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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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It’s a fact that humans are increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But does it follow, as we’re constantly told, that this increasing of CO2 is poisoning the planet? What if the opposite is actually the case? This week’s guest, CO2 Coalition Executive Director Gregory Wrightstone, is going to explain why it’s not true that more CO2=Bad.

On Episode #139 of The Climate Realism Show, The Heartland Institute’s H. Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely, and Wrightstone will also cover some of the “Crazy Climate News of the Week.” An op-ed in The New York Times says climate change should make you rethink home ownership. Remember when an iceberg off Antarctica in 2017 was supposed to freak you out? Well, never mind. And the World Economic Forum says you should wash your clothes less to save the planet. They suggest washing jeans once a month and pajamas just once a week. Is there any aspect of our lives that the climate scolds will ignore? Apparently not.

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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Elon Musk’s latest fortune was built on his Tesla electric vehicles, helped in no small measure by federal tax credits so more people could afford to buy the luxury items. For years, he’s marketed them as a way to help wean the world of oil and stop the imminent “climate change meltdown.” But The Washington Post reports that Musk’s abandonment of left-wing, trendy, virtue-signaling political views not only eventually led him to Donald Trump, but maybe out of the Climate Cult, altogether. And if Musk makes it OK to leave, will more prominent business leaders and cultural trend setters soon follow?

On Episode #138 of The Climate Realism Show, The Heartland Institute’s H. Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will cover that story, as well as some of the “Crazy Climate News of the Week.” Did you know the Chinese Communist Party is sending lots of money to “green energy” groups and support energy groups and universities in the United States? The UK’s obsession with reaching “Net Zero” is putting its military in danger on the battlefield. And you’re not going to want to miss what is perhaps the dumbest question ever asked by an anchor on CNN.

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

Stories covered on this episode of the show:

WASHPOST: Musk’s politics hadn’t seeped into Tesla. Then he axed its eco car of the future.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/10/elon-musk-climate-change-worldview-trump/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Ex-CCP Officials Funneled Millions to US Universities, Nonprofits To Promote Green Energy, Tax Forms Show
https://freebeacon.com/energy/ex-ccp-officials-steered-millions-to-us-based-green-groups-universities-for-climate-initiatives/

GBN: Net zero could put British Army at risk as ministers forge ahead with use of electric vehicles despite military warnings
https://www.gbnews.com/news/net-zero-british-army-at-risk-electric-vehicles-despite-warnings

VISIT THESE GREAT CLIMATE REALISM SITES

SUBSCRIBE to Heartland's Climate Change Weekly
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ClimateRealism
https://climaterealism.com/

Climate at a Glance
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Energy at a Glance
https://energyataglance.com/

The Heartland Institute's Climate Page
https://heartland.org/topics/environment-energy/

Heartland's Climate Conferences
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Watts Up With That
https://wattsupwiththat.com/

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The investigative journalists at Project Veritas have a new scoop. President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency is reacting to soon losing power by shoveling tens of billions of your tax dollars out the door to left-wing “green” nonprofits. “”We’re throwing gold bars off the Titanic,” said Brent Efron, Special Advisor for Implementation, EPA. “We’re getting the money out.” Again, that’s your money.

On Episode #137 of The Climate Realism Show, The Heartland Institute’s H. Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken will cover this outrageous story. They will also cover the “Crazy Climate News of the Week,” including how gamers are “fighting climate change,” how the BRICS countries are thumbing their noses at the climate cult at the United Nations, and more.

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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The latest annual United Nations climate conference, COP29, is about to wrap up in Baku, Azerbaijan – the second year in a row it has been held in a “petro state.” Add in the election of Donald Trump just before they convened, and it was a pretty grim affair if you are a global climate alarmist. But for some people it was a blast, including Craig Rucker and Marc Morano of CFACT, who attended as they usually do. They will provide us a report from the ground on what even supporters of the global climate command-and-control agenda are admitting was a disaster.

On Episode #136 The Heartland Institute’s 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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While the political tide has shifted right in the United States – and away from the climate alarmist agenda – our neighbors to the north are still currently all-in for the economically ruinous and scientifically unnecessary Net Zero agenda. But climate realists in the Great White North are pushing back, and a new book released in conjunction with The Heartland Institute will serve as an important weapon in the scientific and public relations arsenal. We talk to guests Ron Davison of the Friends of Science Society and Tom Harris of the International Climate Science Coalition.

On Episode #135 of The Climate Realism Show, we welcome the co-authors of Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition, which outlines why the climate plans of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate plans will cause economic hardship in Canada and will do nothing measurable to improve the global climate. 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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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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In this fiery clip from the In the Tank podcast, we tackle the bombshell story that’s rocking the political world: Joe Biden reportedly pardoning his son, Hunter Biden. This shocking move flies in the face of Biden’s earlier public promise not to use his presidential pardon powers to benefit family members. So, what changed?

The team dives into the fallout and implications of this potential pardon. Is this a desperate attempt to shield Hunter from ongoing legal trouble? Or is it part of a broader, calculated strategy to brace for future political battles? Could Biden be preparing to issue more controversial pardons as a safeguard against political payback?

This is just one segment of the full podcast. Don’t miss the rest of the episode for even more unfiltered analysis and sharp political commentary.

In The Tank is live every Thursday at 1pm ET.

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