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Welcome back everybody to Michael Steel Podcast. So Charlie, you wrote a great piece that

came out this week that I recommend to folks on the Bowl walk. It's part of the morning

shots in which you know this was this trip by Biden was not a stunt. But rather as you

said in act of statesmanship, you go on to know even National Review acknowledged that

quote Biden's secret trip to Kiev took guts declaring that his visit to wartime Kiev

is an example of America in its finest tradition. That from National Review, which when

that headline hit, I just kind of actually was gobsmacked. I was like, excuse me what? But

then you go on and you call out the useful idiots because we did hear from the useful idiots.

The the the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Matt Gaetzes and his performative BS. You know quote,

there are no MAGA pacifists or anti ward dogs. A few are genuinely America first isolationist.

A few are pro Putin because they have a kink for authoritarian strongmen with a pension for

lying in brutality. And a lot of them are anti Zelensky because it misses the kicker because

they are pro Trump. They are all anti Biden. That's that's the narrative around the party

that you and I grew up in politically and advocated on behalf of particularly global moments like

this. As you noted, when you had a Reagan or a Bush 41 or 43 standing on that global stage,

affirming solidarity with our allies, we have these useful idiots here at home,

applying in the trade of bullshit lies and obfuscation and making a lot of noise that basically plays

into Putin's hands even though it doesn't resonate, it just just comes up the works. You know.

Yeah. And you know, and the fact that the fact that they I mean, I understand the dynamic here.

That that when you think about it that if if Donald Trump's presidency was defined by his

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