The Right Take

This week, we devote the entire episode to a review of Breitbart's “My Son Hunter.”

00:00 Intro

04:43 The Making of “My Son Hunter”

09:00 Plot Recap (Spoilers)

30:18 Praise and Criticism (Spoilers)

53:10 Recap and Conclusion (Spoilers)

Watch: https://mysonhunter.com/

In this episode, Jacob and Eric are joined in-studio by Kyle Winner, former host of The Troy Show, to talk about Rust Belt politics, from the races for Governor and Senator in Ohio, to the hotly-contested Senate race in Pennsylvania with Dr. Oz.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro and Kyle's experience in D.C.

SHOWNOTES

Democratic Senate nominee in Ohio Tim Ryan admits the Democratic brand is “not good:” https://www.foxnews.com/media/ohio-rep-tim-ryan-admits-democratic-brand-harmful-political-image

Ned Ryun’s article in American Greatness defending President Trump’s endorsement of Dr. Oz: https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/12/trump-had-every-reason-to-endorse-dr-oz/ 

NBC Senior Politics Reporter Jonathan Allen concedes that Dr. Oz is forcing the mainstream media to address the issue of John Fetterman’s health: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbc-senior-politics-reporter-credits-dr-oz-with-making-the-media-report-on-fettermans-health/ 

Pro-Oz group puts out a devastating ad against Fetterman that could hurt his chances with black voters: https://www.newsweek.com/pro-oz-ad-could-cost-fetterman-election-democrats-fear-1740764

Fetterman caves to pressure and agrees to debate Dr. Oz: https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-a

This week, we open with how ranked-choice voting sunk Sarah Palin. Also, where Hillary saw deplorables, Biden sees a clear and present danger. For our main topic, we discuss how sabotage may sink Republicans' chances of winning back the Senate.

00:00 Intro

03:17 What in the world happened in Alaska?!?

18:00 Biden declares war on Americans

37:00 Main Topic: Is Mitch willing to sink the ship to remain the captain?

SHOWNOTES

McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund PAC cancels over $10 million in ad buys in Alaska and Arizona: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/26/shifting-strategy-senate-gop-super-pac-cancels-ad-buys-in-arizona-alaska-00053965

Blake Masters, the Trump-backed nominee in Arizona, previously pledged to oppose McConnell's leadership: https://rollcall.com/2022/07/07/trump-backed-masters-wants-to-join-senate-america-first-caucus/

Masters now changing his tune in response to McConnell cutting the funding: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/masters-changes-tune-mcconnell-hopeful-gop-leader-will-offer-financial-support-arizona

McConnell still willing to show support for some pro-Trump candidates, including Herschel Walker and Dr. Oz: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mcconnell-host-gop-senate-candidates-walker-oz-candidate/story?id=88890998

McConnell publicly declares that the GOP may not retake the Senate, due in part to "candidate quality:" https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/mcconnell-gop-may-not-retake-senate-2022

President Trump issues a statement formally calling for McConnell to be replaced as Senate Republican leader: https://thehill.com/homenews/3614769-trump-calls-for-mcconnell-to-be-ousted-as-gop-leader-immediately/

One possible replacement? Florida Senator Rick Scott openly clashing with McConnell ahead of the midterms: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3624417-mcconnell-scott-feud-bursts-out-into-the-open/

Yes, Republicans are blowing the midterms.

Eric explores this topic that he wrote about in “American Greatness,” using the special election in NY-19 as an example. We also discuss what Florida is getting right that the Republican Party elsewhere can't seem to copy.

Also, can Biden successfully buy the midterms for Democrats with his latest debt forgiveness strategy? How exactly does the American student loan system work? What is The Right Take on this subject? We explore these questions and more in our main topic.

00:00 Intro

03:30 Primaries in America's Constantinople

19:05 GOP's Miserables in New York

27:31 Republican candidate blows an easy layup; preview of November?

40:40 Mark Zuckerberg reveals FBI's election war on American voters

50:00 Main Topic: Did Biden Just Buy the Midterms?

SHOWNOTES:

Conservative group successfully flips control of five major school boards in Florida, including Miami: https://www.newsweek.com/anti-crt-group-crows-about-flipping-school-boards-conservative-1736323

CNN claims that abortion is the reason the NY-19 special election was lost: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/opinions/new-york-19-election-ryan-molinaro-abortion-filipovic/index.html

Our previous episode predicting failures such as the one in NY-19: https://righttakepodcast.com/2022/08/02/episode-72-how-republicans-could-blow-the-midterms/

Eric’s commentary piece with American Greatness in response to this loss: https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/25/yes-republicans-are-blowing-the-midterms/ 

Jeffrey Anderson’s article at American Greatness that preceded Eric’s: https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/23/are-republicans-blowing-the-midterms/ 

Key student loan debt stats: https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics

Brief history of student loan debt in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_States#History

Details of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-student-loan-relief-for-borrowers-who-need-it-most/

The Department of Education’s estimates regarding the age groups of most student loan debt holders in the U.S.: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-student-loan-relief-for-borrowers-who-need-it-most/

This week, we keep it election-focused. We explore the primaries in Alaska and Wyoming, especially Neocon Princess Cheney's demolition. Also, this is the first year when Generation Z members are old enough to run for Congress. We look at one such candidate in New Hampshire. For our main topic, we look forward to 2024 and discuss whether Trump should run again and the effect the Mar a Lago raid had on his chances.

00:00 Intro

03:28 Seward's Folly

08:13 Neocon princess goes down

23:11 Meet Karoline Leavitt (NH-01), the quintessential, cookie-cutter, brain-trust Republican Zoomer

40:52 Main Topic: To Trump or not to Trump

SHOWNOTES: 

Karoline Leavitt’s cookie-cutter, donor-approved talking points on Steve Bannon’s “War Room”: https://warroom.org/2022/08/17/warroom-battleground-ep-118-the-truth-about-the-grand-jury-in-atl-cnn-strikes-at-finchem-for-going-after-traitors-emeralds-victory-over-pfizer-ceo-naomi-wolf-on-the-lies-of-pfizer/ 

Matt Mowers’ establishment stance on national security: https://mattmowers.com/issue/protecting-american-security/ 

Matt Mowers’ establishment stance on voter fraud: https://mattmowers.com/issue/election-integrity/ 

Matt Mowers’ establishment stance on healthcare: https://mattmowers.com/issue/healthcare/ 

Politico blames Trump for lack of Tea Party resurgence: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/conservative-grassroots-biden-trump-00052983 

Joe Enders of Church Militant joins us to discuss his home state of Michigan, especially pro-impeachment Peter Meijer's defeat and the quest to unseat Governor Gretchen Whitmer. We also discuss the other two pro-impeachment Republicans' races in Washington state and hold a spirited debate on the candidacy of Joe Kent (WA-03).

00:00 Intro

04:05 Fall of anti-Trump, Pro-Impeachment Republican Peter Meijer

22:36 Review of John James's victory, MI governor's race, et al.

41:20 How Conservative Psychology Makes It Hard to Vote Out RINOs

50:40 Debate over Joe Kent

SHOWNOTES

Follow Joe’s work at Church Militant: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/author/josephenderschurchmilitant.com 

Gretchen Whitmer had five of her GOP opponents, including the original frontrunner James Craig, kicked off the ballot for “ineligibility” reasons: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102485484/why-several-republican-candidates-for-michigan-governor-were-blocked-from-the-ba 

Whitmer subsequently had the second GOP frontrunner, Ryan Kelley, arrested by the FBI for “January 6th charges:” https://www.npr.org/2022/06/09/1103925150/michigan-candidate-for-governor-ryan-kelley-arrested-by-fbi-for-jan-6-involvemen 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent over $400,000 backing the Trump-endorsed John Gibbs in the primary against pro-impeachment Rep. Peter Meijer:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/risky-midterm-strategy-democrats-boost-far-right-candidate-michigan-race-2022-07-26/ 

Hilarious USA Today op-ed whining about the Democrats’ efforts to oust “a principled Republican:” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/08/03/democrats-help-trump-backed-extremist-win-michigan-primary-election/10222960002/?gnt-cfr=1 

Senate GOP spending money on campaign ads in Washington and Colorado: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/02/gop-spending-colorado-washington-senate-00049108 

Tom Pappert joins us again to discuss his home state of Kansas—especially the left's victory over the pro-life amendment—and celebrate total victory in the Arizona primaries. We also throw in some free-wheeling politico-bashing at the end. 

00:00 Intro

SHOWNOTES

The ads that won the Kansas abortion referendum: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/08/05/the-ads-that-won-the-kansas-abortion-referendum/ 

This week, we explore how Rupert Murdoch's media empire has turned into a Trojan horse for globalist, socially liberal policies. For our main topic, we delve into the communications blunder that the Republican Party has been wading into and how they could blow their chance to take back both houses of Congress.

00:00 Intro

03:56 Ned Ryun ruffles the snowflakes at Fox Business

08:20 Emperor Rupert Murdoch angling for kingmaker

20:51 Main Topic: How Republicans can blow the midterms

Ned Ryun schools a Fox News panel on monkeypox and homosexuals: https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1552336056024006658 

Rupert Murdoch single-handedly shifting mainstream conservative media away from Trump: 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/25/rupert-murdoch-donald-trump-splitsville-00047748 

Allahpundit's pondering on whether Biden could be headed for a Reagan-esque rebound: https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/08/01/we-are-reagan-team-biden-hoping-for-a-1984-style-comeback-in-2024-n486643 

Progressives worried about Harris and Biden: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-kamala-conundrum/ar-AA10bfx1 

Byron York’s take on the midterms: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-washington-fantasy-world  

Manchin throws the Democrats a legislative lifeline: https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-are-back-business-opinion-1728947 

The Congo deliberately triggers global warming activists: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/congress-looks-set-to-finally-pass-historic-climate-legislation 

President Biden continues to suffer from diverse illnesses and alleged illnesses. Plus, it appears the Democrats have found their backup president-in-waiting. For our main topic, we discuss the recent Axios story on Donald Trump's Schedule F, an executive order that would put teeth to his campaign slogan of 'Drain the Swamp', and we explore the different Trump-aligned organizations crowdsourcing behind the scenes to make that successful.

00:00 Intro

02:48 Biden has cancer?!?

08:33 Have Democratic powerbrokers found Joe/Kamala's replacement already?

24:42 Main Topic: Swamp-draining playbook revealed for Trump 2.0

SHOWNOTES

How do Republican elites stand diametrically opposed to the needs of the masses whose votes they rely on for political power? This week, we explore the economic aspects of this question and more.

00:00 Intro

03:40 Eulogy for Eric's grandfather

13:21 Main Topic: Why is unemployment so low if the economy is so bad?

30:20 Two-pronged approach to deal with this situation politically

35:08 GOP's botched mentality on work and economics

SHOWNOTES