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Welcome back, everyone to a new
episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway

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and David Harsani. Just as a
reminder, if you'd like to email the

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show, please do so at radio
at the Federalist dot com. Molly,

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we haven't spoken in a week,
and in that week, two hundred and

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fifty years of events have transpired in
American politics. We spoke Wednesday last week.

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I believe maybe Thursday morning we had
a bonus episode and Donald Trump hadn't

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even spoken yet. That seems like
it's a million years ago, right,

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Yeah. I think we did the
bonus on Tuesday and then we did it

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on Wednesday, so it has been
a full week. Yeah, I know.

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I remember when I used to have
weekend without world altering events taking place.

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Those were fun. I texted you, I think make weekends great again.

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Like I think this is the third
weekend in a row where where And

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I'm not even home. I'm on
a hiking trip this weekend, and you

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know, I can't really write anything, and just all our staff was amazing.

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At the Federalist, I just banging
out pieces. But yeah, it's

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just incredible, so amazing. I
do want to say I had just arrived,

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I have Mark, and I got
invited to go out on a lake

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with this wonderful legal scholar and some
other people. And just as we arrived

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at the lake house, the news
broke and you know, quickly made some

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assignments and did that, and then
I was like, I'm gonna go ahead

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and go out on this boat,
like I just need time to process what's

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happening. Even four days later,
whenever we're at I am still having trouble

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processing all that we have gone through
as a country. Here, well,

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let's try to do this chronologically.
I guess the RNC had its big night

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with Donald Trump. I have to
say, you know, I'm not a

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big fan, as I said last
time of conventions, but watching Hull Cogan

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speak was kind of a highlight for
me, you know, being a person

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of that generation where he sort of
came about in WrestleMania. I don't like

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how silly things have become, but
I did. I enjoyed myself tremendously.

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Did you what was the other guy's
named? Dana White? Introduced him very

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wwf UFC lost a testosterone, very
manly, I would say, But what'd

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you think of that night? You
would that I had. I was on

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Fox, like right before the main
events, so it was first of all,

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just kind of fun to be in
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that hour. It's just constantly interesting
people coming in right before you or right

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after you, and that was fun. But I decided I wanted to stay

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in the convention hall for that night
because that was the big night for Trump,

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and unlike previous nights where you could
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end, you had to get your
seat early. So found a seat and

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it was just really fun to watch
everything, beginning with Tucker, who gave

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it a fantastic speech, absolutely fantastic, and the crowd was so vibing with

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the moment. It was unlike any
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sort of two thousand and eight Barack
Obama one. It reminded me a bit

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of that, both in terms of
the excitement and optimism and stagecraft, sorry,

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all those things. It just had. That's the closest I could say

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it came to. I lost it
when Hulkgan came out, and I'm not

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even a big wrestling person, but
it was so fun, so exciting,

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just ridiculous. And ditto on the
kid rock like it's weird because I don't

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I definitely don't like kid rock,
but there was something very fun about that

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too. Well, the Hull Kogan
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all, I'm like, he's going
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the Hull Cogan character was so excited
when he ripped his shirt. I was

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like, yeah, I thought kid
rock. I don't know how it was

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in the venue, but on TV
it came off terrible. I was the

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one love moment from my perspective,
just watching these like old old white people

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like dancing along to kid rock on
the floor. It just was like a

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weird It just seemed out of place
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this. We should do a compilation
of every bad musical interlude at every convention

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like that. Meaning remember when I
can't remember was I think it was the

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Democrat one they did the Macharina.
I just want to quickly say, I

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don't even think the song was bad
or it very you know, it was

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fine, like it was how kid
rock is. I just the crowd just

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seemed like the wrong crowd for that
sort of music. Maybe in the venue

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it came off better, and maybe
I was up in the note bleed section,

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so I'm only looking down on everybody, and so I'm kind of seeing

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it from above, and everyone just
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Actually, the music that they really
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breaks. It was a cover band, but it was like the best cover

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band I'd ever heard, really good
guitars. Crowd was totally into that.

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It was definitely more sort of appropriate
for the different types of people that were

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there. Wow, why are you
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like, why are you? Where
am I going to be? Where?

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Were close? I have to say
I watched Fox that that whole afternoon and

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night and I saw you and I
almost never watched TV, and I was

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like, Molly's so good at this. I was very impressed. People here

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write some friends over and they were
very impressed. Everyone was impressed. You're

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like, that's my friend. Yeah, Like, that's my friend, Molly

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Hemingway. No one believes me,
no, I've as I've said many times,

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my family are big fans of yours
more than they are of me.

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So anyway, then let's get to
Trump's speech again. From home, I

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thought the beginning was great. It
was just weird. I was like,

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he's not actually going to talk about
it in this kind of detail, and

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he did, and I was just
transfixed by it. I thought I wouldn't

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like it. I thought it would
be too self serving or come off too

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self serving, but it was just
really compelling to hear him talk about the

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assassination attempt. Yeah. So the
crowd was totally into that speech as well.

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And it was interesting because the first
thirty minutes were some of the best

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political speak speaking I've heard. Then
we went into like the forty five minute

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rally speech, which I've heard before, and so I was less interested in

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it, and it was also just
long. And then it wrapped up at

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the end with maybe another fifteen or
so minutes of optimism and hope and all

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that. I kept joking about like
the third hour of the Trump speech.

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I don't know. I actually don't
know how long it was, but at

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some point I kind of lost interest
and then I was like, Oh,

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we're just going to be here for
a while. And I did that thing

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where you just accept it and then
you get back into it. Does that

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settle in? Yeah? Absolutely.
I thought it was way too long.

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I got so bored. I thought
some of it was funny. It's interesting

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when he said, like he mentioned
Biden and he's like, I know,

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I basically said, I know,
I wasn't supposed to mention Biden, but

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you know, this will be the
one time he's terrible and whatever. It

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was, so anyway, I thought
the speech was way too long. He

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should have left people wanting more.
But the first I think twenty thirty minutes

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probably really captivated you know a lot
of people and was very well done.

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And overall I think the convention was
from a TV perspective, was you know,

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really well produced, moved quickly,
you know, had you know,

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an array of people. I thought
the Afghanistan Parent the parents of the Afghan

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soldiers, was incredibly powerful and really
would have heard by I don't know what

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happens now, but anyway, that's
how I thought. And you seemed to

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think it was one of the better
ones you've attended. Oh it's I mean

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kind of everybody thought that way.
Every reporter I spoke with, every delegate,

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I spoke with every you know,
outside activist or lobbyist. They all

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were just talking about what a great
convention it was. The mood was very

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weird for a Republican convention. Just
excitement, happiness, elation, unity.

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Maybe I'm also remembering that twenty sixteen
was the last in person convention I attended,

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and it was not that way.
You know. It's just a lot

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of sour faces, and there was
the attempt by the Conservatives to do a

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floor fight that failed, and so
then there was just a lot of animosity

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between different people at that convention that
you would pick up, you know,

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even like these people know each other
and their friends, but they were mocking

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each other or fighting. You know. They're these big concerts they do at

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the convention, like the one on
Thursday night was Jason al Dean in twenty

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sixteen. I was a really good
uh oh my gosh, really good pat

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Green country artist, and then Kid
Rock and I just remember being at that

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venue in twenty sixteen with people not
fighting with each other but more like busting

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each other's chops in a slightly antagonistic
way. There was none of that this

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time. It was just kind of
pure happiness. In part. It was

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incredible. I'm sir, sorry,
go on now. I was just gonna

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say it's incredible. How I remember
being at Sea Pack I guess twenty fifteen

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whatever, and there was just or
maybe I don't know whenever it was,

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and just so much anger as a
lot of people like me. You know,

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I remember being at the bar and
getting yelled at by someone for not

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being you know, for not on
how many times have I apologized to you,

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David, Well, you're probably being
yelled at as well at that point.

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But someone told me, you know, basically I didn't know what time

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it was and so forth. So
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there's no oh my gosh, actually
so ed Cepac twenty fifteen. I remember

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I had a Fox hit and I
was being driven back with Mark in the

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car, and I said, Mark, we are we are experiencing a massive

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realignment in the Republican Party and he
was like, I don't know, I

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don't think so. So the other
like last week, someone extremely high up

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in in politics, let's say,
says to me on the night of the

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JD Vance speech, which I think
was that Wednesday night. Yeah, oh,

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I'm not sure I remember. Anyway, he says to me, I

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know you've been talking about this for
many years, but I don't think I

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understood that you were until this week. I think it's more. I think

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there is a party alignment, and
we'll see long term if that's going to

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be a real alignment. I don't
buy it, but I don't want to

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argue about that today. We have
other things and don't make that face.

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I do wish people could see the
face, but if you just make it

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to me, it loses all its
effect. Where do we go next?

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So that's Thursday night. Republicans are
on a high. Friday, they're on

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a high. Even though I saw
some MSNBC people saying that's Peach probably ruined

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it for a Trump it was too
long, so forth Oh, I love

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that. Yes, you know how
long speeches have destroyed political careers. Lol.

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the day Biden no step down or
Sunday. Yeah, it was Sunday.

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I was at hiking. So I
have to be honest with you. I

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was surprised by it somewhat. I
thought you would stick it out in the

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end. You know. So he
disappeared. When did he get sick?

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I think it was maybe Thursday or
whenever. He disappeared for days. He

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was disappeared for a week actually later. So anyway, he stepped down.

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What was your reaction to that?
Did you expect it? Like? What

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were you thinking? No, I
agree with you. I was I'm not

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saying that. I didn't think they
were necessarily going to be successful at removing

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him. I didn't think it would
happen on Sunday, and I didn't think

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it would happen in the weird and
mysterious way it did happen. I in

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part because all the stories on Thursday
were about you know, anonymous sources say

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that it's going to happen very soon, and that so and so's writing a

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speech and you know, John Meechim
and John Meacham was like, no,

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I'm not writing a speech. And
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of disinformation being spread around, and
so to have it happen that way in

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particular was overwhelmingly shocking to me.
And then also everything that happened since then,

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so it was quite clear that the
powers that be in the Democrat Party

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just orchestrated a complete, you know, coup and replacement for political gain and

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the and they just did it.
It's kind of impressive. Yeah, I

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don't I don't know what else they
could really do here. I guess have

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some kind of blitz primary or something, but that still is not Listen,

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here's the thing. I get why
they have to do what they're doing.

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I don't even really blame them one
hundred percent, other than that they all

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gaslit us and covered up for Biden
this whole time. If Biden was really

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a hero, he would have stepped
down months ago. They all knew about

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it. We now hear stories about
how the whole congressional delegation knew in twenty

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twenty one that Biden was just not
there. Nancy Pelosi had to come in

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and explain the things that Biden was
saying at the time. So I get

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that. I think it's very difficult
for them because no good candidate's going to

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step in at this point take over
this mess. So Kamala is really the

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only choice they have. Okay,
the reason why it's Kamala has nothing to

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do with what the propaganda press has
been saying since it became Kamala. So

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their claim is Joe Biden was previously
the best candidate in the history of the

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country, eighty one million votes of
excitement because he's that much better than Barack

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Obama as a candidate and the excitement
machine. And now they're saying, oh,

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that was true, but now we
have an even better candidate, Kamala

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Harris, the most competent and politically
engaged candidate in history. So that's their

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claim. In reality, Kamala Harris
was chosen because she's the absolute only person

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who they could even plausibly transfer the
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only reason nobody thinks she's a good
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that everybody does, and they're going
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and people should be very worried about
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press of the propaganda press. But
it's only because her name was also on

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the committee for raising money, and
it was the easiest way to transfer the

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campaign, to say, if I
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case, there's no way that a
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instance, a white male whatever,
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vice president to take over. I
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that kind of identity politics. Wouldn't
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why would they do it. Then
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they'd have to step in take Biden's
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They wouldn't be able to build up
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there was no it was never going
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Yes, can we be a little
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I know that's the listeners want.
Yes, everyone's clamoring for this go.

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But I was talking to a ton
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couple of days, and what I
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So you actually, the campaign finance
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not even allowed to look in the
wrong direction without having a ton of bricks

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come down on you. So it's
kind of crazy that you can't. You

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know, you have to file everything
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careful, and this is restricted,
and this is allowed on all sorts of

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things for a low level congressional race. But if you want to transfer one

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hundred million dollars and all the assets
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that's okay. Like it's a weird
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was weird in part because top Democrat
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there's nothing to see here. Everything
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only a crazy person would say there
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the FEC commissioner come out and say, oh, I anticipate we're going to

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get a lot of challenges and maybe
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which indicated that, in fact,
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the last time there was an analogous
situation was nineteen sixty eight when LBJ drops

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out of the race. Interestingly enough, LBJ drops out of the race for

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two reasons. Grassroots are upset with
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but also it was the first time
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of an opposition campaign and it surprised
him in New Hampshire, and he just

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decides to drop out. Okay.
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think the Congress passes the It's FECA
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something like that, which sets up
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up all sorts of guidelines and rules
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gets revised in seventy four and then
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legislation that gets challenged at the Supreme
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Vallejo about I think that was that
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kind of an admin law case dealing
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Federal Election Commission. I think originally
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people appointed by the President, two
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two by the Senate Leader. And
all the interest in that law kind of

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gets focused on administrative law relating to
appointments. A little fun fact, when

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Eileen Cannon dismissed the case against Trump, the classified documents case, it was

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built around this issue about how you
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was not appointed in a constitutional manner. Okay. So the argument from Democrats

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is that there are no legal problems
to transferring one hundred million dollars in other

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assets to Kamala Harris because her name
was already on the fundraising information and that's

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I don't want to get like way
too arkane, but you are actually only

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allowed to have one candidate per campaign
committee. That's pretty basic concept. Under

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the FEC statute. You have a
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for president or Smith for Congress.
There are these forms you file and anytime

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you raise money you have to say
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only exception to that in the law
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if you are the nominees of your
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you can share a campaign account.
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nominated by your party to get access
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doesn't work because you're not the actual
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kind of interesting is imagine a situation
where Biden and Harris are running for reelection

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and then I know, Biden has
a horrible debate and the entire Democrat elite

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say he has to get out of
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so Kamala decides to break away and
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do a convention challenge? Does she
get access to that to half of

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that money or to all of that
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Nobody would say that, right.
Alternatively, Let's say that Biden goes to

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convention and he realizes that Kamala has
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in, and he decides to replace
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be able to sue for that money
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thing just because her name was mentioned
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so if those things aren't allowed,
you start to say, well, how

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is this allowed? That Biden steps
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official process, sort of, she's
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access to this stuff right now?
So there will be absolutely legal challenges and

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FEC challenges. And the thing about
it is Democrats know, and they have

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built into their cost of doing business
that you can lose something and get a

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fine, but it's just not a
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ran this secret operation to falsely accuse
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She ran it through her law firm. They cooked up the scheme and they

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distributed it and they were eventually fined
for it. But it's like, well,

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we were able to destroy three years
of a presidency over it and to

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almost win election over it, so
it's kind of like we're willing to take

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the fine. Similarly, this might
be very illegal, but it could take

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years to have it litigated or handled
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Commission. Okay, I hadn't thought
of it. I hadn't thought I hadn't

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thought about that scenario. What if
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wants to run on her own,
she wouldn't get the money. So why

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does she get it in this way? Now? I assume the answer would

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be Will Biden has stepped down and
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I don't know, but there's no
official process for that, right, Oh

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yeah, And that's what I was
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created after the last time we dealt
with a similar situation, and so it's

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never been tested. So if you
hear someone saying, oh, it's no

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big deal and there's no legal issue
here, they're just lying because they're always

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legal issues with campaign finance, and
you know, and probably Republicans aren't super

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The Republican Party at least is probably
not super keen to challenge it because they

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know that their candidate was nearly assassinated
and that presumably assassination attempts will continue,

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and that they could be dealing with
some issues of having to transfer campaign chests

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if those efforts are successful against one
or both of you know, yeah,

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or they might find them in a
similar situation in the future. They don't

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know, you know. Can we
talk about her campaign though, so she

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takes over, if you're okay to
move on, so her she comes in

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there. There's this fake, bogus
excitement created by the press, but I

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should say I think there is probably
some real excitement among grassroots Democrats that they

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don't have this candidate who can't even
speak right, who is weighed down by

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this terrible record. I don't think
it's huge, but i'd be I know,

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i'd be happy that. I would. You know that that Biden's gone

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and someone else at least isn't it
gives them renewed hope. Now there's hope

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there. I'm sure there's gonna be
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do think they overestimate her appeal and
chances, though I do think some Republicans

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underestimate her chances a bit as well. I think it's gonna be like I

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said, I think it's gonna be
closer. How do you see her campaign?

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I mean, do you think she's
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you think she has a better chance? How do you see your candidacy?

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Okay, yes and no to being
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better chance. So you know,
I'm so cynical that I don't believe that

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elections are won or lost based on
the quality of the candidate or the issues

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that they put forth. It's all
about ballot trafficking operations. The crisis that

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Democrats were in was that they couldn't
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tell people that it was a legitimate
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what they're doing now is not just
replacing Biden, but also manufacturing a like

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a completely delusional claim that everyone in
the world is happy to have Tamala buses

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they're the best, and diagrams Harris
as the nominee. They're just manufacturing it

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in part because then they can say, when they traffic all the ballots to

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get her over the finish line,
that it was legitimate. That's perhaps very

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cynical, but that's my view,
and if Republicans want to win, they

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cannot rest on the fact that the
Biden administration has been an abject failure,

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that Kamala Harris has been extremely incompetent
and unimpressive. Because you've got everybody in

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Hollywood, everybody in the propaganda press, everybody in the establishment just willing to

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engage in complete deception and fabulousm to
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real. We should point out that
she hasn't done anything as VP. In

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fact, the one thing she was
given the border, she failed that she

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didn't really try to help that situation. She's also an authoritarian, right.

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I mean this in the realist sense, like she is a person who believes

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that citizens individual rights should come,
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state. She's done it when when
she was ag when she was a prosecutor

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in San Francisco. I'm not even
talking about jailing criminals. Jailing criminals is

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good. I'm talking about her using
law to like go after, you know,

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parents of kids who don't show up
at school and arresting them, like

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trying to implement social policy through through
her office, which was not her job

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anyway. I don't want to get
too into that too much, but there

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was this ad yesterday by a candidate
in Pennsylvania McCormick McCormick running for Senate in

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Pennsylvania, that has her on video
taking positions like she doesn't believe illegal immigrant

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or illegal alien crossing should be criminal, there should be civil matter that she

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believes that all private health insurance should
be eliminated. I forgot what else.

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You know, there's a whole slew
of things that she sell. She wants

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to basically eliminate our fossil fuel economy. I mean she she is a proponent

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of the Green New Deal, not
the she endorsed at the day it came

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out during the campaign. I think
in twenty nineteen that she's not like endorsing

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some water down version of it.
She's endorsing the one that says there'll be

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no air travel, there'll be no
meat, there'll be no combustible engshits right,

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like she is one hundred percent in. I don't believe she actually believes

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that stuff. Then there is a
whole her personality which no one seems to

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like. But then how she acted
in the Senate, what she did to

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Brett Kavanaugh, she was one of
the just She simply disregarded due process.

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She smeared her political opponents. I
mean, she's just a terrible person from

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start to finish. As a politician, she just a terrible, terrible person.

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Thank you, welcome to what I
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to all of that because I completely
agree, and I'm so glad you brought

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up the Dave McCormick ad. I
thought it was brilliantly done. It was

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a model for what other people should
do, and that is a you know,

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it's a heavy hitters working on that
campaign. They did a really good

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job with that ad. And also
it's important to kind of define someone quickly.

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Absolutely, yeah, particularly so when
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entire regime and all of their powers. By showing her very clear and extremely

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clear positions that are bat guano insane, it was devastating and it just kept

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going. It was brutal. It
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not just destroying the energy sector of
the US economy, but being so

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callous about it and also wanting people
to stop eating meat, like from big

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things to other big things. It
just was really bad. When she said

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she wanted to decriminalize crossing a border
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you fund their healthcare, I mean, really radical positions. On that note,

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Elizabeth Warren said that when she was
asked for like a single accomplishment Harris

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had done, she said, well, she's the first vice president to go

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witness and abortion or something like that. It was like, only Molly,

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is that crazy. She's right,
that is her biggest achievements vice president.

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propaganda that came out that rolled out
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contrary to what had been written about
for years, Kamala Harris was never

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tasked with fixing the border. Okay, so you had all these propaganda people

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say Republicans say that Kamala Harris had
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But that's not true. They're lying. Cut to all of the corporate media

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articles, the propaganda articles with headlines
like Kamala Harris has been tasked with fixing

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the border, Kamala Harris is the
new borders are, Kamala Harris is in

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charge of diplomatic relations to fix the
border. I mean, all of these

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headlines from a Politico, Axios,
La Times, and now they're saying she

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was not the borders are now.
I think the Democrat line that the propaganda

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press is repeating is that, yes, she was tasked with fixing the border,

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but it was never an official office
called the borders are. It wasn't

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an official title of czar, so
she was just in charge of it.

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She wasn't technically she was like the
president of fixing the border, not the

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czar or the director in charge of
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I mean, it is it is
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But I also think it's a really
good indication of the vulnerability that Kamala

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Harris has on this. If she
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calling her the borders are. If
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Biden Harris administration, they'd be celebrating
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By the way, old SNL S
gets making fun of the fact that

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Biden made her borders are, and
what a difficult job that would be to

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fix, Like the idea that you
can rewrite history here is insane. But

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it also speaks to this huge vulnerability
that Republicans, if they want to win,

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should capitalize on. And it's not
just about the border. It's about

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how Kamala exudes incompetence across many levels. And they will probably go to town

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on that. Well, you're right, I just wanted to go back to

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something you said earlier. All her
the things that were in the McCormick ad

415
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Now, either she needs to come
out and say, well it changed my

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mind, it didn't mean it.
Then she's just this person who can't be

417
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trusted, who's a flip flopper,
who has no principles, you know,

418
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all that or she's a radical.
Either way, that's not good for her.

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So they that ad, they should
just take it and run it,

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00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,680
like Trump should just take that ad
and run it as is, just put

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his name on it. Seriously,
I mean, it's perfect agreed. Okay,

422
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Now, I'd also like to follow
up on what you said about Kavanaugh.

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Yeah, I was talking to my
co author, the brilliant and talented

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Carrie Severino yesterday because we wrote quite
a bit about Kamala Harris in our book

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Justice on Trial, the Kavanaugh Confirmation, and the Future of the Supreme Court,

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but I had forgotten certain parts about
it. So a lot of people

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like to pretend like this was a
totally orderly, decent, and civilized process

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until the Washington Post ran their hoax, falsely accusing Brett Kavanaugh being a serial

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gang rapist. In fact, that's
not true. Day one of the hearings,

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as Chuck Grassley is introducing Brett Kavanaugh's
children. You know, it's very

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common for the family of the nominee
to be there on the first day,

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and as he's introducing the children,
Kamala Harris objects and demands that the preceding

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stop. She was the first person
to turn it into a complete joke.

434
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There was this orchestrated Democrat senator campaign
to ship in protesters who were paid by

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third party groups and had their bail
money taken care of as they were arrested.

436
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Have them create an absolute disaster in
the Senate judiciary here, run a

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little insurrection against a constitutional process.
And Kamala Harris was the first senator to

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participate in that. And then you
get to the part where she tried to

439
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:30,599
lay down a perjury trap, something
that would have potentially gotten her disbarred if

440
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:34,840
it was outside of the Senate but
inside of a courtroom. She was praised

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for this by the corrupt propaganda press, particularly the Washington Post and Politico.

442
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But she said, you know,
there's this one law firm. Have you

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ever spoken to anyone at that law
firm? And it's like a law firm

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with like fifteen hundred people. And
so Kavanaugh kind of having been warned by

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00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:58,199
Ted Cruz, I think it was
that someone like Kamala might try to lay

446
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:02,119
down a perjury trap, and it's
very important to take it seriously. It's

447
00:35:02,199 --> 00:35:05,679
like, well, that's a large
law firm. I would you know,

448
00:35:05,679 --> 00:35:07,480
I'd have to know, and she
immediately starts says, Oh, it looks

449
00:35:07,519 --> 00:35:10,920
like you're trying to hide something Brett
Cavanaugh. He's like, well, I'm

450
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just what are you getting at,
Like, do you have a particular person

451
00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:16,280
you want to ask me about or
anything like that. She's like, Oh,

452
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:22,039
I think you know exactly who I'm
talking about, Brett Cavanaugh, and

453
00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:24,320
you're covering it up because you're you
know. She just kind of goes crazy.

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00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:30,440
Well, the war room for Brett
Kavanaugh was like the best Supreme Court

455
00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:34,280
nomination process war room in history.
He just was kind of like connected to

456
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,559
every big time lawyer in DC and
they were all staffing it. They quickly

457
00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:40,519
figure out that she's trying to catch
him in something about like he has a

458
00:35:40,559 --> 00:35:45,280
buddy who worked there, and whether
he talked about the molar investigation with this

459
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,400
guy. Oh yeah, They call
the guy. He's like, we never

460
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,440
talked about it, And so then
he comes back and he's like, yeah,

461
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,039
I never talk to him about it. You just wanted to like kind

462
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:57,440
of make sure And it completely blew
up in her face, but only after

463
00:35:58,039 --> 00:36:02,760
corporate media ran slagh Queen, You're
the best ever come of you destroyed Brett

464
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,920
Kavanaugh. Even though it was a
comp like it was a complete nothing.

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I think it's interesting and instructive because
I do think she'll, by the way,

466
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,280
be very good in a debate for
exactly this kind of reason. She

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00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:22,400
does not care about lying, like
horrifically lying to score points, and you

468
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:29,360
will have the propaganda press there cheerleading
her the entire way. I mean,

469
00:36:29,559 --> 00:36:34,199
they make a lot of assumption about
assumptions about her popularity with young people and

470
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:40,039
so forth. The polls bear none
of their praise out right. So let's

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00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:43,199
talk about so they I just quickly
want to say, so there was the

472
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:49,079
borders are stuff just quickly mentioned Axios
had the same reporter say she wasn't the

473
00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:52,239
borders are who culled her borders are
like two years ago, same writer,

474
00:36:52,599 --> 00:37:00,400
same writer. But you know how
they take out their pedantic, microscopic check

475
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,159
machines, like anything you say that's
not completely literal will be fact checked.

476
00:37:05,199 --> 00:37:07,079
But yet they can report in a
different way. I think we actually need

477
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:13,480
to put a pin on this what
we've witnessed from the corrupt propaganda press in

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00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:20,119
recent days, in recent in the
last month. Let's say so, actually,

479
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,480
let's just get me throughout the Biden
administration. So we had tons of

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00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:31,320
people in twenty twenty making jokes about
how senile Joe Biden was, and you

481
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,880
had the media attacking people who made
those jokes, and you had the media

482
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,760
defending Joe Biden's many verbal gafs,
calling them a stutter and saying that you

483
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,159
were a bad person if you pointed
out the verbal gafs because they were a

484
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:50,880
stutter. They created a scenario where
Biden could campaign from his basement and restrict

485
00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:54,599
Trump from campaigning in front of crowds, which is kind of his strength.

486
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,760
Something by the way, that the
Secret Service has told him he can't do

487
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:05,400
now, which's huge election interference from
the Biden Harris administration. But we get

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00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:12,760
to the debate, he metaphorically defecates
in the bed, and they realize that

489
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:17,559
their ability to drag him across the
finish line is making them look or even

490
00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:22,880
horrifically worse than they're willing to look, and so they immediately switch to pushing

491
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:28,320
him out and replacing him with someone
who can win. And they achieve this

492
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,599
because our corporate media are incredibly powerful. They use anonymous sources and they run

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00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:38,840
an info op to get Biden out
replace him with Harris, And the moment

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they replace him with Harris, they
start praising Harris in ways that they actually

495
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:51,760
hadn't been when they were trying to
sort of like do a soft challenge on

496
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,880
Biden. She's actually competent, she's
brilliant, she's beautiful, the kid's lover.

497
00:38:58,119 --> 00:39:01,199
Everything is just so great. But
I want to point out how our

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00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:08,199
propaganda press operates. The other day, CNN has this anti speech activist named

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00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,320
Oliver Darcy. I think he's like, truly, he's kind of messed up

500
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,079
in the head kind of person.
Every single day he sends out newsletters trying

501
00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:20,079
to get people fired for speaking freely
or for saying things he disagrees with.

502
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:23,079
It's an obsession and CNN loves it, which is why they give him lots

503
00:39:23,079 --> 00:39:27,400
of money to do this. Well. A couple days ago, he says

504
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:34,800
that you can't say the media are
biased on behalf of Democrats because they just

505
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,920
criticize Joe Biden and this guy,
Paul Farhey. Do you know who he

506
00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:44,440
is? I can read the tweet. If you like that you're talking about,

507
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,400
have it in front of me.
Good and obvious point by Oliver Darcy.

508
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:52,320
Here if the media was truly in
the tank for Biden, as conservatives

509
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,400
of a long insisted. How to
explain the avalanche of negative coverage and commentary

510
00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,320
after June twenty seventh that helped drive
him from the race. This is the

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00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:01,719
dumb by the way, this is
the dumbest point I've ever heard in my

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00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,679
life. But go on, you
tell me why. Well, and it

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00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,519
is the dumbest point. I'd like
to dunk on it. But I also

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00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:12,239
want to point out that there are
people who should know better who are also

515
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:19,199
falling for this. There is a
listener to this podcast who is like,

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00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:28,920
basically was like really happy that the
media we're writing negative stories on Biden.

517
00:40:29,199 --> 00:40:31,000
So I'm going to read this tweet
from or text from him. Imagine if

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00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:36,000
the press got bitten by the bug
to do this more often to both sides.

519
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,159
What if they just hammered both parties
constantly and for real stories, not

520
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:44,800
just one sided hoaxes. And I'm
like, but he says another thing,

521
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:51,000
Hold on, there are many interesting
journalistic angles to the past few weeks.

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00:40:51,119 --> 00:40:54,000
What we are now observing is what
happens when the press does even the barest

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00:40:54,079 --> 00:40:59,360
modicum of reporting on a democratic White
House. Yes, yes, I know

524
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,920
that what about or complaining about the
media is for losers, but this is

525
00:41:02,079 --> 00:41:07,239
breathtaking. It is not as though
Woodward and Bernstein were needed to break the

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00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,559
story that the president is obviously demented, something three quarters of the country has

527
00:41:10,559 --> 00:41:14,559
told pollsters for years. So we're
just kind of going back and he wants

528
00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:19,800
to praise the media for writing that
Biden was senile, and it's like,

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00:41:21,159 --> 00:41:25,920
you gotta get this. They weren't
doing journalism there. Everybody knew he was

530
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:31,480
senile, and they were attacking people
who said it for years. The only

531
00:41:31,639 --> 00:41:37,880
reason they pretended to report accurately about
Biden was because they viewed him as a

532
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:44,920
threat to their continued power. Contrary
to what idiots like Oliver Darcy and Paul

533
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,599
Farrh have to say, the complaint
of conservatives is not that the media are

534
00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:54,159
in the tank for Joe Biden.
It's that the media are in the tank

535
00:41:54,639 --> 00:42:00,599
for whatever advances Democrat power. And
that explains why they can spend a week

536
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:05,719
or two going after Biden to replace
with someone that they feel more comfortable doing

537
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,679
propaganda on behalf of nothing about them
has changed. And anyone who thinks that's

538
00:42:09,679 --> 00:42:15,119
an interesting or like insightful comment from
Darcy or Farhee. It should not be

539
00:42:15,159 --> 00:42:20,760
around sharp objects like you just it's
you got it. It's not the nineteen

540
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,760
eighties, everybody. You've got to
be aware of how corrupt the propaganda press

541
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,800
is. And if you were in
any way confused, just watch what they

542
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:32,000
did in the last couple of days
to recreate Kamala Harris from who she is

543
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:39,000
into this completely fake, alternate universe
of competency and like brilliance, I agree

544
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,960
with all that. In fact,
this episode of reporting, which was real

545
00:42:44,039 --> 00:42:46,159
reporting, by the way, just
shows us that they don't do their jobs

546
00:42:46,159 --> 00:42:50,119
most of the time. All it
did was accentuate the fact that they're in

547
00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:53,480
the tank because they protected Biden until
now when they decided that they wanted to

548
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:58,440
have something new Canada because their cover
got blown. They then they just released

549
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,719
all this information on Bidenham and by
the way, as soon as he dropped

550
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:06,519
out, they're back to calling him
an accomplished, decent man and a great

551
00:43:06,559 --> 00:43:09,840
president. So they're back to the
propaganda because they want to sort of secure

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00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:15,159
his legacy and help Democrats again.
And if they were real reporters, they'd

553
00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:20,800
be talking about what was the package
deal that got Biden to do what he

554
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,480
kept saying he didn't want to do. What were the sticks? What were

555
00:43:23,519 --> 00:43:28,559
the carrots? Did they threaten twenty
fifth Amendment? Did they threaten that they

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00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:32,800
would finally start to get the information
out about Hunter Biden or the Biden family

557
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:37,760
business. Did they say, we
will give Jill Biden all the money she

558
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,639
needs, and here's the means by
which we'll do it. This board position,

559
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,639
in that board position, and someone
will buy up all of Hunter's art,

560
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,039
Like what was the package? If
they were real journalists, they wouldn't

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00:43:46,079 --> 00:43:52,039
be saying Joe Biden is the most
wonderful president in American history. And you

562
00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:57,719
know, on that note, Joe
Biden has horrifically low favorability ratings and horrifically

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00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,119
low job approval ratings. When they
say, actually he's the best president in

564
00:44:01,159 --> 00:44:05,599
the history of the country, what
they're saying is that like ninety percent of

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00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:10,159
America doesn't know anything. I mean, by every objective standard, he's been

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00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:15,079
a bad president. His popularity,
but just looking at the economy, inflation

567
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:17,199
in the world, I mean,
I think he's going to be considered one

568
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:21,760
of the worst presidents. How he
bowed out and you're right. Let me

569
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,639
ask you if Donald Trump disappeared.
First of all, Joe Biden broke up

570
00:44:24,679 --> 00:44:28,440
with America over at text, as
someone said, that's what he did.

571
00:44:28,559 --> 00:44:30,679
He did not show his face,
He sent a letter, and then he

572
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:32,599
disappeared for a week and we don't
even know where he was or what was

573
00:44:32,639 --> 00:44:37,719
going on. I'm not being sane
here. What is your evidence that Joe

574
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:42,440
Biden did that? Like, well, I'm sorry, so no, yeah,

575
00:44:42,599 --> 00:44:45,360
I mean, I'm going to trust
that he wrote that letter. He's

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00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,440
out why I don't know, I
mean, because I have no reason to

577
00:44:49,519 --> 00:44:52,320
believe that he's not really stepping down
or didn't know he's going to give a

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00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,960
speech tonight. We'll see, right, I mean, I think he probably,

579
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,079
I should say, I don't think
he wrote that letter. I think

580
00:44:58,119 --> 00:45:00,760
someone wrote that letter for him.
I think he wrote it. Someone posted

581
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:06,360
it where we have not heard from
him at all except I think he he

582
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:10,159
had that weird phone call when Kamala
illegally took over the campaign operation where he

583
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:15,360
was like, gotcha, Jack,
you got it, you got it.

584
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:20,880
Disturt, I have to say it's
a d The American President's out of commission.

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00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,000
We don't know who's running the country
for a week because he got you

586
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:28,719
know, he has a cold or
whatever, and the world doesn't stop.

587
00:45:29,079 --> 00:45:31,920
You know, the Prime Minister of
Israel is coming to town. No one's

588
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:37,039
there to greet the guy. This
is not a normal way to conduct business

589
00:45:37,039 --> 00:45:39,440
for an administration. It's just insanity, and no one cares. I just

590
00:45:39,639 --> 00:45:45,000
if Donald Trump disappeared for a week, it would be the just a massive

591
00:45:45,079 --> 00:45:51,960
story, and rightly so. So
anyway, he was a terrible president.

592
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:55,960
Another thing at the media that the
media lie about. Last week, stories

593
00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:02,679
came out saying that various Democrat actvists
who claimed to be media wanted the media

594
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:10,199
to stop using the iconic picture of
Donald Trump surviving the assassination attempt. You

595
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:15,000
also have noticed a lot of people
referring to the assassination attempt in the media

596
00:46:15,079 --> 00:46:19,760
as a shooting or even a fatal
shooting, but not an assassination attempt.

597
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,880
They are so ready to move on
from the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

598
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:29,239
And I just want to say,
I don't think I've ever been less ready

599
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:34,480
to move on from anything than I
am to move on from that. And

600
00:46:34,519 --> 00:46:37,280
even the way they're hiding the picture
and they are like that's a picture that

601
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,440
you would normally assume you would start
seeing everywhere on news stands, everywhere.

602
00:46:40,599 --> 00:46:45,800
Yesterday, when I went to my
liberal neighborhood, like liberal grocery store,

603
00:46:45,079 --> 00:46:51,840
I got confronted with Jill Biden,
you know magazine covers. Yeah, I

604
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,800
mean, we haven't even gotten into
this, but the how the Secret Services

605
00:46:55,840 --> 00:47:00,360
acted and what's happened, you know, just the information that keeps coming out

606
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:06,039
is just mind boggling. Either you're
in on it or you are the most

607
00:47:06,079 --> 00:47:09,400
incompetent agency that has ever existed,
right, I mean, those are the

608
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:14,320
two choices we're left with. And
that's basically that's basically the two choices we're

609
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,480
left with with almost every agency in
American governance. Now. It is a

610
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:22,719
very bad place to be if I'm
Donald Trump, I'm not sure I go

611
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,199
and do outdoor events with the Secret
Service guarding me right now, because either

612
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:29,800
they are terrible at their jobs.
And did you who was it a Costa

613
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:35,719
forgot what his first name is?
Ns Jim Acosta saying that it's wrong to

614
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,159
say that the Secret Service didn't protect
the president. He was telling someone which

615
00:47:38,199 --> 00:47:43,599
is trying to find a way to
say this president Trump said the Secret Service

616
00:47:43,639 --> 00:47:46,679
had not protected him. He said
this after he was shot in the head

617
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:52,239
at a Secret Service protected rally.
Okay, so it's not really in dispute.

618
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,639
And Jim Acosta was like, what
a horrible thing to say that the

619
00:47:54,679 --> 00:48:00,400
Secret Service didn't protect him. He
was shot in the head and only by

620
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:05,760
the grace of God a slight head
tilt and a'm moving forward that is only

621
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:10,280
explained by providence. You know,
he survived. And Jim Acosta is mad

622
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,800
and wants to defend the Secret Service. Also, by the way, Joe

623
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:19,920
Biden, or the person who writes
Joe Biden's letters, praised the Secret Service

624
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:28,320
director following her allowance of a shot
to the head of his party's opponent.

625
00:48:29,679 --> 00:48:32,599
Yeah, she had one job.
She sucked at her job. Everyone sucks

626
00:48:32,599 --> 00:48:36,840
at their job these days in the
government. Depends on what you think her

627
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:42,440
job was. I know, I
am less inclined to just give in to

628
00:48:42,559 --> 00:48:47,599
my worst fears, but on this, I actually don't blame people. I

629
00:48:47,639 --> 00:48:55,280
don't blame people for wondering. It's
such such incompetence. I mean, it's

630
00:48:57,159 --> 00:49:00,360
I don't blame people for wondering.
I don't. Oh my lord, so

631
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:06,440
let's talk a little bit more if
you'd like about the media and the turnaround.

632
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,039
So I just wanted to mention this
story. I wish I had the

633
00:49:08,079 --> 00:49:12,440
name in front of me. There
was a reporter. I think it's the

634
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:21,280
next or incoming head of the Washington
Jane Daniels. Yeah, so he accused

635
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:27,599
this morning on Fox and Friends,
Brian Killmead just a really nice guy.

636
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,679
He said something like, what do
you say college fraternity or something like that,

637
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:37,960
and this reporter tweeted out that he
had said colored fraternity, that it

638
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:43,039
was racist. He was pointing out
that Kamala Harris is boycotting the net and

639
00:49:43,119 --> 00:49:51,679
Yahu speech to speak at her college
sorority. And Eugene Daniels lied and falsely

640
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,280
claimed that Brian Killmead he just basically
creates this like race hoax and says Brian

641
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:00,159
kill Mead said this other word,
it's a complete lie. Only someone delusional

642
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,599
and filled with hate would come up
with it. But this guy is the

643
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:10,159
head, the president of the absolutely
ridiculous White House Correspondence Association, and he's

644
00:50:10,199 --> 00:50:15,360
also with Politico Playbook, and he
gets to lie and create race hoaxes and

645
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:20,159
just be like a complete and utter
fraud. Then he you know, he

646
00:50:20,199 --> 00:50:22,920
does. After everyone's like, wow, you're an idiot and a liar,

647
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:29,239
he deletes it and he's like,
Fox tells me that's not what he said.

648
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:34,719
And so I'll take them at their
word. Oh bleep, you bleeper,

649
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,119
bleeper, Like you'll take them at
their word. How about just stop

650
00:50:38,199 --> 00:50:43,679
lying and admit you lied and just
like, also quit journalism because you're all

651
00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:47,519
a bunch of frauds. Is that
great? Sorry? No, no,

652
00:50:49,079 --> 00:50:52,400
I would give an alternative theory to
this, though I believe you're probably right.

653
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:57,679
The theory is this, the American
left right now is so obsessed with

654
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,679
race that they hear these sorts of
things because it's projection. They're obsessed with

655
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:07,119
race, and he thinks everyone he
disagrees with is a racist, so he

656
00:51:07,119 --> 00:51:10,280
hears these kinds of things. Then
he says, afterwards, I spoke to

657
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:15,400
Fox News like you mentioned this,
and then he says, and I plan

658
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,599
on speaking with Brian off the air. They made it clear to me,

659
00:51:17,679 --> 00:51:21,320
Hughes College not colored, and you
know, I'll believe them, which,

660
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,320
of course insinuates that there was ever
any question about it in the first place,

661
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,960
or that there is any question about
it now. But let me ask

662
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,360
you this. Don't you think that
the head of the White House Press Association,

663
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:37,119
whatever it's called, should have first
reached out to Fox News, should

664
00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:42,519
have first talked to Brian off the
air before smearing him and potentially destroying his

665
00:51:42,599 --> 00:51:45,480
career. That's what a real journalist
would have done. But these people are

666
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,559
not journalists. Not journalists. That's
why when people say, oh, you

667
00:51:47,599 --> 00:51:52,599
waste your time, you know,
critiquing the media. I'm not critiquing the

668
00:51:52,639 --> 00:51:55,400
media. I'm critiquing left wing propagandasts. These are not journalists. Not in

669
00:51:55,400 --> 00:52:01,079
my view. It's one our listener
who was praising the media for doing journalism

670
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:06,320
to think about things like this and
whether they should ever be praised. Yes,

671
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:12,519
you would hope that the head of
the White House Correspondence Association would know

672
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:19,119
that journalism is about finding out if
what you're thinking is true before you publish

673
00:52:19,119 --> 00:52:23,519
it to an audience of millions.
And then my job is not journalism,

674
00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:27,000
it's propaganda. But if you're wrong, you don't say it. Take them

675
00:52:27,039 --> 00:52:29,960
at their word. You say I
made a terrible mistake. Smearing this person

676
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,159
as a raceis something that is very
hard to disprove. You know what I

677
00:52:32,159 --> 00:52:37,079
mean. So it's just this is
going to happen over and over again,

678
00:52:37,159 --> 00:52:42,360
now, you know. It's just
for sure. I saw politicians others repeating

679
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,239
this claim already, so it is
just now embedded in the in the discourse.

680
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:51,519
You know. I was thinking that
it does seem like this election is

681
00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:54,199
about whether you want to go down
or go back to like the glory days

682
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:59,400
of riots in the summer of twenty
twenty. Like the media immediately said,

683
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,679
if if you criticize Kamala Harris for
any reason, you are a racist.

684
00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:06,280
They're doing it at the New York
Times, They're doing it at Politico,

685
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,280
They're doing it at all these major
outlets. You are not allowed to criticize

686
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:15,519
this incompetent person. Even calling her
incompetent is supposedly race tinged, or maybe

687
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:21,280
it's sexist. Do people really want
to live in that world? Like I

688
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:25,519
am so sick to death of the
identity focused world. I cannot stand it.

689
00:53:25,599 --> 00:53:29,519
But do I think maybe some voter, I mean, it works.

690
00:53:29,599 --> 00:53:31,840
Democrats wouldn't do it if it doesn't
work. And clearly there are a lot

691
00:53:32,519 --> 00:53:39,559
of people, whether they are white
women who want to be allies or other

692
00:53:39,639 --> 00:53:44,800
people who really want to be focused
on identity. It clearly works, right.

693
00:53:45,519 --> 00:53:47,039
I think people are sick of it. I think normal people are sick

694
00:53:47,079 --> 00:53:50,480
of it. I have no proof
of that. I think people are scared

695
00:53:50,519 --> 00:53:52,800
to say they're sick of it.
I'm happy brought this up. By the

696
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,840
way, I wrote a column about
this just now. It's if you point

697
00:53:55,840 --> 00:54:02,000
out that Kamala was affirmative action high
or diversity higher, they get so mad

698
00:54:02,039 --> 00:54:06,239
at you. Morning. Joe says, what is this nineteen fifty one?

699
00:54:06,599 --> 00:54:12,199
Why is d e I stuff?
Why is it a negative? It's like

700
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:17,159
a it's a tacit admission that the
accus that it is racist policy to begin

701
00:54:17,199 --> 00:54:21,000
with that it degrades your accomplishments,
you know what I'm saying? Like it

702
00:54:21,039 --> 00:54:24,559
said, why are they upset that
anyone's just pointing out? Joe Biden said,

703
00:54:24,639 --> 00:54:29,719
I am going to pick a vice
president whos a black woman. That's

704
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,199
what he said. Not the best
thing candidate technically, He said he was

705
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:37,480
going to be sexist in his approach, but not necessarily racist. He said

706
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,320
he would be sexist, and then
when he when it came down to like

707
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:44,039
the final four they were all black
women, he said he would be both

708
00:54:44,119 --> 00:54:47,440
sexist and racist in his selection of
a Supreme Court nominee. By the way,

709
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:51,679
this is something that not just Democrats
do, and I find it really

710
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,559
as a woman. Just kidding,
but I find it really annoying to be

711
00:54:54,880 --> 00:55:00,199
like we are, we're going to
be discriminatory in our selection here and thereby

712
00:55:00,679 --> 00:55:05,119
possibly not get the best candidate.
It's really annoying to me. But also,

713
00:55:06,519 --> 00:55:08,920
is DEI a good thing or a
bad thing? Because the Left claims

714
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:14,320
that it's the most wonderful thing ever. But if you say it's a thing,

715
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,079
then they go, you're mean for
saying the thing that we said is

716
00:55:17,119 --> 00:55:23,199
great is happening? Yeah, if
it's in ABC, said Kamaliras faces racial

717
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:30,599
di attacks amid campaign. So they
say this because it is racial. It

718
00:55:30,679 --> 00:55:34,159
is racist. This kind of policy. And imagine now a person who's just

719
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,000
trying to a minority woman trying to
make her way in the world, doesn't

720
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:44,000
DEI degrade her accomplishments as well?
And yet you know we're not allowed to

721
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,760
say this about the vice president.
Is really confusing. It's not confusing because

722
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:51,400
they know it's racist policy. They
keep being counting people. Now, listen,

723
00:55:52,639 --> 00:55:58,119
people are candidates even JD. Bans's
picked because he appeals to a certain

724
00:55:58,199 --> 00:56:01,800
population. I get that. But
Donald Trump didn't go around saying I'm going

725
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:06,760
to pick a white male you for
this position, or even a mail for

726
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,119
this position. He picked someone,
you know, for other reasons. And

727
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:13,239
you know, there's no way anyone's
going to tell me that Harris was the

728
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,920
best person available to be vice president
for Joe Biden. Just there's just no

729
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:19,039
way you're going to tell me that
she did. She didn't make it to

730
00:56:19,079 --> 00:56:23,800
Iowas, she couldn't keep together a
campaign. She is just ridiculous or policy

731
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:28,000
positions. I just think there are
a lot better choices than her. Okay,

732
00:56:28,039 --> 00:56:31,840
and I've read your piece that is
about this, which everyone's welcome to

733
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:36,840
read at the Federalist dot com,
But I'm not sure I actually think of

734
00:56:37,159 --> 00:56:39,639
in a sea of bad choices,
Kamala was maybe one of the better ones.

735
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:45,920
I mean, she is she has
charisma, something that Joe Biden used

736
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:49,480
to have but had completely lost by
twenty twenty. And he's kind of like

737
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,559
writing on the fumes of that.
She has extremely powerful allies. You know,

738
00:56:53,599 --> 00:56:59,760
Barack Obama is her person. He
helped orchestrate a coup to replace Biden

739
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:06,960
with her, but her incompetence actually
kept Biden as president for longer than I

740
00:57:07,039 --> 00:57:10,440
think the plan was because nobody could
see her being bad. But then when

741
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,360
it was so bad, you know, the media can use her and her

742
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,840
I don't know, I'm not really
making a great case for her, but

743
00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:23,320
she did win elected office in California, which is not the most difficult thing

744
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:28,320
in the world, and she had
an interesting way of getting there and all

745
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:34,800
that, but she made it.
What whatever do you mean. I'm just

746
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:39,559
saying California Democrat politics can be difficult. You know, it's basically an entirely

747
00:57:39,599 --> 00:57:44,800
Democrat state now, and so the
challenge there is to win Democrat primaries as

748
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:49,880
opposed to general elections. I'll say
it. I mean, she had the

749
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,119
right boyfriend for a while, and
that boyfriend helped her. So, first

750
00:57:53,119 --> 00:57:57,480
of all, the claim that she
is charismatic, I think is false.

751
00:57:57,559 --> 00:58:00,000
I think most people find her very
arismatic. It's just going to say,

752
00:58:00,039 --> 00:58:02,639
I get your get your inclination to
push back on what I'm saying, But

753
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:06,280
I don't think that's true. Can
I mention one last thing? By the

754
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,039
way, you keep saying Coop and
stuff like that. Here's an important thing

755
00:58:08,079 --> 00:58:13,599
to remember about that primary. She
was not voted on by the Everyone's always

756
00:58:13,639 --> 00:58:16,880
saying, you know, you know, big money to people have this power

757
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:21,400
over politics, and people never you
know, and the normal voter doesn't.

758
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,119
I have never seen a case of
that being more true than with Kamala Harris.

759
00:58:24,639 --> 00:58:29,440
Big donors pushed by now they stop
giving him money so they could get

760
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:34,239
their candidate in. That candidate is
Harris. Harris owes everything if she becomes

761
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:38,239
president. She owes everything to the
kingmakers of the and queen makers of the

762
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:43,519
Democratic Party, not the voters.
So you know, she owes her career

763
00:58:43,599 --> 00:58:46,639
to them. She was appointed basically
to be Senator of California. She was

764
00:58:46,639 --> 00:58:50,280
appointed to be vice president, though
I don't think she you know, the

765
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,440
voters didn't really want her, and
now you know, if she wins,

766
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:57,599
she wins. It's true. But
she was appointed basically by to be the

767
00:58:57,679 --> 00:59:01,320
you know, Democratic Party president candidate, not by voters. So it's something

768
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:06,239
to remember, especially coming from people
who love democracy so much, who claim

769
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,280
that big money should be taken out
of politics and all of that. You

770
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:13,719
know, thank you again for listening
to me. No, that's a really

771
00:59:13,719 --> 00:59:17,679
good point. By the way,
yesterday Chuck Schumer said this was a real

772
00:59:17,719 --> 00:59:22,119
triumph of the grassroots. You know, they picked Kamalots. It's a raisin

773
00:59:22,239 --> 00:59:29,440
lie, and yet I saw it
on news shows with no pushback. Al

774
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:32,320
Sharpton said the same thing, that
she was the grassroots candidate. Man,

775
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:36,719
maybe she would. I suspect if
there was an open primery, she would

776
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,440
not win. I don't think she
would be. I think there are many

777
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:42,679
governors who probably have more appeal than
she does. But I don't know for

778
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,960
sure. She is the vice she
was the vice president. All that she

779
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:49,079
may very well win, but we
don't know that that's for sure. It's

780
00:59:49,079 --> 00:59:53,280
certainly not a grassroots effort. It's
the opposite. I think we've covered almost

781
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:58,800
everything we needed to cover for now. So that was I'm impressed by us.

782
00:59:59,039 --> 01:00:00,920
Good job, thank you. Okay, yes, that's it. So

783
01:00:01,039 --> 01:00:06,880
let's talk about something different called culture. And I don't have much to say

784
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,760
here right now because I didn't watch
much to do. I've been busier in

785
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:15,920
the last month than I have in
my entire life. But I do want

786
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,199
to share the story of how I
got home from the convention. Oh yeah,

787
01:00:19,239 --> 01:00:24,840
please do so We were supposed to
fly out from Chicago on Friday afternoon,

788
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,559
and we had to take a train
from Milwaukee to Chicago. The whole

789
01:00:29,559 --> 01:00:31,599
reason why we were flying out from
Chicago is because by the time we arranged

790
01:00:31,599 --> 01:00:38,280
flights, there was nothing out of
Wisconsin for cheaper than like nine hundred dollars,

791
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:43,559
So this was our plan. I
wake up that morning, I'm getting

792
01:00:43,559 --> 01:00:45,800
a ton of text from people who
are like, the airports are insaying you

793
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:49,559
might not get out, you know
that kind of thing. So I immediately

794
01:00:49,559 --> 01:00:52,840
try to rent a car online.
Every single rental car agency, big,

795
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:57,840
small, nobody has any cars.
And I'm like, wow, they sold

796
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:01,039
out of cars right away, and
so I'm like, well, I guess

797
01:01:01,039 --> 01:01:06,280
we just had to O'Hare to beautiful
O'Hare. On the way down in the

798
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,800
train, the guy behind us asks
a guy who's waiting to get off at

799
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:13,159
the stop before the downtown Chicago stop, I forget what the name of the

800
01:01:13,159 --> 01:01:15,320
town is. He says, you
look like a guy that would know is

801
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:19,559
you know, is Pisano's the best
pizza? And he says I might look

802
01:01:19,599 --> 01:01:22,320
like a guy who knows, but
I just am flying out of O'Hare and

803
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,880
that's why I'm getting off here.
And I realized that that's a better stop

804
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:28,280
to get off to go to O'Hare. It's like a shorter distance. So

805
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,280
we get off. We scramble off, and we're taking an uber to the

806
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:37,519
airport. And I'm like, what
if we just walked into one of these

807
01:01:37,719 --> 01:01:42,840
local non airport rental car places and
just tried to get a car. So

808
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:49,519
we reroute the uber to the local
enterprise, and to make a very long

809
01:01:49,559 --> 01:01:52,480
story short, we figured out a
way to get a rental car. The

810
01:01:52,559 --> 01:01:55,800
issue was they were banning one way
rentals. We worked our way around it.

811
01:01:55,800 --> 01:02:01,719
I think I should say no more. And we drove home and every

812
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:07,920
hour we picked up Nate Cavanaugh of
the Federalist who was waiting, who was

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supposed to be on our flight.
Every hour they just kept allaying our flight,

814
01:02:12,199 --> 01:02:14,840
and by the time we hit Pennsylvania, they had canceled our flight.

815
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,679
So we made the right call.
I just want to say, a two

816
01:02:17,719 --> 01:02:25,440
am to four a m drive from
Chicago to Virginia, I've had better rides.

817
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,280
I've done more exciting things. I
mean, it was just brutal.

818
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:36,039
We were sorry. This isn't very
exciting now. It is just reat we

819
01:02:36,079 --> 01:02:37,480
had. You know. It took
us hours to get through Chicago because of

820
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,920
traffic. There was a slowdown in
Gary because an RV caught on fire.

821
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:45,480
There was a complete and utter shutdown
of the Pennsylvania Turnpike shocker, because of

822
01:02:45,519 --> 01:02:51,719
another vehicle fire. Every time like
we're in the clear, another disaster would

823
01:02:51,719 --> 01:02:54,119
happen. How long was the ride? I think it was about thirteen hours.

824
01:02:54,519 --> 01:02:59,440
You did it in one shot?
Heck, yeah, okay, so

825
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:01,800
overnight drove. You didn't stop at
any to take a nap or anything.

826
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:08,239
We stopped like three times for gas. The last one was like right before

827
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:12,800
home, but we couldn't make it. I had a rental recently in San

828
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,559
Antonio, Texas, and I decided
that I was going to take it one

829
01:03:15,559 --> 01:03:20,039
way to Virginia without telling anyone.
And I just did it and dropped it

830
01:03:20,079 --> 01:03:22,119
off at the local I'm not going
to name the company, and waited to

831
01:03:22,159 --> 01:03:25,800
see what would happen. And they
didn't charge me anything. Hum. Yeah,

832
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:31,360
I got away with it. It
was a long drive. That's exciting.

833
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,800
I don't have anything. I watched
some old movies. I watched my

834
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:39,320
favorite romance comedy of all time,
Nodding Hill my relative of mine had never

835
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:43,280
seen it. And then I watched
a movie called The Intern with Robert de

836
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:49,920
Niro. Have you ever seen this? Second? No? Yeah, you

837
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:53,679
know, it's fine. Oh I
did watch a movie. My husband keeps

838
01:03:53,719 --> 01:04:00,760
making me watch like violent male movies. Acent which one the Fighter the Fighter

839
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:06,119
with? Is that with the guy
who played Batman or whatever? My confusing

840
01:04:06,159 --> 01:04:13,760
movies? Okay, wait, no, sorry, Oh my gosh. You

841
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:18,199
know Clark Wahlberg and the other guy. Yeah, yeah, Christian Bale.

842
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:21,960
Christian Bale, who's awesome, and
Amy Adams, who's very good, my

843
01:04:23,239 --> 01:04:27,440
old junior high and high school chum, Amy Adams. It was a really

844
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,079
good movie, but it was very
violent, and I don't do well watching

845
01:04:30,119 --> 01:04:32,960
movies about drug use, which it
also had a lot of that. That

846
01:04:33,079 --> 01:04:35,719
was hard for me, But I
have to admit it was very very good.

847
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:42,320
Yeah, it's like working class people, like in Pennsylvania or something or

848
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:45,079
Massachusetts and maybe ever again. All
right, yeah, that's a good movie.

849
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,559
Well that was our culture. We
got up our culture game a bit.

850
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:55,480
Oh you know what I watched on
HBO Max a pottery competition which was

851
01:04:55,559 --> 01:04:58,320
kind of like The Great British Baking
Show, kind of thing. But they

852
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,519
do pottery in Briton. You can
mock me, but that looks like a

853
01:05:01,559 --> 01:05:04,639
lot of fun. People with the
you know, the spinning wheel and the

854
01:05:04,679 --> 01:05:12,039
clay. Okay, my favorite thing
in the Federalist chat is how Nathan anytime

855
01:05:12,079 --> 01:05:16,760
someone mentions something old timey, Nathan's
like, David understands. I got sick

856
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,920
of it. Did you see that? David gets it? Oh. Mark's

857
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:25,960
brothers, Dave gets that, Monty
Python, Dave gets it. Dave gets

858
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:30,679
that. I do get Yeah.
Well, I want to say again,

859
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,840
you said it at the beginning,
but we had forgotten for like six weeks

860
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:38,800
to tell people to email us at
radio. At the Federalist dot com,

861
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:44,280
everyone keeps We've gotten a lot of
good email, which we read Mark inwardly

862
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,119
digest, but we it's just really
great to get it, so keep it

863
01:05:46,159 --> 01:05:49,599
coming. Yeah. I figure if
I say it at the end, then

864
01:05:50,199 --> 01:05:54,400
you know people more people will email
because no one wants to go. Also,

865
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:59,559
I think you're supposed to say rate
us. People always telling me how

866
01:05:59,639 --> 01:06:02,320
much they like you, David,
but they're supposed to rate us. Somewhere

867
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:06,840
there's a separate stars Mark here.
I don't even know how it goes out.

868
01:06:08,039 --> 01:06:11,320
Yes, please, I hear this
on other podcasts. Please give us

869
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:15,400
a good review on whatever platform you
use to listen to your podcasts. We

870
01:06:15,719 --> 01:06:19,960
enjoy the feedback. You can mail
us at radio at the Federalist dot com.

871
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:24,719
We'd love to hear from you.
Is that some professional trying to be

872
01:06:24,719 --> 01:06:29,599
for more professional about this? No, but we do and we try.

873
01:06:29,639 --> 01:06:32,119
Actually, you know, we mentioned
one today. We dunked on one email

874
01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:35,199
our today. So write us and
we may dunk on you as well.

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01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,480
But until then, loads of freedom. I'm anxious