WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:08.800 Well whiskey coming, don't you. 2 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:15.439 From power Line blog dot com and produced by Ricochet 3 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:20.399 dot Com. This is the three Whiskey Happy Hour with 4 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:26.120 your bartenders Steve Hayward, John Yu and power Lines International 5 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.239 Woman of Mystery Lucretia. 6 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:34.280 You gotta given that wild where you're being in Loud 7 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:35.479 Down and Lode. 8 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:43.960 Welcome everybody to a super special anniversary episode of the 9 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:48.640 Three Whiskey Happy Hour. Because Steve Hayward didn't tell anybody 10 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:54.000 about this anybody, but this is the five hundredth anniversary 11 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.479 of the Three Whiskey Happy the five hundredth episode. I 12 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.439 don't even know what, Steve, what is the word for 13 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.120 that's it goes way beyond sesque tenial or whatever? Yeah, 14 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.599 it would it be pentitenial. What is the fifth hundred 15 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.239 and you, Steve, I assume you were there for episode 16 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:10.840 number one. 17 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.799 No no, no, no, no no, no, you've got you 18 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.319 haven't quite got it right. It's the five hundredth episode 19 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:19.560 of the power Line podcast, which is of course our 20 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:23.159 umbrella thing, right, And it began way before I joined 21 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.760 Powerline in twenty eleven. But back then it was just 22 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:29.439 you know, Jon Scott and Paul and they were very 23 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:31.319 intermittent about it. I mean they didn't do it regularly. 24 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:33.959 Oh yeah, so, I mean if it was three Minnesotans, 25 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.400 it was just like who could be the friendliest person 26 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.200 on the podcast? Where as instead we jazzed it up 27 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.760 by adding someone who's the opposite of the friendliest person 28 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.519 on podcasting, the famous Lucretia. 29 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.159 I am a midwestern Er, Thank you very much. 30 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:51.040 You are. 31 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.159 Everyone associates you with the great Southwest. How are you 32 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:56.599 from the northwester? 33 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:00.079 I have lit I grew. I was born in Io, 34 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.159 and then I went to live with relatives in Minnesota, 35 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:10.319 and then I moved to California in my high school years, 36 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.360 and then I traveled the world and ended up in Arizona. 37 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:14.919 So there you go. 38 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.159 But you remember, John, she's from Iowa originally, And whenever 39 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.360 I think of Lucretia coming from Iowa, I think of 40 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:24.520 those lyrics from the Music Man about we can be 41 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.639 cold as a following thermometer in December if you ask 42 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.680 about her weather in July. Right, Well, how was the 43 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:37.159 other one, Lucretia. It's we're so by god stubborn anyway. Anyway, 44 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:38.879 so there's a different Steve. 45 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:41.360 How many is this do you remember how many episodes 46 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:44.800 has it been with this configuration with you Lucretia. I, 47 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.319 of course, am just a late night carpetbagger who only 48 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.400 joined about a year and a half ago because Steve 49 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.000 had to go on his bi annual pilgrimage to a 50 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:57.680 distillery country like I think you were in Ireland or Scotland. 51 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.520 I don't know where you were allowed me to sneak in. 52 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:01.000 But Steve, how many is this for you? 53 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:04.759 Well that's actually three years ago now, John, So it's 54 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.560 got to be at least I haven't counted, but this 55 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.759 has to be at least one hundred and fifty episodes now. 56 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.039 Of well, if before you joined this was just me 57 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:14.479 and Lucretia, it's got to be two hundred and fifty 58 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.599 episodes by now. I think, yeah, I know. 59 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:18.759 Those were I have to say I was a regular 60 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:22.520 listener before I joined, and those were great episodes. Because now, 61 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.159 for those of you who don't know, Steve brought me 62 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.599 on is just to divide the targets of attack for Lucretia, 63 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.800 so it's not just focused on him, and let me 64 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.759 bring us back to the actual events of the show, 65 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.319 because that might be what's happened now with Kamala Harris. 66 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:45.520 She's picked a vice president, Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, 67 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:48.840 which now provides Donald Trump with two targets to shoot at, 68 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:54.159 not just one. Steve, what's your thought on this new 69 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.639 pick by comust First, just I think we should both 70 00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:59.680 talk about both you and Lucretia ask you both this, 71 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.520 what do you just think about him as the candidate 72 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.240 on the merits? But then two, does it change the 73 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:04.759 race at all? 74 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.319 I think? Well, so, first of all, it proves that 75 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.879 she can be intimidated, right, I mean all those signs 76 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.400 where she wanted to pick Shapiro, by the way, all 77 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.000 the news stories that well, they didn't get along in 78 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.560 their conversation, she wasn't comfortable with him, you know, or 79 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.639 he backed I think all those are lies. I think 80 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.560 that she was intimidated out of picking him because so 81 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:28.519 many people on the left are saying, we can't have 82 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:33.079 this pro Israel, anti Palestinian. This is all code words 83 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.720 for a Jewish running mate. Right, and picking walt she 84 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:37.680 doubled down on her own brand. She didn't pick a 85 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:40.399 moderate the way du kau Kistan in eighty eight to 86 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.920 balance the ticket. She picked another progressive just like herself, 87 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.439 and I think that pleased the progressive base of the Democrats. 88 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:51.040 I think it shows that she's insecure. And then yeah, 89 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:54.079 he's just terrible. I mean, I've been kidding Scott and 90 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.199 John about Ah. Now we can have a debate about 91 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.319 who has the worst governor California with Newsom or Waltz 92 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.720 in Minnesota, because he's, you know, just as progressive in 93 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.120 all the awful ways as Newsome is. I do think 94 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.040 here Lucretia will have a lot to say. I do 95 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:12.759 think that's interesting how this business about his resigning from 96 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.720 his National Guard unit once he learned he might be 97 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.319 deployed to a rock might have some legs. It's starting 98 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.959 to get out into the mainstream media, you know, CNN's 99 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.759 and a couple of things on this. Our pal mac 100 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.839 Owens had a piece in the Providence Journal yesterday saying, look, 101 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:30.560 I'm not going to accuse him of stolen valor, but 102 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.160 it's really an offense against the honor of serving military 103 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.879 people to bail out the way he did. And apparently 104 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:39.399 they had to shut down the comment thread for the 105 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:41.800 article because it's excited so much controversy. 106 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.920 He was wrong about it, not being stolen valor. I mean, 107 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:46.959 I read the article too, and it was a good article. 108 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:50.480 But you've got all of these people out there who are. 109 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:55.839 Show well. Just my conclusion on this is is that 110 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.720 I think it's very unlikely he get dropped from the ticket, 111 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:00.759 because that would just be fatal to Harris and be 112 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:04.680 like McGovern dumping Eagleton fifty years ago. But I think 113 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:06.199 this is going to be a problem for them. And 114 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.079 my prediction is in his speech to the convention this 115 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.800 week coming up, he won't talk about his military service. 116 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:13.120 This is going to be memory hold. 117 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:20.279 Yeah, they've actually showed an apology saying he didn't, but 118 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.160 the campaign did that he misspoke. So yeah, there's a 119 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:25.879 couple of issues. First, let me go back to what 120 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:29.600 Steve said about why Waltz was chosen. I don't disagree 121 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:32.040 with anything Steve said at all. He's absolutely right, but 122 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:33.560 I do think there's a little bit more to it. 123 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:39.000 It's not just that those conversations say with Shapiro didn't 124 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.879 go well, or she didn't feel a vibe or whatever 125 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.959 you want to call it with Shapiro. I think that 126 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:48.759 the others recognize that there's very little chance that she's 127 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:54.000 likely to win in November, the Whitmers and the others 128 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.399 who just can't afford it. Walls supposedly said he has 129 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:01.360 no interest in being a president, so he posed no 130 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:06.040 threat to Amala Dayamalama ding Dong. That's my new name, 131 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:08.879 and I'm never saying it any other life I can remember. 132 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:12.839 Can I just say, I can't even remember now what 133 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.079 the word was before, Like, what was it ding dong? 134 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:17.120 Now I can't. 135 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:25.240 It's Shamalama ding Dong from oh okay, right, yeah, I'll 136 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:27.680 just leave that one alone. So so I think that 137 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.120 there were a lot of things coming together that made 138 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:34.399 Waltz perfect for Kamalama ding Dong, but not necessarily for 139 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:37.120 a wider view. I did think that they probably know 140 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.800 there's now there's no way that they can win. They 141 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.720 cannot put this story down. One of the things that 142 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:47.680 I posted go back to the whole thing about stolen valor. 143 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.720 He didn't resign from his unit, Steve. He retired, and 144 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.839 of course, you know, everybody keeps arguing after twenty four 145 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.399 years in the National Guard, he has every right to retire, 146 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.040 but first of all, he had he had enlisted for 147 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.199 a six year term. It takes quite a bit to 148 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:06.800 get out before your reenlistment. I mean, that's the whole point. 149 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.839 You might get out, you might be medically separated or 150 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.480 something like that, But retirement would have required somebody with 151 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:17.439 some power in the chain to have agreed to this. 152 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:21.160 And he did, in fact know people are saying this. Also, 153 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:23.519 he did in fact know that his unit was deploying. 154 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:27.720 He promised to deploy with his unit to Iraq, and then, 155 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.680 of course quietly in the background, put in his paperwork 156 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:36.639 to retire. That. You know, again, it's if you don't 157 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.679 spend as much time with military folks as I do, 158 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:41.600 and I've spent a lot of time. In last couple 159 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.399 of weeks, I took a visit to Fort Jackson, which 160 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:51.480 is the number one basic combat training base now for 161 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:56.600 the Army. About sixty percent of all basic training recruits 162 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.200 go through there. I spent a week there. And you know, 163 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.480 so I know a lot of people who are command 164 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:07.879 sergeant majors. They are, in fact everything that Tim Mama 165 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.919 Law supposedly claims to be or Daddy Waltz. They really 166 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:19.399 are the cohesiveness that holds a unit together. The officers 167 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.559 have a different kind of relationship with the soldiers. I 168 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.279 don't want to go into that. There's enough about it 169 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.639 out there that our listeners will know. But it was 170 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:32.919 a huge, a huge betrayal of his battalion. There's no 171 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:36.120 way to put that down. The funny thing I think 172 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:40.240 about it is that they knew this was true. They 173 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:43.200 knew that he had claimed to be a command sergeant 174 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.519 major and not a master sergeant once he was actually 175 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.159 retired and demoted. They knew all of that in the campaign, 176 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.159 but they didn't think it mattered. It reminds me of 177 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.000 that time Biden went to Georgia after the Bulldogs won 178 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:59.399 their first national championship and he doesn't say it word. 179 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:04.360 They're so stupid, those millennials inside the campaign that they 180 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:06.080 didn't think it was it would matter. 181 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.080 Well, this did come up in his first governor's race 182 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:13.360 in twenty eighteen. Ye they're such about so they should right. 183 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:15.440 Yeah, yeah, of course they knew about it. I mean 184 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.639 the Tribune, as you would expect, to covered it up 185 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:20.559 to or said, you know, it's a non story in 186 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.960 this and that there aren't major military bases in Minnesota, 187 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:29.759 but in places like Pennsylvania. By the way, John, there 188 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:36.519 are eight hundred thousand veterans in Pennsylvania, there are six 189 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:40.399 hundred thousand in Georgia. There are four one hundred and 190 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:45.679 fifty thousand in Arizona. Now none of those veterans unless 191 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.000 there are they, you know, nowadays you get more of 192 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.879 the rabid lefties and among the veteran population too. But 193 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:55.720 even leftist or non political soldiers that I've talked to lately, 194 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:59.679 especially senior and CEOs, who know nothing and care nothing 195 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:04.240 about politics, but they really don't. They are adamant that 196 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.639 that this is disqualifying, that this guy is a trader, 197 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.720 that you know, that it's stolen valor, and there's nothing 198 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.159 that you could do to offend veterans more. I think 199 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:18.559 what's going to happen is that veterans who would not otherwise, 200 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.200 would not otherwise have voted at all, are going to 201 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:28.240 vote against Waltz, and I think the VP choice matters 202 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:32.480 in this case. The last thing, the last thing I'll 203 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:37.240 say about that is that talking to people here in Arizona, 204 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:39.519 soldiers here where I. 205 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.320 Believe Kamala is coming today for a big rally. 206 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:45.080 She was there yesterday. Oh yes, Tamilama ding Dong was 207 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.840 in Phoenix. And the funny let me come back to that, 208 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:52.159 but really quick, a lot of these soldiers, you know 209 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:54.960 what they said to me, Why wouldn't she choose Mark Kelly? 210 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.320 He's an astronaut. Now, of course you knew what I 211 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.679 think of Mark Kelly. But my point is these are 212 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.639 not people who are political. This isn't a political decision. 213 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.399 This is I would never vote for someone I consider 214 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.960 to be a liar and a cheat and a betrayer 215 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.840 of his troops. And so anyway, I think I think 216 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.000 it's going to be bigger than people are trying to 217 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.120 make it out to be. Back to Kamalama ding Dong 218 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:24.879 in Arizona, the interesting thing is watching how they are 219 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:29.080 desperately trying to make it look like her rallies are 220 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:34.360 as big as Trumps. Now again, Trump's in Montana yesterday. 221 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:38.080 Montana is not in play for the presidency. He went 222 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.960 to go support Tim Sheehy. The line started in the morning, 223 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.240 and you know, they had to put up big screen 224 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.360 TVs outside because there wasn't room for everybody that wanted 225 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.000 to get in. In the case of Kamalama ding Dong's 226 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:58.360 rally in Phoenix, they covered the upper stores. What would 227 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.720 you call the upper bleachers with black cloth so that 228 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.480 the pictures wouldn't show them being empty seats. They bring 229 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:10.879 in man. And the other thing is every single one 230 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:15.360 of her rallies has has featured people I of course 231 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.080 have never heard of. You know, anybody who'd actually go 232 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.159 listen to some hip hop singer deserves to vote for 233 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:24.440 Kamala ding Dong in my opinion. But she brings in 234 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:31.879 these god awful supposedly popular hip hop or rap singers 235 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.720 or whatever. And then that's why and their free concerts, 236 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.639 and that's why people show up that And if you've 237 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.799 seen pictures over the rally, somebody did this. It was 238 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:44.879 so damn funny. It was just a bunch of old, 239 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:47.799 fat women who all look like they owned multiple cats. 240 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:50.240 I just I'm just gonna leave it. 241 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.639 At that, Okay, Steve, Steve, do you think it makes 242 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:56.919 a difference? So does this just have the effect of 243 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:01.840 neutralizing any advantage Harris might have gone and from picking Waltz? 244 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.519 And then you know, just a few weeks ago people 245 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.159 were bemoaning the choice of JD. 246 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:07.600 Vance. 247 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.120 There's some buyers horse there even leaking out of the 248 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:14.759 Trump camp. Maybe both sides have made a kind of 249 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.080 misstep here and they cancel each other out, and we're 250 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:18.960 just back to a race between Trump and Harris. 251 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:21.000 Well, and look, it usually comes down to the top 252 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:24.559 of the ticket. The evidence is kind of weak that 253 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.759 running mates make a difference, except say LBJ in nineteen sixty. 254 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:30.679 But I still think that the smart play would have 255 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.679 been for Harris to pick Roy Cooper of North Carolina, 256 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.919 who took himself out, or Andy Basher of Kentucky. Somebody 257 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.720 who's you know, balancing in the old fashioned way might 258 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:42.080 appeal to some of those states where Harris is weak. 259 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:49.080 And Okay, I think Vance looks better now because he 260 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.120 actually did serve in the combat zone, and I think 261 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.600 he's up his game. I've been paying a little bit 262 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.120 of attention. I think he did a brilliant move the 263 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.679 other day when he landed on the same runway as 264 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:02.960 hair Russ plane and walked across the runway to the 265 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.799 reporters saying, well, you guys are kind of lonely, no, 266 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.159 since you won't talk to you and anyway, I think 267 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.039 he stepped back up his game. He's looking better. I 268 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.960 think this was I think you shouldn't John have bought 269 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.399 the media kool aid about Vance. I mean, he's you know, 270 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:19.360 it's sort of an uneven starred and he's got a 271 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.120 lot of baggage that always comes out with running mates 272 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:27.639 in the first two three weeks, baggage we say. Sorry. 273 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.000 What I mean by baggage is in the ordinary conventional 274 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.080 sense of stuff, the media and the opponents are going 275 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:37.440 to exploit the childless and stuff. And that doesn't bother me. 276 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:39.519 I mean, i'd carry Why would. 277 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.679 It bother anybody but a childless cat lady. 278 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.080 Who apparently there seemed to be a number of them 279 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:47.480 in the suburbs Michigan. That's the problem. 280 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:51.159 Will never vote for Trump anyway. They're they're still offended 281 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.039 because he said he'd grab them by the you know what. 282 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:57.639 You know, they're so repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, maybe just 283 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.559 for for childless cat ladies. 284 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.240 I think the uh real, I mean real question, John, 285 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:06.519 is maybe your topic number two on the Trump campaign. 286 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:08.240 I don't know, are you done with Waltz or I'm 287 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:09.080 done with the guy? 288 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.200 But here's one other thing, is both of you have 289 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.960 said quite at odds with the way the media is 290 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:21.039 presenting Waltz as a sort of grandfatherly mass Midwestern dad 291 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.200 football coach. I mean There's been an enormous number of 292 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:27.480 stories about how football coach will appeal to h young men, 293 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.440 vote me, you young male voters. But he's a terrible progressive. 294 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:33.720 He's a terrible progressive. 295 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:38.879 Are an assistant football coach? 296 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.039 Yeah, I mean I think he's a pretty good one. Well, 297 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:42.159 we'll see, but never mind that. 298 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:49.519 Matter. High school football coach, coach, coach, Give me a break. 299 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.519 Oh my god, I'm sorry. 300 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.159 See this is this actually shows a gender divide because 301 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:58.279 he was like his coach assistant. 302 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:02.919 He's a social studies teacher. I mean, the dumbest people 303 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.240 on the planet are next to early childhood people are 304 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:12.079 social studies teachers who are coaches. That's the only reason 305 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:13.960 they get a degree, because that's what they want to do. 306 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.759 They want to hang out in the gym or on 307 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:19.559 the field all day. And one has to wonder. Never mind, 308 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:21.640 I'll just leave it alone. But he was not the coach. 309 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.039 He wasn't even good enough to rise to the level 310 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.240 of coach. He was the assistant coach. 311 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:28.920 Well in high school. 312 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.559 Yeah, in high school. 313 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:32.839 In high school. It's not talking about the NFL here, 314 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:35.240 But what does this Why do you guys say he's 315 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.440 such a big progressive. You're seeing almost none of this 316 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.519 filter through into the in the mainstream media. You know, 317 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.039 I scour the New York Times, in the Washington Post 318 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:47.119 and the Wall Street Journal every day, as Lucretia constantly 319 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:50.240 criticizes me for, But I don't actually see that much 320 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:54.519 that seems to bear on him being this wild eyed progressive. 321 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:59.440 Oh, there's might be, but the problem always keep in 322 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.359 mind at you know, what's the old line, does a 323 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:04.680 fish know it's wet when it's in the ocean? Right? 324 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.480 The reporters, now for the media, they don't think that 325 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.799 they're liberal or leftists. They don't think that progressive ideas 326 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:14.920 are controversial, and so of course they're not going to say, gosh, 327 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.200 you know, Waltz insisting on signing a bill holding tampons 328 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:22.119 and boys restrooms in K twelve school, you know, from 329 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.519 fourth grade to twelfth grade. Right, fourth grade. Oh, that's 330 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:28.759 an interesting thought. Tampon's in the fourth grade in elementary school, 331 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:32.880 boys bathroom. But so there you go. He's got all 332 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:35.880 kinds of barnacles that way, every bit as much as newsome. 333 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:43.640 And so it's on the truck th COVID correct. Yeah, 334 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:44.480 I think that's right. 335 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:46.599 Newsen never had a snitch line. 336 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:50.519 I think he thought about it, but it doesn't matter, right, 337 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:51.960 he had a snitch line and all the rest of that. 338 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.400 So look, I mean, also, John, I guess do you 339 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.519 not read the Wall Street Journal editorial page they've taken long? 340 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.319 I do, Well, you'll learn the truth there at least. 341 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:05.759 See this is the paper where you begin with the 342 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:07.880 editorial page, and then if you have time, you read 343 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:09.960 the news pages. That's what I say about the journal. 344 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:13.960 So oh, I do too, I have to admit. Okay, well, okay, 345 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.279 let's turn. Let's turn to our second topic and start 346 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:19.079 with lucretia, which is what the hell is going on 347 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:23.440 with the Trump campaign. It seems to me that the 348 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.640 Trump and Vance, and I don't blame them, were kind 349 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.920 of wrong footed by this swap of Harris for Biden. 350 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.359 They seemed a little, I don't know, they seemed a 351 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:41.079 little passive for about two weeks. They seemed confused about 352 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.160 what kind of strategy to you, And then there have 353 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:47.559 been this criticism of Trump for instead of trying to 354 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.440 bring to light all of the bad policies that Harris 355 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.279 has stated she supports. And now your guys are adding 356 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:58.640 Waltz to he's instead focusing his attacks on Kamala Harris's identity, 357 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:01.759 and then we start this feud with the governor of Georgia. 358 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.359 These are all great stories, but they allow Kamala Harris 359 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.319 the breathing room to define herself and run all these 360 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:10.319 positive ads about her during the Olympics. 361 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:13.480 Thank you Mitt Romney for setting the question up for 362 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:14.160 me so well. 363 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:16.200 I totally sorry. 364 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:24.400 Trump has an hour long, seventy minute long press conference, 365 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:29.200 and you know, he talked about how bad her policies are. 366 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:32.400 He talked about the fact that she hasn't given a 367 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:36.680 press conference, the fact that he hasn't had seventeen rallies 368 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:40.079 like she has. I don't think is necessarily proof that 369 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.680 they that they were off their game. I don't believe 370 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:50.000 that it's wrong to attack Harris for her DEI lack 371 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:53.960 of qualifications. Personally, I think she's a moron. I think 372 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:55.799 proof of the fact that she's a moron is that 373 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:58.519 they simply won't let her in front of an interviewer 374 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:02.319 who would ask her any real question questions. I guess 375 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:07.079 I don't see it. Maybe because I'm the beneficiary. I 376 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.839 have a junk email and many many years ago, my 377 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:14.359 brother in law sent me a pro Obama thing which 378 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:16.880 got me on a list. So I get all the 379 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:24.279 Republican conservative email and I get all the Democrats. You know, 380 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:27.440 the best that Kama can do is I'm so excited 381 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.640 about having Daddy Wild to be part of the ticket. Hey, 382 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.880 can you please send I know you haven't sent any 383 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.200 money yet, but can this be your first twenty five dollars? 384 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:40.160 It's I think it's a false narrative that says Trump's 385 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:42.960 campaign isn't doing well. I think the other false narrative 386 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:45.000 is that the polls are showing X, Y and Z. 387 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.160 I don't think the polls are showing anything of the kind. 388 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:51.440 I think they're made up polls designed to try to 389 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:55.200 build some momentum for Harris. And I think that when 390 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:56.720 it comes down to it, we're going to see that 391 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.880 this whole last couple of weeks was a bit of 392 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:05.440 a fairy tale invented by the mediagasm. That's my belief, 393 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:09.559 the Camalama ding Dong media gasm. 394 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:13.480 I'm mark right, yeah, Steve so, But I mean the 395 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:16.160 media is always going to be against Trump. I mean, 396 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:19.279 it's just something he has to take account of, is 397 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:23.359 he missing his chances or is Lucretia right. Actually Trump's 398 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.480 doing a lot better than the media and the polls reflect, 399 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:29.759 and they haven't been making the serious mistakes that you 400 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:34.599 know the commentariat is claiming. Even conservative commentariats or like 401 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.599