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The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 475 of the In The Tank Podcast. There is a lot to talk about this week! Joe Biden pardoned Hunter, President-elect Trump continues to fill his cabinet, and a new analysis of the 2024 election shows that socialist candidates won a vast majority of their races. The ITT crew talks about these topics, the current state of socialism, and speculates whether the Democratic Party will lurch toward "democratic" socialism in the upcoming election cycles.Hunter Biden Pardon National Review - Judge on Hunter Biden Tax Case Slams President over Pardon, Says Selective-Prosecution Claim ‘Rewrites History’https://www.nationalreview.com/news/judge-on-hunter-biden-tax-case-slams-president-over-pardon-says-selective-prosecution-claim-rewrites-history/POLITICO - Biden White House Is Discussing Preemptive Pardons for Those in Trump’s Crosshairshttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/04/biden-white-house-pardons-00192610 NYT - Broad Pardon for Hunter Biden Troubles Expertshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/us/politics/hunter-biden-pardon-president.html Washington Post - The extraordinary breadth of Hunter Biden's pardonhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/02/hunter-biden-presidential-pardon-comparisons/ Trump Cabinet Kash's In The Federalist - Media Meltdowns Over Trump’s FBI Pick Prove Kash Patel Is The Perfect Man For The Jobhttps://thefederalist.com/2024/12/03/media-meltdowns-over-trumps-fbi-pick-prove-kash-patel-is-the-perfect-man-for-the-job/AP News - Trump’s FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to dohttps://apnews.com/article/fbi-trump-patel-fisa-russia-2d215ded96ad8a08689b6f7f0b2d49ecSocialism Watch 2024 ReportHeartland - PRESS RELEASE: Nearly Every Openly Socialist Candidate Won in 2024https://heartland.org/opinion/press-release-nearly-every-openly-socialist-candidate-won-in-2024/American Thinker - How did socialists perform in the 2024 election?https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/how_did_socialists_perform_in_the_2024_election.htmlA Resurgence of "Democratic" Socialism?The Hill - Cenk Uygur signals optimism after Trump win: MAGA ‘not my mortal enemy’https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5015727-cenk-uygur-donald-trump-optimism-2024-election/NYT - Would Bernie Have Won?https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-faiz-shakir.html
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Trump's Cabinet: A Dream Team? - In The Tank #474
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 474 of the In The Tank Podcast. As the dust of the election settles, President-elect Donald J. Trump is busy constructing his cabinet. Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio, and many others have been nominated by Trump to fill some of the most important positions in the upcoming administration. How is the ITT crew reacting to some of these picks? Also, Thanksgiving is next week. Will families unite over good food, or will arguments break out while we pass the mashed potatoes?Legislative ConferencePFLN - Pro-Family Legislative Conferencehttps://profamily.com/conference/Everything Has Changed(video) Jon Jones Trump Dancehttps://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1858108282390343833(video) Trump Dance montagehttps://x.com/browneyegirl400/status/1858822652292395135Trump's Cabinet: A Dream Team?CBS News - See the list of Trump Cabinet picks and more White House appointments so farhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-might-be-in-donald-trump-cabinet/The Federalist - Pete Hegseth Is The Perfect Candidate To Gut The Pentagon’s Bureaucratic Rothttps://thefederalist.com/2024/11/13/pete-hegseth-is-the-perfect-candidate-to-gut-the-pentagons-bureaucratic-rot/Forbes - What We Know About Elon Musk’s ‘Department Of Government Efficiency’—As Musk Reveals Spending Targetshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/11/20/what-we-know-about-elon-musks-department-of-government-efficiency-as-musk-reveals-spending-targets/The Federalist - John Bolton Asks Deep State To Deep-Six Trump Nominees Before They Fix Corrupt Intel Agencieshttps://thefederalist.com/2024/11/14/john-bolton-asks-deep-state-to-deep-six-trump-nominees-before-they-fix-corrupt-intel-agencies/Thanksgiving ConversationsHuffPost - My Husband And His Family Voted For Trump — So I'm Canceling Thanksgiving And Christmashttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-voter-family-marriage-holidays_n_67321c1ce4b0231a203b1b80The Independent - Yale psychiatrist urges LGBTQ+ community to shun Trump-voting family members over the holidayshttps://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/psychiatrist-amanda-calhoun-trump-msnbc-thanksgiving-b2644444.htmlFox News - 'Sounds like a cult:' Sociologist rips leftist calls to cut off Trump family members during the holidayshttps://www.foxnews.com/media/sounds-like-cult-sociologist-rips-leftist-calls-cut-off-trump-family-members-during-holidays
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Everything Has Changed – In the Tank #473
Since Election Night, doesn’t everything feel different now? Not just our politics. but the whole mood of the country. Yes, some of our fellow Americans are in a very sad state. Clips of people filming their misery and sharing it with the world are everywhere. But for the majority of the country, is feels like a major societal and cultural shift has occurred. And there are a lot of people walking around with a new spring in their step.Our media has changed, with the legacy media’s corruption being its undoing. Our pop culture feels about to change, too, moving away from leftist moralizing and back to producing entertainment with broad appeal. It just feels like the politicization of everything is over, and we’re waking up in a new era in which leftism is no longer going to be the dominant force in American life.In a special Episode #473 of the In the Tank Podcast, guest host Jim Lakely welcomes The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken and CFACT’s Chris Martz to discuss whether they share Jim's feeling that everything has changed. And if it has, what a more “normal” future will look like.SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://heartland.org/donate/SHOW NOTESCNN 'will axe top stars in layoffs that'll see hundreds fired as ratings continue to tank'https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...“Fair & Balanced”: Trump 2.0 Era Brings New Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Owner Promises With Fox News Motto Echohttps://deadline.com/2024/11/trump-la...MSNBC and CNN Ratings Tank After Trump Steamrolls Kamala Harrishttps://www.outkick.com/analysis/msnb...MSNBC Ratings Crater As Viewers Tune Out Trump Victory Coveragehttps://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in...Hollywood Braces for a Woke Backlash in the Wake of Trump's Electionhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news...SEMAFOR: The old media grapples with its new limitshttps://www.semafor.com/article/11/10...The rejection of the ruling class was global.https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/185...
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A Trump Victory & a Media Reckoning - In The Tank #472
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 472 of the In The Tank Podcast. Donald J. Trump has been elected as the 47th President of the United States. Trump's victory comes after a years long campaign by the media to paint the President-elect as a racist, sexist, fascist, second-coming of Hitler. The media's narrative failed as Trump looks to lock up the popular vote. The In The Tank crew talks about the evaporating influence of the mainstream media and speculates on what the first 100 days of the next administration will look like.Election Outcome and Exit PollsNYT - Election Live Updateshttps://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/06/us/trump-election-harris-newsNBC News - Exit Pollshttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-pollsReckoning of the Media's InfluenceBusiness Insider - Trump's victory shows the flagging influence of mainstream mediahttps://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-victory-shows-the-flagging-influence-of-mainstream-media-2024-11The Left's Narrative and SpinThe Atlantic - TRUMP WON. NOW WHAT?https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-wins-second-term-presidency/680546/Trump's First 100 DaysThe Hill - GOP maps out agenda for Trump’s first 100 dayshttps://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4950270-republicans-agenda-trump-tax-cuts/NPR - What Trump's first 100 days in office could look likehttps://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181800/2024-election-trump-first-100-days-agenda
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Bezos: Americans Don't Trust The News Media - In The Tank #471
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Jack McPherrin present episode 471 of the In The Tank Podcast. The last vestiges of the media's credibility are going up in smoke. From ghastly journalistic blunders to headlines that twist and turn like characters in a Hitchcock thriller, we’ll break down how the media seems to be taking an axe to its own reputation—Jack Torrance-style. Polls show public trust in the media is as low as the depths of Crystal Lake, and even Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, recently penned a chilling op-ed on Americans' growing distrust. Join us as we venture into the haunted house of today’s media landscape—where truth and fiction blur and shadows lurk behind every headline."Trump on Joe RoganJoe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trumphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnYNYP - YouTube, Google accused of censorship as Joe Rogan’s Trump interview nearly impossible to find in search: ‘No sensible explanation’https://nypost.com/2024/10/28/business/youtube-google-accused-of-censorship-as-joe-rogans-trump-interview-nearly-impossible-to-find/Trump's MSG "Nazi Rally"Fox News - Walz repeats Clinton attack that Trump Madison Square Garden event mirrored 1930s Nazi rallyhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/walz-repeats-clinton-attack-trump-madison-square-garden-event-mirrored-1930s-nazi-rallyNational Review - Know Who Else Rallied at Madison Square Garden? The Left Finally Stretches the ‘Nazi’ Charge to Its Breaking Pointhttps://www.nationalreview.com/news/know-who-else-rallied-at-madison-square-garden-the-left-finally-stretches-the-nazi-charge-to-its-breaking-point/Bezos: "Americans Don't Trust the News Media"Washington Post - The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news mediahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/Gallup - Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Lowhttps://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx4 Days Until Election538 - Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/Daily Beast - Joe Rogan Snubs Kamala Harris Podcast Requesthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-snubs-kamala-harris-podcast-interview-request/
The weekly flagship podcast from The Heartland Institute features in-depth policy discussions connected to current news. Host Donald Kendal leads the discussion with the usual crew of Heartland Institute Vice President Jim Lakely, Socialism Research Center “Commissar” Justin Haskins, Editorial Director Chris Talgo, and others at this national free-market think tank. The entertaining and informative discussions often hit topics such as the environment, energy policy, Big Tech censorship, the troubling rise of socialism, globalism, health care, education, that state of freedom in America and around the world, and much more.
This podcast is also available as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast, the “firehose” of all the organization’s podcasts that take deep and entertaining dives into public policy.