The Young Turks - Build That Walz

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be VP running mate. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be the Democratic VP candidate, alongside Kamala Harris. Trump wastes no time attacking ""dangerously liberal"" Tim Walz: ""He'll unleash HELL ON EARTH!"" Tim Walz and the legacy of ""weird"": Democrats embrace VP pick's one-word insult for MAGA. Israel promises to attack Iran nuclear facility. Pelosi says she has not spoken to Biden since he dropped out." HOST: Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur), David Shuster (@DavidShuster) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch: https://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Live from the Polymarker Studio in LA's the Young Turks, Jay Cougar, David Schuster. Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. But this time we got the right guy. We got a good guy. Oh my God, Tim Walts is the pig.

I can't believe it, David. I can't. This is, I mean, look, here, we're going to do the show in a minute. And guys, we got amazing stories for you guys. Donald Trump with a new line of attacking against Kamala Harris, which is insane and totally misguided. Obviously, we have everything you want to know about Tim Walz. But David, if I told you two months ago that Tim Walz was going to be the Democratic VP nominee,

I mean, is there anything on earth that could have gotten you to believe that? No, not at all. And in fact, I just remember Jenk when, you know, it was just a couple weeks ago when Biden dropped and you were saying, God, it wouldn't it be great if she could just pick Tim Alts, but that's not going to happen because we're all so used to progressives getting screwed. But finally, no, this is the great, great, great opportunity. 100%. Love it.

All right. So let's do it. Let's start with the first story, David. By all accounts, it has been a huge progressive win already. Earlier today, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris wrote on X. I am proud to announce that I've asked Tim Walts to be my running mate as governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran. He's delivered for working families like his.

It's great to have him on the team. Now let's get to work. Join us. The Harris announcement on X was followed by the release of a Harris Wall's phone call. Hi, this is Tim. It's Kamala here and good morning, Governor. Good morning, Madam Vice President. Listen, I want you to do this with me.

Let's do this together. Would you be my running mate and let's get this thing on the road? I would be honored, Madam Vice President. The joy that you're bringing back to the country, the enthusiasm that's out there, it'll be a privilege to take this with you across the country. Well, let me tell you, I have just the utmost respect for you. respect for you.

There was some choreography, of course, in all of this, because that phone call was actually apparently recorded after CNN had already broken the news. It takes a little while to set these things up. But in any case, earlier this morning, the news first came from CNN political reporter John King. The Y is going to be comfort level. The Y is going to be that Harris believes this is a good governing partner. And the interesting conversation is going to be, again, if you look in the rearview mirror, history tells us you can't find a lot of data that says vice president.

That's right presidential picks are decisive when it comes to the election. So what is Vice President Harris looking to do here? Number one, a governing partner. Number two, a progressive Democrat. What is the Trump campaign saying that she's quote unquote dangerously liberal? What will Governor Wall say? You mean a liberal who has his state guarantee abortion rights for woman, a liberal who has his state feed young poor children who aren't getting meals,

to make the argument that progressive government works. Walls is 60 years old. He's an affable, likable, charismatic two-term governor who's been in office for nearly six years, at least in the governor's mansion. Before that, he served in the U.S. House for 12 years. And before that, he was an Army reservist for 24 years. Walls was born and raised in Nebraska, a point that the Harris campaign underscored in their first official campaign ad type of video of him.

Watch. When I grew up, community was a way of life. My high school class was 24 people. I was related to half of them. I learned to be generous towards my neighbors, compromise without compromising my values, and work for the common good. My dad was in the Army, and with his encouragement,

I joined the Army National Guard when I was 17. I served for 24 years. I used my GI benefits to go to college and become a public school teacher. I coach football and taught social studies for 20 years. And I tried to teach my students with small town Nebraska taught me, respect, compromise, service to country. Walls' star began rising just a couple of weeks ago when he began making media appearances

to promote Kamala Harris when President Biden announced that he was essentially withdrawing from the ticket. Walls' charisma and charm lit up the world of social media with those television appearances, but it also apparently caught the attention of Kamala Harris. And in the end, his earnestness and likability was apparently drove Harris in terms of directly wanting to pick him. As political reports, the Minnesota governor and vice president sat down for a one-on-one interview Sunday and connected, despite having little relationship prior to the vice presidential selection process, according to two people close to the process granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. Several other factors were important to Harris as well, according to one

of the people. Harris appreciated Walsh's two terms as governor because he had accomplishments in Minnesota that Harris wants to replicate in her presidency, access to reproductive health, paid leave child tax credits and gun safety. Harris was also taken with Walls's biography, a former high school teacher, a football coach, and a veteran who flipped a Republican Leaning District in 2006, which she believes will play well in all three of the blue wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, including the win as a House member in a Republican district. Now, what about Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro? He seemed to strike all of the check off all of the political boxes in Pennsylvania's perhaps the most important big swing state.

Well, Shapiro's personality, by all accounts, is a bit more intense than the more sort of laid-back, easy-going walls. And according to Politico, there was a sense within Shapiro's team that unlike Walls, the interview with Harris did not go as well as it could. Shapiro's interview, there was not a great feeling coming out of it, according to a person in touch with Shapiro's advisors. Also, Fox News reporter Jackie Heinrich is reporting that a video produced by a Shapiro friend, the mayor of Philadelphia, which was posted on Friday before the final interview with Harris, that video did not go over very well with the Harris campaign. Here's the video. Watch. Kamala Harris for president and Josh Shapiro. Josh Shapiro for vice president.

Now we need you. Let us and Kamala Harris know you stand with her. Together, we can do this. The Harris campaign apparently thought that was a bit presumptuous and heavy-handed. And upon the news that Harris had decided to pick walls, Well, Shapiro was gracious and issued this statement. Vice President Kamala Harris has my enthusiastic support. I know that Governor Tim Walz is an exceptionally strong addition to the ticket who will help move our country forward.

Lori and I consider Tim and Gwen to be good friends of ours, and we're excited for them and for the country to get to know the great people we know them to be. The race to define Walls is underway. A recent NPR poll found that 71%, 71% of all respondents said they had never heard of Walls or do not have. have an opinion of him. The Trump campaign has issued several statements today calling Walls dangerously liberal. And on social media, Trump himself called the Harris Walls ticket the most radical left duo in American history. But on the conservative leaning Drudge report, there was this. It's Walls and he doesn't wear eyeliner.

Yes, even Matt Drudge is getting in on the claims that Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, are weird. And Jack, that seems like a great contrast for Democrats when you have weird versus the guy who looks like he could be your favorite uncle and teach you how to change the tires 100%. So I want to get to my thoughts in a minute and I want to tell you a couple of amazing facts about him that I think will unify the party. But before I do that, I want to actually go to our members because they made a series of excellent points. First I want to go to our members on t.com. They of course sign up through t.com slash team. We'll have the link below. Virginia and South Carolina says so glad we got the progressive pig. Now let's go get peace in the Middle East.

It's TYT Army for the win. So I appreciate everybody who try to get, and this is what I just asked on social media right before we came on. Come on, if you were in the camp that wanted Biden to stay in, let's be honest. Aren't you kind of thrilled with what happened since? And it's okay, it's not about rubbing it in, guys. The next time that somebody argues for change, please have an open mind to it. Look at what change brought you. It brought you a great ticket.

So hope is ascendant. Yeah, that's blue I see. That's hope I feel. And that's what everyone's feeling, and not just Virginia and South Carolina. So like the Miscellaneous wrote, and Jake, you're usually right. But thank the gods that this is the one time you weren't. Kudos to Kamala Harris for defying the centrists in choosing a progressive for her VP pick. I want to say that because number one, I want to tell you not just what I'm right, but also when I'm wrong.

I wanted Josh Shapiro. I thought she'd pick Josh Shapiro, and I was worried to death that she was going to pick Mark Kelly or Pete Buttigieg. One of the reasons that I argued for Shapiro is because I thought there's no way they're going to pick Tim Walz. He's so progressive and he's such an interesting, potentially populous character. Some of the same reasons that I like Shapiro, some economic populism, some courage, et cetera. But I thought they're never going to pick the most progressive option, right? That's, I'm shocked. And you know how every once in the show I say, well, I'd be thrilled to be wrong.

Well, I'm thrilled to be wrong. Okay, so you're right, eclectic. Thank you for writing in on that. Shelby said, Wals was not on the shortlist, but went on TV and made his case. while also providing the Democratic Party with a new messaging strategy and became the choice within a matter of weeks. This is a guy we want in charge, and I'm so stoked to see it. There's a reason why I'm reading you these member comments, because they're right. Look at what Walls did. Here's another thing that I tell you, as progressives, as Democrats,

we should be in favor of change. Sometimes change can be fantastic. Remember the Obama signs with a change word on it, whether he meant it or not, we all loved that and wanted that. The second thing is, I tell you that things are possible, guys, it isn't about me, it isn't about Biden, it isn't about any one particular situation. That's why we say get caught trying, get caught trying. Look at what Tim Walts did. I mean, live by example, he wasn't on any short list. He put himself on the shortlist by trying.

He went on TV and he kicked ass and he rose up the ranks. Get caught trying, I love it, okay? Our members are 100% right. Last couple here from YouTube members, Lewis David Lentz, I wrote, finally with Walls and the tickets, it's a ticket I can vote for. Timeline correction enabled. Yeah, I was wondering if the TVA was involved as well. This is amazing. I can't believe we live in the correct timeline. So let's see how the rest of this campaign goes. But I love that. That's true.

Eva Wilman wrote in Walls looks like a lovely grandpa or a lovely Santa. And that's the David's point. They're going to try to demonize this guy as some sort of radical left guy. Well, I'll get to that in a second because that is going to fail. It's a little bit complicated, but it's good that it's complicated. I'll explain it in one second. Last one, Bruce Salazar wrote in balls to the walls with Z's at the end. I don't know how you guys read our minds because we literally just came up with that t-shirt. So you go to shoptut.com and the link will be down below as wall as wall.

Okay, 40's lips everywhere. Balls of the walls, you're going to love it. Okay, and we got that for you. So now, my thoughts are along the lines of the members, and that's why I love having members. You hit the join button below. We do this show together. By the way, we do this show together so much that you guys were more for Tim Walz than I was. I was for, I pushed Josh Spiro really hard because I thought that was the right pick,

the most practical big. I still believe that he would do better on Israel than anyone else. We can get into that debate on another time because it's not relevant anymore, okay? But you guys got what you wanted, and I love it. And I love it. And so this is a show of the people, by the people, for the people. So here are the facts that these guys are alluding to about why he's such a good prick. That might have been a Freudian slip, too.

But he is to the Republicans. I know you were channeling J.D. Vance there, Jen. Yeah, no, no. He's great at fighting Republicans. That's part of why I like him. So if he's a prick to them, that's awesome, okay? So we're going to get to that a little bit later in the show. So stay right here.

But look, right now, here's an amazing stat. When he was in Congress, he was ranked the seventh most bipartisan member of Congress. Now, normally that's a stat that would scare me because, oh, my God, is this some corporate, you know, uniparty guy who's like, hey, you want to do a deal on tax cuts for the rich? You got a deal, right? No, it turns out he actually found a way, and you earn that not just by sometimes voting with Republicans, but much more importantly, getting Republicans to vote with you, with the bills that you sponsored.

And he was great at that, okay? So while he was considered a moderate, and that's why Nancy Pelosi is among the people who pushed him the hardest, who pushed for him the hardest, he also managed to fight for higher minimum wage, lower drug prices through negotiating Medicare. This is a long time ago. He was right about it for so long, and he voted no on the bank bailouts. So he was a rare bird who was moderate in a slightly populist direction when populism barely existed, economic populism in this country.

So he's an interesting cat. He's got all sorts of medals from the armed forces, or he was a reserve from the National guard. He was the, he's the highest ranking member to ever serve in Congress that did not come in as an enlisted officer. And Mansion and AOC are thrilled with a pick. What? So you think this guy's going to be divisive? No, he has found a magical way to unite the party. I know why AOC's happy with him. The reason we're all happy with him, because he did incredible progressive of things in Minnesota, but the reason Manchin and Joe and Nancy Pelosi don't mind him is because he found a way to do it in a way that resonates with rural voters, Midwestern

voters, Appalachian voters, and he makes our economic populism look safe and popular because they are, and he actually gets the job done, because these are things he was theoretically in favor of. These are things he actually got passed in Minnesota when he was in charge. So this is a fantastic pick. Stop. Do you know how fast you were going? I'm going to have to write you a ticket to my new movie, The Naked Gun. Liam Nissan.

Buy your tickets now. I get a free Tilly Dog. Not included. The Naked God. Tickets on sale now. August 1st. It's also a likable one, Jenk. By all accounts, likeability was what convinced Kamala Harris there in the end.

But she simply clicked with him and is sort of more easygoing, earnest style in a way that she didn't really sort of click as well with Josh Shapiro, who came across is perhaps a little bit more intense, a little bit more of a showboat. But Jenka, since you mentioned it, let's go ahead and talk about the legislative success that Governor Walts has had in Minnesota, and let's start there. The list of accomplishments for this recent legislative session is impressive. Democrats codified abortion rights, paid family and medical leave, sick leave, transgender rights protections, driver's licenses for undocumented residents,

restoration of voting rights for people when they're released from prison or jail, wider voting access, and adopted background checks for private gun transfers, and a red flag warning system to take guns from people deemed by a judge to be a threat to themselves or others. And that's just a few of the things done this session. Yeah, Tim Walts has Governor Minnesota got a truly all-inspiring amount of legislation through. Granted, it's a mostly Democratic legislature so that held. But again, he was doing some things that weren't just sort of, you know, popular with Democrats. And if you look at some of the polling, there's a lot of things that are popular with Republicans as well.

So buckle in. Let's go through the list of things that he was able to accomplish. Abortion rights. In January of 2020, Wall signed a bill to codify the right to abortion and other reproductive health in the state. Per a July 2024 poll from the AP Nordic Center, 70% of adults feel abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This is up from 64% and an AP poll conducted in June 2023. How about paid leave? Well, in May of 2023, Wall signed a bill that gives Minnesotans up to 12 weeks a year of partial. paid leave to care for a newborn or a family member and up to 13 weeks, 12 weeks of sick leave for themselves. So how does this poll? Or an April 2020 poll from the National Partnership for Women and Families found that 75% of voters would support a national paid and family

and medical leave policy that covers all workers. A lot of people have heard about the free lunches, school meals, because of the photographs of Walls, when he was surrounded by children signing that bill. While in March of 2020, Wall signed a bill that authorized free school meals for every Minnesota student, regardless of income level. According to a 2019 U.Gov poll, a majority of U.S. adults say public schools should provide free lunch, 62% and free breakfast, 52%. I'm a legalized marijuana in May of 2023, Wallstranded bill that legalized recreational marijuana in Minnesota. According to an October 22 poll from the Pew Research Center,

59% of Americans say marijuana should be legal for medicinal and recreational purposes. Gun safety. In May of 2023, Wall signed a sweeping gun safety omnibus bill that created a red flag law and expanded background checks in the state. This is important because Walls had essentially been a Democrat that the NRA liked while he was in Congress, but he pivoted. He had a change of heart. And that change of heart is where the American people are. According to an October 2023 poll conducted by Gallup, 56% of voters say that laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict. Now, we don't have time to cover all of the Walls legislative accomplishments, but in brief, her a few that we have not yet mentioned.

Walls signed the nation's broadest right to repair law. He signed a lot of ban non-compete agreements and captive audience meetings along with other protections for workers. These are union bills that have not gotten through other states. He passed a law banning junk fees and a law mandating that the state moved to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. And again, it's not just, as Jenk, as you've been pointing out, it's not just that he got a lot accomplished. He got a lot accomplished that is very popular to a lot of people, not just Democrats. Yeah, 100%. So guys, two giant reasons to be excited by it.

Look at that list of accomplishments. And by the way, there's so many that mainstream media often forgets them. I often forget them. Child tax credit is in there, which is an intensely popular piece of legislation. And it's mentioned in only like 10% of the articles, because he's gotten so much done. People are forgetting the things he got done. Okay, so I think when the Republicans go to attack them, they're going to crash their ships on those rocks. And they're not going to be able to help themselves.

They're attacking him on the trans issue. Oh, my God, I can't believe he didn't, doesn't hate them as much as we do, et cetera, et cetera. They're attacking him on tampons and boys. through. Go ahead, run your campaign on tampons, you morons. Please, please. Here's more rope. You think that affects the great majority of Americans. People vote based on what affects them. Okay, so you can run that hateful campaign, but it ain't going to work. Oh, I can't believe he gave driver's license to undocumented immigrants. Yeah, okay, but the police and the firefighters and everyone else in Minnesota wanted them to do that. So now again, you're against the blue, et cetera.

lines of attack over, oh, he didn't send in the National Guard quickly enough during the George Floyd protests and some of the riots that broke out in Minnesota. So you're going to say he didn't send in the National Guard quickly enough, but Trump did on January 6? Oops. Okay, so that's a terrible argument. And he sent it in. So they're like, oh, well, you know, I You want to disagree over the timing. Good luck, that's how you're going to run your campaign. You're going to run your campaign on don't worry about what affects you and your reproductive rights and things that directly affect your life, wages, et cetera.

Instead, I want you to worry about the timing of the National Guard. When the Democrats were running on that strategy, I said it was a bad strategy. Now when the Republicans run on it, I stay principled. It's a bad strategy. And they say, can you believe he's letting convicted felons vote in Minnesota? Republicans, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself. Your candidate is a convicted felon. So you're basically saying, can you believe he would let a monster like Donald Trump

voted in his state? Obviously Donald Trump should be disqualified in Minnesota and shouldn't be able to vote for himself because the losers are convicted felon. I didn't say it. You knucklehead said it, right, if you're a Republican. So look, most importantly, guys, when you look at all, all of those accomplishments, the sheer quantity of them, the number of them shows you one giant thing.

And I think it's actually the most important thing. This brother's great at talking, but he's not all talk. He actually walks the walk. I mean, the reason why I felt an explosion of hope today all over the online community, progressive community, younger voters, et cetera, is for the first time in a long time. We have a Democrat who doesn't just talk, he walks. He doesn't just say, oh yeah, theoretically I'd like to do paid family leave.

I'm never going to, but theoretically I'd like to. No, he actually got it done. And then the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing, and he got them all done. He's an actual doer. Oh my God, imagine if we do that at the national level. Guys, I'm now so hopeful, I think not only can these guys win and will win, I think they might even pass some real loss that actually help our lives.

I know that sounds like too much to hope for in a place like America where corruption is so, you know, overwhelming. But somehow he got through that maze and passed all those bills that helps the average Minnesotan. So can he do it and can Kamala Harris do it? And Kamala Harris was the one wise enough to pick him and tough enough, bold enough to pick Can these two actually get this done at a national level? For the first time, in a long time, I think maybe they can.

And I'm a little afraid to hope that much, David, but that's where I am right now. The day for optimism, and to that point, Jack, in terms of governing, part of the ability of governing is being able to reach across the people who disagree with you, be likable enough and charming to say, hey, this isn't a Democratic or Republican issue. It's about providing to make sure that kids, that girls have tampons, so if they get their period in school, who could be against, who could be against, that? Who could be against making sure that the kids have the meals that they need? And he's able to frame this in such a way so that I think some Republicans don't feel

like this is an attack on them that they can get behind this and realize, well, Tim Walls says this isn't a partisan issue. And oh, by the way, a number of Republicans today have said the greatest thing about Tim Walts is not only is he likable, he's normal. He's a normal guy, he's not obnoxious. And I think that all helps. Yeah, 100%. They're gonna try to make him seem like a radical guy. But every time somebody sees, he was 24 years in the National Guard came in on, you know, as an enlisted guy, not an officer, was a football coach, a social studies teacher, and he wasn't like, oh, hey, like Pete Buttigieg, I can see him being like, oh, I spent a summer being a teacher somewhere, and hey, I get credit

for that. No, brother, he was a teacher for about 20 years and decided to go into politics late in his life and and then have this incredible run through Congress and now the governorship. And again, he doesn't talk, just talk a big game. He actually delivers. He passed those bills. You know how obsessed I am about, oh, it's all for the ego and I don't care about their stupid egos. And that's what drives me crazy about politics. I only thing I care about is, did you pass bills? Because that actually changes people's lives. And he did. it's hard to ask for better than this. All right, we're going to take.

We've got a lot, yeah, and just ahead, Jack, I mean, we're going to get a little bit more into some of the, some of the claims that Republicans, like the Trump campaign, what they're trying to say against them, and to your point, why they're not adding up and why they're probably going to fall flat, at least initially. Yep. All right, back on TYT, Jank and David with you guys. Also, Rye, Fly Guy and Hot Spurr 69, they just became members and American Heroes by signing up through t-y-t.com slash team. By the way, guys, we have Operation Joy today. I mean, how is that for perfect timing? That's for the members after the regular episode, you know, 6 to 8 o'clock. And at 8 o'clock Eastern, Yasmin Khan and I are going to do Operation Joy and talk about the things that give us joy.

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So it works out perfectly. Okay, David, we got more on the pick. And, Jen, the Trump vance flailing at Tim Walsh. And Kamala Harris, of course, has begun. Tim Walts' record is a joke. He's been one of the most far-left radicals. in the entire United States government at any level. But I think that what Tim Walts' selection says is that Kamala Harris has bent the need to the far left

of her party, which is what she always does. Kamala Harris listened to the Hamas wing of the party. Kamala Harris is running as a San Francisco liberal. She is governed as a San Francisco liberal, and she's chosen a running mate who will be a San Francisco style liberal. So there you have the Trump Vance campaign. They had long been hoping to try to peg Kamala. as an ultra-S San Francisco liberal, and now they're trying to do that by reinforcing the image that somehow Tim Walts is one of these sort of lefties from San Francisco.

We want to get into what Donald Trump is saying about all this in just a moment, but it's a pretty ironic that J.D. Vance, of all people, is going with the San Francisco liberal line, because Vance spent four years living in San Francisco himself between 2013 and 2017 as a venture capitalist. Meanwhile, here is Walls' connection to San Francisco. Last week was my first time in San Francisco and stayed down there. I was doing some meetings, woke up, did my five-mile run through the Presidio to the Golden Gate, went back to my hotel, was downtown, and I'm believing. And I'm like, that is the most beautiful city I've ever been in. It was exotic to me. I've seen San Francisco on TV, you know, hundreds of times and heard about it.

And there I am driving around it. And I'm like a kid again. I'm like, America is so awesome. So that was his first visit to San Francisco just the other week. But it hasn't stopped, of course, the Trump Vance campaign from dubbing Tim Walts as a coastal liberal elite. Now, in an email to supporters just after Kamala Harris's announcement, Donald Trump wrote, Tim Walts would be the worst VP in history, even worse than dangerously liberal and crooked. Kamala Harris, he's that bad.

He'll unleash hell on earth and open our borders to the worst criminals imaginable. He'll rubber stamp. Kamala's green news scam and light trillions of dollars in fire, but the real killer, he's already Hold in millions in only cash to buy the White House. Here's what the Trump campaign press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said today on Fox News. Watch. With this decision choosing Tim Walts, she has proven just how dangerously liberal she is. Tim Walts is one of the most far left governors in America.

Much like Kamala Harris, he supports wide open borders. He supports sanctuary cities in Minnesota. He signed a bill giving licenses to illegal immigrants. Tim Walts, like Kamala Harris, is soft on crime. If Americans want to know what a Harris-Waltz America would look like, look at the streets of Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, when they were literally burned to the ground. Look at the streets of San Francisco.

Their liberal utopia is every American's worst nightmare and will spend the next 92 days ensuring every American knows how radical the Harris-Waltz ticket is. There does seem to be a cognitive dissidents, though, coming from the Trump Republican campaign today, because on the one hand, it sounds like the Trump campaign and J.D. Vance are worried. That's why they're being so aggressive in calling Walls a liberal. But on the other hand, there are several Republicans are saying that they're thrilled that Connell Harris picked J.D. Vance. Former Trump aide Kaylee Mackin, and he said, she expected

there to be a lot of cheering at Mar-a-Lago over Tim Walls's selection. Minnesota Republican strategist Kevin Poindexter said of Walls before the announcement, Tim Walls doesn't even register on the fear omitter. Him joining the ticket as VP does not bring anything. Check your thoughts. Oh, I love how wrong they are. But they should please go 100 miles an hour right into that brick walls. Okay, I just came up with that mid sentence. Anyways, so look, let me break it down for you guys. First of all, I was just, this is just a fun comment to begin with. That JD Vance video, even the hostages they recruited for that video didn't seem happy about it. Okay, now on to real things. I was on Pierce Morgan.

this morning, and not that that's overly real, but you, I got to see what the conservative line of attack is. So Pierce Morgan is an interesting cat, and he is not purely conservative. He's all over the board in different policy issues, but he loves Donald Trump, and he framed it as, Tim, well, they've lost the election. Tim was is crazy, right? And then every conservative that was on the pound, they're like, oh, this is great. He doesn't even hate trans people, we're going to kill him. And then they started talking about the Algerian. boxer for like 20 minutes, even though she's not trans, nor does she have X, Y, chromosomes. It doesn't matter because they're obsessed and they're like, and there was

tampons in the school, tampons, I tell you, right? And I'm like, guys, keep going, keep going. Because this is not how you win an election. You win an election by talking to the average person talking to them about how you're going to help them in their lives. Hey, I'm going to stop wars. Make sure your son doesn't go and die in Iran. That would be amazing. Unfortunately, neither other parties there, but I'm gonna get you higher wages, I'm gonna get you better health care, I'm gonna get you paid family leave. These affect my day to day life, and it's not just on democratic issues. Hey, how high are your, is your mortgage because the interest rates are higher, how higher gas prices, milk prices, these are real issues. And you could have real conversations,

but the Republicans are going to attack in all the wrong ways. And they're gonna try to paint them as a radical left guy, but it's not gonna work. Number one, on a personal level, it's not gonna work, He was not only in the National Guard 24 years, he won the Nebraska Citizen Soldier Award one year. He has commendations from the armed forces. I lost track of how many, I think at least three. He's a football coach, a teacher, et cetera. And but most of all guys, when he talks, he sounds like a normal person. He sounds like a human being and not a robotic politician. So when they're like, oh wait, wait till you get a load of Tim Walls, exactly. And by the way, so far he's got on TV in these last couple of weeks.

And what's he done? He's absolutely mauled the Republicans. He's put him on the defensive every single time. And he's the one that came up with the line of attack about, hey, don't attack him based on like the identity politics basically that both sides go at. It's just called weird because they are. And he's totally right and it worked great. It was great framing. So in terms of is he a moderate or is he?

he radical left? No guys, first of all, the political spectrum is shattered to begin with. It's not left, right these days, nearly as much as it's establishment or populist. And he comes out on the populist end of things. So that winds up giving him a pretty bipartisan record in when he was in Congress. When he was a member of the House, he was the seventh most bipartisan person in the House according to two different rankings, okay? And that he got did that by getting a lot of Republicans to sign his bills, which is great when they come to you take yes for an answer. So as I told you a little bit earlier in the show, even though he was considered very moderate and that's why Joe Manchin likes him, holy cow, how did he pull that off while

passing the most progressive bills anybody's ever seen? Well, I have the bills that he passed in Minnesota are Bill's Mansion personally killed at the national level. But still he somehow got Manchin to like him. He got Nancy Pelosi to fight for a progressive. If that's not If that's not a magician, I don't know what is. But if you, when I, but I looked at his voting record because I was like, yeah, but if this guy's going to be a corporate tool, I don't care about any of that. But the things he fought for, anti-bank bailouts, wonderfully populist, higher minimum wage, economic populism, lower drug prices so Medicare can negotiate drug prices

on your behalf and lower them dramatically. And he was doing that over a decade ago before it got popular. And even before at the same time as Bernie, let's put it that way, before Bernie got huge. So this guy's been an economic populist all along. And he was a regular guy. He got into politics in his 40s. So they're going to crash their ships on those rocks or those walls, if you will. Build those walls.

Build out walls. We'll come up with a good champ. And on police reform, they're like, ah, yeah, he's soft that crime. Well, I looked into that as well. He did a police reform bill. You know, you've heard me say this because our position here at TYT is nuanced. And so, in fact, I did this random, maybe last week or the week before about what we asked for, we didn't ask to defund the police. We didn't ask to move felonies to misdemeanors.

What we asked for is fix the police training. Now you want to guess what Tim Walts did in Minnesota? He fixed the police training. He took away warrior training programs, taught de-escalation, that doesn't mean you don't do policing. It just means you don't have to kick everyone's ass for no reason at all and get into these things. And obviously, Chauvin and George Floyd happened in Minnesota, and they prosecuted Chauvin. Last thing, guys, it's the reason why people from different walks of life and different parts of the political spectrum like him is because at the same time, he also asked for adult prosecution of someone who had killed a person.

Now, a lot of people on the left might not like that. And in fact, he had to overrule a local prosecutor to do that. But a lot of people in the community did like that. And he gained him a lot of bipartisan credentials. He also said that they should not prosecute a cop who shot a black citizen. Not because the cop was white or the citizen was black. Of course not. He's actually been great on all the, again, police issues, racial issues.

etc. He did that because he thought it's not right. We don't have the right guy here. So look, that's a complicated case. And we'll talk about the details of that probably one day. But my point overall is he finds a way to get progressive policies passed while being very popular with all parts of the political spectrum. I just don't see how you could ask for any better. John, one thing that came up late this afternoon that wanted to ask you about in terms of Republican attacks and that there was a trending hashtag of stolen valor. And it sort of falls into two categories. First, there were some Republicans who joking about, well, he really wasn't such a successful football coach, because even though he took his high school team from 0 and 27 to the state

championship within three years, it was Minnesota, wasn't Ohio or Georgia, Florida, where they have NFL prospects. But the more serious part of stolen valor is that there's some Republicans Jenko are attacking him because he had the opportunity after 24 years of being in the army reserves to stay with his unit another two years and go to Iraq. And he chose not to stay with the unit and run for Congress. And there's some Republicans who say, oh, therefore, he doesn't deserve this military record that everybody's praising him for. What do you make of that? That's what I make of it. You're telling me this brother was 27 years of the National Guard, but you thought he should have been 29 years. All right. Yeah, that's that he should have gone to

Iraq with his unit somehow. Okay, so listen, have at it, Haas, because that opens the door to all the Republicans who are chicken hawks, who never went to a goddamn place. They didn't spend 27 minutes in the military. And how about Donald Trump? Commander Bonespurs is going to make this argument? Oh, this brother was only in the National Guard for 27 years. He only has three medals. He only was a citizen soldier of Nebraska. You're going to make that argument? Oh, please make that And the thing is, Tim Walls is so good at framing and debates that he's going to mall these guys with that stuff. I mean, because a normal Democrat, guys, this is another reason why I'm so excited today. A normal Democrat would have this incredible military record that he has, would go up against Commander Bonespurs who ran out from Vietnam and wouldn't mention it.

And I would tear out all my hair. Why don't you attack? It sits right there. It's a layup, right? But Tim Walls attacks. He goes on the offense and he stays there. So this is a great pick. The Republicans were like,

we're going to get the pit of his radical left. Oh, you're going to run right into that brick walls. I'm telling you, it's going to be great to watch. I'm going to right here on the Young Turks, Monday through Friday, 6.8 p.m. Eastern, we're going to show you that slow motion train wreck day after day after day. And finally, you know, you mentioned something there that I forgot. This guy's record is so great. I keep forgetting parts of it.

David, I forgot that he took an winless team and brought them to the state championship in three years. You know what that means? And I'm a sports fan. And I look, I don't say this lightly and I mean it with all my heart. That means the brother's a winner, okay? Because winning in football is not easy. It requires leadership and strategy. You're not going to just, and by the way, also true of all the other sports.

Great coaches are great managers. So the fact that he did that, oh my God. Look, our members are writing in, we haven't been this excited since 2015, 2016, Bernie Sanders. So I think the Republicans are, they better be careful what they wish for. because if they wished for them, they got them, and I guarantee you they're going to regret it. And they're also not going to be happy facing off against him in a debate when it's J.D. Vance, because we're going to underscore that just ahead by replaying, as Jen pointed out, how is he so good at framing things? We'll dissect that just ahead.

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And the crazy guy that I am, what did I tell you? We're going to create hope out of no hope. And here we are. Filled to the room with hope. How in the world did that happen? I thought it was impossible. Turns out it was inevitable. All right, David, what's next?

Jenk, whether you call Tim Walts the happy warrior or the charming bulldog, by all accounts across the political spectrum, he has lightning in a bottle when it comes to being on TV. these are these are weird people on the other side they want to take books away they want to be in your exam room that's that's what it comes down to and don't you know get sugar coding this these are weird ideas listen to them speak list now they talk about things listen to how your previous guests were right like you said they've told them that they shouldn't talk about race they can't help it Democrats have embraced the moniker of tagging republicans with weird as

opposed to a threat to democracy which wasn't registering that well with a lot of moderate in independent voters, but all you have to do to look up and see that the debt that the Republicans are weird is to watch Donald Trump talking about Hannibal Lectern or J.D. Vance talking about Mountain Dew. Well, clearly the weird moniker is getting under the skin of Maga Republicans. And Waltz has proven that he's not afraid to be on the offense and doesn't hold back his opinions of Magna Republicans, which many, a lot of us on the left have seen as a sort of a breath of fresh air and a burst of energy that has allowed the party to inspire Kamala Harris, do even better in this race.

And again, here's another clip of Tim Walts. Why do you think weird is a more effective attack line against Trump than what Democrats have been done previously, which has argued that he's, he's an existential threat to democracy? Yeah, and it's an observation on this. And I, you know, being a school teacher, I see a lot of things. But my point on this was is people kept talking about, look, Donald Trump is going to put women's lives at risk. That's 100% true. true. Donald Trump is potentially going to end constitutional liberties that we have in voting.

I do believe all those things are a real possibility, but it gives him way too much power. Listen to the guy. He's talking about Hannibal Lecter and shocking sharks and just whatever crazy thing pops into his mind. And I thought we just give him way too much credit. And I think one of the things is, is when you just ratchet down some of the, you know, the scariness or whatever and just name it what it is, I got to tell you, my observation on this Have you ever seen the guy laugh? That seems very weird to me that an adult can go through six and a half years of being in the public eye. If he has laughed, it's at someone, not with someone.

That is weird behavior. And I don't think you call it anything else. It is simply what we're observing. There's an articulation and a cadence and an energy to what he's saying that is also helpful. But again, let's go by the word weird and go by the numbers here. According to the Camel HQ account, which is the official campaign website on X, the campaign has used the word they are weird to describe Trump advance 14 times since July the 23rd, while the Democratic won't pack down super PAC released a political ad themed around calling conservatives weird on Monday. That is over 12 million views on X in the YouTube channel combined. Republicans have tried to hit back at walls and the Harris campaign for using the term, including rep Matt Gates and Vivek Ramaswamy. Florida, Matt Gates also shared a video next of Walls calling the Republican nominees weird with the caption, the party of gender blockers and drag shows for kids is calling us weird.

Okay, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Brahmusomi posted an ex calling the argument from Democrats, dumb and juvenile. And while the right cries and tries to turn it back on Democrats, Walls is not phased. He says, they can label me whatever they want. If it means kids are They're not going hungry at school and women can make their own health care decisions. Well, this clearly seems like a smart move of attack and including even some conservatives are acknowledging this. Matt Walsh tweeted last week, casting your opposition as cringe, lame, and weird is an effective strategy. It's visceral. It moves people. The dams are evil, but not stupid. I hope Republicans have the nerve to fight like that. It is the only way fire with fire,

it's going to get ugly. Right now, Jank, I would say right now it's sort of ugly for the Republicans because I haven't seen a counter punch, despite Donald Trump being the ultimate counterpuncher, I haven't seen him land a blow that has been effective in response. Yeah, look, this guy's amazing. We've asked for a fighter on our side for as long as Young Turks has been around, 22 years. We've been looking for a fighter, and sometimes we'll get excited. Oh, maybe it's Howard Dean. I remember Alan Grayson back in the day, right?

Bernie Sanders. But Bernie Sanders was great, but he wasn't really a fighter. And so if Bernie Sanders was a fighter, I think he could have won. And this guy's got the policies of Bernie Sanders, passed them in Minnesota, has the same kind of populace field, but he's less cranky, more likable, more rural, more Midwestern, and most importantly, more of a fighter. So when the Republicans try to punch him, he dodges and levels them, right? He's a football coach.

He's like, you're not going to tackle me. I'm going to tackle you. And anyone who watches this show knows, I've been dying for this. I've been waiting for this entire time we've been doing this show. So watching him perform like this is just a dream. I think he's going to annihilate J.D. Vance in the debates. And I think he's just going to, he's going to Muhammad Ali them the rest of the campaign. I look, I'm getting to a point where I'm saying things that are too.

Two grand, and I'm worried, like, but I, having seen him in action, I would be super surprised if all of a sudden he turned around and became a lame Democrat who doesn't fight back for civility. Oh, on civility. It's about time someone punched them in the face. And so- And I would say, Jack, it's not just about the single punches. I mean, there's a whole sort of strategy. There's a thought process that he has in terms of the overall argument. Here he is going after J.D. Vance on family values. Watch. So let's say you're on a debate stage with, say, J.D. Vance, and he accuses you of being a big government liberal who's attacking our families, making life worse for our families, doesn't share our values, doesn't care about families like yours.

What do you say to him? Yeah, first of all, it was up to him. I wouldn't have a family because of IBF and the things that we need to do reproductive. My kids were born through that direct, you know, that way. And also I make sure that I'm the guys and our folks are investing in prenatal care. We're the ones that are there for universal pre-K. We're the ones that providing school meals at this. I'm not going to back down one bit on this whole family values thing and it's us. That construct that he's putting out there is absolutely untrue. We're making it more affordable to have children by having paid family medical leave so that you can go home when your kids are sick and take care of them. Or if you're a dad, I don't have

to go right back to work five days later after my wife had a C-section because our insurance wouldn't pay for it. We're boosting those things up. There's nothing pro-family other than having women be incubators for their vision of this. Once again, it's weird. I don't want J.D. Vance talking about my family. I certainly don't want him talking about my daughter or my wife. It's none of his damn business. Where is J.D. Vance's pro-famil. He's forcing people to have not be able to have medical care if they have a bad pregnancy or something. We need to stand in front of that. And again, you don't need me to give a sermon, but try and live one. Try and be decent. Try and help your neighbors, trying to invest in those kids. The traditional role of a running mate is to be the attack dog

who essentially delivers the punches at the top of the other side of the ticket. And a little bit of reporting here, the Harris campaign insiders are now saying that one of the clips that essentially went viral early on about two weeks ago on MSNBC was also one of the clips that caught Kamala Harris's attention as, oh, not only is this guy likable, but he can frame this and deliver this message in a very effective way. And this was the clip where you have Tim Walls talking about J.D. Vance and J.D. Vance's claims that Democrats are forgetting about small town America. Watch. What I know is, is that people like J.D. Vance know nothing about small town America. Look, I grew up in a town of 400 people, 24 kids in my graduating

class, 12 were cousins. The things that make small towns work are good public schools, things that work about being good to your neighbors and helping out. And the golden rule of a small town mind your own damn business. He wants to be in our exam rooms. They want to come and try and tell us they want to privatize our public schools. You think you're going to find a private school in the town of 400? These are absolute policies. His robber barren mentality as a venture capitalist gutted middle America. My dad dies when my little brother's young. We're teenagers. We get Social Security survivor benefits. I'm all for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. We didn't have any boots. Social security was the boots and we pulled ourselves up and we paid that back. And I think J.D. Vance gets none of that.

You know, it's the aw shucks. I'm from here or whatever. So my hillbilly cousins did not go to Yale, but I'll tell you what they did. They contributed to our community and they're proud of it. What a contrast. And Jack, I see even his ability to think on his feet and talk on his feet, even when he doesn't know what's coming, is really impressive. There's another word for that. It's called smart. It's a pleasure to see.

And to your main point, David. He's strategic. He knows how to frame things in a way that is, that appeals to the average guy. As I was watching those clips, I was thinking, body blow, body blow, upper cut, okay? This guy's killing him, that family values clip. That was perfect, picture perfect.

And then a Deadpool came to mind. And I started singing as I was watching the clips, bye, bye, bye. There you go, Trump advance. Off you go, off you go. This guy's gonna crush you guys. So I know I'm not being over exuberant. Here, let me, now I'm going to read a Trump statement that I was going to read to you later in the show in a different story.

But I'm going to read it now, he just wrote this on truth social, because I want you to now compare Tim Walls you just saw with your own eyes, speaking like a real American, like a normal guy, and connecting with people about their families, small towns, et cetera, right? Now I'm going to read your Trump statement and you tell me who's a giant weirdo who has no chance of winning this race. Okay, what are the chances that crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the U.S., whose presidency was unconstitutionally stolen from him by Kamabla, Barack Hussein Obama, crazy Nancy Pelosi, shifty Adam Schiff, crying Chuck Schumer, and others on the lunatic left, crashes the Democratic National Convention and tries to take back the nomination, beginning with challenging me to another debate? He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. presidency, a coup to the people in the world he most hates, and he wants it back now. What on God's green earth are you talking about? Are you trying to come up with a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden is going to come back

and try to take it from Kamala Harris and Tim Walls? What kind of a lunatic says things like that? That is so far detached from reality. Look, Maga, I don't know what world you live in and what alternate, what, you know, part of the multiverse you're in. But for the rest of us, especially independence, what's he talking about? This guy's totally deranged. And why capitalize Hussein? So we're going back to the Muslim stuff?

Why misspell her name, Kamabla Harris? Are you like trying some weirdo racial attack? Why do you have to further racialize her name? it's not a misspelling. He's now done it a bunch of times. Or maybe he started as a misspelling, but he went cofefe with it and was like, oh yeah, I meant it, yeah. But it's clearly some weirdo, weirdo, racial thing. I don't know what else it could be. So look, I said from day one that Biden was too old and Trump was too crazy. I'm right about both. And so that level of crazy ain't going to beat a team like Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. So I now have them as

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Sometimes the news is a way of intruding, of course, on presidential campaigns, even with 90 days. I want to bring everybody up to date and what's been going on in the Middle East. In the Middle East, the war of words is intensifying between Israel and Iran, and preparations for a military conflict are growing. Here's the headline from the Times of Israel. Russia said to be delivering advanced air defenses to Iran as Tehran touts ties. The development came with the Middle East on edge as the expectation of a direct Iranian attack on Israel's revenge for Israel's alleged assassination of a mosque political leader,

Ismail Haniyah in Tehran on July the 31st. Iran says Israel must be punished for Haniyah's assassination. and has vowed to take action, raising worries that its responses could bring the rest of Middle East closer to all-out war. Iranian proxy group, Hezbollah has also threatened to hit Israel from Lebanon following the assassination of its military leader, Fouk Shakur, in an attack near Beir, last week, which was claimed by Israel. Today, during the funeral of that Hezbollah leader, Fouk Shakur, which was attended by other Hezbollah leaders who were alive, Israeli military warplanes deliberately flew low over Beirut, creating massive sonic booms. which scared the hell out of a lot of people. Watch. The Israeli message about its military reach and firepower seemed clear. One of the Hezbollah leaders who was at that funeral called the Israeli tactics juvenile.

Iran though is also sending messages as open source intelligence defender posted on X. Since this weekend, U.S. intelligence officials have observed the Iranian armed forces conducting military drills as well as the movement of Iranian transporter erector launcher's tails armed with missiles around the country, indicating preparations for an attack against Israel. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Iran has told Arab diplomats that it doesn't care if the Iranian response leads to full-fledged war with Israel. However, the Biden administration through backchannels has reportedly been trying to convince Iran that Israel's Netanyahu, who wants this war and that Iran should not take the bait. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the US asked European and other partner of governments to convey a message to Iran not to escalate, warning that any significant strike would draw response and signaling that efforts by Iran's new president to improve engagement with

the West would have a better chance if Iran shows restraint. Adding to the idea that Israel will not be restrained in its response to Iran, an Israeli writer with ties to the Netanyahu government posted on X, Israel has passed on a message to Tehran via a European country. Any attack in Israeli civilians will result in an immediate and complete destruction of all of Iran's nuclear facilities. Not sure why we're waiting for them to attack. Yes, there are some supporters of the hardline right-wing government led by Netanyahu who think that there should be some sort of preemptive strike by Israel against Iran. But at the same time, polls show that nearly half of the Israeli population opposes this

Netanyahu feels that his actions towards Iran have been recklessly provocative and also oppose how Netanyahu has led the war in Gaza. Here's the report from CBS. Israeli police clash with protesters in Tel Aviv where not even the threat of an Iranian attack could keep them off the streets. They accuse their prime minister of choosing escalation over a hostage deal. But Netanyahu remains defiant. And says former Israeli diplomat, Alon Pinkus, increasingly at odds with the U.S. He's gone completely rogue, meaning untethered from reality, intent on igniting a regional war, defying the military, defying President Biden. In other words, you have Israeli diplomats and perhaps even the Biden administration signaling to European allies and hopefully to Iran,

that they believe that Netanyahu is a madman. that the Netanyahu response to any Iranian attack could be, well, it could be extreme. Some diplomats, according to multiple reports, believe that this has caused Iran to pause the attack that was expected to have already happened by now. Now, in April, you may remember that Iran launched cruise missiles and drones at Israel in response to Israel killing to Iranian generals in Syria who were helping a terror proxy group there. This time, the Iranian response is expected to be more of a surprise and longer lasting perhaps in waves over several days. And as Iran attacks, if in fact it does attack, the question then

becomes, what will Israel do in response? Jack? Yeah, so this is on a day that is super hopeful, a super dark spot. And relating into domestic politics for a second, this is the one thing that could cost the Democrats the election. So I'll come back to that in a second. First, Netanyahu's lunatic government. So they say, okay, Well, we assassinated a top leader in the middle of Tehran. We bombed Beirut and killed the top Iranian general and a Hezbollah leader. They killed two Iranian generals earlier, actually. So we get to kill you everywhere.

We get to bomb any capital we want. We get to start any wars we like. But if you kill, if Iran counters, how dare you? Remember, we're the boss of you. We could violate your sovereignty, humiliate you in front of your. population and in the world and you don't get to respond. And if you do and you kill one civilian, their munitions are not that precise at all.

There's no counter attack that wouldn't kill a civilian, unless they completely missed. If you kill one civilian, we're gonna do a full assault and an invasion of Iran. Well, okay, well, if you're a goddamn lunatic, there's nothing I could do to help you. And so that is a disastrous war. America should have no part in it,

but the reality, you know what Washington's like. So Kamala Harris is going to be an an impossible situation where they, if she doesn't back Israel 100% when Iran is launching bombs at Israel, everyone on TV, everyone in the media, everyone in politics will say, oh, this is outrageous, outrageous, poor, poor, poor Israel has to be defended. Of course we should be in the middle of a giant war in the Middle East. We should try to help Netanyahu start World War III. No, no. The reality is it's not impossible. Biden, team could do it right now. What they could do is instead of going to a run, oh, please don't attack.

You know, then yeah who's actually a madman. Okay, if he's a madman, then why do we just give him $26 billion? What's wrong with us? Why would we give a raging lunatic warmonger $26 billion to start these stupid wars? Okay, how about this? Well, how about the administration says, that's it. You do one more goddamn bombing of a foreign country, and we cut all funding to Israel. Oh, no, you can't do that, then our ally couldn't get us into World War III. Yes, exactly. Does Kamala Harris have the courage to do that? I doubt it.

If she does, she would win the election. But if she doesn't, then that albatross is going to go right around everybody's neck on the Democratic Party and it's going to drag them down to the abyss. And then Netanyahu is going to laugh his ass off. He's going to get a bigger warmonger Donald Trump in. And together, they're going to start, God knows what. And meanwhile, the evangelical Christians in America will be like, yes, Armageddon starting. By the way, while Donald Trump is still pretending to be anti-war, so why don't you stick him with the war?

Have him attack and go, she's not supporting Israel enough. We should be in the middle of a giant war in the Middle East. Let Trump make that case. Then we win. And Israel, look, the only way that you help Israel and you save Israel is to get this loonium. to take out, starting a giant war where Israel is fighting all of not just Arab countries. Now Iran's not even Arab, they're Persian. Now the prime minister, the president of Turkey is talking about, look man, if you start a war,

I'm not just gonna sit around here and let you slaughter all the Muslims in the area. Now they're gonna drag it a NATO ally against them. Now, did they're, yeah, I believe the American officials, Nanjahu is actually, like literally a lunatic. Stop giving him a blank check. You're not helping Israel, let alone the world. You're enabling a madman that is obviously wrong, but I know. On the other hand, APEC. And enabling a madman who, by the way, no country replaces their leader at the start of a war.

It just doesn't happen. So Netanyahu's power only grows if, in fact, there is a prolonged war with Iran. But the reason for being optimistic on this day, Jack, is that, as I mentioned, polls show that half of the Israeli population does not like Netanyahu and feels like some of them feel that he's a war criminal. And there's been some terrific reporting that's been done that shows that the tensions that Netanyahu has had with Biden, who has privately expressed exasperation with these attacks, reflect the same argument that Netanyahu has heard from his own military commanders who say, taking out these terrorist leaders. Yes, we want to do it. But doing it in Tehran, Doing it in Beirut, doing it in Damascus, that's needlessly provocative, and we shouldn't do it. But Netanyahu has wanted to do it anyway. Get Netanyahu out. Israel, you've got to act. Look, the Israeli population, you've got to find a way to call this election through your leaders, obviously. But if you don't find a way to call this election and get Netanyahu out, you are declaring to the world.

We love war. We definitely started this war. Don't talk to me about October 7th. That was 10 months ago. Israel bombed the capitals of Syria, Iran, and Lebanon. That's starting a giant war in the Middle East, let alone the fact that you've been doing the occupation for 57 years. If you're this vaunted democracy I hear about, well, get a control of your lunatic leaners and vote them out. If you don't, don't come crying to America and say, oh, well, we started a giant war. Why don't you fight it for us?

I hope to God our politicians one day gather up to courage to say, hell no, you go fight your own goddamn war. You want to start a war? That's your goddamn business, not my business. All right, we got to go. David, thank you. We appreciate it. We got more on the Tim Wall selection.

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