Back to episode — Episode 2569 CWSA 08/17/24
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yelling at me. And even if I say you're drunk and using all caps it won't make any difference. Her next message will be an entire paragraph in all caps. I'm not going to read it Jenny. I'm just going to see your all caps and say never mind. But you just keep drinking and commenting because something good will come of it if you just keep it up. Just keep it up. Anyway, my view on the EU is if they…
← Previous segment →once you see that even the Democrats see that the news doesn't work for them, that there's no upside, that news is just looking for something to criticize or at least the other side is looking for something to criticize, that instead of running on policy, who would win if the conversation came down to policy? Who would win? Well the top three or four policies that the country cares about, Trump is way ahead in him being the one to handle those. You know, immigration, economics, war, I think so. The Democrats know that they can't compete on policy. So the more they tell you about policy the worse they'll look because it's just stuff to criticize.
But if they just do general things like, hey you're a Democrat right? Well I'm a Democrat. Are you awesome? You are awesome. Yeah you are awesome. I'm a Democrat too. What do you think of me? You think I'm awesome too? Why don't you vote for me? What are my policies? What's the difference? You're a Democrat. I'm a Democrat. You're awesome. I'm awesome. Don't you want more of that? So that's what the Harris campaign is running on. And again it's actually freaking genius. It's genius because I don't think anybody else would have seen it that you could just ignore the press and ignore putting out policy details. The fact that they saw this that in a sense was always right there to be seen but they're acting on it.
Now you might say to me, and this would be reasonable, that they don't have any choice because if they put her in front of the camera it's going to be disaster. But the fact that they embraced it fully, that they have a candidate who can't talk to the press in any reliable way and they're just running with it, I can't tell you how impressed I am at the skill and wisdom it would take to pull this off. I don't like it. I'm not in favor of it from a perspective of a citizen. But wow, it's just really impressive.
There's a poll. MRC NewsBusters has a poll. It's exclusive and says most Democrats don't know about Harris's radicalism. So not only do they not know about what policies she wants to do if she gets elected, they also don't know about her past statements about radicalism. And what percentage? See when asked about 10 different aspects of Harris's public record on issues from let's say the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, eliminating private health insurance. So these are things she said in the past which she does not embrace at the moment. So that's the first thing you need to know. It's not her current plan but it wasn't very long ago that she said these things. And that is important because that tells you where her mind was very recently. And people don't change that much.
But between 71 and 86 percent of the Democrats and independents said they had not heard of Harris's positions or were unsure. So they've got to the point where something like three quarters of the Democrat voters don't really know much about the candidate. And these are really important things to know. You should know how Marxist she's been just a few years ago. That seems pretty important.
So between the news not being real — oh and here's the funny part. And then they asked these voters who didn't know anything about Harris where they get their news. Here's the embarrassing part. So now that we've determined that you don't know anything about the candidate running for president, where do you get your news? And the top answers were ABC, CBS, and NBC or cable CNN and MSNBC. So can we conclude that watching the news makes you dumber? It literally does. Watching the news literally makes you dumber.
Now there's not one of those, not one of these topics did I see on the news. I'm sure they've been on Fox News but I don't remember seeing them there. Every one of them I learned on X. So everything I know about Kamala Harris's past was on X. And lots of times, you know, it's all things I've seen multiple, multiple times. Every one of them. But I didn't see it on CNN or MSNBC or ABC or CBS or NBC. So if you watch those sources you're in trouble. And even if you're on X I still think you're going to be in a silo. So I imagine the Democrats who are on X are also not seeing it. But I see it all the time because I'm in a different silo.
Anyway, here's my question. If there was a child in your universe, l
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et's say your own son or daughter, and that child was young and they hadn't learned much about history and they wanted to know about the United States, let's say they're nine or 10 years old, how would you explain our election system? Would you say well we've got this system where people learn about the candidates, you know they run for office, the news reports everything about them, then these ci…
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