Based Camp - Kamala Harris' Background： Is She Right of Trump？

00:00:00.000 And every single instance, I thought the meme-ified version of the scandal was like exaggerating things.

00:00:05.840 A great example to start is the accusation that Harris kept people in prison to use as chief laborers.

00:00:13.180 I thought what they must mean is she didn't let some people out of prison and the state probably had a policy at the same time of using the people as laborers.

00:00:22.480 There is no way she went on record and said,

00:00:25.700 And I'm supposed to release this person, but we need chief labor right now. 1.00

00:00:34.400 Now, I heard some allegations that she slept her way to her position. 1.00

00:00:40.120 My assumption about these allegations was maybe she had a relationship with someone else in her department.

00:00:47.220 There's no way, there's no way someone who she was sleeping with is on record saying I gave her a job because she was sleeping with me. 0.95

00:00:59.680 There's no way that this person had an age gap with her.

00:01:05.480 Now, age gaps are considered quite hot by quite a few people.

00:01:09.860 I don't think you'd find this one hot.

00:01:12.940 Harris dated Willie Brown when she was in her 20s and he was 60.

00:01:19.080 Surely she didn't provide cover for police who fatally shot people in questionable circumstances.

00:01:27.360 Okay, what about corruption?

00:01:29.240 Conflict of interest matters when you aren't the only body that can investigate them.

00:01:33.940 You don't just get to say they get to do whatever they want because they're your friend.

00:01:37.800 That is wild.

00:01:40.220 I will post a picture here of Kamala Harris's face made up of pictures of black people she kept in jail knowing they were innocent. 0.64

00:01:48.820 She did this to thousands of black people and she did it to secure the endorsement of the police union to win an election. 0.83

00:01:58.420 If you wonder, is this the type of person who would put me and my family in jail to win an election?

00:02:04.440 No, but genuinely, if you are worried about our democracy, like for people who are like, I am worried about the health of the democracy, you should be terrified of this candidate.

00:02:15.380 Would you like to know more?

00:02:16.780 Hello, Simone. 0.69

00:02:18.140 I am excited to be here with you today.

00:02:20.500 The Writers of the America Show have been doing a great job recently because I'm loving these twists.

00:02:27.420 Kamala Harris, something really insane happened.

00:02:31.280 So for people who don't know American politics or what's going on right now, just a little recap.

00:02:37.100 The person running against Donald Trump, Joe Biden, it turned out in a debate that he seemed to basically be comatose.

00:02:45.800 Like he did not seem like a fully mentally functioning person.

00:02:49.160 And it became very clear that our government is now run by the deep state.

00:02:54.700 I love it.

00:02:55.300 The last election cycle, deep state is a myth.

00:02:57.640 Now it's, well, yes, Biden may not be able to think clearly, but everything's operating fine without him.

00:03:03.320 So you really should vote for him, shouldn't you?

00:03:06.100 I feel like it's more than that.

00:03:08.160 It's even like, but isn't it nice that the deep state's running?

00:03:11.500 I mean, like politicians, who likes them anyway?

00:03:14.240 We literally nearly had an election cycle where it was Trump versus the deep state, because obviously Biden's not running anything.

00:03:21.820 So he got a lot of pressure from Dems to drop out.

00:03:28.880 Interestingly, not from Kamala.

00:03:30.380 She stayed very loyal in this respect to the end, saying that he shouldn't drop out and that the deep state had everything handled, basically.

00:03:37.900 It was very savvy on her part.

00:03:40.280 And then he said recently, OK, I am dropping out and Kamala is the presumptive dominee. 0.97

00:03:46.520 Well, this is interesting because it wasn't what I thought would happen.

00:03:52.700 In fact, I thought it was the least likely thing to happen because it seems like it's literally the only thing that could have happened that was worse than Biden staying at the top of the ticket.

00:04:03.400 What I suspected would happen is they would have some sort of election cycle at the convention or some sort of write-in thing, and they would choose another candidate.

00:04:12.360 But we need to talk about why I didn't expect anyone to give Kamala Harris this.

00:04:18.600 OK.

00:04:18.860 Because in broad terms, you know, when BLM was marching on the streets, right, the human manifestation of every complaint they had is Kamala Harris. 0.61

00:04:38.180 She is a human manifestation of all of the complaints of the BLM movement.

00:04:46.140 Well, and Malcolm is saying this because prior to becoming a senator, prior to becoming vice president, Kamala Harris was a district attorney in California.

00:04:54.620 And we'll be talking about her record in this.

00:04:56.120 Yeah.

00:04:56.460 And, you know, a district attorney, their job to a great extent is to put away criminals.

00:05:01.980 Well, I think that you're, like, you have said this to me earlier today and is just wrong.

00:05:09.160 Like, you don't think that woke district attorneys exist, and they do.

00:05:12.940 Yeah.

00:05:13.300 No, and there was even one in Southern California that was so egregious in not putting away criminals and sort of just letting them out that, you know, they ultimately were removed.

00:05:21.560 Yeah.

00:05:21.860 So it's not the problem that she was a district attorney.

00:05:24.700 The problem is she was an authoritarian district attorney. 1.00

00:05:27.820 Like, her politics, and I think this is really interesting, and we mentioned it in a previous episode, are the Democratic Party right now is made up of a few aligned factions, and we'll do an episode on this.

00:05:40.180 One of the factions is big business.

00:05:42.460 They moved from the Republican side to the Democratic side, as well as intergenerational wealth, which now is, like, straight up incredibly left-leaning.

00:05:50.920 Another side is the urban monocultural faction.

00:05:54.040 These are people who are primarily dominated by this, like, cult, basically, that exists now and is seen in things like wokeism and DEI and stuff like that.

00:06:05.720 Kamala Harris is in neither of these factions.

00:06:08.320 She's in the third Democratic faction, which I call the authoritarian faction, which is primarily driven by the belief that society can be fixed by strict government control, either by police forces or by military.

00:06:24.080 Which she has shown through her actions, which we'll go over.

00:06:28.240 But I would say this is notable because it's otherwise very difficult to even get a picture of what Kamala Harris thinks or believes.

00:06:35.220 She's kind of famous for non-statement statements and also for demonstrating whatever is the most politically in vogue amongst Democrats at the time.

00:06:44.780 So the interesting analysis that Malcolm has done recently and what I think is going to be most interesting about this conversation is what, through Kamala Harris's actions, the few times she has sort of done something, it's irrevocably like taking a stand on something.

00:06:57.900 What that actually reveals about her true beliefs?

00:07:00.340 Because it can be very hard to center in on what they are.

00:07:03.180 And I have, well, I don't think it's hard when you look at her actions.

00:07:07.040 She is completely authoritarian minded.

00:07:09.640 I've looked, I know, but I've looked through the coverage of her, discussion of her from both her proponents and her detractors.

00:07:16.500 And there is very little discussion of her actual track record.

00:07:20.440 So I'm glad you're doing this.

00:07:21.380 Well, and this has also been interesting for me.

00:07:23.380 And I think that there, before we get into this, the progressive media is making a huge fundamental misstep here.

00:07:29.820 Wynne retired and said, Kamala Harris is who I am backing.

00:07:34.440 You know, you look at your Rachel Maddows and I'll do some stuff here.

00:07:36.980 I'll call it like Kamala Harris derangement syndrome.

00:07:39.140 With President Biden voicing a strong and unequivocal endorsement of his vice president, Kamala Harris, with Vice President Harris confirming immediately that she is running, saying we have 107 days until Election Day.

00:07:53.560 Together we will fight and together we will win with no resulting ambiguity about who will be the Democratic Party's nominee.

00:08:00.700 The little scratchy, papery sound you're hearing in the distance, that's every Democratic donor in the country writing the biggest check they have ever written in American politics.

00:08:11.980 Where they all just went over how amazing Kamala Harris is as a candidate. 0.87

00:08:17.480 This is a mistake.

00:08:19.380 They should not be doing this.

00:08:21.600 We actually earlier today in the episode, we'll go live later.

00:08:24.380 We're doing an episode with Maxim Lott, who runs a lot of the betting odds websites.

00:08:28.040 The betting odds right here now give her a third probability to win against Trump, while most other Democrats actually are like 63% or 65% probability to win.

00:08:38.460 Yes, they don't win in the mainstream polls, but that's just because of name recognition.

00:08:43.140 The bettors, which are typically more accurate, say that they have a dramatically higher chance of winning.

00:08:48.520 And so now we need to talk specifically about why she has such a low probability of winning in her actual record.

00:08:55.760 Because the interesting thing about the authoritarian faction of the progressive party is among the progressive elite, and we hang out with these groups and stuff like that, it's a faction that is politically palatable to them, the big business types and stuff like that.

00:09:14.300 It is politically toxic to the base.

00:09:17.460 The democratic base, like any with any numbers, hate the authoritarian side of the party.

00:09:24.020 And the authoritarian side exists only because a portion of the party has basically grown up living in the bureaucratic governing system.

00:09:33.880 And their views are not built around designing to appealing to the base, but rather the mindset of somebody who's been a lifelong bureaucrat and thinks the bureaucracy knows what's best.

00:09:43.680 And when I say best, well, in sort of horrifying ways.

00:09:47.880 So I'm going to go over a few sort of AI responses on issues because I've been going into AI to sort of get good summaries of various scandals that I happen to know she was involved in.

00:09:57.920 And they, in every single instance, I thought the memefied version of the scandal was like exaggerating things.

00:10:04.420 And typically the memefied version was more bad than I thought.

00:10:08.680 So a great example to start is the accusation that Harris kept people in prison to use as cheap laborers.

00:10:17.380 I thought, well, what they must mean is she didn't let some people out of prison and the state probably had a policy at the same time of using the people as laborers.

00:10:27.380 There is no way she went on record and said,

00:10:30.620 I, I'm supposed to release this person, but we need cheap labor right now. 0.97

00:10:40.160 But here's the thing.

00:10:41.960 Okay.

00:10:42.880 Let's go over this.

00:10:44.140 The accusation that Kamala Harris used prisoners for labor primarily referred to actions taken by her office while she was attorney general of California. 0.51

00:10:53.240 Specifically in 2014, lawyers under her oversight argued against the early release of nonviolent inmates, citing the need to maintain a cheap labor force for the state's prison work programs, including those that helped fight wildfires.

00:11:10.880 Background details, prison overcrowding and Supreme Court ruling.

00:11:14.820 In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled that California's prison overcrowding violated the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

00:11:24.400 Oh, my God.

00:11:25.400 The state was ordered to reduce its prison population, leading to a series of legal and administrative measures to comply with this ruling.

00:11:34.460 Arguments against early release.

00:11:36.080 In 2014, as part of the effort to address overcrowding, a three-judge panel ordered California to make nonviolent prisoners with only two felonies eligible for parole if they had served half their sentences.

00:11:48.700 Okay.

00:11:48.940 So a panel of judges goes to her, says, this is cruel and unusual punishment by the U.S.

00:11:57.360 And this was the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:11:58.920 It's not like activist judges or something like that.

00:12:01.300 Yeah.

00:12:01.620 This was backed up by the Supreme Court and then another court.

00:12:04.420 Your prison system is cruel and unusual punishment.

00:12:08.800 And then Kamala goes, lawyers from Harris's office argued against this order, stating that releasing these inmates would negatively impact the prison labor programs, particularly the fire camp program, essential for combating wildfires during a severe drought.

00:12:29.660 Okay.

00:12:30.940 So.

00:12:31.420 Holy, so you see what I mean when I say an authoritarian mindset.

00:12:35.800 This is not normal Democrat or normal progressive or normal urban monoculture.

00:12:42.940 In a way, I have to admire her parallel, what's the word I'm thinking about, lateral thinking here.

00:12:49.780 Someone's got to get the work done.

00:12:51.300 Someone's got to put out those fires, Malcolm.

00:12:53.280 The Supreme Court says this is cruel and unusual punishment.

00:12:56.420 Another court says you have to release these inmates.

00:12:58.820 This is a presidential candidate who gets things done.

00:13:01.760 Thank you very much.

00:13:02.840 She gets things done.

00:13:03.860 She's got a resource on hand.

00:13:05.880 People, I mean, you know, we want, you know, Trump says he'll be dictator for a day.

00:13:09.700 Kamala has proven that she can be.

00:13:11.720 She's got it in her.

00:13:12.620 She's willing to be dictator for life. 1.00

00:13:14.840 Yeah.

00:13:15.000 No, but genuinely, if you are worried about our democracy, like, like for people who are 0.99

00:13:19.180 like, I am worried about the health of the democracy, you should be terrified of this

00:13:25.000 candidate.

00:13:25.840 You should be terrified of somebody who didn't win their primary democratically, is not doing

00:13:31.520 the honorable thing and putting this up to a democratic vote at the convention.

00:13:34.860 And it's just trying to walk into the presidency here and has a very, very, very authoritarian

00:13:41.760 mindset.

00:13:43.680 But hold on.

00:13:44.500 No, no, I need to say, you might be like, well, she only gets on the bad side of BLM. 0.72

00:13:50.500 You know, there's been, you know, it's a woman president, right? 0.99

00:13:53.460 This must be great for the Me Too movement. 0.96

00:13:55.860 Now, I heard some allegations that she slept her way to her position. 1.00

00:14:00.780 My assumption about these allegations was maybe she had a relationship with someone else in

00:14:07.760 her department.

00:14:09.100 There's no way.

00:14:11.020 There's no way someone who she was sleeping with is on record saying I gave her a job because 1.00

00:14:19.240 she was sleeping with me. 1.00

00:14:20.800 There's no way that this person had a 30 year age gap with her.

00:14:26.900 Now, age gaps are considered quite hot by quite a few people.

00:14:31.860 Like, I see it come up again and again in romance novels.

00:14:35.460 I don't think you'd find this one hot.

00:14:38.380 Harris dated Willie Brown in the 1990s when she was in her 20s and he was 60.

00:14:44.420 Ooh.

00:14:45.600 I don't know of any book that has a 20 year old dating a 60 year old.

00:14:51.000 No, yeah.

00:14:51.420 Usually it's a 40 year old.

00:14:52.840 Okay.

00:14:53.340 Yeah.

00:14:53.580 Or it's like a fairy that's 500 years old, a vampire that's 300, but they look the same

00:15:01.620 age, so.

00:15:02.400 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:15:03.200 This is very clearly for moving up in the world.

00:15:05.880 This was not a relationship of sexual attraction.

00:15:08.480 Brown, the man who she was cheating with, was married, but separated from his wife during 0.50

00:15:12.800 the relationship.

00:15:13.640 So, okay.

00:15:14.900 The relationship ended before Harris first ran for office.

00:15:17.600 So, good point in her nature there. 0.99

00:15:19.380 The problem is, is appointments during Brown's tenure.

00:15:23.440 While they were dating, Brown appointed Harris to two state commissions, the California Unemployment

00:15:29.160 Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission.

00:15:32.740 These were part-time positions that provided additional income to Harris.

00:15:36.680 Brown's influence.

00:15:38.040 Brown has publicly acknowledged that he may have influenced Harris's early career, stating

00:15:42.640 he had, quote, helped her with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco,

00:15:47.460 end quote.

00:15:49.200 Phew.

00:15:50.700 Now, for people who don't know, they can be like, oh, that was early in her career.

00:15:54.060 It doesn't really matter.

00:15:54.720 Actually, these early career jumps are the very hardest part of the career.

00:15:58.400 Oh, totally.

00:15:59.500 Totally.

00:15:59.900 Getting this in the door, getting those connections.

00:16:02.000 That's everything.

00:16:03.080 Totally.

00:16:03.360 He, and state commissions, high-level positions within the state commissions are huge.

00:16:11.300 If you're planning to run next, get donor money, et cetera.

00:16:14.760 She literally, and on record, slept her way to the top. 0.99

00:16:19.780 Not like attractive sleeping their way to the top, but 20-year-old with 60-year-olds sleeping

00:16:24.820 your way to the top.

00:16:25.460 Well, remember, you know, this is something that we've often discussed when it comes to

00:16:29.260 Me Too, when we, that one, like, really anchoring time when we saw a panel of people in entertainment

00:16:37.560 have an off-the-record conversation about Me Too, and the one man on the panel who was

00:16:42.540 a notable actor who we'd seen in movies was like, oh, gosh, I wish that I had that as

00:16:47.360 an option.

00:16:47.800 She, I think, represents the thing that is wonderful, powering about Me Too, which is

00:16:54.540 that women can sleep their way to the top, and it is so nice that one can use one's feminism, 1.00

00:17:04.360 okay?

00:17:04.960 That she's, she, she's a girl power.

00:17:08.060 She's a girl boss who's using the resources available to her to get it done, and that's 1.00

00:17:16.500 great.

00:17:17.280 But hold on, we're, we're going to keep going here.

00:17:19.440 It doesn't get over, I don't know, I'm just, I'm just getting, I'm just getting into the

00:17:23.000 beginning here.

00:17:23.720 You know how a lot of people have said that you and I have this insane fantasy that an

00:17:29.640 authoritarian faction of Democrats would force children to go to public schools or be arrested?

00:17:35.880 That is surely an insane conspiratorial fantasy.

00:17:40.540 As San Francisco's district attorney, Colonel Harris launched an anti-truancy program around

00:17:45.280 2008, aimed at reducing chronic absenteeism by holding parents accountable.

00:17:50.260 This program was later expanded statewide when she became the California Attorney General.

00:17:55.060 The law, enacted in 2011, allowed district attorneys to charge parents with a misdemeanor if their

00:18:00.800 children missed 10% or more of the school year without a valid excuse.

00:18:04.200 Yeah, that's, that's really screwed up. 0.93

00:18:08.460 This is mostly like poor black families that are being arrested over this because they can't, you know, keep an eye on their kids as easily. 0.99

00:18:14.300 And like, it is insane. 0.97

00:18:16.340 Who's getting targeted for this is mostly poor black single mothers. 1.00

00:18:19.360 And this is by the data.

00:18:20.500 This is like what the, the, the interviewers found.

00:18:23.180 This isn't me.

00:18:24.200 When black people are like the police are like coming to our neighborhoods and trying to take our kids from us and stuff.

00:18:30.460 Kamala Harris is who they're thinking of. 0.99

00:18:32.360 If you're like, well, I'm an all cops or bastard person, right? 0.96

00:18:35.860 And I'm not that way. 0.95

00:18:36.600 I actually think police prefer a valuable service in our country.

00:18:40.680 However, I don't know optically how Kamala Harris calling herself California's top cop is going to look to the BLM crowd. 0.83

00:18:50.440 That is who she sees herself as aspirationally.

00:18:54.180 She's top cop where to her, the police are a way to info force her social values on a population. 1.00

00:19:00.700 And we can talk about some of her role in this sort of stuff.

00:19:05.600 So here is a, a, a thing where you're like, surely she didn't provide cover for police who fatally shot people in questionable circumstances.

00:19:17.140 The query appears to be referring to Kamala Harris's actions or lack thereof regarding police shootings when she was California's attorney general.

00:19:24.540 Here are the key points.

00:19:25.580 As California's attorney general from 2011 to 2017, Harris did not intervene or investigate several high profile police shootings, despite calls from the public and local officials to do so.

00:19:36.180 Specifically, the article mentions that Harris did not investigate the fatal shootings of two unarmed men by the same Anaheim police officer, Nick Velnack, less than a year apart.

00:19:46.800 This was despite calls from Anaheim's mayor and members of the public following the second shooting.

00:19:52.340 Instead of conducting an independent investigation, Harris left the task to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, which was known for being lenient on police officers and was embroiled in a misconduct scandal at the time.

00:20:04.860 Harris suggested her office would review the findings of the district attorney's office, but the article states that there is no evidence that a serious review ever took place.

00:20:13.420 And so, and so what happened as a result of this?

00:20:16.860 The officer in question was involved in another fatal shooting later.

00:20:22.940 This is, this is wild.

00:20:26.580 Okay, what about corruption?

00:20:28.500 The San Bernardo County corruption case was a significant issue involving allegations of bribery, fraud, and other corrupt practices by county officials and developers.

00:20:37.300 The case included a controversial 102 million settlement with a developer over a land dispute and allegations of kickback to county officials.

00:20:44.580 Harris's role.

00:20:46.240 Critics argue that Harris's office did not take a proactive stance in investigating the corruption allegations in San Bernardo County.

00:20:53.040 Despite the gravity of the case, there were perceptions that her office was slow to act and did not pursue the investigation with necessary rigor.

00:20:59.180 Oh my gosh.

00:21:04.920 And then there's a different one here.

00:21:05.920 The, the, the moonlit fire incident.

00:21:08.100 The moonlit fire incident involved allegations of corruption and misconduct by state employees in relation to wildlife fire investigation.

00:21:15.600 The, there were accusations that state officials had falsified reports and engaged in other unethical practices.

00:21:21.540 Harris declined to investigate the allegations, citing potential conflicts of interest.

00:21:25.280 The decision was criticized as the failure to hold government officials accountable and raise questions about her commitment to addressing corruption.

00:21:32.200 So she's not like normal authoritarian.

00:21:35.060 Like you might be like, oh, she's a by the rules person.

00:21:38.480 No, she's a, the bureaucrats cannot break the law. 1.00

00:21:42.280 If you are a bureaucrat, your actions are intrinsically good.

00:21:45.940 If you are a citizen under the bureaucrats, your actions are intrinsically evil.

00:21:49.900 She is a Brown store style, Gestapo style authoritarian. 0.96

00:21:56.360 Yeah, that's, that's, I'm having a difficulty figuring out ways to like rationalize this after everything you've presented.

00:22:05.500 I, I, I mean, I think it's hard for a normal prosecutor, obviously not a crazy woke one to not look a little authoritarian, but this is, this is further along.

00:22:17.120 Then, I mean, she also completely lacks empathy. 1.00

00:22:20.080 So there's a great thing here where she went, she went to the border in 2021, you know, into her candidacy.

00:22:26.800 So she went to a, oh God, what was it called again?

00:22:30.040 So.

00:22:30.880 Attention center where children were.

00:22:32.300 Visit to the border.

00:22:33.400 Vice President Kamala Harris visited the border city of El Paso, Texas, marking her first trip to the border since taking office.

00:22:39.160 This visit was part of her role in addressing the root cause of migration from Central America, the wave incidents.

00:22:45.040 During her visit, Kamala Harris was photographed waving to a group of children who were behind a chain link fence.

00:22:51.560 And they were in a child, these were children who had been separated from their parents under her administration and were being kept in a detention center.

00:22:59.320 And so she's just like, hey guys, great to see you.

00:23:02.140 I'm keeping you as slaves. 0.99

00:23:04.000 That's basically her take on this.

00:23:06.400 And that is absolutely wild.

00:23:09.460 And if you look at illegal border crossings, if you look at illegal border detentions as well during the Biden presidency, you know, the things that you would criticize a Republican for.

00:23:18.780 And this is the interesting thing.

00:23:20.580 She is actually, I think in most ways where you actually see her policy positions, quite to the right of Trump in terms of her authoritarian mindedness.

00:23:29.760 Which, I don't know, is that going to peel off some Republicans or are they like, yeah, I wanted an authoritarian, not a fascist communist.

00:23:38.520 But also she is getting involved with the exception of abortion with policies as a vice president that I think are quite unpopular among many centrists.

00:23:51.800 Like, I don't think Americans are very happy with the immigration situation in the United States.

00:23:56.140 And that's one of those things she's tried to champion is her thing as vice president, along with activity in Israel, Ukraine, along with activity around voting rights.

00:24:07.780 And abortion, I think, is probably the one thing where she's going to do really well. 0.87

00:24:12.240 So, I don't know.

00:24:13.480 I just, it's an interesting choice.

00:24:15.240 I will post a picture here of Kamala Harris's face made up of pictures of black people she kept in jail knowing they were innocent because she did this to thousands of black people.

00:24:27.940 And she did it to secure the endorsement of the police union at the time, which she used to win an election.

00:24:37.300 So, let's go over this particular incidence here.

00:24:41.100 So, first, prosecutorial record, the former district, okay.

00:24:45.760 For instance, she was involved in cases where her office failed to disclose crucial information to defense attorneys, leading to the dismissal of numerous drug cases.

00:24:54.520 So, let's see what was she talking about in this instance here.

00:24:58.140 Kamala Harris's willingness to bend rules to secure convictions can be attributed to several factors, including political ambitions, pressure to improve conviction rates, and the broader context of her prosecutorial career.

00:25:09.380 Harris's career trajectory shows a clear pattern of using her prosecutorial record to build a political platform. 0.95

00:25:16.080 During her first rate for San Francisco district attorney, she campaigned as, quote-unquote, tough on crime, contrasting herself with her more progressive opponent, Terrence Hallihan, who had a low conviction rate.

00:25:27.800 So, it is possible to be a district attorney and have a low conviction rate.

00:25:30.940 This tough on crime stance helped her gain endorsements from law enforcement and conservative-leaning entities, which were crucial to her electoral success.

00:25:39.700 Now, we need to talk about this individual case.

00:25:43.340 I like that you're covering a lot of things that are not just her ridiculous speech style and the extent to which she is channeling Selina Meyer from the HBO show Veep, which, for whatever reason, you just don't really like. 0.73

00:25:58.480 But I've watched, like, three or four times now because it's so friggin' hilarious.

00:26:02.280 Okay, so I will go over this particular incident as well.

00:26:08.160 So, this scandal occurred while Harris was San Francisco's district attorney and running for California attorney general in 2010.

00:26:14.340 So, remember, this occurred so that she could win that second race, which she was able to do, given the high crime conviction rate that she was able to achieve. 0.91

00:26:22.780 Okay.

00:26:23.040 It involved a crime-like technician who was found to have been stealing cocaine from the lab's evidence supply, potentially proposing evidence in numerous drug cases.

00:26:30.800 Neither Harris nor her team informed defense attorneys about this issue, despite rules mandating such a disclosure.

00:26:36.080 This failure was under-criticized by the superior court judge.

00:26:40.000 Initially, Harris shifted blame to the police and downplayed the impact on cases.

00:26:44.140 However, as the situation wortened, she took more decisive action.

00:26:48.260 To address the growing crisis, Harris made the decision to dismiss around 1,000 drug-related cases to prevent further chaos in the criminal justice system.

00:26:56.260 This scandal highlighted Harris' failure after six years as district attorney to establish clear procedures, ensuring defendants were informed about potentially compromised evidence and testimony.

00:27:08.180 Harris eventually acknowledged responsibility for her shortcomings.

00:27:11.220 So, this is huge.

00:27:13.780 Thousands of people were left in jail, and most of them were Black, so that she could win, that should have been notified that they had the right to be released based on compromised evidence, 0.64

00:27:24.620 so that she could win an election.

00:27:27.200 If you wonder, is this the type of person who would put me and my family in jail to win an election?

00:27:34.480 What if I'm the type of person who agrees with her, i.e., I'm one of the protected classes in progressive world?

00:27:40.140 What if I'm a Black single mother?

00:27:43.020 Is she the type of person who would put me in jail if it helped her win an election? 0.90

00:27:46.600 Yes.

00:27:48.000 That's exactly the kind of thing.

00:27:49.300 Yeah, it doesn't seem like anyone's safe in this world from policies that she's enacted.

00:27:56.360 And I'd also point out that everyone who seems to work with her hates her. 0.95

00:28:00.200 Her office has been very famous, and it's been quite a scandal for the administration for having an extremely high turnover rate.

00:28:06.820 Oh, really?

00:28:07.700 Yes.

00:28:08.640 Including that, Jill Biden apparently hates her guts, and that's probably the reason it took so long for Biden to step down, 1.00

00:28:15.780 because Jill didn't want her to be the successor. 0.96

00:28:19.300 It's like, I would rather burn down the party than let Harris win.

00:28:22.220 So, specifically, Kamala Harris was seen by Jill as using Joe for her own career, 1.00

00:28:31.320 and Jill did not believe that Kamala added anything to his candidacy and that he could have won easily without her.

00:28:36.520 And she's probably right across the board there.

00:28:38.680 I think Kamala has always been a net negative and really always just a diversity hire by sort of a generation of older conservatives

00:28:44.560 who don't understand that this authoritarian mindset doesn't work is the base.

00:28:49.120 And, yeah, so apparently Jill hates her, and her office has really high turnover. 0.99

00:28:53.700 So I think you can learn about somebody's true nature by the people around them, right?

00:28:58.400 For example, Trump's true nature is incredibly high gossip in his offices and high infighting,

00:29:06.700 and that seems like the type of thing Trump would engender in those around him, given the way that he runs things.

00:29:12.500 In terms of Kamala, it's just that nobody could stand to be around her or work under her for very long.

00:29:17.120 So, have fun, world.

00:29:21.320 This is where we're going.

00:29:22.960 I'm wondering if you have thoughts, and I want to get into her politics specifically,

00:29:26.680 because I find this authoritarian wing of the Democratic Party really fascinating, personally.

00:29:32.680 I'm struggling to understand, maybe because I wasn't that involved in the backstory, you know, how she ended up as VP,

00:29:40.560 how this even came to happen.

00:29:42.520 Because she didn't make it very far in the primary process when it was, you know, she dropped out super early.

00:29:51.340 No one thought she was a really strong candidate.

00:29:53.980 And I just don't really understand how it came to be that she was selected as vice president in the first place.

00:30:03.560 He was looking for a black woman. 0.99

00:30:05.760 That was the core thing he was looking for. 0.98

00:30:08.320 I bet he really only looked at candidates who were black women. 1.00

00:30:12.380 There are other black female... 1.00

00:30:13.980 There are not that many who were that high up in the Democratic Party.

00:30:18.580 And that can be chosen. 0.96

00:30:20.040 And then you've got to remember, he's looking for a black woman who isn't woke. 0.98

00:30:24.380 That was the other requirement there. 0.87

00:30:26.820 Which, because Joe Biden isn't woke, fundamentally, right?

00:30:30.320 Yeah, he's quite centrist.

00:30:31.920 In the same way that, like, I describe the two sort of antagonistic sections of the Republican Party being GOP, Inc. and the New Right.

00:30:41.420 And then the Trumpists are sort of the middle governing faction.

00:30:44.740 In the Democratic power politics, right now, the governing middle faction is, I call it the Democratic gerontocracy.

00:30:52.720 These are people who basically think the world still operates the way the world did in the 90s.

00:30:58.500 The parties represent what they represented in the 90s.

00:31:01.460 And they're just sort of blind to the ways their base in the world has changed.

00:31:06.480 And Joe heavily represents that mindset.

00:31:10.140 But this mindset is also the mindset of Obama.

00:31:14.420 And so it's one that we have seen throughout a lot of the ruling Democratic Party for a long time.

00:31:21.140 Now, if you look at the parties that have formed under this, you have the authoritarian faction, which believes that the government should basically, through the police force, control every aspect of your life.

00:31:30.360 And then the other group, which believes that the government should be torn apart, then we need to move towards some sort of new system of governance.

00:31:38.700 Right.

00:31:39.120 Obviously, the entrenched bureaucrats really hate that. 0.99

00:31:41.660 So who supports the authoritarian faction?

00:31:43.820 Who is their voting bloc and who are their avatars?

00:31:46.140 Yeah.

00:31:46.900 Clinton is the first avatar of this faction.

00:31:48.800 She is less aligned with them.

00:31:51.080 She was half gerontocracy, half authoritarian.

00:31:53.900 Kamala is pure authoritarian.

00:31:56.540 Who is keeping them in office?

00:31:58.280 It's organizations like teachers unions.

00:32:00.120 They appeal really heavily to groups like this.

00:32:03.760 And they can peel off some state unions from people like Trump by appealing to things like police unions.

00:32:11.360 For example, do you think that police unions were going to recommend anyone vote for any Democratic candidate other than Kamala?

00:32:17.520 But now they've got Kamala, you know, she can actually appeal to these groups, which I suppose is nice.

00:32:24.480 I will never make you wear body cams.

00:32:26.440 I will never put you in jail for a fatal shooting.

00:32:28.680 Just look at my track record.

00:32:30.760 People will die.

00:32:31.800 I am so insistent that you will never face consequences for anything.

00:32:35.620 And OK, I get that.

00:32:38.080 I personally support the police force, but I do believe that governments, because where she gets me, it was the police force.

00:32:46.080 I don't know, wishy-washy one way or the other.

00:32:48.280 Maybe she was in the right with that stuff.

00:32:49.820 But the not investigating general corruption charges that absolutely she should have investigated was the squirrely conflict of interest.

00:32:58.140 Well, conflict of interest matters when you aren't the only body that can investigate them.

00:33:03.640 You don't just get to say they get to do whatever they want because they're your friend.

00:33:07.740 That's basically what she meant by conflict of interest there.

00:33:11.360 That is wild.

00:33:13.600 And so why did this faction rise?

00:33:16.120 Well, they rose in the same way that Christian socialists rose. 0.59

00:33:18.960 Remember how we talked about this Christian socialist faction of the GOP, Inc.?

00:33:22.820 Right.

00:33:23.220 They gained power because the old GOP was an alliance of the frats and the big business interests.

00:33:31.100 When big business interests left, the remainders of that faction were no longer tethered to any sort of economic reality.

00:33:38.460 And a few elites that had worked their way to the top and had worked within bureaucracy for a long time, because they live and breathe bureaucracy, to them, bureaucracy is how you solve all problems.

00:33:48.080 You just need more Christian bureaucracy. 1.00

00:33:50.340 And in our Discord and some of our comments, people are like, oh, yeah, that'll work.

00:33:54.040 A more Christian democracy, bureaucracy. 0.98

00:33:56.700 No.

00:33:57.640 Marxism plus Christianity, these two things are opposed to each other.

00:34:01.280 When you hold these two mindsets together, you end up fundamentally failing.

00:34:06.320 When countries try to enforce a Christian value system on a population, they don't help that population get into heaven. 0.90

00:34:14.380 You know, preventing gay people from marrying doesn't help save their souls. 0.95

00:34:19.320 What it makes is the church their enemy, and it makes it less likely that they're going to view the church favorably and engage with it.

00:34:26.460 And you're unable to win elections, and you're not even appealing to the vast majority of the Republican base, which is a pro-gay marriage at this point.

00:34:35.100 It's something like only 30% still oppose it. 0.99

00:34:37.220 So the idea that, like, this is a good idea is just dumb. 0.87

00:34:41.340 But they have a vast amount of power within the political apparatus of the Republican Party. 0.96

00:34:47.820 It's the same with the authoritarian faction of the Democrats.

00:34:50.320 They have lived and breathed bureaucracy their entire life, and so from their perspective, the bureaucracy enforcing the urban monocultural value system is the best way to make a good society.

00:35:02.860 And so it's this faction that is, like, I think if you're talking about, like, the Democratic base, how big is it?

00:35:10.400 I'd say it's maybe 12%, 13% of the Democratic base, really just a few specific public sector unions and a few, you know, people who really agree with this sort of strict teacher mindset.

00:35:22.780 But I'd argue that they're a good 60% of the Democratic political apparatus.

00:35:30.300 And that's what people are missing.

00:35:32.860 Especially the younger individuals in the Democratic political apparatus.

00:35:36.820 And they are way more dangerous than the wokes because they're more efficient, and they really have no moral system they operate off of except for accumulate power, exercise power. 1.00

00:35:49.960 And this really exemplifies how divorced from humans many political factions have become.

00:35:56.180 And by that I mean, like, it is more unions, it is more large bureaucracies that are selecting and platforming these candidates and ensuring that they have money, and not individual people, not the interests of families or even, like, smaller churches or, you know, workers' associations.

00:36:18.080 It's crazy.

00:36:20.080 Yeah.

00:36:20.680 Well, I mean, we also need to keep in mind how crazy the Democrats have gotten.

00:36:24.360 So, now, 34% of registered Dems believe Trump staged his own assassination.

00:36:30.020 Democrats are building, like, an absolutely crazy, crazier than QAnon conspiracy theory around Trump.

00:36:38.180 I've seen this within my circles.

00:36:40.080 Complete denial of Kamala Harris's past deeds.

00:36:44.000 You will hear over and over again among Dems.

00:36:45.860 Well, it wasn't really that bad that she kept people in jail who she knew should have been released based on policy.

00:36:51.660 And it's not like she wasn't told by people she needed to move ahead with this stuff.

00:36:54.940 That's the thing that gets me.

00:36:56.220 It's not like she forgot to do X or she forgot to do Y.

00:36:59.620 She would have other departments say, you need to release these people, and she goes, I need free labor. 1.00

00:37:04.040 Like, what the what?

00:37:06.120 And it's not even efficient free labor.

00:37:07.740 That's the thing to remember about authoritarianism.

00:37:09.660 If you look at the cost per head per year of a prisoner, it is more than hiring firefighters to handle these fires.

00:37:17.220 It is about control for these people.

00:37:19.880 It is not about the public utility.

00:37:22.880 It is about the belief that the state should have as much control of the population as possible through as direct a means as possible.

00:37:32.740 That's scary.

00:37:34.560 I mean, what are your thoughts?

00:37:35.660 I mean, what was your historic perception of Kamala?

00:37:37.980 Like, what, what, et cetera.

00:37:41.000 I always thought she was an odd selection because of the way that she had called out Biden in the beginning.

00:37:48.380 I think she called him a racist, if memory serves.

00:37:51.400 Oh, God.

00:37:52.160 And then she was selected as his running mate.

00:37:57.220 It just seemed really odd to me. 0.99

00:37:59.140 Like, the party was basically trying to show, like, yeah, we hate old white men. 1.00

00:38:05.900 And they're, they're terrible. 1.00

00:38:06.860 And that's why we selected a running mate that, that hates him. 0.91

00:38:10.540 And then as, as the VP, I was, I was also confused because she, you know, you don't have to actually do that much as a VP. 1.00

00:38:18.960 Like, you just have to be there if the president dies.

00:38:21.520 Like, there have been vice presidents who've just spent the entire time in New York blitzed, like, which sounds fantastic to me.

00:38:28.060 Sign me up for that.

00:38:28.960 But she's actually been going on trips.

00:38:31.440 She's traveled to over 100 countries as vice president.

00:38:33.900 She has, you know, policy decisions.

00:38:36.020 She's wanted to be very publicly and prominently involved in immigration, in foreign policy, in gun control.

00:38:43.960 I mean, let's talk about the gun control issue here really quickly.

00:38:47.980 So, for example, her suggestion to use executive orders for gun control if Congress didn't pass an act within 100 days was viewed by critics as bypassing the legislative process.

00:38:58.800 So, if you're, like, afraid somebody's going to take your guns, yeah, she wants to use executive authority to declare an executive act, regardless of what Congress and the Senate do, to take your guns.

00:39:08.060 This is not a, well, there's a reason why I was telling you this morning.

00:39:11.460 I'm like, we should get more AR-15s and have one on the wall in any room of the house.

00:39:15.640 Well, then, let's create a task item.

00:39:17.020 Let's do that right now.

00:39:17.780 I'll create a task item.

00:39:18.880 Yeah.

00:39:19.100 Well, maybe, maybe, I don't know, like, are there Blackfire?

00:39:21.600 There have to be Black Friday gun sales.

00:39:23.300 Maybe this can be our Black Friday thing.

00:39:25.060 Yeah, let's go Black Friday gun crazy this year.

00:39:29.100 It's, you know, falls around the corner.

00:39:31.140 I can't wait.

00:39:31.840 But so, what also surprises me is that normally, when you're selecting a presidential candidate, you're trying to go as centrist as possible.

00:39:42.080 And she's actually a lot more, what's weird is that she's more hardline authoritarian, as you've pointed out, but she's also perceived in the media. 0.99

00:39:52.040 And she presents herself as being a lot more far left, as being more extreme progressive, more extreme woke.

00:40:01.700 And that was how I think she was selected from a narrative perspective as the running mate.

00:40:07.120 You know, she was the party's apology to people who wanted to be castigated by a non-white female. 0.99

00:40:17.280 Or the jail Black people, jail black mothers. 1.00

00:40:20.920 Well, yes, I guess that's just the non-white female they got. 1.00

00:40:23.900 But she's still absolutely playing up the role of the more extreme leftist candidate here. 1.00

00:40:32.360 So there's, I feel like there's this really weird interplay between this, like, conservative authoritarian and this, like, woke avatar or amulet being used by progressives.

00:40:46.660 She's not a conservative authoritarian, she's a communist authoritarian. 0.87

00:40:49.880 Yeah.

00:40:50.220 So keep that in mind.

00:40:51.640 Oh, thank goodness.

00:40:52.580 Okay, that makes everything better.

00:40:54.580 But we've also got to keep in mind why I don't think she has a shot, like a shot shot at all.

00:41:00.340 So one thing that is going to keep Democrats from voting from her, and a lot of Democrats have said, I just will not make this vote, is her stance on Israel.

00:41:09.460 You know, she is pro-Israel in this war.

00:41:12.380 And for a lot of Democrats, that is an absolute red line for a candidate.

00:41:18.520 Yeah.

00:41:19.620 But they wouldn't have voted for Biden anyway.

00:41:22.260 So that's the thing, is she's marginally, slightly marginally better in some people's eyes.

00:41:28.500 And that's, I guess, what we're going for now.

00:41:30.740 And by we, I guess not we, because that's what Democrats are going for now.

00:41:34.060 Yeah, I just say that if she is running, one thing that, the thing that scares me most about her running is the possibility of her winning.

00:41:43.720 Not because I think she actually has a possibility of winning, but I think that if she wins, it will be confirmation for most sane Americans that there was, without any shadow of a doubt, election rigging.

00:41:57.940 Just because there's, the interest in her is so mediocre.

00:42:05.260 She's, there's no way she could be, I mean, with the assassination attempt and the, you know.

00:42:10.880 A lot can happen in the intervening hundred days or so that we have to.

00:42:14.120 Yeah, yeah, maybe, maybe there's some big thing that blows up for Trump.

00:42:17.040 But if, but if things are continuing on the path that they've been going, right, and I saw her elected, I would say, I absolutely, like me personally, do not believe that's possible with the current electorate.

00:42:29.260 I don't know, because I don't think that Democrats who are looking to vote for someone who's not Trump are going to understand that when they're being told by mainstream media figures that Trump is advocating for a nationwide ban on abortions, which he's not.

00:42:51.600 But that's what people are being told, and that, you know, Trump plans on doing, you know, like is, is fully in support of, of Project 2024, which he's not, but that's what people are still saying.

00:43:03.060 I just don't, I don't.

00:43:05.040 Trump literally read it into the, to the Republican platform, people who don't know, that one, marriage is not between a man and a woman.

00:43:11.520 So like, I don't think, I don't know, gay Republican platform now, he literally wrote into the Republican platform, nothing about this abortion stuff, which, which they wanted to write in, you know, he pushed against that.

00:43:24.400 He said, look, I won you the abortion victory already that you needed. 0.66

00:43:28.000 We will not go further on this issue.

00:43:30.340 Trump has been very clear on this.

00:43:33.060 And J.D. Vance has capitulated to jump in Trump's position.

00:43:36.120 And I think, of course, J.D. Vance, I, I, I like him.

00:43:40.720 And what is the media saying?

00:43:42.280 They're saying, oh, and now Trump has selected for his VP pick J.D. Vance, who is in favor of categorically removing all abortion access, even in the case.

00:43:51.920 Well, hold on.

00:43:52.640 No, this is what they're saying.

00:43:54.080 But, but the truth is.

00:43:55.240 Well, but my argument is, it doesn't matter what reality is.

00:43:58.480 What matters is that people who are Democrats and who are not already interested in voting for Trump, and there are many people, are not going to be exposed to information that shows them that the other side is more moderate than they think.

00:44:11.840 I, I don't know.

00:44:14.780 I suspect that, like, this is my read, like, for, for example, the Harris pick, right?

00:44:20.340 You go into, like, black Twitter or, like, black online conversation places. 0.50

00:44:25.460 It's not like they don't know about Harris's history.

00:44:29.000 She is not an Obama to them.

00:44:31.160 She is the personification of everything BLM was campaigning against.

00:44:35.240 And this was made clear because of the divisive primary that she participated in an election cycle ago, or two election cycles ago.

00:44:43.480 So everybody remembers that.

00:44:45.080 Everybody remembers the Dems attacking her, even was in Dem media.

00:44:49.340 They know about all of her convictions.

00:44:51.520 And I'm sure that this was something that was top of mind during the presidency of, like, why we still need to watch out about a Biden presidency.

00:44:58.820 She was always the black mark on his presidency.

00:45:01.700 Well, her and his son.

00:45:02.880 And so I think that, I think that just more Democrats remember this.

00:45:08.160 I think that this has pierced the informational veil already by Dems pushing it.

00:45:14.680 And it's also why Dems can't have a contested convention.

00:45:17.600 Because if they have a contested convention, and I suspect this is why they're not pushing for one right now, and she ends up winning, it will be out within Dems' circles all of the crazy stuff she's done. 0.63

00:45:28.160 Like, this is not, like, small stuff.

00:45:30.440 This is, when I've had power, I have used it in an authoritarian fashion.

00:45:35.920 Yeah.

00:45:39.440 I don't, I don't know, like, any final thoughts?

00:45:44.900 The audience loves to hear from you.

00:45:46.520 What's your summation of all this?

00:45:47.820 My summation, ooh, Kamala Harris, yikes.

00:45:52.800 Now the election has switched from Trump versus deep state to Trump versus deep state autocrat, which is scary.

00:46:03.700 I'd say an aspirant dictator.

00:46:05.620 Aspirant dictator.

00:46:07.300 Oh, yeah.

00:46:08.280 Okay.

00:46:08.520 I mean, Trump is an aspirant dictator, kind of.

00:46:11.080 So I guess now we have a more matched run.

00:46:13.900 I don't think Trump, no.

00:46:15.740 He says he wants to be dictator for a day on his first day.

00:46:19.260 You know, like, that's, you know. 0.99

00:46:20.780 That is, that is just saying he wants to get shit done. 0.99

00:46:23.080 Come on. 0.99

00:46:23.720 Yeah.

00:46:24.160 Oh, I'm sorry. 0.98

00:46:25.620 Kamala got shit done. 0.99

00:46:26.820 Someone has to put out those fires. 0.99

00:46:28.080 She keeps those people in their work programs. 1.00

00:46:29.820 No, what I mean is if you look at Trump's history, he doesn't have a history of dictatorial-like actions.

00:46:37.500 He's much more cult of personality based.

00:46:40.420 Kamala Harris has a history of let's lock up the dissidents, et cetera, type mindset. 1.00

00:46:47.060 I just don't think Trump could stomach that sort of thing.

00:46:50.440 He's got a revolutionary mindset, I would argue, which does worry some people.

00:46:54.920 But it's not the revolutionary mindset of a dictator.

00:46:58.180 It's the revolutionary mindset of somebody who wants to be the hero of a revolution or the hero of a story. 1.00

00:47:05.020 Kamala has a revolutionary mindset in a, well, let's just silence the stupid people. 1.00

00:47:11.400 They're making things harder for the machine to work as it's supposed to, which is a very different type of revolutionary mindset. 0.99

00:47:18.460 In a way, I sort of feel like if she's running, from my perspective, she's much further right than Trump.

00:47:24.440 In some ways, she absolutely is.

00:47:27.560 Actually, in many ways, Jack, yeah.

00:47:31.440 But I don't know if a large portion of the electorate is going to see beyond old white man to slightly less old.

00:47:40.820 She's 59 years old.

00:47:42.240 Not white woman. 0.98

00:47:44.800 You know, I don't, I don't know if we're going to be thinking about that.

00:47:49.840 Oh, by the way, if you're wondering, so I was trying to find out what her religion is, right?

00:47:53.920 Okay.

00:47:54.840 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:48:00.140 What happened?

00:48:01.960 I don't know if she thought about Kamala Harris too much.

00:48:05.120 I think she just had a bad dream.

00:48:07.000 She was very asleep.

00:48:08.100 So, Kamala Harris identifies as a Baptist.

00:48:12.400 She grew up in an interfaith household, attending both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.

00:48:17.960 Her mother, Shamala Goplana, was Hindi, and her father, Donald Harris, was Christian.

00:48:23.900 Harris emphasized that her faith journey began in her adulthood, where she and her sister attended services at the 23rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland, California.

00:48:33.240 Harris' religious identity is also influenced by her marriage to Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish.

00:48:38.880 They incorporate Jewish traditions and celebrations in their home life.

00:48:42.020 Harris has expressed that her faith is an integral part of her life and leadership, describing it as something that extends beyond worship services to the way she lives and works.

00:48:51.940 So, you know, I think if you wanted a Christian dictator, Kamala Harris is a good pick. 1.00

00:48:57.660 Oh, no.

00:48:58.120 Oh, no.

00:48:59.040 For those Christians who are looking for that.

00:49:01.660 There you go.

00:49:02.520 Oh, that's a fun take.

00:49:04.040 Okay.

00:49:05.600 Yeah, I mean, at least, like you said, the writers of the show, America, doing a good job.

00:49:10.400 At least we're not bored.

00:49:11.660 And literally now, you know, we have a cartoonish president who came from the internet and TV and a woman who, you know, has been in countless side-by-side comparisons with Selina Meyer of Veep.

00:49:27.060 This is great.

00:49:27.860 What is Selina Meyer of Veep? 1.00

00:49:29.120 I don't understand.

00:49:29.680 Veep is an HBO TV show about a fictional vice president who is very self-centered and incompetent and not actually interested in, like, doing good things.

00:49:39.500 And she says a lot of nonsense stuff.

00:49:42.180 And there are tons of side-by-side mashups of Selina Meyer, this fictional vice president character, saying complete nonsense.

00:49:49.820 And then Kamala Harris saying stuff that seems worse than that.

00:49:56.280 Yikes.

00:49:57.180 Yeah.

00:49:57.300 Okay.

00:49:57.940 Well, I mean, she seems, from everything I've seen of her, pretty low IQ, but high diligence.

00:50:04.320 Like, she's got a good work ethic, which I appreciate, but she doesn't appear to be, like, cognitively all there, which is also really interesting about her.

00:50:12.100 Hi, I'm Oliver Bartholomew, and I'm 16 and a half years old, and I'm the speechwriter for Kamala Harris.

00:50:19.700 Since I was little, I liked words.

00:50:22.780 Writing words is fun.

00:50:24.840 So I made writing words my job.

00:50:28.000 Space is exciting.

00:50:29.940 Space, it affects us all.

00:50:33.060 And it connects us all.

00:50:35.420 It's not all fun, though.

00:50:37.020 Sometimes I have to write about bad stuff, like war.

00:50:40.820 Ukraine is a country in Europe.

00:50:44.900 It exists next to another country called Russia.

00:50:48.560 Russia is a bigger country.

00:50:50.320 Russia is a powerful country.

00:50:51.920 Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.

00:50:55.420 So, basically, that's wrong.

00:50:58.940 Once, I thought it would be neat if Kamala wore a blue suit and told people she was wearing it.

00:51:06.060 Because I like it.

00:51:07.800 I'm a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.

00:51:11.340 I can't take all the good, though.

00:51:13.620 Me and Mrs. Kamala are a team.

00:51:15.620 But she kind of is crazy or something.

00:51:19.000 And she kind of scares me. 0.74

00:51:21.760 And you can't fake that kind of influence.

00:51:25.160 You're either born with it or you're either not.

00:51:28.820 It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.

00:51:34.260 It could be, you know, my brain turns off when I'm around people and I'm just on auto-response and trying to make it through.

00:51:42.160 She could be someone who has very high levels of social anxiety.

00:51:46.200 And in private, she's capable of thinking again, you know?

00:51:50.420 Maybe.

00:51:50.900 Thank you for the benefit of the doubt.

00:51:52.820 70 IQ from her.

00:51:54.240 But we'll see.

00:51:55.360 I'll put on some videos of her talking so you can see what I mean.

00:51:58.540 Talking about the significance of the passage of time.

00:52:05.320 Right?

00:52:05.860 The significance of the passage of time.

00:52:08.640 So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.

00:52:14.500 Seems like maybe it's a small issue.

00:52:16.260 It's a big issue.

00:52:17.720 You need to get to go.

00:52:19.240 I need to be able to get where you need to go to do the work and get home.

00:52:23.040 She's come so far since our first session.

00:52:25.580 My name is Dahlia Rose Hibiscus, and I am Vice President Kamala Harris's holistic thought advisor.

00:52:31.380 I lead the Vice President on not so much sentences as idea voyages.

00:52:37.180 You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

00:52:39.480 You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

00:52:49.080 It's a process I call speaking without thinking.

00:52:52.820 It's not about the destination of the thought.

00:52:56.320 It's about the journey and how many words you use to describe the journey.

00:53:01.920 That's on top of everything else that we know and don't know yet based on what we've

00:53:06.520 just been able to see, and because we've seen it or not, doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

00:53:10.320 The first thing I do is cut out all the words individually, and then I take those words to my word cave.

00:53:20.280 That's where I wait to learn what order the universe wants them to be in.

00:53:25.160 Have vibrations.

00:53:27.740 The feeling they give you is so much more powerful than what they need.

00:53:31.820 We have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to make the possible

00:53:39.780 actually happen.

00:53:41.880 Which is, you know, unfortunate that somebody was able to literally sleep their way to the

00:53:46.820 president, but okay.

00:53:49.060 And then get there with diversity points.

00:53:50.780 Empowering.

00:53:52.020 Empowering.

00:53:52.920 Well, no, she did see a lot of people in jail.

00:53:55.020 She did also, I should, to her credit, she did also violate a lot of normative ethical

00:54:00.680 standards to get there as well.

00:54:02.560 It wasn't like she just left her way to the top and used her identity.

00:54:07.460 She also jailed a lot of innocent people.

00:54:11.320 Yeah. 0.89

00:54:14.260 And protected dirty politicians. 0.94

00:54:17.360 That is lovely. 0.97

00:54:18.740 All right.

00:54:19.180 Have a good one, Simone.

00:54:20.040 At least you know if you back her, she'll have your back.

00:54:22.600 That's the good thing about somebody like her.

00:54:24.180 She's the type of thing that if you go to the bat for, she'll have your back. 1.00

00:54:29.100 That, you know, doesn't happen so much these days.

00:54:32.840 I like, oh, you found a, you made, you found a nice thing.

00:54:37.480 Thanks, Malcolm.

00:54:38.880 Yeah.

00:54:39.380 Got it in on a high note.

00:54:40.440 I love you, Simone.

00:54:41.460 By the way, I'm just going to reheat the meal I had earlier today, tonight.

00:54:45.000 Oh.

00:54:46.440 Oh, you have leftovers again?

00:54:48.340 Yeah, in the fridge.

00:54:49.500 Love you.

00:54:49.680 Okay.

00:54:50.360 All right.

00:54:50.700 Tater tots for the kids, though.

00:54:52.240 They need their tots.

00:54:54.180 You're, you're so special.

00:54:56.120 Oh, my God.

00:54:57.060 No, we're using the sushi train tonight.

00:54:59.660 Oh, yeah.

00:55:00.160 We got a little sushi train for the kids.

00:55:01.900 Everything has to be small and bite-sized then.

00:55:03.820 Okay.

00:55:03.980 What am I going to do?

00:55:04.700 Ooh.

00:55:05.020 Oh, oh.

00:55:05.560 We made the bread on the weekend, so we're going to make French toast bites.

00:55:08.440 And I'll make little squares.

00:55:10.480 Dinosaur nuggets.

00:55:11.280 Octavian, come here.

00:55:12.680 Come sit with Daddy.

00:55:13.560 You got to talk to Mommy.

00:55:14.460 Here, hold the microphone.

00:55:15.040 Guess what?

00:55:15.820 We have a sushi train for your food tonight.

00:55:18.620 Do you know what a sushi train is?

00:55:20.100 Can I see the sushi train?

00:55:23.060 Yes, you can, my friend.

00:55:24.220 It's a train that carries your food.

00:55:26.420 And you get to eat food off of the train.

00:55:28.900 Does it have plates, too?

00:55:31.860 It has little plates on top of little train cars.

00:55:35.600 Does it make batteries?

00:55:37.420 I'm going to leave Octavian here. 1.00

00:55:38.740 It is battery-powered, and so Daddy put in the battery.

00:55:41.340 Oh, it is battery-powered.

00:55:43.320 Can I ask you some questions about Kamala Harris, Octavian?

00:55:47.020 Yes.

00:55:47.780 Okay.

00:55:48.380 Kamala Harris is going to run for president against President Trump. 0.80

00:55:52.100 What do you think about that?

00:55:53.820 Yes.

00:55:55.380 Would you vote for President Trump or Kamala Harris?

00:55:58.480 Which name do you like better?

00:56:01.560 Trump.

00:56:02.440 Trump.

00:56:03.120 Okay, so you vote for Trump.

00:56:04.780 Kamala Harris puts a lot of people in jail,

00:56:08.180 sometimes because they actually did a bad thing,

00:56:11.080 sometimes because there are other reasons,

00:56:15.060 but not because they're bad guys.

00:56:16.640 Is that okay?

00:56:19.320 Yes.

00:56:20.400 Oh.

00:56:20.980 Would you put a lot of innocent people in jail, too, Octavian? 1.00

00:56:25.820 Well, I'm not a Kamala boy.

00:56:30.560 It's 280, so I cannot.

00:56:34.900 That's 280 when I'm spread.

00:56:39.240 What?

00:56:39.640 Would you put people in jail to make your life easier,

00:56:45.200 even if they didn't do a bad thing?

00:56:47.780 Yeah.

00:56:49.620 Octavian, can you say, please like and subscribe?

00:56:52.980 Please like and subscribe?

00:56:55.340 Say it louder.

00:56:57.260 Please like and describe.

00:56:59.680 No, no, no.

00:57:00.620 Please like and describe.

00:57:02.680 Sorry.

00:57:02.940 Can you tell our audience to please like and subscribe?

00:57:09.300 You're welcome.

00:57:10.080 You're welcome.

Based Camp - July 23, 2024

Kamala Harris' Background： Is She Right of Trump？

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