85: Questions For A New Year

Jen Rubin's Green Room

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Jen Rubin answers listener questions and addresses various pressing political questions as the new year begins. She discusses the implications of international leaders flattering Trump, the status of his cabinet nominations, and the potential dangers posed by certain nominees. The conversation also touches on Elon Musk's controversial involvement in European politics, the complexities of immigration policy, and the challenges Trump faces with his legal cases. Additionally, Jen emphasizes the need for Democrats to adapt their messaging strategies in a media landscape that often favors Republicans, and she critiques Attorney General Garland's handling of the Smith report.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's Green Room. Happy 2025. Well, we hope it's a little bit
0:17.8	better than 2024. Let's review a bit of what has happened already.
0:24.5	Unlike the Republicans, Democrats managed the peaceful transfer of power without a hitch,
0:32.2	with dignity, with the proper seriousness the occasion deserves.
0:37.4	And I have to hand it to Vice President Kamala Harris.
0:41.3	The dignity she displayed, the self-restraint, was really a model.
0:46.6	And we sometimes deplore, we should deplore, the bad behavior of politicians.
0:53.3	But when they behave admirably, and when they
0:56.6	set an example for our children, we really should underscore that they've done the right thing.
1:02.6	And she certainly did. Now, I have a certain bone to pick with the president. And that concerns,
1:09.6	frankly, the op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post,
1:13.7	which I currently work for. He implored us to remember January 6th. So far, so good. He reminded
1:23.0	us that this was an abomination, a violation of the tradition of a peaceful transfer of power.
1:30.6	He talked about the mob. He talked about democracy prevailing. You know, the only thing he missed
1:38.2	was President Trump. Amazingly, the entire thing was written in passive voice, as if the mob had assembled itself,
1:47.5	as if the mob had called itself, as if the mob had been sent up to the capital itself,
1:53.6	as if the mob had initiated a call to hang Mike Pence. All of this omits the central role of Trump and the central role of the
2:04.3	Republican Party and the MAGA movement. Why bother doing this if you're going to exempt the
2:10.7	people responsible for this heinous behavior? Well, I have a couple of theories. One is that
2:16.9	Biden doesn't understand the difference
2:19.2	between respecting the institution of the presidency, that is the incoming presidency, and the
2:26.3	obligation to respect his victory. And the obligation that sometimes comes with that to also be completely candid, honest, and not cover up for your success's errors, whether they were in the past, the future, or the present.
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