Joy Pullman (3:21)

Well, it's hard for me to pick number ones because there's so many top things. So I will kind of punt on that by picking several of them and I'm sure other people will have other things to add. So I think the, one of the big stories of the year that kind of feels very far in the rearview mirror is the whole like first hundred days of the Trump administration.

Matt Kittle (3:45)

Oh, yeah.

Joy Pullman (3:45)

You know, that was a really its own season and a really a major part the year, you know, for, in terms of news, in terms of political effects and so forth. I also think obviously the immigration sort of policy in the first, I mean, having a closed border to illegal immigration and the first time really almost in my lifetime is really consequential. And there's a lot under the hood there. I mean, those, those probably would be some of my top two. I also, for me, I'm personally extremely interested in the Arctic Frost sorts things. I think they do have some ties in with Spygate. And so that's kind of a whole connected ball of wax with the FBI, you know, and DOJ corruption with the kind of struggles, you know, that have been going on mostly under the scenes, you know, but you're seeing like little elbows and feet pick up, you know, poke out here and there from under the rug with whatever's happening under the hood there. Obviously Dan Bongino announced, you know, he's going to be leaving from there at the turn of the year. So the kind of, the continuance, I guess we might label that, you know, deep state, you know, intel agency, sort of machination, whatever label you give that, that kind of whole ball of wax continues to be extremely important, I think.

Matt Kittle (5:01)

Yeah, we've known about the corruption for some time. As a matter of fact, the Federalist had this year and we're proud to say won an award for the Russia hoax collusion reporting over years and years won the Dow Award, the prestigious Dow Award. And I think what we're seeing now, joy, the potential, we're not there yet. In fact, I feel, sometimes I feel we're farther and farther away from it, but we have the potential of holding deep staters accountable. And I think that was part of the big story that came out of Arctic Frost and some of these other.

Joy Pullman (5:38)

Investigations of James Comey. Right. And kind of really grasping at efforts to hold anybody at all accountable. You know, we're still really waiting on really any preventative enforcement having strongly occurred, really literally, you know, against having an intel state coup of the electoral process for the presidency. And who knows how far that extends. Obviously, Arctic Cross, we're talking about election interference much broader than just the presidency at that point.

Matt Kittle (6:08)

Yeah, scary stuff. And if we don't get this thing right here in the matter of the next few months, we may never get it right. We may never be able to hold people accountable for this. Jordan, what to you was the most impactful year? You did a lot of reporting, of course, on life issues. And let's face it, it all begins there. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But it begins with life.

Jordan Boyd (6:35)

Absolutely. And I think going all the way back, it's been a long year, but going all the way back to January, we saw this really key pardon that Trump issued for the 23 Pro lifers that the Biden administration weaponized the Face act against. And I found that to be a very pivotal moment. I think it would be an easy one for people to overlook. Oftentimes the pro life stuff is easy to cast aside and only pull into the center when it's politically convenient. But that really did set the tone. That, along with the J6 pardon, set the tone for what this Trump administration came in here to do, and that was to not only correct some of the damage done by the weaponization of the Biden Justice Department, but also wipe it out and restructure and really try and fix this two tiered system of justice. And like Joy was saying, there's a lot of work still to be done. But I think setting that tone for the next four years and Trump committing to it is something that people can now hold him to because he did these pardons.

Matt Kittle (7:40)

Yeah, no doubt about it. And I think about 2025, where we began, remember, we were coming off, I think, a lot of hard work and exhausting 2024. So much happened, so much was at stake. And obviously it ended for conservatives with huge, sweeping victories that were so critical to get to 2025. Then we thought, well, hey, we're here. We made it through 2024. And then all of a sudden it was drinking from a fire hose on a daily basis because it was all about in the, you know, the opening 100 days, as joy had mentioned, the zone. That was the term that everyone liked to use about just how Energetic and it seems such a departure, of course, from the auto pen presidency of Joe Biden, but just how energetic the first hundred days and this entire first year of the Trump administration. I just wanted to get your thoughts, Jordan, on that pace that the Trump administration set and of course how dizzying that was to the left and the accomplished media.

Jordan Boyd (8:57)

Yeah, absolutely. I think there was a lot going on and I, what we saw especially at the beginning of the year was sort of corporate media and Democrats sitting there stunned still trying to process the end of 2024. And that was really a key moment, I think, for the conservative movement, for the Trump administration and for media on the right to, to seize, which the corporate media love to use that as you know, the right seized on, on this moment to do. We don't like, but they, they really did and, and they've moved forward and like I said, there's still a lot of work to do. I'm sure we'll get into it later. Specifically on the, the life issue. You know, we've seen a lot of activity or buzz around the mifepristone stuff, the abortion pill and, and immigration and you know, ICE enforcement there. And then of course this rise of left wing violence which culminated in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But yes, more work to do, but a lot going on. And I think for a while there, there was, there was a stunned silence and it was kind of refreshing, it.

Matt Kittle (9:57)

Was very refreshing to see these smug members of the, the corporate media and you know, the, the Democrats who held sway for, for so long and really push this country in the, the worst direction that you can imagine. Joshua, you have read a lot of stories in 2025. You have edited a lot of stories. You have done the Lord's work in prettying up our copy and we appreciate that immensely. What do you see as the most impactful story of 25?

Joshua Mornington (10:36)

Yeah, obviously we've covered a lot of ground at the Federalist and as you said, there have been many, many important stories. To me, the biggest story, hands down, is the assassination of Charlie Kirk. What that means about the state of our country, what it means for the future of the conservative movement. I think the conservative movement and in fact the country breathed a sigh of relief when Trump escaped the assassin's bullet. By God's grace in Butler, Pennsylvania, he letter escaped a second assassination attempt. And I think some of us will remember watching Charlie's podcast on election night when it was clear that Trump had won. He was brought nearly to te said it was all God's grace, but he had put in a whole lot of work in his organization and its efforts at Turning Point were a huge factor in Trump winning the White House. And so to see Charlie Kirk assassinated as he's on campus, as he interacting with young people, as he's articulating conservative ideas and indeed Christian truths, was stunning. And I think it points to this larger theme that we've covered, which is left wing political violence, whether it's, you know, things like transgender violence like the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting or the Tesla bombings that we saw at the beginning of the year. You yourself did a story where you reported on 55% of self identified leftists say killing Trump is justifiable. We had the J. Jones texts where he was wishing death upon his political opponents and their children and saying his political opponents were worse than Hitler and Pol Pot. To me, that's the biggest story of the year.

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Matt Kittle (13:25)

Yeah, the Charlie Kirk assassination was as heartbreaking as it was breathtaking. There he is, this young conservative icon. Young caught forever, you know, at that young age, assassinated in front of his two young children and his wife. And it really drove home exactly what you just talked about. The, the violence of the left. We're going to get into 2026 and what's ahead. But let's jump a little bit because I'm, I'm sad to believe that I know the answer. Will, as we head into the midterm elections, the violence of the left grow more intense. From what you are seeing out there today.

Joshua Mornington (14:15)

Unfortunately, the answer is yes. A lot will say that. You know, not everyone on the left is violent and that's true. But the movement and the ideology foster violence, encourage violence. The media continue to accuse, accuse many on the right, even Charlie Kirk after his death of racism, of being Nazis, which are sort of seen as the pinnacle of evil in our culture. And obviously if those things were true, that would be terrible. But the people on the right, generally speaking are, you know, we're not Nazis and racists and these slanders do lead to violence. And I think the administration, Trump administration, has talked about dealing with antifa, but we haven't seen necessarily a full fledged effort to take them down and we haven't seen the results. So unfortunately, I think because of the underlying leftist ideology that now is in the driver's seat of the movement, we are going to continue to see left wing political violence.

Matt Kittle (15:22)

So what do you think of the fascistizing of everyone from the left? Everyone is a fascist. Everyone they don't agree with is a fascist or a Nazi. What does that do to those terms? And I think about that, especially in a year where we have seen so much antisemitism in, in this country and the world.

Joy Pullman (15:45)

Yeah, I mean, I think it cheapens the terms. Right. So I actually have a personal interest in the Holocaust in World War II. My grandfather was a fighter pilot in World War II. I have Polish ancestry, you know, so I did my one, my senior honors thesis about Gulag Archipelago Ilay Wiesel's Night. You know, so looking at some of the literature, basically people being tortured for as victims of communism and victims of fascism. So that's something that I have been, you know, reading up about since I was a teenager and very, you know, interested in both just personally and intellectually. And I do think Joshua is absolutely right that they're not only is leftist ideology pro violence and it's pro violence because their entire kind of motivation is the will to power. They don't believe in a supreme being who sets the standards for what is right and wrong. And they are willing to, and they. So all that's left to them really is power for its own sake, for the ability of them to wield it. And so they're willing to do anything to get that. Especially if you don't believe that a God is going to punish you for murdering, for doing other evil things that takes off kind of one of the guardrails for curbing the natural human lust for violence and destruction and hurting other people when you don't get your way. So, Jordan.

Matt Kittle (17:05)

Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. Yeah, go ahead.

Joy Pullman (17:07)

Yeah, so I do think that's inherent to the, you know, like the leftist Ideology. And the other part of that is, as Joshua also pointed out, we haven't had effective deterrence of political violence from the left. And we have very, very strong public, you know, deterrence to any sort of political violence from allegedly the right. No, just look at the January 6th sort of investigation and all that. I, you know, I'm aware that a lot of that was manufactured, but, you know, the amount of effort spent, you know, kind of shutting down and investigating and embedding, you know, federal informants and so forth with people on the right is just magnitudes of difference compared with the infrastructure combating that, you know, against the left wing violence. Right. We have, you know, just these suspicious, you know, transgender murders, for example. Not a lot really coming out about those, a string of those this year. And there's, you know, it kind of indicates that there may be some coordination or a background network, essentially terrorist networks kind of enabling this sort of behavior. And there's not clear indication that our FBI really is focused on that, you know, and is really getting some good information out, preventing these sorts of, you know, acts from happening. So I do think those are two major areas of concern. But, and so, and that's. So the problem with so with the fascist and Nazi language is that basically, you know, as we're pointing out, it legitimizes, you know, acts of terror and violence either from the state, when leftists control it, or from vigilante sort of terrorists in the streets, you know, when they're not able to use police and the military and the department, the enforcers of the Department of Justice to kind of go after the left's enemies.

Matt Kittle (18:54)

I think about, as you mentioned, Joy, the, the leftist and the accomplice. Media treatment of January 6, 2021, to, you know, the throwing under the, the carpet and the ignoring of the violence directed at conservatives and members of the right. Maybe that is their idea of equity in comparison, I'm not sure. But Jordan, I was going to ask you, you cover a lot of faith issues. We mentioned Charlie Kirk. We mentioned these violent times. What we saw in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination was both trying, very sad from the left, their response to that, their hatred and again, their more violent rhetoric. But we also saw something that I don't think we've seen in a long time in this country, not to this magnitude. I hope it's sustainable, but this turning away from the flesh and toward the spirit. A lot of people saw this watershed moment in American life, American culture, and they said there is an emptiness here. And I want to fill it with the right things. I'm turning to God. What do you think about all of that?

Jordan Boyd (20:30)

Yeah, I think seeing the Charlie Kirk memorial service and how many people tuned into that was really incredible. And just on a personal level, the amount of people that I've talked to or received email from saying the same thing, where they saw that Charlie was this figure on the conservative right and they recognize his accomplishments there. But more importantly, a lot of people saw that he was a good and faithful servant and that he ran his race well. And I think that's inspiring. And I think it's something that we can't continue to ignore, especially on the right, is this Christian foundation and the Christian principles that really shape not only who we are, but where we're going. And I think it's really key to some of these fundamental conversations coming up about the policies that drive us, the what makes us a Christian nation. All of that is encompassed here. And I think it's one of those things, once again, kind of like the life issues that's easy to parse out. I mean, you put on the side or just assume we're all on the same page about, but we're not. And it's more increasingly evident now than ever that there's a spiritual war going on here. There is good and evil, and the effort to. To dirty the water there, to muddy the water and not show what is good is good and what is evil is evil is very concerning. And I think especially for truth tellers like us at the Federalist, it's just very important that the truth ring clear here and now, because the effort to disguise it, to sully it, is stronger than ever.

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Matt Kittle (23:47)

You. Our guests today are some of the best reporters and editors in the business. Over the last 20 minutes or so, you've heard why I say that, Federalist executive editor Joy Pullman, staff writer and Federalist Radio Hour producer Jordan Boyd, and Federalist editor Joshua Monington, or Bones, as we like to call him. Perhaps we'll get an answer to that nickname coming up a little bit later on in the episode. But Joshua, I want to, I want to turn to you to begin our segment on the most interesting story of the year. Now that could be the, you know, the most impactful story. Oftentimes it is not, though we have seen a lot of interesting stories in these extremely interesting times. What say.

Joshua Mornington (24:41)

You? Yeah, so hard to choose. And I'm probably going to pull a couple different stories together. But I think it, there's a number of things that sort of come back to young men and specifically young men becoming more conservative. I think during the first hundred days of the administration, there was an excitement, there was a sense of anticipation. There was talk about retaking control of the Panama Canal and becoming heavily invested or somehow taking control of Greenland. So evoking these ideas of exploration and expansion. And then Elon Musk was coming into the White House. He was going to fix government with Doge. But there was this theme of building things and progress and accomplishing big things, things that people would think would be impossible. And I think that really appeals to young men. And we've seen this shift where young men have become more conservative, sort of the sort of downside concerning aspect of it is that young women haven't necessarily followed. And so we're seeing where young men are considering marriage more desirable than women would consider it. They want to have children, young women maybe not so much. So a big question is how do we bridge that gap? And things like the US hitting an all new low infertility rate really makes that a pressing question. So I think if we are going to see our country continue to make a comeback, I think a lot of that's going to have to do with young men and the strength and the energy that they bring to the table. So I think it'll be interesting to see how that story progresses in.

Matt Kittle (26:39)

2026. I think that is a fascinating story and I am very interested to see how it progresses. But do you think some of this, we know some of this, what happened in 2024 with young men coming out in droves to vote for Trump and the MAGA movement, they have been, let's, let's face it, disenfranchised from their country in so many ways by the leftist movement which ties into the, you know, the decades upon decades of leftist indoctrination. And I think quite frankly that's why we have the issue that you mentioned with, with young women. We have so many young women who have absolutely bought into this indoctrination. And as you note, instead of thinking about families and raising children, they're you know, living alone with cats. And so, you know, you're right. I mean this is, this is a, a very seminal moment for the future of this country. Where do you think it's going to go? Because sustain, that's been a.

Joshua Mornington (27:48)

Problem. Right. So there's sort of three trajectories that you might anticipate. And so related to the issue that you talked about, there's been this discrimination against young men. There was a whole lot of discussion about a Compact magazine article recently, I think JD Vance tweeted about it. But basically where young white men specifically were discriminated against in employment settings where they weren't able to get jobs that they ordinarily would have been able to get because employers immersed in DI ideology were looking for everything but a white male. And that's frustrating. So I think it could go one of three ways. Young men could just, I should say the other factor is sort of this me too movement inspired ideology where everything about young men, their masculinity, their energy, their willingness to, you know, struggle and argue and everything about young men has sort of been attacked in our culture. And so young men can either become sort of lazy and disillusioned and maybe live in their parents basement because it's too hard to get a job. And they just play video games or they can become frustrated, they can sort of become anti female and just be angry at all women. Or there's sort of the Christian path where it's like, okay, there is discrimination, there's adversity. How can I respond in a way that still is honoring to God, advances culture, honors country, and yes, look for political solutions to these problems, but also take individual responsibility and do all that I can on my.

Matt Kittle (29:45)

Own. Joy Joshua had mentioned a very interesting story, a compelling story that dominated a lot of the headlines this year. And that was Doge, you know, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk coming in and saying we're going to save taxpayers all this money because we're going to deal with all the waste, fraud and abuse in government. I want to ask you, along with your most interesting story, because I personally think that's a very interesting story. I wouldn't rate that as my, my most interesting story, but was the Doge effort a success or failure or is it too early to write, you know, the, the final chapter on.

Joy Pullman (30:30)

That? I think it had some successes and some failures. So some of the, unfortunately, I mean, I think, I mean, there are a lot of things cut out of the federal government right now because of doge. And I am grateful for every single, you know, one of the couple hundred thousand federal workers who now needs to look for a more productive job in the private sector because of doge. I mean, it's where our federal government is completely unsustainable. And you know, the things that Dosh found, we're talking about fraud, we're talking about incompetence, we're talking about just things that no American taxpayer would support, you know, any of their our money, let alone hundreds of millions of dollars of our money. You know, I know people who, you know, are struggling to run businesses, to run non profits, you know, who are like, man, you know, with a rounding error of some of that money, what I could do to provide jobs, you know, for, you know, food on the table for people in my community, you know, and they're sending it to, you know, some stupid DI person in Paraguay with who's transgender, you know, arena, et cetera, et cetera. So, so I mean, there are absolutely have been some on the ground successes, but I also think for Congress really failed to really live up to all of the energy and excitement that Doges were generated as Congress has really completely disappointing. I actually was thinking about making that one of the stories of the year is that Republicans have the House, the Senate and the presidency and the discipline, the unity, the delivering on the policy priorities that President Trump won on has been lackluster, to say the least. And so I think that the lack of codifying, for example, the president's executive orders, the lack of codifying, the cuts that Doge showed us, you know, all of this waste, fraud and abuse and completely unjustifiable, you know, spending, you know, we haven't seen congressional action on that, and that's really needed to fulfill that mandate. So it's not Doge's fault that Congress stinks, but that is obviously a major factor in its success. That's outside of its ability there. So I also wanted to kind of comment on. Man, I just love listening to Joshua talk about the young man issue. And I do think there was an aspect to the Doge team that was really inspirational in that sort of way. So I cannot say that on air. I am still too modest to say the nickname for the young man who got beat up in Washington, D.C. it's big and then a word for men's genitals. I just can't say that on.

Joshua Mornington (33:07)

Air.

Matt Kittle (33:08)

Sure. It's a family.

Joy Pullman (33:09)

Program. Yeah, that's right. You know, and I have, you know, a family mentality.

Jordan Boyd (33:12)

Right.

Joy Pullman (33:13)

So. But. But that young man, you know, watching him defend his girlfriend, you know, and.

Jordan Boyd (33:17)

He.

Joy Pullman (33:17)

He's. So I'm at this point, you know, where I have my oldest child as a teenage son, and so I look at a young man like that, and I think, I would be so proud if that was my son. Right. And. And, you know, just to see someone who looks, you know, not very old, you know, not only doing, you know, doing more than most people do to help out their country with the skills and talent that he has. And he is overcoming obstacles because of his skin color, obviously, you know, so having motivation, drive, and putting it to service for his country, but then just standing in between a group of thugs and a young woman that he cared about, I found that extremely inspiring. And I think that's a part of the Doge story as well, is the sort of young men that it put, you know, back at the forefront of the American mind. And let's face it, young men need more inspiration. Generational figures, big brothers, fathers, uncles to look up to. And it's an important part of a man becoming a man to have mentorship from older men and examples to look up to and live up to. And so I also appreciated that aspect of what that team brought to the national.

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Matt Kittle (35:21)

Near you. Yeah. We also know this year was the year of the Chuck Togie or Subway sandwich, as stupid as that was. Again, it showed there's no accountability in, in Washington, D.C. in particular, in, in government in general. And Jordan, I wanted to bring that up with you because we touched upon that earlier, the, the accountability for all of these deep state crimes. But the big story, I think of the year, one of, I would say the top five stories of the year would be the judicial coup that has been going on. You want to talk about. And, and Joy, I'm very glad that you, because I was going to bring that up as well. The fact that we have in this country, conservatives had a window of opportunity and the Republicans in Congress basically said, well, we'll just watch what's going on outside the window. We won't do anything with that opportunity. But Jordan, what do you think about the judicial activism? We've known that's been the case on the left, but, but it has reached coup levels against the president of the United States and the executive branch this year. What happened and where do we go from here on.

Jordan Boyd (36:39)

That front? Yeah, I mean, what we saw was a coordinated effort to keep the commander in chief from governing, which is wild and should be wilder. But it's not as wild when you know that his first term, they tried to impeach him. Over several different hoaxes. So, yeah, it's insane. It's something that higher court judges, including justices on the Supreme Court, have called out year after year, maybe more subtly than they should have at this point, and have sort of been warning about this incoming wave of just ridiculous cases in front of ridiculous people and then ridiculous results. And it all goes one way, which should tell you everything you need to know about it. But what's increasingly concerning is that it's just not being punished, it's not being corrected. We're having to jump through all of these bureaucratic judicial hoops to get things worked out that should have just been, you know, easy to deal with on the first level, the first ring of courts. So it is a symptom of a country that is getting sicker. And if we don't treat the root cause, which we see very much is on the deepest levels of the judiciary, we're going to have some serious problems, more so than we're already having. So I think I wish I could sit here and lay out this five step plan, but it almost feels insurmountable in a way that there's going to have to be some really serious and swift action to get this curved before it's completely out.

Matt Kittle (38:24)

Of control. No, you're not going to get that action unless you have a Republicans who are committed to doing something about it. These are impeachable offenses. And here we are once again. You have the left that is that will, if they get back into power in the house in 2026, it's going to be, you know, an impeachment orgy for the next two years. They are going to try to impeach the president of the United States and will probably be successful in that if they get a big enough majority over and over again. And so as we look ahead to 2026, Joshua, I want to ask you that tied into, you know, some of the major disappointments of 2025, in 24, you had people coming out and voting low propensity voters who have not voted in a long time or at all. And they came out to vote for Donald Trump. He's not on the ballot. Republicans and a lot of Republicans who did very little to advance what these people voted for. How much is that going to impact the 2026 midterm elections?

Joshua Mornington (39:37)

Absolutely critical. Yeah. I think it's going to have a huge effect. And one of the big discussions right now is affordability. Let me just say this. If we were in a situation where the Republican majority in the House was putting forth a reasonable, workable solution to the Obamacare crisis, or it's really the Unaffordable Care act and they passed it, but they just couldn't get it through in the Senate because couldn't get that two thirds majority. I think people might be able to understand that. But when they can't even come up with a workable solution, people are frustrated with that and understandably so. And healthcare is one of the biggest costs and one of the biggest factors making things affordable for families. And so the fact that Congress doesn't have solutions, things like that, hasn't really taken action on impeaching these rogue judges, hasn't, as Joy said, hasn't codified Trump's executive orders, which everyone knows would just go away if another Democrat Pres. If a Democrat president were to be elected. Failures in these areas are really going to hurt Republicans in midterms if they can't reverse course. And we've seen signals of this with, you know, Democrat victories in New Jersey, in Virginia, a race that was closer than it should have been in Tennessee with a Democrat candidate that was quite extreme, but was a lot closer to the Democrat, to the Republican congressional candidate than she should have been. So, yeah, if, if there's not a change in Congress, I think the 2026 midterms are, are going to not be good for.

Matt Kittle (41:33)

The gop. Jordan, what do you see looking at your crystal ball as the biggest issue facing 2026? Obviously, we're talking about the critical midterms, but the biggest issue facing 2026 that may have the biggest impact on the things that we'll be reporting on and.

Jordan Boyd (41:53)

Talking about. Yeah. Well, I think Joshua mentioned one, and it sort of ties into what I would say is the second, which is the affordability thing. Americans genuinely don't care who's in office if they can't afford to live. They just don't. At that point, all politicians sort of become moot and void and they're not going to be very motivated to go elect the people who are already in office. So I think that affordability crisis, we really need to get a handle on it. Obviously, a lot of damage was done to our economy under the last administration and it's going to take a lot to build back. Similarly with immigration, we've seen a lot of damage done that frankly, even if every single person on the planet became an ICE agent, we would still have problems fixing all of that. I think those two will still continue to be top of mind. They were top of mind in the 2024 presidential election. And while there was some temporary resolve and a little bit taken off the top, there are deeper roots here and they need to be addressed. And I think, yeah, unless Republicans start moving on it, they're going to lose their seats. And, you know, some would say they deserve that after, after everything they put everyone through this last year. But yeah, the affordability crisis for sure. One thing that's interesting, you know, we heard a ton of talk about all the tariff stuff this last year. You know, a lot of corporate media hub how, oh gosh, tariffs are the worst and it's going to worsen inflation. And we really just haven't seen that fear mongering come true. So I think that's another thing to keep an eye on is what economic policies are actually working. You know, the good news never gets the attention it deserves. So looking at the things that matter, making sure that the good gets elevated and that bad we continue to hammer it is really, I think, what 2026 will.

Matt Kittle (43:52)

Be about. Joy, the Minneapolis Somalis who benefited immensely from what could prove to be the worst fraud scandal in American history, they don't seem to have to worry about the affordability issue, although at least some of them are now wards of the state. Where do you see that story going? And again, what do you see as the issue that will most.

Joy Pullman (44:22)

Impact 2026? Well, I think that is real. That's crazy, amazing story. That's one of those where you look at and you go, I can't believe this is a real story. There have been so many of those since Trump came down the escalator. Almost like I'm living in. It's like tabloids became reality sometimes. But I think it actually speaks a lot to the affordability conversation that we're having because, you know, there is, there are so many people who, whose living is subsidized by taxpayers in debt. And debt really causes inflation. Government spending above its means is the core reason for inflation. This is well proven economically. You know, it's a fundamental reality. And so if people look around and see that things are too expensive, they have to realize that we have to vote for, for example, more dosh. Congress should, you know, get their butts in gear and doge it up because that is really what's going to, you know, we're DOJ it up through health care, you know, through every single other aspect of economy because it takes money out of the productive part of the economy and gives it to sycophants, right? The people, just people who are giving them money for the reelection campaigns and that's really, you know, what's the elephant sitting on, you know, the throat of the American taxpayer. The people who in the middle who are too wealthy to be subsidized by the government and not rich enough to be subsidized by the government. And so those people still, you know, Trump really is elected to fight for those people, and he's doing a lot there, you know, but there is a lot that he can't do. So one of the things I think about is, you know, the. For example, housing affordability, immigration is really a big deal. Enforcement to loosen up kind of the housing situation. But also, you know, President, a lot of the, you know, what drives up the cost for housing is locally controlled. It's a lot about policing. You know, if you do, if you have police pullback, if you have neighborhoods where people don't want to live because there's weed smells coming out of the doors, because there's, you know, petty crime happening, their kids, bikes are stolen. You know, there's people riding down their streets blaring ugly music. People don't live in those neighborhoods. That would be perfectly nice if there were some ordinances that were very well policed and enforced by the local police. And that's something the President doesn't have a lot of control over, besides maybe a bully pulpit. So the Somali situation, I think, is just an encapsulation of the idea that Americans still have that I think is really resonating, which is that government cares about everybody but the people who are drowning while they're trying to bring. While they're trying to push the wheel. Wheelbarrow up the mountain. Sorry to mix my metaphors. Right. But, you know, there's. There's too many people in the wheelbarrow and not enough people pushing. And, you know, I think the Somali sort of situation is indicative of a government that really puts the interests of everyone, their donors, you know, basically, you know, someone who scratches their backs ahead of the people who actually vote and elect, you know, to put them in office and really are expecting fulfillment of something, you know, of their promise as an elected representative to safeguard our rights to property, to life for liberty and happiness, and really have been failing to do so. And that's why we're in.

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Matt Kittle (48:25)

Near you. Now, speaking of the Somali situation, I think what 2025 did, particularly the last few months in particular, is it did shine a very bright light on what a doofus Tim Walls is, for so many reasons, the governor of the far left governor of Minnesota, as he has been indel, nicknamed Tampon Tim, for reasons I think this audience fully understands. He is caught in an absolute hornet's nest here of his own making, I might add. I think 2026 is going to, I don't know if it's going to show any accountability, but at least it's going to expose Tim Walls and his fellow leftist in Minnesota for the corruption that they caused, at the very least by looking the other way. All right, real quick, real quick.

Joy Pullman (49:18)

Y. Yeah. You know, mentioning Tim Walls makes me, you know, think of another thing related to him that which is, I mean, I think it's pretty clear at this party that the Democrat Party really is, you know, in office by means of fraud. And by that, I mean, they just support fraud in every single way possible in order to get into power. So, for example, you know, the reason that we have this revolving door of, you know, Somali sort of votes for, you know, for sale that's available to be purchased by government welfare benefits apparently, is because Democrats benefit from that. Right, right. And that's just, you know, a greater phenomenon, you know, so we have Tim Walls in power. And how does a guy that stupid get to be the governor of a beautiful, wonderful state where I have relatives living, you know, it's, it's gorgeous. It's got all four seasons. It's been, you know, until, you know, the last kind of generation, really well managed and A wonderful place to live and just run into the ground, you know, as we're increasingly finding all these layers of, of essentially cheating, scamming, fraud. And so that, that kind of way of life that has used to be, you know, or it is still, it's a third world sort of way of life. Well, that third world way of life is being imported to the United States and it's, you know, really adopted. I mean, Republicans also are, you know, really into the, you know, the donor revolving door game as well, but Democrats do.

Matt Kittle (50:33)

It better. Yes, they do. They have excelled at fraud. I think that is a very, very good point. And by the way, every time I think of Tim Walls, I think seventh grade, after wrestling practice, my best buddy's mom took us to a Chinese restaurant and I got horrible food poisoning and, and I, I got really sick. And that's, that's how I feel when I think about Tim Walls. All right, let's go around the table. We'll. We'll wrap this very, very interesting discussion up by. Maybe I, maybe I'm putting you on the spot here. Who do you think the worst person of 2025 was? Jordan. I'll start with you.

Jordan Boyd (51:16)

On that. Oh, gosh, there's.

Matt Kittle (51:18)

So many. Oh.

Jordan Boyd (51:20)

I know. I'm constantly disappointed in people. Let me just put it.

Matt Kittle (51:24)

That way. The older you grow, by the way, the more you will be disappointed.

Jordan Boyd (51:29)

With people. I will say what was interesting this year and what, what sort of took the edge off a little bit. The edge of disappointment off a little bit is knowing that Joe Biden didn't sign everything his auto pin did. So the contempt moved a little bit off of Joe Biden and to the auto pin or the people who were, you know, manipulating that for him, that was pretty bad. I think there was this. This lady who's kind of made the news recently as more reporting on IVF and Trump's rhetoric around it comes up. She runs a company that claims to sequence genomes and sort of test and eliminate undesirable genes, essentially eugenics stuff. And they pitch it to parents as something that is useful, you know, and they can have healthy children and happy children for their families. And really what it is, is they cull undesirable embryos for various reasons. So I think that's pretty despicable. And the fact that corporate media continue to elevate her and other eugenics startups are. That's alarming.

Matt Kittle (52:34)

To me. That is sickening and alarming. It's something to watch certainly in the year and years ahead. Joshua I want your worst human being of. You know, time always has the. The time person of the year. We're giving the Federalist worst human being of the year. But before we do that, we have to resolve this most important question. Where'd you get the.

Joshua Mornington (53:00)

Nickname Bonesy? Yeah. So, Matt, I wish I could say I had a little side business in piracy. That is where I got that.

Matt Kittle (53:10)

Nickname, but. Oh, you do wear an eye patch, so that. Yeah, that's what.

Joshua Mornington (53:14)

I thought. Our listeners can't see that, but yeah, proudly. No. Yeah, as a young lad, I was pretty fairly muscular, I'll say. And then I ran into some sort of health issue and, and was recommended a certain type of diet which I pursued, you know, with everything I had and ended up losing like 25 or 30 pounds. And then it changed my appearance and my mother affectionately dubbed me Bonesy. So, yeah, no career in piracy, just a little.

Matt Kittle (53:44)

Weight loss. So one of these days, one of these days we'll have to have the Federalist Team together just to talk about the nicknames that our family and friends subjected us to that stay with us to this day. All right. Who's the worst, worst person, the worst human being of.

Joshua Mornington (53:59)

Of 2025? Wow, that's a difficult question. I, I'll go with, I'll go with worse performances and name a few people and in the spirit of Christmas, just recommend them toward a better path. But think of Gavin Newsome with his, yes, budding 2028 presidential campaign that just seems to generate more cringe than actual, actual momentum. And his, he sort of, you know, pretended like he might be backing away from the radical trans ideology, but then he really wasn't. I think also of Kamala Harris, you know, I think maybe quoting someone who supposedly said she was one of the most qualified presidential candidates or the most qualified presidential candidates of all time, which clearly wasn't true. I think recently of Candace Owens. She's obviously has a lot of talent and a big following, but the whole asserting that Charlie Kirk was betrayed by everyone, particularly people at Turning Point, is obviously something that she shouldn't be saying. So of course redirected there would be welcome, I think. But yeah, really, if you want to look at the true villains of 2025, again come to left wing violence and it's. And its perpetrators. And that's really just a very dark side of humanity. And so we don't necessarily expect that to abate, but we hope and pray that.

Matt Kittle (55:40)

It does. Yeah, if you want to see evidence, the historical record of that dark side of humanity just Read the Federalist coverage of what was said by leftists online professional, many of them in academia, about what they said about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Joy, we'll. We'll end with you worst person of the year, if.

Joy Pullman (56:03)

You could. Well, maybe you all could help me vote on this, because I'm trying to decide between several. We've got. Probably, probably Charlie Kirk shooter is the worst. But, you know, I might, you know, pick whoever is, you know, not accelerating, you know, sort of the investigation into the network that may have, you know, been behind or encouraging, you know, the kind of people. People don't, you know, just go out and shoot people randomly. There's a lot of things that led up to, you know, you adopting the beliefs that would make you willing to shoot somebody over something, right? And so that includes the American media, Hollywood. But, you know, there may have been, you know, Reddit, you know, chats or whatever, some kind of subculture, you know, group that we don't know about. Because I think it's just better to go after people who have authority and are not exercising it well, because those sort of people just need to, like, just either do the job or get out. And so that's actually why I was trying to decide. So, I mean, so I think obviously a murderer is a really bad guy, and I'm not saying his name because I don't like to say the names, you know, of murderers, especially, you know, public assassins. But I was also thinking the funny idea that came into my mind was Olivia Nuzzy, the Vanity Fair, you know, sort of. But I also think, you know, it's just like a waste of time, you know, stupid gossip. And I'm not really into stupid gossip. Gossip. So then I was trying to decide based on my criteria I just mentioned, right. Who has authority and is really not wielding it well and really should be able to do better. So I was trying to decide between Mike Johnson, John Thune and John Roberts. So, because the sort of court situation that we talked about in the podcast here, and I've talked with legal observers who say that John Roberts could, you know, really solve that situation or at least, you know, address it more quickly by slapping down lower court rulings more quickly and with less hesitation, making it work through the process, and. And so far, and so forth, and so far, you know, John Roberts has failed to do that, basically allowing, you know, the court system to lose its validity in the eyes of American people by becoming transparently political, you know, and I mean, it has been political, but just the level of the politicization is something that he is not choosing to use his power to, you know, to rein in at this moment. And so I guess I've just talked myself into naming him, I think the worst person of.

Matt Kittle (58:20)

The year. Two johns and a mic Sounds like a recipe for prostitution. We'll have to end it there because, well, I want to tell you all I, I very much value your time. I know it is in short, commodity this time of the year. And we got a lot of stuff to accomplish before the Christmas season. We're in the Christmas season, but before Christmas. And I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas, a very blessed Christmas season time with your, your family and your friends and the people who have nicknamed you. And God bless the good work that you.

Joy Pullman (59:00)

All do. Thanks, Matt. Same to you. We love your family, we love your work. It's a pleasure to work with you and a merry Christmas to all of our listeners and our wonderful readers and supporters.

Matt Kittle (59:12)

As well. You bet. Absolutely. Thanks to my guest today, Federalist Executive editor Joy Pullman, staff writer and Federalist Radio Hour producer Jordan Boyd and Federalist editor Joshua Mornington Bonesy, as his mother likes to call him. You've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, senior elections correspondent at the Federalist. We will be back soon with more you can guarantee. Until then, stay lovers of freedom and anxious for.

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