I'm Nominating This Pile Of Leaves

Published Jul 24, 2024, 3:29 PM

In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:

  • The polls! 
  • Mamala doesn't want you to bring up the border
  • The Olympics and what sports the guys will watch
  • The media has been covering for Biden for a while 

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Katty. I'm strong and getty enough. He Armstrong and Getty.

I took on perpetrators of all currents, Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke.

The rules for their own game.

So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type.

I tell you just my opinion.

She's killing it with her teleprompter speeches, killing it, well delivered word, crowd loving it, biggest crowd, bigger crowd than Biden has ever had she had, so just initially there's enthusiasm to come see her, and then she's really performing well.

I don't know. I don't know if well.

First of all, we got to wait to hear when she's, you know, off the cuff, see if she's improved in that area or not. But I wonder if during her vice presidential career she just was. So I don't care. I'm the vice president. Nobody cares what I have to say. I have to go speak to the National Women something or other on a Tuesday afternoon. Nobody's gonna watch it. Doesn't make any difference. I just don't care.

Right, And she has a job that famously was described as not worth a bucket of warm poop.

And she was just like barely going through the motions like I have, because I have that problem. If I don't care about something, I'm really bad at it. And I wonder maybe that was just it. And now all of a sudden she cares because she might actually could be president of the United States.

Any who.

The media fawning she's getting is practically unprecedented. It might be even beyond what Obama got in the early days, because it took a while from the media to shift from remember, Hillary was the presumptive, She's gonna be the nominee. I mean, it's not even a question. Then Obama joined in and is like, well, wait a second, what do you do and challenge in Hillary our woman? And it took a while, and then you know, and then the fawning was really something at some point. But man, the way the media has turned on a dime on Kamala Harris and the whole Harris Biden thing is absolutely amazing. One pundit writing and I don't know who this person is, but the whole last five weeks has been so strange in viewing the left collective lying that's about the you know how bad Joe Biden's brain was up until the debate, some.

Great examples of that coming up to stay with us.

Followed by terrified hysteria at being found out after the debate, followed by a hysteria of relief for a politician none of them ever voted for before. People reacting as a herd rather than his individuals. Yes, went from like no interest in Kamala Harrison. Everybody's saying out loud or behind the scenes, Well, the reason we can't not Biden is because she's so terrible. But soon does she becomes the nominee, and so she is fantastic.

She is the savior.

The fact that her her campaign poster has got that same Obama look whatever you call that kind of art. She adopted the exact same Hope poster, she just put her face on it instead of Barack Obamas. And the media is treating her the same way. Crowd last night chanting to lock him up about Trump after she did her whole prosecutor act.

See you got that happening.

And then also in terms of the way the media is like rewriting history before our very eyes. And I'm stealing this one from Jonah Goldberg's Twitter feed. The way a lot of the mainstream media is talking heads or talking cavalieria, cavalierly about Biden's extremely successful presidency, the most amazing first term anybody's ever had, as if everyone knows and agrees with it makes you want to ask the question, then, why the hell is he so amazingly unpopular? Why did he have the lowest approval rating of any president in modern history thirty four percent in the last poll driven out by his own party.

What may God forgive me for using the term, but it is obvious gas lighting.

It is the definition of gas lighting.

Oh, an incredibly popular and successful president. Jim, you're right, Joe, so popular and successful?

Yeah, come on, so ridiculous.

That brings us to this polling, which I find absolutely amazing because again, that is the narrative, and everybody's just swallowing it up on center and center left media that his first term was better than most people's two terms. It's just it's amazing. He'll go down as one of the most consequential presidents in history, and we talked all about that on Monday.

Well, that's not what the American people think.

According to the latest poll, fifty percent of Americans think Joe Biden will be remembered as below average or one of the worst.

Presidents in US history. Fifty percent.

Then you got twenty three percent to say about average, So you get up to three quarters of about average down to worst president history.

Yeah.

Yeah, So once again, same as with does his brain work. The mainstream media can try to tell you something, but the people ain't buying it. Well, and given the incredibly harsh level of mistrust to the media, I don't have those stats in front of me, but I mean it's like eleven percent of Americans trust the mainstream media. I think they're much less influential than they give themselves credit for. So go ahead and do your rapid, hypocritical, ridiculous about faith and tell us what we all ought to be thinking.

But nobody's buying it. So the thing that is going to.

Uh, perhaps pop the balloon that is Kamala Harris right now is the reality of her record. Of course, I'm making an assumption here that people care about policy.

Do people care about policy?

I think they care about it enough that it'll have a significant effect.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean the giant Trump or not Trump question remains probably question number one in most voters' minds.

But yeah, the policy absolutely matters.

As I heard one of my favorite pundits say yesterday, either side could get forty five percent with a tree stump. That's just where we are with our politics. You could announced a tree stump from Idaho is the Democratic candidate, and they would have started at forty five percent.

And from Idaho.

That's an interesting choice of tree strump's Jack is Idaho is safely read. He'll need to nominate a vice tree stump help carry the swing states right.

And the same on the right, and then you got ten percent in between.

That that will decide on all kinds of different reasons, some of them smart, some of them very very stupid. On who the president's actually going to be. What would be the VP choice of a tree stuff a pile of leaves?

Me?

I think a shrine nominating is by a pile of leaves. This pile of leaves in Pennsylvania. Oh, that was a good choice.

I feel like a shrub was a dee. I picked Jim just trying to get the shrub vote. But here's an ad that somebody who's running for office put together, and you're gonna hear lots of stuff like this trying to tear down Kamala Harris reminding people who she is. One of the clips in here includes a visual pointing out that Kamala Harris was the most liberal senator in the Democratic Party, to the left of Bernie who's a socialist. Like he says it out loud, socialist, not just right wing talking points.

He calls himself a social She is to the left of Bernie and Elizabeth Warren.

I don't know how many people remember that, or maybe they do, But anyway, this ad is long, but it's pretty devastating.

I think Kamala Harris is inspiring and very capable. The more people get to know her, they're going to be particularly impressed by her ability as nonpartisan.

Dove Track has rated you as the most liberal senator.

I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass. Agreeing to Dew, there's no question I'm in favor of banning Track.

Would you ban off Sword early?

Yes?

What is the.

Solution for voters in the fossil fuel.

Industry giving the workers an ability to transition. We're not going to treat people who are undocumented across the borders criminals.

That's correct.

Raise your head if you think it should be a civil effects.

Rather than a clide across the border without documentation. Abolish ice.

Yeah, that a position you agree with, and we need to probably think the best starting from scratch outdated.

It is wrong headed thinking to.

Think that the only way you're going to get communities to be safe just to put more police officers on the street.

Like do you support changing the dietary guidance?

Yeah, you know the food paramo for the people, have yes to reduce red meat specifically, yes.

People who are convicted in prison like the Boston Marathon, Bomasy on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should.

Be able to vote.

I hope we should have that conversation. We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory buyback program.

And so for people out there who like their insurance, they don't get to keep it.

Let's eliminate all of that.

Let's move on.

I am opposed to any policy that would denying any human being public health period.

The more people get to know her they're going to be particularly impressed by her ability.

Is there a single position she has that is the majority position? I don't think so.

From that electorate, from that ad I don't think there's a single one that's majority favorable. No, I don't think so either, with some of them being really I don't think any human being should be denied health care.

So you want free health care for illegals, Okay, run on that, lady. Yeah.

Well, And the idea of running to the left then tacking back towards the center for the general elections time honored, and the right does the same thing.

But time matters.

It matters if you were running way to the left in March, but then you've been moderate really since June, and it's October and we're all getting serious about paying attention. That passage of time matters because the memories grow vague. But if two weeks ago you heard her advocating for, you know, defunding the police and demolishing ice and free health care for illegals and ending all drilling and the rest of it, No, that's gonna stick in people's minds.

My on the other hand, though, is I don't know if anybody voted for Joe Biden because of who he was or his positions. He just wasn't Donald Trump. Eighty one million people were so enthused to not have Donald Trum be president, they voted for whoever it was.

And she might be that.

Yeah, although I think you're glossing over the fact that Biden had a candy coating of.

I'm an old time moderate, I'm no radical, I'm old Joe, scrimping Joe. You know me, Come on that. She can't claim no candy coding.

The bitter pill of Kamala's policies will immediately see our tongues.

No, she would have to put in a lot of work to try to come off as anything other than a San Francisco radical. That's what Gingrich called her on a zoom call I was on last night. She's a San Francisco radical.

And while I would agree that the early excitement for her is notable in the Democratic Party, the days when she has to answer to that stuff off script are coming in a hurry. So well, let's wait for a few more innings to pass. Who's going to ask her? Is she gonna sit down for any tough interviews? She's gonna have all the media given her softball questions unless she goes on Fox or somewhere.

Interesting question. I don't know.

We'll We'll have to see. So many of the traditional bets are off of right. A number of debates I just gonna hold I feel.

Like people need to set their mouth for the most fawning coverage they've ever seen.

And that's saying something.

So, speaking of the dishonesty of the media, a notable conversation was had the other day a couple of media heavyweights in a podcast in which they admitted what they've been doing for the last several years in terms of Joe Biden's senility. We'll get to that in their own damned words.

Cool and Tesla took a huge hit, and the whole electric car industry.

Is in a an interesting state.

We can hit some of those numbers, among other things on the way. So a friend of mine has been sending me these Instagram clips from this woman who has some followers but not a ton and she's a single mom in Oklahoma who just happens to do a pretty good Kamala Harrison personation black woman and.

H and I hope she.

Catches on because her life story is good and sounds a little challenging and be cool. Like I've been pushing her out, hoping she ends up on SNL or something because she does a good Kamala Anyway, this is from last week after jd Vance got the nod.

This is Kamala Harris calling jd Vance.

Hey, jd Hey, this is Mamla at the White House. How are you good? Good listen. I just wanted to touch base and see if you wanted to dig down deeper to a debate with me.

Yeah.

Hey, By the way, I'm wearing a black suit and my pronouns are was war for after the twenty twenty four election. At first, when I heard that you got nominated, I was like, do not come, do not come. And then I was like, oh, this might be a little fun. It's been the significance of the passage of time since I've had a debate. Yeah, I'm speaking, Let's not bring up Joe's debate.

That was horrible. It was horrible.

I don't know about you, but I am ready to press onto the future, unburdened by what has been Yeah, hey, do me a favor. Don't bring up the border during the debates. It's kind of sore subject. Right, I gotta go the streets, me calling. I'm just kidding, Okay, Okay.

I like all the catchphrases she threw in there, the classical don't come, don't come. Remember when she did that on the border. What's your message? Don't Oh? Right, right, that's what that was. What a pathetic moment in American history.

That was, right?

I love that, Yeah, says the cartels. We're gonna go ahead and come with thousands of people and enrich ourselves.

Thank you, could you do I favor? Don't bring up the border? Yeah? Wow.

Oh.

Axios is out today with an article saying Trump is claiming that Kamala Harris was the borders are.

Fact check she was not. The borders are.

And then there's a link in this particular piece to an Axious article showing the day when Joe Biden put her in charge of the border. Okay, they didn't use the term borders are, fine, that's not the point. She was in charge of the border, good lord, fact check, give me a break. Their fact check goes on to point out that she was appointed to deal with or tasked with dealing with the underlying causes. And even if you were to buy that one hundred percent. The underlying causes are like there needs to be better agriculture in Venezuela, and like flood controls in Ecuador and decades long reforms of government and the business climate in Central and South America.

I mean, it would take decades to get it straighten out. And the idea that and meanwhile will leave the border wide open. It is just an idiotic policy. So even if you're right on the fact, you're wrong in effect.

Well, their own headline back in March twenty fourth of twenty twenty one was Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis.

So you'll forgive us if we misunderstood based on your rather straightforward headline.

Yeah, okay, so she wasn't called the TZAR. Fine anyway, good luck with that crap. The vast majority of Americans aren't buyingecking. No, your politics is stupid, yeah yah, yeah, stupid and demoralizing.

Do me a favor. Don't bring up the border. It's kind of a source of subject.

So the security at the Olympics in Paris, whoo dog, I mean, it's gonna be serious. Keeping in mind that Paris had a number of horrific terrorist attacks through the twenty teens and early twenty twenties.

Right, they've got the idea, they've got the Islamic fundamentalist problem going there.

Yeah, they've got a huge population of angry Muslims who don't give a damn about France and are not fans of the Western civilization in general.

Wow, Okay, that'll be something to.

Watch Armstrong and Getty. As I said yesterday, it's our belief that America is ready for a little break and this whole NonStop presidential election thingy. And I'm hoping the Olympics can be that over the next two weeks. That'd be perfect if you know, people sit down and watch them Olympics at night and think about that. I mean, because we can't be at this pace for one hundred and four more days.

Obviously, right.

And I just think there's probably an optimal, optimal amount of your bandwidth that you spend on politics, that I spend on politics, and beyond that it gets to be unhealthy. Sure, you know, everybody's identity is tied up in their politics in a way that's never been true. I mean maybe short of the Civil War. I just I don't say that our government should not be that I think a part of our lives, and I think in a weird way, when we become so obsessed with politics, we're more tolerant of more government intrusion.

You know what I mean.

Well, there's also when you've had an assassination attempt and a resignation, basically like two of the biggest things in the history of the country. The story arc gets a little tough. I mean, yeah, what are they gonna Then one of them needs to have a baby or something. I don't know what you do for the next Wow, keep people's attention, jump a shark as that we're all right, more politics next segment.

We're not going to talk about that.

Here.

Lot to say, but not here speaking of the Olympics or needing a break from politics. We were out to dinner Judy and I last night with a couple of other couples and all looking forward to the Olympics, And you know, I like this women. I guess I root for the Americans. I'm excited about the BMX by Crass. I really enjoy watching that. And then the track and field comes after. I guess where's the gymnastics?

Is?

That?

Like it?

Doesn't matter. Check your local But I thought this was interesting. Paris is turning into an open air fortress, rolling out the largest peacetime security operation in the country's history to protect athletes, residents in the more than ten million visitors they expect during the Olympic Games. Wow, ten millis Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, well at Paris is one of the great tourist places on Earth already.

Right, but I've never understood good people. I've never been to Paris.

Maybe I'll go someday, but if I went, I wouldn't go during the Olympics. Seems like the worst time to like experience what Paris is like.

But that's just me.

Yeah, if you're going to Paris during the Olympics, go to do the Olympics and it happens to be in Paris. Yeah, I think trying to do both would be crazy. But anyway, and it's easier for Jack and I to picture some of this stuff having just been to the convention in Milwaukee. The idea of square mile after square mile accordoned off by this steel security fencing and more cops in the case of France than you've ever seen in your life.

But some of the stats are amazing.

Officials say as many as forty five thousand police, ten thousand soldiers and twenty two thousand private security guards will keep watch at the Paris Olympics. It spans the heart of the city, including the waters of the Sin the big river that runs through Paris, because that's being used for events. Not only do they have a job I'm using gestures here with my arms as if you can see me. Not only do they have like a big, giant, like weirdly not round, mushroomy shape of the city that's going to be the security zone, but along the river, for it looks to be a couple of miles in every direction, and so it's good like this weird blob in the middle of the city, and then two arms going along the river that are going to be armed cancers as well.

When the German team marches in, will the military people just lay down their arms and put their hands up immediately or is that the way that works?

Oh wow, wow, I got to take a knee that was inappropriate on half a dozen different levels. Place de la Concord, the city's largest public square, set up for BMX bike races.

Yes, skateboarding, Yeah, my son watch it. Boys will love that and break dancing, which turns out to be a French addition to the games. France just catching on to breakdancing. What next new wave music?

France ladies A bunch of cheese eating breakdancing monkeys. Sand covered beach volleyball courts are going up in front of the Icel tower.

My hatred of beach volleyballdread.

It's an exquisite exemplar of the athleticism.

That's something something in bikinis. I do not get the obsession with beach volleyball.

I do not more events in bikinis, not less huh Archers will loose arrows on the grassy Esplanade by the Invelodies, a seventeenth century military complex that houses Napoleon's tomb.

And presumably Napoleon's boone. I'd forgotten for a week. Every time I flip on the TV wanting to watch something, and it'll be beach volleyball. Yeah, I guess I will have to go to the tertiary channels. Luckily, I'm a subscriber to Peacock because I subscribe to all of them.

Meanwhile, straight guys will be watching the beach volleyball that's a fatic reason to watch a sport. If you want to watch porn, what's porn? It's everywhere.

Francis plan to conduct the games that locales around the city is intended to demonstrate that Western democracies, for all their tumult, can host a monumental event accessible to the public. They mentioned these security challenges immense as the scale of the contest is expected to draw ten thousand, five hundred athletes from one hundred and ninety countries.

One hundred or so world leaders.

What coories, Yes, how many individual people would live in Paris who would like to see violence happen in the name of Allah be a lot if you're adding in the suburbs of Paris, in the tens of thousands, Yeah, maybe a lot of people said even if they wouldn't do it, they would approve of it, hundreds of thousands. Yeah, and that's that's something that wouldn't be true in an American city.

Yeah.

And I think, and we've mentioned this in various contexts through the years, the post nine to eleven reckoning with how compatible fundamentalist Islam is with the West is not over.

It just there was a lull there.

It is absolutely still a critical question. Ask a euro about that, especially you progressive. So look to Europe for an example. And you know, whatever socialized healthcare in sixteen weeks of paternity leave when your wife has a kid or whatever, or I suppose a.

Man could have a child a birthing person.

But Europe is now getting openly well, they are openly discussing the fact that a lot of these people hate everything about our society. They said so in advance, and we brought him in anyway, Now what do we do?

Is it true they're going to like the torch by having crone shot out of a cannon with a flaming rose in his mouth.

That is absolutely true.

Yes, crosses the torch and then lands in his old lady wife's arms.

Wow.

Authorities are preparing for potential attacks by Islamist militants as well as state sponsored sabotagi originating in Russia or Iran, according to French officials, and the various wars have magnified those threats according to Western officials and security experts. As a guy who traveled in Europe over the last Christmas break, I will tell you the whole Ukraine war deal is top of mind. Especially because you know, like when we were in Budapest, it's like, yeah, it's happening there in like two hundred and thirty miles. I can't remember what the mileage was, but it wasn't a lot. It was like, you know, San Francisco to La Away. France is mobilizing nearly three times as many security personnel as the number deployed for the London Olympics, the last one held in Europe, which was a few years back. You got your bomb sniff and dogs. The US is sending a bunch of bombsniff and dogs. Apparently we lead the world in that and the thorious security challenge they say, will be protecting the opening ceremony on Friday, expected to be the most attended Olympics kickoff in modern history. A four mile parade of boats will carry the Olympic athletes.

That's right, A.

Four mile boat parade on the seend will carry Olympic athletes who traditionally march through much more easily protected stadiums. And authorities estimate the ceremonial draw three hundred thousand spectators and see the boat parade in the stadium park.

I sure there, hope there aren't any sloped roofs around because obviously if a sniper gets up there, there's nothing you can do about it.

Oh no, I've seen photos of Paris. It's full of slope proofs, so there's nothing that can be done. Well, I certainly wish the French luck for all of our French mockery. A four mile boat parade in the current atmosphere is bold.

Yeah cool, Well, you know, I don't know. You got to balance this. It's like I hate the Secret Service coming out yesterday and saying Trump shouldn't do it any more outdoor rallies. I mean, there are some things you have to do to accommodate the realities of the world. But man, you don't want to adjust too much for the evildoers, as opposed to up your game so that they can't pull it off exactly.

I am always drawn back to the British example during the Blitz during World War Two, when the word is keep calm and carry on. If you're going to go out to coffee today, go to coffee, don't let the Germans bombits into terror.

Live your life, show defiance.

I love that, and it's worth mentioning this French security forces are facing the challenge of keeping tabs on. To Jack's point, thousands of suspected is Lomist extremists and people who have been convicted of terror offenses since the deadly attacks in the country by Islamist militants in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. They have thousands of known convicted is Lomist militants in France.

Again, I hope they don't have access to a ladder, a gun, and a sloped roof, because there's nothing you can do if someone has that.

Yeah, well, I'm hoping the French are a little better at that than our crappy crappy former Secret Service director.

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Speaking of the sloped roof, have you seen one of those new videos that came out yesterday. I think it was a bodycam footage of one of the officers. He's up on the roof. He's up on the roof. This is shortly after dude has been shot. He's the body is still there, and there's blood running along while they're talking. I mean they're walking around talking about what happened. Dead near assassin is still on the roof. But the roof is barely sloped. I mean, it's not a good excuse. If it's a peaked roof, you still have to figure it out. But it's barely sloped at all. I mean, you can tell from the video the guy's standing there, he's just he's kind of leaning a little bit.

Because the roof is barely sloped.

Well, that's seventy two year old congressman clambering around there the other day.

I mean, that's all you need to know.

That excuse, slash explanation, whatever the hell she was trying to say, will will stand. That is on the mount rushmore of awful, idiotic excuses, perhaps in all of human history.

I can't believe that she thought that was gonna help her cause last week when she was running from any questions and trying to avoid the hearing and everything, and she put out that statement. Unbelievable, And I didn't watch the hearing, which has been described as John Potter heards of New York Post said, it's the worst he's seen in forty years, and he's watched thousands of hours of these, and he.

Pointed out one on his podcast.

I hadn't seen this part where she was being asked about, you know, when the guy climbed up versus when the sniper and thelah blah blah and Trump went on stage and everything. She said, You know, I don't. I haven't had access to the timeline. I'm not really sure the timeline of all this done.

We're done after a week. You don't know the timeline. What what?

That either speaks to her incredible or incompetence or the utter, you know, dysfunction of her agency. Wow, I think different sides of the same coin.

I don't know the timeline at this point a week later, and then.

You're literally the only person who doesn't, sweetheart, I can show you a bunch of videos.

Oh yeah, The New York Times has it, if you'd like to read it, to the Washington Poster, CNN or practically everybody.

Everybody's got it on their phone, the entire timeline.

There's video, there's there's there's views from above whatever angle you want.

Ticking ticking clocks.

Yeah, timeline yell, wow, I heard of YouTube, my darlin, and so was she that bad at her job as she was at handling hearings and everything, and she's still twenty four hours before she resigned.

Well, what's the alternative.

She was excellent at her job and just came off as a bumbling, moronic buffoon at the hearing.

But the reason I wanted to bring that up again, aside from the fact that I saw the video with the so called sloped roof, was bureaucracies and their willingness to do anything to keep from being damaged or anybody lose their job. May orc Is coming out and saying I have one hundred percent confidence is the worst thing I can possibly imagine hearing out of a government official. If you want anybody to have any belief in the idea of a federal government, exhibit.

One of the dishonesty of the mainstream media coming up in a minute.

This is devastating cool that's on the way, Armstrong Hengetti.

The president has been able to to the shop every day for the past three years, and let's not forget he is also leading a historic presidency, which is also important to note. In everything that we've been able to do. He's been able to get done over the past three years.

KJP.

Responding allegations that the president's brain is addled, go on, KJP, he is sharp, he.

Is on top of things. He when we have meetings with him, with his staff, he's constantly pushing us, getting trying to get more information. And so that has been my experience.

With this president.

Okay, she works for the guy, but what of the major media like Jake Tapper, who's more reasonable than a lot of them.

In a conversation with Laura Trump.

I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.

You are.

I think it's so amazing.

It's so amazing to me that trying figure out an answer cognitive decline. Trying to tell me that what I was suggesting.

Was you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think that somebody in the prompt family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses.

Okay, I think we got the idea. Do we know when that was? I was just gonna ask for a date on that.

The KJP stuff was in February of this year, which was I believe the same month the poll came out that eighty six percent of Americans said he's not mentally up to another term eighty six percent and Jake Tapper's are there?

Well, right, where do you get off saying he's had a mental decline? You monster? You have the answer to that, Katie, When was the Jake Tapper thing? Yeah, that happened in October of twenty twenty. October twenty twenty.

But he well, it was already in the half of America believed his brain didn't work period. I mean, it wasn't It wasn't a crazy notion. It was like, it was not like saying Kamala Harris's showing decline right right. Indeed, all of that was to lead up to this. In a remarkable exchange on Mortally Annoying Sea Their Haircutted Chuck Todd's pomcast this week, Chucky and Politico's Jonathan Martin admitted that high level Democrats have been saying for years, years that Joe Biden's in rough mental shape and not up to another term in office. Jonathan Martin says, Chuck, I'm skeptical Biden's ever going to drop out, even if he has a terrible press conference talking about the NATO. Politicians and the Democratic Party have shown in the last few days a lot of them simply don't have the courage of they're convictions. They're not going to stand up in say in public what they've been telling folks like us in private for years.

This is not a new story.

Chuck, John, I'm not going to out the cabinet secretary, but I had a cabinet secretary two years ago, okay, two years ago ask out of the blue to me, do you really think he can't run again like this? And I said, you have more interaction than I do. He said, I don't have a lot of interaction with him. This was a pretty senior cabinet secretary two years ago. This is one of those close, classic open secrets nonversation, right, It's the story everybody knows and everybody was afraid to talk about. And Jonathan Martin says, Chuck, we actually had this conversation about the nonversation last year.

I know we did. You use that word. Yeah, we've chronicled this.

Look for those who want to say the media is Look, the media is as good as the sources that don't lie.

To us are.

But you had sources telling you the truth exactly. And I always say there's certain things about a job. The job of a journalist is to observe, and sometimes most important observations are what don't happen versus what does happen?

Absolutely the dog.

That is not marking and they go in and they just agree, Yeah, it's been clear for a very long time, but we couldn't.

Say anything, couldn't say anything why they did not state it outwardly.

But I think I am familiar enough with the DC culture to answer that question and say, because that would have made that would have put them outside the herd, the herd of the Washington elite.

Read Mark Leivivich's This Town. You'll get it, man.

I can't wait till the books are written, and it'll take a while before you get the real, honest story. But it's gonna be fascinating.

And what's interesting is neither guy says I couldn't report it because my conversations were off the record. They willingly didn't report it. Shocking but not surprising Armstrong and Getty

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