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Harris Has Walz Closing In On Trump
Ever wondered why anyone would munch on frozen jalapeno poppers? We kick off our episode with this peculiar habit before diving into a fresh review of M. Night Shyamalan's latest film, "Trap." From unexpected plot twists to its overall reception, we not only break down Shyamalan's newest work but also touch on his past hits and misses. But that's just the beginning. We then switch gears to dissect the remarkable start of Kamala Harris's presidential campaign, highlighting her strategic moves and the enthusiasm surrounding her rallies. Plus, we unpack the conservative media's role in labeling Harris as "unlikable."
Right-wing media's influence on political narratives is another hot topic on our list. After the January 6th events, narratives about Joe Biden's age and Kamala Harris's likability bled into mainstream consciousness. We compare Biden’s approach to promoting Harris with Trump's management of Pence during the pandemic, all while reflecting on Trump's surreal presidency and its lingering impact on today’s political climate. The conversation gets deeper as we explore how these media-fueled perceptions still affect voter behavior and public opinion as we head into another heated election season.
Finally, we bring you an in-depth look at Kamala Harris's choice of Tim Walz as her vice-presidential pick. From his powerful rally debut to his relatable personal attributes and strong stance on gun safety, we discuss how Walz could appeal to independent voters. We also tackle the hurdles facing Trump's campaign—public desensitization to his scandals and the media's normalization of his controversial actions. As we close, we ponder whether the opposition can dig up any dirt on Harris that could resonate with voters, given the ongoing barrage of issues tied to Trump. Don't miss this robust discussion that covers everything from quirky snacks to the future of American politics.
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I used to like frozen food still frozen, and I might still like that. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I just haven't been doing it Hard pass, thanks.
Speaker 4:That's some JD.
Speaker 3:Vance type shit.
Speaker 2:That's a no Carol. I liked frozen jalapeno poppers.
Speaker 3:I'm out.
Speaker 2:Oh, like cooked, though, no, I had one, I would eat them frozen.
Speaker 3:Alright, I'm done, I'm going to count to six. Jesus, I would eat them like frozen. All right, I'm done. All right, I'm going to count to six. Jesus Christ, I just watched a serial killer movie and now I'm starting to wonder if everybody around me is a fucking serial killer eating frozen jalapeno poppers Frozen, jesus.
Speaker 2:It's like I mean it was the cream cheese kind and it had like I mean I've had jalapeno ice pops that were good. It's got the cream and it like melts. I've never had like a spicy ice pop two.
Speaker 3:Hey, this is the night this is carol. This is ty you're listening to the bar in the interaction podcast, where apparently one of us eats frozen jalapeno poppers while they're still frozen, like a serial killer, uh, speaking of which I watched trap the other day.
Speaker 2:One of us is obsessed with serial killers and thinks just regular weird stoned behavior is is indicative of evil okay, fair enough.
Speaker 3:That's a decision you make, either when you're a serial killer or you're extraordinarily high.
Speaker 3:But I did watch Trap the other day at the theater the M Night Shyamalan movie you know I wouldn't necessarily think about this guy who takes his kid to a concert, but the concert is a trap for a serial killer. On the loose Plot twist, the guy is the serial killer and he's trying to like weave his way out of it. Uh, again it takes a plot twist, again towards the end. Um, with the conclusion we're not getting to the specifics of the spoilers, but um, it is an okay movie. Again, like if you rock with m9 shamalon, I guess, I guess you'll like it. But like it's just like a movie on its own. It's got some flaws and some issues, but I mean it was entertaining. You know he's.
Speaker 4:I don't know, I don't think he's really been putting out anything really stellar.
Speaker 3:He ain't in his this wasn't his bag, right. And then the last one with the end of the world at the. The cabin thing, uh, it was fine. Uh, not some again. I'll watch twice, but it was okay. Now the superhero movies unbreakable, uh, glass, all of those. Those are pretty dope anyway, let's get off of that. Um, because we've got another weirdo to talk about in jd vance shortly, but in case you missed it, somehow kamala harris.
Speaker 3:In the campaign they rolled out the red carpet for her vice presidential pick. Tim walls, the governor of minnesota, minnesota, um, they've been on fire, like you. You know the welcome reception that he received from the party, at least online and at the rallies. It's been off the charts. I mean, it's just indicative of the Harris campaign continuing to just knock it out of the park at every turn. I don't think I've ever seen a presidential campaign start off like this and then just never make a mistake. It's been some incredible shit to watch, especially like the democratic party, because you know we're all about it's just unforced errors, um, I think that, um, she has really done a lot to dispel or debunk how people try to paint her as not likable.
Speaker 2:It's undeniable at this point. If you look at all the hoopla around, her and the excitement and everyone is. I mean, look at her rallies, that's like. Yeah off the charts.
Speaker 3:No, you're excited, I get it. It's some off the charts Obama level shit. Like she get it. It's. It's some off the charts obama level shit. Like she had the rally in uh, was it michigan today that the registration was so like out of this world that she moved into like a uh what? Was the airplane hangar yeah a flight hangar just, and then that thing was blowed out like it was incredible, uh it looked like great.
Speaker 3:I know he's not happy, mike lindell, no but so let's, let's take a second to tackle that thing. You said the kamala harris is unlikable, quote, unquote. So do you know where that like frame of reference came from?
Speaker 3:no, I don't know where it originated like trump fox news. So one of the things so we thought we were talking about this, uh, offline, but, um, one of the things that happened immediately after the 2020 election. Well, basically in 2021. Uh, once fox news got their footing after january 6th, is the uh, the like, the attacks, the angle that fox news immediately started to take surrounding, you know, biden, harris and their campaign was so the trump is old, too old. That originated on fox and then the kamala harris is unlikable. Those were the two angles that they chose and they stuck to and like the problem with fox news and like the right wing, you know, media industrial complex, disinformation, industrial complex. The thing is because, like they have such a massive echo chamber but is an echo chamber nonetheless, like they have such a massive echo chamber but is an echo chamber nonetheless, like they can influence so many people.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Into, like, if you spend enough time pumping this information into people's heads, it will have an effect on their behavior.
Speaker 3:But because their audience is so large, eventually those narratives they spread into the mainstream consciousness and, like with Biden's age, mainstream media eventually picked up on that and, as you saw, they wouldn't let the narrative go until he was out of the race.
Speaker 3:Obviously. But the Kamala Harris is unlikable thing that originated on the right, just kind of this amorphous thing that you just tell people enough, right. Just kind of this amorphous thing that you just tell people enough and over a long enough course of time they started to believe it's true, even though there wasn't really any evidence to support that I mean, other than some polling. But again, like, the polling is influenced by the narrative that the right wing was putting out there. And now that kamala harris is in the spotlight, like that, that narrative has been shattered and part of the reason why she didn't have as much of an opportunity, um, just to do public facing events in the way that she's doing now that she's the front runner and the democratic nominee is like, obviously one of the more subtle attacks on on biden was that harris was like secretly running the white house oh yeah oh, pulling his strings.
Speaker 3:And just like with obama when biden was president, there's always this tenuous balance between, like, how do you promote your vice president without like letting that person overshadow what you're doing while you're in office? I mean, it's just, that's just the dance, especially when you're a democrat. But I mean, trump was keenly aware of mike pence's like public perception and that's why trump didn't let him do shit like. The one time he tried to let pence do some shit, he was like oh yeah, well, we'll let like, since we the pandemic is a hoax, we'll let you like do the pandemic press conferences. And I think pence did like two of those. And trump was like oh fuck that bro, I'm taking over. And then that's how we got our infamous.
Speaker 4:You know, inject yourself with like we had everything from demon sperm to horse haze, to bleach injections and I remember the first one.
Speaker 2:I was almost like, alright, he's handling this okay. Because the first one he's like, yeah, we already have a website tracking every case in real time. And I was like, alright, and we have all these measures in place. And I was like wow and I looked it up and I'm like, oh man, none of that's true no, yeah.
Speaker 3:And then yeah, he was saying all of this shit we're gonna have like a task force, we're gonna get all these companies together and like none of that it was. Not only was it not planned, it never happened, but that was also like when he was saying, basically, if you don't test for it, it doesn't exist. I mean, look, it's been a whirlwind experience.
Speaker 4:The more that.
Speaker 3:I mean Biden was great.
Speaker 4:He was a great president. He did a really good thing for the American people. But when I go back over the years, this has been my little thing right now is to like share his bat shit craziness on Facebook.
Speaker 3:Who?
Speaker 4:comes to us, wow, yeah, and then I'll go and I like videos that I'm able to download, I'll download. And I was like this fool said this and most people didn't see those things because Fox never covered that. You know what? What I mean? Like they would never cover the ridiculousness. And you know, even if you heard him say, like if you were at a rally or listen, it was like there was some kind of disconnect. And I think that now people are coming out of their fever dream and they're snapping back into reality, like oh shit, we almost fucked this up, like okay.
Speaker 3:So there's a lot of people who like, who voted in 2020 and then just didn't pay attention to politics anymore and now that, like, the election's in full swing again, part of the like the polling is just weird because people one want a memory hole 2020 just because, again, obviously for a lot of people it was traumatic or frustrating. You just don't want to think about like what a fucking disaster.
Speaker 4:People don't want to admit that they voted for him in 2020 that's why they go. I voted for him in 2016 because 2016 is like okay, I can forgive you for that, because we really didn't know, but they low-key like voted for him in 2020, so we want to act like it never happened. Yeah, like he just said something and then the very next second, say something else.
Speaker 3:If he didn't just say what he said before, like 30 seconds ago, kind of thing more importantly, at least concerning politics, like I think part of the reason why trump was polling fairly strong is because people, just like in the news, didn't help with this at all.
Speaker 3:Just memory holds the whole trump experience. Like we just stopped talking about how crazy the fucking shit was. They just moved on and pretended like the shit didn't happen. But you know, biden dropping out of the race I think that shit went up like a fucking you know, like the bat signal or something and then people were like, oh, this is fucking serious. They started paying attention and now everyone's being reminded of just how insane it was when trump was president, how not insane it's been while biden has been president, because clearly they haven't had to pay attention to politics and like, oh, that shit is crazy and that's why, like his polling is collapsing overnight. It's not just the Kamala effect, but like people being confronted with reality having a huge, or at least a seemingly huge, impact on public polling at least, not that I rely too heavily on that.
Speaker 4:I just feel like that something just snapped and I think the pressure that we were putting on with the Project 2025 thing was a start, and thank you again to Raji Henson for using the platform.
Speaker 3:Put that respect to her name. Thank you, Raji.
Speaker 4:Thank you people were like whoa. And then people started googling.
Speaker 3:People started like and they're like this is, this is nuts and that they put it in writing is insane too, but I mean, yeah that they put it.
Speaker 4:Did you see how christopher rufo was having a meltdown? He was on one today. It was like back to back to back tweets against um wall, but they were so unhinged.
Speaker 4:I think Allison had posted and it was like this dude is losing his mind, like they were complete. I mean, he's already a lunatic, but they were completely unhinged. He was, he was. He was posting Trump style like back to back to back. It was wild. I was like good God, this man is is really losing it, really losing it because they're starting to see their, their racist utopia that they've been hoping for all these years.
Speaker 2:Their dreams are fading. Their dreams are fading fast.
Speaker 3:And part of the reason they're fading is just because of the obvious success of the rollout of the Harris campaign and now her vice presidential pick. They don't have anything on, they don't have any attacks against, but let's give him his flowers here. He was at the announcement rally the other day and he came out of the gate swinging pretty strong. I mean, I was impressed as well.
Speaker 1:If you've yet to see this, Now, donald Trump sees the world a little differently than us. First of all, he doesn't know the first thing about service. He doesn't have time for it because he's too busy serving himself. Again and again and again, trump weakens our economy to strengthen his own hand. He mocks our laws. He sows chaos and division, and that's to say nothing of his record as president. He froze in the face of the COVID crisis. He drove our economy into the ground and, make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump.
Speaker 4:That's not even counting the crimes he committed.
Speaker 3:You can read his face he nods out of the park. Um, when I saw the list of potential candidates that, yes, was going to pick as a running man, I was like, well, none of like of all of these. There is no miss. So she couldn't have made a bad decision. Yeah, upon seeing this dude handle, uh, that first rally, I mean he's knocked out of the park and there's just so many things about this dude to make him like the perfect counterbalance to trump's pick of jd vance. It's insane. It's like they built this dude in a lab just to beat jd vance's ass into a just to be.
Speaker 3:He's like everything that vance wanted hillbilly elegy or shillbilly lethargy, whatever.
Speaker 4:Shillbilly feligy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, something like that, whatever he wanted to embody in that book, lily bless fill believe. Everything that Vance wanted that book to imply like you get that in this guy. He's like Midwestern to the core. You know Lily White, nice wife like dad, energy, football coach, teacher, military vet, hunter like loves.
Speaker 2:Like literally yes.
Speaker 3:He loves cats. So JD Vance is out there pissing off every cat lady. Like you know, tim has a fucking cat Even drinks Diet Mountain Dew Like it's like it's the thing of like Vance's nightmares. It's crazy.
Speaker 4:One thing that I have noticed is how close he is with his daughter they seem to have. She influences him a lot in a good way. Like I would think he was talking about the gun violence, I think it was something like after another mass shooting or something and she's like dad, you have to, you have to do something you know, yeah and he's.
Speaker 3:I think spasm's pretty. Not stringent but effective gun safety legislation in min. I mean he's on to everything you would want in a running mate that you would want to compliment Kamala Harris this guy brings to the table.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think that they are a great pair and I do what is he 661?
Speaker 3:661 is one of those.
Speaker 2:I thought he and Kamala Harris were the same age. What is he? 61?, 60, 61, one of those.
Speaker 3:I thought he and Kamala Harris were the same age.
Speaker 4:They're like two years apart, because she's 59. So he's like two years, yeah, a year or two older, not too much, but yeah. But Josh Shapiro was on fire. Oh my God, I listened to his speech like five times. Yeah, but how he. He wasn't bitter or butthurt. I think that Josh Shapiro has a great future ahead of him, a long future in politics, and just that media was trying to do this thing, that where they were because he didn't get selected as the VP.
Speaker 3:They're trying to create some kind of chaos inside the party by, like pitting walls and Shapiro against each other. I mean it's clearly not working. But like Shapiro addressed it basically immediately at the rally, uh, where he was saying, look, he's here to serve his state and help Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris and Tim walls become the next leaders of the United States, I mean, put that to bed.
Speaker 4:And I just With Pennsylvania being a battleground state, I think that Josh has needed more in Pennsylvania right now. All right, on the one hand.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I mean, if he was on the ticket, will you instantly win Pennsylvania? So that, and that was one of the things I was thinking about when she picked Walls. I was like, well, so like, walls is great, but he's not gonna automatically win you a swing state, but there's, he's not gonna hurt the campaign either.
Speaker 4:You know, I was just I mean I honestly think that he is. I think that he's gonna sway, uh like even more like independence and he's gonna have a broader appeal for sure, and that's why they're getting out there doing two rallies a day and really like because they don't have so much time.
Speaker 4:But when I started to notice him, he started coming up in my feed little videos, and then people were like, oh man, this guy is is cool. And then I was like, oh, let me learn a little bit more about this guy, because he didn't have the name cachet, not a kelly or shapiro he does now, but yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 4:And they're, they're really, really trying and they're bringing up a dui he got 30 years ago and trying to say that he abandoned it. And it's like I'm just, I'm done with arguing with trolls, because this attack on him that he's like an alcoholic, no, that he abandoned it. And it's like I'm just, I'm done with arguing with trolls, because this attack on him that he's like an alcoholic.
Speaker 3:No, that he like had an incident and it was an inflection point for him and then that's what caused him to stop drinking. Stop drinking, yeah, that's like obviously you want someone who can share. A story like that is like here's an example of where I was making a mistake in my life and I fixed it and look where I am now.
Speaker 2:So the two biggest things about him admitting to a mistake is something that Trump doesn't understand. You got there Most.
Speaker 4:Republicans don't understand that.
Speaker 3:Although, to be fair, trump does understand not drinking. Say what you want to about you know his undisclosed drug habits. One of the things is noteworthy about him is he just doesn't consume alcohol whatever, I'm not giving him that much credit for that.
Speaker 2:Like the, other parts that he didn't have any awareness of the situation or humility. It was the the humility or being being able to admit fault. That's more important, you know no, it is.
Speaker 3:I was just saying a thing, but I was going, I was also saying I did nothing wrong, that's his, that's his line I was also getting to this point about how you know there's the you know political saying like well, what guy would you want to sit down and have a beer with? Well, for one, trump doesn't even drink beer. So like, that's one thing, but also, like you, we've never seen him laugh. Why would you want to have a beer and have a conversation with someone that that's never laughed in public? But so the two things I think most noteworthy about walls above all else in like this is like generally speaking, like why he'll have such universal appeal is again, I'm not white, but you know I do know white people and this guy is every white person's dad. Like in the most generic, like boilerplate sense of like this is like if you're watching a sitcom.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's a sitcom white dad 90s sitcom yeah, and then two and this is hilarious.
Speaker 3:It's like Kamala Harris was sitting around thinking like I wonder who would be the perfect VP pick for me. I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to do what Obama did. I'm going to go get Joe Biden. She basically picked a younger version of Joe Biden, without the verbal gaffes, and I think you know again, this is one of the I mean I guess you have to do like the cost benefit analysis. I could pick a swing state governor and sort that state, or like I have this other guy over here who I know have you know this broad mass appeal. It'll complement the administration in ways that maybe you know a Shapiro or a Whitmer wouldn't, and that's where we ended up where we are. But it's amazing pick Turned out great so far.
Speaker 3:And I can, no, no, go ahead. No, I can just like I can see what Harris was thinking and like to see that come to fruition practically overnight. It's just an incredible move. I mean again, I've never seen a campaign like this, where it's just not a mistake made.
Speaker 4:What were you about to say? Well, I was going to say that, even though they're only, you know, one or two years apart in age, she presents younger, yeah, and I think that because he does, you know, present like the fun uncle grandpa vibes from him, and I think that's going to appeal to older voters. I think that they might would have been oh no, well, anyway so ty has unfortunately dropped off, but we're still here.
Speaker 2:She'll be back.
Speaker 3:She'll be back, but uh, something just to play off where ty was going. It's a perfect example of like this weaponization of age that was used against joe biden being flipped and used in a positive way to help the harris campaign, because while he does present as older, it's like in a welcome back. Uh, I don't know what you were saying, but I was. I was getting to this point based off what you were saying. It's like the pick of walls was like a great. It's a great like. It's like jujitsu right, it was a way or judo where they took all of this negative energy surrounding the perception of age of joe biden and then she flipped it and she's turning it into like a tool that's working for the campaign instead of against it because, like you said, walls does present older, but it's like in the fun grandpa way yeah, yeah, exactly, I, I think that it will be like I said, like you know, the older voters, I think that will.
Speaker 4:Like I said, they might would be a little suspect of josh shapiro because of age, and then Kamala, I don't. I don't know if that there would have been as much of a balance. Yeah, on the ticket, and I think that Walls presents, he gives that balance he's.
Speaker 3:He's the compliment that probably didn't exist in any other.
Speaker 4:The other candidates on the show yeah, no, I, I would definitely, uh, definitely, um, you know, agree with that. But yeah, I mean just I. I, when she picked him, the more I learned about him, I was like this I think this was the best choice. I think this was the best choice and it's I mean. I don't want to say I mean, of course, nobody is is perfect, and I don't want to jinx it and say you know, the sky doesn't have a you know anything. But it's not like he's lived a life, just a milquetoast life, like he's done so many incredible things. He has had some experience, like getting his DUI, and I think that's a great talking point, a way to say like, hey, you know, I messed up, we make mistakes, take responsibility for that, hold yourself accountable and do better. And he did do better, you know, yep, she did 10 out of 10 pick.
Speaker 3:So Kamala Harris. Um, after her, you know, airplane hanger rally, which was just fucking incredible. Um, she held another rally later in the day, where she was heckled by a protester, but sadly for that protester, that likely resulted in an outcome that they weren't fond of he intends to surrender our fight against the climate crisis and he intends to end the affordable care act.
Speaker 4:You know what? If you want donald trump to win, then say that, otherwise I'm speaking that's that mom.
Speaker 3:Look yo. All right, say whatever you want to about kamala harris not having biological children. Uh, that's some black mom. Energy for your ass, right there, right, um yeah, I mean, just like I wish like Biden had been able to handle protesters in such a manner, just like being stern and straightforward. Hey, look like we ain't playing no games around here. Y'all go do your homework, eat your dinner and take your asses to bed, but so what was the protester saying?
Speaker 2:Was that discernible?
Speaker 3:I was one of them. Ok, one of them pro Hamas kids probably, I don't know. Just trying to cause a ruckus.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know how they like try. They never protest Republicans. Have you noticed that, even though Republicans are far more hardcore on like Israel annexing Gaza? And anyway, one of those knuckleheads she just took him out but in terms of what the Trump campaign is doing, I don't know if you've seen any clips of Trump's rallies here lately, but it's almost as though, like we saw that video where the bullet clearly did not hit Trump I don't know how his ear was bleeding, but it wasn't from a bullet. Well, it's almost as though the bullet actually did hit him and he's dead.
Speaker 3:And now he's living in purgatory because his rallies are just like their graveyards. Like he gets up there, he rambles for an hour about some incoherent bullshit. There's like no energy, no crowd, no juice. He was just. You know he was trying to trash Kamala. I can't remember what he was saying. He was just you know he was trying to trash kamala. Or I can't remember what he was saying saying like kamala loves the mobs, that they were, you know, destroying the country in 2020 and she just wanted to let. And then like no one's in the back, like there's no excitement or or applause and anything. It's just like it.
Speaker 2:It makes me sound like an evil. Muppet.
Speaker 3:It's an evil.
Speaker 3:Muppet now I mean, he does kind of sound like an evil Muppet. Uh, but yeah, his campaign rallies are dead and, like, I've never seen as much excitement at a campaign rally, possibly since 2008,. Uh, like what we're seeing at these Harris rallies. But what that does bring me to is, well, clearly, the Trump campaign had a plan set in stone. Right, they were going to ride this Joe Biden is old Hunter Biden laptop slash criminal thing, criminal conviction thing into the ground. And now that that's no longer an option, they've yet to pivot. You know, not only do they not have anything, you know whatever measly attacks they're trying to sling towards Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. Now they're either not sticking or they're backfiring, and I think at this point, what we're seeing is campaigning is basically over. It is what the campaigns are, what they are now. Yes, they're going to continue to campaign until the election, but really what we're seeing is, I think, like just the beginning of how this is just going to continue to be like a landslide mean, maybe not a landslide election, but they're like the harris campaign is just going to keep piling on and part of the reason why I think, when trump loses in november, we're going to look back at this and and like, if there's anyone to blame for trump's laws at this point, it's actually going to be the media, and I'll tell you why in just a second.
Speaker 3:So one of the things I'm just I cannot stand the media for, it's just this incessant need to kind of normalize all the trump's insane behavior from. You know the pandemic response to, like his first impeachment, where he was trying to get ukraine to open a sham investigation into Biden there's a running theme here trying to abuse his position to slander the Biden family. The January 6th thing Trump was convicted on 34 felonies. His business was convicted on multiple crimes. He's lost numerous civil suits to the tune of half a billion dollars. You know, found liable for sexual assault, practically raped the way it was described, except, you know, the only detail that changed it from rape to sexual assault was that, you know, eg didn't know if it was his finger or his dick because it was that small right like the, the media is just like brushed on by all of this crazy shit and they've just like, so they've gone through this effort of normalizing these insane like like I. I don't even know what tier of scandal it could possibly be, but like this is like God tier level scandals.
Speaker 2:We've had all outrage exhaustion too, and we're like some of us are forgetting what the outrage is, but they're not reminding us.
Speaker 3:Exactly. Here's where that's going to bite Trump in the ass right, Because people have become so he's going to talk now.
Speaker 2:They can't keep him silent now. He's campaigning for president. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3:It's not even that. It's because the media has made sure that so much of the public is desensitized to this insane shit. The only way you're going to get a scandal to stick to the Harris campaign, if it's even beyond that right. Whatever their plan was to smear the the biden campaign. Since they no longer have that to rely on, they're not going to be able to come up with anything that sticks to harris, because nothing is going to match the levels of shit that people have already become numb to yeah, they're like oh um doug cheated on his first wife, yeah who cares yeah
Speaker 3:they happy family. Now it's like what, yeah, yep, they don't have anything. And then whatever they do come up with, it'll be so minute and unimportant that it nothing's gonna stick. And then that's on top of the fact that, like once the jd vans rollout happened, they got hit with the weird label and they're not going to shake that either.
Speaker 3:And I think, in terms of, like, how the campaigns will go, it's already set in stone at this point. I mean, obviously, I guess you know there could be something that changes. But again, we just got, you know, hit with the news of Trump taking that bribe from, likely taking that bribe from Egypt, and that barely making a ripple in the news headlines. But we'll get to that later. So, like, if it's not anything like that, it's over in terms of, like, the Trump campaign having some kind of comeback. But they're gonna try and I'm sure they'll try and find something that sticks. But I don't think, if it's nothing that the mainstream media will pick up on and hammer the same way that they did with Biden's age, they won't, they don't have a shot.
