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Well , hey everyone , it feels like there's some stuff going on right . I don't know , Clay , what do you think ? There's some stuff going on right . I don't know , Clay , what do you think ? There's some stuff going on right now .
Two weeks in a row , like last week , it was the assassination and now the whole race is flipped over right , the whole thing flipped on its head and we're all sitting here going what the what ?
We're shocked , but we're not shocked . We'll get into all of it right after this . Oh my Well , first and foremost , how are you , my friend ? How you been ?
I'm good you know it's never a dull moment , right .
No , my head's spinning . How about yours ? Yeah , yeah .
And it's just , it's so much to take in because we've got not just the big news of the you know , president Biden dropping out , but there's , I mean , so many things to choose from this week . Folks , we're recording on Monday .
There's some conflict in schedule , so we're doing it on Monday but , like you know , the head of the Secret Service testifying today , we're not even going to touch that . That's how much stuff's going on .
Can't even Other than to say I just saw on X that somebody just ripped her to shreds . So that'll be . I'll be looking at that one shortly .
It's been going on all day . All day long she's been getting roasted Oof .
I'm a , I'm a cheater . I I'm waiting for all the highlights . I'm just waiting to the end just to catch all the highlights . I can't . I can't do it to myself . I'm waiting for all the highlights . I'm just waiting to the end just to catch all the highlights . I can't do it to myself , I'm already so .
My brain is so full of the things Like I can't even create space for this right now . Oh my gosh . So I mean , you know so , obviously , let's just go ahead and start right with the resignation , the bizarre , surreal , impossible to believe that this is the way that this was done , but just popped off a letter over on X . Hey guys , I'm out .
By the way , we did a great job . Everything's perfect , Don't worry about nothing .
We're good by the way , we did a great job . Everything's perfect , don't worry about nothing , we're good . I saw the letter about 10 seconds before you posted it and , I'll be honest , I was very ready to chastise Ms Elsa Kurt for not waiting , as she is apt to do .
But I saw it about 10 seconds before you did from another kind of news source , another radio personality guy named Chris Stegall . I've been on his show a couple of times . He's the AM station out of Philly and he posted the letter and I was like I read it no seal on it , no nothing . And I was like this is so suspect , it's not even funny .
And then , and then you posted it like very shortly afterwards , and then Fox posted it , and then it just came out and I was like I could actually Fox kind of saved you a little bit because I was going to be like the first report you were on it . Yes .
The only thing I'll say to my credit . Yeah , the other thing I'll say to my credit , and it's really not even much to my credit , I saw it like I looked at like multiple big names on there who were sharing it . I'm like , all right , well , there's big big shots are sharing it .
I'm doing it , I'm hitting the button and yeah , so few , few , I didn't have to make an apology for that one , but yeah , but seriously , that was like , like you said , no official letterhead , it's , you know .
And when I shared it on Twitter , I think my comment was something to the effect of Joe's going to be so mad when he wakes up and reads that he did this , you know , and that is the general concern . I mean , like everybody feels that way . Everyone says , you know , has been saying this , essentially the same thing , like he didn't write that .
He probably didn't even know that it was written . You know , he has no clue . And then , of course , you know , and everything was very rapid fire , but the initial shock waves , if we want to go so far as to call them that , was the letter , of course . And then the most glaring omission from the letter was an endorsement for Kamala Harris .
So that was a big whoo . And then that came shortly after .
Well , I think the other glaring omission out of all this is still no press conference . I mean , I got the COVID excuse , I got it . I understand he's in Rojo Beach at the Beach House , but I mean seriously , not even take him to the fake White House set that we all know exists .
Right , right , yes , confirmed conference of some kind , something , right , you know .
Yeah , it's very interesting . There's been and I've seen it a few times now there are some again X I'm getting a lot of things from X and the people that I'm following with this type of stuff have been right on the money . Laura Lomer , I think her name is .
She has been spot on on everything she has been saying , so she's got some inside track that the rest of us do not have . And she she's the one she called out a couple of weeks ago I think it was that he had a medical incident or a medical emergency on Air Force One which was never confirmed . It was denied and never confirmed that that was the case .
She's come back on and said it's absolutely true , I know for a fact , it's true , I'm telling you , and now I'm telling you , that he is in the terminal phase of his illness and that's so and that is the word that she's using .
That's the word I've seen bounced around a couple of few times now , times now , and you know I think that is probably very likely the case . I think you know , I think we're , I think we're at end of days for him , because now we're talking about right now or within the past few hours , netanyahu arrived .
He and his wife arrived supposed to be met by someone . Neither Kamala Harris or , of course , president Biden are there to greet him , supposed to have a meeting , a conference with him . They're a no show , like a flat out no
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show . This is madness , and you know to say that it's rude would be the understatement of the century . This is like appalling and mortifying for the united states that you know so what I mean ?
if we're talking terminal , right , that that's , that's an existing and and and increasingly worsening . You know condition . Right , like what ? What do they say ? Is this a cancer ? Is it ? I mean ? You don't die from dementia , you don't . You know what condition right , like what ? What are they saying ? Is this a cancer ? Is it ?
I mean you don't die from dementia , you don't . You know what I mean . Like you don't . I mean it's a decrease in in mental capacity , but it's not a terminal type . You know condition . So I wonder what it is . Um , I mean , now you could take it a step further and say maybe it's a brain cancer , of sorts . Sure .
You know right . He has had brain issues in the past . I mean he's had brain surgery . Like I think twice , I think yeah .
So not positive . But for the , for the White House staff to drop the ball like that , you know one , that means obviously he is incapacitated , because in the letter itself it says I'm going to continue to , based on my you know my execute my duties as president of the United States . Blah , blah , blah blah .
And they've got , you know , international guests coming and he's still hanging out at the beach and in Delaware . So problem number one , Problem number two , is that the White House staff hasn't grabbed the vice president and put her in front of you know , bibi . So that's a problem .
I mean , she is the contingency plan for stuff like that and I understand that there's a lot of things at stake right now as far as running the race and being the new candidate and all of those things .
But you know , if you're going to be the president or you're going to try to be the president , this is the time that you step in and grab incidences like this and take charge .
You better act . Presidential , for heck's sake Right . Coincidental , for heck's sake right . Yeah , it's um . I mean , every single part of this is so bizarre . It is such a you know train off the tracks period in time for this party , for this administration . Um , who is running the show right now ? Like who's running things ? It , it's not Biden . No , it's not .
Kamala , the scary part is it's nobody that's the scary part . Yes , this you know , I hadn't heard this , but that what you're talking about in that Yahoo , that is an indicator that this is nothing is coordinated right now . There is no one in charge .
Yeah , it's not the White House chief of staff , it's nobody , and that is a frightening I know everybody was making comments and talking about the lies , about his mental acuity . Right , we've been lied to . There's no question about it . The vice president is in on it , right , absolutely no question about it .
Um , the vice president is in on it , right , absolutely . The first lady is in on it . Um , everybody in the cabinet is in on it and have been for months , right ?
if not longer . If not longer right .
They've been lying . They've been lying to all of us , um , and this is , you know , prime example that there's no . Not only were they lying to us , they have no contingency plan . This is outrageous , you know and it's insane .
Like so you're on the inside , fine , fine , let's go with this for a minute . You're not going to tell us what's going on , let's let's just be okay with that for a moment and say but you're not telling us anything , but you've got it right , you've got it all under control , you've got a plan Like you're working stuff out Right , um , nope , no , nope .
I don't know the president nor the vice president is there to greet him . Like that alone . I mean , there's so many things , but that alone is the like the pinnacle of everything going off the rails and it is just a free for all right now .
And that the support for Kamala is only , you know , superficially there , and I think even that is only because they don't know what else to do . Like who else can they sub in right now ? And I know everybody's going wild , you know , throwing the possibilities out there .
Anyone from Michelle Obama to Gavin Newsom to Hillary Clinton , and actually that just reminded me . Some people are . People are on it with the memes . This is one that I actually got a chuckle a chuckle out of , here it is , this is the one .
Yes , yeah , I saw that one , yeah , yeah , well , nancy , nancy Kerrigan action , but you know , like you said , though , you know we're all speculating about the next phase , right , and we'll we're going to talk about that in a little bit , but that's , that's next . Right , let's handle now . Let's handle now , now Right .
This is important stuff because , again and this is the topic that keeps coming up what happens at three o'clock in the morning when North Korea goes across the border , right Across the DMZ ? What happens at you know zero , five hundred , when , when you know , china decides that they've had enough of this Taiwan crap ? You know what I mean ?
Like , who is in charge right now ? The president said it was him in the letter , but clearly this is an indicator that that is not , in fact , true . We're all at risk right now . Everybody is at risk right now .
Yeah , this is massive . I mean you know , everybody is at risk right now . Yeah , this is massive .
I mean you know it's not just us watching the entire world is watching I posted that on social media yesterday is that friends and enemies around the world are watching every single thing that we do right now and and this is a massive indicator that things are effed up Like there is nothing wrapped together right now .
So the question is if he's not , if they've been lying to us , which clearly they have right , right . And he is not capable and now has either been convinced or you know , somebody wrote it for him , um , but either way he's not mentally capable of of running for reelection . We're clearly seeing indications that he's not capable of continuing to be the president .
So where are we on the 25th amendment ?
Seriously . I mean there's , you know , and there are , I think Mike Johnson , I think he is he's calling that into question , Not not necessarily 25th , but the fact that if you are not mentally capable , physically and mentally capable , of running for another term , then you are clearly not capable of finishing your term .
And there's a lot of questions going on right now . There's a lot of question about legalities as far as transferring , as far as this whole process . You have to be figured out by this party , like as of yesterday , like they need to have this squared away .
And again , it is incomprehensible to me that , with their knowledge not our knowledge , but their knowledge of this man's mental state and decline , how they have not prepared for this , prepared for all of these possibilities , how are they sitting there , going well , we don't know what to do .
So you're 100 percent right . You're 100 percent right . And that's the scary part is is that people will vote for this leadership . Right , so they've . We've said it . Everybody said the news has been saying they've been lying to us . They know he was in rapid mental decline . They knew that , whether it was before or after the election , his days were numbered .
Right . So they have to plan for the contingencies . Right . They have to plan for every contingency possible , before or after , right . That's the common sense piece of it , that's the leadership , that's whatever you want to call it . But that has to happen . They clearly have not done that and you can say because I've heard it , oh well , they Biden .
Biden refused to step down , biden refused to screw that that the party itself had to have continued .
Maybe not the White House , maybe not the you know the cabinet , although the cabinet should be doing this , white House chief of staff should have been doing this , but the party itself should have had a plan for this and there is clearly everybody standing around doing this Like this is nuts .
Yeah , and there's , you know there's rumors of people jumping ship . You know , just hightailing it out of there , kamala Harris staff seems to be flying out the door quickly because they don't want to be tied to this , they don't want to be tied to any of it .
You know , guilty by association and you know it's kind of too late because you know so it's guilty by association and , um , you know it's kind of it's kind of too late because you know we're talking about , like you said , we'll just go with months . We'll just say it's been months that this has been going on .
You know , I feel like it's definitely been longer , but the as far as the rapid , you know the beginning of the rapid decline will . So we'll go with months for that . These people , they're all complicit . They are there before , before it mattered and , um , you know , I , I truly believe that their hope was to just push them through .
You know , weekend at Bernie's , this guy , all the way through to the end , get them in and then do the switch you know cause that would have been their easiest thing . That would have been like the easiest thing to do and , um , you know , I think they just simply hoped that that was going to be the case .
And you know his health is , I mean , it is what it is . You can't , you know , you can't turn that back , you can't reverse it , and now they're scrambling , which again is beyond bizarre , and we can go back to the 25th . There . There has to be some big reasons why they're not right . I , you know , and I don't know what they would be , I don't know .
There must be some like big ramifications if they , if they do that , that does not benefit them because , let's face it , it's all about what benefits the party and I and I mean that for the Republicans too , because we have plenty of Republicans , you know , over there that are benefiting as well from status quo .
So I don't know I got , if you think about it , tactics wise , like , obviously the Democrats don't , that is a problem they don't want to have to deal with . Leave the 25th alone you know their fingers , just just let go ride it out .
You know what I mean and they can focus on the next steps , which are candidacy , the convention , the presidential election itself and really the down ticket . I think they're all very happy that he backed out of this because it helps the down ticket , it helps Congress , congressional candidates and then focus on that .
If the 25th and this is why I'm really you force that that consumes the White House , the staff , even the vice president . It consumes very much , like they did to Trump with all the cases . Right , very good point . That would consume the vice president in testimony .
It would consume Democratic leadership , the White House staff , the cabinet , all of it for testimony and all of those things . And oh , by the way , it would make the prep for the convention unbelievably difficult . Yes , so I don't understand why the Republicans last night weren't planning this to walk in this morning and go , you know .
25th Amendment other than the let's deal with the Secret Service first . Right , because that's going on . Right , let's deal with the Secret Service testimony first and then we'll deal , so they they may walk in tomorrow and dump the 25th Amendment on the table Right .
And you know what , and it really may be as simple as that , because hearing you explain the ramifications and the logistics and all of everything that goes on with that , yeah , it seems like kind of a given that they would want to push that .
So you know , and again , we'll give our reminder that we like to give you guys , we're recording in the early part of the week so by the time we watch this uh all together , cause we're going to watch it together with you on , uh on Thursday night um , these steps may have already been taken .
So bear , bear with us and keep that in mind that as you're watching this , this was prerecorded and we sit in into the comments section with you guys and hang out and , um , you know all of that . So , just so you know , just a reminder .
So Thursday could be a whole different ballgame and , as we've seen , like the , the rapid fire changes that have are happening , uh , with within a 24 hour timeframe , you know is or 24 to 48 hours .
And and the people that were saying there were people that were saying on like Friday , thursday as early as Wednesday , even Wednesday , thursday and Friday , that the announcement was going to come most likely on Sunday , and then that kept getting , uh , you know , refuted . Nope , nope , you know , still running , still in the race .
I'm good as gold , I've got this pal and Sunday , just as projected . So you know there are people with some good inside tracks there because they called it .
You know they hit it right on the nose , but I think the COVID thing , the COVID announcement , you know , I I again just a gut feeling on social
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media . I said you know it's surprising , or who would have thought that COVID was both the beginning and the end of the Biden administration ? Because it really really was . How ironic , right ? So it all seemed bad . I actually thought it was going to be a .
I thought it was going to be a fabricated medical issue Like , oh you know , and even potentially as bad as a fatality . I hate to say that , but I really thought it was going to be this whole oh , he's got COVID his lungs or he can't breathe , he can't talk , his health is so bad , we're just going to pull him out , you know kind of thing .
And not this , you know random letter on X . I thought it was going to be a medical issue tied to this COVID diagnosis , which I still don't believe , by the way . But yeah , I mean , it happened this weekend , it happened out of the blue , it is very unorganized . It's very , you know , very , very messy and it has left us very messy .
You know , like you said , like we dipped into it already , what's next really ?
What is next ? And a lot of people , um , kind of assumed maybe that because Joe did endorse Kamala , um that that made her an automatic , like she was automatically going to be the nominee , and that is absolutely 100 percent not the case .
It's looking that way she's secured like half of the needed , half of the necessary delegates , or something , I think , and so she's I mean she's , she's prepared , or her camp has been prepared for this in some ways , because they've mobilized very quickly . She raised a considerable sum of money .
Fifty million dollars .
Yes , very considerable sum of money , right , you know . So they , they have been ready , they have been chomping at the bit just for to get that green light . And and she got , and they got it , and they're , they're , they're making the best of it , they're making what they can of it . Um , but boy , oh boy . I .
I don't know who else is going to throw their hat in . I don't know if anybody will . You know , the reality is , it's what they have four months to pull together a campaign funds . You already have to be independently wealthy to even get rolling here , not ?
not really , though . Four months , I mean , they've got four months . Whoever it is Right , right , good point , yeah , They've got to . You know and this is the discussion about the convention is it's going to be the first open convention in anybody's memory really .
So you know , if you had to pick and's not even go into vice president bullpen yet , because the the depth in the democratic party is like this is like kiddie pool , shallow kind of stuff . There's nothing there but presidential candidates . I mean , we've talked , we've been talking for a while about potential names . Obviously , the vice president is the number one .
She gets the 90 plus million dollars that her and President Biden had in their war chest , plus the 50 she picked up yesterday . She's 140 million in . She's got his endorsement . She's getting other endorsements . Nancy Pelosi endorsed her today . She has not yet .
There's been a phone call , but she has not yet gotten an endorsement from President Obama , which , in the party , is a big , big deal . Yes , I think he very much , like the last election , if you remember , didn't endorse President Biden until very , very late . Maybe not even at all . But right , so who else ? I mean who else is out there ?
Um , but um , so who else ? I mean who else is ?
out , there We've been talking about .
You got Newsome , you've got you know they've been talking about Pritzker from Illinois . Um , who else there's ? There's about six or seven , but really maybe four legitimate contenders to challenge her , I guess , to make it a somewhat open convention . Right , tenders , free to challenge her , I guess , to make it a somewhat open convention .
And again , that's without getting into the vice president pool . So here's the thing , though and again this is a criticism of the Democratic Party and the people who continue to follow this crap leadership .
They had no plan , right , they knew that , in some form or fashion , this was going to come right before or right after the election , and they have no plan to replace President Biden . Right , right , but right now , what it looks like is they're changing the rules for the convention . Yeah , all of the all of the primary votes are gone .
Everyone's thrown out the window , doesn't matter ? Doesn't matter what the people want , doesn't matter what the ? You know the popular vote , you know democracy , you know the way that's supposed to work . That's all gone , and what you've got are the elites in the democratic party who are going to determine and provide guidance on who the candidate's going to be .
That's it .
Oh , and you know what ? And I actually think that that is exactly what Mike Johnson Speaker Mike Johnson is balking at that . He's making some waves about . He's like hang on , hang on . This is not how it's done , this is not how we do this . So I think that's something that we have to look forward to .
I think he's maybe going to I don't you know what would , what would you do File some motions to stop them from doing this ? I don't really know , like what's the end game here ? So , if you stop them from doing this , what does that mean ? Does that mean that Joe has to stay on the ticket , or it has to be Kamala , or like ?
I don't know what that means to you know , to stop their process . I don't know . This is uncharted territory . It really is Right yeah .
And the politics of it are . I think the party writes their own rules . So while the House , you know , has got some input on federal election guidelines , right , rules are like you know , donation money is regulated , there's a lot of pieces and parts of this that are , you know , federally regulated .
Mail-in votes , right , the machine like there's a bunch of stuff that the federal government is involved in . Don't think the primaries are part of it . I think that those rules are written by the party in the lead up to their convention to name their candidate . The federal government can't regulate or dictate that , nor should they .
I don't think that's a thing , agreed , but the Speaker of the House is probably overstepping . But your point of this is uncharted territory means all of these constitutional scholars are coming out of the frigging woodwork , because there's a lot of possibilities being thrown around that we have never considered or even had to consider before .
Wild , absolutely wild times . I mean what . You know . I'm not by any means thrilled or pleased to be living this part of history . I think it's an embarrassing black spot on our American history . It's , it's , it's . Everything about what's been happening is such a disgrace to this country and to us .
Us , I mean really to us , to the people who love this country and and believe in the values and believe in the order of things and and the rules
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of things . And you know , I don't know . I mean I guess maybe this is what has to happen because things have gone .
You know , our , our government has gone so far again off the rails of what it was designed to be , and you know , maybe this is what it takes to to rein it all back in and for the people to kind of take back some of that , some of that power and that say in what's going on .
And you know , we need to pretty much stand up and say hang on , this isn't what we signed on for , this isn't what we signed you on for .
And you know , I mean I guess I would hope that that means , you know , the translation of that is my hope would be that more people on the local levels will get involved and you'll get some better people to choose from .
You know , because that's where it all starts and everybody says , well , and I've said it too like I can't get involved in all that craziness . That's like too big , that machine is too huge and it's gross and it's greasy and dirty and I don't like it and I don't want any part of it . But you know where you start is you start small , you know .
So anybody watching this or any watching any of the , the political show that's been going on , and is disgusted by it , you know . I hope that it's a catalyst for them to get involved . You know , because , uh , we need some major changes . It's not going to happen right now .
It's going to be a long time , but you have to start somewhere , right yeah , and and so it's interesting too , because this is such uncharted territory Like , as an example , the constitutional scholars that I keep talking about there's , there's , and this is frightening there's there are people determining the legality right now of President Obama being on the ticket as
a vice presidential candidate , because , you know it , it's never been dealt with before . So if he goes in as the vice presidential candidate and they get elected as a ticket and then she turns around and steps aside , you know he gets three years and 360 days as the president again , which you know , we all know he's kind of been shadow governing , you know .
I was going to say not counting the three plus that he's been in now , but yeah , but .
But so people don't even know what the legality of that is at this point . So that's under discussion . Now , when you start talking about other candidates for president and then other candidates for vice president , so is it ?
You know vice president Harris running against you know Newsom , whitmer , buttigieg , all the rest of these folks , and then if they don't get , you know , if she wins and becomes the candidate , does she pick one of them to be the vice president ? Is she going into a different pool ? Are they all going to pick a ticket , right ?
So if she is the number one candidate and she goes , well , I want Shapiro out of Pennsylvania , I want him as my vice presidential candidate . But Newsom goes , well , I'm running . But I want that guy's my , you know , and then Shapiro's in the back going all right , well , I guess I'm going to be vice president for one of these two .
It just all of this stuff is out the , out the window , because we've never been here before . You know it's so , it's so unbelievable . Uncharted is like that . It's such an understatement , I know that sounds crazy .
But that's exactly . It's overwhelming in in how much unknown there is in this election , yeah , and and everything is moving at such a rapid pace simply because it has to pass . Like the clock is ticking . Like the clock is ticking . That's very scary because some very significant mistakes on purpose , by accident mistakes can happen here . And what's the recourse ?
Yeah , no , it's absolutely and again . So , even if you go back to the last presidential election , right , and you know people can argue , continue to argue about what got stolen , what got cheated , whatever , regardless of every all of that , the election was incredibly close . Ok , it was close enough that you know .
Like people are speculating , hundreds , you know , potentially just a few thousand votes turned the entire election over . So it was close .
So Literally half of America right , call it 50.1 percent of America is Up in upheaval as to who their candidate is going to be right , yeah , they still don't know who their party is backing , who they should back , who their vice president is going to be . Do they even like that person , right ?
I mean , it's all in this stage of the game , it's July , it's late July and they're still trying to figure this shit out . It's insane .
It is absolutely insane . And just to like add more insanity to it Now , you mentioned this .
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I believe last week you said something about RFK Jr jumping in and saying I'll take the job . Rfk Jr jumping in and saying I'll take the job .
Well , as always , clay is like got these prophetic visions , and this is the video I came across yesterday . Well , the Democrat Party is scrambling around to find a candidate who can beat Donald Trump . They can stop looking . I'm the only one who can beat him . If they're interested , my telephone number is on the internet , unfortunately .
Props to Clay . Props to Clay for calling that .
Listen , he's a Kennedy . He started to run as a Democrat . They told him to step aside and get out of the way and he said screw you guys . And he came in as an independent . There was actually . He said screw you guys , and he , you know , he came in as an independent . There was actually . What's his name ?
Mansion yesterday or this morning .
Actually , it was a very quick turn . I think it was last night into this morning . Last night he was like , well , hell , maybe I'll just . You know , because he changed , he walked away from the Democrats and became an independent and he said that maybe I'll just re-register as a Democrat and I'll run for president .
And then he quickly , you know , changed gears and said no , I'm not going to do that . And then he endorsed Kamala Harris , vice president Harris . So there are those things out there . You know , um , hillary Clinton's been brought up , um , as potential again . Um , there's , you know , michelle Obama's name keeps coming up .
In fact , I heard the speculation of the reason you haven't heard an endorsement from President Obama is because they are potentially prepping her to run .
I was part of that speculation . I speculated on that as well .
I definitely , when I saw that that he declined to endorse her , I was like oh geez , because I think , I honestly think that as far as the Democrat , the I don't want to say the uneducated Democrats , the just the moderate ones , the ones that don't pay that much attention , they only pay attention to the service they would love her .
They would love her because they don't care that she's never , you know , ran for office before . Like they don't care about any of that . They like the optics , you know . But speaking of optics , you're going to put Michelle Obama against Kamala Harris . Hmm , that's a little divisive . That's problematic for people . I don't think they can do that .
It's the same with Hillary .
It's the safest bet is Obama versus Kamala Harris , because you're replacing , you know , a black woman with a black woman . It's the safest spell game , bait and switch you've ever seen . Right , sure , but you know there is the . You know there is the speculation about president Obama being a vice presidential candidate . Therefore , he's not going to endorse anybody .
So that's , you know , that's all out there . But you know the kicker in all this , and you know , take it for what it's worth is it's in Chicago , which is where the Obamas are from , right , so take that one to throw that in the mix . Um , you know , it's all . All of that of that is just sketchy , as all get out , it just is .
Very sketchy .
Yeah , and again they're writing the rules as they go . People cannot , they can't , shortchange that when they go to decide who they want to vote for in the presidential election , not just in the primaries or at the convention , when the delegates get decided at the very last minute . But they have to remember that this is one of those .
Your party just decided without you who they want you to support , whether they just did and if I was a Democrat , I would be incredibly insulted . I would feel bad , you know , but but I would be incredibly insulted that they did this , you know , in such a shady way , because that's what this all looks like is . It's very , very shady .
Yeah , I mean , how can it not look shady ? And how can anybody who's paying even the slightest bit of attention not think that that's shady ? And you know the fact that again we go back to the absolute fact that they have been hiding and denying Joe Biden's mental and physical states .
They have been pretending and lying to the world and telling everybody that he's fine , he's strong , he's great , all of the things and , by the way , including Kamala Harris , more than anyone else , she's going to have a lot is going to be very , very tense moments in those debates and very , very hostile , because that is the number one question and , as a matter
of fact , the Trump campaign . Already I don't know if it was the Trump campaign , but maybe Trump supporters already put out this video .
Kamala was in on it . She covered up Joe's obvious mental decline . Our president is in good shape , in good health , tireless , vibrant , and I have no doubt about the strength of the work that we have done . But Kamala knew Joe couldn't do the job , so she did it . Look what she got done A border invasion , runaway inflation , the American dream dead .
They created this mess . They know Kamala owns this failed record . Make America Great Again . Inc is responsible for the content of this advertising .
Yeah . So I mean , this is what she's going to get hammered with nonstop and you know how is she going to answer that ? I mean , she's going to answer it . We already know . She's going to answer it in a word salad . She's not going to give any real concrete answer or explanation and anything that she could try and say , like what's she ?
going to say Well , I didn't know they lied to me too .
You were there . I'm going to have to bleep that out , darn it , I couldn't help myself .
No , you're right , though , so I'm guessing
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I'm . I'm wondering , though , is how much of that debate topic comes out amongst and between the Democrats prior to or as part of the convention , because that discussion , you know , whoever it is , pick one of the other candidates .
If they bring that up to go after Vice President Harris , they're going to destroy Joe Biden's legacy and the party leadership in the mix , right ? There's no innocent bystander in that .
If that topic comes up , then Nancy Pelosi is held responsible , vice President Harris is held responsible , schumer's responsible , the entire cabinet , all the secretaries they're all responsible . So whoever that is that brings that up if it's , you know , just say it's Gavin Newsom .
If he does that to go after Kamala , he is slamming his own party , the leadership of his own party , and truthfully screwing himself in the process , right , yeah .
Because you can't . Yeah , that's pretty much . If you go there , yeah , if they go there , it's scorched earth , right .
Yep , 100% . And speaking of scorched earth , I think that's why Vice President Harris is getting so many endorsements . Everybody knows she's an idiot , right ? She's a horrible candidate . She's probably the least electable candidate the Democrats have put up in a long time . But if they don't endorse her ? She knows everything , she's in on all the secrets she can .
And oh , by the way , she has such a horrible personality personality she would go scorched earth , or they're at least afraid that she would go scorched earth and let every cat out of the bag and all the skeletons out of the closet on her way out the door .
Yes , yeah , absolutely , absolutely . That's the only explanation . I mean , they must have weighed every option , every alternative , every possibility . And she just sat in the corner and said , right , that horrendous laugh , like you guys really think you're going to get away from me , like knowing what I know .
Do you want I should do it for cause I know somebody in that ? That comment section is really like you'd say it , like Kamala , here it goes , listen , do you really think that you can get away from me there ? It is All right , we got it out of the way , yeah .
I mean I hurt my own ears Clay , I hurt my own ears . But it's a true statement . Yeah , I mean , it really is . It's frightening that that's the way politics works , but I guarantee you there's probably some people calling the Clintons and putting together some Epstein-like plans to resolve this issue if it becomes out of control .
But it's dicey to say the least , right To not endorse her . The cleanest way they can do this is the open convention with quiet instructions to delegates on who to endorse and you know and pledge themselves to , so that they can get her potentially somebody else you know into the candidacy .
So now would there I'm sorry , would there be time , like so I mean , this is so , again the uncharted territories . So let's say , other candidates throw their hats in and I mean , is there time for them to have a debate Like how would that even work ?
It starts now , right , the convention , although is in Chicago and it's , you know , four weeks from now , the convention starts now . It actually started yesterday afternoon , right ? So this is one month of free press , free media coverage for any and every Democratic candidate .
So , whoever throws their hat in the ring at this point , everything that they say , and it's all going to be covered by the media . They're not going to have to . That's why the fundraising and the war chest stuff is probably less important is because for the next four weeks , this is all the news is going to cover . Yeah that's it .
So anybody who throws , you know who , jumps in and says I want to run for president , they're going to get coverage and they're going to get free by every major . So the convention is now the debates . Although , you know , could they put together a formal debate between now and then ? Yes , would it be difficult , probably . Could any major networks pull it off ?
Sure , they could . You know , it's . That's not the issue , because oh , by the way , the ones between Biden and Trump are already off right , right , that's not the issue , because oh , by the way , the ones between Biden and Trump are already off right , right , they set to host one , although too late , but they were supposed to do one in September .
Would that be done ? Sure , is it going to be done informally over the next four weeks , every single day , it will be about them debating about being president .
Right , it would be about them debating about being president Right , and you know how crazy that we are very likely not definitely , but very likely going to get robbed of that , of seeing what each candidate you know , having that moment where you see them .
And granted .
I mean the debates , all of the debates have devolved into just absurdity and name calling and no real substance whatsoever , except the last one , Well , yeah true , good point . Yes , right , yeah Right .
But , yes , the big party ones . You and I talked about it with the Republicans . We hated them . They were awful . It was terrible , horrible to watch . Zero productivity out of it . You got nothing whatsoever , and that's exactly what it would turn into if they ran it with the Democrats , unless they did the microphone muting kind of operation .
Oh , by the way , before I forget , did you hear there's potential ? There was discussion to pull some rhinos over . Mitt Romney's name has come up to potentially be a presidential or vice presidential candidate under the Democrat ticket Right .
Well , that would prove a lot of people Right .
You know , right ? Yep , so there's . There's that too . But so , again , everybody is exploring every option possible , because the focus is what it's beat Trump , and the reality is none of this matters , none of it . You're right , it's going to have to be . I honestly believe this . You know as much as RFK Jr says he's the only person that can beat Trump .
He can't beat Trump . Vice President Harris can't beat Trump . The only person I honestly believe who has a shot in hell at beating President Trump is Michelle Obama . I hate to say that she's totally unqualified . She's less qualified , truthfully , than Hillary was in 2008, . Right , when she ran against Obama , she at least had been a senator .
Right , obama had been a senator for even less time than she had . Michelle Obama has zero qualifications .
Zero . They just simply like her . They just simply like her and they love Barack Obama . They love him . They think you know he's their messiah and you know that would be their dream come true . So , yes , and I I completely agree with you .
I've said , I've said as much , um in other conversations about people are always asking me , which is so funny to me , um , that people are constantly asking me , like , what do I think is going to happen ? And , um , I , I think that is the only real threat and I would think that anybody from from their camps would also know that .
So , you know , unless you can find some legality why she couldn't , and unless they're telling the truth that she's really not interested , that's the wild card that we're really , that's the wild card we should be all watching for and very , very wary of .
You know , I get very agitated when I hear the you know , like the red tide type comments like no , no , no , no , no . Do not rest on anything . There is nothing guaranteed here whatsoever . And even the Kamala Harris Trump matchup here , the Kamala Harris-Trump matchup here , don't get comfortable .
Don't get complacent , just don't Bad idea . Ted Cruz said the same thing Sunday night . He was adamant last night about how we can't assume anything , how we can't assume it's a Trump victory .
He was talking about the RNC , how it was the best RNC he's ever been to , but he also said there was a feeling of victory already and he said it was the most dangerous thing he could think of was that everybody was just going to assume that . You know that it was going to be . Now , he was a little bit of that .
What he was saying was self-preservation , because he's being his seats being challenged right now . Um , they picked him as like the number one um seat to challenge , to flip it from red to blue , but he's not wrong . Like you can't assume that you know everything is everything and and trump's just going to walk through and win .
Now I don't know if you saw it , but there was the interview with president trump , uh , and you know Vice President , his vice presidential candidate , you know JD Vance , and they asked him . You know well , what about running against Vice President Harris ? What about ? You know ? And basically , president Trump is who he is . He's like it doesn't matter .
It doesn't matter who they throw out , we're going to win . You know , and you would expect him to say that .
Yeah , absolutely .
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But everybody else can't make that assumption . That is the most dangerous assumption to be made .
Yeah , yeah , I want to . You're right , I want to hear that from him . I want that conviction and that you know , decisiveness from him , that determination from him . But , yes , for the rest of us , don't rest on it , just don't rest on it .
You know I always get so nervous when people are like , eh , I don't need to , you know , I don't need to vote , I don't need to know what's going on because it's just going to . You do you ? Do ? You know , as we've talked about , I've talked about many , many times my level of faith .
I do believe fully that God is in control , but you know , we are his warriors . So you can't just sit back and let the fight happen around you . You have to be in it and , um , you know , I hope people stay in it and um , I , I hope it's done right . You know , I really would like .
We talked about last week about the the kinder gentler , kinder gentler , um approach , and and again . Of course , we don't necessarily mean kinder gentler , but we do mean a more inclusive one . You know , one of the big things from the RNC that had a big divisive reaction was I'm forgetting her name , but she's a like she's an only fans model .
She's got the tattoo across her head . It's her name's like Amber Rose tattoo across her head . It's her name's like Amber Rose , I think , is her name , and um , and that was a very , very decisive , divisive um reaction to her presence and speaking there .
And there were half the people , um , you know , sad I want to say half , but there were a percentage of people that were like she had no business being up there . Why would they invite her up there ?
She's an only fans , this that she doesn't represent , da da't represent , and to which my response and the response of many other , I think , more level-headed people , um , said and again we go . I will say it again what most of you already know I am a Christian and I'm saying this um , stop stop doing things like that .
Stop alienating people because they don't fit what you think they should fit . You know the mold that they should fit into . I don't need everybody to look and act and be just like me . I don't need that at all . In fact , I don't want that . Come on , one of me is enough .
He's asked my husband You're like one's enough , but don't alienate people who are trying to come in , who have , you know , had a change in perspective and are saying you know what ? Wait a minute , this , this is starting to resonate with me . This is making sense to me .
Let me come over and explore this and you're going to say get out , we don't like the way you look , we don't like your past . Like stop , let people come from where they're at , let them be who they are and bring what they bring to the table . It's not our job to change them .
It's our job to welcome them and to include them and just be a warmer environment for them to come to . I mean , it's just common sense . So I get so irritated when people do things like that . Like don't , don't use your Christianity as , as you know , something to repel people . It's like so , completely not .
Yeah , yeah , it's the , it's the . You know I'm more Christian than you , right , which is right there . But did you I mean to kind of , you know emphasize your point ? Did you listen to her ? Did you listen to the things she said ? She was amazing . Yeah , right , that's exactly the person that you want to bring in .
You know , it was funny to me , you know , watching and watching all of these super old white people , you know , like suburbia and you know , and they're out there and they're jamming a kid rock Right .
You know , and , and there was a lot of people talking about , you know , kid rock and you know , and , and Hulk Hogan , and like all these people , and they're like , we're like only Trump could bring in that kind of crazy mix of folks and really have the place just be like an awesome party , which it was . But again he got his spike .
He got a great media spike out of it . He got a great donation spike out of it . Everything is good . That ended on Thursday , the resignation on Sunday and it's all flipped on its ear Right . So , and he's not , truthfully , going to get a lot of coverage over the next four weeks , he's just not . So he's got to . You know he's got to continue to campaign .
He's got to continue to generate media presence , because it's not going to come organically , because there's too much crap going on in the on the Dem side to that . That he's got to keep into the media and make sure people it's not like they're going to forget him .
But you know it's very easy to get tied up in the soap opera , the blue soap opera that's going to go on over the next four weeks .
Absolutely , absolutely , yeah . Everybody stay focused , stay focused . Absolutely , absolutely , yeah , everybody , stay focused , stay focused . Oh , my goodness . Well , you know the second week in a row where we could only cover , you know , the umbrella of one topic and , of course , all of the bits and pieces that are part of it .
But you know , we're okay if y'all meaning the news cycle , if y'all want to take a chill . It's not going to happen . We it's not going to happen . We know it's not going to happen . This is just going to get crazier and crazier . I feel like we're at like the halfway to three-quarter way up the roller coaster and you know we're just getting ready for right .
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Listen , it's been a crazy week . It's going to continue to be crazy . Hopefully we'll get to many topics next week instead of just one big topic with a whole bunch of subtopics underneath . But we love having you guys and you know happy to have you jumping in and especially in the comments section .
That's something we enjoy every week , whether it's Facebook or YouTube or any place else , but always happy to have you guys along for the ride and be the conductor on this crazy train leading up to the election . So , as always from me , keep moving , keep shooting .
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