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Defending Kam-unism

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	Well, folks, we are in the middle of the most heated presidential contest of our lifetime.
	It is a dead heat.
	The Dems switched out their candidate, and now the Republicans are running against a different candidate with whom they are locked in what seems to be a bit of a death battle.
	We'll get to that in a moment.
	First, your reminder, we're bringing updates all the time.
	It's gonna be a big interview tonight between Kamala Harris and CNN.
	Also involving Tim Walz will be pre-taped, but I will be reacting immediately tonight upon the CNN interview.
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	So here is the current status of the race.
	It's dead heat.
	That's the current status of the race.
	I'm looking at the RealClearPolitics polling average right now.
	Kamala Harris is up by about a point and a half.
	In the national polling, she is currently leading in Wisconsin by less than a point.
	Pennsylvania is a complete, total dead heat.
	Trump is up by 0.1 percentage points, which of course means nothing.
	Kamala Harris is up a couple and a half points in Michigan.
	Trump is up 0.2 in Arizona, 0.6 in Nevada, 0.9 in North Carolina, and 0.3 in Georgia.
	In other words, every one of these states is within margin of error.
	Every single one of these states is within margin of error.
	Which means that this race right now can turn on pretty much anything.
	Now, the next big event, obviously, is going to be this interview tonight.
	Kamala Harris is pre-taping that interview today.
	Because, of course, they were never going to allow her live in front of a camera by herself.
	She's got her emotional support dog, Tim Walz, there.
	He's like a corgi of politics.
	Very eager, not particularly bright.
	He's going to be there so that she can pet him and feel good.
	And then if things start to get a little out of control, like, you know, she's asked a real question, Tim Walz can jump in and start gesticulating wildly with his hands and being a weirdo.
	So that'll be really exciting.
	She's going to need his help because here's the problem.
	Every time she goes off script, of course, she's a disaster area.
	Here, for example, she was campaigning with Tim Walz yesterday and she went and met with a bunch of children.
	And Kamala Harris really has down the irritating adult who's never met a child routine.
	I mean, I have four children.
	I deal with kids on a regular basis.
	There's nothing more irritating to a child than being talked down to by an adult.
	And by the way, there's nothing more irritating to an adult than being talked down to by an adult.
	But here was Kamala Harris meeting with a bunch of children.
	I swear, you get her off the teleprompter, and she is like a robot that is on the fritz.
	She starts spazzing out.
	It's bizarre.
	It's really weird.
	She starts making strange hand motions.
	She can't string together a sentence.
	She starts just mouthing platitudes, the most banal platitudes you could possibly imagine.
	And in the background, of course, you have that emotional support corgi, Tim Walls, the dumb sitcom dad, who is nodding along enthusiastically as though she is saying something of any sort of intelligence here.
	Here is Kamala Harris yesterday on the campaign trail.
	Our countries count on you.
	All of you.
	You are leaders.
	By the very fact that you all are here in this room, doing what you do at this incredible school.
	Doing it as one big team, understanding all of the different parts that fit together to create a team.
	That's what a team is, guys.
	Do you understand?
	Do you understand what a team is?
	It's a little hard to hear what she's saying there.
	It doesn't matter because she's not saying anything.
	This is her whole shtick.
	When she starts going with the hands, you know she's got nothing to say.
	Nothing.
	And this is what they're afraid of in this interview that's supposed to be broadcast tonight, obviously.
	Donald Trump's press secretary correctly pointed out that she has to have Tim Walz there for the interview because she is definitely afraid.
	And here's Carolyn Leavitt saying, she wants to be a powerful woman, but she needs to bring dad along.
	That absolutely is true, by the way.
	Now, Democrats, it is amazing.
	Democrat, media, human centipede.
	They are trying to proclaim that this is nothing new.
	After all, when a presidential candidate selects a vice president, they very often do some sort of joint interview.
	Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney did a joint interview.
	Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine.
	It's pretty normal.
	The difference is, usually the person who has been running for president has done a few interviews before being the nominee.
	Kamala Harris has done zero public interviews before being the nominee or after being the nominee, as it turns out.
	The reason that she's bringing along Tim Walz is to eat up the time.
	And because she's hoping that Dana Bash over at CNN will make the interview all about their relationship with one another and how they're really sympathetical, how they're gonna work together in the White House and avoid all issues.
	And if there is an issue, again, the corgi jumps up and starts humping Dana Bash's leg, presumably.
	That is how this interview, they hope, is going to work.
	Here's Carolyn Leavitt pointing this out.
	She's finally sitting down for an interview, but not by herself.
	She's sitting down with her running mate, Tim Walz, and I think it's quite sad that the woman trying to be the first female president of the United States needs her male running mate by her side in her first sit-down interview.
	It is sad, and it is pathetic, and it is a disgrace that she has yet to answer for any of her actual policy positions, which we'll get to in a minute.
	But she's running strong right now, and one of the reasons she's running strong is she is spending exorbitant amounts of cash right now.
	I mean, blowing money.
	Well, folks, Kamala Harris is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate you on social media, and here's the thing.
	Social media is also spending hundreds of millions of dollars, like all the time, to manipulate you, and then they use your data to monetize all of that.
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	That's how they make money off of you.
	They take your data, they package it, they sell it to advertisers, and by the way, they usually have some sort of backdoor to the federal government.
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	FWIW publisher Kyle Tharp has highlighted the fact that year to date, the Biden-Harris
	campaigns have outspent Trump on digital $142.7 million to $25.7 million.
	So by a factor of about six, a little under six, they've outspent Trump on Facebook, Instagram, Google, and YouTube.
	That's why you can't watch like a Cocomelon video with your kid without seeing a Kamala Harris for president ad.
	Meanwhile, TikTok is absolutely jogging her.
	Again, that site found that 24 of the top-performing TikToks last week mentioning Harris were negative.
	74% were positive.
	As opposed to the top posts mentioning Trump, 63% were negative on Trump.
	36% were positive.
	That also has to do with the fact that the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, is definitely interested in a Kamala Harris-Tim Walz presidency.
	For sure.
	Without doubt.
	All this is having a real-world impact.
	Not quite as great as the legacy media would hope, but it's having a real-world impact.
	Cook Political Report has now shifted North Carolina away from lean Republican to toss-up.
	So North Carolina is now well within margin of error.
	Kamala Harris is trying to make a play to put Georgia back in play.
	doing campaigning in the rural areas of Georgia, the idea would be that if she can bring down the
	margin in those rural areas, then she can win Georgia. If she only loses the outlying rural
	areas by 10 percentage points or so, then she can win big enough in, say, the Atlanta metro,
	that she ends up winning the state of Georgia. Again, the latest polls, according to the
	Washington Post, show Kamala Harris leading by two points in the national presidential
	polling average. She is also, right now, leading in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
	And she is within margin of error in the post-polling average in North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia.
	Very close race.
	Fox News has some new polling out as well.
	And that polling shows Kamala Harris currently leading in Arizona by one, Georgia by two, Nevada by two, Trump is up only one in North Carolina.
	Okay, now, you could say that these are bad numbers for Trump, and they're not great numbers for Trump, for sure.
	However, again, Kamala Harris has not been asked a single question.
	Time to update the calendar, gang!
	We are now on... Day... 40!
	40.
	Day 40.
	Zero questions, day 40 of the campaign.
	Insane.
	Totally crazy.
	Day 40.
	So we'll find out whether Dana Bash does her job tonight.
	Honestly, this interview is going to be more about Dana Bash than it is about Kamala Harris or Tim Walz.
	For those of us who watch politics, we know exactly what Kamala Harris's response is going to be.
	Absolute word salad horse crap.
	That's what you're going to get.
	The question is whether Dana Bash actually tries to do her job.
	And it's a bit of a rock and a hard place for Dana Bash if she does her job and asks hard questions and pushes a little bit on Kamala Harris.
	If Tim Walz jumps in and she says to Tim Walz, Governor, I'd love to hear your thoughts, but I'm really here to talk to the presidential candidate.
	You are the vice presidential candidate, and you have very little relevance when it comes to policy.
	We are told by your own campaign that the VP is not responsible for what the president does.
	That's Kamala Harris's entire campaign.
	So I want to hear from the candidate what she thinks.
	If she actually pushes Kamala Harris, she won't be able to go to any of the nice cocktail parties and people at CNN will be very angry at her and the Democratic Party will cut her off at the knees.
	If she does not push, she's not doing her basic job.
	So it'll be fascinating to see how she navigates that just on a sort of political level.
	But here is the thing.
	Again, the entire Kamala Harris campaign relies on you knowing nothing about Kamala Harris.
	First rule of Kamala Harris Fight Club, nobody talks about Kamala Harris.
	That is the first rule.
	You must never mention her positions.
	You must never mention what her crap administration has done.
	You must never mention any of these things.
	And you must certainly never attempt to get to the underlying philosophy that motivates her politics.
	You must never, ever attempt to do that.
	Because if you dig a little bit, what you find is that the Democratic Party has gone so far to the left, so radically far to the left, that they are now indistinguishable from the Democratic Socialists of America.
	That is the reality.
	Look at the great intellectual luminaries of the Democratic Party.
	I'm not talking about the politicians.
	I'm talking about the thought leaders.
	Among those thought leaders is one, Nikole Hannah-Jones.
	Now, you may not have heard about Nikole Hannah-Jones recently because, after all, she hasn't done any actual work for the last five years.
	She wrote the absolutely fictitious 1619 Project back in 2020.
	She was given a Pulitzer for that fictitious project.
	It is trash, the 1619 Project.
	The entire thing is rooted in the idea that every element of American life is built on the foundation of slavery and thus morally corrupt evil and must be wiped away.
	The 1619 Project falsifies history.
	That's not me saying that.
	That is professional historians like John Wilentz and Gordon Wood have pointed out all of the flawed history in the 1619 Project, for example.
	But this supposed genius was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017.
	She is the apotheosis of a democratic intellectual.
	Nicole Hannah-Jones, I'll give her points for clarity.
	I mean, it's stupid, but at least she's being clear.
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	Well, she did a speech at the Equity Summit, according to Kimberly Bryant, who is the founder of the Black Innovation Lab, and who is tweeting about the Equity Summit 2024.
	Here is what she said, quote, you know what COVID taught me?
	That we have enough for everybody.
	Overnight, we printed $6 trillion.
	We had universal healthcare.
	We had universal basic income.
	COVID proved it's possible.
	Now, if that sounds like communism to you, that's because it is communism.
	And you may recall that COVID actually ended up with 40-year highs in inflation, a massively spiraling debt problem, the complete shutdown of the American economy.
	You might remember that because you were there.
	But according to Nikole Hannah-Jones, that was amazing.
	That is what America ought to look like.
	It ought to look like the government paying you to stay home, shutting down your business, and then compensating you for shutting down your business, The government ought to provide everything for free, and it will have no impact.
	Now, that's not a one-off.
	Here's what she had to say this back in June at the MLK Library, talking about her Trash 1619 project.
	Do y'all remember this thing called a pandemic?
	Do y'all remember that?
	Do you remember how, when all of a sudden, all of America was experiencing what black people experience regularly?
	Right?
	High unemployment rates, housing instability, inability to access health care.
	We printed three to six trillion dollars overnight.
	Overnight.
	And all of a sudden, you couldn't evict people.
	Right?
	We had universal housing.
	Anybody who wanted to go get that shot didn't have to show a lick of paper, a dollar, nothing.
	You showed up and you got the shot.
	We paid people income, universal income.
	My cousin Shamir, who's in the 1619 documentary and the capitalism episode, started working at 15 years old.
	The most she ever made was when she got laid off for COVID and got that check from the government to stay at home.
	Wow.
	The most she ever made.
	And she cried about it because she was like, I have been able to save $1,000 for the first time in my life only because all these people are dying out here.
	That's the first time America cared about me.
	Free money.
	So the proposal is free money.
	Now you'll recall that the reason that the government compensated people is because the government told them they could not work.
	The government said you cannot go to school.
	You cannot go into your place of work.
	You have to shut down your business.
	They shut down the entire country.
	And then they had to do some things that people could remain living and functional.
	Because they had literally taken away your livelihood, which is not the same thing as a high unemployment rate that results, for example, from high levels of high school dropout, or high levels of single motherhood, or high levels of dysfunction in the home, or in the community, or in the schools.
	Not the same thing.
	This is the actual ideal.
	This is the thing that Democrats are shooting for.
	They won't say it out loud because if they ever said it out loud, people would recognize how ugly it is.
	The big problem with Nikole Hannah-Jones for the Democrats is that she's constantly saying the thing out loud.
	That's her saying.
	I want to know what Kamala Harris disagrees with Nikole Hannah-Jones about right there.
	Now, the reality is that the Biden-Harris administration has tried a lot of this.
	And it's true that so many Democrats were enthusiastic about all of it.
	I remember a few years ago, Ezra Klein, he was deeply unhappy at the inflation because he said, we were doing something magical.
	Had a whole column about it.
	We were doing something magical.
	When you blew money into the economy, modern monetary theory, that debt doesn't matter.
	That when you did this, you were actually creating a rising tide that was lifting all boats, but then it didn't work, and that was weird that it didn't work, and upsetting that it didn't work.
	The reality is, of course, it doesn't work.
	First of all, it's immoral.
	Money doesn't grow on trees.
	It's not magically popping out of the ground just because the Federal Reserve says it is so.
	Money is merely a mechanism of exchange.
	Money does not have its own inherent value.
	Any more than inches have their own inherent value on a ruler.
	It is a measurement and a way of quantifying exchange.
	That is all money is.
	That's all it's ever been.
	But for the Democrats, for the Democratic Party, for Kamala Harris, the basic idea is the government can magically make money happen and then just give it out.
	And that's what makes the economy go.
	That is the basic theory of leftism.
	When it comes to economics, it's the basic Keynesian theory.
	When it comes to how economics should work, and the actual result is people feel left behind because it doesn't actually work this way.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, a July Wall Street Journal-NORC poll of 1,502 U.S.
	adults shows a stark gap between people's wishes and their expectations.
	Americans overwhelmingly desire all the traditional trappings of the American dream.
	Owning a home, having a family, looking forward to a comfortable retirement.
	Very few believe that they can easily achieve it.
	Now, here's the question.
	We are now spending, year on year, more money than any country in the history of the planet.
	Any country in the history of the planet and yet fewer Americans feel they can achieve all the things that the government has been promising them.
	The home, the family, the retirement.
	That's not a spending problem, folks.
	That is something else.
	That is a perversion of all the incentives that lead people to make the right decisions that allow them to build a home and a family and a retirement.
	89% of respondents to this poll Well, you know whose fault that might be.
	I mean, it might be the fault of the Biden-Harris administration, at least in large part.
	percent said home ownership is easy or somewhat easy to achieve.
	Well, you know whose fault that might be.
	I mean, it might be the fault of the Biden-Harris administration, at least in
	large part, because as it turns out, Harris and Biden have created the most
	unaffordable housing market in history, according to the latest data.
	Fox Business says home prices hit a new record in June amid an ongoing housing shortage, even as high mortgage rates continue to push affordability out of reach for millions of Americans.
	We now have effectively stagnation and stagflation.
	with regard to the real estate market.
	Why?
	The report adds prices increased 5.4% nationally in June when compared with the previous year,
	which is only down slightly from the 5.9% pace recorded the previous month.
	Bright MLS's chief economist told Fox, the upward pressure on home prices
	is making this the most unaffordable housing market in history.
	First time, moderate income home buyers in particular increasingly are being left out of the housing market.
	Why?
	Well, I mean, part of it is because of all the restrictions the Democrats have put on building all across the country.
	Then it turns out that you inflate the currency, which means an increase in the interest rates,
	which means higher mortgage rates.
	And then because nobody wants to sell their home to get into a higher mortgage, there's just no actual available market.
	So a lot of money floating around, which is pushing up the bidding prices on a shrinking market because nobody wants to get out of their current mortgage that is at 2.5% to get into a 7% mortgage.
	That is all the policies that are being driven by the Democrats.
	Why do Americans feel that the housing market is unaffordable?
	That would be why.
	According to that same Wall Street Journal poll, financial security and a comfortable retirement were similarly labeled as essential or important by 96% and 95% of people, respectively, but rated as easy or somewhat easy to pull off by only 9% and 8%.
	I mean, why is that?
	We're not spending more money than we have ever spent on Social Security, ever.
	Again, in human history, why don't people feel their retirement is secure?
	Part of it is because Social Security is a defined benefits plan.
	It's not a defined contribution plan, it's a defined benefits plan.
	And because we didn't take that money and do what George W. Bush suggested back in 2005, which was take that money, put that money in, say, an index fund and leave it there.
	Imagine, by the way, how much money would be in the Social Security Index Fund if we actually had done what George W. Bush suggested back in 2005, when we were told by everyone that it was going to be the end of the world if we actually, quote-unquote, privatized Social Security.
	Okay, let me just remind you, the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2005, in January of 2005, I'm looking at the table right now, was 10,603.
	was 10,603. That was the DJIA, the Dow Jones Industrial, in January 2025 when George W.
	Bush was proposing that. And everyone went nuts.
	You're going to endanger social security.
	You're going to destroy social security.
	And Bush's only point was, it's a pyramid scheme.
	If we just take your money and we put it in an index fund and leave it there until you retire, it will be worth a lot more money.
	Well, as it turns out, again, 10,603 as of January 7th, 2005.
	as of January 7th, 2005.
	Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is 41,000.
	Do you know how many trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars would have poured into Social Security
	But no, we decided that government should run the program.
	It should run the program and raid the social security fund for whatever they decide they need on any given day.
	That is democratic policymaking.
	You cannot bring the private markets into bear on any of this.
	And the result is people are deeply unhappy.
	There is a shock.
	Democrats have said everyone needs to go to college and we need to pour money into student loans.
	And the cost of college has shot up.
	And the worth of a degree has dropped precipitously.
	Why?
	Because these are all Democrat policies.
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	Here's the point.
	Democrat policies fail, but Kamala Harris has not been forced to answer for any of them.
	In fact, she runs screaming from her own proposals.
	Here, for example, yesterday was Harris spokesman Michael Tyler, who's asked questions about her reversal on fracking.
	So back in 2019-2020, she said she wanted to ban fracking.
	One of the dumbest policy positions in American history, fracking has single-handedly revolutionized global energy markets.
	Brought an extraordinary amount of power back to America, particularly in foreign policy terms and also just in generalized economic terms.
	Democrats want to shut it down because they actually don't like American power.
	And also they have this peculiar notion that fracking is somehow significantly worse for the economy than what, importing oil from Saudi Arabia or something?
	In any case, Her prior position was banning fracking.
	Turns out that's kind of unpopular in states like Pennsylvania.
	Pennsylvania, of course, has Marcella Shale.
	One of the big industries over there.
	So here is the Harris Walls spokesperson, Michael Tyler, running from questions about this.
	The vice president has changed her position on fracking in Pennsylvania.
	Do you know why she's changed her position?
	Listen, I mean, she's been very clear here.
	She's proud of the work that she's done as a part of this administration, making sure that American energy production is at an all-time high.
	We want to continue that progress into her first term in office here.
	And again, I think whether it's energy policy, economic policy writ large, that you have a fighter in Kamala Harris who is actually keeping the interests of the American people front and center.
	Okay, you may have noticed that that was not even remotely an answer to the question.
	That's called a filibuster.
	Right there.
	Meanwhile, her economic proposals continue to be trash.
	Remember, Democratic tax policy is not about bringing down the deficit.
	The deficit will not be brought down by increased taxes.
	Not at the level Democrats are talking about.
	You can take all the money from the rich.
	All of it.
	It will not last for a year in terms of what Democrats are spending.
	If you actually want to radically revise American tax policy, such as to pay for all the programs that they are proposing, you have to increase the income tax to 60 to 70% for everyone, everyone, making more than about 30 grand.
	How do I know that?
	Because that's precisely what happens in those glorious European countries that are so worshipped by people like Bernie Sanders.
	The highest tax rates kick in at what would at best be described as a middle-class income.
	Usually it's a lower middle-class income.
	You just, there aren't enough people making that much money that you can take all of their money and pay for everything.
	That's not how any of this works.
	The Harris-Walls administration, however, is in fact pursuing the insane proposal to tax unrealized capital gains, which again, is nuts.
	It's nuts.
	In principle, it applies to people who have over $100 million in net assets or something.
	Okay, but again, how you measure that is variable, because if I own stock in my own company, and it's a privately held company, how exactly do you value that?
	Not particularly clear.
	But, in principle, it's basically the same thing, just for purposes of understanding, as an analogy.
	You bought a house at $250,000.
	You held onto it.
	It's now worth a million dollars.
	You haven't sold the house.
	You're still living into it.
	You're still living in it.
	Under Kamala Harris' proposal, it's an analogy, the $750,000 upside would then be taxed at 25% that you would owe the government without having sold the house.
	That's what she's saying about stock in your company, for example.
	Capital gains that you haven't sold.
	It's absolutely perverse.
	It's nuts.
	It's unconstitutional as well.
	Here's CNBC's Joe Kernan laughing at the Kamala Harris spokesman, Bharat Rama, on the capital gains tax proposal.
	And all the revenue that comes in from these unrealized gains taxes and the other taxes in the Harris plan are going to go to creating what she calls more opportunity.
	It's to make sure that every newborn born in this country gets $6,000.
	But it's not a used tax for the people who are actually using the services.
	Well, look, you're arguing that this is some sort of foreign concept that's completely unknown.
	It's probably unconstitutional.
	And it was never in anyone's intent to tax.
	It's not an income tax.
	And it's never going to happen, probably.
	Not in, well, I'm not going to say my life.
	I wouldn't say that.
	Not in Becky's life.
	Kamala Harris' capital gains tax proposal here is absolutely foolish.
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	Okay, but here's the thing.
	If Democrats actually gained control of the Supreme Court, they would ram this through.
	They would pretend that it is a tax on income, even though the income has not been realized.
	By the way, there are all sorts of practical problems with it, obviously.
	Cato Institute's tax policy director said, quote, one of the practical challenges is appropriately accounting for losses when the value of an asset declines.
	So what exactly happens if I own my company, and today it's worth a billion dollars, but then we make a bunch of mistakes, and now my stock is worth $500 million?
	Do I get a rebate from the government?
	So in 2022, when Elon Musk's net worth declined by $182 billion, the government would have owed him a $45 billion check.
	All of it's unworkable and stupid, but again, it's not about that.
	It's about punishing people who earn.
	That's what this is.
	It has always been about that.
	Because again, Democrats don't actually believe that you have to pay your debts.
	They believe in modern monetary theory.
	They believe that you can just blow out the spending.
	You can do the Nikole Hannah-Jones thing of magically creating six trillion dollars and just helicoptering it around with no impact on pricing, with no impact on supply and demand.
	It's really impressive how stupid these policies are, which is why Kamala Harris requires her corgi there to help her through her explanation of these policies.
	They also require the help, again, of the tail end of that Democrat media human centipede.
	So Kamala Harris is proposing $5 trillion in tax increases.
	$5 trillion.
	Including a 28% federal corporate tax rate and a 44.6% top capital gains and dividend tax rate, which would give America the highest total tax rate on corporate income in the developed world.
	The whole developed world.
	That includes Britain, that includes Sweden, all of them.
	Because you have to include in that high state taxes, for example.
	All that gets passed down to the workers.
	So, how exactly do you sell this to the American people?
	Well, you lie.
	You lie.
	So, for example, Axios has a piece today titled, Trump Plans Would Add $5.8 Trillion to National Debt.
	Now you're thinking to yourself, wait a second, Trump is not really proposing expanding spending in the same way that Kamala Harris is proposing expanding spending.
	For example, yeah, he wants to spend a lot of money, but she's going to spend more money.
	So how is it possible that he's going to raise the national debt more?
	The way they get to this number, the way that they get to this number is by suggesting that it is a government expenditure when you're allowed to keep your own money.
	That is the cheap trick that is played here.
	So, if I earn $100, and right now, $35 of those dollars immediately go to the federal government, and Donald Trump comes in, and he says, I'm lowering your tax rate.
	Now you're paying $30 to the federal government.
	These morons treat that as though Donald Trump has increased the national debt by $5.
	First of all, that assumes non-dynamic scoring in the economy.
	A dynamic scoring means that with the extra $5 I invested, my $100 becomes $110 because I'm a good investor.
	And then, that 30% tax rate actually encompasses more money, for example.
	Right, that would be the basic idea.
	I earn $120, and because I had my tax rate reduced from 35 to 30, there's higher net revenue.
	This is basically the Laffer curve.
	The idea is that a growing pie, a smaller share of a growing pie, is larger than a larger share of a shrinking pie.
	That is the basic logic here when it comes to tax.
	So, they're assuming non-dynamic scoring.
	By their logic, if you tax everybody 100%, that would be the best policy, because you'd solve all of your revenue problems immediately.
	Of course, that's really stupid because then nobody would bother working, there'd be no businesses and all the rest.
	That's number one.
	Number two, the basic notion that it ought to be included in the debt calculation when I get to keep my own money is ridiculous.
	The problem is a spending problem.
	It has always been a spending problem.
	The amount of money that the federal government takes in now is higher than any time in recorded history.
	And the debt keeps going up.
	Is that a tax rate problem?
	Or is that a massive problem with stagnating growth and high expenditures?
	Kamala Harris can't explain any of this because she's not been asked to and also because it makes no sense.
	So she's gonna keep on flip-flopping.
	And according to Democrats, by the way, that's totally fine.
	Here, for example, is Democratic Savannah G.A.
	Mayer, is Georgia Mayor, Van Johnson, asked about her flip-flops and he's like, listen, flip-flopping is part of the natural course of life.
	It's like breathing.
	What do you make of flip-flopping in this new political climate that we're in?
	Does it matter, or is there a way for candidates to try and say, look, they've evolved?
	Well, it is evolving.
	I've been in elected politics 21 years.
	This is my fifth year as mayor.
	And the way I thought 21 years ago is not the way that I think now.
	When you know better, you do better.
	You have different experiences.
	You receive new information.
	Technologies change.
	You hear from people.
	And so I think, you know, that is a natural part of the ebb and flow as it relates to that.
	It's natural ebb and flow, you see.
	It's an ebb and flow.
	It's an evolution.
	Or she's lying.
	Or she's lying.
	By the way, half the policies Democrats are proposing aren't even constitutional.
	Yesterday, the Supreme Court blocked Joe Biden's new student loan repayment plan.
	So every two minutes, he brings out a new plan to end around the Supreme Court saying you're not allowed to simply hand people money to get rid of their student loans.
	And he comes up with a new plan and the Supreme Court's like, nope!
	And he tries it again, they're like, nope!
	No, really, just genius-level stuff happening with this administration.
	Don't worry, Kamala Harris is responsible for none of it.
	In just one second, we'll get to the big democratic media lie of the day, and that is that Donald Trump did something very, very evil and terrible by going and visiting Arlington National Cemetery in order to pay homage to 13 Americans who were murdered by the Taliban and their friends for a very limited time.
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	Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to come up with some angle on why Donald Trump is very bad and very mean.
	So Donald Trump did something deeply damaging to the Harris Walls campaign the other day.
	He pointed out that Kamala Harris was the last person in the room in the horrifying decision-making on Afghanistan and that her decision-making got 13 Americans murdered at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.
	Absolutely true.
	That's precisely what happened.
	He went to Arlington National Cemetery.
	When he went to Arlington National Cemetery, he did so not only with the go-ahead, but with the desire of Gold Star families.
	So, he showed up, he placed a wreath, the Gold Star families wanted him to do so, and there were pictures that were taken and then put out.
	This apparently is some sort of deep and abiding scandal.
	We are now being told by the media, it is absolutely inappropriate for the former president of the United States to visit Arlington National Cemetery to pay homage to fallen American soldiers, if there are cameras there.
	Now again, throughout my political life, presidents have done this sort of thing.
	Barack Obama used to go and meet the caskets coming off planes to demonstrate how much he cared about the families.
	Joe Biden has gone to multiple cemeteries while President of the United States, and he has done so with political purposes in mind.
	And most recently, he did that, as you'll recall, when he actually visited the Ayn Marn American Cemetery in June and insulted Donald Trump in the process.
	But apparently it's really bad when Donald Trump does that with the explicit permission of the Gold Star families involved.
	Here was CNN reporting on this.
	I mean, it's just, it boggles the mind.
	So the problem is not that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have not called one of these families.
	That's not a problem.
	We are told, by the way, again, Gold Star families have vented their frustrations.
	There has yet to be any accountability, any accountability on this.
	During a press call hosted by the Trump campaign and the RNC, Cheryl Jules, aunt of Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole Gee, said history will repeat itself if the government cannot admit its failures.
	She said there's never even been condolences.
	They want to pretend it didn't happen.
	They want to take credit for ending the war, but don't want to take responsibility for how it went down.
	Mark Schmitz, father of Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, emphasized one of the main goals is ensuring this never happens again.
	He said, we have to make sure that any Gold Star family is not left for three years just waiting for their child's name to be read by the leader of the country.
	So the big scandal here, of course, is that 13 American soldiers died in the worst foreign policy blunder of my lifetime, in which people are falling off wheel wells and American soldiers were getting blown up.
	An entire country that we spent 20 years investing in was handed over to the worst people on earth, along with hundreds of millions of dollars of American weaponry and machinery.
	And then none of the names of the dead are read by the administration.
	None of the families are reached out to by the administration.
	But the real problem is that Donald Trump paid attention to them and photos were taken.
	Listen to CNN's reporting here.
	All right, this morning, new details on an altercation involving Donald Trump's team at Arlington National Cemetery.
	The incident happened while the former president was visiting Section 60, the burial site, for recent U.S.
	casualties during his visit on Monday.
	Trump's now suggesting on True Social that the problem stemmed from his campaign's use of photography.
	CNN's Alayna Treen has more from Washington, D.C.
	There was some back and forth here about what happened from the park and the Trump campaign.
	What are you learning this morning?
	Well, there's still a lot of details that are unclear here, Sarah.
	And we are still trying to learn more, get more information.
	But what is clear, and both sides agree on, is that there was some sort of incident.
	And you can see that where you saw that video of Donald Trump laying flowers at the burial site for some of these recent fallen soldiers.
	That's known as Section 60.
	That is really where some of this incident, we're told, has taken place.
	So it's all about whether Donald Trump adhered to the rules on photography.
	It's not about the 13 dead American soldiers who are entirely ignored.
	Joe Biden's at the beach.
	Again, he's at the beach.
	He's still the president.
	I know we're supposed to pretend he's not the president anymore.
	He's still the president.
	He's at the beach.
	He said in open debate, troops did not die on his watch.
	He is a liar.
	It is his fault.
	And he's at the beach.
	Kamala Harris put out a statement about how we honor all the dead.
	Yeah, really?
	Do you?
	Because I noticed that you didn't call any of their families.
	That's one of the things I noticed.
	But the real problem is that Donald Trump went there and people took pictures.
	That is just terrible.
	And so we have Maggie Haberman who puts out a piece all about the images at the grave and how it dismays the family of a Green Beret buried at Arlington.
	Okay, well, I noticed that a bunch of the other families are not dismayed.
	Quote, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to President Donald Trump
	for his presence at the recent Section 60 gathering, honoring our children and their
	fallen brothers and sisters. On the three-year anniversary of the Abigail bombing, the president
	and his team conducted themselves with nothing but the utmost respect and dignity for all of
	our service members, including our beloved children. The statement was made on behalf of
	Taylor Hoover, Sgt.
	Nicole Gee, Purple Heart recipients, retired USMC Sgt.
	Taylor Vargas Andrews, and retired US Marine Corps Corporal Kelsey Lainhart.
	The families added, quote, we had given our approval for President Trump's official videographer and photographer to
	attend the event, ensuring the sacred moment of remembrance were respectfully
	captured.
	And so we can cherish these memories forever.
	We are deeply grateful to the president for taking the time to honor our children.
	But according to the media, Trump is bad for doing this.
	The Biden-Harris administration is not bad and not responsible for what actually
	happened and not paying any attention to the families and ignoring them.
	you And in fact, deliberately overlooking them.
	Donald Trump is bad for having visited Arlington National Cemetery and pictures were taken.
	Wow.
	J.D.
	Vance was pretty fired up about this yesterday.
	Here he was pointing out that these 13 brave Americans are dead because of Kamala Harris.
	Three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died, and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job, and there hasn't been a single investigation or a single firing.
	We're going to talk about a story out of those 13 brave, innocent Americans who lost their lives.
	It's that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won't even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up.
	She can go to hell.
	By the way, people are angry at him for having said this.
	J.D.
	Vance served in the military.
	J.D.
	Vance did.
	He didn't lie about it like Tim Walz either.
	That sort of passion?
	The media are trying to play that.
	As though it's, how could he say such a terrible thing?
	How could he say she can go to hell?
	How could he say such a thing?
	First of all, I mean, compare that to what they've been saying about Donald Trump for the last 10 years, and it's nothing.
	It doesn't even chart.
	But this apparently is unhinged.
	It's unhinged to say that if she ignores the dead American soldiers that her administration created, that somehow saying go to hell is like, that's the, oh wow, it's just terrible.
	How, by the way, the, The Biden-Harris administration has treated dead American soldiers with nothing but contempt.
	Truly contempt.
	They won't even mention their names.
	They pretend this stuff doesn't even happen.
	You'll recall when Joe Biden literally checked his watch.
	Remember, he actually checked his watch during a ceremony honoring slain heroes.
	Like those actual people.
	Those actual people.
	He was checking his watch multiple times during the event.
	It's still, again, the single most disgusting failure of the Biden administration, and there have been a lot.
	There have been a lot.
	All of this plays into the re-launch of the Trump campaign.
	Kimberly Strassel has an entire piece on this.
	She says the month-long media eclipse of Donald Trump was unprecedented, and he didn't like it.
	Whether due to Trump's confusion over Kamala Harris' sudden popularity, or to a deliberate strategy to wait out her headline cycles, the Republican nominee appears newly focused on shoring up electoral terrain.
	Trump loves big and enduring crowds.
	The campaign still sees the value of the rallies, but knows they can't be Trump's sole event forum on this homestretch, so he's reducing some of the rallies.
	He is now moving on to themes.
	So he decided to pay tribute, obviously, to Arlington National Cemetery.
	So that is one theme, is the weakness on foreign policy.
	He's going to be touring a Michigan steel plant today to talk about inflation and manufacturing.
	He's patching up feuds with people like Governor Brian Kemp in Georgia.
	And of course, he's drawing in people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	and Tulsi Gabbard, who both have decided that they are going to endorse Donald Trump.
	He's doing interviews with kind of unlikely sources.
	He did an interview, for example, with former Navy SEAL podcaster Sean Ryan.
	He's also been talking with people like Theo Vaughn and the Nelk Boys and Logan Paul, as well as live stream with Elon Musk.
	So, he is attempting to change strategy.
	The reality is, the only thing that matters here is whether he can prosecute the case against her.
	Her entire campaign relies on you knowing nothing about her.
	Her entire campaign.
	And the stakes for Donald Trump on a personal level are pretty high, by the way.
	He still has a bunch of legal trials that are in the offing.
	If he loses the election, the likelihood that Donald Trump actually serves time in prison, pretty high, because the legal mechanisms have been Weaponized against him.
	Here's CNN's Eli Honig pointing this out.
	What happens if he loses to these cases?
	It's such a good reminder of the stakes for Donald Trump, the individual.
	Because if he wins, he's president, and these cases all go away or get put on indefinite long-term hold.
	But if he loses, he's going to have to contend with all four of these cases.
	If Donald Trump loses, he's facing serious trials, and he'll have a lot of time on his hands if he's not president.
	Yeah, if he loses, I think it's very likely he's going to have two federal trials, late 2025, early 2026.
	Again, the stakes are really high because the Democrats have weaponized everything.
	They've weaponized social media.
	They've weaponized the media.
	They've weaponized the legal system, the legal infrastructure.
	It's a super high stakes election.
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	Meanwhile, it's not just that there's a lot at stake at the presidential level, there's a lot at stake with regard to the Congress.
	If, God forbid, the Democrats were to achieve a triumvirate, it would fundamentally shift the way government is done in this country.
	Democrats would immediately kill the filibuster in the Senate.
	They would immediately ram through a bunch of voting laws that make it much easier to perform voter fraud and ballot harvesting across the country.
	They would immediately try to stack the Supreme Court.
	They would immediately add two new states in Washington, D.C.
	and Puerto Rico, hoping that that would be four Democratic senators to permanently stack the Senate of the United States in their own favor.
	That is the Democrat plan.
	So, the Senate and Congressional races, they matter an awful, awful lot.
	Right now, if you take a look at where we are with regard to the Senate polling, the Republicans are in the lead in West Virginia.
	That is a pickup for them.
	That would take them to 50.
	They need one more to get to 51.
	The 51st likely happens in Montana.
	It is very likely that the Republicans pick up the she-he tester seat in Montana.
	That one, again, looks like the most likely seat for them to pick up.
	There are several other vulnerable seats for Democrats.
	You have Dave McCormick, who's running against Bob Casey in Pennsylvania.
	That's a possibility, although the polling in Pennsylvania right now does, in fact, have Bob Casey in a fairly solid lead.
	In Arizona, the pick of Carrie Lake as the nominee appears to have been a full-scale disaster area.
	Carrie Lake is the Republican nominee in Arizona.
	I want her to win.
	She's losing by 15 points against Ruben Gallego.
	15.
	15.
	Donald Trump is likely going to win Arizona, and Carrie Lake is likely going to underrun him by something like 10 points.
	Turns out, when people lose an election, probably renominating them for the same position, it's a risky move at best, particularly if you're not Donald Trump.
	It's risky with Trump.
	It's way riskier if you're a Senate candidate.
	In Nevada, the polling suggests That Sam Brown is down a little bit in Nevada.
	The polling suggests that Eric Hovde is down a little bit in Wisconsin.
	The bottom line is that all of this can reverse, but everybody's going to need to actually put in the work.
	Because if you look at the state of these races, Ohio, Sherrod Brown is a toss-up.
	Sherrod Brown is running against Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
	But right now, the polling in the Ohio Senate race has Sherrod Brown up anywhere from four to six points.
	Could be off.
	Again, all these polls could be off.
	Again, these are numbers that need to change, and they need to change fast.
	Jackie Rosen, who's a terrible senator from Nevada, up about 10 points.
	Republicans need to not just focus at the top of the ticket.
	It is time to focus on the Senate races.
	The Senate races are deeply important.
	If Republicans do not pick up at least two seats here, That is going to be a massive fail, and not only a massive fail, a dangerous fail.
	By the way, the same thing is true in Congress.
	It turns out that in Congress, losing suburban voters is a big, big problem.
	Republicans trading rural voters for suburban voters has meant that Democrats are doing better in seats that they used to lose.
	Right now, the control of the House could come down to some of those suburban seats.
	If you were to forecast the likely outcome in the House, currently, Republicans have 220 seats in the House of Representatives.
	Democrats have 211 seats in the House of Representatives.
	The latest polling forecast I've seen suggests that Republicans might end up with 219 seats.
	You think they have an unworkable majority now?
	Let them lose a couple of seats.
	They'll be even more unworkable.
	These races matter.
	Republicans would be foolish to ignore the down-ballot races.
	They matter an awful, awful lot.
	And a lot of those down-ballot races are happening in states that are not competitive, like California or New York.
	So if you are a conservative or an independent, and you don't wish to see Democrats completely rewrite the bargain of the country, if you're living in a purple district in California or New York, you matter an awful, awful lot.
	Alrighty, coming up.
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	Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
	Growing up, I never thought much about race.
	It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
	Am I racist?
	I would really appreciate it if you left.
	I'm trying to learn.
	I'm on this journey.
	I'm going to sort this out.
	I need to go deeper undercover.
	Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
	Here's my certification.
	What you're doing is you're stretching out of your white.
	There's more for you in this field.
	Is America inherently racist?
	The word inherent is challenging there.
	You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?
	America is racist to its bones.
	So inherently?
	Yes.
	This country is a piece of shit.
	White.
	Folks.
	White.
	Trash.
	White supremacy.
	White woman.
	White boy.
	Is there a black person around here?
	There's a black person right here.
	Does he not exist?
	Hi, Robin.
	Hi.
	What's your name?
	I'm Matt.
	I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

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