Single-Family Fiction, Trump Rejects Future Debate, 'Appalling' Secret Service Review

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg as they close the week with an important correction from Thursday's edition, strong thoughts on Trump's rejection of another debate and the questionable characters in his inner circle, and startling indications that the performance of the Secret Service on the day of the Trump assassination attempt was even worse than we thought.

First, they apologize for basing their Thursday story about a Maryland county considering major zoning changes that allegedly threatened existing and future single-family homes on an erroneous story from a local ABC news station. They explain what the proposed changes would actually do and why that news source is unlikely to get the benefit of the doubt again.

Next, they explain why they think Trump was wrong to reject another debate with Kamala Harris, pointing out that even with somewhat biased moderators, a debate is still the best chance to make gettable voters aware of Kamala's radical positions and failed tenure as vice president. They also chide Trump for allowing a figure like Laura Loomer into his inner circle - which is almost guaranteed to make things worse.

Finally, they're stunned to see staunch lefty Connecticut Sen. Dick Blumenthal predict the American people will be "appalled" by the egregious failings of the U.S. Secret Service in connection to the attempted assassination of Trump on July 13. And Blumenthal also blasted the Department of Homeland Security for its lack of cooperation in the investigation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:04.5	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:09.4	Three Martini's coming up.
0:11.6	Hey, very glad you're with us for the Friday. Three Martini's coming up.
0:26.0	Hey, very glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini lunch, another one of those weeks that felt like about a month, but we got there and we actually do have some more debate material to talk about mainly the lack of future debates at least at this point on the presidential level. Our first Martini today is related to yesterday's third martini. Yesterday in our final martini we
0:35.8	did the story that we saw at the local ABC 7 affiliate WJLA talking about new
0:41.8	zoning policies being considered in Montgomery County, Maryland.
0:46.8	And the lead sentence in that story from WJLA was, under a new proposal almost every single family home in Montgomery County
0:54.8	could be torn down and replaced with a duplex triplex for town homes or in some cases
0:59.7	a small apartment building that's also the way they tweeted out the story. And so as we
1:06.4	posted that we got a notification later in the day from Patrick Gleason over at Americans
1:10.9	for Tax Reform and I thank him for that saying that's actually not what the proposal calls for.
1:15.4	And he pointed us to the community note that that post got saying,
1:19.8	misleading headline, this proposal gives property owners the freedom to build small multi-unit structures on their property loosening current property right restrictions which prohibit structures that are not single family homes.
1:31.0	It will not impact owners who do not wish to build anything.
1:35.0	There is also a link connected to that community note and in that link which connects to the
1:40.5	Montgomery County Planning Board. It says the Planning Board's vote transmits Montgomery
1:45.0	Planning's attainable housing strategies
1:47.0	report to the council to consider a set of zoning modifications
1:50.5	and other policy changes that would still allow for single-family detached homes
1:55.1	but would also permit duplexes, triplexes, town homes, and small apartment
1:59.4	buildings in a more residential area of the county.
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