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it is not who's awesome but rather who is significant that year. So it's about who's significant not who's good or bad. And you know I get the point right. I think I said the same thing which is it doesn't, it's not an endorsement by Time Magazine. It definitely isn't. But the fact that you would spend your whole show or a segment of it just making this big visual comparison to dictators, they are…
← Previous segment →mental illness who didn't know it, I guess it would look like that. So when I watch Joy Reid or Rachel Maddow I just see mental health problems. I'm not really seeing opinions per se.
Meanwhile James Carville. Yeah I tell you that guy's becoming really interesting just because he's so unfiltered. But Carville said he found out that there are people on his team, I guess the Democrats, who don't mind losing elections if it makes them feel better and superior. But he points out if you aren't winning you aren't. And then he watched the Food Network because people like food more than they like even if they're just watching it.
All right. Other people being weird. Adam Kinzinger talking about Donald Trump's vow to get retribution. So he was one of those January 6 committee people. And Kinzinger warns that if Trump tried to get retribution he said, quote, "If there is a day the Democrats decide to do the same thing to Republicans you won't have a right to complain about it." To which I have to ask the following question. Did we change the meaning of the word retribution? Because retribution means that you're the one who did something bad and somebody is paying you back for that bad thing you did. It doesn't mean that he just decided to do something bad to you. No it's called retribution. And retribution is even part of the question because it is assumed that the January 6 committee did something that nobody should have done to anybody. So now if you start the fight you should not expect the other person not to finish it if they can. And if they finish the fight and that causes you to go back and get stronger and come back and fight them again that's okay. It's not a one way but no you don't get to take a free punch. So Adam, yes I understand that if he gets retribution the Democrats will find a way to do it to him. But can you tell me what Democrats could have done to Trump that they didn't literally try? They tried to impeach him. They tried to put him in jail. Somebody tried to kill him twice at least. So are you telling me that you can make that situation go away if Trump decides not to get retribution? Nobody's buying that. The Democrats pushed every illegitimate button that they could touch to try to get rid of Trump. If he does a non-legitimate thing which is find something they did illegally and prosecute, that's perfectly acceptable. In fact he should give it back as hard as he got, minus the assassination part of course. But I'm not in favor of lawfare or violence of course. But yeah he should use every tool he has that's ethical and makes sense and not go too far. Don't want him to go too far. But my sense is that Trump will probably just not have the enthusiasm for retribution. I think it'd just be too much work for what you would get. You wouldn't really get anything from it. So I would be in favor of pardoning Kinzinger to make him look guilty.
So apparently according to CNN Biden isn't inclined to issue any pardons to people who used firearms or drugs or had drug charges. Tapper points out that that's after Hunter Biden was pardoned for firearms and drug charges. Now is that a good gotcha? That Biden allegedly doesn't want to give pardons to people with firearms and drug charges but he just gave a pardon to his own son for firearms and drug charges. So did CNN get a good gotcha there? Gotcha. No, no. This is again thinking by analogy. This is not an analogy. Every single person watching the story knows that the only thing that mattered was that Hunter Biden was his son. And we all get it. We
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all get it. You could hate it. You could not like it. But we get it. Father pardoning the son. We get it. CNN this isn't a gotcha. But what's interesting is that Jake Tapper on CNN he played it as a gotcha. Like he played it as a clear inconsistency with Biden that maybe should be noted. No that shouldn't be noted. There's no story here whatsoever. Man helps his son. You don't need to ask any extr…
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