People who can't define woman tell us what being a man is (08-22-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about dudes. I am a dude. I'm a man. And so I feel qualified to discuss this topic. It kind of is connected somewhat to the last hour's discussion of Tim Walls, who is a liar.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Walls is being cast as this down-home, folksy, America's dad kind of character. The DNC has been selling camouflage ball caps with the Harris Biden logo on it.

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_01]: He's been making the outreach to the rural Americans, who I would point out, rejected Tim Walls in his statewide elections.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_01]: He won the congressional district like 20-something years ago, whatever it was. That was a Republican district at the time.

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody's like, see, he can win in Republican areas. And there's this myth around him that he somehow appeals to rural voters.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_01]: But what's his name? Steve Kornecki at the CNN broke down the numbers. And no, he wins because the urban areas vote Democrat.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it. That's how he won statewide. The rural areas vote Republican.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And so there is this wish casting going on inside the Democrat Party that they're going to make a play for rural voters.

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to win back rural voters. And Tim Walls, I said this the other day, that he is not – well, let me say it this way.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Walls is what suburban and elite urban liberal women predominantly think a rural white dude is.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_01]: That's like this – oh, he'll look good. We're going to put a flannel shirt on him and a ball cap and look at him.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_01]: He looks so good for the rural people, for all those hillbillies, those hicks, right?

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's part of the reason why Walls is attacking J.D. Vance from this position of he's not really a hillbilly.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, J.D. Vance grew up in poverty in Appalachia, went to the Marines, went to war, came back, went to Ohio State, graduated, I believe, in like two or three years, then went on to Yale Law School,

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_01]: and then did not bend the knee to the dominant ideology that is at Yale, right?

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And I suspect that's part of the reason why so many people loathe him on the left is that they gave him access to the credentialing service of Yale.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_01]: They gave him the entry to the elite power structure in America, and he talks about this, by the way, in the book, Hillbilly Elegy.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Talks about how that's when he realized, like, there are two Americas.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_01]: He had never seen this entire world before and the connections that are made and that sort of thing.

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_01]: People in powerful positions that roam the halls of these Ivy League schools.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: He got access, he got his credential, and how dare you?

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_01]: How dare you now, J.D. Vance, run with Donald Trump?

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_01]: How dare you?

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_01]: J.D. Vance breaks several molds that I think a lot of people on the left, the, quote, elites,

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_01]: that they expected him to fit into, and he broke them, right?

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he's married to an Indian-American woman, right?

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_01]: So he's got a biracial, he's got biracial kids.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: He first was a big opponent of Donald Trump.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_01]: He did not like Donald Trump, but then he likes Donald Trump.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, J.D. Vance says that Donald Trump proved him wrong, and J.D. Vance says his opinion of Trump changed

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: because Trump did the stuff that J.D. Vance wanted to see done, and J.D. Vance did not think Trump would do those things.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_01]: So isn't that what we say we want to see in elected leaders?

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying I agree with that.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm saying that this is what people claim they want.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_01]: If an elected leader is wrong about something, that they should say they were wrong about it,

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_01]: and they should change their mind on something, right?

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_01]: But when they do that, then it's like, oh, how dare you, right?

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_01]: If they change their mind to a position you don't like.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_01]: But Tim Walls, we are told, is that he's supposed to be the guy that appeals to the rural white voter

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_01]: and is not offensive, I think, to the urban or suburban liberal women.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_01]: But I got to tell you, as a guy who grew up firmly in the suburbs and as a dude, J.D. Vance does not speak to me.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Or sorry, Tim Walls does not speak to me.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Walls is a little extra.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_01]: He's a little bit extra for me.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll explain in a minute.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_01]: First, let's go over here to Mark.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Mark.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the program.

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

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Mark.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Compelling and rich.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_01]: We have a couple of sound bites here.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I said Tim Walls is extra.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He walks on stage like the opening act of a Tim Farley skit on Saturday Night Live.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_01]: He laughs too much, over laughing.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about cackling like Kamala Harris or anything like that.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_01]: People's laughs are their laughs.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'm a little sensitive to this because when I was walking through the halls long time ago in school,

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I think I was in like ninth or tenth grade or something, I'm walking down the hall with my buddies.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_01]: We're talking.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_01]: We're laughing.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And a teacher literally mimicked my laugh to mock me.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And I can't help how I laugh.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_01]: So, like, that's...

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: So, once again, as an aside, people are like, Pete, why do you hate public schools so much?

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: That's evidence exhibit 2792.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: That's one example of it, right?

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_01]: All teachers are heroes.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Are they?

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Is every single one great?

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I've had some bad ones.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, the point here is that this is a caricature.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Walls' avatar that he is projecting to us is an avatar of what somebody else thinks rural voters want to see.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Alex Wagner and Joy Reid.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_01]: These two are on MSNBC.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And they were talking about, coincidentally, the exact same thing that Dana Bash or Dana Bash was talking about on CNN.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_01]: They were discussing masculinity.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_01]: First off, I'm not sure these three women are qualified to discuss this topic, them being women and all, right?

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the standard, isn't it?

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: You're not allowed to have an opinion about this thing unless you're...

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_01]: But, no, they're analyzing Tim Walls through this political prism where, first off, all Democrats are awesome.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_01]: But the other prism, obviously, is this filter that this is going to work.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, this is brilliant.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Walls is going to end the first, or right now, the second gentleman, hoping to be the first gentleman, Doug Emhoff, right?

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Emhoff?

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Doug Emhoff?

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_01]: That he, like, that these are the two guys.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be America's dad.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Which is, like, that right there is the perfect encapsulation of what I'm talking about.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that these two guys, and if you've seen them, I mean, they're nice enough guys.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have any problem with them, but, I mean, like, politically, yes, but at a personal level, I don't know enough about him.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_01]: So, well, Doug, well, actually, that's not true.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I do know, right?

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I got a lot of problems with them.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, Doug, schtuping the nanny, right?

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Impregnating the nanny and then paying for the abortion and making her sign a nondisclosure agreement about it.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: And that leads to your divorce.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And now you're being held up as, quote, America's dad.

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_01]: If that's the case, we are in some serious trouble as a country.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, number one.

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And then the Tim Walls thing, just listen to the last hour.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_01]: The guy's, you know, a little too close to the commies for my taste.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_01]: But this over-exuberance that Walls exhibits, right?

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And this idea that they're, oh, they're wife guys or something that they were called.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Wife guys.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Which I don't even understand what that means.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_01]: It's sort of like, they're trying to make it be like girl dads.

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he's a girl dad, you know?

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Wife guy.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, isn't that every dude?

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Every dude that's got a wife?

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You're a wife guy?

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a wife guy.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a wife.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_01]: What the heck?

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, anyway.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_01]: It's all about branding.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_01]: But underneath the branding is, I think, a pretty remarkable assumption.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Got an email here to Pete at The Pete Calendar Show.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_01]: John up in New Jersey says,

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Can people who cannot define what a woman is judge masculinity?

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_01]: That is a very good question.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think, yeah.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_01]: If you can't tell me what a woman is, you don't get to tell me what a man is.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's only fair.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Here is the exchange between Alex Wagner and Joy Reid on MSNBC.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Trying to own masculinity in the most regressive, sort of misogynist way possible.

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_07]: J.D. Vance lecturing everybody on, you know, what a family means, what it means to be a man.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_07]: Donald Trump obviously has his own version of manhood.

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_07]: To see Tim Walls out there as a man who is just joyfully embracing his role as the potential vice president to the nation's first female president is an extraordinary thing.

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_07]: But also to see his son weeping for his father in a deeply tender and emotional way.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_07]: And then the last thing I'll say, because I think this hasn't been talked about enough, to see Democrats champion men as voices on reproductive choice.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_07]: As you saw.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, we're allowed to do that now?

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought we weren't allowed to talk about abortion.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_01]: For, like, my entire adult life, it was like, if you can't have an abortion, you shouldn't have an opinion about the matter.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought that, so I guess that's okay now?

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Or is it only if I'm of one opinion on the matter?

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that the deal?

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so now Joy Reid's going to join in.

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Yesterday, I believe, from Amanda Zorosky's husband.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_07]: Tonight, from Tim Walls, talking about struggles with infertility.

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_07]: It takes two partners to get pregnant.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_07]: And way too long this conversation has been relegated to women.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_07]: Or the carriers of pregnancies.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_07]: And it is, I think.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, wait, wait.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that a new term?

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, I can't keep up.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_01]: The women or carriers of pregnancy.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_01]: You could tell that she realized she said the wrong term, right?

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I can't say that.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_01]: It's women or carriers of pregnancy.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to come up with a different way to say woman.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Because you don't want to offend some portion of your audience or the Democrats that are there.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_01]: But I repeat myself.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_01]: So you've got to come up with this trickier way of saying it.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_01]: This must be exhausting to live this way.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_01]: But here's the thing.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't actually live this way.

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Way overdue to have men express not only their stake in all this, but also their anguish.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_07]: And to have a football coach talk about the anguish of infertility, I think, opens up a whole new conversation about the stakes at hand for 2024.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, I...

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so hang on a second.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: On the infertility thing, you know, he lied about the IVF.

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_01]: He lied about that.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: His wife didn't...

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't go through IVF to get pregnant.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: They went through an IUI, which is different.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, it has to do with low sperm count.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not...

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, I'm not trying to...

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not denigrating.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not using that as an insult.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying it's a different thing.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: It's just...

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: It's different.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_01]: But he's a football coach, and that's manly.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: And he wears flannel.

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_04]: And I love that you're saying that, because this is about modern masculinity.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And in the Democratic Party, the coach that is saying that it's important for him as the football coach to be the faculty, you know, partner for the LGBTQ club.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Gay-Straight Alliance.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Gay-Straight Alliance.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_04]: And he's like, that's something important for me to do, because if a coach is doing it, it's going to have just a little more salience, right?

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's going to help kids not get bullied.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, what's really been fascinating is to watch the men of the Democratic Party model a kind of masculinity that is simply 21st century masculinity.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Speaking of 21st century masculinity, how about that?

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_07]: How about that?

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_07]: How about that?

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_07]: How about that?

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_07]: How about that?

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_07]: That'll lead in.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_08]: We got Senator Cory Booker.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Poor Cory Booker there, man.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Holy cow.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Cory Booker.

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_01]: He is the avatar of masculinity for the 21st century, just in case you were wondering.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Bob says, please make it stop.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: No, Bob, not yet.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I have one more clip to play.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_01]: But first, Mark has called back.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to see if Mark is available now.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Mark, are you disposed?

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I apologize for having a weak self-signal.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I have remedied the problem.

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I was calling to equivocate the putting lipstick on a pig remark with Sarah Palin not long ago with that a cap for Tim Waltz doesn't do anything for me.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Tim Waltz is one of my contemporaries, and I have grown up and I have had copious table talks about the upper Midwestern male.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I surrender that you want to look at that.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I have said, years ago, I was in my formative years when Governor Wendell Anderson and Rudy Purpich went to the Apex Predator Fishing Opener of Walleyes and Northern Pikes.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And it was a big press event.

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know whether Waltz did either this or hunted for Bambi when the fall season opened up.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_02]: He got elected to Congress because the first district lines were changed from the 2000 census.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_02]: He won the governor's mansion because he carried nearly every single Senate district in the six, seven-county metropolitan area.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So, right.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I say he is a caricature of what elitist leftists think rural voters are.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_01]: That's his jam.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's not going to fly down the Mississippi River Valley.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_01]: No, definitely not.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Mark, I appreciate the call.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_01]: The people who are actually the people that the elitists think Wallz is, the people who actually are those people, they see Wallz for what he is.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And that was the case when he ran for statewide office up in Minnesota.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's the case, I think, right now.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't just slap on one of the orange hunting vests and camo ball cap and say, I was a football coach, everybody.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And then everybody's like, oh, my gosh, he's one of us.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess if you're going to take advice from our 12-year-old North Carolina Democratic Party chair, Anderson Clayton, I think maybe you got to throw in some cuss words.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Which he has done, actually, now that I'm thinking about it.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_01]: He keeps saying damn all the time.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So that shows he's rural, too.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the caricature.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Dennis says, Wallz's stage performance so far on the campaign reminds me of a clown hosting a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party for a crowd of 10-year-olds.

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Takes a real macho man to be so full of joy.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Chris says, while listening the past few segments, when you observed that Bill Clinton and J.D. Vance had similar origin stories,

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_01]: then later you said J.D. obtained his Yale elite credential and then horrified all of them by joining Trump.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_01]: In a funny way, I realized there was another Bill and J.D. connection.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Bill signed off on NAFTA and screwed what remained, screwed what remaining rural industry we had, including textiles in North Carolina,

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_01]: while Trump claims and showed a few actions in office to fight back for American manufacturing, which speaks to those lost Rust Belt families.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Ironically, J.D. is the logical answer to rise up organically against globalist designs such as NAFTA.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_01]: This is one of the things you've heard me reference and read from pieces at townhall.com that are written by retired Colonel Kurt Schlichter.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy, I believe he's a Harvard Law grad.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_01]: So he's like, I have, or was it Harvard or Army War College?

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I forget.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_01]: But he has talked about, he has these credentials.

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: He moves, he is an elite lawyer.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And he moves in these circles.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_01]: He knows these people.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_01]: And like the things that people believe these in these elite circles about the, you know, the point and the purpose of these credentials.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_01]: He confirms this.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_01]: J.D. Vance confirms it.

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I say these are credentialing institutions at this point.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And so when all of the stuff about the college campus protests came out, that did real damage because people who were not aware of that, they did not recognize that the institutions had been so corrupted.

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Now they were aware of it.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_01]: So let me get to this other clip here.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: This is from Dana Bash.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Dana Bash.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how she pronounces it.

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_01]: But she's on CNN.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And coincidentally, she had some similar thoughts about masculinity as represented by Tim Walls and Doug Emdorf, Doug Emdorf, Doug Emdorf, Doug Emdorf.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I think, yeah, I don't have to find out how to pronounce that name.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_01]: So these are the avatars of 21st century masculinity, according to the Alex Wagner and Joy Reid talking heads on MSNBC.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Dana Bash on CNN kind of has a similar thought.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it's completely not at all any kind of a talking point that was distributed by anybody at the DNC.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_05]: They are doing so in trying to put forward male figures.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Tim Walls being one of them, Doug Emdorf last night, who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, you know, gun-toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kind of players that came out at the RNC.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_05]: Or might want to listen to that, but also, in addition, understand that it's OK in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_05]: And that's something that they really are trying to work on with male voters beyond the base.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Keep working.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: This is not it.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, Tim Walls is not comfortable in his own skin.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: He's not.

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_01]: You know how I know that?

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he lies about everything.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_01]: If you are confident and comfortable in your own skin, you're comfortable and confident in who you are, then you don't feel the need to lie about, for example, the rank you were.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Whether you carried a weapon of war during war when you didn't actually go to any combat zone.

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_01]: You don't lie about that stuff if you're comfortable in who you are.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But this is narrative crafting, right?

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're getting from these legacy outlets, these mainstream, quote-unquote, media outlets, and they're talking heads.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why I do not watch these shows, these networks during conventions.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I mainline this stuff.

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I want it straight from the source.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I go to C-SPAN.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I want the direct feed.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_01]: No cutaways.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I want to see all of the speeches because these people cut away from what's happening on the floor of the DNC or the RNC.

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_01]: They cut away, and then they go up to their little booths where they got 18 people surrounding a table, and they all regurgitate what we're supposed to think.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And what we're supposed to think comes from the people that are putting on the theater down below.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll make my own conclusions.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll watch it myself.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll draw my own conclusions.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I'll pull some sound bites.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll come on here, and then I'll tell you what to think.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Jonathan, welcome to the program.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Jonathan.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Pete.

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just want to call.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So we all know that the Democratic Party is the party of, you know, tolerance and, you know, offering free stuff to buy votes.

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But have you noticed, like, they're buying votes here historically now since 2008.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: They're the party of the first candidate.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like in 2008, you could vote for the first black president.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: In 2016, you could vote for the first female president.

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, in 2020, hey, you should try to get the first, you know, female vice president.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Now we're back again to the first, the first, the first.

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're buying votes with this historical rhetoric.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, hey, if you vote, you could be you could you could be a part of history.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And like there's so many blind idiots in the world.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, man, let's go for that.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: That's so awesome.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So why do you so why do you think that there is such an attractiveness to to that kind of pitch?

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It should always be about policy.

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But for whatever reason, you know, just the dumbing down of society, just people think they think with their, you know, their emotions.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like I said, they they they preach that the Democrats are the I think the other day they said they were the tolerant party and the party of fairness and decency.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, but the thing about it is, is, you know, tolerance.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's nonsense.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, you know, you're a Christian, you should be tolerant.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, no, Christianity is not about tolerance.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It's about what's be able to correct.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, so it's right.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_01]: So but to bring it back to this idea, because you put you pinned it to 08.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that is correct.

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_01]: In that way.

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Which is the they have not had really since that cycle.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_01]: They have not really had the Democrats have not really had a true open primary kind of a system.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_01]: You had you had the party leadership picking people to fill the next role.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And so if the policies once Obama takes over, if the policies don't really matter any longer, then you are left with the argument for the first fill in the blank.

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's why that becomes paramount.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's even more so now because they can't run for they can't really run from the last three and a half years because they want to claim it was a success.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And Joe is just stepping aside for the good of the country for some unknown reason.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Everything was great.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala was, you know, was a vital part of the team and doing all of the things that got done over the last three and a half years.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01]: But now she needs to change course because she wasn't a part of all of that.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So we have to just kind of ignore all of that.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_01]: The the funneling of these these presidential candidates by the Democrat Party leadership.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_01]: If I was a Democrat, I would be kind of hacked off about it because it seems like the the the the party leadership is picking the candidate every single time.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And this is the most out.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_01]: This one is the most obvious example of it.

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think they use the big push while they stop doing civics is because they're sure won't won't buck the trend.

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll think, hey, this isn't how we do things.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, sure, everything about our civics education is broken because the left has has taken control of the that institution, the K-12 and above institution of education.

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And so, yeah, they don't want they're not as the creator of our system said, lo, those many years ago.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_01]: We are not trying to create men of letters.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_01]: The point here is not to get people educated about how best to govern themselves and what systems work.

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_01]: The point is to create voters to keep others in power.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Right. That that's what I see.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And so I think that's why you end up with this lazy rhetoric or lazy candidacies of, hey, we've got, you know, it's sort of a just swap out one person for the next one.

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's the first fill in the blank because that's going to make history.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody gets, you know, enamored with the making of the history rather than the policies.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Jonathan, I appreciate the call.

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Two other clips, I think I had.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, two other clips.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_01]: This is Scott Jennings on CNN, his assessment of what he had seen, what he has seen so far at the DNC.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Nobody tonight said anything.

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Nobody tonight said a damn thing.

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_03]: They want you to vote for a ticket based on absolutely no concrete idea about what they would do once they get in office.

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_03]: You said he got more progressive when he got elected governor.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Tim Walsh.

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_03]: So you're saying every time he gets another office, he gets more and more progressive.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's exactly what would happen.

[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Tonight, you did hear people say, well, we may not agree with him on everything, but at least it'll be joyful as they tax us into oblivion.

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_03]: I think the idea that you could run an entire presidential campaign based on the idea of vote for me to find out what's in it.

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Wait a minute.

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_03]: It should terrify every American.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It should terrify every American is what he said at the end.

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Vote for me to find out what I stand for.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're being asked to go along with right now with the Harris walls campaign pitch.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_01]: The economy is great.

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_01]: We're told by the Biden acolytes, by Joe Biden, the Biden Harris administration.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_01]: The White House spokesperson.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Economy's going great.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_01]: He and Kamala Harris have gotten the economy firing on all cylinders.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why we need to toss Biden out and elect Harris to get the economy back on track.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That makes total sense.

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, the numbers came out.

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned this yesterday at the end of the program that the U.S. economy added far fewer jobs in 23 and 24 than previously reported.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And here was Gina Marie Raimondo, the secretary of commerce on ABC News.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_06]: When you hear that, do you potentially think that this new numbers could be a liability for this campaign?

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_06]: No.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_06]: When I hear that, first of all, I don't believe it because I've never heard Donald Trump say anything truthful.

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_06]: It is, though, from the Bureau of Labor.

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't I'm not familiar with that.

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the secretary of commerce who doesn't know what the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that came out yesterday, hours, many hours before she made that appearance.

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And the first thing she does is say, I don't believe what Donald Trump says.

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Not even aware that that report.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Was not from Donald Trump.

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_01]: What it means is U.S. job growth during much of the past year was way weaker than initially estimated, which is a problem.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_01]: That was why ABC asked the question.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a problem for the campaign because they've been touting all of the job creation.

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_01]: The BLS preliminary annual benchmark review of employment data shows there were 818,000 fewer jobs in March of this year than were initially reported.

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Commerce Secretary unaware of that report.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_01]: But I am sure that I am sure that these kinds of bureaucrats and technocrats and elected leaders will be able to monitor every single item on the grocery store shelves in order to protect us from the gouging.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I have no doubt that they'll be able to manage that complex of a system.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_01]: No doubt.

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.

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