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22:00 Kamala Harris was never the border czar
30:00 What do the data say about Kamala Harris’s electability?, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/23/what-do-the-data-say-about-kamala-harriss-electability/
52:00 Niall Ferguson, J. D. Vance, George Washington, and Jesus, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/26/niall-ferguson-and-j-d-vance/
53:00 Many women feel insecure about not having kids: https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1817195299279970666
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1:43:00 Personality Profile of Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptRff1uYUAo
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2:34:00 Niall Ferguson, J. D. Vance, George Washington, and Jesus, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/26/niall-ferguson-and-j-d-vance/
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Podnotes AI Transcript:
Speaker 0: Good day, Mate. 40 here. So I’ve read everything that you should read if you wanna do a serious character analysis of Kamala harris. I’ve read through her biography. Skim through it not all of it.
I also read the 3 major books about the biden administration. I read through 4 of the major books about, The 20 20 election, I read through the major news articles about Kamala Harris and strikes me that there is 1 overwhelming personality. Profile that just jumps out at me again and again and again because in large part, I can empathize with it and that is the trait of insecurity. Alright? If you had to boil down a decoding of Kamala Harris to 1 trade.
It would be insecurity, and that’s what drives her to blame other people for her own problems. That’s why she’s been unable to maintain a coherent staff, by people find her abusive to work for because when you work for her, you try to prepare her and she doesn’t do the work necessary, then she gets publicly humiliated, and then she blames for staff for her own public humiliation. Now, you may be a deeply insecure a person such as I have been through much of my life, and you’re not gonna be insecure in all situations. Alright? You may be insecure about your looks or your hair or your laugh.
Right? But you may be insecure about your performance at work. Or maybe 1 element of your performance at work, say technology that makes you insecure, but other elements of your performance at work, you feel pretty solid about So right now, Kamala Harris is riding a wave. She has money. She has momentum.
She has the news media behind her. And so in this kind of Gi situation, she’s highly unlikely to be overwhelmed by feelings of insecurity. But I guarantee you at a certain point, Kamala Harris is going to melt down. She may, however, be able to keep it together through the election. Right?
United States may very well elect Kamala harris as the next president of United States, then once she gets into power. Right? Her. Insecurity and tendency to wanna blame. Other people for her own problems.
Right, that the troubles created by her own laziness, lack of conscientious. That’s another thing that comes through analyzing Kamala Harris career is a lack of conscientious and a disorder trust in her own charisma and abilities. Right? A trust that goes beyond the evidence. So many ways, she has a similar personality profile to Donald Trump.
But right now, everything’s going well for her. And the media ad imagination may well carry her through to victory in November But a certain point, reality will kick in, and you’ll you’ll get to see Kamala Harris insecurities revealed. And let’s get a burst here from Fox News.
Speaker 1: It took kamala Harris just 2 days to essentially cli the Democratic. Nomination after Joe Biden bowed out, and the media been well cheering her on ever since. The mainstream press fueled by democratic leaks have been pushing the president to step aside which he did for the record 1 hour and 45 minutes after our program ended last Sunday and many journalists and comment instantly embraced vice president as their new champion who of course would break several barriers. Now, this is as Donald Trump is just starting to pound away, painting Harris as a loo left winger and naturally tying her to the Biden record. Look at the coverage.
Speaker 2: The excitement among women is very clear. The excitement among black woman through the roof. The excitement among the the black community huge.
Speaker 3: The fantasy, is gonna be the media, narrative machine. That narrative will tell you. Kamala is absolutely amazing historic. And she’s gonna show Trump to be old in racist. As time goes by, you will see the flaws, the weirdness.
Until you realize holy hell, she’s a basket case.
Speaker 4: They’re just so excited. They’re so energized. It’s historic. It’s also many people believe all that’s standing between the United.
Speaker 0: States Right.
Speaker 4: And a very, very dark place for this country.
Speaker 5: Lack of a like, a like issue, ina authenticity issue that we saw with Hillary Clinton as well. She also disconnects from working voters. I mean, this is a San Francisco liberal. There’s a strategy behind all of this, which is not just about protecting Kamala harris, but also going on the offense in terms of what Donald Trump and his allies may try to do to her in the coming months.
Speaker 6: There will be accusations that if you don’t like Kamala, we’ve already heard it. You’re a sexist and you’re a racist.
Speaker 1: It’s a short campaign now 100 days to go which pushed more pressure on the press to cut through the charges and the counter charges. On both sides and fairness to the vice president and the former president who’s doing so much negative coverage over the last decade. I’m Howard K Voices.
Speaker 7: Yes. Younger voices.
Speaker 1: You don’t need to be a media analyst to see that the 59 year old vice pro
Speaker 0: Right. So Jay Biden just seems completely disconnected from the words that he’s saying. It’s little, frightening that he remains as president in the United States when he’s clearly not up to the task cognitive.
Speaker 1: President is bringing more energy to the trail, than the 81 year old president but it’s all scripted so far. Harris got a rousing reception from the campaign standpoint.
Speaker 0: So if you’re highly insecure, that’s much less likely to come out scripted. Appearances rather than un scripted. So her personality in insecurities again shine through once she’s forced to deal with un scripted challenges.
Speaker 1: In Wilmington, but stuck to the same script at a Milwaukee rally the same day.
Speaker 8: Predators who abused women. Fraud who ripped off consumers. Cheater who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say. I know Donald Trump’s type, creditors who abuse women.
Fraud who ripped off consumers cheater who broke the rules for their own game. Pain. So hear me when I say, no. Donald Trump’s type pain
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would long plan to run against Biden is now taking aim in his new opponent and what she knew about Biden decline.
Speaker 9: If Kamala will lie to you so bra about Joe Biden mental in capacity, then she will lie to you about anything she can never… Ever be trusted.
Speaker 1: Joining us how to analyze the coverage bank dominance editor at large at the spectator and a Fox news contributor. Forever And in San Diego, Laura Fin, founder of Rebel Communications been any questioning in your mind that the media most of the media. Gus over a kamala harris. I mean the new Times is a piece today by a comedy… Defending her laugh.
Speaker 10: Look, I don’t think that this is something that should come as a surprise. To anybody who’s being, who’s paid attention to the way that the media has depicted Kamala harris over the past several years. The simple fact is that she has a very weak record. She is not someone who is qualified really winning it… Was coming to the decision to choose her as vice president.
She was ripped out of a situation where She had achieved 0 percent of the vote in order to be Joe Biden vice president.
Speaker 0: Mh.
Speaker 10: And now she oc this… Wonderful position of essentially having the the path paved for her by the Democrat elite in order to take over, not just the presidential nomination, but I believe the the effectively, the active president of the United States. I believe Joe Biden is the president name only and that
Speaker 0: So 1 thing about humor, you noticed that Republican politicians keep trying to pull off Donald Trump’s sense of humor. And they continually fail. Alright? So most efforts to imitate Donald Trump come up highly cringe. I remember, I moved to the United States in May of 19 77, May 28, I turned 11 years of age.
And when I began sixth grade in the 4, I was often tagged with the label insecure. When where I grew up in Australia, we weren’t nearly a psychologically sophisticated as Californian. And that tag was was a good 1 for me. It it did reveal kind of the essence of of my character looking for other people to prop me up to tell me who I was. And I think it remained a dominant characteristic of my personality until about 20 16, I think I’ve made more dramatic strides say in the in the last 4.
0, when people would start too distance from me, I I would feel a a great sense of desperation and turbulence and I’d run after them and often make things worse. And now when I find people point to me, that they’re distancing, then I’m able to fall back onto my own resources and to send my energy in different directions. So even when I was highly secure, I wasn’t highly insecure in all situations, So character matters, alright. Character is a way to get a sense of somebody, but somebody’s character is gonna reveal itself in very differently in different situations. So right now, with all the media ad modulation.
Right? Kamala Harris personality defects are again to be masked. Alright? It… It’s easy to roll on this tidal wave of admiration.
Speaker 10: That, , and nothing will happen between now and November that does… That goes against. Anything that Kamala harris really wants to happen. But but I will just say this. She is a talented politician.
She had perhaps the greatest launch of any of the 20 20 candidates.
Speaker 0: Mh.
Speaker 10: She’s not somebody who the Republicans should underestimate because she has the ability, I believe to communicate and to do so , very well in terms of hitting her marks saying her lines doing what is need is we… In order to achieve the kind of of response that she wants.
Speaker 0: Well, let’s Right. So her problems begin when people get to know her. And right now, she’s just operating under scripted circumstance. And her handlers will probably try to keep her on script as much as possible, and the problems that have inevitably popped up with Kamala harris is when people are around her for a significant length of time. And then the floors start kicking in.
So Chris Whip wrote a 20 23 book about the biden administration. The fight of his life inside Joe Biden White House, and he talks about why did Joe Biden select Kamala Harris. Right? He needed a person of color and a woman. So he’d made justice for communities of color a central campaign promise.
So Kamala Harris was not the best vice presidential pick overall for Joe Biden. The most qualified. She was the the best pick among women of color. And when she took over the office of of vice president, she kept making mistakes and most of her. Wounds were are self inflicted.
Right? She had an inability to find her own voice, because she’s so insecure. Right? She was confident and effective as a senator when she was skill interrogating witnesses in televised hearings with the prepared remarks, but she’s seemed awkward and uncertain as vice president when she wasn’t able to operate from its witnesses grip. And so that’s why you get her laughing inappropriately and chopping the air inappropriately with her hands.
She seemed condescending. She seemed insecure. She didn’t seem in reality. And so, political, barely, early on article. Portraying her office as a poisonous snake pit.
Right? The vice president Shop was suffering from Low Morale, Por lines of communication diminished trust among aids and senior officials, Why was there so much dis distressed because Kamala harris couldn’t handle her own anxiety and insecurity, and she would just offload that onto her aids. Right she was described as abusive, people are thrown under the bus. All starts from the top. They’re plummeting office morale, causing an exodus of personnel.
She’s unable to keep staff. Washing a post then reported a couple, kamala harris staff, exodus read nice questions about her leadership role and a future ambitions. And people who work with her for long, consistently report a tremendous amount of dysfunction that Kamala harris will fail to do a homework before events, he’ll be refused to be prepped by her staff, and then she will blame them when she comes off as ill prepared. At the amount of stress that she creates by constantly being impossible to manage, and then taking out all her stress on staff, usually women or people are in not great positions of authority was unbearable. So…
The number 1 person the news media turns to for a negative assessments of Kamala harris is Gil duran, who was Kamala harris senior adviser and communications director when she was California’s is Attorney general in 20 13. And so the last straw for him is when Kamala Harris failed to show up for several scheduled prep meetings. She could not be reached by phone before a televised event in Los Angeles, and she finally arrived to She gave him a profane tongue lashing and reduced a female staff at tears after 5 months on the job he resigned. Now you could… Dismiss Gui duran is just 1 disgruntled aid.
It served Kamala harris for only 5 months, but he had company. Now the staff work for her for years insists on anonymity said that Kamala Harris engaged in unnecessary gains, driven by deep deep insecurities. Right? She refused to do the preparation that you need to do before going public, on hardcore policy matters, then she would become inc and outraged when things wouldn’t go the way she thought they were supposed to go. There was a lot of magical thinking, So I I also noticed this among people who are insecure.
They have this imaginary world where everything’s gonna be okay, and they are not thrown back on their own resources. Right? There’s now a generation of Sa people who simply weren’t put up with this abuse. They leave they tweet they leak Whenever somebody raises an issue about Cola, everybody’s like, oh, you don’t wanna see black women succeed. That’s completely backward.
Everybody goes to work. For Kamala Harris, by definition wants to see a succeed. That’s why you take these jobs. Right? Her staff dysfunction is not new in her office vice president, it will inhibit any administration that she leads.
Her staff seems to be in a constant state of upheaval back to this Fox news.
Speaker 1: Put up that New York post cover where she’s being crowned. The those who think it’s a coronation. Laura, I get that she’s the new story she’s raised 200000000 dollars. She’s inherently more interesting, but I don’t think I’ve seen such favorable coverage since 2008 when Barack Obama was running.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you also haven’t seen the Olympic Michael phelps like dominance of the things Ben was just talking about a hundred thousand volunteers in the span of a week more than 30000 voter registrations breaking records a quarter of a billion dollars raised to her campaign into Allied groups, clearing the field. And then, of course, there’s those poll numbers. She has caught up and within the margin of error in that time with Donald Trump, who was dominating the polls prior. So I really don’t think you can overestimate the dominance of her campaign, the skill with which she’s executed it.
And the way that she’s harness that media attention. So I think we…
Speaker 0: Yeah. There were are good points there. She is a skilled politician, and I don’t agree with. Elliot Bla, where he says that she is a textbook case of D facilitated pasta syndrome. Right.
She ran For the district attorney of San Francisco, which is a major position. She won that, and she served that. She ran the district attorney’s office in San Francisco, then she ran and 1 twice elected in California as attorney general, and then she successfully ran for the United States Senate from California. So she has a long impressive track record of accomplishment. Right?
You can’t say that she’s un qualified to be president of the United States. Alright? She’s Far qualified the Barack Obama was when he took over. Right? She ran the district Attorney’s office in San Francisco, and she ran the attorney generals position in California for approximately 8 years.
In addition to becoming United States Senator and she did run for president United States in 20 20, which was demanding, and she didn’t do too well, but she went through the fire. Right? Her 20 20 campaign just old in a storm of acr money with operatives blaming 1 another. He was leading the race at 1 point. She had tons of money, but as soon they got into trouble, they blew all their money, things fell apart.
She didn’t even make it to Iowa. Her inner circle didn’t serve well, and they are ill serving her now. Her campaign staffers are now gone. But the dysfunction persists. So when you have dysfunction in your office, no matter what office you hold that is a reflection on you.
As the term elections approach in 20 20 22, many Democrats wondered where was Kamala Harris. Alright. For many months she’d gone on radio silent. When Kamala harris did get notice it was often for the wrong reason. At a women’s leadership forum in late September 20 22, Kamala harris talked about the importance of equity in addressing climate change, and then Republicans pounce on this as evidence that she would propose to dole out hurricane relief on the basis of race.
Rather than need. Franklin Fe wrote another book about the Biden administrations called the last politician inside Joe Biden White House and the struggle for America’s future, run clean. Right? Joe Biden chief of staff, assumed the role of Kamala Harris guide, Thought of himself as building her up her expertise. He’d worked for a alcohol and Joe Biden when they were vice presidents, but he struggled to help her.
Kamala harris kept making life excessively difficult for herself by imposing all sorts of constraints. She didn’t wanna work on women’s issues. She didn’t wanna work on anything to do with race, She wanted her office staff to be majority female. She wanted a black woman his chief of staff. She created too many rules and it made it hard for her to find porting.
He told her, this is baseball you need to start getting out of the dug and scoring some runs. So when you’re insecure, you’re much more likely to retreat to the cave. Unless, you’ve got everything scripted in front of you. So Kamala Harris was constantly in search of a portfolio, but reluctant to accept them when they were suggested her When she finally got a meeting assignment, the administration’s response to the assault voting rights. Right?
That’s something that she took on. She stuck to the president’s side, and she quoted a relationship with Joe Biden, and they adopted similar styles. But they crave from aids was deeply practical. They wanna know how people would interact with a policy. How would they find out about it they have an easy time accessing a program.
They would ask basic questions. Common sense questions. And the contributions in meetings were often regarded as inc, So she is a practice prosecutor. She asks piercing questions. Right.
She impressed My billy with how sharply she interject herself into national security discussions. He was guided by staff whom she didn’t know and who she did not trust. After a while, joe Biden gave up on trying to coach her. Right at the beginning of his term, they would have weekly lunches those began to fall off the schedule, as he saw that Kamala Harris wasn’t keeping up. Kamala harris pride herself on a discipline, that she ate carefully.
She exercised regularly She left self time for 4 nights sleep. She had a disciplined quest for mastery of policy, but it was often extreme. She didn’t want to just master the details. She wanted to constantly be in a mode of cross examination, so she would exhaust the people around her. So she was disciplined in her desire to prepare, but then she would become un with keeping her own calendar per obsession with…
Prep was a product of both intellectual fascination and her own insecurity. Right? So if you’re secure, you don’t have as much psychologically. Psychological need to over prepare. She understood a place in history the first black woman to hold her a job.
She felt like she was un unfairly punished by the press she ever fault and she was very quick to blame criticism on racism. Right? The ultimate goal of her prep was to move her through public appearance without any missteps. And she was right. Large parts of Washington re her sc, and they did not extend her grace because people just did not like her by large once they got to know her, and she had an obsessive desire to avoid making mistakes and then the pressure that she applied on self doomed to to make these mistakes.
Right? She has not appeared at ease in un scripted moments.
Speaker 2: We need to give credit where credit is due. She’s earned it.
Speaker 1: Okay. Let me play some sound on this whole question. I’m gonna read some headlines. About Kamala Harris and whether she was the borders are, which obviously important issue in the campaign. Roll it?
Speaker 10: K do you have any plans?
Speaker 0: So kamala Harris was not the borders are. Right? No matter how many people in the news media or in the administration or in politics. Declared her the borders are in 20 21. She never had any power.
Right? She didn’t get to decide policy. She didn’t get to enforce policy. So, yes, the news media and various politicians may well have designated her, the borders are in 20 21. But just because people say you or something.
Just because you declare yourself, something doesn’t mean you are something. Right? The news media could have anointed her a Unicorn. 20 anyone mean that she was… You…
Did not have power to create policy on the border nor to enforce policy. So no matter how many people designated her as the borders are, literally, she never was the borders She never had the power to execute that kind of office.
Speaker 10: To visit the border.
Speaker 8: At some point, , we are going to the border. We’ve been to the border.
Speaker 10: Do you haven’t been into the border
Speaker 8: I and I haven’t been to Europe.
Speaker 0: Right. You see her insecurity here, how she freezes under pressure.
Speaker 8: And I mean, I hope… No. I don’t understand the point that you’re making. Not my first. I
Speaker 0: So often her Her laughter is a giveaway for the overwhelming insecurity that she’s feeling.
Speaker 8: The first charge. So important aspect of this visit is leading this visit after the work that we did in Guatemala in Mexico.
Speaker 1: Listen into these headlines bad time. Kamala Harris was never biden borders are. New York Times. Why Republicans keep calling Kamala Harris, the borders are misleading phrase.
Speaker 0: So these press reports are correct in 20 24. She never was the borders no matter how many journalists anointed her that in 20 21.
Speaker 1: Ax axiom. The Trump campaign in Republicans have tagged, Harris repeatedly with this borders czar title, which he never actually had. Ax axiom 3 years.
Speaker 0: Yeah. These press reports are correct in 20 24. Republicans are tagging her as the borders for political point scoring. Not because they’re particularly interested in the trip.
Speaker 1: Years ago. Harris appointed by Biden as borders are. What does all tell you?
Speaker 10: Howie Barack obama head. 29 Czar, who were assigned to various projects. None of them had the official title Czar, in their title. Well, it’s star is not a word that we use as a title within the United.
Speaker 1: Big Des soviets me.
Speaker 10: I mean,
Speaker 9: it’s it’s so we’re not journalist that.
Speaker 10: It’s it’s it’s it’s journalist.
Speaker 0: Words are metaphors for reality. So It was a tempting metaphor to pull out in 20 21. By 20 24, it is clear for people who are primarily interested in truth. Rather than in partisan point scoring, the Kamala Harris was never the borders are.
Speaker 10: Shorthand. Yeah. For special assistant to the… That ? And and look, , Van Jones, , someone who obviously occupied the green jobs are, Position was fired from that position.
He was never as czar. Okay? And so you could easily go back and say that. She assigned this as under her prerogative a priority that she was going to address. Both the the base sort of, root causes Mh.
Of this problem, and in addition to that, all the relationships that we have when it comes to the Northern triangle, etcetera. Okay? That is is fairly described, as a border Czar. Okay? And and as it was under Barack obama, by the way, there were 2 different borders czar under underground.
So this is a situation where she is essentially trying to distance herself from this, and it’s very amusing to me because until about 4 weeks ago, it was very convenient. To assign the borders are metric. Too Kamala harris because Joe Biden wants the candidate.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: But now they have to sort of go back and rework it. It’s it’s third on its face, everybody understands. She actually had this responsibility. She had did a terrible job at it, and there’s nothing that’s going to turn that around.
Speaker 1: Well, Laura, if she’s gonna take the hit on the border which seems fair gain. Shouldn’t the press also give Kamala harris some credit for the past legislative successes. Of the Biden Harris administration.
Speaker 2: Well, absolutely. And while we’re talking to about the border, I didn’t see any mainstream media covering the fact that border crossings are down by 30 percent this month, and that’s a 3 year low. They aren’t talking about those northern triangle ky
Speaker 10: the fact now said 3 low. I love the fact that you said a 3 year low because 3.
Speaker 9: Because it’s
Speaker 2: a 3 year low. Me because
Speaker 10: it was a 4 year high the first year of the Biden let flaw in history.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Well, Okay. Well, let let let me just finish. I would also love while we’re talking about media for the media to cover immigration and the bill that was killed by presidential candidate, Donald Trump, a bipartisan bill that was this.
Speaker 0: Ben is losing his temper here and is is bullying her.
Speaker 9: Bun. I would have Opposed this so.
Speaker 10: I I looked. I’m sorry, Laura. I I don’t I
Speaker 9: don’t know your background for.
Speaker 10: I worked… No. No. No. No.
This is unacceptable. I worked on the on the immigration issue for 10 years in the 2 thousands. Okay. This is the worst bill that was ever proposed. It is not a hardcore bill.
Is not something that…
Speaker 1: But was also true.
Speaker 10: And wanna let fix garbage. To suggest that this is in any way an enforcement bill. It was something that was terrible and everyone should have opposed it, and they did.
Speaker 1: But it is also true that the install park at the best of Donald Trump candace
Speaker 10: Actually think I would’ve
Speaker 0: see, Ben’s flushing. He… He’s just lost his temper here and behaving badly.
Speaker 10: On with. But let me love I mean, I let me let love when john corn is opposed to it.
Speaker 1: Okay. You got a old boss. We have to get some equal time
Speaker 11: in the aurora. Part
Speaker 2: Well, , ben fired up about this, and I can understand why. But like I said, I wish the media would have covered that. I wish they’d covered the drop in border across things but you can’t have, , everything wrapped up in a bow. The borders are is a line of attack fermented in right wing circles, and just things didn’t stick. And I noticed usually conservative media is really good at getting their message across there.
And they didn’t do it this time, and that’s our, , couple Harris is gonna have to contend with the border issue. No letters come out of the cold the border. Unfair come on. Wow me melt out.
Speaker 1: Alright. Alright. Let me… Look, if
Speaker 0: the New York Times calls that the borders are that doesn’t mean anything. That just means the New York Times calls of the borders are. The New York Have quarter a Unicorn. Would that means she’s at Unicorn.
Speaker 1: Here move on because I have a question reserved just for you. Kamala Harris, And Jd vance, who will talk about a little later. Both have a long history of controversial comments. But I don’t see the press making an issue out of a Kamala Harris having played a role in setting up a bail fund for criminals arrested in the B riots after George Floyd was murdered. I I
Speaker 0: So why haven’t the press made this an issue because they sympathize with her position. After the the news media was overwhelmingly behind and supportive of black lives matter both in 20 14 and in 20 20, which led to a massive increase in the number of homicide traffic fatalities and pedestrian deaths due to the reckless that occurred, when the police were incentivized to stop doing their job.
Speaker 1: She said she was against fracking Now. She has an aide said, She’s not against fracking. It seems like they’re going through all of Jd stuff and not so much, some of the past very liberal things that the vice president said.
Speaker 10: Look, the the vice president is a progressive. She’s far to the left of the country in so many different respects, including the border, I would say, And I think that that’s 1 of the reasons that the , frankly, a lot of republicans, I believe, , we’re confident that if she was ever going to be the nominee, , this is going back, , months when there was speculation about a change that they would be…
Speaker 0: So Kamala Harris has the most liberal or second most liberal voting record in the United States Senate during her time there. Change I don’t think that is going to be a decisive factor in this election. Right? This election will primarily come down to party allegiance. Kamala Harris liberal voting record will be a negative for the democratic ticket because it just so absurd left wing.
About as left wing as you could get. She was to the left of Bernie Sanders. So I’ll definitely be a drag, the democratic party, personality once people get to know, I suspect will also be a drag on the democratic ticket, but I doubt that either of these factors will be the decisive. And that’s not so much me talking. That’s me reflecting on an analysis by statistics professor Andrew Gel at Columbia University.
So Donald or Trump and Jd Vance. Right? Both are overwhelmingly have approval ratings that are substantially negative. Alright? Both Trump and Vance negative by between 8 to 11 points and Kamala Harris has a negative approval ratings in in the the 12 to 14.
Point range.
Speaker 10: Able to confront her that they would be able to deal with that. What I think that they’ve underestimated is that there is such a, an investment in advancing her cause from her California backers, from Hollywood from everything that she’s done in the past, that they’re going to have to really be facing, , climbing up uphill to try to frame her as being someone who is a progressive, , who is a liberal on this that is out of step with the country. In fact,
Speaker 0: So the data right now show that Kamala Harris has probably a 40 percent or so a chance of being elected. So remember, in… United states president is elected by an electoral college map that overwhelmingly favors the Republicans and Donald Trump right now. So if national polls place her and Trump even that that suggests that Donald Trump is gonna to win in the electoral college. Right?
The the Democrats have to be at least plus 2, in the national polls to be at an even chance of winning the presidency via the electoral college.
Speaker 10: Fact, I think that they, , are going to be facing a real challenge with that, because as as much as as she has been defined in the public eye, it’s been in kind of a silly way as opposed to something that is actually… , offensive to…
Speaker 9: Turn around like this I. 3 weeks ago, 4 weeks ago. She was the worst politician in America. Now they say, it’s an amazing look at her. She’s so beautiful She showed Magnificent.
Speaker 1: Ben, he also called her a bum, and he said this is… And he said this is a coupe. But will the media hold Donald Trump out of the same standard now that he’s on the attack as the way that, Cobb Harrison straight been treated this past week.
Speaker 10: Well, Kamala Harris, what, I mean, if you look back at the way that she was being written about, really just 8 months ago, in major media, It was, , can we replace her with someone who would make a more effective running mate for Joe Biden. It was, , in the New york times in the Washington Post, both, , sort of entities ran multiple columns suggesting the idea, that, Joe Biden should pick 1 of the people coming out of the 20 22 cycle or, , others who would be stronger allies
Speaker 0: So why is Kamala Harris the likely democratic nominee because of a peculiar situation in a wide open primary? It’s highly unlikely that she would become the Democratic nominee. She she’s probably not in the top 5 of most elect candidates to represent the Democratic party.
Speaker 10: Him now, they are boxed in to basically say, she has to be awesome in every respect of the game. And that’s why I think we’re going to see the most over produced, scripted , campaign that we’ve ever seen in the modern era where she’s gonna hit her marks. She’s gonna recite the lines. She’s gonna do everything that is demanded of her because they understand that she is a politician who simply doesn’t have that natural capability that a lot of others do Right in order to connect with people.
Speaker 1: Fox Poll basically has it a physical tie in those 3 key states of Michigan. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin Laura, what happened to being nice. Trump said the convention he wanted to ease the divisions in our country. And here he’s saying as they put it New York, Forget about it.
Speaker 2: Well, here’s 1 of the things that’s been obscured for a long time, especially when President Biden age was being focused on. And that… Is that these are Trump’s liabilities. Trump is a fundamentally weak candidate because he is un. He cannot execute on message.
He bra like an older gentleman for 90 minutes in his speech.
Speaker 0: And there’s a great deal of accuracy to that about 50 percent of the American voting population absolutely will not vote for for Donald Trump. He is un. But this is The most disciplined Trump campaign ever. This is the most disciplined Donald Trump we have seen ever.
Speaker 2: Here and his speech there. He talks about whatever floats through the… Tran some of its of his mind. This is not someone who is going to to hit his marks. And I think when you talk
Speaker 0: So that’s a big difference between, Trump and Kamala Harris that Trump feels most comfortable. Being visceral and real in his reactions, while Kamala Harris comes across as scripted and often ill at ease and s.
Speaker 2: Talk about Kamala harris, and you’re and ben’s talking about it, Like it’s a liability. It actually is a gift and a talent. That she is able to be a resident communicator to communicate with fire and passion. It’s 1 of the reasons she also has been a viral success in addition to all of the other things I was talking about with regard to her launch. So it’s curious to me that we can’t acknowledge those things.
, Sure I I don’t know
Speaker 10: to those things, Laura, But but the point is it’s it’s kinda like, which would you rather have? Someone who seems authentic or someone who seems robotic.
Speaker 1: But but Well,
Speaker 2: you say Authentic. You say she doesn’t seem authentic. I think that authenticity. You can’t like I said you… Cannot buy that viral support.
That authenticity in her years in office is shining through. It may not resonate with you Ben, but it is resonating and with my.
Speaker 10: I gotta daughter
Speaker 2: to win elections. I go her and over again because she won a Da. She won as attorney general. She won a senator and then she got 1 by 1. I don’t know how you look at that resume and say that it’s not experienced and success.
Speaker 1: Alright. Look. Speaker Mike Johnson, other republican leaders are urging an end to the racial and gender attacks on Harris this after Republican Congressman Tim Bur since she was
Speaker 0: So Kamala Harris would not be the vice president of the United States if she was not a female of color. On the other hand, she does have a formidable track record. Right? Elected a district attorney of San Francisco. Elected attorney general of California twice, elected to the United States Senate from California.
Speaker 1: To D. Later we said he shouldn’t said it, but it’s true.
Speaker 0: But it simply doesn’t help the Republicans to use this line of attack.
Speaker 1: Is it tougher to attack a woman without facing a backlash?
Speaker 10: The D hired thing? I think it’s a little bit weird. But I also think that it’s…
Speaker 0: Yeah. It is tougher to attack a woman, and it is little tougher to attack a woman of color. Because for all Our talk about equality, we we still have residual parts of ourselves. And if you’re on the right, you have a larger, medieval part of yourself and if you’re on the left, this is a smaller part, but we do tend to treat people differently. We do tend to treat adults differently from children, men differently from women, people of color, black people differently from white people.
Right? That is just kinda built into the way that we visceral react to life. And then the more left wing, your identity, right, the more submerged and the more beaten down is this medieval visceral reaction to treating people to it differently.
Speaker 10: , something that is indicative of of of real story that was actually going on. In the selection of the vice president, which is that frankly the Biden family, including Joe Biden, wanted to pick Amy K that was not something that was a secret. It’s something that was widely reported Mh time. They preferred her. Okay?
And they were forced to pick Kamala Harris because of a lot
Speaker 0: So Amy K shah also has a track record of treating her staff terribly. So people on the left use much more egalitarian rhetoric and they p port to value egalitarian democratic decision making more than people on the ride, but still, even while using this egalitarian rhetoric, just like people on the right, They can be terribly abusive. Alright? There’s rhetoric, and then there’s reality. There are the things you say and the are things you do.
And many people can profess all sorts of ideals that they don’t come anywhere near to living up to, Here’s a true for Kamala harris true for Amy K.
Speaker 10: Out of the forces around him, that wanted to have somebody that would make the ticket more divert.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 10: And now, frankly, those are the same people who are pushing him off the ticket in favor of her. And I think that that’s something that… , really, , was troublesome of the Biden family at the time. And whether they wanna… And I don’t think it’s a D hire because I think I mean, come on.
She was, attorney in general. She was clearly qualified. Yeah. Not just somebody… Like to
Speaker 1: have that on the record, But let me turn to Laura because I wanna play a brief sound from Donald Trump. This was after that, Kamala Harris among other democrats did not provide or show up in Congress for Bb netanyahu speech, but she did meet with them the next day. Roll it.
Speaker 9: But she’s totally against the Jewish people and it amaze me. How Jewish people will vote for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Laura.
Speaker 2: But let me just first jump been on the D higher issue. what speaker, Mike Johnson is telling Republicans to tone it down on the race and the gender talk that it that it is wild times because those are public and staples. But with respect to Netanyahu, , she she…
Speaker 0: Right. You don’t get to decide the field on which Your every battle is fought often the enemy decides the field for you, and it’s simply a generally losing issue for Republicans to paint Kamala harris, as I’m Un qualified or as the D candidate.
Speaker 2: Chose to miss the speech. She chose to meet with him personally and to lead the messaging from the White House on these issues. It shows she’s gotten an embrace of the facts. She’s taken. That’s
Speaker 10: brace the fax.
Speaker 2: She’s really because she’s really connect… I’ll just finish ben. 1 just 1 just 1 statement. So that… She has she has a command of the fact she’s…
Because connected with voters on the Palestinian issue to get humanitarian aids. Yeah. With the voters who are not flag Sorry.
Speaker 10: Hold. Hold. That’s ridiculous. I gotta oh, god.
Speaker 2: I got ridiculous.
Speaker 0: Men is control.
Speaker 2: She show yourself man Because she was told
Speaker 10: She wanted to embrace the people who are burning the America.
Speaker 1: I have that I have to qualify that because she also put out a statement yeah. A garbage statement. Just listen. Dangerous hate fueled rhetoric and un protesters. For those who took spray paint, couple of blocks from here at Union Station, but I gotta get a break.
You guys calm down up next Jd d.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Ben Ben Dominic calm down. Her Iq deficit is obvious to everyone. I I see no evidence of an Iq deficit. I see absolutely no evidence that she has…
Lower Iq than Donald Trump. For example, this this is a formidable smart 10 woman with the pretty strong political skills, and there there are reasons that she has risen as far as she has. Interesting if you search on Google, assassination attempt on t r. Google doesn’t want to serve you up assassination attempt on Donald Trump. So Google has become more and more left wing over the past 6 years, 8 years, 9 years, since since 20, 20 16, 20 15, and it is part of an overall trend in the news media to try to avoid doing anything that might facilitate a Donald Trump victory.
Okay. I did a deep dive into Kamala Harris over the last few days. So Kamala Harris possessed what her colleagues described as rabbit is whenever there was any hint of criticism of her either in the West wing or in the news media, she seemed instantly aware of it. Right? This once scan a characteristic of someone is highly insecure.
Rather than brushing it aside, hint She demanded to know who was speaking ill of her what they were saying. When she read a devastating story on Cnn about a mismanagement of a team, She responded by freezing out an aid whom she suspected of cooperating with reporters from Franklin Warriors book on the Biden administration. She let the criticism guide her. Right? The more security she felt the less need she would have to let criticism guide her.
Set of diligently sticking to the central American assignment. She accepted the conventional wisdom about it that it was a futile gig, so she let it forward to the side, and she missed an opportunity grind her way to a meaningful achievement. At various functions such as for the infrastructure bill She was not there. She packed her bag, and she left for the day. Alright.
Political reported June t 20 21, so 6 months into the biden administration. Headline not a healthy environment. Kamala Harris offers rife with the scent the handling of the board visit with the latest chaotic moment for staff that’s quickly become my in them. Kamala Harris team is experiencing Loom Morale, Por, lines of communication and diminished trust rate. Low trust, low cohesion, right, reflects a person at the top who’s highly insecure.
Right? Tents and Dow office atmosphere, an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with hush dismissal and decisions are dragged out. So freezing, when it comes to making important decisions or just out of hand dismissing, suggestions without considering them, again, these are examples of the insecure personality, refusing to take responsibility, another example of an insecure personality and then blaming suffers for her own mistakes. It all starts at the top people are throwing under the bus from the very top. There are short fuses.
There is an abusive environment. It’s not a healthy environment people are mistreated. Not a place where people feel supported, and people feel like they’re treated like shit. And Kamala Harris office, it’s has been populated by people who work for the biden administration because Kamala Harris is unable to keep staff so she wasn’t able to bring people with her. And for people who know Kamala best, she has a familiar pattern, she turns through numerous iterations of staff on her eyes.
And she took offices as vice president of the United States with the team almost entirely new to her because people who know her do not want to work for her. Working for her is managed chaos, the boss’s, expectations are predictable. Her presidential campaign, it’s imp in a painful maze of finger pointing and leaks. When she was put on the presidential ticket, she was given a staff of trusted aides from Jay Biden team, it did the job, and this team avoided the spiral of internal back biting. Not the pressure, packed vice president’s office has been a different story.
Right. Few of her aids had any fairly married familiarity with her when they started their jobs. The team had learnt morale, quick to leave when people feed her anxieties. Right? That exacerbate so bad tendencies.
So her insecurity is not gonna demonstrate itself in all situations which she’s got a script. When she’s familiar with the challenge in front of her, she’s not gonna come across as particularly insecure. Then you have Washington post 12/04/2021. Kamala Harris staff exodus reign questions about her leadership style and her future ambitions, her staff were wilt in a dysfunctional office burning out just a few months after they joined. Right.
Why does Kamala Harris churn through top level democratic staff, many who go on to success elsewhere? But they hate working or her. Right? Throughout her 2 decades running things, She tends to degrade people, abuse people. She doesn’t like to accept blame if she can offload it.
Onto other people. She’s filled with ti rage for the people who work for her. The common denominator in all her groups is her. Right? She gets into the same destructive patterns.
Put the next talented of people you’re gonna bring in and then burn through and then blame them. Kamala Harris refuses to wait into briefing materials prepared by staff, and she be her employees when she appears unprepared. Not working with somebody who’s willing to do the preparation and the work. With carmel, have to put out the constant amount of soul, destroying criticism and her own lack of confidence, You’re constantly prop up a bully. Then looking at a Wall Street Journal book review of the 1 biography of Kamala Harris came out in 20 21 by Dan.
Longtime time journalists with Los Angeles Time, Sacramento b, wall street journal notes, Miss Harris has led a life that is impressively documented as it is impressive. She has led an impressive life. Washington post. Kamala Harris comes across as a J who Call exploits intimacy, even those with married public figures such as Willie Brown, A mama, who though she has no children, readily, mothers others, an angry black woman who wield a sharp tongue and a shopper wit and ambitious talented professional he knows that to get hedge, has to be twice as good. To get half of what they have.
A Marine parts, paint San Francisco Bay Democratic politics as a swamp world, bush sc with billionaires and sitting on the right ball were essential to climbing the rung of power. So Kamala Harris was Willie Browns mistress in 19 94, boards 19 95, splitting with him after he was elected mayor at San Francisco. She is consistently cautious. And another mark of the insecure personality who who freezes when she’s forced to take what might be an unpopular decision Often stands mute on the most important issues of the day. She’s pragmatic, ambitious.
Takes positions when she absolutely has to, but is also a debt not taking stan when to do so is not politically. Necessary. So Dan Mar describes her in his auto biography as tough on staff, abrasive and b Let’s get a little bit more here from out cuts.
Speaker 1: Yi, the senator posted this. The essential premise of the Biden campaign is that president Donald Trump is an authoritarian and fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to president
Speaker 0: And we have absolutely no evidence that that rhetoric led directly to this attempted assassination.
Speaker 1: Then Trump’s attempted assassination.
Speaker 9: If Joe Biden can’t run for president, he can’t serve as president, and if they want to take him down because he’s mentally incapable of serving, invoke the 20 fifth amendment.
Speaker 1: So, Ben, the media are trying, I think to depicts center advances and extremist does he sometimes go too far?
Speaker 10: , I I don’t know Jd that well. I’ve interviewed him a couple of times over the years. I think that he’s an interesting guy and intellectual and a little bit.
Speaker 0: So Elliot Platt says in the chat that I’m trolling. I’m not haven’t done any trolling today. Right, Everything I said has been without irony. Kamala Harris is an impressive person. She does have an impressive track record of accomplishment.
She is not under qualified. To be president, and she’s not low Iq. I stand behind all of those statements, and she has a solid chance of becoming the next president in the United States I’d, rank a chances about 4 out of 10.
Speaker 10: Sort of introverted nerdy, let’s say. And he certainly, I mean, Nate Silver of, , formerly a 05:38. Yeah. Had a description of him is he was on track to being an interesting He doc subs. Before he ended up in this position.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: What I think he’s interesting. I I do think that he says some things that are a little bit outside of what you would want a politician to say. Let’s put it that way. At the same time, I think that he’s someone who actually represents a significant port of the conservative base on an…
Speaker 0: So here is the most controversial thing that Jd Vance has said that is been… Seized dupont by his critics. Right he said, we are effectively run This country by a bunch of childless cat ladies who a miserable at their own lives in and the choices that they’ve made and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable too is it’s just a basic fact. Look at Kamala harris Pete butt Ao, meaning Alexandria, Oc Cor cortez entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without their own biological children. Now that is trolling.
And and I don’t see much evidence that… It’s it’s factual actually true to say that people who don’t have their own children are not invested in the future of the country. But George Washington founding, president of the the United States of America did not have children. Jesus did not have children, a lot of important rabbi have not had children a lot of important influential powerful people. Have not had children.
You’re also touching on a hot button issue that will make many people feel highly insecure. Right? Particularly, women And so that’s why there there has been so much rage. Right? I think travis had a good couple of tweets here.
If you’re happy and secure about a life decision you’ve made, you don’t care if people disagree with it. True. I suspect what’s really going on here is that there’s childless women aren’t happy with their choice, but they resent anyone suggesting that might be true. Childless man also may be insecure with their choice, but since men can have children at any age. It doesn’t sting in the same way.
Many men figure if they change their mind. They can have kids 1 day, women don’t have that option. Many women end up not having kids. Because they can’t find men they deem worthy of having kids with, that ate in the resentment and the anger that these women feel and their lack of women is pointed out because the global crop population is collapsing, most substantially in some of the world’s most impressive cultures such as Japan, Italy, China, having children, poor children is a vote for progress, we should be encouraging kids and discussing this population collapse more than we are. So good…
Good series of tweets there by Clay travis.
Speaker 10: Number of issues is a populist. He’s a little bit more of, like, Na national conservative type. That’s not outside of the realm of kind of the mainstream of the Trump Republican party.
Speaker 1: Laura, what’s really kinda caught fire is the res reserved thinking of a 02:20 21 interview in which vance, naming Kamala and others. Talked about childless cat ladies who don’t really have a direct stake in the country’s future, unhappy in their lives and now includes many media people in that too. What do you think about the controversy there?
Speaker 2: Well, I think Donald Trump has 2 strikes against him going? Forward in the campaign that are glaring. 1 is J Vance extreme positions thinking that there are no exceptions in terms of the help of the mother or Rape been for reproductive health, thinking that single painting all women who don’t have biological children as childless cat ladies. But the second thing is for and this is part of the problem that Jd Vance brings is that Donald Trump doesn’t know how to handle powerful women. He…
Whether you’re time… Talking about Nancy Pelosi or Kamala harris. They get under his skin. Kinda like I get under ben skin. So those are the 2 primary weak we need.
Speaker 10: I’m married to Megan Mccain. I think I’m okay with powerful women.
Speaker 2: Well, you might be okay with her, but but III think those are the 2 things that we see that are going to be Achilles heels for Donald Trump, and 1 of them, he picked himself in Band.
Speaker 1: Well, let me just throw in that he ended up picking a fight with Jennifer Aniston who did not like the Childless cat ladies remark. He now says that was. Vance now says that was Sarcasm. But he also says families with children should paid.
Speaker 0: Right. If you go ballistic over remark, like childless cat ladies. Right. That says something about you. Right?
That’s probably Overwhelmingly grind in security,
Speaker 1: plus in taxes…
Speaker 10: But but that’s actually, I mean, I just have to point out How. That’s actually Republican position that goes back Far. Before J vance, I mean, they’re in favor of massive child tax credits, they’re in favor of, , lowering the cost of having kids having a family, , buying a
Speaker 2: shaver voting for children and decreasing the voting
Speaker 1: right actually out of time,
Speaker 0: So if Elliott, if you’re right and the critics of carmel the chat are right, then Donald or Trump will have absolutely no problem. Crushing Kamala Harris. And I think Kamala Harris presents a formidable challenge to Donald Trump, and I believe that she’s far more talented and disciplined a politician, then you are presenting. Right? And James Barber wrote an influential book on presidential character, and I’m I’m trying to situate Kamala harris in his matrix.
Speaker 4: What we see develop from from James David Barber is a typo in which there were 4 different categories that he says we can slot the president’s into. The first is active positive, the second is active negative. The third is passive positive, and the fourth is passive negative. And
Speaker 0: So I would slot Kamala Harris in as an active negative. Right? Someone who is trying to fill a void inside of her through public life. But I I noticed a personality analysis of Kamala harris published in the fall of 20 20, That slots are in here is an active positive. So 3 psychologists slot her in as an active positive.
Speaker 7: Just wanna
Speaker 4: shut out a couple of characteristics of each 1 of these. So the person that is active positive is adaptive. Their results oriented people who know how to negotiate who like the political game and the challenge of trying to get a deal done. They’re they’re have enormous capacity for work. They’re ambitious, they want to achieve things.
They also believe that they, through their high self esteem, have the ability to be able to create, , a good public policy, through But on the other hand, they also are realistic about the political process and realize that they have to be flexible. Again, it’s trying to achieve results. And negotiating those results and playing that political game that they really like. And, basically, they wanna achieve things that are good for the public. Now the active negative person on the other hand is also someone who plays the political gain.
And seeks.
Speaker 0: Right. Here here are the characteristics of the active negative, which I think, best fit. Kamala harris wants power has high energy and capacity for work as an ambitious, but as poor self image, low self esteem, which is why she’s so insecure. Seeks to dominate others to compensate for her own low self esteem as clearly defined, enemies is rigid in pursuing policy even to the detriment of the public and regards surrender as a personal loss.
Speaker 4: To achieve victory, but they do it for different manners. So, Barbara would define these people as being compulsive. So the people who want power for power sake. They don’t really enjoy getting involved in political activity. But like the act of positives, they have an enormous amount of energy and capacity for work.
They’re also ambitious, generally, they don’t have AAA good self esteem according to, Barber. And they use kind of power and domination over others as a way to be able to increase their own personal self esteem. 1 of the other things here is the idea that they have clearly defined enemies. There’s an end group and an out group. And those people they’re on the out group are people that have to be dis trusted.
And what comes along with that is that if I lose to those out groups, In other words, if I don’t accomplish my goals because of the out groups, I’ve surrendered, and that’s a personal loss. In
Speaker 0: Alright, looking at then More biography of Kamala harris. He noted that in 09/20/2012. Kamala Harris was given the honor of a prime speaking slot at the Democratic National convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, speech that she was set to give was a home But it was never given. Right? She deferred the Democratic convention managers.
They provided her with a speech that was just filled with cliches, None of them over overrun, none of them inspired. People in the audience stop paying attention started talking amongst themselves. She… Stumbles through a speech that is given to her. So what was supposed to be her big moment in the spotlight went unnoticed.
It was terrible, And she was rebuked her own staffers as if they were responsible for her decision to accept a speech that was fo on her, and they weren’t. So kamala harris comes from a tight knit family made up of exceptional high achieve. Both parents were communists and I achieve. Right? When was an economist 1 was a scientist.
The father was an economist. She doesn’t talk much about her father. He separated from her life when she was early on. Kamala Harris is very close to her sister, Mai. So whenever she has to choose between Maya and her age, you always chooses her sister, During campaigns, Kamala and Maya talks several times a day, often be the first conversation the day in the last conversation the day for Kamala, have a identical sense of humor and they have an identical laugh.
So the most brilliant detail oriented tough and competitive. During her time, as United States Senator, she irritated many of fulfill Democrats and Career homeland security officials who felt insulted by her. She would put on this tone in public hearings, They suspected that her thirst for the spotlight was part of a long range plan to pull a Obama by staying just long enough in the Us senate. To get the credentials she needed to run for the Us. Presidency, and that’s absolutely accurate.
She was elected to the Us Senate in 20 18, but always already planning her run for the presidency in 20 20, just like Barack Obama, who was elected to the senate in 2006, and then ran for president a year later. So Kamala harris would shook her share of tedious work that made up the vast majority of homeland security committee business. And she had a b and antagonist style that jeopardize bipartisan efforts on critical security matters. And 1 former official says, she was not well liked by the majority people that had to interact with her. She was disrespectful.
No matter the issue. 4 current and former senior officials from the Department of Homeland were going to come out publicly in favor of Joe Biden in 20 20, and at least 4 of them decided not to after he name Kamala Harris as his running mate. Jury can’t do it. Some of them said, something about the way that she operates. She’s always about the politics and not about the mission.
1 issue that robbed many people the wrong way with this… That Kamala Harris would decline to meet with people that Donald Trump nominated for the highest positions in Homeland security said she would choose to grill them in public confirmation hearings with yes or no questions about complex topics that could not be answered in simple ways. So the Trump nominees inability or refusal to answer these questions made for good sound bites for Kamala Harris they did little to provide the public with answers to some of the most important policy issues of the day. The kamala harris is quite happy to put own personal ambitions ahead of good governance. And she did nothing to foster productive relationships between the department of Homeland security and Us Democratic senators.
Right? 1, ap political moderate in the Department of homeland Security, Elaine Du says not the only 1 she didn’t wanna meet with. Right? She did not meet with any of the Republican nominees. Right?
Her prosecutor style questions. In public hearings were more geared toward making headlines than collectively figuring out the best way forward, leaving Wondering, you’re trying to glean information for oversight or are you trying to ind. When you look at a public record when you look at the hearings in the campaign, Is there an underlying anger there and will that help or further divide the country in moving away from compassion and toward anger. So Kamala Harris has many personality characteristics in common with the Donald Trump. She’s 1 of the few democrats to played Donald Trump’s own game.
He was easy to identify a character. She did it in Trump’s style by grabbing the spot to get her message out to change the narrative, people acting like her get criticized for behaving like P donna and seeking the spotlight, She was blatant in her self promotion, but she was able to rise above the din She was very good at coming up with Pit Sound bites viral videos, and eye catching headlines, elevating her from a bit player. To a star, so the more Republicans made Kamala Harris, the public face of the democratic resistance, Right? The more Kamala Harris star rose. Reported a cease on the narrative of the Kamala harris was engaged in a David and Goliath battle with Donald Trump and his administration.
Speaker 1: Kimberly C finally resigned as director of the secret service 1 day after a heavily covered hearing in which Democrats… And Republicans both demanded that she be ousted.
Speaker 12: I don’t wanna add to the directors terrible, horrible. No good, very bad day. But I I will be joining the chairman in calling for the resignation of the director.
Speaker 6: Have you provided all audio and video recordings in your possession to this committee as we asked on July fifteenth yes
Speaker 13: or no. I would have to get back to you.
Speaker 6: That is a no. You’re full of today. You’re just being completely dishonest.
Speaker 1: Joining us now.
Speaker 0: So why would a person like Kamala Harris desperately want power. Is it to overcome her own shortcomings. Well, I I think it’s to try to overcome her own insecurity?
Speaker 1: Aye Aisha H, the Fox News congressional correspondent who covered the hearings. What was it that made that hearing so nasty, and why didn’t Kimberly cheat just resign before the hearing?
Speaker 5: You didn’t play the line where pat fallon said go back to protecting doritos. It was…
Speaker 1: She’d worked for a snack food company.
Speaker 5: Exactly. Pep… See. It it it was bad. It was brutal.
I mean, this hearing went on and on and on. First of all, she was dragged to capitol hill. She didn’t wanna come. She was subpoena. So when she did show up.
She knew she didn’t have anything to tell them because there is currently an investigation underway by the Fbi. They don’t have an aft after action or report at least for 60 days. So she… Didn’t wanna answer any question.
Speaker 1: It’s 60 days is I didn’t know didn’t seem like there’s didn’t seem like there’s was any urgent.
Speaker 5: Exactly. Yeah. Way too close to the election. I think the moment that he killed it for her was when Progressive. Right?
A Democrat, Ro, after what happened after… To the secret service director after, Reagan got shot. In 19 81. She didn’t know the answer to that. How do you not know your own secret service trivia.
She said, oh, he stayed on, and Ro said, no. He stepped out down. I mean, that’s what you have to do at the end of the. And this is after this brutal hearing comes after she was chased around at the Rn and c by a bunch of senators and couldn’t answer their questions. This was a bad, bad week for her.
Speaker 1: Well, were some of the latest revelations to come out and about… He the secret servers failures here because there was a lot of…
Speaker 5: A, lot of shocking moments. And they actually came the next day when we had a state police, commissioner from Pennsylvania come in, who said, I think the 1 of the big 1 of the biggest takeaways, of course, is we still don’t have a motive. But the other big shocking 1 was why was the former president allowed to take the stage when they knew there was a threatening person not a suspicious. They knew there was a threatening person within that, 10 minute window before they allowed President Trump to take the stage. Why they delay it?
The other 1 is, there were 2 security officers local, officers that were attached to that, Ag g building, I believe. And they were inside, they had a direct line of view to where the shooter would have Eventually climbed up someone told those guys to leave their post and go look for the guy. And no 1 will talk about who that… Who was in charge? We still don’t know who the Fbi agent in
Speaker 1: charge. Or
Speaker 5: speaker service.
Speaker 1: Secret service just lost track of him that he was a hundred and 35 yards. Way out there was a drone flying overhead did he had said
Speaker 5: Hours before the president of the state a drone flying. Around. Yeah. We not a…
Speaker 0: I that.
Speaker 1: Seems like a flashing red neon light. And isn’t there a key point that a secret service light about… Denying that the Trump campaign over 2 years had asked for more resources more screener, more snipers.
Speaker 5: That’s gonna come out there. I I keep hearing from people that are… Affiliated with the secret service or talk to these secret service agents that there were many, many times. And the president has said too that they ask for more resources and more assets. They’re doing these big rallies have been to a bunch of these Yeah.
Outdoors they’re huge why don’t you give us more resources instead of, , handing off these responsibilities to local law enforcement, whether it’s state police or a local?
Speaker 1: Yeah And and then it’s like, oh, it’s in writing. I guess we missed that. But talk now about the other hearing you covered, Fbi director, Chris Ray, and the thing… The key thing that he raised the question about.
Speaker 5: Well, he’s smart. He knew that he didn’t… He have a lot of, great answers, but he brought a few nuggets, and the nugget that he drops and he does it really smartly because somebody trained him in media. He goes, well, something you guys have never heard before. And he leans in.
And he says, the shooter was searching, Google searching this question, , how far was Oz Walled from Kennedy before the assassination. And that obviously perk up everybody’s ears, but it really doesn’t give us any context of what went Wrong.
Speaker 1: What I didn’t understand is why he would raise and say didn’t really know that maybe it wasn’t a bullet. Maybe it was shattered glass and Trump really Rip chris ray. And then Fbi then backed off, and it said, yes, it was a bullet or a bullet fragments miraculous study wasn’t killed.
Speaker 5: This has been the worst week for the justice. Department since that shooting, that was the worst thing he could have said and raised doubt on what hit the former. It doesn’t matter what hit the former president. The former president, got hit. And bled and was injured.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And at the end of the day, that should have never happened end of story. And that’s the last thing you should be bringing up right now when Americans wanna know before an election and while there’s a campaign season going on, is this going to happen again. Yeah. I mean, this this can’t happen.
Speaker 1: And, , president Biden, thanked C for her service, and and she brushed her life. As a field agent. That’s alright. Made no expression of dis approval. As if it was just well, thank you very much.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Risking her life as a field agent. How many Us secret service agents have been. Killed in the line of duty or even say, injured in the line of duty in the past 30 years. Alright?
You risk your life Every time you cross a busy street. You risk your life. Far more than your average secret service agent when you simply drive 10 miles to work in the morning. Alright. Been doing a lot of reading on Kamala harris.
So during her 20 20 campaign, various competing factions developed, right her campaign, manager was essentially at war with Kamala Harris sister. Kamala Harris with duck reporters. She shot up late for events. He was continually chef shifting her stance on issues like single payer health and legal marijuana and d criminal prostitution. Then looking at the 20 23 book, the bitter end, the 20 20 presidential campaign, Kamala harris experienced 2 moments of discovery 1 when she announced a candidacy and held a kick Rally in Oakland and 02/06/2720 19 debate with Joe Biden when she attacked him for having opposed a escort bus program in Delaware But in each case, the discovery was followed by scrutiny.
There was scrutiny of trivial things such as whether Kamala harris had listened to the rapper 2 puck. And Snoop dogg in college, right? As she claimed when her… Those albums did not debut until after she graduated. There’s also scrutiny a substantive things such as her records.
So the more Kamala Harris has been exposed to scrutiny, the worst it has been for her. New York Times is published 11/29/2019, how Kamala Harris campaign unravel. Some Kamala Harris aid sitting at the table could barely suppress their fury about what they saw as the undoing of a once promising campaign. Their feelings were reflected by a blistering resignation letter by 1 aid. This is my third presidential campaign.
I’ve never seen an organization treated to stuff so poorly. But 98 days, less than 90 days until Iowa, we still don’t have a plan to win. Campaign So her 20 20 campaign was defined by his turbulence. There was only 1 candidate who rocket to the top tier and then plummeted in early polls to the low single digits that was miss Kamala Harris, per decline was more predictable than surprising. 1 instance after another, Miss Harris and her team made flawed decisions about which states to focus on, which issues to emphasize which opponents do target.
And refuse consistently to make difficult personnel choices to impose order on an un campaign Many of her advisors point finger directly at Kamala harris or only retreating, not consistently going on the offensive against rivals and not firmly choosing aside within the party’s ideological feud between Liberals and moderates. For her staff, he was not clear he was really running the campaign, was it her sister or her campaign manager? His staff was driven between competing factions eager to be little 1 another. Her abundant political skills strong on the stump, a warm manner with voters and frosty with the opposition, convinced many democrats of Kamala Harris potential. Today, your aids are given to Gallo humor about just how many slogan and 1 liners as she has cycled through, with 1 recalling house peak, truth spring gave away to 3AM summer before the current Trump focused justice winter.
Kamala Harris divided her campaign between 2 k she based her operations in Baltimore but retained key advisors in the San Francisco Bay area. She divided leadership between decidedly different loyal her sister, the chair and mister Rodriguez a trusted lieutenant. She would seek input from her advisers, but a personal political convictions are unclear. She’d be knocked off killed by criticism from progressive. And she had spent months torn between embracing her prosecutor record and acknowledging thoughts.
So James Barber, wrote an influential book, the presidential character, predicting performance in the White House. So some kind psychologist say that he’d classify Kamala Harris as an active positive. I think is more of an active negative. So active negatives experience a common pattern of resulting from the relationship of situation they face to their innermost feelings. Right?
These president who are fundamentally insecure, persevere and disastrous policies when opponents threaten their self esteem, their power and their rec, boys in pursuit of inner phantom active negative president’s responder to threats that simply not appropriate for the objective political situation. There we have a contradiction between the relatively intense effort and the relatively low emotional reward for that effort. The activity of the active negative has a compulsive quality as if the person is trying to make up for something to escape from anxiety to hard work. They may seem ambitious striving and seeking power. They might seem to be aggressive, but their self image will be vague.
And discontinuous life will be a hard struggle to achieve and hold power, hampered by the condemnation of a perfection conscience and active negatives, pour energy into the political system, but it is a distorted energy. So examples of active energy, active negative, politicians in Us presidential history include Woodrow Wilson. Herbert Hoover and Lyndon Johnson. Right? This process of justification, a movement from political dexterity to a narrow insistence and a failing course of action despite abundant evidence of the failure.
Each of these 3 helped arrange his own defeat and left the nation worse off than it might have been. So these are examples of active negatives who tend to be strangely lacking in self confidence. Prone to depression and discourage, with self punishing working habits and inability to laugh at oneself a continual defensive denial and extreme standards that 1 sets for one’s own performance that Never met with satisfaction, person gripped by an extraordinary need to bolster his self esteem. Right? That to me, it’s is an excellent description of Kamala Harris on
Speaker 4: the map syncs to get and keep power. And Richard Nixon Is the kind of poster child for the active negative president, he was a person that was well known for being a very hard worker, got involved in the game of politics, but didn’t particularly like it. Understood the power wanted to wield that power and effort to be able to beat down his enemies, and he looked at everything through the binary us versus them. And if you listen to the knicks and tapes and various other things, it was always about winning versus losing and stopping other people from winning. And that, of course, from Barber perspective was what got , Nixon caught up in Water gate, and it eventually led to his demise as president and being the only president to resign.
Then down at the bottom, we see the pro passive negative person, which was president George Washington. And George Washington essentially did not wanna become the first president. He didn’t like the game of politics. We wanted to retire Mount Vernon, but was really drafted as being the 1 person that could unify the country. He did this out of an obligation, a sense of kind of no nespresso b, the idea that it was his civic responsibility to be president, And as president, his style was very much different probably than many presidents after that, particularly in the modern presidency.
He felt himself to be above politics. He did not wanna get down and dirty. He not…
Speaker 0: Okay. There were 3 psychologists who did an in endeavor personality profile of Kamala harris. This is 1 of…
Speaker 14: Pattern and scale 3 outgoing pattern. This graph is helpful in understanding. How harris personality patterns manifest themselves in her current behavior and potential leadership Okay.
Speaker 0: Let’s get Elliot pla. Under the show. Elliot. What’s going on man?
Speaker 12: Oh, blessings can you hear me. I’m driving.
Speaker 0: Yes, sir.
Speaker 12: Okay. Alright. So I honestly did think you were trolling when you’re talking about Pamela being a viable, qualified presidential candidate. And he seems to have now stated declarative that you’re not trolling, and you in fact believe that she is. At least credible.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: Okay. So I don’t wanna necessarily dissect that too much, but , again, I I go to intuition. Right? You you you don’t need, you hear that voice. You hear that tackle.
And it’s sort of like the gates of hell open up, and that’s what’s behind that tackle is no good. ? I mean, is that too simplistic of a approach too simplistic simplistic of a heuristic?
Speaker 0: Yeah. Well, I I think it’s not… I think you’re simply coming out of your particular hero system. You recognize… The Kamala Harris is bad for all the Yuri regard as as good and heroic.
Speaker 12: I mean, It’s more than that, loop because… Get all these psychological characteristics you’re describing. I’ll point to somebody who just can’t handle pressure and lashes out irrational and potentially violently and destructive when the going gets rough. And to give an example, let’s take Trump I don’t know 4 or so years ago, where there was an attack. Yeah.
I think it was since… Syria, and then Trump ordered a sort of a kind of a token re strike. Yeah. That And it was just like, , it it hit an airport runway or something. And there’s no civilian casualties.
It was sort of… As mild as a response as you could have had, and it was probably just and measured. Right? If we had called a that situation, I I honestly think she could’ve have just reacted and went way over the top and just acted, , he and reckless, only to prove that she can be tough because she’s a woman, and she’s girl and, , all of her critics are wrong. And I I think there’s just real consequences and danger that under underlies this D fetish that everyone seems to have.
What did
Speaker 0: he? I agree with your analysis that and so do the 3 psychologist who I’m pretty sure on the left. Who did this comprehensive in death psychological portrayal of Kamala harris. And 1 of the things that that they come up with is that she’ll be well above average likely to intervene mil momentarily in a strong strong way overseas. So I I agree with that analysis.
Speaker 12: Okay. Fair enough. I’m glad we’re least on the same page. I I want to… , I read Ta, like the entire tome of Ta.
who that is?
Speaker 0: Yes. Roman Roman thinker. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Oh, historian. Well, yeah. And think I suppose. But, you And he noted, occasionally, the of Rome would fall to a woman through inheritance or something.
And he noted that women, , tended to be a lot more vicious and a lethal and punishing of her enemies or her perceived enemies than did male Empress. And I I… , I’ve seen this dynamic in the real world and my workplace. And it’s scarce?
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So anyway, , I don’t need… We don’t need to be labor to the point. I think we’re all, , III just… I I just honestly think people are trolling when they’re… These people in the media are saying that she’s viable and there are no dangers.
And all objection to her is racism. It’s just such a silly discourse.
Speaker 0: Well, you’re saying a lot of things there. So saying that all objections to her racism is obviously absurd. But saying that she’s a a viable president is just actually accurate. She’s the likely democratic nominee, and given the nature of the electorate, she does stand probably a 40 percent chance of being elected president.
Speaker 12: Okay? Fair enough. It’s a, , sad commentary and state of electorate. But you you look at a resume on paper, and you say, yeah, Maybe. Right?
Yeah. She’s got that quote unquote qualifications. But then, you looked at the actual results. Right Right? She was, , San Francisco Da.
Crime is rampant in San Francisco. Right? Property crime is rampant. It’s just it’s a declining collapsing city right now. Now granted she’s not Da now, but the process started with her.
And then she’s what ditch…
Speaker 0: Attorney General.
Speaker 12: General , California, How do you assess? I mean, where are are the results? Where are they the successes? Right? Giuliani could point to actual successes.
Right? Real world results. And those are somehow just not even mention, , the idea that you need to be competent in your job and execute appropriately. It’s just not even a discussion anymore.
Speaker 0: Well, how how long have you lived in San Francisco?
Speaker 12: This stretch. I’m in my fifteenth gear.
Speaker 0: Okay. So were you there when she was the San Francisco district? Attorney? No.
Speaker 12: When did she leave?
Speaker 0: I think 2008. So anyway, we… The person she dot ran to the right of the sitting San Francisco district attorney, who was a communist. She was far more pro law enforcement. And she was to the right of the person that she sup implanted at San Francisco district attorney.
Speaker 12: Okay. Fair enough. Alright.
Speaker 0: I I don’t know how great a job she did, but I know that that’s how she ran politically. She… Sup planted a communist district attorney who wasn’t enforcing the law.
Speaker 12: Alright. Hold on a second. I’m going into caution know. I I get somebody. Tangerine juice.
1 second. Okay. Alright. Alright. I’m inside.
I had to flash my car, , that drill.
Speaker 0: Yep.
Speaker 12: Okay. Sign anyway. I don’t wanna… Too much time. All, it’s just…
But I do think come September when people start taking things seriously again because right now we’re in the summer season, and people are just kind of half paying attention. It’s only after Labor day, do people get serious. It start asking real questions. And when that happens, I just don’t think she’s gonna survive the scrutiny that it’s gonna become raining down on it.
Speaker 0: But you probably thought. The same thing. You probably thought the same thing about Barack obama. He had about the most liberal voting record for a Us senator. He had very little political experience.
He was. Un qualified to be president of the United States, and and yet, he, either won by a landslide.
Speaker 12: Yeah. He did have a certain… , he was… He had a certain charm, and a certain… Grace and he had certain, , just personal attributes that not only…
I could see why people got excited about them because , not only was he black, but he was he sort of embodied a lot of, , chapter 6 that we would associate with whites. And so he was the whites black president though. The white black president candidate, presidential candidate that we could hope for. So I think there were just other dynamics there. Her whole ethnic situation is just just Sugar no bro.
It’s just it’s a chaotic, ridiculous story. What do think?
Speaker 0: Well, she she doesn’t really lean into the black thing except for when it’s strategic. So she does not have a compulsive need to talk black black black issues. Right? She she only brings it out when it’s strategic. She’s…
Perfectly at ease with not bringing it up. And in fact, she doesn’t she doesn’t like it when she gets questioned have you experienced racism. So she she is not someone who puts her black identity first and foremost unless it’s strategic.
Speaker 12: Yeah. And I think her her credentials in that department are, pretty thin though. , there’s… I I think she’s just very uncomfortable with the conversation because it’s very. I mean, the the facts on the ground are just not doesn’t really support the narrative.
So anyway,
Speaker 0: I wonder how much attention will be given to both her parents essentially being Marxist communists. I’m surprised that doesn’t attracts a little more scrutiny.
Speaker 12: Yeah. And when, , when I was doing up out of this just non started. There would be no. She would have no chance when I was going. Alright.
That would have been utterly disqualified. But today, it’s a weird bio detail.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: Times of change. Situations us.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: How philosophical Becoming just more Know. 4 years ago, I was just kinda really over override about all this crap. But now to me, it’s just stuff. This such a show. Just a someone with a Tv show, which is bit at.
Hey. I gotta put you to a channel. This You’ve heard of doctor Todd Grande.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You have.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve watched a lot of his head.
Speaker 12: It has to be the funny… Funniest dead pant humor I’ve ever seen. Yes. It’s like. Some of the best comedy I’ve ever seen.
And it’s who dead. So Yeah. She he did an excellent, Kamala Harris video that I think you and your audience members. Benefit it from.
Speaker 0: Oh, okay. Cool. I’ll check that out.
Speaker 12: So anyway, just… Yeah. Yeah. You do check that. Anyway, So I have a story about this morning.
Okay. So today is the day of the San Francisco City marathon.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: Right? Happens every year. And what they done, they just closed the road to all east west traffic unbeknownst to me. Right? So I literally could not get, , past 20 fifth street.
Yeah. And I just sat in my car for 20 solid minutes as the runners were just, , clip clapping across the street. And I just felt like a real serious injustice had I’ve been done there. Like, do you think this is fine? Because do all cities do this?
This seem to be disregard for people’s normal course of life.
Speaker 0: No. All cities do this. I mean, it it’s not for days on end. It’s for 8 8 hours or or 10 hours. So…
On on Sunday morning.
Speaker 12: But it it’s not like there were there were no options to circumvent it. That’s the difference. Here. I just had to sit in traffic and wait.
Speaker 0: No. Normal people stay stay informed about what’s going on around them.
Speaker 12: So it’s my fault from.
Speaker 0: It is
Speaker 12: unbelievable.
Speaker 0: You feel like the victim there.
Speaker 12: Anything now. I have to go and exhaust. Every time I think about leaving the house, I have to check the internet first for road closures. No.
Speaker 0: This this happens once a year. So Yeah it’s it’s a good good idea to to check a local new site once a
Speaker 12: week. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. It’s me again.
It’s always me Luke. Always me. I’m always at fault. Alright. I wasn’t getting a sympathetic response.
I was hoping for. Alright. Listen, I’m checking out Think I have to drop.
Speaker 0: Okay, Bro. Good to talk to it. Okay. Take care. Bye bye.
Alright.
Speaker 15: Today’s question is… Can I analyze Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Kamala Harris? Also, can I talk about the viability of Kamala? As a presidential candidate. Just a reminder, I’m not diagnosing anybody in this video, only speculating about what could be happening commit and limitations.
His performance in the debate was ab dismal He was not animated. His voice was weak and ras. He lost his train of thought when on tangent, man through responses and was coherent a few times. Many people view Donald Trump as the clear winner, which was concerning to democratic party leaders. Despite many people asking Joe Biden to trump out of the race, he refused and insisted he was fine.
During an interview with the media just over a week after the debate, joe claimed that his performance was just an episode and not a sign of a more serious condition. It was exhausted, had a cold and did not listen to his instincts. Joe refused to take any type of cognitive test and was defiant. It was absolutely certain that members of his party would not approach him.
Speaker 0: Right. That’s something that Kamala Harris has common with Joe Biden and they’re both reluctant to take responsibility for their choices.
Speaker 15: Without giving up. He said it’s not going to happen. Over the next few weeks, joe Biden repeatedly stated that he was never going to quit. 1 thing was for certain. Joe Biden was never going to drop out of the race.
On July 21.24, Joe Biden dropped out of the race. In a letter, he wrote, quote, it has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your present, and while it has been my intention to seek election. I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term, unquote. Later, Joe Biden endorse Vice president Kamala Harris. Which drew immediate reactions from both democrats and Republicans.
Now both parties are trying to scramble and come up with a strategy, even though many people thought this would happen, It didn’t take long for any democratic party leaders to endorse Kamala Harris, perhaps Joe Biden made a deal with leaders of his party, something like… He would drop out, but no 1 was to interfere with Kamala receiving the nomination. Dropping out the race was embarrassing for Joe Biden, endorsing the vice president to take over, was a way to protect his legacy. Joe Biden feels as though he not losing everything by dropping out. If kamala moves forward Furthermore, there is the campaign fund situation to consider, Joe Biden can share a campaign money with Kamala Harris, the money situation would be a lot messi if someone else was nominated.
As the presidential election approaches, democratic party leaders and voters are taking a closer look at Kamala Harris. There are many questions that need to be answered, would you make a good president? Can she beat Donald Trump? Will she be able to distance herself from some of Joe Biden unpopular policies? Are the democrats any better off with comma, or should they nominate someone else?
And why does Kamala struggle so much with verbal communication. Now I’m moving to my analysis. Here are my thoughts in a few areas that stood out me in this case. Item number 1. A major concern with Kamala Harris, at least for those who value clear communication is her tendency to use word silent.
Over the years, she has made many statements that are nonsensical, dis disappointed and. Her opponents have latched all to these statements as evidence the kamala is disrespectful, disorganized and lazy, or supporters have argued that Kamala critics are simply functioning as the grammar place. Let’s take a look at 12 examples of word salad statements made by Kamala Harris. When talking about Covid, Pamela said, it is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. In talk about banking.
She stated We invested an additional 12000000000 dollars into community banks because we know community banks are in the community and understand the needs and desires of that community as well as the talent and capacity. Of community. On another occasion, Kamala mentioned the word community when she said, when we talk about the children of the community, they are children of the community. When referring to a supreme court decision, Kamala said, I think of this moment as a moment that is about great momentum. Offering words of wisdom about high speed Internet, she stated the governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time.
Right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time.
When we think about a day in the life of our children. During a talk in France, Kamala said, we must together, work together to see where we are, where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be, but also see it as a moment too, yes. Together. Address the challenges and to work on the opportunities that are presented by this moment. 1 time when I’m speaking at a college, Kamala had this to say, think it’s very important as you have heard from somebody many incredible leaders for us at every moment in time and certainly this 1 to see a moment in time in which we exist.
And are present and to be able to contextualize it to understand where we exist in a history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future. Talking about her love of the venn diagrams. Kamala declared. I just love venn diagrams. I really do.
I love venn diagrams. There’s just something about those 3 circles and the analysis of that where there’s the intersection. Right? When talking about climate change, stated, Our world is more interconnected and interdependent. That is especially true when it comes to the climate crisis, which is why we will work together.
And continue to work together to address the issues to tackle these challenges and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules and agreements that we will convene to work together on to galvanized global action. With that, I thank you all. This is a matter of urgent priority for all of us, and I know we will work on this together. There had to be at least 1 person in that crowd. Who turned to the person next to them and said, so are we working together on this or not together.
I didn’t pick that up. When expressing her feelings about a court ruling, she did not like. Kamala said, I think that to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believe, but we certainly believe. That certain issues are just settled, certain issues are just settled. When lightning a group of people about the importance of transportation, Kamala said, you need to get to go and need to be able to get you need to go to do the work and get home.
Now moving to the twelfth and final quote, showing off her foreign policy knowledge Con stated, where Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that’s wrong.
Item number 2, a few patterns are evident in the speaking style of Kamala Harris. She appears to have a fascination with the words time, moment, community, work, and together. She rarely answers the original question or makes any type of point. Kamala is frequently repetitive, but delivers her speeches as if she is saying something profound Maybe she believes that by being the vice president. Anything that she says is automatically amazing.
People should be dazzled by her statements. Like there is no actual work necessary. Other politicians throughout history who have delivered memorable quotes, must have done so simply because they were politicians. Kamala doesn’t understand how thought leads to coherent statements. Thinking is actually important, and 1 could argue necessary.
Even though many of her statements are nonsensical, simplistic and confusing, Kamala has never apologized. She appears to have a lack of insight. If Kamala is elected present, she will be in a position of speaking for the nation. Even people who do not value precision communication. May be frightened by this prospect.
This brings me to item number 3. As I mentioned, supporters of Kamala Harris believe that her opponents are overly critical regarding her speaking style. Who is correct in this debate. Do people have the right to criticize someone who wants to be the president for speaking coherent. In my opinion, Yes.
The problem with Kamala speaking style is significant. It’s not like her critics are pointing out something common like dis or occasionally losing a train of thought. Kamala is speaking in circles, and then expecting people to understand what she is saying. This is worrisome. I’m considering how a present must be able to communicate clearly.
Now this doesn’t necessarily mean that she has a terrible person or worse than Donald Trump, rather just that it is legitimate to criticize a person speaking style. When they are running for a job it is heavily dependent on communication. If Donald Trump had the same weakness, he would be criticized for it as well. Item number 4. In addition to the word salad, does Kamala Harris have any other weaknesses as far as running against Donald Trump.
I think the comma will struggle in a few areas. She has a reputation for being short with reporters. She has a high level of turnover with her staff, and she has been known to laugh at inappropriate times. Her laugh is hard to miss. Having been described as a disturbing tackle.
Kamala defense of Joe Biden may come back to Haunt, everyone knew the president had cognitive limitations, yet kamala defended him and acted as if nothing was wrong, she was unwilling to stand up for what was right. This makes her seem weak. Ineffective, biased, and without conviction. Donald Trump has no shortage of flaws, but lacking conviction is not 1 of them. As a matter of fact, he has dozens of…
Speaker 0: So Kamala Harris has a reality distortion for your same as Steve Jobs, but Steve Jobs was able to use his reality distortion for to get people to transcend their own limitations is Kamala Harris reality distortion field simply inspiring people to transcend their limitations
Speaker 15: of. 1 major problem for Kamala is that she will struggle to distance herself from Joe Biden. And national polls conducted after the June 27 debate. Donald Trump performed just as well against Kamala harris. As he did against Joe Biden.
Show the Democrats choose someone other than Kamala Harris to run for president? Yes. But I don’t think they will. For better or worse, Joe Biden has anointed the chosen 1, and the party is stuck with his decision. Now I’m moving to my final thoughts.
The theme Kamala Harris, is that she is a presumptive nominee, who doesn’t really have anything to say. This is why she talks in circles or may at least contribute to that behavior. She does not possess a compelling story. People may get excited because voting for Kamala Harris will prevent Donald Trump from being elected. Kamala herself is not exciting.
She is not inspiring. She is going to need to find and develop her own narrative. Despite her problems, I think Kamala harris has a decent chance of becoming the next president, even for those who don’t like her or who prefer Donald Trump. This isn’t necessarily bad news throughout history in 1 way or the other. Every president has been good for some groups.
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Speaker 0: Okay. Looking at, Mark Hal latest tweet why Kamala harris performing better than expectations so far. Number 1, she was always underrated 2, The White House and campaign have given her applicable experience. 3, she now has a formidable team that she trusts for She’s operating in controlled settings and 5, the dominant media is all in for her. Right.
Here’s an analysis from the fall of 20 20 personality profile conducted of Kamala Harris by 3 psychologists.
Speaker 14: The line with closed circles represents the affirmative scale totals in the line with diamonds represents the e affirmative scale totals. Based on this graph, you can see that there is e evidence, Harris primary and secondary personality patterns exist within the prominent level. Harris primary dominant personality pattern is reflected in her tendency to be forceful and aggressive. She seems to enjoy the power to direct others in a evo respect. This trait has aided her leadership potential.
She is a direct and aggressive figure head, who was able to remain confident and successful in pursuing her goals. As She can appear un fundamental due to her tough nature. Paris behavior is also influenced by a secondary ambitious pattern. This pattern is reflected in her tendency to be bold competitive, and optimistic in the face of adversity. Her secondary ambitious pattern has allowed her to easily assume leadership roles throughout her career.
And has helped her to be an effective leader as she is able to persuade and charm others. She is self assured and expects others to recognize her special qualities, which can be viewed by others as narcissistic. Her secondary ambitious pattern in conjunction with her secondary outgoing pattern have the potential to lead Harris to impulsive behavior and decision making. This Harris is second day.
Speaker 0: Okay. Let’s bring Kip into the show. Kip. What’s what’s going on, man.
Speaker 16: Hey, Buddy. Just wanna say, hi to you for a minute. Appreciate you taking taking a deep dive on the Kamala forest. , you hadn’t been own for a day or 2, and I… I watch 1 of your back shows yesterday, and you…
It was something on Anthony K. And I appreciate you doing that deep, dive, to me, it seemed like right out of nowhere for your character, but I’m sure you… You must felt some kind of connection with yourself being a blogger and maybe him being a blogger as well.
Speaker 0: Yeah. III recognize that Anthony Ka you’ve got among other characteristics you’ve got someone who puts an emphasis on saying the truth. In an un unfinished way that he is willing to step outside of what’s polite discourse to just give what he sees as the truth.
Speaker 16: Yes. Yes. And I’m the same same as you. So the un var truth sometimes, might hurts some feelings. But it’s better on the other side of that once we get past that.
And I’m sure you agree. He also, he was 1 part of that Op Anthony show And I don’t know if you ever paid attention to his, Anthony’s cohort, Op Greg Op Hughes. That’s gotta be 1 of the most unlocked humans in America. Have you paid attention to that after that show had split up?
Speaker 0: Only when when I I’d catch… Excerpts of Anthony Ka is who the way he he describes op… Yeah. Fits right in with with your analysis. I haven’t paid much attention The only thing I really know about it is what Anthony Ka has said.
Speaker 16: Right. Well, I don’t know. That shop jo stuff, really, I didn’t really care for Jimmy Norton, but that was kinda like the the third wheel and their little deal, and Jimmy was the 1 that gave them the access to all the comedian. And, Joe Rogan was on there, Gilbert Bur, Louis Ck k, I mean, you can just go right down the list of a Who’s who’s of of comedian. And they had guys on there that I really like, like Colin Quinn and Pat patricia O’neal.
Speaker 0: Yes. I love both those guys.
Speaker 16: That’s O’neal was probably the best to ever do it. Yeah. He could just sit around. Now, his his his comedy work on stage was great, but it was… A lot of it was a, a crowd, ad live, but He was just somebody…
If you named somebody that you just ever wanna hang with, that was it. Because he also spoke the un var truth. He saw things as… , he had noticed the the political correctness, creeping up on, and he… It was a problem with Pat o’neal in 2007 8 09:10 and 11, someone asked him 1 time.
What was his, I guess, 5 greatest hits, , and 1 of the things he he mentioned is when he took out that lady, Sonia Os rosario from the now organization. He he went on some Fox show and took her down a a peg, and he he actually talked about that as 1 of the 5 best things he ever did. So, Yeah. Pat patricia O’neal was the greatest to ever do it. And to give you an idea where I come from Norm Mcdonald, who we lost a few years back.
But was Pat patricia and Norm. We’re my 1 a and 1b b of of greatest comedian. And , I like the Rodney Danger. I know you all remember who that is.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 16: And, of course, I like the, Dave Chappell. Don’t like Chapel japan’s politics. But I thought Dave Chapel did sketch… That were 10 times better than than, Saturday night live I’ve ever did. And I also thought that the way in brothers were 3 times, 4 times, 5 times better, then, Snl.
You agree with both those?
Speaker 0: I don’t know the the way in brothers, but I love Noah Mcdonald Pat patricia. And color branding.
Speaker 16: In living color was the Way brothers production that they had with Jim Carrey when Jim carrey, they were all young back then. But it was my god. The the way must have had a house, but at least 5 6 of them was good actors. And I don’t know if you ever noticed those movies that Damon Williams was in. I don’t know if that was probably 30 years ago.
He’s great. He he was a great actor. Not good. He was great. And and no matter what kind of film you put him in.
I’m sure he probably had a bomb somewhere along the way, But those skit that they did. I guess that’s probably part of the magic was the fact that they had so many good actors on it. But because Jim Carrey, I think he did some character that I vaguely remember called Fire mae fire marshal bill or something like that. But it was it was great. But, yep.
Pat 3 o’neil. I just… I don’t know who your favorite comedian are, but that’s the cream of the crop. For me. You got any…
You got any favor comedian? Did any of them ever make a good impression on you?
Speaker 0: 0II… I’m trying to think for Yeah. I’ve I’ve got some… What when he he died in a car accident about 25 years ago. He was a fat guy.
Oh, I’m blank linking.
Speaker 16: John candy? No.
Speaker 0: No. No No. Another 1. 0, damn. It’ll it’ll it’ll come to me.
God. There there was there was a a shock comedian big in the eighties early nineties suit. Sam Kin.
Speaker 16: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. He was he was an original. Yes. You’re not.
Ken was He was probably also 1 of my 5 favorite ever, but his body at work. , it wasn’t very long. He also was the the guy with glasses. The new age guy. He was the 1 that found that guy who died at at a very young age.
I can’t remember his name, but he’s a comedian that made made a big impression. But Yeah. Pat patricia O’neil, 1 of the funny things I ever heard him say. Like I said, it’s just conversational, but he’s sitting around talking with C. And he said, I sit around every day, and I appreciate my ceiling fan, man, because I know 1 day somebody’s gonna try to take it, man.
And he was trying to make a point about you better have a good woman, and you better have a relationship that’s with your employer or whoever that’s like, half as strong as you think it is, because otherwise, you can have all your shit taken. , and he was… He… He always believed that. So so in that aspect, he was a little bit, but I’m sure he it he had good grounds for thinking that way.
Because when I consider Pat patricia, I think of the as a philosopher and the comedian, and he did both very well. But we lost him in 20 11. And, , a lot of people. I… I, myself 1 thinking this stuff came on real thick in 20 12.
But Pat patricia died in 20 11, and he was… He was… He had already about it for years. So, what was known as political correctness was already. Something that was thick and oppressive to a lot of people.
But I was I was gonna make also an observation or maybe ask you a question. Me okay, , his famous thing was being judged by the content of your character instead of the color of your skin. And then, of course, Kennedy was the 1 that asked that’s not what your country can do for you, but that’s what you can do for your country. So I guess I’m asking you with those guys being Mag today, or would they just be those greasy type of things that would just slam on over to that side, ? And that way of thinking.
Speaker 0: No. I don’t think either of them would be Mag. I think Monthly luther the King was definitely a man of the the left. He was highly opportunistic. He…
Yeah. There’s there’s no way he he’d be Mag, Mount luther King and John Kennedy was skilled. And they meet people feel good like Barack Obama. If you just listen to Barack Obama without thinking critically about what he’s saying, he makes you feel good. So Mount Luther King, John f Kennedy, and Bar barack Obama, they all have the capacity to make the average person feel good when they speak.
But I don’t think any of them would be on the right. John f Kennedy was relatively skilled politician. But I I Don’t think there’s any way that you could place him as a man of the right, Barack Obama, he he has an ability to speak publicly that’s probably un unparalleled, but again, definitely not not a man of the the rights. So no. I don’t think Jfk or Ml k would be Mag.
Speaker 16: If you if you notice that seems like every president that we’ve had since Clinton has been more like a car salesman top. , sometimes they seem to be a crazy used car salesman, and sometime, maybe like an obama’s case. He’s on, more expensive Mercedes benz stop of car salesman, but they’ve all been car salesman since. Would you. Would you agree?
Speaker 0: I’d say… The last the last impressive… I I can’t make a decision on Trump. I, I’m too much in in the middle of the Trump movement. I say the last The last impressive president we had was George h w Bush.
I thought he did a good job and Ronald Reagan did a good job. And then Dwight Eisenhower I did a good job. So those to me are the most impressive presidents of the past 70 years.
Speaker 16: I would say this last last 2 smart presidents we have were Carter and Nixon. I mean
Speaker 0: I think Clinton was brilliant. I I just… He was just so…
Speaker 16: I get you, but I wonder if that , he’s a rhodes scholar, but, yeah, what’s a… What’s being a rhodes collar or a Nobel prize winner or , what what’s this stuff worth? , now that all the the institutions have been captured by ridiculous ideology. , 1 thing before we go on, I wanted to mention to you that, , Trump, I wonder if his d tractors really… Ever consider…
He’s he was a billionaire. He could’ve have just taken his money and going home. And, , even if I had political aspirations, You too, as well, Luke, I think after a year or 2 of the abuse and ridiculous that he took, you would have packed up your tent and went home and said, , can no nobody can fault me for trying, , and nobody could have fault him for trying. So now here it is been, like, 8 years of this shit. And I guess the average dim probably thinks Cecil damn Ego Mina.
That that’s where he drives it all from. But I don’t think so. I think I think at the end of the day, he he really loves America I don’t think he’s gonna become… He’s became more infamous than famous ever since he’s become president. I’m sure he realizes that.
But I don’t think the Dm have realized something that you and I have probably sit around and talk to to people in private all the time, which is What is he… Why does he keep doing it? , oh, how much of abuse who aside from Trump? I’m… We’re talking about before he got shot.
Who at that point would have put up with that for 8 years and said, , I’m gonna see beyond all the media bullshit and political nonsense. I’m gonna I’m I’m gonna keep pursuing it. I think you could probably count the number of people who had the stick to mister to even go there after that longevity of of abuse. You could probably count those people on 1 hand.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I’d I I can’t think of any American politician who has the strength of Donald Trump. The the willingness to overcome so much turmoil and and so many obstacles. He’s the… I think he’s the the strongest politician that I can think of in the last 80.
Is maybe George Wallace is is the only other 1 that that comes close to him in terms of strength. I I think Bill Clinton probably the best natural politician, not in terms of what he stands for, but in just terms of political skills. And Clinton giving off a a sense of empathy and an ability to manipulate people.
Speaker 16: May finishing up on your point. Maybe Clinton because he had the smarts to back up the bullshit. But if it was strictly bullshit, maybe it was Obama. But, if you’ve listened to those Nixon tapes from how many years ago, 50 years ago, , Nixon aide, A or whoever, The term they use was fatal liberal to describe, I guess what we’re living in right now. Know, Mh.
But, well, what this battle that we’re going through. I don’t know if we’re gonna win or lose at this point. But you the problem I see is that all the assets or for the other team, and I wonder what the hell their motivation. What’s the view… What’s the views motivation?
? What’s what’s Jimmy Kim motivation. How the hell is Adam Corolla was sit down at a picnic neck with Jimmy Ke and not ring his neck, has been, , the 6 le leg of a of a 10 stage propaganda deal, you pay attention to Adam Corolla, , he was 1 of the early podcast.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I I enjoy Adam Corolla. I quite quite like Adam Corolla. I like you. Yeah.
Speaker 16: Would you like to be a fly on the wall for those Kim will get together? Because we know what Kim is you. And I know what Kim is.
Speaker 0: Well, I I would hope that people are able to appreciate other people for what they are and that there are many levels. So Jimmy Kim is skilled in certain areas of comedy. I wouldn’t look to him for wisdom about life, but, Jimmy Kim is a skilled performer, and I’d hope that to Adam Corolla could appreciate him for for what he is just like, you may have a fantastic accountant who is gay and left wing and you have absolutely nothing in common with him politically or culturally, but he is a fantastic accountant. I wouldn’t want you to drop. A fantastic accountant just because he has a a different hero system than you do.
Speaker 16: Right. Before we you leave it, I just wanted you to know that Joe Rope himself. Doesn’t credit, like Adam Corolla for being his this inspiration. He does even credit the ob anthony show. He credits.
He credits that studio setup up that K had at his house. That’s who Ro credits. For, who gave him the inspiration to be mister Podcast.
Speaker 0: Know thing. No. I didn’t.
Speaker 16: But then know.
Speaker 0: But got here 2 more… Here are 2 more comics that I appreciate. I like I like the Seinfeld show. I like Jerry Seinfeld. And I like Tina Fe and the Tv show 30 rock.
I think that 30 Rock was a highly sub show for a network Tv comedy.
Speaker 9: Mh.
Speaker 16: Yeah. Yeah. At… When somebody like me, , that’s not from say, New York city. Watched that for the first time.
We thought it was a put on all how neuro. , he home that Show, Yeah. But that’s not a put on at all. Is it?
Speaker 12: It’s not a put on
Speaker 16: at all. That the joke on us when it comes to that. I was just gonna tell you, , an information of of all the good work you’ve done on Kamala today. I was gonna say, it’s the media. , I think they present to use their word the existential threat to the wheel of the people.
You when it comes to this whole kamala versus trunk because we saw what they were able to successfully do with a corpse with a weekend at Bernie top of a corpse. We saw what they were able to do 81000000 times over. Can I get it an Am amen, mister Luke?
Speaker 0: No. I I don’t agree. I I don’t believe that the media got Joe Biden elected in 20 20. I think… That Donald Trump appeared incompetent to voters on the edge, and so they chose against him in 20 20.
There was a 2 percent swing against him in the suburbs I don’t believe that the news media changes even 0.1 percent of the vote. So let alone 1 percent of the vote or 5 percent of the vote. I… Because I don’t believe that people evolved to be gullible. People are really skilled at detecting when others are trying to manipulate them.
And so I I don’t think the news media shifts votes to the Democrat column. I don’t think the news media changes people’s minds. People who would… Determined to vote for Donald Trump again to vote for Donald Trump. And the news media is not gonna shift them into Kamala Harris voters that there’s no propaganda regime that’s shown significant success.
For example, Nazi Propaganda did not change anti nazis into Nazis. It it didn’t change people’s opinions, those people who are ambivalent or even pro Jewish did not turn into anti semi because of Nazi Propaganda and communist propaganda in the Soviet Union and in mao China didn’t change people’s minds either. So I I hold by… We did not evolve to be gullible, and I don’t believe that propaganda regimes. Or educational regimes or the news media changes a significant number of mines.
So even though our educational system is overwhelmingly in the hands of the left, It is not turning out left as disproportionately because republicans who go through a university education who’ve gone through 22 years of a left wing braid wash. They they still vote for people like Donald Trump. Ronald Reagan was elected twice george w Bush was elected twice, Donald Trump may well be elected twice, even though almost all elites are opposed to these people. So I I stick with my foundational premise that we did not evolve to be gullible.
Speaker 16: You must be making union dues or I don’t know why you’d be carrying water for the media.
Speaker 0: And did carry water. I
Speaker 12: guess since they don’t.
Speaker 16: The other your guard.
Speaker 0: Do what… I just said they don’t change minds. I’m not defending I’m defending the average person. No. I don’t believe media changes minds get in in ways that operate against people’s self interest.
Speaker 16: I think it’s… You think that you think they’re just, like, mega able to change minds. No. I think it’s lot more subtle than that. I think it’s a lot more subtle than that.
I think I think they are able to, jump in people’s head. By having a fool spectrum of shows. So so sure, maybe somebody can see the craziness coming out of, like, 1 prop. Mouth. But once they’ve heard something on the view and this other showed the talk, and then all of a sudden, they’ve heard it again from George Clooney or some celebrity who who whose opinion, they value.
And then once they’ve heard it from, embedded into a Tv show that’s running from 08:00 to 11:00 during some block of shows, and then they’re getting the same message from Jimmy Campbell, and they’re also getting it from the national news at 06:30 and 11:30. It’s it’s the layer of bone layer. That’s the way it’s done. Nobody’s just able to shout over the top and just say, yeah. It’s gonna be this because this is the way it is.
No. They jump in your head by saying, look at this look at this wide range of people who all believe the same thing. And it’s the way… Hell, you’ve seen the studies? Where they put the people in the room, and they’ll have 1 segment that’s longer or shorter than the other, and they’ll ask them to see it and everybody else in the room is in on the gig.
So that segment, they all, say the wrong thing, and then the subject study agrees and said the says the wrong thing. He’s just going along to get along and 5 out of 6 people. No. 7 out of 8 people or like…
Speaker 0: Why did why did Americans vote for Ronald Reagan twice, George w bush twice? And Donald Trump in 20 16, even though the media was more than 10 to 1 against all of these candidates.
Speaker 16: Man, I don’t know. Like I say, to, but he called the personality, for Donald Trump was apparently… That much bigger than say, Ron Paul. Ron Paul had a better better message. They got the same treatment from the media.
In fact, when the treatment that killed Ron fall off didn’t work for trump. They just leveled it up to to anything, nothing unseen since go. So like I say, we’ll just added come on to argue with you. We’ll just agree to disagree on it. And I want to close by just saying.
I appreciate Luke.
Speaker 0: Oh, thanks, Bro. Let me let me ask you 1 more question. While percentage of the vote do you think is changed by the this media. So I I would say it’s less than 0.1 percent, but what would you say?
Speaker 16: Okay. If everybody just… This played it straight up. ? I mean, I’ll be first 1 to admit…
To admit that Fox was the first 1 that maybe ratchet 1 direction. And then you saw, like, maybe, Ms msnbc ratchet the other direction. And then somebody… I mean, it looks around and noticed that Nora O’donnell at Cbs has also ratchet that direction. Lastly s doing her Cvs, doing her 60 minutes talks, has also ratchet that direction.
I would tell you if people were playing it straight up, Kamala harris I mean straight up. No pre conceived notions. 68 32 Trump, but the way it’ll work in reality.
Speaker 0: So 20 points, you say that the media is essentially worth, 20 20 percentage points.
Speaker 16: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because because Fox only has 1… They’ve only got 1 mega. There’s everybody else.
Now I know that I follow college football a little bit, and I know the coach of Oklahoma State University. Called some real Hail, 2 or 3 years ago because he had a shirt from something called 0AN. And apparently, 0AN. Was a right wing propaganda network.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Sorry. Remember.
Speaker 16: So so that means that Fox news is alone in the woods as far as far as being as respectable. Right? And everything else to that is gonna be crazy. Right? So, yeah.
I think they frame a narrative I think Fox news and the other side as well. Like I told you they got the people there behold to. So what they do is they… There’s a lot of containment in the media to where they don’t talk about a lot of things. So that’s why we don’t talk about in my father’s last time.
Went from being 88 88.4 percent white people, 19 40 to now being about 55 percent white people. The census may say 58 percent white people, but we’re having to factor in. Is there 10000000 illegal. Is there 12000000 illegal? How many of those are like?
How many of those are on like? We’ll just guess at 55 percent, 88 percent down to 55 percent. Well, guess what. Now you have no you have no societal norms. You have no…
I’m I’m maybe in a weed smoker. I’m I’m having a hard time looking for the word. I’m looking for a word. A model. There is no model now.
So there’s nobody that says, look at so and so and so on and so on and so on and so the way they keep their yard up. There is none of that now. Now it’s a hodgepodge. So there is no 1 predominant culture. So in my mind, this is where you and I would really deviate.
I think, the the people that you have adopted the jews that that belief there somehow. Their love of nationalism, Their fear of mid Century Germans and that ever happening again. They had a hand in this. They didn’t individually They didn’t know it was leading to this, But this is where we are. We’re from 88 percent to 55 percent, no model society now.
And here we go. So have they ruined America? I don’t know. And can you point the the finger exclusively at jews? Probably not.
Can you even blame the jews for what the mid… Century Germans did and how gosh churn that might be scared scaring them off from anything other than a highly cosmopolitan fall and highly international, Highly, diverse group of folks. But here we are. We’re dealing with the sandbox that’s been dealt to us buy the media and buy all the other powers that be, and you and I will just have to we’ll sit around and talking at it, and who knows will we make any headway? I don’t know.
But I appreciate you being out there.
Speaker 0: Thanks, Bro. Great to catch up with you. Okay Talk to you later.
Speaker 16: Mh too. Bye bye.
Speaker 14: The outgoing personality pattern, is reflected in her tendency to be confident in her social skills and ability to charm others. She possesses a soc, personal style that makes others like her. Harris seems to enjoy being the center of social events. She often does well interacting with the public which is helpful while campaigning, and her outgoing pattern also allows her to be adapted at reality in others. Harris outgoing personality pattern makes her talk and dramatic and able to influence those around her.
But her extra version can lead her to act impulsive as outgoing individuals are likely to become bored when faced with ordinary and mundane tasks. Personality refers to the temporal stable and cross situational consistent ways. People think act feel and relate to others in the social world. This means each individual’s unique personality will consistently and predictably guide their and interaction with the world around them. Behavior is the function of the person interaction with the situation, so at times, a specific situation, may exert more influence upon an individual’s behavior than their underlying personality traits.
Thus, an individual’s personality is more… Consistent across their lifespan rather than in different situations, and trade stability increases across the lifespan.
Speaker 0: Come. So 3 psychologists in the fall of 20 20 published this in… Analysis of Kamala Harris personality in a paper, and this video simply takes the highlights from this paper. If you wanna read the original paper, you can find it on my website, luke forward dot net at the top.
Speaker 14: Paris primary personality pattern. Was found to be dominant assert a measure of aggressive, complemented by secondary ambitious, confident and outgoing con patterns. Measures of na and extra version respectively. The prominence of the dominant pattern in conjunction with distinctive ambitious, and outgoing patterns in her overall personality configuration is indicative of a high dominance charismatic subtype, and Charismatic by virtue of the elevated ambitious outgoing ama. Harris high dominance charismatic personality is reflected in a charismatic presidential style marked by a flare for the dramatic and effective re rhetoric.
Harris is likely to show an active positive presidential temperament in which she remains optimistic self confident. And may derive pleasure from the exercise of power and political objectives. Harris possesses the leadership skills of mobilization in con… Consolidation. Meaning she is able to motivate supporters and foster, supportive relationships necessary for implementing policy objectives, As a high dominance ex, Harris is likely to advocate for change and employ an influential, foreign policy orientation in which she seeks to play a leadership role in international affairs and initiates collaborative activities with foreign leaders.
Overall, Harris major personality strengths in a political role are her confident assertiveness and personal charisma. Her major personality based shortcomings are likely to be a predisposition to occasional lapses in emotional restraint or self discipline. The full text research paper related to this presentation as well as papers associated with numerous other studies. Conducted it through the unit for the study of personality and politics, including a study on the personality profile and
Speaker 0: Okay. So I I read this paper. They also note that she’s likely to lack conscientious. And yeah, lack emotional restraint and self discipline. She will tend to be authoritative director.
Direct and persuasive. She will try to lean in on being intimidating abrasive, contentious, c and combative, to dictate to others and to humiliate others to evo compliance. Alright. You’ll have a strategy of assertion and dominance and we’ll try to intimidate people by hostility, sarcasm, criticism and threats. She will try to brow beat others into respecting her and submitting to her, So here’s a sample observation on Kamala Harris.
He impressed Californian with a commanding presence, offering a preview of the senator. The country would see pointed questioning Republican nominees during confirmation hearings. A cognitive style, outspoken emphatic adamant, strongly vigorously defending her beliefs, tending to be dogma, inflexible, close minded lacking objectivity, clinging absolutely to pre ideas, beliefs and values. She is keenly aware of other people’s moods and feelings, skilled at using other people. Weaknesses and sensitivities to manipulate them.
So here’s the sample observation, senator Harris and now outspoken progressive in the senator who’s increasingly whispered about as a potential 20, presidential nominee joined a growing Cad of Democrats willing to discuss major alterations to the immigration and customs enforcement agency. Mah mood and temperament. He She has an ex temper, that will at times be difficult to control. She will also tend to be cold and unfriendly. To share tender feelings she’ll have a volatile temper that readily flares into contentious argument and physical.
Prone to anger, deficient in the capacity to to share empathy, warmth tat feelings to experience genuine your affection and love for other people, or to empathize with the needs of others. So sample observation, Kamala harris quickly grows impatient with those who demand that she claimed 1 piece of her heritage over another. A self image, assertive, forthright, un and bored. Fundamentally, competitive, strong world, energetic and commanding, take pride in describing themselves as tough and hard headed, pug dom, power oriented. It’s difficult for these personalities to acknowledge their malicious and vin addictive motives, so their hostile behavior will be understood by people like Kamala Harris pros social terms, which enhances their sense of self.
So here’s a democratic debate transcript from 20 19 sample observation. Kamala Harris said, I come from fighters. My parents met with their active in the civil rights movements. So parents were communists. Expressive behavior, right, socially poor is self assured, self confident, active conveying an arm of calm un troubled self assurance, self centered, lacking in generosity and social reciprocity.
So tending to be selfish, She has a swag. Impatient questioning, condescending cocky competent, all at once. Assertive standing her ground, tough competitive, persuasive hard nose and shrewd. So an observation here from 20 19. Several people Kamala Harris book event at George Washington University said they knew very little about her until her a hard nose performance at Justice Brett Kavanaugh supreme winning court confirmation hearing seized their attention.
Her cognitive style, invent innovative resourceful for ardent believing in our own efficacy, Harbors fantasies of success rationalize her failures exaggerate her achievements. There is a sample observation. Kamala harris at stayed inside the bounds of Washington Politics while trying to push innovative ideas that have a chance to realization. The mood and temperament a another analysis, self composed serene optimistic, imp, un raw cool and level handed. So sample observations, she merged poised spot and ready to fight on a crowded debate stage.
Self image, ambitious people like her. Field with cert, strong self advocacy beliefs and considerable courage of conviction, a Expressive behavior from another analysis, friendly engaging lively extroverted and greg areas, lacking in g. True? Inclined to make spur of the moment decisions without carefully considering alternatives predisposed to reckless and imp behaviors and prone to scandal. Sample observation.
Kamala harris remained un unplugging engaged asking each chart a question paying a compliment nodding exaggerated. That’s a real personality your husband said, She smiles and loft and has a good time. Another analysis here on her interpersonal conduct. Aim Ball displayed their feelings openly magnetic, authoritative, warm, leaning in, nods, gestures with both hands, moves, Those hands from a voters bi or shoulder to a position of deep appreciation over a heart. Other analysis of her cognitive style avoids intros intersection focuses on practical concrete matters at during her debates, Paris would compensate for a lack of precision and detail policy prescriptions by laps into prepared remarks.
Turning to legislation. Chiefs ports and leaning on anecdotes to connect with audience. Another analysis of her mood and temperament, emotionally expressive animated uni uninhabited aggressively responsive. She has the it quality sample observation, the smile, the Joyous laugh The ability to inter disperse inspiration with policy responses. She doesn’t get lost in ae pla dudes or in the weeds of policy.
She paces her appearance with some of each. She can read a room. She can connect and display empathy. The core diagnostic feature of the self image of outgoing individuals like Kamala harris is their view of themselves as being socially desirable, well liked and charming. And her regulatory mechanisms to include self distraction, so her preferred stress management strategies to engage in mindless activities, games physical diversion, other forms of amusement or recreation.
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Speaker 11: There’s some kind of grievance or or moral outrage or something that…
Speaker 0: Okay. This video court America’s top profile is focused on shooter after attempted assassination on trump.
Speaker 11: That pre this thing. Could be ideological could be political, could be religious, could be personal, could be the in cell thing that Anne mentioned, could be if we go back and you aren’t talking about assassin personalities in general, not necessarily presidential, assassins because I think this case could be a good example of of that, if what the… What does out in the media is true about him, not only targeting Trump, but also, Chris in Merrick Garland and, , and maybe maybe others as well. So you… It could be any 1 of these idiosyncratic personal issues that that he has.
And we don’t know about bay and his Anne said, they tend to… The more paranoid the personality the more… They’re likely to not communicate with others because the outside world is very threatening. They don’t trust anybody. They don’t trust anything they don’t trust anybody to talk about it.
So they internalize all this, and we never get we never get that leakage that we look for that allows us to intervene and and do that. And then there’s another factor here. I think when you look at this and there’s a phrase that forensic because psychologist just read Mel talks about, which is this narcissistic linking fantasy. These these people often attach themselves to a very famous person. And so all of those people that, , certainly Trump, and then if it’s true that we’re talking about, Chris Ray or Merrick Garland.
I mean, these people who names are in in the news and and their high profile people. And, , whether it’s Mark David Chapman who took out John Lennon or or whomever they attached themselves to some famous personality because now they will… Forever be linked with this individual. And up to now, they’ve been pretty much under receivers or low functioning, kind of… Folks, and I’m not d meeting.
I know he worked in a nursing home. I’m certainly not d meeting. Anyone that works in a in a nursing home God knows we need those people. But they see themselves as under achieve and and they want the notoriety they want the in for me. And so they pick a high value target, if you will.
So someone that’s that that’s well known. But, again, to go back very briefly, even when all those things are in place, it’s still not enough to make it happen unless they get proximity. That’s where the security comes in, that’s where the breakdown was. In this case. That they allowed this guy to hit proximity, and then we have the tragedy that we have.
We have loss of life and and know, people that are wounded and and, , and all of that.
Speaker 17: Yeah, as we’re getting they’re only on the up and up.
Speaker 11: Yeah. My experience with the government that we’re we’re not out killing people because we don’t like their their pop takes at least not internally. We can talk about international terrorism and taking people out. That’s another another situation all altogether. But I think the whole conspiracy thing is whenever there’s a…
I’ll a major crime or a major figure that’s killed. People want a major event or a major explanation. You don’t want just some loser to come up and take out Kennedy or Trump or, or anybody else. You want to be some big conspiracy , behind that to explain this thing. You just don’t wanna think some 20 year old kid could get on this roof and in w, , an unload unload, without some big conspiracy behind it, , the secret service was in it and , whatever.
I mean, there’s crazy talk. But, unfortunately, or the reality is, that a lot of these guys are just loner who… For whatever reason get lucky, and that’s not too diminish the fact that I think we’ll find that, as Anne said, there’s a lot of planning and prep almost always with these guys.
Speaker 0: So on a completely different topic, I I just love this 1 summary about how the situation can bully you. Each era is bullied by 1 temperament, which seems likely the only 1 to have. Everyone was trying to be witty in the 19 twenties, just as everyone was trying to be authentic in the 19 sixties. So I I don’t think we tend to give as much credit to how much the situation evo different personalities in us.
Speaker 11: Whatever happened, whatever the anger, the moral outrage was, the grievance. That dis still down. It it isn’t an effective type of aggression that is emotionally driven. That’s the most common type of violence. It isn’t as other guys running around screaming and yelling and , all pissed off in a a road rage kind thing, think of as affect is what it balance.
It dis still into cold predatory violence, which takes time. There’s planning. There’s preparation. It…
Speaker 0: So I… I’m playing these lengthy experts because I I believe that… This is profound and very likely to be true about the guy who shot Donald Trump and other people who act this way
Speaker 11: , that goes into it. So… It shifts maybe from effective being emotionally driven it cools off dissolves into this cold hard predatory violence that, , dis distilled down to to that with a lot of planning and preparation. If I can use 1 a more analogy to kinda differentiate aspect affect from predatory. If you think of think of a cat.
Right? And a dog backs a cat up into the corner. What’s the cat doing. Right? Back his arch, it’s hissing it’s swapping, and know, swiping and hissing and showing its teeth and basically tell the dog, , get all away or, , you’re gonna get it take that same cat.
Put them out in the field stocking a mouse. What does that cat look like? Not moving at all. Maybe the very tip of the tail might be turning twitch just a little bit in in anticipation. But it waits.
It waits until that moment, When that mouse is right there and a boom. It nails it. That’s predatory violence. It looks entirely different than effective violence. So this is what we have in these cases is this cold planned predatory violence, not emotionally driven at all, and it can last over a period of time before they eventually act out on.
Speaker 17: Mh. And that’s really interesting. I mean, Greg was talking about the possibility that he was, , looking at someone like Chris Ray, the Fbi director. Mom, But now he went for the… So called top nana, the biggest fish there is, outside of the president himself, but a former president.
What do you think was his mindset there, sidestep, , lesser known figures to go after, , donald Donald Trump?
Speaker 18: Well, I think that, greg I’d really touched on this, the attachment that have his name attached to a a… Really… That’s a bigger name if you will, than, head of the Fbi in in in that respect. I wanna add 1 other thing about a myth though I’d love to see corrected. How many times after a horrible case like this do we hear.
She he, I never would have thought this. He he’s such a nice looking guy, , never saw anything. I… We haven’t heard anybody say, there’s something going wrong with that youngster or a growing up or whatever. And they pulling up people think they look like when they have committed such an act.
And they did say that he had no expression. So that kind of fits in with the predatory kind of thing like you’re you’re tent getting ready for the mouse that there’s a blank, I guess, is what the people would describe. But he he was certainly different. He wore, fatigue to work or to school, That’s very unusual. He wore us mask long after Covid was over.
Speaker 16: Mh.
Speaker 18: And the kids would make quote, fun of them. Well of course. So that’s that’s what would happen. So I think that’s where a lot of the anger and the rage and the the resentment did developed. There could well have been.
Some… The 1 experience that was written up, he tried out for the, gun club and at school, the gun club. And he the it was a young girl that the said that she watched him try. He got… He took the wrong…
He went from the first lane to the second lane and could’ve have really hurt somebody badly, and the instructor there was so upset, he said, no, we can’t have you here. And the young girl said it and when she was talking to whomever that she wondered how embarrassing might have been. , it hadn’t happened in front of the other high schoolers. So that could be something that it certainly is not, a a major thing, but it could have a much more to that 1 incident. Would be in high school and could have started something, But I’m with Greg that there’s gotta be something there’s some some grudge that whatever you wanna call it that…
So…
Speaker 11: And I don’t think he was that naive to not understand, , what what he was getting into. Another thing I would throw out here for consideration. There’s a, Gavin Deb becker is another guy that does a lot of security. And he has security worker he has an acronym that I think is applicable to allow this. It’s JACA, Jack, and and 1 j is justified.
They feel justified. In doing whatever they’re doing, and this goes back to this moral outrage and grievance or or whatever we’ve talked about, the the a after the j is that there’s no other alternative. They just see this as the way to go to resolve whatever the issue is they have, they… That that there’s no other way. See as consequences.
They’re not concerned with the consequences. They’re willing to take the risks to do this in the last day is ability. They have the ability to do it. And when do those 4 things align when they have the justification, They don’t see any alternative, they don’t care about the consequences and they have the ability. We’re we’re in a we’re in a bad place.
And that’s where the security has to be tight, and you can’t allow these people proximity to, to a venue or to a target.
Speaker 17: And to you we know I.
Speaker 0: So 1 of my favorite blogs is by Columbia University Statistics professor. Andrew Gel. And he had a blog post July 26, Neil Ferguson Jd Vance, George Washington and Jesus. And he says the Jd d vance qui about. We are effectively running this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lies and the choices they’ve made, so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable too.
You look at Kamala Harris pete Butt, Ao, the entire future the Democrats is controlled by people without children. Right? That’s Jd Vance in 20 21 on the Tucker Carlson show. And, Andrew Gal who’s center left statistics professor says this reminds me in an episode a few years ago involving New york Ferguson and the respected historian and the bumbling political activist at Stanford University in 20 13, he will ferguson and gave a speech at a conference of financial advisors where he explained, that, John made key had no children because he was a homosexual and was married to a baller arena with whom he likely talked of poetry rather than pro. Your ferguson said it’s only logical that Cain would take this selfish worldview because he was an feat member of society.
Hunter has pointed out to him that non parents can still contribute in useful ways to society such as George Washington and Jesus, Neil ferguson and took it all back. Saying his remarks were doubly stupid. First, ta obvious that people who do not have children also care about future generations, second I’ve forgotten that Kay wife lydia miscarriage. So Andrew Gel, con is this was a failed attempt by ferguson at crowd pleasing. But I wonder what Neil Ferguson thinks of Jd Vance because on the 1 hand, Jd Vance would seem like the type of politician who Neil Ferguson would love.
He’s Ivy educated, economic and social conservative book author with interest in geopolitics, has multiple children and a wife who is not a Baller arena. So Jd Vance shares Neil Ferguson, concerns with the industrialization, culture and political crises, the decline west civilization, vance his hard, anti abortion, he’ll ferguson of appears to hold some anti abortion of views as well. On the other hand, in Hill ferguson is a strong supporter of Ukraine and an opponent of Vladimir Putin where vance takes the Trump line. And says, I don’t care what happens to Ukraine. Ferguson wrote, I will never can do in Trump’s conduct on 01/06/2021, when he incite violent attacks on the capital building, whereas Jd Vance has promoted 20 20 election denial and Jd Vance said that Mike Pence should not have certified the election results on that day.
So Neil Ferguson could go either way. Maybe your side with vans because it’s all about stopping the West long term economic and moral decline. Jd Vance supports lower taxes, less business regulation restriction on abortion, policies to encourage more child bearing. Another perspective, it’s all about the immediate threat so foreign and aggressive like Vladimir Putin, loss of democracy at home, so which way will near your ferguson and go. So at Jd Vance is not running in a vacuum.
Ferguson could well feel that Trump is so bad that he can’t support his candidacy. Your ferguson could believe that Kamala Harris is so bad that he’ll support the Republican. So the rough equivalent of Neil Ferguson on the left is Paul K. We must feel a twin every time he endorse, the Democratic party’s economic policies, but can justify his support given that he thinks the other side is just so much worse. And, Andrew Gal points out.
I was wrong in 20 11, and I said I was writing my absolutely lost Neil ferguson post ever, the guy just provides too much material for me to quit. He’s right there at the intersection of politics and social science. So Andrew Gel came up with the the remark of crossing the John Yu line, that’s when you say such ridiculous things in publish papers that everybody can take you seriously as an academic anymore. And Neil Ferguson, no. Andrew Gel points out that Neil Ferguson crossed that line by about 2007.
So Jd vance exist within from a left wing perspective here weird political. Bubble, and he he wrote a forward to a book by Jack Who promoted the Pizza gate conspiracy theory. Your ferguson is in a difficult position. He’s a professional historian and you’re assume that he cares about the truth. Sure he’s known to gobble fact.
From time to time, but he’s a busy guy. He’s effectively just trading off accuracy for speed. I don’t think Ferguson wants to make Arr. He just wants to write morris articles and books. He has ideas to share with the world.
He doesn’t want to slow his output by stopping to check for errors or to correct them when they appear. Articles Now you’d think for a successful academic historian in the expense of checking for acknowledging and correcting errors is quite small. When compared to the reputation hit of making high profile mistakes. Neil ferguson could just hire a research assistant. The real cost however of it would not be paying the student.
Right? The real cost is that Neil Ferguson would be restricted. To only stating true facts, so it would reduce his flexibility in making the large claims. It is precisely near Ferguson willingness to stretch the truth, not by flat out lying, but by simply not checking his facts that gives him extra researcher degrees of freedom in his theo. It’s So if Neil Ferguson engaged a fact checker, that would reduce his effectiveness as a social theorist and as a big picture historian.
Because it would constrain him in what he could say. And turns out New ferguson has tried to square the circle, He wrote that he basically falls in with Jd Vance. And once again, with Neil Ferguson you see he does not let facts get in the way of a good argument. So what of Neo ferguson since latest kicks is comparing the current state of the United States with the 19 80 Soviet union, which I think is a completely ridiculous comparison but it’s just part of Neil Ferguson dazzling ability to come out with theories completely unconstrained by facts. Right.
His little commentary from Molly Hemingway.
Speaker 13: In this race is really the what was happening when Biden was the nominee. It wasn’t just that Biden was losing to Trump, which he was. Losing very much to Trump. It was also that you had this down ballot collapse. Democrats were facing the loss of 5678 senate seats, and they were not prepared to do that.
Even if they understood they might lose the presidency. And so what you’re seeing with these poles is that it is it is certainly better than what they were dealing with with Biden, but the fundamentals of the presidential race are almost certainly gonna be the same because to Olivia point, what the Trump campaign has been doing is running against the Biden Harris presidency for which Kamala Harris is just as responsible as Joe Biden, And if anything, Biden was able to present as much more moderate than Kamala Harris who has this on video tape record of being probably the most… Extreme hard left, democrats democrat…
Speaker 0: So Andrew Gel notes that Kamala Harris is, , left wing track record will. Hurt her ability to win the presidency, but he doesn’t think he’ll be decided.
Speaker 13: Nominee in 75 years. But this whole changed this, like, replacement of the actual… Person who was chosen by Democrat Voters in their primary with someone who’s run for president twice now and has yet to receive a single delegate. That’s not really about the presidential race so much is trying to save the senate.
Speaker 5: Donor said no more money for you and maybe not for down ballot people who won’t turn on you either.
Speaker 13: Right. President Biden was pushed out. He wanted to be the nominee. He said he He he explained all of that, but he was pushed out by these donors and top democrats who knew that he was a drag on the ticket. And there’s a lot of understandable excitement that they were able to push him out.
But there… That doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to be particularly great for Kamala Harris. Who actually, I think a lot of voters do view her as a San Francisco liberal. She is, her policies are very popular in California, They clearly were never popular in 20 20 with a national Democrat audience. She was unable to get a single delegate there.
And when you look at the… At her actual positions, whether it is, her support for the green new deal, which is a radical position, Her Opposition to fracking. That’s not gonna work
Speaker 19: for her.
Speaker 5: Which she says now that she does not.
Speaker 20: No. She didn’t say that.
Speaker 13: She had an anonymous spokesperson claimed that. Right. We have her mom.
Speaker 16: Can I interject just a second and say this San?
Speaker 0: I can’t let me know… If I already played this analysis of the insurance.
Speaker 21: That’s absolutely true. And I wanna start with the fact that every vulnerability within… If physical parameter reason. What I mean by that. I mean, it’d be difficult and I’m not being here, it’d be difficult to identify all threats from Mars or the moon.
However. However, to say that, for example, an out of perimeter post or an not of perimeter building, a hundred 50 yards away is not the purview Serves. There’s nothing short Ludicrous chris and insane. I’ll give you an example. A lot of people don’t realize that, there are many elements of the perimeter, not only in a stationary size, but when motor is moving or the protect he is moving.
That perimeter is very dynamic. It’s not a nice neat 360 degree. Rings are protect an middle out of prune. It’s watch above. What’s below.
And the whole premise of that is to rate as much time and distance or it would be assessment or someone intended intending to do harm to extend that as much as possible. We need a much time to react. The best way to do that is to do a proper advance. For example, when the motor arrives at a, for example, when airplane, Raja, airport and the moto parts. Prior to the the plane landing, there are elements of surveillance.
Immediate to make sure there’s nothing unto board. There’s resources in the sky that do that. When you protect the lands on the ground and gets into motor, that basically begins a cascade of other security elements, a very proactive level under normal circumstances. For example, there’s a helicopter, and that pre sees the motor by significant distances. There are supposedly…
I mean, should be a drone. It does the same thing especially at the site. Well, the helicopter element or the pilot car, for example, in a motor and other proactive elements have done a lot of work the day before. The day of hours before, 20 minutes before, And their whole purpose in life is to look and see, are there any vulnerabilities have developed in the last 10 hours. You, 5 hours for the last 10 minutes.
The point of that is, it’s not restricted to a hundred and 50 yards. That’s the point. It could be months. And and to say that we all our only responsible for areas we’ve been permit that we’ve defined. It is is simply wrong Simply wrong.
Secret service is supposed to be responsible for any threat. Within reason to be able to within in physical reason and capacity to be able to identify and neutralize. So that particular response is is completely irresponsible and devoid of any understanding physics and the statute.
Speaker 22: Part of the advanced work. They also once they determine, hey. They got this building got line of sight if some Sniper was up there. The secret service would necessarily place themselves. Now or place state or local police up there with with a particular mission, you keep your ass up here until the events over, and you’re gonna be in radio communication with us in the event you see anything.
So that would be the the Sop for this. Correct?
Speaker 21: Yes. And I can yes, absolutely. And I can tell you from my experience, and I’ve had small, medium and large venues with as many as 80000 for example, at the in the advance I did for the…
Speaker 0: Sop meaning stand in upper operating procedure
Speaker 21: Carmel in Sol, California. I’ve done many levels of protective arrangements and security advances of things in between. What the bottom line is, depending on the venue, depending on the geography and depending on the threat level. And the resources available we put together a plan in an integrated collective way.
Speaker 0: Okay. Let’s when we coming back. Elliot the light to the show, mister Black. What’s going on, bro?
Speaker 12: Oh, sorry, Luke just for a quick. I I couldn’t resist. III hate making double appearances. I’ve rarely done this. But there’s just 1 point which I think you’re completely off based on, and I I need to I need to counter it if you might,
Speaker 0: delays.
Speaker 7: Okay. So you’re…
Speaker 12: I give that the media plays to 0.1 percent.
Speaker 0: Less than 0.1 percent.
Speaker 12: Yeah. I I really couldn’t disagree more. And I mean this it’s with all respect, but and here’s my evidence. If you remember, back way back in early 2016, when Trump was emergent after the announcement, the early Republican primaries. The media was all out and wait, , behind Trump if he could recall.
Do you remember this?
Speaker 0: I don’t remember them being in favor trump. I remember giving him a disproportionate amount of coverage.
Speaker 12: Yeah. I mean, he… Okay. It would be hard for anybody in that race not to come away the… With the conclusion that the media was back in Trump.
In that really narrow window of time. And, , you could say, , there’s theories out there that they thought he would be the best 1 for Hill Hillary in the general. So therefore, they were not supporting Trump, but they were, , they were supporting him for sort of nefarious reason. It wasn’t authentic support. But nevertheless, there was a period of a month or 2 where the media was just a go with Trump’s ability because Remember, Jet Jab Bush was the heir parent.
Right?
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: He was the bush. He had the bush family name. It seemed to be if fair complete. And then Trump just sort of stole the show, but I don’t think he would have stole the show without the support of the media. So that’s…
That’s.
Speaker 0: So it’s so Go ahead.
Speaker 12: Well, so we’re looking at a race now, which is arguably 50 50. Right? With the full fledged, , un mitigated support mainstream media against Trump. And it has been this way forever. And if the if if the if the media was, , that intensely for Trump, I can’t believe that there wouldn’t be a 10 to 20 percent gap between Trump and this challenger.
Speaker 0: Okay. So how do you explain? In the contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the media was about 10 to 1 in favor of Hillary. And With with regard to George W Bush, he got elected twice even though the media was overwhelmingly against him, The media was overwhelmingly against Ronald Reagan, and he got elected twice, of the media was overwhelmingly against richard Nixon? He was elected twice.
How do you explain all these republicans who faced essentially tent 1 opposition from the media and yet were repeatedly elected president in the United States.
Speaker 12: 0II guess I disagree with your numbers. I I think they was definitely a bias, but I wouldn’t I don’t remember… I remember a big part of the meeting being supportive of Reagan. I know. I remember, , I would call it 60 40, not the 90 10 that it is today.
So I I think the degree of support the media is was behind, Democrat cans, in the past does not even compare to the degree to which it’s. True today.
Speaker 0: But I mean, we do know the political inclination of elite members of the media 19 sixties, 19 seventies and 19 eighties, and it wasn’t 60 40 Democrat over Republican. It was more like 7 to 1, 8 to 01:10 to 1 Democrat over Republican.
Speaker 12: Alright. I’m only going by my recollection and my perception, and my perception was… That even though personally, the individual members of the media may have supported the Democrat, I think they felt and acted on and impulse to at least conceal it to some degree. I don’t… And I think only recently have they ceased any, , pretense to conceal their political buys.
I think all journalism has now become opinion journalism.
Speaker 0: So what about overall elites in in media and corporate life in academia in the legal profession in in medicine. Alright. Elites have been overwhelmingly on the side of the Democratic party since the 19 thirties. That that hasn’t changed. So even in 20 16, Alright, would you say that the media was 10 1 in favor of Hillary Clinton?
Speaker 12: I would’ve have said it was more like 70 30.
Speaker 0: 70 30. Wow. You just saw something… Different from M. Well, yeah you
Speaker 12: think We’re we’re talking about we’re talking about. And we’re talking about just qualitative perceptions. Right? So I… Yeah.
III… I’m just, like, During Obama, right? Obama’s coverage was Wilson, , Will Obama succeed with this progressive method. Willie succeed with that. , it was sort of putting Obama in this heroic role.
So I noticed with Obama there that That’s when the real shift began. I think, I can remember turning into Npr and hearing conservative voices. Argue things on relatively neutral and e even terms. And basically, I stopped listening to Npr when I stopped hearing that. I didn’t hear a true sided of debate.
So I think Trump has ignited this primal drive within his opponents to sort of just go full activist mode. And and I think that activist mode, is effective. I think times are different now, and I think, , like, Kip was saying, , if it were true down the middle, of subjective journalism and not opinion journalism. I think Trump would have a lopsided advantage, because he has real accomplishments to Crow about, ? , if you’re if you’re in…
If you… , if you like to… , the the principle of fairness, what he did with those of Supreme court announcements to roll back affirmative batches was a truly major accomplishment. And right.
Speaker 0: You see through the bullshit, but your average Americans too stupid.
Speaker 12: I don’t think I’m saying that. I’m saying You’ve you gotta
Speaker 0: be saying that because you are not influenced by the news media, but you would claim that 10:20 percent of Americans are shifted from… Following their their normal interest away from their interest. They’re too stupid to understand what’s what’s going on. But you see through No. But 10 to 20 percent of Americans are too stupid to be after to see through this.
Speaker 12: Oh, it’s partly true. Yes. I I just see myself as possessing, , considerably more insight than your average Americans. No. There’s no doubt about that.
Lie. There’s there’s a time for humility and there’s a time for true telling. Can Right.
Speaker 0: And you see through the bush bullshit. I mean,
Speaker 12: I see any figure bullshit. I saw that that that Biden was Sen aisle. 4 years ago, bro. I saw through the bullshit. You did not.
So just remember who you’re talking to, Bro. So anyway, I didn’t I didn’t wanna a create any acr money, but III do think you should just sort of revise this particular, a view of yours because I think it’s a little loft base.
Speaker 0: Okay. So how many percentage points? So I I wage you that not even 0.1 percent, of the vote is changed by the news media, would you wage your 10 percent of the vote?
Speaker 12: I would say minimum 10 percent And then they could possibly approach 20.
Speaker 0: Yeah okay.
Speaker 12: So there’s… Okay. There’s neutral coverage and then there’s, like, imagine decision was radically reversed, and the media was all in for Trump. Can you imagine what the… You…
You’re saying there’s… The… That wouldn’t that would only… It would still only be 0.1 percent.
Speaker 0: I’m saying it’d be less than 0.1 percent.
Speaker 12: Yeah. I I think I think you’re… You might be mathematically challenged, bro. What you’re gonna brush up on that calculus. what I’m saying?
Speaker 0: Well, if you’re right, then, I don’t know how we’re we’re still here. If people are so easily shifted against their self interest, I would I would suspect that we would have been wiped out. I mean, the the reason that we’ve been after to survive as human beings for thousands of years, Is it is very very very difficult to shift people away from their self interest. So the Nazis who are great at propaganda. Were unable to change people’s minds, the…
Soviet communists who were pretty good at Propaganda. Were unable to change mines. Mao China was unable to change mines. I didn’t know of any example we have. Where political propaganda significantly changes a large portion of the population.
People are really good I mean, what’s your own… What’s your own success rate in manipulating people to act against their own self interest? It’s really bad. When I was in second grade? Third grade.
I tried to… I tried to buy a radio off these luna. Alright? We had a Loo bin, a mental asylum nearby, and these Loo would leave the Loo bin for an hour or so every afternoon and walk to the corner store to by cigarettes and candy. And as they walking by, they were listening to the radio.
And so I would try to persuade these luna to sell me their radio in exchange for my underwear. And I could even persuade these luna to act against the self interest. So, abby, what’s your live history? With manipulating people against their self interest. I guess that would include pretty much every woman you’ve been to bed with
Speaker 12: Yeah. You’re you’re thinking as far as here. And it’s… Your epidemics are broken. You you need to sort of reconstruct.
You’re saying, jamal Harris without this immense tailwind provided by the media would only be 0.1 percent, less. Her support would be 0.1 percent less. Less the point what
Speaker 0: percent. Yes.
Speaker 16: Less you’re
Speaker 0: same 1.
Speaker 12: You’re saying this on these to this audience of 10.
Speaker 0: Yes. Yes. But you’re not counting the other platforms, Bro. I am huge on Twitter.
Speaker 12: Okay. Alright. I I think you’re underestimate underestimated the power media, and I think people are they’re waiting and be led. And people were all for… They could…
They got led into or with Iraq by propaganda. So propaganda is effective. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Yet, we went to at war with Wreck anyway. There people 50 50 that Russia c with, Trump to steal the election.
Right? 50 50, it was totally baseless yet half the country believe that. To say that the media played no role in their conclusion is simply ignoring reality.
Speaker 0: No. I I didn’t say they played no role. I said it didn’t change any minds. So how many… But Trump supporters bought into the media narrative that the 20 16 election was stolen by Russia, like 0.
0 trump supporters bought into that narrative. On the other hand, it fed a need by people on the left to explain the 20 20 20 16 election results. It filled a need. It it provided a valuable service to them, and it also provided a platform, but disrupting the the Trump administration. It was very effective.
Donald Trump was not a particularly effective president, in large part because the left was able to con this factual bogus narrative, but tremendously effective narrative. So the people who bought into it with those whose self interest was served by the narrative of, and those whose self interest was not served by the narrative of didn’t buy Intuit so people reacted to the narrative exactly along the lines of their self interest, no matter what the media did with it, what the media did was provide water to those who wanted to drink.
Speaker 12: Okay. Here the media provides 2 things. Facts and interpretation. Okay? And it’s the job of the media, it seems to Not only provide quote unquote facts, but really lean on that interpretation.
So that is the driver. That’s why the media exists. It’s to… It’s to corral opinion around a narrative and make it seem true and good and righteous and
Speaker 0: action. I don’t know, Bro. But how many people change their minds? Against their self interest. Really, do you think thousands of rapid trump supporters has changed their minds because of this media presentation?
III believe so.
Speaker 12: I believe we’re not we’re not talking about the extreme. We’re not talking about the exchange. Talking about Okay.
Speaker 0: Moderate. Oh, my.
Speaker 12: I Okay. So I’m saying there’s probably what, 10 percent of the electorate is. Is that the real number I know the real
Speaker 0: Probably like, 4 percent.
Speaker 12: It’s really that low. Okay. Yeah. Well, , on the edge of that 4 percent, there are people that can be persuaded to stay at home and just not. Vote.
Right? Yes. So maybe it’s, like, 8 percent. So on either side. So…
Alright. Well, I don’t know. I made my point. You disagree I’ve heard your points. All rum on it.
I’m sort of the midst of unpacking my groceries here. So I I did… I do think you’re undervalued the way to meet it. But…
Speaker 0: Yeah. Guys also think about your own real life experience with. Manipulating people against their self interest. Like, I have found it very difficult to manipulate women to go to bed with me when it’s clearly against the best interest, we found it difficult in general to manipulate people against their best interests.
Speaker 12: Okay. So here’s here’s what I’d say. You’re talking about a 1 80. So the media can take somebody that’s, position a and make them do a complete 1 80. No.
You can make and go to, like, 01:60. Or 01:20. Right? You can’t, like, flip somebody overnight. You can move the gradient towards the other direction.
So to you’re arguing that people really aren’t influencing, and that’s, I think is not true.
Speaker 0: That that’s an eagle song. Right? Where… Is that witch woman where where you can never take someone where they don’t wanna go. What’s that Eagle song?
Is it peacefully easy feeling.
Speaker 12: I gotta a piece. I gotta refresh
Speaker 0: my there. But there’s an eagle song how you can never take someone where they don’t wanna go. So, for example, if I would if I were to change your mind on something, it’s only in the area where you’re you’re already open to it, and you just haven’t seen a particular idea, but it is generally consonant with who you are. So I… I’ve never changed your mind, in something where you are already determined going in a completely different direction it’s just that you’re already pointing east And I suggest something that’s like 5 degrees off from east, and it and it generally fits with you.
Oh, 0, alright. A woman. This is a peaceful easy feeling. A woman can’t take you anyway, you don’t already know how to go. So Yeah.
I I think that’s true. We don’t so much change people’s minds, but we can open up possibilities. For directions that people are already predisposed to want to lean in.
Speaker 12: Yes. I totally agree with that. But I also think I’ve changed my opinion and the years listening to you. I’ve, , come 1 opinion and, , slowly… But slowly, and Mu gradually, So coming around to you a different opinion.
? And so but then again, I do value… I like to think of myself. Someone who responds to evidence and logic, , in the bench shapiro formulation. So I…
I’m aware of my own feeling and I like to think that I can be aware of them as I’m considering something. But, yes… I’m I’m aware that I’m also not perfect to doing that. So you’re saying you’re basically saying there’s really no point to the media whatsoever.
Speaker 0: No. There there is a point, but it’s not changing people against the direction they already want to go. What you you can do is that you can send them in a new direction, but this new direction has to be constant with the way they wanna travel. Just like You can introduce someone to the culture of critique book by Kevin Mcdonald, and it’s only gonna transform their life if they wanna have a live transformed by this type of literature.
Speaker 12: That’s fair point. It’s a stepping stone. So people don’t jump across the river, they take 1 step at a time. And so, , a book like that could, , put a stepping stone in the direction of of the river they wanna cross because they feel that life is better on that side of the river. Alright.
I’ve taken on board. I didn’t wanna take too much time on this, but I, yeah just send it. Alright. Peace. So
Speaker 0: Peace. Okay. Alright. Desperate dorado, where don’t you come to your senses? You’ve been riding fences for so long now.
You’re a hard 1, but I know that you’ve got your reasons. These things that are pleasing on you can hurt you somehow. No. You ain’t get no younger. You’re pain in your hunger.
Driving you home and freedom, of freedom, That’s some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world, all line. Great rabbi, Mo finley said that any important philosophical idea has been expressed in a pop song.
Speaker 6: Basically, diversity is a code word for anti merit. Diversity is a code word for racial preferences.
Speaker 19: I’ve even realize used to be a liberal.
Speaker 6: When I started doing journalism in New York. I knew nothing. I saw the poison of big government. The insanity of welfare on demand. The students that are led in with lower scores have to reach
Speaker 19: a take medical licensing exams numerous times. Wait. They’re taking that same exam again and again and again.
Speaker 6: Sometimes 05:10 times and sometimes they never passed.
Speaker 19: Heather, welcome back to Pray you. It’s so great to help you here.
Speaker 6: It’s wonderful to be with big good, solid education, and I saw that the things that I love the things that have given my life extraordinary meaning were being destroyed by the very people who have the privilege. Of passing on this tradition, whether it’s literature professors or musicians that should know better that like myself have ce in beauty and have been given the privilege of reading that some of the greatest works and to see the professors or the or the me artist turning on that tradition broke my heart. So I started writing out of a combination of sorrow and rage, and and felt like we were putting our extraordinary inheritance at risk and at this point, things… I have to say Marissa, 1 wants to tell the audience back up we’re winning, we’re not winning yet, things do get worse and worse, and and It becomes more and more necessary to not be frightened by phony accusations, whether it’s of racism or sexism, It’s too late for that. We have to keep telling the truth.
Speaker 19: As an educator, when I think about you, I think about somebody who’s been very well versed in in the arts. In the classics. Mh. And so when I think about Heather Mcdonald, I say, well, she is fighting for what she understands is is valuable in worthwhile and when I look at our education system, especially in the United States, we are not teaching the things that you grew up to love and you and you learn. And so what we’re missing out on and therefore, you’re fighting for it.
But when we have generations of students who are not studying the classics who don’t appreciate what real art looks like. Who don’t appreciate what real music sounds like they don’t know what they’re missing and so they don’t know what…
Speaker 0: Okay. Here’s a quick point from Molly Hemingway commentary on the news.
Speaker 5: I’m gonna go own way. I’ve never. Sorry.
Speaker 2: That’s what.
Speaker 13: That speech was the very sad end to a failed presidency. In fact, the economy don’t is in in in tat, and American people think so.
Speaker 16: American economy is in tat.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 13: How is that? And 1 Go to
Speaker 19: walmart first
Speaker 16: as the big boys.
Speaker 13: In most parts of the country, people are suffering might from inflation they can’t buy houses. There is no control over the border, the foreign policy is a disaster. That speech, by the way. I, , he he he said he was not gonna campaign, but he didn’t explain why he was not running for reelection. There is not really a good explanation for why he can’t run for the nomination that he just won, but remain as president, and this seemed it was very disturbing.
Speaker 5: Before
Speaker 0: Okay. So 1 of the books that most influenced me and led to my belief on the difficulty of manipulating people and limited, my my belief in the extent to which the news media can change opinions. Great book came out in 20 20 is court, not born yesterday, the science of who we trust and what we believe. And the author says arguing against widespread cr puts me in the minority. We’ve got a long line of scholarship.
From ancient greece to 20 first century America from the most progressive to the most reactionary that portrays the vast mass of people is just hopeless gullible For most of history, thinkers have based their grim conclusions on what they thought they’d observed. Voters is submissive following d cogs, Crowds worked up into rampage by bloodthirsty leaders, masses cow to charismatic personalities. We have all these psychological experiments showing participants blindly obeying authority, leaving a group over the clear evidence of their own eyes, We have a series of sophisticated models that provide an explanation for human gal that we have so much to learn from others in the task of figuring out who to learn from is so difficult that we rely on simple heuristic such as follow the majority or follow prestigious individuals. And humans owe their successes are species to their capacity to absorb the local culture, even if that means accepting m practices or mistaken beliefs. The goal of this book is to show this is all wrong.
We do not cr accept whatever we’re told. Even if those views are supported by the majority of the population or by prestigious charismatic individuals on the contrary. We are skilled at figuring out who to trust and want to believe and if anything, we are too hard rather than too easy to believe. Emotional contagion is imp. If emotions were truly contagious if they forced irr mimic, they would be too easily abused.
Cheater could laugh till those they have cheated laughed with them. Mortal enemies could get their opponents to empathize with and care for them. If our emotions were so easily manipulated, we would be much better off not paying any attention to emotional signals. Right? There has to be something that keeps emotional signals broadly reliable.
That is beneficial on average for those who receive them. So when reacting to emotional signals, the following 3 factors should be relevant across all emotions. What our prior beliefs and plans are In what context the signals are produced and whether the sender is trustworthy. Centers of unreliable emotional signals are trusted less when they send emotional signals and when they employ the forms of communication. Women do not mimic the expressions of those who behave unfairly toward them.
Men express positive emotions when others show fear negative emotions when others showed joy if the others are fan of rival sports team, even catching yawn. Right? A perfect example of seemingly a Irresistible contagion is not as reflective as it seems. People are more likely to start yawning, and they see people they know rather than strangers yawn. Right?
Adults increasingly mistrust those who their emotions, people who faint anger to obtain strategic advantage in negotiations. So we do not ind independently catch whatever emotion we happen to witness, we exert emotional vigilance even when we’re in the middle of a crowd. Right evolution makes gal m adaptive. So it’s not to be abused by centers of unreliable messages we are in endowed, the whole suite of cognitive mechanisms that help us decide how much weight to put on what we hear or what we read. Our good arguments of it is the source competent.
Do these sources have my interest at heart. Let me put together a little bit more on this. Meanwhile, his…
Speaker 6: Children’s ears need to be exposed to some of the greatest language that has been written to start understanding the rhythms that are possible in English what the human imagination is capable of whether it’s the Great British children’s tradition of wind in the Willow and Winnie the P or Mel or Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, the irony and wit that has been passed down to us mere mortals that are ina that are blind that are stupid to human dilemma and sorrow and pain, but erotic longing longing for greatness, We learn from these grapes.
Speaker 19: Oh, the attack on the arts is just… It’s ab biz. I mean, to summit it’s ridiculous, but it’s also it’s it’s really heartbreaking and dangerous.
Speaker 6: It’s totally heartbreaking. We should be down on our knees and gratitude before the great works of western literature, western music, art, and instead.
Speaker 7: You a student, and who thinks that people are very easy to persuade and, even if if people longer give them any good reasons. And he wrote that you may
Speaker 0: So this is Hugo mu year, cognitive scientists author of, not born yesterday why humans are less gullible than we…
Speaker 7: Things are are really differential to authority. That they cover before we from opinion that they are swayed not so much by reason, but by a desire to be belong by emotional appeal and basic appeal. So this is pretty pretty dire. And indeed joins that a long line of scholars and and lay people alike who have thought that have humans work quite easy to influence. And not only that, but that, once once you have some some hold over someone and once you can make them acceptable false beliefs, you can make them, commit atrocities as, volta with some help from his trans entertainer, which supposed to have said, whoever Can make you believe opportunities and can make you commit atrocities.
So the the view that I will be, mostly and criticizing in this presentation. Can be summarized as, among these designs. People are quite easy for participate. They are gall
Speaker 0: So this blew my mind, but I was already predisposed to this point of view because there’s… Certain perspectives on life that I think are more useful. Even if their evident truth is not clear. So certain I I learned in economics to discard the perspective that people are irrational because that doesn’t lead to interesting insights. And so I guess I had a predisposition to the point of view articulated by hugo.
And then when I read the book, it just took me further along this line of thinking. Right. III don’t like the thinking that people with a different political or religious world are inherently worse than… Those who share my political religious moral world. Right?
That people on the left are are not necessarily worse than people on the right, I just find this makes me more open to reality.
Speaker 7: Well, even on us. So even if you’d be a lot of people can be graduated at once. Rather advertising, through propaganda, through, political campaigns. And that is because broadly, people are quite able to judge who to trust and and what to believe.
Speaker 0: So as soon as I read the Be curve, they’re immediately aligned with my life experience. Soon as I read this book. I I realized it immediately aligned with my life experience. I couldn’t even talk luna out of trading their radios to me for something ridiculous.
Speaker 7: And that as a result of of these people accept, a whole variety of kind of false, , sn beliefs, and these can have quite dramatic consequences. And so what I will do now is, is trying to show you that all of this is wrong. Then I will start, by the first point looking at, how easy it is to influence people Home when you try to, to engage in mass administration to influence a lot of people like once. I will look at 3 examples, provide dynamic italian regime, campaigns in the Us and advertise. So starting with Propaganda and data, I will only look here at the the nancy example because it is, in many ways in those in infamous.
I don’t… It is also the the 1, 1 of the best studied even not the best studied, case of propaganda, you, historians and in particular Yan and K have done quite a bit of work trying to understand whether nets and had any effect. Whether you have managed to square the germans to what the vanessa he wants them to believe. So to do… Yeah, his ears our schedule the diaries but he could reports and boris are head on the channel, to trying to understand whether, whether we the German population at large, was indeed influenced inspired by this, , flood of German of Net blah.
And his conclusion was that nancy proprietary failed, except when it could an, build on existing consensus come from existing values, and bolster existing prejudices. So essentially, I know the part the propaganda is resting on things that the germans already agreed on in which case, it could no, other the limit, at least have some success. But whenever he really trying to change our minds, mostly encountered failures. And since is kind of you it’s clearly 40 years ago, that is early qualitative conclusions by bi have been largely confirmed by a series of of quantitative studies of which I just give you 1 example, a really kind of study divide my ad and her colleagues, in which they used the proximity with radio towers, Like to measure the exposure to Nancy propaganda. So a lot of that’s propaganda will be most nancy propaganda was by the radio, which was a dominant medium at the time.
And if you leave close to your radio tower, you have better signal, and therefore, you are exposed to more Nancy propaganda. And the question is, does this increase exposure to exposure, native agenda, lead you in particular are to engage in more en acts, such as den jewish people to authorities. What what these others learned? Is that indeed, Nancy radio did have, some effects on on anti semitic acts. However, these effects of increasing anti semitic acts were only observed in in areas that were already highly testament that had been that have been highly anti centuries, and that intended to backfire in which we have the opposite effect of the intended in other areas.
To really find the confirmation of of Conclusion that , if people are already highly end, the that might help, , unleash these these sentiments, but that it doesn’t really burst anybody to become more estimate. And that is is really really encouraged by, casual that you found in the reports made by the nazis who wanted to figure out whether the German people were thinking this gonna like,
Speaker 9: growth of pulling if you will
Speaker 7: promote that upper Plugin and rejection everywhere and the population because it is regarded as form and like, and we, , manipulate examples and even if you could get study this pressure or other other examples of of other saying propaganda agenda, the effects seems to have been very limited. I’m turning out, political campaigns. As , political campaigns are a huge deal in the Us and a lot of money is spent. Every year and especially every… Every 4 years on political campaigns, whether that takes the form of meeting global calling, canvas you recent flyers, paying for ads on Tv or online.
And so in order to study whether all of these cabin strategies are effective. Political scientists have relied on various methods, And the most reliable of these methods is to run experiments. Essentially, the to an experiment in which, for instance, they can divide a city. They can use the fact that the cd is divided into electoral district. So I think that’s that’s really here.
And in half of the electoral districts, they will engage in 1 anyone coming out strategies, such as canvas or robo vocal or description science or whatever, or in any, sort, any in the other half, they will do nothing. Or in half of the state’s, Tv markets, they will play some Tv ads and they won’t play these ads in in the other half. And then very simply, they look at, whether people in these areas that have been affected by the by the cabin strategy are more likely to vote, for whomever, , the campaign support. And so recently, a couple of years ago josh calendar B, they looked all this work. And so they didn’t what we call the analysis, so they…
They just look systematically at all the results that listed in in that field. And to… So the found 40 such field experiments, and they added 9 original field experiments of their own listed In on that basis, they concluded that the best estimates of the effect of campaign product and advertising American candidates choices in general in general elections, So essentially especially whether all of these, campaign effects that had been, a measure had any effects on, all of these campaign acts had any effect on on big actions or presidential elections. The effect of these things is, 0 and average. So we very small at best, to missing.
And, broadly…
Speaker 0: So the point of this study is that, all the billions of political advertising does not change any minds. If this is effectively 0.
Speaker 7: The, these these work points that, working logical seems sterling,
Speaker 0: So if spending billions in advertising does not change minds then why do people do it? That is an interesting question. Yu gave as year Dell was into that in his book.
Speaker 7: That there are no effects of political campaigns major elections shortly before Election day. That we find small effects like larger, but still small effects and campaigns that have on goods that have weaker prior, such as valid measures or primaries. Use people just can’t decide to go for republican we cannot do.
Speaker 0: Okay. So we’re gonna see something like, what, a hundred billion dollars spent on election advertising in this cycle, and it’ll have nearly 0 effect on voting.
Speaker 7: Correct. We do observe some effect of physician’s opinions and their followers, but only for non attitudes, so the things that people don’t really care about. And that most of the influence is got, such that I put the opinion quite heavily constraints, politicians and what they say in strengthen in what they do. I’m turning
Speaker 0: Whoa, okay. Let’s let’s get Elliott black. Elliot. I’ll go ahead, man.
Speaker 12: Alright. Round 3, this is the last time or ever be 3 in 1 day. I keep nearly promise you. But I just thought of something. And in May or may not support your point.
So, , over the years, we sort of had this sort of debate running about natural so we shouldn’t natural versus, , pharmaceutical interventions for problems and things. So, , I’ve been a critic of your adderall decision and I generally come down outside of natural things versus, , in unnatural pharmaceutical man made things. Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: You’re aware of this kind of running discussion out of the years. So… And as you also know that I sort of always had this sort of asthma manic weeds problem, ?
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: And it’s been… So I got sick a couple months ago, bad flu, and it’s taken forever recovered. And and this 1 was particularly bad. It was like, I, it may have been Covid, may not don’t know. But…
I had this cough. That just simply wouldn’t wouldn’t stop, ? And so I’ve always had an inhaler… I’ve had for the past years, I’ve had an inhaler, which I’ve seldom and used. Because it really cuts against my hero system to actually use these things.
And so I’d been sort of adamant about not using it Right? Because it was… It’s not natural. what I’m saying, bro?
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: And so so then flashbacks a week ago, and I mentioned I had this conversation with Curious Brazil.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: So within 10 minutes of our conversation, she says, that ease of yours, you need an inhaler. , you should take your inhaler. Right? Yeah.
Speaker 11: And and
Speaker 12: I… I immediately you got sort of defensive and, , about not doing it. I made excuses and so forth. Said then finally,
Speaker 11: a couple days ago, I said
Speaker 12: what the hell? Just maybe I should just… This cough is really too much. I need to I need to do. I’m gonna just throw whatever I can at this, including name inhaler.
Speaker 0: Oh my god.
Speaker 12: Including the inhaler, Luke. I to do it. And so I busted it out, dusted it off. Started using it. And I’ve had, like, pronounced improvement.
Speaker 0: Oh, yeah. You sound so much better, but it took an attractive woman to say this to you. Like, I could’ve have talked talked about it for years. But because, , I didn’t have a great rack. Like, he’s gonna listen to me.
Speaker 12: That’s right exactly right Well, I’ve never seen. Because of rack. But…
Speaker 0: But you can imagine it. I mean,
Speaker 12: I can imagine it.
Speaker 0: Yeah How fine it it really is.
Speaker 12: They’re I exactly right. So… But to your larger point, this is like, the pain of my denying reality.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: Finally became too much to bear. ? And that’s what it takes. , that’s how change your minds. .
So this gets a in a way, it’s sort of, it’s evidence in the support of your argument and not mine. So I just thought that was… I’d like
Speaker 0: to… I like to,
Speaker 12: , I like to support my opinions by experiences direct from directly from my life and not from studies, , I’d like to…
Speaker 0: Yeah. You have a capitalist epi. Real life experience. I’ve about opinion.
Speaker 12: Because At the very least it makes for exciting, , interesting stories rather than
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 12: Right, of of statistics. , I I like to… Base things… I can’t root something in my direct experience. I don’t really wanna talk about it because it’s just not interesting.
Speaker 0: Yeah. That’s the kind of guy you are.
Speaker 12: That’s Hey.
Speaker 0: That’s the man you are.
Speaker 12: That’s right. I go from my gut, Bro.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Yeah. You’re authentic.
Speaker 12: When the government tried to take her water rights, her intuition was her only guide. She’s a mount Woman.
Speaker 0: Powerful.
Speaker 12: Send it solar. Yeah. Alright. That’s all the guys. Thought that…
Yeah. It’s all I just wanna throw that will addendum because I thought it was appropriate to our conversation.
Speaker 0: Oh, yeah. That… That’s that’s powerful. Thanks, Brian. Alright.
Blessings. Okay. Let’s get Cla in here, Claire. What’s on your bind today?
Speaker 20: Okay. I kamala harris on my mind today. I noticed you’re talking her up, and I remember Elliott, accusing you of trolling,
Speaker 0: yeah.
Speaker 20: Your audience. And. I I know you have your thing about on the 1 hand this on the other hand that, what are your true views about Kamala Harris?
Speaker 0: I I think she has a 40 percent chance of winning? I I don’t think she is under qualified, so I think she’s perfectly qualified to be present in the United States. I think she’s far more qualified than Barack Obama was, and 2008. I think she is highly intelligent. I think she has led an impressive life.
I think she’s got an impressive track record, and she has flaws. But I I don’t think Republicans should dismiss the possibility that she may very well win.
Speaker 20: But but how would you feel if she actually won?
Speaker 0: Oh, I’d be horrified. Absolutely horrified. She’s about the most left wing. She was about the most left wing senator when she was there. I I think she has a fundamental personality characteristic of insecurity.
I think you’ve had to To boil down her personality to 1 word, its insecurity, which I believe on a presidential stage would be disastrous.
Speaker 20: And and and they’ve were very easily manipulated by the deep state. I was what… I haven’t listened to your stream throughout. I I have you commented on the opening ceremony of the Paris olympics.
Speaker 0: I have not. It’s seen it abundantly documented that it was essentially mocking the the last supper with some, , pro. Pro Lgbtq performance?
Speaker 20: A large lady. Yeah. Was took the… So saying you didn’t watch the whole thing.
Speaker 0: I didn’t watch any of it, but III noticed it, but I haven’t had anything to add because it’s such an obvious story that thousands of other people have commented on… Yeah. I think it’s disgusting from what?
Speaker 20: Well, I suppose you had to be there. So, I’m I’m glad that I went live and I’ve got into the spirit of of things. And I I got a lot of upset people when I said, well, obviously, the Parisian took more trouble. Over their opening ceremony, than the London did, the the the London… Perhaps you don’t watch any these these opening ceremony.
No.
Speaker 0: I don’t. I. Time.
Speaker 20: Yeah. I mean, it it’s in much a kind of, what’s word is?
Speaker 0: It’s a music call. I mean, gay men and women watch these kind of things.
Speaker 20: Yes. But but there’s so much unspoken, cultural statements being made, and and all this occasion, there there were a lot of very loud unspoken ones, which is outraged so many people. And, in fact, Steven and I were talking about it only yesterday, and and he he only featured, Steven, only a few seconds of of what what you could see and and the entire videos we’ve taken down to our greatest disappointment.
Speaker 0: Oh, what. You too. Took it down.
Speaker 20: Yeah. Yeah. And and and and Steven actually knew that there would be trouble, , if even a little bit of it was being shown before the purposes of, , telling that the… , that the view is what what was going on. , a few split seconds of it was being shown.
And and that resulted in a Copy strike.
Speaker 0: Was it a copyright strike? Yeah. Yeah. You you can’t show… Yeah.
You definitely can’t show any of it.
Speaker 20: Not even a little bit.
Speaker 0: No. Now. You could share a still photo of it, but you could not show any video.
Speaker 20: That’s very strict isn’t it?
Speaker 0: Well, yeah. There there are times when copyright holders, are, , very tough such as you can’t show any any. I can show… 2 seconds of video of a premier league game. But I could play a considerable amounts of a W nba game.
I can’t play anything essentially from Cbs any video from Cbs News, but I… I’ll never get a copyright stroke strike from Fox News. So different copyright holders stick up for their content and issues strikes. So like, when I play an excerpt from a video often, scroll down to the video description because many people will make clear that if you use any of their video that they will try to get a copyright strike on you.
Speaker 20: Oh, right. And and and can You revive your video by by paying can you just… Pay them something, and they knocked of it.
Speaker 0: No. Not effectively. I mean, not not in a way that work for… Ordinary people. So, yeah, you have to be aware of who will immediately make a copyright claim.
And so I’ve learned many of these things the the hard.
Speaker 20: Mh. I see. Yes. But, yeah, I I mean I mean… I guess that…
That’s really on my mind.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I mean, if you… If you use even a still photo, there are some people who will go after you, and they will hire lawyers. There are all sorts of, lawyers who will go after anyone using any unauthorized even photos. And so it can be a major major cause of hassle, they’ll they’ll say, look, unless you pay us 5000 dollars.
We’re gonna take you to court, and they will do it. And they can wreck your life. So 1 has to be very, very judicious about using third any third party content, Now generally speaking, you can play excerpts from academic presentations. You can usually play excerpts from interviews. You can usually play excerpts from Fox News, but most news organizations, you can’t use any of their content.
Like, Hbo or vice, you can’t use any of that without getting a copyright notice.
Speaker 20: Right. But but isn’t there… I mean, supposed saying, , that the Steven and I really wanted it back. But there is even the option of paying them to to get it back.
Speaker 0: Not not not effectively for the… I mean, even the other networks, like… If I I wanted to see highlights from, the soccer, the Olympic olympics soccer, the United States defeated New Zealand, Port 4 1. When I clicked on a video on the Espn side, it only showed me still pictures. Right?
Even they couldn’t use videos. So Nbc is paying an enormous number of billions of dollars for the rights. And so they are very strictly enforcing the copyright.
Speaker 20: I see. I see. Oh, well. But, I I guess, so I can still watch it on the Bbc… On on Bbc play if I what to what it again.
Speaker 0: Yeah. You can watch it, and you could probably get away with showing still photos from it, but you cannot even show 2 seconds mute moving video. And those other news organizations outside of Nbc that show some some video. It’s under very strict conditions and they’re paying a lot of money. So used to work for a radio station and the radio station would spend thousands of dollars each year for the right to play music.
And I And and so the the right to to play any video from Nbc. Other networks are playing paying any high sums of money, under very, very strict conditions.
Speaker 20: Let’s see. Okay. Well, well the fans were explaining it to me so clearly. I I but I was… , very vague about these things.
But, fortunately, III don’t tend to, , display, , things like that, you because I guess, I’m too keen to to y away, rather than, share videos. But I… I see it’s a very sort masculine thing to do , watching things together and and that kind of thing, which is really, the the content presentation of many Et youtubers,
Speaker 0: Right. The Cnn debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I I read up on the rules on that beforehand. And I could not have shown. 2 seconds of video while that debate was taking place without getting a copyright in notice.
Speaker 20: Well. But but after that, the the the rules are different?
Speaker 0: At a certain point, the rules change, but you have to see things from the others party’s point of view. So Nbc, I don’t know if they paid 20000000000 dollars or I I don’t know 5000000000 dollars. They they were spent billions of dollars and and networks that say, show premier league football. Right? They they are spending hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars And so when it’s is strongly incentivized to be in their interest to crack down on any copyright violations.
They’re gonna do that. On the other hand, an academic presentation or some, , long form podcast that’s of a high Iq level Right, there’s not there’s not a, , a lot of money being made on that. And so it does not decrease the value to the other party if you Snip from it.
Speaker 20: Yes. And some people actually are please you use snip it.
Speaker 0: Yes. Yeah. But, other people are incredibly sensitive and and react very badly and have the ability to really, , ruin your life and to hurt you. So have to be highly judicious.
Speaker 20: Yes. How do you feel about people snip from your streams? You
Speaker 0: I notice you’re welcome to do that. So I gonna put that on my video descriptions. Usually, there’s a notice. Yeah. You’re welcome to Tonight from my streams and I appreciate it when you link back to the original, and I I leave it there.
But I recognize there are there are streamers who take , profound exception, and they will make your life miserable. And so I try to use judicious judgment,
Speaker 20: Yes. Yes. Yes, indeed.
Speaker 0: Okay. Is there anything else that you’ve been thinking about and wanting to bring up?
Speaker 20: Oh, yes. Yes. Another thing was… I I found this Nigerian space. And I I love to say how impressed I was by by how well run it wasn’t now.
How people were so polite and educated. And, yes, I’ve been singing it’s its praises bay basically, and and a lot of people, because there is no time difference between british summertime time and nigerian time. That that there was sort of big and and and a lot of the people were were actually in the Uk. But but the thing I noticed about it was was how… Discipline and cooperative and civilized they were, we which I know a lot of people find it hard to accept.
But, III just wanted to to say that. And and the their argument… I mean, , the they’re attitude towards their government, and , cost of living crisis, and and and, , elections and Covid and oils. They were very similar to ours, , it it’s almost as if every country is a micro of the west in a way. So I I thought I just mentioned that.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I think, Jerry immigrants in the United States have a just a huge… Huge education component. I mean, graduate school education is very common for. I believe members of the Ig bird tribe that have I I believe they’re from Nigeria who have emi immigrated to the United States, very well educated.
Speaker 20: Yes. Yes. So so I was very impressed with the with the quality of the discussion and and at the people. And and Andy just would to make me feel a little concerned about, , the quality of, , people in the west who who really, , talk are not able to make much sense. I I suppose is what I’m trying to say.
And then I suppose, , the whole problem of of the west is is it how it has become a victim office and success. Everybody speaks a language this oversee point lot of talent in the rest of the world. And, they use English. And they they come to the west. And and they they enjoy a better, bit better education than people do in the West.
And, and and this makes, , Western is at a disadvantage, to to these immigrants.
Speaker 11: Yeah So…
Speaker 0: This is what came to my mind when you were talking is kind of. To what you’re saying, but I I think you’re you’ll get it. But I’ve noticed is that people have a huge emotional commitment. To reacting to news. So for example, I have a high happiness bias.
My strong bias is to interpret what’s going on in the world in ways that make me happy. And I I kind of developed this in reaction to what I saw dominating distant spaces, this strong desire to interpret the news as an excuse for pass, and as a feeling of frustration and depression. So I know many people that I’ve streamed with Whenever happened… Anything seems to happen in the world, they just descend into gloom and doom. That they have.
A strong emotional commitment to pass and to feeling doomed and depressed. That that seems to be a dominant dis react that I noticed to the news. III just noticed that people overwhelmingly tend to view what’s happening outside of them in terms of what’s going on inside of them. So happy people tend to try to interpret the news in ways that further their own happiness, people with what’s great sense of efficacy, meaning their own ability to adapt and to make a difference in in their own lives tend to interpret the news in ways that support their their belief in their own self efficacy, and those people with a strong emotional commitment to pass, they interpret the news in a doom and gloom and depressed, scenario. So I’m just curious to the extent that you’re aware, what is your emotional commitment to the news?
When when something like the Olympic ceremony where they were… Putting on a sac religious perspective on on the last supper. Did you… Were you emotionally looking to be outraged? Were you emotionally looking to believe we’re doomed.
I think we ought… If we’re interested in the news, we tend to be interested in a through a prism that achieves a reliable emotional return. Any thoughts?
Speaker 20: I I was actually quite enthusiastic about it because the step the spectacle and the the scene searching either what was was far more ambitious and successful in scale than the London ones. And and and saying that, attracted a few, but a bit of abuse from from people london as I imagine notice disagreed, but I feel what the way they did it was quite impressive. And even the rain, I I was astonished at the enthusiasm of the people in the boats and and and even the degenerate, , doing the summer assaults and fashion jones and whatever, paving And and you could see, , that this red carpet thing that that they were doing better displays and acr stance on… Well was was getting very, very soggy, And, but I thought that their acting skills were were quite good in in, getting the impression that they were that it wasn’t raining at all.
Speaker 0: Okay. But my my question was, what what’s the primary emotional payoff that you seek when you look at the world outside of you because I noticed that people are overwhelmingly? Seeking a a particular emotional payoff. For many people, that they are seeking reason to feel even more depressed, I am seeking a payoff of feeling happy. No matter what goes on in the world, I wanna find something that that increases my happiness level.
So I have a particular predisposition. So are you even conscious of the primary emotion that you seek out when you tune into the news. You’re primarily seeking a joy, aston, outrage are you conscious of a primary emotional payoff that you’re consistently seeking through engagement with the way to world.
Speaker 20: But I like to think that I am neutral and un assess things in a realistic way. So, But but but also, I I see vice myself as a political activist, and I think if you are a political activist and even call yourself 1, you you would have to see, the world through a perspective of optimism. So so, I guess, That’s anyway I can make sense to you…
Speaker 0: How it makes sense of that is that when you look at the outside world, you’re looking for increasing evidence that you are right.
Speaker 20: Yeah. But buddy you you you you you people say things like, oh, it’s good. If it’s gonna get worse with all it gets better. So I suppose I could say, always getting worse. Yay, because it means it’s going to get better.
But perhaps, I I kind don’t, , maybe I should just be grateful that I’m still around to to notice these things.
Speaker 0: About what about my observation do you think I’m right? Do you think I’m wrong that III kinda sense underneath what you’re saying? That your your primary purpose for following the news and observing the world outside of yourself is to bolster your own sense of self, your your own self esteem to provide even more evidence that I see things more clearly than everybody else. Yes. Perhaps, I mean, because I have a particular worldview, I would be seeking confirmation of bias.
And I might be, , using things that pump people would see as, , terrible, and and take, yeah, to taking
Speaker 20: at a different perspective. III don’t quite know how whether it it’s good or not. But I, Mean I I think of jews who who are supposed to praise god even for mis Fort. So so, that that way, , what when I realized that, that made a great impression on me. That golf.
Speaker 0: I had a beautiful girlfriend who… Asked her how much of her self esteem came from a looks and she said 100 percent, and she may have been exaggerating It might have only been 80 percent. But I would say that I get approximately this myself session. I get about 50 percent of my self esteem. From what I’m doing here from my live streaming, from my social media commentary from my essays and blog posts.
So I would say, I get about half of my self esteem from my ability to decode and then share what’s going on in the wider to world. What percentage of your self esteem? Do you get from your ability to decode and share what you see is going on in the way to world.
Speaker 20: I would say over 50 percent. Yes. Over 50 percent.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I I think so because it it it’s a tremendous commitment on your part, and you’re not putting in this effort. And this amount of time, and you’re not taking all the social risks that come with some of your edgy commentary and talking to people on the edge. You’re not doing that pro trivial reasons. I mean, this is…
Speaker 20: It’s a.
Speaker 0: Significant part who you are
Speaker 20: Yes. And and and and 2 to a degree, it it it is a component. I mean I I think of all these, , heretics have got burned at the stake when, , these things were done. I’m sure, , they they were walk like better shut off about , questioning the trinity to you because what… What’s gonna happen to you if you don’t shut up.
And least we will just carry it on. And, , I think that’s quite impressive, and and that made a great impression on me that that sometimes people do get a b in their bond that they they can only get over with when, , to the end of their days or or they will test it to the very end.
Speaker 0: So at at what percentage of your self esteem coming from your ability to decode the way world. At at what percentage would you say that it started to become m adaptive that it’s too high. But you put that at 60 percent, 90 percent, 95 percent, 75 percent, surely, at a certain percentage, you you would stand back and say, I am getting too much of my self esteem from my decoding.
Speaker 20: Well, I would have to predict the future. I mean, it’s kind of like van and, , he lost his ear and, , but but he he had to paint his paintings. So I I don’t know. I I don’t feel undoing anything too m adapted. Although, I guess some people would would would would would participate with me.
I don’t know. III guess I’m just so, , in in in the too much in the swim offerings to to look at things particularly objectively. Well, they so aren’t
Speaker 0: people. Think about others who do similar things to what you do, surely, at times, you notice what they do and you think, wow, they are they are putting too much of their self esteem into what they’re doing at the cost of their own well being.
Speaker 20: Well, I suppose of the K person. Fitting that description would be you, Luke.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 0: So so I I may very well be diluted. You have no problem criticizing me. So I I say about 50 percent of my self esteem comes from this, but I may be lying. Do you think… What do you think?
Is it 80 percent, 90 percent. 100 percent. What do you think?
Speaker 20: I I think made maybe maybe 70 percent, because he it is a. Isn’t it? Yeah. You, ultimately, because you we were doing it much more before and you’re doing it more again because I think you sense something is about to happen. And it’s on your mind and any sense that there are people who who care about the the things you discuss.
And then then it it it has a kind of. A simple effect.
Speaker 0: Yeah. And I think you would agree that for most people doing what what I’m doing that probably for more than 95 percent of people doing anything similar to what I’m doing that it’s against their self interest that they would be much better off served spending that time socializing with their religious community, making money, developing skills, and instead, by broadcasting often dis opinions, they are severely reducing their prospects in life. They are reducing their earning opportunities. They’re reducing their chances to get married to have children, but you agree without assessment that at least 95 percent to do what I do, including very possibly myself, we’re engaged in self destructive compulsive behavior.
Speaker 20: But but you you… What you do is socially and politically useful. And so e even if it hurts you, we we still want you to do what you do. And even if we don’t agree with you, it it will make us. Think about, , how we think and how, , we we are right if we think you’re wrong or the other way around.
Did you have think when
Speaker 0: you hear people, that they’re destroying themselves. They are blowing up their their prospects for for a good life. It’s so sad to see this.
Speaker 20: If what you’re doing is is fundamentally socially useful, then the the whole thing is is justified isn’t it? I mean, you you’re not just sort of, I don’t know, losing yourself and , why women and and on, and and with nothing to sharing for it. You you you you you do record your thoughts, pay, , that they are accessible on platforms, and and they are useful. And how do you do all your time stamps even while you do it? That that’s just so impressive and organized?
How thank
Speaker 0: you. Yeah. I… It’s really multitasking it. It is a a challenge.
I have I have many links already set up, and I just have to throw a timestamp stamp onto them, but it’s about half of the time stamps, so I have to do it simultaneously while, I’m carrying on a conversation, which is not easy.
Speaker 20: Well, III find it very impressive. I mean, I I have to go through, , all my streams later. But but I I actually enjoy it because there’s so things that I miss, , in in the heat of the moment. And and and, , I do revise my view on, , how a conversation went and and and pick up things. If I would picked up if I haven’t listened to it again.
So, what quality time consuming, I I also find it enjoyable and rewarding that
Speaker 0: So there’s a New York Times article here from March 6 of last year with the headline. Would you date a podcast pro? Sub had, their reputation have caught up with them, and it quotes all these women who say they would never date a male podcast broadcaster. So for your average woman out there on the dating market, I would suspect that the odds are probably 3 to 1 5 to 01:10 to 1. That they would not have a positive reaction if they found out the guy they were dating hosted a podcast.
What do you think?
Speaker 20: Well, I would feel positive towards a podcast broadcaster. In fact, I know 1 who’s who said he, in he met his girlfriends through Youtube. So I I think, putting so much of yourself the line has the effect of making the , the the person listening to you, think know you quite well. And, I guess if they like you, then you’re you’re in, aren’t you,
Speaker 0: Okay. But what about the the vast majority of of women who are looking to get married? Do you think on average, it would have no effect. You think it would usually have a negative effect or a positive effect.
Speaker 20: I I think… Well it would depend on what kind of port forecasting you’re doing. Right? Whether at or high stages are forecast or a low stages of podcast broadcaster. Yeah.
So, yeah, it it’s something hard to tell. But I would feel your positive towards. Person.
Speaker 0: I I say you would, but you’re you’re not representative in many ways of the the average of female. So… Here here is something.
Speaker 20: But My ticket would be a, , home he’s the high status podcast broadcaster.
Speaker 5: As well
Speaker 20: and then because it towards him.
Speaker 0: So I would think that women would be… Afraid of a high status podcast because such a person by definition. It’s gonna have far more sexual opportunities.
Speaker 20: Gosh, do they really think things through? I guess for women, , it’s either, do do you want, ? An alpha male person who who might partner them who might break your heart? Or do you want somebody, , reliable, but but but a bit boring. And and I think that that’s , 1 of the terrible women have to make, , if if they’re in a position to have 2 to install.
Speaker 0: Mh. And another thing is that women just really don’t like men who share their life publicly on a podcast or on social media that that tends to frighten most women. That’s my life experience?
Speaker 20: Well, I have said before that, , we might as well be in porn because people, , the people just know so much about us already. , if you go on and on and on and on about, , what difference on their minds. So, I I don’t know. To have I met people… I mean, in it we some people they’re still quite complimentary.
Mean, I haven’t had relationships with people love met, , through my, , odd costing. But but I didn’t get the impression that that people are uniformly hostile.
Speaker 0: Okay. Let me read 2 paragraphs on this New York Times article. It wasn’t just the… Content of the man’s podcast but that he had weren’t at all. Like many women, she associates the form of podcasting with a certain kind of man, 1 who is endlessly fascinated by his own opinions, loves the sound of his own voice.
And isn’t the least bit shy, offering unsolicited opinions are masculinity, sexuality and women. Many women have taken the social media to mock just that kind of programming and the man who make on Tiktok. Hashtags like men park cast gather videos are mostly women using a beard filter to sat the sorts of things that may our podcast hosts such at say, cast such as why as a man are you born in the month of February, or that’s the problem with women who read. Others have called on them to put down the mics and get a job. Anything there that you wanna comment it on?
Speaker 20: No. Not really. I I suppose they’re going to be gone full of people who expect dis views. In the New York time. So so I…
I’m not going to be, , too concerned about that. Much of it is just therapy as it we we feel better it’s better out than in was of express of you, , we get at the kind of temporary relief, don’t we. Because we’re yeah. Said exactly what we mean. And we can draw a line under it until the feed comes, , bubbling back up again, and the hook process begin
Speaker 0: Yeah. Okay. Was there anything else that you wanted to touch on before you leave?
Speaker 20: No. Well, I I think I it all and and maybe more. Thank you for for your prompts and your engagement, Luke.
Speaker 0: You’re welcome, Claire. I’ll talk to you another time. Take care. Thank you. Bye bye.
Okay. So I’m gonna read more from this New York Times article. But the once booming podcast industry currently on the back foot and host reputation for… Self important man explaining, having long since caught up with them is the podcast pro officially a persona na graduate in today’s dating landscape. I don’t think it helps on average I think more significantly, more women will have a negative reaction to a podcast bro than even a neutral reaction.
So I would put the ratio at about 5 to 1. Though, of course, the the content and respect of the podcast will matter. If you’re a disciplined podcast broadcaster, I’d say the ratio is gonna be, like 20 to 1 negative because women are incredibly conform. So various women say they’d come across romantic prospects who you… Some podcast broadcaster say they met many women who view their profession as a red flag, and many guys preemptively adjust their presentation of themselves to make a clear distinction, so they will say something like I work in digital media.
Rather than say I produce podcast podcasts. Scrutiny either podcast pro archetype has appeared in pop culture in the Netflix comedy, you people Ezra, a white broker played by Joan Hill reveals to his date that his dream job is to do his hip hop culture podcast full time, Which is first met with laughter followed quickly by judgment and concern in the Tv show goals. The the lead character said, He’s an Alexander technique teacher, which has to be the the most gay profession ever. Mister Rush said he understood the wearing. Given the many things women have to be afraid of when it comes to dating men.
A podcast is just another thing to worry about. Yeah. Nothing good will happen to a woman until she feels safe and add ease, and just the very existence of a podcast will make most women feel less safe. Logan says he often gets direct messages from men who enjoy his content, which is mainly guy talking and debate. At the end of the day, you wanna entertain the listeners, gonna have to say some crazy stuff.
He a woman accommodating sometimes we’ll say stuff. Now this is the guy. Sometimes we’ll say stuff. We don’t really fall in with it. Another guy says he’s never personally experienced romantic.
Rejection. He says it’s often a point of entry into a conversation. He said doesn’t know many people who work in audio would call themselves podcast. Because it’s an una underpinning idea that anybody could be a podcast broadcaster. And 1 woman, a Cal state student said that after her experience, She would never again date a man who host a podcast.
So this is Design Robe. Student in the California State University North ridge, was approaching 1 year of an odd off again dating with a coworker when she came to a realization, she would eventually announced to her followers on Twitter. My biggest mistake in life so far was dating a man with a podcast. So she was 24. She began seeing the man in December 20 21.
He was 35, he had dreams of becoming a social media influencer. They both worked at an Amazon warehouse near home, the situation ship as she caught it was very embarrassing, but she continued to date him. I knew he had a podcast, but I never listened to it. I was like, oh, I like this man. I’m already ignoring his social media present, I’m just gonna forget he has a podcast.
Things were fine when they were together. So long as she didn’t think about his podcast until 1 day, he sent her a link to his show, I’m inviting her to listen and to share her thoughts, what she heard turned her off. It wasn’t just the content of his podcast, it was that he had 1 at all, He thought he was a certain kind of man 1 who was endlessly fascinated by his own opinions loves the sound of his own voice and isn’t the police bit a shy, offering unsolicited opinions of masculinity, sexuality and women. So I remember I was attracted to a woman, she she gained by attention a notice because of her blog. But once I started dating her, then I started hating her blog.
It it it’s a little bit like this porn stuff I started dating after she’d left the industry. U. So she’d left the industry, completely tested clean for Std, or We we get into this quick intimate, , hot sex relationship. And then as I start developing intimate feelings for her, then that she used to be a porn star begins billing me with increasing amounts of horror. So for the first few weeks, I mean, she was very socially skilled.
She was educated. She was high Iq. She fit in with my friends. I could take her anywhere, everyone in my life who met her liked her, but about a month in, about 2 months in, something like that. It just really started getting me down that she has to be a porn star, and I I increasingly had difficult handling it.
And she told me very early on. If you ever bring out the name of 1 particular agent in the business. So we made her do a video to have a do a sex scene with him that he would then show potential producers who might hire her, he’d put it on our website. If I ever mention his name that she would just drop me because of was such a traumatic experience to have this guy’s blue inside of her. She also talked about directors who would come onto to her, or a photographer who was taking photos of her and then unzip himself, , pumped her a few times and then sp inside of her and how trauma these events were.
And so if I… I made any reference to this kind of thing that she would immediately leave me, and I think I did make a reference to the agent who made her do this compliance video, and then she just immediately left me. So she was 21 at the time. I met her. On the set of Lesbian sw fest.
Haley Rivers. Haley Rivers was her name, very intelligent woman, lovely woman. We had a great couple of months together, but by by the second month, I couldn’t really handle it.
Speaker 7: To the next example now advertising, which really lead war spikes by its budget political campaigns. The way, the efficacy of advertising, how powerful it is and how how much it parents people, it’s usually measured is by looking at its elasticity. So let’s say you have a brand and they’re already running some ads and various formats, And the question is do you increase the amount of money that is spent on ads or you increase how many how many ads are being run? How much are the sales going to improve? And if the sales…
Let’s say, you double your advertising, if your sales double, then you have an independence to Cto of when, if you increase your advertising, if you double your advertising, which your sales only the increase by 50 percent, than your Is 0.5. And the best review the there now or, of, of the effects of Td advertising, is a recent paper by by Brought Here his colleagues, you said we got hundreds of advertising campaigns. And their conclusion is that, a sizable percentage, access fans or says sizable percentage are statistically insignificant or really, really so tiny that you can’t make We can’t be sure that they… That their exist for negative estimates. So and to be more precise, on the whole, they find that, the average Is 0.01.
So on others, they find that if you double your advertising budget, your sales are only going to increase by 1 percent. So the effect is absolutely tiny. So for, the effects of advertising a appear to be small or nonexistent existent. And indeed that’s been in a way and Known for a while and Gu is some of the rules of advertising research, that petition his book. And the truth as many advertisers we quickly admit, is that frustration is right tough.
So we can see from these 3 examples and really they could be it could be multiplied and we could be looking at religions or other domains with the same pattern we could obtain. And that version, when you’re trying to convince a lot of people at once with with some, kind of simple messaging, press is no 1. The only message is that have some, that do manage to spread are those that resonate with people’s prior. So people… Things that people would already been?
Speaker 0: So just putting a pet picture of Haley Rivers, Aka, Jenny. Who I dated for a couple of months or so in 2004.
Speaker 7: I to believe. And so things that prism have diesel effect on them? And that it is only when Sun trust has been earned, that some nutrients is possible at the margin. Why? Why is it so hard if you guys trade people, especially if you graduate a lot of people like once?
What I think it is because humans… Possess sophisticated mechanisms up in vigilance, or mechanisms that we’ve also call mechanisms of vigilance. So how how do these mechanisms work? Well, when we’re told or when we read something, the first thing we do is we check the possibility of the content given our prior, given what we already believe given what we already know. So, for instance, if if, Joan tells you you should buy this phone.
The first thing you will do, we we know if thinking about it is looking at whether that belief is coherent with what you believed. So if she’s recommending an iphone and you hate everything apple. For instance, then you will think that she’s wrong. That is a default reaction. Anything that’s 1 tells us that doesn’t figure about prior that doesn’t feel our beliefs.
Our intuition is to… Is to think it is false. Fortunately, we have cognitive mechanisms that can allow us to overcome this initial rejection and to accept communicated information, even if it clashes with our bugs. Even if something that makes surprising or impossible, under some condition you will change on my
Speaker 0: until about.
Speaker 7: And so, , what are we what are the queues that you might look at to decide whether… So decide to accept something, you would have initially rejected. Will you at whether the sources were informed. So in the example, we have to you, has, does john have personal experience with her with the phone that she’s recommending. Is this was competent?
Is join who knows a lot about smartphones? You does the source have your best interest at heart. I know is Jones, , the salesperson person in, Apple store? Or is she just a friend of yours? Army it you agree.
If all of your friends are recommending the same phone, well, maybe it’s a good reason to, give it a try. And are there good arguments? , it’s unable to explain to you why this phone is so good, , by appealing It’s battery life for the quality of its camera or that. So a lot of
Speaker 23: dozen therapy emails 5 months ago and I was talking to my therapist about what I went out of life. And my therapist said, that sounds like a erotic size rage. And, oh, that’s Haley Rivers. I did date 1 point star that was after she left the industry and Remember, I was talking to a friend. I was kinda concerned about 1 of the scenes that she’d done it upset me.
And And my friend said to me, well, at least she isn’t racist. And was about a a couple of years ago I was looking for a little solace 1 evening on the internet, and , I found 1 of her videos. Those was there’s a really sick feeling. Like it’s she’s a really sweet girl. And so I was in therapy.
Few months ago. And my therapist said, , it sounds like you have a erotic size rage. And I’d never heard of the term a erotic size rage such a industry. And other people said you think you might hate women? Because how else could someone immerse himself in the sex industry?
Unless you really enjoyed the degradation of women. And I thought these comments were just, , silly, and I I just totally dismissed them But I found it was hard to date, nice jewish girls while you’re riding on the sex industry. Remember, this 1 woman said, , I’d have to test you for every Under the sun and wrap you in plastic and deep freeze you for a year. , before I could date you. So in 2007, I quit writing on the sex industry and thought, oh, just go back to writing on orthodox Judaism, because they’re they’re they’re simply like they’re these distinct sub coaches, like highly suspicious about.
Outsiders think the outside world is there to get them. And like to me, made perfect sense to write simultaneously about pornography and orthodox Rabbi who were sexual predators. But so I was in therapy about 5 months ago and I was talking to my therapist, about what I went out of life. And my therapist said, that sounds like a erotic size rage. And, oh, that’s He Rivers.
I did date 1 point star that was after she left the industry and
Speaker 0: Okay. That will do it. I believe for today. Talk to you later. Bye bye.