WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.919 I'll admit that I've given in to this certain instinct 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:09.919 that I think a lot of Conservatives suffer from. It 3 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:17.000 is the instinct to call whoever our lead political antagonists 4 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:25.719 are morons. It's the instinct to think that our political 5 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:30.719 opponents believe so many dumb things, so many evil things, 6 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:34.479 so many wicked things, that we have to ascribe every 7 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:36.560 kind of bad adjective we can to them. 8 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.799 So this is Barack Obama evil? 9 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:45.399 Yes, he's evil. Is Barack Obama stupid? Yes, Barack Obama 10 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:51.600 is stupid? Whoa there, pumpa breaks. Barack Obama's a lot 11 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:59.000 of things. He's not stupid. He's in a club. There 12 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.280 are only forty six members in it. I'm not in it, 13 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.640 and you're not in it. But he's in it, all right. 14 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.719 You don't get into a club like that being dumb. 15 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.000 You don't get elected president of the United States of America. 16 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.280 You don't get re elected president of president of the 17 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:13.280 United States of America. 18 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:14.480 That's an even smaller. 19 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:20.599 Club without being pretty darn smart at certain kinds of things. 20 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:21.920 Now, is Barack. 21 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:29.560 Obama's eloquence overblown? Is he overblown as far as certain 22 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:30.799 aspects of his intellect? 23 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:31.159 Sure? 24 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:40.079 But the guy is undoubtedly smart, shrewd, tactical, ingenious in 25 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.400 various aspects of the art of winning in politics. You 26 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.879 know who else is really smart that we've overlooked like that, 27 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:49.040 Joseph R. 28 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:49.560 Biden. 29 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.920 Yes, may be old, he may be senile, but he's 30 00:01:53.959 --> 00:02:00.719 won one more presidential election than you have. Plus the 31 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.599 guy was elected to and re elected, and re elected, 32 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:05.239 and re elected and re elected to the Senate a 33 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.599 gazillion times. He somehow in two thousand and eight convinced 34 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:16.360 Barack Obama to make him his vice president and secured 35 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:20.879 Pennsylvania for Barack Obama twice, which was the real I 36 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:25.680 think the reason why Obama picked him he needed sort of. 37 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.639 I guess Pennsylvania's not really Midwest. I guess the Atlantic 38 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:33.520 rural whites, with whom Biden has always been pretty popular. 39 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.159 Biden's won Pennsylvania three times, three for three. 40 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:40.800 In his presidential contests. 41 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:43.800 Being I understand he's from Delaware, but he has all 42 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.560 these It's right next, right next door to Pennsylvania, on 43 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:53.280 the doorstep to Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the great swing state prize. Now, 44 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:55.240 is Joe Biden a genius? 45 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:55.639 No? 46 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.879 I think he's a pretty mediocre intellect, and he was 47 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:00.800 a pretty mediocre into before. 48 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.159 He was sen isle and now he's senile. 49 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:07.240 But undoubtedly Joe Biden is really smart in other kinds 50 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:07.759 of ways. 51 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.479 He is very shrewd, He is crafty. 52 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:13.879 He is good at the art of politics, at the 53 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.120 art well not like the classical art of politics, but 54 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:23.439 at the art of getting himself elected. And I think 55 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:26.120 we have to distinguish between people being smart in certain 56 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:30.240 areas and dumb in others. Biden is and has always been, 57 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.960 kind of a dunce in a lot of areas. 58 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:35.680 About law, about policy. 59 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:40.039 He's a mediocre thinker at best. When it comes to 60 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.240 winning elections. The guy is again in a club that 61 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:50.759 has only forty six members, and you're not one of them. 62 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:55.759 I think Kamala Harris might be similar. 63 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.840 Now this interesting piece Eastern National Review, written by Jim Garretty, 64 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:06.080 one of their editors there gives me pause. And because 65 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:09.759 I had been I think guilty of sort of parroting 66 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:15.719 like everybody else. Kamala Harris is a moron. Kamala Harris 67 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.560 can't open her mouth without saying anything dumb. Kamala Harris 68 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.879 has been a walking mediocrity. Her whole career, and she 69 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.319 only has been able to rise to these heights of 70 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:33.040 power because of other people's patronage, Willie Brown chiefly, and 71 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:39.399 then the Democrat donor circle around Willy Brown. But just 72 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.439 as Joe Biden and Barack Obama are in this very 73 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.560 exclusive club to which I am not a member, it's 74 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:47.360 also the case for Trump. 75 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:49.759 By the way, when people so Donald Trump's an idiot. 76 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.000 They're liberals who say that about Donald Trump, that he's 77 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.639 an idiot, or even conservatives who get exasperated by things 78 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:58.399 Trump says. Again, you have to remember he's been elected 79 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:00.160 president one more time than you. 80 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:00.959 You have, so. 81 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:08.560 Couch your criticisms accordingly about the man's intellect or shrewdness. 82 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.319 Kamala Harris has been elected vice president one time, more 83 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:12.000 than any of us. 84 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.560 And Jim Garrity. 85 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:16.839 From National Review has this piece that I want to 86 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:20.439 read for you guys that I think really aptly sums 87 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:28.439 up Kamala's political genius, getting other more powerful people to 88 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:35.480 be really invested in her success. He writes, it's almost 89 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.879 required for in conservative circles to insist that Kamala Harris 90 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.480 is stupid, and Lord knows, speaking off the cuff she 91 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:45.439 serves up some stinkers, since she was handed the Democratic 92 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:49.439 Party's nomination without any competition, even her prepared remarks have 93 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:54.600 been mostly anodyne fluff. She still regularly demonstrates the political 94 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.560 instincts of a lawmaker shaped by the far left environs 95 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:01.000 of San Francisco, oblivious to what con institutes the political 96 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:05.360 center in a swing in swing state America. And he 97 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.920 gives a couple of examples, like her saying, you know, 98 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.920 her getting that at that one heckler who shouted Jesus's 99 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.279 Lord and saying, oh, I think you're at the wrong rally. 100 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.040 Oh great, that will really appeal to Christian voters. 101 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:17.120 Et cetera. 102 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.000 But there's this nagging complication. 103 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:21.160 Garritty continues. 104 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.800 If Kamala Harris is as stupid as her critics claim, 105 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.879 why does she have the Democratic presidential nomination and roughly 106 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.720 fifty to fifty shot of becoming the first female president 107 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.680 in US history? Do you know how many ruthlessly ambitious 108 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.839 Democratic men and women have desperately yearned to get where 109 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:41.959 she is now? How many smart, tough, shrewd, often underhanded 110 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.560 and cold blooded politicos I've tried to claw their way 111 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:50.199 up the Greasy poll and fallen short, and somehow this 112 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.639 supposed dunce Kamala Harris managed. 113 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:54.639 To do it. 114 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.839 The record indicates that whatever Harris's results are on an 115 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:03.040 IQ test or other measure of intellect, she is particularly 116 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:07.000 talented by another measuring stick, one that may be even 117 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:11.959 more important in politics. She is exceptionally skilled at getting 118 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:20.199 other people emotionally invested in her success. Now, the column 119 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:26.399 goes on to talk about various stages of Kamala Harris's 120 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:31.600 development of her relationship with Willy Brown, and how after 121 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:34.720 she breaks up with Willy Brown, San Francisco Chronicle. 122 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:35.959 Kind of covers their relationship. 123 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.839 It's interesting, how it's interesting reading some of this stuff 124 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.519 from the Chronicle talking about Harris. 125 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:48.839 Back then, they were sort of saying, you know, Willie Brown. 126 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:53.879 Was sixty, Kamala Harris was twenty nine, and the way 127 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.319 the Chronicle reported on it was like, you know, Willy 128 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.279 Brown's given up on dating girls. Now he's dating a woman, 129 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.000 this woman and Kamala Harris, who's a lawyer and you know, 130 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:09.600 prosecutor some his He had some election night party she 131 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:15.279 was at where he joked something about something about I 132 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.680 think the city Halls would be a cool bachelor pad 133 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:23.519 and then she glared at him and anyway, he they 134 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.839 announced their split, and he immediately appoints her to two 135 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:35.360 different patronage positions in state government, where she made about 136 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.320 more than four hundred thousand dollars in salary over five years. 137 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.960 And that's in nineteen ninety five dollars, so you know, 138 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.279 she was making ninety seven thousand dollars a year, which 139 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:49.000 is about two hundred thousand dollars per year in today's dollars. Now, 140 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.200 the chronicle had this to say about Brown and how 141 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.519 lavish he was towards Harris during their relationship. As Harris 142 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:06.519 later tells San Francisco SF Weekly, the mayor gave Harris 143 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.559 a nineteen ninety four BMW. 144 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.840 This was in nineteen ninety four. Nineteen ninety five. 145 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.919 Gave her a BMW which she traded in for the 146 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.799 nineteen ninety seven model she now drives. The car remains 147 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:21.320 a tangible link to a man whom Many San Francisco's 148 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.960 associated with political chicanery and self dealing, a connection that 149 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:26.679 doesn't bode well for Kamala Harris. 150 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:29.919 Now. 151 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.200 Harris benefited from the Assembly speaker turned mayor's habit of 152 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.639 dating attractive younger women, and his tendency to use his 153 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.759 powerful positions to help his friends and supporters. In two 154 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.879 thousand and one, The Chronicle completed a five part series 155 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:45.360 investigating Brown's patronage army, his ethics violations, his insider deals, 156 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:48.200 and the millions in soft money donations to his campaigns. 157 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.320 The FBI investigated Brown for years, but no charges were 158 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.480 ever filed against him. By mid twenty two thousand and two, 159 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.919 Harris was growing frustrated with her boss, Terarris Karren's Halenan, 160 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.440 and was contemplating a run for district attorney. So Harris 161 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.840 worked for a couple of different Willie Brown appointed positions. 162 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.559 Then she got a kind of high ranking position in 163 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.679 the San Francisco DA's office. So she's chafing under her boss, 164 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:22.480 contemplating running for district attorney herself. Halenan had hired her 165 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.320 in nineteen ninety eight to head up the office's career 166 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.120 criminals section. She left after two years to go work 167 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.919 for the San Francisco City Attorney's office. In her two 168 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:33.840 thousand and three campaign for the job, the San Francisco 169 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:40.759 Chronicle referred to Brown as Harris's political sponsor, so he 170 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:46.159 goes on and on and on and on. Harris succeeded 171 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:53.080 in getting all of these different people from Brown to 172 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:57.480 really back her. I think he opened doors for her. 173 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:00.960 He introduced her to people people, said Mark Duell, a 174 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.960 prominent developer and philanthropist who played a pivotal role as 175 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.480 an early Kamala Harris fundraiser. Having Willy's name attached to 176 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.840 something is pretty incredible. Is pretty credible. Former congressman in California, 177 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:15.279 Democratic Party Chairman John Burton later told Politico, I met 178 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.799 her through Willie. I would think it's fair to say 179 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:19.559 that most of the people in San Francisco met her 180 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:23.759 through Willy. Burton made those comments in a detailed twenty 181 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.440 nineteen Politico profile of this largely ignored but pivotal chapter 182 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:30.840 of Harris's life, the story of how she became a 183 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.360 rising star in the sharp elbowed world of San Francisco 184 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.440 city politics. A short version is that Harris was exceptional 185 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:47.440 at persuading wealthy San Franciscans to invest in her political rise. Harris, 186 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.399 in this less explored piece of her past, Harris used 187 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:53.840 as a launching pad the tightly knit world of San 188 00:11:53.879 --> 00:12:00.679 Francisco high society, navigating early on this rarefied world of influence, opulence, 189 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:04.840 charming and partying with movers and shakers, ably cultivating relationships 190 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:08.039 with VIPs who had become friends and also backers and 191 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.080 donors of every one of her political campaigns, tapping into 192 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.000 deep pockets, and becoming a popular figure in a small 193 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:18.120 world dominated by a handful of powerful families. This stratum 194 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.720 of San Francisco remains a profoundly important part of her network, 195 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:25.799 including not just powerful Democratic donors, but an ambassador appointed 196 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.320 by President Donald Trump who ran in the same circles. 197 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:30.440 This is from a piece in twenty nineteen when Trump 198 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:30.879 was president. 199 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:34.440 As she advanced professionally, jumping from Alameda County to post 200 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.919 in the office of the District and City Attorneys across 201 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.039 the Bay. She was a trustee too, of the Museum 202 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.879 of Modern Art, and active in causes concerning AIDS and 203 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:47.240 the prevention of domestic violence, domestic abuse, and out and 204 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.000 about at fashion shows and cocktail parties in galas and 205 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:54.159 get togethers at the most modish boat boutiques. She was 206 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:57.120 in the breezy, buzzy parlance of these kinds of columns. 207 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.679 One of the pretty things. She was a rising star. 208 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.320 She was rather perfect, and she mingled with spiffy and 209 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:06.519 powerful friends who were her contemporaries as well as they're 210 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:10.879 even more influential mothers and fathers. Okay, so she was partying, 211 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.159 going to cocktail parties, et cetera with all the gen xers, 212 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:20.080 and the gen xers' dads were funding her. Every ambitious 213 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.080 democrat in San Francisco passed and present wants the deep 214 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.840 pockets of the movers and shakers in their corner. Many 215 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:31.000 try Harris succeeded. Chalk it up to charm or charisma, 216 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:32.919 or other people seeing her as a useful vessel for 217 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.000 their priorities in agenda. Also note that compared to the 218 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.240 rest of the country, the political spectrum in San Francisco 219 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:39.159 runs from A to B. 220 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.279 It's liberal to also liberal. 221 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.600 Everyone is a Democrat and almost everyone is a progressive 222 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.200 of some stripe. That means that an ambitious candidate needs 223 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:51.159 qualities beyond political stances to stand out from the crowd. 224 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.000 You would be surprised how many celebrities proplayed a role 225 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:00.159 in the two thousand and three San Francisco DA raced. 226 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.399 Harrelson helped incumbent Hallman raise money, while Harris was backed 227 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:09.399 by actors Chris Rock and Delroy Lindo, comedian Eddie Griffin, 228 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:14.679 and talk show host Montel Williams. Montell Williams even dated 229 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.559 Kamala Harris briefly. When push came to shove, the most 230 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:21.879 powerful figures in San Francisco democratic politics chose to back 231 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.879 her in subtle ways over to older and better known 232 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:32.399 white guys. So the piece just goes on and on 233 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:36.840 and on and on about all of these ways that 234 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:45.519 Harris continued to just continued and continued and continued to 235 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.399 make friends and influence people. By the time she got 236 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.039 to her second term as district Attorney, the comparisons to 237 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:55.679 Barack Obama were common. Sam in two thousand and nine, 238 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.799 San Francisco Weekly wrote, the rumor mill is already swirling 239 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.080 with hints that her ultimate goal is the chair currently 240 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:04.919 occupied by by America's first black president, Barack Obama. So 241 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.399 as DA of San Francisco, she was saying this, and 242 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.200 she had the money in the connections to back up 243 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:16.120 those ambitions. At every key moment in her career until 244 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.559 her presidential campaign, Harris has had bigger, wealthier, more powerful 245 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.080 and more influential names, sizing her up and concluding she 246 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:27.559 was the one, and she's taken that in her politicking 247 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:31.200 skills to two terms as city district attorney, two terms 248 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.879 as a state attorney general. One term is senator, one 249 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.399 term is vice president. Because she dropped out of the 250 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.000 twenty twenty Democratic primary before any votes were cast, she's 251 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:45.440 never actually lost a race in her life. The closest 252 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.399 she came was finishing second out of three candidates in 253 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.440 the first round of that two thousand and three district 254 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:55.159 attorney race, qualifying her for the runoff. Since becoming the 255 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.919 Democratic nominee, she's raised more than a billion dollars in 256 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.480 less than three months. The Harris campaig and as twenty 257 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.960 five hundred staff members in three hundred and fifty three offices. 258 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:06.240 As The Washington Post laid out, her campaign has more staff, 259 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.559 more volunteers, a larger surrogate operation, more digital advertising, a 260 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:13.679 more sophisticated smartphone based organizing program, and extra money for 261 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:17.080 extraneous bells and whistles typically reserved for corporate product launches 262 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:21.679 and professional sports championships. The New York Times examined efforts 263 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.679 in four pivotal counties, Erie County, Pennsylvania, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, 264 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:28.279 Maricopa County, Arizona, and Cobb County, Georgia, and concluded that 265 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:32.200 Democrats in many places are outpacing Republicans in terms of 266 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.840 paid staff and doors knocked. If Harris is such a 267 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.720 hapless dunce, how does she keep getting so many other 268 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:40.639 people to work around the clock to elect her? 269 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:47.919 Pretty good question. It's a pretty good question. 270 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.679 She's good at certain things now, unfortunately for her. And 271 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:58.919 I'll just end it with this, getting powerful people to 272 00:16:59.000 --> 00:16:59.679 invest in you. 273 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:03.519 That's the secret to success. 274 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.160 In California politics or San Francisco politics, where you really 275 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.160 only have to appeal to one side that'll get you 276 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.960 to the top of the heap of the Democrats having 277 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.559 political patronage that can make your vice president. But to 278 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.839 get most of the country to vote for you, you're 279 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.960 going to have to appeal to someone other than your 280 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:26.880 big time packers. 281 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.279 We'll see when we return. 282 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:33.480 Donald Trump works at a McDonald's and I laughed my 283 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.559 butt off next on the John Gerardi Show. I'm sure 284 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.119 you've all seen the pictures over the weekend of Donald 285 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:46.720 Trump working at a McDonald's, which is really just Trump 286 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.480 just has all of his best moments around fast food. 287 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:54.200 Like I still think the funniest slash most relatable thing 288 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:56.559 from Trump's first term was when I think it was 289 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.000 after Clemson won the national championship and he had them 290 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.960 all over at the White House and he bought them 291 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.200 just a ton of fast food, which the clemsing kids. 292 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:05.519 Were like, this is awesome. 293 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.160 Yeah, And the photos from that were just so flipping funny. 294 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:13.799 Trump working at the McDonald's and just really getting into it. 295 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:17.680 Is this is why he's a good politician. It's it's 296 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.400 just hilarious seeing Donald Trump do these things and just 297 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:23.200 take to it kind of like a natural. 298 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.039 And then the liberals were like, he didn't. 299 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:27.720 He didn't actually work at the McDonald's. 300 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:27.880 Thing. 301 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:30.279 They pre screened all the people who would come through 302 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:30.839 the drive through. 303 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:32.599 That that wasn't that. 304 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:36.200 Was a stage thing, Like, yeah, no kidding, the guy 305 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.519 was flipping almost assassinated. Yeah, they didn't have random strangers 306 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:43.079 walk up to the counter to order food or walk 307 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.559 up to the drive through. Yeah, they were probably trying 308 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.160 to make sure nobody with a gun went through. 309 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:51.640 The drive through. Okay, yeah, no kidding. 310 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.240 I'm sure the franchise owner was like, hey, let's have 311 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.799 Donald Trump, and then they probably set it up. Everyone 312 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:01.640 knows that. Everyone is like, Secret Service is a thing. 313 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:05.279 Of course, it's staged. The Secret Service is not gonna 314 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:08.559 let Donald well hopefully they're not gonna let I mean, 315 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.559 god knows, they let some guy hang out on a 316 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:16.279 roof looking at Donald Trump suspiciously for you know, a 317 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:20.039 really long time before he actually shot him. Anyway, the 318 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.960 Secret Service is not gonna let some random stranger just 319 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:24.079 pull up in the drive. 320 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:28.759 Oh it's Donald Trump. Plam plam plam, Like yeah, no kidding. 321 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:30.079 It was staged. 322 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:35.160 And it's still more time than Kamala Harris has ever 323 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:36.440 spent inside of McDonald's. 324 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.400 I'm pretty sure. 325 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.759 That's the hilarious thing is that Kamala Harris made this. 326 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:44.359 It's all part of this backdrop story of like, Okay, 327 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:49.839 Kamala Harris made this claim that she had worked at 328 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:53.640 a McDonald's and then journalists can't find like any proof 329 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:58.559 actually that she did, and they are now it's now 330 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:02.319 like Donald trum Trump is wrong for making fun of 331 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:06.240 Kamala Harris for possibly making up this story that she 332 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:09.920 worked at a McDonald's. Like he needs to show evidence 333 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:13.319 that she did as opposed to Hey, media, maybe you guys, 334 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:18.039 could you know, examine this claim. I mean, I'll concede, 335 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:21.200 it's not the most important. Whether or not Kamala Harris 336 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:23.640 worked at a McDonald's sometime in her past is not 337 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:26.400 very important. It's just that she seems like she maybe 338 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:30.240 lied about it, and it's trying to fit. She's trying 339 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:32.279 to make up this narrative of oh, I'm just a 340 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:35.279 middle class kid, and it's like, well, your parents were 341 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:42.119 both like professors at Stanford, Like that's not exactly middle class. 342 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:47.319 Like I don't I guess I don't understand this instinct 343 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:50.200 of politicians to be like, let me be kind of 344 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:55.319 deceptive about my past in order to make myself seem 345 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.839 more likable. Even though this is something that could be 346 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:01.559 checked up on, like Tim Walls, like kind of old 347 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:06.279 come old weapons are used in combat. 348 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.799 It's like, well, you were never in combat or you know, 349 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:09.640 his his. 350 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:14.039 Oh my whoops are doodle mistakes, little whoopsie doodle misstatements 351 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.880 about overstating my military service, which is like, yeah, that's 352 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:22.160 not a whoopsie doodle. You know, I don't know if 353 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:24.920 I ran for politics I'd be like, yeah, I'm I was. 354 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:29.440 I was upper middle class and pat worst like, yeah, 355 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:30.920 my dad was a northopedic surgeon. 356 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.079 I did pretty okay. Yeah he was doing pretty okay. 357 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.319 Like, I just don't understand this instinct to think, like, oh, 358 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:39.799 you'll be so much more relatable if you say I'm 359 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:42.079 a middle class kid when you weren't, and and like 360 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.200 people can look this up and verify it. Yeah, I 361 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:48.279 don't know. I sometimes I put myself in the shoes 362 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:51.599 of these politicians. I can't figure them out anyway. It 363 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:54.000 was just hilarious, and you know, it is a thing 364 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:58.000 where as much as in the first segment, it's true, 365 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:00.119 I think Kamala Harris is more of a force to 366 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:02.839 be reckoned with, and Republicans want to give her credit 367 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:05.960 for I think the fact that she has fostered so 368 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:10.240 much donor money and so much engagement from really elite, 369 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:14.319 successful donors who who put her into her position. Joe 370 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:16.680 Biden didn't want a pick her to be vice president. 371 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.680 He had no reason to want to pick her other 372 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.559 than the donors pushing it. She's only the presidential candidate 373 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:28.960 right now because donors insisted. The donors shoved out Biden 374 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:40.200 and escorted her to the top. So that's something to 375 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:44.000 reckon with certainly, but her appeal to the common man, 376 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:49.319 and ultimately it's the common man has exactly one vote, 377 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.680 just as much as a billionaire has exactly one vote. 378 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:56.920 So in that regard, Donald Trump could be kicking her butt. 379 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:01.559 When we return, we're going to shift to some local 380 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:04.480 elections stuff and a local assembly race that kind of 381 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.559 turned a little nasty. That's next on the John Girardi Show. 382 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:13.160 One of the local races that I have taken some 383 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:18.319 interest in because it's actually it actually affects me. It's 384 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:23.319 one of the districts I live in is the California 385 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:31.759 State Assembly race for Assembly District eight. This is the 386 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:36.119 district that Jim Patterson currently sits in. Jim Patterson is concluding, 387 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:39.960 I believe a full twelve years of service in the 388 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:43.799 California State Assembly. For those who don't know, in California, 389 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:48.240 our state Assembly members and state senators, our state legislators 390 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.440 have term limits and you can only serve a maximum 391 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:56.599 of twelve years in the state legislature. So either you know, 392 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:58.519 eight years in the state Senate and four years in 393 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:01.759 the State Assembly, or twelve years in one or the other. 394 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:03.079 House, et cetera. 395 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:06.319 So Jim Patterson has served twelve straight years in the 396 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:11.000 California State Assembly and is term limiting out. I will say, 397 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:14.160 by the way, just to congratulations to Jim for I 398 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:18.519 think twelve pretty exemplary years as a public as a 399 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:22.559 state assembly member, following up from prior years of service 400 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:23.839 as mayor of Fresno. 401 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:26.480