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mething or done something or made an impact. Maybe. But I haven't seen a photograph of any of this. I haven't seen a witness. I'm not so sure that there's a cyberattack. Now my god, so there could be no better indication that we're in or approaching or in some kind of golden age than I think historians will look back at with more clarity because they won't have all the personalities to worry abou…

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's gonna make it.

Next Bernie. I don't think Bernie has the support in the entire group. I think Bernie will not be the nominee in part because even Democrats are saying he's too old.

That brings us to Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren is reasonably solid in terms of all the boring stuff. She's a pretty good lawyer. She's a pretty good academic. She's a pretty good senator. But she's not charismatic. She does seem to be getting better though. I would say that the last few clips I've seen of her she seems to have found a way to get out of let's say her angry bookish mode. I mean before I would say she seemed bookish, you know academic bookish and sort of angry. Yeah well it's not really a good look.

She's sort of shifting her image to be a little bit more let's say substantive and you know I would say someone who's done her homework, someone who was the adult in the room kind of thing. And she's adding some, she's adding a little energy to her presentation. She better get her energy up. But I just don't know if she has enough stuff. She just doesn't have the charisma. I mean she's got seriously bad charisma.

So who's the sleeping horse? You know when we saw that clip of Buttigieg being totally schooled by the Black Lives Matter crowd I think that ended any chance he had. Because if he were to become the nominee all Trump would have to do is run that one little loop of that one video where he's acting weak in front of just regular citizens and you won't be able to imagine him as a president. So I don't think he has a chance.

So that brings us to Kamala. Kamala Harris is, she's playing rope-a-dope it seems like. Correct me if I'm wrong. It seems like the Kamala Harris thing is that she's trying to run sort of a strong horse doesn't it look like that? She's trying to be the person who's left after Biden flames out. Bernie doesn't look feasible and Elizabeth Warren doesn't look like she could win. So I think it's gonna be Warren and Kamala Harris in the end and I think those two are going to be battling it out for the final position. And then the Democrats are going to ask themselves, take a step, who has a better chance of winning?

So if you said to yourself okay there are only two Democrats in contention. One is Kamala Harris. One is Elizabeth Warren. Which of those two seems like more electable? Well let's go down the list. Both are women. Good. Both are young enough so that they're not Bernie or Biden. Good. That's a tie. Both of them are senators. Good. Still a tie. Both of them are lawyers. Still a tie. Both of them are smart. Still a tie. Both of them have policies. Probably Elizabeth Warren has more completed policies but what is the public going to care about? Well they're not going to care that much about the completeness of somebody's policies because they know anything that gets run through Congress turns into a different thing anyway. So I don't think that Elizabeth Warren's complete and admirable command of the topics, I don't think that's gonna count too much for voters. So I'm gonna say that's more of a nothing. There won't be enough of a difference between Warren and Harris for somebody to say I'll take the one who has more complete policies. Because you figure Kamala Harris is a serious person. She's smart. She has advisors. She'll have complete policies at one point.

Somebody says Elizabeth Warren is 70 but still young enough given our times and she looks good for 70. If Elizabeth Warren is 70 she's in really good shape wouldn't you say? I mean health-wise she looks younger than 74. Sure. I'll talk about Andrew Yang in second.

Let me just quickly say that I'm still trying to connect with Andrew Yang's staff to get him booked on the show and maybe after that we'll have a better idea. But at the moment I think that Andrew Yang is a little bit too idea focused. His ideas are really interesting. That's why I want to talk to him. It's why you're gonna enjoy it. But I don't know if he has the gravitas. I don't know that Andrew Yang has yet demonstrated the energy, the power, the charisma, the seriousness that we just imagine when we see a president. He seems young and interesting, smart. You know he's got all kinds of great qualities but maybe they're 2024 qualities if you know what I mean. It may not be 2020 qualities. The time isn't quite right. Tulsi, I don't know if she'll make a run but right now she's not making much of a dent in the polls.

So anyway getting back to Harris versus Warren which I think it'll come down to when we get closer to the primary votes. It looks to me like they're going to be essentially a tie except for one thing. Can somebody tell me what is the tiebreaker between Harris and Warren? What will be the tiebreaker?

I will take a sip while I look at the comments and you tell me what would be the tiebreaker. All right I'm looking. Race. That is correct. Kamala has the person of color thing going for her whereas Warren has the I tried to be a Native American and it didn't work out thing going for her. So the tiebreaker is authenticity. The tiebreaker is authenticity, right?

I would say that Warren has everything except that because the Native American thing is the smallest problem in the world. I mean I personally, and I think I've said this before but if anybody hasn't heard it, I had exactly the same situation as Elizabeth Warren. The kids in my family, you know three kids, were told many times that we were descended from a Native American. I knew her name. Her name was Elizabeth. That was her anglicized name. I know what tribe she was with and I knew approximately when this person was in our family tree. And I grew up being told I was Native American. I had a 23andMe test. Turns out I am zero Native American. Zero.

And then I found out that there are a lot of people who have had exactly the same situation. So apparently when I grew up and when Elizabeth Warren was growing up I guess it was really popular to say that your family had some Native American blood. I mean when I said it I was bragging. Any time I ever said it I never thought I was admitting some bad thing in my past. I always chose it as an advantage. So I'd be bragging. Yeah I guess I got some American Indians. How about you? Oh you don't have any? Oh I'm so sorry. I don't know what happened to you. There were a lot of great Native Americans here and your family didn't really, nothing. Now once you slept with a Native American. Well you really ought to try it because they're top shelf. I don't know if that's true but I imagine it might be.

So back to Elizabeth Warren. So I would say that Elizabeth Warren's error if you want to call it that about thinking she was Native American and claiming that as part of her heritage etc. and then finding out it wasn't, such a big deal. It's slightly embarrassing. Totally unimportant. Totally not disqualifying from public life. Totally should be the most trivial thing we think of. Except she's running. She would be running against this guy. His name is Donald Trump. Under that condition only, that little problem, that tiny little problem of that Native American thing is probably disqualifying. Because what Trump will do with her is he will make her look like a race fraud. And I don't know if there's anything that looks worse than that. I'm sure there are worse things but it's pretty bad.

Kamala Harris, what's the worst thing that people say about her? I won't even wait for the answer. The worst thing that people say about Kamala Harris is that she once had an affair with Willie Brown. It was a, I guess married at the time or something. I really don't even care. Here's how much I care about that: not. And keep in mind she would be running against Trump. If you're running against Trump the fact that you made some questionable decisions with your love life is not gonna look like a big problem if you know what I mean.

So remember your contrast. If she were running against Pence, well maybe Pence could make something out of that or maybe Pence supporters could make something out of it because he's the most loyal guy. You know he plays by the book. He's very Bible ready and you know maybe then. But if you're running against Trump nobody's gonna be able to take you out because of your love life. It's just, yeah somebody saying heels up Harris. That is completely useless criticism. When you say stuff like that like oh she's heels up or she only got where she is because of Willie Brown, just know when you're saying it it's just for you right? Because there's nobody laughing about it. It's not really that funny. It's not interesting. Doesn't mean anything. It won't hurt her in the long run. It doesn't have any value.

So if you want to say heels up Harris and you want to make fun of her love life from years ago go ahead but it's just for you. It's just for you. It doesn't make any impact on the world and shouldn't.

So here's my bottom line. I think Bernie and Biden will disappear from the top two. I think that Harris and Warren will become the ones that matter because Buttigieg sort of eliminated himself with that little video clip recently. I think Andrew Yang is interesting but doesn't quite have the gravitas yet. Check back. If he maybe does something, works on some cause, maybe makes a difference, some kind of social program or something then 2024 is gonna look really interesting for Andrew Yang and I would take a look at him. I would give him a serious look honestly just for being different and not being, I think he would pay more attention to the science and he would be a little more interesting than a regular president.

Beto has no chance. Here's why Beto has no chance. Every time a male Democrat supported Beto he would be called a beta male. And even though it's just a joke and it's a play on words it's kind of gonna hit home a little bit too much. Yeah I saw Bill Maher.

So here's my bottom line. I'll talk about Bill Maher. Bottom line is that it's gonna be Warren and Harris who will emerge and between the two Warren will probably have a distinct advantage until she doesn't. All right because once the Biden and Bernie votes start getting allocated away from them they have to go somewhere and those votes probably are going to go between Warren and Harris eventually. And Harris has the slight advantage on having two groups in the bag, you know women and people of color.

All right let's talk about, I was watching Bill Maher from Real Time and I feel as if there's a subtle change happening. It's too early to say and I'm not a mind reader so I don't want to try to read his mind. But I saw Bill Maher trying to school Democrats on the fact that calling these detention centers concentration camps was goi

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ng too far and that it's just gonna be a problem. So in other words even Bill Maher is saying this whole Hitler comparison, Holocaust, concentration camp thing, you're just shooting yourselves in the foot. It's not hurting Trump. It's not rational. We don't have, nobody has a better idea about what to do there. So in a way you saw a Bill Maher not directly certainly not directly but feeling himsel…

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