RFK dropping out and Obama's 4th term (08-23-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I've got the audio feed. Let me see if it's coming in here. Yes, that's definitely an audio feed. All right, we got the audio feed coming in for the RFK Jr. announcement, which I believe I heard the report earlier today that he had already filed the paperwork or whatever is necessary to get his name off the ballot in Arizona.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was, but he's in Arizona. He's in Phoenix. And Donald Trump was down there too. Coincidence? Probably not. But the rumor has been that RFK Jr. is going to drop out and he's going to maybe endorse Trump. Two components here. Number one was that his party had built up this infrastructure.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_02]: At the state level in all of these different states in order to get certified for the ballots and all. And they want to preserve that infrastructure.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_02]: So, and part of that's going to, you know, help keep the donors happy that were funding his run and building up of that infrastructure. So they don't want that all to just be wasted. So that's the first thing.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_02]: The second part of it is the endorsement. And the rumor is that RFK Jr.'s wife does not want him to endorse Trump. And so that's been a sticking point.

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_02]: RFK Jr.'s wife is Cheryl Hines. She is a Hollywood actor. She played the wife of Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_02]: So, we shall see. We've got the feed here. Go ahead and... All right. I'll have it up like that. So it's just kind of... There we go. Just room noise. So if it begins, I will jip it.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_02]: It, as they say. Join in progress. It. Which actually, that doesn't even make sense. Why would we jip it? Join in progress. We would just jip. Right.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Like when people say ATM machine. Why would you say that? You would just say an AT machine. Or an ATM. That's it. Okay. Sorry.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Over at the Free Beacon, which is a national treasure in my opinion, Matthew Continetti had a piece called Kamala Harris's Obama Makeover.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_02]: He said the DNC portrayed Kamala Harris as Barack Obama's rightful heir. Obama himself did the same.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Democrat heavyweights from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Pete Buttigieg and Josh Shapiro suggested that circumstances are ripe for a yes-we-can repeat.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_02]: They painted a picture of a bleak and divided country where personal rights are under threat and working families have troublemaking ends meet.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_02]: A country desperate for new leadership. A country like America in the autumn of 2008.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_02]: 2008. The Vibeventions goal, that's my word, by the way, that is not trademarked as of yet.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_02]: But I kind of feel like I'm not going to trademark it because it just seems like a really lengthy process.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So anyway, the Vibeventions goal was to revive the fated tropes of Obama mania and then use them to aid Harris in November.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_02]: So entertainment figures who appeared on stage and in the audience turned the proceedings into not just a political event, but also a cultural one.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And if you watch the Vibevention, you would have come away thinking that the current president is Donald Trump.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_02]: More was said about him than any issue or policy.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_02]: He was blamed for all the problems facing the country, you know, the economy, inflation, the border, immigration, the uncertainty of abortion law, all of it.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_02]: The man who has lived in the White House, though, since January 20th, 2021, was hustled off the stage as soon as he finished his speech after midnight on Tuesday and then shipped off to a ranch in California.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_02]: From that point, by the way, I think that Joe is in California because that's where Hunter Biden's trial is getting ready to start.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's why they're out there. Be closer to Hunter.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_02]: From that point on, Joe Biden's name was barely uttered.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, an occasional speaker would thank him perfunctorily, not for his public service, but for withdrawing his candidacy.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's really what people were happy about.

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like he's out. Oh, thank goodness. And he's endorsing Kamala.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. She's the one they've been waiting for. Oh, thank goodness.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_02]: But that's not really it's not this it's not this groundswell of support for Kamala Harris because she's this fantastic candidate.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_02]: It's that she's not Joe Biden and they don't have any other choice.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And we've known this for weeks when Joe Biden was before he was pushed out before the coup.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_02]: It was generally understood that Kamala Harris was such a terrible candidate that they didn't want to put her in place.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_02]: That was the that she was the insurance policy for the Bidens to prevent that very thing from happening.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_02]: But the polling was so bad for Joe and the debate performance was so terrible that they had to finally pull the trigger and say we're just going to have to go with somebody else.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And our options are very, very limited now.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_02]: And so we're going to have to go with Kamala and we'll see if she can pull it out.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_02]: But if she doesn't, then 2028 we regroup and we go back.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_02]: This was the convention that Democrats actually wanted to hold in 2020.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Barack Obama had helped to select.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_02]: The or has helped to select the past three Democrat presidential nominees, despite the fact that he left office eight years ago.

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_02]: He never wanted Biden to lead the party.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_02]: He pushed Biden aside in 2016 for Hillary.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Remember?

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_02]: But then Clinton lost.

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump took power.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's really what angered Barack Obama and the Obamatons.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_02]: That was Trump's biggest sin.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_02]: He beat Hillary.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_02]: But he beat Obama.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_02]: He beat Obama.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what hacked them off.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Remember, it was under Obama where the wheels started to go in motion for all of the the corruption of the DOJ and the weaponization of the government against Donald Trump.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: That was under him.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Before Trump comes in, Obama starts doing all of that stuff against Donald Trump.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And people think, oh, no, he was already on his way out.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Again, that's Obama's style.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm above all of this stuff.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't engage in all the petty politics.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And people believe it.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the old like the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people he didn't exist.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_02]: He never wanted Biden to be the leader.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump beats Hillary.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Obama then looks around for a non Biden alternative.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_02]: He has known Kamala Harris for years and he was boosting her in the 2020 campaign.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Back then, Harris ran as sort of squad adjacent.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_02]: She was a progressive.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_02]: She embraced the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, defund the police, DEI inequity, decriminalizing illegal border crossings.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_02]: She had a brilliant debut.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_02]: She had crowds in Oakland.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_02]: She was sliming Biden as an opponent of racial integration.

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_02]: But then she stumbled.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Her campaign lost momentum and she dropped out two months before the Iowa caucuses.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_02]: The 2020 election.

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_02]: During a pandemic, after the death of George Floyd, nationwide social unrest.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Democrats did a virtual convention.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Remember?

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_02]: The pressures of the moment then changed Joe Biden.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_02]: He had always wanted voters to think of him as a moderate, as a small state down to earth guy with working class roots.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_02]: But the pandemic made him believe that he could be FDR reborn.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, Matthew Continetti is the author of this piece at Free Beacon.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm giving you just the highlights.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a much lengthier piece.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_02]: But I have heard this similar narrative reported in other outlets, left and right, that Joe Biden began to believe that he is this unique figure.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_02]: He beat Trump and he can do it again.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, he's the only one that could do it again.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_02]: That was the biggest hurdle to get over for people trying to convince him to get out.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_02]: But his term was a disaster.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_02]: We are monitoring for the RFK Jr. announcement as proof.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Here you go.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_02]: You hear that?

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_02]: That's crowd noise or news conference room noise.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's just an empty podium.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_02]: They've got a little lectern up there with some mics.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: They've got two American flags.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So don't know who all, but they're late.

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought they were supposed to do this at 2 o'clock.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll monitor it and see what happens when it comes, when it starts, we'll bring it to you live.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I had a message here.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_02]: A couple of them, actually.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Regarding RFK Jr., Chris says, if he does drop out of the race, I would like to hear him say something akin to the following.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: As a Kennedy, sorry.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_03]: As a Kennedy, I can.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I won't do that.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_02]: As a Kennedy, I can.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I just realized.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_02]: If we're going to carry this thing live, we have to listen to his.

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

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I am beholden to breaking news.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_02]: What can I say?

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_02]: As a Kennedy, I can vehemently state that in the past several years, the Democrat Party has done more to irrevocably damage the democracy and the democratic process than any and all enemies foreign and domestic could ever do.

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_02]: If he does endorse Trump, do you think Cheryl Hines will file for divorce?

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I think she would.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_02]: That is possible because, you know, that's like that's going to make it very uncomfortable and awkward.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Very Larry David-esque, you might say, in Hollywood for her.

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

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Regarding Kamala Harris and the campaign that she is running, Greg says she's running a hybrid campaign.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_02]: When Obama ran, he sounded like a middle of the road Republican.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_02]: And then Joe stayed in the basement.

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Mix them together and you get Harris walls.

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I believe that is the case.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_02]: What they did in the DNC was was theater.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: That's it.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: It's to present a false image, a false portrayal of who they are and what they want to do.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's politics.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I understand that.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_02]: You lie like a rug during the campaign and then you do what you want to do when you're when you get elected.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's why.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I believe it's important to highlight this stuff and to point out the fact that she has not done press conferences.

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_02]: She is not taking questions from the media.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_02]: She is not good off the cuff in a in a non scripted environment.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know if that's going to matter.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And my concern is that we're going to watch our media institutions drag this woman across the finish line.

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Because otherwise they are so wedded to the idea of, you know, a Trump catastrophe and the end of democracy.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And they do not want to be associated with any news outfit or news story or anything that may contribute to Donald Trump winning.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And so they're going to debase themselves.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_02]: OK, further debase themselves.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_02]: In order to make her win.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And that is a very dangerous thing for the society.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_02]: The politicians are going to do what they're going to do.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_02]: But the media needs to hold these people, both of them, Trump and Harris, accountable.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And I only see that happening in one direction.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Matthew Continetti's piece at the Free Beacon.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Biden's term has been a disaster.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_02]: The result of recklessness and incompetence compounded by age and infirmity.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_02]: The Obama crew is no happier about a happier about it than you or I.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Finally, when Biden relented and gave up the nomination, Obama and his allies reasserted their authority.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Ty.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Harris was eager to accept their counsel.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Obama's consigliere, David Plouffe, joined her campaign.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you know that?

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_02]: David Plouffe.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, everybody.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: We're just going to do one more final audio check.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Just to make sure you can still get it.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Because we had some new press people join us.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_01]: So if we can just do one more thumbs up.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's doing good.

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

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Thumbs up here.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Thumbs up here.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Someone over here was needing it.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_02]: OK.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Still going.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he just did an OK sign.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_02]: He's a white power, white supremacist.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_01]: OK.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Going once.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Going twice.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Just make sure you guys can all hear me.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Just one more time.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Thumbs going up in the air.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Thumbs up.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just looking for a friend over here in the corner.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_02]: This guy's got a black suit jacket.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_01]: OK.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be starting shortly.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Just everybody settle in.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_01]: OK.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And thank you for being here.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_02]: So that dude's got hair like lower than his shoulder.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Thick rimmed glasses.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Black blazer.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Black button down shirt underneath.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's.

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_02]: If I didn't know any better, I'd say that dude's a libertarian.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_02]: He just has the.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the cut of his jib, if you will.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_02]: So back to the continuity piece.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, I'm monitoring it.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll see what happens here.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Dude, where was I?

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Harris took on more than Obama's staff.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he also took on Stephanie Cutter.

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Not the country, but the person.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Jennifer Palmieri and Mitch Stewart.

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_02]: They all signed on.

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_02]: These are all Obama retreads that came from the Biden camp.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_02]: This is Obama's fourth term.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what they're trying to do.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Harris took on more than Obama's staff.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_02]: She adopted the message that Obama strategist David Axelrod has been urging Biden to use for months,

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_02]: which is drop the whole threat to democracy.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: You notice there was a there was a lot less of that at the convention.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_02]: It was all about.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Yay, America and joyful warrior, which, by the way, she has been using that joyful warrior bit since like 2018.

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you know that?

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I have the clip here.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_02]: She was on the Ellen DeGeneres show in 2018 when she was going to make the run.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_02]: And she was like, we need to have joyful warrior.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she was already saying this stuff back then and nobody bought it then.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_02]: But now the media is going to make you buy it.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to make you buy it now.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, let's see what else here.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Do you know a choice?

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And so Axelrod told her or told Biden and now Harris has picked up the advice that Biden didn't take,

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_02]: which is drop the whole threat to democracy talk and instead cast the election as a choice between future promise and Trump's past.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Concern for every American, not concern for Trump's interest.

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Lowering costs versus Trump's tariffs.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And Harris has followed that plan while appropriating old guard Republican buzzwords like freedom, opportunity and optimism.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Right now, the race is a toss up.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Except that the you may have noticed the vibevention that just wrapped up had nothing to say to young men.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Do you notice that?

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Still nothing from the RFK press conference.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_02]: There it is.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Although I did see a woman walk up to the podium and she put a styrofoam cup.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, why a white?

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_02]: A styrofoam cup.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Do you not know who the speaker is?

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_02]: It's RFK Jr.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_02]: That may be like his kryptonite.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, there's a cup of water that she put underneath and it looked like a cell phone and she put it underneath.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_02]: So we are awaiting the announcement from RFK Jr.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It is expected he will announce that he is dropping out of the presidential race.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_02]: John Roberts from Fox News reporting on the Twitter machine that RFK Jr.'s campaign said in a Pennsylvania court filing today that he is endorsing Donald Trump for president.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So last night they filed paperwork in Arizona to drop out.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And now in Pennsylvania there is a court filing that somehow I don't know why they need to do that.

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_02]: But there's some filing that says he's going to be endorsing Donald Trump.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_02]: But there's also rumors, let me see here, that Kennedy and his running mate Nicole Shanahan are waiting for Trump to make an admission that Operation Warp Speed was a failure and his fault before they give up their endorsement.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So if that's true, then he may not do a full endorsement today.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_02]: His full and total endorsement might not happen.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_02]: But I don't know.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Donald Trump is all about making deals.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if this is a deal he's going to be interested in making, but we've got the audio in the background here.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: If RFK comes up, then we will we'll join it in progress.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me finish up the last bit here from Matthew Contenetti's piece over at the Washington Free Beacon.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_02]: The headline is Kamala Harris's Obama makeover.

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_02]: He says the race is a toss up.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_02]: The convention had nothing to say to young men.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_02]: There's only so much Amanda Gorman a person can take, which is.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Do you know who Amanda Gorman is?

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, she is the she was the.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_02]: The poet that was up there and she was like reading her poetry.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And look, I've never been one.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I've when it comes to the the poet versus the.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_02]: The with the traveling.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_02]: The guy with the little.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Liar, whatever it is, little guitar thing, you know, I'm thinking in, you know, hundreds of years ago, the bard would come around.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I think the bard was the spoken word.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And then there was someone else that was a minstrel or something when they would come around and they would they would sing.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. And there was this battle for the attention of the consumer at the time.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I think it's pretty clear that the music guy won out over the poetry guy.

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. I think that's pretty clear at this point.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_02]: So anyway, the the poet.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_02]: See, I've got something about her here.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, here it is.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_02]: On I saw.

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know the guy on Twitter, but he's his name is Lomez.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And this thing went viral.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_02]: He's talking because she did a speech or she read a poem.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And I got to admit, like, I didn't understand it.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_02]: But that's not that is not necessarily a slam on her.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Because I don't understand a lot of poetry.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_02]: OK.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_02]: They really love their junior high level wordplay.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Every speech has a few rhyming phrases or alliteration.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And they really get a kick out of saying things like we'll do the hard work and then we'll do the heart work.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_02]: They love that.

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And I hear that stuff and I roll my eyes like, oh, it's so lame.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And the crowd goes nuts for it.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_02]: So I've just always assumed, like, I guess it just doesn't speak to me.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: The poetry doesn't hit me, whatever.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_02]: In a large part, this is why this guy says, I much prefer the MAGA aesthetics.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It has no pretense to being anything other than what it is.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan, Lee Greenwood.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the grand American carnival.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the county fair, the good and the bad.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't have to pretend otherwise.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_02]: But libs need to believe that they're the party of high taste and sophistication and elite culture.

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Whereas it is every bit as kitsch and vulgar, if not more so, but totally lacking in self-awareness.

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's why it feels so fake and to put on.

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_02]: The difference between Kid Rock and Amanda Gorman is I don't have to pretend that Kid Rock is high art.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: That is exactly the case.

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_02]: They're not pretending to be anything that they are not.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_02]: OK, back to Contenetti's piece here, saying that there's only so much Amanda Gordon a person can take.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_02]: The convention also didn't have a lot to say to working class voters in Wisconsin or Michigan and Pennsylvania who are concerned about the lower standard of living during the Biden administration or the southern border or the sense of public disorder in cities and on college campi and a world in flames.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_02]: If you don't share the Democratic view of social and cultural issues or the Democrats understanding of true freedom, which is basically just limited to sex and abortion, you saw a bunch of Democrats who just really hate Trump and are very, very happy that they no longer have Biden as their nominee.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_02]: That's that's what we saw.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_02]: That's it.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_02]: They're ecstatic.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_02]: What are they ecstatic about?

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Kamala Harris?

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_02]: No.

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_02]: They're ecstatic about maybe seeing Beyonce or Taylor Swift make a surprise appearance and then not get that surprise appearance.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Which, by the way, I saw who was it here?

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_02]: They put out the crystal ball predictions on, you know, based on polling and that sort of thing.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And he said last night, Beyonce, she wasn't there.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_02]: But starting that rumor built a bigger audience, didn't it?

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_02]: And that smacks of Harry Reid and the lie he told about Mitt Romney's tax returns, that Mitt Romney hadn't paid taxes.

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And then after the election, Romney loses to Obama.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_02]: He sits down for an interview and he is asked about spreading that lie.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And Harry Reid says, well, he didn't win, did he?

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the standard.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the standard.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_02]: The it doesn't matter.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_02]: The lying doesn't matter.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_02]: The ends justify the means.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Kamala Harris, though, is not Barack Obama.

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, here we go.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_02]: They're not applauding.

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_02]: No, they're not applauding for that statement.

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, everyone.

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome so much for being here.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to introduce everyone to Robert or bring on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Good job.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Some bang up work there.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry to keep everybody waiting.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_03]: 16 months ago in April of 2023, I launched my campaign for president of the United States.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party which I pledged

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_03]: my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_03]: I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960.

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_03]: And back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution of Civil Rights.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_03]: The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism,

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_03]: and unjust wars.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_03]: We were the party of labor, of the working class.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_03]: The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_03]: True to its name, it was the party of democracy.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_03]: As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_03]: that I grew up with.

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_03]: It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_03]: When it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president,

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I left the party to run as an independent.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_03]: The mainstream of American politics and journalism derided my decision.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Conventional wisdom said that it would be impossible even to get on the ballot as an independent

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_03]: because each state poses an insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures.

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_03]: I would need over a million signatures, something no presidential candidate in history had ever achieved.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_03]: And then I'd need a team of attorneys and millions of dollars to handle all the legal challenges from the DNC.

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_03]: The naysayers told us that we were climbing a glass version of Mount Impossible.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_03]: So the first thing I want to tell you is that we proved them wrong.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_03]: We did it because beneath the radar of mainstream media organs,

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_03]: we inspired a massive independent political movement.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_03]: More than 100,000 volunteers sprang into action,

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_03]: hopeful that they could reverse our nation's decline.

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Many worked 10-hour days, sometimes in blizzards and blazing heat.

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_03]: They sacrificed family time, personal commitments,

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_03]: and sleep month after month, energized by a shared vision of a nation,

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_03]: healed of its divisions.

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_03]: They set up tables at churches and farmers markets.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_03]: They canvassed door to door.

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_03]: In Utah and in New Hampshire, volunteers collected signatures in snowstorms,

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_03]: convincing each supporter to stop in the frigid cold,

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_03]: to take off their gloves, and to sign legibly.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_03]: During a heat wave in Nevada, I met a tall athletic volunteer

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_03]: who cheerfully told me that he had lost 25 pounds collecting signatures

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_03]: in 117-degree heat.

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_03]: To finance this effort, young Americans donated their lunch money,

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_03]: and senior citizens gave up part of their Social Security checks.

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Our 50-state organization collected those millions of signatures and more.

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_03]: No presidential campaign in American political history has ever done that.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And I know this is terrible, but...

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_02]: It's voices.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, real quick.

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[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_02]: RFK Jr. still speaking.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's join it again.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_03]: This is profoundly undemocratic.

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_03]: How are people to choose when they don't know whom they are choosing?

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_03]: And how can this look to the rest of the world?

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_03]: My father and my uncle were always conscious of America's image abroad

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_03]: because of our nation's role as the template for democracy,

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_03]: a role model for democratic processes, and the leader of the free world.

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Instead of showing us her substance and character,

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_03]: the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_03]: based upon, well, nothing.

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_03]: No policies.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_03]: No interviews.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_03]: No debates.

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Only smoke and mirrors.

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_03]: And balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_03]: There, in Chicago, a string of Democratic speakers

[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_03]: mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate?

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_03]: In contrast, at the RNC convention,

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_03]: President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_03]: I do interviews every day.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Many of you have interviewed me.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Anybody who asks gets to interview me.

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Some days I do as many as 10.

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_02]: President Trump, who...

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so we're going to have to close the show here.

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Jason Lewis is coming up next, though.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for listening.

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[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Again, thank you so much for listening,

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_02]: and don't break anything while I'm gone.