Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday August 8th, 20th.

I was about to say 2015 with maybe I was having nostalgia but not that that was a

great much younger than I was so much younger that I had exactly the same

amount of hair than that I have now anyway but that was not a great time as

I recall actually that was there were amazingly enough there was a crisis

that the border with with a legal immigrants and mass shootings and

and match exactly anyway so I'm John Pudworth the editor commentary with me as

always no arathman associate or high no and a greenwald senior editor high a

but I John Christine Rosen is off this week so

so the the classic hope you know that that things might ratchet down a little

or that everybody from the president on down would rise to the occasion of

expressing appropriate grief upset worry coming together all you know on in

the aftermath of these two horrible shootings we now basically can say that

that didn't happen and that the president went to Dayton Ohio and had a

completely everything was not public and then he went to El Paso and did not

cover his head with particular glory and was tweeting all day in a

conventional political way about everybody being mean to him and conventional for

him yeah well that's yeah now the now conventional fashion so I would say that

it's disappointing I don't know that we have any right to be disappointed it's his

own story from the campaign from the rallies about the what is the song the

poem that he would read the snake right it's you know the snake should have

known that the was it you know you knew what I was when you when you met me so

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