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Ep. 2056 - Harris COLLAPSES On National Television…AGAIN

2024/9/26
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I'm going to get to everything election related in a moment. First, the breaking news overnight is that Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, has now been indicted on federal criminal charges. We don't actually know what exactly is in that indictment. It has been sealed at this point.

Mayor Adams put out a videotaped speech online late on Wednesday night, and he said that all the charges against him would be entirely false and based on lies. A bunch of people inside his administration have been resigning. There have been ongoing investigations into corruption, allegations of money being passed hand to hand, allegations of switches in policy rooted in oligarchy.

all of that. We're going to have to wait to see exactly what breaks down in terms of these charges. All I can suggest to Mayor Adams is that he should immediately go and stab somebody on a New York subway station platform, and then he will immediately be released by the prosecution. That's the way that you get out of crimes in New York City. So we'll bring you all the updates as they come in on Eric Adams. Now, this race remains tight as a tick.

I honestly don't know who's going to win. And anyone who tells you they know who's going to win is lying to you. I have some gut feelings. I have some sort of ideas in my head as to who I think is going to win. And what I find throughout this election cycle, just on a very personal level, is that my head and my heart are very frequently in conflict. So a few weeks ago, if you had asked me who was going to win, my head would have said Trump and my heart would have said Harris because it felt as though the Trump campaign was not doing a good job

It felt as though she had momentum. And then in my head, I was looking at the fact that she was kind of stagnating in the polls and thinking to myself, well, she should be running away with this race. And now I feel like the situation has sort of reversed in which my head says that Kamala Harris has the advantage right now. If you look at the polling data, she does have the advantage in a wide variety of swing states, although it is a minute advantage. According to Nate Silver's estimate of who is favored to win, she has about a 55% chance at winning the Electoral College.

which effectively means it's a dead heat. The national polling right now is effectively even. The Pennsylvania polling remains even. She's ahead in Michigan. She's a hell of a bit in Wisconsin. And she's running behind in all the rest of the swing states. Nevada is effectively dead even as well. So my head says that Harris is a little bit ahead today. And I know that Democrats are professionals at their get out the vote machine, and they are perfectly willing to use every opportunity

tool at their disposal in order to achieve high levels of ballot harvesting, getting marginal voters to give them their ballots. I think they're going to the college campuses and swamp those with ballot harvesters and all the rest. So my head says that she has tons of money. She's got a disciplined team that is going to go out there and grab every vote they possibly can.

And meanwhile, the Trump team is certainly less disciplined. It is unclear what their get out the vote effort looks like. That's what my head says. My heart is telling me something different. My heart is telling me that there is something happening that is being missed by the polls. Now, why do I say that? The reason I say that is because when the polls are all mirroring each other this way, one of two things is happening. Either the polls are all right and every state right now is a dead heat, every single one, or what you have right now are pollsters who are constructing likely voter screens that

with a dead heat in mind. In other words, they're kind of p-hacking the system. So p-hacking is what people will do in the area of science in order to achieve bizarre results in their scientific papers to get them published. So they'll get a set of results from some experiment.

It turns out that the set of results is not all that inspiring. There's nothing there that's really of interest. And so what do they do? They do something where they play around with the internal statistics, they change the metrics, and suddenly they have a statistically significant result. It's called p-hacking. I think a lot of the polls are doing that right now. When every single poll that I see from every single swing state says it's a dead heat, I start to think that pollsters are hedging their bets.

Because we're not seeing a lot of registered voter polls. Registered voter polls are just the universe of possible voters. How are they going to vote? You're seeing a lot of likely voter polls. Likely voter polls are reliant on the polling experts to tell you what they think the electorate is going to look like. So what percentage of the electorate is going to be black this year? What percentage of the electorate will be male? What are the turnout models going to look like among single Hispanic females?

The problem with that, of course, is that you could theoretically p-hack that system. You could start from the premise that the race is tied, and then you could go into the internals, and you could rejigger who you say is most likely to vote in order to achieve that end. When I see all the polls mirroring each other, it starts to make me a little suspicious that something else is going on. So why does that lead me to believe that maybe Trump is ahead right now? There are a couple of indicators, symptoms, and they may be entirely wrong.

But I think that they're saying something. Two indicators. One is a polling statistic and one is an activity. The polling statistic right now, that Teamsters Union poll shook me. The Teamsters Union did a poll.

Months ago, Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. And in that poll, Joe Biden outpaced Donald Trump 47 to 38. Now, that was an amazing result for Joe Biden. Typically, you would imagine that a Democrat would win that 60-40. The Teamsters, of course, are a union. Private sector unions tend to be more pro-Democrat. Certainly, the leadership is more pro-Democrat. So surprising that Trump was even within spitting distance. Then Biden dropped out.

And Harris jumped in. And suddenly the polling of the Teamsters Union shifted 20 points in favor of Donald Trump. Suddenly he was beating Kamala Harris 60 to 40. It's like a 30 point move by the Teamsters Union. Why is that? Is it because Harris's policies are wildly different from those of Joe Biden? I don't think so. I don't think so. If this is indeed, as the Democrats wish it to be, a vibes election, I think there are a couple of things that have happened that shift the ground in favor of President Trump.

In favor of President Trump. Thing number one, there was a taboo until about six months ago on people even saying they would vote for Donald Trump. If you lived in a blue area or even a purple area, the mention of Donald Trump's name would send people, your friends and neighbors, into spasms of apoplexy unless you lived in a deep red area. People would get really squeamish.

And then something happened. Joe Biden collapsed on the stage and people started saying out loud for the first time in years that they might actually vote for Donald Trump. The taboo was broken. I know this because I'm in a bunch of chats with tech bros, for example, and in tech bro land, that was an unsayable thing. Now it is kind of a sayable thing that you're thinking about voting for President Trump. There were a lot of people in Silicon Valley who were secretly supporting Trump, but wouldn't say it. Well, now they're saying it out.

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led a bunch of people to say out loud, okay, I guess I might have to vote for Donald Trump. Once you say that, you can't unsay it. Once you say it, you have granted the moral imprimatur, the permission structure for saying that you will vote for Donald Trump. And for you to reverse yourself and then say it's unthinkable to vote for Donald Trump is no longer on the table because you've already said it's thinkable. You have now manifested the reality of the possibility that you might vote for Trump. And after the assassination attempt, there were even more people who started to say, yeah, I might vote for him. I might have to vote for him.

Can you imagine a situation five years ago in which Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook would have done an interview praising the personal courage of Donald Trump? That would have been unthinkable, truly unthinkable. And yet that did happen in the aftermath of the assassination attempts. That is a factor that cut in Donald Trump's favor. In other words, that gap between the time that Biden wrapped up the nomination and the time that he dropped out opened a new permission structure that Donald Trump has not had in America since probably 2016, right?

So that's the first thing that happened. The other thing that happened is Kamala Harris jumping into the race and orienting her entire race toward females. Kamala Harris has run the most female-centric campaign of all time. It's not just that she is a female herself. It is that the top issue that she is running on is abortion. The thing that she is running on beyond all others is the idea that abortion is the most critical American right and that everything else is secondary.

And not only that, it's not just the issue of her campaign. It's the way that she has touted her campaign, the people she has surrounded herself with. So when she picked Tim Walls, there was this attempt to turn Tim Walls into the gregarious, kindly coach who is going to bring in men. Hey, that dude wore hunting gear sometimes. Hey, he had a shotgun and he liked to talk a little gruff. There was only one problem. It didn't read that way to men. When you talk to men about the Harris ticket campaign,

The vast majority of men look at that ticket. They look at Doug Emhoff. They look at the people that she surrounds herself with. And they say, this is an anti-male campaign. This campaign is not just pro-female. It is actively anti-male. The males that she surrounds herself with are all betas. There's a bit of the Renfield about all these men. Tim Walz has to show up on stage and immediately he's like, yes, master, I will eat the flies. He's doing a full-on Renfield routine vis-a-vis Dracula.

With Kamala Harris, total subservience. And that total subservience routine does not draw men in. That is why that ridiculous ad from White Dudes for Harris put out by Beige Rainbow Pack was so hilarious. Because even that ad, which was attempting to reach out to the men who like to eat animal meat, even that ad did not read that way. It read as apologetic for masculinity.

So I think there are a bunch of men just like the Teamsters Union. I think there are a bunch of men who are not showing up in the polls right now who are going to vote against her. I think that's a reality. And finally, there is a sort of bleeding indicator symptom. And that is Kamala Harris and Joe Biden flying Vladimir Zelensky in a C-17 to Pennsylvania to tour a munitions factory in a swing state 40 days before an election. What that says to me is that the internal polling in Pennsylvania is not looking good for Democrats.

The Democrats are freaking out over Pennsylvania. By the way, the most obvious blown opportunity by a Democrat of my lifetime, all Kamala Harris had to do to shore up that state was pick Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of Pennsylvania. And she didn't do it because she was afraid that he was a Jew. And so if she loses Pennsylvania, that's what that's about.

When you bring in Zelensky as an attempt to win over, I assume the Polish vote, because that's literally what she said in the debate with Donald Trump. She said there are 800,000 Polish voters in Pennsylvania and they care deeply about NATO and Ukraine. First of all, if you think that the 800,000 people of Polish descent in Pennsylvania, their top issue in this election cycle is the position of Donald Trump vis-a-vis NATO. Think again. That is not a reality. That is that is wish casting by the Harris campaign.

I think it's also an addiction by the Harris campaign to a peculiar form of identity politics where you can simply group people into a group and then pretend they all have the same priorities. The idea that Polish Americans, fourth generation, fifth generation Polish Americans are number one of all things on Earth concerned with the Ukraine war, as opposed to, you know, their jobs going away in Pennsylvania. That seems kind of weird to me. So Kamala Harris, she's had to reintroduce herself.

And this, I think, may be the best indicator of all. She knows she has not done enough to properly introduce herself to the American public, that the American public feels disquieted about her. They find her to be enigmatic, empty. They believe there is no there there. And they are right.

So yesterday she did a couple of things. She gave a speech on economics and then she did an interview with Stephanie Rule at MSNBC. Neither was good. So the first thing she did was the speech at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, where she pretended to be a middle of the road economic pragmatist. That was after a 2019, 2020 campaign where she basically ran as Bernie Sanders. So her new her new shtick is that she is going to grant tax credits, you know, like a Republican would.

And that she's going to give tax cuts, you know, like a Republican would. And that she would make up for all of that by taxing just the rich, which of course is untrue because you can tax the rich all day long and all night long. It ain't going to pay for your deficit spending. You've been trying it.

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The reality in the United States is the top quintile of taxpayers in this country pay literally all net taxes, not some, all. Okay, net taxes means the amount of tax dollars you're paying in versus the number of tax dollars you're getting out. The top quintile pay all net taxes in the United States. So she tried to claim that she was a capitalist, that she believes in free and fair markets. The problem, of course, is that she has no definition for fair markets. The New York Times

quote, Vice President Kamala Harris wants voters to know that she is not a socialist. That was the clear unspoken theme of Ms. Harris's nearly 40-minute economic policy speech in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. It was why she paraphrased Warren Buffett, cited a survey of top economists, and praised entrepreneurs in language that echoed Republican Senator Mitt Romney's presidential run a dozen years ago. The problem is this is not going to work. It is not going to work because if she's attempting to out-capitalist Donald Trump, good luck with that, in the same way that it is a mistake for Republicans to try to

to try to out-welfare Democrats. It is a mistake for Democrats to try to out-capitalism Republicans. But she understands she has to tamp down all of the talk about the fact that her administration has been awful for the economy and the fact that the principles she has spent her entire career espousing up until this very moment are really anti-capitalist. She doesn't have to be a full Marxist socialist to be anti-capitalist. If you simply call for massive regulation and confiscation of unearned capital gains,

If you suggest that price increases are due to price gouging through grocery store collusion and then suggest price controls is the answer, you are not pro-capitalism. So just to add insult to injury here, before Harris gave the speech, Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, I remind you that that senile, doddering old fool is still the sitting president of the United States and the most powerful person on earth. Joe Biden just dumped a ton of bricks on her head.

Because one of the things that Harris is trying to do in this campaign is separate off from the Biden-Harris record. She has a catch-22. She's only there because she is Joe Biden's VP, but she doesn't want anybody to know that. It's a secret. So Joe Biden let the secret out of the bag yesterday on The View. He linked her to every one of his policies. So this would be, I don't know, a $50 million campaign in-kind contribution to Donald Trump by Joe Biden right here.

And as vice president, there wasn't a single thing that I did that she couldn't do. And so I was able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy. Oh, he delegated everything to her. So good luck defending all of that, Kamala. Seriously. And so she gives this speech.

And again, the message of the speech is that she will be pragmatic. She is not an ideologue. She's going to be a middle-of-the-road pragmatist. Now, I know somebody else who promised this. His name was Joe Biden. And then he proceeded to enact the most left-wing agenda in American economic modern history. He himself has said he's the most transformative economic president since FDR. So I don't believe you, Kamala Harris. So here she was reading off the teleprompter. We just need to move past the failed policies of

That we have proven don't work. Okay, I mean, that's, thank you for that campaign ad. She is the proven policies we know don't work. What does she mean? She actually means capitalism. Okay, but she promises once again, it's going to be all pragmatism and joy. This was a terrible speech. This did not help her one iota. And I promise you, I will be pragmatic in my approach.

I will engage in what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, persistent experimentation." Because I believe we shouldn't be constrained by ideology and instead should seek practical solutions to problems. Realistic assessments of what is working and what is not. Applying metrics to our analysis.

applying facts to our analysis and stay focused then not only on the crises at hand, but on our big goals. So if you believe this McKinsey-esque bull, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to tell you that she's sitting there with the data sheet. She's got the spreadsheets and she's determining what works and what doesn't. First of all, we should point out that the bold experimentation tried by FDR was terrible and lengthened the Great Depression by full on eight years.

The bold experimentation means she puts her thumb in randomly into the economy and starts swirling it around. And then she says there will be metrics by which she determines her success. Really? What are those metrics? I want to know because you say that Joe Biden is a success. At the same time, you're saying that you can't run on his record because we need a change. So I don't believe you. I don't believe that you're just going to do things that work and then not do things that don't work because you've been spending four years doing things that don't work and pretending they work. There's that.

Also, I don't believe that you are very pro-capitalism when you say nonsense like this. She says that she's going to challenge the private sector to lift up workers through, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, equity. Now, equity, for those who have been watching, is a code word for racial discrimination. Equity, in her view, is a code word for sameness of outcome despite difference in performance. It is a way of crashing the free market in the name of some higher principle of social justice.

And we will reform our tax laws to make it easier for businesses to let workers share in their company's success. And I will challenge the private sector to do more, to lift up workers through equity, profits, and benefits, so more people can share in America's success and prosperity.

Oh, she's going to challenge the free markets. She's going to challenge the free markets and force. That's force, by the way. Folks, the government doesn't challenge things. The government forces things. In fact, they force so many things that it feels as though you can be canceled at any moment for pretty much anything by the government and its allies. In a world rife with cancel culture, wearing your beliefs on your sleeve isn't just a metaphor. It is a radical act of free speech.

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She's going to force the free markets to force the workers to share in the profits. Now, here's the reality about how profits work, folks. If you're an investor in a company, you share in the profits. If you are a wage earner, you are taking on a lower risk because you have not put your own money behind the company. If you work for a company and you're a wage-based employee, the whole point is you are guaranteed the wage whether the profits go up or down that week unless you are fired. That's the bargain.

Employees get steady paychecks. Investors have ups and they have downs. And when she just simply throws those words out there without any sort of definition, what she really means is that she wants to force companies to do the things she wants them to do. All this, of course, incredibly vague. She started dumping out basically the the boggle pieces and and started talking about growing our middle class and just its platitudes after platitudes. Here she was on the middle class.

I believe we need to grow our middle class and make sure our economy works for everyone, for people like the people in the neighborhood where I grew up and the hardworking Americans I meet every day across our nation. Do you mean the Tony upper crust place that you grew up in Montreal? All this crap about the middle class, the middle class, and I'm going to save the middle. She's not going to do crap for the middle class.

First of all, we should point out in the United States, there is no class system. There are actual class systems that existed in 19th century Britain, which was very difficult to make it out of a class into which you were born. That has never been true in the United States, going back to the time of Alexis de Tocqueville in like the 1830s. But again, it is all just sloganeering and platitude. So it's not going to help her.

Nobody believes that she's radically pro-free market. Nobody believes she's a pragmatist. No one thinks she's middle of the road. And if you do, it's because you're not watching closely. And so at the end, she just starts truly slathering on as much Crisco as she possibly can. She's going to obscure everything and she's going to do it with a blizzard of nonsense. Would you like to hear Kamala Harris talk about the spirit of inspiration?

I sure would. I think Americans want eight years of hearing about the spirit of inspiration from this absolute empty vessel dullard of a human. We need to guard that spirit. Have to guard that spirit. Let it always inspire us. Let it always be the source of our optimism, which is that spirit that is so uniquely American. And let that then inspire us.

By helping us to be inspired to solve the problems that so many face, including our small business owners. I cannot. I cannot. I cannot. She was like a word of the day calendar. Today's word of the day is inspiration. See if you can use it in a sense. Wow.

To truly feel inspired, you have to feel the inspiration that will inspire you to do inspired things in inspirational fashion. Good God. I think my favorite part of this particular speech is where she started talking about the biblical book of Ecclesiastics. I liked this one a lot. I had not heard of this biblical book. I had heard of Ecclesiastes. I had not heard of Ecclesiastics, which I assume is Ecclesiastes when you work in a plastic factory.

I don't really understand what she's referring to here. But if we were going to make fun of Donald Trump years and years and years ago for saying two Corinthians instead of second Corinthians, that is less bad than calling Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastics. You know, there's a time for patience and there's a time for impatience. That's not an Ecclesiastics, but you're right. It's not an Ecclesiastics. I mean, maybe it's an Ecclesiastics. That's not a book. So sure, it could be theoretically.

She has the wisdom of King Solomon if King Solomon had been dropped on his head as a baby, for sure. Even CNN was like, there's nothing here. There's no here here. So CNN's Shira Stein, who works for the San Francisco Chronicle, she's like, I'm noticing not a lot of specifics here. Right, because she can't. Because she can't. The minute she gets down to specifics, we start digging into them. When she said she wanted to, for example, tax unearned capital gains, that was pretty specific.

And it was really bad for her. And that is the history of Kamala Harris's campaigns. She says platitudes and the left cheers and they clap. This is true in 2019, 2020. Then she says a specific thing and then she has to walk it back because it's total trash. She does not know her own policies. She doesn't know what she's talking about. The dirty secret of this campaign is that Kamala Harris is a stupid person. She is not smart. You can say whatever you want about Donald Trump. Call him stupid. Doesn't matter.

Hey, Donald Trump was already president. We already know what his record looked like. So if you're not going to run on your record as the vice president of the United States, which would theoretically cover for many of these areas, you don't have to answer questions about your policy. You would just say, look what I did while I was in office, but she won't do that. So that means she has to run on herself. And if she's going to run on herself, then she has to run on one of two things, either her stated policies, and she won't do that because she won't tell you her policies, or her innate charisma and intelligence.

She's much more reliant on those things than Donald Trump is. Well, we already know Donald Trump and we already know what he does, President. Well, there's a problem. She's not charismatic and she ain't smart. And here is CNN's Shira Stein being like, yeah, there was nothing there. The problem that we're encountering with all of these is we're getting a vision of her economic agenda, of her policy agenda. We're not getting specifics.

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This is her first nationally televised one-on-one interview. Yes, that is correct. Because you remember that that first interview, the one that she did with Dana Bash on CNN, she brought along her emotional support, Renfield Corgi, Tim Walls. And he was sitting there to save her if she got herself in trouble. Or because she could look over every so often and she could pet her emotional support Corgi and then feel better about herself. Well, this is the first time that she actually sat down one-on-one in a nationally televised interview.

By the way, that's like 60 odd days into her campaign, which is fairly incredible. And the person she chose was bootlicker Stephanie Ruhle over at MSNBC, who literally said last week she didn't have to answer any tough questions. In order to justify that thesis, Stephanie Ruhle decided not to ask any tough questions. So that was exciting. And Kamala Harris made a fool of herself. There was never going to be a friendlier interviewer than Stephanie Ruhle. And somehow Kamala Harris achieved the signal distinction between

of completely falling flat on her face in an interview with a person who is busily attempting to massage her with baby oil. It's incredible. That's how bad she is at this. You can say that Donald Trump has flubbed interviews before. Typically, the interviews that Donald Trump flubs are unfriendly interviews. It goes to the National Association of Black Journalists and they ask a bunch of hostile questions about why he's a racist and then he flubs it. But he doesn't really tend to flub, for example, interviews with, say, Sean Hannity. Kamala Harris has found a new way to fail.

She flubs interviews with people who are carrying around drool cups for her. So she leads off this interview and she explains that people are having trouble getting the American dream. At no point does it occur to her that she's the current vice president of the United States. Maybe that's her problem. And I come from the middle class. Look, my mother raised my sister and me. She worked hard. She saved up. By the time I was a teenager, she was able to buy our first home and we

Home ownership for too many people in our country now is elusive. Gone is the day of everyone thinking they could actually live the American dream. So part of my vision for the economy is let's deal with some of the everyday challenges that people face and address them with common sense solutions such as affordable housing.

Wow, that was really... Affordable housing is her solution. That's a great solution. Do you feel quieted now? Do you feel more calm watching this person? Then she explained, it's very important to have plans. And plans are really, really important. In fact, the planning of the plan is what makes a plan so planned. And one must be serious and have a plan, any real plan that's not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation mark.

at a political rally, but actually putting the thought into what will be the return on the investment and what will be the economic impact on everyday people. One must have a plan. One must. One. Not me. Not, I mean, it can't just be platitudes with an exclamation point at the end. That would be bad. The middle, I grew up a middle class child. Why isn't she catching fire? Why is she riding at 46, 47, 48% of these polls?

After two months of pure brat energy, why is this lady stuck in a dead tie with Donald? I can't imagine why. So she was asked at one point, why, if she's so anti-Trump tariffs plan, why did she keep half those tariffs in place? Here she was trying to explain. Tariffs aren't unique to President Trump. President Biden has tariffs in place. He's actually looking to potentially implement more.

Where do you come out on? Is there a good tariff, a bad tariff? Well, part of it is you don't just throw around the idea of just tariffs across the board. And that's part of the problem with Donald Trump. Frankly, I'm going to and I say this in all sincerity. He's just not very serious about how he thinks about some of these issues. And one must be serious about.

And have a plan. One must be serious. Oh, yes. Again, you know, because she's a serious person. She's a serious person. By the way, at this point, I should point out, I know many Secret Service agents. I know an ex-Secret Service agent who actually worked with the vice president of the United States. It's unverified, so take it for what it's worth. Apparently, she sat in her office pretty much all day playing solitaire on her computer. I'm not even joking. That is a real thing, apparently.

So maybe it's true. Maybe it's false. I'll just throw out what I've heard. Would not be surprising. I can just see comment. Look at this. If I put the red ace on the black two. Oh, they're bouncing all over the screen. Inspiring. So much inspiration.

And here she was. You want more babbling? Here we go. She's going to babble about paying your fair share. So she's asked by Stephanie Rule, you want to raise taxes in certain areas. You want certain tax credits. You want all this stuff. What if you have a Republican Congress and you can't do any of those things? What are you going to do then?

She has no answer. This is such a perfectly obvious question. And she has no answer whatsoever. She just starts babbling about her fair share. You can see her mentally flipping through at very slow speed because she's not a smart person. All of the various three by five note cards that she stores up there until she finds the one labeled fair share. And you can hear the click when the roulette ball falls into the roulette wheel. And suddenly, oh, she's stumbling around. Fair share, fair share. Yes, fair share. Here we go.

Where do you get the money to do that? Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow? Well, but we're going to have to raise corporate taxes and we're going to have to raise. We're going to have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share. That's just it. It's about paying their fair share. Did you hear the did you hear the ball click into the wheel right there? She's searching around. She has no idea what to say. She just says we have to do the thing.

Okay, but we have to. That's not an answer. How are you going to drive to work this morning? Your car, sorry, the transmission fell out of the car. How are you going to get to work? Well, we have to get to work. That wasn't the question. So she goes searching around and she's like, fair share. Yeah, she actually starts smiling when she hits the phrase fair share because she's found the right note card because there ain't nothing going on up there, folks. She's empty between the ears.

Don't believe me? Well, I have a holistic answer for you. Here she is explaining how she approaches problems holistically. Again, we've had word of the day. Yes, there were two words of the day yesterday, inspiration and holistically. So she's going to answer this question so holistically that I have no words. Here we go. Some of the work is going to be through what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars.

and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in a holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing for working people. Yes, that was three uses of the word holistic or holistically inside of 10 seconds. Because she is a stupid person.

If you listen to that and you're like, wow, higher intelligence at work. Well, folks, you may be the sucker in the room and

In just one second, we'll get to more of Kamala Harris and then Joe Biden gives his going away valedictory with the harpies of the view. First, one of the most anticipated events of the 2024 election is coming to Daily Wire Plus on Tuesday night. The 2024 vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz will be live right here. But let's face it, these debates are better with friends, especially friends who can spot every lie and false promise.

That is why we are doing a special backstage with a pre-show analysis from Matt Walsh, Michael Moles, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy Boring, and of course, I will be there as well.

Plus, stick around for a post-debate breakdown with insights you're not going to hear from the mainstream media. So instead of yelling at your TV alone, come yell with us. The vice presidential debate, Tuesday night, 8.30 p.m. Eastern time over at Daily Wire Plus. Okay, meanwhile, well, the good news for Kamala Harris is that no matter how terrible she is in these interviews, she will have her defenders, including the interviewer, Stephanie Ruhle. That's the reason she gave Stephanie Ruhle the interview in the first place. This interview closed with Stephanie Ruhle asking one of the hardest hitting questions I have heard ever in the history of journalism. Here

Here we go. Stephanie Ruhle. So, look, I think the thing about Donald Trump is that, you know, I don't think the women of America need him to say he's going to protect them. The women of America need him to trust them. Can we trust you? Yes. Yes. I am not perfect, but I will tell you, I'm always going to put the needs of the people first. Can they can can they trust you? Can they? Wow. What would be amazing is if she said no.

I mean, that's true, but you wouldn't say that. What a terrible question. Even Stephanie Ruhle had to admit after the interview that Kamala Harris would not answer questions. I mean, as we will see, she tried to spin this into a victory for Kamala Harris, but here she was with Nicole Wallace, who looks like she's smiling so hard the top of her head's going to come off.

Here's what's a little tricky. She doesn't answer the question around if the GOP is controlling the Senate, if she can't raise corporate taxes, where is she going to get the money from? You know, to expand the child's tax credit and do all the things she wants to do. And she says, we just have to do it. And that's great and that's a campaign promise, but

But but the issue is, if it means we're just going to borrow again, then what we're doing is we're just never addressing the deficit. And back in the days when you were a proud Republican, debts and deficits mattered. So that's Stephanie Ruhle, the person who was put there to kiss Kamala Harris's ass, pointing out that she doesn't answer basic questions. The good news is Stephanie Ruhle says she doesn't have to answer questions. These are complex issues.

One could watch that and say, well, she didn't give a clear, direct answer. That's OK, because we are not talking about clear or direct issues. That is the dumbest statement I've ever heard. So you're given a complex issue. You don't have to give a clear or direct answer because they're not clear or direct issues. That's that's our new standard. Hard question means you can give a dumb answer. OK, I suppose that it's a standard.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is sitting out there and I kind of think that Joe Biden hopes that she loses as evidenced by the fact that he went on The View and then tied her to all of his policies. Because if she loses, Joe Biden is the most vindicated person still technically alive. That is kind of an amazing thing. If she somehow finds a way to lose to Donald Trump, Joe Biden gets to spend the rest of his life telling the Democratic Party he told them so. He had said only I can beat Trump. If she finds a way to lose to Trump,

He's going to be able to walk around for the next seven and a half months or however else long he's not in hospice, telling people that he was right all along. He's doing his valedictory tour on the on the view where the ladies of the view paid homage to him. And he tried to explain how he was forced out.

What I did was, I think there were, it makes sense. There were some folks who would like to see me step aside so they have a chance to move on. I get that. That's just human nature. But that wasn't the reason that I stepped down. I stepped down because I started thinking about it. You know,

It's hard to think of. I know you're only 30, but it's hard to think of. It's hard for me to even say how old I am. No, I'm serious. I don't know. I give my word. Holy God, that can't be right. OK, well, then why were you running in the first place? We all know he was forced out, but he's enjoying these last few moments.

So Whoopi Goldberg, she's out there paying tribute to this brilliant, this brilliant order legislator, man of the people, Joe Biden. She says that Joe Biden was her ride or die. I didn't like the way they did it. I'm going to just say it out loud because nobody says it out loud. I didn't like the way it was done publicly. I thought they could have done this in a different way because we didn't need to hear all the inner fighting. I didn't like it. I'm saying it to you.

You were my ride or die. I was going where, wherever you were going, that's what I was. You see Biden smiling there? He's so uncomfortable because he feels exactly the same way. Well, that's not where that interview ended, by the way. The view then compared Donald Trump to a bug and Joe Biden slapped the bug because these are people of unity and joy. That's the Democratic Party.

He just wouldn't go. He was like a bug. He just kept being there. He was like a bug right there. So you felt... Oh, and he killed the bug. See, it's funny. It's funny in an era of assassination attempts. It's super duper duper funny. Joe Biden also added in this interview that Donald Trump has no redeeming social values. Look, Trump is... Careful. Careful.

There's not a lot of social redeeming value there. No, you're saying correct. No redeeming social values, smack him down like a bug. And by the way, his Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, went on national TV yesterday and called for Donald Trump to be extinguished forever. But why are there so many assassinations on Donald Trump, they asked.

How did we get here? Let's extinguish him for good. We have an answer. We have a remarkably talented candidate who is sincere, who's pragmatic, who's open. Let's just get it done. Remarkably talented is definitely one way of putting it. Democrats are getting desperate. And this goes back to my original point here. I know in my gut, I get the feeling they know that she's in trouble. That's presumably why Nicole Wallace over at MSNBC is now yelling at Republicans to campaign for Kamala. That's really what she's doing.

So I think it's time to draw a line in the sand and call bull on people who say, I'm not voting for Trump, but I can't do it for Harris. If you're not voting for Trump because you're afraid of what he'd do to the rule of law or you're afraid of what he'd do. I mean, Trump is the reason that there's no immigration bill. Trump is the reason that women are dying in Georgia. Trump is anti-life.

Trump is anti-immigration policy. Trump is anti-constitution, anti-rule of law. And if you're a Republican who isn't voting for him because you care about any one of those things, it's bulls**t if you're not campaigning for Kamala Harris. There's one way to do something about those things if that's what you care about.

Nicole Wallace is half a second from turning into that meme lady from 2016 screaming at the sky after Trump won. And that's why I got that gut feeling that perhaps the Democrats have a big problem on their hands.

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Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration continues to be a thing like they exist in real life. And they are so unbelievably weak and terrible, so unbelievably weak and terrible. So Israel is currently wrecking Hezbollah. I mean, really wrecking them in Lebanon. They've destroyed over 50 percent of their long range capacity. Hezbollah has basically been reduced to firing a dozen to 20 rockets every night into random areas of Israel. Last night, it was Acre, Akko in Hebrew,

without doing significant damage. That is because Israel has been so wildly effective in its operation so far, from Operation Grim Beeper, as they've been calling it, to the latest airstrikes. Today, for example, they took out the head of the air campaign of Hezbollah. They have incredible levels of intelligence penetration into Hezbollah. So how would that war come to an end? Very easily. If the United States and its allies, if we said,

We're going to let Israel go. We're going to give them all the arms they need. They can do whatever they need to push you north of the Latani. So you can go the easy way or you can go the hard way. The easy way is you just move north of Latani River and then all of this stops like right now. If we said that, it would be over. But Joe Biden is pathologically incapable of saying that because Joe Biden believes like every coward that if you make concessions, you will suddenly be granted

magical beneficence by some of the world's worst human beings. This is why he's been attempting to push for Israel to make concessions to Hamas for the entirety of the Gaza war. And it turns out that the best policy when it comes to fighting terror groups like this, especially terror groups that are involved with the actual government of Lebanon, is to point out to them that if they don't do the thing, they can get wrecked. But Joe Biden will never do that. And so the Biden administration,

has put forward a series of moves over the course of the last 24 hours, all of which are quite terrible. First, according to Max Abrams, the Pentagon said that the White House has decided the U.S. military will not supply intelligence support to Israel for operations in Lebanon. So Israel has taken out Hezbollah terrorists who killed Americans. And the Biden administration's number one response is, we're not going to help you. I wonder why Hezbollah thinks they can outlast this thing. I wonder why. I wonder why they keep ramping it up.

Apparently, the Biden administration is divided over Israel's escalation against Hezbollah. Remember, it's an escalation when Israel responds to 11 months of 8000 rockets being fired into its territory. That's an escalation, according to The Washington Post.

Senior officials are publicly calling for de-escalation as the administration tries to find a diplomatic off-ramp to the metastasizing Middle East conflict. Again, what's amazing about all of this, Hamas, Hezbollah, the conflict would be over today, this moment, if the terrorists just stopped doing the thing. If Hamas surrendered, if its leadership went into exile, and if it surrendered the hostages, the conflict in Gaza is over. That's the end of it.

It's very simple. If Hezbollah disarmed below the Latania River, it's all over. We're done. Move on with your life. That's all. Okay, these asks are not in any way crazy or insane. Israel is not asking for Lebanon to surrender full swaths of sovereign territory to the Israeli government on a permanent basis. They're saying, just don't let terrorists occupy this area the way that you have for the last 20 odd years. And somehow this is controversial.

So Joe Biden, he suggested that full-scale war might actually be on the way. Full-scale war. I

I just have a question. What makes you think full-scale war isn't already happening? It turns out that when Israel is under assault from seven different fronts, that's called a full-scale war. The only thing that hadn't happened is Israel flexing its muscles, which it's doing right now. So Joe Biden, on The View, which is a great place to announce foreign policy decisions, says that he's going to pursue what he called a deal that fundamentally transforms the region. By the way, that deal was on the table when he came into office. It was called the Abraham Accords. All he had to do was go to the Saudis,

and guarantee that he was going to smooth the path between the Saudis and the Israelis. And by February of 2021, there would have been a deal between the Saudis and the Israelis and October 7th never would have happened. That is a reality. That deal was on the table and Joe Biden blew it up because he's a fool. Because when it comes to foreign policy, he's been wrong on every issue of his entire lifetime.

Well, here he was yesterday saying they need a deal, a deal. You know, no matter how often you say a deal, a deal, a deal, a deal is not in the offing when one side literally is a terrorist group that refuses to negotiate saying a deal. The worst negotiator in human history, this guy.

Is a ceasefire still in reach? And would you require all hostages to be released alive in order to have a ceasefire? The answer is part of the ceasefire would be the exchange of those hostages, number one. Number two, an all-out war is possible, but I think there's also the opportunity or still in play to have a settlement that could fundamentally change the whole region.

I don't know if this guy's in the back room huffing his own farts or what. I mean, like there is no evidence whatsoever that Hamas has any capacity or interest in cutting that sort of deal. They've rejected every deal that has been presented to them. Every single one since November of 2023.

It's amazing, but they don't have a strategy. Their only strategy is what can we do to prevent people from fighting with each other prior to the election? That's all this is because they understand that if Israel goes into Lebanon, that opens a gaping hole in her campaign because then she might be forced to, you know, decide between Israel and the terrorists. And there are a lot of terrorist supporters inside the Democratic Party. In fact, according to the latest polling, the Harris voter favors the Palestinians over the Israelis 33% to 19%.

which is crazy towns. For the record, that same poll shows Trump supporters support Israel over the Palestinians 66 to 5. So for all of those who suggested anti-Semitism is equivalent between the two parties in a remotely, not even remotely. So what else is the Biden administration doing? Well, they've now called along with the French, with the French, with Emmanuel Macron. They've called for a 21 day pause in the fighting based on nothing, based on literally nothing.

So they put out a statement, a joint statement from the U.S., Australia, Canada, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. And here's the amazing thing about this statement. They call for a ceasefire. Okay, the ceasefire, the ceasefire call makes no mention of Hezbollah, none.

So Israel right now is not fighting the Lebanese government. If they wish to decapitate the Lebanese government, they would be attacking Lebanese government infrastructure, Lebanese government buildings. That is not what they are doing. Lebanon has a government. Hezbollah is part of that government. Israel, if it were a war with the Lebanese government or the Lebanese people, would not be bombing only in the Baka Valley, which is where the long range missiles are, or in the area south of Latani, which is where the rockets are.

They wouldn't be hitting specific precincts of Beirut where Hezbollah is known to be. They'd be knocking out the government infrastructure. They would have taken down the electrical grid of Beirut already if they were at war with the Lebanese people or the Lebanese government. So this statement doesn't even make mention of the party that started the conflict. That's how absurd this is. Here is the idiot statement

From the cadre of diplomatic morons, quote, the situation between Lebanon and Israel since October 8th, 2023 is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation. And you might want to point out what happened October 8th. What happened? The answer is Hezbollah, in solidarity with Hamas, started firing rockets over the border. And you guys said nothing for nearly a year. Israel had to evacuate 100,000 of its own citizens from that area inside the Israeli border. There is no border dispute here.

Lebanon does not have any sovereign claim to Israel and Israel tries to make no sovereign claim to Lebanon. They abandoned that area in 2000. I love that the statement doesn't even point out that Hezbollah is the initiator of this conflict. See, this is in nobody's interest, neither the people of Israel nor the people of Lebanon. What do the people of Lebanon have to do with anything?

It's certainly not in the interest of the people of Israel to be under constant rocket fire from the north. And as for the people of Lebanon, Israel's not at war with them. Israel's at war with Hezbollah. Israel is literally calling up apartment buildings and telling people to evacuate so they can blow up the munitions. Says this moronic statement, it is time to conclude a diplomatic settlement that enables civilians on both sides of the border to return to their homes in safety. Okay, all ideas welcome. All ideas welcome. Diplomacy is not a strategy.

Diplomacy is a tactic. You can't just diplomacy your way into peace. That's not the way things work. You just, it's like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy. We want a settlement. Okay, who gives a what you want? What are you talking about? Diplomacy, say these dolts, cannot succeed amid an escalation of this conflict.

Well, I noticed that when Israel wasn't hitting Hezbollah, there also was not diplomacy. I noticed that. Weird. Amos Hochstein has spent the last year as the American envoy to the Middle East, running back and forth to Lebanon and Israel, and he's accomplished zero things. It turns out the best way to achieve peace is to make it clear to your opponents that if they do not sign their name on the deal, their brains will be on the piece of paper. In international politics, that is the best way to achieve peace.

The credible threat of use of force. Israel is certainly showing credible threat of use of force. That needs to be escalated to the point where Hezbollah cries, uncle, that's the only way you get to an off-ramp here. Anybody else gotten any ideas? You know, ones that work and aren't just a bunch of crap that you spew in front of cameras and fellow diplomats?

Thus we call, say these fools, for an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border to provide space for diplomacy toward the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement consistent with UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2735 regarding a ceasefire in Gaza.

We call on all parties, including the governments of Israel and Lebanon, to endorse the temporary ceasefire immediately, consistent with UN Security Council resolution at 1701 during this period, and to give a real chance to a diplomatic settlement. They said the thing. Give peace a chance. They said the thing. There was a chance for a diplomatic settlement right now without the fire stopping. In fact, the rockets from Israelis falling on the heads of Hezbollah commanders were

It seems like now is an excellent time for them to make a diplomatic settlement right now to prevent the next bomb from falling on Tahrir in Beirut. Then this this joint coalition of of complete befuddled tool bags say we are then prepared to fully support all diplomatic efforts to conclude an agreement between Lebanon and Israel within this period, building on efforts over the last month that ends this crisis altogether. What efforts over the last month have been successful? Name them, any of them.

All this is is an attempt to buy time by the Biden administration to get past the election. That's all. And they don't care whether the war comes to an end. They don't care whether American allies are forced to evacuate entire swaths of their border to terrorist groups. They don't care about that. All Biden wants is to get through the election because he's a sad sack, because he's pathetic. And the Europeans, the Europeans are always just the Europeans. Alrighty, folks, in just one second.

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