In The Tank

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 winhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-extends-10b-iran-sanctions-waiver-2-days-after-trump-election-winReuters - US Treasury transfers $20 billion in Ukraine loan funds to World Bank facilityhttps://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 Russiahttps://apnews.com/article/biden-ukraine-long-range-weapons-russia-52d424158182de2044ecc8bfcf011f9c  Inflation is Up AgainCNBC - Annual inflation rate accelerates to 2.7% in November, as expectedhttps://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/11/cpi-inflation-november-2024-annual-inflation-rate-accelerates-to-2point7percent-in-november-as-expected.htmlForbes - Rise In November Consumer Inflation Is Not Going To Stop Fed Rate Cutshttps://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 ProgramsOpen The Books - Taxpayer Funded Censorship: How Government is Using Your Tax Dollars to Silence Your Voicehttps://openthebooks.substack.com/p/taxpayer-funded-censorship-how-governmentFox News - Biden spent millions on ‘misinformation’ research. The details are even more disturbing than you thinkhttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-white-house-spent-267-million-misinformation-research-details-even-more-disturbingZero Hedge - State Department Scrambles To Scuttle $100M Censorship Network Before Trump Takes Officehttps://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 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

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

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...