Harris 2024: The Same... But Different! (08-23-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Kamala Harris spoke for about, by my measurement, there's about 40 minutes. And in her speech, she claimed credit for all of the successes of the Biden-Harris administration while simultaneously running away from the record of the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Kamala Harris, The Pete Kaliner Most of the speech I thought was biographical, which we had already heard basically over the course of the four-day vibevention. But I was curious to hear how she was actually going to accept the nomination. Because she didn't get any votes. Right? This is handed to her. Oh, and then she made some phone calls and sent some text messages. But this was handed to her.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And I've got background on that too. I'm going to get to, but the first, the first part biographical, then she, um, she runs through her biography a little bit. She then accepts formally the nomination. And here is what she said in doing so.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_04]: On behalf of the people.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_04]: The people I grew up with. People who work hard, chase their dreams and look out for one another.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, those were Americans. You already covered them.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_04]: On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. So people, every American on behalf of her mother, on behalf of, uh, what?

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Solo adventurers, I think is something that she said there too. And like, and, and I don't know, but she did not thank the democratic voters because she couldn't.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_02]: She just had to vote. She just had to say on behalf of people.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. That's, that was what she had to say.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Then she, well, then she, well, then she Pisaki backs to the, uh, to the biography and, uh, she starts recounting all of the people that she has, uh, that she has fought for over the course of her, uh, lengthy career.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Years facing elder abuse. I fought against the cartels who traffic in guns and drugs and human beings who threaten the security of our border and the safety of our communities.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. Now she's just trolling us. I think that really, really fought for, for the elderly for against elder abuse.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_02]: That's just a really odd thing to throw into a speech, particularly after you've been accused for four years of engaging in elder abuse against your boss.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. Joe Biden.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_02]: People called it elder abuse that you are, uh, dragging this guy out, you know, past his bedtime when he's not feeling well, doesn't know where he is, doesn't know who he's with.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_02]: And you're accused of elder abuse and you throw that into your speech right before you highlight all the work you've done fighting against the cartels and the human traffickers at the border.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_02]: They're the very thing that, that people are criticizing you for not doing in the last three and a half years.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, it didn't even happen except when it did. It's kind of like sex and gender identity, I guess.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_02]: How they're not the same thing. Sex and gender are not the same thing unless we need them to be for some momentary benefit, but then it will go back to not being the same thing.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's the same, but different. That's what we're hearing here as well.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Like that's, these are beyond lies. That's what I mean.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Like they're done very, uh, skillfully, right?

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_02]: There is an art to this speech writing, no doubt about it, but it's beyond lies.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_02]: It is meant to, it is meant to make you disbelieve in your own senses, in your own eyes, your own ears.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_02]: What you believe to be true as real is undermined by the gaslighting.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what makes gaslighting separate from lying.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Because if I lie to you and I just say, oh, I, you know, Pete, why did you steal that cookie?

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't steal the cookie.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I saw you steal the cookie.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, see, there was actually some, um, there was this light that came in and it reflected off of the mirror over there and it made it look like I was doing this.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. So now it's like you start doubting, wait a minute.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I didn't see what I actually saw.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_02]: How can I trust now I'm gonna have to be on the lookout for this more often?

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_02]: See, it's like, it's, it's, it's going after your fundamental sense of reality.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Harris then lies about the Supreme Court immunity ruling among other things.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and I will give CNN credit.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_02]: They actually attempted a fact check, but it was really hard for them.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Really, really difficult.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what they started off by saying.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_02]: For the third straight night, there wasn't much material to fact check from the Democrat national vibvention.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So right out of the gate, first sentence.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like they're telling their audience because they know their audience.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_02]: That's everybody in this line of work, including myself, know your audience.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_02]: If you don't know your audience, then you're going to fail.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_02]: CNN knows its audience.

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So they have to do a fact check lest they get mocked mercilessly for only fact checking the Republicans.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_02]: So they've got to do a fact check.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like when the Charlotte Observer editorial board will endorse like Ed Driggs for Charlotte City Council because he's in a safe Republican seat.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_02]: So they endorse Driggs and then they can say, we do lots of endorsements for Republicans.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So but they but they have to tell their that's a trigger warning right there.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_02]: This is it's like, you know, don't hate us.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I guess we have to do this for the third straight night.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_02]: There wasn't much material.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's not true.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to fact check the fact check here.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_02]: That's not true.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_02]: There's plenty of material.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_02]: You just don't want to go into it because you don't want to be the outfit that helped to get Donald Trump elected.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_02]: The media in this election cycle is too invested.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_02]: In Donald Trump's defeat at a personal level, these are the guys hanging out on the island off the coast of Japan that don't know World War Two ended.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Like these are the guys they are going to hold out until they are dead.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_02]: They will not be the person they will not be part of an outfit or an outlet that can be at least perceived, if not in actuality, be involved in getting Donald Trump elected.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_02]: They won't do it.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_02]: That's why all of the reviews of the DNC vivation here is or a vibration is is is so glowing.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_02]: It's why all of the the pieces on Kamala Harris are all glowing.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And not from radioactivity.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what she says about the Supreme Court immunity ruling.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Consider the power he will have, especially after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_04]: How?

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_04]: He would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Not to improve your life.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Not to strengthen our national security, but to serve the only client he has ever had himself.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_02]: She's not that great of a speech giver.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_02]: She just is not.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And you can hear it in that soundbite.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's the last Kamala soundbite I pulled.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_02]: You're welcome.

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: But I felt like that was a representative one for the way she delivered.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Third.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_02]: That's me.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_02]: That's night.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_02]: God help us.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_02]: This is four years.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, might as well put RFK Jr. in there and listen to him for the next one.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I kid.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a joke.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02]: She is almost as bad.

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_02]: All righty.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So where was I?

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm going to do the fact check here.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, hang on.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Before I do that fact check, let me do this fact check from Russ doing the work that CNN

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_02]: is incapable of doing.

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Russ points out she did not grow up around Americans.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_02]: The part of her bio that they keep skipping at the convention was that she grew up in Canada.

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you know that?

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_02]: She grew up in Canada.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and her father was a Marxist economist, which like that doesn't seem to make sense.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like being a skinny chef.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't trust him.

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_02]: A Marxist economist?

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, okay, I obviously know you don't know what you're talking about.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so the other fact check here was that she had said that, uh, consider the power Donald

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump is going to have, right?

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Because the Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune, her word, from criminal prosecution.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And then here's what CNN says.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_02]: This needs context.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Does it?

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Does it need context?

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's hear.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_02]: The Supreme Court ruling last month did not grant Trump or former presidents in general total immunity from criminal prosecution.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Though it did grant them immunity for many of their activities in office.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_02]: So another way of saying that instead of all of those words would just be to say that she lied.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_02]: That that's not true.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_02]: It's false.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_02]: But they don't even give ratings.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: They're not doing Pinocchios.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_02]: They're not doing, uh, like truth-o-meters or anything like that.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It's, it's facts first.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_02]: This needs context.

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_02]: And so they're just giving us context.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_02]: And the context is that she lied.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_02]: The court ruled that a former president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_02]: actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority and is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all of his official acts.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_02]: But the court also said that there is no immunity for unofficial acts.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_02]: That's why, for example, let's say a president famously wearing a tan suit could order a drone strike to take out an American citizen without any kind of due process.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And let's just say that that president was Barack Obama.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_02]: But, because that did happen.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And he was not prosecuted for that.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_02]: That's why presidents can do that sort of thing.

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_02]: You can order, as a president, you can order an assassination of somebody.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And at any other time, I think, if you're not the president, you don't get to do that.

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_02]: That's illegal.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_02]: But if it's an official act for some conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority reason, as enumerated in the Constitution, you're allowed to do it because it's part of your job.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Then you do not face criminal prosecution.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And you would think a prosecutor, as phenomenal as Kamala Harris has apparently been, would know the difference.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure she does.

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Otherwise, she's lying.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And surely CNN and their fact-checking brigade would let us know if she's lying.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let's go to the phones.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Here is Melinda.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, Melinda.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the program.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Hi.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I just had a question.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I heard that Trump was tweeting or whatever during the convention, rebuffing whatever Kamala was saying.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_06]: And I didn't hear.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_06]: What did he have to say about the exonerated five being on national TV for everyone to see?

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_06]: I did not.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not on.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So he wasn't tweeting.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_02]: He was doing his truth social platform.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I am not on truth social.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So I did not see all of the feed that he was putting out last night, his own, you know, responses.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't watch any of that stuff.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_06]: And I just wondered, like, now that they've been exonerated, has he apologized?

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Will he ever apologize?

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_06]: And I don't know.

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_06]: That leaves a bad taste in my mouth, me being a Christian, for someone to call for the deaths of innocent people.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_06]: And, you know, still won't, you know, apologize.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_06]: I just, I could never support a guy like that.

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that the thing that made you not, makes you not want to support him?

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, if he were to apologize for that, then you'd be like, okay, now I'll consider voting for you?

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_02]: So that's your biggest issue?

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_02]: As a voter, that's your deciding issue?

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_06]: No, character.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Character.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Character plays a big part in it, though.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm a character person.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So, right.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So the Donald Trump falls short in that category in a number of ways.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's not the, so the Central Park Five, that would not be, that's not the deciding issue.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_06]: This is just adding, piling on, you know, there's a lot of stuff.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm not going to say that he's all bad.

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_06]: But Donald Trump has done some things that are okay.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_06]: But I just, that really got to me with them being exonerated.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_06]: And he still won't apologize.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I just, I don't know.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_06]: But okay, that's all I wanted to say.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm curious.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Hang on.

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Melinda, have you heard this?

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you heard the story of when Harris was the attorney general that there was an innocent man in prison?

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_06]: I've heard, I've heard.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_06]: So what do you think about that story?

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Do you, with you.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_06]: I just wanted to know.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm curious.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious if there's, I'm curious if there is a standard there.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Because if, like, it sounds like the, like, the exoneration of innocent people is a big deal for you.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm curious, is that a big deal for her candidacy as well?

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_06]: But she doesn't have a character, nobody's perfect, but her character flaws, I just cannot.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_06]: No, that, no, right.

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Donald Trump.

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so that's right.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_02]: That's why I asked the question, is because it doesn't matter.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_02]: The only one, so you're using that as the reason to say no, so it's not the standard you're using.

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a specific standard for him.

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I got it.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for the call, Melinda.

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate it.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

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[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Kyle Smith from The Wall Street Journal.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_02]: He said Kamala Harris still has not publicly repudiated any of her insane ideas, such as defunding the police, eliminating private health insurance, banning fracking and giving health insurance to illegal immigrants while ending ICE.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Immigration Customs Enforcement.

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Also of note by Greg Price, a speaker at the Democrat National Vibevention urged all of us to stand together to support sexual assault survivors, believe them and hold perpetrators accountable.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_02]: This came 24 hours after the DNC gave a standing ovation to Bill Clinton.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Mark Thiessen, a former aide in the George Bush administration.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I think he may have been a speechwriter.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_02]: He said it's fascinating how the media refuses to accept Donald Trump's rejection of Project 2025, but seamlessly lets Kamala Harris disown every radical far left policy she publicly endorsed from the Green New Deal to Medicare for all to ending fracking and decriminalizing illegal border crossings.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Isn't it?

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_02]: CNN said, right, it was real hard to just fact check last night.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_02]: It is not a lot of material to work with.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And every single night, the DNC people, the speakers keep coming out with Project 2025 attacks on Trump, something he had nothing to do with.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It's put together by the Heritage Foundation.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a bunch of think tanker white papers.

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_02]: It's put together by the Democrats.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_00]: My fellow Republicans in on the secret.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The Democrats are as patriotic as us.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't believe you.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_02]: That's why you fundamentally transform something.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_02]: You love it so much you want to fundamentally alter it to something completely different.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Fundamentally.

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Like that word means something.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_02]: So when, you know, Obama came along with the hope and the change saying we're going to fundamentally transform America, that's what you do to something you love.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They love this country just as much as we do.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Except Israel.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I was relieved to discover that because I've learned something about my party too.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Something I couldn't ignore.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, the Republican Party is no longer conservative.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_02]: So the Republican Party is no longer conservative, which is news to conservatives, I think.

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Or actually, it's probably not news.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I think a lot of conservatives realized that a long time ago.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_02]: So the alternative here is to vote for the one who's offering up Marxist economic theory of price fixing at the government level.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_02]: So that's the way you fix the Republican Party and make it more conservative is by speaking to the Marxist adjacent party and supporting them.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Like you can just not vote, Adam.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, trust me, I've done it in every presidential election.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Not voted for a major party candidate.

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_02]: That's an option for you.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_02]: You didn't have to go full Democrat.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_02]: You never go full Democrat.

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me go over to the phones here.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Talk to Marty.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, Marty.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello there.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I got a couple things to say about this.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people have a problem pronouncing their names, so it's very easy to just do it.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Camel dung.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what we're getting, a whole big pile of dung.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, she's got a smooth-talking way, just like Obama did.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Smooth-talking.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Really?

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_01]: What comes out is not for you.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, hang on, Marty.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_02]: We are in sort of a lunch hour timeline or a day part here.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you wouldn't mind just keeping the fecal matter references to a minimum.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so Marxism-Communism, that's what's coming out of her mouth, just like it did out of Obama.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And what the thing is, you've got to understand a lot of people have been so dumbed down by the NEA

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_01]: that they don't know how to do their own research, and they can't decipher when someone's lying through their teeth,

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_01]: which is one of the qualifications of a Marxist-Communist.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, part of the reason why, though, but Marty, part of the reason why, it's not that they can't decipher it,

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_02]: is that they use people's good-naturedness and their willingness to give people the benefit of the doubt.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_02]: That is used against them.

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_01]: So my point, and one of my points here, is they always say our democracy, which we both know,

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and most of your listeners know because they're educated very well, it's not a democracy, it's a constitutional republic.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_01]: If it's a democracy, it actually lines itself up in their minds what they're after is just what North Korea is called,

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_01]: the People's Democratic Republic of North Korea.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not any one of those.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a republic.

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not democratic, and it's not the people's.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_01]: But here's the point I want to make.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_01]: This whole regime, the Butthead and Camel Don't Show, has got to end because what they've been doing,

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_01]: not only allowing the illegals in, but what they do is they give them free hotels, free meals, free health care.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm an independent trucker.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I learned why one of the reasons is our business has really plummeted,

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_01]: because there's people hauling for so much less than what I can do it for.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And I found out why.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_01]: One of the truckers I know has a woman friend that works for one of the major truck stop chains.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_01]: She told me or she told him that there's a big umbrella corporation over all these new immigrant trucking companies,

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_01]: and they charge that truck stop chain $1.60 a gallon for fuel for all these illegal,

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_01]: well, I'm not going to say illegal, I'm going to just put them as immigrant trucking companies.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_01]: The government's kicking in the rest.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_01]: So you want to talk about being stabbed in the back every which way.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll guarantee you those guys were set up in their own trucking company.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll bet you they're not paying taxes either, just like the Indians when they brought them in to take over the motel business,

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: seven years tax-free.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Then they turn it over to another relative.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_01]: They get seven years tax-free.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_01]: This government is so communist, and it's been crashing our economy and the middle class.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_01]: When she says she's from the middle class, no, she's not.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Man, people got to wake up, and I appreciate all your education.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I love listening to you.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_01]: You're such a good orator yourself, and you eloquently educate and communicate

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_01]: what the difference is between Marxism and communism and our republic.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_01]: So thanks, Pete.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, Marty, I appreciate it.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I will say, like, the Indian model of the hotel-motel industry,

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_02]: that's a model that's as old as American immigration.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_02]: You bring family members over, you train them in the business,

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_02]: and then they open their own business along those same lines.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And it builds generational wealth, and it brings the extended family over.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And as long as they're doing it legally, I have no problem with it.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I disagree with any of the tax breaks going to individual businesses like that.

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_02]: But that's a consistent standard.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I know it's kind of out of fashion now.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so actually here, let me go over to Gary.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, Gary.

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the show.

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Pete.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_03]: First-time caller.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome.

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I just want to say I enjoy your common sense and your humor.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Are you listening to the same program that I'm delivering?

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, sorry, go ahead.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just kidding.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's very humble of you.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I think it's a real big deal.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to hear about the Kamala Harris debate or any of that.

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think any of us do.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_03]: It's giving me the 2016 syndrome of Hillary Clinton.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_03]: It's like we knew what was going on.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_03]: But, you know, you've said it before on your show.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't think either side's going to change their view no matter what's spoken.

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_03]: But what I think is quite a game changer is if RFK Jr. really comes out today and endorses Trump.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_03]: What are your thoughts on that?

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_02]: So when Joe dropped out, the polling indicates that Kamala picked up a good chunk of the RFK voters.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Because RFK was drawing from both camps, right?

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And so you've got a lot of people that are what they called double haters.

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_02]: They hate Biden and they hate Trump.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_02]: So RFK Jr. was pulling a lot of those.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And so when Joe was booted in the coup, then all of the Democrat leaners in the RFK camp, they all went to Kamala.

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So the only ones left now are hurting Trump.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So, yes, if he if he drops out here in a couple, you know, 10 minutes or so, if he drops out and then does endorsement and tries to get Trump elected, tries to work with him or whatever, he may he may bring those voters over to Trump.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_02]: And if that's the case, like right now, I'm seeing the polling indicates it's it's neck and neck.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_02]: It's basically tied, which that's got to be a bit of a disappointment for the Kamala camp, because you would expect a bump in the in the polling during and after the Democrat convention.

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Sure, sure.

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, now, now hear me out on this.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_03]: And I know RFK is that I'm one of those crazy that's always been independent.

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm from Massachusetts, so we had to hold our nose and vote for most Republicans up in that state.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_03]: So I've always remained independent.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_03]: But I think RFK has a lot of a lot of fringy people that are into medical freedom.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_03]: And long before it became a big thing with covid, I mean, he has always been in that camp.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, those are the people that I hope when he when he goes in and he endorses Trump, you know, brings that camp of a few independent, fringy people that are still just just pretty much watching independent media like your Russell Brands.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_03]: And right.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_03]: And the fire, the fire independent.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_02]: So and like one of my lamentations with the with the candidates that we got, I was calling it the geriatric rematch until they, you know, tossed Joe overboard, was that neither one of those candidates and neither one of the apparatus that set up around those candidates wanted anything to do with an examination of what happened during the pandemic.

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Neither one of them want to to go back and reexamine that.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_02]: So and whether, you know, things worked, what didn't work and, you know, who lied about what and where did it come from?

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_02]: All of that stuff.

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just memory hold.

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And that is that's really bad, in my opinion.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_02]: So the only like one, the only not the only but one of the things I could see with an RFK junior impact could be that there is some attention paid to what was done during the pandemic.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And the government actions that were taken, because there is not been an accounting for that, in my opinion.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_03]: No, no, absolutely not.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_02]: So we shall see, Gary.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate the call, buddy.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thank you, Pete.

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Have a good day.

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_02]: You too.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Take care.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Have a good weekend.

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you happen to notice all of the American flags in the Democrat convention hall last night?

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_02]: They handed out flags.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_02]: They gave like everybody a flag to wave.

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And there was a heavy focus on casting the Democrats as patriots.

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_02]: We love America.

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Chance of USA.

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_02]: All of that.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's kind of it's kind of a surprise for a lot of people, I think, on the right.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_02]: After hearing stories of how, you know, the American flag would trigger people.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And they felt they felt oppressed by just looking at the flag.

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_02]: They want to rip the flags down off of things.

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_02]: They want to rename all of the American historical monuments and stuff.

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, the Democrat convention opened with a land acknowledgement.

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_02]: So for the party that has for several years now been building a brand for itself as.

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, one that rejects the oppressor nation and history of America to now try to wrap yourself in the American flag and say you're patriotic and you love America and all that.

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_02]: It was kind of I mean, it's kind of a shift.

[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_02]: And look, I welcome.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_02]: I want all Americans to love America.

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_02]: That that's my preference.

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Over at CNN, Jake Tapper in exchange, Tapper says this is one of the best produced events I've ever attended.

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Too many people want who want to be part of the event.

[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_02]: There's more happiness here than the GOP.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And Dana Bash says that the Democrats are trying to reclaim patriotism from the GOP.

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And that raised a question in my mind, which was why would you have to reclaim patriotism?

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Both parties can be patriotic.

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_02]: It's not an either or here, Dana or Dana.

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_02]: It's not an either or.

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_02]: It is a false choice.

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_02]: False dichotomy, as they call them.

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_02]: If Republicans are patriotic, that does not prevent Democrats from being patriotic either.

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I don't know if some Democrats are like, I hate America because Republicans love it.

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And like, I'm going to define myself by being in opposition to the thing that my opponent likes.

[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So I have to dislike my own country.

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_02]: That's absurd.

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_02]: But that's been the position of some people, right?

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_02]: That they take they've just kind of fallen into that camp, I guess.

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_02]: But even if you now come out as a pro-American patriot.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_02]: That doesn't mean that Republicans lose their patriotism and love of the country either.

[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Again, it's not a choice.

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_02]: But the only reason that you would have to feel like you are, quote, reclaiming it is if you lost it somehow.

[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And who's responsible for that?

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_02]: It ain't the Republicans.

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_02]: That would be you, Democrats.

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_02]: You surrendered that yourselves.

[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_02]: That'll do it for this episode.

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