Hobson's choice
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Oct 22, 2026
Joe BidenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We get to choose among bad choices.
Joe BidenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's that old thing about the Hobson's choice.
Joe BidenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Two bad choices.
Joe BidenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No choice at all.
Phil MatierGUEST
On the other hand, they don't like necessarily the solution that's being offered by the Republicans.
Phil MatierGUEST
And that's sort of the, as they say, a Hobson's choice or a lesser of two evils that we've seen in a number of elections in the state where we have a heavy Democrats.
Phil MatierGUEST
We get a Democratic candidate.
Phil MatierGUEST
Then people go, I'm not too crazy about that one.
Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
And the Democrats, worse than Jenna Griswold.
Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
Like, you can't have more of a Hobson's choice.
Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
The only worst Republican would be if Tina Peters was the nominee running.
Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
As a convicted felon who took somebody's identity and used it for somebody else to go in and do an election security breach.
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Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
No brainer.
Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
Kevin Grantham, four-state treasurer, and I'm leaving Secretary of State blank because I cannot vote for somebody like James Wiley, and obviously I can't vote for the Jeffco clerk, Gonzalez, who's going to win regardless.
Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
It's beyond the Hobson's choice.
Jimmy SengenbergerHOST
So vote your conscience, undervote that one.
Mark HallHOST
And ironically, now what you have is the rhinos sandbagging the election, too.
Mark HallHOST
So people are faced with yet another Hobson's choice.
Mark HallHOST
It's not just the worst of evils.
Mark HallHOST
It's that you can pick the rhino who was in office and didn't do anything.
Mark HallHOST
running essentially the do-nothing party, the stupid party and the evil party, why continue to trust them with power? They didn't do anything when they had it.
Mark HallHOST
Oh, well, so what's the alternative? Write the communists, the DSA.
Mark HallHOST
So it's not just a Hobson's choice, the lesser of evils.
Mark HallHOST
It's one party is sandbagging.
Mark CallHOST
And ironically, now what you have is the rhinos sandbagging the election, too.
Mark CallHOST
So people are faced with yet another Hobson's choice.
Mark CallHOST
It's not just the worst of evils.
Mark CallHOST
It's that you can pick the rhino who was in office and didn't do anything.
Mark CallHOST
why continue to trust them with power? They didn't do anything when they had it.
Mark CallHOST
Oh, well, so what's the alternative, right? The communists, the DSA.
Mark CallHOST
So it's a, not just a Hobson's choice, the lesser of evils.
Mark CallHOST
It's one party is sandbagging.
Seth Adam SherVOICE_ACTOR
[music playing] Batman, the Ace of Detectives.
Seth Adam SherVOICE_ACTOR
Issue three, Hobson's Choice.
Seth Adam SherVOICE_ACTOR
[intense music] [phone beeps] Alfred, the Riddler and Joker are long gone.
Seth Adam SherVOICE_ACTOR
Their cells are empty.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
Um, but it's gotten worse since the German elections, and AfD's won two now.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
Um, from Brussels' ex- uh, perspective, it's the Hobson's choice, basically.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
Um, if they do nothing, you have these movements rising up in France, in Germany, et cetera.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
They're anti-EU, mainly because of the migration stuff.