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“It’s Like Ten Salad Bars With Kamala Harris’s” Word-Salad Post: “It’s Just a Mess!”
If if you’re if the main negative filter on you as a politician with ambition, if the main thing people said about some of you know this, my I wrote a whole book about this. Not many of you read it. It was not a bestseller. The most important thing if you want to run for president or be a successful president is to keep control of your public image. Not let yourself be defined by your enemies the way they want to define you. Uh John Kerry, a feat New England liberal. No, he wanted to be seen as a traitor.
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Sorry, he didn’t want to be seen as traitor. A feet New England traitorrist liberal. Uh that’s how the Bush campaign wanted to define him. And he wanted to define himself as a brave, principled moderate Democrat uh who uh who had great national security experience. And the reason John Ky lost to George W. Bush, who at the time of the election was extremely unpopular, was because John Ky lost control of his public image. He was for it before, he was against it. He went he went wind surfing. If so, that’s the key. That’s
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the whole thing. If anybody anybody whether you’ve read my book or not it’s called the way to win by the way if you want to become president keep control of your public image. So if the main filter against you the main negative frame upon you is that you are a enunciator of word salad that you just go on and on and talk like in in sentences with no punctuation that you say things that are difficult to understand. You don’t drive anything in a linear fashion. If that is the main problem you have, why would you make a
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video, which is uh which is like uh three uh uh pizza, what’s it called in Iowa? The pizza ranch. Is that what it’s called? Anyway, it’s like it’s like 10 salad bars with Kla Harris did in this one video. I’ve watched it twice now and I’m going to because of my fidelity to you, the two-way Tonight audience, I’ll watch it again. It’s just a mess. And and I have to say, Pizza Ranch, thank you. Uh yes, Richard Swank, Pizza Ranch is overrated, but it does have a good
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salad bar. It’s uh one of the few ways in Iowa you can get a salad without cheese on it because while there is, believe me, cheese on the pizza ranch salad bar, you don’t have to put it on your salad. In any event, we’ll be watching that Kla Harris video together. We got to get to Kla Harris, the honorable Kla Harris, a former vice president and of course presidential candidate and perhaps future presidential candidate. Here’s this video. Ignore that she’s got her black background blurred. ignore that she
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doesn’t look her best. And I would say that about a man, too. She just doesn’t, but just listen to what she says. And then on the backside, uh, Beverly, of course, is an expert on communications, and Ha is a close observer of the vice president of the United States. Former vice president. I just want you both to tell me if you think I’m nuts and and saying she should have not made this video or done this video, whatever. Here it is, ladies and gentlemen. uh minute 33 of Kla Harris talking about uh
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how the Democrats should approach bad ideas. >> This is a moment where there are no bad ideas, a no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the electoral college. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform which includes expanding the Supreme Court. We invite a conversation about multi-members districts. We talk about what look that that if we win the Senate, which we should and we
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will, then the Senate Judiciary Committee should have rules that they put in place. So when these people come before as nominees to the Supreme Court and lie that they are held to account and consequence, not just that somebody goes on cable news and says they lied, but that there are rules in place to actually penalize people for lying to a Senate Judiciary Committee. That we agree that it is right to have ethics rules for Supreme Court justices and let’s put those in place. Let’s talk
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about statehood for Puerto Rico and DC. These are the things I think that we’ve got to do. We’ve got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue states expanding their maps. And all of this, I think, is is look, we got to fight fire with fire. These folks are playing to win. We got to play to win. >> Am I am I being un unduly critical of that thing? Well, you are a critical person, Mark, which is why we love you so much. Uh, and that’s what it makes you such a a great
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>> smack right there. >> No, it’s no smack. It’s in the best way possible. Uh, look, I I I have to I have to preface this by saying you guys, I’ve spent a lot of time with the former vice president. I I I really really like her uh personally and I and I just have a great deal of respect for her and and I and look and I and I understand what she’s trying to accomplish here. She’s trying to get as many things out that meet the moment uh as possible. And I’ve said this to people around her who I
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have a great deal of respect for. I think she should just speak as plainly as possible and and and just go directly to it. And she has a hard time with that. Um I think she was making some salient points, but you have but the problem is you can’t untie them to get to the point she was trying to make. And the overarching point she was trying to make is we have to do as much as possible as quickly as possible to stop the Republican uh sort of wave of of what she’s calling, you know, corruption
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and and and and overstepping, etc., etc. So, I I I would give her, you know, a a six for trying to get there, a two for for messaging purposes. Uh but she’s gonna have to work on that. And I think she’s been spending a lot of time in the south lately uh with black voters and so she’s she’s trying she’s working on it. It just she’s just not hitting the mark right now uh from a stylistic perspective. >> Okay, Beverly, before you jump in, Ha, I just want to make it clear because I I’m
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so uh deprived of caffeine that I I I I maybe was a little imprecise. I agree with everything you said. My the point of saying as a party we need to think big. We shouldn’t eliminate ideas because they haven’t been tried in the past. and uh and we should uh we should be aggressive because because we’re up against a very fierce opponent. All of that totally makes sense to me and and some of the things she said I think are not only potentially good ideas but things that could happen. My my critique
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>> is she’s not she’s not a freshman house member. She was a United States senator. She was the vice president of the United States for four years. She ran for president. She doesn’t have a job now. And and that thing to come out and I mean you you off the top of your head with no staff work could take what she said and put it in the right format and deliver it great. It’s just we’re it’s past the point of grading on the curve for her to say you’re going to make a
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video that’s going to be seen. Do it right. Have some message focus. Have have a have a way of putting it out there where people can understand because the three of us understand what she was getting at. But a normal person when she says uh multimember districts >> Yeah. >> Come on now. Multimember districts. >> Yeah. >> Beverly, your thoughts? >> Well, I I disagree with some of what you both are saying in that I I’m going to say something could be a little bit
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controversial and be considered smack. I actually don’t think she’s very smart. I’m just going to put that out there. Um as as I I don’t know her personally, but what I have noticed is is that she’s a terrible communicator. And even when she’s talking about things that she cares about, it’s confusing. It’s jumbled. And as you were saying, Mark, she’s been a California senator, she’s been a vice president, she has all these opportunities to improve and she
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doesn’t. And I don’t know if it’s because she fired so many staff members who were trying to help her. There’s of course all these stories about how many staff she lost in the past, but she is not good at communication and she’s gotten a lot of training. And then it leads me to believe maybe she’s not capable of it. So there are certain people who just can’t get it. And I’ll even make this comparison to Hillary Clinton who of course was a a presidential candidate. I disagree with
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these women’s policies immensely. So we’re not talking about policies at all. At least with Hillary Clinton. She did make some foibless with her basket of deplorables. She’s smart. You could tell she’s smart. Kla Harris just is on the struggle bus and never gets it together. And even beyond that, the optics were terrible. Her torso moving back and forth, the pointing, the blurred background. I saw a lot of people in the chat saying it looked like she had been drinking, which is a common criticism. I
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have no idea, of course. But this is not her gift. And I think it would actually benefit the Democrat party. Um, actually helps the Republican party um if she would stop speaking. When she speaks, it helps Republicans. >> Beverly, I agree with everything you said with the exception of And you don’t know her, so there’s no reason for her. She’s very smart. Yeah, >> she vice president is very smart and and you guys go ahead. >> She I was gonna say I mean look I I and
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it and it makes me so sad because I I’ve been with her so many times and and many times we’re in these rooms she is the smartest person in the room and she’s asking the most thoughtful question. She’s leading the room. She’s coming with the agenda and when she gets in front of the camera I I always get so miffed by why she can’t perform well. I think she just is not a good performer. But she is one of the smartest people I’ve had a chance to encounter and be a part of her of meetings with her and
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things like that. And so I I don’t think that’s the problem. The problem is she just she just can’t get beyond herself when it comes to getting these words out in a way. She’s trying to say so many things and she and to Mark to your point, she’s not good at me message discipline. She just doesn’t do that well. But she’s she’s smart and I want people to see more of her and I and I’ve told her this before. It’s like ma’am you’re a smart lady. You’re a thoughtful
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lady. let people see that. >> I’m I’m just curious on this. Do you think she realizes she’s bad at this? >> You know, she knows. >> I I think she has some self-consciousness about this. Uh, you know, I I think prior to running in 2019, she was probably more confident. You know, she had come from, you know, California AG than Senate and she had, you know, obviously had done well for herself all through her career. So, I thought I think she had more confidence then, but I think since 2019, she’s
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probably a little bit more self-conscious about about it since we’re all talking about it all the time. And I think she’s trying to make strides to get better at it. And which is why I’m surprised that this new video is so bad because there are some uh some recent videos over the la past few six months that have been really really salient and really really good. Okay, so this is not directed at Beverly. It’s directed at many of you though uh cuz I I don’t read the chat, but I glance at
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it. Um I understand your skepticism that Kla Harris is smart. I I understand why why you’d feel that way. But you guys know Ha and you know me and and and we’re not here to spin and if someone’s not smart, we’ll tell you. We’ve both spent time with her. Ha, I’m sure well more than I have. But I’m telling you, don’t don’t let your hatred or your contempt or your partisanship allow you as you think about how the world is because this woman could be the Democratic nominee for president. Uh
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don’t ignore data points. Two people who you trust, two people whose judgment you’ve seen, two people who would tell you the truth, both are telling you she’s not a stupid person. To the contrary, she’s a very smart person. Don’t just reject that out of hand. Now, maybe you say, “Sorry, Markama, this one you have wrong.” But we don’t because we actually have firsthand data. And many people besides us who spend time with the vice president know that she’s smart. Now,
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there are different kinds of smart and uh some might say she was stupid to take the job of running for president if she didn’t think she could win in 107 days. >> Yeah. >> But if you think that she has that she’s a stupid person, that she can’t analyze situations, she can’t understand situations, she can’t solve problems, you’re just wrong. So, if you want to operate in the world with knowledge and understanding and the truth, I would drop the notion that the vice former
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vice president’s dumb. I just would. Hima. >> No, I mean I’ve been I’ve been preaching that from the from the hilltop for the last few years and and look, I I have told them and I and I’ve expressed to them that they’ve got to let people see her being the smart wonky lady. One of the things that people loved about Barack Obama, you know, early on was that he was so so deliberative in the way he communicated, the way he talked, constitutional attorney, very smart. And so I think she’s gonna have to show a
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little bit of that or just speak very plainly, very simple sentences, just very, very clear about what you’re trying to accomplish and leave it there. But this is going to be something and to Beverly’s point, if people are feeling that way, this is going to be something that she’s going to have to overcome yet again, which is something she should have litigated a while back. And so that’s going to be a deficit for her campaign. >> Yeah. And I’ll just say again, uh, if you’ve been vice president of the United
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States, now she doesn’t have the same staffing that she did, but if you’ve been vice president of the United States for four years, you should never make a video that’s a mess like that. Never. Not once. I mean, it just doesn’t make any sense. And she’s not it’s she’s not scenile. She’s not old. She’s a young woman. >> Far from old. Yeah. >> Yeah. Cozy Earth. You’ve heard me talk about them before. Man, their stuff’s good. It’s soft. It’s comfortable. It’s
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