Ben Rhodes
speaker
12,021 appearances
36 recordings
12 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard yesterday
Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when he gets up there and says, I don't essentially know what I'm doing.
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I could do this or I could do this.
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And these are two wildly different things.
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It doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
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And pointing to a midterm election that you are very likely to lose as like the key barometer of your decision-making kind of- So
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Everything about it was self-defeating.
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I mean, I just can't imagine he's like, oh, this is a great... And we should say, by the way, that the United Nations was founded out of the vision of the United States and Franklin Roosevelt, right?
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to be a place where you prevented nuclear annihilation from happening and to be a place where you tried to prevent wars.
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And so we have fallen a very far distance in the 80 plus years since that we now have a president of the United States standing in the well of the UN threatening to destroy an entire country.
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You know, that's not like something that we get a pass for here in the US.
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Now, I should say, like in terms of what happened or what should happen,
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There's plenty of good reasons to not start bombing the Houthis, right?
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And one of them is that we've tried it.
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Like Trump tried it.
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Biden tried it.
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I mean, one of my favorite Joe Biden quotes was when he said, and do you remember this one, Tommy, where he said, is it effective, the bombing of the Houthis?
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No.
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Will it continue?
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Yes.
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Like that's a thing that Joe Biden said out loud, right?
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