislation and reversing some ofthose stuff because they are going to
keep pushing and as soon as thisceiling fan they improve this time, and
by making our lives a little bitworse, they're going to do it again
in five years. Yes, exactly. It's the sacrifice that you need to
make, John, while they galivantall over the globe, because their travel
(11:35):
on their private jets is dwarfing yourentire carbon footprint for your entire life.
But nonetheless they're doing work to savethe world, as John Carrett told us
earlier this year. But you know, it was earlier this year. There
was a contractor at my mom's homein Michigan and he's coming into to do
some remodeling, and he saw herold school washing machine, you know,
(11:58):
the kind that actually lasts. She'shad it for a probably a couple of
decades. He's like, don't everget rid of that. The ones now,
they're not even designed to last verylong. These smart ones you know
you get if you get it forten years to work, it's you're very,
very lucky. But they're intentionally designedto not work after several years,
so you have to go out andget another one. So what they're throwing
at you is not going to work. They're already going after AC but I
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assume if they if they go overafter it in a way that makes it
impossible to use. That's when yougrab your pitchfork out there in Arizona,
right, Yeah, Mercifully, wedropped a small fortune on a new AC
unit last summer because ours conveniently wentout at least it us early in the
summer when it was a little bitbearable. But that is a necessity out
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here, and every one small yousee greenies, especially ensconced or the cubicle
in Manhattan or especially in the UK, demanding we just get rid of so
much ACU. No Arizona will succeedpushed on a national level, but it's
if we can just get it downa half a degree in fifty years.
Is there any proof that it willwork? No? Okay, then we're
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done here. Let's move on.Thanks for that discussion. With crime and
drug addiction continuing to skyrocket, theUS has the highest rate of singral parent
households in the world. Lbj's GreatSociety resulted in a reliance on social welfare
programs and destruction in the family unit. Is there a direct correlation? Check
(13:30):
out the Watchdog on Wall Street podcaston Apples, Spotify, wherever you get
your podcast. All right, let'smove on to our crazy Martini now,
and John, I don't this willjust struck me as so planted and fake.
This is Joe Biden in Lake Tahoelast week and one of his very
rare appearances in front of the media. And he's not the first president where
(13:50):
his staff plants questions with the presscorps, but it happens all the time
with him, And if you listento the way of the question here is
for about the rising number of COVIDcases, and the way Biden starts his
response, it's painfully obvious that thisreporter was said, ask him about the
latest COVID numbers and then and thenBiden the way Biden starts his answer,
(14:13):
Yes, I can talk about it. So listen to this exchange and how
completely fake this is. Mister queston, can you say anything about the up
to the pulver cases a new variant? Yes, I can. A matter
of fact that I signed off scorninginto the post hole. We have to
present to the conversarily the quests foradditional funny for new vaccine's necessary at works
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and tenderly not decided to find ityet tenderly it is recommended it or will
let you be recommended? Everybody getmatter where they out in the FINA.
So it's a little hard to hearthere with all the natural sound. But
can you talk about this, John, If one of my interns asked a
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question phrase that way, First ofall, I tell him always no yes
or no questions unless you're really justdrilling down to finally get an answer because
they've dodged your question. But canyou talk about this just me? And
they didn't even bother to come upwith a way to phrase it intelligently to
not make it look like a plant. And then Biden's response of why yes
I can. And here's my completelyrehearsed response. Again, this is not
the first time it's ever happened,but it happens all the time here and
(15:20):
the media, I don't know,I mean, just have some dignity.
Yeah, it's they have stopped hidingtheir cheerleading for one side over the other.
And I don't know, at leastI don't know, roll the calendars
back to the nineties or something.Yes, they were completely biased, but
they were ashamed that they were completelyThey were ashamed that they were rooting for
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the people in power this week andagainst the people in power the next time
someone knew was elected. And nowthe veil is off, and it just
feels like, you know, I'vedone both journalism and PR. This is
PR, this is public relations,pure and simple, And it seems like
most journalists before they became this kindof priestly cast would understand, you know,
(16:11):
I can actually make more money ifI just am honest and hang up
a shingle as a PR rep forsomebody or I don't know, create an
agency doing spin for people. Youcan make more money that way, So
why don't you do that instead ofpretending to be a journalist and let the
skeptics, the skeptics of everyone inpower. I might add, handle the
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journalism and digging out, rooting outcorruption and the scandal of the day exactly.
I don't know what as a memberof the media offends me more,
the fact that they're shells or thefact that they're so bad at it.
Have some work on your skills,at least a little bit, right,
right, a little subtlety, ohright right. Also related to media bias,
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we had some sad news over theweekend, And for those who remember
the two thousand and eight presidential campaign, you may remember a moment in Ohio
and Barack Obama, who was ofcourse the anointed in terms of the mainstream
media, stopped to talk to somefolks in Ohio about a variety of issues.
And this guy, Samuel Joseph Wurtzelbacher, asked him about his tax plan,
(17:17):
and he thought that he was planningto open a plumbing business, and
he thought that Obama's tax plan wouldmake it harder for him to do that
or make it harder for him tobe a success. And that's where we
got Obama's famous Well, you know, I want you to succeed, but
I also want the other people tosucceed, and that's why we need to
spread the wealth around. And that'swhere Joe the Plumber was born. He
became a celebrity during the later stagesof that campaign. McCain and Palin had
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him on the stage at various times, and the media at that point,
you think about how little they careabout, say the Hunter Biden investigation.
They don't don't do anything unless theRepublicans in the House are releasing information.
They went and dug into Joe thePlumber's life to just try to find as
much dirt as possible because one randomguy in a campaign stop for Obama dared
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to challenge him on one policy issue. And sadly, Joe the Plumber died
over the weekend after a battle withcancer. But that was just such an
I lustrative moment about how completely inthe tank the media is for the left
in this country. Yeah, andI was shocked first how long ago that
was. You know, I couldn'texactly remember the campaign. I'm like well,
it wasn't twenty sixteen, was it, you know, twenty twelve,
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But Noah's back in two thousand andeight. It became a media sensation,
much like Richard Jewell back at theOlympics during in Atlanta, where everybody jumped
on this guy Richard Jewell as,oh, he's obviously the sinister bomber who
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attacked innocent people, and that wasn'tthe case. And Joe the Plumber,
he was a guy named Joe whowas a plumber who was headed to vote.
It wasn't rude, he didn't phraseit in a mean way, wasn't
an attack, but it embarrassed Obamabecause Obama gave a terrible answer, and
so for that reason they had toattack this guy. And yeah, unfortunately
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he has passed away age of fortynine, only forty nine, but apparently
he was dealing with pancreatic cancer.So all our love goes out to his
family and friends. I am,I have some friends who are friends with
him, who worked with him intwo thousand and eight and so forth,
and they all just said he wasa fantastic guy, great guy. So
(19:33):
but boy, forty nine, thatis too too young. But yeah,
sending out all our love to friendsand family directly affected by this, and
once again, shame on you mediafor trying to crucify this guy for simply
being a citizen interested in who weshould vote for. No, it's exactly
right. Sad news for sure,and John, I hate to end on
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the somber note, but it iswhere we end today, and we'll look
for brighter news tomorrow and we'll seeyou then. I appreciate it. Talky
tomorrow. Thanks great. John Gabrielis the editor in chief at ricochet dot
com. He is also the undisputedKing of Stuff and the host of the
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Welcome to the three Martini Lunch grabsstool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
and Jim Garritty of National Review.Three Martini's coming up. Very glad you're
with us for the Monday edition ofthe three mar teeny Lunch. Jim Gearritty
is still away. If you arenot reading his dispatches in the Morning Jolt
from his visit to Ukraine, itis required reading, not for the show.
(00:26):
You can still listen to it tous without that, but it's for
your own edification. The reporting he'sdoing over there is excellent, so please
check it out in the Morning JoltJim. We'll be back later this week,
but happy to be joined today inthe next couple of days by John
Gabriel. He is the editor inchief at Ricochet dot com and he is
also the Undisputed King of Stuff andhost of the King of Stuff podcast found
(00:48):
at ricochet dot com. And John, always good of you to fill in.
Thanks for being here, oh thanksfor having me. Appreciate it,
and yes, I echo your thoughtsabout reading mister Garrity's dispatches from Ukraine.
That is excellent reading for everyone.It is, indeed, it is indeed.
Okay, we've got good, bad, and crazy martinis for conservatives today,
and the question on the good martinius, can conservatives actually do anything about
(01:11):
this? They should be able to. There's a new poll out from Associated
Press and NRC that shows that Americansvery much think that Joe Biden is too
old to be president, probably evennow, but the official question is too
old to effectively serve another four yearterm as president. Seventy seven percent of
(01:32):
Americans US adults think that that's thecase. That includes eighty nine percent of
Republicans, which you might expect,but also sixty nine percent of Democrats and
seventy four percent of independence. Incontrast, Donald Trump, people say fifty
one percent say he's too old tobe president for another four years. His
(01:55):
negatives are rising due to other issues. Shall we say, then people thinking
he's too well for the job.So we've known this for a while now,
John that people think that Biden's tooold. The other polls show that
he's not up to the job mentally. You put those together, you've got
a huge majority of Americans who don'tthink he should be president for the next
four years. But that leads toa curious issue for the Democrats here,
(02:16):
because what do you do. You'vegot the guy who nobody's seriously challenging right
now, Robert Kennedy's nowhere close Maryand Williamson is not serious, and so
as of right now, he's reallygot a glide path to the nomination.
But if you're going to get ridof him, first of all, do
you need to if you think thathe can beat Trump. If you do
(02:36):
get rid of him, do yougo with a vice president who's less popular
than him, or do you tryto kick him both out and go to
one of these governors that people keeptalking about. Yeah, it is quite
a pickle for the Democrats. Ithink they enjoyed having Biden in office.
I've called it before the Biden regency, kind of like in the old medieval
(02:58):
days when a king was entering hisdotage and his advisers thought, oh,
this is great, we can justrule in his stead and he can give
a speech every once in a while. He had someone every once in a
while, and we'll get the jobdone, basically. But now it's you
can't really carry that on anymore.His trip out to Maui was especially bad.
(03:22):
Well, he interrupted his Tahoe vacationfor that. A week earlier,
he was on vacation in Delaware wherehe was asked about the wildfires. No
comment. So it's getting really badfor the Democrats. But as you say,
they have a very weak bench.They've made no preparations. They for
(03:43):
some reason, Biden went and pickedKamala Harris, who he should have just
watched her campaign flame out before Iowato understand. She is not the most
competent administrator, not the most likableperson. Voters just don't care for her.
You have someone just chomping at thebit in Gavin Newsom but trying to
(04:06):
sell you know, basically Patrick Batemanof American Psycho to the Heartsman is not
very palatable, I don't think toanyone. And the only other option is
just to pick some random governor orsomething, but that carries its own dangers.
(04:26):
Do you choose a white governor andpass over Kamala That would be pretty
ugly. And most of these governorsare not wildly popular in their own states.
They haven't been terribly effective either,and they're boring. You know,
you can get a senator, youcan get Amy Klobuchar, Doug Bergham beat
her in a charisma contest. Ithink we're not. So it is just
(04:51):
a mess for them, and Idon't know how they extract themselves from that.
And you mentioned too, just theundesirable ranking of Donald Trump. We
all just seem barreling towards this outcomeof Republican that nobody wants and a Democrat
that nobody wants. And yeah,I'm sure both have their diehard supporters,
(05:14):
but boy, I've seen polls andthey go from sixty to seventy percent for
people when they talk to people ofall parties. We don't want either of
these guys. Can you please giveus another two other options? I think
everybody can agree on every side ofthe aisle that when you scan the country,
are these the two best people wehave? I don't think so.
(05:35):
But the two parties are big messesright now. Your comparison of Gavin Newsom
to Pat Bateman now has me wonderingif Gavin Newsom is ever obsessively compared business
cards or talked about the excellence ofPseudio or Huey Lewis and the news with
more people than we want to admit. But what's the democratic play here?
(05:56):
As long as Trump is winning.Do they assume that that Biden can win
again and they just roll the diceon a guy who really shouldn't be in
public anymore. Or do they haveto make a change because every time he
does come out, since he isthe president, he's got to do it
once in a while. It's atotal embarrassment. What do they do?
I think they keep him unless there'ssome like really bad health of that that
(06:17):
happens, especially in the public eye, and it doesn't even need to be
you know, like this is aserious medical condition. It's collapsing on stage
in the middle of the speech.It's Mitch McConnell style of just freezing up
for a couple of seconds when he'ssupposed to be responding. They might pass
(06:40):
over that last one, but itwould have to be something very public where
everybody just came out and said,Okay, now this isn't working anymore.
But boy, that's going to beso tricky. It's like diffusing a time
bomb in the movies, because anybodythey pick there's going to be controversy from
their own side. For some reason. They don't represent this kind of micro
(07:01):
group. They don't represent union's enough, they don't represent social justice enough.
So it's going to be a trickyone, that's for sure. Yeah,
there's the identity politics that you mentioned, and so if there is going to
be a massive change, meaning notjust pushing him aside and rolling the dice
on Kamala, which would also definitelybe rolling the dice, the way to
diffuse that problem with Kamala is tohave another black woman that the party will
(07:27):
pretty much accept as a replacement.And the only person I think who can
fit that bill, of course,is Michelle Obama, the former First Lady.
Ye keep an eye out. Idon't think she wants the job.
I think she's very very happy livingin the lap of luxury and not having
to deal with that. But ifthere's anybody that's going to come in and
avoid a massive food fight if theydo change horses here late in the game,
I think she's the one that they'llgo with. But a lot of
(07:50):
ifs. All right, Well,it's going to be a Biden rich episode
of three Martini Lunch today. Thistime we're going to be taking a look
at a new policy from the Bidenadministration. So it's less to do with
him and what's coming out of hisEnergy Department, and former Michigan Governor Jennifer
Granholm, who's running that department intothe ground. But according to Fox Business,
(08:11):
ceiling fans are now the latest targetand the Biden Administration's Green Agenda sparking
pushback from Republicans and manufacturers. TheDepartment of Energy is proposing a rule that
would require ceiling fans to be moreenergy efficient, arguing the move would save
US households on energy costs, butthey don't. According to the Energy Department's
(08:33):
analysis, John, the new ruleswould save households about thirty nine dollars over
the lifespan of the fan. Thirtynine dollars over the lifespan of a fan.
Meanwhile, the cost to manufacturers associatedwith the increased equipment will total eighty
six point six million dollars per year. And I don't know, John,
(08:56):
I just got a hunch they mightpass those extra costs onto consumers, which
would mean you'll be paying a lotmore for your fan. And it's going
to take you a number of centuriesfor those energy savings to add up and
even come close to evening out.So what do you make of this latest
bad example of policy and even worsemath. This is totally fine, this
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is okay because won't go into effectuntil twenty twenty eight, they promised.
I don't know how that helps anything. Okay, so we can put off
a couple of years until nobody canown a ceiling fan anymore. It's just
crazy. They are just going downthe list of one appliants after the other.
They've announced similar things for water heaters, for dishwashers, for refrigerators.
(09:39):
The list goes on and as everybodyhis experience. Right now, we have
just called the washing machine repairman becauseour new sleek washing machine is down again.
He was out here two weeks ago. So we all know that.
They keep saying these things are moreefficient, but they cost vastly more,
(10:03):
they take longer to operate, theydon't do as good a job. It's
just happening again and again and again. And ceiling fans. I don't even
know that that registered as an appliance. And these are already energy efficient.
It's a fan. You know you'llhave a fan on your desk during the
summer. These are not These arenot high wantage appliances. They are not
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complicated, and this constant need tojust mettle and tweak and mettle and tweak.
It's just enough already. I don'tknow why the Republicans aren't going just
full hog bringing up bills and shuttingthis stuff down because no consumer wants this.
It just absolutely no consumer wants todeal with this. And we've already
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dealt with inflation all these other economicinsecurities. And it seems to be the
Biden administration's policy and especially the administrativestate that they're running just to make American
lives a little bit worse in everythingthat we do. Again, Republicans have
really have to jump on it,and not by appearing on Fox and yelling,
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but pushing legislation and reversing some ofthose stuff because they are going to
keep pushing and as soon as thisceiling fan they improve this time, and
by making our lives a little bitworse, they're going to do it again
in five years. Yes, exactly. It's the sacrifice that you need to
make, John, while they galivantall over the globe, because their travel
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on their private jets is dwarfing yourentire carbon footprint for your entire life.
But nonetheless they're doing work to savethe world, as John Carrett told us
earlier this year. But you know, it was earlier this year. There
was a contractor at my mom's homein Michigan and he's coming into to do
some remodeling, and he saw herold school washing machine, you know,
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the kind that actually lasts. She'shad it for a probably a couple of
decades. He's like, don't everget rid of that. The ones now,
they're not even designed to last verylong. These smart ones you know
you get if you get it forten years to work, it's you're very,
very lucky. But they're intentionally designedto not work after several years,
so you have to go out andget another one. So what they're throwing
at you is not going to work. They're already going after AC but I
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assume if they if they go overafter it in a way that makes it
impossible to use. That's when yougrab your pitchfork out there in Arizona,
right, Yeah, Mercifully, wedropped a small fortune on a new AC
unit last summer because ours conveniently wentout at least it us early in the
summer when it was a little bitbearable. But that is a necessity out
(12:46):
here, and every one small yousee greenies, especially ensconced or the cubicle
in Manhattan or especially in the UK, demanding we just get rid of so
much ACU. No Arizona will succeedpushed on a national level, but it's
if we can just get it downa half a degree in fifty years.
Is there any proof that it willwork? No? Okay, then we're
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done here. Let's move on.Thanks for that discussion. With crime and
drug addiction continuing to skyrocket, theUS has the highest rate of singral parent
households in the world. Lbj's GreatSociety resulted in a reliance on social welfare
programs and destruction in the family unit. Is there a direct correlation? Check
(13:30):
out the Watchdog on Wall Street podcaston Apples, Spotify, wherever you get
your podcast. All right, let'smove on to our crazy Martini now,
and John, I don't this willjust struck me as so planted and fake.
This is Joe Biden in Lake Tahoelast week and one of his very
rare appearances in front of the media. And he's not the first president where
(13:50):
his staff plants questions with the presscorps, but it happens all the time
with him, And if you listento the way of the question here is
for about the rising number of COVIDcases, and the way Biden starts his
response, it's painfully obvious that thisreporter was said, ask him about the
latest COVID numbers and then and thenBiden the way Biden starts his answer,
(14:13):
Yes, I can talk about it. So listen to this exchange and how
completely fake this is. Mister queston, can you say anything about the up
to the pulver cases a new variant? Yes, I can. A matter
of fact that I signed off scorninginto the post hole. We have to
present to the conversarily the quests foradditional funny for new vaccine's necessary at works
(14:37):
and tenderly not decided to find ityet tenderly it is recommended it or will
let you be recommended? Everybody getmatter where they out in the FINA.
So it's a little hard to hearthere with all the natural sound. But
can you talk about this, John, If one of my interns asked a
(14:58):
question phrase that way, First ofall, I tell him always no yes
or no questions unless you're really justdrilling down to finally get an answer because
they've dodged your question. But canyou talk about this just me? And
they didn't even bother to come upwith a way to phrase it intelligently to
not make it look like a plant. And then Biden's response of why yes
I can. And here's my completelyrehearsed response. Again, this is not
the first time it's ever happened,but it happens all the time here and
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the media, I don't know,I mean, just have some dignity.
Yeah, it's they have stopped hidingtheir cheerleading for one side over the other.
And I don't know, at leastI don't know, roll the calendars
back to the nineties or something.Yes, they were completely biased, but
they were ashamed that they were completelyThey were ashamed that they were rooting for
(15:45):
the people in power this week andagainst the people in power the next time
someone knew was elected. And nowthe veil is off, and it just
feels like, you know, I'vedone both journalism and PR. This is
PR, this is public relations,pure and simple, And it seems like
most journalists before they became this kindof priestly cast would understand, you know,
(16:11):
I can actually make more money ifI just am honest and hang up
a shingle as a PR rep forsomebody or I don't know, create an
agency doing spin for people. Youcan make more money that way, So
why don't you do that instead ofpretending to be a journalist and let the
skeptics, the skeptics of everyone inpower. I might add, handle the
(16:33):
journalism and digging out, rooting outcorruption and the scandal of the day exactly.
I don't know what as a memberof the media offends me more,
the fact that they're shells or thefact that they're so bad at it.
Have some work on your skills,at least a little bit, right,
right, a little subtlety, ohright right. Also related to media bias,
(16:56):
we had some sad news over theweekend, And for those who remember
the two thousand and eight presidential campaign, you may remember a moment in Ohio
and Barack Obama, who was ofcourse the anointed in terms of the mainstream
media, stopped to talk to somefolks in Ohio about a variety of issues.
And this guy, Samuel Joseph Wurtzelbacher, asked him about his tax plan,
(17:17):
and he thought that he was planningto open a plumbing business, and
he thought that Obama's tax plan wouldmake it harder for him to do that
or make it harder for him tobe a success. And that's where we
got Obama's famous Well, you know, I want you to succeed, but
I also want the other people tosucceed, and that's why we need to
spread the wealth around. And that'swhere Joe the Plumber was born. He
became a celebrity during the later stagesof that campaign. McCain and Palin had
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him on the stage at various times, and the media at that point,
you think about how little they careabout, say the Hunter Biden investigation.
They don't don't do anything unless theRepublicans in the House are releasing information.
They went and dug into Joe thePlumber's life to just try to find as
much dirt as possible because one randomguy in a campaign stop for Obama dared
(18:03):
to challenge him on one policy issue. And sadly, Joe the Plumber died
over the weekend after a battle withcancer. But that was just such an
I lustrative moment about how completely inthe tank the media is for the left
in this country. Yeah, andI was shocked first how long ago that
was. You know, I couldn'texactly remember the campaign. I'm like well,
it wasn't twenty sixteen, was it, you know, twenty twelve,
(18:26):
But Noah's back in two thousand andeight. It became a media sensation,
much like Richard Jewell back at theOlympics during in Atlanta, where everybody jumped
on this guy Richard Jewell as,oh, he's obviously the sinister bomber who
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attacked innocent people, and that wasn'tthe case. And Joe the Plumber,
he was a guy named Joe whowas a plumber who was headed to vote.
It wasn't rude, he didn't phraseit in a mean way, wasn't
an attack, but it embarrassed Obamabecause Obama gave a terrible answer, and
so for that reason they had toattack this guy. And yeah, unfortunately
(19:11):
he has passed away age of fortynine, only forty nine, but apparently
he was dealing with pancreatic cancer.So all our love goes out to his
family and friends. I am,I have some friends who are friends with
him, who worked with him intwo thousand and eight and so forth,
and they all just said he wasa fantastic guy, great guy. So
(19:33):
but boy, forty nine, thatis too too young. But yeah,
sending out all our love to friendsand family directly affected by this, and
once again, shame on you mediafor trying to crucify this guy for simply
being a citizen interested in who weshould vote for. No, it's exactly
right. Sad news for sure,and John, I hate to end on
(19:56):
the somber note, but it iswhere we end today, and we'll look
for brighter news tomorrow and we'll seeyou then. I appreciate it. Talky
tomorrow. Thanks great. John Gabrielis the editor in chief at ricochet dot
com. He is also the undisputedKing of Stuff and the host of the
King of Stuff podcast at Ricochet dotcom. Jim Garretty will be back later
in the week. I'm Greg Corumbusof Radio America. Thanks so much for
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