Recycled Rhetoric: Analyzing Kamala Harris's Political Strategy and Beyond
Show Notes
Is Kamala Harris just recycling old political tactics, or is there a deeper strategy at play? Join us as we dissect the current election cycle, likening it to the repurposing of old materials. We kick off with a quirky analogy that sets the stage for a broader examination of how this political season seems like a rehashed presentation of previous campaigns. Our discussion zeroes in on Harris's usage of recycled talking points and unverified claims, pointing out a noticeable lack of originality in her policies.
00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:06.573 You know besides the fact that David and I have been friends for so many decades that you know, soon a full hand will be used.
00:00:06.573 --> 00:00:11.605 It's kind of like how I feel about this election cycle I just want to give it the whole hand.
00:00:11.605 --> 00:00:15.707 I know it sounds weird, but it really is going to come together.
00:00:15.707 --> 00:00:28.632 By the time David finishes this part of the rant, there's nothing new, nothing changed, nothing to look over here Seems to be an old age adage that doesn't really work anymore.
00:00:28.632 --> 00:00:31.809 You have to present things in a new light.
00:00:31.809 --> 00:00:42.396 It's kind of like taking yesterday's old, you know cake and turn it into mystery sprinkled, colored donuts, which is what they did in a bakery years past.
00:00:42.396 --> 00:00:42.859 Right.
00:00:42.859 --> 00:00:52.310 The same way, they take all these multicolor recycled plastic and turn it into a color, but not clear, and those are people who understand the process of manufacturing.
00:00:52.310 --> 00:01:01.991 Or you can try and take an old concept and just give it a new wrapper, which is exactly what this political cycle has shown.
00:01:02.682 --> 00:01:04.618 Welcome to the podcast called the Rent Network.
00:01:04.618 --> 00:01:15.289 This is my co-host, david Solomon, as he rocks his head or is he rocking his head against concrete as we peel back layers of multitudes of topics holding ideas.
00:01:15.289 --> 00:01:19.385 I said that all backwards, but did you pay attention?
00:01:19.385 --> 00:01:24.042 But I did that intentionally, because it's basically saying the same thing.
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00:01:52.433 --> 00:02:01.265 Now, david, I started this rant with some twisted words, which I know it always seems to tickle your fancy, but there's reality.
00:02:01.265 --> 00:02:10.727 To the way I started it, I talked about old topics and on taking old items and making them new again, kind of like recycling.
00:02:10.727 --> 00:02:13.368 We all get the concept of recycling.
00:02:13.368 --> 00:02:18.627 We take the old newspaper, we mush it all up, put it through a process and make new newspaper.
00:02:18.627 --> 00:02:23.050 It's the same old newspaper, same old print, same old ink.
00:02:23.050 --> 00:02:26.669 I don't see the difference, david.
00:02:27.721 --> 00:02:35.877 You know, stuart, you're on a track here and it just happens to be that this week the Campbell Soup Company, after 155 years, decided it's changing its name.
00:02:35.877 --> 00:02:39.868 They're dropping the word soup, That'll be the Campbell Company, but they're doing the same thing.
00:02:39.868 --> 00:02:44.688 Dunkin' Donuts drop donuts, but they're still selling freaking donuts.
00:02:44.688 --> 00:02:57.765 Okay, kamala Harris is selling you the same donuts that she gave, that Barack Obama has been giving you, that Bill Clinton has been giving you, that Hillary Clinton has been giving you.
00:02:57.765 --> 00:03:01.867 There's nothing new, folks, and I know what you're saying.
00:03:01.867 --> 00:03:07.711 David, come on, didn't you see how she was on Tuesday night?
00:03:07.711 --> 00:03:11.932 She went up to him and shook his hand.
00:03:11.932 --> 00:03:22.657 She looked presidential, she spoke with the reverends Folks, stuart, and I have this lovely expression when you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.
00:03:26.300 --> 00:03:34.562 And the pig that was on Tuesday night was Kamala Harris's ability to say whatever she wants unabated, unopposed, unchallenged, unfact-checked.
00:03:34.562 --> 00:03:39.652 She could say whatever she wanted and she pulled out the typical Democrat playbook.
00:03:39.652 --> 00:03:46.657 She claims her opponent is insulting, but she lied about him trying to tether him to the Project 2025.
00:03:46.657 --> 00:03:57.055 His stance on IVF, a national abortion ban, and his economic policies, military, foreign affair policies everything she could lie about.
00:03:57.055 --> 00:04:02.510 But when it came to her talking about the serious subjects, what did you hear?
00:04:02.510 --> 00:04:06.376 That was new Vote for me and I'm going to.
00:04:06.376 --> 00:04:07.580 You're going to what?
00:04:07.580 --> 00:04:21.353 Go to her website, stuart, and you see she copied and pasted at the last minute Joe Biden-like policies they were not even hers the talking points and my favorite one.
00:04:21.353 --> 00:04:27.653 You know my passion, stuart, for what's going on right now in Israel, almost 350 days in.
00:04:27.653 --> 00:04:29.925 And what does she talk about?
00:04:29.925 --> 00:04:31.747 A Palestinian state?
00:04:31.747 --> 00:04:40.302 Refreshing, isn't it To hear once again the same old mantras that previous presidents have been using?
00:04:40.302 --> 00:04:56.134 Because it sounds good, it's a great soundbite and, in light of what has happened since October the 7th, the damage that she causes she doesn't care about, because all they care about is getting elected.
00:04:56.134 --> 00:04:59.793 She learned from her boss you insult Netanyahu.
00:04:59.793 --> 00:05:00.154 It's good.
00:05:00.154 --> 00:05:05.336 She denied the fact that she insulted Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:05:08.824 --> 00:05:11.427 Folks, if you could tell me something fresh?
00:05:11.427 --> 00:05:20.855 Yeah, I heard somebody tell me David Trump is proud of destroying Roe v Wade, ruining women's rights.
00:05:20.855 --> 00:05:24.079 No, he followed the Constitution.
00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:30.910 Okay, and people can't stand when you use fact, and people can't stand when you use fact.
00:05:30.910 --> 00:05:36.439 So she says, oh, I'm going to be the protector of women's rights, I'm going to codify Roe v Wade, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.367 Did we hear this before?
00:05:39.367 --> 00:05:42.913 When it comes to economic policies, you'll see.
00:05:42.913 --> 00:05:43.733 Vote for me.
00:05:43.733 --> 00:05:46.478 I'm going to lower prices, but you denied.
00:05:46.478 --> 00:05:50.586 What are you doing?
00:05:50.586 --> 00:05:51.567 That's new Throwing, stuart.
00:05:51.627 --> 00:05:56.774 What I heard was I think it was $50,000 at startup, potentially startup businesses.
00:05:56.774 --> 00:05:58.836 But how do they qualify?
00:05:58.836 --> 00:06:00.218 What do they need?
00:06:00.218 --> 00:06:01.940 What's that going to look like?
00:06:01.940 --> 00:06:05.185 Where are you getting the money, stuart?
00:06:05.185 --> 00:06:12.312 The government spent double this month than what we took in.
00:06:12.312 --> 00:06:17.355 The interest alone is obscene and I'm waiting for the plan.
00:06:17.355 --> 00:06:30.810 But let's bring sound bites from Barack Obama, hillary Clinton, bill Clinton, you know anybody else, even Joe Biden, but there's nothing new and fresh.
00:06:30.810 --> 00:06:30.971 Folks.
00:06:30.971 --> 00:06:39.278 If you package Dunkin' Donuts and Campbell's Soup and you just change the name, you're still getting chocolate cream donuts.
00:06:39.278 --> 00:06:42.793 You still can get chicken noodle soup, but nothing's going to change.
00:06:42.793 --> 00:06:44.446 The recipe hasn't changed, stuart.
00:06:44.446 --> 00:06:46.911 At least that's how I see it, stuart.
00:06:46.911 --> 00:06:52.827 How do you, my friend, see Kamala Harris as the candidate, because I know you didn't hear it in the debate.
00:06:53.930 --> 00:06:58.399 Well, you know, let's first start with quotes.
00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:05.398 Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
00:07:05.398 --> 00:07:09.490 That's President Johnson from his 1963 thing.
00:07:09.490 --> 00:07:12.293 That's president johnson from his 1963.
00:07:12.293 --> 00:07:17.100 You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
00:07:17.100 --> 00:07:21.115 Abraham lincoln oh, she has a good script writer.
00:07:21.115 --> 00:07:28.471 Efforts and courage are not enough with a purpose of direction.
00:07:28.471 --> 00:07:30.113 It's John F Kennedy.
00:07:30.113 --> 00:07:32.096 I'm going to give you one more.
00:07:32.096 --> 00:07:33.536 And these are all her quotes.
00:07:33.536 --> 00:07:35.639 No, these are not her quotes.
00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.601 These are quotes from famous presidential Right.
00:07:38.601 --> 00:07:44.533 Tell the truth, work hard and come to dinner on time, general Ford.
00:07:44.855 --> 00:07:47.800 Gerald, not General, gerald, gerald Gerald.
00:07:48.266 --> 00:07:50.574 Why did I throw these quotes and I put them in the chat?
00:07:50.574 --> 00:08:01.970 It's because they're wonderful sounding cliches that grip and grab your inner soul and want to make you stand up.
00:08:01.970 --> 00:08:08.279 Rise up and be a part of something more than your own.
00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:20.240 And be a part of something more than your own, I enjoy, I enjoy, I thoroughly enjoy listening to the auditorium and the physical gestures of these politicians.
00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:47.729 Their conviction, their public speaking and oratory work is rehearsed beyond belief, and if you notice the tone of my voice and focusing on certain attributes with classic pauses, you understand that you're now listening to me more than you normally do when I talk like a normal person.
00:08:47.729 --> 00:09:01.171 However, the credibility of the person that is talking with that very articulate motion is someone who isn't being real, truthful or honest.
00:09:01.171 --> 00:09:17.695 They're merely saying a script, a practice run, something that's learned not from the soul, not from the heart, not from their mind, but from something that was told to them.
00:09:17.695 --> 00:09:26.169 You know, in finance there's something called an elevator pitch, and sales is another terminology for the same thing.
00:09:27.638 --> 00:09:28.761 It's the same elevator pitch.
00:09:30.957 --> 00:09:51.802 The value-added property that you have 30 seconds to deliver, what makes you unique versus your competition and what you leave someone with as a memorable experience that when something comes up, they think of you, they remember you, they know about you and how it relates to them.
00:09:51.802 --> 00:09:53.366 And I'm going to give one.
00:09:53.366 --> 00:09:56.519 For example, I don't sleep well at night.
00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:10.049 Worrying about my clients and my clients' families and the responsibility of managing their wealth with the utmost care is my only thought when I lay my head to sleep at night.
00:10:10.049 --> 00:10:14.600 Let me explain to you something that's something that I put together.
00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:15.644 It wasn't given to me.
00:10:15.644 --> 00:10:18.442 It said with actual, real conviction.
00:10:18.442 --> 00:10:20.126 It's real.
00:10:20.126 --> 00:10:31.941 If I, david, asked me for that cliche, he would never be able to deliver it with the same conviction, the same demeanor and need it from the heart.
00:10:31.941 --> 00:10:36.149 It would sound sterile, practiced and rehearsed.
00:10:36.149 --> 00:10:40.597 David, that honesty.
00:10:40.658 --> 00:10:48.044 The difference between that debate was between someone who went out just to attack you to the sake of attacking you.
00:10:48.044 --> 00:10:55.412 Not provide what I can do for you, but what you want to hear that I maybe should do or that you want me to do.
00:10:55.412 --> 00:10:57.341 I want to give you stuff for free.
00:10:57.341 --> 00:10:58.801 The government's here to help.
00:10:58.801 --> 00:11:01.423 What else do you want me to tell you Sounds wonderful.
00:11:01.423 --> 00:11:14.408 I want to have a million new homes, I want to stop the rise of grocery prices and I want to give everyone a home, because everyone has the right to the American dream.
00:11:14.408 --> 00:11:16.201 Everyone has the right to have a home.
00:11:16.201 --> 00:11:21.927 So I ask you, why don't you move in with Nancy Pelosi?
00:11:21.927 --> 00:11:24.207 Why don't you move in with AOC?
00:11:24.207 --> 00:11:28.216 Why don't you move in with Kamala Harris and co?
00:11:28.216 --> 00:11:30.160 They don't want you.
00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:31.744 You're not invited.
00:11:31.744 --> 00:11:39.539 In fact, that's the scary part of the Democratic Party and the government today.
00:11:39.539 --> 00:11:42.525 They are not for the people, by the people.
00:11:42.525 --> 00:11:47.225 It's for them, for themselves and how they can enrich themselves.
00:11:47.225 --> 00:11:51.304 That's why they can't be charged with insider trading.
00:11:51.304 --> 00:11:54.263 That's why they're not responsible.
00:11:55.044 --> 00:11:55.365 David.
00:11:55.365 --> 00:12:09.129 You know, stuart, I got to tell you our spiritual leader would have been proud of the way you delivered those lines, but as somebody who spends his day talking and presenting and communicating, you're 100% right.
00:12:09.129 --> 00:12:12.243 You know your voice, your cadence, everything is great.
00:12:12.243 --> 00:12:16.024 Does Donald Trump have that kind of cadence?
00:12:16.024 --> 00:12:16.524 No, he doesn't.
00:12:16.586 --> 00:12:17.027 No.
00:12:18.837 --> 00:12:19.679 His delivery.
00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.267 Whether you like it or not, it's off the cuff.
00:12:22.267 --> 00:12:27.102 It's not really rehearsed, although you know is whatever is it?
00:12:27.102 --> 00:12:28.857 You know, do I love it?
00:12:28.857 --> 00:12:45.077 No, but the problem is that the you know they're that the people on the on his base love him and the same way that people on the left, or people democrats, love kamala, they're gonna love kamala, no matter what says she could say the sky is green and we love Kamala.
00:12:45.077 --> 00:12:50.361 Where the problem lies, stuart is consistently.
00:12:50.822 --> 00:13:02.429 After the debate, all of the media scratched their heads and said you know, if you're on the liberal media, they went yeah, all right, kamala, okay, undecideds, how do you feel?
00:13:02.429 --> 00:13:05.192 And a lot of them said not moved.
00:13:05.192 --> 00:13:06.493 In fact, the opposite.
00:13:06.493 --> 00:13:09.062 We don't like Donald Trump.
00:13:09.062 --> 00:13:12.394 We actually hate Donald Trump, but the man has policies.
00:13:12.394 --> 00:13:17.187 We were better off in his time than her time.
00:13:17.187 --> 00:13:35.330 We have a rare situation where we have two candidates who were the last two administrations, candidates who were the last two administrations, and you could compare easily 2017 to 2021 versus 2021 to today.
00:13:35.370 --> 00:13:36.453 And yet it's funny how she's standing there and going.
00:13:36.453 --> 00:13:40.644 She's saying she, when it's convenient, she's a Joe Biden, but when she's it's not convenient.
00:13:40.644 --> 00:13:43.398 Oh, no, no, nothing, none of this is my fault.
00:13:43.398 --> 00:13:46.664 Abc gave her the pass.
00:13:46.664 --> 00:13:47.346 We know that.
00:13:47.346 --> 00:13:48.489 We've heard that a thousand times.
00:13:48.489 --> 00:14:13.294 If ABC could have challenged her and this is why if in true Fox does get the October debate and I really hope that Donald Trump says yes I know there's a lot of posturing Nancy Pelosi's posturing that he's too chicken to do a debater again, posturing that he's too chicken to do a debater again but I got to tell you folks, I hope that there's another debate because I want to hear what in God's name could she possibly deliver?
00:14:13.294 --> 00:14:15.600 What could she possibly say?
00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:22.057 Her team is going to say don't bother with facts, emotions matter.
00:14:22.057 --> 00:14:23.541 People love emotions.
00:14:23.541 --> 00:14:26.466 Please continue this way and let the undecideds go.
00:14:27.275 --> 00:14:41.022 Wow, four more years of this or I may hate the guy, I may think the guy's a lunatic, I may hate his demeanor, but, man, I had more money in my pocket.
00:14:41.022 --> 00:14:46.059 My like you know, I I didn't have to worry about gas versus bread.
00:14:46.059 --> 00:14:48.174 That's the one thing she says.
00:14:48.174 --> 00:14:54.027 She cares about the middle class, but she hasn't shown one thing to help the middle class.
00:14:54.027 --> 00:14:58.120 Printing more money and giving away creates inflation.
00:14:58.120 --> 00:14:59.602 You're the financial expert.
00:14:59.602 --> 00:15:06.149 Is anybody paying attention that this costs more and more Every time she opens her attention that this costs more and more.
00:15:06.149 --> 00:15:15.985 Every time she opens her mouth, it costs more and more, but that's okay because she's going to give us more money from where not challenged the.
00:15:15.985 --> 00:15:21.840 The moderators didn't challenge her and, as a result, the undecided were left with a lot of you know.
00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:22.782 Let's use that food.
00:15:22.782 --> 00:15:24.245 I'm going to use another food example.
00:15:24.245 --> 00:15:29.004 Okay, there was a lot of cream, there was a lot of dessert, but I don't see a meal.
00:15:29.004 --> 00:15:33.225 And it's great to get the sweet stuff, but it can make you sick.
00:15:34.576 --> 00:15:46.604 David, like you politely said, there's someone out there that would appreciate my tone and my process, and that the ability does exist.
00:15:46.604 --> 00:15:58.500 On that note, David, I think it's time for us to move on to bigger, brighter, better things today, because you know what we have another day to enjoy.
00:15:58.500 --> 00:16:00.058 Have a good weekend everyone.
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