Part Of The Problem - The Dems are Desparate

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein to discuss Liz Cheney's comments on Kamala Harris, ...Obamas statements about the hurricane, the Kamala Harris media "death spiral", and so much more.Part Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Support Our SponsorsProton VPN - http://protonvpn.com/davesmithMy Patriot Supply - https://www.preparewithsmith.com/Get your tickets to Porch Tour Herehttps://porchtour.comFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Whoa, what's up everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem. I am Dave Smith. I am glad to be home and I am even more glad to be joined by my partner in crime. Rob Bernstein. How are you, sir? Doing well. Missed you this weekend, bud.
Starting point is 00:00:21 Oh, you have no idea. No, I missed you too. It was weird. It was weird to do a gig without bud. Oh, you have no idea. No, I missed you too. It was weird. It was weird to do a gig without you. It's been a long time. Been really a long time since I've done, I think any standup gigs without you didn't feel right, but it was fun. Thanks to everybody who came out to Detroit. Uh, and of course, now we are in the March toward Rob Bernstein's first ever comedy special,
Starting point is 00:00:44 which is, uh, what what what's the dates this Saturday? Early show sold out who still tickets for the late show and then I got New York this Thursday show up New York people don't Let these little towns in the middle of the woods outsell you on tickets, you know step it up. That's right It's an embarrassment. Yeah, you should be beating these guys. Yeah Let's say there's no reason why the middle of West Virginia woods more people than New York City on a Thursday night. Let's go All right. Well, listen, I'll say this as we're we're live now. So for the subscribers, of course We're live at part of the problem comm that's the only place you can get the show live uncensored ad free So go sign up and with full streaming videos because YouTube
Starting point is 00:01:26 Harasses us. Yeah, people don't see the strikes. We're getting behind the scenes You know, the rule is that you're allowed to use the news So we're always allowed to play clips from the news, right? And then they gave us a copyright strike for playing a clip from Colbert and you're like, are you telling me? That's a comedy show. You know, look me in my face and tell me Colbert in you're like, are you telling me that's a comedy show? You're going to look me in my face and tell me Colbert in the last eight years has been doing comedy. That's what that was his interview with Kamala Harris. So anyway, it's bullshit. But I will say this, I will, uh, as soon as the show's over, I will tweet out the second, the link for the second show where there's still some tickets left. So if you want to come out,
Starting point is 00:02:03 if you can be in the Denver area and come out to see Rob's first ever comedy special, this is the only chance you'll ever get to see live his first comedy special. So I'll tweet out that link and that way the, you know, our subscribers, you know, first to go check it. And then before you know it, they'll be gone. Of course. And then after that's all done. And Rob had has a big adrenaline dump. he'll be out in Kansas city with me. So if you want to come see Rob with no motivation and no material, no, to, uh, to Kansas.
Starting point is 00:02:35 I'm holding it two weeks because I got the shell after that and then we'll dump it. So that's true. It's not out yet. Okay. So there you go. I'm holding it two weeks on purpose and I know I'm going to have that perfect tag where I'm like, we got to refilm. I swear it's happened. It's happened to me, you know, not that I've put out that much, but I put out two comedy specials. And with both of them it's, ah dude, it's so frustrating. Cause you're basic. No, you know, with Libertas, it wasn't really like that.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Cause I think I did weirdly like I buried that material that night. Like I, I think, I think I ended up going back to it at one point. Like it was like, I tried a little bit, but I know with this last one, it was, you know, you film it, it's not out yet. So then the next week, you're out on the road and you're still like, okay, well, I'll still do that material until the specials out. And then I got to stop doing it. And of course, I mean, it was like clockwork, like every bit,
Starting point is 00:03:27 I just found a new tag for it that was perfect. You're like, Oh, there's been so much better now with that. But of course it's already been, but this is, you know, we all have our struggles in life and this is the, the burden of the real hard work of doing standup comedy. Anyway, um, yeah, I'm, I'm really looking forward to, uh, to you guys all seeing Rob's Rob special. It's really, it's, it's a phenomenal material. And, uh, a lot of you guys, um, who have come out and seen us on the road over the last year, I've seen some of it, but for those of you who haven't, you're going to love it.
Starting point is 00:03:59 Um, okay. So there's a bunch of stuff going on, uh, that I wanted to talk about. And I think a lot of it could kind of all be brought back to one major theme. Uh, here we are. It is, what is it today? Is the 14th 14th. So it's the 14th of October. We are very, very in the lab in the fourth quarter of this presidential election and a lot of, you know, particularly in very close elections,
Starting point is 00:04:30 which by just about anyone's estimation this is that in its sane, that that in itself is kind of insane to me. Um, and uh, as I've been saying for a while, it's, it's a reflection on Donald Trump. If you ask me that he's even allowing this to be close. Um, you know, I have whatever, I won't even say that. Um, but he should, he should be smoking this chick. Like there is no, that's just how I feel about it. I think it's, it's unbelievable to like, you know, all right, I will say this is what I was gonna say.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Cause I said this on the, uh, the zoom meeting that we had the other day with like a subscribers, um, that I kind of made the comparison between it's like, uh, it's like when I debated Laura Loomer, if, if you came away from that debate and you were like, it was pretty close, you know, about half the audience thinks she won about half the audience thinks I won, then I lost. That's an L. Like that's a horrible L. The, it should be like,
Starting point is 00:05:31 if there's a poll after that debate, I should take minimum 85, 90% of it. Like there's no way this should even be left up to, you know, and I guess that's the same thing with Kamala Harris. Like if you, if you have a debate with Kamala Harris, or if you're running a race against her and it's neck and neck, yo, what are you doing? How have you allowed this? You're, you're, she's a car, a cardboard cutout of a person. She's not even, I mean, it's not, dude, when you see her in interviews,
Starting point is 00:06:04 it looks like it's a Saturday Night Live skit. Like it's, you ever see the, there's a bunch of people like online, have you seen them like doing impressions of her? I think even Saturday Night Live has someone doing an impression of her. And the impression is just what she does. Like the joke is just that you'd be like,
Starting point is 00:06:20 what's your stance on immigration? And you'd be like, I come from a middle-class family. And it's like, yeah yeah when she answers the question, it sounds like she's doing a sketch of herself and york anyway October really matters In terms of in presidential elections particularly close ones. It's the same way, you know, like If there's a basketball team you have a long season in the NBA. It's like 82 games, the team that's killing it in April, you know,
Starting point is 00:06:51 like if you're coming into your own right as you're going into the playoffs, I think April's one playoffs are somewhere around there, March, maybe, um, it, that that's just much better. You want to be getting hot right as you go into the games that really matter. And it seems to me, um, there are several indications that whatever the little kind of bump that Kamala Harris had at the beginning has really faded and that Trump is surging. Um, now don't get me wrong, it's still very close.
Starting point is 00:07:21 And if you're a Trump supporter, you should be just like appalled that it's it's a close race, but it does seem like there's several indications that it's looking More likely Trump than than Kamala Harris. I don't know if you've been that's my read at the moment And it seems like every interview Kamala does or stock goes down a little bit. I Mentioned this I can't remember if it was on the zoom meeting or the members only stream the other day, but, uh, uh, David Sachs, who's just, you know, an incredibly sharp guy, really, really interesting guy to listen to. Um, he, uh,
Starting point is 00:07:58 he had kind of made this prediction a few weeks back, maybe even over a month ago. You know. He said something like he, he, it was like when Kamala Harris was first having her little surge, he basically said that, look, um, what she's got to get worried about is getting caught in the death spiral. And essentially the way he, I may be not doing this justice, but this is more or less what he was saying was that he goes, look, she's avoiding all of these interviews right now because they know she really
Starting point is 00:08:27 doesn't do good in interviews. However, if she starts fading, they're going to have no choice but to put her out into interviews. But then you're in this situation where in order to save yourself, you're doing the thing that you were trying to avoid that hurts yourself. So you fall a little bit in the polls, you go do another interview. That makes you fall a little bit more. So you have to do another interview. And that met, you know what I mean? Like, I do think there's something to be said for that. I think that,
Starting point is 00:08:53 that what I was describing looking like a Saturday night live sketch is not good. And no, Americans are not necessarily the most informed, uh, people or as informed as we'd all like them to be. But most regular people know when you're avoiding a question or know when that wasn't a real answer. Like, I don't think you can just, I was born in a middle-class family and everyone cared about their lawn, your way into this. And, and there was a, one thing that was interesting to me is that the, um, the,
Starting point is 00:09:26 the betting markets seem like the polls seem to be lagging behind the betting markets. The betting markets started moving away in Donald Trump's favor and now the polls seem to be slowly coming over that way too. Um, I, I've seen, you know, um, if you look through like at the swing states, um, particularly, I know I saw it was of, of the three swing states. I think it was Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and I can't remember the third one. It might've been Georgia,
Starting point is 00:09:55 but they were breaking down these three swing states and, and the margins in 2016, 2020 and 2024 with the latest polls. And it's like, I think they were, it was like, Hillary Clinton was like up nine on an average and still ended up losing. Joe Biden was like up seven and they ended up being closer than that. And Kamala Harris was like plus one. And you're like, Oh, so now if past performance is an indication, it does seem like you, if you were a Democrat, you'd be pretty nervous about where we're at right now. So now if past performance is an indication, it does seem like you,
Starting point is 00:10:27 if you were a Democrat, you'd be pretty nervous about where we're at right now. So I think your typical mom, which is that college educated mom seems to be the big like flipping demographic. I think some of them, if they've been paying attention to Kamala Harris must be like, I don't know that I feel comfortable with this. Yeah. Well, I certainly, I mean, this is obviously just totally anecdotal. Um, but I have talked to, uh, a few different people I know who are lifelong Democrats who are just staying
Starting point is 00:10:56 home. Like they're not voting for Trump. Like they can't bring themselves right. For Trump, but they're just even kind of like, I cannot, I just cannot actually cast a ballot for this woman to say she ought to be the president. I mean, come on. And yeah, anyway, it's a, um, it'll be interesting to see this. Now I will say, you know, I had mentioned on the show that, and this was before I saw a change in the polls, but it was just the betting markets. But I had mentioned last week at some point that the fact that they're
Starting point is 00:11:27 sending her out on all these interviews indicates that they're not very comfortable. Like if you're, if your strategy is to keep Kamala Harris in the basement, right? Like that's to run the Joe Biden 2020 camp. We're not going to do these interviews. They, they, she took forever to do the first one, um, with Dana bash where she brought Waltz with her. And then all of a sudden, you see her going out and doing all these interviews. You're like, well,
Starting point is 00:11:52 clearly if you thought this strategy was working, you weren't going to send her out to this. I'd say there's several more indications, um, that the Democrats are worried. It seems to me like the Democrats are starting to go into panic mode And I think almost all of these clips that we're gonna play here are kind of gonna be on that theme that it's like Oh, these guys seem to be very concerned about Donald Trump getting back in all right, let's uh Let's let's jump into them what uh, whatever order you got him and it doesn't really matter
Starting point is 00:12:24 So let's uh, let's see what we got here. Understand what you're saying, that some people left behind. But he's making these statements that the mayor is flat out disputing. Well, Martha, you just said the mayor said they were exaggerated. Grossly exaggerated. That means that there's got to be some element of truth here.
Starting point is 00:12:51 And of course, President Trump was actually in Aurora, Colorado, talking to people on the ground. And what we're hearing, of course, Martha, is that people are terrified by what has happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs. Senator Vance, I'm going to stop you, because I know exactly what happened. I'm going to stop you, because I know exactly what happened. I'm going to stop you.
Starting point is 00:13:06 The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes. And the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems. Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs and Donald Trump is the problem and not coming to the open border. Americans are so fed up with what's going on and they have every right to be.
Starting point is 00:13:37 And I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said, rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs. I worry so much more about that problem than anything else here. We've got to get American communities in a safe space again. And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don't know who they really are, you're going to have problems like this. Kamala Harris, 94 executive orders that undid Donald Trump's successful border policies.
Starting point is 00:14:16 We knew this stuff would happen. They bragged about opening the border. And now we have the consequences and we're living with it. We can do so much better. But, frankly, we're not going to do better, Martha, unless Donald Trump calls this stuff out. I'm glad that he did. Okay. Let's, let's just, let's just end that with they did not invade or take over the city. Listen, this is where I will say this type of thing is where JD Vance, I think is pretty effective. Um, me and you have never been is where JD Vance I think is pretty effective.
Starting point is 00:14:45 Me and you have never been like hardcore JD Vance fans. And there's certainly a lot left to be desired from him as a politician, as a leader. But he's very, very good in these moments. And that was just so amazing. That was almost the perfect microcosm of the entire Trump phenomenon. Basically since Donald Trump has been running for office, it's that this is the old thing. I don't remember. I always say it was Peter Teal, but I think he's not the one who coined this. I think he just, uh, took it from someone else. So I don't know who should be credited with this but it's so perfect is that he said
Starting point is 00:15:29 Donald Trump supporters always took him seriously But never took him literally and the corporate media never took him seriously and always took him literally And like that's the perfect example of it right there where Donald Trump will say something of course it's always exaggerated you know what I mean it's never like exactly right but then the media always ends up blowing up about how he exaggerated you know and then it's like that becomes the whole story and I thought JD Vance was maybe the first one I've ever heard on one of the big corporate media platforms actually arguing back like, okay, fine. So maybe he exaggerated it, but what's actually like,
Starting point is 00:16:12 how crazy is it that you're more outraged by the exaggeration than this very real problem? And she has no response to that except to go, yeah, but I think we can all agree he exaggerated. And like, yo, what the, I mean, I don't know. It's just like, is there a better example of it than that right there? That almost sounded like a Norm MacDonald joke the way he said it.
Starting point is 00:16:37 Yeah. With the repeat of like the punchline of, I don't know, I think we should be concerned that Venezuelans have taken over a couple apartment buildings Well, that sounds like a really big symptom of what could be a big problem with all the people you brought over the border And that we should be talking about it He's almost reframing it is why are you trying to cover for this administration? On what sounds like could be a major and dangerous issue
Starting point is 00:17:00 Yeah well it's like if someone like broke into your house and like stabbed two people and then somebody else was just like they slit everyone's throat and you're like, no, no, no, they didn't slit everyone's throat. They just stabbed two people who are in the house. It's kind of like, okay, but your takeaway from that is like, what an outrageous liar. That guy went, it's like, well, I mean, okay, maybe he should be more precise or something, but at least he's addressing a situation that's a major concern. And the other thing why I just, you know, you look at this and you start to understand why so many of the, uh,
Starting point is 00:17:36 the Democrats are kind of in freak out mode is that look man, like the number one and number two issues in this, in this, uh, race is the economy and immigration. And is, is this your strategy? Really? By the way, that might be the theme of today's show. You go, is this your strategy? Really? Like this is what you've got. We're in the fourth quarter. This is like, you know, go for it time. You're telling me your strategy is not to argue about who's gonna solve the problem or who's to blame for the problem Your argument is to tell people it's not real
Starting point is 00:18:12 That's I mean this was by the way not exaggerating. We covered it extensively here on the show This was for the last year way before the fourth quarter in the first three quarters when it was Joe Biden running This was their strategy on the economy to tell everybody that you're wrong And in fact, it's a great economy And yeah, I know all these polls of the American people say that they all think this is a shitty economy But I'm sorry You're wrong and we're here to explain to you that none of that's real You know how it feels like the prices of everything are going up. No,
Starting point is 00:18:48 that's cause you're stupid. That was their strategy for the first three quarters of this presidential election. They openly said it. They openly said the economy isn't bad. We just haven't been able to sell it yet to the people. We played tons of clips this year off of that. And it seems almost like this is the strategy here too, to be like, Oh, you're exaggerating. This isn't really a thing except, you know, you know, Tucker Carlson had this great, uh, he was talking about this, uh,
Starting point is 00:19:13 the other day and he had a great line about it, you know, but it, it was like, uh, he was like, okay, like if you're saying this isn't a problem, so let's start with all your neighborhoods, you know, let's start with every rich suburb outside DC and let's start with Martha's vineyard and like Westchester and Bel Air and you know, let's send a ton of migrants to all those neighborhoods. And, and you know, of course, what was it? The one time they did send migrants to Martha's vineyard. Oh, no one was, no one was downplaying the problem.
Starting point is 00:19:41 Then they got them the hell out of there real quick. Cause they said they didn't have the resources. They didn't have the resources in a summer town. It was in spring. No one's there. They got nothing but empty houses, mansions by the way. But oh that's oh that problem got taken care of real quick. It's only like when it's when it's your neighborhood, there's no issue. And look, I'll tell you, I know, um, cause I've, I've talked to people who live, uh, um, in Manhattan who have been dealing with this over the last, uh, the last year. And they're all like, yeah, it's a real problem. And these are not right wing conservatives I'm talking to.
Starting point is 00:20:21 I'm talking to people who live on the upper West side, you know, uh, I used to live there I know a decent amount of people who live there and they're all like yeah It's a real problem man, like their migrants are all over the place and you know stories They were telling me about like um, and not even like stories like this. It's not like oh, they were invading apartment complexes But it's more stories about how like there's children Like outside without shoes who are just like selling candy bars and stuff. But you know, like, it's not like a service to the economy.
Starting point is 00:20:50 They're essentially begging for money. You know what I mean? And, um, yeah, it's just, it's a major problem. We don't know what to do here with these people. Stealing jobs from the urban youth. Is that what you're saying? Right. Exactly. Kids out there trying to get something for his basketball team. That was the old thing when I. Affecting black America. That's what you're saying? Right. Exactly. Kids out there trying to get something for his basketball team. That was the old thing when I think black America, that's what I'm hearing.
Starting point is 00:21:10 That used to be very big. Uh, by the way, when I was younger and on the subways in New York city, it was a black teenager selling candy for their basketball team, which was never really a basketball team. But again, I mean, it's not like, but it was believable cause they were black. I mean, they probably had a basketball team almost certainly. I mean, I would pick them if we were doing that. Um, but anyway, this strategy of saying like, um, okay, this problem doesn't exist or isn't it appalling that Donald Trump is exaggerating this problem?
Starting point is 00:21:39 It just seems like such a losing strategy on its face. Like there's just no way that's gonna work Well, and the other thing that um, I always thought was kind of amazing about it was that look Donald Trump just however you feel about him Well before he was a political figure. Let's say what way before 2016 you know with just Donald Trump, who he is. It's like you kind of get within 30 seconds of seeing him that you're like, yeah, he, he's bombastic. No kidding. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:22:16 Like you're like, Oh no, he's, he's exaggerating. Yeah, no kidding. His whole life is the most exaggerated thing ever. And like you almost like, this is, I think what the quote that I might be falsely attributing to Peter Thiel is kind of getting at is that you kind of learn right away with Donald Trump that yeah, he speaks like a third grader. And like, if Donald Trump goes, I just built the biggest building that's ever been built. What he means is I just built a big building. It's not literally the biggest building that's ever been built, but that's always how he's going to sell it. I had the biggest crowd ever. It's like, okay,
Starting point is 00:22:48 he just means it's big, you know? And like, okay, maybe he shouldn't do that. But again, that's not really what's going to be driving people. I just, I see no way that this strategy works. I think the media is just selling themselves down the drain and so obviously displaying the fact that they're trying to cover up and pick a team and really just engaging in propaganda. There's a, there's something to that dynamic that I think is,
Starting point is 00:23:12 um, you know, I don't even know the best way how exactly to say this, but that dynamic, what you're talking about is something that kind of permeates the the ruling class in America. It's one of the most disturbing trends. It's what it is is a, uh, it's a high time preference. It's like, Oh, you're not even, there's not even a little part of you that thinks like, Hey, look, we really don't want Trump to get elected.
Starting point is 00:23:43 We really want Kamala Harris to get elected, but We also recognize that we're gonna have wants in two years in five years in ten years And we can't burn all of our credibility right now to get the thing that we want in the next 20 days You know what? I mean like we have to think ahead and there's just like no Sense of that and that's true with everything. That's why we're in $35 trillion of debt. It's like, nobody is even thinking about, you know, it's like, it's like we know the ship's going down. I'm just trying to steal everything I can before that happens.
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Starting point is 00:25:33 right let's get back into the show it's a very nerdy example but in the first Star Wars movie which is not a very good Star Wars movie the guy tries pulling the Jedi mind trick I'm I forget the character's name and he goes your Jedi mind tricks don't work on me and that's almost what the media has gotten down to is they're used to just being able to say there is no problem all right there is no problem but it doesn't work anymore when you're so obviously lying and that's what makes that segment so funny is him being able to say wait so you admit that there are Venezuelan gangs that have taken over apartment buildings. I guess but it was limited to a few and the local police tell us that they have responded.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Yeah that sounds like a disaster. Like okay I mean yeah but like that's I mean I guess that's good they responded but like that should never happen in the United States of America is in most people's estimation. Okay let's uh let's keep moving. What do we have here? What do we got next? I would say the extent to which she and I certainly have had our disagreements. But when you look at the whole range of issues, for example, with respect to support for Ukraine, with respect to the fact that she is saying that the United States has to lead in the world.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Donald Trump is embracing tyrants. Donald Trump loves tyrants. He idolizes them. JD Vance and Donald Trump both support a very isolationist foreign policy and an erratic and a chaotic foreign policy that will leave us much less safe. Do you regret any of the language that you used to describe Harrison Biden at the time they would dismantle our freedom, destroy our history, the type of language you're using now about Donald Trump? Look, I think certainly those were harsh things that I said. I think that they reflect absolutely that we had a policy disagreement on a series of
Starting point is 00:27:21 issues. But I also think that's why it's so important for people to focus on the fact that I am supporting her now and that there's such a broad coalition that's coming together to support her. And it's based in part on who she is, on the fact that she will lead with a sincere heart, on the fact that she is somebody who's dedicated her life to public service and looking at what Donald Trump poses, the kind of chaotic, absolute depravity that he would bring if he were ever to be elected again. All right. So there was Liz Cheney.
Starting point is 00:28:03 I thought this was like one of the most amazing clips I've ever seen. There is Liz Cheney, as I'm sure you guys know, right, daughter of Dick Cheney. And this is who the Harris campaign has coming out on the Sunday shows. And look, didn't she just give the whole game away right there?
Starting point is 00:28:21 See, there's something really interesting about this where she goes, look at the broad coalition of support that Kamala Harris has. Now, when you say this broad coalition of support, look, just objectively, again, I'm not saying like trust the polls or don't trust the polls or whatever, but if you just use them as any indication, as the corporate media certainly does right? Objectively She's doing substantially worse right now than Hillary Clinton was against Trump or than Joe Biden was against Donald Trump at this time. So you can tell me this broad coalition of support, but I don't know It's a it's less broad than it's been against him in his last two presidential elections. Um, now of course,
Starting point is 00:29:07 both sides want to make this argument that they have this broad coalition. The truth is that this is a very close race by all indications right now. Um, this is a race that it seems like if you ran it 10 days in a row, 10 different times, you might get five and five, you know what I mean? Or maybe six and four, but it's something pretty close like that. But okay, so there's a coalition behind Donald Trump and he's got these figures like Elon Musk
Starting point is 00:29:33 and Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy Jr. and these people who were traditionally Democrats who are coming over and supporting him. And then Kamala Harris also has some people who were traditionally Republicans coming over and supporting him and then kamala harris also has some people who were traditionally republicans Coming over and supporting her The the obvious difference here is that it's all establishment Insiders who are supporting kamala harris and it's all the kind of dissidents who are supporting trump
Starting point is 00:30:03 But look, it's just amazing. I mean really, and I think part of it is my age. Because I think if you were 20 or 25, you probably couldn't appreciate as much how crazy this is. But Dick Cheney was the national villain amongst liberals and leftists. And for a reason because he was like the main architect of the war in Iraq this war that they lied the American people into that was an absolute disaster and of course all of the war on terror you know stuff that comes along with that the Patriot Act and torture and Guantanamo
Starting point is 00:30:40 Bay and Abu Ghraib like all these things are like attached to Dick Cheney okay but now we're supposed to because uh you know Donald Trump didn't accept the election results or something we're supposed to it's not only that we pretend that none of those things are problems anymore with Dick Cheney he's now like a hero his daughter now is some type of hero for standing up to the Republicans but look here Liz Cheney really gives away the game. Now again, she may use slightly different language than I would or you would. But I, as I often do on this show, I try to encourage people to like look at what's really being said here because it's not even like she's hiding it. Why is it that she's supporting Kamala Harris?
Starting point is 00:31:25 And she tells you right there, American leadership abroad, backing Ukraine. These guys are isolationists. These guys, in other words, she can be counted on to fight the next war and Donald Trump cannot. That here you have a Cheney Explicitly Making the argument that one candidate is good for the war machine and the other one might not be Now, of course listen if you could get over what a joke it is to call Trump an isolationist. It's like come on You know that might that might apply to his trade policy a little bit.
Starting point is 00:32:06 It certainly doesn't apply to his foreign policy, but I just thought that was an amazing moment. Again, you're almost wondering, are you guys cutting ads for Donald Trump? Like, is that the game here? Because I couldn't think of anything to help Donald Trump more than having Dick Cheney's daughter come out and say I can't support him But I can support her because she's essentially got the same foreign policy as my dad Like Jesus the war machine has picked our candidate and it's Kamala Harris
Starting point is 00:32:37 My father feels the same way because if we need someone who's gonna keep fighting these pointless wars. We're voting for Kamala Yeah, it's very it's pretty remarkable that you're feel comfortable getting on the news and giving this pitch. And just that, you know, she brings up at one point, which was very interesting too, is she goes, Oh, you know, you've talked about in the past how much you hate the Democrats and you're against them. And she's like, well, yeah, not when it comes to keeping a war going.
Starting point is 00:33:02 We had policy disagreements, but I think that just shows you how great it is that I'm, cause she's honest and she's this and she's like, yeah, but you already told us what it really is. She'll keep fighting the war in Ukraine. And you could actually trust her to keep fighting the war in Gaza, you know? And that, that's the whole game right there.
Starting point is 00:33:20 That she, it's almost like, oh yeah, remember. And this is one of the things, you know Despite all of the qualities that are so infuriating about Donald Trump because it's like it really is right It's like we always say like if you just never If Donald Trump almost didn't exist and only the other side existed like that right there is a great argument to vote for Donald Trump It's the best. That's the best case for Donald Trump is Liz Cheney loves the other person. That's the best argument there is to vote for him. Um, but it does one of the things that, uh, Donald Trump kind of revealed, uh, whether intentionally or not.
Starting point is 00:33:56 And I kind of tend to think it's not intentionally, but one of the things he revealed is that the whole game used to rely on you believing that Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney really hated Hillary Clinton. You know like they really were totally different than Hillary Clinton and they were like oh my god we're appalled by her reckless policy and then but as soon as somebody kind of like it's almost like if their little world was here as as soon as somebody was here, you saw how close they all are. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, this Democrat Republican thing.
Starting point is 00:34:30 That means nothing. I'll switch over party lines to support someone as long as someone who's outside of our little, you know, window of allowable opinion is denied the ability to get in. And like, there you go. It's like, oh yeah, well, how can you come over to Kamala Harris when you were just saying, oh, these Democrats are gonna destroy the country
Starting point is 00:34:51 and all that, and she's like, oh, well, she's a good, honest, great person. It's like, oh, so you actually had no problem with her at all. Oh, in other words, that was all just bullshit. And this is something that I think, I know I was, and, and a lot of, uh, good people were, were screaming this for years that they're the whole two party system in America
Starting point is 00:35:12 is all a facade. That's always been a uniparty, you know, and that that they were, it was always like when it, whether it was, uh, when Mitt Romney was running against Barack Obama or if Hillary Clinton had run against Jeb Bush as was the plan until Trump came in or you know Gore Bush or like any any of these guys it was always like on all of the issues that matter there is no difference between these two candidates and look in terms of the way he governed, you could kind of make that argument about Trump too, that Trump really did keep all of the uniparty policies going.
Starting point is 00:35:52 However, right here, you just see it perfectly. Then it's like, what Donald Trump, who by the way, was in government, was the president for four years and did not dismantle the war machine. It's not as if there wasn't a military industrial complex during Trump's reign. In fact, it had four great years for them. Um, but still just the fact that he'll even question it sometimes is enough that the Chinese were the Chinese. I think you're actually, I think Cheney is actually how they pronounce it. Really? Whatever. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:22 But Cheney as the rest of us all know the dicks, the dicks of the world, they are ready to jump ship and support a Democrat as soon as they can. And the other thing that I just thought was really interesting about it is that the thing that it reveals also is that again, something I've been saying for many years now is that when push comes to shove, you see that the neocons only really care about their wars. Nothing else matters to them. Because, you know, when they were, you know,
Starting point is 00:36:54 I remember when the neocons were dominant in the Republican Party, and I mean dominant, like you cannot, they were as, I mean, they were as dominant in the Republican party as like, as any faction could be, you know, as, as, as dominant as anti-racism is in, uh, college campuses, you know what I mean? Like they, they ran the George W. Bush administration top to bottom. And when they were there,
Starting point is 00:37:25 when they were the Republicans, they used to talk about all these other issues that they cared about a lot. You know, obviously the wars were always even in their words were first, but it was like, you know, tax cuts and cultural conservatism marriage being between a man and a woman, like whatever the issue of the day was that pandered to conservatives to get their votes. But as soon as the war is questioned, they'll go, Oh, actually we're for gay marriage and increase taxes and what, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:37:54 We're progressives culturally. Like it just, they'll give up on any of those other issues. The one issue that they will never change course on is that there's always a next war that we should be fighting. Always. Every kid gets a new Dick as long as can I bomb around? Okay. Then like you could turn your son into a daughter. Pretty incredible. All right guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is my Patriot supply.
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Starting point is 00:39:10 Yeah, it really is something. Let's keep moving because there were several other interesting moments from the last few days. Let's keep playing. Ah yes, there's a good one. I want our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. So if you don't mind, just for a second I'm going to speak to y'all right now. and say that when you have a choice that is this clean, when on college with you, understands the struggles and pain and achieve the second highest office in the land. All right, so. Cut off a little early.
Starting point is 00:40:59 Yeah, but I mean, this is essentially the message was, was that, um, you know, you're a bad person. I, you know, it's very Obama. This was always how the Obamas were. Um, and there was always something that really bothered me about this. So when Barack Obama was running for president, I remember back in, um, in 2008 when he was running for president the first time, and he would give these like amazing speeches, speeches were like fucking flawless. I mean, like, and, and again, they were always, they were always light on substance.
Starting point is 00:41:36 It was kind of just like poetry, but they were beautiful poems, you know, like just really, I mean, if there was just like, it was almost like an empty template of how you give a political speech, but they would always be just like, amazing, you know, and he's just, uh, I mean, I, I think in terms of like, like the prose and the delivery, uh, the best political speaker I've ever seen is like truly something like remarkable about the guy, um, far better than like Martin Luther King, even Martin Luther King was really good at giving a speech,
Starting point is 00:42:14 but people kind of play like the best clips of his moments. If you go watch like a full Martin Luther King speech and then go watch a full Barack Obama speech in his day, Barack Obama crushes him, blows him out of the water. Like it's just beautiful. You know, it's always the, I know I quote it before, but I was always fucking remember these little things from his speeches where he would just like, um, like I, cause I would always say like, man, if there was ever a great libertarian leader, I hope he could do this.
Starting point is 00:42:41 Like I hope he could like, you know what I mean? Like give it where just like these things where he'd get up in his acceptance speech and he'd be like, I love this country and so do you. And so does John McCain. So to the men and women who have fought and died for this country, by the way, these men and women have been Democrats and Republicans and independents, but they did not die defending a red America or a blue America. They died defending the United States of America.
Starting point is 00:43:06 But even as you see, you're like, sure, let's go Obama, you know, like it was just like, and now listen, if you examine that, he didn't say anything, like what? I mean, it's empty rhetoric, but it was just like beautiful. And you just see crowds of tens of thousands of people like crying and losing their minds and
Starting point is 00:43:25 and you'd be like wow maybe this guy will be like a great president like the next jack kennedy or something you know and and um but then whenever he'd get a tough question or something like that it would always like essentially be the answer is like hey you're a bad person if you don't hey if you don't support me you're like a bad person. If you don't, hey, if you don't support me, you're like a bad person. You must be racist. I guess that's what it is. You know, his wife is exactly the same way. It's and it's appalling. Like she'll, you know, the she she said it in one of the speeches at the DNC, not this year, but it might have been the 2016 convention.
Starting point is 00:44:03 She said something along the lines of like, she, she goes, I know there's been, there's been critics of me and my husband. And you know, when, when you're, you know, when, when people who look like you used to be picking the crops outside the white house and now you're in the white house, you're going to get a lot of people who don't like seeing you there very much. And you're like, yo, wait a minute, I'm sorry. Your, your husband won a landslide election was then reelected
Starting point is 00:44:32 president. And now you're essentially saying that if anybody's critical of him after eight years of being president, if anyone is critical of the job he did, that's just cause we're such a racist country. Like how are we such a racist country if your husband just got elected and then reelected? You know, so there's a lot of that. But I, it's still amazing to me to see like this to me seems like the thing that Barack Obama would say to Michelle Obama on their couch. You know what I mean? Like to be like I think they're all sexist. That's right. But that wouldn't actually be your message that you took out to
Starting point is 00:45:06 voters. Hey, you're sexist. Come back. Like what type of message is that? I'm sorry. Like at what point is it like if Kamala Harris cannot carry the black vote, how is that on the black voters? That's not on her. It's not on her to persuade them. It's on them to not be a bad person. You're a bad person if you're not supporting our candidate.
Starting point is 00:45:34 What? Like, what a stupid fucking message. I think it's bad marketing and people are sick of being lectured too. To me, this is kind of like that Phillips Norelco commercial with men being men, remember that? And it was terrible. And by the way, Kamala put out a terrible ad last week with men being like, oh, we're strong men and that's why we're voting for Kamala
Starting point is 00:45:58 because that's our masculinity. But it was the same marketing campaign of lecturing to people, which I think they're over. Now, what's particularly not smooth of him, and firstly, I can't unsee him as an old gay guy now. That's all I see. That's just, he talks and I'm like, yeah, you're fetching at us because you're an old gay guy.
Starting point is 00:46:17 But firstly, the fact that he talks as slowly as he does and he can't find better words off the cuff, like just with the amount of dramatic pauses that you're saying, that you're just stuck with this same, on the one hand, you've got this guy. And on the other hand, the exact template that I've heard from everybody else, this is what you're rolling back out.
Starting point is 00:46:36 You're coming out in the final quarter as the smooth talking person who can rally the troops. And you've just got this same bullshit talking point. On the one hand, you've got this guy who will ruin the entire country and is a racist. On the other one, you've got the person who will pretend to be just like you, even though she's not even black and she's an Indian.
Starting point is 00:46:54 And you black men, you better get in line and start supporting this lady. Well, by the way, I've spoken to black people and I've heard them say Jamaican people hate American blacks. I've heard them say nobody hates black people more than Kamala Harris. She's an Indian Jamaican. And, and, and it like, even CNN's tried to run footage out of barber shops with people being like, no, she's not black.
Starting point is 00:47:16 You also wonder, you know, one of the things about Barack Obama and you know, he's never, this is true for Donald Trump too, by the way, while they're, they are individually the most successful, you know, he's never this is true for donald trump too, by the way while they're they are individually the most successful You know the most successful democratic politician the most successful republican politician of the last say 20 years Um, you know, no doubt they both put together coalitions that I mean like you could say joe biden's 2020 election But nobody for the people who believe in that election None of them really believe it was Joe Biden. It was,
Starting point is 00:47:46 it was a rejection of Donald Trump. So leaving him aside, um, Corpses like the old guy. Well, yes, but, um, they sure do. Those corpses stick together. Um, but you know, you have, neither of them have been able to transfer that very well. Like if you look at the people they endorse, there's no, they're no more likely to win than whether they don't, if they don't get their endorsement. Um, but so, so Barack Obama, of course here is he's not the candidate.
Starting point is 00:48:17 So you don't get all of the qualities that Barack Obama brought to the table. You just get him supporting somebody else here. But part of the reason why I think this this falls so flat, I think a lot of people, I think a lot of people in the, in like a lot of black people have woken up to this. And I think that's why Donald Trump is right now polling better with black people than any Republican in my lifetime. Is that, you know, it's like for Obama to come out and start like lecturing black people, particularly black men about how you're just basically a bunch of sexists. You know, you're a bigot. That's why you're not voting,
Starting point is 00:48:51 which is pretty funny that the bigotry out allegation can be weaponized against black men. Like if you know anything about the history of black men in this country, they've just always been so prejudice against everybody else. It's been really horrible the way they've kept every other group down by the way, also, which with like the intersectional types, but black black men have been substantially more victimized in this country than black women have not saying black women haven't had points where they've been treated poorly, but black men were always treated substantially worse. Um,
Starting point is 00:49:21 but regardless of any of that, it's like Barack Obama, you live in Martha's vineyard. Like come, get the fuck out of here, dude. Even the Clintons went and built their little office in Harlem after they fucking left the white house, right? So they could kind of keep like some semblance of like, Oh, I'm still with the people. You know what I mean? Obama said none of that Obama's worth. I'm still with the people you know what I mean Obama said none of that Obama is worth trying to figure I'm looking it up here. It says aol.com says he's worth 70 million. I think it's over a hundred I thought I had seen over a hundred
Starting point is 00:49:53 Before but you know a lot of it's on Netflix money well I will say that Spotify contract when nowhere else so I think that was like 20 million alone Oh, well, I know I will say the net worth things when you Google them are never exactly right. People don't know your net worth, but, but just saying the Obama's had like a couple million dollars when they went into the, into the white house, they had like, I think like two or $3 million between the two of them. Um, and they, he was president for eight years and now they are worth somewhere in the ballpark of a hundred million
Starting point is 00:50:27 dollars and Yeah, it's like you remember that that thriving business that they opened that helped so many people that everyone just no you don't They've just gotten this off like book deals and Netflix deals and Spotify deals and speeches to financial Institutions and stuff like that and it's like to sit here But you know to have just enriched yourself through this at you know, as Liz Cheney that was one of her One of her comments was a dedicated a life to public service Right. That's why Kamala Harris is better than Donald Trump because she's a career politician that just makes you a better person But when you see these people who are you know in
Starting point is 00:51:09 service That's how they put it their public servants Well, it's hard for me to really see you as the servant when you end up worth a hundred million dollars You know seems like maybe you were serving yourself a little bit more than you were just serving other people's I don't know. I don't really have any servants Um, but if I did i'd imagine they'd make less money than me I don't imagine my servant would be far richer than I could ever dream of being and if they were I'm, not so sure i'd consider them my servant, you know
Starting point is 00:51:41 um, but so it part of it is that it's like the nerve of you to like be first off, you have you have if you ever were a part of the black community and I can I say this to Barack Obama because like he's half white and was raised by a white family, but whatever. But you have completely removed yourself from the black community, but in every sense, physically, financially, intellectually, like in every sense. And then you're coming back into like lecture these, but like, I'm just saying if, if an old white Republican ever talked this way to like black men, we'd all recognize it for what it is. And you'd be like, Oh, you're looking down at these people.
Starting point is 00:52:22 Like you think you're better than them. And it's clear, like he does. He does think he's better than them. But look, again, it's, it be like, Oh, you're looking down at these people. Like you think you're better than them. And it's clear. Like he does. He does think he's better than them. But look, again, it's, it's like, it's a lot of it is all is like the same thing as, um, and, and this happens as particularly in an inflationary economy, right? Like what ends up happening is that the middle class gets wiped out and, and the gap between the wealthy and everybody else gets bigger and bigger. And what you have is more and more people in that wealthy bubble
Starting point is 00:52:55 tend to lecture everybody else about like having the wrong priorities or something like that. Um, but the thing is that when you're not in that wealthy group, you have less, you have less of an ability to remove yourself from issues that really matter and just focus on superficial things. Like she's a woman. She's a woman with dark skin. Like that doesn't matter. You know what I mean? But it, when you're worth 70 million or a hundred million or whatever Obama's
Starting point is 00:53:29 worth, it's easy to really focus on those things. Whereas like, my guess is that most black men, like most Americans are a lot more concerned with the economy, a lot more concerned with immigration, a lot more concerned with, um, the opioid crisis, a lot more concerned with homelessness, with crime, with all of these other things that like have a real impact on your life. And you know, what does not have a real impact on your life is like whether it's a chick or a
Starting point is 00:53:58 dude who's in the white house. So I don't think really, I mean, I'm sure there is some, there's a hurdle that a female presidential candidate has to get over for sure. I mean, we are like, you know, we're animals and when electing a president it is, there's a lot of like monkey brain shit that comes into that, uh, where you're like, Hey, this is the alpha. And so I do think that like in in some respects, a man has an advantage over a woman. There's something more masculine about being the commander in chief.
Starting point is 00:54:33 Uh, that doesn't commander in chief doesn't sound particularly feminine when you say it, but to pretend that that's the major motivating driving factor here behind the black people supporting Trump. I just don't see any evidence of that and if you you know in like you said in those barbershop videos in all of the man on the street videos where you see all the black people are supporting Trump you always ask him what it is. They always answer with one of the things I just said. They know they're always just like no it's crime, it's immigration, it's the economy, it's the
Starting point is 00:55:04 jobs you know. I don't see why I, why the assumption wouldn't be that like, yeah, that's what's motivating them. Also a tough pitch for a past president to go, Hey, we got a band together as a racial group. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's, you know, there is, there's definitely something about that too. I also just, I, I do just really resent the, um, the phoniness of all of it where it's like, now I want,
Starting point is 00:55:30 I want to talk to the brothers. Now y'all, y'all know you've been doing that. And it's like, what are you, what are you going into your black voice now? Someone get me going to my new port. Yeah, but it is really that it's like, dude, I've heard you talk a lot and now you're just like completely switching the way you talk to act as if like you're Seeing the caboose time on my own wife. I'm doing the worst accent, but you get the joke As not it tickled me Anyway, again, I just took this as one more sign that you're like it's like, okay
Starting point is 00:56:00 You guys clearly are concerned and then the second thing is like and this is what you're going with Obama calling you a bigot and we got liz cheney That's the strategy here All right Best of luck. Um, all right here. Let's uh before we get out of here. Let's do one more. What's the what's the next one? Oh another obama, all right, here we go What's the next one? Oh, another Obama. All right, here we go. The President knew it wasn't true.
Starting point is 00:56:31 Even local Republicans said it was not true. And now the people of Florida are dealing with another devastating storm. And I want you to watch what happens over the next few days, just like the last time. You're going to have leaders who try to help, and then there are you have a guy who will just lie about it to score political points, and this has consequences.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Because people are afraid, and they've lost everything, and now they're trying to figure out how do I apply for help? And some of them may be discouraged from getting the help they need. The idea of intentionally trying to deceive people in their most desperate and vulnerable moments. And my question is, when did that become okay? I'm not looking for applause right now.
Starting point is 00:57:29 I want to ask Republicans out there, you know, people who are conservative, who didn't vote for me, who didn't agree with me on it. I had friends who disagreed with me on every issue. When did that become okay? Why would we go along with that? I mean, if your coworkers acted like that, they wouldn't be your coworkers very long.
Starting point is 00:58:08 If you're in business and somebody you're doing business with just outright lies and manipulates, you stop doing business with them. Even if you had a family member who acted like that, you might still love them, but you tell him you've got a problem. And you wouldn't put him in charge of anything. And yet when Donald Trump lies or cheats or shows utter disregard for our Constitution, when he calls POWs losers,
Starting point is 00:58:40 I think we can get all of that. Yeah. I just I love the the Merrill Street moment He has of the how dare you how dare you criticize the administration's response to these hurricanes He also said he asked a very specific question. He said when did that become okay? And it's a 2005 yeah, that's when it became okay during hurricane Katrina. It was something that you Barack Obama use weaponized against George W. Bush and absolutely nobody ever said, no, no, no, no, no, that's off limits. You're not allowed to criticize an administration for how they handle a
Starting point is 00:59:23 natural disaster, and you're certainly not allowed to point out that like, hey, resources are finite. We only have so many. And we're sending all of these resources to Ukraine and to Israel. We're spending a ton of resources on illegal immigrants who broke our laws in order to come here. And then American citizens, taxpayers, are left without any of these resources. That's over the line? And look, again, it's just that this is the thing about Obama that is really like just ugly and off-putting,
Starting point is 00:59:59 is even when they start clapping and then he goes, I'm not looking for applause. There is this like superiority about him. And this was one of, by the way, this was one of the things I noticed very early in 2008 about Obama is that he was an incredibly talented politician. There's no question about that, but he was great as long as he was giving an uninterrupted speech. You know, like that's kind of where he's at his best but you you realized quickly that in his mind the role was always for him to be the professor and you to be
Starting point is 01:00:31 the student. You're here to learn from his wisdom even though again as like when I was quoting from his speech before he wasn't actually teaching you anything it's just making you feel good you know but it was always that but then there was this other side to them that was like incredibly superior. Like if you ever were to first off, you know, he's this thing about, it goes, you know, what, what do you say? Disrespecting the constitution or something like that. Obama, you murdered American citizens without charges. Okay.
Starting point is 01:01:04 Is grossly violated the war powers act. American citizens without charges Okay, is it? Grossly violated the War Powers Act it was under Obama's administration not George W Bush's that he declared that the battlefield was the world and So essentially the president had the authority now to go to war anywhere They wanted to without you know, don't get me wrong George W Bush cheated on the constitution too, and never got a declaration of war for Afghanistan or Iraq. He got a vague, um, what do they call it? The, um, authorization of military force. Uh,
Starting point is 01:01:36 you know, but he got something. He went to Congress, he went to Congress for Afghanistan, you know, and for and had votes They were not declarations of war which the Constitution demands they should be but he still got votes from Congress But when it came to Obama's war in Libya in Syria in Yemen nothing Nothing. There's a Congress had no say in them. Okay, it's like give me a fucking break about respecting the Constitution The Constitution is so crystal clear that only Congress can declare war, you know It's like give me a break about all that bullshit your high and mighty shit But then it's like the argument itself just makes no sense
Starting point is 01:02:21 He's almost arguing that somehow if you criticize FEMA then people aren't gonna get the help that they need. Like he kind of tries to make it sound like it makes a little bit of sense where he's like think about the person who's applying for help and then they hear Donald Trump criticizing FEMA. You're like yeah. So what happens then? What they don't apply for help now? Like, come on, this is all ridiculous. On the last run your mouth, I did a run through of the democratic propaganda
Starting point is 01:02:54 points and this is a quick one for them is to point out how anything is dangerous. And I have a Jew mom, so I can recognize these guilty nonsense topic tactics right off the bat. and he's a gay guy So he's playing the same cards and that's why he's up there going. This is dangerous. You're criticizing it It's dangerous because now people aren't gonna go and try and get the support that we're giving to them Can you cite a single example of someone that listened to Donald Trump and now? Was supposed to get help and isn't getting help because he heard and what didn't file? Is there a single incident of that? Because if not, it just sounds to me like Jew
Starting point is 01:03:31 guilt. How dare you? This is actually dangerous. Well, it's also, you know, it's this is the pretty, it's pretty standard, a pretty standard playbook for how politicians always guard against criticism of themselves, which is it's always dangerous to criticize the government. Pointing out our failures is divisive and it creates... Dude, I remember Bush and Cheney were the... I'm going to say the worst at it, but maybe they were just the dumbest with it, but it was the most like transparent But they were this was literally what they would explicitly say this
Starting point is 01:04:10 After 9-eleven that it was like if you criticize the regime You're giving comfort to the terrorists that those George Bush's line You're either with us or you're with the terrorists And so if you criticize the fact that like hey You know we spend tens of billions of dollars on intelligence and you guys didn't see 9-eleven coming and you didn't Protect your own people that day Well, you're basically on the side of the terrorists now if you criticize the war in Afghanistan or the war in Iraq Well, then you're against the troops. Are you with the troops or with the terrorists?
Starting point is 01:04:43 You know and then this becomes everything like if you criticize the government's health care, that's dangerous If you criticize the response to a storm, that's dangerous If you question the last election, that's dangerous like but there's no logic for any of it. It's actually not dangerous at all It's actually what's far more dangerous is watching your government fail you on every level and not saying anything about it. That's dangerous. You know what I mean? But this is, I mean, again, I guess the one, the theme that kind of to me, you know, the through line of this episode is that the Democrats are starting to panic a
Starting point is 01:05:23 bit now. And as is typically the case with human beings, when you panic, you don't make your best decisions. And I think you see right here in this moment that they're, they're panicking and the strategy is unbelievably stupid. Before we call it an episode, we do have that bombshell of a Kamala Harris clip left. is unbelievably stupid. Before we call it an episode, we do have that bombshell of a Kamala Harris clip left. Where is she?
Starting point is 01:05:50 All right, sure. Let's do it. Here, let's do one more. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. It makes you wonder. it makes you wonder, why does his staff want him to hide away? One must question, one must question, are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America?
Starting point is 01:06:29 Is that what's going on? And here's the thing. Yeah, what can you even say about this desperate attempt? It's always been a dynamic with the Democrats and Trump that, uh, they always like there'll be a million things that are legitimate to criticize him on. And then they pick the most ridiculous one and go with that. And you're like, I mean, this is just so obviously projection, you know, she hid from interviews up until the last two weeks.
Starting point is 01:07:04 And I mean, look, of all the criticisms of Donald Trump and we've really been pretty ferocious on him over the last eight years. Um, but if all the criticisms of Donald Trump, yeah, he avoids the spotlight. That's what he's always been known for. Donald Trump, always hiding, won't do. He's doing interviews with everybody. He's like on every freaking show. I think we've covered just about every single Kamala Harris interview on this show. There's been tons of
Starting point is 01:07:40 Trumps we haven't covered because he just does so goddamn many of them. He couldn't cover every single one. I haven't even watched every single one. There's just so many. It's like, I never use this word, but this is just an exercise in gaslighting. You're going to tell us that that's you're out there, but Trump is hiding? And admits Biden. Admits Biden's presidency. You're gonna accuse somebody else of not being up to the job and hiding away. Yeah, yeah, really. It's like we have, literally right now, the sitting president of the United States of America
Starting point is 01:08:14 is rarely heard from. They can't even get him in the Oval Office. They got him at that little teeny tiny desk that's outside for no reason. Oh my God, and you see. With no explanation for why. Some of the clips today, and he's like just m's mumbling under his breath
Starting point is 01:08:26 He's talking in tongues. That's his new think it's the most like unbelievable thing even for you know People like us who kind of live in this world and talk about it all the time. It's unbelievable I literally just watched this morning these clips of it. It's just an old man mumbling under his breath. It's it's a weird Well, I don't like I I almost wonder in a way there's something really scary. Perfect policy. Isn't there something really scary about like losing your mind? You're almost like, man, I'd lose anything else. I don't want to lose my mind. Like, you know, if I lost like an arm or a leg or something, you're like, okay,
Starting point is 01:09:00 that would suck. But like, okay, at least you're still there. Like you still exist, but you start losing your mind. That is like, okay, that would suck. But like, okay, at least you're still there. Like you still exist. But you start losing your mind that is like, it's a form of death. But you look at it and you're almost like, dude, what's it like to be like in that mental state where you're just whispering and no one can understand you and it doesn't like trigger in your mind like,
Starting point is 01:09:20 oh, raise my volume, speak with a little more clarity. Anyway, yeah. With the campaign that Biden ran in 2020 with the presidency of Joe Biden and with the campaign that Kamala Harris is running to accuse

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