If the day ever comes when Kamala Harris has to answer questions from an adversarial press, she needs to answer for her role in hiding Joe Biden's cognitive decline. Plus, Tim Walz might be a commie.
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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I agree that the Democrat leaders removed Joe Biden because they believed he was going to lose the election. I agree with Matt on that. The question is why? And I submit that it is because of his cognitive decline. And Matt submitted that it was because of his policies that they were failing. And I disagree with that.
[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't disagree that his policies are failing. I disagree that that's the reason they removed him. Because they will continue to pursue the same policies that Joe Biden did. Because Joe Biden, back to my assertion, being in cognitive decline, Joe wasn't really running the show.
[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Right? The policies that were being advanced were being drawn up by people around him, people in his administration, advisors, staffers, that sort of thing. And a lot of that happens regardless of the president, no doubt.
[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But they then handed to him and he can take it and read the teleprompter speech. And he was a husk. He's just an empty vessel. Right? The problem was not the policies. Because in fact, if you watch the DNC, as I have been doing, so you don't have to, you're welcome.
[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: The policies are being defended by the speakers at the Democrat National Convention.
[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And the problem Harris is going to have now is trying to run on their, quote, record while also trying to say she's going to do stuff differently.
[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: This is why I've been saying for a couple weeks now that the joke is, my slogan for them is, the same but different.
[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: They are offering no different strategy from what they've already done. They just want more.
[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like price controls. That's what they're talking about doing.
[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: More government intervention to layer onto the policies that have already been so destructive.
[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not, so I don't believe that that's why the Democrat leadership booted him was because his policies aren't working.
[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I agree his policies aren't working.
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_00]: They booted him because he couldn't defend them.
[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't get up there on a stage and make a believable case that what he has done is working.
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: He could not take the fight to Trump.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He can do it in a teleprompter speech, but he couldn't do it on the debate stage.
[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And people saw it. We find people that don't pay any attention to politics finally saw this debate, finally saw him up there.
[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were like, oh, my gosh, that's what did him in.
[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: If he had done it, if he had had a decent debate performance, he'd still be the nominee right now.
[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I have no doubt about it.
[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It has got it. It has very little to do with the policies.
[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It's about his ability to defend them, his ability to make the case.
[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They're claiming credit for his successes.
[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And.
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: There is.
[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're they're making they're make they're lining up defenses of his policies.
[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Saying he did. Well, here you go. Hang on.
[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to a clip.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: This was last night.
[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's favorite philanderer, Bill Clinton, everybody.
[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_04]: He had an improbable turn that made him president.
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And we were in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crash.
[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_04]: He healed our sick and put the rest of us back to work.
[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Does that sound does that sound like they disagree with his policies?
[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't.
[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: They agreed with his policies.
[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They pushed the policies.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They wanted them.
[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But they need somebody up there to gaslight us.
[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They need somebody up there to tell us that, oh, don't worry about the grocery prices and to make us feel OK about the high grocery prices.
[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And he couldn't do it.
[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I don't know if anybody could do it, but Joe Biden definitely could not do it.
[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_04]: He strengthened our alliances for peace and security.
[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_04]: He stood up for Ukraine.
[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_04]: He's trying desperately to get a ceasefire in the Middle East.
[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_04]: And then he did something that's really hard for a politician to do.
[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_04]: He voluntarily gave up political power.
[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what happened.
[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, because we've been covering this for the last six weeks.
[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, at the beginning, it was that the donors were getting worried.
[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: After the debate, donor money dried up.
[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Why did donor money dried up?
[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Dry up.
[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Did all of a sudden all these big time left wing donors, they were all like, oh, my gosh, he's got terrible policies.
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: No.
[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: They said, oh, my gosh, this guy's a feeble old man.
[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Robert Herr was right.
[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Which, of course, then leads you down this path of asking, well, obviously, who else knew?
[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And then that takes you to the people that are around him every day.
[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And obviously, that would be the vice president.
[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And so she can't talk about, well, anything, because if she goes into a setting where people are going to be able to ask her questions, that's going to be one of the questions.
[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the question.
[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_00]: In my mind, that is the question.
[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me jump over to Mary Chastain.
[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_00]: She's got a piece over at LegalInsurrection.com.
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And she says, remember how the left and the media trashed us for screaming elder abuse?
[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_00]: We've been talking about that for years.
[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: The Washington Post editorial board attempted to lavish praise on Joe Biden in its recent editorial.
[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But the board admitted.
[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That everybody saw Biden's cognitive decline and his inner circle committed elder abuse.
[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They finally acknowledge this.
[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: They said, quote, the 81 year old had shown signs of slipping for a long time, but his inner circle worked to conceal his decline.
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Now it can be told.
[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Now the truth can be told.
[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: More insults flew when we suggested people like Jill and Hunter pushed Biden to run again and stay in the race for selfish reasons.
[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The White House described videos of a feeble Biden as cheap fakes.
[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The media, the media took the talking point and ran with it.
[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And then immediately turned on a dime.
[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that?
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my goodness.
[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember how the media flipped out when the special counsel described Biden as an elderly man with a poor memory.
[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the media used those same videos as evidence against Joe Biden after his awful debate performance.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Then the truth could be told.
[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Professor Jacobson from Legal Insurrection Cornell is Bill Jacobson.
[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: He's the founder of Legal Insurrection.
[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Cornell University law professor.
[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He called the media covering up the decline, the greatest media scandal we have ever seen.
[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I tend to agree with him, by the way.
[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But this was something that people knew before six weeks ago.
[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Now The Washington Post acknowledges it.
[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you go back to the 2019-2020 campaign before Joe Biden won, before he locked it down, people in the media were talking about this.
[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The legacy media outlets, the quote mainstream media outlets.
[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC.
[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: She said right before the June 2019 presidential debate, she asked Chris Matthews.
[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: How about?
[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: From Chris Matthews.
[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, she asked him, quote, the question is, does he still have his stuff?
[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_00]: How sharp is he?
[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And Matthews responded, you know you're answering the question with the question.
[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The very fact that you had to ask it means you already know.
[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Cory Booker also suggested that Biden lacked the ability to endure the rigors of the campaign back in 2019.
[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: We played the piece on Monday.
[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Julian Castro, during that debate, said that Biden had forgotten what he had just said moments earlier.
[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Democrats knew.
[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: People knew.
[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But.
[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It was hidden from the American public.
[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Most of the public that doesn't pay any attention to this stuff until a month before the election.
[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They watch a debate.
[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They do a Google search and then they're like, I'm informed.
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they go out and vote.
[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what this DNC theater is all about.
[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what this is.
[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Create a couple of sound bites and video clips for the kids on the tick tock.
[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And and then that's enough.
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: For now.
[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And just keep doing that.
[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Winning every single news cycle.
[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Winning every day.
[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: That was the Obama model.
[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you think it's any different?
[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_00]: These are all Obama's people.
[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the same model.
[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Win the news cycle.
[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter if what you say today contradicts what you said yesterday as long as you win this news cycle today.
[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And it only works when you're flip flopping on everything and going against, you know, what you said yesterday.
[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: That only works if you have a media that doesn't hold you to account.
[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And here we are.
[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Same but different.
[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the Harris Walls campaign slogan.
[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're trying to have it both ways.
[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Not the same difference.
[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, that would indicate there is a difference.
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But the it's so it's same dot dot dot.
[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But different or a period, if you will.
[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a semicolon.
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to tell you how to punctuate.
[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But, yeah, you could do you could do what you want on that.
[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_00]: There is a.
[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm going to get into Walls here.
[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he spoke last night and.
[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I have some concerns about Tim Walls.
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I've already talked a little bit about the lies that he told about his military rank.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, the introductory video that they ran last night at the DNC claimed the video for him claimed that he was a command sergeant major in the National Guard.
[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is still not true.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't true when he said it.
[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't been true for all these years.
[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But he keeps saying it.
[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And the DNC, they put up a video last night that still said it.
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very big deal for people in the military.
[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: When you claim a rank you did not achieve.
[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you are, you know, you get your deployment orders and you abandon your battalion before shipping out.
[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_00]: These are very big issues for military people, for veterans.
[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And I would like to say I can understand why, but I've never been in the military, so I cannot truly understand why.
[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But I can sort of get it.
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I can sort of understand why.
[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: More concerning or maybe not more concerning, but as concerning, let me say.
[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_00]: As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz, who's a liar, appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which, quote, everyone shares and gets free food and housing.
[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares.
[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said during a lesson on China's communist system in November of 1991.
[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Think about that.
[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a high school teacher telling kids when talking about the Chinese communist system in 91.
[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_00]: What is communism, Mr. Walz?
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Coach, sorry, coach.
[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Coach Walz.
[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: What's what is communism?
[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, class, communism.
[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just so full of folksy joy.
[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Communism is a system where everybody shares.
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: He was on to say the doctor and the construction worker make the same.
[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kilograms or about 30 pounds of rice each month.
[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: They get food and housing.
[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Yay, communism.
[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Wallz's rosy description of communism in China is similar to his recent controversial remark where he said, quote, one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness, which it in fact is not.
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: They are different things altogether.
[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It also and by the way, the key point there is.
[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Is.
[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Is free choice, free will.
[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: That's that's the key distinction there.
[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: One is compulsory and one is voluntary.
[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Me helping my neighbor is me helping my neighbor by my own volition.
[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I am choosing to do so.
[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You sticking a gun in my face, threatening me with the deprivation of property or liberty and then taking my possessions to give to somebody else.
[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_00]: That is not neighborliness.
[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_00]: That is a different thing altogether.
[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_00]: It's weird that a social studies or history teacher that's not a communist would need this explained to him.
[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But this is why I suspect that Tim Walls is, in fact, let's say, communist adjacent.
[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't think that a non commie teacher would describe communism in that way.
[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little too rosy.
[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I have been under the assumption that just based on their physical situation, Jimmy Carter would probably be the next president to pass away, followed by Joe Biden.
[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But after hearing that clip of Bill Clinton, my goodness, it sounds like he's moving up in the second place quickly.
[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe even first.
[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he and he actually referenced that last night.
[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Clinton did.
[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He said this might be his last convention to attend.
[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he made a joke about how he's still younger than Donald Trump.
[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But that actually didn't land with me, at least the same way that it landed, obviously, with the delegates at the convention hall who laughed and laughed.
[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, Donald Trump's old.
[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you actually compare the two guys.
[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Like Donald Trump seems a lot better off than Bill Clinton does.
[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, his voice is stronger.
[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yes, he gets he's I think he has slowed down from the first time we saw him in 2016.
[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. And he definitely has since the 90s when he would do interviews, you know, saying he was going to run for president because he was always like flirting with the with a run.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Like every two, three years, he would, you know, pop up and be like, I'm thinking about running again.
[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, so and he would do interviews and that sort of thing.
[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And that was just, you know, marketing and branding and whatnot.
[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, if you're going to put Clinton up next to Trump and compare the two in vim and vigor and vivacity, then I think Donald Trump wins on those.
[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I think he and probably has a lot to do with the fact that he has never drank alcohol, smoked any cigarettes or taken any drugs.
[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So.
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Message from Keith.
[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Pete. I am neither Republican nor Democrat.
[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Can Republicans stop crying?
[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Republicans had a royal flush.
[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Paul Ryan.
[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, OK.
[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Paul Ryan.
[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I know what this is now.
[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Paul Ryan, young and vibrant.
[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_00]: John McCain, wisdom, military experience.
[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Who got trounced by Obama.
[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Got blown away.
[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: John McCain, the maverick, quote unquote.
[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: The guy got a fire in his belly only when fighting Republicans.
[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Mitt Romney, my favorite Republican, by the way.
[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, one who lost.
[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: This is I'm sensing a pattern here.
[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Paul Ryan got chucked out.
[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_00]: John McCain got wiped out.
[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Mitt Romney.
[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He got wiped out.
[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: George Bush.
[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Here you go.
[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't that bright, but he held his own.
[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I give him that.
[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And he had a heart.
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, Keith, really?
[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: You're not a Republican or a Democrat.
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Mike Pence.
[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: He was soft, but a very decent and smart man.
[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: But you can't even give a compliment to a Republican.
[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: All of these are backhanded compliments.
[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: The list goes on.
[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Where has this structure gone?
[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Keith, I have been saying that the parties are realigning.
[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you go back and read any of the Donald Trump interviews of yesteryear before 2016.
[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: He was saying that the Republican Party was too far right.
[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said the Democrat Party was too far left.
[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: There's not a party for the working man anymore, for the working class.
[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he told like Oprah and.
[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And.
[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Who else?
[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Larry King.
[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_00]: These were the things that he was saying 30 years ago.
[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I call out both sides.
[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump is embarrassing and Republicans are letting him get away with it.
[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, well, I mean, I've talked about that, too.
[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I can answer that is that when you are constantly being savaged.
[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And and beaten.
[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: With this with these attacks that.
[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You're deplorable, you're horrible, you're racist, you're sexist, and you know, you weren't these things.
[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't have people in your party that are standing up and obviously able to punch back and fight.
[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, you will hire somebody to come and fight on your behalf.
[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You will hire a bully to fight back against the bully that is abusing you.
[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why when people in 2016 and I would ask him, why are you voting for Donald Trump of all people?
[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And they you know what they said?
[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He fights.
[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that he fights.
[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they are tired and you still see it today.
[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It is still a rift in the Republican Party to this day.
[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: That there are Republicans that are perceived, at least if not in actuality, that they do not fight hard enough.
[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't push back.
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I am paraphrasing.
[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump said Republicans were the most stupid party.
[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why he will run with them, because they will believe anything.
[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: That's insulting.
[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, Keith, that is actually not what he said.
[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: You have fallen for a fake meme.
[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: That was a hoax.
[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I know the hoax you're talking about.
[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: A supposed People magazine interview where he said, if I were to run, I would run as a Republican.
[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: They're the dumbest group of voters in the country.
[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They love anything on Fox News.
[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I could lie and they'd still eat it up.
[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I bet my numbers would be terrific.
[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Never said it.
[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Never said it.
[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a meme done by a lefty, which I kind of think you might be.
[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But that was a meme that was put out there in order to get Republicans to not vote for Donald Trump.
[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So that didn't happen.
[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But he has been critical of both of the parties.
[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: This guy was a lifelong Democrat in New York.
[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know.
[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But I hope that answers your your question there.
[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Greg says, I absolutely despise it when people say I'm not a Democrat or Republican and then turn out to be Democrats or Republicans.
[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Now I get it.
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Look, that's why I say like I'm a lowercase libertarian.
[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm registered unaffiliated.
[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you ask me who I vote for more often, it is the Republican candidates.
[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they are the closest thing to what I believe our elected leaders need to be doing.
[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And the philosophies that they need to hold.
[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Namely, limited government.
[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I am for a limited government, not a not necessarily a, quote, small government, because leftists will use that argument against you, too.
[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll say, I thought you were for small government.
[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And here you are wanting to keep porn out of the libraries in my kindergartner's class.
[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's not small government.
[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It's limited government.
[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_00]: It's an acknowledgement that there is a role for government to play.
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you don't want me having any kind of say as to what cartoons in the books are shown to first graders.
[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, maybe we shouldn't be having the the instructional material on how to perform oral sex on your same gender mate in the first grade library.
[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, if you don't want me to have a say in that, that's fine.
[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm open to that.
[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But that means no more government run schools.
[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: See, because that's the thing.
[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: When you have a government run school, the government gets to decide.
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: See, but me as a limited government guy, I would prefer there not be government run schools.
[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I know that's a radical position.
[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So my compromise is vouchers and let parents choose.
[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And if they don't want their kids to see the instructional manual, they don't want to see their kindergarten reading, kindergartner reading porn.
[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Then they get to pull their kid out.
[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_00]: See, I think that's a perfectly reasonable position.
[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're going to tell me that I have to send my kid to those schools and that they have to be exposed to that kind of material in the libraries.
[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, now that doesn't seem very freedom esque.
[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_00]: No.
[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the that's the point that the Democrats are making in their convention now.
[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're the party of freedom.
[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Freedom.
[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, that's a quote from Kamala Harris, who completely ripped it off of Martin Luther King Jr.
[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Plagiarized that story.
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: But that that's where that's the rebrand happening.
[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: That they're for freedom.
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: On really one topic, actually, just.
[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, two, but it's all sex related and not gender related.
[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about gender.
[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying sex like the actual the act of the sex.
[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's the thing that they want complete freedom, freedom from repercussions, freedom, freedom.
[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_00]: For all things related to sex.
[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But everything else, you know, then it's no freedom.
[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: No for no school choice.
[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't get any freedom to decide there.
[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Very.
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a very limited freedom.
[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: This is why the old axiom exists for Democrats, which is that which is not prohibited is mandated.
[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So Tim Walz.
[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He's he's making a bit of a habit denigrating his opponent on the Republican ticket, J.D. Vance, specifically the the fact that J.D. Vance went to Yale.
[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And to an educator like Tim Walz, obviously a teacher.
[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: This is completely mockable.
[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what kind of a guy goes to Yale?
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, really?
[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, obviously, the point of this is to try to diminish J.D. Vance's his history.
[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The fact that he came from poverty in Appalachia.
[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the whole point of this line of attack.
[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Will it work?
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: People are stupid.
[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's possible.
[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Walz.
[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Here he is.
[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Denigrates Vance for rising up from poverty and then attending Yale.
[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale.
[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not sure that's actually the sick burn that you thought it was when you or your speech
[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_00]: writers wrote it, because it kind of sounds like you didn't teach them well enough to get
[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: into Yale.
[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what it kind of sounds like to me.
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But he's making this point that not that he's a terrible teacher.
[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_00]: No, of course not.
[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: He's an awesome teacher in his mind.
[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But all of the kids that he had, 24 kids in his class, which is weird because I thought
[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: he was a teacher for longer than that.
[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe there were small classes.
[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But he said nobody ever went to Yale.
[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So in other words, J.D. Vance didn't really come from poverty.
[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: He's not really who he says he is.
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Scott Jennings, who is the Republican guy on CNN, who I think does a good job.
[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's usually like 18 to 1 on these panels that they are running.
[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: He's the Republican.
[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And he called out Walls and other Democrats who are saying this kind of stuff.
[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Something he does that is so weird to me, the constant attacks on J.D. Vance for going
[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_02]: to Yale.
[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't understand this.
[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I've heard Walls proclaim to be a small town guy who wants everybody to get an education
[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_02]: and succeed.
[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And he spends a fair amount of time attacking J.D. Vance, who grew up poor and worked hard
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_02]: to get an education and rise above his station in life.
[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And he has used it as a punchline on the campaign trail.
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't understand what he's trying to communicate to every small town poor kid out
[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_02]: there saying, if you choose to work hard and go to an Ivy League school, you somehow abandon
[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_02]: your hometown.
[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't get it.
[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Speaking as one of those small town kids who actually went to Yale.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_03]: I do take exception to that.
[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I think you are correct on that.
[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: That's Van Jones.
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Even Van Jones is perplexed by it.
[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_00]: See, the thing is, everybody at Yale, they know that it's not an attack on Yale.
[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no.
[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Tim Walls wouldn't be attacking Yale for that.
[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no.
[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They recognize what is going on is that this is an attempt to diminish Vance's biography,
[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_00]: his origin story.
[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Also, I saw somebody else mention this.
[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I forget who it was on Twitter.
[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But considering, like, I read Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance's book.
[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I read that book before J.D. Vance was a politician.
[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I read the book, listened to a couple interviews with the guy, read a couple reviews of the
[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_00]: book, thought it was a good book.
[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't believe many people read the book.
[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: People that are talking about the book now, I don't believe have read the book.
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It's an easy read.
[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They may have watched the movie, but the book was better, obviously.
[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The book is usually always better, right?
[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think a lot of people haven't read the book and maybe not even seen the movie.
[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't get it.
[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Charles C.W.
[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Cook.
[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: He thought this was an interesting line of attack last night that the real Americans who
[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_00]: grow up poor don't go to Yale.
[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to come back to that in a second about the crabs in the bucket here.
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But this thing that Walls keeps doing is especially weird considering that Bill Clinton spoke last night.
[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Bill Clinton has a very similar origin story.
[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was a speaker right before Walls.
[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: The point here is twofold, right?
[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: One is to mock J.D.
[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Vance for being elite.
[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is to pull away the people who don't want him to raise his station in life.
[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_00]: There is a cultural standard at work here.
[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And Vance talks about it in Hillbilly Elegy.
[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the crabs in the bucket that they can't ever get out because as soon as one starts climbing up,
[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_00]: the rest pull them back down.
[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_00]: The too big for your britches mentality.
[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And there is a similar mentality in other cultures, particularly in American urban areas as well.
[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It's an anti-education, anti-improvement kind of mentality.
[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So I suspect that's what's going on as well as the fact that they're trying to demolish his origin story.
[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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