Chapo Trap House - 903 - Tuna Melt Moment feat. Alex Nichols (1/27/25)

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

Alex is back on the pod to review the first full week of 2rump news, but first, we wish friend of the show Catturd a speedy recovery from his impacted bowel. Then, we look at Trumps barrage of executive orders, cabinet staffing, and denial of security clearances to a number of former NatSec ghouls. We also discuss the Democrats’ new Tuna-based appeals for viral attention, and consider how history will judge Joe Biden.

All I wanna do is hit the drum All I wanna do is hit the drum Hello everybody. Welcome to the show. Sorry you took a breath I had to say something. I don't want to have dead air on this. Alex, you want to kick us off? I don't know what's been going on in politics It's kind of your guys area, I don't know why'd you ask me to start Not so easy now is it yeah, I can't handle the pressure. I don't know

It's Monday January 27th and there will be no dead air on this episode because we've got Alex back with us for another Chappell episode. We'll be talking about Trump's first week in office, maybe discussing what the Democrats do from here, a bit of DC gossip, but we've got to talk at the top of the show. We've got to kick things off. And I'm so glad we have Alex back on the show to discuss this because I think this is probably the most consequential thing that's happened over the last couple weeks. And I am referring, of course, to the fact that friend of the show, cat turd, his turds very nearly killed him. He has a bowel obstruction. And it is my cock. I just want to say that for the record, it is my cock. I

was gonna tell him that but he already has me blocked. Get to cat turds turds have nearly killed him cat turd was treated for a bowel obstruction. Yeah, he was in the hospital. But basically, I want to start with this is obviously cat turd and turd being in the same cat turd and turds being in the same news article is pretty good. But it was on the occasion of his bowel obstruction that people resurfaced a whole litany of posts from Mr. Cat Turd, declaring his basically his intention never to eat vegetables and that quote fiber is for losers. Yeah, that's like taking it one step further. I would say everyone for like the past 10 years

has kind of been doing the anti-vegan thing. You know, there's the the teacock guys who like trick themselves into thinking that AOC made a speech where she said that burgers were racist and they're like oh yeah well I'm gonna eat 10 but then there's also the left-wing people who are like they do the same thing where they convince themselves that there's like a a roving gang of vegans that go around yelling at indigenous people not to eat meat and they're also also doing the same thing. But I've never heard of any of those people come out against fiber, just fiber itself.

That is a new one. One has to assume that Cat Turd's actual shit now, it's like the metallic Arkea from Metal Gear Solid 5. It can be- He has Bezoars. 5. It can eat. He has bezoars. Yeah, it can. He has bezoars, but it's all his, the dog hair he inhales.

I hope that they constructed like a magneto prison for him to shit in. Because his shit probably just, it would eat through regular porcelain. It would destroy the building. I'm thinking about this in light of Chris's very nice birthday present from his lovely wife. A cat turd sits are like Tungsten cubes at this point. Yep, there's the cube. No, but I

would imagine doing a BM for cat turd, how long a process is that? Like, how often does it occur? And when it does occur? How long does it take him to to conduct the business? Well, I mean, for these reasons and more, I will be I'll actually be taking some inspiration from the Hitman games and I'll be knocking out one of his nurses and shit man. Yeah, I'll be dressing up as one of his nurses so I can finally fulfill my dream of giving cat her to a sponge bath.

He's reaching into his asshole, yanking it out. finally fulfill my dream of giving cat heard a sponge bath. Reaching into his asshole, yanking it out. Oh, I would love that. Have you ever had a dog who like, they like eat some string and you pull the string out of their ass? Yeah, you're not supposed to pull on it actually, cause it could make them nut. Like it could rub against their prostate and make them nut. So you're supposed to bring them to the vet

or you let them shit it out naturally. Or just don't have shoelaces. Only have Velcro shoes. If you only have Velcro shoes, that's a great excuse. I don't wanna kill a cat with a shoelace. Well, we had a girl dog so we could stimulate her prostate. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a good reason to have a girl dog too. Yeah. In case she swallowed a string. People might think, they'll just think it's a tampon and they won't want to say anything. Yeah, unfortunately, his turds had to be moved out of his colon with, you know, using like sort of chains that are that are like attached to the front of a pickup truck. And then unfortunately, when the pickup truck was put in reverse, it did kill several of cat turds dogs as they removed the bowel obstruction out of his asshole.

Well, that was regularly scheduled. That was a regularly scheduled killing of his. Yes, the call. Yeah. They're just going to be on the highway if you don't kill him. So it's cool that he just posted all that publicly. Like about his specific bowel ailments and going to the hospital for it. Like you could just say I'm sick. You could just say I'm going to the hospital.

Like you don't have to be that open with people. You don't have to say bowels. It's okay. And then apparently also he had like a sort of mind of Jason like blood pressure numbers. Oh shit. Yeah, it was like they hooked him up to the blood pressure and the machine just said, oh, man, those guys love getting red. I don't know. It's just it's such a weird thing of like when you encounter like

adult man who like just simply don't eat vegetables like. Yeah, it doesn't end well. Yeah. Al Michaels, the sportscaster guy, like he famously has claimed to never have eaten a vegetable Hmm, and I just I don't know. I mean he seems to be doing okay What what aren't they telling us about the need for fiber or rough is your vitamins in your diet? Yeah, I some sort of pseudoscientific reason why you shouldn't eat fiber I'm trying to remember what it is exactly like it increases the production of certain bacteria in the gut

But I think you want certain bacteria in the gut, but I think it's still good to eat fiber. Don't you want bacteria in the gut? You do want bacteria in the gut, even though it's gross. And they are kind of stealing your food. They're stealing food off your table. You don't want them in there doing that. If they're going to be in there. Well, I mean, if they're going to be in there, they should be working for me to like, you know, keep me free from illness and whatnot. Keeping everything moving at a sort of a reasonable pace through the

poop factory. Yeah. Well, best of luck to Cat Turd. I don't know. I hope he doesn't, you know, why change your diet? You've come this far in life. Just, just go to the hospital once a month to take a shit. Yeah. You should have live-in nurses who help a shit. Yeah. You should have live in nurses who help him shit. Or just to live in Alex to unobstruct his bowels. Oh yeah. With your dick. Get up in there and just move shit around. Get up in there like a plumber with a wrench getting under the

sink. See what's going on. There is your problem. He probably also has hairballs. Yeah. So moving on from cat turd shit, moving on from the turd discourse, I saw this and was immediately intrigued by it. This is courtesy of Megyn Kelly, who sort of, I saw a clip of her on her show expounding on the Obama-Michelle divorce rumors. Now, this is something people have been speculating on for a while in light of Michelle not attending both the funeral of Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump's inauguration. But Megyn Kelly put a fine point on it by referring to rumors from,

you know, well-placed insiders that Obama is currently dating Jennifer Aniston. Is that a real thing she said? Yes, it is. Is it a fake account? It's got to be a fake account. No, no. I watched the clip of Megyn Kelly talking about this. No, I mean, it's a fake Jennifer Aniston account.

That would be funny if Obama fell victim to that because he's about the right age to send like a bunch of gift cards to a fake Jennifer Aniston account like that French woman who thought she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt. Yeah. Well, Jennifer Aniston is a really popular. It's very common. Yeah. Yeah. And so I actually yeah, I got to fake Jennifer Aniston, DM recently, and I was very offended.

It was like, how old do you think I am? But yeah, tons of 60 year olds have sent the single most popular currency in the 60 year old world iTunes gift cards to several fake Jennifer Aniston's. Yeah, it's a very fascinating thing that her in particular, like, because she wasn't like the top sex symbol from back then. Like you would say it was like Angelina Jolie maybe. But in France, you think of that as a girl show. That's a girl show.

That's not really a guy show. Like maybe they would have been aware of it or they would have watched it with their wife or something. But when you hear people bring up friends usually it's a girl doing it. So I don't know why so many of those guys, it's specifically Jennifer Aniston that can trick them into sending them gift cards. I think it's a generational thing. Like they are the exact right age for, I mean, Jennifer Anderson was the sex symbol, but um, regardless of that, um, yeah, she didn't have a bra on. Yeah. They remember that it's like a Farrah Fawcett picture.

Regardless of that, I think this is another old bungle. I think he was like, oh, my wife's out of town, you know, call the limo. We're going to be Oreo to smoke crack and blow Larry. And then he pregame little and he blacked out. And when he woke up, he had just had set heterosexual sex with Jennifer Aniston. Oh, she was like, Oh, this is I, this is one of my worst bundles yet. Imagine how mad you would be if you were a 60 year old guy who sent a bunch of money to fake Jennifer Aniston and you found out it was fake after telling your kids, no, she's

real. She's real. Shut the fuck up. Stay out. Mind your own business. Like you find out like a year later that you spent all that money, she's fake. And then you read on the news that the real Jennifer Aniston is fucking Obama. Oh my God. You would just, you would punch so many holes in your drywall that you would just have, you just have studs left. Oh, but I, I feel like there's going to be thousands of guys in cat turds row in the hospital who are, who are just, you know, bricking their colon.

It's going to cause a lot of bowel obstructions. Yeah, I mean, on the clip, I saw Megan Kelly talking, she said, if the rumors are true, Jennifer Aniston aside that this would be a political earthquake in America, because we've never had a former president get divorced, we never had a presidential divorce. And I did think about that for a moment. Like, what do you think of the implications of not just the Obamas getting divorced, but Obama kindling, canoodling with a former sitcom star? Would this cause a political earthquake in America

or would people mostly not give a shit? Like if they were like, had any activity in the Democratic Party besides like just getting called in every time that there might be any type of like genuine populist movement in anything like maybe, but really this is just like to a couple who produces bad documentaries and shows getting a divorce. Yeah. Which happens all the time. They're just celebrities.

Yeah. Like that happens all the time. They're just celebrities. Yeah. That happens all the time. People might go through the motions and say it's like having a public divorce like this is eating away at the sanctity of marriage and it's setting a bad example, but everyone knows that's bullshit. And all the people that would be mad about it, they're also the same people that believe that Michelle Obama's trans and Obama's gay and he sucks dick in a limo and they like they're they probably also believe they're both pedophiles So yeah, it doesn't yeah Their marriage is not exactly it was like JFK was was sleeping around LBJ

Probably Richard Nixon probably all of them Is there anyone who like both believes all that but is like it's still like they should still like stay together like both believes all that, but he's like, it's still like, they should still like stay together. Like you like the holograms that are portraying Michelle and Barack executed for 700 pounds of cannibalism. Yeah, they made these clones to be married to each other. It's been a lot of money to make those clones. So if they get divorced, like kind of ruins the reputation.

Well, I was I was thinking about the clones in light of the Jimmy Carter funeral, because you know, I mean, that was him make him look better. There was a the Jimmy Carter funeral was a clone rich environment. But like, it was funny, like even even after Donald Trump winning, like there's still this idea that like, they're being rounded up. Joe Biden has just been arrested.

The Joe Biden clone or the Hillary Clinton clone has just been arrested. I guess I was just wondering, OK, number one, think how annoying it is to continually achieve justice by putting the great monsters of our time, executing them in a military tribunal, only to have their clone reappear on the public scene like minutes after doing that. But here's my question. Are the clones sort of minted or cloned with an innate knowledge of the memories and like actions of the person, of Biden or Hillary Clinton, Mark one? So like, if that were the case, then you could execute those clones

because if they had knowledge of it, they would be morally responsible for the actions of the original. Or are they sort of born like as a blank slate and have to be filled in on all the evil that like their original had already done? Yeah, they have child born in their brain as part of their memories, like the clone of Bill Clinton. He can remember a lot of illegal content. Yeah, it's like that iPod that came preloaded

with the U2 album. Yeah. Just with tons of CP and N. Yeah, sometimes you see those people, like the QAnon people, they're just so sick of that, the clone stuff, they're like, wait a minute, they executed the clone, like why would they execute the clone in secret?

Like why would they make a clone to execute and then not tell us about like what? Now Trump's back in office, so they can kind of forget about that a little. Like they don't have to reach that far. They can just say, oh, they're actually doing it. They're rounding people up. Look at that.

Yeah, they're like exhausted Dragon Ball Z fans. What do you mean do you mean? Boo is back. Yeah, we just killed him. It took like four years of them just staring at each other. And now he's back. I mean, like the thought that occurred to me is that like the White Hats in the deep state, instead of perpetually

arresting and executing clone after clone after clone, they should focus their efforts on shutting down the cloning facilities. So that therefore when they finally do arrest and execute the wrong doers, then you won't just have to see them on the news the next day like nothing happened. So just shut down the cloning facilities or they're minting like dozens of Obama's and Bill Clintons and then just get it done once and for all. Yeah I mean like well that's one of the first things they did in equilibrium is shut down the Libria production facility. There you go that's the blueprint right there. All right well in light of the fact that like the clones remain a nagging issue in the US sort of

politics but I'd like to talk about now it's now been officially one week of Trump in the White House. And I guess we should probably talk about some of the some of the the signature Trump policies and sort of executive orders that we've seen so far. So starting with a list of on immigration. They're rounding up Native Americans to send them back here. They're actually doing it. Deployed 1,500 active duty troops to the southern border. In a memo signed Thursday night by the acting head of Homeland Security Department offers ICE officials

a roadmap on how to use expansive powers that were long reserved only for encounters at the southern border to quickly remove migrants. It also appears to give officials the ability to expel migrants in two major Biden era programs that have allowed more than a million people to enter the country temporarily. There is the Lakin Riley Act,

which directs authorities to deport immigrants who are accused, though not yet convicted, of specific crimes. Go down the list here, and then teasing the end of birthright citizens birthright citizenship and another travel ban. And then on in terms of the administrative state, there is a hiring freeze across the federal government that would remain in place pending the completion of a broader plan for reducing the federal workforce.

The end of course of DEI and the DEI programs, and then end policing supervision. The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations and singled it might back out of Biden era agreements with police departments that engage in discrimination or violence. There is the delay of the TikTok bans on foreign policy. He's designated Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, has left the World Health Organization and left the Paris Climate Agreements, and also the tariff war as well that we're seeing heat up. Now, going on to the-

In the Gulf of America. The Gulf of America. Did you get that? In Mount McKinley? People just want to honor William McKinley. He's very important. It's the only time you ever hear about him. Guy got shot and they gave him a mountain and he's just the mountain

guy. And I guess he did support tariffs. I want to get to the terrace in a second. But like, obviously, like, you know, not not many surprises here. You know, we're seeing ice raids in Chicago and elsewhere. But I guess like my question here is, does this feel different than the first Trump administration? Like, you know, the the the ice raids and roundups that were going on in his first first couple months in office the first time around. But like, is there a reason to believe that this feels different this time around or that this is

markedly more menacing or evil? Like, is he more understated? I mean, I was talking with someone about this the other week that, like, the only real difference, the only thing that is sort of uncanny and strange about this, is that he has, like, the regular honeymoon period that all, like, newly inaugurated presidents have. And that's, like, a very very very weird territory for him because we're so used to him being like underwater as far as approval ratings I

do think that like you know a all the stuff we're seeing is mostly like a repeat or a continuation or you know what is to be expected but I also think that like you know even sans the resistance that things are more or less going to revert to mean with him in that like, sooner or later, you know, Biden had like a higher approvals during his honeymoon period, people forget. And things are sort of set up for Trump in such a way that like any single thing could be the start of an unraveling, whether it is like trying and failing

to like broker a deal with Russia, which Russia does not seem that interested in the terms that he's laid out. A major failure on the world stage like that could be the start of an unraveling. It could be this flash market crash we're seeing now or the inflation that comes with tariffs and obliterating America's supply of low wage labor. In bird flu. Yeah.

Rounding up agricultural laborers and sending them all around. Yeah. Making them travel all over the country, bring it and putting them all together in a dirty camp. The thing is like the usual Trump spiral we're used to it hasn't happened yet because all of his like most boneheaded decisions, policy wise and personnel wise, and the, the sort of atmosphere of chaos where everyone is getting fired and turning on each other and no one trusts each other

and there's all this backbiting and recriminations. That happens when he's defensive and he hasn't had a reason to feel that yet. But when there is like, you know, I don't think it's gonna be a singular Afghanistan type thing, but probably just like a bunch of fuck ups in different corners adding up, that is when it's going to start. And that will be weird territory because he will sort of revert to being very underwater,

but there won't be a resistance industrial complex. Yeah. And he also doesn't have as many disloyal people in his administration that he can blame this time, because he's going to have the same sort of problems where he runs up against stuff getting held up in court, having to deal with like the department of justice and all these internal checks and stuff, having to, having to root out traders and stuff. In the Oval Office, he doesn't really have anybody that's lib-coded or that hasn't just shown nothing but loyalty to him for four years straight. He's only got those people, so it's going to be harder. He doesn't have Omarosa there that he can just pinch it on. I don't know. It seems like he's going to run into problems where he's probably going to throw JD Vance under the bus, probably Elon Musk, probably we're already seeing Vivek

being thrown under the bus. But all those people, they're incredibly loyal to him. So it's going to be kind of difficult and it might split the MAGA world a little bit when he does that. Well, I mean, he already sided with Elon and Doge over the H1 visa program. We've talked about that before. It was the first interesting zone of fracture or tension in the MAGA coalition. Just to go off what Felix said, I guess what feels different this time is both a media honeymoon that's treating him like the way they do other presidents, but also just like, yeah, like the absence of the quote resistance, but also a Democratic Party that I think has taken this election to be a basically

like a Reagan-Mondale level mandate for Donald Trump. I mean, it's just like, I think they're reacting to this loss in a way that like, like the idea that Trump just absolutely killed them and not that they just lost it. You know what I mean? Like it's different seeing like getting beat and like just giving it up. And I think like the difference here is that like there's we're seeing a lot of, you know, like Democrats try to like, you know, sort of weasel their way into supporting him, particularly the things on the immigration enforcement and deportations and things like that. But like, I guess what feels different now is it

seems like the media and the Democratic Party are treating this election like it was a huge blowout and that Trump has some sort of huge mandate and is overwhelmingly popular. Yeah, like people have moved to the right. The voter base has moved to the right a little bit on certain issues that has actually happened, but it's easy to overestimate that. Especially when you're looking at Twitter, when it's controlled by Elon Musk or you're looking at media that's filtered through the tech algorithm and those guys are all like courtiers for him now. They're all just at Mar-a-Lago trying to win favor from him. So it's easy to overestimate and think like, well, I guess everybody's just racist now. I guess everybody's just like this, but it's still just not that many people.

It's just only not even a majority really. It's just become normalized sort of and the people fighting back against it are tired. Yeah, I know. Alex, it's that sense of fatigue. People just I think like there's such a pervasive sense of just demoralization Not just in terms that like Trump is president again, but like I think if there's anything productive I think it's that like many voters are just furious of the Democratic Party for just losing this election Yeah, they ran a senile guy. Yeah, we could all tell he was senile and they replaced him two months before the election

And that's why they lost that's really the main reason why they lost. I mean, I that was what I was going to bring up. If you guys saw the that Shannon Watts lady talking about, was she again? She's like, what's her group? Every town, I think it's like a gun control thing. OK, yeah, she did, you know, a pretty, pretty, you know, by the books, annoying NGO liberal. I think she did

something like, like vaguely blame Bernie for Sandy Hook at one point in 2016. Right. But yeah, because he said you couldn't sue gun manufacturers for shootings, which does seem kind of crazy. I don't know. Yeah. But, um, she made a post today about how demoralized she felt by the direction of the democratic party, basically along the lines of everything that we've said that they are treating very narrow win like it is a 1984 style realignment and just how directionless and shitty the party seems and how they feel like there's no future in it which I thought was notable I don't really think that that augurs you know the creation of an American Labor Party or anything like that.

I think like sooner or later, some ambitious Democrat will figure out the exact right balance of like liberalism and I guess not using NGO language and like capture the hearts of these people. But for now it is it is interesting that the Democrat like the Democratic Party is sort of they're replaying the thing that they did in 2016 where they're trying they're laying the blame at the feet of the remaining left of the party and like progressive NGOs. And it's not quite like 2016 where they tried that and it fell flat It's more like they're just talking to each other No one else cares the people doing this are the only people that seem to Believe that there is any future in the Democratic Party care about everyone else has checked out

Yeah, like what I see like, you know, Matt Iglesias, who's probably like the most prominent voice of what you're talking about. I mean, I just noticed that there is like less of an instinct to yell at him or make fun of him because it all just seems so pointless. Not pointless, it just seems so redundant. I mean, like every time these guys open their mouths, they like they indict themselves further. There's just no real reason to argue these points like there was in 2016. Even though we live in this like perpetual 2016,

it really does seem like that's running out of gas because like, I mean, you can't do 2016, then 2020, then 2024 again saying the same things over and over again. I mean, it's just like there's no point in arguing about this anymore. Yeah, they're just coping. Yeah. They're just posting cope because they can't they can't actually criticize the content of the Democratic Party or the actual platform. So there just has to be some sort of convenient explanation like the groups. The groups are they did it. There's just some some small niche community that's infecting the Democratic Party which is perfect and it's fine and it's great and someone just stabbed us in the back in a

way that means we don't actually have to change anything about the platform. I guess another difference between 2016 and 2024 is that at least on foreign policy like I think a lot of this cope and a lot of the kind of triumphalism and sort of intimidation being done by MAGA right now, it can't be divorced from the fact that the United States in terms of foreign policy has never been weaker. I mean, this is coming on the heels of a number of big, I don't know, roadblocks to US and Germany, like for instance, the Russian-Ukraine war, which I think by everyone by this point knows is not going to end on terms favorable for the Ukrainian side.

There is of course, Gaza as well. In southern Lebanon, we've seen thousands and thousands of people returning to northern Gaza and also south Lebanon today, which is totally contrary to, as we've talked about with Muhammad, the goals of the Israeli state. And then also the AI. I mean, we just had Ed Zitron on today. The news everyone's talking about today is the Chinese AI deep sea that has just liquidated about a trillion dollars in value from the American AI sector because it's open source,

cheap, and does everything American AI or LLGMs or whatever you call them. LLMs. Yeah, large language models do, but a billion times better. Yeah, that's the thing. You can't really complain about it when you're trying to undermine people's jobs and automate everything and you say, well, it can do it cheaper than you. Sorry.

Like when someone else does it to you. Well, I was, I personally, I was was very I was very excited to use deep seek. But unfortunately, I did find out today that I'm trying to use possibly used chips that likely violated export export laws. Oh, no. Oh, man. I need to get a hold on these chips. They're using chips. They shouldn't be. They have chips that they shouldn't have.

What's going on here? Did we just make them? What is the issue? I honestly I don't get it. And I realized that I'm trying to think about this that like, I know I've been very critical of AI, but I have to admit to something here. I have never used AI for anything. I don't think I've ever interacted with an AI or chatbot or image creation program? I don't think I've ever interacted with an AI or chat bot or image creation program. I don't really even know what like I don't have a sense of like, I just like when people say, Oh, like deep seek is this new cool thing. I

don't even know like in my head, I can't connect in my mind like, Oh, I'm going to use deep seek. Like for what I just don't get it. Have you ever used AI for anything? Like Google stuff? What does that offer here? It basically just Google stuff for you. Yeah. People, some people like that. They like having like a conversational type thing.

And I guess if you're programming or something, they're like macros or templates it can make for you, but I don't really have any use for it personally. Cause I can just read stuff. I can just pull up Wikipedia. I don't want to have to ask. Like I always hated that when something pops up and it asks you to like have a conversation with a bot or even a person. Like I just, just to have to ask. Like I always hated that when something pops up and it asks you to like have a conversation with a bot or even a person.

Like I just, just show me the thing. I don't want to like ask somebody like, how do I find this? Can you explain this to me? And then you have to wait. Like remember that website, cha cha, that's cha cha where there would be, there'd be someone getting paid like 10 cents an hour who would Google stuff for you. Basically, you would ask it a question and then it would spit it back to you. It's basically that. And I wouldn't want to use that either. Because one, it's weird that there's someone on the other end, some stranger, and I

feel like I'm bothering them. And then two, I could just Google it. Google sucks now, but that's Moving on to a couple things from the first Trump week in office that I have to give him credit for. I have to, you know, tip of the hat where necessary. And the two major things that he's done that I have to give him his flowers for is, number one, pardoning all the January 6th defendants, even the ones who did violence. Number two, revoking the security clearance of like hundreds of deep state goals, including John Bolton and James Clapper. And Mike Morrell. Mike Morrell was on there. Mike Morrell is one of my most hated CIA guys

who never gets, he never really gets enough hate, but I was very happy to see him there. Yeah, it says here, President Trump revoked US Secret Service protection for John R. Bolton within hours of taking office, stripping his former national security advisor of the security detail he had been granted because of threats on his life from Iran, Mr. Bolton said Tuesday. And this is like one of those things where I read it and I'm like, why did John Bolton have a security secret service detail before this? That that's what pissed me off the most this guy gets to spend his entire professional life antagonizing the rest of the world and we have to pay for guys to like watch him to pay for like Secret service guys to watch him shit until he dies at age 98 And what's the point of the whole apparatus the NSA and the FBI and the whole all our that the giant deep state of National Security shit Just yeah and the whole, all our, the giant deep state of national security shit. If someone can just walk around Virginia, Iran is going to just send a missile directly

at him? Like, what's the point? What did he work for his whole life? If he's not safe, he has to have a bodyguard. He got to create the world we live in. If he's not proud of that, then tough shit. Yeah, I guess it isn't a very safe country. That sucks. I guess we're just, we're at the, the rest of the world could just kill any of us at any time.

Like if Iran Sulaimani'd John Bolton, what the fuck good would a Secret Service detail do? They fucking look like- Yeah, that would be, no, they have to kill SpongeBob. A ballistic missile hits his convoy of SUVs. I don't think the guys sitting in the back seat with him are really going to fucking make much difference. That would accomplish so little. Yeah. Because Trump would call him a loser.

He'd say he died like a dog. That would be awesome. I don't think a single person, maybe like someone in the national review would write an obituary. But like, okay, so Bolton says here, I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision. Notwithstanding my criticism of President Biden's national security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to again extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.

What a fucking loser. Paying to protect this asshole. And then he goes, the Justice Department filed charges against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official in 2022 for attempting to hire a hitman to target me. What did he go on? Hire a hitman.com? Yeah, attempting to hire a hitman to target me. What did he go and hire a hitman? Dot com. Attempting to. OK, yeah, that guy that guy was in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Like I was a Davie seal. Like, come on. If you're in the Revolutionary Guard, why do you need to hire a hitman to clip someone's? Do you just don't you have your own ops that you can task this with? Also, he can afford his own bodyguard. Of course he can. Just pay a bodyguard. Yeah.

If it's that important. And he won't. He won't pay a bodyguard because he knows he's not actually in danger. He just likes making those guys like listen to him go to the bathroom. It makes him feel important. But if he had to pay for it, I don't think he would pay for it. And then also the, any thoughts on the new freedom of the January 6th defendants? I mean, obviously, they're better off not being in prison because as we talked about, they're having too much fun in prison. They gave him tablets. They're all there with each other just talking about

January 6 and Trump and all this shit. Maybe now that they're free. And now they go back to the real prison. They go back to the real prison of their family lives, like to their wives and kids who are the ones that grasp them in the first place. They're gonna spend less time thinking about that shit. Probably. Yeah. Because now they have responsibilities. And they're not just with their boys.

They're not getting three three hots in a cot from Uncle Stupid. Yeah, they got to get out there and for those guys. Yeah. But you know, like, I mean, like, I mean, think, think how good they must feel, you know, like it worked. It worked. It worked. I mean, like they had to spend a couple of years in jail, but like now it worked. Now they're out.

Now they're back to square one. They're free. Like they were before and nothing really, uh, I don't know. Did January 6th help Trump win? Did that? It certainly didn't hurt. Consequences of that help? I wonder. It's hard to really measure that. I don't know if it like

hurt it slightly or helped it slightly. Well, I think it helped him in that like it made it like the Democrats tried to make January 6th their entire reelection campaign and discovered that like most people actually like the idea of making our elected politicians fear for their lives. Yeah, they don't care that much. It like it hurt in the sense that like, you know, he riled all these guys up and then

like when it happened, everyone in America, like every institution condemned him and he instantly was like, I'm sorry, they're bad. Just let me have Facebook. And that like that sort of that was the lowest he ever was, I think, in the eyes of the support when he was like, I'm so sorry. Please let me please let me just have LinkedIn. But I think, yeah, on balance, it probably hurt the Democrats more because up until like October of last year, Kamala Harris,

who they would ask her about the Dobbs decision and she would go, did you know that John Kelly said that January 6th was bad? What? What are you doing? Does John Kelly still have a security detail? Did he make the list? I don't know. I feel like John Kelly is like he's working at Geek Squad now.

There's no place for him in Trump's New America. He's probably like an honorary professor at some college. Yeah. All those guys, the guys that betrayed Trump. One of the war colleges. I forgot about all those guys. Who is the really big guy? James Comey.

Yeah. I forgot about James Comey. I wonder what he's up to. I don't know. Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. And I guess going on with the first week of the Trump administration, there have been of course his cabinet picks. And when I saw over the weekend that Pete Hegseth was confirmed, JD Vance was the tie

breaking vote. When I saw Pete Hegseth get confirmed, I got to say my first thought was, can we get Matt Gates back in here? Yeah, is there anyone who's been more like egregiously wronged by this than Matt Gates? I mean, like, there was only the implication that he was raping all those teenagers. Pete Hegseth, they're all fucking named accusers. And like, at least Matt Gates isn't a veteran. Exactly. So I mean, Chris, Chris, you and I were talking about this in light of the Trump appointments. But like, my attitude towards all of them is just like, just confirm them.

Like, fuck it. Like, just let it ride. Like, at this point, like, I just sort of feel like we have we all have no choice now. We are all accelerationists now. And like the wackier they are, the better. Like my point about like Hegseth, because like there were reports coming out while he was I mean forget all the all the rapes he allegedly did and Including my favorite thing that his mother his mother in an email to him called him a woman abusing bastard who deserves to die Practically, I mean when your own mom is putting you on blast and that becomes part of your confirmation hearing in the Senate

I thought yeah, I thought there might be a chance that he wouldn't get confirmed. But it's also his drinking that continues to be an issue because there's been, you know, reports that like, you know, he routinely passes out and pisses himself, that he started out his day of the confirmation hearings having three gin and tonics. And then of course, remember his pledge that he would stop drinking if he becomes the Secretary of Defense. So I'd like some follow up on that. But my point is, if they are going to start a start a war with Iran, a drunk like Pete Hegseth is exactly the guy I want running the Pentagon. I want someone as incompetent and like literally shaking and seeing elephants, or just drunk or just shitfaced. literally shaking and seeing elephants or just drunk or just shit faced. It's hard not to see the confirmation of somebody like Pete Hague said, who, again, is a is a weekend host at Fox News.

He's not even acceptable for primetime and not just react by saying, well, I guess that position is not very important, is it? Yeah, he's a guy from TV. It's easy to forget that he's a guy that was on Fox and Trump saw him on TV every day. And I think ideally that would have been his entire cabinet the first time was just Fox hosts. Cause that's who he was calling up. It would save him phone calls, but those guys know that like actually being in

there and having to make decisions and having to be accountable for shit. That's a lot less fun than just being on TV and saying, oh, they should do this. They should do this. Why aren't they doing this? But then you're the guy who actually has to talk to people and make the things happen. And you realize, oh, I can't do that. I can't do any of this for him. And then he blames you. And that's less fun. I do like the idea that it's just him scrolling through his contacts and his phone being like, oh, fuck, oh, fuck, I got to staff this cabinet. Who do I got? Who do I got? Jesse Waters for Health and Human Services.

Yeah, he doesn't have Jared and Ivanka this time. They don't want to participate. Oh, yeah, we got head South in Department of Defense. Can't wait to see how that goes. Like I said, he's exactly the kind of guy I'd want running a war against Iran. So best of luck to him. And I guess the last thing I want to talk about from this week is the trade wars, the possibility of trade wars, like imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico. And then this recent

spat with Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia. Did you see Petro's very lengthy Twitter post in reply to Donald Trump? I've been very impressed by Claudia Scheinbaum in Mexico, but I really like Petro's post. This was like all the long posts that we see nowadays. It's a business guy who's like explaining why, you know, you should sleep at your job and only get married when you're 51, if you want to get ahead. I haven't seen a long post that has some blood in it in a long time, but Gustavo Petro produced probably the first good long post in three years at least.

I like when he opened it by saying he doesn't like visiting the United States because it's boring. And then he says, I confess that I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I don't know what Miller is. I think Arthur Miller, maybe? I don't know. What Miller is it? Steve Miller?

Steve Miller, Glenn Miller. Hopefully not Stephen Miller. Jason Miller. Jason Miller. Yeah, shout out to a friend of the show, Jason Miller. Nothing negative to say about that guy. Yeah. Nothing to respect for him.

Well, I have to shout out Jason Miller because he did make my favorite post of the Trump inauguration, which was, he was like, I dare Anna Wintour evoke to put Usha Vance on the cover of her magazine. I love it. She doesn't, isn't she like 95? Usha Vance? No, uh, she's got to be so is she even running the magazine? Oh yeah.

She's still, she's all around, but she's only 75. Oh, Vogue should do just, you know, like a fashion issue for all the beautiful fashionable women of the Trump administration. Yeah. There should be a mega fashion magazine in a mega sports illustrated. Yep. Maga Maxim. Bring that back.

Maga Maxim. There is like a beast women's magazine that they started. They started in 2020. And it's like, you know, it's like those we need we need to bring back beauty type, type women. It's for those. I don't know. I haven't seen it in the wild. I haven't seen anyone accidentally buy it in the airport yet. But it's not L because that's an existing non-based woman's magazine, Awoke One.

They tried to call it Bitch Magazine, but it was taken. You know, it's called something. It's called Mrs. Magazine. Yeah, Mrs. Magazine. You know, it's called something like, you know, Eros. Or something like that. Something fancy. Eros Unboundita. Yeah, something fancy.

Yeah. Eros Unbound. Artemis is revenge. I believe it is Evie magazine. Evie, IE, a politically conservative American women's magazine. Founded after the Pokemon. Yeah. Here's another thing I want to talk about. So I can about Trump, but I did notice this one thing from a CNN article, headline

here, Democrats grapple with their own message in Trump 2.0. And this is being about how the leaders of the party are attempting to reshape their brand or refine their messaging in light of, you know, what they have a crushing defeat. But there is, you know, it says here, top Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries has been urging members to stick to substantive policy differences rather than personality clashes and social media clapbacks with a man who won the popular vote. But there remains internal tension in the party about where to draw the line on Trump. popular vote. But there remains internal tension in the party about where to draw the line on Trump. Democrats in Trump won turf are traveling to Mar-a-Lago and voting for GOP

bills on immigration and trans athletes, while others are protesting his inauguration and grilling his cabinet picks in made-for-TV moments. But there is this one section here that really caught my eye. It says here, in a private Senate Democratic luncheon last week, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey led colleagues through the shifting dynamics of a media echo chamber that conservatives are thriving in. Democrats scoured examples of how conspiracy theories like the one about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs.

What happened to that, by the way? Did they stop? They did. Cause you haven't heard about that. They must've stopped. Well, you know, well, it got called out. So people brought the pets inside. You don't have to kill the cats and dogs. You just find them frozen. It's like getting a pound of frozen beef.

Spread rapidly in the conservative media sphere and how Democrats ended to try to harness their own tools to get their messages out better. One of the bright spots Democrats highlighted, according to a source familiar, was a viral video from the pandemic of Virginia Senator Mark Warner making a tuna melt in his kitchen that led to the lawmaker being cheered and jeered by people who questioned his culinary leanings. The communications ecosystem— That was like four years ago! I don't even remember this. What are you even talking about? When this article was shared by CNN, they referred to the tuna melt as the unforgettable Mark Warner tuna

melt moment. I bring this up because I feel like I'm someone who, to an unhealthy degree follows democratic politics and online politics. And I had no fucking clue what the viral tuna melt moment was referring to. And Felix, you remember this? No, I've never heard of this. And like, even if I had an Instagram live from five fucking years ago, that's it. You're in a meeting with like fucking Dracula and David Geffen. And you're like, how do we unfuck up the shitty party?

Do you remember five years ago when Mark Warner made a tuna melt? Like that's just that's only reaching people who are already hyper invested in democratic politics. What is that accomplishing? Like you look cool to politicos who are like, like that's only really impressing people in DC who follow politics for a living. And even then it's only a few of them who are like, I love the Democrats. Any Democrat doing anything, they're awesome. They're my dad.

I want you to imagine someone who not only follows Mark Warner on Instagram, but sees that he has gone live and goes, Ooh, ooh, let me click on that. What might've been a hate watcher? Yeah. Uh, no, he's going to, Oh, he's so bad at tuna melts. I hate him. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, yeah. Mark Warner was like dark side Phil during the pandemic.

Yeah. People would just be with him all day. Yeah. He got swatted every day. He got caught jacking off on live. Yeah, he jacked off into a tuna melt. That's the secret ingredient. That is that that is why it was controversial. Yeah, I know. So I just googled Mark Warner tuna melt. And the first result is a YouTube video titled Senator Mark Warner's

tuna melt atrocity. Come on. And Axios remembering the Senator Mark Warner's tuna melt atrocity. Come on. Axios, remembering the Senator Mark Warner's tuna melt four years later. It says, four years ago today, Virginia Senator Mark Warner scarred the internet so much with his heinous tuna melt video that Vice President Kamala Harris got him on Instagram Live to help right his wrongs. It was the second month of the COVID pandemic Harris wasn't VP at and Warner's Post was secretly a PSA to wash your hands for 20 seconds to avoid spreading germs. But there were a lot of wrongs. He didn't toast the

bread, used ungodly globs of mayonnaise and not even Duke's mayo didn't drain the tuna and then microwave the sandwich. Oh my god, he made a tuna melt in the microwave. Okay, so this is even worse than this even. So in their meeting, they're like, how can we count how can we counter the viral racist demagoguery that alleges that immigrants are, you know, cannibalizing pets? I know a video of Virginia Senator Mark Warner making a sandwich badly. Yeah, it's such like, it really is like Twitter journalist type shit to get in like cooking arguments or like getting a fake angry arguments with like about which city has the best pizza

or something like pineapple. I would fucking fight anyone who likes pineapple pizza. It's appealing to those type of people. If you don't put salt in your pasta water, you're a horrible person. Yeah. Like people who are... Fucking dog shit. People who are extremely proud that they know how to do basic cooking and they want to let

you know all the time. Yeah, it's a very halfway house style of posting. Yeah. Now, fuck it. This tuna melt is, God, this is an atrocity. Jesus. Like, I can just imagine the person, they probably, yeah, they write for Axios or Politico or some newspaper in DC and that's what they pretend to get mad about because they can't get in an actual argument because that feels bad. So they just like have fake arguments with their friends about food and food condiments

and topics and shit. And it's just excruciating to read that. It sucks. All right. Best of luck curating the next viral sandwich moment for the Democrats as they tweak their messaging. They should just make the worst cooking possible. I mean honestly if if they're going to do that, they should make like Mind of Jason meals. Like just put like different parts of a pig where you can't really tell what it is. You know, it's not the part you want to eat, but it is part of the pig. Boiled bananas. Yeah, you put that in a big pot.

You put some eggshells in there. You boil it for like 72 hours. Maybe you put some like baby powder on top. And then you just make that on Instagram and it will go viral. It will get some people getting mad about it. If you make it nasty enough, it will repulse normal people and not just people who pretend to get mad about sandwiches for clout.

Or just cook poop. Like what if a senator cooked poop on the stove? That would get a lot of views. Maybe just put a piece of poop in a pan and just cooked it? Hi everybody. I'm Senator Chuck Schumer and I'm making a Schumer family delight this evening. I call this Chuck roast. It's a big poop.

It's a big poop I put on the stove and I turn it on and I leave the house. You're going to want to braise this for about three hours. I cook this to troll my wife. This is Guy's meal when the wife's out of town. Big bowl of poop. Big bowl of poop. Big bowl of poop. Bachelor chow. Yeah.

But stuff like that, that would get a lot of views. The eat shit challenge. Let's get the juice this. Let's get it viral. Yeah, why not? Who cares? What, they're afraid of being embarrassed? They're embarrassed every day.

Well, speaking of eating shit, I'd like to close out the show with, I guess, maybe like one last look back at the the Biden presidency. I had this last week. We did get a chance to get to it. But there was some good stuff here that I wanted to share. And this was courtesy of Politico. Eleven historians predict how Joe Biden will be remembered. Says here, historians may reevaluate his legacy in the years to come after achievements and failures alike are put in more context, not to mention what occurs in Trump's second term.

Will Biden ultimately be viewed as a uniquely poor one-term president or will history be kinder to him with time? I mean, to that, I just like to offer the question, what a one term president has American history been kind to? JFK? William H. Kingliff? Yeah, that's one. No. Well, just-

William Henry Harrison. JFK is a good one. JFK is a good one. All the guys who died, basically. William Henry Harrison, yeah. Yeah. All right, so 11 historians. The first one up is Sean Wilentz, who is a professor at Princeton.

The headline is, A Tragic Element to Biden's Presidency. And he says, Few worthy one-term presidents get the praise they deserve, unlike lousy one-term presidents like James Buchanan, who do get the obloquy that they deserve. For the moment and for some years to come, pundits and other pseudo-historians, as well as some genuine historians, will jump all over Joe Biden for his gaffes, his authentic policy debacles, chiefly the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and more, above all, maybe his failure to keep his pledge as a transitional president. With any luck, Biden, like Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush before him, will eventually receive his due for his large legislative achievements, one with razor thin congressional

majorities, his guiding hand in bringing the economy out of its post-COVID torpor into a full recovery, and even more perhaps his rallying of NATO to support Ukraine against Vladimir Putin's vicious invasion. So it didn't work. Yeah, that didn't work. Yeah. It didn't work. Yeah, I'm gonna look back on that. And it's not gonna matter. It's just a waste of money. And like I said, like I says, with any luck, Biden like Jimmy Carter and George HW Bush before him, will eventually receive

his due. Have Jimmy Carter or George HW Bush received their due? No, I mean, Jimmy Carter, like, not really. No one really likes. Jimmy Carter receives his due for his post-presidential life. People just say the old bullshit about it. He's a better man than he is as a president. He was just too good of a guy to have the job.

He's just too nice and he built all that. He did photo ops where he built houses and he lived for way too long and drained us of resources. He took nurses that could have been caring for someone who had more life left to live. He made everyone disgusted by looking like dry SpongeBob. He ruined billions of lunches across America. Yeah, he ruined our appetite. He just looked disgusting and he couldn't close his mouth. He had bugs laying eggs in his mouth because he couldn't close it anymore.

I think honestly, if you live that long, you should sort of forfeit your right to like be, have a funeral and be remembered and stuff. Like you want it to stay here an extra 30 years. So like, I don't know. Yeah. And Michelle Obama, she was like 70 years ago. So same thing with like Bob Hope. Like, I'm sorry. I don't even remember what movies you were in

I don't because you lived way too long like they should have had your funeral in 1975 because then people remembered the movies you were in but I don't remember them So I don't even look just who cares. I don't care. Oh, Sean. Oh, let's continuous here He says should the nation's luck finally run out though He will be remembered very differently as the last president who observed the rule of law and who stood proudly as the indispensable leader of what was once the free world. Either way, there will be a tragic element to Biden's presidency.

To be Irish, Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed, is to know that in the end, the world will break your heart. Irish Joe Biden, who understood know that in the end, the world will break your heart. Irish Joe Biden, who understood that fate all too well, at least tried as a president to sustain the core liberal values to which he devoted his life's work. Can we stop with this Irish shit? Now, I had to bring this up because as soon as I read this, I could hear Felix, even when I was just reading this in my head, I could hear Felix going, fuck off, fuck off with

this weepy Irish bullshit. It just doesn't. Is it 1830? There isn't like an essential Irish character that's different than like the Welsh character or something. It's just, we're all the same people. Yeah. It's the Anglo sphere.

Yeah. It's basically the same shit. It is. Yeah, to be Irish is to know that the world will break your heart. Yeah. Like, like he's the only people that have ever been a potato farmer in the 1840s and not the president of the United States who was too senile to be president. And also he's not an idealistic guy.

No, no, he's one of the most cynical people who has ever occupied that office. Like he didn't even really pretend to want to change stuff. He's just a retail politician who shakes people's hands and makes deals. It doesn't even matter what happens. He just likes that process of shaking hands and making deals and nothing even ever happens. He didn't get rich off of it. He's just a scumbag because he likes it. I will say that Sean Willence wrote a very good book called The Rise of American Democracy

that was a big source for hell of presidents. So I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he has just read too many primary sources from the 1830s and 40s talking about like the fundamental fecundity of the Hibernian or something like that. Yeah. That's the only excuse. Yeah. I just, yeah, I just like, again, like the idea that like Joe Biden was just this true

believer. I mean, he was but like in evil. Yeah. And also, like, you know, like all this fucking blarney about the Irish, like, you know, border is on a kind of bigotry, in my opinion, because essentially, he's like, I know it looks terrible for Joe Biden, and he will probably remember it as a failure. But that's just because he's Irish and the Irish fuck up everything. And anytime you put an Irishman in charge of anything, tragedy and heartbreak are soon to follow. You really have to try so hard to find some sort of ethnic angle on him. Yeah. Like Joe Biden is just a white American. Yeah, he's like German. He was born in like the 1940s. Like it's there isn't something some sort of ethnic character

you can give to his personality. It's his fault. It's not because he's Irish or German or whatever. It's just because he's a dickhead. The next one is by Tevi Troy, who is a former White House aide and a presidential historian and a senior fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute. I love this headline here. Tevi Troy's little remembrance is titled, From the role of Dragon Slayer to the person who had, sorry, from the role of Dragon Slayer to the person who had enabled the dragon to return.

Buddy, that's the one thing you don't want to do when you're a dragon slayer. Yeah, that is that. Yeah, that will kind of that's a bad epithet for Dragon Slayer to have on the allowed the dragon to return. Slay the dragon, but not really. This year, Joe Biden entered the presidency after nearly half a century of wanting to be president. Although his party had only narrow margins in Congress, he pursued overly ambitious plans

to reshape the American political system as FDR and LBJ had. Unfortunately for him, he lacked the majorities they had and in doing so appeared to overstep his mandate. Then in one of history's tragic ironies, by the time Biden got the role that he had sought for so long, he had become manifestly too old for the role. As the Biden, again, that's not tragic. That's just stupid. This is the Ronald Reagan Institute. Yeah. Yeah, no, I know. Good point.

Alex. Good point. President BC. How could they allow a president to be senile? They do that. It's the first unprecedented for this to happen. Uh, as the Bison, as the Biden presidency progressed, his advanced age made him vulnerable to a challenge from the very person he had vanquished to win the

presidency, Donald Trump. Biden was forced out of the presidential race by his party before actually facing Trump, but the questions about his age had put the Democratic Party in a position where Biden had let the very person he took credit for defeating return to the presidency. In this way, Biden went from the role of dragon slayer to the person who had enabled the dragon to return. Whoops. to the person who had enabled the dragon to return. Whoops. He didn't really slay the dragon. Yeah, he didn't slay him.

It's giving him a little too much credit. He mostly just benefited from COVID and people just being sick of Trump after four years and the economy was fucked up. Next one up is by Victor Davis Hansen, longtime friend of the show. I got a headline here. The most radically- I wonder if he's going to bring up ancient Greece. The most radically left wing and polarizing presidential tenure in a century.

That's that's that's a bit much, Victor. That's yeah. More than Obama. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's just like, yeah, like every Democratic president is the most divisive president in American history. This one says, as Biden left office with 57% public disapproval, the media and leaks from his own staff suddenly confirmed that they had suppressed honest discussion about the president's obvious and long-standing cognitive decline.

Unlike Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who left their two terms with public approval, Biden's four years were more unpopular and less successful than even those of a similar one-term Jimmy Carter presidency. So credit to Victor Davis Hansen for that, but he does talk about the woke agenda and hyperinflation, massive deficits. So, yeah, that's pretty standard right-wing stuff. The next one is by Keisha N. Blaine, who is a Guggenheim fellow and Carnegie fellow at Brown University, headline, Bringing Black Women into the Halls of Power. And then, like, where are they where, and then they get kicked out again,

then they get kicked out. They're out again. But it says president Joe Biden's sermon office resulted in tangible gains for many Americans through his pro labor policies and his investments in infrastructure and manufacturing to name a few. One of his most significant accomplishments was advancing black women's leadership opportunities. While black women in the United States have had a long and storied history of engaging in politics,

even when they were barred from the vote, Biden's term represented a high point in bringing black women into the halls of power. So it just goes on here about his appointments to the courts. 60% were people of color. Biden placed black women in invisible positions of power, including Corrine Jean Pierre as press secretary and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as United States ambassador to the United Nations.

Having a black woman give out those fake press releases. I don't want to get too far out of my way here. That was kind of throwing her under the bus. Yeah, this is really not the kind of- And Kamala, like he kind of just, he kind of used them as a shield and just gave them the worst jobs. He gave Kamala all the shit jobs like going to the border during his honeymoon period. And like, Linda Greenfield and Kelly Jean Pierre, he just made them like the face of

the Holocaust. Yeah. Yeah. I just have to defend all that stuff. That's not really great. Also Obama married a black woman. So I think that might have been the high point. Yeah, and like and then trot her out there to lie for her for him on a regular basis. No, I know. I mean, like, you know, like I said, don't want to stray too far to my lane here. But like if I was looking to tout the, the, I don't know, like the representation or prominence of black women in American politics, I would not be using the Biden administration as an example. I mean, maybe the Supreme Court, Katanji Jackson Brown, that's a lifetime appointment, but the rest of these women, like I said, after they did their job covering up the Holocaust

are now out of power. Next up is from Kenneth W. Mack, who is the inaugural Lawrence D. Beale Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard, touts Biden as the most successful one-term president in American history. Is this who he's talking about when he says Mac? When Biden says Mac? Because they must be friends. He says here, I'm going to skip the first paragraph here.

It says here, Biden pushed for the selection of unprecedented numbers of women and minorities for the federal bench and at high level federal positions, including his vice president, Kamala Harris, Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, and also promoted policies to benefit the working class and economically disadvantaged, such as his administration's industrial policies and aggressive promotion of health care, health insurance under Obamacare. Both of which often disproportionately benefited economically marginal Republican leaning areas. He broke decisively with the neoliberal policies

that had dominated democratic politics for a generation. He accepted the popularity of tariffs and national competition as the basis of an American relationship with China, while countering Russia's invasion of Ukraine and finally bringing home American forces from their failed mission in Afghanistan. In the end, Biden's popularity was undone

by surging inflation and illegal border crossings, the fall of the Afghan government, which I mean he was just touting as one of his best achievements, and concerns about his age, you know, blah blah blah, it goes on like that. But he says here, there is a case to be made for Biden as the most successful one-term president in American history. If he'd been a bit younger or perhaps a bit luckier, he might have had two. The next one is Noelle Rooks is a professor and department chair at Brown University. Headline here, in some ways it was the best of times. I don't even need to read that one.

Tenth grade essay. Oh my God. Last one I'm going to read, Joe Biden's leadership Transformative. And this is by Judy Su Chun Wu, who is the co-author of Fierce and Fearless, Patsy Takamamoto Mink, first woman of color in Congress. She is a history of professor of Asian American studies and associate dean at the University of California Irvine. Basically, Joe Biden's leadership was transformative. He pledged to appoint the most diverse cabinet with record numbers of women and people of color. And he followed through by appointing people

like the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American woman appointed to the presidential cabinet. And then he says he also appointed acting labor secretary, Julie Su, a Chinese American woman and long committed and widely recognized advocate for labor. Yeah, I don't know.

That's just stuff he did, I guess. Like he made investments in infrastructure. That's kind of a low bar. Like, yeah, you can name a few good things he did, but that doesn't, when you're talking about ranking a president, like you can find infrastructure bills that every president signed. Like if you go back to like Franklin Pierce or something,

there's probably, he probably signed something about the Erie Canal that created a lot of jobs. That doesn't mean he didn't suck though. It just seems to me like in a lot of these they list like his great achievements like withdrawing from Afghanistan is also being his greatest undoing. Something that was set up under Trump. Yeah. The time table for that. Just another bit of Irish tragedy for Joe Biden.

But we will we I mean honestly we won't we don tragedy for Joe Biden. But we will. I mean, honestly, we won't. We don't have him to kick around anymore. And honestly, we will say we never see him again. He might be the opposite of Jimmy Carter, where we see him too much. Yeah, you think Joe Biden is going to be building houses or helping people or just making public statements now he's gone. Because, like, I mean, Joe Biden despises this country.

I mean, he always has. But if he didn't before, he definitely does now. Like we let him down. We betrayed. We betrayed Joe. Yeah, we're like Hunter. Yeah. I guess he still loves Hunter. He doesn't still love America. Well, he's not going to pardon us. Yeah, he should have pardoned everybody. He should he should just pardon the whole country.

That is honestly what he should have done He should have let every single criminal out that the federal government has oh, yeah, just say deal with it I don't know fuck you like I'm already getting ranked badly by historians So how about I just let all these guys out and then I leave if he went out like Bane Yeah, just open all the prisons. It's your problem. You can get them all back. It's like 52 pickup. It's like con air. He puts them all on one plane. Yeah, we're going to put them on a plane for some reason. Hopefully nothing bad happens. Well, there you go. No more sleepy Joe, but we've got four years of Trump to look forward

to. All right. I guess that does it for today's show. Do we have any announcements or plugs at the end of today's show? Yes, I've been meaning to do this announcement for a while because people have been asking about it, but the Matt Christman's book, No Passo Ran, it is finished manufacturing. It should be getting to our distributor,

perhaps even this week, and then it is off to your mailboxes. So hopefully if you ordered the book back in October, it is produced and hopefully to you in a week or so, early February. So that is happening. It's coming soon. Books. Keep your powder dry, everybody. God bless you. WFIM Talk Radio, Fortune Kit. Check it out. That's right. All right, everybody. Alex, thanks again for

hanging out today and talk to you again soon, everybody. Bye bye. Music