The Outrage Addicts Keep Shooting Up

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The podcast today examines how Joe Biden came out and calmly said he'd be president soon and didn't much care what Donald Trump was doing—and three seconds later the political world had a collective nervous breakdown over a weird series of firings and new installations at the Department of Defense. Biden wants to cool things down, but he seems to be the only one. What's going on here? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.0	Today is Veterans Day, Wednesday November 11th, 2020. I am John Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always.
0:35.0	Senior writer, Christine Rosen.
0:38.0	Hi, Christine.
0:39.0	Hi, John.
0:40.0	Executive pause editor, A Greenwald. Hi, Abe.
0:44.0	Hi, hi, pause, John.
0:49.0	And associate editor, Noah Rothman. I know.
0:54.0	Guys, I wanted to read to you something.
0:59.0	Okay, I think it's been a week and more than a week.
1:04.0	And the political conversation is still, oh, Trump, what's he doing, Trump?
1:10.0	They're firing people at the defense department. Oh, my God, Trump.
1:13.0	And what are you going to do? And why are the Republican senators denouncing Trump?
1:16.0	And why isn't everybody saying to Trump? And Trump and Trump and Trump.
1:20.0	And Noah, yesterday you and I both watched Joe Biden's press conference.
1:28.0	And all of the questions were, oh, my God, what are you going to do?
1:33.0	They're not going to have the GSA isn't going to press the button that lets you do your, get your presidential daily briefing.
1:39.0	And this is terrible. And what about that? And how did Biden, what was Biden's general response?
1:46.0	It was really kind of glorious to watch because it contrasts so strongly with the constant fever pitch
1:56.0	on social media, on the center left and op-ed pages, even on the right and the Trump skeptical right,
2:04.0	who are saying without, with some justification that the incoming administration at the transition period,
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