SO WHO DO THE REPUBLICANS GET TO REPLACE TRUMP? – 9.11.24

Sep 11, 2024

Guest

Kamala Harris

Guest

Taylor Swift

Renowned singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, known for her powerful music, joins Vice President Kamala Harris, a prominent political figure, for a dynamic discussion. They dissect a recent debate, where Harris excelled amidst Trump's erratic performance. Swift's endorsement of Harris creates buzz about the political landscape, while they explore potential Republican successors in a post-Trump era. The two women highlight the significance of strategic communication and informed voting, making for an engaging analysis of current political dynamics.

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Intro

00:00 • 3min

Debate Dynamics: A Clash of Candidates

02:46 • 10min

Economic Challenges and Political Debates

12:43 • 15min

Political Performance Analysis

27:54 • 5min

Debate Dynamics: Harris vs. Trump

32:49 • 18min

Exploring Potential Republican Successors and Party Dynamics

50:54 • 3min

Political Climate and Climate Change: The Stakes of Leadership

53:40 • 4min

Reflections on Republican Dynamics

57:58 • 4min

SERIES 3 EPISODE 25: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: From the time she reached out to shake his hand and he didn’t seem to know how to do that, to his closing remarks where he basically threatened America with Russian nukes, the debate couldn’t have gone worse for Donald Trump.

Oh – yeah – it could. Afterwards, Taylor Swift formally endorsed Kamala Harris.

The Vice President’s control of the debate and the manipulation and baiting of Trump was so complete that very few fascists even feigned that he’d done well. The best they could do was insist that the moderators were “rigged” against him because David Muir and Linsey Davis did the best job of fact-checking against Trump yet. I mean ever. When Trump repeated his nonsense that babies could be murdered after birth, Ms. Davis simply stated there was no state in the country in which this was legal and then without a breath cut Trump off by evenly saying, “Vice President Harris, you have said…”

Every checklist box Harris had to mark, she aced. She introduced herself, she gave specific policy plans for subsidizing child care and small business, explained how Trump would lie and why – and that was just in the first answer. It was so thorough that I was genuinely surprised that when they came back from the first commercial, Trump was still there.

B-Block (30:30) SPECIAL COMMENT, PART 2: The Swift endorsement was one big accomplishment for the Vice President. The appearance of a bead of sweat above Trump’s upper lip at an hour in – and its dogged determination to stay there – was the other. By then Trump was insisting that Harris would spend your taxpayer dollars to give free transgender care to undocumented immigrants who were eating your pet duck.

C-Block (50:00) SPECIAL COMMENT, PART 3: I answered your questions in the immediate aftermath of the debate. I mean, what kind of questions could there be after a debate about which the New York Times, the Associated Press and other paragons of bothsidesist nonsense had to acknowledge was a Harris romp? What do you ask? “Did she win by 100 points or 200?”

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