The Democratic National Convention was supposed to be a night of a unifying tribute to former President Joe Biden. Instead, it was a sad spectacle of an old man being shoved off a cliff, and forced to celebrate as he himself was shoved off the cliff. And it was really about shoving Joe Biden off as fast as possible, as a result of the fact that the entire night was meant to be about Joe Biden passing the torch to his successor, a woman named Kamala Harris, who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But it was more than that. It was a night where Joe Biden was forced to embrace the party at last, and feel the joy. And then they packed him off into an icebox, and shipped him off by train to California where he is now on vacation again. And that's not a bad way to honor a man who is no longer serving in the White House, and who is now serving in California. ElectionWire Live with Stephen Miller, Carolyn Downey, and Stephen L. Miller analyzes all the goings-on at the DNC and gives his thoughts on what went wrong, what went right, and why Joe Biden's speech was fake and why the whole thing was fake. And why it was so fake and why it s so hard to remember Joe Biden as anything other than a hero. Vote for Joe Biden! on our new podcast, tonight at 745pm central time. Subscribe to our new show, Election Wire Live! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podcoin Learn more about your ad choices and more! Learn about our new ad choices. Become a supporter of our new sponsor, Shoutout to: Become a Friend of the Pollinator: VoteVaynerMedia Connected by clicking here and get 20% off your first month only on ElectionWire Connected to our newest ad-free plan! Thank you for supporting the campaign? Subscribe and Share the Polling Tip? Subscribe & Share your thoughts on this episode of the show! Vote On Itunes and other ways to help spread the word out there about the 2020 campaign! Thanks for listening to the podcast! If you like the podcast and other great stories you re listening to our podcast, we re listening and sharing it on social media listening to us on your thoughts and posting it on your podcast? Thanks to Polling, too much love and support us on itunes!
00:00:11.000Tonight, they'll be joined by Carolyn Downey and Stephen L. Miller to analyze all the goings-on at the Democratic National Convention.
00:00:16.000So, last night was Joe Biden's funeral, and it had to be awkward for him.
00:00:21.000Many people have had the fantasy over the course of their lifetime that they would be present and sort of alive observing their own funeral.
00:00:27.000They would get to see all the orations about what a wonderful person they were.
00:00:30.000Very few people get to actually give their own eulogy at their own funeral.
00:00:46.000So, last night was supposed to be a unifying tribute night to Joe Biden as they shuffle him off his moral coil.
00:00:52.000And in fact, Joe Biden showed up to give a speech, and then they literally put him on a plane and they shoved him off.
00:00:57.000They said, get the hell out of here, and they sent him to California.
00:00:59.000Now remember, that guy is still the president until January.
00:01:03.000So I have no idea who's running the country.
00:01:04.000You have no idea who's running the country.
00:01:06.000Apparently, it simply doesn't matter who's running the country at this point.
00:01:09.000But the idea was that he was going to speak in prime time.
00:01:12.000They were going to give him his gold watch.
00:01:14.000They were going to give him a big round of applause for his wondrous leadership.
00:01:18.000After having stabbed his candidacy to death and left it bleeding out on the floor, they were going to talk about what a wonderful president he had been.
00:01:25.000It would be a night of warm feelings and hot, flowing tears.
00:01:29.000And it would just be an emotional, resonant, incredible night when he, quote unquote, passed the torch.
00:01:36.000And what it actually was, what it actually was, was the sad spectacle of an old man being shoved off a cliff and being forced to celebrate as he himself was shoved off the cliff.
00:01:45.000It's like the main character in Darkness at Noon sitting there in the cell after having confessed to his crimes on behalf of the Communist Party.
00:01:51.000That is basically what happened to Joe Biden last night.
00:01:53.000He had to embrace the party at last and feel the joy.
00:01:56.000And then they packed him off into an icebox and they shipped him off by train to California where he is on vacation again.
00:02:03.000But it is, again, that feeling of fakery that pervades this entire enterprise.
00:02:07.000Understand, the American people are unhappy with the direction of the country right now.
00:02:10.000There's not a single poll in America that shows fewer than two-thirds of Americans thinking America is moving in the wrong direction.
00:02:17.000Democrats are in charge of the government.
00:02:18.000They are in charge of the White House.
00:02:21.000So if you believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction, and two-thirds of you do, Maybe you might want to consider why that is.
00:02:29.000And so when you have a country that is very unhappy about the economy, very unhappy about our foreign policy, very unhappy about the elitism of the critical race theory Democrats, the intersectional Democrats, the people who tell you a boy can be a girl and vice versa, and simultaneously tell you that if you speak differently, you ought to be ousted from public life.
00:02:49.000If you're feeling bad about any of that stuff, does it work that they are slapping a Kamala Harris happy face sticker On this bag of crap that is their policy proposals?
00:03:04.000From Soup to Nuts last night, it was all phony, it was all fake, up to and including Joe Biden's speech at the very end.
00:03:11.000The entire celebration was supposed to culminate in Joe Biden giving a warm speech about Kamala Harris and about how he was a heroic figure since Sinatis retiring to his farm, George Washington giving up command, and all of the rest of this.
00:03:25.000And instead, they shoved him off beyond prime time.
00:04:28.000It felt a little too on the nose, said Huffington Post's Igor Bobik, with an unpopular president first forced out of office by party bosses.
00:04:42.000They kept his moldering corpse in the White House, in the Oval Office.
00:04:45.000They could wheel him around, Weekend at Bernie style, into meetings, and they could manipulate his face hole into making sound, and then roll him back into his coffin every so often, all the way until January.
00:04:57.000But, they forced him out of his nomination, and then forced him to deliver his big self-eulogy, his big, I-give-it-up-for-the-party speech, after primetime, when everyone was already asleep.
00:06:00.000Are you going to be taken in by all of the sloganeering about Donald Trump being a threat to democracy and how Donald Trump is such a deep and abiding and terrible figure in American public life?
00:06:11.000That you can just keep going with these crappy policies that have wrecked America fiscally, are setting us on a path to economic ruin, have set the world on fire in terms of foreign policy, have opened the door to Russia and to China and to Iran.
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00:08:02.000There's a lot of Democratic enthusiasm for their candidate, because now they're excited that Joe Biden is out.
00:08:07.000It is another thing entirely to pretend that Kamala Harris, one of the most scripted, manufactured, non-genuine politicians in American history, is a representative of joy, that the awful, awkward cackle that she unleashes upon being asked a difficult question, by the way, we are now on, wait for it, wait for it, day 31 of her answering zero difficult questions, day 31, a full month, in days, You know, every time she's asked a tough question, she unleashes the cackle.
00:08:34.000We're supposed to believe that that cackle is not a cackle.
00:09:06.000That is the Democratic Party platform at this point.
00:09:08.000Here is Joy Reid, certainly one of the least joyous people in American public life, suggesting that she just, she's in the convention room and she feels the joy.
00:09:18.000Nicole Wallace has this smile plastered on as though she fell into the toxic waste vat that the Joker fell into.
00:09:25.000And here are these two representatives of sheer, unadulterated joy talking about the joy that is Kamala Harris.
00:09:34.000I'm going to sum up what I have felt since we landed, Nicole, in this wonderful, beautiful city.
00:10:42.000She showed up at the very beginning of the convention to get a big round of applause after having won zero primary votes ever, after having taken her boss and shoved him out a third-story window like Vladimir Putin.
00:10:52.000Here she was showing up to talk about how she sees the beauty of the nation.
00:12:05.000If you buy this crap, if you pretend it's about the joy and the moving of the forward and all of this kind of stuff, it's because you're a rube!
00:12:14.000And they are playing you like a fiddle!
00:12:16.000Question, how stupid do you have to be to not see through all this?
00:12:19.000Also, you have to be kind of dumb to not diversify.
00:12:21.000Between the stock market's mood swings and unemployment numbers that make you want to pull your hair out, we are on some kind of weird financial roller coaster here.
00:16:05.000By the way, it's gotta suck to be Hillary Clinton, right?
00:16:07.000You lost to Donald Trump, and now you're having your first woman president title, possibly stolen by Kamala Harris, whose accomplishments, number zero.
00:16:15.000That's gotta be a little sad if you're Hillary Clinton, but don't worry, she's gonna force the joy, because the joy will be enjoyed!
00:16:51.000That's the choice we face in this election.
00:16:55.000Joy and unity and joy and unity and then the mask slips and then they say what they actually think which is this is all about how much they hate Donald Trump.
00:17:03.000And how much they kind of hate the American people because the American people are a bunch of rubes, suckers, bitter clingers.
00:17:07.000This is what they've thought since the days of Barack Obama long before.
00:17:10.000The days of a democratic party that gave a crap about blue-collar workers long over.
00:17:14.000The days of a democratic party that thought hey maybe people who go to church are generally good people.
00:18:39.000Raphael Warnock, the senator from Georgia who is only a senator because Donald Trump idiotically suggested that voters in Georgia not actually go and vote in a Senate race in 2021, thus making Raphael Warnock a senator rather than, say, Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue.
00:18:54.000In any case, Raphael Warnock, He made clear what he wants, which is Donald Trump is a plague on the American Republic.
00:19:01.000Remember, Donald Trump was nearly shot in the head like six weeks ago by people who believe this kind of stuff.
00:19:08.000Here's Raphael Warnock heating up at that temperature.
00:19:11.000Donald Trump's America is the America of January 6th.
00:19:17.000People who have no vision traffic in division.
00:19:23.000He does not know how to lead us and so he wants to divide us.
00:19:28.000America, make no mistake, Donald Trump is a plague on the American conscience.
00:19:44.000He is a clear and present threat to the precious covenant we share with one another.
00:21:38.000And as we'll discuss a little bit later, I mean, honestly, you kind of hope that Joe Biden has a life insurance policy, which you should have a life insurance policy.
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00:23:16.000Here, for example, is fake populist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who is a socialist who drove some 20,000 jobs out of New York by targeting Amazon.
00:23:25.000But who has spent her entire career bopping around Brooklyn doing Instagram photos and demonstrating how much she cares about the working people by living in one of the nicer apartments in Washington, D.C.
00:24:59.000What a ridiculous party and what a ridiculous human being.
00:25:01.000By the way, sad news for AOC that a couple of her compatriots lost in primaries because it turns out many Americans do not actually like this agenda.
00:25:08.000She will never win a statewide primary in New York because she's too radical, but the Democratic Party base, they love her.
00:25:35.000Too bad, the boss just gave himself one, so there's nothing left for you.
00:25:39.000Oh, that's some stirring oratory right there.
00:25:41.000How about a state senator, as they trotted out for some odd reason, a state senator named Mallory McMorrow from Michigan, to bring out, she's doing now, we're now doing prop comedy.
00:25:50.000She brought out a watermelon and smashed it like Gallagher.
00:25:52.000Oh no, no, no, she'd bring out a giant Project 2025 book that doesn't exist in reality.
00:25:56.000She had her staff manufacture it so she could slam it down on the podium.
00:26:53.000She worked as a low-level DA, and then she immediately started sleeping with Willie Brown and elevated her way through California politics.
00:27:03.000And then she was elevated to the vice presidency, obviously, by a president of the United States, or presidential candidate, who was seeking an intersectional representative as VP.
00:27:12.000Literally no one has less of a common person experience than Kamala Harris, and she doesn't know about your problems.
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00:28:32.000Well, it's weird then, because the Democratic National Convention kicked off with an introduction reminding delegates that the convention was held on land that was forcibly removed from indigenous tribes.
00:28:43.000Prairie Band Pottawatomie Nation Tribal Council Vice Chairman Zach Pamami and Tribal Council Secretary Lori Melkier took the stage at the start of the convention where they welcomed the Democratic Party to their ancestral homelands.
00:28:54.000Here we are together on our ancestral homelands of the Prairie Band Pottawatomie Nation and our sister Pottawatomie Nations.
00:29:00.000We also honor the spirit of other tribal nations who traveled westward to this beautiful area.
00:29:03.000Welcome to the 2024 Democratic National Convention to our homelands.
00:29:07.000This land has and always will carry enormous importance to its original stewards, our ancestors, and our present-day communities.
00:29:14.000And then they talk about how people were forcibly removed from these communities.
00:29:17.000This is all part of the settler-colonialist theory that animates the Democratic Party.
00:29:21.000The idea being that Western civilization is strange and therefore bad, and that all the land that Americans currently live on actually belongs to the indigenous peoples from a couple of thousand years ago.
00:29:33.000Never mind that the story of human migration is a story of population movement and tribal warfare and all the rest.
00:29:41.000The Democratic Party starts from the premise that America was wrongly founded.
00:29:44.000That's what the Democratic National Convention starts from.
00:29:46.000The premise that Chicago is actually not an American city, it is stolen land from the indigenous.
00:29:53.000Does that sound like a blue-collar pitch to you?
00:29:58.000So finally, the Democrats have written a platform.
00:30:00.000Now, it's a little awkward, a little awkward, because it turns out that the original platform they tried to release was chalk-filled with Joe Biden's name, talking about his accomplishments.
00:30:09.000So I guess nobody had time to edit, so they just stuck it out there, and they're like, oh, whoops, we didn't mean Joe Biden, we meant Kamala Harris, because of course they had to steal the nomination from him, which is what they did.
00:30:19.000But what exactly is in her new platform?
00:30:25.000Healthcare should be a right in America, not a privilege.
00:30:27.000So nationalized healthcare, they're talking about fighting to protect and expand the Affordable Care Act, but the reality is what they really want is a public option.
00:30:34.000They want to expand traditional Medicare coverage to include dental, vision, and hearing services.
00:30:38.000Universal preschool for four-year-olds.
00:30:40.000Guarantee affordable, quality childcare to millions of working families for less than $10 a day per child, which is not possible without trillions of dollars in expenditures.
00:30:49.000America's first full national paid family and medical leave program.
00:30:53.000They want to essentially put in place universal basic income.
00:30:57.000They wanted double funding to repair and expand active transportation and public transit.
00:32:17.000I mean, probably so courageous that, for example, if he was asked about Chinese human rights abuses, and say the NBA had a lot of money riding on its relationship with China, he would probably speak out, wouldn't he?
00:34:35.000These are the people to whom the Democratic Party is kowtowing.
00:34:37.000They were attacking law enforcement yesterday.
00:34:39.000They showed up at the DNC, as per their predictions.
00:34:43.000Here were some of the protesters who were attacking law enforcement outside the DNC yesterday.
00:34:47.000We had people deploy pepper gas toward our officers, throw water on them, throw water bottles, sticks, things of that nature, and they were continuously trying to take down the fence, and our officers responded as professionally as we trained them.
00:35:00.000Okay, and here are some of the protesters actually breaking through the gates.
00:35:03.000I don't know, why do they need a wall?
00:35:05.000Why can't they just have open arms for their own constituents?
00:36:31.000As we'll see, the Democratic Party kowtows to these people.
00:36:33.000So we've got fake joy that means revenge.
00:36:35.000We've got fake populism that actually means elitism.
00:36:37.000And we have fake courage that actually means absolute sheer cowardice.
00:36:42.000And this is before we get to the fake sacrifice.
00:36:44.000So the biggest story of the night was the fake sacrifice of Joe Biden, in which they said that he was self-sacrificial, by which they mean they tied him up and threw him on a burning pyre.
00:39:01.000She said, you know, look at the sacrifice.
00:39:03.000It's time to pay tribute to the best president in the history of the United States, who I totally shivved directly in the gut and stole his nomination.
00:39:10.000And now I want him to leave and go to California and sleep it off on a beach until January because, man, that guy's terrible.
00:40:09.000Hillary Clinton, she ran for 24 years trying to be President of the United States, and then she was touted, she was the person, and then she lost to Donald Trump, a first-timer.
00:40:19.000Who she had once endorsed for running for president on the Republican side of the house.
00:40:24.000Barack Obama, who spent eight long years believing that he was the chosen one, a messianic figure in American politics, and that no one like Donald Trump would ever be president of the United States, and then he had to hand the keys to the White House to Donald Trump.
00:40:39.000Joe Biden, who spent his entire career only wanting to be loved, only wanting to be fetted, only wanting to be celebrated, and now they are shuffling him off and they cannot wait to get rid of him.
00:40:49.000And he has to sit there and then he has to eulogize himself.
00:43:16.000He committed political suicide by shooting himself in the head eight times, in the back of the head, and then stabbing himself in the back 27 times, politically speaking.
00:43:25.000Wow, what an unselfish act of total political voluntary suicide by both shooting and hanging himself, politically.
00:44:21.000So Dr. Jill Biden, the actual president of the United States, she had to go out there and, you know, points for the for the Communist Party level fealty to the party.
00:44:51.000Joe Biden despises Kamala Harris, actually for a good reason.
00:44:53.000It's like the only thing I agree with Joe Biden on.
00:44:56.000Joe Biden thinks that Kamala Harris is terrible because she had suggested that Joe Biden was a racist and that Joe Biden would have tried to stop her from going to a desegregated school when he was a kid by not endorsing forced busing and all this.
00:46:13.000But they had Ashley come out and speak and say that he's the most consequential leader ever in the history of the American Republic.
00:46:19.000Yes, in reverse order of importance, it goes Abraham Lincoln, who held the Union together, George Washington, who founded the Union at number two, and coming in at number one is the really, really old guy who won a fluke election, proceeded to blow 40-year inflation into the economy, set the world on fire, and then be forced into retirement by his own party because he was such a terrible candidate.
00:47:33.000We don't want him seen, which is why immediately afterward, they shoveled him back into the crypt and then took that crypt and shoved it into the belly of Air Force One and shipped him off to California.
00:47:43.000See, we're doing this, I don't know, 45, 47 minutes into this show at this point, but that's nothing because they forced Joe Biden to start speaking at 11.30 p.m.
00:47:51.000Now, Remember, Joe Biden's daily schedule is he is shut down by 8 p.m.
00:47:57.000So by the time they got to 1130 p.m., Joe Biden was physically dead.
00:48:01.000They had to put him in the back room and take out the shock paddles and they had to shock him back into life.
00:48:04.000And he went out there looking like that.
00:51:01.000Uh, well, that's why you were going to lose to Donald Trump until they legitimately offed you.
00:51:05.000Okay, but it wouldn't be a complete Joe Biden speech without recapitulating the Very Fine People hoax.
00:51:11.000Okay, this has been debunked now by everyone, including Snopes, this lie that Donald Trump said back in 2017 that there were very fine people, not on both sides of the Confederate statue controversy, very fine people who are white supremacists.
00:51:27.000They've been running on this crap ever since.
00:51:29.000But what's amazing about this particular speech is that Joe Biden recapitulates the Very Fine People hoax, and in almost the next breath, he then says that the neo-Nazi pro-Hamas-ers outside have a great point.
00:51:42.000The anti-Semites, they're inside the House.
00:51:45.000They're calling from within the Democratic Party House.
00:51:47.000Here's Joe Biden, once again, doing the Very Fine People hoax.
00:52:14.000And here he is talking about the terrorist group Hamas, and he is talking about the Israelis.
00:52:19.000He's talking about the people who are setting up tentafatas outside the convention center and calling for Hamas and Hezbollah, actual terrorist groups, to win, and who are calling Jews pigs.
00:52:28.000Those people have a point, says Joe Biden.
00:52:31.000By the way, this was not in his script.
00:52:33.000He literally went off script to say this.
00:52:36.000A few days ago, I put forward a proposal that brought us closer to doing that than we've done since October 7th.
00:52:44.000We're working around the clock, my Secretary of State, to prevent a wider war and reunite hostages with their families, and surge humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza now.
00:53:00.000To end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people, And finally, finally, finally deliver a ceasefire and end this war!
00:53:35.000At no point does he say, and the Palestinians who are being killed.
00:53:38.000That's because Hamas launched the worst terror attack on Jews since World War II, refuses to surrender, and is currently holding babies hostage.
00:53:45.000You want to talk about somebody who does a very fine people on both sides?
00:55:02.000He is not leaving because he wants to leave.
00:55:04.000He is leaving because he was forced out.
00:55:06.000It's a point Chris Wallace made correctly last night.
00:55:09.000The word that everybody is using to describe tonight is bittersweet.
00:55:13.000It's just bitter, the fact of the matter.
00:55:16.000I'm not saying Joe Biden is bitter, but, you know, it's like you've been thrown out a window, and as you're falling, you go, gee, it's nice out here.
00:55:23.000No, he got thrown out of a window, and basically he was forced, you know, there's going to be a lot of talk tonight about how generous it was of him, and selfless of him.
00:55:34.000He was basically forced out by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.