Humorless humiliation is the point (08-12-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So have you seen the photo of Senator J.D. Vance? Oh my God, this is so weird. And he's a hypocrite, apparently, or something. Because there was a photo that one of his college pals took, I guess, in Yale Law School.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a picture of J.D. Vance. He's apparently standing in a kitchen, and I have used my context clues to deduce this information, given the cabinets and what appears to be marble countertops. Or maybe not marble, they're brown. They could be quartz, could be a composite. I don't know.

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's definitely a countertop, but it's definitely a countertop, and there are definitely kitchen cabinets there.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And he is standing in the corner, and he has a ridiculously shiny, yellow, dare I say golden kind of wig of blonde long hair.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And wearing a black t-shirt.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And some sort of necklace that appears to be made of, like, really large circles.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Like costume jewelry kind of a thing.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And he appears to be wearing a lengthy skirt.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Or dress.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what the, is the dress with the torso part and the bottom skirt part, that's what makes it a dress versus a skirt.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's a skirt, but it goes down well past the knee.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So, oh, and I think he's wearing, like, eyeliner or something around his eyes.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't, but it looks, it's pretty bad.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: He has the stubble.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got, like, two days worth of growth of the facial hair.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And so this is obvious proof that J.D. Vance is a cross-dresser, right?

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He is a drag queen performer, hypocrite, obviously, because he wore this wig and a black t-shirt and a necklace and the skirt.

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, also, I should point out here, you can see in the photo, which I don't know why they didn't crop this out,

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: unless they were trying to, like, draw more attention to the length of the skirt,

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: because the picture is taken from what appears to be the other side of a table or maybe an island of some kind.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can see two red Solo cups on the table, which is the universal sign for keg party.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I did not go to Yale Law School, so I don't know if the Red Solo cup is standard at all sorts of other gatherings or something.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But for folks who aren't aware, if you have not read his bio or his book, Hillbilly Elegy,

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: J.D. Vance went into the military after high school, joined the military.

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And then after he got out of the Marine Corps, after serving overseas, he comes back.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_00]: He goes to Yale and gets into Yale Law and graduates, gets a degree.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a lawyer from Yale after his humble roots in Appalachia.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But I still think it's a college.

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure Yale Law School is still part of a college atmosphere.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So I want to believe, I think I have to kind of like go with the Occam's razor interpretation here.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: This appears to be, I don't know, maybe a costume party, maybe like a Halloween party.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And look, I can say this from experience because, no, I have not dressed up as a female.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But I did host very, very, very large Halloween parties while in college.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't want to say it's the stuff of legend, but they were, at least while I was there.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't just me.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It was me and my roommates.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: We lived off campus.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And the guys who lived in the house next door to us, there were four of them.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So between the two houses, there were seven of us.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And we shared a big open field backyard.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And we would book bands.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And we would buy kegs.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: We carted people at the door.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: We took money.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was a Halloween costume party.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you wore a costume, then you got in for a lower rate.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure this is all illegal.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations has run out on this by now.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: So I feel comfortable talking about it.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: But I have not done any research to find out if the statute of limitations has run out.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But we used to host very large Halloween parties.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: This looks to me, given my experience, I think I have now qualified myself as an expert in the field.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Looks like a Halloween party.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I could be wrong.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I could be wrong.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But when I hear the hoofbeats, I think horses.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think zebra.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Because obviously, if you're going to do a drag queen kind of a performance, I think you're probably not just like in the corner of a kitchen, leaning against a wall with your hands kind of.

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what he's holding there.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like he's got like a little.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: He's holding like a looks like a little cup or a cap or something.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But both of his hands are in front of him holding something.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I don't know.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe this was after the performance or something.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But I see all of the solo cups.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And my first thought is raging kegger Halloween party.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: But.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But, but, but, but.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: There is political hay to be made here, people.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So, Newsweek.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: A piece by Flynn Nichols.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: A photograph appearing to show Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance dressed in drag has gone viral on social media.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: The unconfirmed image appears to show the Ohio senator dressed in women's clothing and wearing a blonde wig.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: The image is reported to have been taken in 2012 by one of Vance's classmates while he was studying at Yale Law School, according to The Daily Beast, which is a lefty publication.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It was subsequently sent to a podcaster named Matt Bernstein or Steen, who posted it on X, formerly Twitter.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I have obtained a photo of J.D. Vance in drag while in Yale Law School.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: A spokesperson for Vance did not deny the authenticity of the image when approached by The Daily Beast and did not offer any further comments.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a total drag queen, everybody.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Newsweek contacted Vance's campaign for comment outside normal working hours, so they did not respond.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Anti-Trump conservatives on the Twitter machine.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Started posting the photo and saying that J.D. Vance is so weird.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: There it is again.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He's weird.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Why is dressing in drag weird?

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, now I'm confused.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And like.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I mean, not like I think I'm probably more confused at this point than like a fifth grader talking gender identity with their teacher outside the presence of the parent.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm confused as to why it would be weird if he's dressed in drag.

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just assume for the moment that he's not dressed up at a Halloween keg party.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, and let's assume that this is some sort of like living my true authentic self moment that happened to be captured.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_00]: In a kitchen.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: With a bunch of red solo cups around.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And he just felt like this was this was where he wanted to come out, not shave.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that what makes it weird?

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would dressing like a woman be weird?

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Why is that weird?

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it wasn't weird.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was all perfectly normal.

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was actually what an expression of freedom in order to allow your or the idea that you have to have your kids, you know, go to some library and have a book read to them by somebody dressed like this.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't that that's not weird at all.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That's inclusive.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: It's equitable.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would this be weird?

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Is drag weird?

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Is a man dressing as a woman weird?

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it only weird on Halloween or at a Halloween party?

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I dressed as a cowboy one year.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Full disclosure, I'm not a cowboy, but I dressed as one.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Was that weird?

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think so.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was just wearing a costume for a costume party.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump and Vance get this.

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: This is Newsweek.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_00]: While Trump and Vance do not have an official policy against drag.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_00]: They do intend to cut funding to schools which promote gender transition.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So is that the same thing?

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Because again, now I'm confused even more so because I've been told for the last, I don't know what, four years, five years that drag is not the same as gender identity and gender transition.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Why are these rules changing all the time?

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Full disclosure, I have not seen all of the photos of J.D. Vance's life.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So I cannot speak to all of the photos that may have been taken of him over the course of his life.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_00]: However, I feel pretty confident that the photo that the left is sharing around and using to demean and ridicule and mock J.D. Vance because he wore what appears obviously to be a Halloween costume to a Halloween party.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That somehow or another I'm supposed to believe that this is something other than what it to me obviously is.

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But even if it wasn't, even if my interpretation is incorrect, why would your interpretation as a leftist be the correct interpretation?

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And if it is, given that there's no other supporting information except the fact that he's wearing this outfit, blonde wig, silly mascara, black t-shirt, necklace and skirt.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_00]: What's wrong with that?

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you be using that to shame him or humiliate him?

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what, I mean, that's what they're doing.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why they're doing it.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Humiliation.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Humiliation, which a lot of people get off on.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of like the Adam Kinzinger story over the weekend where apparently some people found some account of his on a gay dating site, I believe.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they've been sharing photos of that.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Screenshots and stuff.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: That's humiliation is the point.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And I get concerned when I see these things being adopted as the cultural norms.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_00]: To humiliate people for sport.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what this is about.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why people do it.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And they obviously think that this is some sort of, and they've woven this together with the lie against J.D. Vance also about him having relations with a sofa, with a couch.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Which didn't happen.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody made up the lie and spread it around and the leftists are using it to humiliate J.D. Vance.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_00]: There is another photo, though.

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I have not seen this one.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But there is another photo that Newsweek is reporting on.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: From his college days that has gone viral, last month a picture surfaced of the Ohio senator wearing a Soviet hammer and sickle shirt while surrounded by others dressed as professional wrestlers.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's all the information I have about this photo.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'll Google it during the break.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But I feel pretty confident that once again, this might be somewhat of a costume.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_00]: If he is surrounded by people dressed like wrestlers, professional wrestlers, and he is wearing the Soviet hammer and sickle shirt, I'm thinking he's also dressed as a wrestler.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember there was a wrestler?

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't there a guy, Boris something or other?

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He would fight with Hulk Hogan.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Iron Shake was another one.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: These caricatures, these cartoonish avatars of Iran and Russia.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: What was the...

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember this guy?

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_00]: You're a wrestler guy, aren't you?

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Kulov.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Ivan and Nikita Kulov.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you talking about that?

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the Russian did this.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: The Kulovs.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

[00:14:07] Yeah.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So again, I haven't seen the photo, but I'm going to guess that the context clues are pretty important here to understanding why you might have been wearing the Soviet emblem t-shirt,

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_00]: being surrounded by people dressed like professional wrestlers.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, too, is probably some sort of a costume event where you dress up as things to elicit laughs.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm?

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Or like high school talent shows, where there's always people dressed up as the opposite gender.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Can you even do that anymore?

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that allowed?

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what do you do if you're a parent at one of these events and people are up there wearing...

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, if the football team comes out and they're all dressed like the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders are dressed like the football players.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that...

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you allowed to laugh at that?

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Or is that like, oh, look at that.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So brave.

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, what do you do?

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I have found a Newsweek article written by the same guy, Flynn Nichols, regarding the photo that apparently was spread on social media about two or three weeks ago

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: of J.D. Vance at what appears to be another costume party where there's this one, two, three, four, five guys.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_00]: There are five guys in this picture.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: The guy on the left, he's wearing a black shirt and he's got some suspenders, some wacky looking suspenders on, but I can't see.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just from the waist up, so I don't know what pants the guy's wearing or whatever.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's three other guys and they're all wearing black shirts with the sleeves cut off and these big signs on the front that say NWO.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: See, John knows what that means.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And then one of the guys wearing the black shirt, he's got a black bandana or skull cap kind of thing over his head and it says A-C-H-O.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So he's, I think, the sneezer.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Achoo, I believe.

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got these big dark sunglasses.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_00]: He's doing like a snar.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, that's macho.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Never mind.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Or nacho.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably macho.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably Randy Macho Man Savage.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm thinking.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't he a member of the NWO at some point?

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It's so hard to keep the alliances straight because they, you know, the wrestlers.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_00]: NWO Wolfpack on top of that.

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Just different iterations.

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they just kind of, and then people, like, they break away.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They become good and the good become bad and whatever.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think he's Randy Macho Man Savage.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's another guy with his face painted white, which, like, that would be the offensive thing.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: This dude's in white face.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: But no, I think he's supposed to be another wrestler with the white painted face.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got little, like, lines or something and whatever on it.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's J.D. Vance standing there with a red T-shirt with the CCCP and Hammer and Sickle with a little star.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And he has a red T-shirt.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And they got their arms around each other.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They're all smiling for the camera as if they are at an event of some kind where they are all probably not, maybe not required, but let's say encouraged to wear crazy outfits.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And, again, this would have been from, like, 2012.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So it is as stupid.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, this line of attack is as stupid as one might suspect.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me get to the, let me get to my inbox here.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Jan says, J.D. Vance in a wig and a dress in a kitchen area.

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_00]: First question, are there empty beer cans in the photo?

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So, second question, is he twerking in front of small children because that would make it okay in progressive world?

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That's, he is not twerking in front of young children because that would be acceptable.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: No, he is simply standing in the corner.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And while there are no beer cans littered around him, there are, in fact, red Solo cups.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Jan goes on to say Halloween parties that were the stuff of legend.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been to a few of those.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I even remember some of them.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, God, that I grew up when cell phone cameras were not everywhere.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Joseph says, $100 says Jack calls in to talk about J.D. Vance in drag.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, he has not called in.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: As far as I know, Jack has not called in.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, J.G. says, so did J.D. just solidify the LGBTQIA plus vote?

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, why not put that out into the, well, it's already making the rounds in the LGBT media.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But, again, I'm not aware of J.D. Vance saying anything about drag, dressing in drag for Halloween shows.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: They have talked about, you know, it not being cool to chop off the anatomy of children.

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They have, he has said stuff about that issue.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think that's the same thing as simply dressing up for a Halloween costume party.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I think those things are on, like, it's not even, you know, differences of degree, not distinction kind of thing.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not, they are, they are different distinctions.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Not just degrees.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: They are different things.

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you come to me and you pretend, because I'm going to assume that you're not a moron.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, you're, so I'm going to assume you are pretending that they are the same things.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Then I will say to you what I say often, which is, don't whiz on my boot and tell me it's raining.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: That is gaslighting.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I can identify it pretty quickly.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is gaslighting.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: This idea that you're going to tell me that I cannot believe what I'm seeing with my own eyes.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And all of the context clues in the picture that somehow or another I'm supposed to believe that this is the thing that you say it is rather than what I can obviously see with my own eyes.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Greg says, as much as I despise the left, I have to give them credit for creating a false reality that you cannot be conservative if you are not straight and Christian.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Most conservatives could not care less if you did some cross-dressing or joined a gay dating website so long as you don't affect the lives of other people by doing so.

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_00]: If you, well, see, so there are different degrees here of the conservatism.

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And, like, I think what you're, Greg, what I think you're talking more about there is more of a libertarian view.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Which, to quote the Democrat vice presidential candidate, mind your own business.

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: That's, he's been saying this, this coming from the guy that set up a snitch line so you can rat out your neighbor who happened to be hanging out in the driveway with a couple of other neighbors during COVID.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Got to have a snitch line.

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you bust people who aren't following the dictates of the government.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, if you harm your family by doing those things, we do frown upon that.

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't harm anybody, we couldn't care less.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Or at least that's how it should be.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So, again, like, I don't understand why this would be an insult.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: It's sort of like when people attack during an argument and suggest that you're gay as an insult.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And I've never understood why would that be an insult?

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you saying that's an insult, using that as a slur?

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, that sounds kind of homophobic to me.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, because there are no lasting principles here.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The issue is never the issue.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The issue is always the revolution.

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So, whatever the issue has to be at this particular moment, at this second in time, then that's what I will use in order to advance the revolution.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's it.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And, yes, they advance the revolution in every single freaking argument that they ever have.

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It's so annoying.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Headline over at National Review.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump campaign says it has been hacked by foreign sources.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I was driving in today and I popped on over to the NPR affiliate where I listened to its coverage of this story.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And they kept throwing all these qualifiers in there, like, without evidence.

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I kept saying without evidence.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But there is evidence.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So, here's National Review's write-up.

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign said Saturday that its internal communications had been hacked by foreign sources.

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Several news outlets, including Politico, which first reported the news, received emails from an anonymous account with internal documents from the campaign, including a research dossier on Trump running mate J.D. Vance.

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: What is with Democrats and these dossiers?

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I tell you.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Quote, these documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and so chaos throughout our democratic process, according to Trump campaign spokesperson Stephen Chung.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Without evidence.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, we don't know that.

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know if it was a foreign actor trying to interfere in the election.

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, note the distancing and the dismissiveness with which this story will be treated versus the Steele dossier and Russian interference.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Because remember, when Russia, Russia, Russia hacked John Podesta with a phishing email, basically.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, hey, you need to reset your password.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Send us your password.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, okay.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: One, two, three, four, five.

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You know.

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I have in my luggage.

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, Russia was deemed to be partial to Donald Trump because that's why they hacked her.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: See, I've been consistent on this from, lo, those many years ago.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, almost a decade ago.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Where the emails, the DNC emails were published after the phishing effort.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Hack John Podesta, who was the campaign chair of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I said at that time that that is not indicative of a foreign government's preference for a presidential candidate per se.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It could be.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But until I see evidence that they're like, we really want candidate A or B, especially when it comes to Russia, the point is the chaos.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the purpose.

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just to mess everything up.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what they like to do with us.

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Constantly messing with us.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And so, I suspect that's what this is about as well.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But, if I am to use the left's standard, if I am to use the media standard, but I repeat myself.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Then, just like Trump is Putin's preferred candidate, so too, I guess Kamala Harris is Iran's preferred candidate.

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But, your standard, guys.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Chung noted a report on Friday.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Chung is the spokesman for the Trump campaign.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Said that a group run by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had tried to hack an unnamed presidential campaign.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_00]: This was a report from Microsoft.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But, the report did not state whether the effort was successful.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Microsoft said at the time that the group had gained access to the email account of a former advisor to this unnamed campaign.

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And, that the Iranian group then used that address in June to send an email to a senior official on the campaign.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And, that email included one of these phishing links.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Which, could have then allowed Iran to access the target's other emails.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how the phishing operations work.

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: This is why I tell people when they send me emails like, oh, you need to read this article.

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And, they give me a link.

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I do not read your links.

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I get so many.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I get literally hundreds of emails every day.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't read your links.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't open them.

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't click on them.

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how I stay safe.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It's my personal N95 mask, if you will.

[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_00]: On Friday, oh, sorry.

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Hang on.

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The Washington Post reported that a person familiar with Microsoft's work told the Washington Post that the campaign referenced in the report was, in fact, the Trump campaign.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a high-ranking official on the U.S. presidential campaign in June.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And that coincides with the close timing of President Trump's election.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And that coincides with the close timing of President Trump's selection of Vice President nominee J.D. Vance.

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_00]: This comes after recent reports of an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump right about the same time as the Butler, Pennsylvania tragedy, said Trump.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Politico also reported that it had been receiving messages with internal information about the campaign from an anonymous source since July 22nd, including the dossier on J.D. Vance, along with partial research about Senator Marco Rubio, who was also on Trump's VP shortlist.

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: The Post said it received a 271-page document about Vance that was labeled privileged and confidential, and it laid out potential political vulnerabilities.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So Politico's got the dossier.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They've got all the research, the oppo research, because that's part of the vetting process.

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So they've got all of that info.

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Politico does.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So Iran obviously wants Kamala to win.

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Vote accordingly.

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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