¶ Classroom Makeover
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right . Well , I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right . There's only an up or down . This is the no Doubt About it . Podcast .
No doubt about it .
Now your hosts , Christy and Mark Runcany . Wildfire , you can't catch us now ?
Running , running , running dead . I'm here , all right . What a world , what a world .
That's how you're starting today . Yes .
It's an unbelievable world we live in .
Well , it's just , it's unbelievable . I think I read something like 87 breaking news stories over the last two weeks or something like some crazy . Yeah it was . It was a friend of mine who's a producer out in Chicago and she was like pray for those of us in news and it was just like oh yes , no question they're doing such a bang up job .
We should be praying for them at every juncture . Hey , I do . I do give her credit .
She's a she's a hard worker and anyway , so it was kind of interesting . But speaking of hard work , we're getting ready to send our kids back to school .
Yes .
To do some hard work .
Yeah , I don't know about that , but they will be going back to school .
They will be . They're thrilled .
Well , so for the first time you'll be teaching Well , it's not the first time . Well , yeah , yeah , true , for one class , and so it's not a full-time thing for you .
You just got to pop in and out , which is very cool , yeah , and it was interesting to me that the number one priority for Christy is not the syllabus that she'll be handing the kids out here in about 10 days . The number one priority is I've got to decorate the room so it looks good . And so . Ava , ella and Christy go to the school .
This is ridiculous and they get the whole thing tricked out . It's not tricked out by the way , it's pretty tricked out . So you know , for example , she happens to be teaching in a portable right . Yes , okay , so Christy wasn't having any of that .
Well , no , it's not that the problem wasn't the portable guy . The problem was that it smells like a dead mouse in it because there is a dead mouse in it , and that it hadn't been cleaned properly and I don't know 17 years probably .
So I thought this is an excellent time to put our girls to some hard labor yeah and uh , we got buckets of bleach and wiped down walls and oh no , it's a , it's a , it's a great school , with , with , with , with just a few portables that needed a little updating , and you definitely updated them well , a a guy , it wasn't that she put wallpaper in her new
classroom . She installed wallpaper .
Okay , here's what I mean . It's crazy .
She put new curtains up all across the room . She added in mood lighting . This is outrageous . I don't even know what class this is . It should be interior design . I'm not sure that it is , but as you walk in that room , we can definitely talk about that . If kids .
If you want to talk about that , we can talk about that . No , this is what you get when you hire a designer to teach class to . You know you have to have the right environment to learn , and this is a classroom that is used by the whole high school for multiple classes , not just mine . So it did need a little tweaking .
It's peel and stick wallpaper guy , Calm down , I can peel , right . I mean , it's not like , don't act like I'm like I went in there and flipped the thing .
I didn't know Absolutely Chip and Joanna Gaines would look at this thing and be like nice work . I mean she's ready to install an extra fireplace just for mood , and I was like what ? Are you doing ?
I know , no , I would love to put new carpet in , but I can't do that , that's beyond our budget . Anyway , sidebar . No , I do care about the syllabus guy .
Okay , I know , I know you do , I know you do , but it needs to have a good environment .
I care about aesthetics .
Okay , all right . Well , good work .
And it not smelling . Okay , back to real stuff . That people , ava , did you have some words that you wanted to say on that ?
Uh well , I would like to say that this change has been transformational and life-changing for me , uh , as this portable has gone from a decrepit little hole into a basically a palace , as soon as you walk in there's no doubt , I mean , there's no question .
I mean , when you get some of the target bought mood lighting , which is these little lamps , and then they got these little , these little diffusers that they got all over the place .
Didn't get him a target by the way , but wherever I mean , it's just unbelievable . All right , the wallpaper was target . I feel like every student is going to experience a major increase in their productivity . I think their grades are going to flourish . Environment matters .
That's all I'm going to say , all right . Well done , you guys . Well done .
Seriously , I don't know what the class is , I don't know how you're going to do on that , but I'll tell you what People are going to enjoy sitting in there when you do it . That's what really matters .
Let's get to some of our comments that we got in this week . Thank you guys also for always tuning in . We do Appreciate it . A couple of quick comments here . We've got Patrick Potter who says love you guys and the honest reporting of exactly what's going on in our current politics administration .
Just let into our country those from the countries that we , as Americans , claim are communists and have absolutely done nothing to stop them . Known terrorists released willy-nilly and we don't even know where they ended up . I hate the cold weather , but Scotland's looking pretty good so far
¶ Political Flip-Flopping and Media Influence
. Okay , here's one A little bit of a . Oh , I'm going to insult you .
Oh , I do love the insults . I always encourage you to include the insults .
Okay , well , here's one for you . Yeah , go for it . All right , this comes from Sworn Thout .
Right , making up some names so you can say something mean .
All right , go for it , I like it . Mark this Place a lien on Christie's business , misspelling Christie's name . By the way , Do whatever you can to give my children another laugh .
Oh , my God , I don't have to do that . I don't have to spend any of our money , it turns out , because you can do public financing , so you , my friend , can pay for my campaign , which is exactly what we'll do . I'm not saying I'm running for mayor , but if I did , I don't have to spend a dime , which is great . You are definitely winning .
Whoever this guy is , you're definitely winning . I mean , when you joke around with your kids , we're 51st in education . We're the 20th most violent city in the world . You can't get a primary care physician to take care of you . We have an open border in crime that is completely out of control . But you're winning , because that's what this is , isn't it ?
Isn't it just a football game that you're winning ? None of these issues should be political , none of them . But we've got people who are just like , oh , we're winning . What are you winning exactly ? What are you winning ? None of this should be political , none of it . We've got leaders who won't help solve our problems .
So you can look at me and be like , ha ha , winning , but are you Stick it ?
Anyway , sorry , okay , all right , there you go . All right now . This is another one , david Polowitz I think .
Waltz , as well as Kamala , want you to not think they want you to operate on an emotion-only level Used car salesmen both of them , which is true we're going to actually dive into that a little bit about how they really do want you to just be making your all these decisions based on your emotions , not on , like , your brain power or what actually will work for
us , um , but we're going to get into that in just a little bit . First , though , we have , um , some incredible movement here by Kamala . Well , a little , a little campaign strategy .
So , yes , well , yeah , so yesterday . I was amazed yesterday evening because something happened that I didn't . I think this has been bonkers to this point .
We knew and we've told you this on this show for months , for almost a year we knew Biden was going to be gone and we knew Kamala Harris was going to be tough to beat because of the media would would absolutely back her and do everything she needed to push her up , absolutely back her and do everything she needed to push her up . They've gone beyond that .
They have gone beyond that to the point where you start to wonder you know , is this just such a force , with the media combined with her and not holding her accountable ? Where do we really go ? Do we even really ? I mean , yes , we vote , but is that more of a ?
Oh , let's just check the box where you're voting , because we know this is only going one way , you know , and so it's that bad .
So what she did yesterday was staggering and , as a former candidate , I've never seen anything like this , because what you usually count on when you're running a race is some intellectual honesty , some where you advocate for one side and your opponent tends to advocate for another , especially in the general election Now , during a primary , a lot of times you can mix
and match policy , because a lot of times you agree with each other , but not in a general election . What Kamala Harris did yesterday stealing Trump's no tax on tips is staggering . So I want to show you two clips here . One is from Donald Trump in Las Vegas in June , and then there'll be another clip , kamala Harris Saturday in Las Vegas . Check it out .
Because when I get to office , we are going to not charge taxes on tips people making tips- Eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers .
It's unbelievable .
It's unbelievable when you run a race and you have a policy position that you've staked out and then your opponent on the complete other side of the aisle this isn't a primary right Complete other side of the aisle steals it , just blatantly steals it and says here's what I'm doing , I'm doing your thing now , and this isn't the first time she's done it .
Right now . She's tough on the border , so she's doing that . But is it right now ? She's tough on the border , so she's doing that .
But is she ? Is she really tough on the border ? No , I don't think so .
But it doesn't matter , right , it doesn't matter so not only is she not tough on the border , she's the one who cast the deciding vote on what spiked inflation , but now she's the one who's gonna deal with that . She's the one who's gonna deal with all of these issues that she's made far worse in intellectual honesty is gone .
It doesn't matter , you can say whatever you want , and so , as you watch it , you go . Who's telling the truth here ? Who's actually going to hold her to account ? And you hear this . And now it's just blatantly stealing Trump's policy ideas . Is anyone going to say wait a minute ? That's crazy , nope .
No , I don't think they will . I think what's interesting , too , is that she keeps saying she's kind of framing herself as brand new right . Like she's brand new , like on my first day in office , I'm going to do this , this and this right . This is this language I keep hearing . And I'm like your first day in office Pretty sure you've been in office for what ?
Over 1,200 days so far or something like that right , but she's she's going to reinvent herself , which is what your whole point is . Now she gets to be the fresh and new Kamala out of nowhere . Like she's got all these really completely flipped , flopped on position that I'm just waiting for the media to say .
But two weeks ago you thought very differently on this issue . You know how did you flip flop so much ?
And what worries me to your point is , suddenly now , words just won't mean anything . We already don't trust our politicians . We already have that problem across the board . And now , when you allow a candidate to completely flip-flop on the economy , on immigration , on tax , on tips , you allow them to just do whatever they want , say whatever they want .
What you eventually do is you create a world where there is no truth anymore , so you can say whatever you want and then you can just flip flop on it and there'll be no accountability . This lack of accountability from the media and then eventually from the voters , is devastating and it won't just stop here .
This is the beginning of the problems , not the end .
Well , a couple of things on that . That I'm thinking initially is number one .
It sounds like a high school or middle school student council run right when you're saying you're putting out there what you think the kids are going to be more likely to vote for , right , and so you see candidates in a high school or at a middle school kind of going oh , that is a good idea .
I do like free pizzas on Friday , so I'm going to throw that one in too . It feels a little bit like that . The second point , which is more important to me , is she's already shown what she's going to do , what she has been doing . If we sit here and think she's changing her position , is she or is she just doing this to get your vote ?
And then she's going to go back to what she has thought for the whole her whole lifetime in politics , like she's not going to change her tune overnight ? I just don't believe it . I think it's inauthentic and I don't have any trust that she would actually change her position .
So that's very true . That's why the media calling her out on these things Not only does us a disservice as voters when they don't do that , but at the same time , it creates this chasm of trust that will collapse on itself , and that's what .
That's where we are , I mean , but they don't see it coming and they don't care no , they don't care , they care about the vote .
They care about , like , let me try to influence um . You know , even I was having this conversation yesterday . She said I feel like she's really trying to influence the younger voter and I think , well , okay , hopefully the younger voter , whether that's what she's doing or not , hopefully they're paying attention to .
Because again , I can tell you that I'm blonde , but I've been brunette for the last 16 years and suddenly now , no , no , no , I've always been a blonde is not being authentic . I mean , I know that's a really weird analogy , but I'm just trying to say I hope people are paying enough attention to .
They're not right now . They're not , and how would they ?
If you have a job and you actually go out and you're living your life , you're not focused in on this stuff all the time , you're catching some mainstream media , you may be catching some Twitter , you may be catching some Facebook , whatever but if you're not really dialed into this stuff and you have a whole media apparatus which is completely designed to make sure
you vote for one candidate over another , then how are you ever going to know ? This is absolutely working , and we will go through the polling here in a second , and part of this is Trump , by the way . Part of this is Trump not running a good campaign right now , and we'll talk about that . Running a good campaign right now , and we'll talk about that .
And some people may not want to hear it , but it's a fact . It's not happening right now and there's a lot that needs to be done , but let's hit now on exactly what's going on . Now . I want to give you one other little piece of detail on why this is so phony and Kamala coming out and saying she's for no tax on tips .
What's the one thing the Biden administration did when they were dealing with the Inflation Reduction Act , the Inflation Reduction Act , was passed by Kamala Harris . She cast the 51st vote . Okay , in that Inflation Reduction Act , they went and allowed for and budgeted for an additional 87,000 IRS agents . Okay , so don't give me this .
Oh , I'm going to cut your taxes . Oh , I'm going to stop the tax on tips and all this . No , you actually . What you actually did was made it more likely that people were going to pay more money to the IRS , not less .
So there is no way you can go do a reversal now and say here I've just stolen my opponent's ideas and , by the way , don't pay any attention to those additional IRS agents Again . This is just . It's the exact opposite of where she's been on everything , whether it's taxes or fracking or the border , it doesn't matter .
¶ Emotion vs. Policy
Nothing matters anymore . We are in a post-truth campaign now .
Post-truth that's an interesting way to put it , because it is . It's sounding more and more like let's just go on our emotions , and you know who feels really strongly about you voting on your emotions Pete Buttigieg . Listen to this clip that he talked about on CNN about why people are picking the candidates .
They're picking who they're going to vote for and what they're being led by . Is it truth or is it something else ?
Campaigns are about . So much of politics is about how you make people feel . So much of leadership is about what you bring out of people and by that standard , harris-walls has been a home run and we're seeing the exact opposite from Trump fans .
OK , this guy is absolutely maddening because he literally sits there and says so much of this is about how a candidate makes you feel . That is ridiculous . That's how Pete Buttigieg operates . That's why he's terrible at what he does as the secretary of transportation and why he was a crappy mayor as well . This isn't about how you feel , pete .
This is about how your policies affect families and their abilities to provide for their families . That's what actually matters , pete , but he gave it away right there .
He wants the feels , because the only way Pete , kamala , kamala and waltz win is if you operate off the fields and not off the facts , and if republicans don't get around to litigating that case , this is going to be devastating right , because it's easy to build up emotion .
I mean , it's how ads work , it's how movies work , it's how any campaign works , it's how tony robbins has a job , it's how any sort of um encourager or leadership conference goes right . They want you to build and make decisions based off the emotions .
They want to encourage you to think this way , and the problem is with that is , when it comes to politics , you have to get down to brass tacks . You said this . This is the policy you put in place . Here's the consequence of that policy . How have they possibly changed their mind ? They haven't so . But just feel good . Now . It's just about feeling good .
Just go with your emotions because you feel good , because Trump makes you feel bad for some reason or whatever . So , boyle , make you feel good on the party side over here .
No , you're right , and this is the again we've talked about this this is still going to continue for another two weeks .
Her rise will continue for another two weeks , so , and I think she could be up five , six nationally within two weeks , and then that's going to come to a head one way or another , and it's incumbent upon the Trump campaign to reel this thing back in , which I still think they definitely can do by the way , which we'll get into .
But what's amazing is Kamala Harris hasn't talked to anybody , has done no press conferences , has done nothing right . She won't talk to the press , she won't get involved in anything . Do interviews nothing right ? And now the press is literally saying she doesn't need to talk to us . Check out this article from the AP Meet the press question mark .
Hold that thought . The candidate sit down interview ain't what it used to be . Literally , you have one of the biggest media organizations in the country telling the people of this country don't worry , the leading candidate for president , the democratic party , does not need to talk to us . She doesn't need to tell us her plans .
She doesn't need to explain her policy reversals , which are of breathtaking proportion . We don't need to hear any of that . Please keep the feelings rolling . The good feelings , yeah , a bunch of garbage .
Yeah , the good feelings . Don't worry , mark . She did say that she's thinking . She's thinking about giving a press interview at the end of August . She's thinking about it . It's under consideration right now . I appreciate her . Even considering it , it's under consideration , gosh . It's great , so we'll see if she can commit . Can she put it in her calendar ?
I don't know , We'll see .
I would love to see some media actually do some pushback on this for her and being like hold on but maybe we're crazy to think that , because if you look at the numbers , look at the latest battleground numbers , it's all of this is working beautifully for them . Look at this Michigan Trump down four to Harris , pennsylvania .
And again , this is New York times Siena college , okay , pennsylvania Trump down four to Harris . Wisconsin Trump down four to Harris . Wisconsin Trump down four to Harris . This thing has slid about five , six points in the wrong direction . And what's the single biggest issue that Trump has on Harris ?
An economy which is crushing low-income and middle-income families because of the exact policies that Kamala Harris put in place . She's responsible for it . So who do we trust on the economy ? Well , trump was destroying Biden on this , but now basically dead even with Kamala Harris .
Dead even with the person who literally cast the vote to raise the prices of your groceries , the person who literally supported the policies that meant higher interest rates , so you can't get that loan , or so that you can't move from where you want to to where you'd like to , wherever . It's crazy .
Well , and I just wonder , like I understand gaslighting and how it works . I totally get that . I'm just thinking do you do the ? Do people really think she's not Joe Biden , so she does , she can come up with her own policy and plans . Did they not listen to the fact that she was so far left when she was trying to get that presidential nom ?
They don't know .
And she didn't get a single Democratic delegate vote when she tried to run against Biden because of her policies and how far left she was on it . Like , are we forgetting all of that ? Like , what are voters listening to ?
Well , some of this is Democrats coming home , right . Some of that is what's going on here . So it's the Democrats coming home , and then you got some wobbly people in the middle that are kind of sliding back toward her . That's what Trump's got to reel back in . Look , this is going to be super close , right .
And so when you go back and you look at where we were on the show and we don't do this that often , but I do want to play one clip for you , because we came on the night of the debate , right Right after the debate , we watched what Joe Biden did and we knew we said it again there we said it's over for him . There's no way he's the nominee .
It's not happening . But I want to go through something that we said and we talked about right after that debate , and what we've seen is it play out . So here's what we said right after the debate .
¶ Navigating the Presidential Campaign Landscape
It may seem like a weird contrarian thing to say , because of what happened tonight . Republicans have never been closer to losing the presidency in November than they are right now . I agree that if he gets replaced by someone who is nominally competent , the double haters will start to slide away . Right , it takes a while to get those negatives up .
That's right , that's devastating .
So I will say I think this is be careful , what you wish for territory for Republicans .
I hope you're right . Ok turns out , and I don't think Harris is even nominally competent , but it doesn't matter when you get this much push behind her . And so this is where we are .
This is the spot , now , where it's completely switched , because not because someone has good policies or someone has the best interest of the country because they are playing the most cynical possible game with the biggest , most powerful media organizations in the world , and the voters will pay the price .
And she gets gets . We talked about this when she first came out that she was going to be the nominee , as we said , she gets to reinvent herself . She gets to come up with on day one , kind of chatter which is bogus , by the way . It's completely inauthentic , it's .
It is not day one , it's going to be , I think , day whatever 1600 or whatever for her in office , and I hope that voters pay attention to that and I certainly hope that Trump starts taking her down on that path , because to me , that's the area that people you know , whether you like Trump or whether you like Kamala or you don't like either one of them .
At the end of the day , who's doing what for the country ? You have a woman who's been in power for the last three and a half years . What has she done ? What has the consequence been for that ? You know , when you see what happened under Trump , I love when people are like , oh , it was so terrible .
And when we were under Trump , I'm like , well , what happened to you , what ? Literally , just tell me what happened to you so I can understand . What did he take away from you ? Or what ? How did he hurt you ?
We're losing all the whole thought process going forward . We're going to lose all our rights and everything else . It's like come on , yeah , no , agreed . I know I think you're exactly right , but also on all of this is , I think the biggest problem with this is it's just not true .
So what you expect from somebody who's running for president of the United States is an authenticity of , hey , here's what I want to do , here's where we want to go . We just can't get that from where we are right now . So even if you're , even if you're far left I understand people have different political leanings . I get that .
You don't want to vote the way I vote . I don't want to wait . Vote the way you vote . That's a great part about this country Vote how you want to vote . But the thing that's damaging is if you allow a candidate to just straight up , switch positions or lie or not come with any sort of campaign of accountability . That's devastating , that's a problem .
And if you think it's only going to go one way , the rest of your life , that's not true . So this is why any good and honest broker says , hey , we need to have answers from who's ever running for president , and so that's what's important . Now . Trump's reeling , there's no doubt .
So there are headlines or where you can see it all over the Washington Post , which we never usually use their headlines because they're so inauthentic themselves . But anyway , donald Trump has grown increasingly angry about Kamala Harris , is surging poll numbers and media coverage since replacing Joe Biden on the ticket , and that's not the only one .
So we've got another one from the Wall Street Journal , and I do want to read some of this . This is from the Wall Street Journal on Sunday and an opinion piece . It says well , donald Trump , blow another election . And it's interesting what they say in this article .
Mr Trump seems to think he's still leading in the polls against a feeble incumbent . That overconfidence is what led him to choose Mr Vance , who hasn't reassured voters on the fence about Mr Trump .
The former president doesn't seem to realize he's now in a close race that requires discipline and a consistent message to prevail , and his struggles are hurting GOP candidates for the House and the Senate .
Yeah , absolutely , and then well , let's go on . It's a couple more things here and a couple more paragraphs on this that were interesting .
It says . All this underscores the risk that GOP voters took in nominating Mr Trump for a third time . They had younger alternatives who have been fresher voices and could have served two terms , but primary voters wanted to nominate Mr Trump as a quasi incumbent who they came to believe had his second term stolen by COVID election .
This bet was paying off against Mr Biden , but that race is over . Ms Harris and her new running mate are still far to the left of the American people . If Republicans have the discipline to inform voters of that , this is still Mr Trump's election to lose , but , as we learned in 2020 , he's more than capable of doing it .
Yikes . Okay , that's a tough , tough assessment . But part of what they're saying is that with Trump where he is , you're going to start to see real concern here if he doesn't become more disciplined . Now , trying to say Trump has to be disciplined , that's been said for 10 years when he's been on the scene .
I mean , Trump has certain qualifications that make him good at certain parts of this and that challenge him in other parts . There's no doubt , and in that , that dedication to staying on message is going to be tested and he has to fix it .
If he doesn't fix it within the next few weeks , if they don't come out of that convention and they're not super disciplined and starting to chop down this lead , then it's going to be devastating . But again , he has what it takes to do it . He has the facts on the ground , which are helpful , but within his own camp there is concern .
So Axios did a story on that and talked about what's going on with him . And it says , behind the curtain , inside Trump slump and they say a few things . That which I think are are are pretty , pretty dead on .
Okay . It says that a new script is often fictional wishfulness . It says um , uh . Republican sources close to Trump tell us he realizes he needs to bring a new focus to his message . That can be meandering and self indulgent . Trump is struggling to get past his anger .
A top Republican source tells us Trump's aides know he won't change , so they're focusing quote not on the need for him to change , but on the need to adapt his message to win . The source said quote but he has to convince himself to leave the other garbage behind . End quote .
Now , that's it , right there . That's a key thing . He has to convince himself . Trump has to come to this and say , okay , here's what I've got to do to win . And getting into fights with Brian Kemp not helpful . Talking about Kamala Harrison where she , whatever her ethnicity , whatever , wherever that that comes up , doesn't help , doesn't matter , right ?
None of that matters . What matters is what's happening for the American family , what's happening to the middle-class , low income family that is struggling every day . That's who you talk to . That's the future of the Republican Party , anyway .
Well , it's interesting to me that when these candidates are quiet and aren't giving as many interviews both of them , by the way they seem to rise up in polls a little bit . But honestly , I think the key is get out and talk about your policy .
You can't be quiet anymore if you're Trump , you know what I mean , because the media won't give an honest assessment of the race . So you have to force coverage , right , you have to . Like JD Vance , going up to Kamala Harris's plane is forcing coverage , right , right that you had to do that . And Trump's got to force coverage now there's no other choice .
So he can't be quiet anymore . And you know , when Trump doesn't do as many events , then the media says always slowing down . Right , biden didn't do nearly as many events , kamala Harris doesn't do anything , right , and all of a sudden she's not slowing down , but , but , but Trump is right . It's disingenuous . The problem is Trump has to force message now .
He's got to of forced coverage and some of that's happening , which we'll get into in a second .
But I do want to show a little clip of where Trump did a pretty good job over the weekend of drawing a distinction about where he is with where his opponent is , and this gets back to the point of Harris-Waltz is way left of the rest of the country , the majority of the country , ok , so you've got to point that out and Trump in his own way and again ,
not a way I personally would have done it , but this is effective , I think . Communication from Trump .
If Comrade Waltz and Comrade Harris win this November , the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists , the looters , the perverts , the flag burners , hamas supporters , drug dealers , gun grabbers and human traffickers , but with a trump fans victory , the cheers will come from the police officers , the firefighters , the border patrol agents , the steel workers , small
business owners , parents and hard-working citizens of every race , religion , color and creed , and there it is .
I mean that is solid . I have to say that that's one of the best lines , a couple of lines I've heard from him lately .
Yeah , and it's true .
That's what I think is effective . He needs to stay on that message and be getting that out more and more and leave some of the personal attacks on personality out of it . Yeah , it doesn't matter , all of us are sick of it .
Plus , nobody cares if you think somebody's a B word or whatever . I mean , some of that's been going on . So what I mean ? The worst things in the world have been said about Trump . He said terrible things about people . Ok , how about we focus on some of those distinctions in policy as well ?
Now Waltz again , he's not going to be a deciding factor in this , but they are still prosecuting a case against Waltz and what's happening with his military service , which we're not going to get into a great deal of that , but I want to touch on just a little bit of it because it's illustrative , I think , of what's going on in this race and maybe some of JD
Vance's strengths in this particular race too .
¶ Media Cover-Up and Political Scandals
But once again , the what you have is a media that is now giving him cover . Okay , if any Republican had said they'd been in a war , in a theater of war , and they weren't there , they'd be getting excoriated for excoriated Instead . Waltz , according to CNN , misspoke in saying he served in war . Harris campaign says so that's just it , and there it is .
It's just . Oh . He misspoke , sorry . Move on .
Yeah , and I also heard oh well , we don't really need to address it because we already have addressed it . I'm like , but you didn't address it .
No , no , but this is in the media Just says , okay , he's addressed it .
Well , so then you get JD Vance , who goes on CNN today and it was very effective when he spoke with Dana Bash , where she tried to again run cover for the Harris administration just was like , well , but they said , and they've given an explanation , and they've again , the media would do this for no one else , but they're doing it for Harris .
So JD Vance takes the mic and takes control .
Of course , dana , I honor his service and I've never criticized what Tim Walz did when he was in the military . I criticized his retirement decision and , most importantly , dana , I criticized his lying about his own record . Okay , this is a guy who was captured on video saying I carried a gun in war . He never went to war .
This is a guy who's been captured on video as other people say . He's an Afghanistan veteran . He's a veteran of a war , nodding along in agreement instead of saying no , no , no , I did serve my country and I did it honorably , but I never went to a war zone . I'm not criticizing Tim Walz's service .
I'm criticizing the fact that he lied about his service for political gain . Dana , now , I served in the United States Marine Corps and you know this . And look , there are a lot of things that I'm proud about . I've never lied about what I did or overstated it because it would be beneficial to me in an election . I think that's what Tim Waltz did .
That's what I was criticizing and , yes , I do think it's scandalous behavior .
Okay , that's really well laid out .
It's very well laid out and you know he does explain the situation .
And again , the reason I think that's so pivotal is if you can't be honest about even something that people can track and you have people that you were in the military with that can come out , which is exactly what's happened People have come out and said , listen , he's not been honest about this . We want people to know the truth about this .
To me , that's just a bigger character flaw . It shows that you are willing to be kind of swarmy about something to make yourself look better , or not really be very honest , like not telling the full truth of something in hopes that you don't get caught in something and make you actually look like you look better and I just think that's not honesty .
So if you can't be honest with your military record fully , what other things are you willing to bend the truth on to make it sound better when you're like if you were to win ?
office Right . And it just does get back to Kamala Harris's decision-making skill as well , where she you know well . Then again , why would she care ? She can do whatever she wants , to say whatever she wants . She's not going to be called on it .
Right .
But . But this does get back to the kind of decision she makes and that she is not a very good decision maker , and this could be evidence of that . Now again , there's a lot of this stuff out there and I think , having not served in the military myself , I'm not going to sit here and go off on this whole thing .
He put in 24 years in the National Guard . But JD Vance says it right and , believe me , there are plenty of times as a candidate when you get out there and people start showering things on you . You out there and people start showering things on you . You have the opportunity to accept those things , even when you know you shouldn't Like .
Those things happen all the time and you do have to stop it down and say wait a minute . I should tell you that X , it happens to every candidate , and so you have to be able to say wait a minute . No , no , no . But he began to accept this stuff over time and began to just be okay with it , and so you're right .
It does get to judgment and , believe me , I think there are much more flaws in his judgment than his military . I mean , the choices he made as governor of Minnesota were horrendous , right . I mean , in dealing with the way he dealt with the riots and so many different things , the way he's dealt with other issues , you know it had been horrendous .
So , anyway , it's one of those things that I think JDVS has a really good job of laying that out , and he's very good at that . Now there've been some other challenges , obviously , but they got to get this thing off the ground . They got to get it off the ground quickly .
Yeah Well , a couple of things that we're not talking about . still , we're not talking about a whole lot about Joe right and if he's really still able to handle things in the office , which we all know he's not , but we're not talking about that . Another thing we're not talking about is this shooter , the attempt on Trump's life . What happened with that shooter ?
Where do we stand on this investigation ? How did this guy get such close access ? Still no news on that . And here's an important clip that we wanted to share with you guys , because I think this puts it pretty clear on where we're still not finding out the facts that we need .
Yeah , this is Miranda Devine from New York Post who was talking about it this weekend .
Enormous task and we still haven't been told what radicalized him , what triggered him , what were their people ? He's obviously a suggestible person . Was there somebody who weaponised him to do this ? Were there websites that he was looking at ? This is not a normal situation .
I don't believe that a 20-year-old , just off his own bat , without some sort of external influence , does this . And the other thing is that we have a 20-year-old somehow getting into the Secret Service , as Joe and Gianna are saying into their realm that they're supposed to keep so carefully guarded . And why is that ? It's because there was negligence .
There was deliberate negligence .
Okay , so it gets into some of what we're saying here is that this has been memory hold and suddenly , now it's all going to be secretive , we're not going to know what happened .
And this is what we talked about right when the shooting occurred , which was the one thing that couldn't happen was that this couldn't be such a closely guarded investigation that nobody knew what was going on . And now think about this .
I mean think about this Whenever we have a mass shooting situation if the narrative is right , you know everything about the shooter , you know everything he did , you see online posts , you see who he was associated with , you see everything . Now , this ain't the right narrative , so you're not gonna know anything .
And it's so much more damaging than even that because of what it does to the confidence of government agencies , who not only are charged with protecting the president , but are charged with stewarding forward the United States government . And more and more , these guys are less and less accountable .
More and more power to the government and less and less power to you , and if you try to question it , they'll shut you up .
And that's where we are , yeah , and I just think you know if they're not going to be .
I think the whole goal here is they want to make sure let's just get through the election , let's not give this any more , you know , spotlight , because it obviously still puts Trump kind of back in this hero type environment which this I this is my opinion but I believe that they're trying to pull him back from that because they saw how strong he looked as a
candidate right after that . Right , they don't want to give him that limelight is my opinion . So they're they try to , they're trying to hide this back and I think I don't know if we'll ever find out about this shooter .
Yeah , I think she's right , though , on the on the radicalization point . I mean a 20 year old , doesn't just wake up one day , no social , no nothing .
Yeah , we don't know anything about this guy . He's just a 20-year-old . I'm like what 20-year-old do you know that keeps his mouth shut ? That much ? Not one . There's not one 20-year-old out there that does that .
That's very true . Okay , and , by the way , the Secret Service continues to cover themselves in glory .
Oh good .
Here we go . The Secret Service is now forced to apologize for breaking into a Massachusetts salon to use the bathroom before a Harris fundraiser . Ok , so what you had here is you have a salon near where the fundraiser was being held . I want to show you some video .
A Secret Service agent comes up this is her in her little Secret Service suit , climbs a ladder and puts tape over the camera on the outside so no one can see what they're about to do . This is the Secret Service of the United States of America going to a private business and vandalizing it effectively . Right , she's shutting off the camera . Here we go .
Yeah , you're not going to see what we're going to do . They open the front door , they let people in the business Okay , again , trespassing , no authority to be there whatsoever and then they go and you got a desk there in the middle of the room , in the front of the lobby and they go eat some candy off the desk and they go in and do whatever they want .
Again , this is our government . This should infuriate anybody who says you have no right to do this to a private business . But yet there we go . Whatever the Secret Service wants they can do , apparently . Well , I mean , this isn't . This is not . This is beyond embarrassing . It is dangerous .
You cannot have government agencies blowing off people's rights to do whatever the heck they want .
And my understanding is it's really hard to get into the Secret Service . I have friends whose children that's their . I mean they're grown children now , but that is their goal they would love to work for Secret Service . It's very hard to get into that .
And , believe me , most of these agents , I'm sure , do an incredible job . But what's happening here , clowns ? Where is the actual accountability ?
There's no boundary that they won't cross , and I think that's what's really scary is when you don't feel like you have to draw a boundary because , oh , I'm protecting Kamala , I can do whatever I need to do . That is scary .
And again , if this was Trump , it wouldn't make any difference to me Right . It doesn't matter , you don't have a right to go into this woman's business , I mean , and to pick the lock on her door . Right , they should face charges . Yeah , they should face charges .
And they're dumb enough to not what cover the camera on the inside of the salon . Well , whatever she covers .
I mean , you can still see her .
By the way , if you go frame by frame , you could see the lady's face as she's putting it up on there , of course , and that business owner saw her face perfectly a good shot of it , as she's covering it up she should be fired and again they should face charges for breaking in on you .
Yeah , because there's not another bathroom anywhere near that you could use .
You literally picked the lock on a door .
Yeah , I'm sorry , go to McDonald's for crying out loud . That's where everybody goes to the bathroom , exactly .
And , yeah , you may have to buy a little apple pie from them , whatever , or .
Coke , they make excellent .
Coke at McDonald's .
Speaking of fast food , we've got to end on a fun thing yeah we've got to end on a fun thing .
Guys , this is killing me , sorry , I know .
It's just ridiculous . This is actually interesting and you should watch this . If you're listening to us now , go back and kind of watch this clip because it's just a once-in-a-lifetime time to watch it . It's Chick-fil-A and now they have a delivery cart . There's nobody driving it . It comes to your home . It looks like an old ice cream truck kind of .
It looks like a tiny little ice cream truck that somebody would push along the street . But , it's mechanized . This is in Georgia , I think because Chick-fil-A is based out of there . So they're playing around with this concept here of delivering you Chick-fil-A in their little cart , delivering you Chick-fil-A in their little cart . That and you just it .
You , you basically scan , your , you know whatever barcode or whatever it is you get when you make the order , and then you pull the Chick-fil-A out , you pull your drinks out , you get them and then the the cart shuts down again and then it drives away .
Well , I mean , I'm sorry , is this thing on the highway ?
No so . So what I understand is that the max speed on these things is like 13 miles per hour so far .
So it's going to take you about four and a half hours to get your Chick-fil-A .
Well , so the Chick-fil-A probably is pretty close to this house wherever it is , it's a nice little suburban section of Atlanta it looks like . But yes , eventually I think what you'll see is the cart will get faster right and then they'll be able to drop a bunch of these things off along the way .
And they heat it as you go too , so it's not like you're pulling it out and it's cooling the whole time , like they get a little heater in there and then it takes off and then you're set to go .
It's kind of like a pizza delivery company , but there's just no driver .
Yes .
But it does , it's interesting and it's free , it's , it's a little fun . Yeah , I know .
I'm sorry I can't .
Well , we're going to have good news at some point .
Yeah , yeah , we're going to have good news again . Well , no , hang in there , it's coming .
I can feel it .
Really yeah , okay , yeah Okay .
That's good . You guys have a great rest of a good start to the beginning of your week , and we'll be back later this week , thursday , so check in with us then .
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