Frank Friedberg
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Jun 2024
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the humble headquarters of Ohalo Genetics, beautiful lab downstairs. I'll take you on a tour one day. Oh, nice. Can't wait to hear my friends gloat and bloat themselves on the show today after the debate last night. It's going to be insufferable. I'm looking forward to it.
If you guys want to put money in, I will open up the round again for you, and you guys can come in.
Talk to it, buddy. Go for it. The big loser of last night's debate was the American public. The big winner of last night's debate was probably Russia, China, Iran, maybe the Saudis, licking their chops, watching the utter dysfunction in the leadership of the party leaders in the leadership of the country as it stands today. A notable mention, I will say, was the debate format.
I absolutely love the fact that there were no interruptions, that the mics went mute, that there was no audience, and the moderators didn't kind of challenge back and forth and try and make themselves the show. That was very unique in a presidential debate. So I actually like the debate format.
Thanks for the interruption, J. Cal.
I think that as Sax points out, the biggest issue is that this was front and center, Biden's decline in capacity and aptitude for quite some time. I didn't tell you guys this before, but last October, a senior member of the Democratic Party reached out to me for a, quote, meeting. I took the meeting in October. And of course, it turns out they were asking me for money.
Little did they know, I don't give any money to politics ever. I never have, never will. So their handlers are morons for bringing this person in to come and talk to me. In the meeting, I said, you cannot put Joe Biden forward as your candidate. What the hell are you guys thinking? He's like, no, he is completely stable. He is as sharp as he's ever been. I sent him an email.
I'm going to read you what I said to him. This was in the first second week of October. I said, Joe Biden does not appear equipped to be president of the United States. I think the continued heralding of Democratic Party leadership of the president's performance and ability to continue to serve into the next term is mind boggling.
His inability to conduct even a basic interview or give a clear and concise statement in a candid setting highlights a clear and obvious decline in function since he took office. It is important for Democratic leadership to find an alternative candidate and message this soon. Doing so, I believe, will buoy fundraising efforts across yada, yada, yada.
I said I would feel uncomfortable with a Democratic majority Senate head in house giving a leader with declining aptitude nearly limitless effect. So I sent this as my response to his follow-up request for money. This was the second week of October. And I wanted to pull up the date on this because it was so apparent back then what was going on. So what's so striking is how long
mainstream media and leadership in the Democratic Party have tried to tell an alternative story that was so obviously revealed to be not true last night. And that is the thing that I think makes me say America is losing because there are a few people that are in charge of controlling the narrative. There are a few people in charge who decide who gets to be the candidate.
And those few people are keeping democracy from working effectively because the raw data, the direct data, the imagery, the video, the media content that has come out of Biden over quite some period of time made it so obvious that he was not in full capacity. And so that was my biggest kind of takeaway is that there's something wrong with the way things are running in this country.
Yeah. Yeah. And I think, but, because if you- Of course they are. The fact that we all had this information, we've seen the videos, we've seen the interviews, and every time a video or an interview comes out, it has been excused away as, oh, well, he tripped or, oh, you know, it wasn't well edited.
And every time there's a story, and then when it's fully exposed, it becomes like, well, my God, the fact that they all flipped so quickly is what's so shocking because this was there. And, you know, if you're on Twitter, You can see these clips being talked about by millions of people, but then media and democratic leadership won't acknowledge them.
I think I'll read the final paragraph of the email I sent to the Democratic Party leader a few months ago as a coda to this conversation. Here goes.
The United States is facing a fiscal crisis the likes of which the world only sees every few hundred years as world-leading nation states overextend themselves, take on unaddressable debt loads, increase social programming, and eventually collapse under these conditions. The cost to service the interest alone on our federal debt is now greater than a trillion dollars per year.
This already exceeds the discretionary defense budget. The debt service expense will only swell as interest rates are unlikely to decline back to 0%. And I do not subscribe to the easy to refute economic arguments of modern monetary theory. Simple arithmetic is all that's needed to discredit it.
Furthermore, I can identify dozens of federal programs sponsored by Democrats that are not achieving their objectives, yet we continue to fund them as if they were performing exactly as anticipated when originally conceived. Every federal program. should be held to account for performance every year. If not, they should be defunded.
Instead, I see the party pushing new programs that create new expense burdens without first addressing programs that simply aren't working. Accountability is a critical first step in reducing our federal deficit below 7% of GDP. I believe our nation is facing financial and thus social peril.
I urge the party to become the, quote, party of reason and results, put forward leaders that can lead, hold government programs that aren't working to account, make sure that every dollar spent on social programming has a measurable impact, and if they fail to deliver results, cut them. The opportunity to be the party of reason and results is wide open.
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