WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.759 Do you all remember when Hillary Clinton picked Tim Kine 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:10.279 to be her running mate. That was something It was 3 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:15.880 something pretty boring, It was something pretty ineffective. Cain was 4 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.120 kind of an obscure member of the Senate. He was 5 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.879 not particularly well known or noteworthy on the national stage. 6 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:26.320 I think the pick of Cain was kind of a 7 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:32.320 surprise to people in twenty sixteen. Virginia was not really 8 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:36.960 viewed as a battleground state. Trump wound up surprisingly making 9 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.359 it competitive, but nobody, you know, thought of Virginia as 10 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:46.039 a swing state. He was portrayed as a moderate, but 11 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:49.960 was you know, still able to have Republicans kind of 12 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.159 ding him for voting for Democrats with Democrats most of 13 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:59.079 the time. He was kind of milk toast. He was 14 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.159 kind of boring. There wasn't really a whole heck of 15 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.319 a lot to say about him, and I don't think 16 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:10.480 anyone really thought of that as an inspired pick by 17 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:14.680 Hillary Clinton. But it was also, I think a thing 18 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.159 where this is not someone who is going to be 19 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:28.920 threatening to Hillary. I think Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, 20 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.239 is the next Tim Kane, only I think possibly worse. 21 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.879 I think he's he can very easily be painted as 22 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.799 a much more radically left wing figure than Kine. I 23 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:42.959 think it's going to be very hard to portray Waltz 24 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:48.040 as moderate. The only reason I think Democrats will be 25 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:54.959 able to portray Waltz as a moderate Democrat is because 26 00:01:55.599 --> 00:02:00.640 he is an old, overweight white guy from the Midwest. 27 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:05.120 They're kind of banking on you looking at him and saying, well, 28 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:11.199 he's an old, fat white guy from the Midwest. Old 29 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:15.680 fat white guys from the Midwest generally are not radical liberals. 30 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.800 An old fat white guy from the Midwest who's wearing 31 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:23.319 a suit in every photo of him, I guess Michael 32 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.400 Moore was an old fat is an old fat white 33 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:27.759 guy from the Midwest, but he never wears a suit. 34 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:32.319 So I think people assume that, well, here's this old 35 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:34.680 fat white guy from the Midwest. He wears a suit. Like, 36 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.319 what percentage of that demographic is a radical liberal? But 37 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:44.080 Waltz is radically liberal. He's radically pro transgenderism, he's radically 38 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:52.759 pro abortion, he's radically oversaw. He was governor during the 39 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:57.479 twenty twenty George Floyd riots. So if you don't like 40 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:03.280 how the George Floyd post George Floyd riots went in Minnesota. 41 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:10.240 He's the guy to blame. Gosh. I just think it's 42 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:18.000 such a weak selection, and I think what's happening here, though, 43 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.560 is a couple of different things. One is, I think 44 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:30.520 this is the Democrats really not wanting to deal with 45 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.719 the question of Israel and Palestine and how that issue 46 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:37.479 is going to be sorted out within the Democrat electorate. 47 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:44.919 Harris has I think, very deliberately signaled a kind of ambiguity. 48 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.319 Democrats realized with Biden was too old. He was perceived 49 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.360 as two pro Israel. All these young Democrats were fleeing 50 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:59.840 from him. They brought in Harris. Harris immediately did a 51 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.199 couple of strategic things to sort of signal she might 52 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.400 be more pro Palestinian than Biden. There were reports that 53 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.240 went out saying that she wasn't going to bring back 54 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:14.680 Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blincoln and the Biden foreign policy crew. 55 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.759 Some report that she she refused to show up for 56 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:22.920 Benjamin Netna Who's address before the Joint Session of Congress, 57 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:25.160 even though she's President of the Senate and that would 58 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:27.959 have been appropriate for her to go. She deliberately did 59 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.279 not go. She clearly made that choice, but still she 60 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:38.959 hasn't actually really openly signaled any big break from the 61 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.600 Biden administration's policy. So I think she's threaded the needle perfectly. 62 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:49.560 Older white Democrats still like her, but she is sort 63 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:54.360 of reeled back the younger, more pro Palestinian Democrats who 64 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.600 were sick and tired and fed up with genocide Joe 65 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:08.040 Biden picking Waltz rather than the much more obvious choice 66 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:14.480 Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who I was hoping 67 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:18.600 against Hope. I was desperately hoping she would not pick Shapiro. 68 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.319 I was desperately hoping she wasn't going to pick Shapiro. 69 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.199 Why because I think if she picked Shapiro, she'd win 70 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:27.360 the election. I think it would guarantee that she's gonna 71 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:32.720 win Pennsylvania because he's actually been a fairly popular governor. 72 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:39.079 After the shooting in Butler, after President Trump's near assassination, 73 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:45.160 Shapiro actually gave a press conference. He's the governor of Pennsylvania. 74 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:48.720 The attempted presidential assassination happened in his state, and he 75 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:57.360 gave a great press conference heralding the heroism of Corey Comparatore, 76 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.959 the Trump's supporter in the crowd or fire chief who 77 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:05.720 died in the shooting protecting his family. He gave a 78 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:09.040 great press conference honoring the guy, said that the flags 79 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.000 need to be flown at half staff in his honor. 80 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.240 Uh talked about a horrible thing. This what he was 81 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:25.839 great and he's a great speaker. He's relatively young. I 82 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:29.279 think a lot of people were looking at him as like, well, 83 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.519 why don't you know when when it was clear that 84 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.480 Biden was going to drop out, a lot of people 85 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:37.279 were saying, well, why not have an open Democrat convention 86 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.480 process and maybe see if this guy wants to be 87 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.399 the presidential nominee? What why why just coronate? Why just 88 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:46.399 have this be a coronation for Kamala Harris? Why not 89 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.920 have this guy do it? A lot of people were saying, 90 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:51.120 I feel like Trump when I say a lot of 91 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.000 a lot of people are saying it. Very many people, 92 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:56.800 the best people are saying that. A lot of people 93 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:04.360 are saying, so why do they not pick Josh Shapiro 94 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:13.639 cause he's Jewish and he supports Israel And that's kind 95 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.399 of sort of an issue for a lot of people 96 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.000 on the left. 97 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.160 They're not very happy with that. 98 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:24.959 And there was that story that he had volunteered for 99 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.279 the IDF when he was like twenty or something. 100 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:28.160 I mean, like. 101 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:40.360 Not the There is this undercurrent of where support for 102 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:49.279 the support for Palestinian statehood and opposition to quote, the 103 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:50.800 Israeli state. 104 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.839 And its colonial activity. 105 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:02.279 It's a very fine line where you go from anti Zionism. 106 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:02.439 I e. 107 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:08.079 The idea of a Jewish state in Palestine to flat 108 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:12.720 out anti Semitism. I feel like it's very easy to 109 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.680 cross the line from one to the other. And frankly, 110 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:19.360 Democrats have a problem with that that there is a 111 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:26.399 enough of a group of voters for whom that's a 112 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:32.360 big deal, and specifically there's some voters in Michigan and 113 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:40.360 some voters in Minnesota for whom that's an issue. Dearborn Michigan, 114 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:47.399 very heavy Muslim population, various quarters of Minnesota, big Somali population, 115 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:57.200 very pro Palestine, not very pro Israel. It's frankly, it's 116 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:01.519 a very awkward situation for Democrats because I think if 117 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:07.159 you take away the whole Israel Jewish connection and you're 118 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.320 just looking at Waltz on the one hand and Shapiro 119 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.919 on the other hand, it's clear whom you would have chosen. 120 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.240 Shapiro is younger, he's a better speaker, he's more charismatic. 121 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.519 His state is a much more critical swing state that 122 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.120 is much more decisive for the outcome of the election. 123 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:27.720 He's got much more of a future in American politics 124 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:34.120 than Waltz does. And maybe that last point is the 125 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.519 other dynamic. So I do think the Jewish thing is 126 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:44.639 a real thing. I do wonder also, though, if Waltz 127 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:52.919 being older and being non threatening could be a thing. Look, 128 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:57.240 Harris just showed that a vice president can upset a 129 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:01.480 president and become the nominee over the president. Now, in fairness, 130 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:06.759 that was a kind of an extraordinary circumstance where it 131 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:10.159 only happened because the president was so senile, obviously senile 132 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:12.639 and old, and so obviously unable to win, that the 133 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:18.600 donors had an intervention. But we've now demonstrated that this 134 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:25.440 is a thing. And I think, much like Hillary, Harris 135 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:33.279 picks someone who wasn't threatening, I mean, Shapiro. If you're 136 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.679 gonna put Harris and Shapiro's side by side, that's the thing. 137 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.759 Harris is not that bright, or at the very least, 138 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.960 she certainly doesn't come off that way when she doesn't 139 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:49.279 have a teleprompter in front of her, and the two 140 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.120 of them sitting side by side, it kind of becomes 141 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.879 obvious which of the two is the more impressive person 142 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:02.720 with Waltz. Look, this is that's what Walls is. Minnesota 143 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:05.879 is a pretty darn liberal state. It's kind of closer 144 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.559 to being a swing state this time around, maybe, but 145 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:11.720 Democrats should win Minnesota. They should win Minnesota every year. 146 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:15.279 Ronald Reagan didn't even win Minnesota in a state where 147 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.879 he won forty nine out of fifty state in the 148 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.480 nineteen eighty four election, when Ronald Reagan won forty nine 149 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.960 out of fifty states, the one state he didn't win 150 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:30.320 was Minnesota. Democrats should win Minnesota. And it's basically this. 151 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:34.840 If you run a cardboard box with the letter D 152 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.759 on it in the governor's race for governor of Minnesota, 153 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.840 nine times out of ten that cardboard box is going 154 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:51.480 to win. Tim Waltz is that cardboard box. Basically, he 155 00:11:52.000 --> 00:12:00.720 is just the general manifestation of Democratic Party policies, all 156 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:02.840 of the run of the mill Democrat Party policies. He's 157 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:05.600 super pro trans, super pro abortion, super pro this bro 158 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.279 that he does what Planned Parenthood wants. 159 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:07.679 He does what. 160 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:17.279 He's just pretty darn average. He is an average, unremarkable liberal. 161 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.799 He's a big, big, fat guy in a suit. He's 162 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.159 just not anything to write home about. He's not the 163 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.240 most charismatic guy in the world. He's the kind of 164 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.879 guy who can win governor of Minnesota and probably can't 165 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.480 ever become president. He's just one of those guys, like 166 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.799 kind of like Scott Walker, the former governor of Wisconsin. 167 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.679 There's a time when every conservative America was like, Oh, 168 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.080 Scott Walker, he's so amazing. Oh, this guy is gonna 169 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.519 be the next president. Oh, he's so amazing as governor 170 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.200 of Wisconsin. Then he gets on the debate stage in 171 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.799 twenty sixteen, Everyone's like, this guy's pretty boring. 172 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:51.000 That's Tim Walls. 173 00:12:51.120 --> 00:13:00.480 Okay, He's just nothing to write home about. So I 174 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:05.799 think this is really a pick from a position of 175 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:13.159 weakness on Harris's part. Harris is trying to avoid problems 176 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.919 rather than hit home runs. She's trying to draw a 177 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:21.799 walk rather than hit a home run. She wants a 178 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:26.120 pick who's not going to do anything that detracts from 179 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:26.759 her campaign. 180 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.360 She's playing it safe. Waltz has not much to. 181 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.840 Ding him for, although he does have the George Floyd riots, 182 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:36.559 but maybe she just figures, Look, the media is not 183 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.279 going to talk about that at all. There's not much 184 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:39.799 hay Republicans are going to be able to make. It 185 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:45.320 was too long ago. No one's going to care. Waltz 186 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:50.399 was re elected governor of Minnesota after the George Floyd riots, 187 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:54.480 so it's going to be really hard to ding him for, Oh, 188 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:56.720 look how terribly you handled the George floy You let 189 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.759 Minneapolis burn. He can say, well, apparently the people in 190 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.039 Manyapolis thought I did a find job, you know, a 191 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.440 good enough job that it wasn't my fault, because they 192 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:09.000 immediately re elected me in twenty twenty two, after all 193 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:10.879 the George Floyd riots in twenty twenty. 194 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:17.080 So, I don't know. 195 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:20.279 I I find it to be a this is a 196 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:26.799 play it safe pick on Harris's part. It's not a 197 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:33.559 home run swing. And I guess I just wonder. I 198 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:38.200 wonder about the inevitability fact. Maybe I'm giving into despair. 199 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:41.039 But when we return, how I fear this is just 200 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:44.320 becoming another twenty twenty Next on the John Girardi Show, 201 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.159 I just want to express my fear. 202 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:52.519 And before you say, stop talking light there. You're playing 203 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:53.600 into their hits. 204 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.440 Guys, I'm a local radio host in president California. Pretty 205 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.600 sure my fear is not going to lead to the 206 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:04.039 outcome of the election changing. Okay, So don't conflate my 207 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.720 expressing these views on the radio with something that's actually. 208 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:09.679 Having a national impact. 209 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.279 All Right, this is my fear, and it could be 210 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:14.679 just I'm a prisoner of the moment. 211 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:15.679 It could just be. 212 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:21.840 Democrats are excited for the first time in months because 213 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.919 they were able to ditch their obviously senile candidate for 214 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.519 someone younger, and she's getting a bump in the polls 215 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:32.720 because of that. And we're in the bump. Okay, we're 216 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:40.480 at the bump. Things will regulate after the Democrat convention 217 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:44.679 in August. Things will regulate and course correct in September, 218 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:50.279 and Trump will kind of come back up in the polls, 219 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.279 and that's where the election will be. Harris will still 220 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.960 not be able to shake the reality that this is 221 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:01.759 not a great presidency for her to run on. She 222 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.720 is the incumbent, she is the vice president of this administration. 223 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:08.200 In this administration has overseen a pretty cruddy economy that 224 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:13.919 the fundamentals of this election are still pretty strongly in 225 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:19.480 Trump's favor. Biden did not do a great job. Harris 226 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:24.600 inherits the blame for Biden. The economy is bad, all 227 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:32.960 this stuff is happening, okay, And yet, and yet I 228 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:38.960 still kind of fear a couple of things. I fear 229 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:42.639 the way that Harris is just not being asked any 230 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:49.080 questions whatsoever. She's just cruising. No media has asked her 231 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.320 any questions about all the issues she's flip flopped on. 232 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.679 No media has asked her any questions about anything dodgy 233 00:16:55.679 --> 00:17:01.080 in her past. She's just kind of of running what 234 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:03.480 a lot of people are identifying. This is a rerun 235 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:06.559 of the twenty twenty campaign strategy. Joe Biden was sitting 236 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:13.079 in his basement in Delaware, campaigning via zoom, not being 237 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:15.400 interviewed by a bunch of reporters, not having to ask 238 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.559 a bunch of tough questions. He pops in for a 239 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.200 couple debate performances where he did okay, not great, but okay. 240 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.799 Trump was a little too aggressive, yelled, came off bad, 241 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:32.440 and Biden wins. It's close enough that you know, if 242 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.960 there is Democrat vote, Shenanigans. 243 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:36.440 Close enough that they could win. 244 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.720 I'm just afraid that that's kind of the trajectory we're on. 245 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:49.240 That's my fear that Harris has brought back enough Democrats 246 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:53.599 who are like abandoning the Biden Ship that they're gonna 247 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.039 have enough of a critical mass of votes to keep 248 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.160 it close enough that they could use their sort of advantages, 249 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.440 not even the flat out cheating, but like, you know, 250 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.599 the kind of the zuck Bucks stuff where they put 251 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:10.200 all kinds of Zuckerberg funded election volunteer people to sort 252 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.480 of just purely there to get out the vote in 253 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:17.160 you know, Democrat heavy urban centers and swing states. 254 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:20.680 I just have this. 255 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:25.799 Strong sense that we're heading towards a similar conclusion. And 256 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:27.640 the big wild card. 257 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:30.960 That I just. 258 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.200 It's still looming is Trump is going to get sentenced 259 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:43.559 in September for the prosecution in Manhattan his conviction. He 260 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.720 was found guilty by the jury in Manhattan for falsification 261 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:48.799 of business records. 262 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:49.000 Again. 263 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:50.640 You know, we've talked about this a number of times 264 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.400 on the show. I think that the whole charge was ridiculous. 265 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:55.400 I think the conviction was ridiculous. I think the jury 266 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:58.039 instructions by the judge the whole time were ridiculous. I 267 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:00.400 think the judge should have recused himself. This is a 268 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:05.880 judge who was a Biden donor, small dollar donor whose 269 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.920 daughter had worked for various Democrat campaign causes the whole 270 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:14.039 thing stank to high heaven. But Trump's gonna. 271 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:17.799 Get sentenced, and what if he sentenced to go to jail. 272 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:22.119 It's not like Biden is gonna pardon him. Biden can't 273 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:23.559 pardon him. It's a New York state crime. 274 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:29.000 It's not Kathy Hockcule is gonna pardon him. And I 275 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:32.200 think the media has already effectively memory hold the assassin, 276 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:37.440 the assassination attempt. It's like it never happened, Like like 277 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.079 the media has moved on. Nobody talks about it. Nobody 278 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:42.400 talks about the fact that one of the two major 279 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:47.119 presidential candidates almost got assassinated, was like two centimeters away 280 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:51.359 from getting his brains blown out. It's like it it 281 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:54.160 never happened. It's not the biggest story. It was not 282 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:56.359 the biggest story of July. 283 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:57.279 It just wasn't. 284 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.880 As far as the amount of press coverage, Biden dropping 285 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:07.160 became the bigger story. And basically the media just decided 286 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.519 showing pictures from the Butler shooting. They couldn't do its 287 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.599 disinformation basically purely on the basis that Trump looked so 288 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.599 cool and reacted in such an awesome way that it's 289 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:22.279 basically a Trump campaign ad just to show the pictures. 290 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:25.240 That's basically in the media's reasoning for why they don't 291 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.319 want to keep showing pictures from the camp from the assassination. 292 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:32.359 Like the AP had one of their leading photo editors 293 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:36.359 say that this is basically propagandizing to show this photo. 294 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:37.920 What do you mean if propaganda? 295 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:45.440 Yeah, sorry, that he reacted in such a totally badass way. Now, 296 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.680 that's my fear is that the media is so all in. 297 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:57.839 They've basically hugely weakened all of them. All of the 298 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:01.480 Republican critiques against Biden as being too old, which were 299 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.759 enormously successful, they've taken those all off the table for 300 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:11.039 some reason. Even still right now, it's almost like Republicans arguing, hey, 301 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.880 Kamala Harris should be held responsible for the fact that 302 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.759 Biden is still president, like is he even competent to 303 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.200 be president? And she's still covering up how senile he is, 304 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:23.480 And it's like nobody cares all those stories that were 305 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:25.759 being leaked about how senile Biden was all of a sudden, 306 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.559 those none of those stories are coming out anymore. We're 307 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:32.960 just gonna pretend like there's nothing wrong with the president, 308 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.279 that he didn't drop out because he was senile. So 309 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:39.680 I don't know, I just feel like there's this sense 310 00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:43.119 of inevitability that the media so firmly controls the narratives, 311 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:46.359 is so firmly influencing people. And plus I mean, just 312 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:49.799 anecdotally I'm hearing from it. Just Harris got so much 313 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:53.519 money in the immediate aftermath of Biden dropping out, and 314 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:57.519 she's running ad after ad after ad after ad all 315 00:21:57.559 --> 00:21:59.599 over the country, and I'm not seeing any Trump ads. 316 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:02.720 I'm seeing people complaining about this in Pennsylvania, like where 317 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:07.359 are the Trump ads. I don't know, I'm just not 318 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.519 confident in the Trump team's strategy. I think the whole 319 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:17.599 idea of trying to nitpick whether Harris is authentically black 320 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:21.359 or she's presenting herself as more Asian, Like even if 321 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:24.640 that's true, it was so stupid, like there was no 322 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:27.000 way you were gonna win that there was just no way, 323 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:33.519 Like I guess I really get the sense that Republicans 324 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:35.440 have no idea how they're supposed to attack Harris, which 325 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:38.599 it boggles my mind given that she seems so eminently attackable. 326 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:41.240 She's flip flopped every position she's had. She was one 327 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.079 of the most liberal members of the US Senate. She 328 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:47.640 was an aggressively left wing California Attorney general. Like there 329 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:50.279 are so many things to dinger for, just say she 330 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:53.119 wanted to ban fracking. She wanted to ban fracking. She's 331 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:56.079 only flip flopping because she's trying to win Pennsylvania, like 332 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:57.759 it's easy. 333 00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:00.000 And I just feel like Republicans are gonna lose it. 334 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:01.759 And I feel like Trump's going to turn to his 335 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:06.200 more destructive tendencies of saying unhelpful things because he's never 336 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.319 really been able to control himself. I don't know, I 337 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:13.200 just I feel like there's this inevitable trend. All right, 338 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:16.799 when we return, I want to talk about Kamala Harris's husband, 339 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:21.880 Doug m Hoff, and that story, Yes, the story with 340 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:27.519 the nanny next on the John Girardi Show. Doug m Hoff, 341 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:34.480 the husband of Kamala Harris, has had quite the news 342 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.799 cycle just over the last weeks. Amazingly that this news 343 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.920 cycle didn't happen when Harris was picked as Joe Biden's 344 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:44.319 vice presidential nominee back in twenty twenty. 345 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:46.160 But you know, the media was too busy. 346 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:50.480 Not covering anything negative about the Biden's or the Harrises 347 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:56.640 or Harris slash m Hoff. So. M Hoff was married 348 00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:04.640 previously and got divorced, and he got divorced in part 349 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.000 because he cheated on his wife. He had an affair 350 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:12.640 with the couple's nanny, nanny who was babysitting their kids. 351 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:20.400 Less talked about in the whole thing is that the 352 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:25.319 nanny got pregnant and did not keep the baby. That 353 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:28.000 is a euphemism for saying that the baby was aborted. 354 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:36.640 Em Hoff has a long track record as the second 355 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:39.720 dude or the second gentleman. I guess, as you know, 356 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:42.440 first lady and second lady when you're the wife of 357 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:44.880 the president or vice president, and I guess first or 358 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:48.160 second gentleman will be the title for the husband of 359 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:50.279 the president or vice president should the president and vice 360 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:52.359 president be a woman. So his technical name is the 361 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:58.319 second gentleman. M Hoff is sort of a public figure, 362 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:03.440 not as dominant as Jill Biden, but somewhat you know 363 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:09.720 one click below, and was very vocal, among other things, 364 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:14.359 in supportive abortion Rights has tweets and things like that 365 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.079 to crying the overturning of Robi Wade, very supportive of 366 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.759 his wife's pro abortion efforts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 367 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:31.599 This sort of combined with a recent statement by Pete Boodhagige, 368 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:35.960 the Transportation Secretary. So there was a recent zoom call 369 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.440 White Guys for Kamala Harris where a bunch of white 370 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:41.200 guys talked about how horrible their white privilege was and 371 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:44.720 says how say talked about how important it was to 372 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:48.359 support Kamala Harrisy at all these prominent white liberal democrats 373 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:52.200 talking about how wonderful Kamala Harris was and raising money 374 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:54.960 on a big zoom call, and Pete Bootage spoke during 375 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.480 it and talked about how abortion rights help men to 376 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:04.480 be more or free legal abortion helps men to be 377 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:10.480 more free. A curious comment. More free? How more free? 378 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.039 Why? More free? For what? 379 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:17.640 And it gets to an ugly part of the abortion 380 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:22.319 debate that I think is not talked about enough and 381 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:26.799 needs comment, and that is. 382 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:28.000 How often. 383 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:36.799 Abortion is not a tool for women's freedom or women's choice. 384 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:41.720 In fact, most of the research indicates that the vast 385 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.000 majority of women who choose abortion are not doing so 386 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:49.240 from a position of great freedom or choice. In fact, 387 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:53.160 about sixty to seventy percent depending on the survey. The 388 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:57.359 most recent survey indicates it's about seventy percent. Seventy percent 389 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:05.079 of women report that their abortions were against their preference, 390 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.880 that the abortion was against the preference of the woman 391 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:13.200 having the abortion, meaning I would rather keep this baby, 392 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:19.400 but I feel constrained by my financial situation. I would 393 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:23.759 rather keep this baby, but my partner does not want 394 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:26.640 me to keep the baby. I would rather keep this baby, 395 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:28.359 but my family does not want me to keep the baby. 396 00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:32.119 Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. We a Right to 397 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.759 Life of Central California have encountered this directly. You know, 398 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.519 we have our sidewalk ministry where we're interacting with couples 399 00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:42.200 going in and out of playing PARENTID and we have 400 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:50.119 not infrequently seen situations where this says, well, my boyfriend 401 00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:52.000