WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.359 The fate of the country rests in the hand of 2 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:09.439 the twenty thousand stupidest Pennsylvanians. We're going to be waiting 3 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:13.160 around for two months to determine whether Donald Trump or 4 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:16.320 Kamala Harris will be president, and the whole thing will 5 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:21.440 ultimately come down to the opinions of the twenty thousand 6 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:29.480 or so Pennsylvanians who still remain unbelievably undecided. How can 7 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.640 you still be undecided about Donald Trump after nine years 8 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:37.399 at this point, Like, what new information do you need 9 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:43.520 to have? Anyway, the thing I'm realizing is that so 10 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:47.240 much of politics is dominated by dumb people who happen 11 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:55.600 to have attained positions of power. And the next great 12 00:00:55.640 --> 00:01:01.119 example of this that I have is something coming out 13 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:07.519 of the RNC. Now, I will note that so much 14 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.400 of the electorate is voting for stuff based on vibes, 15 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.640 and most of the Republican electorate just likes Trump. They 16 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:20.680 just like him, And if you criticize him, even if 17 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:23.920 it's for the same kind of thing that you would 18 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.079 have gotten mad at any other Republican for, then you're 19 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.640 a bad guy. If mint Romney had watered down the 20 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:37.400 Republican platform with regards to abortion. Probably most conservatives Republicans 21 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:39.519 would have blasted him, but Trump doesn't. 22 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:41.120 No one seems to care. 23 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.159 This is not to say that I love Mitt Romney 24 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:48.239 or hate Donald Trump, but I do think that there 25 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.439 is a kind of loyalty to Trump that we just 26 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:54.560 did not have with prior Republican presidents or presidential candidates. 27 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.840 So I'm going to do this. 28 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:02.159 Test before you realize, because I don't know how many 29 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:04.439 people exactly know who the head of the RNC is. 30 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:06.359 For those of you who know who the head of 31 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:08.759 the RNC is, you might react a different ways. So 32 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.319 I'm just gonna say I want you all to test 33 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:13.120 your reactions. Those of you who are listening to this 34 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.919 who don't know who the head of the Republican National 35 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.240 Committee is and the head of the Republican National Committee, 36 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.400 what is their job. Their job is raising money and 37 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:27.680 helping Republicans get elected. That is the job of the RNC. 38 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:33.080 So if you're the RNC chair right now should be 39 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:38.840 the literal busiest time of your life, the busiest There 40 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:43.280 is no busier time for the RNC head than we're 41 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.919 two months out from the election. You've got to be 42 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:52.120 pedal to the medal, working to fundraise for all of 43 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.280 your candidates, all of your House candidates, all of your 44 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.360 Senate candidates, and you're trying to get a president elected. 45 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:58.039 All right, So if you're the head of the RNC, 46 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:10.240 that's really import Now the head of the RNC has 47 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:17.919 released a music video. I'm not gonna say the head 48 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:19.520 of the RNC is man or a woman, but this 49 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.560 head of the RNC is a singer, and the head 50 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:30.840 of the RNC has released a music video for a 51 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:38.080 song called Hero. This song is a tribute to firefighters 52 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:46.919 and first responders. Now, I like firefighters, I like first responders. 53 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:47.840 I like cops. 54 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:51.400 I think they're swell guys. 55 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:58.759 My job, though, is running Right to Life es Central 56 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.439 California and hosting a radio show. 57 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.520 If my board of directors learned. 58 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:11.719 That I was releasing a music video for a song 59 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.599 I'd written to promote a music video for a song 60 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.879 I'd written about firefighters, and I was trying to promote it, 61 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.040 my board of directors at Right to Life might say 62 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.319 things like, Hey, why. 63 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.360 Are you doing that? What is this that you're doing? 64 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:33.240 Is this interfering with your job at all? It's certainly 65 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.959 I think one should ask this question of the head 66 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:41.360 of the RNC, why are you doing this? Like, Yes, 67 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:46.439 firefighters are good, we love we like firefighters. Firefighters are 68 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:52.680 wonderful people. I get a little cringey when conservatives do 69 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:55.399 this thing. Liberals and conservatives do this thing, by the way, 70 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.480 where you take some job and you canonize them as 71 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.519 everyone in that profession is saints. Liberals tend to do 72 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.519 this about teachers. Conservatives tend to do this about military 73 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:15.079 and cops. I think any job is filled with some 74 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.759 people who are excellent, some people who are a lot 75 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:23.079 of people who are okay, and some people who stink 76 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.720 at their job. I don't think every firefighter is a saint, 77 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:33.360 I think, but of course they are signing up for 78 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.800 a job that involves some measure of risk and danger 79 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:41.040 and self sacrifice, and I don't mind honoring the profession 80 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:45.120 as such in that regard. Same with cops, same with soldiers. 81 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:48.319 That doesn't mean every single cop, every single soldier, every 82 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.480 single firefighter is a superhero. And I think no one 83 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:54.279 would agree with that sentiment more than active cops, firefighters, 84 00:05:54.959 --> 00:06:01.959 and military personnel. Regardless, when you hear that the head 85 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:07.959 of the RNC is spending time recording releasing promoting a 86 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:12.639 music video two months out from the election. I think 87 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:18.240 probably your first instinct as a conservative listener who has 88 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:22.720 been skeptical of the RNC. Conservatives have been skeptical of quote, 89 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:27.439 establishment Republicans my whole life, and with good reason. Establishment 90 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.240 Republicans have often, I think, been phony and not really 91 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.040 believed what they believed. Case in point, Michael Steele. Michael 92 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:39.879 Steele was the RNC chair proximate. I think he was 93 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:43.920 sort of RNC chair for sort of the Romney campaign 94 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:49.000 era around twenty eleven twenty thirteen ish. Michael Steele is 95 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:55.800 right now actively supporting Kamala Harris, which really shook. 96 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:56.240 Me when I learned. 97 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.079 That made me think this guy was in charge of 98 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.879 fundraising for a publican candidates from Sea to Shining Sea, 99 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.240 and apparently his principles, his convictions were so weak that 100 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:09.519 he thinks it's okay to endorse, to actively endorse as 101 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:17.680 a positive good Kamala Harris. Your first instinct hearing the 102 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.879 head of the RNC is releasing a music video two 103 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.319 months out from the election would probably be to say, 104 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.800 that's ridiculous, What the heck is the RNC doing. This 105 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.879 is why Republicans never win. We have idiots and incompetence 106 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:35.639 running the RNC. That's ridiculous. But if I tell you 107 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.920 that the head of the RNC is Donald Trump's daughter 108 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:45.680 in law, Laura Trump, oh, does that change how you 109 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:49.000 feel about it at all? Does that change things for 110 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:53.959 you at all? Because basically what's happened is this young 111 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:03.160 writer for National Review named Naton Ehrenreich wrote a short piece, 112 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:10.519 a short little blog post on National Review's blog, Lara Trump, 113 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:13.600 RNC co chair, prepares for the election with a new 114 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:21.360 music video. All he's doing is stating this, he says, 115 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.920 when Donald Trump installed his daughter in law Lara Trump 116 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:26.800 as co chair of the Republican National Committee, he assuredly 117 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:29.199 picked the best person for the job. Her qualifications to 118 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:31.920 run one of the two major American political parties are impeccable. 119 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.840 She studied at the French Kulinary Institute in New York, 120 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.960 and her last name is Trump. Now she is vindicating 121 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.519 her supporters by spending the crucial months ahead of the 122 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:46.320 election by releasing fresh music videos. Alongside Madeline James. She 123 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:52.679 recently released Hero, a moving, read cringe inducing tribute to firefighters. 124 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:56.360 If you want to be inspired read inspired to stab 125 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:59.279 your eyeballs and tear your ears off. Feel free to 126 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.240 check the whole thing out up below. It's an important 127 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.080 reminder of the amazing things our Republican Party leaders are 128 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:16.720 up to in these pivotal times. For this, this clearly 129 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:23.120 legitimate critique. Now he wanders into sort of attacking her 130 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.000 credentials to be the head of the RNC in general, 131 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:28.840 although I think that is fair. Her last name is Trump. 132 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.799 Does she have any other qualifications for doing this? This 133 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:37.960 is Eric Trump's wife. Why is she the head of 134 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:43.399 the r NC other than her last name is Trump? Now, 135 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:47.559 it's one thing, you know, I am not as suspicious 136 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.679 of nepotism as I think a lot of Americans are. 137 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:54.919 I've seen lots of family businesses, particularly here in the 138 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:59.399 San Laquin Valley. Among there are various families who have 139 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:02.679 supported right now to life, and it's sort of you 140 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:06.600 have the dad or grandpa or instead of brothers who 141 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:10.600 started the business and it goes down to their kids. 142 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:14.039 And what I've seen in these different family businesses has 143 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:19.200 actually been that the succeeding generation who begins to take 144 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:22.840 on more and more of the business. I've always been 145 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:28.360 extremely impressed by the next generation. I'm not saying that 146 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.440 nepotism is inherently bad or or and it's not even 147 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.200 really nepotism. It's passing on this business that you established 148 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.840 to your children to carry on. I've actually seen that 149 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:45.120 the children in those situations tend to be, at least 150 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:50.480 in my experience, remarkably hard working, successful, accomplished people themselves. 151 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:55.799 But the RNC might be kind of a different kind 152 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:02.960 of ballgame. And it would be one thing if Laura 153 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:08.120 Trump was absolutely killing it and the Republicans were raising 154 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:09.399 more money than the Democrats. 155 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:09.799 They're not. 156 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:14.039 The Democrats are kicking our butts in fundraising. Democrats are 157 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:20.159 kicking Republicans' butts when it comes to fundraising. And here 158 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:23.279 she is, two months out from the election, releasing a 159 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:27.399 music video, and you've got conservative talking heads, conservative talk 160 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:32.559 radio hosts, conservative commentators, all very firmly in the Trump 161 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:39.399 camp blasting not Lara Trump, but this kid writer from 162 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.759 National Review who had the temerity to say, what the 163 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:47.679 hell is Lara Trump doing. She's the head of the RNC, 164 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.759 We're two months out from an election, and she's releasing 165 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.360 music videos with songs because she's kind of like a 166 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.399 singer or something, songs about firefighters. Why is she doing this? 167 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.840 Is she trying to set up her next gig once 168 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:08.120 she's done being the RNC chair, to sell mediocre music 169 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:13.440 to conservatives. You know, alongside their maga hats, they'll have 170 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.919 a CD of Lara Trump songs. What are we doing? 171 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:24.360 This is ity again. We're two months out from the election. 172 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:29.200 Her job as the co chair of the RNC is 173 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:35.840 to fundraise from Shining Sea doing a music video about firefighters. 174 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:41.080 As nice as that would be if she doesn't have 175 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.600 a job, if her job was just being a musician, 176 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:47.039 if her job was just being a singer, if she 177 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.240 wasn't the RNC co chair, that's great, But I think 178 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:55.240 it's this thing of in any context outside of the 179 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.159 current context. If you heard the RNC chair was releasing 180 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.759 a music video about firefighters too out from the election, 181 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.720 you would have said, these Republicans are such idiots, these 182 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:08.200 Republicans are such mores. But when it's a Trump, all 183 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:09.840 of a sudden, people are like, oh, why are you 184 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.080 focused on that? Why are you undercutting the cause. I'm 185 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.120 not undercutting the cause. She's releasing a music video and 186 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.639 her job is to raise money for Republicans two months 187 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.600 out from the election, clearly trying to set herself up 188 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.840 for her whatever enterprise she is going to engage in 189 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:35.600 after the election. And this is the stuff that drives 190 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:40.440 me crazy is that I think so many people in 191 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:44.519 American politics are just choosing these things based on how 192 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.440 they feel and not really based on anything having to 193 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:55.399 do with reason or policy. You know, people like Trump. 194 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:57.080 They like him. 195 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:03.200 Republicans like Trump. They think he's funny, they like his personality. 196 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:06.960 His personality is obviously extremely different from the buttoned up 197 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:10.960 Romney's and McCain's and Bushes and all those people. They 198 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:16.759 like him, and so they're willing to overlook his peccadillos 199 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:20.279 left right and center, and the peccadillos of people in 200 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.240 his orbit in ways that they simply wouldn't have done 201 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.720 for Romney or for McCain or for Bush. And I 202 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.600 just at a certain level, I just don't think that's 203 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:42.159 great when the point of this enterprise is winning elections 204 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:46.600 to change the laws to make this country a better, 205 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:54.879 more prosperous, and more just place. If you actually care 206 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.519 about winning this election, this is not how you should 207 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:08.519 behave if you actually care about enacting solid legislation by 208 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:10.759 winning elections. This is not how you would behave if 209 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:12.360 you care about I mean, you know, I not to 210 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:17.679 bring in my constant hobbyhorse about pro life issues. God forbid, 211 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:22.399 I mention this thing that results in the intentional killing 212 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:29.600 of a million human organisms every year. But if you 213 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:32.279 actually care about the cause of life, it should concern 214 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.360 you that every thing about abortion was taken out of 215 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.600 the Republican platform. But I think people just don't really 216 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.320 care about that stuff because they just happened. They just 217 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:48.200 like Trump. They like Trump, or on the other side 218 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.559 of it, alleged conservatives who are supporting Harris because they 219 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.799 think Trump is so bad. Don't you cannot claim yourself 220 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:02.519 to be a conservative and support Harris. We'll talk about 221 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:04.159 those people in the next segment. This is the John 222 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:10.200 Girardi Show on Power Talk. I'm convinced that most people 223 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:15.039 just vote for vibes. They're not really voting for issues, 224 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:21.159 and they they like whom they like. The heart wants 225 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:25.279 what it wants, and this results in people being willing 226 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:31.120 to overlook flaws in one party or the other's approach 227 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:37.480 to things in ways that are that kind of baffle me. Frankly, certainly, 228 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:42.840 I think Trump is for the life issues, is a 229 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:48.440 better outcome than Harris. I anticipate he would govern in 230 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.759 a better way, although his IVF proposal that he's given 231 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.120 is so wild, it's beyond even what Kamala Harris is 232 00:16:55.159 --> 00:17:00.360 even pledged to do, and it's so wildly bad. But 233 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.720 I want to instead of for those of you who 234 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:05.799 think I'm just beating up on Trump supporters, which I'm not. 235 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:09.599 I mean, again, I think Trump is a Harris would 236 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:11.160 be a disastrous, disastrous outcome. 237 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:12.799 I want to focus on. 238 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:24.599 Alleged conservatives actively supporting Harris. Now, there are some people 239 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:32.039 on the right, Liz Cheney, now, Adam Kinsinger, Michael Steele, 240 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:37.720 the former R and C chair, who are enthusiastically endorsing 241 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:45.200 Kamala Harris. And certainly there's been a lot of being 242 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:50.799 spilled about commentators who have done this, Commentators who began 243 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:55.920 endorsing Joe Biden, comment who you know, lifelong conservative commentators 244 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:57.920 who all of a sudden turned to endorsing Joe Biden 245 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.480 to endorsing Kamala Harris. But now we've got actual politicians 246 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:06.200 doing it. And again, I just think these people are 247 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:14.640 acting on the basis of vibes ideas sort of sentiments, attitudes, 248 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:20.759 rather than anything that has to do with policy. Look, 249 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.240 if you think Donald Trump is a some kind of 250 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:27.759 betrayal of conservatism in some way, shape or form. If 251 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:29.920 you think his character flaws are so bad that you 252 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.920 don't want to vote for him, okay, I can. I 253 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:37.240 might not one hundred percent agree with you, but I 254 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.720 understand you, and maybe I on some level I do 255 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.519 agree with you in certain respects. I certainly am not 256 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.559 crazy about Donald Trump's character issues. I think maybe you 257 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:52.200 know the days of you know it being an issue 258 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:54.400 when Ronald Reagan was running for president because he had 259 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:59.200 been divorced once those days are long gone. Clearly might 260 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:04.279 have been a better Amarria. Those days weren't long gone. 261 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:09.720 But I can understand a conservative saying I don't like 262 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:13.279 Donald Trump. What I cannot understand is a conservative saying, therefore, 263 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.599 I will vote for Kamala Harris. 264 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:19.720 Let alone, I. 265 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:26.279 Will enthusiastically support Kamala Harris and positively endorse her. 266 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:29.440 That I don't get. That is insane to me. 267 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.440 If you purport to be a conservative, you cannot positively 268 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:43.200 vote for someone else who has all of Trump's character flaws, 269 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:46.279 I think, or many of Trump's character flaws on a 270 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:50.440 personal level, and endorses wildly horrifically terrible policies. 271 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:55.960 I can understand sitting it out. 272 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.440 I can understand sitting the election out, and especially for 273 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.160 people who I don't live in a swing state, I 274 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.640 can understand sitting out the presidential election. What I can't 275 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:09.200 understand is positively endorsing Harris. And I think just what's 276 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:18.079 happening is people like the vibe of being part of 277 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:22.039 the respectable crowd or well. And I think on both 278 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:25.640 sides people like different kinds of vibes. I think enthusiastic 279 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:31.759 Trump supporters who are willing to overlook policy changes when 280 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.279 it comes to abortion or policy changes here there or wherever. 281 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:42.519 I think they like the vibe of being a Trump supporter. 282 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.480 In some cases, I think they like, you know, you're 283 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.720 if you're going to say, if you're going to change 284 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:52.599 your views on the abortion issue just in response to 285 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:55.440 Trump changing his views on the abortion issue, then I 286 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.440 question whether you really believed in those things to begin with, 287 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:01.240 whether you really cared about those things to begin with, 288 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.839 or if you just liked the vibe of being a 289 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:10.599 Trump supporter, the anti authoritarian feeling, the anti establishmentarian feeling 290 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.759 associated with the Trump campaign. Likewise, on the flip side, 291 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:17.920 if you're a. 292 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:22.039 Respected conservative pundit who likes buttoned up, suit and tie 293 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:28.160 wearing conservatism, like Mitt Romney and John McCain and George W. 294 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:31.319 Bush, if you're that kind of conservative and all of 295 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.880 a sudden you're actually actively endorsing Kamala Harris, I think 296 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:38.319 what you care about is the vibe, the attitude of respectability, 297 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:41.359 more than you actually care about policy. You want to 298 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:45.240 be part of the respectable crowd. You want people to 299 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.960 think that you're a respectable, curious person who doesn't hold 300 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.279 with Donald Trump's nonsense. I would rather have Donald Trump's 301 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.799 nonsense and be correct on policy nine times out of ten, 302 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:01.559 then be ReSpectacle and buttoned. 303 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:03.960 Up any day of the week. 304 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:10.920 But I think both sides are willing to compromise, jettison, 305 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:16.319 get rid of their beliefs for the sake of maintaining 306 00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:19.200 this vibe that they like, this attitude, that they like, 307 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:23.759 these characters or characteristics that they like, They like portraying 308 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:27.680 themselves as this kind of a political supporter, this kind 309 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:30.279 of an American, this kind of when it comes to media, 310 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.119 when it comes to talking heads, this kind of a 311 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:43.519 thinker or a talker, this kind of a politician. And again, 312 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:46.359 I'm not trying to actually I'm some superhero, but I 313 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:50.000 think it frustrates me that what I've always cared about 314 00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:53.240 is the policy, and I'm going to call it like 315 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:56.119 I see it when it comes to how the policies 316 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:01.359 are being promoted and promoted or not promoted. In his 317 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:05.599 first term, Trump was doing really well on most things, 318 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:08.000 not every single thing, but most things related to abortion policy, 319 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.480 he was doing great, and he has changed his views 320 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:13.079 on a lot of those things. I don't know how 321 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:22.440 I can but react negatively to that. I'm not in 322 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:25.039 it for the Trump vibes. I'm in it for the 323 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:29.279 policies that I hope that this or that presidential candidate 324 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:33.759 will bring about because I care about these fundamental issues 325 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:37.799 of justice for my fellow man, and politics and law 326 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:44.599 are the means to help establish justice. So anyway, again, 327 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:46.440 I'm not trying to say I'm better than everyone else, 328 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:50.759 but I am frustrated that we're so focused on personality 329 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:54.160 and forgetting what's the point of this enterprise. 330 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:56.640 The point of this exercise is law. And policy. 331 00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:59.680 When we return, everyone in media is getting paid off 332 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:02.640 by a government, except for old Johnny g Next on 333 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:08.559 The John Girardi Show, there's a fascinating couple of stories 334 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:15.960 coming out about how many different people in media and 335 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:22.799 in politics are being influenced by foreign governments. So a 336 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:29.759 story came out after some indictments were enceealed on Wednesday 337 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:35.799 that the Russians were paying off through a company that 338 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.680 you have RT Russia today, which is this media entity 339 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:44.960 controlled by the Kremlin. They funneled money through a Tennessee 340 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.839 based company, which that company then paid money to various 341 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:53.119 kinds of sort of political podcaster talking head. 342 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.599 Types, sort of a. 343 00:24:55.079 --> 00:25:00.759 Somewhat right wing leaning stripe to influence them to back 344 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:04.000 Kremlin positions on a variety. 345 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.799 Of issues, including the war in Ukraine. 346 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:15.440 This indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges, and this is a 347 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:16.039 story about it. 348 00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:17.759 In National Review written by David Zimmermann. 349 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:21.559 The indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that two employees of RT, 350 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:24.680 a Kremlin controlled media outlet, funneled nearly ten million dollars 351 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:27.720 to a Tennessee based digital content company in order to 352 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:30.079 sew division within the US and to weaken US opposition 353 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.440 to Russian interests like the Ukraine War. The description of 354 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:36.559 the company included in the indictment matches a recently launched 355 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:40.960 outlet called Tenant Media T E N E T. The 356 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:44.759 media startup paid well. One unnamed influencer was paid four 357 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:47.599 hundred thousand dollars per month to produce videos, on top 358 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:49.759 of a one hundred thousand dollars signing bonus. According to 359 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:53.079 the indictment, two of Tenant Media's top commentators are Tim 360 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.640 Poole and Benny Johnson, both of whom have millions of 361 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:59.680 followers across YouTube and other platforms. Pool and Johnson issued 362 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:02.920 statement Wednesday afternoon claiming they were victims of the alleged 363 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:07.000 foreign influenced scheme and accepted the Kremlin provided funds under 364 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.440 false pretenses, but maintained full editorial control of the content 365 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:17.480 they produced. So these guys are getting paid off by 366 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:23.119 the Russians. We then learned that we have also learned, though, 367 00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:28.119 that other media figures on the left or of the 368 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:33.039 left have been paid off in other ways. Max Boot 369 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:37.359 a columnist for Believe. Max Boot was calumnist for the 370 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:44.599 Washington Post. He, through his wife Max Boot's wife was 371 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:51.000 charged with violations of FARA Foreign Agent Registration Act charges. Basically, 372 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:54.319 she was a spy on behalf of South Korea and 373 00:26:55.200 --> 00:27:01.759 was working with him to promote South Korean, to promote 374 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:08.279 Korean interests. So that that's kind of kind of from 375 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:13.640 the left. So here's kind of a summary. Jamal Kashogi 376 00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:15.759 was a calumnist for the Washington Post. He was taking 377 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.359 money from Qatar. Max Boot's wife took money from Korea. 378 00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:23.200 Mehdi Hassan another talking at. It has been off and 379 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:27.319 on Qatar's payroll his whole career. Qatar has invested fifty 380 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:33.000 million dollars in Newsmax, the sort of TV news media outlet. 381 00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:41.440 The Biden's got money from Ukraine and China. The NBA 382 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.319 ows a ton tea. All of these different media entities 383 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:47.480 are getting money from foreign. 384 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:49.440 Influence. 385 00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:58.559 And I'll just I just want to ask if there's 386 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:03.240 any I want to put this offer out there, basically 387 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:05.599 to any foreign governments who might be listening to the 388 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:10.480 John Girardi Show. I am open for business, okay, Like, 389 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:13.640 if you want to pay me ten million dollars to 390 00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:18.319 promote your country. And by the way, FBI, US government, 391 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.279 I will do all the fara disclosures to let everyone 392 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:24.920 know that I am being a shill on behalf of 393 00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:25.759 a foreign country. 394 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:28.839 I will gladly take their money. 395 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.039 If you turn on your radios someday and hear John 396 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:37.160 Girardi talking about you know how wonderful, you know how 397 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:39.079 wonderful tourism. 398 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:44.559 Is to Latvia, you'll you'll know what's going on. 399 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:52.440 If I say, come to Latvia, enjoy the pristine landscape. 400 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.599 I'm literally googling Latvia as I do this. 401 00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:01.400