1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to ook f Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the home bunker, Folks, 3 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: My god, what a difference so we make. I am 4 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: recording this back from a few days off, and I 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: have to tell you that feeling recharged, re energized, hopeful, 6 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: these things cannot go unsaid as to being important when 7 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: we're trying to, you know, save our democracy in our country. 8 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: I thought for a while that just talking about the 9 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: consequential nature of the presidential election, talking about all of 10 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: the bad things that Donald Trump and the Republicans are 11 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: set to do if in fact they regain power, was 12 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: going to be enough that fear was going to be 13 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: a great motivator. And what I've realized since the seismic 14 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: shift of Joe Biden stepping aside and making way for 15 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris is extraordinary. People need hope. People 16 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: need not just to feel like, oh I want to 17 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: go and have a beer with said candidate, but they 18 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: need to feel inspired. And it is harder to invoke 19 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: inspiration than it is to invoke fear. For better or worse, 20 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been a master at inspiring his cult 21 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: into doing some of the most ridiculous shit, like wearing diapers, 22 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: like putting on huge maxipads on their ears during convention, 23 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: like buying his gold sneakers, or his version of the Bible. 24 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 1: He has been a master at the grift and making 25 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: himself the avatar for their grievances, for all the ways 26 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: in which America has done them wrong, because we're no 27 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: longer centering and I should say this that it's still 28 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: really not true, but in their minds, it is that 29 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: we're no longer centering whiteness and maleness as the default 30 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: in our society. That we have made considerable advances towards 31 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: creating more space and room at the table for other people, 32 00:02:52,919 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: that through laws passed around bodily autonomy, around financial independence 33 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: for women in particular, That there has been shifts in 34 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: this country over the last fifty years. Now, while all 35 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: of us look at that and we say, wow, look 36 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: how far America has come, Republicans look at that and 37 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 1: they say, oh my god, look how far America has 38 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: strayed from its white, Christian centered values. What I am 39 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: loving right now is something that is so fucking small, 40 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: and in hindsight, you're just like, this is what it 41 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: took is that Republicans are finally being labeled as weird, 42 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: not crazy. I am happy to use that term, but 43 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: it's also you know, offensive to some, but weird. Your 44 00:03:52,720 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: preoccupation with women's uteruses, with cat ladies with no fault divorce. 45 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: It's weird. The behavior is odd, right, Donald Trump hugging 46 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: a flag, as Shapiro points out, He's like, I love 47 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: the flag, but I'm not gonna like march over to 48 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 1: it and like and hug it. That's weird behavior. And so, 49 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: according to ABC News, the quote weird message appears to 50 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: have given Democrats a narrative advantage they rarely had when 51 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: President Joe Biden was still running for reelection. Trump's campaign, 52 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: which so often shapes political discussions with the former president's pronouncements, 53 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: has spent days trying to flip the script by highlighting 54 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: things about the Democrats it says are weird. And you know, 55 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: many people are saying, it is incredible that the Trump 56 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: vance team and ticket have been finding it almost impossible 57 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: to come up with a credible response because they tried 58 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: to say, oh, the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris 59 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: laughs and has joy is somehow weird. Really, I think 60 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: the fact that Donald Trump has been on the political 61 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: scene for over a decade and we've actually never seen 62 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: him laugh, unless, of course, he is poking fun at, belittling, 63 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: dehumanizing other people, then maybe he'll give off some type 64 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: of sinister, you know, cartoon villain type of laugh. But 65 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: this is not a party that has anything to do 66 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: with joy. We watch that at the RNC. So when 67 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: you are gonna juxtapose that between visions and memes of 68 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris, you know, enjoying conversations with children, 69 00:05:54,080 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: marching in college bands, being at the LGBTQ parade, just 70 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: like enjoying people and laughing. They think that that's weird. 71 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: But JD. Van's talking about the fact that people who 72 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: don't have children shouldn't have the same amount of rights 73 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: and pay more taxes and that's supposed to be some 74 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: normal shit and doubling and tripling down on it. Or 75 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: how about most recently, Donald Trump being interviewed by that 76 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: Ingram person right over at Fox and she's trying to 77 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: clear up for him the fact that he told Christians 78 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: that if they vote in this election, that they'll never 79 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: have to vote again. And she says to him in 80 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: the interview, trying to force feed him the right lines 81 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: so that he doesn't seem like the dictator that he is. 82 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: She says, well, you know, the left is trying to 83 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: make it seem as if you know, there's never going 84 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: to be another election again. So can you clarify what 85 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: it is you said to the group of Christians that 86 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: you were speaking in front of. Donald Trump goes off 87 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: on one of his Trumpian fucking tangents and says exactly 88 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: what he said in front of those Christians, Well, Christians 89 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: don't really vote life. That they need to understand that 90 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: they don't really vote, and that if they vote this time, yeah, 91 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: they're not going to have to vote again because everything's 92 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: going to need to be fixed and they won't have 93 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: to worry about voting. What have you ever heard a 94 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: former president or a candidate for president ever talk about 95 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: the fact that people won't need to vote ever again. 96 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: That isn't something that democracies or somebody that believes in 97 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: democracy utters. So Ingram tries to redirect him again and 98 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: again he's like, nah, I got this and continues on 99 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: with the same bullshit rhetoric of being a dictator. That 100 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: shit is weird. When you're rambling about Hannibal Lecter as 101 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: if that's a real person as opposed to a character 102 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: from Silence of the Lambs, that shit is weird. So 103 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: the fact is that it's taken this revival of energy 104 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: with a new candidate for Democrats to somehow find their messaging. 105 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: Now we are less than one hundred days away from 106 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: this election, and it looks as if we've gotten some spirit, 107 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: some hoot spot, if you will, in our ability to 108 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: take on Republicans and meet them where we are. Because 109 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: the thing is, we're not trying to name call in 110 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: the way that let's say, Tennessee representatives are trying to 111 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: call Kamala Harris everything outside of her fucking name, whether 112 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: it's colored, whether it's ding dong, whether it's not that smart, 113 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: not that bright, blah blah blah blah blah. All they 114 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: are doing with this continued line of name calling and 115 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: race baiting is doing Democrats a job for them. Even 116 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: on Fox you have anchor saying, well, do you think 117 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: that this kind of name calling is going to actually 118 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: bring people in? And they don't care because they all 119 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: think that they can somehow model Donald Trump, and that's 120 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: going to mean winning for them, folks. It doesn't. It 121 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: won't because the only person who apparently can have that 122 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: kind of deep character flaw and still continue to rise 123 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump. Everybody else that's tried to impersonate him loses. 124 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: So I love the direction that this campaign is taking. 125 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: And it's only been a little over a week that 126 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: we've had this seismic shift. But the fact is that 127 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: the campag can feels younger, fresher, and revitalized in ways 128 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: that seem very much in touch with social media and 129 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: like culture and are being able to activate and energize 130 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: people across age spectrums because we are seeing things that 131 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: we've never seen before. There's a town in Florida. It's 132 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: called the Villages, and it's like some retirement village I 133 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: believe for like very old, wealthy white folks, and they 134 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: like drive around in golf carts, and I feel like 135 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: it became really popularized like these folks, because they became 136 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: like uber Trumpers. Well, most recently, these golf cart having 137 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: folks organized a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris. Over 138 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: the course of a week and a half, we have 139 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: seen calls that began with we win with black women 140 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: to we win with black men, to white women answer 141 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: the call, to Southeast Asians, to Indians to now you 142 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: have the Latino call coming up. The white Dudes call happened, 143 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: and Elon Musk was so upset with the White Dudes 144 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: call and the fact that they were bringing in over 145 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: three million dollars that he suspended their Twitter account during 146 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: their call and the hashtag because that's how fucking scared 147 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: these people are, because you know, they are getting into formation. 148 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: Every single group is getting into formation behind Vice President 149 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Why because they don't want fascism. So whether 150 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: it's disabled voters for Kamala, right, cat ladies for Kamala, 151 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: white dudes, white women united for Kamala, women united for like, 152 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: all of this is coming together because guess what we 153 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: all agree on now. Democracy is on the ballot, which 154 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: it's been, but we actually feel like we can do 155 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: something about it because we feel like we have a 156 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: candidate that we can get behind. And folks, I will 157 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: say this, Look, you know, back in twenty twenty I 158 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: didn't want Joe Biden, but I also in twenty twenty 159 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: four didn't want Joe Biden to step aside because I 160 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: was like, unless they are going to unify behind Vice 161 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris, I want no parts of it. I 162 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: want no parts of a fucking open primary at convention 163 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: that will be a fucking disaster and ensure that trumps 164 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: and wins. But for once, holy shit, they listened and 165 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: Joe Biden set the fucking tone from the moment jump 166 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: and said, oh no, Vice President Harris, that's our girl, 167 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: and that's who we're getting behind, and everyone fell in line. 168 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: We've never seen Democrats do that. So now here we 169 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: are where the messaging is like, Okay, Republicans are weird. 170 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: Run with that shit, do what you may, and guess what, 171 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: it's not that hard. It really is not that hard, 172 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: because Wow, some of the shit that comes out of 173 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: these people's mouths is just wild. Right, it's wild, and 174 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: it's ridiculous and it's dangerous. But to say that it 175 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: is weird and have that stick, it's absolutely fucking brilliant. 176 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: Here is some other thoughts on this. It said many 177 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: Democrats comments appear to be allusions to a twenty twenty 178 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: one interview with Vans in which he slamms some prominent 179 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 1: This is again coming from ABC News. Some prominent Democrats 180 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: without biological children, including Harris as childless cat ladies with 181 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: no direct still in America. Because again, this is what 182 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: they think. This is not just a JD vance off 183 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 1: on the Fringes commentary. Their policies align with the rhetoric 184 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: that is coming out of his mouth. But they go 185 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: on to say, but Harris's own characterization of Trump as 186 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: weird may date back even further. In his twenty twenty 187 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: one book, political reporter Edward Isaac Dover wrote that Harris 188 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: reportedly gathered with AIDS in twenty eighteen to prepare for 189 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: her own presidential bid. As staff aimed to prepare her 190 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: for how she'd react if during a debate Trump stood 191 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: over her, as he did Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 192 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Harris reportedly equipped, I turn around and say, 193 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: why are you being so weird? What's wrong with you? 194 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: So while the right decides to melt down over this 195 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: like this is just it, you don't have to really 196 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: dig that deep for people that are as deep as 197 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: a puddle. Do you know what I'm saying. I feel 198 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: like Democrats have been overworking themselves over the past ten 199 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: years to try and distinguish themselves from an ideological makeup 200 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: that is in fact, just fucking weird. It is handmaid's 201 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: tail weird. It is nineteenth century weird. When you're pulling 202 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: up and digging for policies that were passed in the 203 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: nineteenth century in the twenty first century, yeah, that shit 204 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: is weird. So here we are where in I believe 205 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: in the next couple of days, I think what some 206 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: are looking at is around August seventh for the campaign 207 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: to name a running mate as we head into convention 208 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: at the end of August, and you know, many people 209 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: have weighed in. I've weighed in in terms of like 210 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: who makes the most sense. I think that it is 211 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: obviously going to be a white man. I think that 212 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: it is obviously probably going to be someone from a 213 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: battleground state, which makes sense. I stand on the fact 214 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: that I do not think that it should be Shapiro, 215 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: only for the reason that we need him to hold 216 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: down Pennsylvania and be a very staunch surrogate and advocate. 217 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: But he needs to hold down the state during this 218 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: critical election. We cannot just hand that over, so I 219 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: take him out of it. I think that Kelly Mark 220 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: Kelly in Arizona is an interesting pick. I think that 221 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: for his astronaut background, as military background, his gun reform background, 222 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: I think that he is a good candidate. Other folks 223 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: are looking at Waltz and Basher, and I don't think 224 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: that we gain anything with Basher. Waltz is an interesting one. 225 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: Governor of Minnesota, another important state. He has won multiple 226 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: times when he was a member of Congress in a 227 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: rural red district. So I think that that adds a 228 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: lot of flair into this campaign. Rural red in comparison 229 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: to the liberal from California. So you have to look 230 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: at this ticket. And I disagree with some folks that say, oh, 231 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: vice presidents don't matter. Is that right? Tell that to 232 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: John McCain and Sarah Palin. It absolutely does matter. Tell 233 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: that to Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Because Donald Trump 234 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: needed white evangelicals who weren't trying to fuck with him, right, 235 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: And then so you get this weirdo Mike Pence, whose 236 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: staunch religious zealot to be on your ticket. I think 237 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: that tickets matter. Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Barack Obama 238 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: was in the Senate for a hot minute before he 239 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: ran for president. He needed someone with the wisdom and 240 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: with the sensibility and with the favor that Joe Biden 241 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: could bring in for him. So that vice presidential pick mattered, 242 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: and I think that this one does too. So I 243 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,719 Speaker 1: think there are a lot of things to weigh in 244 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: about what would propel this ticket, which has gained so 245 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: much energy in such a short time. You don't want 246 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: to do anything that is going to be a drag 247 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: on the ticket when we need as much momentum to 248 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: continue to propel us into early voting, which starts in 249 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: some places folks in September. We're heading into August, right 250 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: when convention is over, which is starting I think like 251 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: August nineteenth or twentieth, right and goes during that week 252 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: we're coming out. You blink, it's Labor Day. You blink again, 253 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 1: and early voting starts in some states. So election is underway, 254 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: Like we're waiting on November fifth for probably I was 255 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: going to say the results, but we know we're not 256 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 1: getting results on Member fifth. I think it's important for 257 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: us to acknowledge that the choice is going to matter, 258 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 1: as well as all of the surrogates that are getting 259 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: out there, all of the organizing that is happening from 260 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: the grassroots, all of the money that is being raised, 261 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: and as Vice President Kamala Harris is saying, this is 262 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: a people run campaign, it is people engineered, and she 263 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 1: says that her administration is going to be people centered 264 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: and people focused. So this is why you are seeing 265 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: Republicans just grasping at straws trying to figure out their 266 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: path forward because their entire campaign was built around Joe 267 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: Biden being too old. You subtract Joe Biden from the scenario, 268 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: and now they don't know what to do because, like 269 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: Joy Reid said recently on Twitter, I wish that her 270 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: colleagues in the media would have the same fucking energy 271 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: around Trump's age now being the oldest person to run 272 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 1: for the presidency that they did around Joe Biden, because 273 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: those issues still remain, but now it's just not on 274 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: the Democrats side. So we'll see. But as of right now, 275 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: I haven't seen all of the barrage of stories now, 276 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: you know, pivoting to how old Donald Trump is and 277 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: how he seems to be in cognitive decline, you know, 278 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: because Hannibal Lecter and all, and that's just like the 279 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. I'm gonna leave it there today, 280 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: my dear friends. That is it for me on Woke 281 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: af And remember the damn shop is open and I 282 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: am feeling hopeful as buck, and so should you, because 283 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: the future does in fact feel woke. So head over 284 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: to Danielmoudy dot com and scoop a t shirt, a tote, 285 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: something that signals, as we're headed into this election season, 286 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: that the future is indeed woke as always. Power to 287 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke 288 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.