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I'm sorry guys, we should get rid of the debt ceiling. My biggest issue is the deficit but the debt ceiling does NOTHING to restrain it. It just gives PAID VACATIONS to federal workers who LOVE the time off. Over the holidays!!
People were wondering if DOGE was going to be a real thing, it looks like it is. This is what the people vote for, for Trump and his team to clean up DC. This ridiculous spending bill is a good place to start. We can't keep kicking the can down the road, we have to start cutting spending and living within our means now.
It is an awesome podcast. I have been listening for a few years now. I think I noticed when they went to video.... The interchange is more cluttered, less clean, now. Was there a visual direction going on behind the scenes that now the group cannot do (because they're on video)? Or is it because now the protagonists are not solely focused on how they sound but also how they look (which is fantastic btw!). But as a listener I liked the seemingly more crisp transitions that i think the panel had when it was NOT also video. But the dynamic is still great and i love listening. Just my 'notes'.
Defense spending slightly dipping for a couple years has nothing to do with what’s happening in Ukraine or Israel. Come on, now. If we’d spent another $50 billion on defense in the mid 2010s Putin wouldn’t have gone into Ukraine? Nonsense.
Definitely like the intro music on RUclips better than on Spotify. “Hope for the best” is like nails on a chalkboard. Sorry, not sorry. Best podcast going. Only competition is Call Me Back and The Editors. And 10 blocks. And Honestly. 🤣
The problem with Tucker is that when he interviews characters like Jeffrey Sachs is that he lets them talk without questioning anything they say. He looks at them with open eyes and a surprised expression. Tucker just doesn't have the knowledge to interview people with an agenda. I noticed this when he went to Russia and made an evaluation of the country based on some selected beautiful subway stations.
The content is a lot like Hugh's: formerly proud conservatives who have capitulated to become apologists for Trump, who they hate. They may not lick the boot as cleanly as Hugh does but they're still getting used to their new reality so give them time
@@drmalady1268 The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who was not a practicing Jew, after pushing through a pro-choice bill in New York, later became pro-life and much later a Catholic. I am a late-in-life Catholic but became pro-life after reading Dr. Nathanson book, ABORTING AMERICA (I came across a copy in the Doubleday editorial offices where I worked in the early 1980s.) I try not to question minds changed, but the Obama/Biden years have clearly put this country -- and Israel -- at great risk in many ways. I don't think "disaster" is too strong a word. I'm familiar with Pres. Trump from my years in NYC and his large "fly-the-flag" helicopter fly-overs in Queens (where I lived) and Manhattan. His many appearances on Letterman displayed a calmer and reasonable Trump. As for decadent presidential behavior since 1960 -- as Mel Brooks would say, "it's good to be king;" which it seems presidents have become. Were this were not so. As for voting; all elections are now "lesser evil" campaigns.
Okay, here's one big thing I'm not hearing in this analysis (or any other analysis I've heard): in the recent past, Republicans have stood their ground on CR pork and the govt. shut down as a result. The Democrats had a VERY easy time, using their allies in the media, convincing the public that it was the Republicans' fault no one could, for example, go to national parks and the public was mad at the Republicans. Republicans then cowered in the face of future govt. shutdowns, and that seems to be happening now. But, the public no longer trusts the media, and, in a post-Obama US, the Democrats have lost a lot of the public's deference. I think the Republicans should let the govt. shut down and publish a list of the ridiculous spending that was forced into the CR by corrupt politicians (both D and R). Every free-thinking podcaster in the US will be talking about that list and we'll have an easier time trimming this CR and other ones moving forward. Also, Abe is absolutely wrong. This is not too much Musk. We wanted this. This is what we voted for.
Except you have Republicans who will NEVER vote for the CR. It’s part of their identity. The only way the CR passes is with Dem votes and they are pointing to Children Cancer research being cut. Neither Mike Johnson nor Trump nor Musk can strong arm every R into submission. Every government shutdown since Gingrich in 98 hurt Republicans in the short term. And in the long term whoever shut it down never got what they wanted. Trump didn’t get a dime for the border wall in his shut down. Dems didn’t get protection for Dreamers. Ted Cruz didn’t get Obama to blow up Obama-care. No has believed Biden’s on charge for months. And the more Trump strong arms congress, the more he and the Republicans will be held responsible for not paying the troops during Christmas. As for Musk, Americans don’t actually like foreigners having too much influence over officials. Soros has been a boogeyman for decades, and he’s never been dancing on stage with a president or president elect.
Likely, because of copyright issues. You can use music for your own pleasure, but you can't legally sell it without licensing. The podcast is "free," while the RUclips channel is monetized.
Hey John, isn't a seven-front war really vs a "septapus?"...So fascinating, allowing the gov't to go into default this time might not ultimately backfire against those who actually want to see the deep state significantly shrunken. I'm a never-Democrat & never-Trumper, but rooting for Musk-genius taking on this monstrosity, which might require a combo of Kissinger's defcon v the USSR during the '73 Yom Kippur War plus Ali's rope-a-dope chess match against Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle in '74...However, even if such a truncated bill were to pass with a unanimous GOP House vote, if Poor Mike Johnson were to survive and defense spending were increased to 4.5% of GDP, Pres.-elect Trump has had no appetite to explain to the 47% that their "entitlements" must be drastically reformed.
It's unbelievable that Mike Johnson continues to think things haven't changed. What a dufus. We gave Trump and mandate and Johnson better follow along.
Podorhetz is a mess and can't stand that Trump won again. 'oh no what will the liberal media say about this'? This type of weakness is exactly how we got into the situation we are in...Matt and Seth are the only logical people on this panel.
Musk is simply demonstrating the power of social media and independent news sources. People who care can know what Congress is trying to hide in a bill like this before they vote on it instead of perhaps at some point down the road. Perhaps more importantly not only can they know it, they can send loud and clear feedback before the vote happens. Now that Musk has shown that it works others will do it. X was going off on this bill before Musk jumped on the bandwagon, before Trump reversed position. I think you're giving Mike Johnson too much credit. He should know that business as usual is over and act accordingly. His job shouldn't be to pass legislation at *any* cost. If it takes a government shutdown to make budget cuts more palatable, so be it. If it takes a government shutdown to get Congress to pass a clean CR, so be it. We can't afford to always go with the carrot instead of the stick.
All you need to know about Speaker Johnson is that the guy allowed a 40% congressional pay raise to be put into this bill. That is pure idiocy. Absolute political malpractice.
This bogus post so perfectly captures the idiocy that is Trump and the Republican party. There's not a 40% pay increase in the bill--there's a 3.8% pay increase. But because of morons like Elon Musk, this sort of BS gets spread around and no one is interested in the actual facts. Trump has zero executive management skills, so the First Buddy will continue to frustrate any attempt at governance so long as he doesn't pull too much of the spotlight away from the Narcissist in Chief. And the toadies at Commentary will continue to pretend like there's some rational thought and strategy behind it all.
@@drmalady1268 this is absolutely a false statement. Because what they did was make the increase retroactive to 2007, which takes it up to 40%. You know, when your staffer on a committee for the Democrats in Congress, you ought to disclose that.
@ to be fair, I think we need to see this play out before making any judgments about him. He navigated the Gaetz and MTGs in Congress as well as could be expected. He might pull through
All 4 of you seem to be trying to fit the present into the context of the past. You will do better, I think, if you base future analyses on how little respect those of us who supported and voted for what's happening now have for the political and institutional norms of the last 2 generations.
It was interesting to read Netanyahu's book that Sachs referenced. He didn't want the US to overthrow Arab regimes (he didn't think that would work) he just wanted us to pressure them to allow pro Israel voices to speak without being arrested or lynched.
I think Sachs was trying to project Netanyahu's recent alleged shady dealings onto the past to bolster the claim that Netanyahu has always had a master plan, and then to extend it to all of Isreal.
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חג חנוכה שמח מזל חנוכה Happy hanukkah Great Episode
Here in Philippines the term "CR" is a euphemism for the toilet. Talk about a clean CR means something different
Congrats good podcast
I'm sorry guys, we should get rid of the debt ceiling. My biggest issue is the deficit but the debt ceiling does NOTHING to restrain it. It just gives PAID VACATIONS to federal workers who LOVE the time off. Over the holidays!!
Abe’s right too much Elon too soon as John would say “keep the powder dry” 😅
People were wondering if DOGE was going to be a real thing, it looks like it is. This is what the people vote for, for Trump and his team to clean up DC. This ridiculous spending bill is a good place to start. We can't keep kicking the can down the road, we have to start cutting spending and living within our means now.
It is an awesome podcast. I have been listening for a few years now. I think I noticed when they went to video.... The interchange is more cluttered, less clean, now. Was there a visual direction going on behind the scenes that now the group cannot do (because they're on video)? Or is it because now the protagonists are not solely focused on how they sound but also how they look (which is fantastic btw!). But as a listener I liked the seemingly more crisp transitions that i think the panel had when it was NOT also video. But the dynamic is still great and i love listening. Just my 'notes'.
Let Christine and Abe speak more!
Definitely. John needs to shut up.
Defense spending slightly dipping for a couple years has nothing to do with what’s happening in Ukraine or Israel. Come on, now. If we’d spent another $50 billion on defense in the mid 2010s Putin wouldn’t have gone into Ukraine? Nonsense.
Definitely like the intro music on RUclips better than on Spotify. “Hope for the best” is like nails on a chalkboard. Sorry, not sorry.
Best podcast going. Only competition is Call Me Back and The Editors. And 10 blocks. And Honestly. 🤣
I'm hoping one of the holiday shows is Abe in a top hat tap dancing down a staircase with backup singers.
To be fair to Tucker, Jeffrey Sachs has been on Megyn Kelly too.
The problem with Tucker is that when he interviews characters like Jeffrey Sachs is that he lets them talk without questioning anything they say. He looks at them with open eyes and a surprised expression. Tucker just doesn't have the knowledge to interview people with an agenda. I noticed this when he went to Russia and made an evaluation of the country based on some selected beautiful subway stations.
Just donated! Not a whole lot cop married to a teacher but proud to chip in for such a great organization and group of people!
Hugh Hewitt sent me. If the show is half as good as he keeps saying it is I’m going to be a regular listener/viewer.
It is. I used to subscribe to Commentary Magazine. (And I'm not Jewish.)
The content is a lot like Hugh's: formerly proud conservatives who have capitulated to become apologists for Trump, who they hate. They may not lick the boot as cleanly as Hugh does but they're still getting used to their new reality so give them time
@@drmalady1268 The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who was not a practicing Jew, after pushing through a pro-choice bill in New York, later became pro-life and much later a Catholic. I am a late-in-life Catholic but became pro-life after reading Dr. Nathanson book, ABORTING AMERICA (I came across a copy in the Doubleday editorial offices where I worked in the early 1980s.) I try not to question minds changed, but the Obama/Biden years have clearly put this country -- and Israel -- at great risk in many ways. I don't think "disaster" is too strong a word. I'm familiar with Pres. Trump from my years in NYC and his large "fly-the-flag" helicopter fly-overs in Queens (where I lived) and Manhattan. His many appearances on Letterman displayed a calmer and reasonable Trump. As for decadent presidential behavior since 1960 -- as Mel Brooks would say, "it's good to be king;" which it seems presidents have become. Were this were not so. As for voting; all elections are now "lesser evil" campaigns.
This is a great podcast. I listen on Spotify normally and came over here to RUclips just so I could give it a thumbs up.
Okay, here's one big thing I'm not hearing in this analysis (or any other analysis I've heard): in the recent past, Republicans have stood their ground on CR pork and the govt. shut down as a result. The Democrats had a VERY easy time, using their allies in the media, convincing the public that it was the Republicans' fault no one could, for example, go to national parks and the public was mad at the Republicans.
Republicans then cowered in the face of future govt. shutdowns, and that seems to be happening now. But, the public no longer trusts the media, and, in a post-Obama US, the Democrats have lost a lot of the public's deference. I think the Republicans should let the govt. shut down and publish a list of the ridiculous spending that was forced into the CR by corrupt politicians (both D and R). Every free-thinking podcaster in the US will be talking about that list and we'll have an easier time trimming this CR and other ones moving forward.
Also, Abe is absolutely wrong. This is not too much Musk. We wanted this. This is what we voted for.
Except you have Republicans who will NEVER vote for the CR. It’s part of their identity. The only way the CR passes is with Dem votes and they are pointing to Children Cancer research being cut. Neither Mike Johnson nor Trump nor Musk can strong arm every R into submission.
Every government shutdown since Gingrich in 98 hurt Republicans in the short term. And in the long term whoever shut it down never got what they wanted.
Trump didn’t get a dime for the border wall in his shut down. Dems didn’t get protection for Dreamers. Ted Cruz didn’t get Obama to blow up Obama-care.
No has believed Biden’s on charge for months. And the more Trump strong arms congress, the more he and the Republicans will be held responsible for not paying the troops during Christmas.
As for Musk, Americans don’t actually like foreigners having too much influence over officials. Soros has been a boogeyman for decades, and he’s never been dancing on stage with a president or president elect.
Hope for the best expect the worst, is not on the RUclips video. Thank you!!
Likely, because of copyright issues. You can use music for your own pleasure, but you can't legally sell it without licensing. The podcast is "free," while the RUclips channel is monetized.
@@Kvell55 I wouldn’t miss it on the audio podcast if it disappeared, fwiw.
I never wanted Johnson for this very reason; that we still have country-wrecking spending. Wish it were Rick Scott.
Hey John, isn't a seven-front war really vs a "septapus?"...So fascinating, allowing the gov't to go into default this time might not ultimately backfire against those who actually want to see the deep state significantly shrunken. I'm a never-Democrat & never-Trumper, but rooting for Musk-genius taking on this monstrosity, which might require a combo of Kissinger's defcon v the USSR during the '73 Yom Kippur War plus Ali's rope-a-dope chess match against Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle in '74...However, even if such a truncated bill were to pass with a unanimous GOP House vote, if Poor Mike Johnson were to survive and defense spending were increased to 4.5% of GDP, Pres.-elect Trump has had no appetite to explain to the 47% that their "entitlements" must be drastically reformed.
I don’t think the sentiment towards Musk on this pod syncs at all with the public sentiment towards him
Amen to that.
It's unbelievable that Mike Johnson continues to think things haven't changed. What a dufus. We gave Trump and mandate and Johnson better follow along.
Podorhetz is a mess and can't stand that Trump won again. 'oh no what will the liberal media say about this'? This type of weakness is exactly how we got into the situation we are in...Matt and Seth are the only logical people on this panel.
Maybe if Mike Johnson didn’t fill the CR with garbage he wouldn’t have such a hard time?
You don't appear to understand how politics works
@@drmalady1268 You must be super fun to hang out with.
@cedricwilford Well, you got one thing right in all your posts.
This is super creepy. John P looks exactly like me, except that I have a short beard. I think I'll go back to audio only.
Move the camera up a bit on John. The angle distorts the image making the bottom of the face more dominant than it is
"Too big for his britchesness" - look in the mirror Mr. P.
Any chance we can watch this podcast without Podhoretz and his anti-Trump comments?
he does 90% of the talking. They could turn it into a short
Not a chance.
Musk is simply demonstrating the power of social media and independent news sources. People who care can know what Congress is trying to hide in a bill like this before they vote on it instead of perhaps at some point down the road. Perhaps more importantly not only can they know it, they can send loud and clear feedback before the vote happens. Now that Musk has shown that it works others will do it. X was going off on this bill before Musk jumped on the bandwagon, before Trump reversed position.
I think you're giving Mike Johnson too much credit. He should know that business as usual is over and act accordingly. His job shouldn't be to pass legislation at *any* cost. If it takes a government shutdown to make budget cuts more palatable, so be it. If it takes a government shutdown to get Congress to pass a clean CR, so be it. We can't afford to always go with the carrot instead of the stick.
Amen. Well said.
Continetti is such a hot nerd
All you need to know about Speaker Johnson is that the guy allowed a 40% congressional pay raise to be put into this bill. That is pure idiocy. Absolute political malpractice.
This bogus post so perfectly captures the idiocy that is Trump and the Republican party. There's not a 40% pay increase in the bill--there's a 3.8% pay increase. But because of morons like Elon Musk, this sort of BS gets spread around and no one is interested in the actual facts. Trump has zero executive management skills, so the First Buddy will continue to frustrate any attempt at governance so long as he doesn't pull too much of the spotlight away from the Narcissist in Chief. And the toadies at Commentary will continue to pretend like there's some rational thought and strategy behind it all.
Exactly. I'm tired of referring to these overpaid clowns as "public servants".
There's not a 40% pay increase--it's 3.8%
@@drmalady1268 this is absolutely a false statement. Because what they did was make the increase retroactive to 2007, which takes it up to 40%. You know, when your staffer on a committee for the Democrats in Congress, you ought to disclose that.
@ if you’re right, you should be able to post some credible evidence
Mike Johnson seems like a good guy - but that might be because my dad was a firefighter, too. Don’t trust my judgement on him as a result
@@TerrapinJack Johnson is a decent guy, but he is very weak!
@ to be fair, I think we need to see this play out before making any judgments about him. He navigated the Gaetz and MTGs in Congress as well as could be expected. He might pull through
Hope for the best expect the worst, is not on the RUclips video. Thank you!
Probably a copyright issue. YT polices that stuff aggressively.
Love this podcast been listening for years thought they would all look more....intellectual.
All 4 of you seem to be trying to fit the present into the context of the past. You will do better, I think, if you base future analyses on how little respect those of us who supported and voted for what's happening now have for the political and institutional norms of the last 2 generations.
You will do better if you base your future analyses on the historic incompetence of Trump and his winged MAGA monkeys
Very well said. My thoughts exactly.
The Sachs interview was pretty disappointing.
It was interesting to read Netanyahu's book that Sachs referenced. He didn't want the US to overthrow Arab regimes (he didn't think that would work) he just wanted us to pressure them to allow pro Israel voices to speak without being arrested or lynched.
I think Sachs was trying to project Netanyahu's recent alleged shady dealings onto the past to bolster the claim that Netanyahu has always had a master plan, and then to extend it to all of Isreal.