Why We Hate Politicians Who Speak from Both Sides of their Mouths
Show Notes
What if politicians were speaking from both sides of their mouths, and the media was more complicit than we'd like to admit? Join us on this no-holds-barred episode as we unpack the layers of political doublespeak that saturate the airwaves. From a politician running contradictory ads in Michigan to the sly maneuvers of Donald Trump and the current administration, we expose the tricks and traps of political messaging. With a critical eye on media bias and fact-checking, we reveal the tantalizing yet troubling dance of double standards that leaves the public craving authenticity.
00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:12.490 You know, when people tell me that I got a meter by mouth, I seem to think that they're trying to censor what I'm trying to say.
00:00:12.490 --> 00:00:30.736 When it comes to politics and the fight to get to the President of the United States, it seems that censorship doesn't really seem to matter and that messaging out of both sides of your mouth seems to be tolerable and acceptable.
00:00:30.736 --> 00:00:51.807 She has the same ad running in Michigan that says how anti-Jewish she is and anti-Israel and how pro-Palestinian she is.
00:00:51.807 --> 00:00:57.174 Same politician, two sides of her mouth, running an ad simultaneously.
00:00:57.174 --> 00:01:00.926 Now you would think that would just be a unique incident.
00:01:00.926 --> 00:01:13.112 However, she is on the record of saying two things on the same subject over and over and over again, without having to do a 2016-2015 flashback.
00:01:13.112 --> 00:01:19.549 Quality and quantity don't always add up.
00:01:19.549 --> 00:01:21.572 Hey everybody, my name is Stuart Briscoe.
00:01:21.572 --> 00:01:24.668 That's my co-host, david Solomon, the metered master.
00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:35.373 Welcome to the Rant Network, where this podcast is dedicated on a multitude of topics, never holding back a thing, regardless of constraints.
00:01:35.373 --> 00:01:45.323 Here, we're all about raw, unfiltered dialogue that serves as an outlet to voice opinions, exchange ideas and share experiences from every corner of life.
00:01:45.323 --> 00:01:55.864 As we dive into this current issue that has been tackling the media for the last God knows eight months since the election media began back in 2020.
00:01:55.864 --> 00:02:05.430 Now, I said that intentionally eight months, but since 2020, they have been waiting for the second coming of Donald Trump for four years.
00:02:05.430 --> 00:02:10.669 So sit back, get comfortable as we engage you in this topic.
00:02:11.031 --> 00:02:17.448 David, you know I started off in a very twisted way to have some fun and poke at some of the pre.
00:02:17.448 --> 00:02:21.763 You know we'll call it backroom chat, but let's be honest with each other.
00:02:21.763 --> 00:02:36.764 Politicians like to speak out of both sides of their mouth, and finding a politician that speaks out of both sides of their mouth and finding a politician that speaks out of one side seems to be a little refreshing, something that we welcome amongst all politicians that we know and don't know.
00:02:36.764 --> 00:02:37.544 How say you?
00:02:38.366 --> 00:02:52.441 Well, you know, I'm always reminded of that one of my favorite films, the Hunt for Red October when the politician leans over to Jack Ryan and says I'm a politician, while I'm kissing babies, I'm taking the lollipop out of their mouths.
00:02:52.441 --> 00:02:54.664 And I never forgot that.
00:02:54.664 --> 00:03:01.201 And it was very clear of the hypocrisy that we hear from many politicians out there.
00:03:01.201 --> 00:03:02.284 And let's be realistic.
00:03:02.284 --> 00:03:12.830 If we look at right now, the current administration, the current candidates that you've got there, this ticket, what do you got?
00:03:12.830 --> 00:03:14.193 It's really simple.
00:03:14.193 --> 00:03:17.664 Let's ignore the last three and a half years.
00:03:17.664 --> 00:03:22.735 The entirety, the fault all belongs to Donald Trump.
00:03:22.735 --> 00:03:24.723 Donald Trump's at fault.
00:03:24.723 --> 00:03:26.689 Donald Trump did everything wrong.
00:03:26.689 --> 00:03:34.864 All of our malaise in the US, the world, whatever.
00:03:34.864 --> 00:03:42.215 It's Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, not Kamala Harris, and it's fascinating to see how often that occurs and they make these statements.
00:03:42.215 --> 00:03:55.054 And again, stuart, to me it's a question of also what the media has done with this, the hypocrisy of the media of we need to fact check Donald Trump, but we will not fact check the, the Democrats.
00:03:55.054 --> 00:04:03.524 We'll give Kamala Harris a chance to get on Saturday Night Live to talk about how wonderful she is and how cute and funny she is, but we, the FCC commissioner gets up and there goes hold on on.
00:04:03.524 --> 00:04:04.768 That's against the rules.
00:04:13.183 --> 00:04:18.156 And so it does give the Harris-Waltz ticket the freedom, the license to do that.
00:04:18.557 --> 00:04:20.100 I'm not saying Donald Trump doesn't do that.
00:04:20.100 --> 00:04:23.430 I'm not saying that JD Vance hasn't been caught in doublespeak.
00:04:23.430 --> 00:04:24.579 They all doublespeak, stuart.
00:04:24.579 --> 00:04:26.468 That's just the way sometimes it is.
00:04:26.468 --> 00:04:33.613 And often, stuart, there are topics and subjects that you just you'll never win with the voters.
00:04:33.613 --> 00:04:41.990 But when it comes up to, you brought up the Israel situation and you brought up the situation in the Middle East.
00:04:41.990 --> 00:04:46.850 And there's a good, clear example of doublespeak the situation in the Middle East.
00:04:46.850 --> 00:04:48.759 And there's a good, clear example of doublespeak.
00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:56.651 On one hand, she stands up and says no, no, no, we need a two-state solution, we need to release the hostages and we need, you know, peace in the Middle East.
00:04:56.651 --> 00:04:57.372 And that's beautiful.
00:04:59.338 --> 00:05:04.586 But did you see that over the weekend, rashida Tlaib decided she's not endorsing Kamala Harris, stewart?
00:05:04.586 --> 00:05:07.163 Because what is Rashida Tlaib want?
00:05:07.163 --> 00:05:09.963 Denounce Israel, take a stance?
00:05:09.963 --> 00:05:18.742 And for once, I'm happy with Rashida Tlaib, because she called out her candidate by saying you're not taking a stance.
00:05:18.742 --> 00:05:21.363 How interesting that I'm siding with my enemy.
00:05:21.363 --> 00:05:35.425 But the reality is, my enemy is now my friend, in this case, my enemy, has brought out the fact that the double speak doesn't sit well, not with this party, not with that party, not with that vote group, not with that voting group.
00:05:36.656 --> 00:05:51.879 So, when we're looking at this election right now and, like I said, there is the double speak on both sides, the question is now about policy, stuart, because you know what they will cheat, they will lie, they will try to twist, but let's talk about doublespeak.
00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:57.475 Right that Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of a national abortion ban.
00:05:57.475 --> 00:06:04.608 No matter what you say, no matter what you do, stuart, that's been run with the media's run with it.
00:06:04.608 --> 00:06:05.954 They've run with it.
00:06:05.954 --> 00:06:14.242 But when you call out Kamala Harris on her doublespeak no, no, no, no, no, no you misunderstood, you're wrong, you're misrepresented.
00:06:14.242 --> 00:06:23.658 And so when we get into the, you know, I know a lot of Americans have voted, stuart, and I'm seeing that you voted, you got that sticker there and, proud of you, man, you and your family, I'm sure, have gone out and voted.
00:06:24.117 --> 00:06:39.505 The reality is, stuart, that the people who are voting right now, if you're still sitting on the fence and you're not sure who you're voting for, on November the 4th, you got to ask yourself some questions here, right, you got to go vote, folks.
00:06:39.505 --> 00:06:40.786 I mean, we've talked about this.
00:06:40.786 --> 00:06:41.466 Please go vote.
00:06:41.466 --> 00:06:44.767 That's your right in a democracy, you know.
00:06:44.767 --> 00:06:54.413 If you want to live in a socialist state, one party system where you have no choice, please go move to Venezuela, go move to Cuba, go move to Russia, no problem.
00:06:54.413 --> 00:06:56.434 Or most of the Middle East, okay.
00:06:56.434 --> 00:07:02.576 But in the United States, in Canada, in the West, we are very happy to have a multi-party system.
00:07:02.596 --> 00:07:04.798 You need to go vote and you need to know who to vote for.
00:07:04.798 --> 00:07:06.261 You need to know what are the things.
00:07:06.261 --> 00:07:07.262 Forget the doublespeak.
00:07:07.262 --> 00:07:10.644 At the end of the day, stuart, what is the policies that matter most to you?
00:07:10.644 --> 00:07:11.425 Is it crime?
00:07:11.425 --> 00:07:12.047 Is it immigration?
00:07:12.047 --> 00:07:12.807 Is it abortion?
00:07:12.807 --> 00:07:13.387 Okay.
00:07:13.387 --> 00:07:16.732 So where do you stand and what are they really talking about?
00:07:16.732 --> 00:07:18.776 What are the real policies?
00:07:18.776 --> 00:07:19.978 Not what the media has purported.
00:07:19.978 --> 00:07:22.963 Not what the media has delivered to you in lies and spins.
00:07:25.247 --> 00:07:40.086 So if you're a pro-lifer, you might still vote Democrat Because of the other part, fine, but please, for God's sake, don't listen to the jargon and the BS being shoveled to you by the parties.
00:07:40.086 --> 00:07:43.771 Dig Research, do your homework, find out what they really stand for.
00:07:49.095 --> 00:07:51.560 Stuart, I know how you vote it and I'm pretty confident, okay, but what do you share with your friends?
00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:52.341 What do you tell your friends?
00:07:52.341 --> 00:08:05.709 You know, david, it's like this and I didn't coin this phrase, but it's a phrase you ask yourself, naturally, every election cycle are you better off today than you were four years ago?
00:08:05.709 --> 00:08:23.564 And you know that cliche, which someone running for office could not answer and still cannot answer, is utterly frightening because there's nothing about the past three and a half years that I really could say has been great.
00:08:23.564 --> 00:08:27.781 Great financially, economically, in the cost of living.
00:08:27.781 --> 00:08:40.639 I see more people struggle to pay their rent than maybe most of our listeners do and I can tell you I know more people that have to question whether they buy gas or food.
00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:50.499 I know people that think twice before they go and do something on how much gas they have in their car and are they going to need to fill up and should they just do it all at the same time?
00:08:50.499 --> 00:08:55.639 I know people that are buying less groceries because they utterly cannot afford it.
00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:56.801 I'm sorry.
00:08:56.801 --> 00:08:59.768 Four years ago the price of eggs was $1.99.
00:09:01.798 --> 00:09:06.275 The chicken's egg isn't made out of gold, but the cost to raise a chicken.
00:09:06.576 --> 00:09:26.068 And you know when you hear a politician say I'm going to control those prices, and on one side they say how Donald Trump threatens tariffs in World War III, when in fact you're saying your policy is you're going to ensure no more price gouging and control the price of housing and build.
00:09:26.068 --> 00:09:28.119 I mean, I can't believe.
00:09:28.119 --> 00:09:32.729 You just said the other guy's a bad guy, but your policies are all about that.
00:09:32.729 --> 00:09:39.067 Listen, did Donald Trump do a Teflon job in the first four years?
00:09:39.067 --> 00:09:40.899 No, he was a novice.
00:09:40.899 --> 00:09:45.897 He was a newbie, a new guy to Washington DC who was wet behind the ears.
00:09:45.897 --> 00:09:49.465 That doesn't seem to be the candidate that we see running today.
00:09:49.465 --> 00:09:58.860 He seems to have figured out the game, the nonsense, the bullshit, the lies, and he seems to be able to now navigate where he never was before.
00:09:59.542 --> 00:10:07.605 If you're talking about courting terrorists, courting enemies of the state, the Democrats are notoriously known for this.
00:10:07.605 --> 00:10:13.726 Whether it's Clinton having all Yasser Arafat in the White House, not once, not twice, but three times.
00:10:13.726 --> 00:10:24.330 It's Obama giving billions of dollars and releasing sanctions on Iran, and Biden to continue it, kamala makes it seem like she wasn't in the White House.
00:10:24.330 --> 00:10:27.725 She lied to the American people that Joe is on the ball.
00:10:27.725 --> 00:10:31.765 Joe is as sharp as a you know HB pencil, if you remember what those are.
00:10:31.765 --> 00:10:36.817 But these are the lies that constantly come out, and they go well.
00:10:36.857 --> 00:10:39.144 Donald Trump's just a misogynist.
00:10:39.144 --> 00:10:41.243 He's a Rome wrecker.
00:10:41.243 --> 00:10:43.841 He's a bad man.
00:10:43.841 --> 00:10:44.806 I'm sorry.
00:10:44.806 --> 00:10:51.522 Everyone loved Donald J Trump prior to his escalator run in 2016, including the ladies of the View.
00:10:51.522 --> 00:10:58.596 They would almost go under the desk and satisfy him graciously, as Bill Clinton took one under the desk.
00:10:58.596 --> 00:11:01.333 We know that, but we cannot blame.
00:11:01.333 --> 00:11:03.500 Oh, it was just, it was a weak moment.
00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:06.438 It wasn't this, it wasn't that.
00:11:06.438 --> 00:11:13.143 Bottom line is these politicians are just lying through their teeth just to get elected.
00:11:13.143 --> 00:11:14.852 I hate politicians.
00:11:14.852 --> 00:11:20.494 I loathe politicians that just can't tell you the way it is Love it or lump it.
00:11:20.494 --> 00:11:21.717 Here is where we're at.
00:11:21.717 --> 00:11:25.173 Here is where we have been the last four years.
00:11:25.173 --> 00:11:37.720 You're telling me it's great, you're one in a million, because I don't know anyone that can stand on a rooftop and say I'm better off today than I was four years ago.
00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:43.360 And if you are, I'd like you to send us a PM and explain exactly how.
00:11:44.341 --> 00:12:01.018 I don't think it's a problem, stuart, you're going to have people who are, and I have members within my extended family who, no matter what and you're saying, friends and whatever, there's not one thing a conservative could do to make life better.
00:12:01.018 --> 00:12:07.681 And so they might say, maybe my prices went up, but my life is way better with a Democrat than a Republican.
00:12:07.681 --> 00:12:10.077 And that's really what you hear again and again.
00:12:10.077 --> 00:12:15.880 And you know it's funny because you know, you talk about the policies and you talk about all this kind of stuff.
00:12:15.880 --> 00:12:19.580 You know and you said Kamala pretends like she hasn't been in the White House.
00:12:19.580 --> 00:12:20.995 Listen, she's not doing this alone.
00:12:20.995 --> 00:12:22.855 She's not doing this alone.
00:12:22.855 --> 00:12:31.464 You've got a whole bunch of people who've pretended that she wasn't part of the border, that she wasn't part of the immigration policy.
00:12:32.049 --> 00:12:34.138 I want to stop you, and you're a great history buff.
00:12:34.138 --> 00:12:39.316 When was the idea of a two-state solution put forward for the Middle East?
00:12:39.316 --> 00:12:39.956 What year?
00:12:41.357 --> 00:12:43.360 Well, the first time you hear, listen.
00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.583 It depends on what you define as a two-state solution.
00:12:45.583 --> 00:12:46.725 Stuart, Are you talking about no?
00:12:46.745 --> 00:12:48.657 no, no, we're not being in definition.
00:12:48.657 --> 00:12:55.083 What was the first time it was ever mentioned that there should be a two-state solution, 1941?
00:12:55.831 --> 00:12:58.433 There were 1920s, absolutely, ah, 1920s.
00:12:58.674 --> 00:13:06.836 But again it became more popular of a topic in the 1940s, late 1940s no no, no, what year?
00:13:07.277 --> 00:13:07.518 stewart.
00:13:07.518 --> 00:13:10.462 It had no popularity in 1947.
00:13:10.462 --> 00:13:12.270 The british said we've, I've had enough, we're walking.
00:13:12.270 --> 00:13:13.774 We're walking away from the mandate.
00:13:13.774 --> 00:13:16.373 They threw it back to the united nations, said what do you want to do with it?
00:13:16.373 --> 00:13:23.467 They said let's split it into two-thirds, one year to the united nations no I will tell you exactly the date November 29th 1947.
00:13:23.488 --> 00:13:23.669 Thank you.
00:13:23.669 --> 00:13:28.809 So the late 40s, like I said, it became a popular conversation.
00:13:28.931 --> 00:13:30.346 It wasn't a popular conversation.
00:13:30.346 --> 00:13:34.235 Whatever, I don't want to argue with your statement, but yes, it became a conversation, sure.
00:13:34.317 --> 00:13:35.760 Okay, top of mind.
00:13:35.760 --> 00:13:40.494 United Nations vote voted unilaterally.
00:13:40.595 --> 00:13:42.076 No, it wasn't unilateral.
00:13:42.135 --> 00:13:42.976 How many dissensions?
00:13:43.577 --> 00:13:45.600 It was Stuart, it was a majority.
00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.261 It was a majority vote.
00:13:47.261 --> 00:13:48.543 Yes, it wasn't unilateral.
00:13:48.964 --> 00:13:55.596 Okay, it was a majority, yeah who didn't vote for it.
00:13:55.735 --> 00:13:58.842 I can't remember off the top of my head who didn't, but just remember.
00:14:00.629 --> 00:14:01.371 But what's your point?
00:14:01.371 --> 00:14:05.039 My point is this isn't Kamala Harris's idea.
00:14:06.042 --> 00:14:06.844 This is an idea.
00:14:07.250 --> 00:14:13.785 This has been an idea that's been floated in the White House even as late as when, I don't know, yasser Arafat was in there.
00:14:13.785 --> 00:14:15.749 Let's have a two-state solution no, no, no.
00:14:15.749 --> 00:14:17.155 No, no, no.
00:14:18.471 --> 00:14:30.386 The floating of the two-state solution, more so since 1967, since Israel won the war in 1967 and the Soviets threatened the United States time and time again.
00:14:30.386 --> 00:14:32.309 This was the solution.
00:14:32.309 --> 00:14:38.803 If we can get to deflect the Soviets, if we figure out this problem, we're good.
00:14:38.803 --> 00:14:40.211 We've solved the Arab problem.
00:14:40.792 --> 00:14:41.994 Figure out this problem, we're good.
00:14:41.994 --> 00:14:44.317 We've solved the Arab problem.
00:14:44.317 --> 00:14:45.960 We've solved whatever what it's morphed into.
00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:49.745 However, because the Palestinians want their cause on the front burner, no one else's cause is more important.
00:14:49.745 --> 00:14:51.390 Ukraine's not important.
00:14:51.390 --> 00:14:55.802 The fact that Turkey killed a whole bunch of civilians last week doesn't make a difference.
00:14:55.802 --> 00:15:02.870 The fact that in Africa we've gotten massacres of Christians and people across Africa Doesn't matter.
00:15:02.870 --> 00:15:12.499 The Palestinians have figured over 60 years of how to put their cause on the front burner and it's no longer a two-state solution.
00:15:12.499 --> 00:15:14.335 It's not it at all.
00:15:14.335 --> 00:15:23.384 But the White House has decided that the solution to stop this one-state desire is to put forth a two-state solution.
00:15:23.384 --> 00:15:28.042 This has been the mantra of the White House, except for Donald Trump.
00:15:28.042 --> 00:15:31.139 Except for Donald Trump since 1967.
00:15:32.770 --> 00:15:36.481 But on that note, David, we've got a whole bunch of stuff to talk about.
00:15:37.149 --> 00:15:37.852 Well, I'm going to tell you.
00:15:37.852 --> 00:15:49.008 The whole thing is, when you look at what to your point, though, as you go to the ballot box, ask yourself Kamala Harris has offered you what as president?
00:15:49.008 --> 00:15:51.239 Because this is the thing that I'm always nauseated.
00:15:51.239 --> 00:15:53.253 We haven't finished the job.
00:15:53.253 --> 00:15:56.501 Vote for me for the next four years, and you'll see it.
00:15:56.501 --> 00:15:58.076 We'll finish the job together.
00:15:58.529 --> 00:15:58.831 What is the?
00:15:58.870 --> 00:16:06.004 job, but I'm just trying to figure out what have you done in the last three and a half four years to merit another four years?
00:16:06.004 --> 00:16:19.914 Okay, by contrast, we have an existing 2017 to 2020 timeframe with Donald Trump, and you can compare 2017 to 2020 and 2021 to 2024.
00:16:19.914 --> 00:16:24.272 And you ask yourself today, as you go to the ballot box, what would you like to go back to?
00:16:24.272 --> 00:16:30.383 Covid was an outlier, people, not for Biden, not for Trump, was it good?
00:16:30.383 --> 00:16:39.692 So take that out and ask yourself the Trump years, the Biden-Harris years, what would you rather have today?
00:16:39.712 --> 00:16:42.378 Okay that, david.
00:16:42.378 --> 00:16:46.105 I got to call it a wrap because we've gone over a quarter hour, like always.
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00:17:39.233 --> 00:17:45.430 it's really your civic duty Tomorrow.
00:17:45.430 --> 00:17:45.730 Please go vote.
00:17:45.730 --> 00:17:47.095 I've never I'm going to sorry, I'm just going to one more thing.
00:17:47.095 --> 00:17:53.931 We hear this crazy statement this is the most important vote of our time and both parties have thrown it out there like toilet paper.
00:17:53.931 --> 00:18:00.053 But the reality is we are at a junction in our lives and you have to ask yourself what do you want?
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