Speaker 1: Maybe they've convinced him to pick a woman because in
Speaker 1: the end, after he loses the next election, they figure
Speaker 1: it's harder to hang a woman than someone like Mike Pence.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday, March fourteenth, and there are two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven days remaining until America decides who will be
Speaker 1: the next president of the United States. The next major
Speaker 1: event that's going to happen in the presidential campaign, at
Speaker 1: least on the calendar, is Donald Trump's selection of his
Speaker 1: next vice presidential nominee. Of course, the last one was
Speaker 1: Mike Pence, who for four years put on one of
Speaker 1: the greatest and most adept sycophantic performances in all of
Speaker 1: human history. It was astonishing. Let's watch Mike Pence sitting
Speaker 1: next to Trump in a eating when Trump, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: puts his glass of water on the floor. Let's watch Pence,
Speaker 1: the man that Trump ultimately would try to hang for
Speaker 1: not overturning an election and making Trump dictator. What's so
Speaker 1: amazing to watch is the servility in Trump's total dominance
Speaker 1: over Pence as a man. It's astonishing psychologically. In the end,
Speaker 1: though they built the gallows, the magi extremists were unable
Speaker 1: to find and to hang the vice president, or to
Speaker 1: assassinate Mitt Romney or Nancy Pelosi or anyone else in
Speaker 1: the United States Congress from that day of sedition January sixth. Now,
Speaker 1: Trump is back at it. He's going around the track again.
Speaker 1: But one thing he'll do differently in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is he's going to run with a woman on his ticket.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of the people worried about Trump's excesses around him,
Speaker 1: who whisper in his ear, you know, maybe they've convinced
Speaker 1: him to pick a woman because in the end, after
Speaker 1: he loses the next election, they figure it's harder to
Speaker 1: hang a woman than someone like Mike Pence. The question
Speaker 1: about who Donald Trump is going to pick a vice
Speaker 1: president will rage across the headlines and be the source
Speaker 1: of hours of fevered speculation across cable news. There are
Speaker 1: fallen candidates, competitors like Vivek Ramaswami and Tim Scott, both
Speaker 1: of whom will make the list, but neither who has
Speaker 1: any chance for this election. Donald Trump will pick a woman,
Speaker 1: and he'll pick a woman because that's the most cynical
Speaker 1: choice he can possibly make, and Trump is nothing if
Speaker 1: not both cynical and predictable. In fact, the most amazing
Speaker 1: thing about Donald Trump in this moment in American politics
Speaker 1: is how befuddled so many people in the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: who are in charge of beating him seem to be
Speaker 1: about the most predictable person in a nation of three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million souls. Like the sun rising in
Speaker 1: the east every morning, Donald Trump will do certain things
Speaker 1: because they're patterns, because they are part of who he is,
Speaker 1: and because Donald Trump wants power. He surveys all of
Speaker 1: the time, looking around, to the obstacles, to the impediments,
Speaker 1: what will hurt him. Have you ever seen Trump move
Speaker 1: so quickly as when in Alabama Judge basically made in
Speaker 1: vitro fertilization illegal. Donald Trump is from Queens and he
Speaker 1: spent his adult life in Manhattan. He has disdain and
Speaker 1: contempt for the evangelicals that worship him. He thinks every
Speaker 1: single one of them is a loon and a nut.
Speaker 1: When they pray for him, he mocks them, he laughs
Speaker 1: at them. In fact, those people scare the shit out
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, and he knows that he needs them,
Speaker 1: and he also knows that they can defeat him. He
Speaker 1: knows that the dogma of control and authority and subjugation
Speaker 1: that holds from people like the religious fanatical Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, that women should not have access
Speaker 1: to birth control pills, or that women should not have
Speaker 1: access to reproductive healthcare, or that women shouldn't have many
Speaker 1: rights at all that they've established over the last fifty
Speaker 1: years is political poison. Donald Trump knows this. He's a salesman,
Speaker 1: he's a marketer, he's a con man. He walks into
Speaker 1: a room, he sticks his finger in the air. He
Speaker 1: understands that he can't run with another white guy. And
Speaker 1: at the same time, Trump, who truly is a racist,
Speaker 1: will never put a minority mail on the ticket underneath him,
Speaker 1: and particularly not someone like vivk Ramaswami, who is younger,
Speaker 1: who is smarter, who's more cunning and richer, And Tim
Speaker 1: Scott well, let's just say, underwhelming. Isn't the word you
Speaker 1: would use to describe his performance during the presidential primary season,
Speaker 1: but it's a good start. He will pick a woman
Speaker 1: because he will view it as concealing his greatest liability,
Speaker 1: which he knows full well are the extremest men that
Speaker 1: surround him everywhere. Trump wants power. He wants the chair,
Speaker 1: but he knows he won't get there alone. But at
Speaker 1: any rate, let's examine the contestants. His defeated primary opponent,
Speaker 1: the former ambassador to the United Nations, the woman who
Speaker 1: kept her hand up when she was asked, even if
Speaker 1: Trump is convicted of all ninety one felonies, are you
Speaker 1: going to continue to support him until the end forevermore?
Speaker 1: Nikki Haley said yes. It's why she remains on the
Speaker 1: vice presidential list first seed. The rest of the contestants
Speaker 1: will sort out later. But there's Christy Nome, the governor
Speaker 1: of South Dakota. There's Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the most prolific
Speaker 1: liar in the history of White House Press secretaries. Her
Speaker 1: ascension to the vice presidency would be quite a thing.
Speaker 1: There's at least Stephanic, the snarling fascist with a Harvard degree,
Speaker 1: who ran as a problem solving moderate, only to be
Speaker 1: overcome by her own lack of character and the depth
Speaker 1: of her own cynicism into the screeching maga darling of
Speaker 1: Trump's midnight dreams. There's Kelly Anne Conway in the outside lane.
Speaker 1: She's more articulate than the rest. She's meaner, more experienced,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to lying, even against TUCKINGB. Sanders,
Speaker 1: she's in a league of her own. And while this
Speaker 1: liar's division is highly competitive, nobody should discount the women
Speaker 1: from the conspiracy division. Marjorie Taylor Green and Carrie Lake
Speaker 1: could carry Lake the conspiracy theorist, an election denier from
Speaker 1: Arizona wind up on Trump's ticket. Why not? And of
Speaker 1: course there's the one and only Marjorie Taylor Green, who
Speaker 1: rose to become Kevin McCarthy He's best friend in the Congress.
Speaker 1: Now MTG, as she's ubiquitously known across the cable news universe,
Speaker 1: is a woman who believes in Jewish space lasers and QAnon.
Speaker 1: So why not. So there's the field Nikki Haley and
Speaker 1: Christin Nohm, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Elis Stephonic, Carrie Lake
Speaker 1: and Marjorie Taylor Green. And let's throw in America's sweetheart
Speaker 1: from Alabama, Katie Britt for good measure as well. Now,
Speaker 1: out of this field will come a person that Trump
Speaker 1: proposes to put one heartbeat away from the presidency. And incredible,
Speaker 1: though it may seem, especially to me, a lot of
Speaker 1: these people make Sarah Palin look like well, Winston Churchill
Speaker 1: put that aside. Let's examine the first contestant, Corey Leewandowski's
Speaker 1: alleged mistress, Christy no who gave Donald Trump one of
Speaker 1: the great gifts of his presidency when she presented to
Speaker 1: him a replica of Mount Rushmore, but with Trump included
Speaker 1: on the Mountain of Presidential Greatness right next to Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: True story anyway, the governor of South Dakota, the alleged
Speaker 1: lover of Trump's first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, repeatedly arrested
Speaker 1: and charged with assaulting women, is very much in the
Speaker 1: running to be vice president. One of the things you'll
Speaker 1: notice about Christy no is she has a brilliant smile,
Speaker 1: doesn't she. Now, there are many politicians who have gleaming smiles, incandescent,
Speaker 1: brilliant smiles. Look at Gavenuwsom, He's got a great smile,
Speaker 1: terrific teeth. The difference between every person in American politics
Speaker 1: who has a luminescent smile, and there's a lot of them,
Speaker 1: is that Christy Noam is the only person who's a
Speaker 1: governor of an American state who's recorded an infomercial for
Speaker 1: her dentist interestingly in Texas. Well.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Christineaman. I'm the governor of South Dakota and
Speaker 2: had the opportunity to come to Smile Texas to fix
Speaker 2: my teeth, which has been absolutely amazing, Which.
Speaker 1: Does raise a question, do we really want to make
Speaker 1: somebody the vice president and possibly the president because of
Speaker 1: the elderly Trump who's the governor of a state where
Speaker 1: there's no dentist. It's very strange that she would need
Speaker 1: to go to Texas, and it's even stranger that once
Speaker 1: she was there, she would make the infomercial let's watch
Speaker 1: a bit of it.
Speaker 2: And so several years ago I did a consultation here
Speaker 2: at Smile Texas and did it by zoom, but could
Speaker 2: never quite find the time, and recently got the chance
Speaker 2: to work with doctor Davis. Doctor Dooley's always been fantastic
Speaker 2: to me too, but the team here was remarkable and
Speaker 2: finally gave me a smile that I can be proud
Speaker 2: of and confident in.
Speaker 1: If you're in South Dakota, your tax dollars are at
Speaker 1: work here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember I got a phone call from Janelle
Speaker 2: that said, we can actually do this if you're willing
Speaker 2: to fly in husband and I flew down to Houston,
Speaker 2: got here at two o'clock in the morning and did
Speaker 2: an appointment.
Speaker 1: Now this is effective advocacy. If you ask me, if
Speaker 1: Christinoam is able to make such a convincing case for
Speaker 1: this dental clinic, can you imagine what she could do
Speaker 1: for the MAGA movement on immigration with regard to the
Speaker 1: concentration camps, the massed attentions, the millions of people that
Speaker 1: will be deported, the arrest of political opponents and prisoners.
Speaker 1: It will be incredible to have somebody with so much
Speaker 1: conviction and an ability to articulate it sitting in the
Speaker 1: VP chair. Christineom one of the finalists, no doubt, to
Speaker 1: be the second most powerful person in the world, a
Speaker 1: heartbeat away from command of America's nuclear arsenal. Well, in
Speaker 1: the months ahead, we'll get to look at all of
Speaker 1: the contestants very very closely. But today, on the occasion
Speaker 1: of the first infomercial ever done by a governor of
Speaker 1: any American state, we'll put the spotlight on Christy No
Speaker 1: because she deserves it and you should know her better,
Speaker 1: because I suspect soon you'll be hearing more about her.
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