Pardon The Insurrection
Where we discuss the ongoing Congressional and criminal investigations of the January 6 coup orchestrated by the former President. And because insurrection wasn't enough, we'll also cover the Department of Justice espionage investigation, investigations relating to other members of Congress, and more. Don't worry, we're not handing out any pardons.
Pardon The Insurrection
Crowds For Kamala And Gaffes From Trump
What if Labor Day wasn’t just a day off but a testament to the power of union-negotiated benefits? We kick off this episode with a nod to those who enjoy double pay on their day off, before diving into the contrasting campaign strategies of the Biden-Harris team and the Trump campaign. While Trump remains notably absent from the campaign trail, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are drawing massive crowds and delivering compelling speeches. Harris is making waves with her discussions on the opportunity economy and support for Social Security and Medicare, evoking memories of Obama's electrifying 2008 campaign.
Our second segment unravels the evolving and genuine bond between Biden and Harris, countering conspiracy theories and underscoring their mutual respect. Unlike some past presidential-vice presidential dynamics, Biden's unwavering support for Harris sets the stage for potential historic achievements. We also touch on the crucial role of Biden's pro-union stance in energizing their campaign and propelling Harris's future political ambitions. The energy and enthusiasm surrounding their joint efforts highlight the momentum they’re building as they move towards the upcoming election.
We then contrast this energy with the current political climate surrounding Trump. His controversial comments and lack of campaign events are starkly different from Biden and Harris's proactive approach. We critique Trump's mishandling of COVID-19, his flawed understanding of tariffs, and his humorous yet concerning misconceptions about technology, like the Bleach Bit software. Through these discussions, we underscore the importance of accurate media coverage in political discourse and highlight the absurdity of some political statements, reinforcing the need for truth and clarity as the election looms closer. Tune in for a mix of serious political analysis and moments of levity that make sense of today’s complex political landscape.
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One, two, three, four to all of our podcast listeners. I hope you got to take it easy and if you didn't, I at least hope you got double pay.
Speaker 2:Got that time and a half yeah, time and a half Double pay.
Speaker 3:Double pay.
Speaker 1:Where I work, thanks to our union, I believe we get double pay on most holidays if we do happen to work. So kudos to all the labor organizations out there that are making life slightly better for the average American, who has to get out here and slave away every day and can't just sell shoes and Bibles and hats and digital trading cards and also physical cards with their suit if you buy $7,500 worth or something, yeah, anyway. So it's campaign season, it's in full gear at this point. Uh, you know, normally we'll talk about all of the social or legal issues surrounding the trump campaign, or you know the state of the biden and now harris campaign and apparently, um, the number of stories from last week dragging over into this week will try and cover some of that.
Speaker 1:But we have a lot of developments in terms of campaign events from the Harris campaign. She was out on the campaign trail as of Monday along with President Biden and Tim Walz. Trump is nowhere to be found. President Biden and Tim Walz Trump is nowhere to be found. You know, I don't know what their campaign is doing, but clearly they're not engaged in trying to win this election with votes because they're not actually doing anything. All their ground operations have practically come to a halt. They're not spending any money. Laura Trump's supposed to be running the RNC. Instead she's out here trying to be a pop star.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to see or hear that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, taylor slow as we like to call her, because nothing about her is swift. Yeah, but let's take a little peek at what Kamala Harris was up to out on the campaign trail earlier this week.
Speaker 4:Because, of course, that's the nature of who we are as Americans. We have dreams. We can see what is possible, unburdened by what has been. We have aspirations, we have aspirations, we have ambitions, and the system that is a good system is one that supports that and allows people the opportunity to go where they can see and imagine themselves to be. That's what I'm talking about when I talk about an opportunity economy. We fight for a future where every senior can retire with dignity, and so we will continue to defend Social Security and Medicare and pensions.
Speaker 1:Amen, sis, you tell them. So she's got her policy message ready to go. Of course, it's been truncated for a crowd there. It's an apt speech to give on Labor Day. Been truncated for a crowd there, it's an apt speech to give on Labor Day. She's been out there killing it. I mean like her arenas are slam packed Again, like people are making this comparison to 2008 Obama. It's actually crazier than 2008 Obama, Just because we I mean in terms of the number of people at these rallies, especially like that one in Savannah Georgia where, you know, clearly it's surrounded by a bunch of red districts. They didn't have enough room. Yeah, Harris is out here doing her thing. She's not the only one. She was flanked by President Biden also earlier this week, who's out on the campaign stump along with her. I, you know, consider him to be, at this point, her secret weapon. She's got a president to join her out on the campaign trail.
Speaker 6:She'll be a historic pro-union president. So, folks, I got one more job to do together. Let me ask you are you ready to fight? Are you ready to win? Are you ready to elect Kamala Harris our next president of the United States of America and, in the process, are you ready to make Donald Trump a loser again?
Speaker 1:Biden's funny. I don't know what their relationship was like, you know, early on on the campaign trail in 2020. On the campaign trail in 2020. But clearly, over the course of the past four years, they have what appears to be grown fairly close. Why are you smiling at me like that, Carol?
Speaker 2:Oh, I was just thinking about how Biden really didn't drop out of the race and how he's dead and that guy's AI and it's a deep fake. I was just thinking back to that. You remember Everyone's like he's definitely dead. That call, where he called in, was fake and like no, no, that's a fake guy. Now Everything is AI.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like they kill him every year at least once, because I remember in 2020, so remember like everything shut down because of covid. So biden stopped campaigning in that week. They were like setting up the gear in his house to do those broadcasts, um, from his basement, famously uh, you know it was. It was the leftists out there being like, oh, where is joe biden? He must have died, covid must have killed him off or something, anyway. And then, once he won the election, they were like it wasn't actually Biden, these were the Trumpers.
Speaker 3:It's a.
Speaker 1:Joe Biden body double. He's not actually the president, it's always something.
Speaker 3:One thing I did notice like when they hugged she had her head on his Like. That was such a real and genuine moment. It's like she really he's her mentor in this and you can see the genuine admiration, love and respect that she has for Joe Biden. It is palpable, it is. It's not, oh, because let's be real.
Speaker 1:She don't let nobody else do no shit like that, if you've noticed. I mean, I know it's probably not something, anything. It's not anything a lot of people pay attention to, but like that kind of not not like intimacy in terms of Well, yeah no, I get it, but yeah.
Speaker 3:Familiarity.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she doesn't.
Speaker 3:Outside of her family, like outside Outside of her family.
Speaker 1:She don't let people, like, get into her physical space. Yeah, like that in that way. And again, like I said, like this is just in terms of noticing some growth between 2020 and now, like they developed a real relationship. Now, I know, you know, biden and Obama had it rough the first couple of years because it was readily apparent that Obama didn't pick Biden because they had the best relationship. He picked him because he thought he was like the safest possible vice presidential candidate and that's look totally legitimate and understandable reason to choose a vice president.
Speaker 3:I mean rarely, do you see? I mean look at Bush and Bush one and Reagan, they weren't that either you know and I that is one thing that is different about the Harris Walls ticket is they do seem to be very spirits yeah, they are and I see that. But then who can't, who can't not love him? He would wear her down if she tried to be Stone Cold, he would have worn her down either way he would have done it with a turkey leg and some.
Speaker 3:Doritos. He probably would have crushed those Doritos and rolled that turkey leg in him. I mean indeed prod it.
Speaker 1:He's an adorable dude, like I can see again after the pick. It was so obvious that he was the right choice that I was like there's no. There was clearly no mistake that she could have made in choosing any other potential candidates on the list, but he was definitely the right one. But yeah, and also we have a video of Biden destroying Trump on his union stance. That I thought was like oh yeah, if this had been, if we had just gotten more of this Joe Biden at the debate, he'd still be the candidate and probably be on his way to winning reelection. But hey, you know, I guess you have one bad day.
Speaker 3:It cost you the chance to be president it wasn't the one bad day, it was the weeks of the hammering of him it wasn't because if everybody had just moved the fuck on day or two, couple days, and then people stood solidly behind him? Then, they would have moved on because they would have seen that it wasn't working, just like they are with the 50 things they've tried to throw at walls in harris. But when they started seeing people falter and waver they were like, okay yeah, turn into a.
Speaker 3:They threw the dog a bone basically, and then they took it and ran with it until he dropped out.
Speaker 1:Well, this is the Biden that I wish we would have gotten on debate night. But here we are.
Speaker 6:Should be a historic pro-union president.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, that was the wrong one. Hold on, let me try again.
Speaker 3:You know what. It may sound crazy, but I honestly think that. But the way that things played out, however we feel about the way they played out, this is the moment that was supposed to be for this moment in time, because, while people would have stood behind Biden, I don't think that it would have been this type of energy, this type of enthusiasm, and that, right now, is what's going to get us over the finish line. I think that he basically has set Kamala up for 2028, because I don't know how things would have fared at the end of his presidency, moving into 2028, if Kamala would have been where we would be. Then this is this is our moment.
Speaker 1:We'll tackle that in just a second.
Speaker 6:Folks made a lot of progress. Kamala and I are going to build on that progress and she's going to build on it. I'll be on the sidelines but I'll do everything I can to help. But look, I'm not joking when I say this is not a joke. When I said this when I was running in 2020, a lot of people didn't believe me. You did, but you didn't believe me. It's all at risk because of Donald Trump. Literally With a stroke of the pen, he can get rid of a lot of this. And do you think this guy gives a damn about your pensions? I'm serious. Do you think he'd lose even an instant of sleep over it? Do you think he cares about all the work you do every day and how hard it is? Do you think he cares about good paying jobs for hard working people who built this economy? Hell, he regards picket lines. He'd rather cross one than walk one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, damn, spitting that hot fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wish we had gotten that guy a month and a half ago, but so, in terms of excitement, I think you're like. Here's the thing. I don't know what it is about the Democratic Party needing to fall in love with their candidate job, which is typically in the last. Well, in my entire lifetime has never been a Republican, but I do think so. Biden has advantages, or would have had advantages, that Kamala Harris doesn't, but obviously Kamala Harris is a different candidate than Biden and she has advantages in some places where he doesn't. I think, in terms of just being straightforward, it would have been a lot easier to convince the same 81 million people who showed up to vote in 2020 and cast their vote for Joe Biden to just show up in 2024 and cast their vote for Joe Biden. The psychological hurdle of getting people to vote for a new candidate it's a real thing. That's why campaigns even exist in the first place, but that's also why you know, typically, in most situations, incumbents win.
Speaker 2:Well, it's typically why, when I'm like supposed to call around for like a contractor or like anything, if I face the slightest hurdle, I'm pretty much done, and then I'll pretty much always just go with the first one, you know or psychological hurdles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or the one you always call Right, like once you have an established relationship with one contractor, you're like, well, they did pretty good work.
Speaker 2:I'll go a year without getting my haircut because I just don't know who to call.
Speaker 3:I had to get a replacement title for my car and it's only five dollars and I could have done it online and just sent it through. But where I registered my vehicle my Honda and then my Mercedes, who I've always dealt with I paid 25 dollars because they're they're uh an authorized contractor of the DMV. But I'm just the creature of habit and I know they've got to make their money you know, for don't let have it.
Speaker 2:Have it get out, there come on.
Speaker 3:I went with her because I know the service is good, patty knows what she's doing, etc. So I just rolled, you know, rolled with that. But. But yeah, I get that. But however, however, the difference in this is it's not like Kamala was manifested out of thin air. She was the vice president, so that did give her some credibility, some cachet, some senator state AG in the biggest yeah and she has been there. She has been present in the room there. She has been present in the room.
Speaker 1:she has met with world leaders? She has. So she's got that. And let's not like, let's not get it twisted biden and bardo, one of the biggest campaigns to rebuild a country, uh, in its economy, you know, in the last hundred years she's on, she's been a part of every single meeting, every single decision process, like she's got experience under her belt in a way that no other candidate would at this point. So it's not that she's not right for the job. It's just the difference between you know the incumbent president versus you know asking people to vote for a new candidate even though she's already been on the ticket.
Speaker 1:Obviously, and also again, racism is a thing, sexism is a thing, you know, patriarchy is a thing. It's just going to be a lot more difficult to get people to vote for a woman, specifically Black slash Asian.
Speaker 3:And that's so crazy because there's like right now, there's like 30 female heads of state around the world. Do you know what I mean? I mean america, england, had margaret thatcher before a woman being, and then, and then, even if you go back to like the monarchy and it's like, oh they had queen elizabeth ruled for 50 freaking years.
Speaker 1:Well, she just lived a long ass time, mary Queen of Scots.
Speaker 3:Like you know, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II, and then you've got yeah, the second.
Speaker 1:Well, she just became queen at a young age. That's why she just kicked it so long.
Speaker 2:But yeah, you know, I think the campaign should try to work both sides of her ethnicity. They should also be like well, the trump campaign says she's not black. So they could be like kamala harris, not black donald trump, kamala harris, very beautiful donald trump.
Speaker 1:But on the flip side, though, like this excitement about the harris campaign is real, like there is real, tangible information to suggest that, while you know some people generally won't vote for her, that might have voted for Biden, there are a lot of people who possibly weren't going to vote at all in 2024 election that are going to come out to support Kamala Harris. Voter registration is out. The polling is is flipped. Kamala Harris Voter registration is out. The polling is flipped. She's now leading Trump in a number of highly respected polls by more than the margin of error, and in swing states she's, if not tied, leading. So the Harris bump's been real, especially post convention.
Speaker 1:She's out here killing it All things considered if Biden was going to drop out of the race. This has been the best possible turn of events, and it's largely thanks to, you know, his quick endorsement of her and her deciding to step to the plate and knock her campaign out of the park. Biden wouldn't finish there, though. He did have a comment about his role in saving pensions in unions around the United States.
Speaker 6:I'll tell you something. Kamala and I are damn proud that we protected the pensions of over 1 million workers and retirees. Remember all those years of promise we're going to do something about it? Well, damn it. We finally did, with the Butch Lewis Act, something about it. Well, damn it. We finally did with the Butch Lewis Act. Over 52,000 workers and retirees across Pennsylvania loaned or benefited from that. Not only did we restore the full amount, we got them their back pay as well.
Speaker 2:We made them whole again.
Speaker 3:I like this guy, I don't know. I think he could have been president you don't say but yeah, um.
Speaker 1:so, personally speaking, I work for a company where the hourly employees are unionized largely and Biden saved my pension, so kudos to that guy. Like anybody out there who says this guy and doing anything for the American people is a fucking lie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can tell no, you're absolutely right, and he saved the team's pensions too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I'm saying he saved their pensions.
Speaker 3:And so when people say what has he done for black people, Unions are a huge factor in the building of the black middle class back in the day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well no not even back in the day, just still the unions, unions and government employment.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. So you know what I've really. What pisses me off is that people feel like, because he did not say, this bill is specifically for you black people, yeah, that he didn't do. What do you think lifting children out of poverty is? What do you think the you know, investment in education is when 70 percent of those in public schools are black and brown? You know, fighting against the vouchers, fighting for the funding, the fully funding of our public schools? You know, fighting against the vouchers, fighting for the funding, the fully funding of our public schools, you know? So it's like missing with that bullshit.
Speaker 1:Just raising the minimum wage to $15 for federal employees and contractors. That was like. It doesn't say it at the top of the paper, but if you just look at the percentage of federal employees and how we, I think we're close to 50-50 split, even though we're, like you know, 12% of the population or so that largely it disproportionately benefited black people. So if you're like, oh, biden's never done anything for the black community, you would be drastically wrong. But outside of the Harris campaign, trump's not been doing too many campaign events here lately. He's been super low energy and doesn't seem to have the motivation or the commitment to get out on the campaign trail. You know the media was obsessed with Biden's age and why he wasn't out campaigning more, and now Trump isn't doing anything at all. The media is not covering that. But he did do an interview with Mark Levine, or Mark Levin, I'm not sure. Yeah, mark Levin? I don't know. I'm thinking Zach Levine.
Speaker 2:Low energy Trump.
Speaker 1:Yeah, low energy Trump. Well, he did do an interview.
Speaker 2:People forget he didn't want to do any work while he was president either. That's true.
Speaker 1:No, he largely spent it watching TV, running his businesses and at his various golf resorts.
Speaker 2:And when I say people, I mean his voters. Like obviously we know he wasn't. The best case scenario when he was president was that he wasn't doing anything that day. That was the best case scenario.
Speaker 1:But so he did this interview on Fox News with Mark Levin and just went off the rails totally. Just a lot of insane comments underreported by the media, and we've got numerous examples for you, starting here.
Speaker 5:Whoever heard. You get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it. You get indicted and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted and your poll numbers go up.
Speaker 1:When people get indicted, your poll numbers go down. Well, first of all, that sounds like a confession to me. Going on national TV and telling the host that you interfered in a federal election that you're currently indicted for and you had the right to do it, that sounds like basically confession.
Speaker 3:It's not only a confession, it's also permission, because they've been screaming that Joe Biden has been interfering in the election with this election interference when it comes to all of his court cases According to Joe, you have every right to do it, yeah, pick a lane, bro, is it okay or not?
Speaker 1:if it's okay, then you're. The accusations you've been living against biden fall super flat. Um, also like he talks, talks about whoever's heard of getting indicted, and then your poll numbers go up. Uh, well sir, your poll numbers are going down. You're now losing to Kamala Harris by somewhere near the margin that you lost to President Biden by mean. Obviously, technically you don't become a convicted felon until sentencing, but he's been convicted of multiple felonies and the media has just totally erased that narrative from the way they present the news coverage on biden was old it.
Speaker 1:It kills my sentencing. I thought we were gonna. I thought we were going to get it in August the 18th yeah, it got postponed, thanks to the Supreme Court, until September, and we were just a few weeks away from that. But also we have a video here of Trump attacking Kamala Harris, just in classic fashion, just not extraordinarily tasteful.
Speaker 5:Like I've never seen anything like it. Look at the way she fought justice.
Speaker 1:Okay, that is the choppiest clip I've ever seen. Let me mute myself.
Speaker 3:And it keeps stopping when he's doing his fish lips. Have you noticed? That he doesn't really open his mouth all the way when he's talking like this. That is so distracting to me and I've noticed that in his past few like when he's talking and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's weird, let me, let me give it people like like, I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 5:Look at the way she fought Justice Kavanaugh. The viciousness and the violence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just calling her vicious and violent. I mean, Trump's got this weird thing where he feels like if there's any woman with any kind of spawn whatsoever that it's somehow like an atrocity, like just totally disrespectful towards women in general.
Speaker 2:The violent comment is also just fucking disgusting because it's like violent against the man, is it? Violent like holding down someone while she screams and you try to. You know, rape her at a party no good. I'm talking about Kavanaugh here.
Speaker 3:Sorry, I'm just offended she treated Mike Pence worse and they're fucking saying sorry or trying to defend him, and apparently she treated Mike Pence worse than anybody.
Speaker 1:We'll get to that in just a second.
Speaker 2:Anybody asterisk.
Speaker 1:It's not as though she sexually assaulted someone at a department store, like one presidential candidate we know oh wait, that was Trump. But yeah, trump went on to say even more insane, ridiculous things, like he didn't appreciate the way she treated Mike Pence.
Speaker 5:But I agreed to all these things that I normally wouldn't agree to. Now they have Kamala, who they say has many deficiencies, but she's a nasty person. The way she treated Mike Pence was horrible. The way she treats people is horrible, but the way she treated Justice Kavanaugh during that hearing in the history of Congress, nobody's been treated that way in the history of Congress.
Speaker 3:nobody's been treated that way. Tanji Brown Jackson, that's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 2:The history of Congress.
Speaker 1:How many?
Speaker 2:hours of emails. Testimony from the emails lady.
Speaker 1:Wait, I'm sorry If we're talking about Mike Pence being mistreated, whose supporters were at the Capitol on January 6th Channing Hanks, Mike Pence those weren't Harris supporters who continually called him a pussy, called him a bitch, tweeted about him, said he was weak, he didn't have courage yeah, when he was in the dining room in the Oval Office on January 6th and he was told that his supporters were Channing Haynes, mike Pence, and he responded with you know, maybe he deserves it, or something along those lines.
Speaker 1:So yeah, like this idea that he he thinks kamala harris is just wrong for the way she treats mike. Get the fuck out of here. The reason why mike pence is no longer his running mate is because trump tried to have him killed.
Speaker 2:Get the fuck people would ask that question you want the media to do their jobs well, do you think he, if mike pence were, like you know, willing to keep getting kicked over and over again, um, that trump would have had him? I mean, I know it costs a little bit to change the signs, a couple letters, but do you think trump would have had him? Because he knows he's not gonna at the end he probably wouldn't. You know, gone to well, gone to his head, he'd do whatever.
Speaker 1:But I believe I'm gonna throw the election to him I believe that if pence's family hadn't been in danger on january 6th, yeah, pence would have been kissing his ass and would have signed right up for, you know, trump, trump-pence round three.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not asking if Pence would have agreed.
Speaker 1:I'm asking oh, if Trump would have picked Pence again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sorry. I did say if Pence had agreed, but it was like the antecedent Then do you? Think that Trump would have had him.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Unless he promised like oh, I promise, promise, promise. Oh, I would have relished in his weakness and his crawling and his groveling, and then he would have took his foot and put that lifted heel and pushed my head over the edge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Thank you for the leg show Carol. No, yeah, thank you for the leg show Carol. Not the only reason why Trump went with Vance, but that would have been a disqualifying factor if Vance wouldn't have. But clearly Vance said multiple times that Pence made the wrong decision in not certifying the false electors. But yeah, that would have been the requirement.
Speaker 3:I honestly don't think that Trump had planned on picking a vice president at all.
Speaker 5:I'm saying he was going to be the president.
Speaker 3:I don't. If he didn't have to pick one, I don't think he would have. I don't think that he would have. I don't think he had any plans, because he obviously put no thought into it.
Speaker 6:No, you know, because in his mind.
Speaker 3:What does a dictator need a vice dictator for? That's not a thing.
Speaker 1:Right. No, he definitely picked Vance at the last minute. I'm sure he'd been way, he'd been weighing his options, but they didn't know vetting Vance whatsoever. And you know this because every other you know. Every 24-hour cycle there's a news story about some horrific, stupid shit JD Vance did or said, or some picture of him in a wig or in drag, and they didn't even bother to like, check his Facebook page back to college. But again, like the insanity with Trump, it never stops. There was obviously more. I mean it just.
Speaker 3:Or maybe they did check and there was nothing bad, just some regular, you know, assault If Vance was a Democrat, they would have been able to tell you what type of fucking baby formula his mom used. Yeah, because that's the kind of oppo research they do on Dems, you know, except for. Look at George Santos, look at RFK, look at Vance. When it comes to their own, they're just like man.
Speaker 1:I mean, we got a guy down here from Tennessee that that's a house representative, that just had his house raided by the FBI. He is the George Santos of the house. But back to Trump in this interview with Mark Levin. Just again, he wants credit, he wants credit for COVID.
Speaker 5:We had the greatest economy in history. Then COVID came in and we did a great job there. Never got the credit for that, but that's OK. But that was so bad for the whole world Fifty trillion dollars in damage it caused. Every country was devastated, including China.
Speaker 2:They were just a later version of it, china was a later version of being destroyed.
Speaker 1:China, who felt the immediate aftermath of? Yeah, I mean, even though the virus originated in China? Yeah, I don't know what credit he you know?
Speaker 3:what is so crazy is that he but see, you know the Chinese people. Is that? He but see? You know the chinese people, though? Whenever they're sick, like when people like you can go to disney world, you can go, and then you will see, you know asian people in masks, whether asian, american, or you know tourists, and you would see them wearing masks because they actually don't want to infect people if they're feeling sick. In general.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there wasn't that kind of pushback and there wasn't a social stigma involved with the yeah like it wasn't that, but it's so.
Speaker 3:I mean he does get credit for covid yeah, he gets all the credit for covid. I'm giving him. I'm placing all that credit squarely handling it poorly, not, you're telling people not to mask, telling people to go out it's not good credit, but holding all those rallies he killed the dude from papa john's um he's dead papa john, I mean not papa john's um, oh damn, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:We don't even talk about his ass I was like damn, I missed that no, the, the black guy, the only republican yeah that's it. I forgot his ass. I forgot his ass.
Speaker 3:Well, he was the president of, like, the restaurant association or something.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah. So trump was out campaigning with him. He got sick with covid, died and they never talked about him again and he never went to his funeral.
Speaker 3:Not one person.
Speaker 2:He was busy. Remember when he tried to kill Joe Biden, knowing he had COVID, when he showed up late to that debate, refusing to test.
Speaker 1:Yes, his whole family did.
Speaker 1:Original presidential debate. That was the debate after which Chris Christie ended up in the hospital for a couple of months and he likely would have died and Trump would have never talked about him again. But yeah, the credit COVID gets for the credit Trump gets for COVID is mishandling it. I know he wants to take credit for the vaccine operation warp speed, but I got to tell you I didn't get the Moderna, the Moderna vaccine, so he didn't have anything to do with anything. So he didn't have anything to do with anything remotely revolving around, I won't say the eradication of COVID.
Speaker 2:But returning to the country. Yeah, and considering I was in New York and he was having a dick measuring contest with my former governor and he didn't explicitly threaten to withhold vaccines from New York, he basically did. Yeah, I just want for, for clarity sake, or for just what's the word no transparency yeah, I think you know that there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did also threaten to uh withhold vaccinations from blue states, uh, without them doing him a favor, uh, ukraine style uh.
Speaker 2:But and like literally all he did for that initiative was say like yes, do the vaccine do?
Speaker 1:it right? I think some federal funding went towards the creation of the vaccines.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying no, but he didn't personally do. He didn't procure the federal funding or, like all he did was not go out of his way to thwart the efforts for a vaccine to be developed.
Speaker 1:I can't tell you what he did do so once the first initial mass batches of the vaccine were shipped to the United States. They didn't get distributed correctly and they lost something like a million lost oh yeah, they like expired, they had all. Yeah, well, they lost a million, and then, yes, a number of other doses expire obviously the rich were getting the multi right and then between the transition.
Speaker 1:after he lost the election, they refused to communicate with the Biden campaign about their vaccine rollout plan and, as it turns out, when Biden took office on day one in January, they discovered there was no rollout plan. So Biden had to build the entire plan the recovery plan from scratch, because the Trump administration didn't do shit. But in terms of that interview with Mark Levin, the carnage continues, because it just never stops with this person, and this is clear. Well, actually this is part of a rally that he held last week in Wisconsin. That's just further proof of Trump's insanity.
Speaker 5:You take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don't eat bacon anymore and we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down, you know this was caused by their horrible energy Wind. They want wind all over the place, but when it doesn't blow we have a little problem.
Speaker 2:And when there's no sun, we have a little problem, because the sun will never come out again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently he believes wind is killing your bacon.
Speaker 2:They want nuclear power. But what if there's no nuclear that day?
Speaker 1:What if there's no nuclear. You can't have bacon because of wind. I don't even know what the connection is there. I think what he is. Look, I can't.
Speaker 2:The connection is that they're both things that relate to concerns of environmentalists. He doesn't get the connection. That's the problem.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's where I think he made the tangential. Yeah, I was actually going there. This might be the tangential relationship between the idea of pork consumption and green energy. I think someone must have explained to him somewhere that one of the contributors to global warming is methane production, which is largely a byproduct of the livestock foodstock industry, which also contains pig farms. And maybe he's saying that to cut down on environmental pollution.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, you can't, you can't. Saints blame that.
Speaker 5:No, listen, he doesn't understand that connection but he's been told these things he can recite some piecemeal shit back like a child would.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like a five-year-old.
Speaker 1:Like a five-year-old's understanding of someone explaining him the relationship between methane production and climate change, and he just merged that with windmills.
Speaker 1:And they also give you cancer, according to him. So that lets you know his level of acuity on these topics. You know, ty, when you said you wish the media would just ask you more questions like why has no one asked him about the relationship between bacon and bacon and windmills? Just to get, just to get his thoughts, like not even to just trash his campaign. But we have yet another video here from Trump Back to the Mark Levin interview, where he just totally does not understand how tariffs work in any fashion whatsoever.
Speaker 5:It's not a tax on the middle class, it's a tax on another country. If you look at McKinley, who was actually a great president, he made the country rich it's probably the richest we ever were, relatively but he taxed countries for coming in and taking our jobs, for bringing us their product, for taking away our factories because they would make it and come in, and he taxed them. It was called a tariff and it's not a tax on people, you know.
Speaker 1:So I don't even really it is eventually a tax on people. I don't even really it is eventually a tax on people. If you place tariffs on foreign goods, what happens is retail, like retail outlets or whatever the industry is, it raises the price on what these companies pay for these foreign products, and the way they compensate for that increase in costs is by passing the increase in costs off to the consumer, by raising prices. So, yes, it's actually a tax on the people, but the reason why you do need tariffs in some instances is because there are industries that are highly prominent in the United States and to compete with foreign made products that are often made to lower standards, you do need to place tariffs on those items in order to help propel American companies to some degree of financial stability, much like Biden did for the steel industry, right stability, much like Biden did with the steel industry, right. So the tariffs the Biden administration placed that were targeted to certain industries where we have companies producing those items in the United States.
Speaker 1:Trump wants to place tariffs on everything, like literally everything, from food, clothes, steel, microchips, software, anything you can think of. Trump wants to tariff, place a tariff on it, and that would equate to basically a tax on the American people, to something like thousands of dollars a year. Just it would be insane. Like he has no idea how would he learn nothing from?
Speaker 1:the farm that he had to bail out he was in. He was in the White House for four years.
Speaker 5:China.
Speaker 1:How did he not learn anything? How did he not learn shit about how the world works?
Speaker 3:It seems impossible that he's Trump, so it's just like he doesn't he never learned about.
Speaker 2:I know it's not technically a zero sum game, but it pretty much is. I mean, there are no, no, no one is gonna lose the money themselves. Didn't he go to business school? In name, I guess, or on paper one of they should be so embarrassed I think his professor said he was the dumbest student he ever had should be embarrassed that wharton should be embarrassed that they gave him a diploma.
Speaker 1:It's funny because I think there's literally a video of Trump saying that his professor said that he was the most intelligent student that he ever had, and then the professor is on another video saying Trump was literally the dumbest student he's ever had. He's ever had. But again, it's just the insanity, doesn't there?
Speaker 5:as Trump was asked to comment about Hillary Clinton and well, in her emails. And here is his response. Now, this is the United States. When it came to Hillary, you remember, they subpoenaed her stuff and she bleached it, that's where you.
Speaker 1:just, it's basically acid, what he thinks. So Hillary Clinton after she was subpoenaed for the emails, she sent copies of those to the FBI and then she erased the originals after being told by the FBI that it was okay to do so. She used this program called Bleach Bit, but because it has bleach in the name, Trump thinks he like, thinks she like acid washed the server that her emails were stored on.
Speaker 3:He said that acid went everywhere. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:I'm so fitness.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, man. Look, if the mainstream media actually covered the shit that he says and not just like watered it down for him and prepackaged it into something that sounded normal, dew would have been polling in the 30 percentiles. You know, a year ago he probably wouldn't even been the nominee because they refused to do their jobs. I mean, this is where we are, but at least he's now currently on track to lose. But yeah, just the idea that Bleach Bit is actually like a chemical and she just poured it on the server, this dude. Hey man, I don't, I just I don't know it's, it's, it's incredible.
