The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken and Jim Lakely are joined by writer and commentator Jon Gabriel​ for episode 479 of the In The Tank Podcast.

With the certification of Trump’s election victory, the ousting of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada, and other progressive defeats around the world in recent years, could this spell the beginning of the end for global progressives? Are big companies and big tech finally shifting away from a focus on DEI and ESG, and will it stick? The team talks about all of this and more.

Jon Gabriel (@exjon on X) is the author of Sink the Rising Sun, his first novel.

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 477 of the In The Tank Podcast. 2024 was an incredibly important year, filled to the brim with massive stories and events. The ITT crew recaps the year, giving their takes on what was the biggest news of the past 12 months. Also, the ITT crew talks about Heartland's biggest impactful moments of 2024. And last, they will make some bold predictions for what is in store for 2025.

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 476 of the In The Tank Podcast. As Donald Trump prepares to take office in 2025, President Joe Biden is riding out his last days in the Oval Office. But instead of just focusing on the orderly transfer of power, Biden seems like he may be trying to sabotage Trump's upcoming term before it can even start. Peculiar foreign policy decisions and increased spending that is contributing to increasing inflation rates is making us wonder if Biden is striving to make life under Trump as hard as possible. Also, the ITT crew talks about Biden's creepy misinformation programs and more.

Is Biden Trying to Sabotage Trump?

Fox News - Biden admin extends $10B Iran sanctions waiver 2 days after Trump election win
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-extends-10b-iran-sanctions-waiver-2-days-after-trump-election-win

Reuters - US Treasury transfers $20 billion in Ukraine loan funds to World Bank facility
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-treasury-disburses-20-billion-ukraine-loan-funds-world-bank-facility-2024-12-10/

AP News - Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied longer range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia
https://apnews.com/article/biden-ukraine-long-range-weapons-russia-52d424158182de2044ecc8bfcf011f9c

Inflation is Up Again

CNBC - Annual inflation rate accelerates to 2.7% in November, as expected
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/11/cpi-inflation-november-2024-annual-inflation-rate-accelerates-to-2point7percent-in-november-as-expected.html

Forbes - Rise In November Consumer Inflation Is Not Going To Stop Fed Rate Cuts
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonschenker/2024/12/11/rise-in-november-consumer-inflation-is-not-going-to-stop-fed-rate-cuts/

Biden's Creepy Misinformation Programs

Open The Books - Taxpayer Funded Censorship: How Government is Using Your Tax Dollars to Silence Your Voice
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/taxpayer-funded-censorship-how-government

Fox News - Biden spent millions on ‘misinformation’ research. The details are even more disturbing than you think
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-white-house-spent-267-million-misinformation-research-details-even-more-disturbing

Zero Hedge - State Department Scrambles To Scuttle $100M Censorship Network Before Trump Takes Office
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/state-department-scrambles-scuttle-100m-censorship-network-trump-takes-office

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 Crosshairs
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/04/biden-white-house-pardons-00192610
 
NYT - Broad Pardon for Hunter Biden Troubles Experts
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/us/politics/hunter-biden-pardon-president.html
 
Washington Post - The extraordinary breadth of Hunter Biden's pardon
https://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 Job
https://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 do
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-trump-patel-fisa-russia-2d215ded96ad8a08689b6f7f0b2d49ec

Socialism Watch 2024 Report

Heartland - PRESS RELEASE: Nearly Every Openly Socialist Candidate Won in 2024
https://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.html

A 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

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 Conference

PFLN - Pro-Family Legislative Conference

https://profamily.com/conference/

Everything Has Changed

(video) Jon Jones Trump Dance

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1858108282390343833

(video) Trump Dance montage

https://x.com/browneyegirl400/status/1858822652292395135

Trump's Cabinet: A Dream Team?

CBS News - See the list of Trump Cabinet picks and more White House appointments so far

https://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 Rot

https://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 Targets

https://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 Agencies

https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/14/john-bolton-asks-deep-state-to-deep-six-trump-nominees-before-they-fix-corrupt-intel-agencies/

Thanksgiving Conversations

HuffPost - My Husband And His Family Voted For Trump — So I'm Canceling Thanksgiving And Christmas

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-voter-family-marriage-holidays_n_67321c1ce4b0231a203b1b80

The Independent - Yale psychiatrist urges LGBTQ+ community to shun Trump-voting family members over the holidays

https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/psychiatrist-amanda-calhoun-trump-msnbc-thanksgiving-b2644444.html

Fox News - 'Sounds like a cult:' Sociologist rips leftist calls to cut off Trump family members during the holidays

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sounds-like-cult-sociologist-rips-leftist-calls-cut-off-trump-family-members-during-holidays

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.

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SHOW NOTES

CNN '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 Echo

https://deadline.com/2024/11/trump-la...

MSNBC and CNN Ratings Tank After Trump Steamrolls Kamala Harris

https://www.outkick.com/analysis/msnb...

MSNBC Ratings Crater As Viewers Tune Out Trump Victory Coverage

https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in...

Hollywood Braces for a Woke Backlash in the Wake of Trump's Election

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news...

SEMAFOR: The old media grapples with its new limits

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/10...

The rejection of the ruling class was global.

https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/185...

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 Polls

NYT - Election Live Updates

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/06/us/trump-election-harris-news

NBC News - Exit Polls

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls

Reckoning of the Media's Influence

Business Insider - Trump's victory shows the flagging influence of mainstream media

https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-victory-shows-the-flagging-influence-of-mainstream-media-2024-11

The Left's Narrative and Spin

The Atlantic - TRUMP WON. NOW WHAT?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-wins-second-term-presidency/680546/

Trump's First 100 Days

The Hill - GOP maps out agenda for Trump’s first 100 days

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4950270-republicans-agenda-trump-tax-cuts/

NPR - What Trump's first 100 days in office could look like

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181800/2024-election-trump-first-100-days-agenda

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 Rogan

Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY

NYP - 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 rally

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/walz-repeats-clinton-attack-trump-madison-square-garden-event-mirrored-1930s-nazi-rally

National Review - Know Who Else Rallied at Madison Square Garden? The Left Finally Stretches the ‘Nazi’ Charge to Its Breaking Point

https://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 media

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/

Gallup - Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low

https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx

4 Days Until Election

538 - Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

Daily Beast - Joe Rogan Snubs Kamala Harris Podcast Request

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-snubs-kamala-harris-podcast-interview-request/

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 470 of the In The Tank Podcast. When Elon Musk expressed interest in purchasing Twitter and making it a bastion for free speech, he simultaneously put a target on his back for the political elites. In a recent development, leaked documents appear to show advisors to the Kamala Harris campaign have plans to "kill Musk's Twitter." Elon Musk's response? "This is war." Also, has the media completely lost it? President Donald Trump's recent campaign stunt at McDonalds has exposed what can only be described as lunacy of the mainstream media.

Trump's shift at McDonalds

NYT - How Media Outlets on the Left and Right Covered Trump’s Stop at McDonald’s

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/business/media/trump-mcdonalds-media-coverage.html

Newsweek - Was Donald Trump's McDonald's Shift 'Staged'?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mcdonalds-work-staged-fake-1972058

The Federalist - The Press Can’t Handle Trump’s Brilliant Display Of Retail Politics At McDonald’s Drive-Through

https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/21/the-press-cant-handle-trumps-brilliant-display-of-retail-politics-at-mcdonalds-drive-through/

Musk: "This is War"

Breitbart - This Is War:’ Elon Musk Furious at Center for Countering Hate Plan to ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter’

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/10/23/this-is-war-elon-musk-furious-at-center-for-countering-hate-plan-to-kill-musks-twitter/

SubStack - Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter"

https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/election-exclusive-british-advisors

Propaganda Wars

Glenn Beck - Propaganda Wars: How the Global Elite Control What You See, Think, and Feel

https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Wars-Global-Elite-Control/dp/1637633890

11 Days Until the Election

538 - Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

Politico - Trump set to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/22/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/trump-joe-rogan-podcast-00184894

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 469 of the In The Tank Podcast. Over this past week, we witnessed an engineering breakthrough from Elon Musk's SpaceX. The successful launch and recapture of the SpaceX Starship booster marks a pivotal moment in the future of space travel, showcasing advancements in reusability and cost efficiency. SpaceX is paving the way for a new era where space access becomes more routine and affordable, pushing the boundaries of what is possible beyond Earth's orbit. But remember, Elon Musk is frowned upon by the political elite. Instead of commemorating this occasion and encouraging this innovation, government bureaucrats have instead chosen to stifle Musk by denying his request for additional rocket launches. Also, we are another week closer to the election and it appears Kamala Harris is getting increasingly desperate.

Elon Musk's Starship Breakthough

Space - SpaceX plans to catch Starship upper stage with 'chopsticks' in early 2025, Elon Musk says

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-upper-stage-chopstick-catch-elon-musk

Economist - Starship will change what is possible beyond the Earth

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/10/16/starship-will-change-what-is-possible-beyond-the-earth

Progressives vs. Progress

NYT - California Rejects Bid for More Frequent SpaceX Launches

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/us/spacex-launch-california.html

LA Times - SpaceX sues California regulators, alleging anti-Musk bias in rocket rejection

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-16/spacex-political-bias-coastal-commission-lawsuit

Kamala's Bret Baier Interview

Fox News - VP Harris to sit down hours from now with Bret Baier for first Fox News interview

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vp-harris-sit-down-hours-from-now-bret-baier-first-fox-news-interview

Kamala Is Getting Desperate

Reuters - Harris could join Joe Rogan podcast in hunt for male votes, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kamala-harris-could-join-podcaster-joe-rogan-an-interview-sources-2024-10-15/

Yahoo - Harris-Trump polls tighten, but PredictIt and Polymarket tell a different story

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/harris-trump-polls-tighten-predictit-173916471.html