The Michael Knowles Show - August 19, 2024


Ep. 1555 - The DNC Offers Free Sterilizations For Attendees


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Planned Parenthood is offering free abortions and vasectomies at the Democratic National Convention, according to a new report from the group's Great Rivers Branch. What does that have to do with babies? And why should it matter?

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00:00:00.000 There's a new report out that Planned Parenthood will be offering free abortions and vasectomies
00:00:04.980 at the Democrat National Convention, which kicks off today in Chicago.
00:00:09.140 Now, this story initially sounded like fake news to me, not because Kamala and the rest
00:00:15.060 of the leading Democrats don't lust for the blood of innocent babies, they do, but because
00:00:19.880 any man who would attend the DNC has obviously already been castrated long ago.
00:00:26.120 So, if Democrat activists really wanted to improve the health of attendees, I suspect
00:00:31.320 free monkeypox shots would go a lot further.
00:00:33.580 But in any case, that is not being offered.
00:00:36.340 While the abortions and the vasectomies are, according to a post from the Planned Parenthood
00:00:41.800 Great Rivers Branch.
00:00:44.160 All jokes aside, this is obviously demonic.
00:00:48.020 It's one thing to twist yourself into the logical pretzels necessary to kill babies in extreme
00:00:54.460 cases, or as a lesser evil, or something.
00:00:58.160 But it's quite another to consecrate your political convention with the blood of innocence.
00:01:03.740 In a just country, the people responsible for this would be imprisoned.
00:01:07.620 In Biden's America, in maybe Harris's America, the people responsible for this might very well
00:01:14.280 hold on to power.
00:01:15.540 I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:17.100 Welcome back to the show.
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00:03:12.400 DNC's kicking off, baby.
00:03:14.060 And I am so happy to say I am not there.
00:03:17.960 I flew out for the RNC.
00:03:19.460 I said, there's no way I'm going to miss it.
00:03:20.900 Got to sit down with Don Jr. and all sorts of other wonderful Republicans.
00:03:24.720 It was a great time.
00:03:26.000 Everyone is well-behaved.
00:03:27.640 Went out afterwards, maybe had a couple Coca-Colas with some of our GOP friends.
00:03:31.900 The DNC, however, is not so happy and a fair.
00:03:35.100 In fact, everyone, including and especially the Democrats, is expecting all manner of violence,
00:03:41.780 so much so that Chicago businesses are boarding up in advance of the Dems coming to town.
00:03:47.880 The Democratic National Convention is set to begin.
00:03:51.380 Area businesses are taking some precautions.
00:03:53.960 WGN's Andrea Medina shows you how some companies in the loop are starting to board up ahead of the big event.
00:03:59.460 Given the uncertainty surrounding next week's convention, businesses are taking steps to prevent potential threats to their property,
00:04:07.540 like looting or vandalism, by adding protection.
00:04:10.280 We've had zero indication that there would be any protections down in the loop.
00:04:17.860 That's why the owner of Sid Jerome menswear is reinforcing his downtown store by covering up the windows with plywood,
00:04:24.480 in anticipation of possible civil unrest and violent protests that may come from the Democratic National Convention next week.
00:04:30.780 We know from past experiences that something could ensue, so we want to be proactive and get ahead of it.
00:04:38.740 I love the mundane, nonchalant way in which this business owner admits that Democrats are terrorists.
00:04:48.640 Well, you know, we know from that lovely Midwestern Chicago accent, we know from past events, you know,
00:04:54.180 that, well, what happens when all the Democrats get together is they start breaking and burning and looting and raping and murdering.
00:05:01.340 And so we just figured it'd be good to be a little bit proactive, don't you think?
00:05:04.980 And it's more Minnesota than Chicago, I guess.
00:05:07.360 In any case, well, and they burned down Minnesota, too.
00:05:09.860 In any case, we're just going to board up with plywood so that we don't all get looted and murdered and burnt to the ground.
00:05:19.080 They didn't board up businesses in Milwaukee.
00:05:22.140 Doesn't that just tell you everything about the state of American politics?
00:05:26.160 The liberal establishment tells us that Republicans are violent and they're insurrectionists and they pose a grave threat to the Republic.
00:05:31.680 And January 6th was the worst day ever, whatever.
00:05:33.940 However, they don't board up the businesses for the RNC.
00:05:40.160 They do board up the businesses for the DNC.
00:05:43.220 And they're wise to do it.
00:05:45.740 Because when a lot of Democrats get together and they start talking politics,
00:05:49.420 they start behaving like complete animals and they turn whatever polity they're in into a simulacrum of the third world. 0.94
00:05:59.680 That's just how it goes.
00:06:01.500 So, very wise.
00:06:04.540 All the more reason that I'm thrilled that I'm not in Chicago this week for the DNC.
00:06:08.580 Happy to cover it remotely.
00:06:10.540 I don't think we're going to miss very much.
00:06:12.000 Biden, I'm told, is speaking tonight.
00:06:13.980 I thought, wait a second.
00:06:14.600 Why is the president speaking on the first night?
00:06:16.080 He should be speaking.
00:06:16.960 Oh, right, because he doesn't matter anymore.
00:06:18.560 Because he's effectively not the president anymore.
00:06:20.680 Because now the nomination is going to Kamala Harris, whom we are told they're retconning all of this, is an important part of this administration.
00:06:29.200 It's basically, you know, two for one.
00:06:30.660 Kamala and Joe running things for the past three years.
00:06:33.100 Except all the stuff that's gone bad.
00:06:35.100 Kamala bears no responsibility for that.
00:06:36.680 But the stuff that plausibly could have gone well, none of which actually did go well, Kamala gets all the credit for that.
00:06:42.440 Well, because we're facing all this uncertainty.
00:06:45.260 That's my favorite line of this whole diatribe from the business owner.
00:06:49.880 He says, well, there's a lot of uncertainty, you know.
00:06:51.940 What's the uncertainty?
00:06:52.920 We know who the Democrat nominee is.
00:06:54.300 We know who the Democrat running mate is.
00:06:56.080 We know who the current president is and when he's going to speak.
00:07:00.200 There's nothing really to settle.
00:07:03.200 Democrats don't get to vote for their nominee.
00:07:05.800 It's just a coup, a soft coup by Kamala.
00:07:08.180 She took it over without winning a single primary vote while running for the nomination. 0.98
00:07:12.480 So what's the uncertainty?
00:07:13.940 Oh, the uncertainty is just how violent the Democrats are going to be.
00:07:17.140 Okay.
00:07:18.020 All right.
00:07:18.460 We'll tune in.
00:07:19.920 How could anybody support that?
00:07:22.780 One person is supporting that.
00:07:23.960 He's not even officially a Democrat or a liberal.
00:07:28.040 He's a guy who positions himself, who identifies as a conservative,
00:07:33.080 but he's a conservative columnist for the New York Times.
00:07:35.220 And this would be David French.
00:07:37.700 David French, who was a popular conservative columnist for many years,
00:07:42.820 has, since President Trump took over the GOP,
00:07:46.280 become increasingly hostile toward Republicans and conservatives.
00:07:51.280 And so he left.
00:07:52.520 He was at National Review.
00:07:53.440 Then he went to the Bulwark, which was a publication that was founded
00:07:56.440 as a kind of anti-Trump spinoff of National Review.
00:08:00.260 But then he left there, and now he's at the New York Times.
00:08:03.160 And initially, at least, David French was, actually, I guess he's, I suppose he still is,
00:08:10.660 is a good representative of the hardcore never-Trump group,
00:08:15.500 which is, they couldn't quite bring themselves to vote for Hillary,
00:08:18.460 but they'd vote third party.
00:08:20.600 They'd vote for that guy, Egg McMuffin.
00:08:22.800 Or they'd, actually, David considered running for president as a third-party candidate.
00:08:27.160 Now, however, David, in the New York Times, has endorsed Kamala Harris.
00:08:32.660 Now, I always thought, I understood why some people had questions about Trump in 2016.
00:08:38.180 You know, he's a colorful character.
00:08:39.980 People weren't quite sure what his positions were.
00:08:41.700 So I at least understood it.
00:08:43.020 I was pro-Trump in 2016.
00:08:44.480 But I understood the reluctance to support him among some conservatives.
00:08:48.820 It was much harder to understand in 2020.
00:08:53.300 It's really, really hard to understand in 2024.
00:08:55.740 Furthermore, I always thought it was stupid to throw away your vote and vote third party
00:08:59.520 for Egg McMuffin or whoever else.
00:09:01.180 But I at least understand how you can twist yourself into the logical pretzel to do it.
00:09:05.680 But to actively vote for the Democrat, especially a Democrat as awful as Hillary Clinton,
00:09:11.160 or then Joe Biden, or now especially Kamala Harris.
00:09:14.140 How can you do it?
00:09:14.840 How could you call yourself a conservative and support a woman who is the most radically 1.00
00:09:19.300 pro-abortion candidate we've ever had, who is radically in favor of transing the kids,
00:09:24.680 who is radically in favor of open borders?
00:09:27.400 She's the border czar, and we've had more illegals pour across the border than ever before. 0.99
00:09:31.860 A woman who's in favor of socialist medicine for illegal aliens, actually. 0.99
00:09:36.260 How could you possibly call yourself a conservative and support that?
00:09:39.280 So I read David's column.
00:09:41.600 David's always been a nice fella personally.
00:09:44.060 So I said, okay, I'll read this column.
00:09:45.900 Keep as open a mind as I can.
00:09:47.980 And here's the argument.
00:09:49.560 I'll just break it down.
00:09:50.460 I'm not going to read the column word for word.
00:09:52.100 If you want to read the New York Times, which I don't suggest, you can do it yourself.
00:09:55.680 He opens up, he says, I'm pro-life, but I'm voting for Kamala.
00:10:01.340 Already off the bat, he's saying, look, I've got bona fides on the right.
00:10:03.920 I'm pro-life, and I know it's so great, but I'm voting for Kamala.
00:10:06.700 Because Trump has moved the party away from Reaganism.
00:10:09.840 Now, first of all, Ronald Reagan was president 40 years ago, and the man's been dead for 20 years.
00:10:14.680 And I think it's good to let people rest at a certain point.
00:10:18.060 We're not going to go dig up the corpse of John Adams, are we, and say, okay, the federalist platform of 1800, that's what we run on.
00:10:25.760 No, political circumstances change, and politics is about applying eternal principles to changing, constantly changing political circumstances.
00:10:32.580 But the irony of saying Trump moved the party away from Reaganism is that that's not even true.
00:10:36.920 Trump's slogan is a slogan he took from Ronald Reagan, make America great again.
00:10:41.160 Trump's view on illegal immigration is basically Reagan's view.
00:10:45.260 Reagan said illegal immigration is illegal.
00:10:47.140 It's not that complicated.
00:10:48.220 Trump's view on the military is very similar to Reagan's, which is peace through strength.
00:10:56.040 Ronald Reagan, practically speaking, was kind of a dove.
00:10:59.640 He spoke like a hawk, but he was kind of a dove.
00:11:01.880 Don't forget, even after the Beirut barracks bombings, you have American troops seriously hurt and killed.
00:11:08.560 Ronald Reagan doesn't double down and start up new wars in the Middle East.
00:11:11.640 Ronald Reagan actually pulls the troops out of Beirut.
00:11:14.280 So you might say that Trump has moved the party away from Bushism.
00:11:20.020 He's moved the party away from adventurism overseas.
00:11:22.020 That's true.
00:11:23.260 But he's actually kind of moved it back toward Ronald Reagan's actual views.
00:11:28.200 And he's moved it even further back.
00:11:30.920 He's restored some of the GOP support for tariffs.
00:11:34.940 Ronald Reagan sometimes did that, supported tariffs on steel.
00:11:37.800 Abraham Lincoln basically founded the GOP on tariffs.
00:11:39.980 So in any case, that argument doesn't hold any water at all.
00:11:45.120 No one lies as much or significantly as Trump.
00:11:47.640 That's one of David's arguments.
00:11:49.740 He says, look, all politicians lie, but no one lies as seriously or as frequently as Trump.
00:11:54.300 That's obviously not true.
00:11:55.480 Barack Obama said, if you like your health care, you can keep your health care.
00:11:58.380 And then he took people's health care away.
00:12:00.760 That's a pretty egregious lie.
00:12:02.120 That's worse than any lie Donald Trump ever said.
00:12:04.780 Joe Biden said that Donald Trump presents an existential threat to the republic,
00:12:07.860 and he called Nazis fine people, and he models himself after Hitler.
00:12:10.660 That established the justification for an assassination attempt on Trump.
00:12:14.440 That's a lot more serious than, you know, Mika Brzezinski has a nasty face or whatever Trump says.
00:12:21.560 Kamala Harris?
00:12:22.380 Kamala Harris has lied about virtually every position she's ever had. 1.00
00:12:26.520 Pretty significant matters of public policy.
00:12:31.060 That, what policy position has Trump lied about?
00:12:34.100 What politically significant position has Trump lied about?
00:12:36.460 I can't think of one.
00:12:38.720 All of the recent Democrats and Democrat nominees for president have lied much more frequently,
00:12:43.660 much more egregiously than Trump.
00:12:45.040 Joe Biden, for goodness sakes, Joe Biden had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race
00:12:48.500 because he was such an historic liar.
00:12:51.880 Doesn't hold water at all.
00:12:53.420 Trump's lies are contagious.
00:12:55.300 He says Trump's lies are contagious because some people think the 2020 election was rigged.
00:12:58.880 The 2020 election was rigged, okay?
00:13:00.520 I don't know how else to, they changed all the election rules in the weeks and months before the election.
00:13:04.640 In some cases, they violated not just the law, but state constitutions, like in the case of Pennsylvania,
00:13:10.000 by pushing widespread mail-in ballots.
00:13:12.900 They put ballot drop boxes far away from county clerk offices.
00:13:16.800 They did it by taking money from people like Mark Zuckerberg, funneling it through left-wing nonprofits.
00:13:21.400 And yes, you heard it right, breaking the election rules in the law.
00:13:25.600 So yeah, it was rigged.
00:13:28.060 You're not a liar for saying that.
00:13:29.900 It's possible to lie about how the 2020 election was rigged, but to say that it was rigged?
00:13:35.380 Give me a break.
00:13:35.840 That's just obvious.
00:13:38.060 Political violence has no place in the Democrat process.
00:13:40.880 And Donald Trump, he pushes political violence.
00:13:44.540 Kamala Harris, the woman that this man just endorsed,
00:13:48.300 raised money to bail out violent rioters during the George Floyd riots.
00:13:52.600 What did Trump do?
00:13:55.640 BLM, burn the country down, sea to shining sea. 1.00
00:13:58.720 Maxine Waters, prominent Democrat, says you got to push back on Republicans when you see them in public.
00:14:04.360 Hillary Clinton said you can't be civil with your opponents.
00:14:09.260 What did Donald Trump do?
00:14:10.760 Donald Trump said peacefully protest on January 6th.
00:14:14.040 That's what he said.
00:14:14.540 And then there was one instance of political violence on January 6th.
00:14:18.700 And it's when a trigger-happy cop killed a Trump supporter.
00:14:21.380 Virtually all the political violence in America has come from the left.
00:14:27.080 David endorses them.
00:14:28.240 Trump is changing the church, he says.
00:14:30.800 By the church, David is referring to, he's not referring to the Catholic Church.
00:14:34.360 He's not referring to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
00:14:36.260 He's not referring even to the Anglican Church.
00:14:37.840 He's referring to evangelical and non-denominational congregations.
00:14:42.160 Okay.
00:14:42.880 And he's saying Trump is making these places so much more Trumpy and right-wing or whatever.
00:14:47.540 Is that true?
00:14:48.240 I have a ton of evangelical and non-denominational friends.
00:14:52.720 Many of you listening right now are evangelical and non-denominational.
00:14:56.340 Would you say that the evangelical congregations have gotten more right-wing, more conservative over the last five, six years?
00:15:06.060 No, they've actually gotten more left-wing.
00:15:08.780 And it's not because of Trump.
00:15:09.780 They've gotten more left-wing because of George Floyd, because of BLM.
00:15:13.800 I saw it.
00:15:14.760 I mean, I was shocked because the evangelicals had been such stalwarts for the political right.
00:15:19.520 But during BLM, a lot of those groups moved significantly to the left, not to the right.
00:15:25.840 Trump watered down the GOP platform on pro-life.
00:15:27.660 Diddy is the first president who showed up, sitting president, to show up to the March for Life.
00:15:31.060 And he appointed the justices who, after 49 years, got Roe v. Wade overruled.
00:15:35.340 You're going to go after Trump's pro-life bona fides.
00:15:37.500 And then after the Dobbs decision, which overruled Roe v. Wade, the political calculations changed.
00:15:41.580 It's a different world.
00:15:42.700 And so you've got to adapt your strategies politically to that changing world.
00:15:48.320 But Trump said that himself.
00:15:49.280 He said, look, we've got to get elected.
00:15:50.220 I don't see any evidence that Trump has moved the GOP to the left on abortion.
00:15:55.640 If anything, practically speaking, he's moved it to the right.
00:15:59.900 Trump invited an OnlyFans star to speak at the GOP convention.
00:16:02.640 That's one of David's arguments against him.
00:16:04.040 I don't know.
00:16:04.300 Maybe we should cast stones at that lady. 1.00
00:16:06.000 Is that what we should have done?
00:16:06.940 That lady goes up at the GOP convention.
00:16:09.000 We just start throwing stones at her. 0.99
00:16:10.340 I don't think so.
00:16:10.980 Had she promoted porn or something, that would have been a bad thing. 1.00
00:16:13.280 But what did she do?
00:16:13.780 She came out.
00:16:14.220 She said, this is Amber Rose.
00:16:16.720 She said, my dad was right.
00:16:22.500 He loves Trump.
00:16:23.740 And he was right.
00:16:25.860 I didn't believe him.
00:16:26.760 Trump's not racist.
00:16:27.520 He's good.
00:16:27.920 Vote for Trump.
00:16:28.520 Okay, great.
00:16:29.720 And then he says, more abortions in recent years.
00:16:32.160 That's, again, not because of Trump.
00:16:33.440 That's because of the abortion pill. 1.00
00:16:34.540 That's a technological change.
00:16:36.500 Kamala would be tougher on Putin.
00:16:37.980 Are you kidding me?
00:16:39.520 Putin, the only president in my lifetime on whose watch Putin has not further invaded a country
00:16:44.660 is Trump.
00:16:45.520 He invaded Georgia under Bush.
00:16:47.280 He invaded Crimea under Obama.
00:16:49.320 He just kind of chilled under Trump because he was afraid that Trump would blow up Moscow.
00:16:52.920 And then he invaded into Ukraine on Biden's watch.
00:16:57.480 In fact, Biden invited him.
00:16:58.500 He said, if it's a minor incursion, we won't do anything about it.
00:17:01.060 Finally, the only hope of restoring true conservatism is to elect Democrats for the foreseeable future.
00:17:06.620 In other words, the only way that conservatives can win is by, those aren't David's exact words,
00:17:12.220 but that's the argument he's making.
00:17:13.300 The only way that we can win is to lose.
00:17:15.800 Not very persuasive.
00:17:18.340 He's a nice guy.
00:17:19.120 I feel bad criticizing him.
00:17:20.340 You know, he's always been personally very nice, but he's just completely lost the plot.
00:17:24.720 And there are a handful of hardcore never Trumpers who just hate this guy personally,
00:17:31.120 who are making ridiculous arguments that can be swatted down with a sentence or two.
00:17:35.320 To bend over backwards into pretzels to support Kamala Harris, the most radical left-wing presidential nominee we have ever had in American history. 0.94
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00:19:18.720 Some Republicans do not get the stakes here.
00:19:23.000 Especially as the DNC goes on, you're going to see all this fawning media coverage of Kamala, most wonderful lady ever.
00:19:29.220 And maybe you're going to see her poll numbers go up, maybe.
00:19:32.340 So some Republicans are saying this is Trump's fault.
00:19:35.080 Any other Republican, they say, would be running 10 points ahead of Kamala right now.
00:19:38.900 In fact, that is the line from Chris Sununu, who is the Republican governor of New Hampshire.
00:19:48.540 Almost any other Republican candidate would be winning this race by 10 points.
00:19:52.500 And so the message is very clear.
00:19:54.400 If you stick to the issues, if you stick to what matters, this should be an easy race for Donald Trump.
00:20:01.240 It really should.
00:20:02.840 The delta that you're seeing right now is Trump does better with males by about 10 points.
00:20:07.620 But where this giant shift in August has come is with the female voter. 1.00
00:20:10.900 Frank Luntz pointed this out in his polling.
00:20:12.860 He's down 10, 12 points at least with females. 0.96
00:20:15.540 And they're going to come out in much bigger numbers than they previously would have if Biden were the candidate.
00:20:20.540 If you talk about these economic issues, if you talk about, remind folks that he's running against the most liberal and most unpopular vice president in history.
00:20:29.340 That has now laid out the worst economic plan ever laid out by a Democrat candidate.
00:20:34.440 Even Obama's team is panning this as a disaster for America.
00:20:38.660 So she then picked her own vice presidential candidate, which is also one of the most liberal, progressive governors in the country that has huge issues in terms of supporting public safety.
00:20:47.880 All of these things are lining up for a huge Republican win.
00:20:51.360 He's got to deliver.
00:20:52.440 And we've all showed him exactly that playbook to do so.
00:20:56.560 Who is Chris Sununu?
00:20:58.800 Who is this guy to give advice to the Trump campaign?
00:21:03.380 Chris Sununu is the governor, the moderate Republican governor of an unusual state.
00:21:09.940 New Hampshire, it's a great state.
00:21:11.220 It's kind of unusual.
00:21:12.100 Very libertarian, sort of a purple state.
00:21:14.600 What does this guy know about national elections?
00:21:18.480 Does this guy ever run for president successfully?
00:21:20.440 What does he know?
00:21:22.500 And does he seriously think, this is the bigger point.
00:21:25.260 Does he seriously think that any other Republican running, had any other Republican gotten the nomination, that the Democrats would not be doing the exact same thing to that person that they're doing to Trump, successfully even damaging their poll numbers?
00:21:38.380 Do you remember Romney?
00:21:39.460 Remember when milquetoast Mitt Romney came out and the libs successfully convinced people that Romney wanted to put black people in chains, that he assaulted homosexual kids in school, chopped their hair off,
00:21:53.520 that he wanted to torture his family dog.
00:21:56.620 This is Mitt Romney.
00:21:57.780 This is as milquetoast a guy as ever there was.
00:22:01.800 They would do it to anybody.
00:22:04.400 Okay, you really want to look at the strength or weakness of Donald Trump.
00:22:08.320 Look at how Kamala is reacting to him. 0.70
00:22:10.280 The only good parts of the Kamala Harris campaign and the only parts that are getting plaudits and really catching on are the parts of the campaign she is stealing from the Trump campaign.
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00:23:26.660 On Friday, we're going to have the voice mailbag.
00:23:29.800 And the written mailbag.
00:23:30.660 If you want to send in a written mailbag, it's very easy.
00:23:32.700 You go to dailywire.com, you click on the shows, you click on my show, and you click submit a mailbag question.
00:23:38.020 You can also submit a voice mailbag question.
00:23:39.760 You record it on your phone, on your computer, however you record audio.
00:23:42.620 And then you just attach that file as an attachment in the mailbag email.
00:23:47.700 Very simple.
00:23:48.760 Just on the show page.
00:23:49.920 Boom.
00:23:50.300 Leave a mailbag question.
00:23:51.380 But I implore you, limit your remarks to 60 seconds.
00:23:55.180 Some people, they send in the story of their life.
00:23:57.140 It's like I'm getting an audio book of 150 hours here.
00:23:59.820 I can't air that on the show.
00:24:02.580 Ideally, less than 60 seconds would be better.
00:24:04.860 And then I can put it on the show.
00:24:06.820 The only good parts of the Kamala Harris campaign are the ones she's stealing from Trump. 0.99
00:24:14.440 Kamala Harris just came out and proposed a $6,000 child tax credit for new parents. 0.98
00:24:22.480 This, just shortly after J.D. Vance proposes a $5,000 child tax credit.
00:24:31.840 So, they're there taking the I want to be president test.
00:24:36.480 And J.D. has this good idea, $5,000 child tax credit.
00:24:39.480 That's really cool.
00:24:40.100 That's really interesting.
00:24:41.180 And then Kamala's looking over her shoulder. 0.96
00:24:42.860 She goes, but I'm going to do six.
00:24:47.520 What if we turn the amplifier up to 11?
00:24:49.320 But the reason this really matters is I want you to hear how these were covered in the media.
00:24:58.080 So, I'm looking at ABC News.
00:25:00.060 This is the same news outlet, okay?
00:25:02.220 So, I'm controlling for all possible factors of, you know, this editor likes this guy or that editor likes this person.
00:25:09.280 When J.D. Vance came out and proposed the $5,000 child tax credit, here's the ABC News headline.
00:25:15.380 Vance argued for higher tax rate on childless Americans in 2021 interview.
00:25:24.280 This monster, this absolute animal wants to make childless people pay more money.
00:25:31.660 He wants to discriminate against.
00:25:33.080 Okay, that's ABC News when Vance did it.
00:25:35.480 When Kamala suggested an even higher child tax credit, ABC News.
00:25:43.280 Harris offers proposals to cut food and housing costs, trying to blunt Trump's economic attacks.
00:25:53.220 It's the same proposal.
00:25:55.740 Kamala's is just a more pronounced, even a more exaggerated version of the proposal.
00:25:59.780 But Kamala didn't argue for a higher tax rate on the childless. 1.00
00:26:03.960 No, no, no.
00:26:05.120 I mean, she did.
00:26:06.000 But, no, no, no, because that sounds bad.
00:26:08.320 No, she just offered proposals to cut food and housing costs. 1.00
00:26:11.020 And then you go, you read the article, the new one about Kamala.
00:26:14.280 She stressed tax breaks for families, as well as middle and lower income people,
00:26:19.300 promising to expand the child tax credit up to $3,600 and $6,000 for children in their first year of life.
00:26:24.860 Wow.
00:26:25.680 She's stressing tax breaks for families. 0.87
00:26:27.440 Not J.D., that dirty, rotten jerk, who wants to raise taxes on the childless through the same exact policy.
00:26:34.260 No, no, no.
00:26:34.560 She wants to help support families. 0.99
00:26:37.040 This is another reason I can't take the Chris Sununu seriously.
00:26:40.040 Or the people who are not only attacking Trump, but saying J.D. Vance was a terrible choice for VP.
00:26:45.840 Do you people, did you wake up yesterday?
00:26:48.380 You were born yesterday.
00:26:49.440 You've never seen a presidential race.
00:26:50.720 You don't realize they would be doing this to any running mate of any Republican.
00:26:59.380 J.D. Vance, extremely intelligent, extremely well-educated, came from nothing.
00:27:05.820 Self-made man.
00:27:07.140 In touch, more so than many other Republicans, with ordinary Americans who don't, you know, spend their lives at the Chamber of Commerce and, you know, swilling Chablis.
00:27:18.660 Anyway, this guy, very impressive, very articulate.
00:27:22.940 The best knocks they have on him are that he, that what?
00:27:27.140 That he, I don't even know what the attacks are.
00:27:29.240 That he made fun of the childless cat lady caricature that everybody makes fun of.
00:27:34.080 Not even the individuals, just like a caricature.
00:27:36.680 That he, he wore a blonde wig at some party in college.
00:27:40.720 I think they were going after him for that.
00:27:42.100 And then they had to make up something about a couch because there's actually, there's so little to attack this guy on that they have to make it up.
00:27:48.660 But it, it, it doesn't matter.
00:27:51.620 They're going to convince you you're the worst choice.
00:27:53.400 They're going to convince you Trump's the worst choice because this is how they cover it.
00:27:57.420 It's not that, you know, they've done or said bad things or good things or it's just that anything they say is necessarily bad.
00:28:05.180 Anything they do is necessarily bad.
00:28:07.400 And when Democrats say and do the exact same thing, that is necessarily good.
00:28:11.580 That's how the, the political media ecosystem functions.
00:28:18.660 Now, I am not working for the Trump campaign, as you know.
00:28:25.220 I, I support the Trump campaign.
00:28:26.900 I'm promoting it, but I'm, I don't work for them.
00:28:30.220 Despite what Kamala Harris says about me.
00:28:32.660 The Kamala campaign has been one of the great publicists of my show.
00:28:37.580 So I, I thank them for it.
00:28:39.080 Between Media Matters, Right Wing Watch, and now the Kamala campaign itself.
00:28:44.080 My show is getting a ton of publicity.
00:28:45.840 So that's great because I like when my message gets out there.
00:28:48.000 But they do tend to lie about me.
00:28:50.980 So you, you might recall, I mentioned this on August 2nd, a couple weeks ago.
00:28:55.540 On August 2nd, the Kamala campaign broke out a clip from my show and said,
00:29:00.500 top Trump operative calls for ending no-fault divorce under Project 2025.
00:29:06.660 And then there's a clip of my show.
00:29:07.780 And I thought, okay, well, I'm, I'm not a Trump operative, though I support him.
00:29:13.840 I'm not in any way affiliated with Project 2025.
00:29:16.760 I don't mention it in the clip, though I think it's great.
00:29:19.520 I love Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, but I'm not affiliated with it in any way.
00:29:24.960 And I do think divorce is bad.
00:29:28.240 So I, like all normal people, think divorce is bad and to be minimized, but that's true.
00:29:35.240 And the clip was good.
00:29:36.460 But, you know, most of the things they said about me from the Kamala Harris campaign were not true.
00:29:41.400 So now they've outdone themselves.
00:29:43.860 They, and she got community noted for this.
00:29:46.120 But, but they've come back, they've broken out a clip from my show and says,
00:29:50.200 Trump operative, I guess I got downgraded from top Trump operative to just ordinary Trump operative,
00:29:55.040 middle of the PAC Trump operative, pushing Project 2025.
00:29:57.880 Again, don't, didn't, didn't mention Project 2025 once.
00:30:01.540 And then here, this is ostensibly a quote that I said.
00:30:05.420 Maybe we should unwind the very liberal premise in our civil rights law that men and women are the same under the law.
00:30:11.400 Now, they broke out the clip.
00:30:13.760 Listen to the clip and see if that's, if, if the, what they wrote about me is reflective of what I said.
00:30:20.000 Maybe men and women really are different.
00:30:21.640 Maybe not only our culture has to reflect that, but maybe our law ought to reflect that too.
00:30:27.540 Very, very difficult though.
00:30:28.780 Because to do that, you would have to unwind the, the extremely radically liberal premise that is now part of our law and part of our civil rights law.
00:30:37.860 Which says that men and women are for all intents and purposes exactly the same.
00:30:41.800 You would have to, you'd have to get rid of that premise.
00:30:43.860 Does that sound like a, a Trump operative pushing Project 2025, I don't think those, that phrase showed up anywhere in there, saying that men and women shouldn't be the same under the law?
00:30:53.640 Not quite.
00:30:54.420 Now, I, I do say that men and women are not for all intents and purposes exactly the same.
00:31:00.320 And that it's actually a pretty recent change to our civil rights law that we treat men and women as exactly the same.
00:31:08.620 Because for instance, men and women today for now, well, actually, I'm not so sure if this is even permitted anymore.
00:31:15.980 But until very recently, men and women were allowed to have their own bathrooms.
00:31:20.100 So women were not forced to use the bathroom with men. 0.99
00:31:23.040 Women were not forced to change at the public pool with men. 0.65
00:31:25.560 And the reason for that is that men and women are different. 0.99
00:31:30.280 Liberals, the Biden-Harris administration have done everything they can to force men into the women's bathroom and to force men into your daughter's changing room at the public pool. 1.00
00:31:39.620 But I think, call me old-fashioned, I think little girls should not be forced to change in front of men.
00:31:44.200 Call me, call me a fuddy-duddy.
00:31:46.440 Here's another difference between men and women.
00:31:48.120 I think women should not be drafted for the military. 1.00
00:31:50.980 I really, I don't think we should send our women out to the front lines to be shot and beheaded by jihadis.
00:31:57.140 Call me, I don't know.
00:31:59.000 Maybe, you can at least say chivalry isn't dead.
00:32:02.320 I just think men and women are different in that regard.
00:32:05.780 And the law should treat men and women differently. 0.98
00:32:08.740 I think if you murder a man or if you murder a pregnant woman, those are different things.
00:32:15.840 Because a woman can conceive life. 1.00
00:32:18.060 You know, a woman maybe has another human being inside of her. 1.00
00:32:21.840 The liberals definitely want to get rid of that idea. 1.00
00:32:24.160 And they did successfully get rid of that idea in New York when they legalized abortion up until the moment of birth.
00:32:28.460 And then lit up the World Trade Center pink to celebrate this.
00:32:31.900 It just seems to me men and women are different.
00:32:34.580 That's what the Kamala campaign is attacking me for.
00:32:36.800 And lying about it.
00:32:37.720 Being rather dishonest about it.
00:32:40.020 But I think we need to embrace this.
00:32:43.000 In a way.
00:32:43.780 I mean, not their dishonesty.
00:32:46.640 Not their outright lies.
00:32:47.920 But yeah, we're the party.
00:32:49.340 We're the party who think that men and women are different.
00:32:53.000 We think we should protect women.
00:32:55.640 And in protecting the differences between the sexes, protect men. 0.81
00:32:58.860 And just protect everybody.
00:32:59.980 But recognize that we're different.
00:33:01.320 You know, isn't diversity supposed to be a good thing?
00:33:03.760 No, really.
00:33:04.380 They don't want real diversity.
00:33:05.700 They want to use diversity to break down everybody into atomized individuals or even further break us down.
00:33:14.560 Split our body from our souls in the case of the gender ideology. 1.00
00:33:17.520 And then kind of just meld us all together in one hodgepodge commie collective where it's all just a big pile of goop.
00:33:25.020 Well, we don't like that.
00:33:27.380 We like natural, organic difference that can, in service of the common good, make a political unity.
00:33:36.360 That's what we want.
00:33:37.840 It's the sort of thing that our founding fathers talked about.
00:33:40.440 The men who built our country.
00:33:42.800 E pluribus unum.
00:33:44.280 Out of many one.
00:33:46.200 A United States of America that doesn't deny reality.
00:33:51.780 Okay.
00:33:52.360 They have to deny a lot.
00:33:53.500 They have to lie outright.
00:33:55.940 Now, when the Harris campaign is not lying, when the Harris campaign is not stealing the ideas of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance,
00:34:02.840 when Harris actually has to propose her own policies, they go over like a lead balloon.
00:34:09.300 Here is Kamala suggesting the government start fixing prices.
00:34:12.580 I will work to pass the first ever federal ban on price gauging on food.
00:34:19.600 Price gauging.
00:34:20.420 Apparently, Kamala is as good at reading a teleprompter as Joe Biden is.
00:34:23.160 I think she meant to say price gauging.
00:34:26.080 I don't know what price gauging is, but she's going to stop price gauging on food. 1.00
00:34:30.160 What does this mean?
00:34:31.100 This means that since Kamala's been in office, the cost of food has soared.
00:34:36.120 It's gone up dramatically.
00:34:37.880 And this is bad for her politically. 1.00
00:34:39.300 Now, it's soared because of their stupid policies, the policies that Democrats have been pushing for a while that led to mass inflation,
00:34:45.660 which Republicans predicted.
00:34:46.900 We knew that this would happen.
00:34:48.080 So now, to stop that, they don't stop their dumb economic policies.
00:34:51.740 They add more dumb economic policies on top of it.
00:34:54.240 And they say, you can't raise the prices any further.
00:34:56.260 So now, we're not all that far away from Soviet-style, you know,
00:35:01.620 czar Kamala decides what the price of ground coffee is or something like that.
00:35:06.020 Trump is calling this the Maduro plan after the communist socialist dictator of Venezuela.
00:35:13.180 She's running on the Maduro plan.
00:35:15.480 We call it the Maduro plan, like something straight out of Venezuela or the Soviet Union.
00:35:20.560 This announcement is an admission that her economic policies have totally failed and caused really a catastrophe for our country.
00:35:28.900 And beyond that, a catastrophe in the world.
00:35:31.720 So, Financial Times is reporting that there's a new ABC News, Washington Post, Ipsos poll taken last week.
00:35:38.240 So, you got a lot of relatively liberal news outlets involved here showing that Harris had a six-point lead over Trump.
00:35:46.920 However, when it came to questions about the economy and inflation, Trump has a nine-point lead over Harris.
00:35:52.360 Harris is completely underwater on the economy because she's proposing Soviet-style nonsense like this. 0.56
00:35:57.340 This could really hurt her.
00:36:00.840 The economy could really hurt her.
00:36:02.500 And when you go back to the 92 election, you have James Carville, Bill Clinton's strategist who famously said,
00:36:08.620 it's the economy, stupid.
00:36:10.060 It's the economy.
00:36:10.920 You know, the Kamala campaign trying to distract with all this nonsense.
00:36:13.700 But when you focus on real kitchen table issues, when you talk about people's wallets, things are looking pretty bad.
00:36:22.800 And you look, the stock market is really teetering right now.
00:36:26.140 Now, if there is any kind of economic turmoil between now and November, even the libs are admitting that could tank the Kamala ticket,
00:36:33.840 which is how Trump got his best campaign commercial yet.
00:36:37.900 We'll get to that in one second.
00:36:38.780 First, though, advanced tickets for M.I. Racist are selling fascination-wide.
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00:36:58.420 I have two favorite comments from yesterday.
00:37:01.860 First one from the Drummer's Workshop Norms Music.
00:37:04.180 I didn't even look at the name.
00:37:05.440 It's just that the Drummer's Workshop Norms Music has great comments.
00:37:09.140 Tim Walls regrets the white guy taco remark.
00:37:13.520 It was in the fajita the moment.
00:37:18.700 White guy taco, the fajita the moment.
00:37:21.700 Then my second favorite comment from Friday is from Big Guy Hero Dude.
00:37:25.560 Food is a perfectly fine thing to discuss, but when Kamala Harris is faced with real issues,
00:37:31.220 she doesn't want a taco about it. 0.73
00:37:33.140 She doesn't want a taco about it. 0.73
00:37:39.260 So basically, if you want to have the favorite comment of the day, you just need a really obvious pun.
00:37:44.700 And then you'll probably win it.
00:37:47.200 President Trump has just released his best ad yet.
00:37:49.780 A loaf of bread cost 50% more today than it did before the pandemic.
00:37:56.240 Ground beef is up almost 50%.
00:38:00.340 I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message.
00:38:03.140 I love it.
00:38:05.120 I know it's an internet ad.
00:38:07.720 I hope he puts that on TV.
00:38:10.600 That is a killer, devastating ad.
00:38:14.620 It also makes me more excited for this debate.
00:38:17.220 When Kamala, look, that was obviously scripted.
00:38:20.360 That was at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
00:38:26.180 She totally left herself vulnerable to that kind of attack from Trump.
00:38:29.960 And this is the advantage Kamala has in the race is that she's claiming the benefits of the incumbency, but she's trying to distance herself from the baggage of the incumbency, and she's running in that way as a challenger. 1.00
00:38:43.760 But that's also her disadvantage because a challenger campaign has to run against the status quo and promise to do something new in the future. 1.00
00:38:53.360 But she is the status quo.
00:38:54.940 So when she runs against the status quo, food's up 50%, this kind of product at the grocery store is up 30%, she's running against herself.
00:39:05.420 Immigration is absolutely terrible. 1.00
00:39:07.000 You're the border zone, lady. 1.00
00:39:08.240 So Trump can just run with those clips.
00:39:11.200 I love it.
00:39:11.780 Now, speaking of women who have done very bad things, shifting gears away from politics for a second, there's a woman who's been charged Matthew Perry's death. 0.98
00:39:21.960 Matthew Perry, sitcom star from the 90s, he was on Friends, had a drug problem his whole life, and he died.
00:39:28.760 And the cause of death was acute ketamine overdose, though ostensibly he was taking the ketamine to try to get off other drugs.
00:39:37.620 And anyway, this lady who goes by the ketamine queen has been charged. 1.00
00:39:42.580 Really good stuff.
00:39:43.980 As America faces the worst drug crisis we've ever faced before, this massive opioid fentanyl crisis, fentanyl pouring across our open southern border.
00:39:53.660 The border's open because Kamala Harris wants it to be open and has left it open. 0.99
00:39:57.440 And as that happens, people, everyone in this country, at the very least knows someone who's been affected by the fentanyl crisis.
00:40:06.780 And more likely, this has been going on so long, more likely you know someone who died or who suffered an overdose because of it.
00:40:13.780 You know someone personally.
00:40:15.380 I do.
00:40:16.320 I think most people do.
00:40:19.420 One way that you can try to stop this is you got to get tougher on the drug dealers.
00:40:25.660 Like this lady, the ketamine queen. 0.93
00:40:27.440 Allegedly.
00:40:29.740 And the left doesn't want to do this.
00:40:31.940 The left has been running on letting drug dealers out of jail.
00:40:35.260 And in part, they lie about them being drug dealers.
00:40:37.540 They say, oh, these are people who, you know, they were just carrying a dime bag of marijuana or something.
00:40:42.080 That's almost never true.
00:40:43.680 The people who go to jail for simple marijuana possession pretty much always are taking plea deals.
00:40:49.760 And usually they're drug dealers themselves.
00:40:51.760 So, the left has been pushing letting drug dealers out of prison for a long time.
00:40:59.580 And there are many on the right who have been pushing that too.
00:41:01.760 Oh, we need to go a little easier.
00:41:03.320 We need to liberalize drugs during the midst of the worst drug crisis we've ever faced.
00:41:07.060 And, oh, these poor drug dealers, you know, they were just, they didn't know any better.
00:41:11.260 They grew up in the ghetto.
00:41:12.520 It's hard, you know, it's tough out there on the streets or whatever.
00:41:14.940 No, these people are now, and maybe this wasn't always true, but now, after so many years of this fentanyl crisis where you don't know, one puff on a joint.
00:41:24.700 When I was a kid, one puff on a joint, you'd be fine.
00:41:27.840 You'd probably cough and look foolish, but you'd be fine.
00:41:30.360 Now, one puff on a joint, you could die because so many drugs are laced with fentanyl, which can just kill you after one puff or one little pill or one little anything.
00:41:38.400 So, these drug dealers, I don't care how stupid they are, they know that fentanyl is a major problem.
00:41:45.420 They know, and sometimes they're even consciously aware that it's in their product.
00:41:50.540 These guys are murderers.
00:41:52.720 They're peddling poison, and not even just mild poison.
00:41:55.720 They're peddling lethal poison on people.
00:41:58.280 They need to go to jail for a long time, okay?
00:42:01.300 And if the left doesn't want to take that ground, at the very least, the right needs to wise up.
00:42:05.500 And I don't know how we think we're pandering when we say we need to let drug dealers out of prison.
00:42:11.520 No.
00:42:12.300 The GOP platform should be, we're going to put drug dealers in prison for a much longer time.
00:42:17.720 When you see these particular cases, especially in this case, the ketamine queen is a white lady. 0.89
00:42:23.780 When it's a black person, then there's this racial issue added on to it, which both parties want to pander about.
00:42:29.380 But when we see this, we say, oh, we like Matthew Perry, he's a nationally beloved figure, and so this lady who was in any way involved in his death, she needs to go to jail.
00:42:38.380 We all feel that.
00:42:39.100 Well, you know what?
00:42:40.200 We love the non-famous people who have been killed by drugs, too, okay?
00:42:45.680 And we need to punish the drug dealers who kill the non-famous people, too, no matter what one's ideology suggests.
00:42:54.220 Now, speaking of centrist and even liberal policies from the right, President Trump is catching some flack from the right because he's come out and he said, look, we need to get really, really tough on illegal immigration so that we can have better legal immigration.
00:43:11.240 Basically, we're going to drill baby drill, we're going to get the energy prices down almost immediately, and we're going to close the border, and we're going to get the crooked ones out, the bad ones out, and we're going to let a lot of people come in because we need more people, especially with AI coming and all of the different things, and the farmers need, everybody needs.
00:43:28.820 But we're going to make sure that they're not murderers, killers, drug dealers, and the kind of people that we have largely coming in right now.
00:43:35.720 Okay, a lot of people who are immigration restrictionists don't like this answer from President Trump because the problem with migration is not just that you have these criminals coming over.
00:43:47.180 Well, they're all criminals if they're coming over illegally, but that's not the only problem.
00:43:50.900 Going back to Aristotle, we read that immigration poses major challenges to republics because people just have different cultures, you know, 1.00
00:44:00.240 and it's difficult to assimilate people, and people maintain these kind of group identities for a long time, and it turns out diversity usually is not actually the strength of polities.
00:44:10.400 That's the view of classical political philosophy.
00:44:13.140 And then modern liberal philosophy denies reality on so many things, including the nature of a man and a woman, that we now say endless mass migration is good, as long as they're good people.
00:44:23.400 But not really.
00:44:25.300 The problem is assimilation. 0.78
00:44:27.960 The problem is that a country is more than just an idea.
00:44:31.400 It's a people, and people develop habits and customs over generations, over centuries.
00:44:38.480 And you can't just replace one people with another group of people.
00:44:41.000 So this has irked some people who are immigration restrictionists.
00:44:44.860 However, the reason I wouldn't be too harsh on it is that view, Trump's view on immigration, basically it comes down to illegal bad, legal good, is probably the furthest right view that is politically acceptable today.
00:45:02.160 I'm not saying it's the ideal view, though practical politics is usually not about the ideal.
00:45:06.880 But that is, I don't know, do you think someone could run on severe immigration restriction, we're just not going to let people in, and win an election? 0.84
00:45:18.320 It might be a good policy, it works pretty well in the early 20th century, but it probably wouldn't work.
00:45:23.400 So I can't be angry at Trump for not doing something that would be politically dead on arrival and prevent him from winning.
00:45:31.380 I can't really attack him for it.
00:45:32.540 Though liberals are attacking J.D. Vance for articulating the further immigration restrictionist view, this is the new clip going around that they're using to smack Vance over the head.
00:45:45.280 Who do you think made those changes?
00:45:47.380 Why did they make those changes?
00:45:48.920 Why have we, or describe, please, the difference in our approach to who we decide to let into America, who can become an American?
00:45:57.640 What changed? Who changed it?
00:45:59.240 And what was the purpose?
00:46:00.480 And what is the negative side effect?
00:46:02.540 Yeah, you know, I think it's one of these things that's evolved over time, right?
00:46:06.120 So obviously you had this massive wage wave of Italian, and primarily Italian, Irish, and German immigration, right?
00:46:14.140 And that had its problems, right?
00:46:16.060 It had its consequences.
00:46:17.280 You had higher crime rates, you had these sort of ethnic enclaves developing, you had inter-ethnic conflict in the country where you really hadn't had that before.
00:46:24.760 And so there were downsides.
00:46:26.560 So obviously there were upsides, too.
00:46:28.060 And one of the cool things that we did in the 1920s is we just sort of slowed down immigration a little bit.
00:46:33.500 We let those sort of populations who had come to the country as new citizens really incorporate themselves into the broader American fabric.
00:46:41.860 That obviously was turned on its head in the 1960s with some of the things we did with our immigration laws.
00:46:46.740 I'm a descendant of two of those groups that he mentioned from around that time, the Irish and the Italians.
00:46:55.680 He's saying, look, the Irish and the Italians, they brought some crime. 1.00
00:46:58.440 And so I say this as a child.
00:47:01.700 Part of my family was over on the Mayflower, but other parts came over in those later waves of immigration.
00:47:06.900 I'm saying with all the credibility that comes from being in this group, he's totally right.
00:47:14.180 They did.
00:47:14.680 They did bring crime, okay?
00:47:17.800 And it was smart to then restrict immigration and let these groups assimilate. 0.98
00:47:21.940 And they have.
00:47:22.660 One of the markers that the Irish assimilated is that you get Irish conservatives and you get Irish liberals.
00:47:27.320 One of the markers that the Italians assimilated is you get Nancy Pelosi as an Italian and you get Antonin Scalia as an Italian.
00:47:34.780 They politically assimilated.
00:47:37.340 With mass migration, you don't get that.
00:47:39.740 And it's a proof that if you support restricting immigration, as I do, as J.D. Vance is articulating here, as many conservatives do, it's not about hating some group.
00:47:50.380 It's not about I don't like the Tibetans or whatever.
00:47:53.200 It's about immigration itself.
00:47:54.780 It's about how to make political systems work.
00:47:58.260 It's about how people behave.
00:48:00.120 It's about human nature.
00:48:01.100 You can't just flood a country with foreigners and expect the country to remain the same. 1.00
00:48:04.340 It doesn't work that way.
00:48:06.780 That's what he's articulating.
00:48:08.040 So if we're looking ahead to the future, if maybe J.D. Vance is the future of the MAGA movement, it's good.
00:48:13.060 It's moving in the right direction.
00:48:14.940 You got to win.
00:48:16.500 You got to win.
00:48:17.280 There's a clear path ahead.
00:48:20.660 And this show, the Democrat Convention, is all about boosting Kamala's poll numbers.
00:48:24.300 Let's see.
00:48:24.800 If the libs torch Chicago, it might actually have the opposite effect. 0.79
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00:48:52.320 Growing up, I never thought much about race.
00:48:54.260 It never really seemed to matter that much.
00:48:56.100 At least not to me.
00:48:56.920 Am I racist?
00:48:58.100 I would really appreciate it if you left.
00:48:59.380 I'm trying to learn.
00:49:00.100 I'm on this journey.
00:49:01.380 If I'm going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.
00:49:05.500 They don't say I'm racist.
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00:49:11.720 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71
00:49:14.480 This is more for you than this for you.
00:49:15.440 Is America inherently racist?
00:49:17.220 The word inherent is challenging there.
00:49:18.980 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:49:22.140 America is racist to its bones.
00:49:24.020 So inherently.
00:49:24.860 Yeah.
00:49:25.280 This country is a piece of...
00:49:26.320 White folks. 0.76
00:49:29.000 Trash.
00:49:29.500 White supremacy.
00:49:30.280 White woman. 1.00
00:49:30.880 White boy.
00:49:31.400 Is there a black person around here?
00:49:32.680 What's a black person right here? 0.84
00:49:34.040 Does he not exist?
00:49:34.820 They don't say I'm racist.
00:49:35.500 Hi, Robin.
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00:49:38.640 I'm Matt.
00:49:39.140 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
00:49:41.760 Never be too careful.
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