Meet Tim Walz... the riot guy (08-06-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris has chosen Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, the fiery but mostly peaceful governor during the Summer of Love 2020. I was going over a piece in the last hour by Jim Garrity talking about the dirty, not so little, not so secret. Tim Walz's story is that he's not a good manager, which is odd because Kamala said she was looking for a governing partner. Remember?

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_01]: That was one of the clues that people were examining last week. What does she mean by governing partner? Oh, it means she's looking for a governor, which I guess she was. But if you look at his record of how he actually governed, it's not so great. It's not so great. A lot of abuse and fraud and waste.

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Mismanagement. For example, there's a there was a nonprofit called the Feeding Our Future or the FOF, the FOF, the FOF.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_01]: FBI Director Christopher Wray called it an egregious plot to steal public funds meant to care for children in need.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_01]: What amounts to the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme?

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_01]: The defendants went to great lengths to exploit a program designed to feed underserved.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Underserved. Oh, sorry. Underserved. Not undeserved, but underserved children in Minnesota amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to the tune of about a quarter of a billion dollars in federal funds used to purchase luxury cars, houses, jewelry, even coastal resort property abroad.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_01]: What does that have to do with Governor Tim Walz? You ask?

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, a state legislative audit concluded that the Minnesota Department of Education was asleep at the wheel and for years had ignored red flags concerning the nonprofit.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But wait, there's more. Hero Pay is what they called it. Hero Pay.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_01]: In 2022, he signed into law a plan to pay Minnesota's frontline workers Hero Pay for their work during the pandemic.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And there were about 667,000 people that were supposedly eligible for the Hero Pay.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_01]: And that meant they were going to get about 750 bucks a piece.

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_01]: But within a few months, the state said, we got more people applying than we realized.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_01]: We had more heroes than we knew.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And it turns out your payment, heroes, is now not 750.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_01]: It will be $487.45.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So just a smidge less, 487.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they found out that about a third of the roughly 1 million people that had applied were ineligible.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of the ineligible were dead.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So they can still be heroes without a pulse, but they don't get the money.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_01]: But they did get the money or somebody got the money.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_01]: But wait, there's more.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_01]: The same pattern is evident in the Minnesota state government's handling handing out of grants for arts as well as behavioral health.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_01]: The Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division did not comply with grants management policies, matching similar findings of a 2021 audit.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_01]: That audit found the agent.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_01]: The agency did not follow procedures for avoiding conflicts of interest and gauging whether nonprofits were financially stable enough before awarding the grants.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: The audit found that they had failed to complete financial assessments.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: The DHS Behavioral Health Division did not complete financial assessments for some of the grants.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And by some of the grants, I mean 40 percent of them.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: They just they did not do.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_01]: The financial assessments.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_01]: So the grants ranged from forty nine thousand all the way up to a million.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And the grand total for the improperly awarded grants was about eleven and a half million dollars.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, Walls has got to be licking his chops.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_01]: That is not a joke about his way.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not a joke about.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Stop.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you're overseeing the state budget and your agencies are handing out all of this money and you don't seem to have a problem with it, which is always I've talked about this in the past, by the way, there is a psychological reason for this.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But of all the people that you would think would be the most strident and observant when it comes to guarding taxpayer dollars to make sure they don't get wasted or they aren't being defrauded.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: The government isn't being defrauded.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: You would think it would be the progressives who push the policies because ostensibly.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_01]: You are pushing the policies for these programs and all the spending.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_01]: You're doing it to help people.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if you've got fraudsters that are siphoning money away from the programs, who is that hurting?

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yes, the taxpayers, but screw them.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_01]: No, you're hurting the people, the ones that you said you cared about, which is why you created the program or the service via the policy.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_01]: So why don't you care if there's a whole bunch of money getting siphoned out?

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Because a lot of times these programs are basically jobs programs for middle class people.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_01]: That will then vote for the guy who fills the trough, even if he's doing a bunch of slaughtering on the side.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: So this guy walls is probably looking at the opportunity that he may have to start, you know, sending out not just millions.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_01]: That's nothing.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_01]: He's looking at billions.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_01]: You could do hundreds of billions of dollars to your preferred groups.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Minnesota's Department of Health and Human Services back in 2019 admitted that it paid $29 million over a five year period for opioid treatments that were never administered.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder who got that money.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_01]: So this gets to the psychological studies.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, I've covered this before.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have the study in front of me, but I do have it.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I have the printed version.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got it in my files.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: But it has to do with the dopamine hits that the brain receives when you know that other people are seeing you behave in a moral way.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Or a perceived moral way.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_01]: This is essentially moral preening, virtue signaling, that kind of thing.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the juice.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what people are doing it for.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: They like the idea that they get up there.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_01]: They say, I'm for this thing.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not even the thing that you get the dopamine rush off of.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not you saying it.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_01]: It's knowing that these people are hearing you say it.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what gives you the juice.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And so it doesn't matter once the program is rolled out whether it actually works or not.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01]: You're an ideas guy, you know, or gal.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_01]: This has to do also with chaotic and ordered brain stuff, I think.

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And why you want more liberal-minded people that they help to create stuff.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_01]: But you don't want them running the stuff day to day.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they're off to new things and, you know, they got all the ideas.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_01]: You want some, you know, straight-laced Republican accountant guy to come in and manage the thing once it's up and running.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And so the idea there is that the promotion of a new program or service, which is all you ever hear from these politicians.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And we're like, oh, we're saying, oh, they're just buying votes.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's part of it, obviously.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_01]: But the other part of it is that it makes them feel good.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_01]: It makes them feel good to know that people hear them espouse these and promote these programs and services.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And then when the money starts getting siphoned out of the program or service, it doesn't really matter because there's no juice there for them.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_01]: There's another oddity.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_01]: His text messages, Tim Waltz's text messages, mysteriously disappeared despite public records laws.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, his appointed state cannabis director was selling products that violated state law.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And one of his appointments to the gubernatorial task force on broadband had to step down after allegations of domestic abuse came to light.

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So what does all this mean?

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Tim Waltz wasn't whipping up on his wife or anything.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_01]: No, he wasn't, you know, having affairs with the nannies.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_01]: That's Kamala's husband.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Waltz is terrible.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And we haven't even gotten to his ideology, which, by the way, pushed the state's policies hard to the left.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_01]: See, it's not just that he's a leftist.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_01]: He's an incompetent leftist.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what makes this so weird.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, he was the guy who started using the term weird to describe J.D. Vance.

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And so the leftists loved it.

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And I suspect that a lot of this was actually driven by the online crowd, the very online, always online crowd.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, yes, and the anti-Semites.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: The fiery but mostly peaceful Democratic ticket.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris Walls.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris Walls.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris Walls.

[00:10:16] Harris Walls.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That's weird.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I hadn't said it like that yet.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Like Trump, Vance.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds different than Harris Walls.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's his last name, Walls.

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_01]: It just sounds, I don't know.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds, you know what it sounds like?

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like primer paint.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh, I got to paint the kitchen.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me go get some walls to, you know, cover up the purple or whatever.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Thehill.com.

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I have so many.

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Hang on a second.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Before I get to The Hill, let me do this because I have so many clips.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me do this.

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_01]: This is, I'm going to play some clips.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_01]: This is Gwen Walls.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Gwen Walls.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_01]: See, now that almost sounds like a speech impediment going on there.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Gwen Walls, you know?

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't it?

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_01]: She is the wife of Tim Walls.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And here is Gwen Walls.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Wasn't she in National Lampoon Family Vacation?

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Wasn't that the main?

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_01]: She says, well, here, I'll just let her say it.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_01]: This was Gwen Walls talking about criminals.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And having a chance every day.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, how many chances do you get?

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_02]: My answer to that is as many chances as you need.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Which doesn't really please those law and order people.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_01]: So, um, I understand she's not going to be vice president if elected, but she does have

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_01]: that view.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And she's obviously on a Zoom call interview here, right?

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Talking about this, that you get as many chances as you need if you are a criminal.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And you keep committing criminal acts.

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Just as many as you need.

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Nate Silver.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_01]: The pollster guy or the numbers guy, not pollster.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_01]: He's a data analyst dude, founder of FiveThirtyEight.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, this Walls choice was designed to maintain the social fabric of the Democratic Party and

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_01]: avoid news cycles about a disappointed left and Democrats internal squabbling over the

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: war in Gaza.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's an interesting take, right?

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_01]: That's an interesting analysis designed to maintain the social fabric of the party and

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: avoid news cycles about a disappointed left.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Why would they be disappointed if you picked a Jew?

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Because the, you know, Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, Jewish, has

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_01]: virtually the same position on all of the Israel related issues as the other contenders

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_01]: for the vice presidential pick.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_01]: But it takes that off the table.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And it removes it from the news cycle.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he says was the reason for going with Walls.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to have this fight internally.

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And then it explodes into the public.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And now everybody's like, wow, you've got a whole bunch of anti-Semites in your party.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_01]: But Van Jones, you know, former Obama advisor now on, well, has been on CNN for, you know, 15 years or so.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_01]: He admitted that Walls' pick was a caving into some of the darker parts in the party.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he said on CNN.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: So here is the clip from Van Jones.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: He was on CNN with one, with what's his face?

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Costa, Acosta, Acoster, whatever.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget his name.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_01]: But you know the guy.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: He was going gray when he was attacking Trump.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he got an anchor gig because he was attacking Trump.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_01]: He dyed his hair.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_01]: That guy.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So here's Van Jones admitting that the pick of Tim Walls.

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the last Walls.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_01]: You do.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm working on it.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: I do like Tim Walls, the riot guy.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I do like that one.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_01]: The riot guy.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Riot.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Riot Tim Walls.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Riot Walls.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Because remember, he was the governor of Minnesota during the fiery but mostly peaceful burning of the cities in Minnesota during the Summer of Love in 2020.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_01]: So he gets picked over Josh Shapiro.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's Van Jones on CNN.

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you think it was a little risky, though, Van, that she didn't go with Shapiro to kind of lock down Pennsylvania?

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, yes, David Chowling was saying earlier, just because you pick him as your running mate doesn't mean you automatically win Pennsylvania.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_03]: But I got to think it would have helped just a little bit.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, listen, the conservatives, the right wing, the Republicans, they were chewing their fingernails down to the knuckle because they were afraid of a Josh Shapiro.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: They were afraid of a Mark Kelly.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not as afraid of this new governor because they think they can define him.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So here's the challenge you've got in this party.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And people don't want to talk about it.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got to talk about it.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: On the one hand, you have a lot of young people who are concerned about Gaza.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: You have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_00]: They have not felt seen by the Biden administration.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: You start hearing that genocide joke.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: That was building.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: That was building.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And so those folks needed to have a candidate that they could feel comfortable with.

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: This helps them in that regard.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But you also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You can be for the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's some disquiet now.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And there has to be how much of what just happened is caving into some of these darker parts in the party.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to have to get worked out.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to have to get talked through.

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_01]: That's from Media Research Center, Newsbusters.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That's their little stinger there at the end.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Highly recommend you follow them.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Media Research Center, MRC, on Twitter, at Newsbusters.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But, yeah, anti-Semitism has now become marbled into the party.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_01]: That seems like a problem.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_01]: No?

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe people might want to focus a little bit on that.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Talk a little bit about that.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: What do I know?

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see here.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me clear that one now.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_01]: What else we got?

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's J.D. Vance.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_01]: His comments on the pick.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_01]: He says that they make an, quote, interesting tag team because Tim Walls allowed rioters to burn down Minneapolis.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And the few that got caught, she helped bail them out.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_01]: It's funny because it's true.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_01]: But it's also sad and disturbing.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, also I saw this, that the Biden administration will be looking to ban federal government offices and agencies from using plastic cutlery in order to combat climate change.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_01]: So, no more sporks at the IRS.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, guys.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to, I guess you're going to have to use real silverware, like metal, permanent silverware, you know, which means you're going to have to load the dishwasher in the break room.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And, like, that's going to be a hassle, right?

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Because nobody's going to unload the dishwasher.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a problem.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And Lee Wolf, who, let me see, is the executive producer of the Ruthless podcast, points out that that is the premise of the very first episode in the first season of Veep, which is true.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_01]: My wife and I just started watching it again because she had never seen it.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I'd watched it when it was originally on.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And when Christie started hearing all of these comparisons of Kamala Harris to the show Veep, I said, oh, yeah, we should watch it.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And so we started to watch it like last week or so.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And that was the very first season is she's pushing for, you know, removing all of the plastic sporks and the plastic cutlery.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they came up with some other kind of utensil, which when you tried to stir it in the hot coffee, it like melted.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: That hilarity ensues.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's a message from Matthew.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, if Bernie Sanders is the Coca-Cola of democratic socialism, then Tim Walls is the caffeine-free diet Pepsi.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_01]: In all seriousness, he is a crazy lefty and the Trump campaign is going to have a lot of fun playing old soundbites of him.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: But he does.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, he does come across as very folksy and personable.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I can see him appealing to Midwestern moderates who are not ideological and simply vote based on who they like and not based on policy.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_01]: On another note, I think the Josh Shapiro snub is a pretty big deal for Jewish voters.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I foresee a record number of Jewish voters and black men going to Trump this year as a result of the woke direction that the Democrats have gone in.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, Stan is mad.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, uh, I keep hearing people say she's that Harris is the Democrat nominee.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Words mean something.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_01]: She's the Democrat party appointee.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_01]: No one nominated her.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_01]: No votainer here.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but I think she did get that yesterday in the virtual roll call.

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the delegates did select her.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: So she is nominated now, I believe.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: But the, I mean, the official nomination occurs at the convention, but they did it in, they did it virtually in order to print the ballots and all that.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what they did last night.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, as Kamala, uh, Kamala seeks to redefine herself.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Will she throw different opinions up against the walls to see what sticks?

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That was terrible.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I will leave it to the professionals from here on out.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: That's good.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_01]: That's good.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Jan, you got to know your limitations, you know?

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, let's see here.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got, oh, I mean, I got a whole bunch of stuff.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Here we go.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, this is from John Daniel Davidson.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, um, I'll tell you who he is here.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_01]: He is senior editor at the Federalist.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Also a contributor at the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, um, and the Claremont Institute.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, Harris's pick isn't sneaky smart.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_01]: It is a reminder that our elites are not particularly smart people.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_01]: They are insular and narrow-minded little authoritarians who despise you, think they know what's best for you, and want to control everything.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: That's, we have to, we have to.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, break free of this mindset that, oh, well, they're in these positions, and so that means they must be really smart or really good at this, and that's not the case.

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, it's usually the opposite because when we as a society, whether at the neighborhood level or the city level or the state level or the national level, when good and competent people do not step up to volunteer their time and attention to governing, then we end up being governed by bad and incompetent people.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of good and competent people do not get into politics because it's not worth it, they think.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to be savaged.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to be dragged through the mud.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't want that for their family.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to make more money in the private sector.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01]: All of these reasons.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But what ends up happening is the worst among us end up getting elevated.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And not just worst as in evil and bad, but worst as in the stupidest.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_01]: One of my problems with this pick of Tim Walls, I got to be honest, is that I spent too much time, you know, doing research on Josh Shapiro.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of ticked off about it.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I feel like I wasted a bunch of my time.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Kamala wasted my time.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't get that back.

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't get that back.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's not too late.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_01]: She can swap them out here.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Wouldn't that be a head fake?

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_01]: She does her, because she's going to like Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or somewhere else in Pennsylvania tonight.

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So everybody thought, well, obviously she's going to pick Shapiro then.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I thought.

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I did all the research.

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And then she picks Walls.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what the?

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe she gets on the stage and she's like, ha ha, just kidding.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually Shapiro.

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm?

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris Shapiro.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's why you can't.

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris Shapiro.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't do the S with the sh sound back to back.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That's probably why they picked Walls.

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_01]: But Harris Walls doesn't sound.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I'm probably reading too much into that.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01]: John Levine.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: He is a writer at the New York Post.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And he says both sides, as in Trump and Harris, have chosen vice presidential candidates that excite their base voters, but do little to win over persuadables.

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_01]: He says that is an indicator that both sides believe the number of swing voters is not meaningful and the race will be decided by who can turn out more of their diehards.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_01]: So I tend to agree with that.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_01]: That seems to be the most logical explanation.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And what I am wondering is whether this is a move by the Harris Walls camp, Kamala Harris and her team, which is basically Obama's team, so that they are now thinking in terms of let's make Walls the play for the base to send the signal.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_01]: We're still with you because, look, we picked this guy.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got the clips here.

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_01]: He's like socialism is just neighborliness.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Like one man's socialism is another person's neighborliness.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got a lot of problems.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got a lot of video clips that are out there.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got terrible.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got a terrible record as the governor of Minnesota.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_01]: And so maybe the play here is, look, base, look, anti-Semites that are, as Van Jones just said, you know, marbled into the party.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm still with you.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm still one of you.

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm still I'm still like squad adjacent, you know.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_01]: But she has to moderate.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And so maybe she's going to pitch herself as a moderate despite all of her record.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But she's going to say I'm a moderate and Tim Walls is the guy to, you know, to help tamp down any concerns that she's not.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And it has the additional benefit of not engendering a whole bunch of, you know, mostly peaceful, but maybe sometimes fiery protests at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, maybe that's what they're trying to avoid as well, because that would not look very good.

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Having, you know, violence at your convention.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's Eric Daugherty, assistant news director at Florida Voice News.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_01]: He says this week it came out that Kamala Harris's internals are not much better than Joe Biden's.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_01]: That means that states like Minnesota, Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico remain a worry.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Even if not a presidential loss, it still poses problems for down ballot races.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_01]: She has now picked a Minnesota leftist as her vice presidential pick.

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Minnesota.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_01]: The way he wrote this isn't clear.

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Not a Pennsylvanian, a Minnesotan, not a Pennsylvanian who won his election by double digits.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Is this a sign?

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't know.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_01]: No, but they have data that we don't.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I try to make a point to this anytime you talk about polling and such.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: The stuff that we see not conducted by like the best polling outfits.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_01]: The best pollsters are employed making, you know, a lot of money working for the campaigns because they need the best data.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_01]: They need the best polling data.

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So they usually hire the best firms and then and then we never see those poll results.

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And Rich Lowry from National Review.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Walls is an NSNBC anchors idea of a folksy politician who can appeal to middle America.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: But he's not.

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.

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