Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Michael Moynihan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So if it's clearly like we forget about the fact that even Dana Carvey, too, is doing that impression of him, like just rambling and mumbling in 2021. And it's like you can't do those impressions if that wasn't the person that we were seeing every day.
He's so talented.
Wiener-Toobin combo.
You got it. Trans Trump. Again, if you get anything from this show, it's like Kyle Dunnegan is the best comic in America.
It does not sound good right now, so we'll see.
I mean, the words are fine. I mean, the words are good. I think they're slightly naive in some places and they're slightly aspirational, as Matt said, and others. But, you know, I'll say a couple good things first and not be entirely negative. But, you know, the Abraham Accords was an enormous success.
And it actually managed to kind of hold through October 7th, which was what a lot of people who care about the region were worried about. And so giving him credit for that in that lasting success is something that no one was willing to do the first term and most people forget about now. But what a lot of this stuff is contingent upon is – I mean I think that it's also –
mostly true that uh uh you know people don't love war i mean there are some i mean i know that there's this idea of that these bloodthirsty warmongers but i think by and large that's not the case Yeah, I mean, there's John Bolton. I mean, Donald Trump, of course, hired John Bolton, which was a weird thing.
And then also, and look, and also, you know, he's, I mean, yeah, I mean, you're talking about the evolution of politics. He's talking about this Iran deal and praising this Iran deal, the potential of this Iran deal, which most of the observers of this stuff and the JCPOA basically say pretty much the same thing, which, you know, very similar.
And he called the Obama deal the worst deal in American history. So I think he's probably moved on a lot of these issues as his son has moved on a lot of these issues.
i don't doubt that and i think that you know what he did in 2016 when it came to iraq was actually open that lane up for people to criticize it and actually now to say the opposite of that would be surprising to hear a republican say on stage or not debate said she was the first one to do it and then everyone kind of followed suit after it was like okay here's the signal that that part is gone but what a lot of this relies upon i mean again the rhetoric is fine
And I don't want wars either. What it relies upon, though, is our enemies or our new comrades and allies. It depends on them. It depends on, you know, there isn't a peaceful Middle East. That's not happening right now. Russia, Ukraine hasn't settled.
hasn't settled and you know also to say like he made a deal with the syrians and there's some interesting things about that as you point out al-jalani was a leader of the al-nisra brigades which was an al-qaeda affiliated organization and he was arrested by the americans in iraq i mean he's affiliated with al-qaeda so after 9 11 members that
not great i mean we remember not good not a great al-qaeda's bad but the thing about it is we remember this stuff the taliban is in power in you know sitting on american abrams tanks you know there's a head of al-qaeda that is running syria right now no change in anything in iran we're always promised these sort of new liberal leaders
qatar giving trump possibly a jet or being an ally despite the fact that they fund hamas and encourage hamas and by the way we saw this and this is trump you're talking about getting hostages out he negotiates that without the israelis involved with qatar and qatar says okay here's the american meaning that the qataris have the power to get rid of get all those sausages back or actually quell some of the stuff in so there's a lot of problems
He doesn't get caught up in that. There's a lot, but when he steps back, I mean, one of, by the way, this is an interesting point I haven't seen anyone make, but I wonder what will happen to Europe now that the Trump administration has said to Syria that they're going to lift all the economic sanctions. The response to that in Syria was people on the streets
cheering, flying flags, and a million Syrian refugees are in Europe. And do some of them come home now? Because the funny thing is, you said about the Saudis, Megan, they know how to speak Trump's language. What did the former head of Al-Qaeda in Syria say to Trump? You can build a Trump Tower in Damascus. That's literally what he said. Literally what he said.
It was right there.
Well, just like easy wars. I mean, we can beat the Greenlanders. I mean, that's pretty simple. But the thing is, Megan, is that I think what the difference is, is that this has been the kind of unwritten policy of America and Americans for a long time, but it's non-interventionist. That after Iraq was just not going to happen for a long time.
I think what will be interesting, particularly vis-a-vis the Israelis who are kind of mad at Trump right now, the hostage negotiation that happened without them, his cozying up to the Qataris in any way makes them angry. So, I mean, we'll see how that relationship unfolds. Because, you know, the Tucker wing, they can't stand Israel. They can't stand Netanyahu.
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