Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast I'm your host Tim Miller I'm delighted to be here with my favorite David from. Yesterday we lost

Joe Lieberman at the age of 82, obviously a vice presidential nominee for

Al Gore, a long-time Senator Bill Crystal wrote this in remembrance,

a public servant of principal and decency,

an American patriot, a proud Jew, a happy warrior,

a kind man, an example to us all, may his memory be a blessing. Rest easy, Joe Lieberman.

David From, thanks so much for being on the Bullard podcast again. You get a green jacket for all of your appearances.

Thank you very much.

I wanted to start with you.

It was about, well I guess 11 months ago now, April 2023,

you wrote The Coming Mind and Blowout.

I've got some listeners who complain about my rain cloud tendencies.

And so I thought, let's start on this Thursday with a little bit of hope, a little bit of uplift.

How do you assess that 11 months on your sense that Biden was in good shape in the election?

All right, so it's a rainy day here in Washington, so I will bring some sunshine.

Okay, great.

The prediction of a Biden blow was not a prediction that Joe Biden would win a massive personal re-election win, like 1984 and 1972.

It was a prediction that Democrats were going to do well or rather Republicans would do badly up and down the ticket.

I base that on the working out of the logic of Republican positions on abortion and generally

on the so-called Human Life Amendment.

I keep thinking that the master key to understanding in 2024 is a story,

but filming the first Star Wars.

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