Part Of The Problem - Corporate Media Bets On Kamala Harris

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

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All right, let's start the show. What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. Jeez, sorry. I should get that right. We've known each other for a while. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. How about you, my friend? Doing well. I'm excited. I'm headed down to Nashville in a few hours here.

And looking forward to that very much. Of course, I'm doing a panel at the Bitcoin 2024 big event there. Donald Trump is also speaking a couple hours after me. Let's see if he can follow the kid. We'll see. We'll see what's up. So that should be a fun, interesting event. And then, of course, me and you will be at Zany's Comedy Club on Sunday. Just opened a third show because the first two sold out.

So looking forward to that. Come on out. There are tickets because we just opened an extra show. So go grab those tickets if you haven't already. Come see me and Robbie the Fire Bernstein on Sunday down in Nashville. And I'm excited to see. There's just a I going to get to hang out with Nate Bargetzi a little bit, who is like one of my best friends in the world.

And we used to, we came up in New York City together and used to like hang out every single day. And now he's a big famous person and I don't see him as much. So I'm very excited to hang out with one of my favorite people. Anyway, when are you coming down there, Rob? Oh, you got shows before then. Yeah, I got Memphis Friday, Bon Aqua on Saturday, but I will be in Nashville as of late Saturday night.

And then you and I, we can't do too much drinking Saturday because we're in go mode as of 4 p.m. Or do you just have to do that much drinking to really be in go mode? We got a podcast to prepare. Can we get RFK Jr. to do our live podcast? I feel like he likes comedy clubs. I will.

I'll invite him on. Sure. We can argue about Israel more. You think is Thomas Massey hanging out at this Bitcoin event? He's the other guy. I'd like to actually meet him. That I am not sure about. By the way, I might mention he might come up in this episode, but I would love for him to come out. He's a great

guy. I got to meet him and hang with him a bit at the at the Libertarian Party National Convention. And it was it was great. He's he's awesome. He's every bit as cool as he seems like he'd be. He got people working in your studio right now. Kids climbing the walls. You seem you seem chaos in the room. I was trying to turn the air conditioning on and it seems to have not exactly turned on all the way. Anyway, it's OK. I'll figure it out. By the way, I should mention, of course, we are streaming live right now to part of the problem dot com. If you if you haven't heard, that's where all of our episodes stream right now.

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supporting the show. If not, we're going to have to make do with this one. That's okay. We understand. Um, Oh, is that on a, was that on Rob's end or my end? The volume went down. I didn't change anything. Okay. And, but, and this, by the way, has nothing to do with the new platform. This is just us having issues just so you know. Um right let me know okay no that was that was on me okay no worries all right so uh there's a lot of stuff that uh has been going on yesterday was a pretty big day uh i guess it it only makes sense to start with the fact that we heard from joe biden i feel like this is how every time you talk about Joe Biden, now you have to go. I just saw Joe Biden. I guess I'm being led to believe.

So Joe Biden finally addressed the nation last night at 8 p.m. from the Oval Office. It was look, everything about the last couple of weeks have been so bizarre. I never like to jump to wild conspiracies in these in these times. But you got to at least admit everything is just so strange right now. But Joe Biden did speak to the nation last night. What did you I assume you watched, Rob? What did you think about the president's address? I got a lot of thoughts.

But to start with your point of was that Joe Biden? I mean, just the amount of shit that they've thrown at me that I don't know what is reality anymore. And firstly, he's got a cracked chin now. I don't remember him always having a cracked chin. I've seen the cracked chin version of him a couple times. It's such a butt chin that you could flip him upside down and literally hold a cigarette holder in there. So I don't know what version of Biden has the cracked chin and that he's able to stutter and also sound like an idiot. It's a pretty impressive fake Biden.

But even the lighting looked different. I'm like, am I cgi here it just they've so color his color was different you know he's like they're doing this orange donald trump tan on him now yeah they've they've so fucked with my perception of reality that i'm willing to accept that that was biden and he made a biden style speech but i am watching it going something about this seems a little bit fake and i can't you know i'm not in the room i can't tell you whether or not that's the real or fake biden or if they're using cgi or whatever the hell else but just something looked odd about it um in terms of the content of what he delivered

what i thought was most hilarious is the vigor of which he's still saying i'm gonna cure cancer i've got six months left to complete my moonshot before I leave, and I'm going to bring down the prices and cure cancer. Dude, you couldn't really believe that part of it. It was just incredible. Oh, you're not mentally fit enough to run for president, but you are going to get this cancer thing done. All right, Joey Bides. Sure.

Yeah. If I can split my chin like the Red Sea, I can still cure cancer. Well, I mean, look, there was something about obviously, I mean, a lot of people are making something about how he was much taller in this other, I don't know, video where he comes outside of the White House for a little bit. I don't know if maybe he's, you know, it is look, it is possible that Joe Biden has really just deteriorated so much over the last few months that this is just like maybe he needed special shoes or something. Maybe he's really like in I mean, I mean, it's quite possible that the COVID thing never really happened at all

and that it was just like, no, his health is deteriorating so much. Perhaps that explains some of this. I don't know. I will say, trying to go off like what we do know for sure, it was, it was a sad, uninspiring address to the nation, full of complete, just utter bullshit.

You know, the, this, this, it's pathetic the way they're trying to spin this narrative that I don't see how anybody could, could eat up. I mean, you can't come out right. Joe Biden has been, I would say, obviously, like if we're just dealing in. In the reality of not like a blind partisan Democrat, but what any other observer would would see, right. Joe Biden has clearly been in severe cognitive decline for years at this point. Despite all of that, Joe Biden and the people around him, like his family members and stuff, decided that they were, he was running.

Even though he was clearly, you know, again, I'm going to say like, I was streaming with Dr. Drew the other day. And like this guy's a medical doctor. So he knows a lot more about this stuff than me. And he was kind of going over the the possible categories of what it could be that Joe Biden has. And it was like, look, it could be this type of stage for retardation. He started off not that bright. And as he got older, it just caught up with him.

Well, these are these are the street terms for his condition, Rob. But yes, but even for Joe Biden. OK, cool. So but even for Joe Biden, you know, look, Dr. Drew is saying it could be Parkinson's. It could be one of the Parkinson's related, you know, illnesses. It could be this form of dementia or this form of dementia is that it's attacking your decision making machine. So maybe he wasn't able to completely understand how much he had lost. But certainly the people around him were well aware.

You can't tell me that, like his wife and his son and his chief of staff and the people around him weren't aware that, you know, they didn't see what we all see. So despite all of this, Joe Biden is deciding to run for reelection. The entire corporate media is covering for him. They're not calling this out. And they're pretending that, you know, cheap fakes and whatever sharp is attack all this stuff up until the debate. Then the debate happens. They can't deny it anymore. They all throw him under the bus. He still says no. Even after they had stopped protecting him and we had made it, the national conversation was whether Joe Biden was too senile to run for president. He's still like, no, I'm doing it. Meets with his family. His family's still like, no, we're doing it. We're not pulling out. It's really something kind of incredible.

still like, no, we're doing it. We're not pulling out. It's really something kind of incredible. And now after being one way or the other forced into this position, they're going to try to play it as I'm passing the torch. I'm doing what's best for our country, our blah, blah, blah. She's the only one who can unite the party. So I'm getting behind her. That just seems to me so impossible to actually sell because clearly you're not passing the torch. You know what I mean? Like you were you were coerced into this situation one way or the other. And again, it's still it's still very unclear what exactly happened. But, you know, again, it's like one of these situations with where there's a lot of situations like this in America today where there are people who jump to conspiracy theories. They are kind of demonized by the corporate media and by, you know, kind of progressive voices online. And sometimes they are jumping into conspiracies that are a little bit sloppy. And I don't really know if we have the proof for that exactly.

But then you just look at the official story and you're like, guys, this makes no sense. This can't possibly be this. And what we're left with is just saying, OK, so Joe Biden pulls out of the race, but does it really make you wonder whether that whole process just happened without him. You know, and then it was presented to him as a fait accompli. It was OK. It's all done. What are you going to do at this point? He still had another couple of days before he ended up addressing the nation. Maybe he was thinking about it, but probably realized at this point there's nothing you can do. It's over. The decision's been made for you.

So you can go out there and fight it now and totally destroy your legacy. Or you can give the speech we want you to give. And everybody in the corporate media will line up to celebrate you as they are right now. The person who was so selfless that he stepped down. It was Joy Reid on MSNBC compared him to George Washington. It was the exact same situation, you know, or he could have been king, but he decided to step down, whatever. You know, it's it just seems it seems impossible for anyone to buy that nonsense. But I don't know. I think and this is not an original thought. Plenty of people have said it, but I don't know. I think, and this is not an original thought, plenty of people have

said it, but them preaching about saving democracy when they boxed RFK out and they did not do a democratic process so that we'd be stuck with Kamala. She's not the democratic prick from the primary. She's the one that everyone got stuck with because Joe Biden did not run primaries or admit to the fact that he had dementia six months ago when they could have done more of a primary process. And so for them to still go, hey, this pick that you're stuck with on behalf of the donors, you got to go for it in order to preserve our democracy. It's a pretty outlandish claim. Yeah, especially when it's someone like Kamala Harris, who has no demonstrated popular support, you know, like even if they had like if they had if they had, let's say, stuck Hillary

Clinton in there there, you know, it's not that strong of an argument because 2016 was a long time ago. It was almost a decade ago. But you could at least say, hey, like, this is the last, you know, OK, Joe Biden's out. We're going to the last Democratic nominee who got whatever her number was, like 64 million votes or something like that. And go, hey, you know, she got a lot of votes. There's you know, there's some air of Democratic legitimacy that you could kind of play into that. But Kamala Harris, you're like, yeah, she literally she didn't get one delegate in 2020. She didn't make it to one primary. She didn't.

She had no popular support. It was all AstroTurf. And of course, what we're going of trying to cast people under a spell like they believe and you believe there's a Russian conspiracy that just overthrew our elections and you cast the spell. Historically, they just get to decide what the next spell is. What's going on now is that their spells aren't working. And so they'll cast a spell. The spell is completely, you know, people are totally disillusioned to it. They're like, yeah, this is all bullshit. And then they just move right on to the next one. So the one right now that they're trying to convince everybody of is that Kamala Harris has this enormous popular support. The evidence of this is nonexistent. It does not exist at all. And so that's what they're that's what they're going with. at all. And so that's what they're going with. It's, I must say, from my perspective, fairly entertaining to watch them attempt to pull this off. I don't think it's doable, but that's what they're in the process of trying to accomplish. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank

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watch uh did you get a chance to watch her first uh presidential uh uh speech she gave like i saw some clips of it yeah so they seem to be at least in that one they had the most energetic crowd i've ever heard it seemed like they got a room of actors and they gave them the biden pills that they withheld at the last debate they got them all amped up uh they realized that if they fill in all the pauses that she would naturally laugh with cheering from the crowd, it could kind of mask over how unlikable she is. And she was doing this black preacher thing, which maybe is going to be her new campaign style. But it was it was smoother than I would have expected just because of how badly I've seen her blunder and over explain things that are, you know, minutiae like OCD thoughts of things that don't need to be

explained that she'll get into the weeds and explain. But it was better than expected, but an interesting campaign strategy that I don't think that that momentum could possibly work over a long enough period of time. Well, look, I mean, part of the reason why we have Kamala Harris as the nominee now instead of Joe Biden, right, is that Joe Biden. I mean, look, you just you can't. You can't overstate it. I mean, the guy is incapable of like if Joe Biden, if the task was, OK, you're getting off of Air Force One. You got to get to your car. OK, there's reporters waiting down at the bottom of Air Force One, right?

Like a very everyday president task. You got to walk down the stairs. You got to schmooze with the reporters for 30 to 45 seconds. And then you got to get into your car. 30 to 45 seconds and then you got to get into your car if that's the task joe biden is incapable of doing that without just making it look awful like he's gonna be stiff walking down the stairs he's gonna look like he could fall at any minute he's gonna zombie march over to the press corps say something wildly you know like slur some wild like thing and then get in his car. Right. The problems were so bad when you're running a senile person for president of

the United States of America. Kamala Harris doesn't have those issues. That's essentially why we're up to Kamala Harris now. So if what the biggest benefit that Kamala Harris has right now is that in some sense, that's where the bar is. You know what I mean? Like, that's where the bar now. She and the reason why she ultimately I was saying this basically, I think I don't know, Rob, I've been saying this on the podcast for weeks, at least now, I think at least on after the debate. for weeks, at least now, I think at least after the debate. Then this is what it started in my mind when, you know, to take you inside to see how the wheels were turning in my mind was just that all along for the entire last year or so, I've been saying, I don't think Joe Biden's going to be the nominee. And we've all been speculating about Gavin Newsom or whoever else it might be that they put in. And everybody kind of skipped over Kamala Harris because you you realize right away, well, the challenge here is you're

going to have to get Joe Biden out of the way and Kamala Harris out of the way, because obviously she's a terrible candidate. You're not switching out candidates just to go with someone so bad. And what happened is when it became real after the debate, when it became real after the debate, there were signals sent out by the Harris team that she wasn't going to go down without a fight. And she already said some things like she was offended by why they were looking over her and talking about other candidates. If it's not Joe Biden, you got your other candidate right here. So this was already kind of the starting point. And so when I saw that, it was like, OK, I realized that it may not be so easy to get Kamala Harris out of there. There might that might be a process. And as soon as that's a process, then you start asking yourself the question, like, well, which candidates better, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris? And it occurred to me pretty quickly that even with all of Kamala Harris's negatives, she's still a better candidate than Joe Biden.

And just because she's not a senile person, she's a weird person. She's not an impressive person. She's not a she doesn't have any of the qualities that you would think would make a candidate an attractive political candidate. She's not likable. She's not good at schmoozing people. She's not a particularly good liar. She's she's she's transparent in the worst way. And when I say transparent, I don't mean that she's honest. I mean that you can see through her. She's it's obvious what she is, you know, like, for example, It's obvious what she is, you know, like, for example, OK, Kamala Harris was a very tough prosecutor out in California.

Right. Like she was known for, like, throwing the book at people, you know, truancy laws, possession of marijuana, whatever it is. She was throwing the book at people. Does anybody think if Kamala Harris was a prosecutor in a blue state today, that she'd be like that? Do you think it's like because she has convictions and she believes in law and order and being tough? No, she'd go be one of these progressive prosecutors now because that's what's in. And she would just do what's in. She would do. She's you know, she's a power broker. She's trying to get more power. It doesn't at the time.

The way to do that was to beef up your your prosecutorial record. And now the way to do that would be to be like a progressive prosecutor. She'll do whatever the fuck it is. I don't know. Is she on Israel's side or Palestine's side? Whatever the fuck side helps her get power. That's all. So anyway, that's obvious with her. But back to your point, I do think it's like, look, Kamala Harris is capable of standing on stage and reading a teleprompter. that speech. I'm not saying she's going to do it like in an incredibly impressive manner. I'm just saying that she is capable of doing that. And so that I do think is part of the thing that a lot of us saw with that where it's like, OK, yes, this is compared to the other guy you were running. She can at least deliver a stump speech. Now, where Kamala Harris struggles is in interviews. She has much more a lot more trouble being asked questions and having to like on the spot come up with answers.

That's typically when you get her ranting about time and space and how we all exist in context. And you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree or whatever. And you have this insane shit that she says. But look, she's not Joe Biden. She can speak and walk. Well, the Middle East, it's the middle. And that's why it's so important. But it's not really quite the middle. And it's more the West. But it's also East. Let's not forget, it's middle and it's also East. It's not the Middle West. Like, that's literally her. I mean,

it's wild. It's wild to say. But yes. So anyway, this is going to be part of the kind of dynamic going forward now is that at least the Democrats have a candidate who can who it's not. and get into a car, she will be able to pull that off in a way that Joe Biden couldn't. So whatever points you get for that, she is going to she's going to be able to do that in a way that he obviously can't. You know, I'm just piecing together. This is you ever see the movie Wrongfully Accused? It was a spoof Leslie Nielsen movie where they spoofed the great movie. Oh, my God, I'm so bad with names. What was the movie with Kevin Spacey, where he turns out with Kaiser Sose and he turns out the usual suspects or the unusual suspects. So in this other movie, they're spoofing the usual suspects where I remember this and he's in this room and he's looking at the covers and he's trying to spin his story like in the usual suspects that's what kamala harris does with questions that she just knows nothing and takes the information that you just gave her

and just starts repeating the words yeah like she doesn't even have anything like hanging up behind you it's just the question you asked and then she has to kaiser so say like a whole fucking story out of it yeah no you're right it's a thing that we get on as kids and we like because that's why at the end you drop your coffee cup and you're like she's just rearranging the words in the sentence i asked her none of that was real yeah that's that's a pretty good description of kamala harris there with all that said it is remarkable that I guess she passed her deep state auditions and essentially everyone but Obama has given her the backing. Even Hillary Clinton was in The New York Times saying she's a great candidate. The only reason people don't

like her is because she's a lady. And that's the only reason people disliked me. So I understand the trouble that she's going to confront in that the world just doesn't like 50 percent of the population. Yeah, just hates women. That's the world. She got the handsome man endorsement out of George Clooney. She's got the entire press saying it's unbelievable how quickly she was able to put together and get the support of the party. Apparently, the donor class is back in her. So I don't know what conversations happened behind the scenes and what wars she promised or otherwise. But she did seem to pass whatever deep state audition you got to go through,

which even that's a little bit incredible to me, just based off of the incompetence we've seen from her. Well, you know, listen, I'll I'm just going to stand by saying, as I said on the last episode, I think what we're witnessing right now is the audition of Kamala Harris. So I think that there look, don't get it twisted. She has not gotten the part yet. Now, they might be telling you she's gotten the part because that's part of the audition process. You know, they're not they recognize that in order for Kamala Harris to have any shot at this the same way with Joe Biden is that she has to be completely propped up by the establishment. That's the only way that there's a chance of this. So what they're doing is they're giving her the fairest audition they can because

they actually want to know, can we get her over? Can we can she win? Can she keep it close enough that we can cheat? You know what I mean? Like whatever the calculation is, they want to give her the shot. So they're putting everything behind her right now. The entire act has to be that this is perfect. We are excited. The Republicans are frazzled. I did find this. I mean, you know, this is just so funny to me. I mean, I was confronted by it on Pierce Morgan show the other day. But it is just amazing to watch anyone sit there and go like, look how frazzled the Republicans are. And you're like, you just swapped out your candidate. I'm sorry. You just you literally just had to swap out. You were losing so bad.

You thought the chances were so low that you were like, we can't even run this guy. So you had to strong arm him out of the race. And then you're going to pretend that like, Ooh, you, we got you guys right where we want you. It's,

it's, it's just ridiculous to be honest, but that's what they're doing right now. They're, they're seeing, can we get her over? And the only way to answer that question is to give her every possible advantage and see how that goes. You really you should.

What is that kid's name? It's like neatness or something. Is that that? I don't know who the kid that you were on Piers Morgan with that guy. I forget his name, but yeah, he might be dumb enough to do this show. We should we should we should do a bit. bit, and let's text him and say, we would love for you to come on our show. We've got a large audience.

If you would please come on and pitch Kamala Harris to us. Harry Sisson, he might be dumb enough to say yes. And then, you know, let's give him the floor to actually pitch it and handle some questions about why he thinks she's a good candidate. All right, I'll reach out to him. I'll see if he wants to come on the show. I tell you, I have no hostility toward that kid at all. I just want to throw my arm around him and be like, hey, there, young whippersnapper. You don't got to say that nonsense. Come on. You don't have to say that nonsense around here.

Um, well, look, it's been this is my my guess right now. OK, I think that as of right now, amongst there's OK, there's a constituency that is like Democratic voters, broadly speaking. And then there's there's probably a group of people who just don't really like Donald Trump very much, kind of on the fence, could maybe vote for him, could maybe sit it out, could maybe vote Democrat. I think amongst those people, there is like a collective sigh of relief that Joe Biden is out of the way. You know, you can imagine these people have been going through something over the last few weeks that is close to I mean, depending on which group you're in. Obviously, there's different camps in there, but there are people who had been all in on denying that Joe Biden had any type of cognitive issue. There was probably a small group of people who would still deny it.

You know, even after the debate, most people kind of started acknowledging it um there's like shit now how can you possibly support this guy he's gonna lose to donald trump if you just think about going through the debate and then all the terrible interviews and then donald trump looking badass after his assassination attempt and that like all these things and you're like oh man this is so bad this really isn't looking good so there's a big collective relief. Like, OK, we don't have that problem anymore. We don't have the cannot walk downstairs and speak problem anymore. And so there's a big relief there. astroturfing this thing to try to make it seem like there's some type of enthusiasm there. And I think that fairly typically there would be like, oh, Kamala Harris will get a bit of a bump in the polls. There'll be a little bit of a kind of like, oh, optimism. And then as a couple weeks go by, the fundamentals of the race kind of reemerge. Kamala Harris has a lot of problems.

One of the major, the biggest problem she has is that Joe Biden did say he was putting her in charge of immigration. She's now tied to the most, either the number one or number two most important issue and the most unpopular one with this administration. And I think her numbers are going to sink back down and you're going to see Donald Trump having about the same lead that he had on Joe Biden. That's where I think this whole thing shakes out in a couple of weeks. And at that point, there's a big question, because if I'm right, and this is what happens, then you're going to be going into the convention with Donald Trump looking like he's got about the same chances as he did against Joe Biden. And do the Democrats then just accept we're just not winning this year?

We're sacrificing Kamala Harris and getting her the hell out of the way so she's not ever next in line again. And we'll deal with the Donald Trump presidency. Or do they try to swap out Kamala Harris and switch someone else in for her? I from my perspective, it certainly is not a foregone conclusion that they'll do one or the other. So I still I'm still operating like Kamala Harris is auditioning for a part that I think there's a very good chance she won't get. But I could be wrong about this. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Monthly Knife Club. Monthly Knife Club is a subscription box for guys and gals who love knives, the outdoors, and everyday carry gear. Every month, they send you a new name brand knife

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particularly as a person of color. But really as anyone who claims to have any connection to the culture, you're going to look real weird and real lonely on that side, the door needs to close behind Amber. And she look crazy over there. But shut the door behind her. You really are going to look crazy being on that side, given the cultural phenomenon of Vice President Kamala Devi Harris. She's about to make history. And now it's not two old men.

It's one old man. If you had an issue with the age issue, there's only one old man now. That's on that side. And he's real old and his brain don't work good. You're gonna look real crazy. Hanging out over there with his like fake rap videos

and Kid Rock. I almost feel sad for you if that's where you are. Because the culture going the other way. This election is about to be lit. Like the kids say. I think I might have fallen out of a coconut tree.

All right. Here, we can cut it off there. I think you guys kind of get the point. It, how crazy is it that that woman hosts a show on MSNBC? Like she's, this is their pitch. By the way, it's I, the reason why I love that video and why I wanted to play it on the podcast is because it's like that for anybody, if you, if you have an IQ over 95, which obviously is not who she's speaking to, but if you are in that group and you like, if you have a three digit IQ, it just lays bare exactly how they attack these things.

It is pure social psychology. She is she is advocating for Kamala Harris the way a fourth grade girl would try to get someone else in her class to do what she wants them to do. You sure are going to look silly. We're all going to be laughing at you. Aren't you going to feel bad about yourself? Now, given the monumental start of Kamala Harris, that's all obvious. We're not even going to get into arguing what by what metric we determine this big donor money is flowing into our OK. Everyone at my building loves her. OK. But that's a given, man. If you're black and you're over there, you're going to look so white. Oh, we're going to be like you're a white boy now.

And even if you're not black, if you feel connected to the culture, who are you going to look so bad over there? You're going to be vanilla ice if you vote for Donald Trump. Yeah. Even Kid Rock. See, you're going to be like that guy. That's it. That's the entire pitch. All social psychology, all like mean girls nonsense. That's what they got. So anyway, but this is why I'm saying what I'm saying.

I just I've been paying attention to this game long enough to look at something like that and go that is weak propaganda. weak propaganda. I'm not making a moral judgment. I'm not saying this is morally noble propaganda or evil propaganda. Leave all the morals aside for a second. I'm saying it's weak. It's weak, okay? When there's a deadly virus in China and the first few cases have just been found in the United States of America and you go, this is a global pandemic, the worst in 100 years. And if you care about your fellow citizens, you need to take 15 days just to flatten the curve. Can't you just take two weeks out of your life, Rob, so that people aren't dying in stairwells in hospitals, that is effective propaganda. OK, that could work. You could convince a regular person.

All right, listen, man, it's going to be pretty tight for me to take two weeks off. But shit, you're telling me my grandma or someone's grandma is going to die and won't even get a hospital bed. All right. I might have to do that. That propaganda could work this. Let's give it a couple of weeks. I'm not convinced Kamala Harris is the nominee yet. Does that make sense? Yeah, this is exactly as you said. This is watching a high school movie. I didn't go to high school with women, so I did not experience this. But this is high school movie. Hot chick at the table going, hey, if you're hanging out with those kids, you can't be a part of a group anymore.

You look so stupid sitting at that table. The problem is she's not that hot and she's not that popular. Well, that's it. By the way, dude, that's such a good point, because a huge part of this is that it's like, yeah, it's supposed to be a hot person who does this. yeah, it's supposed to be a hot person who does this. They're the ones who can get away with the dumbest level shit because somewhere in our monkey brains, we're like, ooh, you have good genetics. So I want to be on your team. But you can't be like a bald old cat lady coming out and yelling at me about being with the cool kids. Lady, I'll take any group that you're not at. That's the group I want to be in.

And I think the people that you need to win over are a little bit sick of being lectured to, and you have to start actually having some sort of a pitch for what you're going to do for people. Why are your policies better? What are you doing about the border? What are you doing about prices? Look, the American people are dumb, but they're never as dumb as dumb people like Joy Reid think they are. You know what I mean? And like, so to sit here and go like, oh, there's only one old guy and his brain don't work good and blah, blah, blah. And like all this shit, dude, you can't move on that quickly. You're two weeks removed from carrying water for a clearly senile

man. Joy Reid, probably less than that. Probably one week removed from carrying water for a senile old man. Don't come. You can't come out here now and tell me you got a problem with old men whose brains don't work. Get the fuck out of here. It's just impossible, impossible to sell this. Here's another one. I thought this was great. Elizabeth Warren was asked what you think might be, I don't know, the first most obvious campaign question you would get asked about Kamala Harris. You could all probably guess it if you wanted to. Let's see how Elizabeth Warren handles this very tricky question. What do you think has been her biggest accomplishment since she's been vice president? Oh, I have to say, since the Dobbs

opinion, the way that she has rallied women and friends of women, also called men, around this country on the issue of abortion and just taken it home. First vice president in history to visit an abortion clinic. Go get them. You know, she's she's someone who talks openly about things that were kind of challenging for some people to talk about, but also to talk about it was President Biden didn't even mention the word abortion. And that's right. But Vice President Harris has. And she's talked about it both with compassion, but also with a sense of what is right. How can we be a country that half of America lost rights because of an extremist Supreme Court put in place by Donald Trump. I mean, you know, Rob, like to the point you were just making, you're like, you're going to have to

have some policy. You're going to have to have something that you can look at the American people and be like, look, we were we made your life better in this tangible way, and that's what we're going to build off of. She is asked, what is the – like, look, you've got this candidate. She is not brand new. She doesn't have, like, extensive experience, but the woman who was a prosecutor, was a United States senator, and has been the vice president over the last four years. And you go, OK, so what's her greatest accomplishment? And your answer is that she visited an abortion clinic. Like, however you feel about the pro-choice, pro-life issue, there is something profoundly sick about that.

That's what you got. That's it. That she says the word abortion. She's a woman. She says abortion. She's been to an abortion clinic. She went to the place where they do abortions. I mean, that is, I was actually like kind of flabbergasted that Elizabeth Warren did not have one, like, you know, one talking point, something like I don't even know. I don't even keep track of like these talking points of like in our administration, we did this and the Affordable Care Act and, you know, the Inflation Reduction Act and the blah, blah, blah, blah. They all have their dumb. Basically, they're all just spending bills. They're all just bragging about how we

spent more of your money. We say, you know, the last guy left us with more debt than any other guy. And we said, we'll give you more debt than that guy. That's all they're bragging about. But to not at least have something like, oh, she was instrumental in that insulin bill that got the price of insulin down or something. It's she went to an abortion clinic? That's just... I'm sorry. I'm looking at this and I'm going, I don't see that winning. I don't see it.

That was a CNN layup that she reacted like it was a gotcha question. The question was, hey, you're here. Why should people support Kamala Harris? And then it was, what are you trying to trap me? I thought I was here to have a nice time. You're supposed to be on my team, CNN. No, the lady's running for president. Can you give us a simple pitch for why people should support her? Well, she did visit an abortion clinic.

That's impressive stuff from a vice president showing up to a place and not doing anything other than being there. What an accomplishment. Yeah. I mean, Joe Biden didn't even say the word abortion in his State of the Union syllables. Yeah. But she'll say it and she pronounces it so well. Like, it's just that's that's where they're at with this woman. And, you know, again, the the problem, it really, you know, we had speculated for the back back when this first happened, if you recall, Rob. And I can't remember exactly when it was. It was fairly early in the administration that Joe Biden kind of like tasked her with immigration. And it seemed almost like it was done to sabotage her because like, man, of all the things, I mean, unless you've got the votes in Congress and you're about to roll out some new immigration legislation and you're going to do something that you can point to. It's like, oh, if you're just you're just keeping these de facto open borders going and going to put her in charge of it.

It seemed like, you know, kind of the worst thing you could do for her. But now that's so much clearer that, man, this totally sabotaged her presidential ambitions because now she has to be pinned with the most indefensible, unpopular part of the Biden administration. I mean, aside from the price inflation, which whatever that's, you know, like that's a whole different can of worms that we could talk about. But to to saddle her with the most unpopular aspect of of his administration. And then what is she left with saying, like, well, we didn't get anything done, but it's Trump's fault. The guy who was out of government at the time, it's, it's his fault that we didn't get anything

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let's go to one more clip that I wanted to play. This is Hakeem Jeffries. He was giving a talk or press conference the other day and had some thoughts on Kamala Harris. Thank you, Leader Schumer. Joe Biden is a patriotic American. Joe Biden is a heroic American. Joe Biden is a great American. Joe Biden will go down in American history as one of the most consequential presidents of all time. President Joe Biden has made the selfless decision to pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, who is ready, willing and able to lead us into the future. Kamala Harris and her candidacy has excited and energized the House Democratic Caucus, the Democratic Party, and the nation. the nation. Vice President Harris has earned the nomination from the grassroots up and not the top down. She is ready is a common sense leader who knows how to deliver real results for hardworking American taxpayers. Kamala Harris is a courageous leader who has worked hard throughout her entire career to keep our communities safe. Kamala Harris is a

compassionate leader who will build an affordable economy that makes life better for everyday Americans. Kamala Harris will fight for our freedom. Kamala Harris will fight for our families. Kamala Harris will fight for our future. I'm proud to strongly endorse Kamala Harris to be the 47th president of the United States of America. We're going to hold the Senate. We're going to win the House. We're going to elect Kamala Harris as our next president in November. Call me crazy. I don't think you're going to do any of that, dude. I just don't think so. I love the all that Joe Biden is a hero. Joe Biden is a great man. You know, Joe Biden may or may not be alive. That's where most of the American people are

on this. And all of this stuff about, you know, Kamala Harris, it's you can see where it's like she's energetic, you know, and she's got it's like, yeah, you can see where it's like, she's energetic, you know, and she's got, it's like, yeah, no, I, I get it. Like, she's not a senile old man. The problem is that, that, uh, that's not much of a pitch. Um, and this, this nonsense about how she's from the grassroots up, not the top down is just like the fact that you even have to say that is because it's so it's such bullshit. And you know it. You know it. Come on, man. Kamala Harris ran for president. We have a track record on this. The results, less than one percent dropped out of the race before the first primary could not make it to Iowa. That's the grassroots level support that Kamala Harris has. I mean, look, come on. It's as simple as this. If Kamala Harris truly has so much grassroots support,

how come she couldn't make it to Iowa when she ran for president? Look, it's not a question of whether I like her or I don't. I don't like Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders had true grassroots support. Right. That's just undeniable. Donald Trump has true grassroots support. Barack Obama had true grassroots support. Kamala Harris does not. Nobody who has true. You know, you know, when when Barack Obama ran for president or when Donald Trump ran for president or when Bernie Sanders ran for president, or when Donald Trump ran for president, or when Bernie Sanders ran for president, you know, one of the things that they all have in common, because they had grassroots support, Rob, is that all of them didn't drop out before Iowa. That was one common thread in all of them. It turns out that every single presidential campaign that has true grassroots support doesn't end before the first primary.

But Kamala Harris's did. It's another first. It's the first vice president, woman of color, and she's also the first candidate with real grassroots support who dropped out before the first primary. She's just always breaking records here. Again, I'm just saying good luck with this. All of this confidence and energy that Democrats are attempting to exude or attempting to project. It is all smoke and mirrors. This is they they they're in a very bad situation right now. That's the reality.

The grassroots support of us rigging our democratic process and making sure that she didn't have to run anyone else so that we could institute the person we wanted. That's the grassroots support. I mean, just imagine you've got from the party of democracy. Yes. You've got a senile candidate who you're denying is senile. You don't hold primaries because you don't want him to have to actually, you know, get tested. So you chase RFK out of your campaign. You don't in many states didn't hold votes at all, didn't allow other candidates on the ballot. You rig the thing for him.

Then he gets so senile, you can't even deny it anymore. So you have a pressure campaign to coerce him out of running for president. And then you pick this lady and you're going to try to spin this as some democratic process that you just can't get around this. She has no, we I've really never seen, at least in my lifetime. I mean, obviously there's been, uh, um, when Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford took over, he was in a situation where he hadn't been, you know, I mean, you know, he was, he vice presidents are on the tickets, but it's not the same thing as being democratically elected, but we've never really seen a situation like this, where you have, at least in theory, if she gets the part, you have one of the major party candidates

having never won a primary, having never. She actually has no. There's no mandate that she can try to pretend she has to even be the person there. There's nothing. Like, look, is it clear that in a real primary, if Kamala Harris was running against Bobby Kennedy, is it clear that she'd beat him? I have no idea. Like, maybe. I'm not saying she couldn't. Maybe she would. It's certainly not clear. It's not clear that she would beat Elizabeth Warren or some of these other people. I mean, Elizabeth Warren lasted much longer than her. Amy Klobuchar lasted longer than her. Mayor Pete lasted longer than her. There are a lot of people in that Democratic primary who outlasted Kamala Harris. It's not clear at all that she that the Democratic

voters would pick her as the nominee. That's just not at all clear. So I'm sorry. That is there's no other way to say that. Then she was picked by the top down and she was selected by Joe Biden. Why? We all know why Joe Biden said explicitly why he said he was going to pick a woman of color and then chose her. He literally said there was I saw it circulating the other day.

There was one speech where he said, because of our values of diversity, equity and inclusion, I picked Kamala Harris. And then now they're saying like, oh, if you call her a DEI hire, that's racist. It's like the guy who hired her said those three things were the reason why he hired her. That's going to be tough to get away from. were the reason why he hired her. That's going to be tough to get away from. I should say, before we wrap this up, there's one more thing I wanted to talk about,

and then we can come to the chat. But it is, by the way, seeing how I mentioned Mayor Pete Buttstuff, it is being rumored that he is being considered as her vice presidential candidate. I'm going to float it out there. I don't think it's going to be him. And I'll tell you why. I couldn't imagine it would.

But yeah, go ahead. I could see a Mark Kelly being picked. And the reason I say Mark Kelly is because they like the yin and yang balancing act of, hey, I'm a white guy, so now I need a black lady to run with me. So I think this is going to be the inverse where the VP pick, even though I guess all the pollsters say that the VP pick doesn't matter that much, but the same way even Trump went with a Mike Pence the first time to go, hey, here's his establishment and Christian

as you get. I think you're going to get as white boxed face, traditional politician, part of the machine person as you've ever seen in your entire life. Well, there's and there's a couple, there's a little bit more than just that to the case for Mark Kelly. He's also they are friends from from what I've read. And also Arizona is a somewhat consequential, you know, state. So it's,

there's, there's some things that are reasons why that might be the answer. He's also kind of, um, his wife was shot. That's probably the thing he's known for the most, uh, which is no one, no one really has other feelings other than just like sympathy for that. You know what I mean? And aside from that, he's basically just a very cookie cutter, Clinton, Biden type Democrat. And so I the the negatives, my guess would be are pretty low with that. And the positives are reasonably OK. So I would agree with you. I think that's more likely. I don't see how.

I mean, there's just no way they're going to team up Kamala Harris with Mayor Pete Buttigieg. I don't know why I keep calling him mayor. I know he's the transportation secretary now, but it's just I still, come on, there's just no way there's no way. But you know, if you're a Republican and you're seeing these reports about Pete Buttigieg being the VP pick, you know, you're like, absolute. Yes, absolutely. I think that's who you guys should pick. That'll be great. That, I mean, it's, uh, I, I much like you, my initial reaction is like, I mean, it's I much like you. My initial reaction is like, I just find it hard to believe that they would actually do that. There still are like professional campaign people around Kamala Harris. Right. Who would be like, this is not going to this is not going to play well. Anyway, that seems to be that's what's being reported.

So we'll see what's happening. All right. I will in the last few minutes here come to the chat. Of course, if you want to be a part of the chat, you got to go sign up over at part of the problem.com. Let's see what we got. I'll look through here. Tulsi outlasted Harris says perceptual Jonathan. Yes, that's right. Tulsi Gabbard did not only took her out, but then outlasted her in the race. I'm sure that clip is is going to be getting a lot more views on it over the next couple of weeks. But yeah, that was that was the best moment that that Tulsi Gabbard had in politics was that she took out Kamala Harris, really just destroyed her. And I do imagine that a lot of that stuff about her old her old track record as a prosecutor is going to come back up. It's a major problem that she's got with left wing activists, particularly

when you're leaning into the the like identitarian stuff, which is really her only option is to lean into that stuff. It does create a problem when you were a cop. And what's the, the horse storyline, you know, I've been, I've been, I've been yelling about it and run your mouth and having fun with it,

that she sucked dicks all the way to the top. And she was the only one who could get a nut out of old Joe Biden. And that's how she got that job. But I don't actually know anything about the storyline. Well, it was that Willie Brown guy. She was dating him for a while. I know there's the videos. I think she dated Montel Williams for a little while.

You know, I don't. I'm far from the expert. That's not cracking loads for positions. Well, she definitely moved up from the Willie Brown relationship. But, you know, whatever. We'll say Eric John Pizza Artist is here in the chat. Good to see you, brother. He says Kamala has a crab grassroots support.

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