Harris continues Biden's legacy... of plagiarism (10-14-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, you know me, not only am I a giver, but I am also about solutions. But also, I like to go back and look at the historical record on stuff. Now, last week, I talked about the comparison in polling. This time, what we're seeing right now in the polling and the trends and such, and compare it to what the polls look like in 2016 and in 2020.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, Michael Graham, who, he's up in New Hampshire, and he used to be a talk show host here on WBT. And he had a, he did a couple of screenshots of the Electoral College, who I believe is still undefeated after this weekend's games.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_04]: The Electoral College map at this same time in 2020 versus now. So it's always interesting to go back and look at where people's heads were and what they were thinking was going to happen and everything, you know, four years ago at this same time.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_04]: So a couple of weeks before the election, actually, I mean, early voting starts in less than what, four days on Thursday. So it's already getting underway.

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_04]: So you can go back and look at a similar period of a period in time and compare it to the same period that we are in right now.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_04]: And knowing a couple of things, as I went over last week, that Donald Trump underperforms in polling.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_04]: And we went over a number of reasons for that, why that might be.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_04]: But he also then, as compared to the polls, he his results on Election Day are better than what the polling indicated prior to the election.

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_04]: So the electoral map, as it looked based on polling one year ago.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_04]: This week or sorry.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Four years, I think I think you meant to say four years ago, because the electoral map in 2020, the projection in October on October 13th, 2020,

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_04]: the electoral college map projected Joe Biden winning 335 electoral votes, including North Carolinas, by the way, which he did not win North Carolinas.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_04]: He did not win Florida's either.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_04]: 335. You know what he actually pulled in?

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_04]: 303.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_04]: He actually pulled in 303.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_04]: What does the map look like right now?

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, the electoral college projection based on current polling shows.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Kamala Harris at 276.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_04]: And Donald Trump at 262.

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_04]: So again, four years ago, Trump was at 203.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Now he's at 262.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Based on the polling.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, this time around, North Carolina is in his column.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_04]: But the big races that people are watching.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Nevada.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a that's a light blue.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_04]: So leans blue.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Arizona also up for grabs.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_04]: The real clear politics poll average for today without the swing states, which are too close to call.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_04]: If you take out the swing states.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Trump.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_04]: 219.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_04]: 219.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Harris.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_04]: 215.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_04]: There are 104 electoral votes that are considered to be toss ups.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_04]: As I mentioned.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Michigan.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Wisconsin.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_04]: They're actually putting Minnesota in there.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_04]: That would be that would be embarrassing.

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_04]: If Tim Walls.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Isn't enough to help carry Minnesota.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_04]: A or maybe he's the reason that Minnesota is in play.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Pennsylvania is also on that list.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_04]: We are on that list.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_04]: North Carolina.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Georgia is on that list.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Who else?

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Arizona and Nevada.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Wait.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, Nebraska.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_04]: They've got one.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_04]: That.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Which way will Nebraska go?

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, my gosh.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that might be because I think Nebraska splits their electoral votes now.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that's right.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_04]: So there's there are four electoral college votes for Nebraska.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_04]: And then there's like one that's a toss up.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_04]: So that might be.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_04]: That might be what's showing there.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_04]: So if you take the real clear politics polling trend numbers with the toss ups and you put them into where they're leaning.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_04]: So like North Carolina is leaning towards Trump, but it's too close to call.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_04]: If you gave that to Trump and you gave, you know, Wisconsin and Minnesota, you gave that to Harris.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Nebraska's one goes to Harris.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_04]: That's like if you, you know, you do it based on where they're all leaning.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_04]: And right now, Trump 302, Harris 236.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Remember, you need 270 to win.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_04]: So this has got people very concerned in the Democrat camp.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_04]: And rightfully so.

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Rightfully so.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_04]: There is also a breaking story here.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Today, this afternoon from Christopher Ruffo.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_04]: And you'll recall, he's been doing a lot of work on college professors and mainly college leaders, presidents and such and chancellors of schools that have been caught plagiarizing.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, at two, Kamala.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Indeed.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Kamala Harris.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Has a bit of a plagiarism problem.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_04]: See?

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_04]: So she is just like Joe Biden.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Like that's OK.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that too soon?

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Too soon?

[00:07:09] OK.

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Kamala Harris has become famous in part for her unique rhetorical style.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_04]: She switches freely between various accents and peppers her speeches with catchphrases, pondering falling out of a coconut tree, discussing the significance of the passage of time and moving the nation towards what can be unburdened by what has been.

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_04]: To her supporters, the vice president's rhetorical flourishes represent the values of compassion and optimism.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Dare I say joy to her detractors?

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Her reliance on platitudes and tautologies demonstrates her unfitness for the presidency.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_04]: But as we have discovered in this exclusive report, another element appears to exist within Kamala Harris's rhetorical universe.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And that is.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Plagiarism.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_04]: And I don't just mean Joe Biden's entire economic plan.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_04]: That's the or concept of a plan, maybe.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_04]: At the beginning of her career in the run up to her campaign to serve as the attorney general of California,

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_04]: California, she and her co-author, Joan O.C. Hamilton.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_04]: O apostrophe C is O.C.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Hamilton.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_04]: That's.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Look, I have a lot of Irish heritage and I have never heard of such a name.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_04]: O.C.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, they published a small volume that was called Smart on Crime, a career prosecutor's plan to make us safer.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_04]: The book helped to establish her credibility on criminal justice issues.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_04]: However, according to Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian plagiarism hunter who has taken down politicians in the German speaking world.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Harris's book contains more than a dozen, quote, vicious plagiarism fragments or VPFs, as I like to call them.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Some of the passages I actually don't.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_04]: I've never heard of the term before.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Some of the passages that he highlighted appear to contain minor transgressions, reproducing small sections of text, insufficient paraphrasing, for example.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_04]: But others seem to reflect more serious infractions, similar in severity to those found in Harvard president Claudine Gay's doctoral thesis.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Harris, true to form, has not responded to a request for comment.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_04]: And then they go through and they map side by side all of the infractions.

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_04]: And she's just some of this stuff is just ripping people off.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_04]: So that means, I guess, if the Joe Biden trajectory is any indication, I'm guessing in about another 30 years, she's going to be president.

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[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Tom, welcome to the program.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, Tom.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, sir.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, sir.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_05]: A couple of quick points for you.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_05]: Kamala Harris, you know, of course, ran for president in 2020.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_05]: What?

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_05]: And, of course, a couple of key things in her campaign.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Number one, she wanted to decriminalize illegal immigration.

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Her values haven't changed, Tom.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Her values have not changed.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I know.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_05]: I know.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_05]: Here we are three and a half, four years later, and we've got 10 million to 25 million illegals in our country.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_05]: But that's not my main point.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Another key thing she ran on was taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_05]: And, of course, not only are we, the taxpayers, paying for their health care, but also their housing, food, clothing, and anything else they need.

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Which is why...

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_05]: I thought we were $35 trillion in debt.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, we are.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_05]: So they have to be diverting that money from somewhere.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_05]: But, of course, when Donald Trump said the billion was coming from Homeland Security or FEMA, they denied it.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_05]: They said it was coming from a different department.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_05]: But, of course, it doesn't matter.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_05]: All the money from Washington is taxpayer money.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_05]: And we sure can't afford what's going on.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_05]: So, anyway.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Tom, no, I appreciate it.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I appreciate the call.

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_04]: People don't care that it's a different line item in one big budget for Homeland Security.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_04]: It's all...

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just different pockets of the same set of pants.

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, I mentioned also that Kamala Harris has been busted now plagiarizing that book.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm seeing a tweet from J.D. Vance, and he says,

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Hi, I'm J.D. Vance.

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_04]: I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_04]: And then he follows that up by saying,

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Cue the corporate media fact-checkers who will say Vance's tweet is missing important context.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Kamala Harris only copied some of her book from Wikipedia.

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_04]: There we are.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.

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[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Timoteo says, Pete, please remind people to vote early, lest they show up on election day to find out that they have already voted for a Democrat.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_04]: That is possible.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_04]: So, look, if you already know who you're going to vote for, and there isn't really anything that anybody can say, you know,

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_04]: because the argument against early voting is that something could happen like, I don't know, a laptop gets reported on.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_04]: By the way, today is the four-year anniversary of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Right, and then the massive government effort to suppress the story on social media.

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Good times.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_04]: But the argument against the early voting is that if something pops up in the final days before the election,

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_04]: then you may have already voted for somebody that now you don't want to vote for.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_04]: But if there isn't anything, like if you are just, you know who you're going to vote for and it doesn't matter,

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_04]: then just go bank your vote.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Just go vote early.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Get it out of the way.

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_04]: So this way, if something happens before election day, like you get sick or you die,

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_04]: but I mean, then you'll end up voting a Democratic ticket.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_04]: But if something bad happens to you, then and you can't make it to the polling station,

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_04]: then at least your vote is banked.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_04]: And also, just from an operational standpoint, the campaigns and the parties,

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_04]: they like it when you vote early.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_04]: So this way, they don't have to waste resources calling you and trying to get you to go out and vote.

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_04]: They can devote their energies to getting people who are less likely to vote.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_04]: So there is a benefit to the campaigns for more people banking votes.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_04]: They can then reach out and get people that are not your A voter types,

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_04]: the ones who show up no matter what, you know, primaries, runoffs all the time.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_04]: So now they can devote.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't look.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if it means you're not going to get as many mailers.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, I think you're still going to get all the mailers.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_04]: But, I mean, look at the bright side.

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_04]: You can use them as kindling, right?

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_04]: You can burn them when you're greeting all the kids for trick-or-treating.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, you set up a little fire pit action or something at the end of the driveway.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, it keeps the kids off your lawn.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's just one idea.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_04]: So, hey, remember that, I think it was Caller Tom who mentioned illegal immigration.

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_04]: This is a big problem for Harris because it's been a big problem in the Biden administration

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_04]: where they've just, you know, allowed millions and millions of people to enter the country illegally.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_04]: And there are a couple of things on this front.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Number one, Bill Clinton.

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Remember that guy?

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Bill Clinton.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Somehow not canceled in the Me Too movement.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_04]: But whatever.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_04]: So, former President Bill Clinton, they've actually got him out there stumping for Kamala Harris.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And I've talked about the sort of trajectory of how these things go, which is,

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_04]: and you saw it with the voter ID arguments where, you know,

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_04]: first there's a denial that the thing is occurring, right?

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Then there is an acceptance that, okay, fine, it's occurring, but it's not widespread.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And then it moves to, okay, fine, it's occurring and it is widespread,

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_04]: but it doesn't have any kind of impact.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_04]: And then finally it is occurring and here's why it's a good thing.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_04]: So, I think with the immigration argument, same sort of pattern where, you know,

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_04]: first it was like, oh, no, no, this isn't happening.

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Or specifically the great replacement theory, which the media and the Democrats,

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_04]: but I repeat myself, they have been tagging this as some sort of a right-wing fever dream.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_04]: But it actually tracks back to the strategy that was outlined by a couple of Democrats

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_04]: about 20 years ago, talking about the durable permanent majority that the Democrats would enjoy

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_04]: once they can replace with new immigrants into the country coming from Central and South America.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_04]: They can then swap out all of the older white Americans.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_04]: And this was the majority that they said they would have forever.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_04]: What they call it, demographics is destiny.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_04]: That was their catchphrase at the time.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_04]: That was their theory, their strategy.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_04]: They promoted it.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Then when the Republicans took notice of this and they're like, hey, they're trying to replace us.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Then it became as, oh, my gosh, you're such a racist.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Why would you say that?

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_04]: You're trying to replace you.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_04]: OK, so we went through the thing.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_04]: No, it's not happening.

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_04]: And then, OK, maybe it's happening a little bit.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_04]: But I think Bill Clinton is now moving us to the next phase, which is it is happening

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_04]: and it's a good thing.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: A new direction to manage.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: An immigration crisis in a tough time where there's all this upheaval all over the world,

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_00]: where there are border problems all over the world, where millions of people are trying to escape the misery they're in.

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And other people are saying, well, I want to do what I can and take what I can.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But maybe there's a limit to how much we can do.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_04]: By the way, this is Bill Clinton, not Joe Biden.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_04]: They sound very similar.

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_04]: He's looking pretty rough, too, here.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, I don't think Americans are anti-immigration.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They're anti-chaos.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_04]: I agree.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't want us to do more than we can.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But they recognize, at least most people do, we got the lowest birth rate we've had in well over 100 years.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: We're not at replacement level, which means we've got to have somebody come here if we want to keep growing the economy.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, then.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_04]: That does sound like a replacement theory argument, isn't it?

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_04]: It's happening, and it's a good thing.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_04]: That's where we are.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_04]: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And before he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of him as he got progressively worse.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_04]: 40 years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_04]: They've got huge hearts.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_04]: I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_04]: This cause means a lot to me.

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's, and I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_04]: It's called Pete's Pack.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_04]: You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_04]: It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Sign up at alz.org slash walk, and then just look for my team, Pete's Pack.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_04]: And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk on October 5th, so make a team and join us.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Or make a donation to help me hit my goal.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I would really appreciate it.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_04]: There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas, and you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and locations.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_04]: We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_04]: And if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Will you come walk with me for a different future, for families, for more time, for treatments?

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_04]: This is why I walk.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_04]: So we just heard from Bill Clinton there talking about the replacement, great replacement theory,

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_04]: which makes sense because the guy did use the Confederate battle flag as part of his campaign material back in 92.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_04]: But I could tell his left hand is shaking a lot.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_04]: So he's looking every bit of however old he is all those years.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_04]: He's looking pretty rough.

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_04]: He sounds pretty rough, too.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_04]: So does Joe Biden.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_04]: But actually, Bill Clinton looks better than Biden at this point.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_04]: So, and no, I'm not just saying that to try to, you know, get with Bill.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_04]: So there's a clip of J.D. Vance.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_04]: J.D. Vance, this guy, I saw somebody refer to him at his appearances on these weekend news shows.

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Because he's been doing this circuit for like the last, I feel like two months, three months or so.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_04]: He's just doing more and more of these sit-down interviews with the Sunday news shows that nobody really watches anymore.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_04]: But now maybe they are.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Because he is just eviscerating these Democrats with bylines.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Martha Raddatz was the latest one to walk into his wood chipper.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And she just comes across as a moron.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_04]: And I never thought that about Martha Raddatz.

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I had my suspicions.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_04]: But I never considered her to be this.

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_04]: What do I mean by this?

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, take a listen.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_04]: This is J.D. Vance.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Just like, I saw somebody equate it to like, he's just like hanging out in the gym, just like doing reps.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Just waiting to, just lifting weights, just waiting to go in.

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_04]: That's all he's doing.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And here's how it went for Martha Raddatz at ABC.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I understand what you're saying, that some people left behind.

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_01]: But he's making these statements that the mayor is flat out disputing.

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Martha, you just said the mayor said they were exaggerated.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Grossly exaggerated.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_02]: That means that there's got to be some.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wait, wait.

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Grossly exaggerated.

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Is this like the scene in A Few Good Men?

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Where he's like, he's like, oh, that's exaggerated.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, grossly exaggerated.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_04]: You said grossly exaggerated.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, oh, well, I use this adjective, so it made it so much worse.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they didn't say grossly exaggerated.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm trying to remember what it was that they said.

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Like extreme danger.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Not just dangerous.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_04]: You said extremely dangerous.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Right?

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_04]: But the mayor said it's grossly exaggerated.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_04]: And listen to Vance just completely turn this back around because he is correct.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_04]: It could be exaggerated, but it is also true then.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_04]: The thing is true.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, maybe Trump exaggerated.

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_04]: I know that might be hard to believe, but the element of truth remains.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_02]: So the mayor said they were exaggerated.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Grossly exaggerated.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_02]: There's got to be some.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_02]: That means there's got to be some element of truth here.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, President Trump was actually in Aurora, Colorado, talking to people on the ground.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And what we're hearing, of course, Martha, is that people are terrified by what has happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Senator Vance, I'm going to stop you because I know exactly what happened.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to stop you.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_01]: The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_01]: A handful of problems.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself?

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just a little pregnant.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Just a little bit pregnant.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_03]: That's great.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you hear yourself?

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_04]: This is such, there is such a disconnect here.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_04]: How embarrassing.

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_04]: How embarrassing.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Her attempt, like, oh, let me stop you right there because I know what's going on.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I know exactly what happened.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just like half a dozen.

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Complexes.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Complexes.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_03]: So how many units are in the complex?

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_04]: 20?

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_04]: 40?

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_04]: 100?

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_04]: A couple of those?

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, I don't know.

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Call me crazy.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_04]: I think, like, one is too many.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I think a foreign gang coming into the country illegally and taking over a single apartment complex is one too many.

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Because they shouldn't be here.

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_04]: They should not be here in the first place.

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Open border.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Americans are so fed up with what's going on and they have every right to be.

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_02]: And I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs.

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I worry so much more about that problem than anything else here.

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_02]: We've got to get American communities in a safe space again.

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don't know who they really are, you're going to have problems like this.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Kamala Harris, 94 executive orders that undid Donald Trump's successful border policies.

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_02]: We knew this stuff would happen.

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_02]: They dragged about opening the border and now we have the consequences and we're living with it.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_02]: We can do so much better.

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_02]: But frankly, we're not going to do better, Martha, unless Donald Trump calls this stuff out.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad that he did.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, let's let's just let's just end that with they did not invade or take over the city, as Donald Trump said.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_04]: So that's the point of contention.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Did did they did this Venezuelan gang?

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Did they take over the whole city or just a handful of apartment complexes?

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_04]: So the truth is just a handful of apartment complexes.

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_04]: See, so it's so in that argument, we're at the point where we're back where it's like it's not it's happening, but it's only happening a little bit.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_04]: We have not gotten to the point where, yes, it's happening.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_04]: And here's why it's good that it's happening.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_04]: We have not achieved that status for the Venezuelan gangs taking over apartments.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_04]: So.

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, look, at some point they may be able to expand their territory.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_04]: I know that would be completely sort of, you know, out of character for these types of illegal gangs,

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_04]: because as I understand it, their history proves that once they take a little bit of turf or territory,

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_04]: they're usually satisfied with that and they never try to spread.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_04]: That'll do it for this episode.

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