¶ Inauguration Speech Analysis and Commentary
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right . Well , I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right . There's only an up or down . This is the no Doubt About it . Podcast . No doubt about it Now your hosts Christy and Mark Runcany .
It's Inauguration Monday .
Yes , it's a lot of energy compared to , I guess , years past , for us anyway , that's true .
Four years ago we were probably like , yeah , it's been a wild day . I think a lot going on in the political world and really going and looking at how Trump handled this can be very , very interesting . You guys both watched the inauguration .
That's what we're going to cover today Some of what was said , some of where we're going and what the early days of the Trump administration are likely to look like . But first Jay McCluskey joining us Political Svengali to look like , but first Jay McCleskey joining us political Svengali Jay .
First of all , let's just start with you guys in your reaction to what you saw today from the Trump speech and , I think , the overall feel of his returning as the 47th president of the United States .
I think he did a great job . I think he is going to be better than he was last time and you can see it . It's very clear what he's doing . He it out there's a lot of confidence , a lot of strength , and a lot of it , I think , is because it's him he's . He's not deferring a bunch of stuff . He knows what he wants .
He's going to be much better in the second term , given the just the experience . Like any president would be that way , and I thought he clearly just laid down what he's going to do and the message is clear . He's going to keep his promises . I mean he's not backing down , and that was very clear .
I don't know why anyone would be surprised by that , but that's really what he . What I took away is he's going to execute exactly what he said he was going to do .
Yeah , I thought it was interesting . Some of the commentators after said they felt like this was more of a State of the Union speech than kind of just like an inauguration speech . But he has been here before so I think he knew what to expect this time . I think he's ready to . I mean , obviously he is ready to go .
I mean it's very clear he's out there saying exactly what he's going to say . I will say , all in all , I loved that it was inside this time . Yeah . I loved that factor . I thought it added kind of a like a reverence for the ceremony yeah , last time was reagan in 84 I think it's a weather now .
Yeah , they said weather okay maybe .
Jd vance got out afterwards and said it was freezing , and I won't say exactly what he said , but he was like it was cold okay , well , hey look whether they did it for weather , whether they did it for security , whatever it was , it was well done , it was interesting .
I thought the speech was was really interesting in the respect that he let Biden have it with both barrels , basically saying listen , the way you guys operated , we will not continue to operate that way . We will not use the Justice Department to go after our political enemies .
We will not allow the border to be wide open and allow people to just come flooding into this country and not take care of the Americans that have got us where we are today . I mean , it was time after time . He just stood up there and let him have it . I think that's to your point on that . It felt a little bit more like a state of policies .
Yeah , more policies , but and then that gets your point Jay's been there , right , so he's been there . He knows what he's looking at .
But also , donald Trump is standing as the 47th president of the United States because Joe Biden was so , so horrendous and I think in so many ways now we're seeing that and we'll talk about him pardoning his whole family , when the reality is , the only person who was using the Justice Department to go after their political opponents has been Joe Biden .
And so you watch this and you just go . Am I living in the twilight zone Like what's happening here ? And I think it was a very interesting speech . I and again . But you did learn from trump here that he has learned he's not trump of 2016 . That speech would have been different if it'd been trump of 16 giving this speech .
It would have been , I think , even more . Maybe fire and brimstone less effective . I think , was more effective because of what he's learned . He's he's been smoothed out and I think he knows where the important fights are , and he knows where the fights are that he doesn't need to bother having Right , and he has a lot of momentum .
I mean , he has a lot of momentum right now and he feels that he's up there with a lot of confidence .
Not that he's ever hurting for confidence , right , but he was up there with a lot of confidence and you see , the Democrats , his , you know the naysayers they're on their heels a little bit , like they're not leaning in , like you know now , don't kid yourself , they'll come . But that's , I think , because he has a lot of momentum .
Yeah , I think , a couple of things that I want to point out . Number one I don't know what Mark Zuckerberg was doing sitting behind the Trump kids . I thought that was an odd choice that he has kind of these tech giants sitting behind the Trump kids . I thought that was an odd choice that he has kind of these tech giants .
I understand that there's supposed to be some sort of like reconciliation between tech giants and the political office . I feel like , if we're really going to say that they're not going to be involved in that anymore , I'm not sure why he was behind him . I thought that was a weird choice .
The other thing is is the speech he actually gave right after this one ? So he walks out to the Capitol after they go and put Biden on the helicopter and he's like bye , bye , see you . Later Comes back in , gives kind of an impromptu speech to his fans , the people that have shown up .
Governor Abbott was actually right there too , and that was more Trump ish . That was more what we were , I think , expecting in the inaugural speech . I'm glad that he held that back honestly and did that later , because he dropped a lot of information about January 6th . He dropped a lot of personal stuff about the wall that he had dealt with .
He wanted to make sure people knew that he had won X and Y , z states . He was very much about . It was just very Trump-ish . It was very much like look at me , this is all the things I have done . I mean he's got the ability to do that now . I mean honestly he's , he has had to probably not talk about things for so long that he wants to .
He wanted to jump in and kind of say , you know , we conquered .
And you guys are making the same point , which is think about this no one in our political history has been under the kind of attack he's been under and emerged victorious kind of attack he's been under and emerged victorious .
And I think , jay , you make an interesting point , because there is something to the fact when you walk in front of a group and I don't care who you are , if you have that confidence , you're like it worked . I came out of this , I came out of the fire and I have survived .
And I think he's more magnanimous than he's been because of what happened with the attempt on his life , paired with the fact that he's successful and it has worked . And all of a sudden , you're seeing somebody who is much more relaxed , much less on the defensive .
Remember back eight years ago , we were arguing about crowd size at this time , right , he's having stupid , stupid fights that don't matter . No one's having that fight with him anymore . You go see Klobuchar stand up there and then be like here you go , let's go do this , and then you have various Hakeem Jeffries .
All of a sudden , these guys are having to get in line .
I just think it's a totally different thing . It was fun to watch the Clintons , especially Hillary and Harris . I think that'd be a bitter pill to sit there if you're .
Harris . But you have to recognize , regardless of how anyone feels about Trump , this is the greatest political comeback .
It's just incredible For him to stand there .
It's like that scene in Pulp Fiction where they come in and the guy shoots and he misses . I mean , that's literally and figuratively what we just saw .
And then he just looked at him , or it's like Dumb and Dumber where you're like you're a terrible shot , it's incredible that he got through that and that's going to give you confidence too , yeah , and it's going to make them sit back and be like man , we threw everything .
Yeah , we threw it . No , there's no question . All right , so we want to go through a bunch of different clips here and what kind of direction we're headed in as a country , and I think the first one I want to touch on is the one we talk about Trump . You know the fact that within a quarter inch he wouldn't have been here . He would not have been here .
I have no idea what this day would look like had the assassin's bullet been a quarter inch to the right . He would be gone Right , and so he kind of made mention of that and he talked about the significance of it .
To stop our cause , have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life , my freedom and indeed to take my life . Just a few months ago , in a beautiful Pennsylvania field , an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear . But I felt then , and believe even more so now , that my life was saved for a reason . I was saved by God to make America great .
Again saved by God to make America great again .
I love that he gave credit to God . I really do , because I think that there's sometimes leadership won't do that anymore and I think that that was really . I absolutely believe that God saved him . Now we'll see how this all shakes out for the next four years . Right , and that's the big question .
Yeah , I thought he leaned into that more today . Yeah , and I think he probably goes there At a couple of different spots in the speech , not necessarily the assassination attempt , but he leaned more into faith , more than him , yeah , and I think you get .
I just you watch . I watch people as they get older . I do think that people tend to start talking about their faith more as they age and I think we see that with him he's always been kind of a you know , is he , or is he not a man of real faith ? When I remember , you , know you got Two .
Corinthians , two Corinthians , he got made fun of that forever , which , when you're like um , really Like , have you opened your Bible ? If you're saying two Corinthians ? But anyway , no judgment on that . But I'm just saying like I think you just see it more authentic now in , maybe because you have a life and death situation .
I think I don't care who you are , it really does make you question like what am I here for ? What's my purpose and what's my focus ?
And I think it directly ties into the fact that Donald Trump , more so than anybody , I think , in our lifetimes , has a unique opportunity Now , if he does things the right way , to make a massive difference . A massive difference and and I think he sees that and that can be humbling it should .
If you do it right , it makes you smaller and the opportunity bigger , and I hope that's what's happening . We'll have to see
¶ Border Policy Discussion and Analysis
. But let's talk a little bit about some of the policies he talked about as well , so one of the biggest ones from the very beginning . We've known this since he came down the escalator in 2015, .
The border matters to Trump and he laid out right between the eyes what he wants to do with this , somewhere where Joe Biden , without question , had much more difficulty .
We'll begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense . It's all about common sense . First , I will declare a national emergency at our southern border .
OK , so he does . And , by the way , headlines just after Trump's speech the CBP app the one that basically , if you're in the country illegally , biden set up you could come on in and start registering , start going forward that has been shut down .
And that app , just so everyone knows that was them trying to avoid crowds at the border . That's all that was Just set your appointment to illegally cross , so we don't have cameras there with illegal immigrants crossing .
Political expediency above policy . It's a perfect example .
Well , and then let's look at this video too . This is at the El Paso border , right after the president was sworn in there . Now there's obviously a police barricade there and some information that is being blasted out for anybody that's thinking about crossing .
Yeah , anybody who crossed illegally . They're not going to let that happen , and you can see just the change here .
So , jay , this to me is an interesting issue , because this in the next six months is going to be where the political battle lines are going to be drawn , because I think what you're going to see is Trump try to go in and again he even mentioned it in the speech going after people that are in the country illegally , that have committed violent crimes .
That's where he's really drawn the line . Now , if you're on the other side , you're trying to say , well , wait a minute , what can we do to get him to step over that line ? Right , and make things look bad , have someone come in and pull people out of the country that don't fit that prescription and description .
So what do you think if you're giving Trump advice right now , saying how do we handle this ? How does Homans handle this ? How does you know the former governor of South Dakota , kristi Noem ? How does she handle this ?
I think they're doing it exactly right , which is where they're focusing on illegal immigrants who have committed crimes . Those who have already supposed to be , have orders of deportation , are still here . They're starting there . That's a lot of people , and the Democrats are going to do what they always do , which is demagogue .
The issue and oh my god , he's just going to throw everyone out . And then you know what's bothering me about the left lately is they're saying well , there's a lot of confusion in these immigrant communities . They think they're gonna there's , they're gonna throw out kids from schools and and grandma , and it's like they're they .
If there's confusion , it's because that's what you got , the , the messaging the left is putting out . They're doing this right .
They are focusing on criminals in the country who are here illegally , and that's exactly where they should focus and they need to highlight them , which I think they have been , and even during the transition , highlighting who they're getting out , because there's a lot of bad people in the country and they've been protected , not just to stay in the country , but it's
been underreported quite a bit . So I think they'll highlight that and that that's going to keep them busy for a while . No doubt they also did something else and we'll probably get to it , but the whole designating cartels as terrorist organizations that's a huge deal , yeah that's a huge deal .
um , one of my clients has worked on that for a long time , Tony Gonzalez in Texas 23 . People always think , well , the SEALs are going to come into the cartels . It gives the government a lot of tools to go after their banking , their money . It's a huge piece of fighting the war to secure the border and Trump doing that , I thought , is a big step .
Yeah .
Well , I think it's interesting . You say the left is the one that's kind of confusing the message of the far left . And I was just telling Mark , I'm like I'm reading the New York Times . They did a feature last Friday with a woman that they interviewed in 16 , who was here .
She's been here for 20 some odd years from Nicaragua and she's got a job , her kids have been born here and she said that she , you know , basically bordered herself and sheltered in place , basically once Trump came into office and then when Biden won , she felt like she had all this freedom to travel and that it was all these blessings .
Now they've gone back to re-interview her and she's scared to death again and she said he's coming after me . And what was frustrating in listening to this editorial it's actually their podcast I was listening to it's like they funneled it , it's like they let you , instead of saying listen , you know .
He said he's coming after criminals , right , like you haven't committed any crimes in the 20-some-odd years you've been here , right .
And again she's like I don't believe that , I don't believe that he's coming after me and I'm going to shut my blinds and it's but that's their playbook , and you see it here locally on when you have the debate over the sanctuary city stuff , which is only will you allow ice into the jails , right , okay , so if you're not in the jail , it doesn't affect you .
But that's not the message mayor keller puts out . That's not the .
And then they , then they use the fear that they've created as a reason to oppose the policy well , and also , I think , if you look at it , this is the under told part of the story , which we tell it all the time on this podcast .
If you did not have a media that was so derelict in their responsibilities , this would not have gone as far as it is , and you wouldn't see the humiliation of the 46th president in favor of the 47th , because they let him go on and on with policies that were devastating , whether it be and we're going to talk about this whether it be his personal health and
ability to do the job , or the border , or a bunch of other crime , or inflation , all of it .
They just acted like none of this was happening and they gaslit everyone to such a degree now that , a there's now a media structure in place and it's not even media anymore , it's social media structure in place that goes around them , and then , b when they go and they pull the alarm to say this is a disaster and you can't trust Trump and everything else , it
just rings hollow . Now things can go too far the other way , there's no question . But I just think when you look at what the media's role in this has been , it's been devastating and they've really cut their own ability to have any sort of credibility at all left . It's amazing to me watching
¶ Biden’s Troubles and Media Bias
him leave office . Biden leave office and his media betters are the reason that he's in such trouble and obviously , because of everything that happened , he should never have run again . All these things are a nightmare .
Well , that's the irony is that maybe they correct some of it . Maybe they correct some of it . If the mainstream media starts really getting on him on some of these policies and really reporting it , the backlash would have been much sooner and he would have had time to correct a lot .
But they didn't . They didn't . No , it's absolutely the worst . It's like someone heads down the wrong way . You're like , see you later . Just they go off a cliff . And you're like , no , if you would actually corrected them to , you're wrong . They never get that far .
Well , speaking of wrong , just before Donald Trump gives his speech and is sworn in , or is sworn in and then gives a speech , this comes from the Biden administration . One last little shot to the American people . Joe Biden issues a blanket pardon to his family . Unreal , I mean , this is just nuts , so I want to play for you .
Joe Biden's a soundbite from him after or it was . This was before he took office in 2020 talking about , with Jake Tapper , the danger of Trump stepping in and pardoning all his family members and all sorts of people . Pardoning all his family members and all sorts of people .
So again , this underlines the point that they do what they accuse others of doing every single time . Donald Trump didn't go and wipe away and give blanket pardons to his family , it turns out , but Joe Biden did , and this is what he said coming into office .
President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons for his adult children and for Rudy Giuliani . He's also floated the idea in private conversations , according to our reporting , of possibly pardoning himself , which he insists he has the power to do , though that has never been litigated . Does this concern you , all these preemptive pardons ?
Does this concern you , all these preemptive pardons ? Well , it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice . Look , our Justice Department is going to operate independently on those issues . That how to respond to any of that .
I'm not going to be telling them what they have to do and don't have to do Now in terms of the pardons . You're not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons .
Just right there , ok , right there , enough of this . That kind of approach to pardons Just right there , okay , right there , Enough of this guy . But again , what you saw was not , you know , that kind of thing . You saw far worse , far worse .
I love the fact that Scott Jennings tweeted moments after that my God , these Bidens are absolute gangsters .
You go back to what they did and they the media forever . Oh , it wasn't . There's nothing there . There's nothing there . They were getting millions of dollars from foreign entities and countries . There's a reason that was happening . It's a reason it was getting funneled through everything . And all this is nothing . This is nothing .
The laptop's nothing , and you knew this was coming . Because he pardoned Hunter Biden and the minute he did that , hunter Biden no longer has can . He can be forced to testify in front of a grand jury on all the rest of them , yep , and because he's no longer in jeopardy , so he had to do it .
He had to do this for the rest of them .
So there was . You knew that was coming . If you're paying attention , because with hunter biden then he's gonna have to sing like a canary on everything and they were just gonna do it . And it's just incredible . It's just absolutely incredible to me . And again , it's another underreported story .
The same thing with the hundred Biden taxes , the fact they let the statute of limitations run on those , on the ones that mattered when , on the years that mattered when , when Biden was taking money , when vice president Biden was still in office . I mean it's an incredible story that was underreported , yeah .
This will be underreported too . They won't make . This is going to be a small mention .
I don't know .
Here's the problem here's what I think is funny to me in a way is that Biden Joe Biden was not . He was never a moderate or a conservative by any stretch . He's like a mainstream Democrat . Yeah , he takes office and goes far to the left on everything , basically sells his soul to them and gives , gives the left everything they need .
They're defending him , but they just used him in the minute he wasn't . They're gonna throw him under the bus and right now they're doing it and I think they're gonna pound him on these part . They're gonna pound him on everything else .
His legacy's done and you look at him , you look at um kamala harris , like they're , they're going to be irrelevant two years for what's going on in the democratic party and he just , basically , instead of being himself , to whatever that was himself himself . He decided he was going to be the most progressive president .
What he he said , which is what they all wanted him to do the border stuff he's done all these things electric cars the clean enter the green new deal , all that stuff . And now look , now , look , what did they get him ? Nothing , hammer they . They kicked him off the ticket and they're going to pound them on this .
So I don't think they're going to defend them .
Yeah , I don't think they will either , and I think this is what I'm saying . This is crippling to the party , like long-term , this is crippling to the party . So they have to have a pariah . Then you can pivot and say we're not that party anymore . It was Biden . Here's the new Democratic party .
I don't know what that's going to look like if they continue to swerve far left . They're going to have many more problems ahead . But he is going to be an absolute pariah .
Well , and Harris , you know she basically defended him the whole time she was running . She really never threw him under the bus . People thought she should . The question is going to be what does she do now ? Does she throw him under the bus , and you know we've been talking is she going to run back ?
to California . If I'm advising her , I told her to run for governor of California . It's her only chance to continue to stay in electoral politics .
Yeah , I just think she's going to be have a hard time . You do yeah , I think she's gonna own everything he did . Anyway , I think it's really difficult , you don't ?
would you urge her to run in california or no ?
well , she , she can try , she can go try I mean , I mean she has to look at numbers and polling , but she's not doing anything on the national stage .
No , no , her only hope is to go somewhere like you're saying , be governor california kind of rehab your image to it to an extent , but I don't know how easy that's going to be for her , even in California .
Okay , interesting , all right . So we talked about Trump giving it to Biden right between the eyes . Nowhere was that more evident than when Trump talked about mobilizing the DOJ against political opponents and how he will not do that .
After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression , I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America .
OK , sorry , so that's a little different than what I thought . So it does get to your point , though , on Zuckerberg , and . Elon Musk and those guys . The last thing they want to do is content moderation . If you're , if you're at Meta , you don't want that , and so they were pressured a lot by Biden to do that .
Right and he and he has come forward and said that , so they want no part of that , and I think that's part of what you're seeing here and again . That is , that is , taking the American people's opinion and shutting it down . It's amazing that they got away with that the way they did .
It really is and it's just , it's instructive that the old-school liberals are gone . The free speech , the Dershowitz's types , they're gone . It's much more of a leftist kind of out of the Hugo Chavez type role Senator Rubio has been talking about it for a long time and he's right like they're much more authoritarian than old school liberals .
yeah , and , and the shutting down free speech and that censorship that they did just goes right along and I think you've seen that in this election , by the way and rfk jr is a little part of this and then there are plenty of others especially in the tech world , I think that are a little more old school liberal , that have said wait a minute , and they've
become more liberal . Look at Bill Maher . Bill Maher and he didn't end up voting for Trump . There are a ton that did that , ended up saying wait a minute , I'm a little more libertarian , I want to be able to say what I want to say . And they moved to the right . The country as a whole has moved to the right . It just has .
And it isn't because the Republicans came up with this great message . It's because the Democrats showed their hand and everybody said what is this ?
And I think that's really evident in what you see here . I was just going to say from what I've been reading social media in general in the last three months the trend has been going to more far right . I mean just overall , like there isn't as much algorithm and trying to just make sure that you're following what you have to say .
You know that whole thing of we're going to funnel back what is kind of your own tunnel of information . Apparently , the last three months they said it is just automatically swinging more to the right . I don't know if that's true or not Voter regs .
I mean , if you look at the numbers .
Yeah , and this is on social media , though , like the messaging that people are putting out , things that people are liking , things that people are posting tend to be more conservative in style compared to what it was in the last four years .
And we're going to get to that because I think there is a change in the culture , in the culture .
A lot of people were scared to post what they believed .
Yeah , and also now it's like it's cool to be a Republican again , and you're seeing that from John Jones to you know , to all different sorts of people that are coming out and saying wait a minute why should I NFL players ?
Why should I sit here and act like I'm not going to talk about this ? You got to realize the Democrats . They push some issues that were like 80% the wrong direction .
The wrong direction . Okay , we're going to get to that .
Some of that whether it's even the sanctuary or the trans agenda , all this stuff . The only way they kept it that way was to like shame people and cancel people . They spoke out against it , like that's how they had to handle it .
Okay , so I want to hit on one other thing before we kind of move back to kind of some of this , and I think it's a little bit of an America's back kind of mentality .
But I want to hit one more thing on this Biden thing and I think the cover up of his cognitive decline I think will be a story that I think we're nowhere near done with , because I think that exposure of of what really was going on in the White House will be part of the vehicle for many Democrats to try to bring the party
¶ National Security Meeting With Biden
back .
Harris should write a book .
Well , she may write a book .
Absolutely .
That's a possibility , but I want to go and I don't know if you guys have seen this , but Speaker of the House , mike Johnson , had a meeting with Biden . He'd been trying , he had been named speaker . He went for eight weeks and contacted the White House to say , hey , let's meet , let's meet , let's talk . We've got some real national security problems .
I really want to talk to you about this . I'm concerned Again . Remember , behind Biden and Harris , if those two are gone , gone , guess who's president ? Yeah , so he has a big role .
Yeah , Designated survivor Is he not .
Well , sort of and usually he's not the designated survivor because he's always there , but the point being whatever , right . So Mike Johnson's third in line to the presidency , or second in line to the presidency , I guess the way you say it .
So he wanted to meet with Biden , and they put him off for nine weeks and then eventually they let him have a meeting where Lloyd Austin is there , a ton of people are there and all of a sudden , johnson's like what the heck is going on here .
So they were trying to push him on Ukraine funding and but what all he really wanted was a one-on-one with the president , and then , eventually , biden helped him get that done , and I want you to listen to his description of how that went down .
And then the right next , the fireplace in the Oval , and he grabs my arm and he says the Speaker and I just need a couple minutes together . Would you all just leave us alone ?
And I looked up on the faces of some of the staff standing around the wall and they're like no , he did it , so he called it , he's the Commander-in-Chief , so everybody leaves and he and I are , you know . And what do we do ? But first , real quickly , mr President , can I ask you a question ? I cannot answer this from my constituents in Louisiana .
Sir , why did you pause LNG exports to Europe ? Like I don't understand ? You know liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies . Why would you do that ? Because you understand we just talked about Ukraine . You understand you're fueling Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got to get their gas from him , you know .
And he looks at me stunned with this and he said I didn't do that . I said , mr President , yes , you did . It was an executive order , like you know , three weeks ago . He not , and do that ? He's arguing with me . I said , mr president , respectfully , can I could I go out here and ask your secretary to print it out ? We'll read it together .
You definitely did that . He goes oh , you talk about natural gas ? Yes , sir , he said no , no , I do you misunderstand ? He said what I did is I signed this thing to . We're gonna , we're gonna , conduct a study on the effects of LNG . I said no , you're . You paused it . I know I have the terminal , the export terminals in my state .
I talked to those people this morning . This is doing massive damage to our economy , national security . It occurred to me , barry , he was not lying to me . He genuinely did not know what he had signed and I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought we're in serious trouble . Who is running the country ? Like , like , I don't know ?
Who put the paper in front of him , but he didn't know unreal .
That is incredible , that's I mean that's the scandal of our lifetimes .
It's huge , because it goes back to like what I talked about the beginning . I sold out , but how much of that was he aware of right , and how much did people do ? Things did staff take over and and you know you talk about the deep state that's even than this that's his own staff that they just start driving stuff .
They're unelected and they are substituting their opinions .
I mean even coming down to like the pardons on his family . I'm wondering how much he knows about that and how much . He just signed a document .
I think he knows that one , I think he knows that If I had to guess , I think he knows that one pretty well . But I , If I had to guess , I think he knows that one pretty well . But but I don't know . I mean , nobody really knows this point . And you look at all the stuff .
I mean , that goes back even to 2020 and beyond and what's happened over four years . This is where that's what I mean by being so dangerous for the party , because it puts this country in such a horrendous spot and no party should do this . I mean , when you look at what's happened here , it's so bad for the American people .
We are so lucky that we aren't in the middle of something so much worse across the world stage , because I think they hit it for so long that maybe they pulled it off . I don't know . Do other countries know the position that he was in ? Does China know ? My guess is China had a pretty good idea . So this is just to me it's .
It's a tragedy in so many ways because the country was put into a really bad spot . Joe Biden is going to be cast aside and be ostracized . Now I don't feel bad for Biden .
I mean , they tried to go in there and get as much power as they possibly could and he made decisions from the economy to the border , to everything else that hurt the American people , To his pocketbook , Right to pocketbooks that .
I don't feel sorry for him per se , but I do think that we need better and we deserve better from our elected leaders and stop with the lies and start doing what's best for the people of this country .
I think stories are going to come out . I can't wait to see what some of them have to say about what's actually been going on the last few years . Just a little nugget of trivia in here today we just talked about designated survivors , so I just wanted to look up because I couldn't believe how many people were packed into that Capitol today .
Nobody was assigned . It says that normally they just won't tell you who it is . They didn't assign somebody . Is what ? According to NBC out of New York , that's what they're saying is that there was no designated survivor .
There were people from his cabinet that were not there , so the assumption is that maybe one of them , but they actually said that there was nobody that was actually designated .
today , or they haven't publicly announced it .
It said that normally they'll . This is all according to the NBC station in New York . That's what I was able to look up really quickly . Interesting .
They have some source issues now .
They might have some source issues .
They might .
I'm not going to go to bat for them , but it did say that normally they'll keep it private until after an event and then they'll announce it . But this story , that's been refreshed , it says as of right now , there was nobody assigned that we were aware of and there's been no comment made about it . So if there was , I hope that there was cause .
There was , everybody was packed in there . Yeah . No , I mean you had all the Supreme court justices in there at all .
nine of them yeah .
I just thought when I was watching that transpire I'm like , well , it's all amazing and reverent and I loved it . I really thought it was cool . It's also kind of scary when you have all those people in one building .
So well , you can bet . Security was tight for that one OK we've got to get to America's back , baby , I mean . So this quote was funny to me as you're listening to Trump , and I'm sorry , it's just . It's funny whether , whether you like Trump or not , it doesn't matter . This stuff is fantastic . It is no longer the Gulf of Mexico
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Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America , and we will restore the name of a great president , william McKinley , to Mount McKinley , where it should be and where it belongs . Ok , so I'm sorry . I did laugh out loud at the Gulf of Mexico comment . I know that Hillary Clinton apparently busted out laughing during that .
I did too because I thought is he serious ?
about that yeah he's serious .
He threw some of this stuff out too , and the left goes banana like crazy after it . And then they get distracted and he does the other stuff We'll remember Mount .
The left goes banana like crazy after it and then they get distracted and he does the other stuff that he really Well remember . So Mount McKinley was changed to Denali in 2015 . It wasn't like . This has been there for decades .
I get that , I can understand that , but , like you , had a presidential nominee or a president that the mountain was named after , but the Gulf of Mexico was on every class map that I've ever had since .
I was why would it not be the Gulf of Mexico ?
Yeah , like I'm kind of confused . Well , I don't know . I just thought okay . And I looked at Mark , the second . He said and we're taking back the Panama Canal . And I said , can he do that ?
Well , so that's very interesting , that one's different .
That is very different .
That is much more of a geopolitical fight than it may appear , because China's gotten a foothold on the canal and that is not acceptable . So that's going to be an interesting thing to play out .
Because we are very close with Panama , it's not like we're not , but at the same time , china has done a lot of work with their Belt and Road Initiative to get a foothold in Panama and not acceptable to have them have the kind of imprint there that they have Right .
Yeah , I think that one's very substantive .
Yeah , that's going to be a big deal , much more so even than Greenland . Like we're not going to roll into Greenland and invade Greenland okay . But now I think we'll have a partnership with Greenland . I think that's a possibility . So okay . So a couple other things .
Just a quick note , and we're going to put a soundbite in here about President Trump talking about drill , baby drill , and because it's so important to New Mexico , he did say that .
He said we're going to produce a lot of oil and gas , we're going to help the world in that respect and we're going to open up US exports and , of course , in the country as well .
That's very good news for the state of New Mexico . He also said I'm going to roll that , I believe . I don't want to misquote him , but my understanding is that he said he was going to roll back any sort of mandate telling you what kind of car you're going to have to drive . Right Said that you should be able to drive whatever you want to drive .
So I think that electric car mandate ish is going to disappear , or I'm not exactly .
I don't know exactly how he's framing that , but I'm sure Elon behind him is like wait , what Well change ? I don't know ?
Well , he just said . He just said you have the right to drive whatever car you want . Yeah , something like that , ok , ok .
So a couple of the things that are interesting to me and you guys . We've talked about this a little bit that it is cool again to be conservative or MAGA . Is there a difference ?
I think there is a difference between being conservative and being Right , it said in sports , entertainment and marketing displays of a conservatism are crowding out progressive postures .
You can see here got a coat with MAGA on the back and then you even have it says here many political analysts have said Americans are becoming more open to conservative ideas because of fatigue with the cancel culture , which is exactly what you were saying , Jay . The sun found stifling and oversensitive to gender and racial identity .
The rise of social media is another important factor . By appearing on YouTube , Instagram or other platforms , content creators avoid the gatekeepers of legacy media and can build like-minded audiences .
Yeah , going around the media , right . And the other thing that's interesting on this guess the number and the percentage of people that consider themselves conservatives . It's 38% now . It's up to 38% now . It's up to 38% versus 29% who say that they're liberal .
Moreover , social conservatives are making gains in their long battle to reverse what they believe has been a liberal takeover of Hollywood , academia and hiring in the investment policies at big businesses . So this is just the kind of stuff where you start saying things are . You just feel the difference . And so you watch football , nfl football , remember .
We go back to 2016, . People are kneeling and you get the whole deal there . Well , what happens now ? You got a guy , especially in Nick Bosa's , got the MAGA hat on If you look at who's doing the YMCA dance in the NFL . All of a sudden , you got these guys doing this .
This is just a change in the culture , and we've even seen it upend a little bit , jay , here in New Mexico . When you look at Trump's numbers here , we're far better this time around than they were in 2020 . Yeah , I don't think .
I think there's . I think people are moving . You know the conservative is growing , but I also think people just now feel it's okay to be who I am , which is in America is something we should all strive for , and that goes back to the cancel culture .
You know , all of a sudden people got tired of being told you can't believe that , you're racist , you can't want a , you have to want men in women's bathrooms or you're a sexist and homophobe , and people got tired of that . And so now I think they're just more free to speak , be themselves and speak up .
Well , the left has pushed to such a degree and to go so far left that I even think liberal people , folks that had more of a liberal mindset , have said this is just too far . Like , I may not be baga and I may not love Trump , but I love free speech and I love the fact that I want to drive whatever I want to drive .
I want the freedom to say what I want to say and I don't want to be crushed out because maybe I'm a white man and I'm liberal , but I still believe I have a place in the job force that I should be proud of and I'm protecting my future kids or things of that nature .
So I think what's interesting is just the left took it too far and I think there is a movement towards center and towards the right .
And that's where I go back to . It's more of a militant left , much more of a militant left . It's much more authoritarian . You can say this , you can believe this you have to buy this car . You have to do that much more than the old school liberal . Yeah . Right and and America has always been such a great country because you have to win the idea .
You have to win the debate , yeah , and you can't shut down the debate .
Right and instead of like we're going to shut this down , you can't actually think that that's how we're going to win it .
Yeah , and if you think about what they did I mean on social media , on so many of these platforms , the overreach and again , this is where we get back to the same point again and again had the media snap back and said , what are you doing ? Like , why are you doing this All of a sudden ?
They would have been put in check and it wouldn't have gone this far .
And , generally speaking , I don't have that battle of the ideas . You end up with bad outcomes , yeah , and you look at , look at covid and the policies and how . There's some of the policies that and I'm not even talking vaccine yet , the shutdowns of schools , everything else you couldn't speak out against that and when .
And then they led to really bad policies and and I think actually the state of new mexico is a good example of that we have not have a had a battle of ideas in a long time in this state and because we haven't , we are falling further and further behind states around us that do have that battle of ideas and are able to advance their state forward .
It's why you don't want a state that is dominated by one party or another in such a significant way , because it retards progress that you should be making .
I do think all that did start with COVID , progress that you should be making Right . I do think all that did start with COVID . I think the fear of heaven forbid we speak against any sort of science . You know science science , the science .
Thing leadership .
You know the pointing of the finger . I think , we've all seen that pointing the finger every night on a press conference Don't do this , don't do that , don't do this . The media in that , in that moment , I think that's when media really started to shift really strongly towards we don't question our leadership .
The fact that we haven't mentioned , really , that Fauci was also , you know , given a pardon , which is ridiculous . I don't think has even been accused of anything .
I mean , he's been accused of plenty , but that's something people realize and I think that's one big reason Trump did so well with some of the . You know , first , second generation immigrants is when , when someone's running around saying we need to battle misinformation and stop hate speech , that's just code every dictator said .
That's how putin shuts down debate on the ukrainian war , it's how he jails people , is saying we need to stop misinformation . We need to stop , and that's exactly . You're exactly right , christy . That's you . Look back at covid .
Anyone looks back that with clear eyes and says , wow , this is how this went down and the UK has still stretched it to such a degree that if you say anything on social media we've been showing on our show people are getting arrested for it .
Yeah it's horrible .
So what we don't want is us to become another situation like what UK is under right now All right .
Well , speaking of freedom to do what you want , the TikTok issue is interesting here . I want to hit this briefly because TikTok went offline on Saturday and there was panic in this house , not by me , not by you , not even by Ava .
Ava's getting the microphone really fast . She's getting ready .
I would like to chime in and add that this was not the message I got on my TikTok .
It was not .
No . When I opened up TikTok on January 19th , the message I got was you know , tiktok's unavailable right now . We are so grateful to President Trump and he's working really hard to restore TikTok and we are hopeful that he will help us . And then they sent out their next message , where they were like thank you as a result of president Trump's efforts .
But I thought it was funny that when TikTok went up , they were like we're working hard with president Trump and we are grateful to him
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Okay , so TikTok , you know again . So TikTok , which is obviously , you know , obviously has deep Chinese connections , is smartly trying to play the Trump ego game . Right , and so it's put .
This is what I want to talk about , cause it's put Trump in a very interesting dilemma here , which was one of those stories that was talked about on Axios , where , where they talked about you know how's Trump going to navigate this ? You , you've got some people on the Republican side that say they want , they want to talk back .
There are others that say that they don't , and I want to show you a statement by Tom Cotton , who said something very interesting here . Cotton has been out in front of this saying you know this is ridiculous . So just listen to what Cotton had to say about reinstalling TikTok , because the reality is , tiktok came back up again .
They don't have the legal right to do that . It doesn't look like , especially according to Cotton .
We commend Amazon , apple , google and Microsoft for following the law and halting operations with ByteDance and TikTok , and we encourage other companies to do the same . The law , after all , risks ruinous bankruptcy for any company who violates it .
Now that the law has taken effecting all ties between TikTok and communist China , only then will Americans be protected from the grave threat posed to the privacy and security by a communist controlled TikTok .
So you see everything that's happening here and then obviously it's not like TikTok isn't trying to influence this .
Right ? Well , I mean , the TikTok CEO joined Trump's inauguration today . So the CEO was there today at the Capitol for the inauguration and if you're , you know I get it . There's all this messaging . You hear kids saying , well , trump's going to back TikTok . I mean , it's going to be fine , it's going to be fine , trump's going to let it lie .
I think my understanding is that Trump has basically given a 90-day pass right to stay back up .
That's kind of what I'm agreeing ? No , I don't think that's even true . Well , first of all , let's talk about the political part of this . Then we'll play some sound .
I'm not sure he can even do that . But politically , what do you do if you're Trump and save TikTok while also protecting our national security interest ? And that's going to be . That's where he's , and he has to be very confident he can make that deal , otherwise you don't inject yourself into it .
Yeah , okay . Well , let's listen to the . Can he make the deal ? So this is what's interesting the guy who wrote the anti-TikTok bill talked on Fox News about this and he says basically , yeah , yeah , trump can't jump in and just cut some random deal here .
Having your foremost geopolitical adversary control . What is becoming the dominant news platform for young Americans raises the threat of espionage . The platform could be used to spy on 170 million Americans and also it could be used as a propaganda platform . Therefore , all we're saying is divest , change the ownership structure and people can continue to use the app .
And the only reason we're here today is because TikTok spent the last 270 days trying to not comply with the law , suing the government so that they didn't have to comply with the law , lobbying against the law and ultimately losing .
If they were a normal market actor , they would have taken the tens of billions of dollars that any number of people are willing to offer them , but of course , it proves they are not a normal market actor . This is a weapon in the hands of Xi Jinping designed to weaken America , and only changing the ownership structure will fix that . Ask for an extension .
There is no extension .
Let me tell you , as the person who wrote the bill the extension was for within the 270-day window , which closed at 12.01 am this morning , and in order to get an extension , the president has to certify there are legally binding documents enabling the execution of a qualified divestiture , which of course , there isn't , and indeed TikTok , no less than 10 days ago ,
was at the Supreme Court saying that a divestiture is impossible . So again , tiktok has only themselves to blame . It is time to make a deal Interesting .
I mean , we'll see how it all shakes out . Kevin O'Leary wants to make a deal for TikTok . He's got some people , so we'll see what happens , but this is kind of a perilous spot early for Trump .
Right , or he does what he's going to do and forces them to sue him , and it goes the other way .
But my understanding is TikTok is back up today Like people are able to use it Absolutely .
It was back up after 15 hours or something . Yeah , 18 hours .
I think it was down and now it's back up , so somebody is not in compliance with it , I guess or something We'll see .
We'll see what happens yeah .
Well , I did like this little part , this little tweet you put in here . It said it's from a guy who worked for TikTok for the past two years and it says TikTok is banned tomorrow . Ask me anything . The first question out the door is would you let your children use TikTok high school aged ? And he says back hardest no possible .
So brutal . Uh , he might know more than we do you know . Okay , a couple of quick things that we're going to end with here . Um , number one this was just kind of an interesting thing , and you wanted to talk about the fashion I did , I do .
Well , I just said you know you . I'm sorry you cannot have this inauguration and not think about what people are going to wear , because you guys may not care . No , women were texting me today to get my take on their outfits , so I promise you , women are like what's Melania going to wear All ?
right , let's see it .
So Melania shows up in a Navy suit the hat I like the hat , the Hamburglar . It is a little Hamburglar , but it's very classy . I think it's a little like British princess Diana . When I look at it , however , I just think it blocked her eyes . I would like to see her eyes more . I think she should have , like , maybe not worn the hat .
Yeah , it did block her eyes .
Like you can't get a read on . She's having to hold it while they walk out , bite into the helicopter because it's blowing so badly . I'm not sure I agree with that one .
Here we have Plus she's got the cheeseburgers falling out of her pockets . It's not good .
Stop it . She still looked great . No , she doesn't , I'm sorry .
She's stuck . It's hard to make Melania Trump look bad .
Yeah , I'm like , let me see her face because it's beautiful , and so I just thought well , it's an interesting choice to wear a hat inside . You've got a nice pink suit by Vance's wife .
Yeah , Usha .
Usha . I thought that was really pretty on her , and then I think the winner for me was Ivanka . I loved her green outfit . The beret is a little Green beret the little green , beret's a little strong . But I still thought . You know , there's somebody that's wearing a little hat and doesn't block her eyes . So I don't know .
I just liked , I thought for the occasion , it's winter , it's freezing there . I just that was my win .
Yeah , okay , all right , that's your win . I like it . I like it . All right , my win goes to Carrie Underwood . Yeah , we're all waiting for her to sing at the end of the event and the music won't come on . So we want to show you what Carrie Underwood did as the ultimate baller .
If I could ever be as good at whatever I'm good at as Carrie Underwood is is what she's good at , I will take it , because she is unbelievable . So , basically , the music wouldn't come up . So Carrie Underwood basically tells the guy who's in charge of the program I'm just going to sing it , brother , I don't need music .
And so just watch what she says here and then you'll see her sing this and everybody sings along with her . It was so cool . I'm just going to sing it . She said it right there .
You know the words . Help me out here .
Oh beautiful , for spacious skies , for amber waves , of grain , Mountain majesties above the fruited plain America . America , God shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea .
We're back , baby , we're back .
That's absolutely . She did such a fantastic she's fantastic .
I've always said if I could seem like anybody , it would be her . She's by far my favorite like voice . She's got a tremendous talent she does and good for her just being like okay , because it was an awkward long it was long , yeah , yeah , they're waiting , they're trying to figure everything out , yeah there were some pauses today but , all in .
I thought it was a really beautiful ceremony . I am a little jealous that we're not going to any of the balls guys . I know you guys would rather just stick , hook sticks in your eyes and go to an inauguration ball .
I would love to be there .
Ava would go with me . She would love it .
I would love to go to the inauguration ball and ask Melania where she got that ridiculous hat Melania ?
where she got that ridiculous hat , but Ava would you wear a beret , or would it be raspberry instead of ?
green . Yeah , I might go for like a mauve or like a chartreuse color , maybe a little bit of periwinkle if I'm feeling feisty .
Hey , listen among us guys .
I literally cannot pick that color out anywhere .
No , no , you can't .
I would have no idea what .
Neither one of you are fashion east of police okay , so don't worry about that , we would dress you if there was a ball right .
there is one concern , though , and we're going to wrap with this uh , america's team , the dallas cowboys , um , continue to be without a coach , and word has come out that the cowboys could potentially be looking at someone who has no business being their coach as their coach .
So , jay , I don't know if you have any thoughts on this Schottenheimer , who is their offensive coordinator . This is a very dark time . It is a dark time .
All this stuff is great , but Philadelphia and Washington are you kidding me ?
In the NFC Championship . It's a nightmare .
It's a disaster . I think you just pay the $10 million and get belichick you get belichick . I agree , belichick , belichick , belichick gruden , belichick gruden , ben johnson any of those disciplinarian which won't ever happen , no , which is not gonna happen isn't .
Belichick hasn't even out of pocket for a long time or a year . He's only been out a year that's .
It's only been out a year now . That's it . He's only been out a year Now . We did watch . By the way , if you want to watch something that's compelling television , it's called Dynasty on Apple+ .
The Dynasty on Apple+ . Yeah About the Patriots .
Yeah , it's about the Patriots run , which is unbelievable .
It was so good and I don't even like football , that roster pretty good Cowboys 11 through 53 , not as good .
So they've got a lot of work to do and obviously , if they go with Schottenheimer as their coach , it's a titanic mistake .
Okay , I'm not following . I'm following Deion's a possibility . Is he still in the mix , Deion ? I ?
don't know , we'll see . I think Jerry may have been doing that just for a little bit of attention .
Jerry likes hiring Desmond , so that's all these , all these names that we want , it's probably not going to happen .
Yeah , that's a good point . Who do you think it's going to be ? Jay ?
Kellen Moore .
And who is that for me ?
Kellen Moore is the offensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles , still in the playoffs right now , and he was the offensive coordinator in Dallas under Mike McCarthy . Then he and McCarthy had a falling out and he left , and so , yeah , I think Jay's probably right .
If I had to guess , it may be Kellen Moore , but it's also possible that if they go with Schottenheimer , he could bring in Jason Witten underneath him and then they'll groom Witten to be the head coach . Which , if you're taking the Dallas Cowboy head job , would you want to take it with knowing your replacements on the staff ?
That Would you want to take it with knowing your replacements on the staff .
That's just not smart . That's why the organization's been dysfunctional for so long . Great Sorry to end it that way , people , I'm sorry , it was a joyful day .
It's changed and here we go . And all of a sudden you end with All right , thanks for joining us and we'll see you back here on Thursday .
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