1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Cool Zone media. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 2: All right, this is the last night of the DNC 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: episode or reporting from our homes now, which is great 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 2: because I feel like death. Garrison Davis is here, I'm 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 2: Sophie Lickdrman Robert Evans is here. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 3: We more or less survived the DNZ. So if he 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 3: took a few hits there at the end. So the 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 3: DNC is over, it's wrapped up, it's all finished, Thank goodness. 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 3: Tiring in a very different way than the RNC, and 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 3: I mean obviously a very different demographic. And this is 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 3: something that I noticed just as soon as I got 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 3: to the airport, Like when I got to the. 13 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 4: Gate for the RNC, it was like, oh, I'm here 14 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 4: for the r n. 15 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 3: C, And when I got to the gate for the DNC, 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 3: it was, Oh, this is just a regular airport gate. 17 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 3: This is just normal people. There's a very broad demographic 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 3: that you know, pretty fairly would represent whatever city you 19 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 3: happen to come from. And in calling these people normal, 20 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 3: that's not saying they're necessarily good people, but they're normal people. Sure, 21 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 3: they're into politics, maybe a little bit more than your 22 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 3: average person, but by and large they are kind of 23 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 3: regular people. And including shitty in a lot of the 24 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 3: ways that regular people are shitty about politics. Would that 25 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 3: be their views on Palestine, Gaza, queer people, But it's 26 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 3: a pretty pretty normal demographic base. 27 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the difference between like when something and I 28 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 5: showed up at our gate for the RNC, we took 29 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 5: off our masks because the threat at that point was 30 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 5: being on a mask surrounded by Republicans. Yes, right, yeah, it. 31 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 2: Was like the risk to our lives was greater than 32 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: the risk of COVID to our lives safety eyes. 33 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, whereas we just kind of treated the flights to 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 5: and from the DNC like normal flights, like like you'd 35 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 5: handle the normal precautions just regular people. 36 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: Some of that has to do with the fact that 37 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 2: Chicago's like a much larger city. 38 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 4: Yeah sure, but yes. 39 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 3: But I mean I got to the conversation with a 40 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 3: delegate from Georgia who was sitting right next to me, 41 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 3: you know, young guy mid twenties. Very clearly everyone on 42 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 3: the plane was going to the DNC, at least for me, 43 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean you just. 44 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 4: Had like a regular conversation, was it Little John? No, No, Sophie, 45 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 4: it was not okay, cool. 46 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 5: So if he little John as a senior citizen. 47 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: Now it's little John, thank you so much. 48 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 3: But no, he was this this young, kind of nominally 49 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 3: progressive Democrat who was excited this is I think, I 50 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 3: think his first time going excited to vote for Kamala, 51 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 3: much more excited about her than Joe. He also just 52 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: finished his college program to get a criminal justice degree. 53 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 3: So it's like, yeah, it's this is this is who 54 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 3: the Democratic Party is. Yeah, just random, kind of kind 55 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 3: of queer, but definitely sis dude, like gay dude, bisexual, whatever. 56 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 3: But yeah, it's gonna reform, reform that criminal justice from 57 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 3: the inside. Yeah, anyway, kind of I just wanted to 58 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 3: descorry about talking to this kind of those kind of 59 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 3: general convention demographics because that's basically the same it felt 60 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: well inside the convention as well. 61 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 5: Yes, a lot more what I will say is a 62 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 5: lot more women who are like middle aged at the 63 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 5: d n C, Like that was the overwhelmingly most common 64 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 5: demographic on like at the convention that I noticed. 65 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 3: And probably more racial diversity than a lot of then 66 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,679 Speaker 3: a lot of cities probably Honestly, Yeah, I guess that's 67 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 3: a good general sign, but it's not a great sign 68 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 3: just in and of itself. 69 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 5: Right. 70 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 3: I guess it's it's good for kind of the general 71 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: future of this country, but it doesn't it doesn't really 72 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 3: affect many of the biggest problems that we're kind of addressing, 73 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: whether that be you know, gazo that, whether that be 74 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 3: police brutality, whether that be all all of these other things, 75 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 3: LGBTQ issues, the economy, right, like, that does not necessarily 76 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 3: equal over onto any of those, at least at the DNC. 77 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: But you know that is that is a general trend 78 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 3: that that that the country is heading towards. It seems 79 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 3: so there you go, and my god, was there a 80 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: lot of people there was. 81 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: There was such an unhinged amount of people, Like I 82 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 2: can't even. 83 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 5: It was so much bigger and so much more crowded 84 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 5: than the DRNC. 85 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 2: I set this online when right wingers were trying to 86 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: be like there was nobody there, which was like, you're 87 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 2: you're so dumb. 88 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 5: It was vastly more crowded. 89 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 2: But like at the R and C, most of the time, 90 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 2: we generally had an entire road to ourselves. 91 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was always easy to find seating. 92 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 3: Super eased to find a spot to sit any time 93 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 3: during the R and C. Not true for the DNC, 94 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 3: very challenging to find a seat, and this kind of 95 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 3: brings us to the last day of the convention. 96 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 4: Horrible. 97 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 6: Uh. 98 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 3: The three of us wrap up a very nice dinner 99 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 3: with mister Vermin Supreme lovely, possibly the most ethical presidential 100 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 3: candidate this year. 101 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 5: The only presidential candidate who has been maced with a 102 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 5: member of the Cool Zone media team. We can say 103 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 5: that much. 104 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, so we have a great to dinner with them. 105 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 3: We walked over to the DNC, mass massive lines coming outside, 106 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 3: terrible and then we get told it's okay, there's a 107 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 3: special press entry, so we bypass all those lines. We 108 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 3: are feeling great, We are feeling like gods, just passing 109 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 3: by hundreds and hundreds of people waiting waiting line to 110 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 3: get the DNC. It was a very powerful feeling. I've 111 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 3: never felt that empowered before. 112 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 5: Oh Garrison, Oh you sweet summer child. 113 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 4: It was wonderful. 114 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: It was really a rush that can't be described. 115 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 5: Yeah. I almost didn't want to let you guys know 116 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 5: that the whole venue is at capacity. 117 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 3: So we get up to the door after just breezing through, 118 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 3: going past all of those lines, and we get to 119 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 3: the door and all the doors are shut. Yeah, there's 120 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 3: secret Service at every entrance saying that nobody can get 121 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 3: in because the venue is at capacity. 122 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 4: And the crash, oh. 123 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 3: My god, the crash that we had from our high 124 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 3: so so bad. 125 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 5: I talked to a couple of police officers outside the 126 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 5: venue who were like, yeah, the fire marshals are here, 127 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 5: like it was literally I do think that it from 128 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 5: and from everything I've read since, I think their reboarding 129 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 5: was accurate. Yes, like there were just more people than 130 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:12,679 Speaker 5: were allowed to be in the building. 131 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 2: They definitely let more people in than they should have. Yeah, however, 132 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 2: there was a group of journalists with Garrison and myself 133 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 2: that were waiting to be let in, and there was 134 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 2: like triple the amount of people to journalists that left 135 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 2: in the time that we were standing there, which was 136 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: a very long time. And let me just say, the 137 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 2: secret service officer really enjoyed telling a bunch of journalists 138 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: that we couldn't come in. He was having a great 139 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 2: night ruining our night. 140 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 5: I mean, there's nothing that makes me happier than making 141 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 5: a journalist miserable. So I actually do feel some solidarity there. 142 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 5: You know, I would love to tell a bunch of 143 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 5: journalists fuck you. 144 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 3: I was certainly skeptical because of just how many people 145 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: were getting let out, because I really wanted to see 146 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: how full the venue actually was. And after waiting for 147 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 3: nearly for two hours, two hours. 148 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: Two hours, two hours, I went home. 149 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 4: Pablo's speech already started. 150 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: I abandoned you, and then some media logistics person from 151 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 2: the Secret Service entrance every five minutes would point at 152 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 2: ten people like they were the chosen ones to let them. 153 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: Into the arena. 154 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 2: And on round three or four, Garre and I did 155 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: in fact get in and run up like seven or 156 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 2: eight flights of stairs, which I'm still feeling. 157 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 5: You made the cut. You made the cut. We did. 158 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 5: I bet Tim Walls whispered your very names into the 159 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 5: ears of that Secret Service agent. 160 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 2: Although I do feel like a piece of me is 161 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 2: still on those stairs because it was brutal. 162 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 4: It was bad. 163 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 3: And then we got up to kind of the floor 164 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 3: of the arena that we usually entered into and they 165 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 3: were not lying. It was way too full. There was 166 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 3: not a single seat available. People were standing in the 167 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 3: fire exits, people were standing on the stairs and the 168 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 3: hallways inside the actual arena. It was it was, in 169 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: fact a real safety hazard. 170 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 5: Yeah, I do really feel the need emphasize not one 171 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 5: of those things where the cops were fucking over the 172 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 5: press or whatever for their own It was a serious issue. 173 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 3: Now we saw firefighters inspecting the hallways and letting a 174 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 3: whole bunch of fire code violations fly. Yeah, we were 175 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 3: not supposed to be standing in the middle of that stairwell. 176 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 3: And yeah we got inside just in time for the 177 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 3: foreign policy, border patrol, and geopolitics section of Kamalis's speech. 178 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 3: And we will talk about her speech, including those aspects, 179 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 3: right after we come back from this ad break. 180 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 4: All right. 181 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 3: The final speech of the DNC arguably the most important one, 182 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 3: although the DNC just went on for so long that 183 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 3: I was so checked out by that last day. 184 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 2: Honestly, it was just Bill Clinton's nine hour speech where 185 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 2: he just was just the oldest man who's ever lived. 186 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 5: No, he's convinced me. You know, I watched last night 187 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 5: several episodes of the show about him committing a sex 188 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 5: crime as the president, and it really reminded me. Boy 189 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 5: slick Willy's gotten old. 190 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for music. My dad's nickname for Bill 191 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: Clinton on Mike Click Willy. 192 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 5: That's every dad's nickname for Bill Clinton. 193 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: My dad loves to call him that. 194 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 2: Anyways, Garrison, we got up there. We are standing in 195 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 2: a crowd of journalists just trying to get a glimpse 196 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 2: of what's going on. And is there any particular part 197 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: of the speech you want to talk about, because there's 198 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 2: a few things that come to mind for me. 199 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I have notes on like the whole speech, 200 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: just you know, a few lines from each little section. 201 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 4: And I think this. 202 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 3: Speech was more important than most of Trump's speeches because 203 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 3: we've heard Trump speak, you know, a bajillion times now. 204 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 3: I will say Trump's R and C speech was important 205 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 3: because this was his first speech after getting shot at 206 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 3: in the head. And similarly, I think this speech for 207 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 3: Kamlo was extremely important because this is basically her second 208 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 3: presidential speech. The speech she's been using for her campaign 209 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 3: trail has been the same stump speech for the past month. 210 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 3: It's been the same one that delivered many times, which 211 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 3: is not a regular but this is the first time 212 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 3: we've really heard her do a new speech, and this 213 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 3: is her introduction as a presidential candidate to the entire world. 214 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 3: As she took the stage, there's obviously tons of cheers 215 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 3: chants of usay she opened by praising Biden's record and 216 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 3: his character, saying that history will will prove him to 217 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 3: have such a great record and character, and then she 218 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 3: framed her own personal story as like a template of 219 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 3: like the American journey, right, saying, quote, I'm no stranger 220 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 3: to unlikely. 221 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 4: Journeys unquote Okay. 222 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 3: She talked about her mother as an immigrant, saying her 223 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 3: parents met at a civil rights gathering and that her 224 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 3: dad taught her to be fearless, although her dad also, 225 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 3: I guess probably failed to teach her how to be 226 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 3: a good Marxist, but she did not bring that part 227 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 3: up in this speech. 228 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 5: Relationship, but we all get to have. 229 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 3: One, yes, But her parents taught her and her sister 230 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 3: about you know, different different civil rights leaders, including civil 231 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 3: rights lawyers that fought civil rights in court, and Kamala 232 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: said this is what inspired her to go to law school. 233 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 3: Although you know, very famously, she did not become like 234 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 3: a civil rights lawyer. She became a prosecutor. And Kamala 235 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 3: said that this was inspired by her high school best 236 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 3: friend getting molested by her stepfather and that's what got 237 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 3: her to want to go down the prosecutor path. 238 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 2: That was the first time that I had ever heard 239 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 2: her talk about that. 240 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, I hadn't heard that either. 241 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 2: She literally did a few other times, obviously not on 242 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: that large of a stage. 243 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 3: Yes, no, No, there was a lot of talk about that, 244 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 3: and a lot of talk about her focus on like 245 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:53,079 Speaker 3: familial sexual abuse, molestation and other sex crimes as a prosecutor, 246 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 3: like basically framing that as like her specialty and that 247 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,839 Speaker 3: that was a good part of what she focused on, 248 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 3: which she was a court prie. The line that she 249 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 3: used to refer to her work in the court was 250 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 3: that quote, everyone has a right to safety, dignity, and justice. 251 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 3: So that was kind of the introduction to Kamala and 252 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 3: her background. That was like who she was, where she 253 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 3: came from. And then the speech pivoted to talking about 254 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 3: Orange Man Bad, which worked very well in twenty twenty, 255 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 3: and I think we're going to see more of that 256 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 3: the closer we get to the election. 257 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 5: One way or the other. Is the last time you're 258 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 5: gonna get to make hay out of it, and so 259 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 5: you might as well do that while the sunshine. 260 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: Yes, honestly, that was the general theme of the DNC 261 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 2: speeches for me, was like orange. 262 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 5: Man Bad, we got one last shot we can be. 263 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 4: Good for you, be good with us. We're good Orange 264 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 4: Man bad. 265 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 3: It's even less that they want to be elected to 266 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 3: make any actual progressive change. It's that in order to 267 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 3: do that in the future, we first need to beat 268 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 3: Donald Trump. And that was kind of the guiding the 269 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 3: guiding principle of most of the DNC and Kamala's speech. 270 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 3: She called this election of a fight for America's future. 271 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 5: It's infuriating that, like we deal with this again right 272 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 5: where we have to like sit down and knock the 273 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 5: Republicans out and end a chunk of the conservative ideology 274 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 5: in this country because literally nothing can progress without doing that, 275 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 5: and we still can't handle the more fundamental problems. But 276 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 5: you know, that's that's the way it is. 277 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, And she talked a lot about voting rights, saying 278 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 3: that Trump tried to throw away your vote and when 279 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 3: that didn't work, he directed an armed mob to the 280 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 3: capital to overthrow the election. She talked about how Trump 281 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 3: wants to deploy the military against protests, although she said 282 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 3: he wanted to play the military against quote our own citizens, 283 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 3: but this was in reference to him wanting to deploy 284 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 3: the military against protests, and she framed the Supreme Court's 285 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 3: new ruling to give president's immunity in court from criminal prosecution, 286 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 3: as imagining Trump, but now without any guard rails, which 287 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 3: of course is very scary. And part of this is 288 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 3: Project twenty twenty five again trying to reiterate this as 289 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 3: the Republican's playbook in case Trump is able to get 290 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 3: back into office. Mentions of Project twenty twenty five starting 291 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 3: a series of we are not going back chance, which 292 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 3: I think is probably some of the best messaging the 293 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 3: Democrats have the option of deploying this go around. I 294 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 3: know there was an upper Democratic strategist who has been 295 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 3: meeting with the Kamala team who said that this messaging 296 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 3: doesn't work because it's too vague and too negative and 297 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 3: not enough focused on the future. And thankfully the Democrats, 298 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 3: or at least Kamala's team, did not listen to that guy, 299 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 3: because that is the most wrong a man has ever been. 300 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 3: This messaging has been playing very well in person at 301 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 3: all these rallies, and especially at the DNC. Kamala talked 302 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 3: a little bit about economics, saying, quote, we are charting 303 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 3: a future towards a strong and growing middle class unquote 304 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 3: end quote, We will build an opportunity economy where everyone 305 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 3: has a chance to compete and a chance to succeed unquote, which. 306 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 4: I guess is fine. I don't know. 307 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 3: I have a few kind of issues with this, mainly 308 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 3: like what happens when you don't succeed and what happens 309 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 3: to the lower class. Throughout the entirety of the DNC, 310 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 3: there's been a lot of talk about growing a strong 311 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 3: middle class and a big focus on the middle class, 312 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 3: but very little focused on actually helping the people that 313 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 3: are having it the hardest in this country instead really 314 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 3: really catering to like the middle class voter, and I 315 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 3: don't know's it's like, there's a lot of talk about labor. 316 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 3: There's a lot talking about like working people, like workers' rights. 317 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 3: That stuff all has a pretty big spotlight at the 318 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 3: DNC this year, but very little mentions of how we 319 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 3: can actually improve life for the lower class. She did 320 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 3: talk about, you know, very vague gestures towards lowering the 321 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 3: cost of everyday needs, but so far she's kind of 322 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 3: yet to unveil any actual solid policies. Really we have 323 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 3: that first time home home buyers like twenty five K. 324 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 5: Yeah, she's proposed some details on like how to help 325 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 5: increase the number of first time home buyers and build 326 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 5: an addition of like three million homes in the United States. 327 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 5: So there's been some but it is all kind of 328 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 5: vague at this point. Now. One thing that they do 329 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 5: have going for them is when the dims say, like 330 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 5: we're going to cut inflation. You know, we've seen inflation 331 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 5: drop from the post pandemic highs over the last couple 332 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 5: of years to the point where it's at now, So 333 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 5: like that is that, you know, there's there's a leg 334 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 5: to stand on there. And in general, I actually think 335 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 5: one of the better economic points was made by Clinton 336 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 5: during his speech, which is that, like, the vast majority 337 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 5: of jobs that have been created over all of our 338 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 5: lifetimes have been created under democratic presidents, and you know, 339 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 5: if you can't if like that's your voting issue. The 340 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 5: polls are also moving in the direction of that. People 341 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 5: seem to be trusting Kamala more on the economy, and 342 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 5: they trusted Biden, even though there's not really a perfectly 343 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 5: logical reason to do that. But this is elections aren't 344 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 5: about logic, right, like no es, They're about vibes. In 345 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 5: a lot of ways, They're about vibes, and I do 346 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 5: think the dims. I think the dims have that actually, 347 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 5: like the good head wins on and now a lot 348 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 5: can change in the next seventy days or so. What 349 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 5: I really saw with this speech and with this convention 350 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 5: as a whole, was the Democratic Party embracing the middle 351 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 5: and some conservatives. And yeah, they tried not to be 352 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 5: too directly abrasive to progressives and the left. 353 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 4: But they weren't catering to them. 354 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 5: But they were not catering to it. Yeah. 355 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 356 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 3: Kamala did attack Trump on taxes, specifically saying that trumpill 357 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 3: do tax breaks to his billionaire friends, it'll add a 358 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 3: five trillion into the national debt, and she called Trump's 359 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 3: tariff proposal basically a national sales tax or a Trump 360 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,719 Speaker 3: tax that'll raise costs for middle class families by up 361 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 3: to four thousand dollars a year, which is in line 362 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 3: with the whole bunch of economists' predictions if Trump's tariffs 363 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 3: do go through, and then again gesturing to kind of 364 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 3: vague policy ideas without actually proposing strict policies, saying that quote, 365 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 3: we will provide access to capital for entrepreneurs, small business owners, 366 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 3: and founders, warning that Trump will ban abortion pills and 367 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 3: enact a national abortion ban and force the states to 368 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 3: report on people's abortions and miscarriages, and instead, Kamala will 369 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 3: sign into law a bill that protects abortion access nationally, 370 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 3: as well as calling to pass the John Lewis Voting 371 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 3: Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act and more 372 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 3: kind of vague gestures towards protecting the freedom to love 373 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 3: who you love, to have clean air and clean water, 374 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 3: and the freedom that unlocks all others, the freedom to vote. 375 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 3: And so that's kind of the most of the domestic 376 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,640 Speaker 3: policy section of the speech, and that is the part 377 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 3: of the speech that we missed. And then we came 378 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 3: in right as she started talking about the border, saying 379 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 3: again that, like many others have talked about the DNC, 380 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 3: how the Democrats and Republicans work together to write the 381 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 3: strongest border bill in decades. And Kamala said that this 382 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 3: bill was endorsed by the Border Patrol which it wasn't. 383 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 3: It was endorsed by the Border Patrol Union, but who cares? 384 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 3: And Comma talked about how Trump called Republicans to kill 385 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 3: the bills that Democrats couldn't take credit, and she promised 386 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 3: that she will bring back this bill and sign it 387 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 3: into law, saying that quote, we can create an earned 388 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 3: pathway to citizenship and secure our border unquote. So again, 389 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 3: this is one of the areas that Democrats I think 390 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 3: have lost the most amount of ground on the past 391 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 3: like eight years, and they are still kind of willing 392 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 3: to seed it. And then in terms of like geopolitics 393 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 3: and foreign policy, one line of kmmalist that has kind 394 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 3: of cotton some flak, but also I don't know, I'll 395 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 3: just read it, we can talk about it. 396 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 4: She said that quote, I. 397 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 3: Will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting 398 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 3: force in the world unquote. 399 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, So did you guys, what did you think by 400 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 5: the use of that language. 401 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 2: I think she was trying to appeal to the voters 402 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 2: that don't think a woman can lead. 403 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: That's the end of my sentence. 404 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 4: Agreed. 405 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,880 Speaker 5: Oh interesting, I feel very differently. 406 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 3: I found this as being a reaction to right wing 407 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 3: and centrist attacks kind of questioning her strength as a leader. 408 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 3: So she went for very very like intense language on this. 409 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 5: So I feel very differently about that, and I think 410 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 5: this may be just due to the fact that I've 411 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 5: kind of some more experience with how people in the 412 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 5: NATSK space speak because the phrasing that she used, it's 413 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 5: been lampooned a lot online. We've all had a couple 414 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 5: of some bits about you know, talking about I don't 415 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 5: want a lethal the most lethal military in the world. 416 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 4: I want this or that, but like that's what the 417 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 4: military does. 418 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 5: No, no, Well, lethality is also a meme term, right, like 419 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 5: it like that, that's the way it is used in 420 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 5: this space. Like if you go to like speeches where 421 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 5: people who are involved in any level as contractors in 422 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 5: the military industrial complex making arms working for like, it 423 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 5: is all about when they're talking about like improving efficiency 424 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 5: within the Air Force, it's about lethality, right, we are 425 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 5: increasing lethality, like that is our goal. That's what we're 426 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 5: doing here today, because that is the measure by which 427 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 5: you determine the success of the organization. So what I 428 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 5: saw Harris as doing by using that specific terminology was 429 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 5: not I am trying to talk extra hard in order 430 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 5: to burnish my credentials because conservatives are going to attack me. 431 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 5: It was Trump is actually kind of weak on the 432 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 5: national security stuff, especially within the community of people who 433 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 5: are like Natsek Gools. Yeah. 434 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 6: Right. 435 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 5: The people who are members who are born and raised 436 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 5: members like my family, a lot of them, of the 437 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 5: military industrial complex, the people who have their professions in 438 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 5: that space, right, they actually don't all like Trump a lot. 439 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 5: And some evidence of that was recently he made some 440 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 5: statements where he essentially insulted Medal of Honor recipients that 441 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 5: like the VFW came out and attacked Trump, which is wild, 442 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 5: like absolutely unpropsed. 443 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 2: I do think it's a little but I definitely agree 444 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 2: with you, Robert, but I do think it's a little 445 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 2: bit of what Gar and I were talking about as well. 446 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 2: Another another thing that I'm just thinking of, as Robert 447 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 2: saying that, it's just how how often Trump has said that, 448 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 2: you know, the war, the war in Ukraine wouldn't happen 449 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: if he was in office, that like, he putn't scared 450 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 2: of him, and things like that, as like one of 451 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 2: his main reasons why we should reelect him is because 452 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 2: he commands authority and nobody, nobody did anything bad when 453 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 2: he was in power. And I think a lot of 454 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 2: that has to do with Kamala's language choice. 455 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's she said what she said, because 456 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 5: it was a way of expressing like. 457 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 3: Like an internal signifier to other people in the natsock space. 458 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was. It was a way 459 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 5: of saying that I am not just I'm not an outsider, 460 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,439 Speaker 5: I am a professional. I understand and speak about this 461 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 5: the same way that you guys do. 462 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, right, no, I can I can see that. 463 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 5: You know, the whole speech I kind of saw in 464 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 5: those terms. It was very much calculated. I could see 465 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 5: who they were trying to get with that speech. There 466 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 5: was a bit in there for everybody, and they were 467 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 5: trying to get kind of those moderate chunks of every 468 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 5: gurban crisin, moderate chunks of the people whose primary issue 469 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 5: is Gaza, right, because there is a chunk of the 470 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 5: people who's who are mostly concerned this election with what 471 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 5: the fuck we're going to do about Gaza, but also 472 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 5: are not you know, hardline communists or whatever. You know, 473 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 5: are people who, like the uncommitted folks, really want to 474 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 5: embrace the Democratic Party and are maybe. 475 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 4: People who still believe in the system what want to. 476 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 5: Just need a little bit of a lie that they 477 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 5: can go along with to vote right, Like Kamala was 478 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,959 Speaker 5: attempting to kind of give because she didn't announce a 479 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 5: substantive change in policy. Now, her verbiage on Gaza in 480 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 5: this speech was the same as the kind of stuff 481 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 5: that like Obama was saying honestly, like ten years ago. 482 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: Sure, Gary, do you have a quote of what she said? 483 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:55,959 Speaker 4: Yeah, let's talk about it. 484 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: But first of let's head to our last ad break 485 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: real quick. 486 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about her closing remarks relating on 487 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: foreign policy and Palestine. I guess there's a few other 488 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 3: kind of general foreign policy things, yeah, saying that under 489 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 3: her watch, quote, we will lead the world into the 490 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 3: future on space and artificial intelligence. America, not China, will 491 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 3: win the competition for the twenty first century unquote. She 492 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 3: framed Trump as an ally of Russia and Putin, and 493 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 3: she claimed that she will help us quote stand strong 494 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 3: with Ukraine and our NATO allies. And then finally, one 495 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 3: of the last things she talked about was Israel Palestine, saying, quote, 496 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 3: President Biden and I are working around the clock. Now 497 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,159 Speaker 3: is the time to get a hostage deal done and 498 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 3: a ceasefire deal done. This had a decent sized cheer. 499 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 3: She followed this up by saying, quote, we will always 500 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 3: stand for Israel's right to defend itself and ensure Israel 501 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 3: has the ability to defend itself. 502 00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 4: Unquote. 503 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 3: I think this signals mostly to people that it's unlikely 504 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 3: she will adopt anything resembling an arms embargo. And there 505 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 3: was a lot of internal pressure from the uncommitted folks, 506 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 3: people who got into the DNC trying to push on 507 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 3: this topic, specifically because Democrats are now kind of adopted 508 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 3: kind of vague ceasefire rhetoric. Now, the goalpost does need 509 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 3: to be shifted towards something that will actually stop the 510 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 3: bombing of families inside Gaza, and that is an arms embargo, 511 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 3: some kind of conditions on the way that bombs and 512 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 3: weapons are going to be used. And I think this 513 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 3: line signified that that is probably not going to take 514 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 3: place at least before the election. 515 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,479 Speaker 1: No, definitely not before the election. 516 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 5: Wait, that's very clear at this point. 517 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 4: And she kind of both sides this issue. 518 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, Her last quote was quote what has happened in 519 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 3: Gaza over the past ten months is devastating. So many 520 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 3: innocent lives lost, desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over 521 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 3: and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking. 522 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,719 Speaker 5: Whom is making them do this. 523 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 3: President Biden and I are working to end this war 524 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 3: such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the 525 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 3: suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize 526 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 3: their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self determination unquote. 527 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 3: And this was followed by what I would call the 528 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 3: biggest cheers of the entire night. 529 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was about I was about to say, the 530 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 2: crowd reaction was massive to. 531 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 3: That people lost it so much bigger cheers than saying 532 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 3: we will ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. 533 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 3: This closing line about dignity, security, freedom, and self determination 534 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 3: for the Palestinian people got by far the biggest cheers. 535 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 4: But like, what does it mean? Like what are you 536 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 4: actually saying? 537 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:43,719 Speaker 1: It means nothing? 538 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 5: I mean what all of that means to me is 539 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 5: that like Democrats, because they are normal people, they're not Republicans, 540 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 5: they know how bad all this is. 541 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 4: They hate it, they are mad at it, and Yahoo, 542 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 4: you only really. 543 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 5: Need to see a couple of war crime videos to 544 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 5: know that, like what happened is happening over there is ghastly. 545 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 5: They also aren't willing to like nuke their lives and 546 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 5: a lot of other people's lives to let Trump back in, right. 547 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 3: And I do believe they genuinely view Israel as an 548 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 3: extremely important ally in the Middle East. 549 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, and they think that this could be fixed, right 550 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 5: because like we did some awful stuff in Iraq, but 551 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 5: then we elected Bobama and everything got better, right or 552 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 5: something like that. Yeah. 553 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 3: No, I mean like they don't like Netan Yahoo. The 554 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 3: Badian admin doesn't like that Yahoo because he's not efficient 555 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 3: at war. He's efficient at doing like like an ethnic cleansing, 556 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 3: he's efficient at doing wide civilian casualties, but he's not 557 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 3: good at actually like fighting this war very well. This 558 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 3: is something that like Biden's team has consistently not been 559 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 3: thrilled by, but they're not going to do much about it. 560 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 3: Kind of the last foreign policy line that she had was, quote, 561 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 3: I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary 562 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 3: to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and 563 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 3: Iran backed terrorists, and will not cozy up to irants 564 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 3: and dictators like Kim Jong un who are rooting for 565 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 3: Trump unquote. And I think basically this ties into a 566 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 3: whole bunch of rhetoric that I've seen throughout the DNC 567 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 3: including from speakers, speakers who are either vets or active military. 568 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 3: That seems to be kind of slowly preparing the Democratic 569 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 3: Party for another war, for some kind of on the 570 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,199 Speaker 3: ground activity in the Middle East, whether that be in Lebanon, 571 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: whether that be in Iran. It's like they're slowly just 572 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 3: prepping us for the possibility of war or invasion. 573 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: Oh, that does seem likely. 574 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 3: This is a big part of like the Democratic Party's 575 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 3: official like a policy platform on Palestine, which they did 576 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 3: release during the DNC, and a big part of that 577 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 3: is about is talking about how important Israel is as 578 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 3: a Middle East ally. 579 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 5: Where will we fly our planes over. 580 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 3: If they ever need to put troops on the ground. 581 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 3: And I think that is so much of why they're 582 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 3: unwilling to budge on anything resembling like an actual ceasefire 583 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 3: or an arms embargo is because they view this as 584 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 3: like a real possibility. Anyway, that was that was this speech. 585 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 3: The balloons dropped. Everyone lost their minds. Yep, it's not 586 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 3: a cult in the same way. 587 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 5: But there's there's you can see one building. 588 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 3: Maybe the party is a cult, but it's not a 589 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 3: Kamala cult the same way the GOP is now a 590 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 3: Trump cult, right, like the Republicans are now a Trump cult. 591 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 4: It is. 592 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 3: It is not a cult of like who is the 593 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 3: leader in the DNC, but it is more of a 594 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 3: cult of like ideology, which I guess the Republicans just 595 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 3: don't even have anymore. 596 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 5: It's not even that it's it's a cult of uh. 597 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 5: I think I would describe it as defensive cult making. 598 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 5: Democrats have been so bewildered and frightened by the momentum 599 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 5: that Trump and his people have had over the last decade, 600 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 5: and they have like responded in part by adapting some 601 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 5: aspects of like the cultic milieu to wrap around these 602 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 5: ideas that like are are safe to them like that. 603 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 5: That's a big part of the appeal of that don't 604 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 5: go back champ right, which I think is a smart 605 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 5: bit of politics, and I think actually it has the 606 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 5: potential to save quite a bit of lives, particularly at 607 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 5: least of like queer trans people in the United States. 608 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 5: So I'm not saying this is bad politics, but there 609 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 5: is a level of cultiness to that where you are 610 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 5: kind of enrapturing people with this possibility of constant forward 611 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 5: motion that we all know doesn't feel as true as 612 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 5: it felt in twenties fifteen or fourteen. You know, it 613 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 5: doesn't feel as possible as it felt in twenty twelve 614 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 5: or two thousand and eight, that they're kind of trying 615 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 5: to sell people on if we can just get over 616 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 5: the hurdle of these Republicans, right, we can get back 617 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 5: to the period where like things felt like we were 618 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 5: all moving in the right direction, and that's magical thinking, Yeah. 619 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 4: We can get back to a period of steady progress. 620 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 5: I try to be even about this because as I 621 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 5: wrote that episode, the fucking don't panic episode, because I 622 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 5: was looking at people's talking on Reddit and in Twitter 623 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 5: and just in real life and being like, I think 624 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 5: some folks might kill themselves soon, yeah, out of fear 625 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 5: of the Republicans. So I really hope no one reads 626 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 5: what I'm saying is like, Ah, these stupid libs and 627 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 5: their hope fetish. It's like no, no, no, But it's 628 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 5: still a cultic belief. It's not rational. It may be 629 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 5: necessary sometimes irrational beliefs are necessary, sure, but there's not 630 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 5: a good reason for it yet. And don't fall too far, 631 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 5: like fall, try not to fall further down that hole. 632 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 5: Then you need to fall in order to keep yourself 633 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 5: alive for the next eight months. 634 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 3: So, even though Trump has spoke a lot the past 635 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 3: eight years, his speech at the ERNC, I think was 636 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 3: important because it was the first one post assassination. His 637 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 3: viewership for that speech peaked at twenty eight point four million. 638 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 3: Viewership for Kamala's speech Thursday night peaked at twenty eight 639 00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 3: point nine million. So she edged him out barely, at 640 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 3: least in terms of peak numbers, by about five hundred 641 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 3: thousand views. 642 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: Very even, very even, yeah. 643 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 4: Very even. 644 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 3: And again, like Khan was not spoken tons, there's a 645 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 3: lot of people of tuning in to see what she 646 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 3: sounds like, kind of for the first time on a 647 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 3: big national platform. And meanwhile, I think people are just 648 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 3: briefly tuning into Trump just to see what he's like 649 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 3: after getting shot in the head. And I will read 650 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 3: a few of Trump's tweets of well. 651 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 5: He's not doing well. He's not doing well at all. 652 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: Man, was he spiraling? 653 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 3: Oh my god, from combless speech he just started by 654 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 3: all caps? 655 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 4: Is she talking about me? 656 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 5: Excellent? Incredible stuff. Donald, buddy, I can tell you're slipping 657 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 5: because four years ago you'd tried to tweet that out. 658 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 5: You wouldn't have had to hear it from someone. There 659 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 5: would have been a voice in your own head before 660 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 5: you press sin that would have been like, don't do that, Donnie, 661 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 5: come on, Donnie, come on, come on, You're better than. 662 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 3: This quote too many thank yous, too rapidly said what's 663 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 3: going on with her? Followed by one minute later in 664 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 3: all caps, where's hunter see again? 665 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 5: That his prime It would have been something. It would 666 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 5: have been something like loopy hair or shit, some shit. 667 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 5: He would have made some sort of insulting remark about 668 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 5: her personal appearance and ignored the rest of the speech. 669 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 3: One one minute later, Walls was an assistant coach, not 670 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 3: a coach. 671 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 5: That's such a weak. 672 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 2: Very funny, very funny, oh thing. 673 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 5: Most American men have been on a sports team, and 674 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 5: we all know you just call them all coach. 675 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: Everyone is like coach. 676 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 5: They're just all coach. You don't say assistant coach. No 677 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 5: player in a football team is everything like, hey, assistant coach, 678 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 5: could you come over here? Like that's just not the 679 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 5: way people are. 680 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: No wow, anything else. 681 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 3: A few months ago we did an episode talking about 682 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 3: kind of polls that it is now largely outdated because 683 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 3: Biden's no longer in the race, but we did talk 684 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 3: about how most people's pick for president was literally anybody else. 685 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 3: We saw one booth at the DNC protest that was 686 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 3: literally anyone else themed booth, And oh boy, do I 687 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 3: have news for you, buddy, the news. But we do 688 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 3: have some polling data kind of on how satisfied people 689 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 3: feel based on their choices for this presidential election. Now, 690 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 3: obviously that there's a small post convention bump for Harris, 691 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 3: but that that kind of usually tapers off. 692 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 4: But in terms of their satisfaction. 693 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:30,399 Speaker 3: Of the candidacy options, in May, only fifty five percent 694 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,400 Speaker 3: of Democrats said they were satisfied. Now seventy nine percent 695 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 3: say they're satisfied. Massive And for Republicans, back in May, 696 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 3: sixty eight were satisfied and now seventy four are satisfied. 697 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 3: So but both are moving towards higher satisfaction. And obviously 698 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 3: the giant shift in Democrat numbers is is because of 699 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:53,359 Speaker 3: Kamala now and they're more satisfied with her than Republicans 700 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 3: seem to be with Trump, which is which is an 701 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 3: interesting stat and this is based on a New York 702 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 3: Times to see in a College poll of registered vote 703 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 3: in Arizona, Georgia, Nomada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. So that's 704 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 3: just a few interesting a few interesting little notes there 705 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 3: as we close out this week talking about the DNC. 706 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 3: And then finally I have one kind of little funny anecdote. 707 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,839 Speaker 3: As we were leaving the DNC after Kamala's speech, means 708 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 3: so iph he was walking around this area of Chicago 709 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,959 Speaker 3: trying to get far enough away from the convention center 710 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,840 Speaker 3: to get newber And I saw this guy maybe in 711 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 3: his like oh so funny, probably in his twenties, who 712 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,360 Speaker 3: was either about to block up or just de blocked. 713 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,479 Speaker 3: And you can tell because he's wearing the pants he's wearing. 714 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 5: Doc martins Garrison is referring to someone who has just 715 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 5: taken off their black block as in the traditional kind 716 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,960 Speaker 5: of anarchist protest garb, and put on normal street clothes 717 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 5: so as to escape from a police cordon. 718 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 4: Yeah. 719 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 3: So this this guy was walking around either about to 720 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 3: go to the protest or just left still had the 721 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 3: Doc martins On had like the backpack full of his stuff. 722 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 3: And as he walked by me, I just almost instinctively, 723 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 3: like without thinking at all, this was this was this 724 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,280 Speaker 3: wasn't on purpose, just instinctively, I kind of muttered to myself, 725 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 3: I know what you are and and he heard this 726 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,880 Speaker 3: and like turned around looking kind of like confused or concern, 727 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 3: and I just had to I had to turn around. 728 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,399 Speaker 3: I just gave him a smile and a thumbs up, 729 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 3: and he smiled back and kept and kept walking on. 730 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 3: And that was my last interaction at the DNC, just 731 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 3: just a little bit of using to me. There was 732 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 3: a protest of around similar numbers to Mondays, so maybe 733 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 3: like three thousand, two thousand people for kind of the 734 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 3: last march on the DNC last Thursday. So there was 735 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 3: another one of these big kind of coalition led marches Uly. 736 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 5: It was not far from Monday's numbers actually, which was 737 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:49,839 Speaker 5: which was impressive. 738 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 3: Pretty close, pretty close, but they did not reach the 739 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,799 Speaker 3: fence on like last time. A small section of them 740 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,280 Speaker 3: did not break off from the protest marshals and bypass 741 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 3: a section of the fence on like like Monday, which 742 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,319 Speaker 3: did cause significant disruptions, but disruptions were not needed because 743 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,359 Speaker 3: the DNC disrupted itself by overbooking the venue and having 744 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:08,160 Speaker 3: way too many people. 745 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,879 Speaker 4: So there you go. That was the DNC I'm really 746 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,359 Speaker 4: glad it's over. Me too. 747 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 5: I'm really glad it's over too, And I can't wait 748 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 5: until twenty twenty eight when we all get to be 749 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,399 Speaker 5: together again to cover the next election. If there is. 750 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 3: One, Comrade AOC proudly takes control. She raises the red 751 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 3: flag on stage. 752 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:36,760 Speaker 5: Comrade AOC with her vice presidential candidate, the literal bones 753 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 5: of Leon Trotsky running versus just an open chasm to 754 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 5: the pit of Hell, an actual crack in the earth 755 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 5: through which you can see the ephemeral forms of demons 756 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,799 Speaker 5: roiling in the magma below. That's gotta be a great 757 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 5: gotta be a great one. Really excited for those conventions. 758 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:57,920 Speaker 1: And or Donald Trump Junior. 759 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 5: Eric Trump and Donald Trump finally the dream team. 760 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 4: I believe they could open up a chasm to Hell. 761 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 4: I do. 762 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,279 Speaker 5: I think what would be more likely is if Eric 763 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 5: Trump and Donald Trump Junior are on the same team 764 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,960 Speaker 5: with a bunch of secret Service agents, that we finally 765 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,560 Speaker 5: finally have a presidential election decided from a fentanyl overdose. 766 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:22,640 Speaker 5: They get some tampered coke. 767 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,839 Speaker 1: Anyways, the podcast is over. I'm gonna go dine out. 768 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 5: Goodbye. 769 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 6: It could happen here as a production of cool Zone Media. 770 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,720 Speaker 6: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 771 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 6: cool zonemedia dot com, or check us out on the 772 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 6: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts, 773 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 6: you can find sources for It could happen here, updated 774 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,240 Speaker 6: monthly at cool zonemedia dot com slash sources. 775 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,280 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.