Presidential Debates; Tariffs; Inflation
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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BAD: I'm a cheap date when it comes to any policy that aims to hurt the Chinese government, but these tariffs are window-dressing that are a favor to labor unions, not a real effort to hit China.
CRAZY: So when Biden says twice in five days that inflation was 9 percent when he took office, is that a deliberate lie, a sign he doesn't remember being corrected, or evidence no one around him bothered to correct him?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. Three Martiniinis coming up. |
| 0:14.0 | It's that time of the day. |
| 0:15.0 | We sit down on three martinis. |
| 0:17.0 | Greg crumbus out, Jim Garrity, as always with the national view. |
| 0:20.0 | Here for the three martinis, I'm Chad and today it happened the gauntlet has been |
| 0:24.8 | thrown down yes as of this morning Joe Biden said that kind of surprise everyone by putting on a video on Twitter and social media saying |
| 0:35.7 | that he's eager to do two debates with Donald Trump. |
| 0:41.6 | Listeners might be saying, wait a second, I thought they usually did three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. |
| 0:46.4 | Ah, two debates, Biden says, go ahead, make my day, which sounds, you know, really tough, sounds sounds you know really tough sounds you know as |
| 0:55.8 | as grizzled as we as we get from uh |
| 0:59.7 | Joe Biden I would also note though apparently you know once you get to the details |
| 1:05.2 | you find out that Biden does not want any audience he does not want RFK Jr that's |
| 1:10.3 | actually not shocking he wants no interruptions and he listed a whole bunch of friendly, you know, |
| 1:16.3 | CNN was one offering. Univision was another, ABC, CBS, etc. Strangely not NBC. |
| 1:24.0 | And if I'm NBC, I'm a little bit offended by that. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, there's only so much he can do to make it look like it's supposed to be nonpartisan. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. Maybe even he recognized that was a bridge too far. |
| 1:37.1 | So, people might say, why is this a good martini? Well, look, certain folks, including Democratic |
| 1:42.4 | senators like Dick Durbin and Chris Coons and |
| 1:46.4 | Trump critics like David Fromm had all been kind of you know floating trial balloons |
| 1:50.4 | of you know Biden really shouldn't be on the same stage as Trump. |
| 1:53.7 | And this elevates Trump and it, you know, lends him a credibility that he doesn't deserve. |
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