WEBVTT - Kamala Shuts Down The DNC 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.880 Cool Zone media. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.559 All right, this is the last night of the DNC 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:13.840 episode or reporting from our homes now, which is great 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.160 because I feel like death. Garrison Davis is here, I'm 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.240 Sophie Lickdrman Robert Evans is here. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.960 We more or less survived the DNZ. So if he 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.799 took a few hits there at the end. So the 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.840 DNC is over, it's wrapped up, it's all finished, Thank goodness. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.879 Tiring in a very different way than the RNC, and 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.159 I mean obviously a very different demographic. And this is 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:37.839 something that I noticed just as soon as I got 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.360 to the airport, Like when I got to the. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.080 Gate for the RNC, it was like, oh, I'm here 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.040 for the r n. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.000 C, And when I got to the gate for the DNC, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.560 it was, Oh, this is just a regular airport gate. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.160 This is just normal people. There's a very broad demographic 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.200 that you know, pretty fairly would represent whatever city you 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.400 happen to come from. And in calling these people normal, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.640 that's not saying they're necessarily good people, but they're normal people. Sure, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.800 they're into politics, maybe a little bit more than your 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.000 average person, but by and large they are kind of 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.000 regular people. And including shitty in a lot of the 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.080 ways that regular people are shitty about politics. Would that 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:18.000 be their views on Palestine, Gaza, queer people, But it's 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.160 a pretty pretty normal demographic base. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.920 Yeah, it's the difference between like when something and I 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.560 showed up at our gate for the RNC, we took 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.280 off our masks because the threat at that point was 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.640 being on a mask surrounded by Republicans. Yes, right, yeah, it. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.400 Was like the risk to our lives was greater than 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.600 the risk of COVID to our lives safety eyes. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.920 Yeah, whereas we just kind of treated the flights to 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.520 and from the DNC like normal flights, like like you'd 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.520 handle the normal precautions just regular people. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.160 Some of that has to do with the fact that 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.480 Chicago's like a much larger city. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.800 Yeah sure, but yes. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.800 But I mean I got to the conversation with a 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.360 delegate from Georgia who was sitting right next to me, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.280 you know, young guy mid twenties. Very clearly everyone on 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.760 the plane was going to the DNC, at least for me, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:11.359 And yeah, I mean you just. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.119 Had like a regular conversation, was it Little John? No, No, Sophie, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:16.800 it was not okay, cool. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.880 So if he little John as a senior citizen. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.520 Now it's little John, thank you so much. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.880 But no, he was this this young, kind of nominally 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.760 progressive Democrat who was excited this is I think, I 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.840 think his first time going excited to vote for Kamala, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.600 much more excited about her than Joe. He also just 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.840 finished his college program to get a criminal justice degree. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.280 So it's like, yeah, it's this is this is who 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.240 the Democratic Party is. Yeah, just random, kind of kind 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:47.040 of queer, but definitely sis dude, like gay dude, bisexual, whatever. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.240 But yeah, it's gonna reform, reform that criminal justice from 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.639 the inside. Yeah, anyway, kind of I just wanted to 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.400 descorry about talking to this kind of those kind of 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.680 general convention demographics because that's basically the same it felt 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.440 well inside the convention as well. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.960 Yes, a lot more what I will say is a 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.639 lot more women who are like middle aged at the 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.600 d n C, Like that was the overwhelmingly most common 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.400 demographic on like at the convention that I noticed. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.040 And probably more racial diversity than a lot of then 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.679 a lot of cities probably Honestly, Yeah, I guess that's 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.120 a good general sign, but it's not a great sign 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.080 just in and of itself. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:29.280 Right. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.079 I guess it's it's good for kind of the general 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.760 future of this country, but it doesn't it doesn't really 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.800 affect many of the biggest problems that we're kind of addressing, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.160 whether that be you know, gazo that, whether that be 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.320 police brutality, whether that be all all of these other things, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.760 LGBTQ issues, the economy, right, like, that does not necessarily 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.800 equal over onto any of those, at least at the DNC. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.640 But you know that is that is a general trend 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.920 that that that the country is heading towards. It seems 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.600 so there you go, and my god, was there a 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:02.960 lot of people there was. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.960 There was such an unhinged amount of people, Like I 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.360 can't even. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:13.000 It was so much bigger and so much more crowded 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:14.360 than the DRNC. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.479 I set this online when right wingers were trying to 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.880 be like there was nobody there, which was like, you're 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:21.080 you're so dumb. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.160 It was vastly more crowded. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.640 But like at the R and C, most of the time, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.840 we generally had an entire road to ourselves. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.960 Yeah, it was always easy to find seating. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.640 Super eased to find a spot to sit any time 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.920 during the R and C. Not true for the DNC, 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.640 very challenging to find a seat, and this kind of 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.640 brings us to the last day of the convention. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:40.200 Horrible. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:40.520 Uh. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.800 The three of us wrap up a very nice dinner 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.400 with mister Vermin Supreme lovely, possibly the most ethical presidential 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:48.600 candidate this year. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.359 The only presidential candidate who has been maced with a 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.839 member of the Cool Zone media team. We can say 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:55.320 that much. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.000 Yeah, so we have a great to dinner with them. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.800 We walked over to the DNC, mass massive lines coming outside, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.039 terrible and then we get told it's okay, there's a 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.360 special press entry, so we bypass all those lines. We 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.479 are feeling great, We are feeling like gods, just passing 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.440 by hundreds and hundreds of people waiting waiting line to 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.120 get the DNC. It was a very powerful feeling. I've 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.480 never felt that empowered before. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.760 Oh Garrison, Oh you sweet summer child. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:24.800 It was wonderful. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.320 It was really a rush that can't be described. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.920 Yeah. I almost didn't want to let you guys know 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.760 that the whole venue is at capacity. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.800 So we get up to the door after just breezing through, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.720 going past all of those lines, and we get to 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.080 the door and all the doors are shut. Yeah, there's 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.240 secret Service at every entrance saying that nobody can get 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.520 in because the venue is at capacity. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.880 And the crash, oh. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.159 My god, the crash that we had from our high 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:54.880 so so bad. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.160 I talked to a couple of police officers outside the 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.880 venue who were like, yeah, the fire marshals are here, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.599 like it was literally I do think that it from 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.000 and from everything I've read since, I think their reboarding 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.400 was accurate. Yes, like there were just more people than 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:12.679 were allowed to be in the building. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:17.560 They definitely let more people in than they should have. Yeah, however, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.120 there was a group of journalists with Garrison and myself 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.800 that were waiting to be let in, and there was 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.960 like triple the amount of people to journalists that left 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:28.800 in the time that we were standing there, which was 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.520 a very long time. And let me just say, the 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.240 secret service officer really enjoyed telling a bunch of journalists 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.320 that we couldn't come in. He was having a great 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.039 night ruining our night. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.839 I mean, there's nothing that makes me happier than making 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.680 a journalist miserable. So I actually do feel some solidarity there. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.479 You know, I would love to tell a bunch of 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.520 journalists fuck you. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.880 I was certainly skeptical because of just how many people 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.360 were getting let out, because I really wanted to see 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.120 how full the venue actually was. And after waiting for 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.080 nearly for two hours, two hours. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.600 Two hours, two hours, I went home. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.159 Pablo's speech already started. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.760 I abandoned you, and then some media logistics person from 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.800 the Secret Service entrance every five minutes would point at 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.120 ten people like they were the chosen ones to let them. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.440 Into the arena. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.680 And on round three or four, Garre and I did 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.160 in fact get in and run up like seven or 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.960 eight flights of stairs, which I'm still feeling. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.040 You made the cut. You made the cut. We did. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.760 I bet Tim Walls whispered your very names into the 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.480 ears of that Secret Service agent. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.240 Although I do feel like a piece of me is 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.400 still on those stairs because it was brutal. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:38.640 It was bad. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.320 And then we got up to kind of the floor 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.680 of the arena that we usually entered into and they 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.080 were not lying. It was way too full. There was 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.640 not a single seat available. People were standing in the 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.240 fire exits, people were standing on the stairs and the 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.240 hallways inside the actual arena. It was it was, in 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:57.720 fact a real safety hazard. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.160 Yeah, I do really feel the need emphasize not one 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.200 of those things where the cops were fucking over the 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.080 press or whatever for their own It was a serious issue. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.000 Now we saw firefighters inspecting the hallways and letting a 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.240 whole bunch of fire code violations fly. Yeah, we were 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.600 not supposed to be standing in the middle of that stairwell. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:22.080 And yeah we got inside just in time for the 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:28.840 foreign policy, border patrol, and geopolitics section of Kamalis's speech. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.920 And we will talk about her speech, including those aspects, 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.400 right after we come back from this ad break. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:45.480 All right. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.240 The final speech of the DNC arguably the most important one, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.520 although the DNC just went on for so long that 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.600 I was so checked out by that last day. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:59.360 Honestly, it was just Bill Clinton's nine hour speech where 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.559 he just was just the oldest man who's ever lived. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.480 No, he's convinced me. You know, I watched last night 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.880 several episodes of the show about him committing a sex 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.160 crime as the president, and it really reminded me. Boy 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:14.640 slick Willy's gotten old. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.439 Yeah, thank you for music. My dad's nickname for Bill 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:18.760 Clinton on Mike Click Willy. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.120 That's every dad's nickname for Bill Clinton. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.440 My dad loves to call him that. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:29.000 Anyways, Garrison, we got up there. We are standing in 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.840 a crowd of journalists just trying to get a glimpse 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.319 of what's going on. And is there any particular part 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.000 of the speech you want to talk about, because there's 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.439 a few things that come to mind for me. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.360 I mean, yeah, I have notes on like the whole speech, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.920 just you know, a few lines from each little section. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:45.439 And I think this. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.000 Speech was more important than most of Trump's speeches because 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.240 we've heard Trump speak, you know, a bajillion times now. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.760 I will say Trump's R and C speech was important 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.360 because this was his first speech after getting shot at 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.439 in the head. And similarly, I think this speech for 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.480 Kamlo was extremely important because this is basically her second 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.600 presidential speech. The speech she's been using for her campaign 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.240 trail has been the same stump speech for the past month. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.840 It's been the same one that delivered many times, which 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.080 is not a regular but this is the first time 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.559 we've really heard her do a new speech, and this 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.440 is her introduction as a presidential candidate to the entire world. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.000 As she took the stage, there's obviously tons of cheers 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.440 chants of usay she opened by praising Biden's record and 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.920 his character, saying that history will will prove him to 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.240 have such a great record and character, and then she 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.640 framed her own personal story as like a template of 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.080 like the American journey, right, saying, quote, I'm no stranger 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.120 to unlikely. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.079 Journeys unquote Okay. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.880 She talked about her mother as an immigrant, saying her 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.160 parents met at a civil rights gathering and that her 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.280 dad taught her to be fearless, although her dad also, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.080 I guess probably failed to teach her how to be 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.120 a good Marxist, but she did not bring that part 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:59.040 up in this speech. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.600 Relationship, but we all get to have. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.120 One, yes, But her parents taught her and her sister 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.040 about you know, different different civil rights leaders, including civil 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.880 rights lawyers that fought civil rights in court, and Kamala 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.840 said this is what inspired her to go to law school. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.960 Although you know, very famously, she did not become like 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.400 a civil rights lawyer. She became a prosecutor. And Kamala 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.560 said that this was inspired by her high school best 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.800 friend getting molested by her stepfather and that's what got 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.959 her to want to go down the prosecutor path. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.480 That was the first time that I had ever heard 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:35.720 her talk about that. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.120 Yeah, I hadn't heard that either. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.000 She literally did a few other times, obviously not on 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.040 that large of a stage. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.040 Yes, no, No, there was a lot of talk about that, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.000 and a lot of talk about her focus on like 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:53.079 familial sexual abuse, molestation and other sex crimes as a prosecutor, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.600 like basically framing that as like her specialty and that 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.839 that was a good part of what she focused on, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.520 which she was a court prie. The line that she 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.760 used to refer to her work in the court was 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.920 that quote, everyone has a right to safety, dignity, and justice. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.880 So that was kind of the introduction to Kamala and 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.640 her background. That was like who she was, where she 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.800 came from. And then the speech pivoted to talking about 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.560 Orange Man Bad, which worked very well in twenty twenty, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.280 and I think we're going to see more of that 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.720 the closer we get to the election. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.839 One way or the other. Is the last time you're 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.640 gonna get to make hay out of it, and so 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.559 you might as well do that while the sunshine. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.080 Yes, honestly, that was the general theme of the DNC 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.439 speeches for me, was like orange. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.199 Man Bad, we got one last shot we can be. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.720 Good for you, be good with us. We're good Orange 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:43.200 Man bad. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.240 It's even less that they want to be elected to 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.160 make any actual progressive change. It's that in order to 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.400 do that in the future, we first need to beat 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.360 Donald Trump. And that was kind of the guiding the 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.440 guiding principle of most of the DNC and Kamala's speech. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.640 She called this election of a fight for America's future. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.600 It's infuriating that, like we deal with this again right 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.160 where we have to like sit down and knock the 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:14.439 Republicans out and end a chunk of the conservative ideology 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.920 in this country because literally nothing can progress without doing that, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.520 and we still can't handle the more fundamental problems. But 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.400 you know, that's that's the way it is. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.920 Yeah, And she talked a lot about voting rights, saying 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.959 that Trump tried to throw away your vote and when 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.040 that didn't work, he directed an armed mob to the 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.280 capital to overthrow the election. She talked about how Trump 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.720 wants to deploy the military against protests, although she said 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.280 he wanted to play the military against quote our own citizens, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.720 but this was in reference to him wanting to deploy 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.199 the military against protests, and she framed the Supreme Court's 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.560 new ruling to give president's immunity in court from criminal prosecution, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.440 as imagining Trump, but now without any guard rails, which 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.760 of course is very scary. And part of this is 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.880 Project twenty twenty five again trying to reiterate this as 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.840 the Republican's playbook in case Trump is able to get 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.440 back into office. Mentions of Project twenty twenty five starting 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.080 a series of we are not going back chance, which 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.200 I think is probably some of the best messaging the 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.480 Democrats have the option of deploying this go around. I 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.120 know there was an upper Democratic strategist who has been 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.120 meeting with the Kamala team who said that this messaging 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.200 doesn't work because it's too vague and too negative and 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.640 not enough focused on the future. And thankfully the Democrats, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.320 or at least Kamala's team, did not listen to that guy, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.800 because that is the most wrong a man has ever been. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.840 This messaging has been playing very well in person at 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.160 all these rallies, and especially at the DNC. Kamala talked 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.440 a little bit about economics, saying, quote, we are charting 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.160 a future towards a strong and growing middle class unquote 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.440 end quote, We will build an opportunity economy where everyone 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.640 has a chance to compete and a chance to succeed unquote, which. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.600 I guess is fine. I don't know. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.120 I have a few kind of issues with this, mainly 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.640 like what happens when you don't succeed and what happens 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.120 to the lower class. Throughout the entirety of the DNC, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.240 there's been a lot of talk about growing a strong 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.760 middle class and a big focus on the middle class, 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.400 but very little focused on actually helping the people that 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.200 are having it the hardest in this country instead really 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.400 really catering to like the middle class voter, and I 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.120 don't know's it's like, there's a lot of talk about labor. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.720 There's a lot talking about like working people, like workers' rights. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.760 That stuff all has a pretty big spotlight at the 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.800 DNC this year, but very little mentions of how we 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.320 can actually improve life for the lower class. She did 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.720 talk about, you know, very vague gestures towards lowering the 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.840 cost of everyday needs, but so far she's kind of 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.120 yet to unveil any actual solid policies. Really we have 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.840 that first time home home buyers like twenty five K. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.160 Yeah, she's proposed some details on like how to help 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.160 increase the number of first time home buyers and build 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.920 an addition of like three million homes in the United States. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.800 So there's been some but it is all kind of 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.600 vague at this point. Now. One thing that they do 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.560 have going for them is when the dims say, like 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.960 we're going to cut inflation. You know, we've seen inflation 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.600 drop from the post pandemic highs over the last couple 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.440 of years to the point where it's at now, So 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.760 like that is that, you know, there's there's a leg 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.280 to stand on there. And in general, I actually think 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.760 one of the better economic points was made by Clinton 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.600 during his speech, which is that, like, the vast majority 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.960 of jobs that have been created over all of our 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.200 lifetimes have been created under democratic presidents, and you know, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.600 if you can't if like that's your voting issue. The 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.200 polls are also moving in the direction of that. People 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.280 seem to be trusting Kamala more on the economy, and 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.200 they trusted Biden, even though there's not really a perfectly 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.280 logical reason to do that. But this is elections aren't 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.040 about logic, right, like no es, They're about vibes. In 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.920 a lot of ways, They're about vibes, and I do 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:59.000 think the dims. I think the dims have that actually, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.280 like the good head wins on and now a lot 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.199 can change in the next seventy days or so. What 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.200 I really saw with this speech and with this convention 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.000 as a whole, was the Democratic Party embracing the middle 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.679 and some conservatives. And yeah, they tried not to be 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:20.919 too directly abrasive to progressives and the left. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.240 But they weren't catering to them. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.280 But they were not catering to it. Yeah. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:24.640 Yeah. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:29.399 Kamala did attack Trump on taxes, specifically saying that trumpill 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.480 do tax breaks to his billionaire friends, it'll add a 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.560 five trillion into the national debt, and she called Trump's 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.520 tariff proposal basically a national sales tax or a Trump 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.719 tax that'll raise costs for middle class families by up 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.800 to four thousand dollars a year, which is in line 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.240 with the whole bunch of economists' predictions if Trump's tariffs 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.280 do go through, and then again gesturing to kind of 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.800 vague policy ideas without actually proposing strict policies, saying that quote, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.000 we will provide access to capital for entrepreneurs, small business owners, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.280 and founders, warning that Trump will ban abortion pills and 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.240 enact a national abortion ban and force the states to 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.879 report on people's abortions and miscarriages, and instead, Kamala will 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.920 sign into law a bill that protects abortion access nationally, 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.639 as well as calling to pass the John Lewis Voting 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.720 Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act and more 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.480 kind of vague gestures towards protecting the freedom to love 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.920 who you love, to have clean air and clean water, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.520 and the freedom that unlocks all others, the freedom to vote. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.000 And so that's kind of the most of the domestic 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.640 policy section of the speech, and that is the part 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.120 of the speech that we missed. And then we came 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.280 in right as she started talking about the border, saying 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.119 again that, like many others have talked about the DNC, 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.159 how the Democrats and Republicans work together to write the 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.280 strongest border bill in decades. And Kamala said that this 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.040 bill was endorsed by the Border Patrol which it wasn't. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.920 It was endorsed by the Border Patrol Union, but who cares? 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.280 And Comma talked about how Trump called Republicans to kill 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.160 the bills that Democrats couldn't take credit, and she promised 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.119 that she will bring back this bill and sign it 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.480 into law, saying that quote, we can create an earned 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.880 pathway to citizenship and secure our border unquote. So again, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.919 this is one of the areas that Democrats I think 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.800 have lost the most amount of ground on the past 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:22.240 like eight years, and they are still kind of willing 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.840 to seed it. And then in terms of like geopolitics 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.640 and foreign policy, one line of kmmalist that has kind 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.240 of cotton some flak, but also I don't know, I'll 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:34.359 just read it, we can talk about it. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:35.920 She said that quote, I. 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.960 Will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:41.880 force in the world unquote. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.280 Yeah, So did you guys, what did you think by 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:45.560 the use of that language. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:52.040