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🗓️ 31 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Brian and FOX LA's Elex Michaelson do a 2023 wrap-up and a look ahead to 2024.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody this is the last episode of 2023 so just a quick note from me before we |
0:05.2 | head into the annual end of your wrap-up with my buddy Alex Michelson. |
0:11.2 | So I know you might be anxious about the polls, about the news, about Biden's chances. |
0:15.0 | Try not to worry about that now. |
0:17.0 | Because first off, remember that most people aren't paying attention to politics right now, |
0:21.0 | and what happens in December of 2023 is going to feel like ancient history in |
0:25.2 | November of 2024. Second, also remember that a lot of the media narrative you're hearing |
0:29.5 | right now is Cherry Peck to maximize drama. So if you're only hearing about the polls where Trump is ahead, |
0:34.6 | that is by design. |
0:36.0 | And there's nothing that the both sides media loves more |
0:38.5 | than manufacturing some drama |
0:40.0 | where there shouldn't necessarily be any. |
0:42.0 | Third, Democrats have a blockbuster record to run on, |
0:45.0 | between the legislative accomplishments, |
0:47.0 | which include the American Rescue Plan, |
0:48.0 | inflation reduction act, |
0:50.0 | infrastructure law, gun safety law, |
0:51.0 | PAC, CHIPS Act, |
0:52.0 | violence against women act, codying marriage equality into federal law. |
0:55.0 | And the economic accomplishments, which include adding over 14 million jobs, |
0:59.0 | the longest stretch of sub 4% unemployment in 50 years, a record high stock market, consumer confidence surging, gas being below $3 a gallon, |
1:08.0 | inflation lower than when Biden took office, wages outpacing inflation and the most small |
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