The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #961

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday, the 22nd of

00:00:13.280 July, 2024. I'm joined by Beau and Dan. And today we're going to be talking about Biden

00:00:19.700 going, Kamal Harris coming, and J.D. Vance and his book, Hildly Elegy, which Dan has

00:00:26.500 read. Right, so, big news then. We need to talk about Sleepy Joe again, but for among

00:00:34.420 the last time, hopefully, I'm sure there'll be more, but the numbers of times we're going

00:00:39.400 to have to talk about Mr. Biden are definitely drawing to a close. Yeah, yeah. So he decided,

00:00:45.740 apparently of his own volition, that he's not going to seek re-election. He's not going

00:00:51.420 to go before the American people again. He probably should have put a trigger warning

00:00:55.700 on that, just in case Joe's watching and he doesn't know yet. Right, yeah. Doubtless

00:01:00.500 he is. Yeah. Breaking news, Mr. Biden. So he, and apparently it's come as a shock to lots

00:01:06.420 of people, including sort of people very close to him, his own staffers and things, which

00:01:11.600 is extremely suspicious to me. Well, I was checking the White House press releases just

00:01:17.220 before we came on air. It's still no mention, no mention on the Putin's account, no mention

00:01:21.560 on Joe Biden's floaters' account. Someone on Twitter said they saw a Biden-Harris ad on

00:01:28.360 their TV like an hour before the news broke. Yeah. And as you say, all of their staffers

00:01:34.300 were like, well, we found out via the tweet. So my knowledge of sort of, you know, the history

00:01:40.280 of presidents. I'm fascinated by this. I'm particularly interested in Eisenhower, Nixon, JFK, that sort

00:01:48.040 of era. I've read quite a lot of books about that. Anyway, you would tell your senior staffers.

00:01:54.200 It's the sort of thing that comes up in a meeting. You just, yeah, right. You just would.

00:01:58.600 So can I, can I point out a few things about this that I find really strange? It's not on

00:02:05.000 headed paper. No. So this isn't from the office of the president. Joe Biden is not in control

00:02:11.420 of his own social media. That's the diversity higher press secretary who does that. So...

00:02:17.680 Oh, is it? Do we know it's her?

00:02:18.940 Yeah. She, she mistakenly posted something. It was supposed to come through her Twitter

00:02:24.400 account. Oh, I always wondered who it was. Cause he, cause he tweeted 36 times during

00:02:28.760 that debate with Trump. Yeah. It's obviously not. And she's a dummy. Well, she's just,

00:02:33.080 she's pretty badly a dummy. She tries to use arguments and rationales that don't work on

00:02:37.080 an eight year old. Yeah. Yeah. She's desperate sometimes, but I mean, look what she has to

00:02:40.880 the fact, right? But, but this I find just very, very peculiar. And then people pointed out

00:02:45.180 that's a weird signature. Doesn't match his other signatures. In fact, can we, can we get

00:02:50.320 that up? Cause, um... Yeah. Look at that. He doesn't underline his signature. So what,

00:02:56.320 you know, on previous executive orders... The R is much, much smaller. The B doesn't look

00:03:00.660 the same. The S is always different at the end. Yeah. Completely different. So it's, it's

00:03:06.100 not his signature. Someone, the first thing that sprung to my mind when I saw this, um,

00:03:10.880 was Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes' signature. And they tortured him. So it was a barely legible

00:03:17.100 scribble. No, I don't think they need to. No, I'm not saying, I'm not saying he's

00:03:21.600 being held hostage in a West Wing basement or anything. But we're not saying that either.

00:03:27.540 Right. Yeah. Certainly a non-zero chance. But in this letter, there's nothing to it.

00:03:33.300 The only thing of any real relevance that tells us anything is the line that says that he's

00:03:38.220 going to stand down to focus solely on fulfilling his duties as president in the remainder of his

00:03:43.920 term, which is nonsense. It says, I will speak to the nation later this week in more detail about

00:03:49.020 my decision. So it's sort of... That's not standing down then, is it? I'm not going to seek re-election.

00:03:53.900 I'm going to stand down. But I'm going to remain as president, even though obviously I'm not seeking

00:03:58.580 re-election because of the decline of my cognitive faculties. But I am going to be president for the

00:04:03.180 next five months. So just let's hope that Putin or Xi Jinping doesn't, doesn't do anything

00:04:08.100 particularly stressful in that time. I mean, if you were China, you would invade Taiwan today.

00:04:14.080 Yeah. Well, it's the classic thing when a politician just wants to get out of office and

00:04:18.560 get out of the public eye as quickly as humanly possible for whatever reason, usually because

00:04:21.920 there's a scandal pending, usually because the papers have come to them and say, we're going

00:04:25.220 to print this. The ball's now in your court, what you can do. And they usually say, the old

00:04:29.340 cliche, isn't it? I've got to spend more time with my family. I really want to spend more

00:04:32.240 time with my family. That's the line, isn't it? To the point of being a joke. And so that's

00:04:37.180 a take on that, isn't it? I want to focus more on the job I'm doing now, even though,

00:04:43.240 yeah, just hours before it seems, he was still up for re-election.

00:04:48.180 Right. Literally in the past couple of days, every Democrat notable has come out and just

00:04:53.860 said, no, Biden is definitely going to be the candidate. Biden's staying. Everyone's going

00:04:57.540 to get behind. And so all of the sort of activist class on social media were like, yep, we love

00:05:01.260 Biden. Biden's great.

00:05:02.620 Well, all his close proxies were even hours before this saying that he's getting impatient

00:05:07.180 with people trying to get him to put out. So I don't think he knew about this.

00:05:10.540 No.

00:05:10.860 You really think? I wouldn't be surprised. I don't think so, but I would not be surprised.

00:05:14.680 Well, that's the thing. A lot of people are saying, well, look, this kind of looks like

00:05:17.120 a coup. This happened from the people around Biden who are obviously propping up his presidency.

00:05:23.600 And well, it does kind of look that way. Why hasn't Biden come out and made an announcement,

00:05:27.620 just a video address? Why is this, again, on unheaded paper,

00:05:31.060 without his proper signature on it? Who wrote this? Who posted this on his account

00:05:35.280 that he obviously doesn't run?

00:05:36.340 So the leaked stuff coming out from Nancy Pelosi, people who know Nancy Pelosi, is that

00:05:40.940 she said to him, look, we can either do this the easy way or the hard way. And then she

00:05:45.720 came back to him four weeks later, which was like a couple of days ago and said, look, we've

00:05:49.020 been doing the easy way for four weeks. Now we're going to do it the hard way. And all

00:05:52.880 you need to do is ring up Jill and say, oh, how is he? Oh, he's passed out with flu and

00:05:57.900 you know, we can't wake him. Oh, OK, fair enough. And then you pick up another phone

00:06:01.180 and you say, do it.

00:06:02.120 Yeah. And then this gets dropped from whatever the press secretary. And then you notice that

00:06:07.540 the Clintons immediately came out and all their surrogates in the media, they all just

00:06:12.160 started running with it as if this is perfectly normal. Yeah. And they just talked about the

00:06:17.320 prospects of President Harris. Yeah.

00:06:19.280 So, I mean, he's apparently in COVID isolation at the moment.

00:06:24.160 Four days in and he's decided, you know what, I've had enough.

00:06:26.860 And then you, if you do this, I was saying this to Dan off camera earlier, that this isn't

00:06:31.520 the sort of thing you just drop a letter about. You have to address the nation, you would have

00:06:34.620 thought. Yeah.

00:06:35.760 And if you do do it by letter and then you say, I'm going to talk to the nation later,

00:06:41.060 just later, that sort of says later this week, you would do it sooner rather than later.

00:06:46.220 So you'd expect he would do it this morning, American time, at least this afternoon, American

00:06:51.040 time. It doesn't look like he's going to do it. Who knows when we'll actually see. We

00:06:54.220 do kind of want proof of life.

00:06:56.160 And the thing is, this was dropped on a Sunday afternoon, wasn't it? That's weird.

00:07:00.280 It is weird. Yeah.

00:07:01.240 It's just a weird time. Yeah.

00:07:03.160 It's like, yeah, I was just, you know, just had my Sunday roast. I was pondering it and

00:07:07.540 I thought I'd just give it up.

00:07:08.720 I believe it was LBJ who was one of the last ones to not run for a second term and he gave

00:07:13.000 a 40 minute address.

00:07:14.360 Yeah, famous.

00:07:15.380 On camera.

00:07:17.160 Fully explaining himself.

00:07:18.460 Yeah.

00:07:19.840 And we get this.

00:07:21.540 Yeah.

00:07:22.360 Well, so you mentioned that there was lots of people and right up to the last minute

00:07:26.360 almost still coming out for him, backing him. But there has been a power struggle.

00:07:30.760 So for example, some of the big beasts in the party, someone like Adam Skiff or Schiff,

00:07:38.680 I can't remember how you pronounce it, went on record and said, I don't think it's a good

00:07:42.780 idea if Joe goes for it. Actually, can we play this? It's a few minutes and it's about

00:07:48.460 four days old.

00:07:50.520 President Joe Biden all smiles on the campaign trail just hours before this.

00:07:55.920 He just tested positive for COVID.

00:07:58.200 Biden's symptoms are mild, says the White House, but it's terrible timing to be sidelined

00:08:04.060 as even more Democrats come out against his re-election bid.

00:08:08.060 The latest prominent House Democrat Adam Schiff, the highest profile lawmaker to demand Biden

00:08:14.000 step aside.

00:08:15.340 Biden has been one of the most consequential presidents in our nation's history, Schiff

00:08:20.080 told the LA Times. But I have serious concerns about whether the president can defeat Donald

00:08:26.100 Trump. Another high-profile Democrat, Senator Cory Booker, didn't go that far, but said,

00:08:32.040 I trust this man. He will make the right decision.

00:08:36.160 Since his disastrous debate performance nearly three weeks ago, more than 20 Democratic lawmakers

00:08:41.800 have said publicly Biden should not run. But the president continues to fight back, reportedly

00:08:48.200 lashing out, saying, I don't want to hear that crap, to lawmakers expressing concerns voters

00:08:54.140 won't back him. And in his latest interview, Biden says there's only one reason he'd stand

00:09:00.280 down. If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if the doctor's came

00:09:04.540 and said, you've got this problem, that problem. But many voters say they want him off the ticket

00:09:09.540 now. One recent poll suggesting 70 percent of Americans don't have confidence in Biden's

00:09:15.560 mental capacity and that two-thirds of Democrats want a new candidate. I'm deeply concerned that

00:09:22.240 the president's circle, the people who, quite frankly, have kept him in a bubble...

00:09:26.040 Okay, we don't need to ridicule anyone, that's it.

00:09:27.980 I mean, that's...

00:09:28.380 I mean, that's brutal.

00:09:29.520 Yeah, yeah.

00:09:30.680 That's it, it's over.

00:09:32.160 So there's a thing when a leader has to sort of go to war with their own party. You know,

00:09:37.380 it happens all the time, you know.

00:09:38.980 But it's so transparently absurd. He's the most popular president of all time.

00:09:43.840 I thought so, yeah.

00:09:44.720 He won 81 million votes.

00:09:46.640 More than any other president ever, right?

00:09:48.040 And they're trying to force him out. It simply makes no sense on its own terms.

00:09:52.780 What's interesting is Obama only topped out at 69 million. He really smashed Obama's record.

00:09:58.700 Yeah.

00:09:59.200 So I think it's all clear to everyone that he's just, he's a stooge, a frontman, a spokesman,

00:10:04.120 a puppet, etc. But for who then? So who actually makes the decision? Who, as you say, pulls the

00:10:09.520 trigger on these things?

00:10:11.580 That's a great question.

00:10:12.640 Yeah.

00:10:13.380 So...

00:10:13.900 Well, that's the same question as who's really running the country, isn't it?

00:10:16.360 Now, I obviously have no real insights into it. But if I would suspect it's people like

00:10:22.940 Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, the Obamas, Barry and Mike, as well as people like some of the

00:10:30.420 other big beasts, people like that Adam Skiff bloke, Cory Booker, people like that.

00:10:36.860 The press secretary, you know, they're all going to form a kind of cabal around him.

00:10:40.900 I was exactly going to use that word.

00:10:42.180 And they will orchestrate what the messaging is going to be, what Biden's going to say

00:10:46.680 from the teleprompter, as Elon pointed out, whoever controls the teleprompter controls

00:10:50.340 the United States. And it's going to be that sort of, I don't know how to describe it, this

00:10:54.660 kind of a pillar inside of the Democrat Party that everything else is hinging off. And it's

00:10:59.880 obviously sort of like the Clintons, the Obamas, and all of those sorts of people who've

00:11:06.200 got just an iron grip over the party.

00:11:08.560 It's like three or four WhatsApp groups are running the country.

00:11:10.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:11:11.060 Yeah.

00:11:11.580 Ironically. And so like the Atlantic can just be like, well, look, stay alive. We just need

00:11:14.900 your corporeal presence. Because, and this was in 2020, where it was just like, look,

00:11:19.420 just don't die.

00:11:20.160 That was 2020, wasn't it?

00:11:21.240 Yeah, that was four years ago.

00:11:22.560 So I've got to say, I'm feeling so bad for the poor sod who spent the last few months

00:11:26.920 printing Biden ballads.

00:11:28.800 Wow.

00:11:29.820 You know?

00:11:30.420 Yeah.

00:11:31.060 It's like, you got paid.

00:11:32.460 It's like the president or the chairman of the board of a big corporation. It could be

00:11:35.900 a really old dude who doesn't really know what's going on and just plays a bit of golf

00:11:39.100 from time to time, but he's a figurehead. You know, so if like real politics aren't

00:11:43.840 involved, that's not a problem. It just, it keeps the, it keeps the shareholders happy.

00:11:49.580 But when it's the president of the United States that's supposed to be in charge of policy

00:11:52.720 and has got his finger on the button, it's not, it's just not good enough, right?

00:11:56.740 Well, he's meant to be the chief executive.

00:11:58.260 Right, yeah.

00:11:58.660 He's meant to be the guy who's calling the shots and people have voted for him because

00:12:01.480 they want his agenda to be executed.

00:12:03.820 And the commander in chief.

00:12:05.380 That is always that.

00:12:06.100 Wasn't Obama the first president for a very long time to maintain a residence in Washington,

00:12:11.460 D.C.?

00:12:12.540 Oh, I don't know. They live in the West Wing, don't they? They live in the West Wing.

00:12:16.260 No, Obama. Obama stayed on after Joe King.

00:12:19.600 Oh, after.

00:12:20.260 Right, right.

00:12:21.020 Okay.

00:12:21.480 Obama stayed in Washington, D.C. He's got a residency there.

00:12:25.660 Right.

00:12:25.880 And you've seen events where Obama and Biden have been present and people just flock straight

00:12:33.940 to Obama and everybody ignores Joe's who's just wandering around, bumping into walls.

00:12:37.660 Also, remember, Obama came and visited Sunak mysteriously after he became prime minister

00:12:44.300 and things like that.

00:12:45.080 You know, he's taking on foreign diplomatic responsibilities.

00:12:50.220 If I had to really guess, I would say it was a combination of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi

00:12:55.960 and Chuck Schumer that are really the party.

00:13:00.200 I imagine Hillary Clinton.

00:13:00.800 What they decide amongst themselves, that little triumvirate.

00:13:03.460 I imagine Hillary Clinton's in there.

00:13:05.140 Yeah, right.

00:13:07.260 You wouldn't risk not including her, would you?

00:13:08.960 Yeah, exactly.

00:13:09.320 Right.

00:13:12.260 So, I mean, looking back at Biden, I've got a link there where it's the Secretary of Defense,

00:13:18.440 the one furthest on the right there, you can see it, the Secretary of Defense guy, which

00:13:22.160 is Lloyd Austin, said President Biden is an extraordinary guardian of America's national

00:13:26.480 security.

00:13:27.960 Based on what track record?

00:13:29.760 As Commander-in-Chief, POTUS has shown his profound and personal commitment to the Department

00:13:34.060 of Defense and the American military, apart from that Afghan debacle.

00:13:37.440 Apart from the diversification of the military and the DEI-ification of it.

00:13:41.380 And I'm deeply grateful for his leadership and his statesmanship, apart from when he

00:13:45.940 defecates himself in the Vatican or whatever.

00:13:48.540 He has a secure place in American history as one of our great foreign policy presidents.

00:13:53.640 Amazing statement.

00:13:54.580 Yeah, amazing.

00:13:55.340 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:55.600 That is, I mean.

00:13:57.920 Doubleting, isn't it?

00:13:58.840 Well, it's just crazy.

00:13:59.700 I mean, two new wars, the disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan, the purging of the military

00:14:04.900 because of COVID and because of DEI nonsense and the open border, but the general weakening

00:14:12.020 of America's position on the international stage is the legacy of Joe Biden.

00:14:17.300 I do love the way that Democrats can do this.

00:14:19.720 There's a shoal of fish that just changed direction, all of them at once.

00:14:23.960 So he was perfect.

00:14:25.920 He was sharp as a tact for years.

00:14:28.440 And then four weeks ago, yeah, four, yeah, whatever it was, four, two weeks, I can't

00:14:33.060 remember how many weeks ago.

00:14:34.020 That was four weeks ago from the debate.

00:14:35.260 Okay, so four weeks ago, suddenly he became somebody who had to step down.

00:14:38.740 You know, his time was done.

00:14:40.220 You know, he's not fit to be president.

00:14:41.660 Yeah.

00:14:41.880 Right.

00:14:42.140 And then yesterday night and all of a sudden the shoal of fish changed direction again

00:14:46.040 and now he's a hero.

00:14:47.140 He's the greatest president ever.

00:14:48.680 It's just that they are so.

00:14:50.760 I mean, that's the nature of politics in all sorts of ways, party politics anyway.

00:14:54.120 But the leftists are particularly good at it.

00:14:57.240 Actual communists were brilliant at it.

00:14:59.440 Yeah.

00:14:59.520 There's a great example of when Stalin turned against Tito in Yugoslavia.

00:15:06.500 And one day he's just a hero of the Soviet republics.

00:15:10.160 And the next day, he's literally the next day because Stalin's changed his mind.

00:15:14.340 He's evil and must be removed and must be purged from history and all that sort of thing.

00:15:18.620 And lo and behold, pretty much all, certainly Stalinists, but nearly all communists were like,

00:15:24.540 yes, that's what we think now across the whole world.

00:15:27.440 Is that the guy in the famous photo that disappears?

00:15:29.920 No, no, no.

00:15:30.540 That was one of his NKVD guys who was the leader of Yugoslavia.

00:15:35.140 It's the same for Mao in his party.

00:15:37.320 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:37.740 Where he'd just, you know, flip back and forth and people would fall in and out of favor

00:15:40.640 and suddenly the entire party has to lurch.

00:15:43.300 But can we just talk about the lies for a minute?

00:15:45.900 I, I'm just so tired of the lies because I mean like this, this statement is just fundamentally

00:15:53.660 dishonest, right?

00:15:54.900 No one, no one believes that America is a more secure country and the international order

00:16:00.460 is more secure because of Joe Biden, right?

00:16:02.920 It actually became demonstrably more insecure.

00:16:05.120 Like Russia didn't invade Ukraine under Trump and everyone knows it's because Trump would have

00:16:10.020 thrown an absolute fit, right?

00:16:11.840 Something quite catastrophic would have happened and so Putin bided his time.

00:16:17.080 But also like, again, I hate the narrative lie, the, the, the, the, the lie that is just

00:16:23.040 embedded in the narrative.

00:16:23.960 But look at the first paragraph of this letter that Biden is alleged to have written, right?

00:16:29.920 Today, America has the strongest economy in the world.

00:16:32.160 No one thinks that.

00:16:33.240 No one thinks that.

00:16:34.140 We've made historic investments into rebuilding our nation.

00:16:37.220 No one believes you.

00:16:38.340 Lowering prescription drug costs for seniors.

00:16:41.340 That's the first thing for historic investments in our nation are in lowering prescription drug

00:16:46.620 costs for seniors.

00:16:47.500 It's like, what is the level of inflation at the United States at the moment?

00:16:50.680 How much is petrol prices compared to when Trump was in charge?

00:16:54.080 So it's like four or five times higher.

00:16:56.120 It's absolutely crazy that like, well, the best, the best thing we've got is lowering prescription

00:17:01.180 drug costs.

00:17:01.760 Wouldn't it have been better if everyone wasn't being robbed through inflation?

00:17:05.520 Janet Yellen says inflation isn't a problem or it isn't really happening.

00:17:09.300 Well, everyone knows it is.

00:17:11.220 I mean, whenever you go to buy anything at the grocery store, whenever you buy any normal

00:17:15.080 necessary thing, you're like, my God, how is this costing so much?

00:17:19.060 And so that would have actually been better than lowering prescription drug costs.

00:17:22.840 But again, the lie is just embedded in the narrative in expanding affordable healthcare to

00:17:27.680 a record number of Americans.

00:17:28.880 Okay, but maybe things would be more affordable if they were just not very expensive.

00:17:33.460 We've provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances.

00:17:37.500 Okay, that's good.

00:17:38.700 We've passed the first gun safety laws.

00:17:40.380 Okay, great.

00:17:41.240 We've appointed the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court.

00:17:44.500 Well, bravo.

00:17:45.520 Well done.

00:17:46.680 And passed the most significant climate change legislation in the history of the world.

00:17:49.400 Right.

00:17:50.260 Nonsense.

00:17:50.860 These are nonsense achievements.

00:17:52.160 These are total nonsense compared to the absolute, you know, when you put them on the scales

00:17:56.900 next to the massive dramatic failures that have got people killed.

00:18:00.900 It's just staggering how they could have the balls to try and be like, look, okay, this

00:18:05.020 was an unmitigated disaster.

00:18:06.340 We're really sorry about this.

00:18:07.700 And that last line of that paragraph statement, America has never been better positioned to

00:18:11.980 lead than we are today.

00:18:13.900 Unbelievable.

00:18:14.760 Like, what a lie.

00:18:16.140 It's just a lie, isn't it?

00:18:17.280 Oh yeah, it's just a lie.

00:18:18.460 It's just a lie.

00:18:20.320 And I love the, I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people.

00:18:23.720 It's like, oh yeah, there's a lot of democracy in the Democrat Party.

00:18:26.880 Yeah.

00:18:27.700 So I think, I think it's fair to say, because, you know, Biden's tenure will be coming to

00:18:32.860 an end.

00:18:33.120 It looks like one way or another.

00:18:35.680 Oh yeah.

00:18:36.180 So we can start to sort of look at his legacy or what, what it meant, what the Biden administration

00:18:40.640 meant in the sweep of American history.

00:18:43.220 You can start to do that already, I think.

00:18:44.700 And, you know, my take, I think a lot of people say, will be that it was a fail.

00:18:49.660 That's generous.

00:18:50.380 Just an outright fail from start to finish.

00:18:52.900 If you cast your mind back to 2019, 2020, the people in the party didn't want Biden.

00:18:59.580 He had to get sort of shoehorned in.

00:19:01.260 And there was some sort of grassroots swelling of support for Bernie, wasn't there?

00:19:06.600 Remember all the Bernie bros?

00:19:07.920 People wanted someone a bit more like Bernie, maybe, the party anyway.

00:19:11.980 Well, he came in the same way that he went out.

00:19:14.140 It was arranged in the background.

00:19:15.960 Right.

00:19:16.240 Yeah, absolutely.

00:19:16.960 Yeah.

00:19:17.280 There's a particular quote from Obama, which is, you don't have to do this, Joe.

00:19:20.840 You don't have to do this.

00:19:22.060 Nobody wants you to do it.

00:19:23.080 You don't.

00:19:23.420 And Joe did it anyway.

00:19:25.160 Well, because he had a bit, he was a bit more competent back then, at least.

00:19:28.620 He was.

00:19:28.840 And, you know, when you've been a senator or whatever it is for 40 odd years or whatever

00:19:33.960 it was, you've always got your eye on the big seat.

00:19:38.240 And I guess he just always wanted that.

00:19:40.180 You can only imagine.

00:19:41.420 Everyone that gets involved in party politics, even if they might not even admit it to themselves,

00:19:44.980 want the big job.

00:19:46.140 Otherwise, what's the point in getting involved?

00:19:47.620 Or most, not everyone, but a lot of them.

00:19:49.740 Certainly if you're a senior politician and it's within reach, you know, it's like being

00:19:55.240 a race car driver and someone offers you a Formula One seat, of course you're going to

00:19:58.960 take it.

00:19:59.320 You can do everything to take it.

00:20:00.460 That's the whole point of doing that, of being in that.

00:20:03.640 Okay.

00:20:03.840 So anyway, so I sort of don't blame him in a way.

00:20:08.140 I blame the, you know, the handlers, the people behind the scenes that sort of did it,

00:20:12.800 put him forward.

00:20:13.540 They didn't want him.

00:20:14.340 They didn't want Kamala.

00:20:15.260 The party didn't want Kamala.

00:20:17.360 Kamala.

00:20:18.660 They didn't want her either.

00:20:20.620 But I think, you know, I think historians will look back at the Biden administration.

00:20:26.080 As a time, like in Roman history, where, okay, perhaps the Republic didn't die then

00:20:31.800 exactly, but it took mortal wounds.

00:20:35.040 You know, it got bruised.

00:20:36.320 It took bruises that won't heal.

00:20:39.140 Something like the Tiberius or Gaius Gracchus age during the late Roman Republic.

00:20:45.440 Something where the first fractures, sort of completely undeniable fractures occurred

00:20:49.640 that almost certainly won't really get healed.

00:20:53.320 And wounds that later people will just stick their fingers in and rent apart.

00:20:59.020 I think that's what they'll look back at Biden as, a vehicle that did that to the Republic.

00:21:04.060 Because they kind of corrupted themselves into a corner.

00:21:06.480 Yeah.

00:21:06.740 Because all of this has been by design.

00:21:08.640 They engineered it in.

00:21:10.240 I mean, I was just watching before we came on something with RFK and they were saying

00:21:13.360 about how they rigged the last Democratic primary against him.

00:21:16.720 Yeah.

00:21:17.380 They rigged it against Bernie too.

00:21:19.420 Yeah.

00:21:19.800 They're just not having a primary.

00:21:21.000 Yeah.

00:21:21.200 They always just rig it.

00:21:22.780 And so they rigged themselves into a situation where they got their puppet, but he became

00:21:26.660 visibly senile.

00:21:28.560 And they're going to rig it again now.

00:21:31.340 And it's just going to continue to make it worse.

00:21:33.840 Well, they're not going to rig it now because they're just going to skip the idea of having

00:21:37.020 an election.

00:21:39.240 I mean, for the primary.

00:21:40.640 Oh, okay.

00:21:41.100 They're just going to skip that entirely.

00:21:42.600 Yeah.

00:21:43.020 And they're going to install whoever it is they want.

00:21:45.000 I think the most important question is whether Zelensky is going to get paid.

00:21:49.660 That's the most important thing here.

00:21:51.300 Both sides are going to pay.

00:21:51.880 Let's be.

00:21:52.680 Yeah.

00:21:53.740 No, I should laugh.

00:21:54.920 It's not funny.

00:21:55.760 Zelensky must be blowing up Joe's phone right now.

00:21:58.460 Yeah.

00:21:58.880 There must be like 57 missed calls or something.

00:22:01.040 I don't buy that at all.

00:22:02.800 Don't kill it.

00:22:03.980 Oh, yeah.

00:22:04.520 There we go.

00:22:05.080 I don't think Zelensky is in any doubt that he's getting the money because the Trump administration

00:22:10.080 will also give him the money.

00:22:11.360 Nancy's promised him so.

00:22:12.840 Yeah, but it's not even just that.

00:22:14.520 Like Trump will side with Zelensky and Zelensky has always been very favorable towards Trump

00:22:19.720 because he's well aware that it doesn't matter who's in charge of the United States.

00:22:23.540 Like this is the American empire that is at stake here.

00:22:26.120 So he will get that money.

00:22:27.940 Maybe we'll at least get some more.

00:22:29.460 I don't know though.

00:22:30.120 We'll have to see about Trump because he's made some noises about Putin saying, no, if it's

00:22:33.780 up to me, if I'm president, I'll try and draw that conflict to a close.

00:22:37.760 And Putin's been like, that's interesting.

00:22:39.240 I don't know really what he means.

00:22:40.620 I haven't been on the phone to the Donald.

00:22:42.200 So I haven't got any insights into the details of what he means by that.

00:22:45.820 But that sounds good.

00:22:47.800 So to ramp this up then, we can say that we've got five months of Joe Biden being senile.

00:22:52.640 Yeah.

00:22:53.280 Yeah.

00:22:53.540 I mean, yeah.

00:22:55.240 The last thing I would just say is that, yeah, whether they will go for sort of another

00:23:01.440 fortified election or not.

00:23:04.640 But I suppose if you want to wrap it up and we can start talking about who comes next.

00:23:08.880 Yeah.

00:23:09.260 Well, we've got some rumble rants we've got to read through.

00:23:11.300 Oh, yeah.

00:23:11.940 Bald Eagle says, I doubt that Biden has the ailment they say he has.

00:23:15.240 He said he was only going to drop out if he got something.

00:23:17.440 Then he mysteriously catches something.

00:23:18.980 Seems awfully convenient.

00:23:20.040 Yeah.

00:23:20.160 I get the feeling they just kind of just gave him a COVID test.

00:23:22.780 Oh, yeah, that's positive.

00:23:23.880 Yeah.

00:23:24.480 Oh, you're going to have to stand down now.

00:23:25.940 Sorry.

00:23:26.260 I mean, he got something.

00:23:27.160 He caught Alzheimer's five years ago.

00:23:29.520 I mean, having dementia wasn't enough.

00:23:32.580 Caleb Knight says, can we have an AI president trained on political theory transcripts?

00:23:39.740 Well, yeah.

00:23:40.380 How much worse could it be?

00:23:42.020 I mean, honestly, I think at this point, Chad GPT probably would come up with a better

00:23:45.060 series of policy proposals.

00:23:46.880 Let Terry Crews have a go.

00:23:50.100 No Long Pork says, third Democrat primary in a row where the voters have had no say,

00:23:53.660 but they will allow the MPC 2.0 update.

00:23:56.260 Yes.

00:23:56.500 Last Russian says, imagine being the poor guy who's been printing the Biden ballots for

00:24:00.480 three months.

00:24:00.900 Raise this.

00:24:01.300 Yes.

00:24:01.500 That's what you stole that from.

00:24:03.920 Long Pork again says, as a Yank, I'm sorry for hogging all the news for the last 10 days.

00:24:08.300 It's been pretty interesting as of late.

00:24:10.020 Ballot forgers are confused as anyone right now.

00:24:12.320 Well, I mean, how much money has Soros wasted on those?

00:24:15.880 That's funny.

00:24:16.340 The ballot forgers are like, what name are we using, guys?

00:24:21.600 Last Russian says, a real Catholic would never pull out.

00:24:23.660 Axis says, those 3 a.m. Kamala votes on their way.

00:24:27.820 Well, they're all registered for Biden.

00:24:29.200 I don't know what to tell you.

00:24:30.640 And yeah, Sunday afternoon, it was National Ice Cream Day as well.

00:24:33.740 Good point.

00:24:35.240 Anyway, let's move on to talk about who the next Democrat nominee will be.

00:24:41.580 It's probably going to be Kamala Harris because Joe Biden has endorsed her, apparently.

00:24:47.020 Joe Biden, his account posted this again.

00:24:52.780 We've established that Joe Biden is not in control of his account or his faculties or his government or his bowels.

00:25:00.540 So whatever cabal is controlling the Joe Biden presidency has posted this.

00:25:07.760 And they've decided, no, Kamala is going to be their girl.

00:25:10.340 I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year.

00:25:15.900 Democrats, it's time to come together and beat Trump.

00:25:18.560 Let's do this.

00:25:19.980 Wow, that's a laughable statement.

00:25:22.200 So Kamala Harris is not an unknown quantity.

00:25:24.620 The electorate of the United States, I'm well familiar with her and we'll get into how popular she is in a minute.

00:25:30.180 But why?

00:25:32.000 Why is it her?

00:25:33.500 Why not Hillary?

00:25:34.340 Lots of people were speculating it could have been Hillary.

00:25:36.680 Well, there is the 200 million.

00:25:37.700 So they've raised about 200 million on a Biden and Harris ticket and apparently they can't use it unless it's Harris.

00:25:44.220 So they figured that the 200 million is better than what they'd raise with somebody else.

00:25:49.060 Quite possibly.

00:25:49.680 So you think they've got a chain, an anchor tied to them, which is their Democrat donors.

00:25:54.800 And I also hear, and I don't know how accurate this is, that it's quite late to be changing the ticket beyond that in terms of getting on all of the states.

00:26:02.240 I think they might have lost Nevada already because they can't change.

00:26:05.640 Really?

00:26:05.860 So that's something I wanted to know about the technicalities exactly of it, whether at the convention, which I believe is in late August, whether they have to go with Kamala at that point or whether they can still sort of coo her out of the way and get someone else in.

00:26:21.500 Because I think they can.

00:26:23.060 So I was watching some TV, like BBC on the TV news the other night and they had someone on and there was one of the bigger beasts that used to be in the Democrat parties.

00:26:31.620 That's now an independent, was saying he was considering, I can't remember the name of the guy.

00:26:35.420 Not RFK?

00:26:35.960 No, no.

00:26:37.140 And was considering rejoining the Democrat parties so that he can, at the convention, throw his hat in the ring.

00:26:44.260 So I'm not sure if it's sort of legally locked in.

00:26:47.260 But what you just said there is also true.

00:26:48.660 There are certainly some states where it's too late.

00:26:50.940 So I'll give you a quick breakdown of the rule system that they use at the DNC.

00:26:56.400 Okay.

00:26:56.940 Whatever the powerful people want.

00:26:58.980 Okay.

00:26:59.660 I mean, it doesn't matter what the rules say.

00:27:01.900 Right.

00:27:02.220 They will just change all of the rules to get whatever the cabal controlling it wants.

00:27:06.720 Yes.

00:27:06.880 And I think if there's one thing we can be sure of, it's that Kamala Harris will be a compliant puppet.

00:27:13.720 I mean, she seems to be a woman who's never had an original thought of her own, to be honest.

00:27:17.240 She's not very bright at all.

00:27:18.720 No, she's really not.

00:27:19.960 And it's actually kind of impressive, the level of vacuousness that Kamala Harris has achieved.

00:27:25.600 I mean, obviously she gives us her pronouns and she explains that she sat at a table wearing a blue suit.

00:27:30.960 It's very interesting.

00:27:31.620 But there are other things that are just remarkable.

00:27:36.780 I just thought we'd watch.

00:27:37.260 Remember Venn diagrams, those three circles?

00:27:39.680 Right.

00:27:40.140 And then let's just see where they overlap.

00:27:42.080 You will not be surprised because I have constructed a Venn diagram on this.

00:27:46.080 Remember those three circles, how they overlap?

00:27:48.100 I love Venn diagrams.

00:27:49.880 So I just do.

00:27:52.020 Whenever you're dealing with conflict, pull out a Venn diagram.

00:27:55.360 Right.

00:27:55.720 And so, you know, the three circles.

00:27:57.720 The television coverage of just yesterday.

00:28:01.620 That's on top of everything else that we know and don't know yet, based on what we've just been able to see.

00:28:07.600 And because we've seen it or not doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

00:28:10.520 But just limit it to what we have seen.

00:28:12.680 For us at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present.

00:28:21.680 I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?

00:28:26.540 Six former administration officials last week wrote that open letter urging the administration to change course, to change strategy.

00:28:34.440 Is it time?

00:28:35.160 It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.

00:28:42.960 Every day it is time for us to agree.

00:28:46.340 Our Supreme Court is on the line.

00:28:48.060 Our basic freedom.

00:28:49.320 Well, I'll leave a light on that one because she just talks, but no content comes out.

00:28:56.540 Like, I mean, what am I supposed to take away from any of those things?

00:28:58.760 I'm trying to figure out, is she genuinely that dumb, or is she just reasonably dumb and she's dumbing it down?

00:29:05.100 Well, I mean, she definitely dumbs herself down for our audience.

00:29:09.000 But, I mean, there's a genuine skill in being able to speak, you know, five or six coherent sentences, but actually transmit no information, right?

00:29:17.060 Yes.

00:29:17.260 That's actually quite impressive, and it's clearly got her to where she is today.

00:29:21.500 So the mark of an intelligent person is always when they can take a complex idea and break it down very simply so that everybody understands it.

00:29:27.580 Correct.

00:29:27.780 But she takes a load of vacuous nonsense and breaks it down to the point that it doesn't mean, that it probably doesn't mean what she meant to mean in the first place.

00:29:34.860 It's real, real verbal garbage, isn't it?

00:29:37.080 Yeah.

00:29:37.640 Do you remember Donald Rumsfeld one time?

00:29:40.200 He did a press interview at the Pentagon talking about how there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns, and it's a bit of sort of word garbage.

00:29:49.160 But actually, it did actually mean something.

00:29:52.180 Although it was weirdly put and it was odd, there was actually something there.

00:29:57.920 Well, that makes perfect sense.

00:29:59.060 You know there are things you don't know, or you don't know there are things you don't know.

00:30:01.980 But when he said it, it's just like, ugh, that's such a weird, convoluted, kind of not helpful way of saying things.

00:30:08.480 But that's top-level hybrid compared to this.

00:30:10.340 Yeah, whereas this is just true garbage.

00:30:12.540 Live today, so the future today will pass today as it is tomorrow.

00:30:15.940 What are you saying?

00:30:17.480 And I'm pretty sure she was drunk in some of those clips as well.

00:30:19.740 Quite possibly.

00:30:20.240 You know that line about being unburdened by what has been?

00:30:22.660 Yeah.

00:30:22.960 Have you seen the compilation where she says it like 20 times?

00:30:26.380 And I love the way that she thinks that she's being really profound and cryptic.

00:30:30.920 It's like the Venn diagram.

00:30:31.840 If I mention Venn diagrams, people think I'm clever.

00:30:33.680 But to everybody with an IQ of triple digits, it's like, yeah, we know you're talking about you replacing Joe Biden.

00:30:38.380 You're not being cryptic and clever.

00:30:40.040 I mean, while we've got her, we'll just have another piece of Kamala's remarkable insight and wisdom.

00:30:44.480 The governor and I, and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right?

00:30:54.060 The significance of the passage of time.

00:30:56.160 Important stuff.

00:30:56.600 So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs.

00:31:06.940 And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.

00:31:14.800 What is she talking about?

00:31:18.680 Like, what point am I meant to take from this?

00:31:21.540 This just screams 92 IQ to me or something.

00:31:23.660 Yeah.

00:31:24.340 See, to me, it screams 110 IQ, but with the perspective of being a middle manager in a large bureaucracy.

00:31:33.560 And so, right, you need to get up and fill some time now.

00:31:35.440 It's like, okay, well, I'm going to say something that's essentially impenetrable, so I can't get in trouble with my superiors over this.

00:31:40.700 And so I'm, you know, the passage of time isn't this significant to our children, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:31:45.420 And it's like, yeah, the Venn diagrams.

00:31:46.900 Okay, now, right, okay, well, no one's angry at me because no one could follow what I was saying because there was no content to it.

00:31:53.440 I've got to go with Dan.

00:31:54.260 This is like 85, 90 IQ for me.

00:31:56.420 That's my take is that when you're not even aware that you're coming across as really dumb, you genuinely think what you're saying is there's something to it.

00:32:06.320 I don't know.

00:32:09.020 I think that she's mastered the art of bamboozling people.

00:32:12.780 But that's the thing.

00:32:13.420 No one's bamboozled by it, though.

00:32:14.780 Most people's take, her outtakes, like, what was that?

00:32:17.400 Yeah, but that is what being bamboozled is.

00:32:18.900 Like, I don't know what she just said there.

00:32:20.460 Well, not truly bamboozled.

00:32:21.580 I mean, the actual bottom line is she's dumb.

00:32:23.700 I think with bamboozled, you have to think that there's something that you're not getting, not just listening to complete nonsense.

00:32:30.660 Maybe, maybe.

00:32:31.280 But anyway, so I saw a lot of online, I want to say cope about this, like posts like this.

00:32:37.660 It's like, ah, there was a Zoom call tonight for black women organizing for Kamala Harris and a maximum of 1,000 people.

00:32:42.740 They hit immediately and 40,000 people joined with the CEO of Zoom's help.

00:32:47.120 Trump is so screwed.

00:32:47.900 It's like, no one thinks Trump is screwed from this.

00:32:51.560 And it's just constant, like nonstop.

00:32:53.920 Like you were saying, they've all, like, the proper apparatchiks they are, jumped onto the line going, right, okay, the narrative is Kamala's amazing, we're going to win.

00:33:01.360 It's like, there's no authentic, sincere belief.

00:33:04.420 Because all the right-wingers on Twitter started talking about who's going to replace Biden.

00:33:07.600 Yeah.

00:33:07.820 But you go on CNN and MSNBC, and it's just like, they've got the line.

00:33:11.640 The line is Kamala, Kamala, whatever.

00:33:14.560 I'm glad that she is.

00:33:15.760 She'll be the first woman of color, no less.

00:33:17.940 Thank God.

00:33:18.360 But the point is, like, the incredible amounts of, honestly, Soviet-style message discipline, which is remarkable because Kamala hasn't been officially confirmed or anything like that.

00:33:31.920 So who knows?

00:33:33.560 But it's weird.

00:33:34.260 I mean, she sort of has because they've already changed the Biden for re-election thing.

00:33:38.600 Yeah, well, again, nothing official, but the pillar holding up the Democrat Party has decided.

00:33:43.640 The mechanism has gone on board.

00:33:46.160 And what's interesting as well, it's like, you know, Nikki Haley PAC voters were announcing support for Kamala Harris.

00:33:52.580 Like, really, that's interesting.

00:33:54.420 Yeah.

00:33:54.620 You know, the uni-party is like, you know, this is our girl.

00:33:57.200 Yeah, because their sniper wasn't meant to miss, and she was supposed to be running against Biden.

00:34:00.560 Well, that is certainly one piece of speculation that is doing the rounds.

00:34:05.100 So I thought we'd have a look at how Kamala actually fares against Trump in 2024.

00:34:09.900 I heard that the Trump side were happy.

00:34:13.560 Well, I'm a Trump partisan, and I'm happy.

00:34:16.680 Yeah, yeah, we'll take her as an opponent, sure.

00:34:18.500 I'm thrilled that it's Harris.

00:34:20.140 I mean, just before we get on to this, going right back to the beginning, I think the first thing she properly ran for was DA of California.

00:34:27.060 Yeah, and she just squeaked it.

00:34:28.320 Yeah, in California.

00:34:29.560 By like 3%.

00:34:29.860 She just squeaked it in California.

00:34:31.860 Yeah, against a Republican.

00:34:32.960 Yeah.

00:34:33.120 It's amazing.

00:34:34.040 And she's not got exactly a track record of glorious conquest.

00:34:38.260 And didn't she come in that previous primary for the Democrat president?

00:34:43.660 Didn't she come dead last?

00:34:45.620 She was definitely in the sort of below 5% bracket.

00:34:49.340 Yeah.

00:34:49.600 Joe Biden was about 36%.

00:34:51.040 So even then, he wasn't stormy.

00:34:52.800 She was Attorney General, wasn't she?

00:34:54.280 She was.

00:34:54.560 She was deeply unpopular in that role.

00:34:56.360 That's only because she kept prosecuting people for drug offenses and things like that.

00:35:00.680 And then California legalized weed.

00:35:03.540 It's like, oh, sorry.

00:35:05.340 It failed to read the room there.

00:35:06.740 Yeah.

00:35:07.260 But anyway, as you can see from the polling, Biden and Harris are below Trump in the polling.

00:35:14.320 They're both trailing.

00:35:15.780 Biden's not doing great, but then neither's Harris.

00:35:18.780 Trump's going to beat them both, basically.

00:35:20.980 Plus polls are fake.

00:35:22.620 Yeah, polls are fake.

00:35:23.640 But then when asked about the general approval rating that Harris has, she's the least approved

00:35:33.060 of of those three candidates.

00:35:34.940 And this is before most people have heard her speak.

00:35:37.360 Yeah.

00:35:37.820 Yeah.

00:35:38.300 But like I said, she's not an unknown quantity.

00:35:40.000 You know, she's been on TV.

00:35:41.300 Lots of people will be familiar with her.

00:35:43.040 And only basically hardcore Democrat partisans like her.

00:35:47.060 And everyone else like no.

00:35:48.840 But the thing is, she is unlikable.

00:35:51.240 Yeah.

00:35:52.280 On camera.

00:35:53.380 Yeah.

00:35:53.500 But to put this in perspective, she's less likable than Hillary Clinton.

00:35:57.280 She's less likable than a lot of people.

00:35:59.260 And it's because she seems like such a vacuous, empty chair.

00:36:02.260 Yeah.

00:36:02.660 Like, why is she even here?

00:36:04.120 Because she can be unlikable, but have some substance to you.

00:36:06.800 Sure.

00:36:07.340 And if you're unlikable and an empty bag.

00:36:09.760 Yeah.

00:36:09.960 Kind of like a Richard Nixon character.

00:36:11.460 You've got nothing.

00:36:12.060 Right.

00:36:12.380 Yeah.

00:36:12.780 Yeah.

00:36:12.960 Nixon's not a likable guy, but he was clearly going to get stuff done.

00:36:15.840 Right.

00:36:16.380 Yeah.

00:36:17.360 But, and this is the thing.

00:36:18.520 A lot of people on the right are like, how is Biden likable?

00:36:21.260 Well, Biden is likable.

00:36:22.840 Like, Biden, to the sort of unaligned boomer, or the sort of Democrat-leaning boomer, is

00:36:28.060 a likable character.

00:36:29.480 Right.

00:36:29.580 He gives his stupid anecdotes, and he feels like a kind of grandfatherly presence.

00:36:34.500 And so you feel, okay, well, there's something, there's a kind of continuity here.

00:36:37.880 There's a kind of cultural representation here.

00:36:39.540 And he's clearly a winner, because Biden won everything from his first race in the early

00:36:44.400 70s, every election he ever thought he won.

00:36:47.300 Yeah.

00:36:47.520 And he was the vice president.

00:36:48.880 And, you know, everyone's got good feelings about his bromance with Obama and stuff like

00:36:52.780 this.

00:36:53.460 Biden is a likable guy, even if you're, you know, and you have to accept the virtues of

00:36:59.820 your enemies, right?

00:37:00.540 Even when he's like in front of a red screen being like, I'm going to exterminate MAGA.

00:37:06.900 He's still got a likable quality term.

00:37:09.360 Harris doesn't.

00:37:10.480 And so, you know, how was she chosen exactly?

00:37:14.300 And that's a great question.

00:37:17.140 We've been promised an orderly process to replace Biden, but that's not going to include

00:37:23.100 a primary election.

00:37:25.200 So it looks like she's just going to be installed by the fact that she has been anointed by the

00:37:32.220 gods of the Democrat Party.

00:37:33.980 So was it 2012 the last time the Democrats had a proper primary?

00:37:37.680 No, they had one with Tulsi Gabbard and all that.

00:37:41.240 And no, that one.

00:37:43.040 No, because that's when they installed Biden.

00:37:44.880 They just, they just said he won that.

00:37:47.180 Biden was most popular.

00:37:48.700 No, I think they even installed him.

00:37:50.220 I'll have to double check.

00:37:51.020 Because it was Bernie Sanders, wasn't it?

00:37:53.100 If they let it run, it would have been Bernie Sanders.

00:37:55.320 So they started manipulating it and just made it Biden.

00:37:59.660 I'll, I'll take your word on that.

00:38:01.440 But, but apparently the Democrat National Committee chair, Jamie Harrison says, we're going to have

00:38:07.920 a transparent and orderly process to move forward, which.

00:38:11.240 Hilarious.

00:38:11.940 No one believes that.

00:38:13.620 And this basically, what basically comes down to is there are about 4,700 Democrat convention

00:38:19.520 delegates, 3,900 of them have pledged for Biden, and they are now free to vote for whoever

00:38:25.140 they want.

00:38:25.880 But Biden, Biden's delegates, Biden has endorsed Kamala.

00:38:30.260 So they're probably just going to come and vote for her.

00:38:32.460 Well, they're delegates for Biden and Harris.

00:38:34.600 So they're on the Harris train.

00:38:36.480 Yeah.

00:38:37.220 So they're, they're doubtless, uh, going to, uh, you know, go for her.

00:38:42.420 Um, and one, uh, one former delegate, um, actually came out and said, well, I haven't

00:38:48.000 heard any other names.

00:38:49.420 No other, no other potential candidates have rung me up and said, can I count on your vote?

00:38:56.240 Yeah.

00:38:56.320 Because they flushed them all at the last primary.

00:38:58.760 Yeah, exactly.

00:38:59.540 So there isn't anyone else.

00:39:01.320 Um, yeah, there's not going to be a primary, obviously.

00:39:03.640 Yeah.

00:39:03.800 And, uh, the Washington Post have been like, yeah, well, uh, it's just going to be a very

00:39:07.520 bureaucratic process.

00:39:08.900 They've got a spreadsheet, in fact, a little Venn diagram.

00:39:11.680 So it's just going to be a, uh, uh, just a very bureaucratic process that could or could

00:39:17.340 not involve a vote at one stage.

00:39:19.020 You can see here, there may be a vote there, but, uh, it looks like we're going down this

00:39:23.940 route.

00:39:24.240 So no, there'll be unity around the delegates or because we're not hearing any other names.

00:39:28.620 Uh, there'll be quite a vote to vote maybe, but probably get onto the no vote.

00:39:32.900 And then the decision will be made at the convention where it'll just be Harris because

00:39:36.120 everyone will agree it's Harris.

00:39:37.780 Uh, and so it's like, right.

00:39:39.340 Okay.

00:39:39.500 Well, amazing.

00:39:41.120 So what all this leads to is the Democrat party being in total disarray because no one

00:39:46.920 expected this.

00:39:47.840 No one expected that Biden was going to step down because the messaging that the apparatchiks

00:39:51.980 had to parrot out was, oh, Biden's staying.

00:39:55.860 Biden's going to be the nominee.

00:39:57.040 Biden's going to be the nominee.

00:39:58.240 And then suddenly the cabal around Biden withdraw Biden.

00:40:03.020 And so now it's like panic.

00:40:05.180 How some fire, what are we going to do?

00:40:06.760 Well, Kamala, she's going to be the person.

00:40:08.800 The time for Joe to have formally made it clear he wasn't going to run was a good six

00:40:13.440 months ago or more, maybe more like a year ago.

00:40:16.500 Start making noises about a year ago.

00:40:18.580 And then about six months ago, say, no, I'm definitely not.

00:40:20.740 Well, as far as I'm concerned, he still hasn't made it clear.

00:40:22.560 Cause I don't know that he knows.

00:40:23.480 We haven't seen the man.

00:40:24.780 Yeah.

00:40:25.200 We haven't seen him say it with his own mouth.

00:40:27.540 But also we know that he's not running a social media account.

00:40:30.060 So there's no proof that Biden has any clue that he's not running.

00:40:33.640 But, um, but as Rolling Stone reporting here, uh, DNC staff were caught by surprise when

00:40:37.600 Biden announces withdrawal.

00:40:38.820 Two sources familiar with the situation tell them, of course, they were caught of guard.

00:40:42.640 One close Biden ally said on Sunday, the work we must now do while unprecedented is clear.

00:40:47.760 And this is Harrison talking, uh, in the coming days, the Democrat party will carry on.

00:40:52.740 And like I said, the delegates just haven't heard from any of the candidates.

00:40:56.660 So it seems that there is quote uniform support for Harris.

00:41:00.220 We'll see.

00:41:01.580 Remarkable.

00:41:02.060 I think over the next week or two, we'll see.

00:41:04.220 Oh, someone like Newsom really wants to throw his hat in the ring.

00:41:07.100 Well, maybe.

00:41:07.780 Why would he though?

00:41:08.700 Why, why would he at this election?

00:41:10.320 Yeah.

00:41:10.540 Yeah.

00:41:10.740 Why?

00:41:11.400 Cause he's, he's only in his forties, isn't he?

00:41:13.960 Yeah.

00:41:14.200 He must be.

00:41:14.660 Yeah.

00:41:14.800 I would have thought so.

00:41:15.400 He's not very old.

00:41:16.040 Yeah.

00:41:16.380 So why, you know, he, he can, yeah.

00:41:18.560 The sinking ship to finally sink.

00:41:20.360 Yeah.

00:41:20.640 Uh, and that's the thing who would choose to be Kamala's VP at this point.

00:41:24.320 Yeah.

00:41:24.680 And eventually you lose, she loses a lot of staff because she's just unbelievably awful

00:41:29.120 to the people that work for her.

00:41:30.400 AOC actually.

00:41:31.320 Um, I just, I saw it just for the podcast.

00:41:33.020 I didn't have time to add it, but she came out and said, well, look, we're being told by

00:41:36.960 the party machinery that we have to support this.

00:41:39.660 But a lot of, um, anonymous leakers are coming out and saying, well, I don't really know what's

00:41:43.780 happening and stuff like this.

00:41:44.680 So I'm going to tell you the truth.

00:41:46.000 It's like, okay, well, good.

00:41:46.840 You know, you are right.

00:41:47.700 There are, there are factions within the Democrat party that are currently fighting out, but

00:41:51.560 of course this sort of core pillar of the cabal that controls it is incredibly powerful

00:41:54.800 and has an iron fisted grip.

00:41:57.820 And I don't, I don't.

00:41:58.600 Chuck Schema.

00:41:59.380 Yeah.

00:41:59.640 I don't, I don't think anyone's going to come out and challenge it.

00:42:02.720 But the, but the point is the, the Democrats are in total disarray.

00:42:06.120 This is not planned.

00:42:07.060 And they're people who love their plans.

00:42:08.940 They are big on plans.

00:42:10.380 They're not big on spontaneous work.

00:42:12.020 And it's been really upsetting for them.

00:42:14.400 I mean, people like Van Jones, Van Jones worked for Biden when he was, I think he was the

00:42:20.040 VP for Obama.

00:42:22.080 Van Jones worked for Biden and he's just in tears.

00:42:24.860 That's leadership.

00:42:25.680 That's responsibility.

00:42:27.080 That's what America is supposed to be about.

00:42:28.800 I love Joe Biden.

00:42:29.880 You have people on both sides of the fight in the party who are crying right now, who can't

00:42:33.840 believe it right now.

00:42:35.100 This is, this is not a normal time, y'all.

00:42:37.980 This isn't just politics.

00:42:39.420 These are, this, this is a moment in time to honor someone who for 50 years put this

00:42:46.220 country first and sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed.

00:42:51.520 And today he's sacrificed again.

00:42:54.060 That's Joe Biden.

00:42:54.880 I love Joe Biden.

00:42:55.820 This country should get around Joe Biden and help our president through these last few

00:42:59.280 months.

00:43:00.420 I mean, that is just a remarkable series of statements.

00:43:03.360 And he was so emotional.

00:43:04.640 He slipped in a yo-oh.

00:43:05.880 Yeah.

00:43:06.860 Yeah.

00:43:07.080 Just to make sure you understand his being authentic.

00:43:08.940 Yeah.

00:43:09.720 But I, the thing is, I believe him, you know, I believe that there are people in the DNC

00:43:13.480 crying about this.

00:43:14.800 I believe that the political class are crying about this.

00:43:17.600 They, the, the, the, the commentariat for the Democrats are crying about this.

00:43:21.500 They're, they're panicking.

00:43:22.460 They're like, oh God, the entire house of cards has come tumbling down.

00:43:25.280 Like, cause what is it the Democrats are even offering?

00:43:28.880 Like, what is like their big promise is not Trump?

00:43:32.900 Their big promise is-

00:43:33.640 So if we, if we assume a level of rationality amongst them, the best argument that I can

00:43:37.980 come up with is that they know that they cleared the decks at the last time round to

00:43:42.700 get Biden in because they had a, they had a depth of talent.

00:43:45.180 They had, um, RFK and they had, uh, Tulsi Gabbard.

00:43:49.080 They had a whole bunch of them that were legitimate candidates and they basically purged

00:43:53.440 them all.

00:43:53.980 Yeah.

00:43:54.100 And they realized that they've only got Camilla.

00:43:55.920 So they're going to let her crash and burn at this election so that she can't run in

00:43:59.060 2029.

00:43:59.800 So they've got between now and 2029 to develop a new field of candidates.

00:44:03.760 That would be the rational case.

00:44:05.100 The other thing to say is that you say, why would anyone want to run against the Donald

00:44:08.900 in 24 because you're going to lose?

00:44:10.820 Yeah, fair point.

00:44:12.040 But then there's lots of people you would want to do it anyway, just because it raises

00:44:16.020 your profile and you know you'll lose, but it means you get to be a big beast later

00:44:20.340 on in your career.

00:44:20.920 Some mid-level senator.

00:44:21.460 Someone like RFK, okay, we'll lose in 2024, but then after that, he still remains as one

00:44:27.140 of the biggest fish.

00:44:28.000 Well, he's running anyway.

00:44:29.220 So yeah, legitimately, the DNC should adopt RFK.

00:44:32.280 That's the only chance they have of winning.

00:44:34.400 Yeah, but there's something about the tension that's created by the Stalinist program that

00:44:40.820 the DNC operates under that means they can't be flexible, right?

00:44:44.340 They've got, you know, all of the sort of, um, strings pulled taut.

00:44:49.520 Yeah.

00:44:49.620 And even though it's, you know, they're still sinking into the ocean, they can't let go

00:44:54.220 of that.

00:44:54.700 And so the thing is just going to capsize on its own, even though they're holding everything

00:44:59.800 as tightly as possible.

00:45:00.660 And that's what I think Van Jones is getting emotional about.

00:45:03.040 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:45:04.600 It's certainly interesting to see, like the uni party, the deep state, wherever it is, the

00:45:07.620 people that control the democratic party apparatus.

00:45:10.640 It's not like they control everything and they're playing 4D chess with everything.

00:45:14.180 Yeah, no, they only control their own party.

00:45:15.000 No, they have to react, they have to react to the world as is, they have to react to

00:45:19.240 events like everyone else.

00:45:21.220 Yeah.

00:45:21.760 And, and they're not perfect.

00:45:23.280 No.

00:45:23.580 And they, they know that the Democrat party is going down.

00:45:26.360 That's the thing.

00:45:26.860 They can see it in real time and they've not got the talent to turn it around.

00:45:31.020 And I just thought we'd contrast that, the, the Democrat party in complete disarray, a

00:45:36.620 bunch of very, very boring midwits who nobody is interested in hearing from to the Republican

00:45:43.360 party, which is of course booming at the moment.

00:45:47.320 Like the Republican is a raucous charged party.

00:45:50.440 Yes, it was, you know, it like, it literally had Hulk Hogan on the stage tearing off his shirt

00:45:55.220 and being like, Trump-a-mania is running wild, brother.

00:45:57.640 Trump just survived an assassination attempt.

00:46:00.140 Like he, and he, he survived it with panache.

00:46:04.000 He looked good doing it.

00:46:06.480 He impressed everyone.

00:46:07.540 Even like Mark Zuckerberg came out and was like, that was the most badass thing I've ever

00:46:10.780 seen.

00:46:11.100 Yeah.

00:46:11.200 Even bloody Chink Yuga was impressed.

00:46:12.600 Exactly.

00:46:13.240 You know, Elon Musk is currently actively campaigning for the Republicans and Trump at this point.

00:46:18.420 Like, and the, there is a sense of unity in the Republican party that has a different

00:46:23.080 tone to the unity in the Democrat party.

00:46:26.080 Whereas the unity in the Democrat party, you can tell it's like some clenched fist holds a

00:46:30.120 no one will move.

00:46:32.440 You will do exactly as you're told.

00:46:33.980 With the, I watched the RNC with the delegates with declaring and they were thrilled to do

00:46:38.480 it.

00:46:38.960 They were, you could see the exuberance on their faces.

00:46:41.660 Oh, you know, 70 delegates for Nebraska or whatever, you know, proud to declare for

00:46:46.460 Trump.

00:46:46.720 And they were all thrilled.

00:46:47.960 There was music.

00:46:48.860 It was a big party atmosphere.

00:46:50.460 Everyone was excited to be there.

00:46:52.760 And it's like, okay, there's just a vibe in each one.

00:46:56.060 There's energy in each one.

00:46:57.100 And in the Democrats, it is the fear of about to drive off a cliff.

00:47:00.740 And with the Republicans, it's the excitement of about to win a massive battle.

00:47:05.740 It's funny, a note on inclusion, that it's the leftists and the Democrats that like to

00:47:10.960 think of themselves as inclusive.

00:47:12.860 And it's the evil white boys that run the conservative movement that aren't inclusive.

00:47:20.380 It's funny, Trump and the RNC was, you know, really, really inclusive.

00:47:26.260 And it's the Democrats that are like, no, if you're white, straight and male or just any

00:47:30.660 of those things, then no, you're actively not wanted sort of thing, you know.

00:47:34.140 And all the Democrats on Twitter are actively pushing the line that GOP are panicking, which

00:47:38.220 is obviously a projection.

00:47:39.580 Yeah, there's no panic whatsoever.

00:47:40.740 But it's projection.

00:47:41.600 They are panicking.

00:47:42.320 Oh, completely.

00:47:43.340 But again, like the, I really want to emphasize there's a, there's a kind of freedom in the

00:47:47.620 Republican Party to be a bit kooky, to be a bit off message, right?

00:47:52.440 They had weird people up giving speeches.

00:47:54.760 I mean, like Hulk Hogan ripping up his shirt.

00:47:56.420 I mean, come on.

00:47:57.180 That's, you know, is that on message from the Democrat perspective?

00:48:00.640 That forehead tattoo lady.

00:48:02.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:48:02.600 Like the, there's a kind of self-confidence in it, right?

00:48:06.520 That is not present in the Democrats.

00:48:08.780 And you can see where the energy, the positive energy is and where the negative energy is.

00:48:13.220 And so I'm just, honestly, I think the Democrats are going to get crushed if they're running Kamala.

00:48:18.900 Well, a note about Kamala.

00:48:20.460 However, you know, she's more than simply sort of an obnoxious cackling simpleton, right?

00:48:28.760 She's, she really, she's much, much worse than merely that.

00:48:33.100 Oh, I see.

00:48:33.860 Right.

00:48:34.100 She is, she's, well, a liar.

00:48:37.180 There's some, out of all the things that the Democrats have done over the last three,

00:48:40.220 four years, one of the things that sticks in my mind, I sort of can't get over in a way.

00:48:45.000 It's funny how certain things from history stick in your mind.

00:48:47.220 But one of them was, I think it was on the year anniversary of January the 6th.

00:48:51.540 They came out and made a big deal out of it.

00:48:53.440 And Biden did a little speech and Kamala did a speech.

00:48:56.260 And she likened it directly to December 7th, 1941, the...

00:49:03.220 Pearl Harbor.

00:49:03.740 Pearl Harbor.

00:49:05.160 And 9-11, 2001.

00:49:07.740 Right.

00:49:07.920 And she said it was, it was on a par with those things as an attack on America.

00:49:12.540 Or January 6th.

00:49:13.400 Yeah.

00:49:15.080 That certain dates will go down in history.

00:49:17.820 And January 6th is one of them.

00:49:19.900 No, I don't think so.

00:49:20.220 And she got a bit angry about the, like, the attack on their values.

00:49:25.440 On democracy.

00:49:26.180 And on democracy and on the infrastructure of America, what America is and all that thing.

00:49:30.740 All that sort of thing.

00:49:31.620 Now, obviously that's a liar.

00:49:34.280 Yes.

00:49:34.540 But it's, it's the...

00:49:37.040 Well, they've just cooed the most successful president ever.

00:49:40.440 The size of that liar, though.

00:49:41.780 The magnitude of it.

00:49:43.000 Yeah.

00:49:43.300 Is almost unbelievable.

00:49:45.440 I sort of couldn't really believe it when it's happening.

00:49:47.480 There's something that, when you tell liars as big as that.

00:49:51.480 Yeah.

00:49:52.140 When you're sort of spitting in the face of history.

00:49:55.500 You're spitting in the face of your own war dead.

00:49:58.800 You know, what happened at Pearl Harbor?

00:50:01.020 Yeah.

00:50:01.420 Um, what happened at 9-11?

00:50:04.880 Uh, I mean, it's, it's breathtaking, really.

00:50:07.980 So that said, for sheer entertainment value, I'm really happy with this timeline.

00:50:12.680 Oh, yeah.

00:50:13.040 I'm looking forward to the, uh, to the upcoming election with Kamala versus Trump.

00:50:19.240 It is dramatic and exciting.

00:50:20.900 But, um, right, let's go through some rumble rants.

00:50:23.720 Sean says, with the VP being an anchor baby and Biden not there, the Speaker of the House

00:50:28.100 should be running things.

00:50:28.960 They are third in line, aren't they?

00:50:30.280 Um, who's the Speaker of the House?

00:50:33.340 Is it Kevin McCarthy?

00:50:35.440 The Speaker?

00:50:36.460 Yeah, the Speaker of the House.

00:50:37.680 I'm not sure.

00:50:38.580 I'll have to check.

00:50:39.540 Uh, Binary Surf says, Joe Biden's daughter is no doubt relieved he'll be spending more

00:50:42.640 time at home.

00:50:43.660 Yeah, she's too old.

00:50:44.980 Yeah.

00:50:46.480 Bo, why were you watching TV?

00:50:48.040 Nothing of value there.

00:50:49.300 Yeah, boomer.

00:50:50.560 Um, Bald Eagle says, I'll bet there'll be zero further campaigning for Harris.

00:50:54.420 Uh, no one of significance tickets.

00:50:56.320 Dems are going to keep that money raised and funnel it into the pillars, uh, pockets through

00:50:59.860 donations.

00:51:00.960 Yeah, entirely possible.

00:51:02.040 I mean, it could well be they literally just have a write-off on this one and just don't

00:51:06.840 even bother.

00:51:08.820 Like, Kamala Harris, like you say, she's like just the sacrificial lamb and, uh, just screw

00:51:14.580 it, Mike Johnson.

00:51:15.920 Mike Johnson, right?

00:51:17.200 Thank you very much.

00:51:18.780 Um, Mason says, can you imagine if this vapid, empty-headed bimbo sleeps away to become the

00:51:23.600 first female president?

00:51:24.840 What a whim for feminism.

00:51:26.440 And diversity.

00:51:27.940 Uh, Sean says, if Trump wins and does deport illegal immigrants and stops anchor babies,

00:51:32.940 will he be deporting Kamala?

00:51:34.300 So, actually, on that previous point, she has played an absolute blinder for somebody who's

00:51:39.400 as thick and unlikable as she has.

00:51:41.760 The way that she's navigated her way to the top is genuinely impressive.

00:51:44.820 I'll give her that.

00:51:45.880 Yeah, I don't know if she's sick.

00:51:47.120 I'm not convinced.

00:51:47.920 I think that it's a skill to be able to say nothing for, like, five minutes at a time.

00:51:52.420 I genuinely think that what it is...

00:51:53.840 But she doesn't do it well, though.

00:51:55.080 But if you're intelligent, you just accidentally say something intelligent every once in a while.

00:51:58.560 Yeah, no, no, no.

00:51:59.140 Well, that's the point.

00:51:59.840 That's why it's a skill.

00:52:00.660 Like, I view it like a magician, right?

00:52:03.400 I view, you know, it's like, you know, you can't see...

00:52:05.620 An illusionist.

00:52:06.240 Yeah, yeah, like an illusionist.

00:52:07.400 You can't see how the trick is done.

00:52:09.140 I do think you're being unreasonably charitable.

00:52:11.060 No, no, no, no.

00:52:12.400 Because she's not interested in any of the things that are happening.

00:52:18.280 What she's doing is just being a part of the machinery.

00:52:21.920 Why wouldn't there be at least one clip of her saying something smart?

00:52:25.720 Well, I'm sure there are clips of her saying something smart, which is not...

00:52:28.960 Then it's not going around, right?

00:52:30.880 I think she's just an illusionist.

00:52:32.940 But...

00:52:33.100 Can we get a Venn diagram?

00:52:37.080 Her dumb speeches to people she's had to...

00:52:39.080 As long as that Venn diagram is unburdened by what has been.

00:52:42.120 Right.

00:52:42.800 Baldy says, if I'm reading this right, Dems already lost 13 states, which are out legally,

00:52:47.620 including California because of the deadline.

00:52:49.500 Oh, that can't be true.

00:52:50.560 I don't think it's 13.

00:52:51.280 If that's true, if California's out, then that's it.

00:52:53.680 I think it's only Nevada, but I need to be fact-checked on that.

00:52:57.160 Last Russian says, Kamala Harris raised bail money for the Black Lives Matter rioters.

00:53:01.360 The organization she raised money for and bailed people out.

00:53:03.920 Went on to commit rape and murder when bailed.

00:53:06.380 What a shock.

00:53:07.140 What a shock.

00:53:07.740 But anyway, we'll leave that there.

00:53:09.580 Let's talk about Hillbilly Elegy.

00:53:11.220 Yeah.

00:53:12.200 So, I've just read Hillbilly Elegy, which is J.D. Vance's book.

00:53:17.180 It is, actually.

00:53:18.200 Can we get the cover-up?

00:53:20.300 What is it, a memoir, a novel?

00:53:21.580 What are we talking about?

00:53:22.200 So, it's written from J.D. Vance's perspective, and it sort of covers his childhood to early

00:53:28.640 adult.

00:53:29.400 Yeah.

00:53:30.020 So, it's an autobiography.

00:53:31.740 No, but the thing is, it's not, right?

00:53:33.060 So, it's not really about him.

00:53:34.960 It's about the family around him.

00:53:36.540 And you know this because the chapter when he goes off and does the Marines, he's not

00:53:40.180 around his family, and he skims through it so incredibly quickly.

00:53:44.080 It's really a story about his family.

00:53:46.920 He was in the Marine Corps?

00:53:48.460 Yeah, he was.

00:53:49.000 Yeah.

00:53:49.260 So, I mean, I'll go through briefly his story, because I think it's a fascinating perspective

00:53:53.260 on who this man is.

00:53:54.600 Because when I first heard it was J.D. Vance, I did the standard thing, which is, okay, what's

00:53:59.000 his views on China or Ukraine or something like that?

00:54:01.900 And you just go straight to the big externalities, really.

00:54:06.540 What I got from reading this is perhaps what inspired choice that he is.

00:54:11.880 And certainly, MSNBC, I was watching them reacting to the Vance pick, and they just couldn't

00:54:17.320 get it at all, because they were just like, yeah, but he's from I hear you.

00:54:21.340 Ah, I hear you.

00:54:22.180 I hear you, yes.

00:54:23.560 And, was it Kentucky?

00:54:26.300 Right.

00:54:26.480 And MSNBC was just like, well, Trump's going to win those states anyway, so why would you

00:54:31.860 pick him?

00:54:32.780 And reading this book, it gave me an appreciation that Trump probably doesn't just want to win.

00:54:38.800 He wants to actually do something with that win.

00:54:41.120 And he wants to do something for the people who voted for him, which is not normally how

00:54:45.200 politics works.

00:54:46.040 No, certainly not in this country.

00:54:47.940 You only do something for your most marginal voters.

00:54:50.500 You don't do it for your hardcore voters and whatever it was.

00:54:53.000 Kentucky went like 62% Trump.

00:54:55.240 And also, another thing to say is that you obviously want to win your presidential race

00:54:58.940 if you're running to be the president.

00:55:00.620 But ideally, also, you want your party to control Congress and the Senate, if possible,

00:55:05.200 if you can get the trifecta.

00:55:06.460 So, that is really important, because it's one thing to be president, but then if you're

00:55:10.620 just immediately hamstrung by not controlling either Congress or Senate, then you won't

00:55:15.880 be able to get much done.

00:55:17.380 So, this book, he actually wrote after finishing Yale Law, and it's apparently an international

00:55:23.780 bestseller.

00:55:24.360 It sold over a million copies.

00:55:25.700 So, this was a big-selling book long before he got into politics.

00:55:31.400 And it is a good read.

00:55:33.480 I mean, nothing remarkable happens in it, apart from the fact that somebody with a background

00:55:37.840 like that, and I'll tell you briefly about his background, ends up going to Yale Law,

00:55:41.820 let alone becoming the next VP of the United States, because he does have a sort of horrific

00:55:47.240 background.

00:55:47.940 There's also a Netflix version of this, which I didn't watch because I just thought, well,

00:55:51.840 Netflix, you know, they've probably cast a black lesbian as J.D. Vance.

00:55:55.740 But I did skim through it this morning, and it doesn't look that bad.

00:55:59.240 One thing, actually, the Netflix version does do very well is it shows his town when his

00:56:04.800 grandparents arrived in this middle town, and it was vibrant.

00:56:08.540 And that would have been 1940s, maybe early 1950s.

00:56:11.580 And then it cuts to him driving in with his mum, like, 30 years later, and the whole place

00:56:15.960 is just run down, shut down, all the industry's gone.

00:56:18.900 So, the Netflix version did do that well, I saw it at least.

00:56:22.560 But yeah, so basically, it describes about Vance growing up in this, you know, Rust Belt town.

00:56:27.800 Sort of post-industrial American heartland.

00:56:30.100 Yeah.

00:56:30.700 And actually, the story starts with his family's roots in Kentucky, you know, as the title

00:56:36.560 suggests, a bunch of hillbillies.

00:56:39.460 And the story kind of really starts with his grandparents, which he calls Mama and Papow,

00:56:46.580 Mama and Papow.

00:56:47.600 And they were born during the Great Depression in Kentucky, and then they moved to, and in

00:56:53.080 fact, his grandmother got pregnant at 13 with his aunt, and they moved up to Ohio, why can't

00:57:00.280 I say that?

00:57:00.820 Ohio.

00:57:01.520 That's the one, to get work.

00:57:04.040 And, you know, his grandfather was a good man by the standards of the time.

00:57:09.960 I'm using that term a little bit loosely.

00:57:11.520 But that included the fact that he could get violent and drunk.

00:57:16.880 And in fact, his grandmother once set his grandfather on fire after telling him, if you

00:57:21.920 come home drunk one more time, I'm going to set you on fire.

00:57:24.620 And he did.

00:57:25.740 So she was a woman of her work.

00:57:26.600 So she literally set him on fire, and J.D. Vance, his mother and aunt, had to put their

00:57:32.480 father out lying on the lounge floor.

00:57:36.840 So, I mean, his grandmother, who he idolizes, was clearly a bit of a character.

00:57:42.460 So she very nearly killed a man at 12.

00:57:46.200 Somebody was trying to steal chickens, so she just grabbed the shotgun and blasted him.

00:57:50.760 Yes.

00:57:52.080 The dude lived.

00:57:53.020 How are you, you're alive more than my chickens.

00:57:54.940 Yeah.

00:57:55.120 So, I mean, his grandmother was definitely a character.

00:58:00.160 I mean, another anecdote that I quite like from the story was that they once concluded

00:58:05.700 that a pervert had stolen J.D. from church.

00:58:09.620 So his grandparents pulled out their magnums and basically held up the car park and wouldn't

00:58:14.980 let anyone leave without having their vehicle searched.

00:58:17.540 And it turned out he was actually just asleep on one of the pews.

00:58:21.080 But...

00:58:21.680 I mean, that's the kind of...

00:58:25.120 family that they were.

00:58:27.900 I see.

00:58:28.720 The patriarch and the matriarch of the family were definitely the grandparents.

00:58:32.120 And he was really raised by them.

00:58:33.740 But whatever else they were, they managed to raise dysfunctional children.

00:58:37.920 Because Vance's own mother...

00:58:39.620 Really?

00:58:39.920 I can't believe it.

00:58:40.540 Yeah.

00:58:40.980 Yeah.

00:58:41.660 Vance's...

00:58:41.980 Because, I mean, they were silent generation.

00:58:43.800 Sure.

00:58:43.960 And they did the whole thing of pitch up, get work, get a four-bedroom large house, live comfortably,

00:58:50.700 have holidays, have cars.

00:58:52.500 Yeah.

00:58:52.600 So, I mean, they just did the standard thing.

00:58:54.580 But even, you know, we think of the boomers as having it all easy.

00:58:58.340 But by the time that town had got to his mother's generation, the baby boomer generation, I mean,

00:59:02.620 it was already starting to fall apart.

00:59:04.520 And also that social problems that engendered with it as well.

00:59:08.640 So, his mother was basically working her way through the spectrum of drugs, eventually ending

00:59:13.240 up overdosing on heroin.

00:59:16.340 I mean, she was a messed up...

00:59:17.640 No, not to death.

00:59:18.780 I think she's still alive.

00:59:19.920 I mean, she was alive when the book came out and the film came out.

00:59:22.680 So, I don't know what's happened to her since.

00:59:24.260 And apparently, she was clean for six years by the time the film came out, which was four

00:59:27.760 years ago.

00:59:28.100 So, maybe she's 10 years clean now.

00:59:30.340 But she basically worked her way through a series of men.

00:59:33.580 So, Vance had five different stepdads.

00:59:36.100 Right.

00:59:36.460 And, you know, because she was a drug addict and cycling through men...

00:59:40.380 And when she was cycling through men, she was looking for the one that would finally

00:59:45.960 treat her right, which is, you know, the classic sort of woman thing.

00:59:53.360 It's quite obvious when you read the book that the men weren't the problem because some of

00:59:58.880 them were deadbeats, but some of them left her and then had perfectly functional lives

01:00:02.800 afterwards.

01:00:03.340 She was the only common denominator in each of those relationships.

01:00:06.380 Heron addicts.

01:00:07.740 Yeah.

01:00:08.220 I mean, she worked up to her.

01:00:09.440 I mean, she took a while to get out to that, but she was definitely somebody who was completely

01:00:14.260 incapable of taking responsibility for anything ever.

01:00:19.220 So, yeah, not a great role model.

01:00:21.580 So, he was kind of raised by his grandparents, even though they were a little distance away.

01:00:27.040 I mean, they weren't that far away.

01:00:28.120 So, but he was raised largely by his grandparents and also his older sister, who was four years

01:00:34.220 older.

01:00:36.200 And they sort of, you know, between them, they raised him.

01:00:40.100 But, I mean, the mother's home life was so unstable that their grandfather sneakily installed a

01:00:46.380 telephone at the bottom of their toy box so that if things got really bad, they could

01:00:51.060 go to the covert phone and give the grandparents a ring and they would come over.

01:00:54.880 So, even though he idolizes his grandparents, you know, they did raise a daughter who was

01:01:00.780 a complete screw up.

01:01:03.800 And he was always, you know, he was always finding out that, you know, we had a new stepdad

01:01:07.880 situation going on.

01:01:08.900 I mean, at one point they were living with this guy and they seemed to be having problems.

01:01:15.460 And then one day they get home and their mum says, oh, I got married.

01:01:20.100 He's like, well, what do you mean?

01:01:21.200 I thought you were, I thought you weren't getting on with this guy.

01:01:23.860 He said, oh, no, I didn't marry him.

01:01:25.420 I just married somebody else.

01:01:26.540 And the next day they pitch up at this other guy's house and just move in with their family.

01:01:30.600 So, JD himself, I mean, he was spiraling for a long time because, of course, you know,

01:01:35.340 you would get into a situation where he'd be absent from school for understandable reasons.

01:01:39.180 And then he'd get a letter home from school saying, you know, all of these absences and

01:01:43.380 the parent has to sign off on it.

01:01:44.960 He doesn't know, well, he doesn't know who his dad is, but his dad doesn't live anywhere

01:01:49.040 close anymore.

01:01:50.140 And his mother's in one of her stints in rehab.

01:01:53.960 So, you know, his sister has to forge the signature and they kind of have to get on with

01:01:57.980 life.

01:01:58.540 So he was really spiraling.

01:01:59.940 But because his sister was older, I mean, of course, she got out of that situation as

01:02:04.320 soon as she could.

01:02:05.260 She married young, a bit like all the women in her family had, and she'd left.

01:02:09.840 She actually had a successful relationship and still does as far as I know.

01:02:13.380 Um, but he was really spiraling when he was left with just his mother and it was going

01:02:17.700 to live with his, his grandmother, his mama, as he, as he puts it, that really kind of started

01:02:22.000 putting him on the, putting him on the straight and narrow because she was a, you know, she

01:02:27.140 was a wiry old bird, but she was a bit of a hard task mask as well.

01:02:31.600 Um, and, and she started, you know, putting, putting his life in order because one of the

01:02:36.120 anecdotes he tells is that she had to buy an expensive calculator for him.

01:02:39.880 Um, one of these scientific calculators for, you know, it was a thing back then.

01:02:44.660 And if she was going to have to spend $84 on a calculator, he was bloody well going to

01:02:48.240 come top of the class.

01:02:49.760 So, you know, it started doing stuff like that.

01:02:52.000 And also he started getting, hanging out with like deadbeat friends and stuff like that.

01:02:55.800 And she just told him, if you spend any more time with those boys, I will kill them by running

01:03:00.540 them over with my car.

01:03:01.740 And because it's her, he believed it.

01:03:03.980 Yeah.

01:03:04.380 And he, I mean, he, and maybe she would have done as well.

01:03:07.340 Yeah.

01:03:07.500 It's the kind of thing that she would have done.

01:03:09.740 So, I mean, he started to get his act together.

01:03:12.200 Um, it's so important, particularly for a young man, that might not be fair, but for young

01:03:16.100 people being told unequivocally, no, sometimes that's just a massive, massive life.

01:03:21.840 And it's, you can't do that thing.

01:03:23.600 No, it's not happening.

01:03:24.560 And it's, it's actually very difficult for a, um, for a mother or a grandmother to do

01:03:28.920 that because the same request that comes from a father, as opposed to a mother can feel

01:03:33.620 emasculating coming from a mother, which is why single mothers have so much more difficulty

01:03:38.400 raising boys because of that sort of influence thing.

01:03:41.700 But, but this character was clearly a strong enough woman that she was able to sort of get

01:03:46.080 that line across and keep him together.

01:03:48.140 Sometimes a very strong grandmother is often actually is, is, is the, is the,

01:03:51.840 is the case for a young boy because no, he's not going like, there's just sort of an innate

01:03:57.060 respect sometimes much more than even your own mother.

01:04:00.680 If it's your grandmother.

01:04:01.960 Yeah.

01:04:02.620 Because you just, you don't, you, you can't sort of fly in, fly in the face of what she

01:04:07.420 says as much.

01:04:08.440 And she was definitely a tough character and she started getting his act together for

01:04:11.660 him.

01:04:12.360 Well, I mean, I suppose he did it himself, but she, she was the right guidance and she,

01:04:15.220 there wasn't this revolving door man.

01:04:16.880 And then, you know, the, I mean, there was, there was multiple stories of like with his

01:04:20.820 mother about how she would, um, spiral and the next thing they know, they would all be

01:04:25.620 stood on the front lawn while she was being taken away in a police car with all the neighbors

01:04:29.640 coming out to watch.

01:04:31.000 Yeah.

01:04:31.220 But it was that sort of neighborhood.

01:04:32.680 So, you know, the next week it would be one of the neighbors doing the same thing and

01:04:36.320 they would be stood outside watching.

01:04:37.600 It was just like one of those, you know, sort of dysfunctional communities.

01:04:41.660 Um, I mean, it was a strong community in a way that they kind of looked out for each

01:04:44.600 other, but it was also a dysfunctional one in many ways.

01:04:48.340 So then he started getting his grades together and then he goes off to the Marines.

01:04:52.280 And like I say, because he, it's, it's not an autobiography because his, his section about

01:04:57.860 the Marines is so short because it's really about the family around him that he wants to

01:05:01.980 talk about.

01:05:02.580 So when it's just him, it kind of drops.

01:05:05.040 In fact, even the stuff in the Marines is just about what was going on in the family and

01:05:09.600 the letters he was getting and stuff like that.

01:05:11.340 But, but they really sorted him out as well because I mean, he'd been raised on a diet

01:05:15.160 of basically deep fried food.

01:05:17.980 Um, and so the Marines took one look at him and said, you fat tub of shit and started

01:05:21.740 sorting it out.

01:05:23.200 Knock, knocked him into shape quite quickly.

01:05:26.060 Um, and so he, I mean.

01:05:27.380 Did he ever go into theater?

01:05:28.540 Did he ever, was he ever in combat?

01:05:30.160 I think, I think he was a war correspondent, but he doesn't say in the book what he, I mean,

01:05:34.180 he mentions that he was doing, no, actually that's what it is.

01:05:36.740 It's because, I mean, he, you, you don't get a sense from the book, but clearly the guy's

01:05:41.540 a very, very smart guy.

01:05:42.980 I mean, he set up his own VC investment firm.

01:05:45.240 I mean, he, he, he graduated Yale Law as an editor of the whole review.

01:05:49.680 Oh, a venture capital.

01:05:50.460 Oh, okay.

01:05:50.960 Um, and he, and he's gone on to be the, so he's clearly a very, very bright guy, but he

01:05:54.880 doesn't talk, he doesn't big himself up at all in the book.

01:05:58.000 You just get the impression he's a perfectly standard guy, but clearly the Marines recognized

01:06:01.800 what they had when they had him because they had, um, a post, which is normally filled

01:06:06.480 by a captain, which is, um, sort of media relations where you need to sort of, you'll

01:06:11.180 be in the office one minute with the generals getting the briefing of what's going on.

01:06:14.480 And then you're being out taking hostile questions from, from journalists and, you know, they

01:06:19.120 booted out a captain and put him in and he was just a, he was just a monkey recruit

01:06:22.720 that they, they sort of picked for this.

01:06:24.360 So, so they clearly recognize that they had something with this guy.

01:06:26.900 Uh, but yeah, he doesn't really talk about that much.

01:06:28.920 And then he, then he sort of goes on to, um, um, yeah, your law, uh, where he got a full

01:06:34.000 scholarship.

01:06:34.400 It was the only way that he could have afforded it, um, to get in.

01:06:38.220 And his work ethic was, was obviously quite severe.

01:06:42.140 I mean, he put in huge amounts of hours, got very little sleep because he was also having

01:06:45.620 to work jobs just to, just to support himself incidentally and support the family around

01:06:50.100 him as well.

01:06:51.240 Um, but yeah, he, he, he started to get it together.

01:06:53.580 Um, he, he graduated from Yale Law very well.

01:06:57.680 I mean, he didn't understand a lot of basic stuff.

01:07:01.120 So, I mean, he, he talked about how, cause he met that Usher that you saw at the R&C.

01:07:06.460 You know, they, they've been married for 26 years at this point or something like that.

01:07:10.920 And she was invaluable to him because he just didn't know even what questions to ask.

01:07:15.540 He didn't know what to think about in terms of stuff like that.

01:07:17.880 So for example, he, when he started having interviews with law firms, um, he didn't know

01:07:22.680 what to do with the cutlery because, you know, there would be like seven.

01:07:26.220 That old classic.

01:07:27.140 Yeah.

01:07:27.440 Yeah.

01:07:28.040 He, he, he didn't know what, what to, how to go about stuff.

01:07:30.960 There was loads of basic stuff that he just didn't under, he didn't understand networking

01:07:34.600 at all.

01:07:35.820 Um, so yeah, he, he, he gets through that and you go through it.

01:07:38.660 And I think what was also so interesting, and this was, I mean, this is an older book

01:07:43.180 now.

01:07:43.380 He wrote it quite a long time ago.

01:07:44.520 Is he, is he clearly understands the people that he comes from, the people who are disadvantaged.

01:07:49.180 So for example, politicians just look at something like payday loans and because rich

01:07:54.920 people, rich people take out loans all the time, but they do them over three, four years.

01:07:58.900 Yeah.

01:07:59.440 Um, and they structure it into something.

01:08:01.560 Um, whereas payday loans, if you look at the interest rate on a payday loan over four

01:08:05.180 years, it's like, yeah, it's like 10,000 percent or something.

01:08:08.380 But he understands there's loads of situations where, you know, you're going to get paid on Monday,

01:08:12.540 but he rents you on Friday and you're going to get a late fee if you don't do it and you

01:08:15.420 need it for the weekend.

01:08:16.680 And, and there's just one of a whole number of examples where he kind of understands the

01:08:20.180 plight of the poor in a way that most politicians, um, don't.

01:08:24.260 So I'm starting to think, yeah, this is quite an inspired VP pick.

01:08:27.820 Okay.

01:08:28.420 Because, you know, he, not for the, not for what he thinks about geopolitics or tax rates,

01:08:33.620 but he just understands the Americans.

01:08:35.280 He understands the past over Americans.

01:08:38.160 Um, and actually a lot of what he writes for Hillbillies is just as applicable to the black

01:08:42.040 community as well, you know, having been passed over by all of that stuff.

01:08:45.600 And, you know, this political system, it's kind of been a lot for a long time.

01:08:50.580 I think this is the first election since 1976 where there hasn't been a, a Bush, a Clinton

01:08:57.100 or a Biden on the ticket.

01:08:58.620 Yeah.

01:08:59.440 I mean, this has been so locked up.

01:09:01.320 Yeah.

01:09:01.660 And, and you look at this guy, right?

01:09:03.280 And, you know, we all like Trump, but as I always say, you can only upgrade a boomer so

01:09:08.520 far and this guy's a millennial.

01:09:11.380 Um, he follows people that we've had on this show.

01:09:14.060 Yeah.

01:09:14.320 Yeah.

01:09:14.460 Doesn't he know Aaron McIntyre?

01:09:16.240 Yeah.

01:09:16.960 I think he actually knows him.

01:09:18.760 Uh, yeah, I think, I think, well, I don't know how well he knows him, but yeah, he knows

01:09:21.560 him.

01:09:21.860 Right.

01:09:22.260 And, and, and he follows a guy that we're going to have on the podcast this week.

01:09:26.040 So, you know, we are all mutuals with, you know, people that he follows.

01:09:30.080 He, he is, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if he watches all the same content as us.

01:09:34.540 He may have even watched some Lotus Eater's content at some point.

01:09:37.220 Um, I'm sure he's at least watched some of your videos.

01:09:39.620 If we make our thumbnail blatant enough, he might watch this very video.

01:09:44.200 Yeah, it's quite possible.

01:09:45.580 Give us a call, Mr. Vance.

01:09:46.680 Come on, we'll interview you.

01:09:47.720 So I'm, I'm, I'm really, I'm really inspired by this because, you know, Trump didn't just

01:09:52.960 pick the VP.

01:09:53.860 He picked the presumptive nominee in 2029.

01:09:58.980 Um, and it's, and it's somebody who's in our orbit.

01:10:02.560 So, you know, I love this.

01:10:04.800 Um, I, I recommend the book.

01:10:06.240 It's a short book.

01:10:07.860 Um, I mean, I read it in about three hours.

01:10:10.000 I know I read faster than most, but you know, it's, it's, it's not that long and it's a

01:10:14.040 good read.

01:10:14.680 So yeah, check it out.

01:10:16.280 Cool.

01:10:16.840 All right.

01:10:17.200 All right.

01:10:17.480 Should we do some, um, let's do some, uh, rumble raps.

01:10:20.560 Oh, PH UK says, Carl, there's a village near, there's a village near here called UK.

01:10:25.300 I'm thinking of writing a book about it called Of UK.

01:10:28.380 Ha ha.

01:10:28.800 Uh, that's a random name says being raised by dysfunctional parents can either break

01:10:32.660 their children or forge them into better people.

01:10:34.900 Outside influences and children's lives are crucial, which is why so many end up in gangs.

01:10:39.840 Correct.

01:10:40.860 Let's go to the video comments.

01:10:44.300 Oh.

01:10:44.700 The Queen's Piper plays the lament.

01:10:49.720 Sleep, dearie, sleep.

01:11:00.480 Oh.

01:11:04.600 What was she, some sort of Jack Russell mix or something?

01:11:07.520 It's like a corgi.

01:11:09.340 Oh, yeah.

01:11:10.200 Very, very.

01:11:11.160 Strange, strange colours.

01:11:12.640 It's like a corgi.

01:11:15.860 What's it, a mongrel, I'd imagine?

01:11:17.980 Uh.

01:11:18.600 Happy looking dog, nonetheless.

01:11:19.940 I love little dogs.

01:11:21.080 I love all dogs.

01:11:22.740 Let's go to the next one.

01:11:23.660 I hope you can indulge me for this comment as today my grandfather passed away and I wanted

01:11:29.220 to do something to honour his memory.

01:11:31.300 He married in his early 20s, became a secondary school D&T teacher and raised four children.

01:11:37.020 He was so good at everything he did that he was able to build his own house and teach me

01:11:41.100 how to build a PC.

01:11:42.140 We may criticise the boomer generation, but this man truly was the greatest man I ever

01:11:47.700 knew.

01:11:48.500 He survived by four children, seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

01:11:53.440 He's a sombre video.

01:11:56.140 I'm very sorry to hear your loss.

01:11:57.960 Really sorry.

01:11:58.880 But what a successful life he led.

01:12:00.560 Yeah.

01:12:01.240 Yeah, no, absolutely.

01:12:03.660 Let's go to the next one.

01:12:04.340 Well, this then is the problem, that for far too long, civilized men have slept soundly

01:12:13.200 in their beds, knowing that rough men are prepared to do violence on their behalf.

01:12:19.660 And unfortunately, once they figure out what that is and what that requires, suddenly they

01:12:28.500 want the rough men to stop being violent.

01:12:30.940 But unfortunately, the other side doesn't get that message.

01:12:38.820 Salute to the Lotus Eaters.

01:12:41.240 Is that an Orwell quote?

01:12:43.260 I don't know.

01:12:43.680 I don't think so.

01:12:44.620 It might be, but...

01:12:45.660 I'm sure civilisation exists because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf

01:12:50.320 or something.

01:12:50.680 I'm sure that's Orwell.

01:12:51.520 Not in Orwell, is it?

01:12:52.280 I'll have to look it up.

01:12:53.820 But it is also true.

01:12:56.240 Yeah.

01:12:56.980 Yeah.

01:12:57.840 Let's go to the next one.

01:12:58.640 Just a message to say, I tell I'm 26, and I've just brought my first house by myself.

01:13:05.960 Three bedroom house.

01:13:07.320 Well done, me.

01:13:08.700 Here's my view after a weekend of figuring out where the garden is.

01:13:12.320 Can't wait to bathe all over it and put some artificial grass down and a bar down the end.

01:13:17.500 Only joking.

01:13:18.100 Well, I'll tell you what, well done.

01:13:24.580 It's a lovely looking view you've got.

01:13:26.420 Yeah, and you can't beat a real lawn.

01:13:28.180 AstroTurf is horrible, isn't it?

01:13:30.400 Yeah, having a real lawn.

01:13:31.500 Nice.

01:13:33.140 Let's go to the next one.

01:13:33.740 I have a hero, Charles Nash.

01:13:36.400 He was born in 1864 and immediately orphaned and sold into endangered servitude.

01:13:40.740 Long story short, as a child, he escaped, found honest work as a farmhand, worked towards

01:13:44.860 and upwards through industry, ending up at the top of the then-blossoming General Motors.

01:13:48.820 He witnessed the banker's coup against Durant and quit in disgust, founding Nash Motor Company,

01:13:53.800 one of the most important and influential car companies ever to exist.

01:13:56.480 Nash himself died an extraordinarily important, wealthy, and extraordinary man.

01:14:01.480 Proof that the American dream was once very real.

01:14:04.500 Little wonder you don't hear his name.

01:14:07.500 That's a great story.

01:14:08.880 I've never even heard of it.

01:14:09.980 No, I haven't.

01:14:12.040 Let's go to the next one.

01:14:13.760 I know with what just happened with Joe Biden suddenly stepping down from the presidential run

01:14:18.160 that people are going to forget about what happened with CrowdStrike this weekend.

01:14:21.900 It's a much bigger story.

01:14:23.180 The thing about that is it's got a lot of ties with places like WEF, BlackRock,

01:14:28.580 and there's just too much information for me to have gone over.

01:14:31.860 But essentially, just keep in mind that Klaus Schwab did say there was going to be a cyber pandemic

01:14:37.260 and it was going to require a COVID-like response.

01:14:40.600 Remember that.

01:14:42.900 What's interesting is the CrowdStrike stuff didn't affect us at all.

01:14:46.320 Yeah.

01:14:46.580 The other interesting thing about CrowdStrike is the reason it's so much of a problem

01:14:49.320 is because if you've got a regulated entity and you use anything other than CrowdStrike,

01:14:56.900 the auditors go to town on you.

01:14:59.300 So everybody just uses CrowdStrike in order to avoid the regulatory problems of picking anyone else.

01:15:07.260 So it's like they've built in this weakness.

01:15:09.220 It's funny how, I mean, it's really obvious when you say it,

01:15:12.120 but it's funny how something, if it doesn't affect you directly, you don't care, right?

01:15:17.300 Like there's loads and loads of misery and death and violence going on all over the world,

01:15:20.740 but you don't see it and it didn't happen to anyone you like or know.

01:15:24.200 So, yeah, meh.

01:15:25.580 And it's like a massive, massive world-spanning global attack that I wasn't having any,

01:15:30.840 I wasn't trying to fly that day.

01:15:33.340 Yeah, yeah.

01:15:33.860 It didn't corrupt my laptop.

01:15:35.440 I didn't see it at all.

01:15:36.700 Right, yeah, it didn't affect me one tiny bit, yeah.

01:15:39.260 But that's just the way humans are, I suppose, isn't it?

01:15:41.640 If it didn't affect you, you didn't actually see it.

01:15:44.660 Didn't see any impact of it.

01:15:46.040 Did you say there's another video coming, Samson?

01:15:48.080 No, Rumble Rant.

01:15:48.800 Rumble Rant, okay.

01:15:51.380 Freddie says, Vance's mum was at the convention.

01:15:53.980 He brought his extended family on stage.

01:15:56.320 They still look like what we call country,

01:15:59.040 not like Meghan Markle who hid her family after she made it big.

01:16:02.160 Yeah.

01:16:02.720 That's true.

01:16:04.760 Freddie says,

01:16:05.560 I don't want to hear the words unfit to rule from the left ever again over Biden.

01:16:09.840 Well, I mean, you notice they're like, well, I mean, Trump's too old.

01:16:12.240 Oh, shut up.

01:16:13.240 You were literally tied down to the oldest and most senile candidate ever.

01:16:17.940 I've already seen them try to flip that script.

01:16:19.960 That Kamala's young and vibrant and young and she's young.

01:16:22.860 She's 59.

01:16:23.840 And Trump's old.

01:16:24.900 Trump's way too old.

01:16:25.740 He's too old to do anything.

01:16:27.920 Alexander says, it's Jova.

01:16:29.840 I don't understand.

01:16:30.700 I was sure he was going to get 90 million votes this time at least.

01:16:33.560 Yeah.

01:16:33.880 And this is the thing, isn't it?

01:16:35.100 Like the way that they can pivot, I find kind of gross, to be honest.

01:16:39.400 Like there's no, there's no period of reflection.

01:16:42.760 There's no discussion.

01:16:43.480 There's no debate.

01:16:44.020 They all just, oh, you know, the new chip has been implanted.

01:16:46.820 Right.

01:16:47.040 Okay.

01:16:47.180 Now we've 100% Kamala.

01:16:48.480 It's like, I hate, I hate the way they do this.

01:16:50.740 You mentioned Mao earlier, exactly that.

01:16:52.480 Mao would do this thing where saying or doing something specific, that was considered riotist,

01:16:57.260 i.e. beyond the pale and you're in real trouble.

01:17:00.100 And then a few months later, a year or two later, it wasn't anymore.

01:17:03.120 And then it was again.

01:17:04.940 And everyone was expected to immediately flip.

01:17:08.480 Well, there's a bit in 1984 when they're told, there was a speaker in Trafalgar Square

01:17:12.040 giving a speech about being at war with Eurasia.

01:17:16.140 Yeah.

01:17:16.600 And during the speech, the speaker gets word in his ear that they're now at war with

01:17:20.420 East Asia or the other way around, whatever it is.

01:17:22.240 And the speaker, mid-speech, just starts delivering the change in policy without missing a beat.

01:17:28.140 It's cliche to say that they're Orwellian in this regard, but they are genuinely Orwellian

01:17:32.480 in this regard.

01:17:34.460 I just can't stand it, to be honest.

01:17:36.880 I can't stand it.

01:17:37.880 It's Jova.

01:17:38.900 No more Biden his time says, there is one massive elephant in the room here.

01:17:42.520 If Joe Biden isn't fit to run for president, why is he fit to be in office?

01:17:46.220 Well, that's the question.

01:17:47.920 Someone online says, very mysterious that he, asterisk, drops out after an assassination

01:17:52.400 attempt on his opponent fails.

01:17:54.080 Rather than during the primary, we could have just acted as a kingmaker and chosen an obvious

01:17:57.880 heir.

01:17:58.660 Yes.

01:17:59.100 Well, that's another.

01:18:00.680 Again, there are just so many glaring questions about this that reveals the structure that

01:18:06.360 controls the Democrat Party.

01:18:07.640 Well, I've got a really basic one, which is, do we have any proof of life on Joe Biden?

01:18:11.860 Not yet.

01:18:12.760 But I mean, I don't imagine he's dead.

01:18:16.220 I imagine he's currently...

01:18:17.000 It's not my base case, but I'm not going to put it at lower than 10%.

01:18:20.000 Lars says, I'm not a libertarian who thinks taxation is theft, but excessive inflation

01:18:25.360 is theft.

01:18:26.640 Well, I mean, it literally is.

01:18:28.300 Yeah, absolutely.

01:18:32.620 When I was talking to Godfrey Bloom the other day, another second interview I did with The

01:18:35.700 Great Man, which should be going out relatively soon.

01:18:38.100 We talk about that, how inflation is very much a type of theft.

01:18:42.080 100%.

01:18:42.520 But I think it's funny and interesting when people talk about a timeline.

01:18:47.040 We're living on this timeline.

01:18:49.140 This happened in our timeline.

01:18:50.660 When people say that.

01:18:51.780 I think that's really interesting and funny way of looking at things.

01:18:54.300 Yeah.

01:18:54.660 Because if tiny little things go the other way, the serendipitous nature of the sliding

01:18:58.640 doors thing of how reality really works.

01:19:01.160 But if we...

01:19:01.660 Trump's head is two inches another way.

01:19:04.200 Everything's different.

01:19:04.860 If we lived in a timeline that was one inch to the left, Trump wouldn't be here.

01:19:09.680 Yeah, 100%.

01:19:10.840 Furious Dan says, Trump is the better man.

01:19:14.000 Under his rulership, America was safer and richer.

01:19:16.440 His enemies are ridiculous, and what he's endured makes him look like a hero.

01:19:19.900 But all Americans must still vote to exceed the margin of shenanigans.

01:19:23.860 Yeah, that's another thing.

01:19:24.700 I'm worried that the Republicans are going to become complacent.

01:19:28.040 Do you remember Trump's campaign in 2020?

01:19:31.860 It was booming.

01:19:33.880 Absolutely booming.

01:19:35.620 And Trump increased his vote share by 15 million votes.

01:19:38.960 That's unheard of, right?

01:19:40.140 Obama lost 4 million votes when he went for his second term.

01:19:44.100 But Trump increased his by 15 million.

01:19:46.080 That's how amazing his campaign was.

01:19:48.440 Well, he's going to have to do something similar.

01:19:50.120 He's going to have to be just out there pounding the streets.

01:19:52.800 Right.

01:19:53.160 And making sure that people are aware that he's the guy.

01:19:56.760 And they're going to need to be watching the people counting the votes.

01:19:58.960 And when they say, oh, we've got a burst water main, you have to clear out

01:20:02.700 just no way.

01:20:04.580 Don't take it.

01:20:05.020 Yeah, yeah.

01:20:05.500 Where's the water?

01:20:06.840 Yeah.

01:20:07.160 I was fixed, was it?

01:20:08.200 Didn't call out a plumber, did you?

01:20:09.720 The craziest thing of all, the biggest lie of all, was that Biden had a handicap of eight.

01:20:15.380 I mean, that is impossible.

01:20:16.020 No one can believe that.

01:20:16.960 No one can believe it.

01:20:17.860 He can't even hit the ball 50 yards.

01:20:19.020 He might have eight handicaps, but yeah.

01:20:21.080 Binary Surfer says, Dan has a point.

01:20:25.860 They covered up the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg for two weeks.

01:20:28.940 Did they?

01:20:29.400 Did they?

01:20:32.180 I don't know.

01:20:33.120 I wouldn't put it past them.

01:20:34.140 No, I completely believe they'd be.

01:20:35.480 I don't remember that.

01:20:37.620 She was on her last legs for ages.

01:20:39.300 She definitely disappeared for about two weeks.

01:20:42.780 Right.

01:20:43.760 Yeah.

01:20:44.420 She was knocking on death's door for ages, though, wasn't she?

01:20:47.660 Yeah.

01:20:47.780 But the point is, why wouldn't they do it again?

01:20:49.380 Well, I don't put anything past them.

01:20:51.760 I think there's no lie they wouldn't tell to try and maintain the integrity of their

01:20:56.160 narratives.

01:20:56.900 Right.

01:20:57.420 Yeah.

01:20:57.680 To maintain the control they have over their own party.

01:20:59.660 I mean, I genuinely wouldn't put it past them to use a drone attack to take out Trump's

01:21:02.880 plane or set off a dirty nuke in New York near his building when he's there.

01:21:09.360 I mean, I don't think there's anything these people won't do.

01:21:11.720 It's just a question of whether they decide to do it or not.

01:21:14.720 Yeah.

01:21:14.880 And whether they get, like, whether Biden died of natural causes.

01:21:17.780 And, like, Alan Partridge or Weekend at Bernie's, they just get his hand to sign his signature.

01:21:23.360 I wouldn't put that sort of thing past them.

01:21:25.560 Well, I mean, they'll just sign it for him, clearly.

01:21:27.580 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:21:28.100 I think that's what it is.

01:21:28.640 Sure.

01:21:28.820 They don't actually try and put a pen into their hand.

01:21:30.920 I wouldn't have thought.

01:21:31.280 I kick claw says, Biden was polling so bad in the swing states that he got couped and

01:21:35.560 replaced with someone polling even worse in the swing states.

01:21:38.160 Yeah, that's another great point.

01:21:40.040 I just don't know what they're thinking.

01:21:41.540 But, I mean, I guess a lot of them, after the Trump assassination attempt, a lot of them

01:21:46.060 did, like, the Democrat Party insiders were like, well, we've resigned to lose.

01:21:49.660 And so, if you've resigned to lose, well, why don't we just sacrifice Kamala Harris?

01:21:53.020 Who cares?

01:21:53.900 Just fritter away the donations into various people's pockets.

01:21:57.700 And then, you know, we'll see what happens afterwards.

01:22:00.580 I mean, Kamala is unpopular nationally, if not internationally.

01:22:03.640 But I suspect particularly unpopular in places like Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan.

01:22:07.940 Oh, yeah.

01:22:08.720 Can you even imagine?

01:22:09.520 Yeah, no doubt.

01:22:11.120 Well, I mean, you've got to remember patronage as well.

01:22:14.480 So, I mean, they've got 200 million to spend.

01:22:17.060 I don't think they're going to spend it legitimately on TV spots.

01:22:19.620 What they're going to do is they're going to say to all of their sort of patronage network,

01:22:23.420 how would you like to be a consultant for the election and we pay you 600 grand?

01:22:27.760 That's where the money's going to go.

01:22:29.300 Yeah.

01:22:30.240 Gabriel says, in retrospect, it does seem like this was always a contingency plan.

01:22:34.420 And the very early first debate set this in motion.

01:22:37.240 I think when, in about 10, 15 years, when the general consensus has settled that Biden

01:22:41.140 will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history, no doubt.

01:22:45.020 I mean, it's just catastrophe after catastrophe.

01:22:47.860 I tweeted out the other day, okay, what would, if you were Biden, what would you say is the

01:22:52.120 good parts of your own legacy?

01:22:54.060 And everyone's like, I don't know.

01:22:55.720 And in their own record, in their own letter, it was, well, he reduced the price of prescription

01:23:01.800 drugs for seniors.

01:23:03.140 It's like, what big deal?

01:23:04.700 You know, he's tripled the cost of their weekly grocery bill.

01:23:09.080 It's funny.

01:23:09.660 I think history gets viewed differently.

01:23:12.320 Like on a chart, looking at some prices, equities prices or something.

01:23:16.340 The more you scroll out on the timeline, the completely different it appears.

01:23:21.260 So, for example, Buchanan, the president before Lincoln and just before running up to the

01:23:26.920 Civil War, nobody really remembers him.

01:23:28.820 He's completely overshadowed by Lincoln one way or another.

01:23:32.980 I think maybe Biden will be not remembered.

01:23:37.060 A forgettable president.

01:23:38.420 I do think Trump's going to be so much of a better president for having four years out

01:23:42.860 to think about things, get out of the daily motion and just stop and think about what

01:23:48.000 he's going to do.

01:23:48.940 I think it's going to make him far, far more effective.

01:23:50.880 I hope he actually does some draining of that swamp.

01:23:52.920 Well, if he's surrounded by people like Vance, who is not the swamp's pick, then great.

01:23:57.900 You know, fantastic.

01:23:59.040 Something really good might actually happen.

01:24:01.540 Arizona Desert Rat says, now I really want to watch a Trump-Harris debate.

01:24:04.380 I think Trump held back on Biden.

01:24:06.220 I don't think he'll hold back on Harris.

01:24:08.560 Yeah, I mean, I just don't see how Harris is going to do well on anything.

01:24:13.920 She's not quick.

01:24:15.400 Maybe she's like 100, 110 IQ, but she's certainly not quick.

01:24:18.840 No, she's not.

01:24:20.200 The gift of the gab.

01:24:21.320 Yeah, no, she's the creature of the swamp.

01:24:23.360 That's why she has the sort of joker laugh, is to fill the space while she's trying to

01:24:27.780 think of something to say.

01:24:29.540 The proletariat says, after the Civil War, private slavery was outlawed.

01:24:33.360 However, the Constitution provides for enslaving people who have been found guilty of a crime,

01:24:39.100 I think that is.

01:24:40.200 Harris has been known to withhold exculpatory evidence from innocent people so they can be

01:24:44.140 used as slaves.

01:24:44.640 Yes, that's correct.

01:24:46.620 But also, doesn't she come from slave-owning lineage?

01:24:49.720 Which I don't know.

01:24:51.040 I'd have to check.

01:24:51.760 I think she does.

01:24:53.160 Ramblin' Walk says, regarding Kamala, it's not that Biden has endorsed her.

01:24:56.480 It's because all of the donations were made in both of their names.

01:24:59.300 Yeah, entirely possible that they just sat on a huge war chest and like, well, it has

01:25:03.440 to be her.

01:25:04.140 Right.

01:25:04.520 Right.

01:25:04.720 Where does this money go?

01:25:05.580 So, I feel like 200 million, although in any other context is a fantastic amount of

01:25:11.760 money, when it comes to national presidential elections in America, it's not that much.

01:25:16.580 If they genuinely thought that they had a winning ticket, if they genuinely thought they could

01:25:21.440 win this, they could raise another 200 million, no problem.

01:25:23.960 Right.

01:25:24.180 Yeah.

01:25:24.640 Right.

01:25:25.060 Yeah.

01:25:26.100 Anne says, Kamala Harris is so disliked that she has a staff turnover rate in her office of

01:25:30.420 100%.

01:25:31.440 To know her or work for her makes one dislike her more.

01:25:35.960 Well, I can totally believe that.

01:25:38.140 Yeah.

01:25:38.400 Kevin's pointing out her description of the Ukraine conflict.

01:25:41.280 What I find interesting is that she speaks to people like she's speaking to five-year-olds.

01:25:45.420 That description is literally what I'd use to describe to my kids.

01:25:48.800 It's because she's genuinely an imbecile.

01:25:50.400 I don't think it's an act.

01:25:51.260 I don't think she's dumbing it down.

01:25:52.640 I don't know.

01:25:53.160 I don't think she's trying to dodge.

01:25:55.160 I think she's just stupid.

01:25:56.500 Okay.

01:25:56.860 Well, Big Ed says, Kamala isn't a bad pick for the Democrats when they are aware they are

01:26:00.200 likely to lose and will prevent any of their preferred candidates in the future to look

01:26:04.060 bad after getting crushed by Trump.

01:26:05.480 Yeah.

01:26:05.660 I mean, it's entirely possible that she is just a tactical thing to use just to get out

01:26:12.240 of this particular cycle.

01:26:17.300 Mason says, the one genius thing that Biden did was select Harris as a VP.

01:26:21.400 He managed to find the only politician in America more unlikable than himself, which

01:26:24.480 prevented the coup until the last minute.

01:26:25.940 That's not true.

01:26:26.540 There are way more politicians in America who are more unlikable than Biden.

01:26:29.340 There are loads.

01:26:30.780 Just think of like almost any Democrat politician.

01:26:33.740 They're less likable than Biden.

01:26:35.420 Still, fair enough.

01:26:36.480 But the overall point they were making is true that there might be more dislikable people

01:26:41.260 than Kamala.

01:26:42.080 But yeah, it meant that the coup was put off till the last possible moment.

01:26:46.240 100%.

01:26:46.680 Whether that's really worth anything in Biden's eyes, I don't know.

01:26:51.540 No.

01:26:55.400 OPHUK says, Kamala blew her way right through that glass ceiling, though, and on her knees

01:26:59.960 too.

01:27:00.280 Quite something.

01:27:00.980 That's a random name, says, also, I'm not trying to be pessimistic.

01:27:03.840 I just feel like the likelihood of Trump living to see the end of his second term is low considering

01:27:08.040 all of the fifth columnists within the admin and security staff.

01:27:11.320 Well, that's the thing.

01:27:11.800 Do you see that apparently Biden had granted security for Zelensky but refused it for Trump?

01:27:17.940 Yeah.

01:27:18.140 Very interesting.

01:27:21.440 Bleach Demon says...

01:27:22.940 As an ex-president, you get automatically secret service detail for the rest of your

01:27:27.960 life.

01:27:28.620 But I just suppose the question is, what quality of secret service protection and how many...

01:27:33.940 Is it like one intern or something?

01:27:35.680 Right.

01:27:35.980 Well, we know exactly the quality in this DI woman.

01:27:40.260 Anne says...

01:27:41.140 Sorry, Bleach Demon says, advance as an inspired pick.

01:27:43.720 In addition to what Dan covered, but breaks the geographic consideration game, there's

01:27:48.000 been a staple of American VP picks.

01:27:51.080 I do like Vance, but I am worried that he doesn't appeal to certain people, certain voting blocs.

01:27:57.120 And that'll be a problem.

01:27:58.940 Because, I mean, I feel represented, a net clear representation.

01:28:03.200 But, you know, Trump needs to do really well with white women.

01:28:06.880 And how does Vance appeal to white women?

01:28:08.640 So this is not my opinion, but this is the opinion of a woman that I read on Twitter before

01:28:13.100 coming on.

01:28:13.780 And she said, never underestimate how retarded female voters are.

01:28:16.760 I agree.

01:28:17.660 Yeah.

01:28:17.900 But the point being, is Vance the guy they're like, oh yeah, okay, I'm going to vote for

01:28:23.700 him?

01:28:24.500 Probably not.

01:28:25.380 Well, one thing I'll say, although that's a valid point, and I'm not disagreeing with

01:28:27.700 it at all.

01:28:28.480 A lot of people vote for whoever's at the top of the ticket, really.

01:28:32.960 The VP is, it's important.

01:28:35.340 I'm not saying it's not important.

01:28:36.620 Plays a big role.

01:28:38.140 But it's really the top person.

01:28:41.100 It's the top of the ticket that nearly everyone's really voting for.

01:28:45.280 And Trump's Trump, isn't it?

01:28:46.800 He's the Donald.

01:28:47.520 You know what you're getting.

01:28:49.940 Yeah.

01:28:50.700 And, I mean, on the plus side, at least, Trump has such an outsized media presence that Vance

01:28:56.900 is probably going to be much less of an influence on people's decisions.

01:29:00.760 Nobody outshines the Donald.

01:29:02.240 That is true.

01:29:03.460 At this point.

01:29:04.140 Certainly at this point.

01:29:05.660 Screwtape Lasers says, Van Jones' transformation from black militant influence.

01:29:10.480 Environmentalist to literal crybaby has been fun.

01:29:14.400 Yeah, I mean, I like people like Van Jones because, like, it's kind of like the id of

01:29:23.220 the Democrat Party.

01:29:24.520 You know, they go on CNN.

01:29:25.440 They're like, oh, yeah, we're all crying here.

01:29:26.680 This is terrible.

01:29:27.160 I said, no, that's good.

01:29:27.760 You know, because a more savvy political operator wouldn't reveal that to the enemy.

01:29:34.160 You know, but he feels like he's in a safe place at CNN.

01:29:37.280 You know, they're all, like, all safe and sensitive.

01:29:39.460 And so he can just come out and tell us what's in the beating heart of the black beating heart

01:29:44.740 of the cruel and dying Democrat Party.

01:29:47.880 Black with a small b.

01:29:48.780 Yeah, yeah, obviously.

01:29:50.940 But black to mean evil, not skin color.

01:29:53.140 Yeah, that's what I mean.

01:29:53.960 Yeah.

01:29:55.020 And Tuomas says, I'm just reminded by Trump's older brother who died of a heart attack, which

01:29:59.260 was probably caused by alcoholism.

01:30:00.840 So with that in mind, Vance might be more relatable to Trump than Pence ever was.

01:30:04.200 But yeah, I mean, Pence seemed to be, you know, the sort of person who probably wouldn't

01:30:09.480 have gone to bed with a prostitute.

01:30:12.520 No, I don't think Pence would.

01:30:13.960 Pence was always a bit of a non-entity, or is that just me?

01:30:16.600 Yeah, yeah, totally.

01:30:17.200 After four years of him being VP, I didn't still really know.

01:30:21.040 Yeah, what was the point of Pence?

01:30:22.480 Yeah, I didn't really know the guy.

01:30:24.040 I didn't really know what he stood for.

01:30:25.360 I watched him make a couple of speeches, so I've watched 10, 20, 30 minutes worth of

01:30:30.100 him speak, and it's just like...

01:30:31.840 Well, that's why I like this Vance thing more, think about it, because Pence was hired

01:30:35.540 because he could appeal to sort of the Christian old stock of the GOP that Trump had a less

01:30:42.480 secure holdover, whereas Vance appeals to all the same people who already like Trump.

01:30:48.400 You know, he's picking him because he thinks that he can do something with him.

01:30:51.060 Yeah, but I am concerned that that's not expanding the potential range of voters.

01:30:57.460 Yeah.

01:30:58.000 So the safe pick would have been to have picked a woman.

01:31:00.420 Yeah.

01:31:00.920 But anyway, we're out of time, unfortunately.

01:31:02.900 So if you'd like more from us, go and sign up to lowseas.com, come and hang out with us.

01:31:07.000 And otherwise, we will be back tomorrow, same time.

01:31:09.860 See you there.

01:31:10.900 See you guys.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 22, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #961

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