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Exploring Political Chess: Kamala Harris as a Supreme Court Nominee and Generational Value Shifts
Could Kamala Harris be the next Supreme Court nominee? This bold suggestion by CNN's Bakari Sellers has us exploring the complex political chessboard, especially as the Democrats hold the Senate reins. We dive into the implications of such a nomination while also reflecting on a generational shift in values and discipline as displayed by Columbia University's decision to celebrate American Martyrs Day over Veterans Day. Join us as we grapple with these cultural tensions and honor the valor of our veterans, contrasting it with the perceived attitudes of younger generations, and question where the baton was perhaps fumbled in passing down important societal values.
But the intrigue doesn't stop there—find out how one woman's financial acumen has opened doors in the political landscape of California, where recent shakeups like Gascon's exit have changed the game. With millions in the bank despite a bout of unemployment, there's speculation about her potential leap into politics. We unravel this compelling narrative, examining the opportunities and challenges of career pivots and financial stability, all while sharing some bonus content and extending our deepest gratitude to veterans for their sacrifices.
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Supreme Court Justice Kamala Harris. How does that sound for you? There is a pundit that was on the news. Cnn or he's a CNN commentator, excuse me and former lawmaker from South Carolina, his name is Bakari Sellers said that a liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris to replace US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, while the Democrats are still clinging to power. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, I haven't eaten breakfast, so I'm not going to regurgitate anything. Secondly, good morning one and all and welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1:Yes, welcome. Happy Veterans Day.
Speaker 2:Happy Veterans Day. Thank you to all the veterans out there.
Speaker 1:Some of them won't celebrate it.
Speaker 2:That was one of the things I wanted to talk about this morning. It's not unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Well, go ahead and explain what it is.
Speaker 2:Apparently, students at Columbia University, which I think is in New York actually I think it's in New York City have decided that they're not celebrating Veterans Day. They're going to celebrate American Martyrs Day, you know okay.
Speaker 1:To celebrate the people that were killed.
Speaker 2:Yes, which you know. Let's thank all of those who gave their lives, but we also thank all of those who gave their service, all the veterans that gave the service. You know, I grew up with the in the parent, having the parents who were quote, unquote the greatest generation, and getting to listen to some of their stories and what they went through and what they did for the country Omaha Beach and being behind the lines. And you know, and you know being on a transport ship going from there heading to the South Pacific where he was going to have to keep fighting until they got rerouted, because, you know, because of the, you know the bombs being dropped and the war being over, and just knowing that they were willing to do that as 18, 19-year-olds for a country that they believed in.
Speaker 2:And now these, you know, dim-rod, nitwit, have no clue that they would be not able to have any free speech. You know, we can take it to an extreme too, and if Hitler had really actually taken over the world, you know, if you were born without, if you were born and you had brown eyes and brown hair, you probably got killed, gotten killed, because he was only going to have blue-eyed, blue-haired, blue-eyed, blue-haired, blonde-haired, blue-eyed kids and you know the rest of it was going to be a genocide. But no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They were terrible people, terrible people.
Speaker 1:So it just kind of pisses me off. Where did we as the older generation go wrong? How come we didn't raise well? We raised decent kids, but in general, what happened?
Speaker 2:It just goes back to all this. You know these liberal ideas being brought in. That everybody's. You know we've got a. You can't have discipline, you can't have values can't have anything strong.
Speaker 1:You can't be strong because then you're considered an aggressor aggressive you know, oh no, little suzy can't do that.
Speaker 2:She might scrape her knee, she might fall and hurt herself you know I I can't go into all the y2s and wherefores, but all of these ideas and concepts have been around since long before. You know, I started studying them and I can't remember the names of the political psychologists and all this that have always promoted these ideas. But these ideas have been around for a long time and they've just kind of infiltrated and kept coming in. They weren't in our schools and they weren't in our universities, but the smarter people we have a smarter, better way. They just kept continuing bringing them on and they have taken over the minds of the kids. I guess would be the best way to say that it's sad to see. It really is. Anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway, anyway, we'll move on.
Speaker 2:And you started off talking about. Remember what you started talking about.
Speaker 1:Oh, Kamala Harris being the Supreme Court Justice.
Speaker 2:Now there's another. There'll be another feather in our cap if we can get that to happen. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:That cannot happen. That cannot happen. Well, but you know, right now the Democrats do have control of the Senate.
Speaker 2:It's all the gamesmanship that started and it's you know what we've talked about being what the deep state has been for quite some time. It's you know that bureaucracy that's in there and you know the gamesmanship has already started. Apparently, that's already being mentioned, and I think that may be more in jest and tongue-in-cheek and out of the realm of possibility. I mean, I said, I think that may be more so than what's you know happening as far as trying to get, uh, you know, a senate majority leader yeah and what's going on with that?
Speaker 1:yeah, they're already pushing the, the people who we don't want. Which what? Thune and Cornyn, or something like that.
Speaker 2:You know McCormick has been McCormick. I'm sorry you got that right in my grill.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, well, I don't try to erase all your other noise.
Speaker 2:All right. So you know, apparently Schumer is trying to keep McCormick out, even though he hasn't the race hasn't been called, apparently, but he's up by 40,000 votes and there's really no path for the Democratic Senate candidate to get in there. So they're trying to keep him out of orientation, or whatever Schumer is, and all of them are now trying to. You know, I think, who is it? Who are the two that Thorne?
Speaker 1:Thorne, thune, I mean Thune and Cornyn.
Speaker 2:Thune and Cornyn are possible candidates, along with Rick Scott. Thune and Cornyn are basically rhinos and Mitch McConnell's trying to get them elected, whereas most of the ones that are considered not rhinos are trying to get Scott in there.
Speaker 1:I have a question.
Speaker 2:And you know, if, again, if you can get that rhino in there, he can, you know, not bring legislation and stop and install, and, you know, freeze Trump from agendas that we want to be carried out. And then again, that is the definition of deep state. Again, it's not Natasha and Boris sitting there in the corner trying to figure out although there's a little bit of that it's not that it's those people keeping things from happening. I have a question. Oh, ask away.
Speaker 1:Can they all do this before Donald Trump is even sworn in in January, or does all this have to wait for him? Does he have any kind of approval or say-so?
Speaker 2:I thought all the Senate had to be. I mean, he doesn't have any say over that. You know what's happening in the Senate at that point. No, he can't go in there and say you know you must stop voting, you must. But I thought there would have been senatorial procedures that you know kept them from doing an early vote like this, or whatever the case may be. So I don't know, I don't know. You know, no, trump can't go in there and say you know you guys must vote now.
Speaker 1:But they don't have to wait until he is sworn in. They can do it right now. I guess.
Speaker 2:Again, like I said, I didn't know there was any type of thing. I thought all the Senate had to be sworn in and seated, and then you did it. I didn't know they could go ahead and elect him or do whatever before all the you know, the senators are in there.
Speaker 1:I don't know either that's what's, that's what's kind of and I guess we still don't have an answer on on congress either. It's still like 213 to something, I think 213 to 203.
Speaker 2:You told me last night yeah, and that's uh again. You know we we can sell a billion lottery tickets in a night and know exactly who the winner is, where they were, what they bought at the convenience store while they bought their ticket. But we can't figure out this voting crap.
Speaker 1:When we used to be able to do it.
Speaker 2:I saw something on Twitter this morning and I don't know how true it is or untrue it is, but it was a picture of the states that Kamala won and voter ID laws, and every one that she won was there was no voter ID required and all the ones she lost had voter ID requirements. Weird, I don't know how true or accurate or any of that is, but it just kind of makes things that make you go home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and also things that made me go home thinking about the whole election thing. I remember I was so worried about all the illegals here and their votes being counted for her, but apparently that didn't happen.
Speaker 2:Or maybe those illegals watched Fox News and said you know, he's right, trump's right, we can't live in a country with her.
Speaker 1:Funny.
Speaker 2:So a lot of them may have, you know, flipped and you know that could be something that you know happened. You know, maybe there are a bunch of them that came in and it turned against them, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe they hadn't heard of Oprah Winfrey or J-Lo, or Beyonce, let's talk about that for a minute.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's do talk about that.
Speaker 1:Come to find out. Kamala paid Oprah a million dollars to say get there and give her a little propaganda speech.
Speaker 2:Well, let's start with the first part of it. They spent over a billion dollars A billion, a billion, a billion and they're $20 to $30 million in debt. Mm-hmm, you know, of course again.
Speaker 1:And it didn't work.
Speaker 2:And one of the articles that I was talking about reading and talking about said you know, kamala ran her campaign just like she would run the government no regard to spending and rack up a debt and have nothing to show for it which is the way they've done.
Speaker 2:The government Don't worry about spending, rack up a huge debt and then go. Hmm, how many charging stations have we built? Zero. How many wind farms are there Although wind farms are starting to go up I've noticed but still, case being, there's not a whole hell of a lot to show for all the money they spent, and you know we're deeper in debt now than we were Then, of course. Now you've got all the debt that they racked up and all the celebrities that got paid.
Speaker 1:And it failed miserably. It failed big league, big league. It failed. And that is very telling. They spent all this money for all these celebrities and it just cracks me up that they didn't just lose. It was a huge win for Trump. I mean that this people had spoken, that we don't care what celebrities have to say, because they don't have to deal with what we have to deal with.
Speaker 2:And you know, people should have known. I didn't believe any of them from the beginning, but people should have known. I didn't believe any of them from the beginning, but people should have known after the first campaigns If Trump wins, we're leaving country, and they didn't leave the country. Well, they must be just liars anyway. Why are you going to believe they're going to leave the country and why are you going to believe the candidate that they truly are endorsing, the candidate that they say they're endorsing? You know it's all about the money, yeah, and that's so funny that we're that's not funny. We're finding out that they got paid to do that, but it's really sad.
Speaker 1:I'm going to try to every opportunity that they're on TV in the future I'm going to mock them a bunch.
Speaker 2:And speaking of mocking, it's funny that Trump has said you know he'll do Kamala a favor and pay off her debts. And I don't think you know. I'm sure most of us realize that basically what he's doing is he's just, you know, sticking it to her even more. It's like you know somebody on I think it was Maria was on and she goes. Why would he do that? Why would he do that? I said wake up, maria. It's just to needle the shit out of her and just to say you know, poor baby, we'll take care of you because you're an idiot.
Speaker 1:He better not, though I don't want him to do it. I don't want him, especially if they're seriously considering her for a Supreme Court justice. No, that cannot happen.
Speaker 2:Paying off her debt would be more paying the people that helped you know and said, hey, you know, here's your money you earned, here's what you earned, and I am your savior.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know. I'm not talking about any kind of connection like legalities. I just don't want him to do it because of who she is.
Speaker 2:Right, right and.
Speaker 1:I just don't want him to do it. I mean, when I first found out he won, I thought okay, let's go, let's easy, does it? Let's not go all crazy. And then I thought about it and I changed my mind. I said no, we need to go. That's why we voted for him. We want huge change and he needs to go in there ball-busting and take care of some business immediately. So don't pay her fucking debt, especially since they're talking about her Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 2:No, here's the thing that debt's never coming out of her pocket. Well, that's true, she's never going to see anything of it. What I'm saying is that now all these people that are owed money will go. Yeah, you know you're right. We should have never been on her team. They won't. We'll support Trump.
Speaker 1:They'll never do that. They will never, ever do that.
Speaker 2:But it's just fun to think of it that way.
Speaker 1:No, they're so far off in the Trump derangement syndrome.
Speaker 2:There's no coming back for them. No matter what they probably said was like yeah, he, he should have paid it off and we're going to campaign harder for her next time. I still think, and I that may be a question of the day. Yeah, so, guys, let's go ahead and make that the question of the day then. How about you? Good with it? Yeah, I'm good with it all right, here we go. Question of the day is plain and simple do you, you think Kamala Harris's political career is over?
Speaker 1:I think so.
Speaker 2:I think so too.
Speaker 1:So did somebody replace her Senate seat? Somebody had to replace her right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's out of the Senate.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right, because she was vice president.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was out of the Senate. Oh, that's right, because she was vice president.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was just the deciding vote.
Speaker 2:She was head of the Senate, but that's just a.
Speaker 1:you know, JD Vance will have that position, so she has nothing to go back to, like Tim Walz had his governorship to go back to.
Speaker 2:Right, she was the vice president. Now she has no job, nothing.
Speaker 1:She has no job, nothing.
Speaker 2:She has no job. She can become a private litigator and that's about what she's got, yeah, or on the $192,000 that she made the last four years, she can take her millions that she now has in the bank.
Speaker 1:I wonder how that happened I just had a terrible thought no, no, no, no, never mind, never mind, they can't do that, because the attorney, the what gascon, lost his seat. But he lost it to somebody else, right?
Speaker 2:but anyway maybe go run for something in california somewhere she could, but anyway, that was the question of the day. We usually end on that. We kept on going. That's called bonus content.
Speaker 1:Alright, thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:And we'll have bonus content tomorrow too. Go Dawgs.
Speaker 1:Happy Veterans Day Happy.
Speaker 2:Veterans Day.
