The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden’s No Good, Very Bad VP Pick | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 1072

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris for VP, and the Trump campaign is rightly licking its chops.

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00:00:21.000 So, so it has happened.

00:00:23.000 Joe Biden finally picked his VP or as I like to put it, heiress apparent.

00:00:28.000 Harris apparent.

00:00:29.000 You got it.

00:00:30.000 Got it.

00:00:30.000 Because he is not going to live through his first term.

00:00:32.000 OK, I know we're not supposed to say that.

00:00:34.000 I know we're not supposed to say that, but 6 in 10 Americans agree with me, including some 57% of independents and 49% of Democrats.

00:00:41.000 The reason that the VP pick matters this time, and I have been a longtime advocate of the notion that the VP pick does not matter nearly at all.

00:00:47.000 It matters this time because everyone assumes that Joe Biden is at the very least not going to run for reelection and probably will not finish his first term.

00:00:54.000 He himself has called himself a transitional candidate.

00:00:56.000 He is obviously in a state of cognitive decline.

00:00:59.000 It is perfectly obvious to everyone.

00:01:00.000 And at this point, President Trump should simply ignore Joe Biden and go directly after Kamala Harris and say, this is the next president of the United States, not Joe Biden.

00:01:08.000 And Joe Biden made her the issue.

00:01:09.000 See, this is a real strategic blunder by Biden.

00:01:11.000 I'm frankly amused and astonished by the number of people in the conventional political class who have suggested that this was the safest pick.

00:01:19.000 This was the pick that made the most sense.

00:01:21.000 It makes no sense at all.

00:01:23.000 None.

00:01:23.000 Biden's entire campaign is predicated on the assumption that Joe Biden is basically a return to normalcy.

00:01:30.000 He is a non-threatening, elderly, grandfatherly character who is not going to threaten anything about the way America was running before President Trump became president.

00:01:38.000 He's not a radical.

00:01:38.000 He's not transformative.

00:01:39.000 He's just a dude.

00:01:41.000 And because he's just a dude and kind of an elderly doddering dude at that, you don't have to worry about Joe Biden.

00:01:45.000 You don't have to worry about chaos in the streets.

00:01:47.000 You don't have to worry about the crazy tweets coming out of the White House.

00:01:49.000 All you have to do is simply go about your business and Joe Biden will have your back.

00:01:53.000 That was the Biden campaign in a nutshell.

00:01:55.000 And so you should focus when you go into the voting booth on his opponent.

00:01:58.000 You should focus on the volatility and the kind of craziness of Donald Trump's presidency when you choose to vote.

00:02:04.000 So, when he picked a VP, he should have underscored those strengths, right?

00:02:08.000 What he should have done is he should have picked somebody like Amy Klobuchar.

00:02:10.000 He should have picked somebody who was inherently non-threatening, somebody that the American public widely perceives to be somewhat moderate.

00:02:16.000 Instead, he decided to cave to the Twitterati.

00:02:19.000 And he made this mistake for a couple of reasons.

00:02:21.000 First, he decided very early on that he was going to pick a woman.

00:02:24.000 Well, as soon as you say that you're basically going to pick a VP based on tokenistic concerns, and let's face it, that is a tokenistic concern, whether your VP is a woman. 0.92

00:02:32.000 OK, that that that does not say anything about her character.

00:02:34.000 It does not say anything about her politics.

00:02:36.000 Nikki Haley is a woman. 0.99

00:02:37.000 The idea that this is a criteria for picking the VP is the is the sex to which they belong is a bizarre idea on its face.

00:02:45.000 And it becomes even more bizarre when you realize that the Democratic Party platform at this point is that women don't exist and a man can be a woman.

00:02:51.000 So as my friend Matt Walsh has pointed out, it's very bizarre that the media are championing first female black VP Pick by a Democrat.

00:02:59.000 Interesting.

00:02:59.000 Incredible, incredible stuff.

00:03:00.000 They don't even believe women exist, so I'm wondering what's so historic about an individual with a cervix, as the media might put it, being selected as the VP candidate.

00:03:08.000 They literally say there are no differences between men and women to the point where a man can be a woman, but it's very historic that Kamala Harris is in fact a woman.

00:03:15.000 In any case, Joe Biden early on signaled he was going to pick a woman.

00:03:18.000 Well, this boxed him in, but it didn't box him in that much because there was still a bevy of qualified women who are out there. 1.00

00:03:24.000 Then, because he had already caved to, OK, I have to pick somebody who is representative of a particular demographic population in the United States.

00:03:32.000 Then he was pushed into, OK, it has to be a black woman. 1.00

00:03:35.000 It has to be a woman of color. 1.00

00:03:37.000 So he sort of futzed between black woman and woman of color.

00:03:41.000 And finally, he settled on Kamala Harris, and she was probably the worst available pick. 0.99

00:03:46.000 There are some other people who are up for this thing.

00:03:49.000 Raphael Demings in Florida, largely anonymous, but at least not disliked by the American public.

00:03:53.000 You had Karen Bass in California, who's kind of a communist, but again, not very well known, and at least had significant support in the black community as the longtime head of the Congressional Black Caucus.

00:04:01.000 And then you had Kamala Harris, a woman so deeply unpopular that she dropped out of the presidential race before her voters in California even had a chance to vote on her. 1.00

00:04:09.000 She was registering at 7% in the California primaries. 0.99

00:04:13.000 Kamala Harris was such a bad candidate that after jumping to the lead early on in the race, based again on those Twitter blue check marks, checking particular boxes, woman, black, Well, she jumped to the top of the race and then she immediately flamed out because it turns out that she's garbage at this. 0.99

00:04:27.000 She's a terrible politician. 1.00

00:04:28.000 She's manipulative. 0.99

00:04:29.000 She's Machiavellian.

00:04:31.000 She has very few principles.

00:04:32.000 And what principles she does have are radical.

00:04:35.000 And that's who Joe Biden chose?

00:04:36.000 Is that supposed to make people feel sanguine about the future of the country?

00:04:39.000 Is that supposed to make people feel comforted and solidified in their belief that he is, in fact, a moderate who's going to carry America on gentle waves to better days?

00:04:49.000 Is that really the pick that makes a lot of sense?

00:04:52.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:04:53.000 And so the media have been attempting to spin this thing as though Harris is a moderate.

00:04:57.000 This is an incredible attempt.

00:04:58.000 It really is.

00:04:59.000 Because as we will examine throughout today's show and in the coming days, Kamala Harris is not only not a moderate, she's extraordinarily radical in her policies. 0.98

00:05:06.000 She's been rated one of the most liberal senators in the United States Senate. 0.94

00:05:10.000 GovTrack.us rated her as the fourth most liberal senator in the United States Senate just behind Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:05:19.000 She voted with Bernie Sanders 92% of the time while she was in the Senate.

00:05:24.000 That is not a moderate.

00:05:26.000 And she's not a pragmatist either.

00:05:28.000 She's a hardcore leftist who is pragmatic only in the sense that she will do nearly anything to get ahead politically. 0.99

00:05:35.000 She will switch her positions. 0.86

00:05:36.000 She will flip on a dime. 0.87

00:05:38.000 She will make accusations that are really ugly about people simply to push herself forward. 0.98

00:05:43.000 If I'm Joe Biden, I'm getting a food taster today.

00:05:46.000 Today.

00:05:47.000 Do not have Kamala Harris in the same room when you're eating lunch, Joe Biden.

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00:07:03.000 All righty, so the media have been attempting to spin this thing, and spin it they have.

00:07:07.000 The New York Times headlined, they tweeted this out, quote, Senator Kamala Harris of California is Joe Biden's pick for vice president, a pragmatic moderate. 1.00

00:07:16.000 She's the first black woman on a major party ticket.

00:07:19.000 Well, the only sentence, the only part of that sentence that matters to the New York Times is, as we will see, the last part of that sentence, that she's the first black woman on a major party ticket.

00:07:26.000 I don't think this has the same quite historic appeal, you know, black woman on a major party ticket as Barack Obama, first black president for two terms.

00:07:32.000 I think we have already established in the United States that we are willing to elect black people to extraordinarily high office.

00:07:36.000 Kamala Harris is not breaking any glass ceilings here because there was no glass ceiling. 0.99

00:07:40.000 Hillary Clinton was last major party nominee.

00:07:42.000 She won the popular vote.

00:07:43.000 So we've already had a woman who won the most popular votes in a presidential election, and we've already had a two-term black president. 1.00

00:07:48.000 So the notion that Kamala Harris faces unique obstacles is absolutely ridiculous.

00:07:53.000 In fact, she faces such non-unique obstacles that she could flame out so dramatically as a candidate.

00:07:57.000 She didn't even last to the first primary, and then she can get selected specifically because she checks certain intersectional boxes.

00:08:03.000 This is not the story of a woman who earned her way to the VP nomination, okay?

00:08:08.000 She completely blew herself up.

00:08:10.000 And it doesn't matter, because the media clamored for particular boxes to be checked, and thus, the boxes were checked.

00:08:15.000 Is she a pragmatic moderate?

00:08:16.000 Of course she's not a pragmatic moderate! 0.67

00:08:18.000 But the New York Times is doing the full-on drool cup routine.

00:08:22.000 Their front page is just astonishing.

00:08:25.000 I mean, their front page today is just created, handcrafted in Kamala Harris's third bedroom in her guest house.

00:08:32.000 It's amazing.

00:08:33.000 They've got the full-on hero picture of Kamala Harris.

00:08:35.000 She's crossing her arms.

00:08:37.000 She's looking into the distance, Che Guevara style.

00:08:40.000 It's really a beautiful photo.

00:08:42.000 The giant headline says, Harris joins Biden ticket, achieving a first.

00:08:47.000 And then there are three more headlines.

00:08:48.000 Here are the three more headlines.

00:08:50.000 Ready for this?

00:08:51.000 Political warrior shaped by life in two worlds.

00:08:54.000 Wow.

00:08:56.000 Political warrior shaped by life in two worlds.

00:08:59.000 Pixine as safe but energizing.

00:09:01.000 Oh, safe and also energizing.

00:09:03.000 Why?

00:09:04.000 That's as good as it gets.

00:09:05.000 It's both safe and energizing.

00:09:07.000 I mean, it's like the Energizer bunny, but also it's safe.

00:09:11.000 Incredible.

00:09:12.000 Okay, and then there's this headline.

00:09:13.000 Woman of color in number two slot of major party. 0.95

00:09:17.000 Unbelievable!

00:09:18.000 Groundbreaking!

00:09:19.000 Yes, we had a black president for two terms.

00:09:21.000 We did.

00:09:22.000 And we had a woman who won the most popular votes. 1.00

00:09:23.000 But woman of color in the number two slot of a major party? 1.00

00:09:27.000 Wow!

00:09:28.000 Historic!

00:09:28.000 Wow!

00:09:29.000 By the way, this is a pretty great country, is it not?

00:09:32.000 Yeah, I've been told that opportunities are not available to people of color.

00:09:35.000 Kamala Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant and an Indian American immigrant.

00:09:39.000 And she rose through the ranks to become a senator from California and then was selected as vice president of the United States. 0.96

00:09:45.000 Seems like a pretty great life. 0.76

00:09:47.000 Seems like this is a pretty damned great country that she will then set about her mind to talk about how terrible it is. 0.56

00:09:52.000 Okay, but, so the media are just, they've got the drool cups full out for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:09:58.000 David Axelrod says she's the safest pick, the advisor to Barack Obama.

00:10:02.000 Obama himself was very thrilled with the Kamala Harris pick.

00:10:06.000 I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama said some kind of sexist things about her looks, actually, back in the day. 0.64

00:10:10.000 In any case, CNN's David Axelrod, he says, it is a measure of these extraordinary times that Joe Biden's historic choice for vice president was also the most conventional.

00:10:19.000 In choosing Kamala Harris, Biden selected the candidate who had been the front runner among political handicappers and betting markets for months.

00:10:24.000 The senator from California fulfills Biden's pledge to name a woman and responds to the expectation that he would pick the first woman of color ever to serve on a national ticket.

00:10:32.000 Pressure to make such a choice had been building since the killing of George Floyd, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:10:37.000 Okay, so this is where it is pretty obvious that David Axelrod has been taking Joe Rogan's advice and trying DMT.

00:10:49.000 Really?

00:10:50.000 Is she?

00:10:51.000 Is she now?

00:10:53.000 I mean, I suppose she's magnetic on television in the same way that Joaquin Phoenix is magnetic in that scene from Joker where he goes on The Late Night Show and then proceeds to laugh like a hysterical crazy person.

00:11:04.000 Senator and recent presidential candidate, Harris also meets another important test for Biden.

00:11:04.000 As a U.S.

00:11:08.000 People familiar with research the campaign undertook to inform its decision told me voters viewed her as among the most qualified to be president day one.

00:11:16.000 Elizabeth Warren's just over in the corner crying somewhere. 1.00

00:11:21.000 By the way, polling numbers like that are incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:11:24.000 They view her as qualified to be president. 1.00

00:11:25.000 That's because they know her name.

00:11:26.000 They didn't know the names of any of the other people being discussed.

00:11:30.000 She is familiar with the maelstrom of a national campaign, says David Axelrod, having spent a year running for president, albeit unsuccessfully.

00:11:37.000 Though she was at times less than sure-footed in dealing with incoming criticism, she understands the pace and nature of it, which will only intensify in a fall race against Trump.

00:11:46.000 Yes, I'm sure.

00:11:47.000 It's amazing.

00:11:49.000 Apparently, everybody in the media have the memory span of a guppy.

00:11:53.000 They're all like Dory from Finding Nemo.

00:11:56.000 They don't remember five minutes ago when Tulsi Gabbard finished her on the stage.

00:11:58.000 I mean, absolutely brutalized her.

00:12:01.000 So President Trump, for his part, he reacted.

00:12:03.000 He said, I'm glad that Joe picked Kamala Harris.

00:12:05.000 He is correct.

00:12:06.000 He should be glad that Joe picked Kamala Harris. 0.92

00:12:07.000 Now he gets to turn this into a Trump versus Harris campaign, which is a much better campaign for him. 0.96

00:12:13.000 It's been difficult for him to attack Joe Biden because, again, Joe Biden is basically a dead person. 0.97

00:12:17.000 Joe Biden is a corpse. 0.97

00:12:18.000 It is difficult to attack a corpse. 0.97

00:12:19.000 But now, because it appears that Joe Biden has picked a radical as his VP candidate and because Joe Biden is a corpse, Trump should just go right around Biden.

00:12:26.000 He should.

00:12:27.000 Joe Biden was ignored for most of his political career because he's a career politician with no particular skills to recommend him.

00:12:33.000 He was ignored in 1,000 presidential campaigns before, and then he was Obama's VP.

00:12:38.000 It's only his association with others that has made Joe Biden in any way an important figure in Washington, D.C.

00:12:43.000 And right now, it is very obvious.

00:12:44.000 I mean, Joe Biden himself has said that he is a transitional figure.

00:12:47.000 So Trump should just treat him that way.

00:12:49.000 He should treat him the same way that most Americans treat the Washington football team's new name.

00:12:53.000 In fact, I think the Washington football team should rename itself the Washington Bidens in honor of the fact that it's an interim name that means nothing and will be gone incredibly soon.

00:13:01.000 Here is President Trump saying he is glad that Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris.

00:13:05.000 Again, he should be.

00:13:07.000 She was my number one pick.

00:13:08.000 I mean, she was, as they would say, because hopefully you'll start college football. 0.93

00:13:12.000 She was my number one draft pick. 0.85

00:13:16.000 And we'll see how she works out.

00:13:18.000 She did very, very poorly in the primaries, as you know.

00:13:22.000 She was expected to do well.

00:13:25.000 And she was she ended up at right around 2 percent.

00:13:30.000 It's been a lot of money.

00:13:31.000 She had a lot of things happening.

00:13:34.000 And so I was a little surprised that he picked her.

00:13:37.000 True.

00:13:37.000 Fact check.

00:13:38.000 Fact check.

00:13:39.000 Trump then suggested that she is nasty and disrespectful, which, of course, is going to launch a thousand headlines about how it's sexist to point out that Kamala Harris is actually quite cruel, which she absolutely is. 0.99

00:13:39.000 True. 0.99

00:13:47.000 We'll talk about in just one moment, not just to small children, but also to the person who she's now running with.

00:13:55.000 We can get to that in just a moment.

00:13:56.000 Here was Trump going after Harris yesterday.

00:13:59.000 She's got a lot of difficult things that she's going to have to explain.

00:14:04.000 Plus, she was very, very nasty. 1.00

00:14:07.000 One of the reasons that surprised me, she was probably nastier than even Pocahontas. 1.00

00:14:14.000 To Joe Biden.

00:14:15.000 She was very disrespectful to Joe Biden.

00:14:18.000 And it's hard to pick somebody that's that disrespectful when she said things during the debates, during the Democrat primary debates, that were horrible. 0.68

00:14:30.000 Okay, well, he is absolutely right about that.

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00:16:01.000 The Trump campaign has now put out an ad immediately upon Joe Biden naming Kamala Harris.

00:16:06.000 Here was the Trump campaign ad.

00:16:08.000 It is indeed an effective ad.

00:16:10.000 Kamala Harris ran for president by rushing to the radical left, embracing Bernie's plan for socialized medicine, calling for trillions in new taxes, attacking Joe Biden for racist policies. 1.00

00:16:21.000 Voters rejected Harris.

00:16:23.000 They smartly spotted a phony.

00:16:25.000 But not Joe Biden.

00:16:27.000 He's not that smart.

00:16:28.000 Biden calls himself a transition candidate.

00:16:31.000 He is handing over the reins to Kamala while they jointly embrace the radical left.

00:16:35.000 Slow Joe and phony Kamala.

00:16:37.000 Perfect together.

00:16:38.000 Wrong for America. 0.70

00:16:40.000 So he's going to need to do better than phony Kamala because I don't think that it's the question about Kamala Harris is not that she is a phony.

00:16:45.000 The question about Kamala Harris is that she is an extraordinarily radical candidate who is indeed manipulative. 1.00

00:16:51.000 I would be going Trojan horse Harris.

00:16:53.000 I mean, pretty obvious Trojan horse Harris, right?

00:16:54.000 I mean, that Biden is not even he like they're wheeling him around on a gurney at this point.

00:17:00.000 And as soon like Kamala Harris is just like, just make it to just make it to January, Joe.

00:17:05.000 Just make it to January, Joe.

00:17:06.000 Just make it to January, Joe.

00:17:09.000 That's what the Democratic Party is basically praying for at this point.

00:17:13.000 Now, let's go through a little bit of Kamala Harris's history, because I think it's important to recognize the way that her career took shape.

00:17:20.000 This is a person who is basically willing to say or do anything to get power, but who also has extraordinarily strong authoritarian tendencies.

00:17:29.000 She is very, very extreme. 0.70

00:17:30.000 And all of this is fair game.

00:17:32.000 Before everybody starts shouting that you're not allowed to talk about Kamala Harris's past, she's running for vice president of the United States. 1.00

00:17:38.000 It was fair game when she was running for Senate. 0.98

00:17:39.000 It was fair game when she was running for president.

00:17:41.000 It is fair game now that she's the vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket. 1.00

00:17:45.000 So it is absolutely fair game to ask how she started her career, and Donald Trump is not going to be shy about mentioning this.

00:17:50.000 A 1994 LA Times report about then-California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's rush to hand out patronage jobs described Kamala Harris as Brown's frequent companion, and said several people referred to her as Brown's girlfriend. 0.62

00:18:04.000 That report also cited a column from the Chronicle's Herb Cain that called Harris the speaker's new study.

00:18:09.000 Brown was married at the time.

00:18:10.000 Willie Brown is one of the most powerful people in California.

00:18:13.000 He was 60.

00:18:14.000 She was 29.

00:18:14.000 So it was a love match.

00:18:16.000 According to Kane, the couple split up in 1995, which flabbergasted those who found Kamala the perfect antidote to whatever playboy tendencies still reside in the mayor-elect's jaunty persona.

00:18:24.000 He ended up as the mayor of San Francisco.

00:18:27.000 Although Brown supported Harris in her successful 2003 run for San Francisco District Attorney, she tried to distance herself from him in that race, telling San Francisco Weekly that Brown, whose career was then dogged by corruption allegations, was an albatross hanging around my neck.

00:18:40.000 His career is over.

00:18:41.000 I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years.

00:18:43.000 I do not owe him a thing, she told San Francisco Weekly.

00:18:46.000 And this is pretty typical Kamala Harris, right?

00:18:48.000 So she dates the guy when she's 29 and he's 60.

00:18:50.000 He gives her a bunch of patronage positions.

00:18:52.000 And then as soon as she's running for DA in San Francisco, she's like, I've never heard of him.

00:18:55.000 He's a bad man. 0.98

00:18:56.000 I think he's corrupt.

00:18:58.000 Brown wrote, Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was assembly speaker. 0.64

00:19:04.000 He was the speaker of the assembly from 80 to 95.

00:19:07.000 Brown appointed Harris to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and then to the Medical Assistance Commission, positions that paid her more than $400,000 over five years. 0.95

00:19:15.000 He also gave her a BMW.

00:19:17.000 He said, I certainly helped her win her first race for district attorney in San Francisco.

00:19:22.000 I've also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, and Dianne Feinstein, he added.

00:19:26.000 The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word I would be indicted if I so much as jaywalked while she was DA, Brown wrote.

00:19:32.000 That's politics for you.

00:19:35.000 Kamala Harris, what a charmer. 1.00

00:19:38.000 But Kamala Harris then became a district attorney in San Francisco. 1.00

00:19:43.000 And then on the basis of that, she ran for attorney general in California. 0.85

00:19:47.000 And there she campaigned as a hardcore law and order type. 1.00

00:19:51.000 And she said that she was going to go after criminals. 0.99

00:19:53.000 And listen, I'm a big fan of going after criminals, but she simultaneously went after very, very low level offenders and also basically did nothing to lower the crime rates in California, which is kind of an amazing achievement when you think about it.

00:20:04.000 Kamala Harris!

00:20:06.000 According to Lara Bazelon, the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs, writing in the New York Times, said, consider her record as San Francisco District Attorney from 2004 to 2011.

00:20:17.000 Ms. Harris was criticized in 2010 for withholding information about a police laboratory technician who'd been accused of intentionally sabotaging her work and stealing drugs from the lab.

00:20:25.000 After a memo surfaced showing that Harris's deputies knew about the technician's wrongdoing and recent conviction, but failed to alert defense lawyers, a judge condemned Harris's indifference to the systemic violation of the defendant's constitutional rights.

00:20:36.000 Harris contested the ruling, arguing that the judge, whose husband was a defense attorney, had a conflict of interest.

00:20:41.000 Harris lost, and more than 600 cases handled by the corrupt technician were dismissed.

00:20:46.000 She also famously decided that she was going to support a law that allowed for the prosecution of parents for truancy of children.

00:20:54.000 In 2004, Harris and then San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who's now the governor of California, launched an anti-truancy initiative.

00:21:01.000 The $450,000 program included a warning to parents they could face a criminal charge if their kids didn't show up to school.

00:21:06.000 To be considered truant, a student needed to be only 30 minutes late without an unapproved excuse on more than two occasions.

00:21:11.000 Parents of students with 20 or more unexcused absences in a year could face a year in jail or a $2,500 fine.

00:21:17.000 And then she laughed about it.

00:21:19.000 And then she laughed about that.

00:21:20.000 Like, openly.

00:21:23.000 So, that was her shtick.

00:21:26.000 Her shtick was that she was going to be the tough on-crime candidate.

00:21:30.000 And this has led, obviously, to a lot of consternation among radical left types about her being a cop.

00:21:36.000 And frankly, I think some of that consternation is warranted.

00:21:39.000 I mean, she endorsed legislation that would allow for the confiscation of private assets before a prosecution took place.

00:21:49.000 She backed civil asset forfeiture.

00:21:52.000 Before any of the civil, before any of the prosecutions had actually been legalized at that point.

00:21:59.000 So she was willing to use the authority of the government to do pretty much anything, which is very much in line with Kamala Harris's thinking.

00:22:07.000 And then, obviously when she was running for president, then it became totally okay to joke about past marijuana use, right?

00:22:11.000 So she prosecuted like a thousand people, 1,500 people for marijuana use. 1.00

00:22:16.000 Which, again, like if you're, as a strict law and order guy, if you're a drug dealer and it gets downgraded to a marijuana use charge and you go to jail, I don't have a problem with that.

00:22:23.000 But Kamala, you certainly don't get to laugh about smoking pot at the same time that you're talking about how you were a great prosecutor.

00:22:29.000 Here was Kamala Harris laughing at her own marijuana use. 1.00

00:22:40.000 It's like yoga.

00:22:42.000 It's always.

00:22:43.000 Okay, she actually went on a podcast where she laughed about her own marijuana use. 0.80

00:22:49.000 This led Tulsi Gabbard to famously wreck Harris during a debate, pointing out that Kamala Harris was the queen of tough on crime, and then laughed and scoffed about her own marijuana use at exactly the same time, basically. 1.00

00:23:02.000 Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.

00:23:10.000 There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. 1.00

00:23:19.000 She blocked evidence.

00:23:21.000 She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.

00:23:28.000 She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. 1.00

00:23:34.000 And she fought to keep the cash bail system in place. 1.00

00:23:38.000 That impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.

00:23:41.000 And Harris was attacked like this twice in debate and had no answer to it anywhere along the line.

00:23:46.000 This is why it's no shock that Breonna Joy Gray, who is the former National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders, So she's going to be attacked from the left for being too harsh on crime. 1.00

00:23:59.000 But she was only harsh on crime on a low level, really, because she wanted to be perceived that way so that she could then run as senator. 0.55

00:24:07.000 Because being a Democratic prosecutor always makes you look better when you run for senator.

00:24:10.000 Then, as soon as she became senator, she swiveled to the extraordinarily radical left. 0.98

00:24:14.000 By the way, at the same time that she was being tough on crime, she was cultivating the banks. 0.96

00:24:17.000 She was cultivating Silicon Valley.

00:24:19.000 Apparently Silicon Valley is super duper pleased that Kamala Harris has now been chosen according to recode. 0.99

00:24:25.000 Cooper Tebow, a former Democratic fundraiser, a top Democratic fundraiser in Silicon Valley, said about one third of major West Coast donors have been waiting to see who Biden would choose as VP.

00:24:34.000 If Biden had chosen Warren, they would have had concerns, but they said that Kamala Harris is a safe pick. 0.96

00:24:39.000 So very tough on the prosecutions of the marijuana, but pretty tight with all the people in power.

00:24:44.000 So that pretty much It confirms what we think about Kamala Harris.

00:24:48.000 We'll get to her actual authoritarian streak in just one second because she has a strong authoritarian streak.

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00:26:16.000 Okay, so.

00:26:18.000 What did we learn from Kamala Harris's tenure?

00:26:20.000 Well, we learned that she's incredibly manipulative, that she will use people to get ahead and then she will ditch them at the first available opportunity. 1.00

00:26:25.000 As you'll see, she did this to Joe Biden as well.

00:26:26.000 And she will ditch him at first available opportunity as well, too.

00:26:30.000 We know that she is perfectly willing to use the auspices of government in order to achieve particular goals.

00:26:36.000 She's willing to be authoritarian in her use of government, and she has threatened to be incredibly authoritarian if ever she became president. 0.95

00:26:42.000 During this last campaign, she repeatedly talked about how she was going to overthrow the boundaries of constitutional government. 0.99

00:26:48.000 Like, all the time.

00:26:50.000 She said openly that she would give Congress 100 days to act on guns.

00:26:53.000 And then, if Congress did not act on guns, then she would immediately use executive action to act on guns. 0.99

00:26:59.000 So this is her openly threatening to violate the Constitution.

00:27:01.000 If Congress doesn't do... There is no clause in the Constitution, by the way, that says, if Congress doesn't do what the president wants, the executive branch shall have the power to simply declare the law.

00:27:09.000 There's nothing in the Constitution like that.

00:27:11.000 But as we'll see, Kamala Harris does not give two good damns about the Constitution. 1.00

00:27:15.000 Because that's who she is.

00:27:16.000 Here is Kamala Harris, in open debate, saying that she'd give Congress 100 days to act on guns, then she'd just do it herself. 0.88

00:27:22.000 Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws.

00:27:32.000 And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.

00:27:36.000 And specifically, what I will do is put in place a requirement that for anyone who sells more than five guns a year, they are required to do background checks when they sell those guns.

00:27:49.000 Amazing.

00:27:50.000 Amazing.

00:27:50.000 So she's just going to do it herself.

00:27:52.000 And then when she was asked about this in open debate, Joe Biden was like, that's unconstitutional, Kamala. 0.65

00:27:57.000 There's a lot of stuff you can't just do as president of the United States.

00:28:00.000 And Kamala Harris is like, well, yes, we can.

00:28:04.000 Hyena-like Joker laugh.

00:28:06.000 By the way, I guess it's good that she was cast as VP, because otherwise she would have been the heir apparent for the Joker part.

00:28:14.000 Jared Leto was out already.

00:28:15.000 So in the next Suicide Squad, it would have been Kamala Harris laughing with that crazy Cesar Romero kind of giggle. 1.00

00:28:21.000 Here she was, trying to explain to Joe Biden that the Constitution is hackneyed and no longer matters.

00:28:25.000 And Joe Biden's standing there.

00:28:27.000 But I remember the Constitution.

00:28:28.000 I was there when they wrote it.

00:28:30.000 I've been ignoring it for a year.

00:28:32.000 Here, this was from a Democratic debate.

00:28:32.000 And then he fell asleep.

00:28:34.000 You can't do it by executive order any more than Trump can do things when he says he can do it by executive order.

00:28:40.000 Does the vice president have a point there?

00:28:42.000 Some things you can.

00:28:43.000 Many things you can't.

00:28:44.000 Let's let the senator answer.

00:28:45.000 Well, I mean, I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying no, we can't, let's say yes, we can.

00:28:52.000 Let's be constitutional.

00:28:57.000 And yes, we can.

00:29:06.000 Yeah, looking forward to a lot of that.

00:29:07.000 Looking forward to a lot of that.

00:29:08.000 Get ready.

00:29:09.000 You're gonna get a lot of that.

00:29:11.000 That crazy laugh.

00:29:13.000 Mm hmm.

00:29:14.000 Yeah, good stuff happening there.

00:29:15.000 So she's an authoritarian who can laugh crazily. 1.00

00:29:17.000 So that's that's exciting stuff.

00:29:18.000 By the way, she also supports packing the Supreme Court.

00:29:20.000 So that's good.

00:29:21.000 Definitely somebody who is a pragmatic moderate, according to The New York Times.

00:29:26.000 Harris told Politico, quote, we are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court.

00:29:29.000 We have to take this challenge head on.

00:29:31.000 Everything is on the table to do that.

00:29:34.000 So she joined with Beto and Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren, saying that she might consider packing at the courts.

00:29:41.000 She's definitely a moderate, guys. 0.99

00:29:43.000 Definitely, definitely a moderate.

00:29:44.000 Okay, and then there's Kamala Harris, the opportunist. 0.84

00:29:47.000 So as we talked about, rather opportunistic in her early career.

00:29:51.000 Okay, but she's been even more opportunistic on issues of race. 0.97

00:29:54.000 So very early on in this race, she basically, recognizing that her main pitch for the presidency was the intersectional checkmarks on her resume, she complained that people should not say anything about identity politics.

00:30:07.000 She said, identity politics is good.

00:30:09.000 Don't worry, she's a moderate who will bring Americans together. 0.75

00:30:11.000 But identity politics is good.

00:30:13.000 Anybody who complains about it is just trying to shut us up.

00:30:16.000 No, I want her to laugh more.

00:30:17.000 I want more of that charming, graceful laugh from Kamala Harris.

00:30:20.000 I think it's beautiful.

00:30:21.000 I think it's a beautiful sound.

00:30:22.000 Anybody who doesn't think that that sound is beautiful is simply being misogynistic.

00:30:26.000 Here was Kamala Harris talking about how identity politics are good. 1.00

00:30:31.000 They're an active, affirmative good.

00:30:34.000 The term identity politics, people will use that term.

00:30:38.000 It's like people used to talk about the race card.

00:30:41.000 Right.

00:30:42.000 And they'll bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about race, about sexual orientation, about religion.

00:30:50.000 They'll bring it up when we're talking about civil rights issues, as a way to marginalize the issue, as a way to frankly try to silence you or shut you up.

00:31:01.000 Okay, no one's shutting up Kamala Harris.

00:31:02.000 She's been fully able to talk for literally her entire life.

00:31:05.000 I mean, basically since she was a child, she's been able to talk.

00:31:08.000 And it seems like nobody has really been successful in forcing her into saying anything or not saying anything. 0.99

00:31:13.000 In fact, she's been able to say anything and everything she wants to say, including some of the dumbest crap that's ever entered the human lexicon. 0.94

00:31:20.000 Here's Kamala Harris tweeting back in January 2019. 0.98

00:31:22.000 You'll remember that there was a victim of a hate crime named Jussie Smollett.

00:31:26.000 Unfortunately, his victimizer was also a man named Jussie Smollett.

00:31:29.000 Jussie Smollett.

00:31:30.000 suggested that there are two white men wearing red MAGA hats, basically, walking down the street at 3 a.m.

00:31:35.000 in Chicago in the middle of a freezing windstorm, who decided to hit him with bleach and then put a rope around his neck, and it all ended up being bullcrap, which it was perfectly obvious it was from basically the first moments.

00:31:45.000 Kamala Harris, however, jumped in at the time and tweeted out, Jussie Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.

00:31:51.000 I'm praying for his quick recovery.

00:31:53.000 This was an attempt in modern day lynching.

00:31:55.000 By the way, this tweet is still up.

00:31:56.000 No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin.

00:31:59.000 We must confront this hate.

00:32:02.000 And, you know, it's true.

00:32:03.000 I mean, Jussie Smollett did commit a hate crime against Jussie Smollett. 0.97

00:32:06.000 And Kamala Harris was very upset about it at the time.

00:32:08.000 It was a modern-day lynching by Jussie Smollett against Jussie Smollett.

00:32:12.000 Kamala Harris is an incredibly, incredibly cynical politician. 1.00

00:32:14.000 How cynical is she? 0.99

00:32:15.000 Well, she has now decided to sign on to the campaign of a man that she called essentially a segregationist and perhaps also a sexual abuser. 0.97

00:32:22.000 That is Kamala Harris. 0.79

00:32:23.000 Don't worry, she's not an opportunist in any way.

00:32:25.000 She is merely a sincere, pragmatic moderate.

00:32:28.000 A sincere, pragmatic moderate.

00:32:29.000 You have nothing to fear from the manipulative, opportunistic, authoritarian radical.

00:32:36.000 Nothing to fear, guys.

00:32:37.000 Nothing to fear.

00:32:37.000 She was the safest possible pick.

00:32:40.000 We're gonna get to more of Kamala Harris opportunist in just one second. 1.00

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00:34:16.000 Okay, before we get to more of the charming and moderate Kamala Harris... 1.00

00:34:22.000 And we're about to get to what Kamala Harris said about Joe Biden during this campaign.

00:34:26.000 Basically, she now says that she is going to run on the same ticket as a quasi-segregationist who would have kept her out of integrated schools and a person who routinely sexually harasses women.

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00:36:02.000 Absolutely opportunistic Kamala Harris, willing to say or do literally anything to get ahead.

00:36:15.000 Literally anything to get ahead.

00:36:17.000 And all you have to do is point to the comments she made about Joe Biden.

00:36:20.000 By the way, some of us are consistent. 0.97

00:36:21.000 I defended Joe Biden against this garbage, scurrilous attack back when she originally levied it against him. 0.62

00:36:27.000 So you'll remember all the way back at the beginning of this campaign, it was a Democratic debate. 1.00

00:36:31.000 This little tete-a-tete sent Kamala Harris rocketing to the top of the polls because everyone is stupid and everyone is dishonest. 1.00

00:36:38.000 Essentially, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a segregationist. 0.99

00:36:40.000 She said if Joe Biden had had his way, then little Kamala, little baby Kamala, never would have been able to go to an integrated public school in San Francisco.

00:36:49.000 Except for the fact that she obviously would have, and Joe Biden was not opposed to integration, and it was all a lie.

00:36:56.000 And she doesn't support forced busing.

00:36:58.000 But it was this Magical attack that made Kamala Harris's name on the national stage because this lady is willing to say or do anything. 1.00

00:37:04.000 She will savage anyone to get ahead. 1.00

00:37:06.000 Here she was going after the guy who would later select her as VP because he's a doddering old fool. 0.99

00:37:10.000 It's personal and it was actually very, it was hurtful. 0.97

00:37:14.000 To hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.

00:37:27.000 And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.

00:37:34.000 And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.

00:37:42.000 And she was bused to school every day.

00:37:45.000 And that little girl was me.

00:37:47.000 Okay, and then she started selling for 30 bucks a pop, that little girl was me t-shirts, like within moments. 1.00

00:37:52.000 It was a pre-planned attack on the guy who would later select her as VP, calling him a racist.

00:37:56.000 Okay, so the media are going into full spin mode on this because this is not the same thing as Ronald Reagan picking George H.W.

00:38:02.000 Bush after H.W.

00:38:03.000 suggested that Reaganomics was voodoo economics.

00:38:05.000 That's a disagreement on policy, right?

00:38:07.000 That would be the same thing as Biden picking Harris and them having disagreements on Medicare for all, right?

00:38:12.000 I mean, that's true.

00:38:12.000 Which is a thing.

00:38:13.000 That's not quite the same thing as someone calls you an overt racist who was going to stop her from going to an integrated school when she was a child.

00:38:19.000 Okay, that's what she did there. 0.98

00:38:21.000 And all the revisionist history in the world ain't gonna fix that.

00:38:23.000 Okay, she is now running- What an opportunist. 1.00

00:38:26.000 She's running on the same ticket as a man that she called a segregationist, essentially.

00:38:30.000 And then she doubled down on it. 0.73

00:38:32.000 She said that Biden should apologize for ever having said any kind words about any senator who ever was a segregationist.

00:38:37.000 And she demanded that apology.

00:38:39.000 And in fact, when asked if Biden should drop out of the race, okay, she was like, well, that's up to him.

00:38:45.000 What an honorable, honorable, deeply honorable candidate.

00:38:49.000 I mean, I wouldn't fear her in a position of power at all, this lady.

00:38:53.000 To coddle the reputations of segregationists, of people who, if they had their way, I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate, is, I think, it's just, it's misinformed and it's wrong.

00:39:06.000 Should Joe Biden apologize for that?

00:39:08.000 He's going to have to make that decision.

00:39:09.000 But, you know, let's be very clear that the senators that he is speaking of, with such adoration, are individuals who made and built their reputation on segregation.

00:39:21.000 Okay, so yeah, that's who she was.

00:39:24.000 And by the way, she didn't stop there.

00:39:25.000 When Kamala Harris was asked during this campaign, because she was desperate to win, I mean, desperate to get any sort of traction at all, she had none. 0.73

00:39:31.000 She was like wheels skidding on ice throughout this campaign. 1.00

00:39:34.000 When she was asked about the accusers who came forward and said Joe Biden is weird and creepy and smells people's hairs and touches them in inappropriate ways, Kamala Harris was like, yeah, I believe the accusers.

00:39:44.000 So she's now running on the ticket with a guy who she literally called a quasi-segregationist who sexually harasses women regularly.

00:39:56.000 But don't worry, she loves him and they are best friends.

00:39:58.000 And also she's not an opportunist in any way.

00:40:00.000 She's just a deeply honest politician of conviction.

00:40:04.000 I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.

00:40:11.000 Do you believe that the vice president should enter this race?

00:40:14.000 Oh, he's going to have to make that decision for himself.

00:40:17.000 I wouldn't tell him what to do.

00:40:18.000 Oh, yeah, I wouldn't tell him what to do, but you know, if he dropped out, that'd be great.

00:40:23.000 That's not the same thing as vice presidents and presidents having general conflicts of views. 0.91

00:40:27.000 That is her basically insinuating that Joe Biden is A horrible human being.

00:40:32.000 So that was Kamala Harris. 0.98

00:40:34.000 The good news for Joe Biden is that he is not the only target of her tender mercies. 0.90

00:40:39.000 You'll remember when Kamala Harris essentially implied that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a rapist.

00:40:45.000 In fact, during the hearings on Brett Kavanaugh, She went in a cloakroom and handed to Republicans an anonymous letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of rape.

00:40:53.000 It was signed by a woman named Jane Doe, right, meaning just an anonymous person.

00:40:56.000 It contained no details whatsoever, and it was used as the basis for questioning.

00:41:01.000 Because that's who Kamala Harris is. 0.99

00:41:02.000 Here's Kamala Harris going after Brett Kavanaugh, asking him if he had taken a polygraph, pushing an FBI investigation.

00:41:08.000 And then when he's, one of Kavanaugh's lines of defense was, here are a bunch of women who I've treated incredibly well throughout my career. 1.00

00:41:15.000 And Kamala Harris was like, well, is it true that you can be friends with some women and treat other women badly? 0.92

00:41:21.000 She's so cynical and so awful. 1.00

00:41:23.000 She's a bad person. 1.00

00:41:27.000 Here's Kamala Harris being a bad person. 1.00

00:41:30.000 Judge Kavanaugh, have you taken a professionally administered polygraph test?

00:41:34.000 I've not heard you answer a very specific question that's been asked, which is, are you willing to ask the White House to conduct an investigation by the FBI to get to whatever you believe is the bottom of the allegations that have been levied against you?

00:41:52.000 Do you agree that it is possible for men to both be friends with some women?

00:42:00.000 and treat other women badly.

00:42:02.000 This was this was touted by the media as an extraordinary showing by Kamala Harris.

00:42:06.000 By the way, that wasn't even the worst thing she did during the Kamala during the Kavanaugh hearings.

00:42:09.000 The worst thing she did during the Kavanaugh hearings is she somehow she threw out a bizarre theory that Brett Kavanaugh was working with a a law firm called Kassowitz that was also working with the Trump administration against the Mueller investigation.

00:42:25.000 And so somehow, for some unnamed reason, Kavanaugh was obstructing the Mueller investigation or something.

00:42:30.000 She kind of threw this out there.

00:42:32.000 It created a bevy of headlines.

00:42:33.000 And then she never followed up on it because that's what she does. 0.96

00:42:36.000 That's what she does. 1.00

00:42:36.000 She uses anything at hand in order to harm her political opposition, no matter how dishonest she has to be. 1.00

00:42:43.000 Here she was going after Brett Kavanaugh for some weird theory about him sharing a law firm with members of the Trump administration.

00:42:50.000 Have you discussed Mueller or his investigation with anyone at Kasowitz, Benson & Torres, the law firm founded by Mark Kasowitz, President Trump's personal lawyer?

00:43:02.000 Be sure about your answer, sir.

00:43:04.000 Is there a person you're talking about?

00:43:06.000 I'm asking you a very direct question.

00:43:07.000 Yes or no?

00:43:08.000 Who'd you talk to?

00:43:10.000 You have an impeccable memory.

00:43:11.000 You've been speaking for almost eight hours, I think more, with this committee about all sorts of things you remember.

00:43:17.000 How can you not remember whether or not you had a conversation She literally never explained what the hell she meant by this.

00:43:29.000 At all.

00:43:30.000 This made huge headlines at the time.

00:43:33.000 Be careful of your answer, sir.

00:43:35.000 She was going to uncover the conspiracy.

00:43:36.000 She was going to uncover a conspiracy whereby Brett Kavanaugh was somehow conferring behind closed doors with a law firm that was representing Trump in the Mueller investigation.

00:43:44.000 Nothing ever came of this.

00:43:46.000 Because she's a bad human being, okay? 1.00

00:43:49.000 When you throw out allegations like this in open questioning of a Supreme Court nominee with no support whatsoever, and then you just kind of like, it just disappears into the ether.

00:43:58.000 It is amazing, amazing that this person is considered a credible politician on the national stage.

00:44:02.000 None of this, by the way, even touches her political radicalism.

00:44:05.000 A lot of this goes to character.

00:44:06.000 She's an authoritarian by nature, she's an opportunist by nature, and she's willing to say or do anything to get ahead.

00:44:11.000 Okay, that is perfectly obvious throughout her career.

00:44:14.000 As somebody from California, she's been my senator for quite a while, she was my AG.

00:44:18.000 This is somebody who is willing to pursue any policy that she thinks is going to bring her power.

00:44:24.000 Okay, which brings us to what she would actually do with the power.

00:44:26.000 Her actual views on a variety of issues are extraordinarily radical.

00:44:29.000 She's no pragmatic moderate.

00:44:30.000 She's nowhere near the middle of the political spectrum. 1.00

00:44:32.000 She's extensively radical.

00:44:34.000 Extraordinarily radical.

00:44:37.000 I don't know if you remember this one.

00:44:38.000 She's extremely anti-Catholic.

00:44:41.000 Alexander DeSantis writing at National Review reminds everybody that in late 2018, while evaluating the nomination of Brian Boucher to serve as a district judge in Nebraska, Harris posed a series of questions insinuating that his involvement in the Knights of Columbus, a charitable Catholic fraternal organization, disqualified him from serving on the bench.

00:44:58.000 One of her written questions was, Since 1993, you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men.

00:45:05.000 In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.

00:45:12.000 Anderson went on to say, Were you aware the Knights of Columbus opposed women's right to choose when you joined the organization?

00:45:21.000 She then went on to ask Boucher whether he was aware the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when he joined, or whether he had ever in any way assisted with or contributed to advocacy against women's reproductive rights.

00:45:30.000 Okay, that's a Catholic.

00:45:32.000 The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic group with millions of members.

00:45:34.000 It's an important charity.

00:45:36.000 And she was basically saying that because you're a Catholic, you shouldn't be on the bench.

00:45:40.000 Because that's who Kamala Harris is. 0.99

00:45:42.000 Kamala Harris is the same person who filed an amicus brief in Hobby Lobby arguing that religious practice should basically be relegated to the home.

00:45:50.000 In her amicus brief, Terrence Jeffries pointed this out at the time.

00:45:53.000 She argued, quote, rights to the free exercise of religious beliefs, whether created by statute or by the Constitution, likewise protect the development and expression of an inner sanctum of personal religious faith. Free exercise rights have thus also been understood as a personal, as personal, relating only to individual believers and to a limited class of associations comprising or representing them. There is no tradition of recognizing or accommodating the exercise of such inherently personal rights by ordinary for-profit business corporations.

00:46:19.000 In other words, if you operate in the business sphere, we are going to completely override your religious rights. 0.71

00:46:24.000 That is the legal regime that Kamala Harris seeks. 0.99

00:46:28.000 She says it would be better to keep the free exercise of religion within the boundaries of religious institutions.

00:46:34.000 She says the term religion itself connotes a community of believers.

00:46:37.000 Religious organizations act as critical buffers between the individual and the power of the state, giving individuals a space in which to exercise faith without state intrusion.

00:46:46.000 In other words, maybe she'll make an exception for some of the religious organizations. 0.92

00:46:52.000 Don't count on it, gang.

00:46:53.000 Do not count on it.

00:46:56.000 She is not going to allow religious believers to operate their businesses in accordance with their actual religious scruples. 1.00

00:47:01.000 It's not just that.

00:47:02.000 On abortion, she's extraordinarily radical, extremely radical.

00:47:05.000 In fact, she had a proposal modeled on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that would require any state with a history of passing laws restricting abortion access to get clearance, preclearance, from the Justice Department. 0.71

00:47:17.000 So Kamala Harris would force the state of Alabama to run any law that affects abortion by Kamala Harris's DOJ before passing the law. 1.00

00:47:24.000 Which violates all precepts of federalism.

00:47:26.000 Like, all precepts of federalism.

00:47:28.000 I mean, it's pretty incredible.

00:47:31.000 By the way, she is so radical on abortion that she voted against, she's one of many Democrats, in fact, every Democratic presidential candidate, to vote against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

00:47:42.000 That's an act that was specifically designed to prevent infanticide.

00:47:45.000 Okay, she voted against that.

00:47:49.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:47:50.000 Ben Sasse was the chief sponsor.

00:47:52.000 He said, I want to ask each and every one of my colleagues whether or not we're okay with infanticide.

00:47:57.000 He said, this is about the most simple thing you can say, which is that a baby is a baby and they have dignity and worth.

00:48:01.000 It's not because they're powerful, it's because they're babies.

00:48:02.000 Today's a sad day in the United States.

00:48:06.000 Didn't matter, Kamala Harris voted against it because she's a radical on abortion. 1.00

00:48:10.000 She also happens to be a radical on immigration.

00:48:12.000 In an open hearing, she associated ICE, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, with the KKK.

00:48:19.000 Here was Kamala Harris doing just that. 1.00

00:48:22.000 I do not see a parallel between what is constitutionally mandated as it relates to enforcing the law.

00:48:28.000 Are you aware that there's a perception that puts ICE in the same category as the KKK?

00:48:35.000 Is that what you're asking me?

00:48:36.000 No, I'm very specific about what I'm asking.

00:48:38.000 Are you aware of a perception that the way that the discretion... I see no parallel.

00:48:44.000 I'm not finished.

00:48:45.000 I see none.

00:48:46.000 I'm not finished.

00:48:47.000 I'm not finished.

00:48:48.000 Are you aware that there's a perception that that ICE is administering its power in a way that is causing fear?

00:48:57.000 Unbelievable.

00:48:58.000 This is the same lady who says that, by the way, all illegal immigrants should receive Medicare. 0.65

00:49:01.000 So we should pay for the entire medical burden of anybody who comes to the country illegally. 1.00

00:49:06.000 She said this to Jake Tapper during the race.

00:49:07.000 Don't worry, she's not a radical guy.

00:49:08.000 She's a pragmatic moderate.

00:49:10.000 I keep saying it over and over.

00:49:11.000 Why don't you believe me that she's a pragmatic moderate?

00:49:12.000 I mean, who are you going to believe?

00:49:13.000 Me or the words coming out of Kamala Harris's face?

00:49:17.000 Every individual who is a resident of the United States is entitled to benefits for health care services under this act.

00:49:22.000 Not every individual who's a citizen, but every individual who's a resident.

00:49:26.000 So you support giving universal health care, Medicare for all, to people who are in this country illegally? 0.98

00:49:32.000 Let me just be very clear about this.

00:49:35.000 I am opposed to any policy that would deny, in our country, any human being from access to public safety, Public education or public health, period.

00:49:47.000 Okay, and where is she on public health, by the way?

00:49:49.000 So she was the original endorser of Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All.

00:49:52.000 Then she realized it was unpopular, and later she moved to a transitional plan, whereby everybody would lose their private insurance inside of 10 years.

00:49:58.000 When she was in her early phase, right, her radical phase, trying to cut off Elizabeth Warren on her left, she openly said that we would phase out private insurance, that we would ban private insurance in the United States.

00:50:08.000 You know, the insurance that represents, what, 90% of the American public?

00:50:13.000 Certainly in the private sector.

00:50:14.000 So here's Kamala Harris saying they should phase out private healthcare. 1.00

00:50:17.000 Don't worry, pragmatic moderate, guys.

00:50:19.000 Pragmatic moderate.

00:50:21.000 I believe the solution, and I actually feel very strongly about this, is that we need to have Medicare for All.

00:50:27.000 And you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require.

00:50:35.000 Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?

00:50:43.000 Let's eliminate all of that.

00:50:44.000 Let's move on.

00:50:45.000 Let's move on from private insurance.

00:50:46.000 Let's move on.

00:50:47.000 Moderate.

00:50:48.000 Hey, by the way, this lady is going to be president. 1.00

00:50:50.000 She's gonna be president. 0.99

00:50:51.000 You vote for Joe Biden, he becomes president, she is the president.

00:50:54.000 That is the unspoken truth here.

00:50:56.000 Everybody understands it.

00:50:57.000 Every single person.

00:50:58.000 And don't believe it when the media start with the, how dare you question Joe Biden's mental fitness or his ability to serve out his term.

00:51:05.000 He's gonna be 78 in November.

00:51:06.000 78 in November.

00:51:10.000 But it doesn't stop there.

00:51:11.000 Okay, let's talk more about Kamala Harris' radicalism. 1.00

00:51:13.000 Okay, so, she was asked, on The View, how she felt about AOC.

00:51:18.000 How she felt about AOC and the Green New Deal and her plans.

00:51:20.000 And she was specifically asked about a 70% top tax rate.

00:51:24.000 Which, by the way, is insane.

00:51:26.000 If you want to destroy every major business in the United States, definitely implement the 70% top tax rate.

00:51:30.000 People will just stop working to avoid those taxes, because why the hell would you do an additional 10 hours of work a week when seven cents out of that 10 is going directly to the federal government?

00:51:41.000 And that doesn't count the state government, right?

00:51:43.000 That means that in the state of California, where we have a 16, 17% top tax rate, or will within very short order, I think it's 13% now, you'd be talking about paying, what, 83% of your money above a certain point?

00:51:54.000 Here was Kamala Harris being like, it's a great idea, we should invest in it.

00:51:56.000 Don't worry, guys, not a radical, a pragmatic moderate.

00:51:59.000 It was her being a pragmatic moderate, endorsing the idea of investigating a 70% top tax rate.

00:52:06.000 And she's promoting policies like saying that every single carbon emission in the country, every car, should be eliminated within the next 11 years.

00:52:12.000 Everything from a 70 to 80% tax rate.

00:52:15.000 Do you agree that she could possibly, in this ideology of the socialist left, could splinter your party?

00:52:21.000 No.

00:52:21.000 You know, I think that she is challenging the status quo.

00:52:27.000 I think that's fantastic.

00:52:29.000 I think I think that she is introducing bold ideas that that should be discussed.

00:52:35.000 And I think it's good for the party.

00:52:37.000 I frankly think it's good for the country.

00:52:38.000 Let's look at the bold ideas.

00:52:41.000 Let's look at all those bold ideas.

00:52:42.000 What are some of the other bold ideas?

00:52:44.000 So she's also endorsed a federal ban on fracking.

00:52:46.000 So we'll see how this goes for Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, where a lot of jobs are reliant on fracking.

00:52:50.000 By the way, you know, somebody is not serious about global warming when their chief policy priority is banning fracking.

00:52:55.000 You're not serious about it.

00:52:56.000 The single greatest reason for declining carbon emissions in the United States is the rise of natural gas replacing oil and coal.

00:53:02.000 That is the single greatest rationale for why the United States is actually the world's leading decreaser of carbon emissions over the last five to ten years.

00:53:11.000 But here is Kamala Harris endorsing a federal ban on fracking. 1.00

00:53:16.000 There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

00:53:21.000 And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right?

00:53:25.000 And then there has to be legislation.

00:53:27.000 But yes, and this is something I've taken on in California.

00:53:30.000 I have a history of working on this issue.

00:53:31.000 And to your point, we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.

00:53:41.000 Well, I mean, yeah, fracking is really a danger to communities.

00:53:44.000 Like, you know, all the communities with hundreds of thousands of people reliant on the fracking industry.

00:53:49.000 It's a bold move, Cotton.

00:53:50.000 It's a bold move.

00:53:51.000 Also, she says that we need to incentivize Americans to eat less meat.

00:53:53.000 So good luck with this.

00:53:54.000 I think that this is going to go great for Joe Biden.

00:53:57.000 Again, so much moderation just spilling from the lips of Kamala Harris here. 1.00

00:54:01.000 The balance that we have to strike here, frankly, is about what government can and should do around creating incentives and then banning certain behaviors.

00:54:10.000 I mean, just to be very honest with you, I love cheeseburgers from time to time.

00:54:14.000 Right?

00:54:14.000 I mean, I just do.

00:54:17.000 But there has to be also what we do in terms of creating incentives that we will eat in a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that we will be educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment.

00:54:31.000 And we have to do a much better job of that and the government has to do a much better job of that.

00:54:36.000 Let's meet guys.

00:54:38.000 Also, let's ban plastic straws.

00:54:40.000 She will use the government to do anything. 1.00

00:54:43.000 That's what she said about plastic. 0.99

00:54:43.000 Anything! 0.99

00:54:45.000 She's like, yeah, the plastic straws. 1.00

00:54:46.000 You want to hear some hysterical Kamala Harris laughter? 0.99

00:54:48.000 It's been like a solid few minutes since we played Kamala Harris laughing hysterically and awkwardly when she realized that what she's saying is kind of crazy.

00:54:54.000 Here is Kamala Harris laughing crazily about plastic straws. 0.62

00:54:57.000 Do you ban plastic straws?

00:54:59.000 I think we should.

00:55:01.000 Yes.

00:55:01.000 I mean, look, I'm going to be honest.

00:55:03.000 It's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw when you had, if you're just like, if you don't gulp it down immediately, it starts to bend.

00:55:10.000 And then, you know, the little thing catches it.

00:55:12.000 And then, you know, so we got to kind of perfect that one a little bit more.

00:55:17.000 So you'd ban it, but rely on innovation?

00:55:19.000 I mean, we got it.

00:55:20.000 Yeah, innovation is a process, right?

00:55:23.000 You don't just do it.

00:55:24.000 Innovation is a process.

00:55:26.000 But, you know, let's encourage innovation.

00:55:29.000 And I think we could do a little bit better than some of those flimsy plastic straws, but we do need to ban them.

00:55:39.000 By the way, I do love that Aaron Burnett cut.

00:55:42.000 That's Aaron Burnett, correct?

00:55:43.000 Who's that reporteress? 1.00

00:55:46.000 I believe that's Erin Burnett, correct?

00:55:48.000 I don't want to screw up the name of the reporter, so I'm going to look this up just to ensure that I'm correct.

00:55:53.000 Yeah, that's Erin Burnett.

00:55:54.000 So Erin Burnett, I love her just feeding the line to Kamala Harris. 0.63

00:55:58.000 So you're gonna ban plastic straws but rely on innovation.

00:56:00.000 Yeah, that's exactly what she was saying. 0.98

00:56:02.000 No, what actually happened there is that Kamala Harris was like, I want to ban plastic straws, and then she realized halfway through that the replacement straws are absolute crap. 0.99

00:56:09.000 And so she's like, but they're really bad, the replacement straws, but I still want to ban them because I'm an authoritarian jerk. 0.99

00:56:14.000 But you know, they're really bad. 0.97

00:56:15.000 And so Aaron Burnett's like, innovation, innovation, like from offstage left.

00:56:20.000 The line is innovation.

00:56:22.000 And Conor's like, yeah, innovation, but, you know, it's a process, guys.

00:56:25.000 I'm getting big. Ah Man get ready. Yeah Years of that coming up.

00:56:35.000 Years.

00:56:36.000 Years if she wins.

00:56:37.000 Years.

00:56:38.000 But don't worry, if you're concerned that maybe a lot of this is gonna cost money, maybe this is bad policy, we've been reliably informed by Kamala Harris that policy is not about cost, guys.

00:56:47.000 Policy is not about cost.

00:56:49.000 Policy is about the principle behind the thing.

00:56:52.000 Here is Kamala Harris explaining, we should pay no attention to the fact that things cost money.

00:56:57.000 Money is just a figment of your imagination.

00:56:58.000 It's just an idea out there.

00:57:00.000 The really big issue is whether we should be ambitious, ambitious and hopeful.

00:57:04.000 Here she was being like, money? 0.79

00:57:06.000 What's that?

00:57:07.000 It's not my money!

00:57:07.000 Why should I care about that?

00:57:09.000 Let's just do it!

00:57:10.000 policy and cost.

00:57:11.000 Pfft.

00:57:12.000 $3 trillion a year for Medicare for All by some studies. I don't, depending on which portions of the Green New Deal you pick to do first, that's money. You know what the Republicans are going to say, tax and spend liberals, pie in the sky.

00:57:24.000 One of the things that I admire and respect is the measurement that is captured in three letters, ROI.

00:57:30.000 What's the return on the investment?

00:57:32.000 People in the private sector understand this really well.

00:57:35.000 It's not about a cost, it's about an investment.

00:57:38.000 And then the question should be, is it worth the cost in terms of the investment potential?

00:57:44.000 Are we going to get back more than we put in?

00:57:46.000 Mm-hmm.

00:57:47.000 That's really what it's about.

00:57:48.000 Don't worry about the cost, guys.

00:57:49.000 Cost is of no consequence whatsoever.

00:57:51.000 By the way, how radical is Kamala Harris? 0.73

00:57:53.000 Remember that time I said that she's really willing to, like, say, or like a few minutes ago when I said she's basically willing to say or do anything to get ahead?

00:57:58.000 And I talked about her prosecutorial record and how there are a lot of people on the left and on sort of the libertarian right We're upset with the fact that she was very much in favor of jailing low-level drug offenders.

00:58:07.000 By the way, again, I've lived in California my entire life.

00:58:10.000 The crime rates here have been not great for a very long time.

00:58:13.000 And she was of very little help as Attorney General of the state of California.

00:58:18.000 Well, she was specifically asked the other day about defunding the LAPD.

00:58:21.000 So she has not come out full-scale and embraced defund the police, but she was very much in favor of cutting the funding to the Los Angeles Police Department in the aftermath of riots that shut down the city of Los Angeles night on night for a week.

00:58:31.000 The entire county of L.A.

00:58:32.000 shut down at 6 p.m.

00:58:34.000 for a week so that rioters and looters could have their way with the local footlocker, and Kamala Harris went on national TV and said we should probably cut funds to the L.A.

00:58:41.000 people.

00:58:41.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:58:42.000 She's a radical.

00:58:43.000 She's not a radical.

00:58:45.000 She's a pragmatic moderate who is going to enforce the law and ensure that you and your family... I mean, look at her record as prosecutor. 1.00

00:58:51.000 It's not as though she would use power conveniently and for whatever she decided to use it for that day.

00:58:56.000 This is a person who cares deeply about you and your family and keeping you safe.

00:58:59.000 Here's Kamala Harris saying we should slash the budget in L.A. 1.00

00:59:02.000 Many cities spend over one-third of their entire city budget on policing.

00:59:08.000 But meanwhile, we've been defunding public schools for years in America.

00:59:12.000 We've got to re-examine what we're doing with American taxpayer dollars and ask the question, are we getting the right return on our investment?

00:59:19.000 Are we actually creating healthy and safe communities?

00:59:23.000 And that's a legitimate conversation and it requires a really critical evaluation.

00:59:27.000 I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done.

00:59:32.000 So, don't worry, guys.

00:59:32.000 Mm-hmm.

00:59:34.000 We can rely on her.

00:59:36.000 She's definitely going to keep America safe as well.

00:59:38.000 I think that, in essence, to sum up, Joe Biden has made a major boo-boo here.

00:59:42.000 His major boo-boo is that he's basically given away the game.

00:59:45.000 We all know that he's a temporary stand-in for whatever comes next.

00:59:48.000 And what he has decided comes next is that.

00:59:50.000 So, if you would like that, meaning a Kamala Harris administration, all the policies, all the authoritarianism, all the opportunism, all the high-handed unwillingness to listen to opposing points of view, if that is what you are in the game for, then by all means, vote for Joe Biden.

01:00:08.000 Vote for Joe Biden.

01:00:09.000 Because if you're going to vote for Biden, what you're going to get is Kamala Harris.

01:00:12.000 That's what the American people must understand.

01:00:14.000 That is what Donald Trump should campaign on.

01:00:16.000 I think this is a massive strategic blunder by Joe Biden.

01:00:20.000 We're going to find out in very short order.

01:00:21.000 Alrighty.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 12, 2020

Biden’s No Good, Very Bad VP Pick | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 1072

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