WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:04.000 Well Whiskey coming day. 2 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:16.600 From Powerline blog dot com and produced by Ricochet dot Com. 3 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:21.600 This is the Three Whiskey Happy Hour with your bartenders 4 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.519 Steve Hayward, John You and power Lines International Woman of 5 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.879 Mystery Lucretia. 6 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:33.840 Got a Given where You're being. 7 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:34.799 In love down? 8 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.840 Hello, Welcome everybody to the latest episode of the Three 9 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:44.520 Whiskey Happy Hour. I'm your host for today, John You, 10 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:50.719 and I'm joined as always by my two indefagotable Churchill 11 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:56.560 loving hosts, Steve Hayward and Lucretia. Where are you, guys, Steve, 12 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.880 you seem to be far away up into the tundry north. 13 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:01.960 Yeah, well, I'm at Hillsdale College for a couple of 14 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.120 days for a really fun conference. We're a gathering of 15 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:08.719 the Claremont Clan. Uh And I did I think listeners 16 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.319 should know that you were what in New York yesterday 17 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.959 to be on that Gonzo Fox show Outnumbered. So there 18 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.640 were four women and you on the show. 19 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:20.719 And that's just me, that's just me going out for 20 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:22.519 drinks at night. What are you talking about? 21 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.680 Okay, you know the four of them don't add up 22 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:28.439 to one, Lucretia, that's my point. 23 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:34.400 That's for sure, that's for sure. And Lucretia, where are you? 24 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:35.159 What are you doing? 25 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:36.519 I am home. 26 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:42.519 The childless cat lady is at home. I'm not childlessening, but. 27 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:43.640 You are a cat lady, so that I am a 28 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:44.400 cat lady. 29 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:49.400 I have this little rescue here. She is has dominated 30 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:50.040 the household. 31 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.000 Now she's taken over. 32 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.680 So cats are natural tyrants on for show. 33 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.040 Very much, so, you know. 34 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.959 And I have a ninety pound German Shepherd that this 35 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.879 eight pound cat kickses, you know what. 36 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.480 So that's why I like her. 37 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.000 You got to have some even if you're a cat hater, 38 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:11.479 you got to have some respect for that, right. And 39 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:15.759 I understand a lot of people hate cats, but anyway, yeah. 40 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.680 I hate cats, right, dogs? Yes, But why don't we 41 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.840 turn this has been every week it gets crazier and crazier. 42 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:25.199 You know, it used to be in the old days 43 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.919 you would worry about some kind of October surprise singular 44 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:32.520 that would affect the election at the last minute. And 45 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:37.000 seems we've got October surprise after October surprise after October surprise. 46 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.479 So they're going to be it's going to be October 47 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:43.000 surprises from now on. But why don't we start with 48 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.800 the one that wasn't a surprise, which was the vice 49 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.960 presidential debate between Harris and Waltz. H. So why don't 50 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:50.800 we start off. 51 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:51.680 I mean Vance and the Walls. 52 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.719 Yes, I'm sorry, yeah, I wish right, Well, they ought 53 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:57.680 to have a debate too. Now I've given all the 54 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.840 differences between yeah, that was a parent at the debate, Yes, 55 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.400 sorry about that, between Vance and Waltz and Steve. 56 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:05.199 Let's start with you. 57 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:09.400 Do you agree with the chattering classes view a that 58 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:12.159 Vance won, but that b it has no seems to 59 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:13.400 have no effect on the election. 60 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.800 What do you think? Well, I have three thoughts. You 61 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.000 know that's the standard political science, regression analysis wisdom is 62 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.919 that debates don't affect outcomes. Of course, it affected it 63 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.199 for Joe Biden. I mean a debate finished him, right, 64 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:29.360 And you know I kind of think this year maybe 65 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:33.000 it does have a small effect, and in particular because 66 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:37.240 Vance defied expectations, including from some of the conservatives. Oh, 67 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.680 come to that point. I have three thoughts. The first 68 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.360 is a star was born the other night. I actually 69 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.080 think that it's comparable, maybe not the equivalent, but it's 70 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.280 comparable to Reagan's famous speech for Goldwater in sixty four. 71 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.840 I mean, Vance was so impressive and it dispelled all 72 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.639 the cliches about him that the media and the Democrats 73 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.400 threw at him. And by the way, that's point number two. 74 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.400 I remember, and I guess I will name it because 75 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:02.680 I had the receipts. I remember the our friends had 76 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.080 commentary John Pott Hart's all the last after Vance was 77 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.520 named by Trump and this terrible appointment. He's awful, What 78 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.639 a horrible choice this was, and any and you know, 79 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.120 maybe he's not really weird, but he's you know, he's 80 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:18.120 off putting to voters and and pot hearts want as 81 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:19.680 far as to say, I think Trump is going to 82 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:21.279 drop him from the ticket. He has to drop him 83 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:23.519 from the ticket. It's like Eagleton in seventy two. He's 84 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.879 a millstone around the ticket. Well, no one's saying that, now, 85 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:27.680 are they right? 86 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.800 And at least no one by the way, sorry to 87 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.680 rup Steve, but no one's actually congratul congratulating Lucretia not 88 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:38.480 only for predicting JD. Vance, but for saying that was 89 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:39.720 the perfect choice for Trump. 90 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:41.600 Was I ever right? Okay? 91 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.319 Just well, well, that's my third point was a variation 92 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.759 of yours. Which is you know, now the Vance pick 93 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.319 looks like a case of far sightedness on Trump's part, 94 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.639 not just because he's more impressive than people expected or 95 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.040 the media tried to say. By the way, remember here's 96 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.279 the important thing. Probably seventy five percent of Americans had 97 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:04.920 maybe barely heard of Vance or hadn't heard of him 98 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.360 at all until now. I mean, we follow these things, 99 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.199 we know about the book, we may have seen the movie, 100 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.120 but you know, a lot of Americans have never heard 101 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.439 of him, people who don't follow politics, and now they've 102 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.560 seen him, and they say, oh, gosh, you know this 103 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.839 is this guy's actually really impressive, and he's clearly a 104 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.600 figure for the future win or lose under Trump a 105 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:25.879 month from now, and and so Trump picking him, you know, 106 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:28.000 Trump could have gone conventional. That's kind of what the 107 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.240 Pens pick was in twenty sixteen, you know, ticket balancing, 108 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.319 trying to peel to constituency. No. No, I been picking Vance. 109 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:38.879 Trump said, this is my successor, or once someone who 110 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.439 represents a worthy successor to the whole you know, wider 111 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.519 populist movement that is now in the ascendants of the country. 112 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.199 And that's what a rare I say, rare actors. That's 113 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.959 not quite right either. But Trump is often impulsive, does 114 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.399 things for his personal reasons. But here's a case where 115 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.240 you could say he committed an act of far sighted 116 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.160 statesmanship in picking Vance. 117 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.120 I think is this is this a case. Here's some 118 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:05.439 other things that the conservative commentators have been saying, which 119 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:09.399 is that the Advance does Trump better than Trump. Maybe 120 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.079 the way to put it is, as Steve said, Trump 121 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:16.600 does seem to go from you know, crisis to crisis, 122 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:20.439 decision decision, doesn't seem to make coherent sense, or maybe 123 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.199 he doesn't have a coherent plan in mind. But Vance 124 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.839 actually tries to put it all together into some kind 125 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:31.879 of coherent ideology, and that's why he's doing so well. 126 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:35.120 So it's just as if it's as if Trump had 127 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:39.759 all the education of a Yale Law school graduate, you know. 128 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.519 Trump educated. 129 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.959 Trump is as educated in simple terms as Vance is. 130 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.040 I'm just gonna he's of course, obviously not as articulate 131 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:53.120 all of those other things. I'm gonna you know, I'm 132 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.519 gonna say something a little bit shocking to you, guys. 133 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.199 I know that surprises you, but I'm feeling that way today. 134 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.040 So I remember the talk about kemal Am Ding Dong 135 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.800 being chosen as insurance for Biden. 136 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:10.720 Okay, whatever this that. 137 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.160 So if you so, I'm gonna say it like this, 138 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:20.040 These last two assassination attempts against Trump. 139 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.120 Were probably. 140 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.240 Nutjobs who were in one way or another, groomed by 141 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:33.160 some nefarious something in the background. I won't allege it 142 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.079 was a CIA. I won't allege it was Obama. I'll 143 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:40.319 just say somebody, because it's otherwise way way too coincidental. 144 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:46.040 All right, So, thinking about any of those movies where 145 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.120 somebody hires a contract killer or an assassin and they 146 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:51.199 then they change their mind and they can't stop them. 147 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.720 What if there's more contract killers out there? You know, 148 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.160 I'm not saying contract killers, but what if there's more 149 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:03.160 people out there that have actually seriously been brainwashed or 150 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:06.720 whatever word you want to use, into thinking that Trump 151 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:12.160 is a threat to democracy? Et cetera, et cetera. Existential 152 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:19.480 vance is now the most incredible insurance against Trump another 153 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:25.000 Trump assassination, because you know, if something God forbid were 154 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:31.000 to happen to Trump, JD. Vance is the nominee or. 155 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.080 Six months from now president that Trump wins, or. 156 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.480 Six months from now president at any point when that happens, 157 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.759 and what we saw I think what I always believed, 158 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:44.000 but what we saw in the debate Tuesday night was 159 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:48.639 that exactly what John just said vans out Trump's Trump 160 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.639 and does it with class, with style, with a likability 161 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:55.200 and doesn't. 162 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:59.360 Have the baggage. And so you know, I see this as. 163 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:04.279 The future of whatever party it is that they actually represent, 164 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:09.559 not the John Pedoritz or the Mitt Romney or any 165 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:15.039 of those other slimy rhino people, but some party. It 166 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.559 may not be the Republican Party. There may be enough 167 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:22.279 of a backlash to Trump winning that those Bill Crystal 168 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:25.799 types actually formed their I don't know, but anyway, this 169 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:29.960 is the future of the party that will successfully challenge 170 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:32.919 the Democrats. And you probably could not pick a better 171 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:34.600 standard bearer than Jade Bans. 172 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:36.600 I was just impressed as hell. 173 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:40.720 I do want to talk really quickly about his abortion answer, 174 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:43.879 because that's caused also a lot of trouble with some 175 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:49.279 on the right. I think his answer to the abortion question, 176 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:53.639 where's what he said was the Republican Party has not 177 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:56.799 gained the trust of the American people. I believe what 178 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.000 he was really saying is that this is not simply 179 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:02.559 a matter of legislation. 180 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:04.240 This is a matter, as. 181 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.720 We've talked about before many times, of winning the hearts 182 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.879 and minds of the people. I mean people, you know, 183 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:14.080 the usual suspects, the radical pro life which I consider 184 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:18.759 myself one. We're up in arms, he's he's coowtowing to 185 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:23.039 the left, he's equivocating on pro life positions. 186 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.440 Wasn't that at all? It was an. 187 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:29.639 Absolute recognition by a very savvy politician that if the 188 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:33.200 Republican Party and the pro life movement want to win 189 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:37.519 on this issue, they have to change heart and hearts 190 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.840 and minds before they force legislation down people's throats. And 191 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.240 I thought that was brilliant that what was what I 192 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:45.799 thought was his best moment, which of course lots of 193 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:47.320 people thought was his worst. 194 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:48.840 So there you have it. 195 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:50.879 And you didn't even ask me about what I think 196 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:51.720 about Waltz. 197 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.279 I'm not sure that anything really needs. 198 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.399 One question before maybe for the creation of this time 199 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:04.960 about the bait, I think many observers said that the 200 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:09.720 worst answer that Vance gave was his response to the 201 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.679 question about twenty twenty did your answers asked, did you 202 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.360 think that Donald Trump won the election or that Joe 203 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.480 Biden won the election, and he said, I want to 204 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.480 talk about the liberal censorship on the social media, and 205 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.200 I think, well, I think correctly said that's a non answer. 206 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:28.840 What do you think is that a little bit highlight 207 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:30.759 and the low lights? I mean, this is what is 208 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:32.639 the highlight in the low light for Vance? A lot 209 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.039 of people are saying that was the low light for Vance, 210 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:38.480 and then answer low light for Walt. 211 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.440 Again, that answer wasn't intended for us. It certainly not 212 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:45.399 for Steve and me. Might have been a little bit 213 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.600 for you, John, because you're one of those peopleho still 214 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:54.039 doesn't understand what happened on twenty twenty. But what I 215 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.320 took away from it wasn't what you just said. What 216 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:58.399 I took away from it was what are you talking 217 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.799 about insurrection? What do you talk talking about? Threat to democracy? 218 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.080 On I think he could have pressed back a little 219 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:08.279 bit harder about the crap about police officers being killed 220 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.879 and if you'll recall, it was only Trump supporters who 221 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.639 were killed on that day, but okay, including Ashley Maddison, 222 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:23.320 Ashley Ashley Babbitt, babbit, thank you Ashley Madison. 223 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.799 So that's your only fan page? 224 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:26.279 I know. 225 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.919 Sorry, Steve's getting frisky early on a Saturday. My god, 226 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.519 I worried for Charles later today. 227 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:39.120 And you might remind Charles of this, because I was 228 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.360 never so disappointed as in Charles's his answer on your 229 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:48.799 podcast One Time about January twenty, January sixth, on January twenty, 230 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:55.000 what happened on January twenty. Uh, Trump handed over power peacefully. 231 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:00.759 That is not an insurrection, folks. I mean, that's what 232 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.320 jd Vance said. And if I'm a stupid Democrat or 233 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:08.559 independent low information voter who's been believing that the Democrats 234 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.720 rhetoric on this whole thing, and I'm reminded, wait a minute, 235 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.600 what are you talking about. What Trump did was no 236 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.600 different than what Hillary Clinton did in twenty sixteen and 237 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.679 so on, and he peacefully handed over power. 238 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.159 Yeah see, I thought, maybe we've made his last word 239 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:26.120 on this, John and move on to other stuff. But 240 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:28.879 I thought, look, it's a no win question for Dvance. 241 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:30.799 But I did think he could have been stronger. And 242 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:34.840 I think the tack I would have taken is, look, Americans, Auto, 243 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:36.919 whatever Americans think about this, they should look at the 244 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.480 asymmetry of the punishment that's been meted out. You know, 245 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:42.639 people have been there that given long jail sentences for trespassing, 246 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.440 whereas in your case, Governor Waltz, you stood by and 247 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.080 watched as your city burned, and then when people got arrested, 248 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.039 Kamala Harris bailed them out. That would have been the 249 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:56.360 boom answer to put Waltz on the defensive. It's not perfect, 250 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.080 but that would have been what I would have tried 251 00:13:58.120 --> 00:13:58.320 to do. 252 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.320 I think that's what I wanted to can I just 253 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:04.039 can have the second to the last last word, and 254 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:07.480 that is that. That's what I wanted him to say too. However, 255 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.840 that's been being said by people for a very long time. 256 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.080 And what came away for most people, again, the low 257 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.759 information voter that I wish I couldn't care, that I 258 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:21.639 didn't have to care about, is what a nice guy 259 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:26.320 he is. Even the regime media, whatever you want to 260 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.799 call it, came away and said, what a friendly debate. 261 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:33.039 And in the midst of, you know, the the bemoaning 262 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:39.440 of our divided country, our acrimony is divided country. 263 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.320 There you have JD. 264 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:45.000 Vance showing a little bit different from Trump. 265 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.639 I'm gonna I'm gonna push back. 266 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:49.279 I loved how he pushed back on the silly stuff 267 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.759 about Haiti or Haitian immigrants. But but I'm gonna be 268 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:54.200 so friendly when I do it. 269 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:55.399 People are gonna love me. 270 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.559 That's that's what I took away from the final thing 271 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:00.759 of that answer. I of course wanted to exactly what 272 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:03.759 you said. I'm not sure that's what the low information 273 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:04.679 voter needed to hear. 274 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:07.200 That could be right. I mean, I remember Lou Cannon, 275 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.919 the famous reporter who followed Reagan from the very beginning, 276 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.919 saying Reagan is so nice. I don't see anybody wants 277 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:14.519 to run against this guy. This is in the sixties, 278 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:16.879 and Reagan first emerges, right, and then he sort of 279 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.720 got it. My favorite. If you want a barometer of 280 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:23.240 how bad the left freaked out about how good uh 281 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.519 Jade Vance was, there's one story I don't know his newsweaker. 282 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:29.360 One of the media sites said jd Vance is the 283 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.960 first candidate in eighty years to have facial hair. But 284 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.440 you know a lot of women find his beard threatening. 285 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.399 Oh that's that's they're gonna go to fat. It was 286 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:42.399 hysterically right. 287 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.440 Yeah, So we're at the end of our segment. My 288 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:49.080 my two observations is the elitist in me thinks this 289 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.600 is a debate between a Yelle law school trained lawyer 290 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:53.600 and a high school football coach, What did you think 291 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:57.639 was gonna happen? Two? And this is I think this 292 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:59.679 is where Waltz and Harris are a little bit of 293 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:03.399 the same. They're both liberals who haven't never had to 294 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:05.960 run a tough election before, and so they're useful with 295 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:10.039 getting away, saying goofy things, non sharp answers, and just 296 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:13.200 getting elected because they're in very blue states, and when 297 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:16.440 they're confronted with a real challenge, they don't know how 298 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:19.080 to react, where as if you're a concerned you're getting 299 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:21.360 being on all the time, you know how to debate 300 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.919 because that's how you survive. Yes, we will, of course 301 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.000 ask that Trump if he prepares for a second debate. 302 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.679 Obviously he needs to get Lucretia next time as the 303 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:37.200 debating partner to prepare him. That would lead to overwhelming victory. Okay, 304 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:40.840 let's take a break here for our commercial sponsors, and 305 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:49.600 we'll be right back in a second. Coming back now. 306 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:59.039 October Surprise number two, Hurricane Helene devastates large parts of Georgia, 307 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:04.400 South Carolina, North Carolina. We might remember that in the 308 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.079 middle of the twenty twelve election with days to go, 309 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:13.200 super Hurricane Sandy hit the East coast. People say that 310 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.039 it stopped Mitt Romney's momentum in the pulse had been 311 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.240 closing the gap. Some poles had him just within one 312 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:23.319 or two points. President Obama was seen to have launched 313 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:29.279 an energetic response. I think we all remember the pictures 314 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:35.920 of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie right, greeting Obama warmly. 315 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.440 Although when I saw a video of it, Yeah, when 316 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:39.960 I just saw a video of it, you know, Chris 317 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:42.720 Christy was a much bigger man than Obama is a 318 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:46.079 skinny little guy. I looked like a bear about to 319 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:52.880 eat poor baby Seal. I thought, what do you guys think, 320 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:57.319 Lucretians start with you, what do you think about the storm? 321 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.000 The response? I mean, this is over a week later, 322 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.799 and there are still people who haven't been found yet, 323 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.200 there's still supplies that aren't getting into the disasters. Trump 324 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:12.839 has made the claim that the Biden administration is slow 325 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:15.519 in its response because it appears I've seen the figures 326 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.839 that looks like most of these counties where the hurricanes 327 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:24.200 hit are mostly Republican counties. This may actually change for 328 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.519 President Trump's view on mail in voting, because I don't 329 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.240 see how you're going to be able to hold votes there. 330 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.119 You're going to have to do something unusual. But what 331 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:33.640 do you think I appreciate it. Is this going to 332 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.000 affect the election? What do you think is going to happen? 333 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:37.640 What do you think about the response? 334 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:40.799 Well, let me just say first about the whole idea 335 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:42.920 of changing your view. 336 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:43.559 On mail in voting. 337 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.759 Those of us who are adamantly opposed to mail in 338 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:52.839 voting think that something like this should be a should 339 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.519 be an exception to the rule that I mean, these 340 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.279 people have a perfectly legitimate reason why they may not 341 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:00.000 be able to get to the polls. I'm not sure 342 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.839 that mail in voting is going to help them much 343 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.000 right now, either, to be honest with you, because the 344 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.400 mails are not going through. But anyway, mail in voting 345 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:10.400 should not be for someone too lazy to show up 346 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:11.160 on election day. 347 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:12.440 That's my opinion. 348 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:14.680 And if you don't make the time to do it 349 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:19.960 under most circumstances, if you have no legitimate reason, you 350 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.680 obviously don't care enough to vote, you shouldn't be voting. Okay, 351 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:27.519 that's my I I was walking across campus the other 352 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:30.240 day and this little sorry, I don't know how to 353 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.519 say it, this little twitch, she's probably all of nineteen. 354 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.000 Years old, stops me. Are you registered to vote? 355 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:38.000 Oh god? 356 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:42.039 And I was already in a bad mood, and I 357 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:43.720 just looked at her and I said, of course, I'm 358 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.640 registered to vote, you twit, And I just kept walking. 359 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:49.079 I couldn't help myself, because you know what I hate 360 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:51.960 more than anything, are these people out registering idiots to vote? 361 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:53.759 The vote? Right all that? 362 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:54.200 Yeah? 363 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:58.119 Right, right? Okay, yeah, rock the vote. That's right, although 364 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:02.400 this generation it would be wine the vote, but go ahead, yeah. 365 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:07.119 Wind the vote. Pardon me? So this is actually serious business. 366 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:09.920 I read a lot this morning, and all of it 367 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:14.240 came with the caveat. But Elon Musk says that his 368 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:17.039 people who are trying to set up Starlink, who are 369 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:22.319 bringing in helicopters worth full of supplies, are being prevented 370 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:27.799 from doing so by FEMA. Yeah, FEMA's denying it, but 371 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.480 they're not. For instance, if I was FEMA and somebody 372 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:36.440 was saying this about me, and I was actually, excuse me, 373 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:41.880 assisting in the recovery, the volunteer recovery efforts, which my 374 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.160 understanding is are being turned away all the time. I 375 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:48.039 would provide evidence of that. I would say, no, that's 376 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:49.920 not true. Look here's what we're doing here, and I 377 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.880 would give pictures and so on. But instead they're just 378 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:58.559 denying it. But the problem is that we have that 379 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:01.400 that idiot MAJORCA say, yeah, sorry, we spend all the 380 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:04.119 money on immigrants. Can't help you. We don't have enough 381 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.720 money to make it to hurricane season. Dumb at Sorry, sorry, 382 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:11.000 Kim lamading Dong. I'm getting exercised about this. 383 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:18.640 Kim La ma ding Dong never offered seven hundred and 384 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:19.759 fifty dollars initially. 385 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:21.640 First of all, I don't even know what seven hundred 386 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:23.359 fifty dollars is going to do if you can't even 387 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:26.880 get to a store to buy supplies. I mean, I 388 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:29.119 heard Eric Trump say seven hundred and fifty dollars won't 389 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:31.680 even rememb replace your big screen TV in most cases, 390 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.039 you know. I mean, it's just the whole thing is 391 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:39.720 just creepy. It stinks to high heaven. 392 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.079 I can't. 393 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.680 I refuse to believe that Elon Musk and others on 394 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:50.000 the ground are so corrupt that they're actually accusing FEMA 395 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:57.680 and the federal government of stopping the relief efforts without 396 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:00.680 any evidence for doing so. The left might do that, 397 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.480 but that's not the way the right operates. I mean, 398 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.440 let's be serious here. They don't lie about things like that. Now, 399 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:09.839 maybe it's not as widespread as it's being made out to, 400 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:15.200 but why on earth would do they not understand that 401 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.960