Juno News - August 08, 2024


Dems go FULL RADICAL with VP pick (ft. Sue-Ann Levy)


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00:00:00.000 Some of us in here are old enough to remember, I see you down there, I see those
00:00:16.960 old white guys. Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who
00:00:23.700 were talking about freedom. It turns out now what they meant was the government
00:00:29.340 should be free to invade your doctor's office. In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and
00:00:37.740 their personal choices that they make. Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz
00:00:42.380 as a running mate. Waltz has a troubled history as a governor that oversaw the BLM riots that
00:00:47.560 burned the poorest parts of his state. He's also appeared to lie about his history as a
00:00:53.820 veteran. And now even CNN contributors are saying that the bid to pick him was in an effort
00:00:59.780 to attract the darker parts of the party, like anti-Jewish bigots. If Kamala Harris has already
00:01:05.880 given up on appealing to middle of the road Americans and is going full radical this election
00:01:11.780 campaign, it is absolutely chilling to imagine how she might govern if given the chance. I'm
00:01:17.400 Rachel Parker and you're watching Rachel and the Republic. Hey everyone, welcome back to Rachel
00:01:30.160 and the Republic. Joining me today to discuss Kamala Harris's VP pick is TrueNor's very own
00:01:36.160 columnist, Sue Ann Levy. Sue Ann, thanks so much for joining us today. Oh, you're very welcome,
00:01:40.440 Rachel. So you spent a bit of time researching Tim Waltz and explaining why Kamala's bid to pick him
00:01:48.120 might have been in an appeal to pander to the anti-Semites of the party. Why don't you explain
00:01:55.740 a little bit about what went on into picking him and why you think it was really in a bid to appeal to
00:02:01.460 anti-Semitics? Well, let's just say, first of all, that I have a good friend in Minneapolis. I've known
00:02:08.880 her for a number of years. She's a Trumper, but she said that the state has just declined considerably
00:02:18.340 and the first thing she said after hearing that Tim Waltz was appointed was that at least we get rid
00:02:26.220 of him. Thank goodness she breathed a sigh of relief. And, you know, so that's not just because
00:02:33.960 of the appeal to anti-Semitic overtones or undertones, I should say, but, you know, what he's done to the
00:02:40.840 state. But let's talk about the anti-Semitism because Kamala had a very good moderate choice
00:02:46.980 in Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor, who has, who's very, very popular, has a 61% popularity rating,
00:02:57.120 who is, you know, a proud Jew, and who could have helped her win Pennsylvania, which is a state that,
00:03:07.860 you know, could turn around, either go Republican or Democrat. But apparently, behind the scenes,
00:03:17.080 the darkest corners of the party, the Ilan Omars, the Rashida Tlaibs, the Jamal Bowmans,
00:03:26.260 and various others convinced her or told her that a Jew was just not on. And that's very sad. That's a
00:03:39.600 very sad statement. Now, I understand from what I hear that he is, he played, Josh Shapiro played a
00:03:46.640 very brave front at the rally subsequent to Tim Walz's appointment, but that he's hopping mad. And I
00:03:55.760 would be too, because he's a moderate. But unfortunately, and a lot of stories have come
00:04:02.640 out, he's Jewish, and no one, Democratic Party is not ready for a Jew, as a VP.
00:04:09.880 It's actually quite shocking that this is the state of America in 2024. And as you said, you know,
00:04:15.360 the Democrats need to win Pennsylvania, it's a big swing state. And I feel like Shapiro would have been
00:04:19.440 the obvious choice in those efforts. And I mean, it's not surprising that you and I that we're
00:04:24.520 talking about this, that we're covering this at a conservative leading independent news site. But
00:04:28.980 this is so well known that it's actually even being covered in corporate media in America. Here,
00:04:34.400 let's play this next clip from CNN, where political analyst Anthony Van Jones said that in picking
00:04:40.220 Walz over Shapiro, Kamala Harris is actually caving into some of the darker parts of the party. We'll roll
00:04:46.500 that clip now. Hey, listen, that the conservatives, the right wing, the Republicans, they were chewing
00:04:51.740 their fingernails down to the knuckle, because they were afraid of a Josh Shapiro. They're afraid
00:04:56.900 of a Mark Kelly. They're not as afraid of this new governor, because they think they can define him.
00:05:02.280 But so here's the challenge you've got in this party. And people don't want to talk about it,
00:05:07.160 we got to talk about it. On the one hand, you have a lot of young people who are concerned about
00:05:11.080 Gaza, you have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others. They have not felt seen by the Biden
00:05:17.200 administration. You start hearing that genocide joke that was building, that was building. And so
00:05:22.080 those folks needed to have a candidate that they could feel comfortable with. This helps them in
00:05:27.300 that regard. But you also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party. You can be for
00:05:34.440 the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot, but there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there.
00:05:39.380 And there's some disquiet now. And there has to be how much of what just happened is caving into
00:05:46.500 some of these darker parts in the party. So that's going to have to get worked out. It's
00:05:50.520 going to have to get talked. So there we have a CNN contributor saying that this was a move
00:05:54.960 that in some ways appealed to anti-Jewish bigots. I mean, how widespread is this known? Is this
00:06:00.360 something that the American people are actually going to think about when they're recognizing the
00:06:04.240 fact that Waltz was chosen over Shapiro? Is that being that commonly discussed right now?
00:06:09.380 Well, it is in some corners of the Jewish community, certainly here in Canada and south
00:06:15.120 at the border. But unfortunately, the liberal Jews, the Trump derangement syndrome pervades
00:06:20.900 amongst some of the liberal Jews in south of the border. And that's too bad because I think
00:06:27.500 Harris Waltz ticket would be very, very bad for the Jewish community. Let's talk about Kamala for a
00:06:35.580 minute. She openly snubbed Bibi Netanyahu when he spoke to Congress just a few weeks ago. And it wasn't
00:06:45.160 just that he was speaking. He brought hostages that have been released. Noah Agamari, he brought with
00:06:51.000 her, with him, I should say. And he brought members of the IDF that were of all ethnic backgrounds. And he
00:06:58.100 brought a mother of a hostage. And so she was not only snubbing Bibi Netanyahu, but she was snubbing
00:07:03.840 Israelis and the people who suffered since October the 7th. And she also has talked about pushing for a
00:07:16.840 a ceasefire. She's also talked about recently, I saw today, an arms embargo against Israel. And these
00:07:25.720 are very, very dangerous words, a very dangerous train of thought. The other thing I would mention
00:07:34.680 is that Tim Waltz is pictured with Elan Omar basically hugging this openly anti-Semitic member of Congress.
00:07:43.000 They're apparently good friends. So whether he's been a supporter of Jews or not in the past,
00:07:50.200 I think the trend is going to be very much to the left, to the progressives, and to the denial of
00:07:58.760 the fact that there's a real problem in the States with anti-Semitism.
00:08:03.240 When we're talking about Waltz as the choice here, I mean, this bid from Kamala to appeal to the really,
00:08:11.000 truly radical parts of the party is a big issue. And then another factor is also just the fact that
00:08:17.480 on a base level, Waltz seems like a really bad candidate. And I wouldn't be surprised if Kamala is,
00:08:24.440 well, the Dems, I mean, I doubt she picked him. Let's be honest, the Democrats are a machine.
00:08:29.160 I doubt Kamala was making the choices here, but I can't help but wonder if she's regretting that choice.
00:08:33.960 One of the things that has absolutely blown up in the Dems' face over the past number of days is this idea of
00:08:39.320 stolen valor, this idea that Waltz has actually lied about his military history.
00:08:43.800 He often talks about his years in the military as if he experienced combat on the ground. And it
00:08:50.520 turns out that that wasn't the case at all. That actually, when he was scheduled to go to Iraq,
00:08:56.440 when his unit learned that they would be deployed to Iraq, he actually resigned. And now he talks about
00:09:01.320 it as if he did experience combat. There's one direct quote from him. He said, quote,
00:09:05.320 we shouldn't allow weapons that I used in wars to be on American streets. So sort of alluding to the
00:09:12.440 fact that he has has been in common when he hasn't been at all. How big of a problem is this going to
00:09:17.400 be for him and for the Democrats? Well, it's, you know, it's a big problem for certainly the
00:09:23.160 conservative media. Let's see if it sticks. But there's so many other things, Rachel. Do you remember when
00:09:29.960 Milwaukee and Minneapolis were burning in 2020 when BLM engaged in huge riots following the George Floyd
00:09:40.440 murder? And we had precincts, police precincts and police cars and a thousand businesses burned down.
00:09:49.640 A hundred were damaged beyond repair. I think they're still trying to fix what was damaged. 500 million
00:09:57.720 in damages. And he sat on his hands for more than three days, didn't call in the National Guard until
00:10:04.440 three days in. And he said that, oh, the protesters needed some space to protest, to express themselves.
00:10:13.720 So, I mean, he's very soft on crime. He just, just passed a bill last year, encouraging people to come
00:10:22.760 to his state and those in his state to engage in gender, gender affirming, I guess, gender affirming
00:10:33.560 health care. And he apparently proposed the bill or announced the bill with a 12 year old trans young
00:10:43.240 man standing beside him. And so he's encouraging kids who aren't even haven't even reached puberty to
00:10:52.760 engage in gender affirming care. That's dangerous. He also infamously, he's been called tampon Tim,
00:11:02.520 because he also passed a bill. I mean, I can't say it without laughing.
00:11:07.560 You have to laugh. Like you have to laugh or you'll cry. Mandated the use of tampons in girls
00:11:13.800 and boys washroom. And here's how the Democrats and the liberal left, uh, alter the narrative. People
00:11:20.760 are coming on social media saying, oh, what's wrong with allowing young ladies to have free tampons?
00:11:27.480 There's nothing wrong with that. It's the fact that he's allowing, uh, men or young men, or thinking
00:11:34.440 that young men, there's pictures of the tampon machines above urinals in men and young boys washrooms.
00:11:41.800 I mean, it's absurd. This guy is a wacko nut bar. You know, I always say because tampons really are
00:11:50.520 pretty expensive. And so I always say, you know, if you ever need some, you don't want to pay for them,
00:11:54.920 just have your husband or your boyfriend go into the male restroom and see if they have any there
00:11:59.480 that you can use. Cause no one, no one in those washrooms is using them. It's, it's honestly the
00:12:03.640 most ridiculous thing. I want to get back to some of the stuff with the BLM rides in a minute, but
00:12:08.520 first I just want to touch a little more on this idea of stolen valor, because I think this is one of,
00:12:14.760 one of the things that the Republicans are most successful with right now is in sticking sort of
00:12:19.720 these lies to him because America just values their military so much. And they really have
00:12:25.560 lie and large Americans have so much respect for their veterans. And I think the fact that this man
00:12:31.400 is now lying about his history is going to be such a big problem for the party.
00:12:35.160 We're seeing this trend of stolen valor trending online where men who have been deployed are posting
00:12:41.080 photos of, of them at their deployment and saying, Oh, not Tim Waltz. And so I think this is something that
00:12:46.600 the Republicans are successfully sticking to Tim Waltz. And of course, there's all the other things
00:12:51.000 that you mentioned. This seems to be the thing that's sticking right now. And you said, we're
00:12:53.800 talking about it in conservative media, but it's so bad that even once again, CNN is being forced to
00:12:59.560 admit that this is a problem. We have another clip of that. Let's play now for CNN, just sort of
00:13:03.800 correcting Tim Waltz on his own record of his military deployment. Waltz did make a comment,
00:13:08.440 speaking to a group. He's done it a couple of times where he has used language that has suggested that he
00:13:13.640 carried weapons in a fighting situation. As you know, with your contact with the military,
00:13:19.720 I know from coming from a military family, there is a difference between being in a combat area,
00:13:25.720 being involved at a time of war and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you.
00:13:31.080 There is no evidence that at any time, Governor Waltz was in a position of being shot at. And some of
00:13:36.760 his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was. So that is absolutely false. And he said that
00:13:42.680 about gun rights out there. So I mean, this is CNN, like they will do absolutely anything
00:13:48.440 to run cover for the party of their choice. He'll do anything to run cover for Kamala.
00:13:52.440 So the fact that they're even sort of clarifying his record and saying that his words have been
00:13:56.440 misleading. I mean, I don't think they're taking it as far as I am or as they even should. He's
00:14:01.560 obviously lying. But they are doing, you know, some effort to correct the record here. And, you know,
00:14:07.400 I'm wondering, Stuanne, do you think that this is going to be something that is going to go away
00:14:11.480 throughout the campaign? Well, I don't think the conservative media will let it go away.
00:14:17.320 And I think that the legacy media, the left wing media will try to bury it as they do with many
00:14:22.920 other stories. But let's hope it doesn't go away. I mean, it's bad enough that you, I guess, cut,
00:14:31.240 switched and cut bait and didn't chose not to go to Iraq when he was with the National Guard.
00:14:38.040 But then you lie about your service. I mean, you know, it speaks to, I just can't begin to say,
00:14:49.000 the duplicity of these politicians. It's like Kamala saying she was a tough prosecutor,
00:14:56.280 when we know from her history in California, she was everything but a tough prosecutor. And,
00:15:03.320 you know, and even started, let's say, you want to talk about the riots, started the
00:15:09.000 Minneapolis Freedom Fund, and encouraged people to donate to people who were arrested during those
00:15:16.360 fires, during those riots, to get them off. And then they got off, and some of them went on to
00:15:22.360 murder people and to attack people. And they were violent criminals. And they were given money for bail,
00:15:29.720 to get out of prison. So, you know, we're talking tough prosecutor and war hero. I'm sorry. But,
00:15:38.040 you know, it's a very stark contrast to J.D. Vance, who actually did serve, and actually came back to
00:15:44.520 celebrated veterans. So I think they've got a real problem on their hands with that, that issue.
00:15:51.720 Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, I think you raise a good point. It's sort of this interesting juxtaposition,
00:15:56.440 where he was actually very soft on crime and soft on crime policies. And now he's sort of trying to
00:16:01.800 paint himself as this war veteran. He's lying about his history as a result of it. Like,
00:16:05.800 you can't have your cake and eat it too. He's trying to win over the most radicals,
00:16:10.520 while at the same time lying about his military history to win over those probably middle ground
00:16:17.400 Americans who do support their veterans and who do support the military. So he is, you know,
00:16:22.360 he's trying to have his cake and eat it too. I don't think it's working for him. I think that his
00:16:25.560 record's being held against him here. But let's get to something you've raised a couple times now,
00:16:29.480 which I think is really one of the biggest components as to why Tim Waltz is just such a
00:16:34.680 a bad pick for the Dems here as Kamala's running mate. And that is his history as Minnesota governor
00:16:41.000 when BLM burned down the poorest parts of his state. And it hasn't recovered to this day. And
00:16:48.920 there's this clip that's been circulating online of his wife talking about it. And it's one of the
00:16:53.000 most disturbing things that you'll ever see. It's just such elitism. But I'll let the viewers watch
00:16:59.560 it for themselves and come to their own conclusion before we continue analyzing it. Here's Tim Waltz's
00:17:04.040 wife and Minnesota First Lady, Glenn Waltz, talking about the 2020 BLM riots. We'll play that now.
00:17:08.920 Save those first days, you know, when there were riots, I could smell the burning tires. And
00:17:20.440 that was, that was a very real thing. And I kept the windows open for as long as I could, because I
00:17:26.840 felt like that was such a touchstone of what was what was happening.
00:17:30.840 So she's talking about her city burning down. And she wanted to keep the windows open so she could
00:17:38.520 smell because she felt like it was a touchstone to the moment. Like, how out of touch are these
00:17:43.480 people? They're out of touch. And so is the media. I mean, I remember my wife and I watching from Florida
00:17:49.720 as a CNN reporter stood there and said that the riots were mostly peaceful, as everything is burning to
00:17:56.680 the ground behind them. It was fiery, but peaceful, parody. They are a parody of what we would call
00:18:03.960 common sense and reality. And I mean, the fact that this was, I mean, they're a business, like you said,
00:18:10.440 that have not recovered. There are people who were engaged in these riots, who got let out of jail free,
00:18:17.080 got a let out of jail free card. And, you know, I am just really concerned that if these this duo,
00:18:24.360 Kamala and Tim become the leadership of the United States become first, you know, president and vice
00:18:35.320 president, that this the rot, the woke rot will spread right across the country. And God knows what's
00:18:42.280 going to happen. The country is so divided now. And people are so desperate because they can't make a
00:18:48.680 living. And you've got these elitists talking about smelling smoke out of windows. Well, buildings and
00:18:56.760 businesses are being destroyed by bad people. Now leaders who were charged with caring for the
00:19:03.800 state and are instead sitting at home and enjoying while it burns to the ground.
00:19:07.960 Yeah. I mean, like I said, it's like a Saturday Night Live skit only it's real. I mean, you got to laugh or
00:19:13.640 you cry. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's exactly like you have to laugh at these things. It's more difficult
00:19:18.840 when we're talking about a city being burned to the ground and the damage to those businesses. I'm
00:19:22.680 sure those business owners are not able to laugh about what happened. But, you know, sitting at home,
00:19:28.040 you just kind of have to give your head a shake. And I wonder when you talk about, you know, this duo
00:19:32.680 going full woke. I mean, do you think that this is something that is working to working for them? Are
00:19:37.480 they going to attract the younger Americans who maybe haven't voted in the past? Or do you think that
00:19:42.840 this is something that could ultimately really backfire on the Demps? Well, I'm going to hope
00:19:47.640 that it does. And I don't think it will work for them because I think a lot of people, young voters
00:19:54.840 are starting to their lives. They can't find jobs. They can't afford to buy housing. They can't, you
00:20:01.560 know, they can't afford the cost of living. And I think reality is probably going to hit a lot of
00:20:06.520 these people. I think they're trying to get those kids who, you know, protested at the various
00:20:13.320 universities. They think they're going to get them. And I don't know if that's going to even work
00:20:18.120 because I don't know if you saw the clip from Detroit yesterday where Kamala reprimanded a few
00:20:25.000 protesters. So she can't seem to even keep them happy. So it's just really funny. I thought like,
00:20:32.120 you continue. I think her honeymoon is going to come to an end very, very soon. And by the way,
00:20:39.320 did you watch the whole, uh, the, uh, her rally when she introduced Tim Waltz and he was standing
00:20:47.960 there and then he ducked behind her and it looked like he was sniffing the back of her head. I think
00:20:52.440 he was probably saying something to her. He's the guy who coined the phrase weird for JD Vance,
00:20:58.680 but I think that guy is really weird. I mean, the facial expressions, if I would invite your viewers
00:21:05.320 to watch the facial expressions on that guy while he was being introduced as the next,
00:21:11.160 you know, the VP pick. Yeah, that's funny. I'll have to go back and take a closer look at that.
00:21:15.240 I find him to be quite blase. Like he seems so boring to me, like such an uninteresting pick,
00:21:21.080 which I sort of thought maybe that's what they were, they were going for. Like he's quite radical in
00:21:24.440 his policy, but they pick sort of a, a plain white man. And even in that, in that opening clip
00:21:29.400 that we played for everyone where he's, he even sort of pokes fun at the, he, at the, at the old
00:21:34.120 white guys in the crowd, like it's so predictable, like that they have to be apologetic for their,
00:21:38.120 for their, their, you know, for the color of their skin and their age and all that nonsense. But,
00:21:43.000 you know, you pointed out, you pointed out that clip of, of Kamala in Detroit, and I am interested
00:21:48.040 to see how that's going to play out because everything I read about her seems like she has a very big
00:21:52.440 ego and you know, with these protesters, you're going to have to be very humble. And I don't
00:21:57.240 know, I feel like that's not really going to work out with the two of them. I think at some point
00:22:00.600 that ship's going to be blown wide open. I don't know how long she can keep a lid on,
00:22:04.360 on her own prestige and her own ego. So lots at play here. Sue Ann, thanks so much for joining us.
00:22:10.760 You're welcome. You're welcome. It was fun. All right, everyone. That's all we have time for today.
00:22:15.320 Thank you so much for tuning in to watch Rachel and the Republic. We will be back next week
00:22:19.320 with more American election coverage for you all. Have a great week and God bless.