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June 9, 2021 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Hunter Biden Said The N-Word | Ep. 1272
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Joe Biden's beloved son is in hot water again after messages show him using the N-word, the race baiter's double standard remains on full display, and Kamala Harris continues to be awful at her job.
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He thought it was crack, to be fair to him.
Yes, that's a thing that happened.
But now we have the most explosive allegation of all, because we live in the craziest world of all, and that is that Hunter Biden addressed his white lawyer as N-word multiple times.
Use phrases like, true dat, N-word, and banter, I only love you because you're black, in shocking texts unearthed days after Joe's emotional Tulsa speech decrying racism, according to Daily Mail in the UK. Now, again, I will say that our general moral standards in the United States are somewhat weird. And they're somewhat weird that if you jesting, ingest, use the N-word that ends with an A, to describe your white lawyer, that this is
in the world of politics a much, much greater sin than being a crack addict who is irresponsible with his own children and also knocks up a stripper and also is shtipping his is.
Bye.
His brother's widow and also her married sister?
Like, in the pantheon of sins, I feel like we're sort of getting these out of order.
But suffice it to say, Hunter Biden is a garbage person, has been a garbage person, not as like he actually picks up garbage.
He's an actual person made of garbage.
He's a terrible, terrible person.
He's been a terrible person for a very long time.
It is constantly a source of amusement to me how the media continue to treat Hunter Biden as though he is, again, a small child, even though Hunter Biden is, I believe, 52 years old.
At 52 years old, you are still participating in these sorts of hijinks.
At this point, I think we can safely declare that you're not a very good person.
But it does expose to light the fact that there is this wild double standard with regard to the sort of language that you're allowed to use so long as you are apparently related to a prominent Democrat.
Now, we've known this for a long time.
Your behavior, if you're a prominent Democrat, there are very few boundaries on what you can do unless you happen to become useless to the Democratic Party.
Hunter Biden is still useful because his dad is useful.
The minute that Joe Biden becomes not useful, Hunter Biden will be not useful anymore and he will go the way of the dodo bird.
You saw this with Bill Clinton, right?
Bill Clinton went from being so useful that people were making excuses for rape allegations against him.
Then he became not super useful and everybody's like, ah, that Bill Clinton, he's just terrible.
And then he became useful again.
Around the time that Hillary was running, and then we had to downplay everything that was bad about Bill Clinton, and then he became useless again, and now he's kind of useful again.
So anytime somebody is useful to the Democratic Party, they become useful to the media, and then all this stuff gets downplayed.
Anytime they are useless to the Democratic Party, then it's totally safe to throw them out the window.
Okay, so here is the full story about Hunter Biden.
Now, again, I will say that when it comes to the use of the n-word, there is a difference between calling a black person an n-word with an er at the end, and in jest, using the n-word that ends with an a to describe a white person.
The latter is also really crude and gross and stupid.
It's not racist in the same way that it would be if you were just shouting the N-word at a black person, which is the height of racism, obviously, in American society.
But here is the story from the UK Daily Mail.
Hunter Biden used the N-word multiple times in conversation with his white $845-per-hour lawyer, his text messages reveal.
The shocking text may prove embarrassing for his father, Joe Biden, who just last week gave a speech decrying racism on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre and his thoughts portray racial justice as the top priority for his administration.
The president's son joked in a January 2019 text to corporate attorney George Mazuris about a big penis and said to the lawyer, In another text a month earlier, he wrote to the Chicago lawyer saying, how much money do I owe you? Because, with two A's, because, N-word, you better not be charging me Hennessy rates. Miseres wrote back, that made me snarf my coffee because he's a lawyer and lawyers know that you're supposed to actually just like, pretend that your clients are amusing. Hunter added, that's what I'm saying, N-word,
cutting off the racial slur mid-word, then texted a picture to Miseres.
The picture was not downloaded on Hunter's laptop, from which the text exchange was which was recovered by Daily Mail.
But, Ms.
Urias replied, why are you so tan?
Hunter replied, I'm sorry for sexting you accidentally.
That was meant for another friend named Georgia.
In the January text exchange, the two men were talking about philosophy and bantering with each other.
Ms.
Urias wrote, there are ideals of unconditional love that serve as proxies.
I don't have many.
You.
God.
Hunter wrote, O-M-G, N-word, did you just, a fictional character from the imagination of the collective, frightened, and my dead brother's unconditional love is what I should rely on and my kids aren't children, George?
I don't even know what they're talking about.
Ms.
Sears wrote, my parents' love was conditioned.
Hunter wrote, my penis, as of late, has been unconditional.
Ms.
Sears wrote, that is why we are searching.
Hunter wrote, for my penis.
Ms.
Sears wrote, and we'll always be searching.
Hunter wrote, it's big penis, George, they always find it, and I only love you because you're black.
Um, yeah.
Let... I mean, honestly, if you're George Macias, you're like, okay, I'm just gonna keep texting and charging at 845 an hour is basically the logic of how this is going to work.
But here's the amazing thing.
We all know that if these were Donald Jr.' 's texts, the world would be aflame, right?
The media would be all... they'd be drooling all over themselves.
Donald Jr.
wouldn't use this kind of language unless he had heard it in the home.
Donald Jr.
must have learned it somewhere.
He probably learned it from his racist orange father.
But Joe Biden, because he is the great He's the great sage white man who is going to bring justice racially to black people across America.
Hunter's just a wayward child.
He's an innocent wayward child who's experienced so much tragedy in his life.
And this can't, no, I mean, this has nothing to do with Joe.
Now again, Hunter's an adult.
At this point, it doesn't have to do with Joe.
But again, let's be clear.
If this were a Republican child of a Republican president, do you think they'd be connecting it to the Republican president?
What do you think?
The way, by the way, that the Daily Mail got access to all of this is because Hunter Biden was an irresponsible drug addict.
I don't know about his current drug status, but he left his laptop at a repair shop with all of this crap on it because he's the smartest person that Joe Biden knows, which says a lot for Joe Biden's cabinet.
In just one second, we are going to get to the way that race is treated in the media.
Because again, the way that the left treats race is basically if you are on the right, then you are racist simply by dint of your politics.
If you are on the left, you are not racist by dint of your politics.
It's as simple as that.
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The way that race is treated when it comes to the left is that, again, if you're useful to them, then we cannot declare you racist under nearly any circumstances.
This is why Ralph Northam is still the governor of Virginia, even though he was caught wearing either a blackface or a KKK hood, right?
Either one or the other, right?
There was no third option.
He's still the governor of Virginia.
After every Democrat called for him to step down because he was useless at the time, then later he became useful, and now you have Joe Biden traveling around and campaigning with Ralph Northam.
And this is the way all of this works with regard to race.
Okay, and if you are useless, or if you are counter to the culture, then you will be destroyed.
So Hunter Biden will be fine.
He'll be fine.
His dad is useful right now, so Hunter Biden will be fine.
You know who's not gonna be fine?
It's Chris Harrison.
And Chris Harrison is the host of The Bachelor, or was the host of The Bachelor.
He's now officially out as host of The Bachelor franchise.
This is only an important story, insofar as it is indicative of the mindset that is set in in the United States, and that is, if you are deemed unworthy, For not being a racist.
Even if you were sort of edging around a topic having to do with race and were unfairly deemed racist, you will be destroyed.
So Chris Harrison has now been forced to permanently step down as the longtime host of The Bachelor franchise, according to the show.
Warner Horizon and ABC Entertainment announced Harrison's departure in a statement following a deadline report he was leaving after taking an eight-figure payout and agreeing to keep silent on the franchise's dirty laundry.
This is according to BuzzFeed News.
The statement said, We are thankful for his many contributions over the past 20 years.
Wish him all the best on his new journey.
His departure marks the end of nearly two decades as host and comes just a day after the premiere of the new Bachelorette season, which is co-hosted by two former women leads.
Chris Harrison then tweeted, he put out an Instagram in which he said, I've had a truly incredible run as host of the Bachelor franchise.
Now I'm excited to start a new chapter.
I'm so grateful to Bachelor Nation for all the memories we have made together.
Now remember, the reason that he was ousted is not because he is a racist.
The reason that Chris Harrison just lost his job is because he made the unfortunate slip of suggesting that a young white woman who had attended an antebellum-themed frat party or sorority party when she was 19 ought to be given a little grace and not treated as though she was a member of the KKK or had dressed in a white hood and was not governor of Virginia.
He said, give her a little grace.
This, by the way, was the same exact comment that had been made by the boyfriend of the woman who would end up being picked on The Bachelor, who was a black man, like the first black Bachelor, picked this white woman.
He said she should be given a little grace when those photos emerged.
Chris Harrison repeated it.
But then the first black Bachelor decided to reverse himself after Rachel Lindsay came down really hard on Chris Harrison.
And then he said Rachel Kirkconnell, who is the young white woman, she's really bad.
And then Chris Harrison was forced to backtrack and he apologized to the mob, which you should never ever do, and he was removed from The Bachelor.
And then later, the first Black Bachelor and Rachel Kirkconnell got back together.
So the only person who ended up out of a job here I mean, sure, he gets an eight-figure payout, which is nice, but the only person who ended up out of an actual job was Chris Harrison, again, for the great crime of repeating the exact words that the first black bachelor had said about his white girlfriend at the time.
By the way, note to Rachel Kirkconnell, after your boyfriend calls you a racist in public, you probably don't want to date him anymore.
Like, this is not a relationship that's going places, but...
It is, again, indicative of the way that racial politics work in the United States.
Either you are assimilated to the Borg, or you are determined so useless that you don't need to be assimilated to the Borg, and instead, you must be ousted from any position of public power.
And unfortunately, this has bled down to pretty much all aspects of our culture.
It has bled down to our colleges.
It has bled down to entertainment, obviously.
It has bled down to our places of work.
This idea that America is rife with white supremacy.
It's secret, right?
It's secret whites.
If you're like an open kind of racist, like Hunter Biden is, but you're still useful, then you're not part of the system of white power structure, even though Hunter Biden is a powerful white man who has traded.
I mean, you want to talk about white privilege?
Hunter Biden being the son of Joe Biden, traveling around to Ukraine and picking up bags of cash, and then traveling to China and picking up bags of cash because his last name is Biden.
I mean, there is no greater example of white privilege in America than Hunter Biden.
He's the essence of white privilege.
In any sane society.
But the idea from the left, of course, is that you are truly only and you're emblematic of white privilege if you are participatory in the system.
And Hunter Biden's dad is trying to revise the system.
So Hunter Biden isn't really white privilege.
Hunter Biden is really just this wayward child.
But everybody else who lives within the system must be made aware of their white supremacy and they must be they must be taught about it and they must be lectured about it.
And they must be canceled over it.
We'll get to that in just one second.
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So our culture with regard to canceling people around the issue of race has seeped into pretty much everything.
It was amazing.
Yesterday, there was a clip of Barack Obama talking about his daughters in college and talking about how even they understand the excesses of cancel culture.
But people are missing the point of Obama talking about this.
His whole point is that cancel culture generally is good.
He says sometimes it's excessive, but mostly it's good.
Here is Barack Obama talking up.
He wasn't talking it down.
Talking up cancel culture yesterday.
At least in conversations with my daughter, I think that a lot of the dangers of cancel culture and, you know, we're just going to be condemning people all the time, at least among my daughters, that they'll acknowledge that sometimes among their peer group or in college campuses, you know, you'll see folks going overboard.
But they have a pretty good sense of, look, we don't expect everybody to be perfect, we don't expect everybody to be politically correct all the time, but we are going to call out Institutions or individuals if they are being cruel.
But we are going to call it institutions or individuals if they are being cruel.
And of course, that rubric expands dramatically because all you have to do to say that an institution is cruel is say that they are right wing, say that they are conservative, say that they are on the wrong side of the political aisle.
Again, Hunter Biden is emblematic of the right side of the political aisle, so he is fine.
He is not some local business owner who is caught using N-I-G-G-A in a text.
He wasn't some local dry cleaner who was caught saying a bad thing or an impolitic thing on camera and now is going to have to be ousted from public life.
He's the son of the president, so he's totally fine.
The rubric expands and contracts at will for the Democrats.
Again, it is all about power.
One of the great rules when it comes to the left is that everything they attribute to the right, particularly their theory that all politics is driven by power, is actually an understanding of themselves that they just can't see.
Whenever they say all politics is about power, all principle is about power, when people on the right talk about their principles, what they really mean is that they wish to re-enshrine their own power.
The left believes that because this is what the left actually does.
People on the left are constantly contracting and expanding terminology.
They're constantly redefining things in order to expand their own power.
That is all that matters.
And you can see this happening again throughout American society.
This is why, for example, last night, there's a CNN anchor named Victor Blackwell, and he had on a Texas Republican state representative named Steve Toth.
Okay, and Toth was talking about how Texas has now banned critical race theory in the classroom.
Okay, critical race theory is not just teaching bad things about the United States.
You're allowed to teach that there is awful stuff that's happened in American history in Texas.
You're certainly allowed to teach that.
What critical race theory does is it says something different.
It says that every institution in the United States is irrevocably and irredeemably and inextricably intertwined with racism.
That racism lies at the root of all institutions in the United States and that if you are white, you benefit from the privileges that are already embedded in the system.
That white supremacy is written into the system and that every white person in America is an unconscious beneficiary of that white privilege.
This is the case.
That is made by Critical Race Theory.
It does.
It is all about racial essentialism.
Your whiteness...
is connected with your power, and your power is connected with systems of whiteness that are embedded in all of the systems. That's critical race theory in a nutshell. And that's not me defining it. That's the people who actually founded it defining it. It's people like Richard Delgado or Jean-Christophe Stefanczyk, people like Derek Belt. This is how they talk about all of this stuff. So it has a very specific meaning.
Okay, so CNN's Victor Blackwell, however, wants to label anybody who opposes this a racist.
So he has on this state representative named Steve Toth, and he asked why this is a priority in the first place.
This is my favorite game that the left plays.
My favorite game.
Hey, they do something that is utterly beyond the pale.
They do something that is utterly wild.
And then if you notice they're doing a wild thing, then they say, why are you even paying attention to this in the first place?
They're like, OK, so let's use Nickelodeon to propagandize on behalf of trans values.
Well, that's kind of crazy.
I mean, those are small children you are propagandizing.
Why are you even paying attention?
Why do you even care?
They'll have some sort of LGBT pride segment on Blue's Clues.
This actually happened.
And if you notice it, they're like, why are you even paying attention to that?
How dare you pay attention to that?
I mean, after all, why does that matter?
It's such a small thing.
Shouldn't kids know about that sort of stuff?
And why are you making such a big deal?
Is it because you're afraid of your own sexuality?
This is the way the left plays this game.
It's all high school bullying nonsense.
So this is the game that was being played yesterday by the most trusted name in news, CNN's Victor Blackwell, who confronted, again, a Texas Republican.
Why are you even paying attention to the fact we're trying to indoctrinate white kids in school that they are inevitably beneficiaries of a white racist system?
Shouldn't they be compelled to at least teach what is happening in the world or give some information about what's happening in the world around them?
But that's the problem is you guys, the left, you are the left.
CNN is the left.
You guys have completely lost control.
Sir, that is a lazy argument.
Just answer the question.
It is not a lazy argument.
It's clear.
It's clear.
Just answer the question.
Why shouldn't teachers be compelled to teach what is happening in the world at the time?
Okay, notice how he's framing this.
Okay, notice how Blackwell, Victor Blackwell, is framing this.
Okay, the way that he's framing this is, And you sort of have to have the context.
He introduced this by saying, why shouldn't teachers have to teach that the January 6th riots were all about the evils of white supremacy which is embedded in the systems?
And so this Texas state representative is like, because I reject your framing.
Your framing is in and of itself inaccurate.
Your framing is all about what you wish that January 6th was about, but that's not what January 6th was actually about, and you only want to teach one thing, and we don't think the teacher should be compelled to teach that one thing.
And then, Victor Blackwell's like, well, why shouldn't teachers be compelled to teach the truth?
Well, weird how you're defining your opinion as the truth now, Victor Blackwell.
Weird how your critical race theory take is now defined as the only way to teach.
Again, notice that he's not saying, why shouldn't teachers be allowed to teach this?
He's not even making that argument, which is still not a great argument because, of course, there have to be some standards as to what teachers can and cannot teach.
He's saying, why shouldn't teachers be compelled to teach it?
Because there is one rule, as my friend Eric Erickson has said when it comes to the left and how they march through the institutions, anything that is allowed is compelled eventually.
That's the way this works.
Right.
Anything that is allowed is compelled.
If something is originally allowed, eventually it will be compulsory.
We just want to be able to teach critical race theory.
Oh yeah, by the way, we've also embedded it in all of the structures of American life such that you are now compelled to do so or you're going to be excised from American society.
It's being taken in by our corporate overlords.
One of the things that I write about in my new book, The Authoritarian Moment, which comes out in the end of July, is the takeover of all of the institutions by radical left-wing theory.
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Apparently, on June 8th through 11th of 2020, 13 Lockheed Martin employees attended a three-day training course entitled White Man's Caucus, administered by an outside vendor, White Men as Full Diversity Partners.
And since 2007, over 1,000 Lockheed Martin employees have attended this type of training.
Pretty incredible stuff.
So all of this is being crammed down in your entertainment.
It's being crammed down on your kids in schools.
It's being crammed down by your corporations.
And all of it is supposed to be about a dramatic rethinking of what America is and what America should be.
We'll get to that in just one second.
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All of this is about a complete rethink of what America is and ought to be.
So Mara Gay is a writer for the New York Times.
And the other day, she was talking about the absolute horror of driving around and seeing people who fly Trump flags.
And in the context of suggesting that it was terrible that she was driving around Long Island and she saw people with Trump flags, she also said it was just terrible.
They had Trump flags and also American flags, and it was super duper terrible.
Because again, the idea here from people like Mara Gay is that the American flag is a bad thing.
All of these other various flags, Black Lives Matter flags, and Queer Pride Matter flags, and all of these various other flags, these are all very good things, because they symbolize resistance to authority.
But the American flag is a very bad thing.
The American flag is emblematic of racism, and sexism, and heteronormativity, and homophobia, and bigotry, and Islamophobia, and all of the other phobias that you could possibly imagine, up to and including arachnophobia.
So here's Mara Gay going after the American flag, It's amazing.
The New York Times has tried to walk this back.
It's a little bit too late.
I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed.
I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with, you know, explicatives against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and some cases just dozens of American flags, which, you know, is also just disturbing because essentially the message was clear.
It was, this is my country.
This is not your country.
I own this.
Okay, so, um, just a quick note.
People fly American flags from all places on the political spectrum, although increasingly not on the left, because they are upset with the American flag.
Oh, so Mara Gay, that in the New York Times communications office, put out a statement about Mara Gay's amazing statement there, right?
That she was deeply afraid because she saw dozens of American flags.
Nobody tell her about Memorial Day, guys.
It's super scary.
But she says that she's the American flag in conjunction with people who like Trump.
That's crazy.
Oh my God, it's just there.
So the New York Times put out a statement saying, this clip was taken out of context.
Well, I just played you the whole clip, so no, it's not taken out of context.
But then Maragay promptly blows up the New York Times communications team's ability to roll that back.
Here's what she just tweeted out yesterday, quote, I see I'm being trolled with the American flag this morning.
Trolling a black journalist with the American flag is not the own.
Some people think it is.
So in other words, the American flag is really bad, right?
She went right back to the well.
The American flag is bad because if you're trolling black people with the American flag, you're assuming that black people can be trolled with the American flag, which they can't be because the American flag is all about white supremacy.
Okay, how does all of this tie in to the Hunter Biden of it all?
Again, it is all about racism for the left has become a tool of policy, not just because they actually embedded in policy, but also because anything that I like, is resistance to white supremacy and anything I don't like is white supremacy.
All of the unifying features of American life have been torn away.
Individual rights are considered now, they are racist in their essence.
The American flag is racist in its essence.
Mother's Day is sexist, and all the unifying features of American life have been torn away.
All that remains is raw power politics.
That is all that matters.
Speaking of which, Joe Biden has now pulled the plug on any sort of bipartisan infrastructure talks with leading Republicans.
According to the New York Times, President Biden on Tuesday ended a weeks-long effort to reach a deal with Senate Republicans on an expansive infrastructure plan, cutting off negotiations that had failed to persuade them to embrace his bid to pour a trillion dollars into the nation's aging public works system and safety net programs.
I love how the New York Times just slides in, and safety net programs at the end right there.
Because normally when you're talking about infrastructure programs, you'd want to be talking about, you know, infrastructure.
But as we all know, for Democrats, everything is infrastructure.
Literally everything.
Daycare is infrastructure.
Healthcare is infrastructure.
Toilet paper is infrastructure.
Pete Buttigieg's bike that he rides around after taking it out of the back of an SUV so he can pretend to be an environmentalist, that's infrastructure too.
Every single thing is infrastructure, so long as Democrats are pushing it.
According to the New York Times, it was a major setback to Mr. Biden's efforts to attract Republican support for his top domestic priority, which had always faced long odds over the size, scope, and financing of the package.
Most Republicans have made it clear they are willing to spend only a fraction of what Democrats want on a much narrower initiative and balked at any tax increases to pay for it.
On a final telephone call on Tuesday with Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, the leading Republican negotiator, after days of back and forth discussions, Biden made clear the divide was too large to bridge.
Now, for those who say that Republicans will not pass anything with Democrats, that is just not true.
So yesterday, there was a bill that, frankly, I don't like very much.
I think Senator Mike Lee has done a good job of explicating the reasons why.
The Senate passed a bill to bolster competitiveness with China, according to the New York Times.
With a bunch of Republican votes.
It's gonna pour about $250 billion over the next five years into scientific research and development, supposedly.
Although a lot of it is gonna go to sort of crony programs for various corporations that work hand-in-glove with the government.
But the vote was 68 to 32.
So all the talk about how Joe Biden can't do anything bipartisan with Republicans, it's just not true.
It's a lie.
But in order to foment the notion that Biden is actually proposing something moderate, they have to just ignore the fact that the Senate passed 68 to 32, a bill written by Democrats and Republicans with Joe Biden's signature going to go on it.
Shelley Moore Capito said it was Biden who was unwilling to compromise.
She said, while I appreciate President Biden's willingness to devote so much time and effort to these negotiations, he ultimately chose not to accept the very robust and targeted infrastructure package and instead end our discussion.
Again, Republicans had offered something crazy.
It was like they'd offered almost, I believe it was half a half a trillion dollars on this thing.
And apparently that wasn't enough because they wanted to speed through a two trillion dollar quote unquote infrastructure package.
This led Mitch McConnell to declare the era of bipartisanship is over now.
Listen, I think the era of bipartisanship has been in real trouble for nigh on 20 years, basically since the left decided that George W. Bush was Hitler and they were not going to work with him anymore.
That was basically 2003 after the No Child Left Behind Act.
From then on, it's hard to think of a major piece of legislation that has received significant bipartisan support.
So it's been nearly 20 years since we've had any really significant piece of legislation with serious bipartisan support that isn't sort of an emergency relief bill or something.
Okay, but here's Mitch McConnell saying, now the Democrats aren't even trying, right?
I mean, forget about a Clintonian third way.
There will be no deals made here.
If you look to what the majority leader has in mind for June, it's pretty clear the era of bipartisanship is over.
We passed six bills so far this year, significant bills on a bipartisan basis.
Bills that came out of committee that had buy-in from both sides.
But I think that's coming to a screeching halt.
OK, and he's right about that, of course.
The fact is that Democrats have basically decided that the way that they are going to win electoral power is they're going to just castigate their political opponents as racists and then hope for the best.
That's the new deal.
Because they're not getting what they want.
Joe Manchin is not going to bust the filibuster.
Kyrsten Sinema is not going to do it.
They're not going to ram through these giant, huge packages.
Unless they're done through reconciliation, and the Republicans have very little say anyway.
So Democrats really are left with just the option of calling their opponents racist.
Because as the policies fail, this is all they're going to have.
Okay, in just one second, we're going to get to the Democrats' Kamala Harris problem because they have a very, very serious Kamala Harris problem on their hands.
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Now, meanwhile, the Democratic Party is finding itself with a bit of a Kamala Harris problem.
Now, this problem was pretty obvious when she completely ditched out in the middle of the primaries.
After having held the lead, you'll remember, after the first primary debate in which she called Joe Biden, now the man that she declares to be the greatest living human, a racist. You recall that if it had not been apparently for people like Joe Biden, thank God Joe Biden was not able to stop a little girl like her from getting ahead, is what she actually said in that first debate. And then she suggested that he should step out when there were allegations of sexual misconduct by Joe Biden. And now of course, everything is hunky dory.
Well, Kamala Harris was such a bad candidate that she fell apart.
I mean, she really just blew up on launch when she was a candidate for the presidency back during the primaries.
Now, Joe Biden, because she's black and a woman, and again, he said this, okay?
This is not anybody implying some sort of motive here.
He said openly he was going to pick a black woman, and then he picked a black woman.
So, those were qualifications that he himself selected.
And he selected it because he wanted the identity politics crowd to know that he was serious about all of his priorities.
There's only one problem.
Joe Biden is addled and nearly 80.
And there's very little expectation that he's going to run for re-election.
And the Democratic Party is not going to have the ability to oust Kamala Harris in favor of anybody else because she's just going to attack anyone else as trying to oppose her on the basis of her race and her sex.
So the Democratic Party has a serious Kamala Harris problem.
And the biggest problem is she's terrible at this.
She is just horrifying at politics.
It demonstrates truly how there's this great idea out there that in order to reach the top of American politics, you have to be good at things.
Let the last several decades disabuse you of that notion.
No, you don't.
You can be a complete dunderheaded moron and make it to the top of American politics.
You can be utterly incompetent on camera and be at the head of American politics.
In fact, you can be not only nearly senile, but barely able to speak English and you can become president of the United States.
It's a great country.
I mean, look at this country.
When they say that anybody can become president in the United States, they mean literally anybody can become president in the United States.
But I'll tell you one person who's not going to be elected president in the United States.
That is Kamala Harris, because this lady is just terrible at it.
So she was down in Guatemala yesterday.
She's not visited the U.S.
border yet to explain why exactly the Biden border administration policy is so bad.
But she did go down to Guatemala, where she has pledged to go back to the Obama plan, which is, what if we just threw a bunch of money at the problem?
You'll notice that there is a common theme to all democratic plans, and that is, what if we just throw a bunch of money at the problem?
So, they're like, what if we just throw a bunch of money at the problem?
And the president of Guatemala, he's like, um, well, you know, that's not going to help because your border policy sucks.
Here is the president of Guatemala basically lecturing the Biden administration yesterday.
The talk that they were going to allow family reunification made the Coyotes take a lot of children towards the border of the United States.
Yeah, so basically their crappy policy caused more people to try and cross the border illegally.
Then...
Just a couple of days ago, Kamala Harris was asked about not visiting the border by Lester Holt, and things got supes awkward because Kamala Harris... Again, there's nothing funnier in life to Kamala Harris than a question she can't answer.
It's the funniest thing that has ever happened to her.
I mean, it's like watching an old Jim Carrey flick for Kamala Harris.
She can't help herself.
When a question is asked of her that makes her slightly awkward, she just starts laughing and guffawing and cackling like an insane person.
It's wild.
So here is Kamala Harris.
Do you have any plans to visit the border?
you know, why haven't you been down to the border again?
Do you have any plans to visit the border?
At some point, you know, we are going to the border.
We've been to the border.
So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border.
We've been to the border.
You haven't been to the border.
And I haven't been to Europe.
And I don't, I don't understand the point that you're making.
I'm not discounting the importance of the border.
You totally understand the point that he's making, which is why you were lying one second ago about having visited the border.
I do love that exchange.
It's pretty spectacular.
We have visited the border.
You haven't visited the border.
I haven't visited the border.
I like that Lester Holt is actually utilizing the old Jedi mind trick on her.
It's pretty spectacular.
Those who are weak of mind.
I mean, like, really, really wild stuff.
So she got shellacked over this, of course, because she should be shellacked over this.
The reason that she hasn't visited the border is because she doesn't want an awkward photo op of having to walk among cells that are filled with small children because of her administration's terrible border policy.
Okay, but the real takeaway here is that Kamala Harris is horrifyingly bad at this.
She's just an untalented politician.
She is.
Like, I understand.
She got elected Senator in California.
Okay, for a Democrat to be elected Senator in California, actually, it turns out, is not all that tough because California is a one-party state.
Again, she's really not very good at this.
And then, she doubled down on being not very good at this.
So, she was asked again about visiting the border.
And once again, you have to think that there is some sort of Listen, I've been to the border before.
I will go again.
asked a question like this. She was asked about visiting the border. It's awkward. And she starts to laugh again, again.
Listen, I've been to the border before. I will go again.
But when I'm in Guatemala, dealing with root causes, I think we should have a conversation about what's going on in Guatemala.
Hilarious.
Hi-larious!
Again, she just can't stop herself.
She cannot.
Okay, well, this has led to some awkwardness for the administration.
Jen Psaki—it is pretty amazing that the administration hasn't just been like, okay, fine, send her to the border.
Jen Psaki over at the White House was asked about this, and she's like, maybe she'll go to the border at some point.
Yes, I also have aspirations to travel to Ireland.
I mean, like, we all have aspirations.
I want to go on an Alaskan cruise.
But I love the fact that they're treating what should be sort of a baseline mandatory political move as, you know, maybe at some point she'll go to the border.
I mean, there's lots of places to go.
I mean, she could go to Albuquerque for some reason, or, you know, maybe she needs to be up in Nebraska.
There's just a lot going on for Kamala Harris.
Her portfolio, of course, includes things like the border and also voting rights, neither of which she has done anything about.
She's just so good at this, guys.
She's such a talented politician.
We need the media to form a fan club for her.
Actually, here's Jen Psaki.
Jen Psaki trying to make excuses for Kamala Harris here.
At some point she may go to the border.
We'll see.
But she's in the Northern Triangle now to have discussions with leaders, with community leaders, with civil society leaders, with the embassy about how we can work together.
And obviously she's made a couple of announcements already.
Probably more to come before she comes back to the United States.
Jen Psaki has got to be so irritated with having to defend Kamala Harris, who truly is not very good at this.
By the way, again, it is an amazing thing.
Don't worry, people will still try to make Fetcher a thing.
They're going to try to make Kamala Harris a thing.
They've been trying.
They have these online fan clubs that have no members, and then they have members of the media who ask her questions like, Kamala Harris, I voted for you.
This actually happened at the press conference yesterday.
A lady who represented herself as a representative of Univision suggested that she was really excited to have become a citizen and voted for Kamala Harris, which is definitely the way that you lead out an objective journalistic question.
Here we go.
Our next question will come from Maria Fernanda at Univision.
Thank you, Madam Vice President.
For me, it's an honor because I actually got to vote for the first time as a nationalized citizen.
I voted for you.
Oh, my God.
Oh, thank you.
First of all, you know what?
Points for transparency.
I wish that everybody in the White House press corps had to do that.
Wouldn't that be great?
As if they had to lead off every question with who they voted for.
I actually kind of think we should make that mandatory.
Maybe it should be that Jim Acosta has to announce who he voted for before he asks any questions.
Maybe it would be more accurate than what they're typically doing.
So what is Harris doing to try and fight back on all of this?
She's going to fall back on the lady card.
Now, one of the things that I love most about Democrats falling back on essential characteristics like sex is that they don't even believe the characteristics exist.
So apparently, Kamala Harris is inviting all of the female senators to her house to have a chat.
Now, I have a question.
How do we know they're female?
I mean, serious question if you're on the left, because we have been informed that women, biological women, are mere birthing persons, because some men have vaginas too.
So even a biological check won't answer the question truly.
But Kamala Harris is going to have I Am Woman Hear Me Roar night over at the VP's establishment in Annapolis.
Apparently, she has invited all of the female senators to her residence for dinner next week, bringing back what were regular bipartisan dinner parties that dwindled after tough election cycles in 2016 and 2020.
All 24 female senators, 16 Democrats, 8 Republicans, were invited to the dinner at June 15th at the Observatory, according to three Senate sources, a get-together coming at the height of negotiations over infrastructure.
A Harris aide confirmed the dinner is a go.
Why, of course, are they doing, like, women only?
They're doing women only because they have to underscore the fact that Kamala Harris is super important because she is a woman and also because she is a black woman and also very much a woman who is black.
Those are the reasons why Kamala Harris is an important person and was selected for her job.
She was not selected because she's a good politician, gang.
She wasn't.
Amy Klobuchar did better than she did in the primaries.
Nobody talked about Amy Klobuchar.
There's only one reason why.
In any case, says Politico, the quarterly dinners were started by former Senators Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas.
They were hosted at the home of a different senator every six weeks, with each lawmaker bringing a different dish.
But since Mikulski retired in 2017, the dinners became less regular.
Two Republican sources said the bond between the women started to fracture with the aggressive campaigning against former Senator Kelly Ayotte, Republican of New Hampshire in 2016, and then worsened when they went after Susan Collins.
Okay, well, this is all very exciting stuff for Kamala Harris.
I'm glad that we can have these sorts of dinners.
in 2020, Harris, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, and Elizabeth Warren. The sisterhood has certainly faded. Okay, well this is all very exciting stuff for Kamala Harris. I'm glad that we can have these sorts of dinners. Maybe that will save her fading vice presidency.
And meanwhile, some bad news for Senate Democrats.
So Senate Democrats have been suggesting all along that we need a bipartisan commission to investigate what happened on January 6th.
Well, it turns out there is a bipartisan Senate commission that looked at what happened on January 6th.
It's coming out of a joint report that was issued by a Senate committee Hey, and you know what it showed?
It showed security failures.
The word Trump does not really appear in the document because it really was not about Trump.
It turns out that lots of people have lots of crazy ideas, and what stops them is the thin blue line.
What stops them are the cops in the right places at the right times.
And the real problem on January 6th was not Trump's rhetoric, per se.
That could be problematic in its own right, but the real problem is that there weren't enough members of security to stop people from breaching the Capitol.
This was clearly the problem.
If you had to nail down what was the biggest problem on January 6th, that was the biggest problem on January 6th.
None of that is to suggest that Trump's rhetoric between the election and January 6th was good or productive.
I said many times, I think that it really was not.
I disagreed with virtually all of it.
But the real problem was security, okay?
And that is what you should focus on if you're talking about protecting the Capitol building in the future.
Democrats are very upset about this, however.
So according to the New York Times, top federal intelligence agencies failed to adequately warn law enforcement officials before the January 6th riot that pro-Trump extremists were threatening violence, including plans to storm the Capitol, infiltrate its tunnel system, and bring guns, according to a new report by two Senate committees that outlines large-scale failures that contributed to the deadly assault.
An FBI memo on January 5th warning of people traveling to Washington for war at the Capitol never made its way to top law enforcement officials.
So it never even got to the top levels.
The Capitol Police failed to widely circulate information its own intelligence unit has collected as early as mid-December about the threat of violence on January 6th.
The first congressional report on the capital right is the most comprehensive and detailed account to date of the dozens of intelligence failures, miscommunications, and security lapses that led to what the bipartisan team of senators that assembled it concluded was an unprecedented attack on American democracy.
The 127-page joint report, a product of more than three months of hearings and interviews and reviews of thousands of pages, presents a damning portrait of the preparations and response at multiple levels.
Law enforcement officials did not take seriously threats of violence, and a dysfunctional police force at the Capitol lacked the capacity to respond effectively when those threats materialized.
So nobody had a plan.
Okay, so, again, the real problem on January 6th, in terms of what actually happened, was failures of intelligence, failures of law enforcement, and people should be fired.
But now Democrats are mad because what they really want January 6th to be about is not those failures, but about President Trump.
So that's why Chuck Schumer is fighting mad about a report his own Senate Democrats presided over.
Here is Chuck Schumer whining about it.
Just as glaring is what the report didn't consider.
Indeed, what was not allowed, it was not allowed to consider.
The report did not investigate, report on, or hardly make any reference to the actual cause, the actual impetus.
for the attack on January the 6th. With the exception of a brief reference to former President Trump's remarks at the Ellipse, Senate Republicans insisted that the report exclude anything having to do with the cause of the insurrection. Okay, but the reality is that the cause of the quote unquote insurrection, the cause of that is very much up for debate because Trump did say peacefully protest at the Capitol building. This really does expose what the Democrats want from
They don't want to talk about what actually allowed January 6th to happen, namely the security failures.
What they want to talk about is the ideology and the politics.
That's what this whole thing has been about.
All righty.
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