Are American's Tired of Trump's Weird Rhetoric? (Debate Recap)
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Hello. Good morning. We are now like 36 hours post-debate, maybe, if you're listening to this. I am still high. I'm still high on coconut pills. I'm still high on coconut pills.

And conspiracies, I just, I had the best time. Did you have a good time? Facial expressions, great time. Great time. We got to watch it like outside, like on TVs. Under a bridge, sort of. We were under a bridge on a pier. The pier in Philadelphia. So what did you think? First impressions. What was your gold medal moment?

Gold medal moment is different than my general impressions. My general impression is that Donald Trump still refuses to believe that Kamala Harris is his opponent. He would not look at her. He wouldn't look at her. He still seems to insist that he is running against Biden, that she is Joe Biden. Yeah.

But that Joe Biden hates her. When he ever said, and Joe Biden hates her, I was like, oh my God, what are we in high school? Right. It's all so weird. Yeah. But I don't think he like, his brain like won't compute that she is his opponent.

And then even starting from the handshake, she put him on the defensive, which – and it felt very, A, authentic to her to be friendly and offer a handshake because she's not like a frigid person at all. And then it definitely put him on the defensive. He's a germaphobe. He does not like to shake hands. Yeah.

Especially with black women. Yeah, I don't know if that was factored in. Or maybe black women. But she's not. I did not know she was black. So yeah, I think he was just completely on the back foot the whole time. And that's not a great place to be when you're the oldest guy running for president anymore. And your brain's in a questionable place in terms of aptitude.

He did this weird thing where like when it wasn't his turn to talk, he almost shut off. Did you notice he would just sort of just like stand there with his eyes slightly closed and like wait for it to be over and then he would just go to whatever he wanted to say next?

Honestly, that stuff maybe works at his rallies. And we did see him bring up some of his like world famous rally points. But he was no match for her and how prepared she was. He could not just sort of like off the cuff for an hour and a half the way that he used to be able to catch Biden off guard. She was steady Eddie. Yes, verbatim.

Regarding the shutting off, that reminded me of the way people would describe how he was sitting at his trial, his hush money trial, that he would just close his eyes and have to get through it. I've said this a long time. His heart's not in it. It doesn't have the juice for him anymore. He just wants to go play golf. Did he ever want to do it? But he then gets trapped in needing to escape liability. Yeah.

and to continue feeding his ego on a broad stage. But the whole thing was bizarre, funny, but quite dangerous in terms of the implications. It was also deeply inscrutable if you're not a quote unquote MAGA person. There's so much that I think needs to be like

And so for that reason, I'm like, do people sort of instinctually connect to it? Or are they like, what the actual fuck? Like, I can't follow it. Or are they ascribing meaning to something that is truly meaningless? Well, I talked to my parents after the debate last night, and they had a lot of questions about

the stories. Because like we knew when he said Springfield, Ohio and the dogs, it's not like they explained the story behind that. So my mom was like, what's up with the dogs in Springfield? And I'm like, wow, he said like these Haitian immigrants were like eating people's dogs. She's like, I'd never even heard of that. So she actually got a little bit lost during that part.

because she was like, I didn't know about this. I didn't know about this conspiracy. And it's not like David Muir super explained it. He was like, they're eating their pets. They're eating their pets. And she was like, what was he talking about? Right. There's so many deep cuts from- There was a lot of deep cuts. Like truth social that you have to understand. Where does his obsession with Victor Orban come from? Does the average American know who Victor Orban is?

It was just a very bizarre choice of references for the job. He was name dropping like every dictator. He slipped up too when he was like, well, when I talked to Putin, he, because his idea. Isn't that illegal under the Logan Act? It should be. Yeah. But this man never faces any consequences. He also had that private meeting with Netanyahu to try and negotiate a ceasefire, which is like also extremely illegal. It's like interference. He's not a sitting president. You don't do that. And he's met with Orban at Mar-a-Lago. Right.

Okay, let's go back to the handshake because I think she did it for a couple of reasons. And one of the reasons I think she did it was to fake flatter him a little bit because she came over, gave the handshake. You saw his guard come down on a level that she was able to get in there with the barbs right away. And she did the same thing today at the 9-11 memorial where she reached across Biden, who was not shaking that man's hand. Biden was like, get fucked. I'm old. I'm out of here.

and shook his hand again today. If you watch that clip, so just for context, everyone, there is a clip from yesterday morning, 9-11. All of the previous administrations go to the 9-11 memorial, and it's a very somber occasion. It was held in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and there's no politics spoken there. It's just they attend and respect the moment. And

And there's a video of Mike Bloomberg getting Kamala Harris's attention on Donald Trump's behalf so that he could say something to her. And it seems like she was saying like, good job. Thank you. Thank. And then she was saying, thank you. And they shook hands again. So I feel like he has a little crush on her. He's so desperate. He's so desperate. And then shortly after that,

Her campaign had immediately challenged him to another debate right after. The consensus, including on Fox News, amongst all these undecided voter focus groups is that if they're not swayed to her, they're maybe moving off from leaning him to undecided or they're more into her. So she decisively won this by all accounts, including the commentators on Fox News.

There's really no one who was successfully spinning it. Even on Newsmax, Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly were like, he bombed. He bombed. Yeah. So her campaign challenged him to another debate immediately. And she was like, I'll even do it on Fox News.

And he's waffling. It seems like I heard a maybe, I heard a no. Well, I have a thank you to give out. Who's the thank you for? I would like to thank Tulsi Gabbard for leading his debate prep because she obviously did such a great job for the Democrats in not preparing him at all for this.

That he was just so easily misled. He was tired. We can go on and on, but just this, I think on a national stage, and we'll see people only really see the clips. I wonder if just seeing the clips of him talking about the pets actually hurts Kamala because she's not trending today with all of the great policy points and clapbacks about like how he negotiated with terrorists and whatnot. That stuff's not going viral. What's going viral is he's a joke. But over 50 million people watched it.

That's number one. There will be hundreds of millions of impressions in the clips. People will talk about it. And the other thing that I think is one of Donald Trump's biggest weaknesses in all of this, in this race in general, even when he was against Biden, is that people are just sick of it. Like they're just sick of it. Will you shut up, man? Is the sentiment around Donald Trump, and that's why he can never really...

crack an approval ceiling of like 40% max, 43, because he is so abhorrent to such a strong percentage of the country. And he knows it's just about juicing his base and getting them to come and care. But people are just sick of it. They're just sick of hearing it. And I think that hearing him rant about eating your pets and then people are like, what pets? And it's clearly not a thing.

I think people are like reminded. They're like, I can't, I can't with that. So they either like, don't go out and vote for him or they vote for her or they don't vote, you know? So that's the way I sort of see it is that like the more he seems like a joke, that is better. The less powerful. Yeah. Yeah.

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I mean, even the New York Times that is decidedly very like hard on Kamala today. The headlines were like Harris and Trump bet on their own sharply contrasting views of America. Pundits say Harris won the debate. Undecided voters weren't so sure. But further down the page, in their opinion, Harris won and it wasn't close. 14 writers rate the presidential debate.

grieving Ohio father tells Trump and Vance to stop talking about his son. Kamala Harris's performance encouraged democratic donors, Donald Trump, not so much. He was alone is the thing I noticed for him to be in the spin room by himself while she's at her big rally with all the people supporting her post event shows that not only in the state of Pennsylvania, which the media will tell you is a red state and it's going to go red, but

Nobody showed up for him. His children, I didn't see, were there. I don't know who his surrogates were that were in the spin room because he was sort of like dawdling about. I do. It was J.D. Vance, David Bossie, Matt Gaetz, I believe. Great. Those are real winners. Yeah. Tim Miller was speaking about who was there. And he basically said that none of them really even had that much that they could say.

I thought his funniest joke of the night was run spot run. But his, the point he made there that he was trying to make there was, which is that she doesn't have any plans though. She does. They're now on up on her website is that was neutralized when he said, I have the concept of a, of a plan when asked how he would improve American's healthcare system. So any moments he could have had, he didn't grab those opportunities, uh,

to, you know, tie her to some of Biden's unpopular policies about some of them. He was not prepared. They should have let him have notes, I guess. Some of the things he said were ridiculous. Others were dangerous. I would say...

For me, the most striking was his clear adulation of dictators, plural, while he was on the stage. And when he was asked, like, do you believe Ukraine should win the war? He didn't say yes. He expressed sympathy for all of the Russian soldiers who were lost, but not for the Ukraine soldiers who were lost. And after they were invaded, he name-checked

only the leaders of our foreign adversaries, like telling Abdul, the leader of the Taliban, that he's going to send him a picture of his house.

And he's like, why are you sending me a picture of my house? And he's like, I don't know, Abdul. Don't do it, Abdul. Those are straight from the rallies. Those are straight from the rallies. He says that all the time, that he sent the leader of the Taliban a picture of his house as like a threat because he thinks he's mafia and he's not. He thinks that's like a mafia thing to do to send like somebody a picture of their house. Well, it's just extremely – Like I could kill you. That's deeply – of course. It's America. It's so stupid. They can. Yeah. It's –

It's deeply inappropriate. Okay, sure. Maybe he could do that. But it's deeply inappropriate that he would say that in public. Why are you giving away our national secrets yet again? Also, like we said, he talked about having spoken to Putin. He also refused to acknowledge that he did not – he doesn't regret January 6th. He lied about – J6. He referred to himself amongst the protesters as we –

He lied about and said that there were no deaths amongst the Capitol Police officers, which there were five deaths. He also called it their side. He said the only person who got shot was on our side, Ashley Babbitt, who was shot by a crazed lunatic cop and then said – and nobody got killed on their side. Who's –

whose side? The police's side? The American people's side? The democracy's side. The Democratic side? He blamed it on Nancy Pelosi again. Which is wild. Said that she was in charge of the National Guard, which is not true. The president is in charge of the National, would have been in charge of the National Guard, him. I do want to say, not only did I think, just as a side note, the moderators did a great job with staying on the fact checking, getting in there when they really needed to.

I also thought they asked really good questions. They were really targeted on the priorities that people care about, and they asked them in pointed, productive ways. I think in good faith also. Every single one of their questions, even if it was a tough one and she got a tough one about Israel-Palestine, I think they asked it in a very direct and objective way while at the same time maintaining the cadence of how long they were going to give people to respond to stuff and fact-checking in the moment.

He did ultimately get like four additional minutes and spoke more times than she did. But to make it about the moderators I think is ridiculous. But I do think there was one thing that stood out to me, which was when they asked why Donald Trump said the other day that he lost 2020 by a whisker when there are now people in jail. Not the whisker. For insurrecting. And Donald says, I was being sarcastic. David Muir's like, I didn't detect sarcasm.

That was like there were really – I felt that they were involved in a fair way. Of course I do. He pushed back hard on that whisker. He was like, you said it. And he's like, well, I don't remember saying that. He's like, well, you did say it. Here's the transcript. It was like the other day. And he's like, if I did say that, then I said it. Oh, yeah, I said a whisker and I said it was a sarcasm. The old sarcastic whisker.

That shook him. That shook him when she said that Goldman Sachs, the Wharton School of Business, and whoever else, oh, the Nobel laureates all said that his plan was garbage. Those were pointed picks. Goldman Sachs will not give this man a loan, notoriously, for decades, even though Steve Mnuchin is an alumni of Goldman Sachs and was his treasury secretary. He went to the Wharton School, which he's very proud of, a very prestigious business school in Pennsylvania, no less, and he

She was calling out his alma mater. You're trash. And the Nobel laureate thing. I forgot that he said he should get a Nobel peace prize for his negotiations with the Taliban. So she was, she was bringing it back. She had, she, whoever prepared her did a great job.

Of like getting him right in the needles. Oh, yeah. She had – there were many moments I think that she had that were like so exquisitely crafted and she knew where to insert those – insert them as like where those opportunities were. How about when she said –

Me and Tim Walls are gun owners. That party we were at went nuts. People who are very against guns were like, yes. I mean, like, I'm not a fan of guns, but like, if you want a gun, like, and you're a safe legal owner, I still think the law. She shut that down. Because it totally was just like the idea. They're coming to take your guns.

He could have easily found out that she has a gun and not said that, but he did. They're taking your gun. She's like, I have my own guns. I don't need your guns. Why would I take anybody else's gun? I'm a gun owner. I thought that that was really intense. Resonant. That was almost as resonant on her side as migrants are eating your cats and dogs, transgender operations for illegal aliens in prisons. Oh my God. That was like a mad elf. It was insane.

Now, I was working with PolitiFact last night, and there were a couple of things that they fact-checked that we got a little bit razzed for because they fact-checked Trump 33 times, and they only fact-checked Kamala one time. And the one time they fact-checked Kamala was because she said that Trump's tax plan will cost the average American $4,000 a year. It's actually $3,600 a year, not $4,000 a year. Oh, you round up. So that was her fact-check. We round up, right? And who knows?

On his, some of the ones he got fact check on were, of course, the Haitian immigrants eating your pets in Ohio. That never happened. He said every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal, conservative, they all wanted abortion to be brought back to the states where the people could vote. This is false. And political fact check that as false. Nobody wanted that. I don't know why he continues to say that. I think the reason he continues to say it is because it's part more, it's more about his rhetorical technique.

about if you can just shoot lies from an assault rifle style gun.

cascade of lies. Nobody believes that though, yeah. People will sort of internalize, oh, everybody wanted that, but you can't even refute that because you have six other things to refute. I thought that that led to one of her most effective moments of the night, which was when she spoke about, she basically did deny that very effectively about how, you know, people don't want to be bleeding out in hospital parking lots because doctors are afraid of getting prosecuted. And you put these people on the court who proudly believe

said they want to get rid of Roe v. Wade. He said it took courage. Why did it take courage to overturn Roe v. Wade if it's what everybody wanted, Donald? Great point. You can't speak out both sides of your mouth like that, but he always does. He also said that the 818,000 jobs created under Biden-Harris is a fraud. PolitiFact rated that pants on fire. And in fact, it is published. The federal agency that calculates how many people are working, it

It's 818,000. So it just, she stated a straight documented fact. The bounce back jobs. If everybody knows it, you know it, I know it. That was so stupid. 21 million immigrants did not come to the US. PolitiFact rated that false. Which is so stupid because he could just say the number and the number isn't low, but he instead insists on being like, and I believe it's more than that.

The other thing they kind of fact-checked her on, which, again, it was like marginal, is when she said, Donald Trump left us in the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.

unemployment did drop to lower than the Great Depression during the pandemic. But by the time Joe Biden was inaugurated, there had been some bounce back of jobs. So for a year, we were at a lower employment rate and in a worse situation than the Great Depression. But of course, when Joe Biden got elected, there was a little bit more faith in the stock market coming forward. And some of those people did return to work before that first 2020 year was up.

Right. People figured out Zoom. Right. I mean, I think these things are kind of just getting into the weeds of like – Well, they're marginal, but that's the thing. Like when we fact-checked her, it was like, oh, you were off by a couple dollars. Oh, it was like off by a couple days when we talked. She never flat-out lied. She had two checks that were – well, technically, it was $3,600, not $4,000. But his were like, no, immigrants are not eating pets. Like crazy.

I mean, she came across as wild, very, very competent. Mitt Romney said today also that she came across as very capable and that maybe people might have an impression of her as being a certain way from the memes or from a few moments, but that she came across as very effective. There's also new reporting just out in Politico that foreign officials who were watching the debate, meaning our allies in Europe, that she came across as

as very, very effective. And they have faith that she can be in the world's most powerful job. That's actually the headline. The world can see Kamala Harris in its most powerful job. One diplomat, one European diplomat said composed, authoritative and presidential. She even managed to laugh at him.

By the end of the debate, the foreign officials, this is a political reporter writing, that I was in touch with came across as more certain that Harris was her own woman, although they stressed they still wanted to know more about her policy ideas. The main foreign issues that came up were the wars in Gaza, Ukraine, and Afghanistan.

And I do want to note something that the only answers that Donald had about either of those, about what would you do, is they wouldn't have happened. It wouldn't have happened if it weren't for me. He doesn't have a plan. He doesn't have a plan. Like she said, he doesn't have a plan for you. His plan is to simp for those dictators. And she said that too. She said they know that they can manipulate you because you will take their flattery and do what you...

What they want you to do, which he has said. He has said Russia can do whatever it wants. Whatever the hell they want. Yep. Yeah. So he basically has said – he's saying, oh, I want the Ukraine war to stop. He wants it to stop with Putin getting land. For Russia. And she was able to very –

I don't know. She really, I think, was able to drill down the issues very plainly, maybe because he really is functioning at like a third grade level. Well, and David Muir was picking up when she was putting down because she was getting on him about the Putin and Ukraine stuff. And then he followed or Lindsay Davis followed up and was like, to be clear,

do you want Ukraine to win the war or whatever? And he was like, I want the war to end. He wouldn't say that. Exactly. He lied a lot about the international leaders too. He said, Harris never even met with Netanyahu. She hates Israel. That is not true at all. She hates Arabs also.

She hates Arabs also. Biden hates her. Everything's crazy. He also said that she met with Putin. She's never met with Putin. She's never met with Putin. I want to reiterate, she did meet with Netanyahu. She just did not go to the address because she was campaigning. It was right after her campaign began.

And he had a private meeting with him. That is more significant. Yeah, she had a whole private meeting. So he lied about that. He basically wants to present her as weak, but it seems that the reaction is not that because they are actually used to having female leaders in some of these countries. Crazy, crazy. Yeah.

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And PolitiFact checked this as mostly false to accuse Trump of being involved in Project 2025 as mostly false. One, it was written for him per the Heritage Foundation, but he is now saying that he's not going to use it. But we fact-checked to show how many... There's too much of a similarity between the Project 2025 and Agenda 47 to the point that it's like, hey, can I copy your homework? Yeah, just change it a little bit. So...

I don't know if we should start saying Agenda 47 and then listing those page numbers because they are identical to what is in Project 2025 on many cases. Yeah, I mean, I think the idea that these are distinct things is something that we should not even entertain. He wouldn't. It is the same thing because he doesn't actually have policy plans. You know what his policy plans are? Project 2025. He owes them. He owes them.

Literally. And if we're being real, I wonder if they didn't need the MAGA vote, right? Which they, I think they're greatly overestimating the MAGA vote and how many people are actually diehard MAGA right now. And it did either die from COVID or are locked up because of January 6th or have just decided they're going to sit this one out because it's not that fun anymore. This is a plan in many ways for JD Vance. And I do wonder if the Republicans were fair and,

Would they have been like, oh, my God, we have to replace Trump right now? Now, they can't because J.D. Vance doesn't have any riz. They're in the same situation that the Democrats were in in June, where it's like this man is too old and he is not capable and the American people aren't buying it. And this is not winning. This man cannot win. What are we going to do?

But Heritage Foundation and J.D. Vance are very close. So if something happens to Trump, you can bet that word for word that Project 2025 will be the law of the land.

In, especially because J.D. Vance wrote the foreword for Kevin Roberts' new book that's coming out that's about writing Project 2025. The idea that he's not involved in this, I'm not sure how many people believe it. I haven't seen any polling on that. But it- I believe he doesn't read it. I believe he's never read it because he's never read a briefing. Because he doesn't read. But that doesn't mean that it's not for him. Right. Right. And you hear how he hedges. He's like, some ideas are good, some ideas are bad. It's like, you-

are not seriously and never have engaged with policy and you're not going to start. You're just going to let these people run roughshod over the constitution. He literally said he's going to terminate the constitution and be a dictator on day one and jail his, anyone who is against him. So that's what we have in the debate. I want to clear up one more point. So

So Trump continued to say that in West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia said that when the baby is born, we put it aside and then we decide what to do to the baby. And sometimes we execute the baby. So I had to fact check this and I was like, what are they talking about? He is talking about a press conference that the former governor Ralph Northam gave about a parent whose child had died shortly after birth, a very much wanted child. And

And they were negotiating the ethics and what should be included in palliative care for terminally ill newborns. There was no such – they're not talking about abortion after birth or in the nine-month. They're talking about you've had a child.

You've given birth and it turns out that this child, something happened during the birth and they are terminal. They are not going to live. Do they do palliative care or do they allow the parents to spend that time not hooked up to machines?

with their child for as long as they can, knowing that it's, you know, a day or two. Should they be forced to endure medically invasive, very unlikely treatment? Or should the parents be allowed to spend the time peacefully without causing more harm to that child?

And that is what they were talking about. They were not talking about having – and nobody has a baby and then goes, ah. Done. No more. Let's execute it. As Lindsay Davis said, there is not a state in this nation where execution of an infant is legal. Nowhere. They were talking about palliative care for terminally born children. And I can think of nothing more heart-wrenching or terrible than that being what happens when you get to the birth. You know, something goes wrong. And I think it's extra sick. Yeah.

that Trump is using that. Look, he can use it, but people know. People know whether it happens to them. I hope they know that this is what they were talking about because I think it's worse than him just spouting nonsense. He is using the pain of...

parents who lose a child at birth to say that the Democrats are trying to do post-birth abortions. Like, that's sick. That's sicko shit. Yeah. And they believe it. There's so much in this that was just, you know, MAGA language, MAGA ease. It's all just their weird conspiracies that aren't true. And it was really demonstrated by the transgender operations for illegal aliens in prisons. Mm-hmm.

I know. Well, Kamala HQ has been having a ball today. They've got all the memes out. Betches News has got some of the best memes from last night out. So you want to check those out. Kamala HQ also posted the entire two hour debate and pinned it to the top of their profile. So you could watch the whole thing. They want you to watch it and decide for yourself.

Although I'm going to imagine anybody who listens to the show has already decided. Like, I don't know that there's a lot of undecided fever dreamers out there. You guys are like the tip of the top when it comes to political awareness. Maybe someone who's sending it to a parent or an undecided voter friend, if they have any.

Just one more thing before we go in terms of metrics of success. They had record-breaking fundraising again. And 71% of the donors in the 9 p.m. hour last night, or sorry, Tuesday night, were women. And that's when they were talking about birth and abortion. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

And it was really, it was just a very effective moment. And if people think that we're not going to see that reflected in the electorate, they're kidding themselves. White women have only had the vote for 100 years. Black women have only had the vote since 1965 and are still kept from the ballot box at outrageous levels. If something that affects women and women's health is on that ballot, you can bet we're showing up for it. This is a brand new thing that can't be taken for granted.

And, you know, even Donald Trump said last night, he's like, well, in Kansas, when abortion was on the ballot, of course, that the women showed up. And when it was on the ballot, it'll be on the ballot in Missouri and they'll show up. You're goddamn right we will. You're goddamn right we will.

Shouldn't have taken it away. Should have thought about that before. Well, all the legal scholars said that it was the right thing to do and it was very brave. Everybody wants it to... Everybody hates her. He's so stupid. He very much is... All he's saying with that is she wanted it. That's what I hear when he says it. I hear his disgusting, non-consensual, gross-ass, predatory ickiness. Everybody wants what he's doing. And that's just not true. And he was alone last night. He looked weird.

I'm proud of what Kamala's doing to create these pathways to hope. Something was happening with his neck. He was sweating. And I just, I truly can't wait for this to be over. Me too. It's 54 more days. I just wanted, like she said, a

I want to turn the page. It is time for America to turn the page and just go in a different direction. And that direction is not weird. You know, that's all we're asking for. Just like normal democracy. Normal democracy. Just the basic freedoms, First Amendment, you know, even the second. PPS. Taylor Swift. Oh, right. Endorsed.

Right. That was just- It got lost in the sauce for me. I feel like, I mean, I'm sure it was good for a lot of people, but I was sort of like, okay, well, I'm really high on Kamala right now. I didn't need the Taylor Swift bump right now. It did not get lost in the sauce for me. I see it as literally visually the final nail in the coffin. It was like, if there was any room for, oh, he wasn't that bad or like, oh, she could have done better. That just took-

it just like sealed the Ziploc, if you will. And I just feel that, you know, it was also what she wrote in. It wasn't just like, I'm going to do this.

I'm coconut pills. No, she was thoughtful. She was thoughtful. It was specifically well-written about abortion rights, gay rights, about the use of AI and the fact that they had given like a fake – they had created a fake endorsement from her. So she wanted to be really clear about her intentions. And then she posted a link to register to vote. And then the campaign sold friendship bracelets –

And those sold out already. I bought three. Oh, good. I didn't see that. But yeah, sold out. I was I was glad to see that. And then I saw him post I always like Brittany Mahomes better as if Brittany Mahomes is a singer or in any way comparable to Taylor Swift. And I think this is gonna put the pressure on Patrick.

and the chiefs to not be so icky. I think she's going to have to own up to what it is. I mean, like, ma'am, your husband is black. Your children are black. Like this is, you cannot support white supremacy and like have any kind of respect.

from me or hopefully Taylor Swift. The best thing she could do for her reputation, Brittany Mahomes, would be to endorse Kamala Harris, but I don't think she's going to. But maybe she will. Maybe Taylor will convince her. Well, now that Taylor has endorsed Kamala and people were worried about the hug from the US Open between Taylor and Brittany Mahomes, like Brittany's going to have to do something before Sunday, man. I don't think so. This is why I'm a Bills fan. We stay mind in our business.

Check your voter registration. Make sure you're checking that voter registration. They're kicking people off the voter polls left and right, not telling them about it. The last day to register to vote in lots of southern states is October 7th. Go to vote.org and check your voter registration right now and several times between now and then. That's it for our debate recap. We will have another new episode for you on Tuesday, as always. Until that time, I'm Vita Spear. I'm Sammy Sage. And this is American Fever Dream.

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