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ly upset if it was not Kamala Harris. Really? We're saying this out loud now that it had to be a black woman, it had to be Kamala Harris and that was basically all they could live with?

Well here's what I think. Now I've said this a few times but every time there's more evidence for it I'll remind you. I don't think the Democrat Party can recover normally. You expect somebody loses a major election, you know they're actually come back stronger the next time because they know what they did wrong, they get a better candidate, they improve their game and they come back stronger. But I don't think you can come back from the identity politics because once you've convinced all your people in your grab bag of a party that their identity needs to win then they're going to play that way. They're going to play for their identity to win but not just nationally. They're going to play for a win within the Democrat Party too which should destroy it because if they can't think like a party and they can only think like their identity you can't really make a movement out of that.

Have you noticed that the MAGA people all are on the same page? Hey, hey MAGA person randomly tap you on the shoulder. Hey, hey do you support Trump? Yes I do. And what, give me an idea what your sort of philosophy is. That's part of this. And they would say something like America First. Are you also for America First? Oh you're on my team. That's it. It's simple. So Trump put together a pirate ship of common sense people who if you ask them what it is that binds them together it would be something that could bind you together forever. America. And there would be no conflict there and you know exactly what you're all trying to get. Okay I get it, you're all America. So what is it that you want to achieve? Oh the Constitution. Right, you want the Constitution and free markets. Got it. Very easy.

But no I think that the identity politics is a one-way trip. I can't even come up with a creative thought in my mind about how they could ever dig their way out because as long as you've got big pockets that can turn on them at any moment they've got to keep all the pockets happy and then they can't really have a winning group of people because it just won't be enough. So I don't know. I think the Democrats may have found the one and only way that they could make themselves uncompetitive for the rest of history at national level. They'll be fine at a local level but nationally it looks like they can never win again.

Now I'm saying this partly recreationally and partly with a little hyperbole of course. If they got a really strong candidate that's probably all it would take. All either side really needs is a candidate that doesn't act drunk and say stupid stuff and they've got a chance. So one good candidate they'd be back in action. But I don't know who that would be. They don't seem to have anybody who's an obvious candidate to be that one strong candidate.

And have you noticed that Obama went from chocolate Jesus to irrelevant and kind of stupid and maybe a little bit racist? I've never seen anybody's reputation just sink like that so quickly. Because even if you hated his policies you would have said well he's certainly good at what he's doing, you know speaking and communicating and persuading and you know just basically acting like a president. But the last few times we've seen Obama it almost looked comically incompetent. Why is that? Did he always have other people writing his stuff so he looked more capable than he was when he was president? Has he lost a step? Maybe he's not reading as much. I don't know. Is there some reason he looks to me like not the same person he was five years ago and he's not that old so it's not just age right? So I don't know. So I think it might be a little bit psychological meaning that if my opinions about the world have shifted then my opinion about him maybe gets shifted at the same time. But I've never seen anybody go from so capable to so incompetent apparently. And again it could be just a psychological phenomenon that's happening in my head but it sure looks like he turned incompetent. I wasn't really expecting that because I've always said that even if you don't like his politics or anything about his personality he's just really good at his job. But not lately. It's not his job but he's a public communicator.

Meanwhile Tim Walz has his newest explanation of why they lost. He says quote I think we're going to have to understand what type of leadership do they want talking about the country. He said we were pledging to be inclusive, we were pledging to bring people in. Donald Trump has said that isn't what he wants and so that's what America is leaning towards. I guess for me it's to understand and learn more about America because I thought they were going to probably move towards a more positive message.

Oh my God he's lost. They are so lost. They think that discriminating against white men is inclusive. They don't know that they were the bad guys. They don't know that the reason that MAGA grew is because it wasn't racist. There was nothing stopping anybody from joining MAGA because there was no identity politics. But on the Democrat side they were literally overtly discriminating against white men forever and they call that inclusive.

All right let me ask you a question. Did you hear the story about the highly qualified black American man? He was an engineer and he went to the best schools and he had really good experience and he couldn't get a job in corporate America. Did you hear that story? Highly qualified and he just couldn't get a job because he was a black man in America. No you haven't heard that story because that isn't anything that can happen in America. There's probably never one case where a qualified black man, let's say an engineer just to pick an example, couldn't get a good job in corporate America. I'll bet there's not one in the whole country. Let me say it again. I don't think there's even one. Not even one. Literally one. I'm not exaggerating. I don't think there's one qualified black engineer who can't get a job right away anywhere.

Now have you ever heard of a qualified white man who couldn't get a job because of DEI? Yes every one of you have heard that. How do you live in this country and think that black men can't get a job in corporate America? That's not a thing. Everybody who has qualifications has a job in America pretty much everybody except white men who get taken out by DEI.

All right so DEI is racism and the Democrats and Tim Walz have not figured out. And Tim Walz, all right why was Tim Walz even selected the VP candidate? Does he not know that he was not qualified to be the top of his own ticket? Did Tim Walz know that he couldn't have been the top of the ticket? It wasn't an option if he's a Democrat. Does he literally genuinely in the real world not know that he couldn't have been the top of the ticket because he's a white man? Like how lost is he? Like I'm genuinely curious. Is he stupid or am I stupid because I can't figure this out? Like why he can't figure it out. There's some mystery here. I don't know what it is. Maybe the problem's on my end.

Well anyway yes I told you MSNBC I use it as the comedy channel because all you have to do is simply report what they did and it makes you laugh. You don't even need any commentary. Are you ready? Ready for this? All right I saw some couple of posts from Johnny Mega on X reporting what shows a video of Joy Reid on MSNBC and this is what Joy Reid said about Tulsi Gabbard. She said that Tulsi Gabbard will be feeding Trump quote conspiracies from Russian state media in her job as Director of National Intelligence. Quote she's going to come in there and whatever RT, that's Russia Today publication, has fed in her life she can then feed that to Donald Trump.

Now I don't need any commentary on that right? That's just funny. There's nothing to say about it. It's just funny that this person has a TV show and people watch it. I mean not many but few. But that's not all of it. She also implied that the January prisoners, the overwhelming majority of them of course not having any kind of legal problems in the past before that, she said that when they get released she goes quote God knows what that is like when those people are showing up in the Walmarts or the Home Depots. We're in for a wild ride. Joy Reid thinks that when you unlock the lifetime of law-abiding white guys, mostly white guys, that they're going to run into Walmart and Home Depot yelling and trying to shoot stuff. What are they gonna do? Yeah I'm really worried about the ruckus at my local Home Depot when all the January Sixers get out and go to buy some improvement tools to fix up their house. What is wrong with her?

All right so yeah most of the news today is about videos and photos that I think might be fake and of course overt racism against white men in pretty much every story. Meanwhile New York City mayor Eric Adams who we alternately like to love and hate because he seems to be like half a Republican and half a Democrat so if you want a reason to dislike him you just pick whichever side you don't like and you're like ah I don't like that half. I didn't realize he used to be a Republican so that would explain why he's not like a crazy leftist Democrat. He's just sort of a standard middle-of-the-road Democrat. But he's teasing that he might be open to switching parties. He doesn't say it but the way he answered questions about that question made you think that maybe he's not wed to his political party.

Now it's interesting because he's in legal jeopardy and I wonder first of all I don't know if the corruption charges are real. We live in a world where it could be lawfare you never know. But I wonder if he thinks, no I guess those wouldn't be probably wouldn't be federal charges anyway so he's not playing for a pardon. He's not hoping to change parties and get a pardon because it's state charges right, the allegations against him. So we'll keep an eye on him but at least we understand why he seems a little bit one foot in each of those worlds because he's had one foot in each of those worlds.

There's terrible data coming out of Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Colin Rugg is reporting this on X that apparently th

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ere's an alarming number of bottlenose dolphins that are showing up with traces of fentanyl in their systems and they said that more than a third of the dolphins tested were positive for drugs. Now of course the story is that they think maybe the fentanyl is getting into the waste system and then gets into the ocean then the bottlenose dolphins get into it. But I've got a different theory. The rea…

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