little too much like Obama. But it's so strange to hear him do an actual impression of Obama. Now if it sounds like I'm criticizing that you're hearing it wrong. I'm going to compliment him on that. Let me tell you my secret for becoming a famous cartoonist. If you've never heard me say this before, you know people would ask early in my career what's the secret of how you develop this popular cartoon. And I would say honestly I would do the best job I could of copying good cartoonists but I would be so bad as an artist that when I tried to copy other cartoonists you couldn't tell I was copying them because I wasn't good at copying. But because I took something from those other cartoonists when I tried to copy them and maybe combined a few of them that I liked into my copying it looked original.

Yeah if you look at the Dilbert characters and then you look at Sergio Aragonés' work in Mad Magazine — he would draw the little Mexican guys with the Mexican hats in the margins of Mad Magazine when I was a kid a million years ago. If you look at The Far Side the characters have no necks like Dilbert characters. Yeah I was just copying those two guys basically, Gary Larson and Sergio Aragonés. But if you look at Dilbert you'd say what it doesn't look like you copied anything. It's because I'm a bad copier. So being a bad copier of somebody who is extraordinary is a really smart thing to do. So I'm not criticizing Josh Shapiro whatsoever. If he can do an impression of Obama and he can nail it and people would like Obama say I like what he's saying, I don't know why I like it, it's reminding me of something but it makes me feel good. It's brilliant.

So I would really worry about Shapiro if you're a conservative and you're worried about future elections. He does have the goods. He absolutely has the goods even though he's copying. Perfectly acceptable technique. I don't have anything bad to say about that anyway. He was a clear superior choice. I can see why he was a little too strong. I favor the combination explanation. It probably had something to do with anti-Semitism and it probably had something to do with he's too strong a character. Probably both.

So then Kamala Harris did her long introduction then she introduced Walz. And here's what I saw. I thought both of them looked drunk. Now I can't confirm. I mean I don't know that they imbibed anything but they acted drunk. They did the laughing uncontrollably about nothing that was especially funny. And the weird thing is that Walz tried to paste and copy Kamala Harris. Now that's a bad idea. So when Kamala Harris is on stage and he's standing behind her waiting to be introduced she goes into a cackle. It looked drunk to me. And then her vice president pick standing behind her, Walz, he imitates her cackle and he does this completely unnatural looking over laugh in the background. Like you go what is wrong with him? Is that his normal laugh or is he actually copying it? It looked like he was just pacing her, matching her. So he was matching her energy. So she went into drunk cackling, he went into drunk cackling. It was the weirdest thing to see.

So then she slurs her way through a speech like that. To me it sounded drunk. And then the weird thing is that while she was talking after he did an impression of Kamala Harris cackling he goes into a spontaneous impression of Joe Biden's vacant brain dead look. Did you see it? I have to take my glasses off to do it but I'm going to give you an impression of a face that he settled into while Kamala Harris was talking. That he didn't even look like a living human being. What the hell was that? All right here's the face. What is that? His mouth just went open like Hillary Clinton looking at the balloon drop but with the dead face that Biden has. I mean I swear to God it looked like he was channeling Biden up there looking like he had dementia or something. And then he snapped out of it. When he gave his talk he was actually very good. So if I'm going to judge him as a public speaker, A+. Good, good, good public speaker. And I wouldn't discount his capability as a politician. Very strong but weird. Weird as hell.

So we've got Josh Shapiro who is channeling Obama then you've got Tim Walz who's channeling Harris and then he's back there channeling Biden. You really don't know what you're getting do you? There's no way to know what you're getting because they just seem to be copying each other and pretending and playing some kind of weird characters. And of course her policies have all changed. You know Harris has reversed her policies so you don't know her policies, her personality. You don't know if she's drunk or sober. You haven't heard her talk and answer questions. Yeah the key is the less you know about them the better they'll do.

Then we did learn that Walz is a giant liar which makes him perfect for campaign. He just lied a bunch about JD Vance. Now the whole JD Vance lie about having sex with a couch that's not based on any real thing that he ever said or did, well as far as we know. But do you think that Walz is not aware that that's fake? Do you think he's not aware? Well I think he's aware. And I think that both sides do this. It's what I call recreational beliefs. Meaning there's some stuff that you just throw to your base because they want to pretend they believe it. You know Trump does the same thing and I would say that's a recreational belief. So if you get yourself all caught up in trying to debunk it like that's not true you're lying about that couch, well you're sort of being pulled into their trick. Because if you're talking about whether he did or did not fuck a couch you're not really promoting your side. So it's basically draining your energy away into something ridiculous that doesn't matter and they don't believe it. So debunking it doesn't make any difference anyway.

All right, he's being sold by the left as having Midwestern folksy values. So they're all trying to paint him as this Midwestern, he's the most ordinary not left kind of guy. But of course he has a number of views and policies that are really left. So he does cover a span. He's apparently okay with the NRA or let me say it a different way. The NRA actually gave him a good vote for being pro-gun. So he's a gun owner. He's been in the military. Looks like he's a hunter I think. So he's good on guns and he's got that Midwestern stuff but he's got a lot of stuff we'll talk about that's not so Midwestern ordinary stuff.

All right, to me the funniest thing last night was watching what I'll call the anti-white pundits mostly on CNN trying to say how excited they were about this old white guy. Cuz I don't think they were excited about an old white guy but they had to act like they were. And watching them struggle to come up with words that kind of were supportive but didn't really reveal their real feelings. So it was really funny watching them try to navigate that anyway.

And then some are saying that Walz was selected so they could get the white male vote. All right I'd like to talk to my white male viewers here. How many people think that they would vote for Kamala Harris because she picked a white guy to be vice president? Is there even one person in the entire United States who would say you know I didn't know who to vote for but because I'm racist — this is not me I'm doing an impression of somebody else — because a person might say that because they're racist they're really happy that Kamala Harris has a white man picked as her vice president. So in order to feel better the alleged racists would vote for the brown woman so they could have a vice president who was like them. There are zero white people who would do that. There's not a single one. I don't think you could get one person in the United States who would say you know I'm a white man and I was a little uncomfortable with Kamala Harris but now that she's got a vice president who agrees with her on everything now I'm convinced I'm going to go for that package.

So I don't know is there something wrong with the pundits or are white men especially completely misunderstood in this country? Who would really think that that would change anybody's vote? It's kind of jaw-dropping that that's even a possible conversation anyway. No he's not going to change anybody's vote because he's white. He might lose some votes but it's not going to gain any.

All right so we're going to be struggling over the question of whether he's super lefty or middle of the road. The Democrats want to paint him as middle of the road. I think he insists he's a moderate. Directly insists that. All right but here are some of the things he's been accused of. I don't know how many of these are true. Some of these may be out of context. We'll learn later. But these are the attacks that are coming against him. That he waited three days before deploying the National Guard to quash the BLM riots. So he is being accused of being a little too favorable to the rioters and not having the right empathy for his own state when he could have stopped it sooner. But of course he'd have an argument. You know maybe bringing in the military would have caused more trouble. I don't know. He has some argument for that. But the people who live there are not too happy that for three days they had to endure the rioting when he could have stopped it sooner they think.

Apparently he created a COVID snitch line so that again you might find that the context for all these is a little bit lacking cuz these are accusations. So don't assume any of these are true or completely in context but it's just what the attacks are. So you had a COVID snitch line they say so you could turn in your neighbor for being not vaccinated. I don't even know if I believe that at all. I mean it sounds like something somebody would have done but so that sounds terrible.

Some say he's doubling down on drugs and surgeries for kids and teens. Yeah so he would be a little too pro transitioning for children. That would be a complaint about him.

He has allegedly got a DUI when he was 30 and part of his excuse was that he lost his hearing in the military so he didn't hear the siren. I don't think anybody believes that. Or he didn't see it or something.

Then the worst one is that he was in the National Guard for years but when the Iraq war broke out he suddenly decided that was a good time to retire claiming that he had always planned to do it about then and run for politics. But the people who did not retire and stayed in and got deployed to Iraq are saying something more along the lines of you freaking turd. You have no loyalty. You know we all got deployed. You left. And again is there some more context to that that I don't know? Maybe. Maybe I would say for all of these attacks you should ask yourself am I missing any context? These might not all be true.

And let's see he is pro-abortion without restrictions which makes conservatives say that he's going to let babies born alive and let them die after they're alive. I think there might be some context to that missing. But I don't like get into the abortion question because I think that's for women to work out not for me.

All right apparently he created a DEI council as soon as he got into office saying that America was systemically racist and he pushed the diversity equity and inclusion thing really far. And to me of course that's completely disqualifying. Completely disqualifying.

Yeah we'll talk about that. I'm seeing a comment about me on there.

Then there's this weird video of after he gave his speech that his wife came on stage. This is Tim Walz and she comes up to him. And how do you greet your wife when you're a political candidate who's just been chosen to the world and you're standing on stage and she comes up and everybody's clapping and celebrating? What would be the typical way you'd greet your wife? Well I'm no politician but I would think something like a kiss on the lips you know unless there was some maybe lipstick issue going on there. Maybe at least on the side of the face. A hug, a real deep hug, something like that. He chose a handshake. He shook hands with his wife then she went in for the hug and he gave her the no naughty bits hug. If you ever hug somebody who definitely didn't want your sexuality to be part of the hug and they just do the leaning hug where the only part that's touching is the top of your chests — it's like not even breasts it's just like the top of your chest touches a little bit but your groin area is two feet apart because you're both leaning in — that's how he hugged his wife after he shook her hand. What the hell is going on there? I don't know.

All right the other big thing is that he's big on China. Oh he also signed a bill redefining the term sexual orientation to include pedophiles. So what that means is that there was a bill in his state to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation but under his administration they included sexual orientation to include pedos so that you could not discriminate against somebody for being a pedophile. All right okay anyway.

Now I'm just going to say that loud. He gives me a feeling that I don't have any evidence for. I just get a feeling from him. Now I heard from other people that they got the same vibe and I don't have any information that would suggest that any of this is true. I just say he gives me kind of a vibe. So he's been a teacher and a coach so he's chosen careers that put him in contact with children and he just has a vibe about him. So that's my only statement is he has a vibe.

I will note that it seems like the Deep State really really prefers people they can blackmail. Now again I don't have any evidence of that and I don't have evidence that he has anything he could be blackmailed for. None whatsoever. But keep an eye on that because it just seems like a weird coincidence that so many people in politics look like well that's exactly the list of people I would think would be most blackmailable and yet they seem to have these prominent roles. So I don't know. I just keep an eye on it.

Now Walz also has this weird China connection. He's allegedly been to China 30 times. I don't know if that's confirmed. He worked there so he worked there for a time teaching I guess around children and he honeymooned there. Who honeymoons in China if you've been there dozens of times? Does that make sense? Does that sound like your romantic honeymoon destination? Well I mean he's got a strong connection to China so maybe it made sense but here's the thing we can know for sure. We know that Walz has a strong connection to China. I'll say connection because he's been there so many times and he's worked there. Strong connection. And then he set up some kind of a student exchange program when he was in America so Americans and I think Americans can go there. So there's that. So he loves — he seems to have some strong connection to China. And you would think that China would really appreciate that wouldn't you? If you were China wouldn't you love to have an American vice president who could become president someday? Wouldn't you love that he had a strong connection to your country? Well I think you would. I mean that would be a lot safer than somebody who didn't.

And we also know that China controls TikTok. We also know that TikTok has something called a heat button which if you push it it makes something trend more obviously. So you can basically control the brains of Americans, young Americans mostly, by any little tweak to TikTok. And we know it literally brainwashes people. You know you can see on X people are being well on the meta platform there's a lawsuit because it's addictive. Addictive and persuasive are pretty closely related. If there's some information source that's addictive I can tell you in advance it's persuasive. Scott there's a thing that's addictive everybody can't stop looking at it do you think it's persuasive? Yes yes obviously super super persuasive. I don't have to study it. If you're addicted to it it's persuasive. There's no way around that. There's no way you could be addicted to it and not be persuaded by it. That's not a thing.

So we have no information that would suggest that China has told TikTok to push any buttons. We just know that they have a gigantic national interest in controlling thoughts in America. We know they have the ability because they can simply tell them to push the button. Now let me describe it the way I described it in the man cave the other day. The CEO of TikTok says no they don't tell me what to do. That might be true. That might be true that they don't tell them anything directly about what to do. But everybody knows what to do indirectly don't they? Is there anybody who works at TikTok who doesn't know what China as a country would prefer to see more of versus what they'd like to see less of? Of course they know.

So if there were people who just worked at TikTok who had any control over the algorithm they don't need to be told what to do they just know what to do. But if I were China here's how I'd be controlling TikTok. I would say to the CEO hey CEO we don't want to control you do whatever you want but we'd like you to meet all the leaders of China so you really really know what they look like. You know we want to be kind of close to you. So that might be enough. But even if the CEO wants to have deniability no they never told me to do anything I've never done anything for them which would be good to keep that deniability. Here's what I would do if I were Chinese intelligence service. I would make sure that I became friends with the top engineers at TikTok. I would have lunch with them. I would give them favors. I would connect them with people that could help them. And I would make sure that the engineers knew that doing what Chinese intelligence wants is really good for them and if they don't do what Chinese intelligence wants it's really bad for them.

And then Chinese intelligence has dinner with their favorite engineer from TikTok and says you know there's these people running for office in America. One of them really likes China. He's been here 30 times. It'd be great for China if that guy got elected. Do you hear me engineer? Uh yeah I hear you're saying this guy's good for China right? And do you still control the algorithm? Well yeah I mean I could I just have to push that button. Would anybody know if you push the button? Well if I push the ac