1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Maybe they've convinced him to pick a woman because in 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: the end, after he loses the next election, they figure 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: it's harder to hang a woman than someone like Mike Pence. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: It's Thursday, March fourteenth, and there are two hundred and 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: thirty seven days remaining until America decides who will be 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: the next president of the United States. The next major 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: event that's going to happen in the presidential campaign, at 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: least on the calendar, is Donald Trump's selection of his 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: next vice presidential nominee. Of course, the last one was 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: Mike Pence, who for four years put on one of 11 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: the greatest and most adept sycophantic performances in all of 12 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: human history. It was astonishing. Let's watch Mike Pence sitting 13 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: next to Trump in a eating when Trump, for whatever reason, 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: puts his glass of water on the floor. Let's watch Pence, 15 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: the man that Trump ultimately would try to hang for 16 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: not overturning an election and making Trump dictator. What's so 17 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: amazing to watch is the servility in Trump's total dominance 18 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: over Pence as a man. It's astonishing psychologically. In the end, 19 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: though they built the gallows, the magi extremists were unable 20 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: to find and to hang the vice president, or to 21 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: assassinate Mitt Romney or Nancy Pelosi or anyone else in 22 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: the United States Congress from that day of sedition January sixth. Now, 23 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: Trump is back at it. He's going around the track again. 24 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: But one thing he'll do differently in twenty twenty four 25 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: is he's going to run with a woman on his ticket. 26 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: Maybe some of the people worried about Trump's excesses around him, 27 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: who whisper in his ear, you know, maybe they've convinced 28 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: him to pick a woman because in the end, after 29 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: he loses the next election, they figure it's harder to 30 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: hang a woman than someone like Mike Pence. The question 31 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: about who Donald Trump is going to pick a vice 32 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: president will rage across the headlines and be the source 33 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: of hours of fevered speculation across cable news. There are 34 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: fallen candidates, competitors like Vivek Ramaswami and Tim Scott, both 35 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: of whom will make the list, but neither who has 36 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: any chance for this election. Donald Trump will pick a woman, 37 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: and he'll pick a woman because that's the most cynical 38 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:11,839 Speaker 1: choice he can possibly make, and Trump is nothing if 39 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 1: not both cynical and predictable. In fact, the most amazing 40 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: thing about Donald Trump in this moment in American politics 41 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: is how befuddled so many people in the Democratic Party 42 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: who are in charge of beating him seem to be 43 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: about the most predictable person in a nation of three 44 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million souls. Like the sun rising in 45 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: the east every morning, Donald Trump will do certain things 46 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: because they're patterns, because they are part of who he is, 47 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: and because Donald Trump wants power. He surveys all of 48 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: the time, looking around, to the obstacles, to the impediments, 49 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: what will hurt him. Have you ever seen Trump move 50 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: so quickly as when in Alabama Judge basically made in 51 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: vitro fertilization illegal. Donald Trump is from Queens and he 52 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: spent his adult life in Manhattan. He has disdain and 53 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: contempt for the evangelicals that worship him. He thinks every 54 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: single one of them is a loon and a nut. 55 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: When they pray for him, he mocks them, he laughs 56 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: at them. In fact, those people scare the shit out 57 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, and he knows that he needs them, 58 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 1: and he also knows that they can defeat him. He 59 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: knows that the dogma of control and authority and subjugation 60 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: that holds from people like the religious fanatical Mike Johnson, 61 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, that women should not have access 62 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: to birth control pills, or that women should not have 63 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: access to reproductive healthcare, or that women shouldn't have many 64 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: rights at all that they've established over the last fifty 65 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: years is political poison. Donald Trump knows this. He's a salesman, 66 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: he's a marketer, he's a con man. He walks into 67 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: a room, he sticks his finger in the air. He 68 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: understands that he can't run with another white guy. And 69 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: at the same time, Trump, who truly is a racist, 70 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: will never put a minority mail on the ticket underneath him, 71 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: and particularly not someone like vivk Ramaswami, who is younger, 72 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: who is smarter, who's more cunning and richer, And Tim 73 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: Scott well, let's just say, underwhelming. Isn't the word you 74 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: would use to describe his performance during the presidential primary season, 75 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: but it's a good start. He will pick a woman 76 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: because he will view it as concealing his greatest liability, 77 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: which he knows full well are the extremest men that 78 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: surround him everywhere. Trump wants power. He wants the chair, 79 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: but he knows he won't get there alone. But at 80 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: any rate, let's examine the contestants. His defeated primary opponent, 81 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: the former ambassador to the United Nations, the woman who 82 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: kept her hand up when she was asked, even if 83 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: Trump is convicted of all ninety one felonies, are you 84 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: going to continue to support him until the end forevermore? 85 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: Nikki Haley said yes. It's why she remains on the 86 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: vice presidential list first seed. The rest of the contestants 87 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: will sort out later. But there's Christy Nome, the governor 88 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: of South Dakota. There's Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the most prolific 89 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: liar in the history of White House Press secretaries. Her 90 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: ascension to the vice presidency would be quite a thing. 91 00:07:53,440 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: There's at least Stephanic, the snarling fascist with a Harvard degree, 92 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: who ran as a problem solving moderate, only to be 93 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: overcome by her own lack of character and the depth 94 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: of her own cynicism into the screeching maga darling of 95 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: Trump's midnight dreams. There's Kelly Anne Conway in the outside lane. 96 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: She's more articulate than the rest. She's meaner, more experienced, 97 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: and when it comes to lying, even against TUCKINGB. Sanders, 98 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: she's in a league of her own. And while this 99 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 1: liar's division is highly competitive, nobody should discount the women 100 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: from the conspiracy division. Marjorie Taylor Green and Carrie Lake 101 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: could carry Lake the conspiracy theorist, an election denier from 102 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: Arizona wind up on Trump's ticket. Why not? And of 103 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: course there's the one and only Marjorie Taylor Green, who 104 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: rose to become Kevin McCarthy He's best friend in the Congress. 105 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: Now MTG, as she's ubiquitously known across the cable news universe, 106 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: is a woman who believes in Jewish space lasers and QAnon. 107 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: So why not. So there's the field Nikki Haley and 108 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: Christin Nohm, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Elis Stephonic, Carrie Lake 109 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: and Marjorie Taylor Green. And let's throw in America's sweetheart 110 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: from Alabama, Katie Britt for good measure as well. Now, 111 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: out of this field will come a person that Trump 112 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: proposes to put one heartbeat away from the presidency. And incredible, 113 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: though it may seem, especially to me, a lot of 114 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: these people make Sarah Palin look like well, Winston Churchill 115 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: put that aside. Let's examine the first contestant, Corey Leewandowski's 116 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: alleged mistress, Christy no who gave Donald Trump one of 117 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: the great gifts of his presidency when she presented to 118 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: him a replica of Mount Rushmore, but with Trump included 119 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: on the Mountain of Presidential Greatness right next to Abraham Lincoln. 120 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: True story anyway, the governor of South Dakota, the alleged 121 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: lover of Trump's first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, repeatedly arrested 122 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: and charged with assaulting women, is very much in the 123 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: running to be vice president. One of the things you'll 124 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: notice about Christy no is she has a brilliant smile, 125 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: doesn't she. Now, there are many politicians who have gleaming smiles, incandescent, 126 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: brilliant smiles. Look at Gavenuwsom, He's got a great smile, 127 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: terrific teeth. The difference between every person in American politics 128 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: who has a luminescent smile, and there's a lot of them, 129 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: is that Christy Noam is the only person who's a 130 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: governor of an American state who's recorded an infomercial for 131 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: her dentist interestingly in Texas. Well. 132 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Christineaman. I'm the governor of South Dakota and 133 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 2: had the opportunity to come to Smile Texas to fix 134 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 2: my teeth, which has been absolutely amazing, Which. 135 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: Does raise a question, do we really want to make 136 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: somebody the vice president and possibly the president because of 137 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: the elderly Trump who's the governor of a state where 138 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: there's no dentist. It's very strange that she would need 139 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: to go to Texas, and it's even stranger that once 140 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: she was there, she would make the infomercial let's watch 141 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 1: a bit of it. 142 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: And so several years ago I did a consultation here 143 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 2: at Smile Texas and did it by zoom, but could 144 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 2: never quite find the time, and recently got the chance 145 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 2: to work with doctor Davis. Doctor Dooley's always been fantastic 146 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 2: to me too, but the team here was remarkable and 147 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 2: finally gave me a smile that I can be proud 148 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 2: of and confident in. 149 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 1: If you're in South Dakota, your tax dollars are at 150 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: work here. 151 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember I got a phone call from Janelle 152 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: that said, we can actually do this if you're willing 153 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 2: to fly in husband and I flew down to Houston, 154 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 2: got here at two o'clock in the morning and did 155 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 2: an appointment. 156 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: Now this is effective advocacy. If you ask me, if 157 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: Christinoam is able to make such a convincing case for 158 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: this dental clinic, can you imagine what she could do 159 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: for the MAGA movement on immigration with regard to the 160 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: concentration camps, the massed attentions, the millions of people that 161 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: will be deported, the arrest of political opponents and prisoners. 162 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: It will be incredible to have somebody with so much 163 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 1: conviction and an ability to articulate it sitting in the 164 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: VP chair. Christineom one of the finalists, no doubt, to 165 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: be the second most powerful person in the world, a 166 00:13:54,840 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: heartbeat away from command of America's nuclear arsenal. Well, in 167 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: the months ahead, we'll get to look at all of 168 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: the contestants very very closely. But today, on the occasion 169 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: of the first infomercial ever done by a governor of 170 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: any American state, we'll put the spotlight on Christy No 171 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: because she deserves it and you should know her better, 172 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: because I suspect soon you'll be hearing more about her. 173 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to my political commentary. 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