Biden’s Exit Strategy (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Mickey’s plan to install Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office ... Who can convince Biden not to run for reelection? ... Mickey’s comeback strategy for Biden ... Bob takes the Parrot Room into untested waters ... Is Boris Johnson in trouble over Covid protocols or policy failures? ... Are seditious conspiracy charges warranted for the Oath Keepers? What about Trump? ... Mickey: The Supreme Court got the vaccine mandate ruling wrong ... Bob: It will be bad if Russia invades Ukraine, but it won’t threaten U.S. interests ... Bob: China doesn’t have a monopoly on repressive software exports ... Parrot Room preview: Bob takes a Covid test, Mickey catches Bob in an almost-devastating contradiction, Bob tries to catch Robert Malone in a contradiction, Sidney Poitier, Bob Saget, Terry Teachout, Bob v. Andrew Sullivan, Don’t Look Up, Ruth Barrett sues the Atlantic, Bari Weiss on Hollywood, David Remnick claims we’re suspended between democracy and authoritarianism, Mickey has second thoughts about donating to the Salvation Army, Matt Ridley on the origin of Covid, a Jeffrey Epstein update, Maya Angelou gets a quarter, and what’s up with Leon Wieseltier’s journal? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.6	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.6	Hey, Bob.
0:11.3	How you doing?
0:12.5	I'm doing okay.
0:13.5	Is that Nancy?
0:14.4	Is that the Nancy doll?
0:15.4	She's back.
0:17.0	That's not, that's the small one, not the inflatable life size one.
0:20.4	No, no, I keep that for special occasions.
0:23.7	Yeah, I know.
0:24.7	The, uh, she's back and I have a roundabout way of getting back to her.
0:30.6	I, uh, I'm always one for like, uh, you know, switching candidates in midstream.
0:36.2	So in the, during the Dukakis campaign at the very end when he was obviously going to lose,
0:43.2	I...
0:43.8	This is 1988 for those of you who were born.
0:46.4	I called on him to drop out of the race and let Lloyd Benson take over.
0:52.0	So Biden is at a very low ebb now. You know, it's, it's a, you know,
0:58.1	if, if you were the stock market, you would say buy now because you're supposed to buy
1:04.2	at the moment of absolute abject terror when everything seems to be spiraling down. So you think
1:08.7	he should step aside and have the young and vibrant Nancy Pelosi take his
1:12.6	question. Looking at people in the chain of command or the chain of succession, Bob,
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