THE SHOW NOTES: The Biden Cheat Sheet, Killing DEI, & The Press Bubble
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The Cheat Sheet
Joe Biden was caught using a cheat sheet during yesterday’s press conference that had a list of reporters and questions they would ask. The sheet insinuates an unknown level of coordination between White House staff and reporters.
Not the first time: On multiple occasions, Biden has famously relied on cheat sheets for public events since taking office. Most recently, images of a cheat sheet were captured at a Biden event in June that read, "YOU enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants…YOU take YOUR seat."
2022 Autopsy
GOP insiders told The Washington Post that an internal Republican National Committee report on what went wrong in the 2022 midterms does not mention Donald Trump once. Despite Trump’s decision to back flawed candidates like Herschel Walker, Dr. Oz, Kari Lake, and Blake Masters, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel refused to mention Trump by name.
Why: The report's commissioners are avoiding Trump in deference to Ronna McDaniel who has committed to remaining neutral in the GOP 2024 primary. McDaniel has been one of the few RNC members who has maintained a working relationship with Trump since his time in office. The RNC Chairwoman is working to get Trump to agree to a slate of debates he initially rejected on Tuesday.
Insanity: The report does not mention by name Senate candidates the RNC deemed flawed because some of these same candidates are “considering 2024 bids for Senate, and the GOP does not want to give opponents fuel for criticism.”
McCarthy’s Debt Ceiling
The House of Representatives passed debt ceiling legislation that Kevin McCarthy claims is the “largest savings of a bill in American history.” The piece of legislation claws back unspent COVID funds and caps additional spending at 1% per year for the next 10 years. McCarthy could only lose five votes in the razor-slim GOP majority and managed to only lose four. The bill heads to the Senate.
Haley & Disney
In a not-so-veiled shot at Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley said South Carolina would be happy to have Disney and its 70k jobs relocate there. A Ron DeSantis-aligned Super PAC deemed her Mickey Haley.
Backstory: Disney announced a lawsuit yesterday against DeSantis claiming political efforts to hurt their business in the ongoing battle over the self-governance of Disney and the Reedy Creek District. DeSantis responded today claiming Disney’s lawsuit is purely political.
Tucker Carlson
In his first statement since leaving Fox News, Tucker Carlson posted a monologue to Twitter (at 8 pm) that did not mention Fox News or his next steps. The two-minute clip highlighted the absurdity of most political arguments and lamented the lack of discussion around major issues like war, civil liberties, demographic changes, corporate power, and natural resources. Check it out here.
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Market snapshot:
While some may think that candidates such as Walker, Oz, Lake, McMasters were "flawed", the ones elected were far and away worse. So I still say that either the voters are monumentally stupid if they vote for a worse democrat candidate than the republican could possibly be, or the quality of candidates was not the issue in the first place. And, by the way, Lake and McMasters were not flawed in my opinion. Oz was a bit of an elitist, but his opponent suffered from a serious cognizant deficiency due to his stroke. And we are supposed to believe that voters actually preferred nonfunctional to an elitist? Continuing to harp on the opinions of some that it was flawed candidates that were the problem is not going to get anyone anywhere in 2024. I have two issues that I consider "hills to die on". The top one is preventing children from the medical experimentation that is being allowed under the guise of "gender affirming care" and abortion. Those things aren't politics. They are life and death.
While I agree that trump is flawed and should not be the nominee....
Let me change this statement..
"Despite the media's decision to back flawed and corrupt candidates like Rafael Warnock, Stacey Abrams, Kattie Hobbs, and Catherine Cortez Masto..."
You can put lipstick on it any way you want. But the voters are the problem, not just trump. They chose to vote for equally, if not, more so flawed and even dangerous candidates like them.
Can we at least be honest with that? If voters can be fooled that easily into thinking that its better to vote for a democrat than someone endorsed by Trump. Our nation is really lost and anyone that did that needs serious mental help.