President Donald Trump joins The Ben Shapiro Show to critique the Biden-Harris administration's Hurricane Helene response, citing FEMA's absence and Starlink's efficacy while attacking Kamala Harris's competence and suggesting a 25th Amendment removal. They debate election integrity, with Trump alleging ballot harvesting fraud and dismissing polls, before contrasting their foreign policy records on the Abraham Accords, Iran sanctions, and Nord Stream 2. The episode concludes by analyzing Harris's media appearances, where Shapiro dismantles her economic and immigration stances, ultimately framing the upcoming election as a choice between perceived incompetence and Trump's established achievements. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, I was in North Carolina and I got a Pretty good dose because they asked me if I could help them with Elon Musk, who's a friend of mine and endorsed me.
And I said, yeah, I think I can.
What do you need? And they said, we need the Starlink, which is a big deal because they had no communication whatsoever.
They said that there was just no FEMA. You virtually don't see anybody from FEMA. You're seeing a lot of private people going around and helping, but they can't help like FEMA could if they did it right.
And they're very upset with what's happening with the federal government as you probably have also heard.
When you're the person in charge, you take the responsibility.
She has been steadfastly avoiding all responsibility throughout all of this and basically throwing it off to President Biden, who is not there, right?
He's been missing in action for months.
It's the reason they pulled him out of the race because you were destroying him in the race.
They pulled him out because he wasn't mentally competent.
He's still not mentally competent.
But Kamala Harris has not invoked the 25th Amendment.
Does she have a responsibility to invoke the 25th Amendment and oust him from office and actually take responsibility for the administration at this point?
We'll get to more with President Trump in a moment.
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Mr. President, this is slated to be the closest presidential race in modern American history.
Every single swing state, about seven swing states right now, all polling within margin of error.
Obviously, it's all going to come down to turnout at this point.
You're a turnout machine. You get your base out.
How confident are you in your campaign's get-out-the-vote efforts?
Because we're hearing a lot of information on the ground, some sort of good, some not as good, about the ability to get votes out.
Because Democrats are professionals at ballot harvesting and doing everything else that they can to get those ballots in however they have to do it.
Well, they're the greatest cheaters, and they do cheat.
And we got hit with now two hurricanes.
And, you know, we were leading Florida by a lot, and I suspect that I'll say that way.
We have a big lead in Florida.
And in North Carolina, we were leading solidly.
I've won it twice, and, you know, it looked like we were going to win it reasonably easily.
It's a little bit of a purplish state, I think, because you have a governor, you have a senator, you have different things that are...
Make it purple. But I had no problem with it.
I've always done well.
Nobody can really predict what these storms are having.
I'd like to say to you, oh, this is, you know, something that...
And I hate to say help because people are dying and they're dying.
And that's more important than anything we're talking about, actually.
But representation is very important and representation for the country is so important.
We're going so wrong. And people are dying on a national level at all different things, including the border, etc., etc.
But the storms, I can say we have a great team.
We have great people.
They don't cheat.
And the other side does.
You know, when they get ready, I was mentioning to a group yesterday, when they're getting ready for a campaign, they start working on cheating.
Remember, they spied in my campaign long before I was even assured that To be in.
I mean, it's all documented and perfectly documented.
But they spied on my campaign.
It was one of the first things. It's the first time I heard about their ways.
So we should win.
And the other thing is, for whatever reason, I don't know, good, bad, or indifferent, poll numbers haven't been very accurate in me.
And they tend to be low, like with Hillary.
I was given a 3% chance and then won quite easily.
When you look at other poll numbers, I've tended to poll very low, and I'm leading in every poll.
I'm leading in every poll, and I'm leading all of the swing states.
There are those that say, how can anybody take this?
The incompetence of what they're doing with the hurricanes, and we have another one coming.
I think Ron's going to do a very good job and maybe save them, but they're not going to do anything.
They're just Incompetent.
She is grossly incompetent.
You know, Biden was incompetent.
She is equally incompetent.
And in a certain way, she's more incompetent.
But so I think that when you see the numbers, you may very well, Ben, see much higher numbers, you know, with a lot of people say it could be because they go out and they see signs.
They see Trump signs. But every single every single house, every all over the place, And they're saying, you know, it just doesn't feel like it's that close an election.
Now, I don't know, and you always have to assume, you know, assume you're losing by one point, because that's probably the best way to run.
Just run right till the end.
You know, I've worked about 28 days in a row.
I have about 29 days left, whatever it may be, 29.
And I'm not taking any days off.
You know, I've just...
I just feel...
I would feel guilty if I took a day off, okay?
I would feel very... You would also.
I know your work habits are right up there, and you would too.
But I do tend to poll much differently than the end result.
If you remember the first one where I was actually polled 17 points down in Wisconsin, and I won it.
You remember that? That was ABC Washington.
I do remember that. Yeah, two real sleazebag organizations.
And they had me down two days before the election, 17 points.
And I had just left at 35,000 people at a rally going crazy in Wisconsin.
And then I won.
And I said to a pollster, I said to John McLaughlin, actually, Ben, how come they could do that?
Why don't they make it three or four points?
At least they save credibility.
And he said, no, three or four points, people vote.
When you're 17 points down, people say, you know what, I like Trump a lot, but we're not going to vote.
I said, it's that way.
And I never forgot it.
I was 17 points down, and I ended up winning Wisconsin two days later.
And a lot of what you see is false.
It's really terrible.
The whole system is just a terrible system, actually.
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The family was very grateful to you, obviously, for taking the time to meet with them.
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Yeah, Mr. President, I wanted to ask you about your foreign policy.
So, obviously, you're the first president in my lifetime, didn't launch any major wars, weren't engaged in any major wars around the world during your entire term.
But legacy media have, of course, suggested that you're a tool of the Russians.
Kamala said yesterday that Vladimir Putin would have taken Kiev if you were president.
And then some people, even on our side, seem to suggest that you're some sort of total isolationist, want to slash the military.
You and Senator Vance have said that your foreign policy is peace through strength.
Can you describe what your second-term foreign policy will look like?
Yeah, number one, you wouldn't have taken Kiev because you wouldn't have had a war and you would have had the country just the way it is.
I watched her interview and it was a terrible interview and just a terrible, terrible interview that this person can be leading.
She's a very low intelligence person and that she could be leading this country.
It's just ridiculous. She's never going to lead the country.
Now, other people around her, they're very bad people and they're not of our persuasion.
They're I'm a fascist and Marxist and lots of other things.
I can say communist because a lot of people don't understand a Marxist.
You know, a father is a Marxist.
And this is what it is.
And our policy is very simple.
Peace through strength. We had no wars.
And I'm not an isolationist.
I helped a lot of countries.
I kept countries out of war.
We had two countries, smaller countries.
I can explain it later.
I can explain who they are when we're together.
They were fighting, and they've been fighting for a thousand years, and they go back and forth, and they were going to fight again and kill tens of thousands of people.
And I said, look, you do that, there's going to be no trade.
There's going to be tariffs put on your head.
There'll be no trade, and that's for both of them, et cetera, et cetera.
And two days later, they call me up that they've made peace.
I do these things. Nobody ever even heard of it, but I had no wars.
Think of it. And I'm talking about in the world.
The world was at peace.
I did the Abraham Accords, which Should have been filled in.
I would have had every one of the slots filled in.
Biden got none.
We had the four countries and four very good ones and four tough ones.
And the rest was just a fill-in job.
It would have taken place.
We would have total peace. And I made the statement because, as you know, Iran was broke.
We had no terrorism.
We had no attacks. We had no Hamas problems, no Hezbollah problems.
We had nothing because Iran didn't have the money to give to them.
Because I put sanctions on and I dealt directly.
China, I said, if you want to buy oil from Iran, that's fine.
You can go do it.
But if you do that, you're not doing any business with the U.S. You can take your stuff out of here and we're going to put sanctions on anything that gets through.
We're going to put tariffs and everything else, every form of tax.
And there are other taxes on anything you do.
They took a total pass.
They were by far the biggest customer, plus other countries.
Iran had no money.
Iran was ready to make a deal.
When that horrible, disgusting election took place, Biden should have made a deal.
They could have made a deal. Iran was in a position.
Instead, he gave them billions and billions of dollars.
He took off the sanctions that they had.
He took off everything.
China started buying more oil than they ever bought before, and today Iran has $300.
$6 billion. What he even did is they had a number of kidnappings because that's what they were.
He paid $6 billion.
$6 billion to them.
He paid $11 billion for electricity for Iraq that went to Iran.
They have so much money now.
The man is a fool.
He's a stupid fool.
We were in a position we could have had...
And you know what I was asking for, Ben?
One very simple thing.
I don't want them to have a nuclear weapon.
Very simple. Everything else, you know, I want them to have a great life.
I want them to be rich.
But I just didn't want them to have a nuclear weapon.
I would have been able to do that very easily.
But when Kamala and these people say about Kiev, and people call it Kiev and they call it Kiev.
I've always called it Kiev.
And it depends on what part of the world you come from is what I finally figured out.
But when she mentions that, she's wrong for a different reason.
Russia and Putin never would have attacked Ukraine ever when I was there.
And I talked about it and it was the apple of his eye.
I got along with him very well, which is a good thing, not a bad thing.
And a lot of people think that's a bad thing.
No, no, that's a great thing.
But he never would have attacked Under any circumstances, number one, the oil prices were much lower when I was president, so he didn't have the money to attack.
At $40 a barrel, he couldn't attack.
At 80, 90, and $100 a barrel, he made a lot of money.
So, you know, but it's not even that reason.
That was a real reason, but it's not that reason.
The reason he wouldn't have attacked was because of me.
There is zero chance that he would have attacked.
Ukraine today had the right Thing happened in the election, and it did not.
If the right thing happened, Ukraine today would be fully intact, the cities wouldn't be bombed, and you would have had two million or three million more people living right now a very nice life.
It is so sad to see.
And then I have to listen to these people say that, oh, Trump, like they say, Trump's off on Russia.
I'm the one that exposed the Russian pipeline, Nord Stream 2, and I terminated it.
It was dead. The biggest deal they've ever done, I terminated it.
Europe to Germany and all over Europe, the biggest deal they've ever done, I terminated it.
And by that, I was rough with the nations.
I said, anybody buys oil, you're not going to have US protection.
Anybody buys oil, you get no US. They terminated the deal.
It was dead. It was done.
And then this very dumb person gets into office, extraordinarily dumb person, with her.
And What's the first thing he did?
Kills the Keystone Pipeline and approves the Russian Pipeline.
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The New York Times is one of the most dishonest of all.
I watch this New York Times, and it's a classic.
When you see what I'm going to do with it, you're going to have so much fun.
In three, four, five days, this is the most dishonest They are disgusting.
But the radical left, I mean, the radical left, the way they protect.
Now, you could say, wow, that's pretty good the way they do it.
But it's so dishonest.
We don't have a free press.
We have a very, very corrupt, and hence the name fake news.
The problem with fake news is it's not strong enough.
I think I get great credit for a wonderful name at the time, but it's worse than fake.
It's corrupt. The press is corrupt.
It's really bad in this country.
It's really bad. And you know, the hard thing to understand, if you're driving a taxi or you're a lawyer or accountant or anything, you don't know.
You know, they write a story you would assume it's true.
You don't realize. When you're a newsmaker like I am, and you give them the story exactly as it is, and they write the story, and they make it exactly the opposite of what you've made it, You say you're fake news.
It really is. The name fake news, I was very proud of it.
But now it just isn't strong enough.
It is just so corrupt.
And I call it corrupt news.
We're at a level now where it's absolutely corrupt.
It's wrong. It's just so bad.
And you don't understand why.
Why wouldn't they want to have a strong water?
Why wouldn't they want to have good elections?
Why wouldn't they want to have...
Good schooling, good, you know, so many different things.
The military is bad.
We have generals that do such a bad job.
They never get fired. I mean, they should have been fired for what they did in Afghanistan.
That should have been, everybody should have been fired.
That was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country for a period of time.
And they very, I mean, outside of the little moment, they don't even talk about it.
It was one of the worst moments.
And by the way, had it not been for that, you may not have seen Putin go in.
The reason, that was the final blow.
When he saw how incompetent we were with Milley and these guys, when he saw how, because he's grossly incompetent, I mean, 13 people died, many people injured, American hostages over there, and we gave them billions and billions of dollars worth of Military equipment.
Unthinkable. I rebuilt the military.
I had no wars. I defeated ISIS. Remember, I started no wars.
I stopped wars.
Iraq, Syria.
I got out of stuff.
We would have been embroiled in that place forever.
I got out and no casualty.
It was an amazing period of time.
We had no wars, Ben.
We had nothing, except I inherited ISIS and I knocked them out.
Quickly, within approximately four weeks, they said it was going to take four to five years.
I knocked them out in four weeks.
The fact is, our military, if you have the right leader, is very powerful.
It's very good. And we've got great people in our military.
Remember when Hillary Clinton during the debate said, he will cause wars.
Look at him. He will cause...
He sounds like the kind of a guy that will cause wars.
Well, the truth is, I was the kind of a guy that stopped wars.
I had no wars. And just to finish, Victor Orbán, a tough guy, smart guy, as you know, he runs hungry.
And he made the statement that if Trump comes back, everything will be settled.
And I don't want to say why, because he did say why, but I don't want to say braggadocious, but he said Trump was a very tough guy, and nobody messed around with him.
And that included China and Russia.
He said, if he were here, we'd have no wars.
And right now, the Middle East is blowing up.
Ukraine and Russia is getting worse and worse every day.
And you know, Ben, I don't know.
I sort of hear you say it a little bit, too.
But we're closer to World War III right now than we ever were.
We have never been so close to World War III as we are right now.
I think that the left has, that sort of meme that Elon likes to tweet out where it shows how he was sort of in the center and then the entire center just moved to the left and so he ended up on the right.
I think that that's fairly realistic about how far the left has moved.
Go give a listen to the entire podcast.
It really is, I think, an excellent interview.
Again, go check him out. Chris Williams in the Modern Wisdom Podcast over at Apple Podcasts.
Well, folks, in a little while, I'm gonna get back to what it was like
to be with President Trump on October 7th, obviously an incredibly important date,
and introduce him to the family of a hostage currently being held in Gaza.
But first I wanna get to the news of the day.
So obviously we now have a major hurricane that is barreling toward Florida.
Hurricane Milton has achieved Category 4 status.
It's sort of vacillating between Category 4 and Category 5.
Kamala Harris is somehow turning this into a story about her.
It's really incredible.
So here's the thing about Kamala Harris.
She is not a competent candidate.
She's not. She's not a competent vice president.
She wasn't a competent senator.
She was not a competent AG. And she is certainly not a competent candidate.
So, yesterday, she got in a fight with Governor Ron DeSantis for nothing.
Over nothing. So, Governor DeSantis has been trying to handle successfully the fallout from Hurricane Helene, which went up through the panhandle.
And he is getting ready to deal with a massively destructive hurricane that is barreling down on the west coast of Florida that we're all watching really closely.
And Kamala Harris is pissed off at him.
Why is she mad? She's really mad.
She's really mad because she thinks he ignored her phone calls.
So first of all, they ain't dating. Okay, let's be real about this.
They have no relationship.
She is not the person, according to her, who is in charge of FEMA. Remember, she is running as a candidate who is in charge of nothing, but somehow also deeply important to the American body politic.
And her entire shtick is that she is separate from this administration and responsible for nothing the administration does.
But she then shows up to do photo ops at, like, the FEMA Hurricane Center.
So now she's going to pretend that she's really ticked at Ron DeSantis for having ignored her phone call.
This is political malpractice, by the way.
What she should be saying is, listen, I tried to call Governor DeSantis.
He's probably busy right now.
And, you know, we're here for him, whatever he needs.
That would be the smart political move.
But because she is vindictive and quite unpleasant, here she was yesterday ripping into Governor DeSantis, who's a little busy right now.
This hurricane is supposed to directly hit Tampa.
Millions of people are in the storm path.
He's a little busy to spend time helping her prop up her ailing campaign.
But she did take time.
She answers no questions. She's on the campaign trail.
She answers no serious questions except on 60 Minutes, which as we'll see is a disaster for her.
She kind of made her way over to the press just to rip into DeSantis yesterday, which is really quite gross.
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Governor DeSantis, NBC is reporting Governor DeSantis is ignoring your calls on hurricanes, resources and help.
You know, moments of crisis, if nothing else, should really be the moment that anyone who calls themselves a leader says they're going to put politics aside and put the people first.
People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games with this moment in these crisis situations.
These are the height of emergency situations.
It's just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish and it is about political gamesmanship
instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first.
I have friends who are on the west coast of Florida.
In fact, I have extended family members who are on the west coast of Florida.
And she is so unbelievably full of it.
It is enraging.
It is enraging. He's selfish and irresponsible because he didn't pick up her phone call supposedly.
This deeply important person who is related in no way to policymaking, who doesn't even have the stones to remove the person who she removed as the nominee.
Remember, she removed Joe Biden as the nominee of the Democratic Party because he was going to lose to President Trump because he was mentally incompetent.
And then she leaves him in the White House to be a befuddled old fool.
So that she doesn't have to take responsibility for anything.
And then she's mad that people supposedly won't pick up her phone calls.
As it turns out, that's not even the story.
As it turns out, her people are trying to get a hold of maybe Rhonda Sands' aides or something.
And again, he's busy.
He's the governor of a state that's about to get walloped with the second major hurricane inside of three weeks.
And she says he's selfish and irresponsible.
What does she do for a living?
She does nothing. She sits in a room at the White House and she plays solitaire all day until called upon to throw Grandpa off the back of the train.
That's her entire career trajectory.
She's a do-nothing politician her entire life.
And she's ripping into DeSantis, the single most competent governor in the country when it comes to dealing with disasters.
Maybe she should talk to, you know, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, who's been blowing it over in North Carolina.
But he's a Democrat, so we're not going to hear about that.
So she's ripping into... DeSantis is selfish?
It's hard to imagine anyone more selfish than a vice president who is running for president of the United States on the decaying corpse of her boss, while ripping into a governor who's in the middle of hurricane preparedness.
What a pathetic specimen she is.
Here's Ron DeSantis correctly clocking the hell out of her on Fox News.
I mean, it is amazing. The entire media have decided that Donald Trump is very bad for criticizing the FEMA response and the Biden administration response to North Carolina.
They've decided that he's terrible. It's awful.
We've had wall-to-wall news coverage of that.
Meanwhile, the other candidate, Kamala Harris, who is currently the vice president of the United States, is ripping into the sitting governor of a state that is doing hurricane preparedness because, what, he's a little busy?
She has no responsibilities.
The vice presidency is a warm bucket of spit.
The notion that he has some sort of deep abiding responsibility to the people of Florida to give a call back to this pathetic new paint job on a broken down Ford Pinto of an administration is just ridiculous on its face.
Meanwhile, this administration won't even answer for its own failures with regard to North Carolina.
By the way, they delayed for days in calling up new members of the military to help with the search and rescue in North Carolina, as my friend Eric Erickson has pointed out.
In fact, here is Peter Doocy of Fox News going at it with Karine Jean-Pierre yesterday over the failures of Joe Biden's hurricane response with regard to Hurricane Helene.
Thanks, everybody. She's dressed up as a Chicago gangster from 1932.
In any case, she has to run away when asked a tough question about their handling of Hurricane Helene.
But the big issue is that Kamala Harris feels insulted.
She's a little insulted because, you know, she's not top priority for Governor DeSantis.
Absolutely pathetic. You know what should be top priority for her, for this administration,
would be fixing FEMA, which apparently is a full-scale disaster area on its own.
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Well, while Kamala Harris is very upset with Ron DeSantis about somehow not calling her back as though he ghosted her or something, while she is focused very strongly on all the people she's miffed at because, you know, they're not bothering to call her back because she's a useless person, it turns out that FEMA has been facing severe staffing shortages according to the New York Times.
The New York Times reporting yesterday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is running out of staff to To deal with the potential devastation of Hurricane Milton as it barrels toward Tampa with wind speeds that have reached 175 miles per hour.
As of Monday morning, just 9% of FEMA personnel, or 1,217 people, were available to respond to the hurricane or other disasters according to the agency's daily operations briefing.
To put that into context, over the previous five years, one quarter of agency staff was available for deployment at this point in hurricane season, even in 2017.
Arguably FEMA's busiest year in the past decade, after Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston, Hurricane Irma plowed through Florida, and Hurricane Maria plunged Puerto Rico into darkness, FEMA's staffing reserves at this point in October were 19%, more than twice the levels they are right now.
Now FEMA's pretending that this is all totally fine, it's all totally normal.
But the reality is that FEMA is wildly understaffed.
In a report last year, the Nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found 35% of FEMA's positions were unfilled, partly because of rising disaster activity during the year, which increased burnout and employee attrition.
So let's just get this straight. We're not spending more money than any time in human history, the United States government.
Any time in human history. And they can't find people to staff FEMA? Like, literally, one of the only functions that pretty much everyone agrees is on the federal government's agenda at this point in time, and they can't find people to staff FEMA, this should be a major scandal.
Who's been in charge the last three and a half years?
I promise you, if this were Donald Trump, they'd be talking about how he had somehow blown it on FEMA, how President Trump had underfunded FEMA. They're still trying to do that routine, blame this on the Republicans.
It ain't the Republicans in charge.
They've spent more money on random crap over the past four years than literally any government in the history of all humanity.
And somehow, somehow, they couldn't find the cash to come up with to staff FEMA? Truly?
Congress last week approved FEMA's request to top up its disaster relief fund.
That was before Hurricane Milton.
Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security Secretary last week, said FEMA needed even more funding, but they can't find people.
Apparently, some of FEMA's most highly trained personnel, which are grouped into what the agency calls cadres, are at particularly low levels.
As of Monday morning, of the 2,579 people who work in the agency's individual assistance cadre, four were available to deploy to Florida.
Of the 50 people who are assigned to act as federal coordinating officers, which are the directors of disaster operations, one was available as of Monday.
You want to talk about mismanagement at the highest level.
This is what mismanagement looks like.
Wait, wait, who's the president and the vice president again?
Maybe she should go to FEMA and talk to them.
Ron DeSantis doesn't work for Kamala Harris, but theoretically you know who's supposed to.
Maybe all the people she was using as a backdrop for her FEMA photo op a week ago.
Or maybe it turns out that FEMA has been pursuing other priorities.
Newly revealed audio and video from 2023, according to the New York Post, shows a webinar in which federal health and disaster personnel start talking about the urgent need to move away from policies that benefit the largest number of people and instead focus on disaster equity, meaning which minorities can we protect using federal resources, which by the way is racist and a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
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The shift that we're seeing right now is a shift in emergency management from utilitarian principles where everything is designed for the greatest good for the greatest amount of people to disaster equity.
But we have to do more, right?
And so this topic is intersecting, I think, with a number of other topics where we have to look at policies And understand to what extent they have disadvantaged communities that had less assets, communities that had pre-existing vulnerabilities in accessing disaster-related recovery supports.
We also know that communities that are highly bonded within can survive in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
But if they're not linked outside of their highly bonded communities, they will have less Ability to thrive and support and even influence how recovery looks in their communities.
So we have to be looking at making sure that we have highly bonded communities which would be and one of them that I would identify would be LGBT communities have to be highly linked across power structures before a disaster happens to help inform and guide how recovery looks.
How about this? How about they fire all these schmucks and get in people who actually know how to, you know, handle disasters?
How about that? Shouldn't that be a scandal?
Where is Kamala there?
What exactly would you say that she does?
Now, I understand the entire media apparatus is designed to turn Kamala Harris into something brand new.
And there's a poll out from the New York Times today that shows Kamala Harris up nationally 49 to 46 and says that a plurality of voters see her as a more changed candidate than Donald Trump.
That's insane. She's the current vice president of the United States.
The media have tried to do a wonderful job spinning her as something brand new.
But she wants it both ways.
Either she is a deeply responsible person who is very important in the government and Ronda Stanzas has to call her or she's completely irrelevant.
Which is it? Well, the reality is she's running a very bad campaign at this point.
The more people see her, the more they are likely to hate her.
And there is something that's going on with the Kamala Harris campaign.
So she's doing really well right now, apparently, with college-educated white voters.
College-educated white voters love Kamala Harris.
And they love Kamala Harris because she's precisely the sort of word-salad, jargony, synergistic candidate that college-educated people seem to like.
She gives the appearance of intelligence without having any content at all.
In this way, by the way, she's sort of the opposite of President Trump, who the media love to disparage as stupid, but who actually has actual meat for his policies that help Americans.
She says things that you would find in a corporate DEI session, and then everybody nods along and pretends that what they're saying is wise.
But Checha has nothing to say. It's exactly apparently what the college grads love.
Because Kamala Harris is a stupid person's idea of a smart person.
There are a lot of college grads in this country.
You know, when you think of a college grad, typically you're thinking of somebody from an Ivy League.
Typically you're thinking of somebody who's really bright.
It turns out there are a lot of college grads in this country overall.
Something like 35% of all American adults at this point who have already been of college age go to college.
And that number is increasing pretty radically.
Okay, well, those college grads apparently think that if you talk like a sociology professor, this somehow makes you smart.
Actually, it means that you're obfuscatory and stupid.
Kamala Harris is unfortunately obfuscatory.
She obfuscates.
And she is not. She is not wise.
There is nothing going on.
There is no policy. There is no meat on the bones.
There is nothing. She's an empty shell.
She's a coat of paint on a broken down jalopy, as I've now said a thousand times.
And she made that perfectly clear on 60 Minutes last night.
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Again, Kamala Harris, not a smart human being, but the press have been trying to portray her as a smart human being.
When I say she's not a smart human being, I mean that.
She's not particularly bright. She's not like the dumbest person you ever met.
But she is the middle manager at a major corporation who basically is living out the dream by working in HR until they retire with some sort of pension.
That is what Kamala Harris in a normal world would be.
She's basically that except with politics.
She's been elevated to every position she ever holds, except for the Senate,
through no real performance of her own.
And the reality is even when she ran for the Senate, she was running against another Democrat, Loretta Sanchez.
She's certainly elevated to the vice presidency based on her own failures
in her first presidential campaign.
And any question, she was on 60 Minutes last night.
And probably when she did 60 Minutes, she was figuring that she was gonna get
a friendly interviewer.
After all, the legacy media have been carrying around a drool cup for her this entire election.
Unfortunately for her, she drew Bill Whitaker.
And Bill Whitaker, basically, he was Honey Badger.
He did not give a bleep. So he started asking her, you know, actual questions.
And the problem for Kamala Harris is that actual questions are her kryptonite.
Questions that actually, you know, seek answers about her policies or about what she wants to do or about her record.
Those are, it's like kryptonite to Superman.
It's incredible how fast she falls apart.
She is such a paper tiger of a candidate.
So, for example, she was asked by Bill Whitaker about the fact that she has switched pretty much all of her positions.
You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I'm talking about because their constituents know exactly what I'm talking about.
Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Really appreciate that. So that was one of her big media appearances, 60 Minutes, where she completely botched it.
She also went on a podcast called Call Her Daddy.
Now, I will admit, I've never listened to the Call Her Daddy podcast, mainly because I have no interest in listening to Alex Cooper talk about her latest techniques.
But, in any case, Kamala Harris apparently thought it was deeply important to go on the Call Her Daddy podcast, where she basically just spilled more platitudes, She clearly doesn't know what she's talking about.
So at one point during this interview with Alex Cooper, one of the great intellects of our time, again, most famous for explaining how many people she has slept with and in what positions, Kamala Harris started jabbering about starting a small business.
It is very clear from this clip she has no idea about the difference between a tax deduction and a check from the government, which are not the same thing at all.
Another thing that I'm really focused on is small businesses and startups and giving startups a $50,000 tax deduction because right now it's $5,000 and you can't start up anything, any small business with $5,000.
Okay, that is not what a tax deduction does, madam.
A tax deduction is where you get to deduct the expense against the tax that you would pay on that expenditure.
You don't get a $50,000 check from the government when you get a $50,000 tax deduction.
That's not how it works. But she's never run a business because she's an ignoramus about economics.
I think my favorite part of the Call Her Daddy podcast is when Kamala suddenly realized what a woman is.
It's always an amusing thing when Democrats violate their own precepts with regard to what a woman constitutes.
So you're never allowed to mention that a woman is a biological human female until someone makes a joke about it and that person's leftist, in which case you can laugh about it.
So here is Kamala cracking up and men apparently not knowing where a tampon goes.
Now, Can we be clear about this?
It's pretty obvious where tampon goes.
Which, by the way, is why they shouldn't be in boys' high school bathrooms, as her vice presidential candidate did as the Minnesota governor.
There is no place for a boy to put a tampon.
Idiots. But Kamala Harris knows it.
So now she sort of admits that she knows it.
So she's going to have to explain that to her vice presidential candidate, who, again, has nothing between the ears.
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It's outrageous, I mean, daddy gang, to put it in our TikTok terms.
I have seen girls on the street walk up to men and be like, do you know where a tampon goes?