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.

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/article-14073063/CNN-layoffs-election-ratings-firings.html



“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-times-editorial-board-1236173370/



MSNBC and CNN Ratings Tank After Trump Steamrolls Kamala Harris

https://www.outkick.com/analysis/msnbc-cnn-ratings-tank-after-trump-steamrolls-kamala-harris



MSNBC Ratings Crater As Viewers Tune Out Trump Victory Coverage

https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-msnbc-ratings-crater-on-friday-as-viewers-tune-out-post-election-coverage/



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

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/hollywood-braces-for-a-woke-backlash-in-the-wake-of-trump-s-election/ar-AA1tWMg3



SEMAFOR: The old media grapples with its new limits

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/10/2024/a-tale-of-two-jets-the-old-media-grapples-with-its-new-limits



The rejection of the ruling class was global.

https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1854559598574784631

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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

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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/

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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

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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

Donald Trump’s massive landslide victory in Tuesday’s presidential election has climate activists around the world melting down. Trump called measures to control climate change “one of the great scams” of the world, and said at one of his final rallies “who the hell cares?” if the sea levels rise. Trump will immediately get America out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and promised in his acceptance speech this week to get as much “liquid gold” out of ground in the United States as possible. Climate Clown Michael Mann is apoplectic, of course. Climate activists in the UK vandalized the US embassy in London with orange paint. And X, formerly Twitter, was full of climate loonies losing their minds. We’ll go over all of that, and have a little schadenfreudic fun at their expense.

On Episode #134 of The Climate Realism Show, we welcome the Carbon King, Jason Isaac CEO of the American Energy Institute to discuss the future of climate and energy policy in the restoration of the Trump administration. Heartland’s Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the week. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET so you can leave your questions and comments for the show in the chat.

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Climate change policy is often framed as a challenge to personal freedoms and choices, especially when policies seem to impose strict limits on individuals’ lifestyles and economic options. For example, regulations that mandate renewable energy or limit fossil fuel use can feel like a direct restriction on the American dream—the idea that with hard work, anyone can achieve prosperity and a higher standard of living. These policies sometimes require sacrifices that may impact businesses and workers in traditional energy industries, as well as limit consumer choices in cars, appliances, home energy sources, and travel options.

Additionally, many people worry that climate policies prioritize environmental goals over economic growth, which can restrict innovation, hinder job creation, and raise costs for families. Critics argue that climate policy, especially if it involves heavy-handed government intervention, reduces personal choices by dictating what types of products, energy, and resources individuals can access. For many, this perceived loss of choice challenges core values of independence, opportunity, and personal freedom, which are at the heart of the American dream.

Besides host Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center at Heartland and Research Fellow Linnea Lueken, will provide expert commentary. We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the week and take your questions in the chat. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET this Friday and every Friday.

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The whole world seems to be nervously awaiting the outcome of the presidential election, which is just 10 days away — perhaps no group more than the global climate cabal. Climate and energy policy is a topic barely mentioned on the campaign trail, and in the debates. But voters are going to decide in November whether America keeps spending billions to be a “leader” in global climate action schemes or pull out of the scam altogether ... and maybe for good.

On Episode #132 of The Climate Realism Show our guest is Steve Milloy, publisher of Junkscience.com, senior fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and member of the EPA transition team for the first Trump presidency. The Biden-Harris administration has pledged billions of US tax dollars for “global climate action.” Would it be too late to get a refund on that if Trump is elected? Would a second Trump administration get even more aggressive with producing oil and gas? Could he end the taxpayer-subsidized and failing “green energy” industry with the stroke of a pen? And what will the next four years of climate policy look like if Kamala Harris wins?

Heartland’s Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the week and take your questions in the chat. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET this Friday and every Friday.

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America’s educational system used to cover the “three Rs” — reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic – but that has long been abandoned from elementary school through college and even medical school and replaced with ideological indoctrination. Now the University of California, San Diego is requiring students to take a class in “climate change” to earn a degree. Classes such as “The Astronomy of Climate Change”, “Gender and Climate Justice”, “Indigenous Approaches to Climate Change,” and “Environmentalism in Arts and Media” are on offer. What is driving the push for shoving climate alarmism into every academic subject under the sun?

On Episide #131 of The Climate Realism Show, we invite Steve Goreham on to discuss. Steve is the executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America and author of four books, including “Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure.”

Heartland’s Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the week. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET so you can leave your questions and comments for the show in the chat.

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After a slow start to the 2024 Hurricane Season, it seems like Mother Nature wants to make up for lost time. First Helene hit the Florida Panhandle and caused a disaster in Appalachia. And this week, Hurricane Milton struck an area of the Florida Gulf Coast that hadn’t be hit with a storm this strong in more than 100 years. On Episode #130 of The Climate Realism Show, The Heartland Institute’s H. Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely welcome back Stan Goldenberg, one of the nation’s top hurricane experts, to break down Hurricane Milton. Was this actually and officially a “major” hurricane by the time it made landfall?

We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including Bill Nye saying if you need to vote for Kamala Harris to stop hurricanes, Al Gore exploiting hurricanes for fun and profit, and the seemingly unsinkable notion that humans are able to seed and even steer hurricanes.

Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET so you can leave your questions and comments for the show in the chat.

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On September 13, 2024, Nigel Farage, newly elected member of the House of Commons in Great Britain, gave the keynote address at The Heartland Institute's 40th Anniversary Benefit Dinner at the Hilton Chicago.

Farage, who spear-headed the successful Brexit movement in the UK, spoke about what is necessary to preserve Western Civilization. Modern Day Marxism, Farage said, is putting centuries of freedom and liberty at risk around the world. "If America Falls, We All Fall," he said.

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In this in-depth interview, Nigel Farage, former leader of the Brexit Party and UK Independence Party, sits down with James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute, to discuss the rise of populism, the challenges of globalism, and the future of conservative politics in the UK and beyond. Farage shares his personal journey from businessman to political leader, recounting his role in the historic Brexit vote and his ongoing fight for national sovereignty through Reform UK.

The conversation touches on his friendship with Donald Trump, the failures of the Conservative Party, and the economic impact of green energy policies. Farage also provides insights into the growing appeal of populist conservatism among Gen Z, the increasing threat of censorship, and the importance of open debate.

Join us for this thought-provoking discussion on the future of politics on both sides of the Atlantic and what’s next for Nigel Farage!

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In his insightful talk, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya addresses the growing issue of Big Tech censorship on social media and its impact on public discourse. Drawing from his own experiences, including the suppression of scientific debate during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bhattacharya explores how censorship stifles free speech, undermines trust in public health, and limits the free exchange of ideas. His remarks offer a critical examination of the power held by social media giants and the need for transparency and open dialogue in today’s digital landscape.

This speech was part of the Heartland Institute’s 40th Anniversary Benefit Dinner, a celebration of four decades of championing liberty and free-market principles. Featuring distinguished speakers and thought leaders, the event highlights the ongoing fight for freedom and the importance of standing up for foundational values in an era of increasing censorship and government overreach.

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Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, explains the decision to keep the college open during the pandemic. He reflects on the importance of preserving liberty, the role of education in upholding constitutional principles, and the responsibility to protect individual freedoms, even in the face of government mandates. Dr. Arnn’s remarks offer a thoughtful perspective on leadership and the courage required to stand by core values during challenging times.

Dr. Arnn closed his speech with: "I believe, having studied it all my life, that we may be losing control of our government. We may live in a despotism. If we do, we can be the ones — Heartland, each of you — we can leave a record, so in the future, when it comes, someone can look back and say, 'You know, they knew it was wrong, even then. And that is a service to our country."

At the Heartland Institute's 40th Anniversary Benefit Dinner, we were proud to honor Dr. Arnn with the prestigious Heartland Liberty Prize. As the 12th president of Hillsdale College and a professor of politics and history, Dr. Arnn has dedicated his career to promoting constitutional principles and educational excellence. His leadership and unwavering commitment to the ideals of liberty have profoundly shaped American thought and policy. Dr. Arnn was awarded the Heartland Liberty Prize for his invaluable contributions to the liberty movement that have preserved freedom and fostered future generations of leaders. Dr. Arnn is introduced by Joe Morris, Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute.

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