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hear it, but he was referring to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as "Joe and Ho." Now, he didn't make that up. You've seen that going around the internet. Here is my advice to Republicans slash conservatives: that line of attack on Harris just doesn't work. So if the only thing you're trying to accomplish is to make Republicans and conservatives less popular and to get them fewer votes, then that's th…

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t, in effect rigging it after the fact, I guess you'd say.

So every bit of this is entirely not only possible but probable. I would go so far as to say probable at this point. Why is Adam Schiff not in jail? I don't even understand that. Clearly he should be in jail.

All right. Now let's talk about what the media is doing to us. So we've got mailbox gate going on. The belief that Trump is having all the mailboxes picked up on trucks and taken away so that people can't vote by mail. Now of course I saw that story and I said to myself, you know, I feel I'm gonna wait a little bit. If you see a story that the president has ordered mailboxes to be physically removed so that people can't vote, the first thing you should think about that story is maybe I'll wait a little bit on this one. I'm just going to take a little pause on this one. Because I don't want to jump right in on the removing mailboxes all across the country story. Because it's a little bit, have you ever heard me say this before, a little bit on the nose. Once you learn this "on the nose" thing where the news story is a little too perfect, isn't that a little perfect? The president is rounding up mailboxes. Your first thought should be probably not. Probably not.

And sure enough, you wait 24 hours, you look at the news, Breitbart's got a story about during the Obama administration 14,000 mailboxes were removed. It's normal maintenance to remove them and relocate them into busier places. It's just business as usual. There's literally nothing that happened. So you got that.

Then what else have we got going? Oh, there's the fake story that the president is pushing a birther thing with Harris, which he's not exactly pushing. He's just saying other people brought it up. That's it. Yeah, people brought it up. Okay, I guess that's our national story. That's all we're going to talk about is the fact that the president didn't do something but you can kind of make it seem as if he did if you word it right. That's news.

What else we got going on? New Zealand has delayed their election, which could not make me any happier. Because what the Democrats, well not just the Democrats but people have been saying for I don't know, weeks now, "New Zealand, they're the smart ones. New Zealand really knows how to handle a coronavirus. We should be more like New Zealand. It would be good if the United States were more like New Zealand. They've got their act together." They delayed the election because of the coronavirus. Ah, now we don't like New Zealand. New Zealand's the wrong model. New Zealand does everything wrong. New Zealand is dumb. So you can expect that today New Zealand's not so smart when they don't do what we want them to do.

Both Biden and Harris did not appear on any shows before the convention. What the heck does that tell you? Neither Biden or Harris or even any senior people from their campaign, they didn't send anybody out to talk on one of the biggest days of the week for the election. Are they even trying? Is there something going on?

Here's what I think is going on. Hypothesis: When would be the best time to replace Biden with Harris? Would it be during the convention? Would it be that once all the Democrats are somehow at least connected by Zoom and digitally connected, could it be that that would be the right time for, let's say, Joe Biden to say I've got a sniffle and because I have a sniffle I couldn't possibly run for president? Or some minor problem like that. Is it possible that all the conversation happening right now is around the question of who should be the top of the ticket? Do you think that they're having that conversation intensely?

Well, here's the thing. If they get past the convention, it's going to be a lot harder to change the ticket, won't it? It feels like there's an optimal time to do it and then it's a little harder after that, but possible. So I think the conversation is about when to do it, not if. Because it's going to happen. It's either going to happen naturally during the term, it's going to happen effectively because everybody will assume that Harris is running the show, but it's going to happen. So I think it's possible that having nobody from the campaign talk about anything could be a risk management decision in which they know that anything they say today could make things worse. But there's nothing that could have been said yesterday on the news in terms of having Harris or Biden talking to the news. There's nothing that could have made it better because whatever happens with a shake-up of the ticket would be a nuclear bomb of news that would make anything that happened on Sunday unimportant unless it was a mistake.

So the fact that they are playing to not make a mistake that aggressively tells me something's coming. There's a little extra coming and they're at least talking about it. I'm not predicting that they'll make the change at the convention. I'm predicting that that's the conv

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ersation they're having. I did a little poll in which I asked people if they thought the Black Lives Matter protests were making things better or worse for Black Americans. Now most of the people who answered it were probably people who were Trump supporters, probably more male, probably more white, 80% white something like that. Because that's just who follows me on Twitter. It's not my fault. D…

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