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their campaign, their two best choices were to completely abandon political campaigning, one hide and the other only talk to friendly people who are going to be on your side, the only choices, the only ones, that's as pathetic as you can get. So what happens when one candidate has a track record of success as president, a number of policies that are far more popular with the public than the other…
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Now my question is, is that going to get her any votes, being on Howard Stern? How would that get you any votes? Because it's mostly men who watch it, right? Do you think the men who were watching Howard Stern are going to be, oh that was a good performance? I don't know. I think that was probably a mistake.
Harris also went on The View, and they gave her the softball question of all softballs, like what would she do different from Biden? And if she would do something different from Biden, why isn't she trying to do it now? Now I'm going to give you some uncharacteristic support for Harris in this case. She's in a bad position because she's the vice president and she's running for office. Has that ever happened before? Yeah, I guess that's happened before. But here's the problem. We don't expect a vice president to disagree with a sitting president, nor would I want her to. If she's being paid to be a vice president, I don't want her going in public and saying that my boss is getting this wrong. Do you? Like even if she believed it? No. No, she's being paid to agree with her boss. The country is paying her and very specifically we're paying you to agree with your boss. So if you put her in public and ask her, hey, where would you disagree with your boss? And then she gives you a word salad answer, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with it. Yeah, just change the subject. Word salad me. Give me some. Lie to me. No, your job is to agree with your boss. And I don't want any foreign leaders to see Biden having two opinions coming out of his office. I don't want that. Even if I disagree with his opinion, I don't want two opinions coming out of his office. That makes us look like idiots. No, she should say, here's the best answer she should give. And she's given terrible answers. I mean it's a tough question but her answers have been terrible.
Here's what I would like to do. I think she should say, you know I'm sitting vice president. I'm running for president. But as vice president my job, what you're paying me for, is to be on board with the Biden policies. And there are some things where my focus might be a little different. And there are some things that have just changed over time. So we can see that maybe what we did before wasn't working well enough. It's time to pivot. So mostly what I would do would be to look to upgrade things based on how it's gone so far. And then there are a few programs that I like, such as then mention the $5,000 thing, the $6,000 thing, and say you know the time to recommend them is during a campaign. So I'm recommending them during the campaign. But I hope you all understand that I'm being paid to agree with my boss and that's what you're paying me for. So I'm not going to leave that domain too much. But if you want to get a flavor for what I would do, these proposals are different. And I probably have a greater interest in this or that. So there's probably a way you could finesse it, but you'd have to be in the top 2% of good communicators. She's not.
So as much as I have sympathy for the fact that the question is a little unfair, it's important and unfair at the same time. It's the right question. I would definitely ask the question. But it's unfair. It's a little bit like, you know, do you still beat your spouse? There's just no way to handle that question. So watching her handle a question that can't be handled is interesting. Could Trump have answered that question? Just imagine that Trump were in the same position. Of course he could. He'd probably tell you exactly what you're thinking. Oh I'm vice president so I've got to agree with that guy. But when you set me free I've got some interests that are a little bit different. Let me tell you about them. He could do it. So it's doable, but you'd have to be in the top 2% of communicators anyway.
Then she went on Colbert and had a beer, which was the dumbest thing they could ever do because there are rumors of her having a drinking problem. And she responded to him with a bunch of word salad that will probably turn into a campaign ad. She did act like a blithering idiot. She acted like a blithering idiot.
And let's see, so all of her, I would say all of her campaign stops so far, the ones that are in the media, have been total disasters. And they're disasters that I think are the kind that even Democrats can see. But I'm not sure. You know I'm sure that there are lots of interviews that Trump has given over the years where you could say oh that was bad for him, that was a disaster. But none like this. Usually it's just Trump said something provocative that could be taken out of context so it looks bad for him. But it's not full-out incompetence. What you're seeing is somebody proving she doesn't have the goods to be president every day. Usually you don't get that from a campaign. Usually both candidates run a pretty good campaign. Maybe one's a little better. But when you're done you say oh those are two people who ran full national campaigns. That's not nothing. But no, she's not succeeding even a little bit. The machine is pushing her but she hasn't done anything worthy. Not a single good day.
And the funniest is when she tries to avoid questions by going into an inspirational speech. Have you seen that yet? Kamala Harris, I'd like to ask you this question. You've proposed some new programs. How do you think you'll pay for them? Americans are ambitious and they have goals and they're looking forward and we're going forward and you just say, oh my God, what's wrong with you? What is wrong with you? So that's what makes me laugh the most because she can't sell the serious stuff at all. You could easily imagine a Trump, an Obama, a Bill Clinton, they could sell all that stuff about hope and change and moving forward and making America great. They could sell that. RFK Jr. he could sell it. But wow, she can't sell that at all. It just looks like she was trying to memorize a speech in sixth grade. And then we'd move forward and then we'd come together. Then the country would work together. And then when she thinks she's got a good sentence she'll look at you like she's so proud like she nailed it. It's like and then we'll work together. Like she's waiting for you to be all happy because she said something that everybody thinks is a good idea, working together.
Anyway, Christopher Wray, head of the FBI, was asked again by Congress if there were confidential informants on January 6. And he said, well I have to be very careful about that, which means yes, without saying yes. And because obviously if the answer was no, what would the answer be? If the answer was no, the answer would be no. You wouldn't say I can't tell you. There's no world in which I can't tell you is the right answer if the answer was no. There were no informants. As given that it's a normal thing to do. Also we can rule out that there were on
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ly a few. I'm going to rule out the option that there were only a few. Do you know why? Because if Wray had said it's standard procedure to embed some resources in an event like this, we had a few resources, they were there to watch, they did not participate in anything that would make it worse. Now if that were true, would it be a problem if he said so? If he said there were a few, I don't want t…
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