Thaddeus McCotter

And the question is, what is to be done right now if that map that FDR and Ibn Saud made is to be recast entirely, with or without, and I'm chiefly entertaining without, the United States of America.

I welcome my colleague Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, from the great city of Detroit, to comment on my general observation that what we have is a brave new world, not the 20th century map that we grew up with, with Saudi Arabia producing oil that was critical to the development of the world after the catastrophe of the Second War.

Instead, multiple sources of energy were all very expensive, and multiple threats to the Middle East, to the Mediterranean Basin, to Europe, and to the United States and continental North America.

A new world, maybe.

That is McCotter of American Greatness.

I'm John Batchelor.

I'm John Batchelor with my colleague of many decades, Thaddeus McCotter, the great state of Michigan, and the senator from Michigan, not the contest for the open seat, but Senator Slotkin, gains the attention of the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

Slotkin promises endless lawfare, goes the headline.

[dramatic music] I'm John Batchelor.

Thaddeus McCotter of American Greatness, my colleague and co-host.

And we're to Berlin.

Judy Dempsey, senior scholar for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The whole element is to frighten populations in Germany and across Europe, and the whole, uh, aim also is to destabilize the European Union.

[dramatic music] Judy Dempsey is a senior scholar for the International... for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness.

When we come back, we're going to take this Cold War fear right to Germany, to the chancellor and a former chancellor.

I'm John Batchelor.

My colleague and friend, Thaddeus McCotter, American greatness, former member of Congress, recovering politician, joins me from the great city of Detroit, We turn to the last weeks of the campaign for 2026.

The president on the road speaking in favor of Republicans, various Democratic leaders such as Gavin Newsom of California speaking of the Democratic chances in the midterm.

The president's name is not on the ballot.

And I think that what Vance is doing right now is very important, not for the general election, but again, he has not only MAGA to keep on board with him.

He also has to try to get traditional Republicans on board with him at a time when many traditional Republicans are going to see the impending disaster and are going to look for someone to blame.

I'm speaking with Thaddeus McCotter of American Greatness in the great city of Detroit.

We're speaking anecdotally, historically of this moment in a midterm election in the second term of a presidency.

[upbeat music] I'm John Batchelor.

My colleague and friend, Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, former member of Congress and recovering politician, joins me from the great city of Detroit.

We turn to the last weeks of the campaign for twenty twenty-six.

The president on the road speaking in favor of Republicans.

So it will be a distinct challenge, and I think that what Vance is doing right now is very important, not for the general election.

But again, he has not only MAGA to keep on board with him, he also has to try to get traditional Republicans on board with him at a time when many traditional Republicans are going to see the impending disaster and are going to look for someone to blame.

I'm speaking with Thaddeus McCotter of American Greatness in the great city of Detroit.

We're speaking his-- anecdotally, historically of this moment in a midterm election in the second term of a presidency.

Did that for 30 years and it was mostly in the financial services sector and had been active politically, helped McCain and helped Romney and that didn't work out and decided to run for Congress in 2014.

You may recall after kind of a strange convergence of events in 2012, when our then 10-year incumbent, Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, was kicked off the ballot for turning in copies of petitions from the 2010 campaign.

And obviously, they have to be original signatures.

And so I ran after a strange guy, got elected to replace McCotter.

I'm John Batchelor.

I'm John Batchelor with my good colleagues, Jim McTague and Thaddeus McCotter, and we're discussing, oddly, it all comes together, data centers, AI, the future, and the election in midterms.

And I go to one more source of inspiration for me on this story.

iRobot, Isaac Asimov, 56th edition, The Three Laws of Robotics.