The Ben Shapiro Show - The Kamala Stock Market CRASH

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00:00:27.000 So Kamala Harris has now vaulted into a national polling lead according to Nate Silver.

00:00:32.000 Nate Silver, I think, is the best pollster and poll analyst in the country.

00:00:36.000 According to his poll average, Kamala Harris is now ahead in the national polling about 45.5% to Donald Trump's 44.1%.

00:00:44.000 There's been significant change in every single swing state in favor of Kamala Harris. 0.95

00:00:50.000 Right now, according to the Nate Silver rundown of where we stand State by state, Kamala Harris has vaulted into a small lead in Pennsylvania, a small lead in Wisconsin, a relatively significant lead, a couple percentage points in Michigan.

00:01:03.000 She has even jumped into competitive status in Georgia, in North Carolina. 0.98

00:01:09.000 She's still at a point and a half behind in Arizona.

00:01:12.000 She's a few points behind in Nevada.

00:01:14.000 Bottom line is that this election now looks like a true toss-up according to Nate Silver.

00:01:20.000 And of course, Team Harris has reset the electoral map and the momentum since she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.

00:01:26.000 The question right now is how much of this is a sugar high and how much of this is going to be a sugar high that lasts until post the election.

00:01:32.000 Because let's be clear about this.

00:01:33.000 This is a sugar high.

00:01:34.000 There will come a point where Kamala Harris has to answer some sort of serious question.

00:01:39.000 They're just hoping that that doesn't happen until after the election.

00:01:42.000 After all, there are only 90 odd days until the election, and early voting begins in about a month.

00:01:48.000 Early September, you start to get early voting in some of the swing states, like Pennsylvania.

00:01:52.000 And right now, you look at that calendar, it is August 5th today.

00:01:55.000 All Kamala Harris has to do is avoid serious questions for the next couple of weeks, and then she is at the Democratic National Convention. 1.00

00:02:01.000 She gets a bump coming out of that.

00:02:03.000 So it's likely to be a solid two and a half, three weeks more of the Kamala Harris honeymoon happening right now.

00:02:09.000 In fact, I was just checking my calendar.

00:02:10.000 This is a calendar of how many days Kamala Harris has been the de facto Democratic nominee without being asked a single difficult question or answering one.

00:02:19.000 We have to change the calendar.

00:02:20.000 We are now at 16 days, 16 days and running since Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee.

00:02:27.000 She has not been asked one question.

00:02:29.000 Over two weeks, zero questions.

00:02:31.000 That is an incredible showing by the press.

00:02:33.000 I mean, really, hats off to a press that is such a Praetorian guard for Kamala Harris that we are now two and a half weeks into her presumptive nomination after the single most shocking political coup of the last century in which the presumptive nominee and current sitting president of the United States was ousted in favor of his own vice president by a group of people at the elite levels of the Democratic Party led That is an unbelievable performance.

00:02:56.000 of the United States, Barack Obama, the former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi,

00:03:00.000 the current Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, and the current House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries,

00:03:05.000 plus the entire donor class.

00:03:06.000 They ousted the current President of the United States and presumptive nominee.

00:03:10.000 He'd already cleared all the bars.

00:03:11.000 He'd already won all the primaries.

00:03:12.000 They ousted him for Kamala Harris. 0.95

00:03:14.000 It has been two and a half weeks and she has answered zero questions.

00:03:18.000 That is an unbelievable performance.

00:03:20.000 Now, there are a couple of ways to read that.

00:03:22.000 One is, man, these people are professional.

00:03:24.000 And let's be real, they are.

00:03:25.000 That is what a professional party does.

00:03:27.000 A professional party, sort of like a mafia, they popped Joe Biden in the back of the head, in the car, and then they took the cannoli and left the gun. 0.76

00:03:37.000 The other question, though, is what's going to happen when eventually she does have to answer questions?

00:03:42.000 And this is why, as we'll get to in a little while, Donald Trump should not just be eager to debate Kamala Harris.

00:03:47.000 He should be saying, I want to debate her every week from now until the election, because no one else is going to ask her a tough question.

00:03:52.000 You guys won't do your job.

00:03:54.000 And so he shouldn't just respond to her, quote unquote, debate challenge.

00:03:57.000 She's being completely dishonest about the debate challenge. 1.00

00:03:59.000 Donald Trump accepted a debate under certain circumstances with Joe Biden and then they slotted in, they tag-teamed in Kamala Harris and like, why won't he keep that same debate calendar?

00:04:08.000 Well, because that's a different human.

00:04:10.000 Does she have to debate J.D.

00:04:11.000 Vance now since she agreed to a vice presidential debate with J.D.

00:04:14.000 Vance when Joe Biden was the actual nominee?

00:04:17.000 But what Trump should do right now is he should say, not only do I want to debate you, I want to debate you every week.

00:04:23.000 Like every single week.

00:04:24.000 One hour, one topic, every week from now until the election.

00:04:28.000 Because here's the thing, the American people know Donald Trump, the American people do not know Kamala Harris.

00:04:32.000 I know a lot of people who watch this show are like, how is that possible?

00:04:34.000 And the answer is, how well did you know Mike Pence?

00:04:37.000 How well did anyone know Mike Pence when Mike Pence was the Vice President of the United States?

00:04:42.000 Seriously.

00:04:43.000 How well did people truly know Joe Biden when he was Vice President of the United States under Barack Obama?

00:04:50.000 And he'd been in politics for decades.

00:04:52.000 Not like Kamala Harris, who only became the Attorney General of the state of California, which is not a national-level position, in 2010.

00:04:58.000 She only became a national-level figure when she became a senator in 2016.

00:05:04.000 And then she was running for president like three years later. 0.99

00:05:07.000 Here's the thing.

00:05:07.000 Nobody actually knows who Kamala Harris is because people don't follow politics that closely.

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00:06:14.000 So, most people have no idea who she is.

00:06:15.000 Most people don't remember her from the primaries because she had a flash in the pan in 2019 and then fell completely apart.

00:06:21.000 Those of us who watch very closely, we're in danger of having a political disconnect where we all know what there is to know about Kamala Harris.

00:06:27.000 Some of us have even made a three-part documentary series called Scamala, available over at Daily Wire Plus.

00:06:32.000 And you can watch that, and many of you have.

00:06:33.000 But, the vast majority of Americans have no idea who the sitting Vice President of the United States is right now.

00:06:40.000 They have no idea what Kamala Harris even does for a living. 1.00

00:06:42.000 I mean, she doesn't do much, but they have no idea what she was doing for a living before she became the presumptive Democratic nominee, which is why CNN's David Axelrod, he's saying there's a little bit of a rational exuberance going on around Kamala Harris. 0.98

00:06:54.000 It's a little early to be calling this election over.

00:06:58.000 There's a lot of irrational exuberance on the Democratic side of the aisle right now because there was despair for some period of time about what November was going to look like.

00:07:09.000 Now people feel like there's a chance.

00:07:13.000 Okay, well, that is true.

00:07:15.000 Democrats went from utter despair to wild and irrational hope about Kamala Harris.

00:07:20.000 You have to imagine that at some point somebody is going to hold her feet to the fire.

00:07:25.000 I mean, maybe not, maybe not.

00:07:26.000 I mean, you'll remember the entire press did act as a cover agent for the Biden administration, Biden campaign, in the 2020 race when they literally all worked to cover up stories about Hunter Biden.

00:07:37.000 So maybe they'd try this again for the next three months.

00:07:41.000 But as the world situation grows more dire, and it really is, the world situation is quite dire right now.

00:07:46.000 Kamala Harris, who is maybe the de facto president of the United States right now, Joe Biden certainly is not.

00:07:52.000 She should be forced to answer questions since her administration is sitting at the top of American governance right now as things are happening. 0.99

00:08:00.000 Things that are happening in the real world are the fault of the Biden-Harris administration.

00:08:05.000 And it was always Biden-Harris.

00:08:07.000 That's what they kept saying over and over and over.

00:08:09.000 Even while Joe Biden was attempting to shuttle her off somewhere so that she didn't have any part in governance, she kept glomming onto him and claiming that she was part of all the decision-making.

00:08:17.000 Okay, fine.

00:08:18.000 If you were, and if you are, then why don't you have to answer for the fact that we're in the middle of a massive stock market sell-off, for example?

00:08:26.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a global stock market sell-off intensified Monday, led by a more than 12% drop in Japan's Nikkei 225.

00:08:33.000 Tech-focused Nasdaq 100 futures were down more than 4%, pairing some earlier losses.

00:08:37.000 Dow and S&P 500 futures fell at least 2%.

00:08:40.000 The declines extended what has been a dizzying few days on Wall Street, during which the year's most popular trades have been aggressively unwound.

00:08:47.000 A sell-off in tech shares continued pre-market on Monday, with Nvidia, Meta, and Apple each losing 6% or more.

00:08:53.000 Apple took an extra hit from news that Berkshire Hathaway, that's Warren Buffett, had slashed its Apple stake.

00:08:58.000 Why is all of that happening?

00:08:59.000 Because people are beginning to realize that as the job market is coming in really, really soft, we may be, in fact, as was predicted, entering a recession.

00:09:08.000 Because it turns out that when you jack the inflation rates up to 10-12%, even when you jack them back down all the way to, say, 2.5%, What you end up doing in that process is siphoning off all the loose money, and that will lead to less investment, which will lead to job losses, which is what we are about to start seeing.

00:09:28.000 As the Wall Street Journal reports, concerns about a slowing US economy are front and center for investors after job growth slowed sharply in July.

00:09:34.000 Investors are worried the Federal Reserve has moved too slowly and will need to play catch-up in cutting rates.

00:09:40.000 Now, again, one of the things that's so amazing about how our global economy works at this point is how much of it is run by the central banks.

00:09:46.000 Your job should not be reliant on whether Jerome Powell is good at his.

00:09:51.000 Your job should not be reliant on whether central bankers in London are good at predicting the future and determining exactly what the inflation rate should be.

00:09:58.000 This is why the very idea of a Federal Reserve, for example, in the United States, that jacks up and down the supply of money in order to manipulate job markets is ridiculous.

00:10:08.000 What you really want is a perfectly predictable regime In monetary and fiscal terms, so that you can make good decisions about whether or not to invest or not invest.

00:10:18.000 But that's not the way this stuff works anymore.

00:10:20.000 Now we're all reading tea leaves.

00:10:21.000 Now we're all sitting around wondering what Jerome Powell is gonna do.

00:10:24.000 Or maybe he was too late on the gas.

00:10:25.000 Or maybe he was too late on the break.

00:10:27.000 That is not the way a healthy global economy should run.

00:10:29.000 That is the way things are running, however.

00:10:32.000 And a lot of that has been brought about, of course, by the massive spending that Kamala Harris voted for. 0.86

00:10:36.000 Remember, the Inflation Reduction Act was a 50-50 vote in the Senate, and she was the deciding vote.

00:10:41.000 Does she get to take credit for that?

00:10:43.000 It seems to me that if she gets to take credit for all of these supposed Biden administration accomplishments, when the stock market starts to tank, well, she gets to take credit for that one as well.

00:10:52.000 And Warren Buffett is looking at the markets and he is saying, I don't like what I'm seeing here.

00:10:59.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, shares of the iPhone maker dropped as much as 8% in pre-market trading after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed over the weekend that it sold nearly half of its Apple stock in the second quarter.

00:11:10.000 Buffett's reputation as one of the all-time greatest stock pickers means his decisions can significantly sway the market.

00:11:15.000 Apple is also facing pressure from an aggressive rotation out of tech stocks.

00:11:18.000 In addition to Apple shares of Nvidia, Tesla and Alphabet also fell sharply in pre-market trading Monday as investors unloaded riskier assets.

00:11:26.000 And one of the things that is also happening is that a huge amount of spending has gone into, for example, AI.

00:11:32.000 And AI is going to change the world.

00:11:34.000 However, the amount of money that's going into AI, and you're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars has gone into AI technologies.

00:11:40.000 The output from that has not matched the input thus far.

00:11:43.000 And so what you have is a bit of an AI bubble in terms of spending that is likely to burst, and you are likely to then have some sort of consolidation and then growth in the AI market.

00:11:53.000 But right now is not an amazing time to invest in those particular assets.

00:11:59.000 Meanwhile, Wall Street's fear gauge has been soaring.

00:12:01.000 The CBOE volatility index rose to 51, which would mark the highest close since April 2020 if the increase holds throughout the day.

00:12:09.000 Right now, analysts are suggesting that there is a greater than 25% shot at a serious recession.

00:12:17.000 According to Charles Gasparino, he says an economic black swan recession is on the horizon.

00:12:23.000 Even before Friday's shockingly worrisome jobs report, unemployment ticking up to 4.3%, a slowdown in hiring followed by a 610-point drop in the Dow, that's what some savvy market analysts and economists told me could be happening, said Gasparino.

00:12:35.000 They see some weird stuff in the economic data that hasn't been factored into the recent Dow and Nasdaq run-ups to record territory.

00:12:40.000 Given the supreme importance of the economy to voters, it could turn a neck in a race between Trump and Kamala Harris strongly in favor of Trump.

00:12:47.000 The reason economists and analysts believe our session will be a black swan is because it's not expected based on many readings of the economic data, and because if it happened, it would take an already volatile race for the White House to new levels of confusion.

00:12:59.000 Now, again, one of the reasons that this is happening is because the debt has been run up, the amount of money that has been poured into the markets under Joe Biden And under the late term of Donald Trump, because, again, that happened in the middle of the COVID recession.

00:13:13.000 The big problem, of course, is that Joe Biden kept that going even after the lockdowns were over.

00:13:17.000 He just kept spending oodles and oodles and oodles of money and keeping the money loose.

00:13:22.000 Apparently, signs of lower consumer spending are cropping up.

00:13:25.000 Then there's the inverted yield curve, where longer-dated bonds have a lower yield than the short-term Fed funds rate, which usually signals recession.

00:13:33.000 Where is Kamala Harris in all of this? 0.82

00:13:35.000 Where is she?

00:13:36.000 Zero questions to Kamala Harris in any of this as the economy melts down. 1.00

00:13:41.000 Meanwhile, we have the very serious possibility of a war in the Middle East.

00:13:45.000 Well, things are falling apart in the Middle East.

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00:14:54.000 Iran has been rebuffing calls for restraint. 0.99

00:14:57.000 So, the United States, because it is run by fools and simpletons, because Joe Biden is a fool, he's been wrong about every foreign policy issue his entire career, without exception, including the... He didn't want to kill Osama Bin Laden, for example. 0.99

00:15:11.000 Joe Biden has been wrong about everything it's possible to be wrong about, and Kamala Harris is similarly wrong, but more so.

00:15:16.000 Remember, she says she was the last person in the room on the Afghanistan pullout, one of the great disasters in American foreign policy history.

00:15:23.000 Well now everybody is sort of sitting on pins and needles waiting to see what Iran will do.

00:15:27.000 Whether Iran will fire a massive missile barrage at Israel, whether they will activate their terror group Hezbollah in the north of Israel to perform some sort of spectacular gigantic war assault on the north and center of Israel.

00:15:40.000 Why is all this happening? 0.86

00:15:41.000 The reason all of this is happening is because of the weakness and pathetic nature of the Biden-Harris administration. 0.96

00:15:46.000 That is why. 0.92

00:15:48.000 Apparently, the United States has been basically going on bended knee to the Iranians and begging them, please don't go too hard, please don't go too hard.

00:15:53.000 And the reason they keep saying that to the Iranians is because they are afraid that if Iran goes too hard, Israel will then respond and clock them into next week.

00:16:01.000 And they don't want a war in the Middle East.

00:16:03.000 But it turns out the best way to prevent a war in the Middle East is by deterrence.

00:16:06.000 It turns out when Donald Trump was president, he had an excellent Iran policy.

00:16:09.000 Contain them.

00:16:10.000 Sanction them. 0.96

00:16:11.000 Destroy their oil industry. 0.66

00:16:13.000 Prevent them from lending support both in terms of weaponry and materiel and in terms of economic support to terror groups all over the region.

00:16:21.000 Create a burgeoning Sunni-Israeli alliance.

00:16:25.000 Do all those things and you will turn Iran from a terror regional power into A non-functional terror state with a lot of oil supply that can't go anywhere. 0.84

00:16:36.000 That is what the Trump administration successfully did.

00:16:38.000 And then Joe Biden came into office and he immediately reversed everything.

00:16:41.000 He put the Saudis on the out. 1.00

00:16:42.000 He put the Israelis on the out. 1.00

00:16:43.000 He delisted the Houthis as a terrorist organization.

00:16:46.000 He went to Iran on bended knee and begged them to get back into an Iranian nuclear deal they were already violating.

00:16:52.000 He went to the Israelis and he said, you need to make concessions to Iran's terror proxy groups.

00:16:57.000 And it turns out that that resulted in October 7th and in Hezbollah launching thousands of rockets into Israel and in the Houthis attacking shipping in the Red Sea and in terror groups run by Iran using Iraq as a terror base from which to fire ordnance at Israel.

00:17:16.000 This is all the Biden-Harris administration.

00:17:19.000 They're truly the worst foreign policy administration of my lifetime, without a doubt, bar none, no competitors.

00:17:26.000 They're far worse than Barack Obama, which is saying an awful lot since Barack Obama basically handed over the Middle East to Iran and Russia.

00:17:31.000 It's really amazing.

00:17:32.000 So Iran is now being asked by the United States to please show restraint.

00:17:36.000 And Iran is saying, we don't want to show restraint.

00:17:38.000 And the reason they don't feel like they have to show restraint is because they are perfectly aware that the Biden administration is putting all of its pressure, not on Iran, but on Israel.

00:17:47.000 They can read.

00:17:48.000 They're perfectly aware of Barak Ravid's stenography reports over at Axios.

00:17:52.000 Barak Ravid's a reporter for Axios, and he's a stenographer for the Biden administration.

00:17:58.000 Anytime they want something out there, they go to Barak Ravid, they slip him the story, and he puts it out there.

00:18:03.000 And so they leak like a sieve to him.

00:18:04.000 According to Barak Ravid and Axios, late last week, President Biden privately demanded in a tough call Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop escalating tensions in the region and move immediately toward a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, according to two U.S.

00:18:17.000 officials.

00:18:18.000 Why is he saying that?

00:18:19.000 Because Israel killed Ismail Haniyeh, who is the political leader of Hamas, a terror group currently holding five American hostages.

00:18:26.000 Now, normally, as an American, I'm very much in favor.

00:18:28.000 I don't know about you. 0.90

00:18:29.000 I very much like when the heads of terror groups that are holding Americans hostage get killed. 0.99

00:18:33.000 They deserve it. 0.99

00:18:34.000 It's good for the world.

00:18:35.000 Fewer of those people on planet Earth.

00:18:36.000 Very, very good.

00:18:38.000 Israel also killed the number two in Hezbollah in Lebanon.

00:18:41.000 Also very good for the world, considering the United States had a $5 million bounty on that terrorist's head because he was largely responsible for the murder of 241 American service people in the 1980s in the Lebanon barracks bombing. 0.73

00:18:54.000 Joe Biden's response to this is, I can't believe Israel's so mean.

00:18:56.000 I can't believe they're escalating.

00:18:58.000 Because the math only works one way, according to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:19:02.000 When Israel defends itself, that is escalation. 0.77

00:19:04.000 When Iran escalates, that's retaliation. 0.91

00:19:07.000 That is the math the Biden administration applies to all of this.

00:19:09.000 And Iran knows it, which is why they are perfectly willing to quote-unquote retaliate with overwhelming force, according to the Iranian government.

00:19:16.000 According to Axios, Biden and his top aides are deeply frustrated by the fallout from Israel's assassinations in Beirut and Tehran, which took place less than a week after Netanyahu's first visit to the Oval Office in four years.

00:19:27.000 U.S.

00:19:27.000 officials don't mourn the deaths of either Hezbollah's top military commander, Fuad Shukur, who was involved in killing 241 U.S.

00:19:33.000 Marines in Beirut in 1983, or Ismail Khania, Hamas's political leader.

00:19:37.000 But they feel Netanyahu kept Biden in the dark.

00:19:40.000 Well, no bleep, Sherlock.

00:19:41.000 The reason that Netanyahu and the Israelis kept Biden in the dark is because he leaks information like this.

00:19:46.000 So did the Obama administration.

00:19:47.000 The Obama administration every so often would just leak Israeli national security information in an attempt to please the Iranians.

00:19:54.000 Hell, half the foreign policy establishment under Joe Biden actively works with or for the Iranians.

00:20:00.000 There have been multiple members of the Biden foreign policy team who are now under direct suspicion of having taken payments from the Iranians.

00:20:09.000 According to Axios, U.S.

00:20:11.000 officials told Axios that Biden called Netanyahu to discuss U.S.-Israeli joint military preparations for retaliations by Iran and Hezbollah, but also to make clear he was not pleased with the direction the Israeli prime minister has taken in the last week.

00:20:22.000 One U.S.

00:20:22.000 official said Biden complained to Netanyahu that he had just spoken last week in the Oval Office about securing a hostage deal.

00:20:27.000 But instead, Netanyahu went ahead with the assassination in Tehran.

00:20:30.000 You see, because the best policy, as always, as I mentioned last week, is to negotiate with terrorists and lose more slowly.

00:20:36.000 Just as the Biden administration treats as a victory the release of American hostages in favor of terrorists and spies and murderers back to the Kremlin.

00:20:46.000 Biden told Netanyahu the U.S.

00:20:47.000 will help Israel defeat an Iranian attack, but after that he expects no more escalation from the Israeli side and immediate movement toward a hostage deal.

00:20:53.000 So he's trying to blackmail the Israelis into making concessions to a terror group that is currently holding Americans hostage.

00:20:59.000 Behind the scenes, according to Barak Ravid, and this is again coming directly from Team Biden, Biden raised his voice and said that he wants a deal reached within a week or two weeks.

00:21:08.000 Why?

00:21:08.000 What's that math?

00:21:09.000 A week or two weeks?

00:21:10.000 Hmm, let me think.

00:21:11.000 What's happening in like a week or two weeks?

00:21:13.000 Oh, you mean the Democratic National Convention!

00:21:15.000 So in order to please Kamala Harris' domestic pro-Hamas constituency, the Israelis are supposed to preemptively surrender to Hamas, according to Biden-Harris.

00:21:23.000 Biden told Netanyahu a hostage and ceasefire deal is the most important thing right now.

00:21:28.000 Apparently he then suggested he's apparently he yelled at Netanyahu on this call.

00:21:35.000 That was the report is that he actually was shouting at Netanyahu because Netanyahu had the temerity to kill terrorists.

00:21:41.000 Well, folks, Joe Biden is just running around yelling at American allies.

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00:22:50.000 Meanwhile, he apparently threatened Israel that he said, you know, we'll help you defend yourselves this time, but if you escalate, maybe not next time.

00:22:57.000 You think Iran doesn't know that? 0.99

00:22:58.000 Iran can read. 0.69

00:23:00.000 They have people there who are literate.

00:23:01.000 It turns out that they too can read the news reports.

00:23:05.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have greatly increased the chances of World War III with their weakness, their cowardice.

00:23:12.000 It's unbelievable.

00:23:13.000 And they're sending out their entire foreign policy team over the weekend, not to tell the Iranians to stop, but to tell Israel that it ought to cut a deal with Hamas, no matter the circumstances, by the way.

00:23:25.000 Here, for example, is John Finer saying that a ceasefire deal has to take place literally as soon as possible.

00:23:33.000 Israel also targeted a Hezbollah commander this week.

00:23:35.000 Has that set back the ceasefire negotiations?

00:23:38.000 Well look, we've been quite clear both publicly and President Biden has been on the record about this a number of times and also privately to the Israelis and to other partners in the region that we think this ceasefire and hostage deal has to take place as soon as possible.

00:23:52.000 This would be the best outcome we believe for Israel's security.

00:23:55.000 Certainly for the hostages themselves who have been through an unimaginable ordeal, but also certainly for the Palestinians living in Gaza and for the wider region to just turn the temperature down on this entire situation and create the possibility for a more peaceful future and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza. 0.97

00:24:14.000 They are so pathetic. 0.95

00:24:15.000 That's the Deputy National Security Advisor. 1.00

00:24:17.000 Again, that is the Biden-Harris administration.

00:24:21.000 This is their fault.

00:24:22.000 What is happening in the Middle East is solely the fault of the United States drawing a gap between itself and its actual allies in the region, Saudi Arabia and Israel, along with the UAE, along with Bahrain, and instead attempting to curry favor with the Mullahs in Iran.

00:24:37.000 This has always been the master plan of Barack Obama, the actual president of the United States, who actually did have his third term via the dead old man in the White House, and now his fourth term, presumably, under Kamala Harris.

00:24:48.000 Obama was always the driving force behind the foreign policy of this administration.

00:24:53.000 Meanwhile, John Finer says, we're doing everything we can to keep this from boiling over.

00:24:56.000 I noticed you're not doing everything you can because you know what you could say to Iran.

00:24:59.000 What you could say to Iran is, listen, if you activate Hezbollah, Hezbollah just won't exist tomorrow morning.

00:25:03.000 Not because the United States wants to go to war, but because a great way to dissuade people from going to war, as Donald Trump knew better than literally anyone, a great way to dissuade people from going to war is to threaten to clock them so hard in the face they will not be able to see ever again.

00:25:19.000 It's a great, it turns out credible use of threat of force is an excellent deterrent.

00:25:24.000 Why people refuse to understand that basic foreign policy logic is absolutely beyond me.

00:25:28.000 It's the story of literally all foreign policy for every country ever.

00:25:32.000 Credible threat of the use of force, particularly when you're the most overwhelming military power in the history of the planet, is really good.

00:25:40.000 Again, this is something Donald Trump inherently understood.

00:25:42.000 It's something he inherently understood.

00:25:43.000 So, quick story.

00:25:45.000 I did a fundraiser for President Trump a couple of months ago.

00:25:47.000 In the back room, we were all talking.

00:25:49.000 And President Trump started talking about why Vladimir Putin had not invaded Ukraine while he was President of the United States. 0.99

00:25:55.000 And Donald Trump said, I had a conversation with Vladimir Putin and I told him, Vlad, Vlad, if you invade Ukraine, I will bomb the s*** out of you. 0.95

00:26:03.000 And Vlad, Vlad said, no you won't, Mr. President. 0.99

00:26:05.000 And I said, well, I might.

00:26:08.000 And then Trump said, because he's right.

00:26:10.000 And if there's a 5% chance that that's true, you're not going to do it. 0.93

00:26:15.000 That is how foreign policy is actually conducted in the real world, as opposed to the morons in the State Department who believe that you can talk your way and massage your way into friendship with the ayatollahs in Iran.

00:26:26.000 But here is John Finer suggesting we're doing everything we can to keep this from boiling over by putting pressure on America's allies.

00:26:34.000 When has this ever worked?

00:26:35.000 Seriously, when has it ever worked to preserve peace beyond, you know, the next week and a half?

00:26:40.000 To draw a massive gap between you and a Democratic ally fighting actual honest-to-God terror groups as designated by the American State Department.

00:26:48.000 It's insane. 0.99

00:26:49.000 Here's Jon Finer, Deputy National Security Advisor, being a dullard. 0.94

00:26:52.000 In the current moment, as you just said, the Pentagon is moving significant assets to the region to prepare for what may be another need to defend Israel from an attack.

00:27:04.000 While simultaneously, we are working very hard to de-escalate this situation diplomatically, because we do not believe that a regional war is in anyone's interest in the current moment.

00:27:12.000 And that is something that we've been trying to avoid since October 7th.

00:27:17.000 Unbelievable.

00:27:18.000 Unbelievable.

00:27:19.000 You haven't been trying to do anything of purpose. 1.00

00:27:22.000 It's absolutely pathetic. 0.96

00:27:23.000 So, if a war does in fact break out in the Middle East, you know who to blame? 0.98

00:27:26.000 Biden-Harris.

00:27:27.000 Okay, so you have an economy that is on razor's edge and a stock market plummeting.

00:27:32.000 By the way, it is worth noting here, Warren Buffett now owns more outstanding treasury bills.

00:27:37.000 This is a national statistic.

00:27:38.000 He owns more T-bills than the Federal Reserve.

00:27:42.000 He has $277 billion in T-bills.

00:27:45.000 They own 4% of all T-bills issued to the public.

00:27:49.000 That's how much they were betting against the stock market growing under Biden-Harris.

00:27:54.000 And then meanwhile, you got Biden-Harris facilitating war in the Middle East by demonstrating that they are yellow-bellied when it comes to the Iranians.

00:28:02.000 And still no questions are being asked again.

00:28:05.000 Day 16, 16 of no questions being asked to Kamala Harris.

00:28:09.000 She's the current vice president of the United States. 1.00

00:28:12.000 Forget about her being a candidate.

00:28:14.000 She's apparently she's the only one with any level of synaptic firing happening in the White House.

00:28:19.000 Joe Biden is so out of it.

00:28:20.000 He's going on the wrong plane to poop.

00:28:23.000 But Kamala Harris is very much alive.

00:28:24.000 She's the candidate.

00:28:25.000 Any questions, media?

00:28:27.000 Any, any at all?

00:28:28.000 Well, Kamala Harris, terrible at her job. 1.00

00:28:30.000 The media, terrible at their job.

00:28:32.000 And you know what Kamala Harris could have used in her home? 0.99

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00:29:30.000 Meanwhile, it turns out even the moral suasion of the Kamala Harris campaign is a bunch of horse crap. 0.95

00:29:35.000 So Doug Emhoff, who we have been told is the kindest, gentlest, he's the second gentleman, he's such a gentleman, Douglas Emhoff. 0.98

00:29:42.000 Oh my gosh, Douglas, what a class act.

00:29:44.000 And, of course, we know that he's Jewish.

00:29:46.000 That's the part that's really important.

00:29:47.000 Because we know that Kamala Harris would never be radically anti-Israel because Doug Emhoff is so Jewish.

00:29:52.000 He's so Jewish he has no idea what the hell Hanukkah's about, or Purim, just makes up weird stories about what those Jewish holidays are about, and his daughter has raised millions of dollars for Terror proxies in the Gaza Strip, but he's so Jewish. 0.96

00:30:04.000 That dude is so... That's how we know.

00:30:07.000 He's a great guy.

00:30:08.000 He's a super great guy.

00:30:08.000 Not only is he Jewish, but Doug Emhoff also condemns toxic masculinity because he's the ideal spouse.

00:30:15.000 Here he was talking about the evils of toxic masculinity because, of course, he is a white dude for Kamala.

00:30:22.000 There's too much of toxicity.

00:30:26.000 It's masculine toxicity out there, and we've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine, where you've got this trope out there that you've got to be tough and, you know, angry and lash out to be strong.

00:30:40.000 It's just the opposite.

00:30:42.000 You know, strength is how you show your love for people.

00:30:44.000 Strength is how you are for people and how you have their back.

00:30:48.000 And how you stick up for other people.

00:30:51.000 And pushing up, pushing out against bullies.

00:30:54.000 And that's what I believe it is.

00:31:00.000 He stands up against bullies.

00:31:01.000 It's about being nice to people.

00:31:02.000 It's about being beautiful to people. 1.00

00:31:04.000 Like f*** your nanny! 1.00

00:31:06.000 So that's a thing that guy did. 0.99

00:31:08.000 So according to the New York Post, Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Dung Emhoff, on Sunday admitted that he was banging the nanny, which apparently is a habit inside the Biden administration.

00:31:17.000 The second gentleman reportedly strayed from then-wife Kirsten over a decade and a half ago with a blonde nanny named Najin Naylor, who taught at a private school attended by their two kids.

00:31:28.000 And then he impregnated her.

00:31:30.000 But good news, Doug Emhoff is pro-choice.

00:31:32.000 And so abortion is an amazing solution to that time when you can't help schtuping the nanny. 0.79

00:31:40.000 Gotta love the upper-class coastal elites in California.

00:31:43.000 The ones who are bragging about their moral level, about toxic masculinity, and about tolerance for all lifestyles while they bang the nanny.

00:31:51.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:31:53.000 Here is a tweet, October 7th, 2022.

00:31:56.000 I remember when Kamala Harris called me to tell me about the Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs.

00:32:00.000 The first thing I thought about was my daughter.

00:32:01.000 As a dad and as a husband, I'm gonna do everything I can to speak out and help advance reproductive freedom.

00:32:07.000 Well, I'm sure that the first thing he did think about was the daughter that his nanny probably killed.

00:32:13.000 You know, the one that was in her uterus because he put it there. 0.58

00:32:17.000 What a delightful person Doug Emhoff is.

00:32:19.000 And then we get lectures about the morality of Biden-Harris team.

00:32:23.000 Team Biden-Harris.

00:32:26.000 Honestly, you want to talk about a group of weird people?

00:32:29.000 This is a group of weird people.

00:32:31.000 These very, very upper-class people Who live in coastal enclaves with very blue politics, who are cheating on their spouses with the nanny, impregnating them, getting abortions, divorcing that spouse, going on to marry senators in the United States Senate, and then they get to be second gentlemen.

00:32:48.000 But don't worry, that is what love looks like.

00:32:50.000 Love is love.

00:32:52.000 Love is love.

00:32:53.000 Why does any of that matter?

00:32:54.000 Who cares about the second gentleman?

00:32:55.000 It only matters because the campaign keeps trotting out Doug Emhoff as a great moral exemplar to men everywhere.

00:33:02.000 They tweeted out a picture over the weekend.

00:33:04.000 That was honestly one of the lowest tee pictures I've ever seen.

00:33:07.000 Of Doug Emhoff hopping off a bus with Kamala Harris.

00:33:10.000 So enthusiastic campaign for Kamala.

00:33:12.000 I mean, to be fair, none of his kids need a nanny anymore.

00:33:16.000 So I suppose that, I suppose perhaps, perhaps he can keep it in his pants this time.

00:33:20.000 But we'll see.

00:33:22.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is supposed to select her VP candidate either today or tomorrow.

00:33:27.000 We'll get into that momentarily.

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00:34:24.000 And meanwhile, Kamala Harris is narrowing down her VP selection.

00:34:28.000 So apparently she's down to a few choices.

00:34:31.000 She's been interviewing finalists, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Sunday.

00:34:38.000 She's expected to announce her choice ahead of a first joint appearance scheduled for Tuesday in Philadelphia.

00:34:43.000 The fact that it was pretty obviously going to be Josh Shapiro broke on Friday when the mayor of Philadelphia put out like a full video touting Josh Shapiro as the VP candidate.

00:34:51.000 Probably it was scheduled for Tuesday and instead it went out early.

00:34:55.000 So everybody was sort of assuming that it would be Josh Shapiro.

00:34:59.000 Apparently, Barack Obama is a big Josh Shapiro fan, which makes perfect sense because Josh Shapiro does a pretty good Barack Obama impersonation, actually.

00:35:06.000 He has all of his mannerisms down in the same way that people on the right suggested that, say, Ron DeSantis or even J.D.

00:35:12.000 Vance, they started to imitate the mannerisms of President Trump.

00:35:15.000 Josh Shapiro does a pretty solid Barack Obama impersonation.

00:35:19.000 Not as good as mine.

00:35:20.000 Not as solid as this Shapiro's.

00:35:22.000 No relation, by the way.

00:35:23.000 I am not related to that Pennsylvania governor.

00:35:26.000 But in any case, He apparently is sort of a creation of Barack Obama, but there's one problem for Josh Shapiro, and that is that he is a Juden. 0.83

00:35:35.000 And there are a lot of members of the Democratic Party who are not so happy with the Juden right now. 0.83

00:35:38.000 They think that they are too pro-Israel, that they are warmongers, and there are a lot of people inside the Democratic Party who really, really like Hamas and really, really hate Israel.

00:35:47.000 The Rashida Tlaib Ilhan Omar AOC wing of the Democratic Party.

00:35:50.000 And so basically everybody has sort of been stabbing each other in the back In Democratic circles over who will be the vice presidential candidate.

00:35:58.000 The big hit on Josh Shapiro, who of course is the obvious pick, he is a swing state governor with a 61% approval rating.

00:36:04.000 So pretty obvious pick, right?

00:36:05.000 Makes perfect sense.

00:36:07.000 The big hit on him has been that he is pro-Israel.

00:36:10.000 And that when he was 20, he wrote an op-ed in which he said the eminently true thing, which is there will not be a Palestinian state any time in the near future because the Palestinian population is radicalized, which is 100% true. 1.00

00:36:20.000 Well, good news, as a Democrat, he has absolutely no principles whatsoever, so he immediately apologized for that over the weekend.

00:36:26.000 And he said he doesn't believe anymore what he believed when he was 20.

00:36:28.000 He didn't explain why he was wrong, but he's going to mirror the anti-Israel bona fides of the presidential candidate he seeks to serve.

00:36:39.000 He also does happen to be not nearly as moderate as he's made out to be.

00:36:42.000 So he made some early sounds in Pennsylvania about how he was pro-school vouchers.

00:36:46.000 Then he tended to kind of walk away from that.

00:36:48.000 He has suggested that the pro-Hamas protesters on college campuses, they're equivalent to the KKK ideologically, he will walk away from that too.

00:36:55.000 Because again, all of these politicians are so unbelievably ambitious that they are willing to set all of their beliefs aflame, just pour gasoline on them and set them on fire in order to get ahead by like one step.

00:37:07.000 Willing to sell out anything to be vice president of the United States.

00:37:10.000 But he was never that moderate, Josh Shapiro. 0.95

00:37:13.000 He just happened to be running in Pennsylvania against Doug Mastriano, an actual crazy person.

00:37:17.000 It turns out that running bad candidates in swing states is a very bad strategy for Republicans.

00:37:21.000 They tried it in 2022.

00:37:22.000 Didn't go great, Bob.

00:37:24.000 In any case, here is, for example, Josh Shapiro at a pride rally.

00:37:28.000 I'm here at Central PA Pride and I want to say to everybody, happy pride.

00:37:32.000 This is a commonwealth where you should be free to be who you are and love who you love

00:37:38.000 and be comfortable that here in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the birthplace of democracy

00:37:44.000 and freedom, you are loved, you are respected, and you are heard by your governor.

00:37:50.000 I've been proud to be with you in these battles, proud to be with you in these fights.

00:37:54.000 We are making progress.

00:37:55.000 With the LGBTs. 1.00

00:37:56.000 With the LGBTQs. 1.00

00:37:57.000 But we should celebrate our progress.

00:37:59.000 Happy Pride, Pennsylvania.

00:38:00.000 Don't worry, he's a moderate.

00:38:01.000 Okay, meanwhile, he lies about Donald Trump's abortion position.

00:38:09.000 He is basically a rote Democratic politician with a couple of sort of more attractive features.

00:38:16.000 Mainly, he comes off as moderate even when he's saying very radical things.

00:38:19.000 Here he was just last week suggesting that Donald Trump wants to pass a national abortion ban, which is obviously untrue since Trump has disowned that entire position.

00:38:27.000 Trump brings chaos to everything he does.

00:38:30.000 He ripped away the rights of millions of women to be able to make decisions over their own body. 0.99

00:38:35.000 And by the way, if he's returned to the White House, I'm sure he and Vance will try and pass a national ban.

00:38:42.000 Josh Shapiro's smarter than that.

00:38:43.000 He knows that Donald Trump did not pass a national ban or rip the rights away.

00:38:48.000 The Supreme Court said the issue of abortion goes back to the states.

00:38:51.000 That's the entire overruling of Roe.

00:38:52.000 That's the whole thing.

00:38:53.000 That stops.

00:38:54.000 It has nothing to do.

00:38:55.000 With Donald Trump, quote unquote, ripping away.

00:38:57.000 Right.

00:38:57.000 But again, Josh Shapiro is just a down the line Democrat who happens to be popular in Pennsylvania because he appears moderate from time to time.

00:39:03.000 But again, his big drawback as a candidate for the Democrats is that a lot of the radical parts of the Democratic Party do not like that he is Jewish and they demand fealty.

00:39:11.000 They demand that Kamala Harris disown him.

00:39:13.000 And they suggest that if you want us to lose the enthusiasm we have recently regained, then you cannot pick Josh Shapiro.

00:39:19.000 So that's been the big push against Josh Shapiro.

00:39:20.000 Meanwhile, there's Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona.

00:39:22.000 He is another candidate who's been widely discussed.

00:39:26.000 And the problem for Mark Kelly is that he's absolutely milquetoast.

00:39:30.000 There's nothing about Mark Kelly that screams interesting.

00:39:33.000 Not only that, Mark Kelly has some pretty dicey connections with Chinese firms in which he has invested in the past.

00:39:40.000 He actually had investments with one of the firms, apparently, that helped develop the Chinese spy balloon.

00:39:45.000 So all of that would come up, presumably.

00:39:47.000 Here is Senator Kelly suggesting that Kamala is solving the problems on the border.

00:39:52.000 Uh-huh, sure.

00:39:55.000 I can't stress more that this is an issue that Donald Trump and Republicans just want to talk about.

00:40:03.000 I mean, J.D.

00:40:04.000 Vance is down here, I think he's in Arizona today, probably getting a photo op at the southern border.

00:40:10.000 Kamala Harris is about solving problems.

00:40:12.000 Donald Trump wants to take us, drag us back a decade.

00:40:19.000 This is not particularly enriching stuff, but he is from a swing state, he's from a border state, and for some reason he's perceived as moderate.

00:40:26.000 Again, well done.

00:40:27.000 Just quick note to the Republican Party, broadly speaking, well done on running terrible candidates, guys.

00:40:31.000 Like, truly well done.

00:40:33.000 I'm old enough to remember when there were two Republican senators and a Republican governor from Arizona, so slow clap for the Arizona GOP, which has managed to completely destroy itself over the course of the last ten years in the state of Arizona.

00:40:43.000 Same thing to members of the upper echelons of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, which has somehow managed to take a purple state and elect two Democratic senators and a Democratic governor.

00:40:53.000 Like, really, really well done.

00:40:55.000 This is the thing.

00:40:55.000 The Democrats, they're professionals at this.

00:40:56.000 The Republicans are amateur hour.

00:40:58.000 They're just amateur hour.

00:40:59.000 Meanwhile, Andy Beshear, who is the Democratic governor of a very red state in Kentucky, he was discussed a little bit as a possible VP candidate.

00:41:07.000 He seems to have fallen off a little bit, mainly because he's not very good at this.

00:41:11.000 One hilarious story involving Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky, happened when he was ripping on unemployment fraud in Kentucky, and he suggested that Tupac Shakur had received unemployment in Kentucky, and it turns out that he had, but not that Tupac Shakur, so that was awkward.

00:41:28.000 Unfortunately, it's going to take a little bit of time in these because a couple of bad apples can make this challenge that much more difficult.

00:41:38.000 For instance, we had somebody apply for unemployment for Tupac Shakur here in Kentucky.

00:41:44.000 And that person probably thought they were being funny.

00:41:46.000 I didn't know.

00:41:47.000 And it's my fault that we have a Kentuckian who goes by Malik, whose name is Tupac Shakur.

00:41:55.000 I talked to him on the phone today.

00:41:56.000 I apologize.

00:42:00.000 Well, he's not the brightest bulb in the basket.

00:42:02.000 Meanwhile, another candidate who's up for this thing, I have no idea why, Tim Walz, not from a swing state, realistically speaking, also happens to be wildly radical.

00:42:10.000 You remember just last week, he was on the White Dudes for Harris committee, also known as the Low Tea Party.

00:42:17.000 And he suggested that socialism is just another word for neighborliness, like when you turn in your neighbor so he gets shot and you can take his small farm in Ukraine.

00:42:28.000 For one thing, don't ever shy away from our progressive values.

00:42:33.000 One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.

00:42:37.000 It is so true. 0.88

00:42:38.000 One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.

00:42:41.000 Like when you report your friend for having crossed the Soviet Communist Party and then they drag him off to a gulag and give you his apartment.

00:42:48.000 Socialism, neighborliness, the same.

00:42:51.000 Meanwhile, Gretchen Whitmer, who has been considered, she's kind of fallen off the board a little bit.

00:42:55.000 Not as much talk about Gretchen Whitmer, but she is the somewhat popular governor of Michigan for no reason I can discern.

00:43:01.000 You'll remember that back in July, she was out there lying about how Joe Biden could easily serve a second term, which is hilarious because he can barely finish out his first term, if at all.

00:43:10.000 I think that the debate rattled a lot of people, right?

00:43:13.000 It was a lousy performance.

00:43:14.000 I don't think anyone's disputing that.

00:43:16.000 I spent some time with the president in the White House with a number of my colleagues shortly after the debate.

00:43:22.000 I talked to him this past weekend with all the other vice chairs of his campaign, co-chairs, and, you know, he's up for this.

00:43:32.000 Mm, mm, yeah. 0.97

00:43:34.000 And then five seconds later, she's like, I can stab that guy right in the neck 1.00

00:43:37.000 and we'll toss his prone body to the vultures. 0.99

00:43:40.000 She also says, by the way, that women are people with a period,

00:43:42.000 which is interesting because half of her supposed appeal is her womanliness. 1.00

00:43:47.000 Bipartisan tax cut will help reduce the economic burden of the cost of menstrual products,

00:43:54.000 especially for lower income Michiganders.

00:43:57.000 Saving people with a period from paying taxes and up to $4,800 in spending

00:44:03.000 over the course of their lifetime.

00:44:04.000 Ah.

00:44:09.000 And finally, there's Pete Buttigieg. 0.98

00:44:10.000 So Pete Buttigieg is, of course, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, which qualified him for zero things ever, but he is gay. 0.98

00:44:18.000 And that's very important, because being gay makes you a possible VP pick these days. 0.99

00:44:22.000 Here he was, not all that long ago, suggesting that religious institutions should overtly be punished if they don't hire LGBTQ people. 0.84

00:44:28.000 Here he was, this is again, not all that long ago.

00:44:33.000 Mayor, just to be clear, do you believe that other religious and non-profit institutions like colleges and homeless charities should lose their federal funding if they refuse to hire or serve LGBTQ people?

00:44:43.000 Yes, if they are discriminating, then they should not be doing it with federal dollars.

00:44:49.000 Amazing stuff there from a possible VP pick.

00:44:51.000 So, all of these are not particularly good VP picks.

00:44:54.000 The big question for the Democratic Party, the most interesting one, is will they overthrow the Josh Shapiro VP pick as a sop to the pro-Hamas crowd, which would be a pretty excellent indicator of exactly what the future of the Democratic Party would be.

00:45:06.000 If a bunch of radicals inside the Democratic Party can take the most obvious frontrunner for VP and toss him out the window because he happens to be pro-Israel, even after he's out there denouncing all of his former views, I think you can tell the direction of the Democratic Party.

00:45:19.000 Now remember, according to the Democratic Party, all that we are watching right now, the possibility of a massive war in the Middle East, a crashing stock market without extraneous rationale, cost of living up dramatically over the last three years.

00:45:30.000 According to the Democratic Party, this is all good.

00:45:33.000 See, they have to play this weird trick.

00:45:35.000 And the weird trick is that Kamala Harris is both directly responsible for everything Joe Biden did, and also Joe Biden is very good at this.

00:45:41.000 Joe Biden is like an amazing president, and Kamala Harris was part of that amazing presidency.

00:45:45.000 So Nancy Pelosi, over the weekend, was out there suggesting that Joe Biden is such an amazing president, he should be on Mount Rushmore. 1.00

00:45:50.000 Which is weird, since he had kicked his ass off a cliff. 0.99

00:45:53.000 I mean, unbelievable. 0.99

00:45:54.000 She basically garroted that guy. 1.00

00:45:56.000 She hung that dude from a crane. 1.00

00:45:57.000 She's like, but he was an amazing gentleman, and he still continues.

00:46:00.000 His corpse continues to do an amazing job.

00:46:03.000 I mean, she's still got the knife. 0.99

00:46:04.000 It's like fresh from his back and the blood is oozing off of it.

00:46:06.000 And she's like, oh, but, but Julia Caesar was incredible and is incredible and should be on Mount Rushmore. 0.99

00:46:11.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi really going for it here. 1.00

00:46:14.000 Such a consequential president of the United States.

00:46:17.000 A Mount Rushmore kind of president of the United States.

00:46:21.000 Want to know what comes next?

00:46:22.000 Are you really saying that he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore?

00:46:26.000 Lincoln and Joe Biden.

00:46:29.000 But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he's wonderful.

00:46:32.000 I don't say take him down, but you can add Biden.

00:46:36.000 Add Biden onto Mount Rushmore?

00:46:39.000 What, like the back of his head walking away?

00:46:40.000 Are you talking about this face?

00:46:44.000 Like the one from the debate, you're just gonna have a big, giant, chiseled head of Joe Biden falling asleep, drool falling out of his mouth.

00:46:52.000 These geniuses.

00:46:53.000 But this is one of the reasons why I think that this race is not even remotely over.

00:46:57.000 Hey, Kamala Harris, again, I'm not gonna say it enough times.

00:47:00.000 We are on day 16!

00:47:01.000 Day 16, zero questions, war in the Middle East.

00:47:04.000 Massive economic bubble bursting.

00:47:07.000 Terrible cost of living problems.

00:47:10.000 Day 16, she's the nominee.

00:47:11.000 Like, at some point, she's gonna have to answer a question, and it turns out they have no answers to these questions.

00:47:15.000 So, Senator LaFonza Butler, whose name I barely even knew because she was appointed to the California Senate recently.

00:47:23.000 And apparently, she was asked about Kamala Harris' flip-flopping positions. 1.00

00:47:27.000 Her answer here is just a classic of the genre.

00:47:29.000 This is some solid stuff here from LaFonza Butler.

00:47:33.000 What do you think that voters should think when she's reversed herself on several issues just in the last four years? 1.00

00:47:40.000 I think that voters should think that she's a human being who learns new things every single day and has the ability to take the time and effort to hear the concerns of all people.

00:47:55.000 Wow, that's a great answer.

00:47:56.000 So she shifted all of her opinions because she's human. 0.90

00:47:59.000 She's a human being, get this, who learns new things. 0.96

00:48:02.000 So apparently, Kamala's word salad-itis is actually contagious, and everyone around her also has to become some sort of word salad, bizarro world rhetorical idiot every time they talk about Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:48:17.000 Why is she shifting all of her positions? 1.00

00:48:19.000 Well, she's a human, and what we mean by humanity is that she has a capacity to change, and the significance of the importance of the change of the humanity Is the reason why.

00:48:34.000 All of them.

00:48:34.000 They're all turning into Kamala in real time.

00:48:36.000 It's like invasion of the weird body snatchers.

00:48:39.000 There's a reason why Sherrod Brown, I am enjoying the constant updates that we are doing on the show on Sherrod Brown, I will say.

00:48:44.000 The senator from Ohio, who again, he's in a red state.

00:48:47.000 He is a very blue senator in a pretty red state now.

00:48:51.000 And he's running against Bernie Moreno.

00:48:52.000 He's narrowly ahead at this point.

00:48:54.000 And he, just every time they ask him about Kamala Harris, he starts shrieking and runs through a wall, leaving a Sherrod Brown shaped hole in the wall.

00:49:01.000 So here he was on CNN, running directly away from Kamala Harris.

00:49:06.000 Would you campaign with Kamala Harris if she comes here? 0.99

00:49:09.000 I don't.

00:49:10.000 I have not.

00:49:11.000 I mean, I have not.

00:49:12.000 I've got my own schedule.

00:49:14.000 She's got her own schedule.

00:49:16.000 I will focus on my race.

00:49:17.000 My strategy is perhaps different from hers.

00:49:21.000 So that's a no.

00:49:22.000 By the way, that would be a no there from Sherrod Brown. 0.88

00:49:24.000 I'm not going to be anywhere near her because then I'd have to give dumb answers like Lafonza Butler about humanity and change.

00:49:32.000 Okay, so what should Donald Trump do to take advantage of all this? 0.68

00:49:35.000 He should go on attack, obviously.

00:49:38.000 Democrats are trying to present the argument that Donald Trump is afraid of Kamala Harris.

00:49:42.000 The chief argument they are making right now is that Donald Trump has said that he doesn't want to debate Kamala Harris on ABC.

00:49:47.000 And you can sort of see why, given the fact that ABC News is staffed by people like George Stephanopoulos.

00:49:52.000 George Stephanopoulos spent the weekend basically cutting off Republicans who disagree with him, as is his want, the Keebler elf of morning television.

00:49:59.000 He suggests that Byron Donalds, for example, shouldn't be able to give This was Rachel Scott's question.

00:50:04.000 My question is on those rioters who assaulted officers.

00:50:06.000 Would you pardon those people?

00:50:07.000 Oh, absolutely, I would.

00:50:07.000 who's a Trump ally.

00:50:29.000 That's what will happen, George.

00:50:30.000 No, that's actually, that's not what he said.

00:50:32.000 He said if they were innocent, I would pardon them.

00:50:34.000 They've all been convicted.

00:50:35.000 He said he would pardon those who assaulted police officers.

00:50:38.000 Do you support that or not?

00:50:40.000 George, you just, George, you just, George, you just changed the soundbite.

00:50:44.000 You just changed it.

00:50:45.000 Now you added, if they're innocent, then I will pardon them.

00:50:49.000 Let's go back to the record of January 6th.

00:50:51.000 Again, not something that matters.

00:50:52.000 I didn't change the soundbite.

00:50:53.000 That's exactly what he said.

00:50:55.000 Okay, and then George Stephanopoulos cuts off Byron Donaldson and says the interview is over.

00:51:01.000 I can't imagine why Donald Trump doesn't really want to debate on ABC News.

00:51:04.000 With that said, the Democratic talking point these days that Trump is afraid of, Kamala Harris.

00:51:08.000 Here's James Carville trying to trot out this one.

00:51:11.000 So the big question is the debate.

00:51:15.000 Supposed to debate on ABC, I think it was September 10th.

00:51:18.000 And of course he's...

00:51:20.000 Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya, nyanyanyanyanya, Trump is scared to debate a girl, nyanyanyanyanya.

00:51:28.000 So now he says, he wants to do Fox. He wants this. Of course, he's shitting in his pants because as we pointed out

00:51:40.000 before, all he does is fart in his pants. 0.99

00:51:43.000 A strong language there from James Carville.

00:51:47.000 A compelling argument.

00:51:48.000 So Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that if Vice President Kamala Harris does not agree to a Fox News debate, he will not debate her.

00:51:53.000 This is the wrong strategy.

00:51:55.000 Listen, no one wants Trump to win more than I do.

00:51:58.000 I donated my newest campaign.

00:51:59.000 I've held a fundraiser for him.

00:52:00.000 I think the world requires the end of the Biden-Harris era.

00:52:03.000 It's awful.

00:52:05.000 The way to end that era is for Donald Trump to get on a debate stage and expose her to public view every week. 0.99

00:52:10.000 And again, I think more debates, the better.

00:52:12.000 Because I think that what Trump is thinking is if I do one debate and it goes badly, then she's going to get a bump.

00:52:16.000 So how about this?

00:52:17.000 How about a series of debates?

00:52:18.000 How about like a whistle stop tour?

00:52:20.000 We can have a debate once a week on a topic and she will lose every one of those topics. 0.99

00:52:23.000 We can do it every week.

00:52:25.000 Because here's the thing, ain't nobody changing their opinion of Donald Trump.

00:52:28.000 But the more you see of Kamala Harris, the more you dislike her, which is why they've been hiding her.

00:52:33.000 She's like, where's Waldo of candidates?

00:52:36.000 She's walking around like a striped sweatshirt and glasses and a funny hat, looking increasingly like Joe Scarborough.

00:52:41.000 She's hiding everywhere in plain sight, but mostly hiding. 0.51

00:52:45.000 So he needs to expose that.

00:52:46.000 He needs to put her out front and center.

00:52:48.000 The Trump team is starting to put out attack ads.

00:52:50.000 They put out a series of 15 second ads about Kamala Harris on social media.

00:52:54.000 And these are effective.

00:52:55.000 Says the sound of inflation, courtesy of Kamala Harris.

00:53:05.000 And then you see a gasoline pump.

00:53:07.000 Price is increasing.

00:53:08.000 Travel anxiety.

00:53:11.000 Courtesy of Kamala Harris.

00:53:13.000 Here you have, again, somebody pumping gas.

00:53:22.000 This is the sound of inflation.

00:53:26.000 Courtesy of Kamala Harris.

00:53:27.000 And it's like this.

00:53:28.000 A lot of this sort of stuff.

00:53:29.000 And that's totally fine.

00:53:30.000 But you need to see more of Kamala Harris' face. 0.57

00:53:32.000 More of her laughing as the world burns.

00:53:35.000 More of her guffawing and dancing with RuPaul's Drag Race while the Middle East turns into flame. 0.99

00:53:43.000 And Donald Trump did a rally over the weekend.

00:53:45.000 Again, Trump, he needs to be meticulous in his attacks because most of his rallies will be about very well-calibrated attacks on Kamala Harris and her campaign.

00:53:54.000 That'll be like most of his attacks.

00:53:56.000 And then He'll just randomly start attacking Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia.

00:54:00.000 And then the headline that comes out of the rally will not be anything about Kamala, it'll be about Brian Kemp.

00:54:05.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:54:05.000 But here was Trump suggesting that Kamala Harris needs to be redefined.

00:54:09.000 People need to know that she's gonna destroy the country. 1.00

00:54:11.000 He is right about this, of course.

00:54:14.000 Four months ago, she was considered grossly incompetent by the fake news. 0.99

00:54:19.000 Now they're saying, oh, isn't she wonderful?

00:54:21.000 Isn't she wonderful?

00:54:22.000 No, she's not wonderful.

00:54:24.000 So we have to work hard to define her.

00:54:27.000 I don't want to even define her.

00:54:28.000 I just want to say who she is.

00:54:29.000 She's a horror show. 1.00

00:54:30.000 She'll destroy our country. 1.00

00:54:32.000 He is right about all that and that needs to be the line of attack.

00:54:37.000 J.D. Vance doing a good job.

00:54:39.000 He says she's delivered an open border and inflation.

00:54:41.000 That is her big delivery.

00:54:42.000 Kamala Harris.

00:54:45.000 Donald Trump delivered peace.

00:54:47.000 He delivered prosperity.

00:54:49.000 Kamala Harris has delivered an open border and skyrocketing inflation. 0.84

00:54:52.000 It's really just not a hard argument to make, but we're going to make it as aggressively and persuasively as we can to the American people for about the next 95 or so days.

00:55:00.000 Okay, and that has to be the campaign.

00:55:04.000 What doesn't help is when you just randomly attack the governor of Georgia.

00:55:07.000 So, over the weekend, that same rally, Donald Trump just launches into a diatribe about Brian Kemp.

00:55:12.000 I'm sorry, a presidential campaign is not festivus.

00:55:15.000 It is not time for the airing of grievances.

00:55:17.000 You know who Donald Trump could use?

00:55:19.000 The governor who has already endorsed him for the presidency and who defeated Stacey Abrams in a very competitive battleground state, Georgia.

00:55:26.000 You know what's not useful?

00:55:27.000 Going off on Brian Kemp.

00:55:29.000 That is a useless gesture. 1.00

00:55:30.000 It is stupid and it is useless. 1.00

00:55:33.000 And the reason I'm upset about this is because Donald Trump is fully capable of turning all of his substantial guns on Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:55:39.000 He's not running against Brian Kemp.

00:55:40.000 He's running against Kamala Harris.

00:55:42.000 Brian Kemp is the governor of Georgia.

00:55:44.000 He's a Republican and he endorsed Trump.

00:55:46.000 This is just a mistake. 1.00

00:55:48.000 It's foolish. 1.00

00:55:49.000 Here is Trump doing it. 0.99

00:55:52.000 Raffensperger and Brian Kemp, your governor, who I got elected, by the way, who wasn't for me, he would not be your governor.

00:55:59.000 I think everybody knows that.

00:56:01.000 He's a very disloyal person, isn't he?

00:56:03.000 Very disloyal.

00:56:09.000 How about not that?

00:56:10.000 If President Trump wants to win, and I want him to win, so please don't do this sort of stuff, then he probably should focus in on, you know, the person he is running against, who he has to redefine, as opposed to allowing the press off the hook.

00:56:20.000 See, here's the thing.

00:56:21.000 The press look for Trump's attacks like this, and it's like oxygen to them.

00:56:25.000 It allows them not to cover the actual issue, which is Kamala Harris.

00:56:28.000 Brian Kemp is not the issue.

00:56:29.000 Kamala Harris is, in fact, the issue.

00:56:33.000 And just one second, we'll get into the more media misdirection, the media trying to continue to play J.D.

00:56:38.000 Vance as weird.

00:56:40.000 Plus, RFK Jr.

00:56:41.000 actually tells a very, very weird story, like an actual weird story.

00:56:44.000 If you're not a member, become a member.

00:56:45.000 Use code SHAPIRO.

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00:56:47.000 Click that link in the description and join us. 0.97

00:56:49.000 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.91

00:56:54.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

00:56:56.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:56:59.000 Am I racist?

00:57:00.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:57:01.000 I'm trying to learn.

00:57:02.000 I'm on this journey.

00:57:03.000 If I'm going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.

00:57:09.000 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:57:13.000 Here's my certification.

00:57:14.000 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:57:16.000 This is more for you and less for you.

00:57:17.000 Is America inherently racist?

00:57:19.000 The word inherent is challenging that.

00:57:21.000 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?

00:57:24.000 America is racist to its bones.

00:57:26.000 So inherently? 0.98

00:57:27.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:57:27.000 This country is a piece of sh**. 1.00

00:57:30.000 White. 1.00

00:57:31.000 Folks.

00:57:31.000 White.

00:57:31.000 Trash.

00:57:31.000 White supremacy.

00:57:32.000 White woman. 1.00

00:57:33.000 White boy.

00:57:33.000 Is there a black person around or what happened?

00:57:35.000 There's a black person right here.

00:57:36.000 Does he not exist?

00:57:39.000 Hi, Robin.

00:57:39.000 Hi.

00:57:40.000 What's your name?

00:57:41.000 I'm Matt.

00:57:41.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:57:44.000 I never be too careful.

00:57:45.000 In theaters September 13th.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 05, 2024

The Kamala Stock Market CRASH

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