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| - - Okay everybody, hello again. | |
| It's your old friend Michael Tracy. | |
| I don't know where Glenn is. | |
| Who cares? | |
| It's back and it's me. | |
| We are in Chicago right now. | |
| We're at the Jewish Democratic Council, I think it's called, something to that effect, where there's some sort of reception or function on the outskirts of the convention, so hopefully we'll be talking to people. | |
| But in the meantime, tonight we have a doozy for you. | |
| We were at the The logistical fiasco, which was the entry and exits of the convention last night, talking to attendees, just kind of giving you a scene, painting a picture of the scene for you last night. | |
| And we also, so we were just kind of giving you a tour of everything that was going catastrophically wrong with how Democrats can apparently organize Just the basics of how to competently get people into a convention so people are waiting for hours and hours and hours and leaving and not even be able to get in. | |
| Lines stretching for blocks upon blocks. | |
| We caught people trying to cut the line, including former Congressman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island. | |
| That was funny. | |
| You know, little kind of chitchats with different people that we encounter, like Paul Begala, the CNN pundit and former Clinton operative, and all just other sorts of miscellany. | |
| And then we had a funny... | |
| Meltdown of an interview with this guy Rick Wilson, who is the asshole head of the Lincoln Project or affiliated with the Lincoln Project, which is the scam organization that just solicits donations from paranoid and desperate Democrats to run anti-Trump ads. | |
| These are the former never-Trump Republicans who have this Operation running and it's been marred by controversy and scandal for years, but they're still plugging along I guess at least in some form and He had his like his like under legs or his little you know Lackeys tried to like swarm us stop the interview for asking really innocuous questions. | |
| I hadn't even gotten yet to my actual questions, I was just doing like the Gentle intro essentially but even that was too much for Rick Wilson and his cadre so they jumped in and Ended the interview which we just got because we just happened upon them And then we also attended the hotties for Harris confab last night and And interviewed some of the creators who have been credentialed by the DNC. | |
| We were not officially credentialed, but they were, so they are getting the valuable access to politicians to really hold them accountable. | |
| So you'll see some of that. | |
| I also toured around the Hotties for Harris. | |
| Frankly, it was a pretty fun event, I have to say. | |
| There was a cheeky sense of humor in the ambience. | |
| Now, if you're not totally myopically obsessed with abortion, you might find it a little bit less enjoyable. | |
| But either way, you know, when in Rome, I just kind of went along with the ride. | |
| Went with the flow. | |
| I go with the flow. | |
| That's me. | |
| MT. So Rick Wilson, Lincoln Project. | |
| First of all, have you ever seen a worse organized convention? | |
| Logistically? | |
| Actually, about four times before in my life. | |
| Really? | |
| Yeah. | |
| There were all RNC conventions where I used to be a Republican. | |
| The Houston Convention? | |
| Raging shitshow. | |
| The San Diego Convention? | |
| Raging shitshow. | |
| The New Orleans Convention? | |
| Drunken shitshow. | |
| Those three stand out particularly. | |
| This is not disorganized by any sort of historic standards at all. | |
| Conventions are large, multivariate, complex machines. | |
| This one is not extraordinary in any way in terms of good or bad. | |
| What I am seeing is it's stressed to the max by the fact that millions of people, hundreds of thousands of people, want to be in that room. | |
| This is a bigger line than I've ever seen at any other convention, Republican or Democrat, that I've been to. | |
| And I've been to conventions since I was eight years old in 1972. | |
| So I've been around the block on these things a few times. | |
| I've worked conventions several times. | |
| I've been in the SPEN team on the Republican side in two Democratic conventions. | |
| So this is pretty well run, actually. | |
| And what they've accomplished so far, I think, is pretty extraordinary. | |
| Well, we covered the RNC last month, and I'm not making any partisan point, but I don't think we ever waited more than, like, four minutes to get through one of the security checkpoints. | |
| Not many people interested in being there, then, obviously. | |
| Yeah, we're done. | |
| We're done. | |
| We're not playing. | |
| No, no, no! | |
| Blainey's playing this! | |
| Whitney, I got this. | |
| I was just making an innocuous observation. | |
| Whitney, let's go. | |
| Whitney, let's go. | |
| No, no. | |
| Whitney, hold on. | |
| Jeff? | |
| No, we're done. | |
| Okay, so this is hilarious. | |
| Chicago, Illinois. | |
| Night two of the Democratic National Convention. | |
| The logistics of this convention, I've never seen anything more a shambles. | |
| At the RNC in Wisconsin—Milwaukee, that is—last month, I don't think we waited more than, like, three minutes ever to make it through one of the security checkpoints to get in. | |
| Am I right, camera woman? | |
| She's nodding. | |
| It's true. | |
| People are waiting three hours or more to get into the Democratic National Convention. | |
| Look, this is what passes for a line. | |
| You see people just coming down crazy routes. | |
| There's multiple like strands of the supposing line. | |
| Everybody's remarking that we're overhearing and chatter that this is crazy. | |
| There's all kinds of, you know, gadflies making a hubbub, which is sort of amusing. | |
| And the convention, as we speak right now, is underway. | |
| It's happening. | |
| Like, the programming is happening right now. | |
| So, these people were just, like, missing everything, and it was the same last night. | |
| It was the same last night where, I mean, I guess they just, like, figured that they wouldn't organize a competent convention. | |
| And leave everybody out in the lurch? | |
| So I did spot some VIPs, I'm going to point out. | |
| So we have our camera pointed at the line here. | |
| Some VIPs... Let's see, where were they? | |
| They were down this way, right? | |
| And the line barely moves at a snail's pace. | |
| I mean, it's hilarious. | |
| What? | |
| Where? | |
| Oh, okay, so here's one. | |
| So they're standing behind me now is Charlotte Clymer, noted... I don't know what. | |
| Charlotte is exactly. | |
| She's an activist, I think, or a democratic sort of operative. | |
| Asked Charlotte for an interview. | |
| I don't know if you can see her behind me, but yeah, she's into LGBTQ stuff. | |
| She would not do an interview, and actually she said she would encourage others to refuse to do an interview with us. | |
| I don't know why exactly. | |
| What did I do to slight her? | |
| I couldn't say. | |
| I think probably she remembers a tweet of mine from 2016 or something and just can't get over it. | |
| And we'll see if we can point out somebody else who I also noticed who also declined an interview. | |
| And everybody's on such a high guard. | |
| I mean, everybody should just relax a little bit. | |
| Why not just do an interview? | |
| Like, what's the big deal? | |
| Yeah, so there's Ted Deutsch. | |
| Ted Deutch, who I also spotted, this is some of my major skills there. | |
| He's the bald guy with the glasses right there. | |
| He's looking down at his phone. | |
| He said he didn't have time to do an interview. | |
| That's a funny one. | |
| He has time to wait in line doing nothing. | |
| But his excuse, so just show him from the back, like that there, standing in the suit with the bald head. | |
| So that's Ted Deutch, I think is how you pronounce it. | |
| He's a former Democratic member of Congress from Florida. | |
| And he resigned to become the head of the American Jewish Committee. | |
| And look, he's just standing there for hours on end doing nothing. | |
| I go up and ask him, can we do an interview with you? | |
| Are you Ted Deutch? | |
| He confirmed that he was. | |
| And he says, no. | |
| His quote was, we're trying to figure things out. | |
| So that was his reason for why he just didn't have the time, right? | |
| Come talk to us. | |
| Have you ever seen a more ridiculous logistics for any event? | |
| I don't care about a convention, anything. | |
| This is literally the first DNC, the first anything I've been to that I've seen anything of this magnitude for sure. | |
| And what do you think explains it? | |
| I mean, I think the people are just excited about the fact that we are about to nominate the first woman of color to be president of the United States on a major ticket. | |
| So, I really think that's all that this symbolizes. | |
| But why couldn't they organize it so people could just get in and out smoothly? | |
| I mean, you know, hey, I did not organize the DNC, so I cannot speak to that, but again, I just think it's great that you have people out here, well, most people, because you know you have those protesters down there, but most people are here excited, you know? | |
| Are you a delegate or are you something else? | |
| I am part of an ally group here. | |
| I'm a part of Operation Restoration, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| We are a non-profit organization that supports women and girls impacted by incarceration. | |
| Okay, and what will Kamal Harris do about that? | |
| Because she was a prosecutor back in the day. | |
| She put people in jail, that was her job, right? | |
| So do you think that she's gonna have a big revelation and do something different? | |
| I think that she also supported wraparound services for people that do get out of prison when they get out of prison, which is something that Operation Restoration stands for. | |
| We provide clothing, housing, transportation, all of the things, really that wraparound response. | |
| Our founder, CEO, and president Sarita Stibe, she was really passionate about that. | |
| She's someone with lived experience who understood the needs of women who are getting out of prison. | |
| And I don't know if you know, but studies show that there are a lot of resources for men when they get out, but there are really little to no resources for women. | |
| So, and you have to understand, they are the primary, you know, caregivers for their families. | |
| So, their resources and their needs are a little bit different than those of men. | |
| So, it was really important that we started this organization to, and we've helped over 2,000 women in the last When was it started? | |
| 2016. | |
| Operation Restoration, you said? | |
| In New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| You can go to OR-NOLA.org to find out more information. | |
| Thank you. | |
| What's your name? | |
| My name is John Lawson. | |
| I'm Communications Coordinator for Operation Restoration. | |
| Alright, thanks very much. | |
| People can look it up then. | |
| Alright, enjoy tonight. | |
| Hopefully you'll get in. | |
| Hopefully I'll get in. | |
| Right. | |
| We'll see. | |
| Wish me luck. | |
| Alright, there you go. | |
| People are enthusiastic. | |
| People are, I guess, managing. | |
| Okay, so here's Paul Begala. | |
| Paul McGonagall. | |
| How you doing? | |
| Good to see you. | |
| Great to meet you. | |
| Thank you so much for coming. | |
| There's Paul McGonagall, famous Democratic operative. | |
| We'll see if we can get a quick interview with him. | |
| Oh, and there's Patrick Kennedy. | |
| How you doing? | |
| Hey, Terry. | |
| Patrick Kennedy, former member of Congress from Rhode Island, into mental health advocacy stuff. | |
| Remember the famous Kennedy clan? | |
| There he is. | |
| Take a look at him. | |
| him he's hugging and kissing somebody so we got Patrick Kennedy there Paul Begala down there like democratic superstars surrounding us I I'm overwhelmed with excitement. | |
| And look, he's cutting the line. - Good afternoon. | |
| He's cutting the line! | |
| Look! | |
| Patrick Kennedy! | |
| Patrick Kennedy's... You've seen a lot of line cutters? | |
| You see his strategy? | |
| Somebody comes out and starts hugging him, and they're, you know... They're patting each other on the back, and now he cut the line! | |
| He's using his family name, Kennedy. | |
| That's a Kennedy. | |
| The guy right there. | |
| The guy standing with his back to us with a black blazer. | |
| - He's like trying to throw me. - Yeah, he cut the line. | |
| That's amazing. | |
| So we recorded, I want to make sure we recorded that. | |
| He just pulled the line cutting tactic of hugging a bunch of people and then that makes him a member of their group in the line and he just cuts the line. | |
| Can we get him to do an interview? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I think he's, look! | |
| He's officially joined the line! | |
| That's unbelievable! | |
| We saw him walking down this way! | |
| There's like an hour worth of line back here that Patrick Kennedy, former Democratic member of Congress from Rhode Island, just cut. | |
| Look, and he's happy as a hog. | |
| Is that an expression? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Look at him. | |
| He's so proud of himself. | |
| Paul Begala, we're doing a quick show for Newsweek and Sub-Zach. | |
| Quick question for you. | |
| So, Democrats are presenting themselves... You do know I have a contract to not only speak to CNN? | |
| Really? | |
| Not even for a man on the street, very innocuous, homey interview? | |
| I can't stop you! | |
| I'll just ask the question and then you can handle it however you like. | |
| So Democrats are presenting themselves as defending democracy, claiming the Republicans are sabotaging, undermining, destroying democracy, and yet Kamala Harris didn't receive a single delegate in the 2024 Democratic primaries. | |
| In fact, neither did she in the 2020 primaries where she also ran. | |
| Do you think that complicates that argument they're making? | |
| She actually did receive over 4,000 delegates. | |
| So you're wrong. | |
| Well, not in the primary elections or caucuses. | |
| That's not when the decision is made. | |
| The decision is made by those delegates voting. | |
| Well, she didn't receive a primary vote. | |
| Okay, nice to meet you. | |
| You have a good one. | |
| Okay. | |
| I won't tell CNN. | |
| Okay, well there you go. | |
| What'd you get him on? | |
| On Kamala not receiving a single primary vote. | |
| And look, that's Paul Begala. | |
| He's like a Clinton operative. | |
| He's a pundit on CNN. | |
| Kind of a, you know, bullshitter. | |
| like most of the people here, no offense. | |
| He said, "Okay, goodbye." Did you notice that Paul Pagala couldn't control himself from actually answering the question? | |
| Even though he started by saying that he was contractually obligated not to answer the question because he was conclusive to CNN, which I don't fully believe. | |
| Like, he can't just do a quick interview on the street that's going to violate some clause on a contract. | |
| Interview a Chicago police officer, Chicago's finest. | |
| How you doing? | |
| Can't comment, man. | |
| There you go. | |
| That's good enough for us. | |
| Have there been any big incidents thus far? | |
| Everything's great. | |
| Everything's great? | |
| What do you make of the logistics of this whole operation? | |
| People are waiting like three hours. | |
| Doesn't that seem crazy? | |
| No cop. | |
| Okay. | |
| We're not going to give the cop a hard time. | |
| He's one of the more normal people here. | |
| Everybody else is kind of like a freak. | |
| So I'm going to leave the cop alone. | |
| Okay, well, I mean, this is pretty funny. | |
| So good job to the camerawoman, Megan, for suggesting that we do one of these little walk-around type things where we see who we encounter. | |
| Yeah, so get the whole line in the back if you can. | |
| I just, I just can't believe that we caught, so we're definitely putting out a clip of Patrick Kennedy. | |
| Line cutting, that was unbelievable. | |
| That's the biggest scandal so far of the DNZ. | |
| And did you notice how he had this whole routine, like it was almost pre-planned, where he's gonna go, oh, I have these big gregarious hugs, and then he just kind of naturally gets absorbed into his little group on the line, and he just, he just skipped like 90 minutes worth of line. | |
| First of all, a little bit embarrassing for Paul Begala and Patrick Kennedy that they can't even get some kind of VIP access or whatever. | |
| Okay, so this is Vermin Supreme. | |
| - Remember, please remove your pants. | |
| - Okay. | |
| Okay, so this is Vermin Supreme. - Remember, it is in the name of - Now Vermin Supreme. - It will be safe from the terrorists. - And, it's my little mom here. - Vermin Supreme is a mainstay of the New Hampshire primary. | |
| So, Vervin Supreme, how is it that they let you out of New Hampshire? | |
| I've always seen you associated with the New Hampshire primary. | |
| Now here you are in Colorado. | |
| I have broken out of the internet, my friend. | |
| Broken out of the internet. | |
| I am not just a regional candidate in any way, shape, or form. | |
| I am the officially endorsed candidate of the United States Pirate Party. | |
| Look it up. | |
| It's for real. | |
| USpirates.org. | |
| I will also be appearing on the ballot in Delaware under the Conservative Party. | |
| Really? | |
| Go figure, but really. | |
| And does the Conservative Party of Delaware endorse the Free Ponies for All pledge? | |
| Working on it. | |
| Working on it. | |
| As long as they're conservatively free ponies, yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay, well best of luck as always. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| Great to be here. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| And of course, remember that there are indeed two, two, two, two, two types of people on this planet. | |
| Those that love ponies! | |
| And those that will not survive the transition times. | |
| Because the road The road to Ponytopia will not be easy. | |
| No, no, no, no, no. | |
| Oh, there will be hardships. | |
| Not all of us are going to make it. | |
| There will be sacrifices. | |
| Human sacrifices. | |
| But let me show you this. | |
| The road to Ponytopia will be paved with the glitter-encrusted skulls of our vanquished foes. | |
| Because together, we're going to ride our ponies into a zombie-powered future. | |
| Which is why, now more than ever, you must decide what are you going to name your pony? | |
| All right, there you go. | |
| Vermin Supreme for President. | |
| That's his platform. | |
| That was impressive. | |
| That was frankly more coherent than most of the Democratic Party platform at this point, I think. | |
| Let's see. | |
| I'm just going around and seeing who I spot here. | |
| There could be anybody. | |
| We're gonna see all y'all in heaven. | |
| I'll see all y'all in heaven. | |
| I don't know, I might see y'all in hell, actually. | |
| See, there's Ted Doyce. | |
| He still doesn't have time to talk. | |
| Still just doesn't have the time. | |
| Just does not have the time. - So I'll need you guys to pay attention. | |
| We have people all around with a yellow piece of paper. | |
| Captain Reese over there. - Oh, okay. | |
| I mean, I just love this. | |
| Okay, so let's just note how this line just kind of morphs into a blob. | |
| So this is the line. | |
| Okay, so we're gonna go like toward this end of the... | |
| So, there's Code Pink and Madea Benjamin. | |
| We interviewed her Sunday. | |
| But look what this line does. | |
| It goes from two lines, I think at least two lines, on either side, and then becomes just a blob. | |
| And here's a New York Times reporter, Theodore Schleifer, I just saw him. | |
| He just skipped the entire line! | |
| Where does he think he's going? | |
| Reporters, I thought I was supposed to wait on this line. | |
| Let's follow him and see where he goes. | |
| So, this is the chaos of the line. | |
| ...clings onto your heart, so if something's in homosexuality or fornication, that's sex outside the confines of marriage, or if you're a thief or... | |
| I just saw a New York Times reporter who thinks she's a line cutter. | |
| See, how is this? | |
| This is the line. | |
| This is amazing. | |
| I'm actually astonished by this. | |
| So what are people even doing? | |
| It's like, what is it, almost 8 o'clock now? | |
| What time is it? | |
| You know, Megan doesn't know what time it is. | |
| She's just clueless. | |
| 7.25. | |
| Okay, 7.25. | |
| And the program, I think, was supposed to start at 5, right? | |
| And look at this. | |
| I mean, this is amazing. | |
| And then look. | |
| Look, people trying to get in through some other entrance. | |
| Like, look at this. | |
| Like, what is happening? | |
| There's like a mad crush. | |
| I see... I think I see some reporter. | |
| I forget that guy's name. | |
| Is that delegates or elected officials on this side? | |
| Oh, elected officials. | |
| I forget. | |
| I think I recognize that guy. | |
| I forget his name though. | |
| There's the New York Times reporter who thinks he has special privileges to get in. | |
| in Theodore with the beard right there. | |
| He thinks, look, look, he's trying to plea that he should get special access to get in. | |
| Theodore Schleifer. | |
| Look him up. | |
| Tweet him. | |
| This is amazing. | |
| Look, the big New York Times reporter. | |
| Look, he's turning around. | |
| He can't get in. | |
| He's giving up. | |
| I love that. | |
| I love that. | |
| Thank you, DNC. | |
| Thank you for giving me the utmost pleasure of witnessing Theodore Schleifer. | |
| Look, there he is. | |
| Look, he looks all forlorn. | |
| Look at him. | |
| Now he's going on his phone. | |
| I don't know who he's going to complain to. | |
| Yeah, zoom in on him. | |
| Zoom in on him. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Theodore, he's all dejected. | |
| That was so funny. | |
| That was so funny. | |
| And look, they have no idea what's going on, so they're just like, Look at this. | |
| So you wait for like two hours on line over there, and you end up in this massive disorganization where no one knows where to go or what to do. | |
| And the contention is like a third of the way done right now. | |
| Right? | |
| In terms of the programming for the night, I'm not exaggerating. | |
| In Milwaukee. | |
| And look, I'm not pretending to be a partisan Republican shill. | |
| It's just factually true. | |
| I don't think we ever waited more than five minutes to get in through the security entrance. | |
| So it's unbelievable. | |
| Yeah, so this is actually much more enjoyable than I thought when I started doing it. | |
| Meaning this, like, walkthrough thing. | |
| We're going to keep going because I love this. | |
| It seems like the Jesus people, the Fire and Brimstone people, they're better organized than the DNC at this point. | |
| So at least they know where to go and set up. | |
| When Jesus died on the cross, he came to Chicago and waited on line for three hours to get to the DNC and then left. | |
| That's what he did. | |
| Three hours later, he rose again. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That was a funny line, Megan. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Look at this. | |
| Just to reiterate, okay? | |
| - What's up? | |
| How are you doing? | |
| - Look at this. - I used to show people on the top, man. | |
| I stole the people, I committed money with it. | |
| I've done just about everything, folks. | |
| I was living to the beat of my own drum. | |
| Like Ed, we're not mostly about it. | |
| - Just to reiterate, okay, just for the sake of clarity and for the record, this whole thing here is supposed to be a line to get into the national convention of one of the two main political parties. | |
| That's just amazing. | |
| None of it made me whole. | |
| Nothing could repair that wound in my heart, which is what the only love of God can feel. | |
| I need the Holy Spirit, and I had to be healed from those things. | |
| I feel like I recognize that. | |
| I know, there's always people that you think you vaguely recognize, but you can't quite place who they are. | |
| I'm pretty sure I recognize that guy, but I can't place him. | |
| Um, okay, I mean, this is just... So wait, what is the point of waiting on that line that we're on over there, when you can just sneak in this way, and who's gonna stop you? | |
| Nobody's controlling anything. | |
| I love this. | |
| Oh, now we're gonna get copyrighted by YouTube because somebody's playing Michael Jackson Alright, let's go around this way and see if we notice anybody. | |
| I heard about people who literally did wait for three hours last night and were so exhausted that they just left. | |
| And clearly the situation is not at all better tonight. | |
| it could well be worse. | |
| Even Ted Deutch and Charlotte Clymer, they are victims of the mayhem. | |
| Look at all these, look at all these suckers. | |
| I mean, no offense, I'm saying suckers in terms of being suckered by the ridiculous logistics. | |
| I mean, they planned these conventions for years. | |
| I mean, over a year. | |
| And this is what they came up with. | |
| Oh, I love it. | |
| We have Patrick Kennedy cutting. | |
| Look at this crowd. | |
| They're sauntering up. | |
| I mean... Somebody just said my name. | |
| I don't know if he knows me or what. | |
| It sounded like a disapproving Michael Tracy. | |
| But that's okay. | |
| I can take it. | |
| It's just unbelievable. | |
| I can't, I mean, I actually am shocked. | |
| I would not have thought that they could have screwed this up this badly. | |
| Why wouldn't they have just like more security checkpoints, right? | |
| I mean, I guess I didn't fully appreciate it until just now how absurd this is. | |
| Oh, it seems like you were staring us down or something. | |
| Okay. | |
| Those guys seemed like they wanted to, you know, maybe have a little dialogue or something. | |
| I'm just laughing because it really is hard to believe. | |
| Look, it keeps going on. | |
| And these people don't know that they could just walk off this line. | |
| There's no reason for them to be on this line right now. | |
| I'm going to try to tell someone. | |
| Do you guys realize that you could just walk off this line and just go around and you'd be right? | |
| I mean, they're not even controlling the line organization up there, so you're kind of waiting for no reason right now. | |
| I'm sorry to break it to you. | |
| It's kind of crazy. | |
| I don't understand the logistics of this at all. | |
| No response. | |
| Okay. | |
| Um, just trying to be helpful. | |
| Can you believe the logistics of this thing? | |
| It seems crazy to me. | |
| The event itself is phenomenal. | |
| The logistics are the worst I've ever seen at an event. | |
| At any event? | |
| Any event. | |
| Absolutely horrible. | |
| Have you been to press conventions? | |
| I've never been to a convention before, but this is... I've been to some, but I've never seen anything like this. | |
| Cities handle these kinds of events all the time. | |
| And I don't know who is responsible for the transportation, but the transportation piece In 10 minutes I could come up with a better plan for transportation. | |
| And they plan these things for a year! | |
| That's right. | |
| Over a year! | |
| The buses are not there when they're supposed to be. | |
| Nobody knows where they're supposed to be. | |
| There's no schedules. | |
| There's no signage. | |
| I waited an hour and five minutes for a bus to get to the place that everybody said you were going to pick up at. | |
| Six or seven of us finally said there's no bus, so we just Ubered over. | |
| Now we're gonna stand in line for another hour and a half. | |
| Okay, so I'm gonna give you a hint based on what I've observed. | |
| Everybody waiting on this line right now, I'm sorry to say, they're waiting on the line for no reason. | |
| You could just walk to the front. | |
| Really? | |
| And nobody's controlling the entrance point. | |
| Really? | |
| I swear. | |
| Really? | |
| I'll show you if you want. | |
| I mean, it would be rude, I guess, to just cut in front of these people, but they're really waiting fruitlessly right now, as far as I can tell. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's like a self-organized line. | |
| Nobody's really running it, right? | |
| It's pretty awful. | |
| It's pretty awful. | |
| What's your reason for being here? | |
| I think this is history. | |
| I think this is absolutely phenomenal history. | |
| This does not come along more than once or twice in a lifetime. | |
| And I just want to be a part of it. | |
| I just want to be here. | |
| How'd you get your credential, or how'd you get admittance? | |
| I'm a member of the National Democratic County Officials. | |
| I'm an elected county supervisor from Virginia. | |
| Okay. | |
| Which county in Virginia? | |
| Loudoun County. | |
| Okay. | |
| That's where Dulles Airport is. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| I know it. | |
| Yeah, so I mean there's lots of people like you who are local officials or have some connection to the Democratic Party in some way who are really It really got a raw deal from this, so I kind of feel bad in a way. | |
| We were at the RNC covering it, and I swear we never waited more than five minutes to get in. | |
| Who are you with? | |
| We're with Newsweek, Substack, and we also do a show called System Update. | |
| Which is an online political show. | |
| Yeah, so it's just wild. | |
| I'm almost flabbergasted because it's hard to even convey in words how much different this is from the RNC. | |
| I'm not making a partisan point at all. | |
| Just from the standpoint of pure practicalities. | |
| I can't believe how long this is going on! | |
| This is wild! | |
| I really have nothing to compare it to other than basic common sense. | |
| Anybody could have planned this better than this. | |
| Alright, well, we'll just keep walking with you, I guess. | |
| I mean, this is wild. | |
| I mean, I just, look, it just keeps going, and these people, I'm sorry to break it to them, they're waiting here for no reason, and they're not going to get up, I don't know when they're going to, this is worse than yesterday, isn't it? | |
| I don't, I got in on the bus yesterday. | |
| Oh, so you weren't at the convention last night? | |
| I was at the convention last night, but I was on the bus, so the bus got here at about 7.15. | |
| I wanted to come in later tonight, and none of the buses showed up, and now we've got this. | |
| I'm shocked. | |
| I keep saying that, but I really am. | |
| I don't think any of us are going to get in. | |
| This is ridiculous. | |
| I can't believe it. | |
| I mean, if there's any justice... What's that? | |
| Yeah, this is technically the end. | |
| I mean, if anybody has their head screwed on straight, they will get rid of whoever was in charge of the planning for this convention, but I somehow doubt that will happen. | |
| I got a couple of pieces from Newsweek. | |
| Oh, did you? | |
| It was before the second Iraq War. | |
| I'm a Desert Storm veteran. | |
| I was General Schwarzkopf's briefer during the Desert Storm. | |
| General Norman Schwarzkopf, who was the commander of Desert Storm. | |
| I got called for the... I did an interview with NPR right before the second Iraq war started off. | |
| And I was like the only guy in the country at the time that was saying, you guys are out of your mind. | |
| We have no business starting another war with Iraq. | |
| And it'll destabilize the entire region. | |
| NPR ran it, and then CNN called me immediately and said, would you do it again? | |
| Or would you come on air? | |
| And I was on air for a year. | |
| A year? | |
| As a contributor? | |
| Did you have a paid deal with them? | |
| No, it was not a paid deal. | |
| It was just a talent. | |
| Yeah, and I wrote two pieces for Newsweek online when I was doing it. | |
| I'll look them up. | |
| What's your name? | |
| Colonel Mike Turner. | |
| Okay, good to meet you. | |
| And it's not the Republican congressman from Ohio. | |
| We are. | |
| This far apart. | |
| If I could stretch my arms further, I would stretch them further. | |
| Oh yeah, Mike Turner, who's the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. | |
| Correct. | |
| Correct. | |
| So, you must be annoyed. | |
| Yeah, every time he announces his name, I want to crawl under the carpet. | |
| Alright, well, we're going to cover this. | |
| I think a shit show would be a polite way of putting it. | |
| Yeah, I can't say that, but you can. | |
| Alright, well, best of luck. | |
| You'll need it, I think. | |
| Um... Yeah. | |
| Should we keep going? | |
| I don't see why not. | |
| I mean, this is just wild to document. | |
| I want to see how long it would take you to walk from, like, the end to the beginning. | |
| Yeah, so we'll walk to the end from the beginning. | |
| We'll do a different video. | |
| Alright. | |
| I have a vision. | |
| We'll do a different video? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| So you want to start a new video? | |
| I mean, we'll just keep going. | |
| I mean, we'll just do one long video, just splice it up into different stuff. | |
| See, everybody's saying this is insanity. | |
| Don't just have me with nothing in the background. | |
| Megan here needs some cinematography lessons. | |
| Why would you just leave my face with nothing displayed? | |
| So we started at the end of the line. | |
| I don't even know how you would locate where the end or beginning of the supposed line is. | |
| But it is... We're going to do a little experiment to see... I honestly don't think these people are actually going to get into the convention. | |
| Or if they do, it would be at the tail end or something. | |
| I actually sort of... I'm actually sort of sad. | |
| People pay money to come to these things and they plan for months and they just get... | |
| Look, there's a journalist who's, you know, he's stuck. | |
| He's got the press credentials, so... I guess this is one of the benefits, maybe, of not having a press credential. | |
| We're sort of liberated. | |
| Because otherwise, we'd be stuck on these lines, too. | |
| Yeah, it's totally better that we didn't get them. | |
| So it's totally better that we didn't get them. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| That's how we're rationalizing into ourselves. | |
| We're not seething at all. | |
| Well, not mad. | |
| Not mad. | |
| Yeah, it's nice. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Just saw Don Gooden plans. | |
| Guess I could've talked to him, but we're gonna keep going. | |
| He's one of the editors of The Nation. | |
| So this is only one, like, prong? | |
| This is one prong! | |
| And it goes on forever! | |
| And it barely moves. | |
| And then you don't even have to wait on it. | |
| If that guy in the pink pants just came off the line right now and just walked with us to the front, he would have saved himself like two and a half hours. | |
| Right? | |
| Am I right? | |
| Hello? | |
| Thank you. | |
| Okay. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Stop gaslighting me. | |
| It really is crazy. | |
| And we're covering it just because of the marvel of the logistical failure. | |
| I mean, there's no real political implications here. | |
| I don't really... I don't think? | |
| I mean, maybe you could make, like, some metaphorical extrapolation from it, but... I mean... It really is strange. | |
| But yeah, we should splice this up and just, like... | |
| We were starved for content today, but now I'm pretty much satisfied because this is just hilarious. | |
| And if you think about it, to further rationalize our lack of direct access, who else is covering this in the fashion that we are right now? | |
| Who else is giving you the bird's eye view, the whole scope of the failure? | |
| I don't think anyone. | |
| I think we stand alone in our intrepid coverage. | |
| How many calories have I burned now just following this line? | |
| Not enough, because I'm still fat, but you get the point. | |
| I think my favorite part is that we caught Patrick Kennedy cutting the line. | |
| I want to put that in the Smithsonian. | |
| And I haven't been looking to see as much if I notice anybody or recognize anybody. | |
| I'm keeping my eyes peeled. | |
| See, everyone's saying this is crazy. everyone's saying this is crazy. | |
| She was saying, but dude. | |
| Well, dudes and dudettes, get online. | |
| I was like, just go back to the hotel at this point and watch on TV, I guess. | |
| You think Ted Deutch got in? | |
| Mmm. | |
| He's probably still out here. | |
| I love that we got the New York Times guy who was so befuddled. | |
| And he doesn't know what to do. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I love it. | |
| I don't care. | |
| He was filling a pothole. | |
| I think the end of the line is back there. | |
| People are trying to make cuts. | |
| Look out! | |
| There's a golf cart coming, people! | |
| Look out! | |
| People are trying to take cuts. | |
| Oh. | |
| Look out, there's a golf cart time, people. | |
| Look out, there's a golf cart. | |
| I'm going to win. | |
| So are these VIPs or the golf cart? | |
| Should we interview the golf cart people? | |
| Like, what benefit does being on a golf cart get you right now? | |
| Oh, there they go. | |
| American Postal Workers Union. | |
| Okay, so explain to me why you couldn't have gotten off the quote-unquote line at the very end where we started. | |
| Follow me to where we are right now and just joined right here. | |
| - Move your pants. | |
| - Can anybody explain that to me? | |
| - No. | |
| - No, sir. | |
| Remember. | |
| - He is, he is. | |
| - He is. | |
| - He is. - He is. - He is. - He is. - He is. - Oh my God. | |
| - Oh my God. | |
| - Oh my God. - Oh my God. - Oh my God. | |
| - Yeah, I mean, if there's anything in there, like, there's no warning too strong. - There's no warning too strong. | |
| - Oh. - I'm telling you right now, folks, you have got to turn. | |
| I just love it. | |
| While you still have time, every day that you walk on this earth without Christ as your Savior is just a blessing from God. | |
| Yeah, good idea. | |
| Praise God, brother. | |
| How long have you guys been waiting? | |
| Like hours? | |
| - Okay. | |
| More? | |
| - To see people act, 'cause that's what the Bible tells us. - How long have you guys been waiting? - For a while. | |
| - Like hours, more? | |
| Okay. | |
| They said for a while, they couldn't give us a time estimate. | |
| - Um. | |
| - We're ready to rally. - We can get to the end of the day. | |
| So, across this concrete barricade is the Promised Land. | |
| Beyond the barrier fencing. | |
| Beyond the empty subway trains that are rumbling ahead. | |
| So I guess we'll close it off here for now, right? | |
| I mean, this was an exciting adventure. | |
| This is some real on-the-ground coverage. | |
| This is better. | |
| See, we're continuing to rationalize. | |
| This is better if we were in there. | |
| We probably would have just wasted four hours just standing. | |
| My back would have started to hurt. | |
| I would have started to whine and complain. | |
| Go to deep water. | |
| Now, I'm on my feet. | |
| I'm moving around. | |
| Getting some exercise. | |
| Doing this thing right now. | |
| And yeah, just, you know, making the most of the situation, which is documenting the hilarious incompetence of whoever the hell was running this thing, which is the DNC, the Democratic National Committee. | |
| I mean, it's always a bit of a confusion because the Democratic National Committee is the central party committee, and the people also say DNC to refer to the Democratic National Convention, so you get some acronym mix-up there, but it's basically the same entity. | |
| But yeah, I mean, somebody's got some explaining to do! | |
| Okay, goodbye for now. | |
| Alright everybody, the things I do for journalism, the things I do for love, I'm here at Hotties for Harris. | |
| I have to say, it is kind of the banger of a bash. | |
| This is night two of the Democratic National Convention here in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| And we are at Hotties for Harris. | |
| We're credentialed. | |
| Hotties for Harris Press. | |
| What that means exactly, I don't know. | |
| There's Taylor Lorenz. | |
| She is, she's on the scene. | |
| Let's zoom in on her, that's right. | |
| She had previously been wearing her mask because she claims to have some, I don't even want to get into it, immunocompromised something. | |
| But now she's outdoors and she's getting some fresh air, good for her. | |
| There's a hottie for Harris dancing. | |
| I did take, I did accept a hotties for Harris t-shirt. | |
| I put in a special request for an uglies for Harris t-shirt. | |
| I was then reassured that I'm hot enough, which I guess I kind of always knew deep down. | |
| But it did restore some of my confidence, I have to say. | |
| So thank you for that. | |
| What group is hosting this? | |
| I forget. | |
| They're all into abortion and women and that kind of thing. | |
| You know, rights and whatever. | |
| The name of the group escapes me. | |
| I am drinking an alcoholic beverage. | |
| Look, I'm not totally inebriated. | |
| I've had maybe two drinks. | |
| I'm not out of control. | |
| I feel like I have enough of my wits about me to do this stupid little whatever we're doing now. | |
| So we're going to do a quick little tour throughout the venue. | |
| I mean, they did pour a lot of money into whatever this is because it is pretty cheeky. | |
| I mean, look, I have a cynical interpretation of the Harris candidacy. | |
| I'm not going to Deny that at all, but like, it doesn't mean I can't somewhat enjoy the, uh, the theater, or the, the, uh, bacchanalia? | |
| Would that be the right word? | |
| There's somebody doing, oh, oh, look! | |
| There's a Hottie for Harris staff person. | |
| She's helping us light up our stupid video. | |
| So thank you for that. | |
| This is all about creators, right? | |
| They've invited lots of creators and talents. | |
| So, we're not seen as weird for doing this. | |
| This is, like, encouraged. | |
| A lot of the time you'd be looked askance if you're walking around with a stupid, big microphone. | |
| Here, I guess it's encouraged. | |
| So, we're gonna make our first stop. | |
| I mean, there are some hot people here, I have to say. | |
| That would not include me. | |
| But, you know, reasonably attractive people relative to who you might expect to be attending some kind of political function. | |
| So, here, look, they have all kinds of games. | |
| And they say... Oh, did we show the thing where, like, our rights are on a game? | |
| Let's show that. | |
| Oh, you did show it? | |
| Okay. | |
| They have all kinds of games and they're like, you know, making fun of the Republicans for being weird. | |
| So they're all in the zeitgeist of the Democrats for saying what Republicans do is weird. | |
| So here's some skee-ball for abortion access. | |
| So these ladies are really excited about skee-balling for abortion. | |
| There you go. | |
| Good job, girl. | |
| Then you can grab them by the Whatever you call that device. | |
| I actually played that earlier and I won some kind of cat ball. | |
| That was fun. | |
| The pregnancy tests and the UTI tests are going fast. | |
| So get them while they're hot. | |
| Let's get... | |
| You can get your coconuts. | |
| Look, you can get specially branded Cottie's for Harris coconuts. | |
| I mean, I have to say, I'm sorry. | |
| I know they've really degraded the coconut as a fruit. | |
| It's a misappropriation by the Democrats for justifying Kamala's assent. | |
| But, I mean, that is kind of a cool party favor. | |
| The camera woman and I, Megan, we did play this feminist mini-golf. | |
| We tied, which I'm ashamed of. | |
| I mean, if you tie a woman in mini-golf, you have to reevaluate your masculinity, which I'm doing as we speak. | |
| I really screwed up on that hole with the windmill. | |
| Let's go look at it. | |
| Let's go look at it. | |
| I screwed up on the sexual harassment themes. | |
| Mini golf hole. | |
| Here's the pay gap mini golf hole. | |
| That was okay for me. | |
| But I screwed up on the sexual harassment hole. | |
| Which you have the hands, the men getting handsy. | |
| Then you have the chains. | |
| And I got a five on that hole. | |
| Otherwise I was leading her. | |
| I was on my way to victory. | |
| But I screwed that up. | |
| Here's some other stuff. | |
| I mean they are providing, they have a pizza truck. | |
| So that was good. | |
| So there's a hottie for Harris, enjoying her pizza. | |
| I mean, it does seem to be heavily female, which, look, I'm not judging. | |
| You'd expect that. | |
| It is some sort of feminist, I guess, event. | |
| I should know who was hosting this, I don't recall. | |
| There's not quite as many people as you might expect yet because people are still funneling in from the actual convention. | |
| We got here a little bit early. | |
| Okay, so this is fun. | |
| The wall of weirdos. | |
| The wall of alleged weirdos. | |
| How many can you name? | |
| I see J.D. | |
| Vance. | |
| That's an unflattering, definitely, angle of him. | |
| I see Donald Trump Jr. | |
| I see Larry Kudlow. | |
| I see Tim Scott. | |
| I see Mike Johnson. | |
| I see Paul Manafort. | |
| That's a throwback. | |
| I see Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | |
| Jim Jordan. | |
| John Roberts. | |
| I mean, sometimes the liberals will praise him for Rendering, I guess, semi-moderate conciliatory decisions, but he's a weirdo apparently. | |
| Even though, on the Dobbs decision, although he did vote in the majority, he was only partially in the majority, so it's a bit mixed. | |
| Eric Trump, I mean, are they really that bad about Eric Trump? | |
| That's Kimberly Guilfoyle, of course Donald himself, in one of his famous poses. | |
| Seb Gorka, I guess he's prominent enough to warrant that. | |
| Vivek, little Marco Rubio, he made it. | |
| Who's that? | |
| I'm not sure, actually. | |
| And then, is that? | |
| That might be Lee Zeldin, I'm not sure. | |
| There's Ben Carson. | |
| No, it's not Giuliani. | |
| Oh, I think that might be Mike Flynn. | |
| But with a weird zoom. | |
| And then, okay, so this is nice. | |
| Here's the Hall of Hotties. | |
| So, number one, number one hottie I want to point out is Chuck Schumer. | |
| Zoom in on him. | |
| That's the Hall of Hotties. | |
| Got Chelsea Handler, of course. | |
| Doug Emhoff, who, you know, brought the house down tonight. | |
| Another hottie. | |
| That's the other Kelsey brother. | |
| Is it Jason? | |
| Okay, he's on the Eagles. | |
| The Taylor Swift boyfriend, Kelsey, is on the Chiefs, right? | |
| So that's a different one. | |
| Of course, Barack, Beto O'Rourke, Ariana Grande. | |
| I'm not sure why exactly she made it on the wall. | |
| Stacey Abrams, Steve Kerr, who addressed the convention. | |
| Tim Walls, of course. | |
| Hot as can be. | |
| That's Megan the Camerawoman, actually. | |
| That's her right there. | |
| No, that's not her. | |
| Who was that again? | |
| Oh, is that Olivia Rudney? | |
| Okay. | |
| I mean, I'll accept that. | |
| Cory Booker. | |
| Sleepy Joe. | |
| Elizabeth Warren, of course. | |
| I think that's Mary Patola, or that might be another New Mexico congresswoman whose name I forget. | |
| Nancy giving her sassy clap. | |
| Who's that? | |
| Which one? | |
| You know who that is. | |
| I know who that is? | |
| Oh, is that Charlie? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| I didn't recognize her there for a second. | |
| And then Nicki Minaj. | |
| That's not Nicki Minaj. | |
| That's Megan Thee Stallion. | |
| Megan Thee Stallion, okay. | |
| Okay, I'm informed that's Megan Thee Stallion. | |
| I mean, that's like a, you wouldn't, I know what Charlie XCX looks like. | |
| That's sort of a weird photo. | |
| Alright, let's continue. | |
| Rose for Harris, I identify with that. | |
| Lots of merch, here's a line for merch. | |
| Oh, they're out of, they're out of, before, see, good thing we got here early. | |
| Because we documented that they had camo. | |
| Hotties for Harris shirts, but they've all sold out. | |
| I didn't get one. | |
| I don't feel I needed one. | |
| I got a standard shirt. | |
| Let's continue. | |
| Tim Walz got belayed. | |
| No comment. | |
| I mean, look at all the influencers and creators. | |
| Are they actual creators or influencers? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| All right, this video can't go on much longer. | |
| I hear the song Man I Feel Like a Woman by Shania Twain. | |
| That's right, thank you. | |
| Okay, so I feel like there are multiple potential interpretations of this. | |
| Are they saying Trump and Vance, if elected, will end or abolish sex? | |
| Itself? | |
| On November 5th? | |
| Or sex between Trump and Vance will end on November 5th? | |
| I feel like it's unclear, maybe deliberately so. | |
| Let's get a crowd shot. | |
| Look at all these hotties. | |
| I mean, how does the hottest compare to like a standard Republican convention event? | |
| Okay, she's not commenting. | |
| Ummm... | |
| Let's go, uh... | |
| I mean, everybody's getting pictures of... | |
| I mean, it is funny that they went to the level of getting a full statue of your... | |
| Banff. | |
| I mean, that is kind of funny. | |
| Yeah, and the couch, right. | |
| I mean, so there was a whole thing fabricated. | |
| I guess I'll sit on the couch. | |
| Yeah, they have Project 2025 stuff. | |
| I guess they're claiming they're gonna ban To Kill a Mockingbird and other American classics. | |
| Genderqueer. | |
| They're gonna ban the... I mean, the whole... It's a funny thing... Open the book? | |
| You can't open it! | |
| They... They... Oh! | |
| Okay, so... I thought I was gonna be innocently opening the book, and it turns out there are condoms. | |
| Fuck Project 2025-themed condoms. | |
| Isn't that... Isn't that grand? | |
| Okay. | |
| I mean, it is clever... ...somewhat, I guess, relative to- I get it. | |
| It's all relative. | |
| Relative to what you might expect from just a standard... ...political function. | |
| But yeah, this whole idea that J.D. | |
| Vance is a fetish for couches was just fabricated and now it's a thing. | |
| Look, I guess that's fine. | |
| I'm not going to rush to the defense of J.D. | |
| Vance or anything. | |
| But it is true that J.D. | |
| Vance has had a whole trope fabricated about him having sex with couches and now it's caught on. | |
| So there you have it. | |
| Ummm... | |
| So I guess you can get eye shades saying my cake is equality. | |
| I'm not going to weigh in on anybody's kink. | |
| I'm just going to stay neutral on that. | |
| And then finally here we are on I guess the dance floor. | |
| The whatever. | |
| There you go. | |
| It's kind of like a meme theme. | |
| And now the music is getting really loud. | |
| And look, I mean, the DJ's fine. | |
| I kind of enjoy it. | |
| The highs for Harris, DJ Boosh. | |
| So that's cool, I guess. | |
| Harris Walls. | |
| People are dancing. | |
| Look, I'm not gonna... It's cool, sort of like, sort of cheeky, sort of tongue-in-cheek, semi-ironic. | |
| Yeah, the camerawoman's dancing. | |
| I'm not going to get too offended or cynical or outraged by it. | |
| Look, we're at a stupid convention. | |
| There's a hottie dancing. | |
| Look at them. | |
| Look at them going. | |
| And it's fine. | |
| Tomorrow we'll talk about what Kamala Harris is going to do on a separative policy level. |