Tim Scott's Making A Run

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, who is, uh, somebody
I admire a great deal. I mean, he's a role
model for you know, children. The fact that he's a
black man I think is significant in some ways. Uh,
in this weird cultural moment we're in. But if he
want a wonderful role model, he is. If he runs
for president, I think that would be a great thing
for the whole national conversation because a lot of people

(00:22):
would be be putting uncomfortable positions and called out for it.
And uh, I think it would be great. So if
he runs for president, I think, well, I hope that happens.
Oh yeah, the woke racists would would come after him
and say terrible, terrible, Uncle Tom and the rest of him,
and I think they'd be exposed for what they are. Yeah,
I would certainly hope. So, But anyway, we thought we'd

(00:43):
feature a little more Tim Scott's a speech at the
Reagan Library. Let you praise him for yourself. The one
thing he's not as slick? Can you get elected these days?
Wait a minute, Joe Biden, what am I saying? You
get elected? That's a good point, sir. I ret wracked
the question Anyway, let's start with clips seventy Please, Michael,
have you ever had a bad week? I had a

(01:08):
bad seven years. From seven until fourteen. I drifted. Now,
how many all know the all drifting leads in the
wrong direction. I got one up there? Okay too, Okay, okay,
this this is a highly educated audience. I like this.
I was angry and discouraged, and so in my freshman

(01:31):
year I failed out of high school. I felt four
subjects acrol failed, World, geography, and Civics. Now, civics is
the study of politics. I gotta tell you, though, after

(01:54):
nine years in the US Senate, I am not the
only one failing civics in America. I'm just saying. I
think that is, you know, getting back to personalities, which
is how you get elected. Um, that is really really good.
That is lift out. The fact that he is a

(02:16):
charming guy in his life story is amazing. I just
read a transcript of some of these. I'm not sure
if he gets to his life story. Why don't we
play a couple more than we can fill into blanks
if it's necessary. Uh. In seventy one, he makes another
really good point, Joe Biden, they told us was the
most experienced person in matters of foreign policy to ever

(02:38):
seek the presidency. What they forgotten to tell us is
that experience and acumen are two different things. Yes, our
country in the world are bearing the consequences of Joe

(03:01):
Biden being experienced and being wrong. Wow, that's a good
line back to what he said at the beginning of
the last thing, which is just an interesting comment on life.
Have you ever drifted and it isn't in a bad direction.
When you're drifting, it's going the wrong way. That is

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worth remembering. Yeah, I kind of let that pass, but
looking back at my own life, anytime you're drifting, it's
away from good. Uh. And also, his parents had to
be really concerned when he was failing out of high
school and everything like that, that this is going a
bad direction. They probably didn't expect him to be a

(03:42):
U S senator someday and successful, very successful businessman, which
I know is part of his whole story. Yeah, and
we will get to some of that as well. Uh.
Mr Senator sir, what about the border clip? When President
Biden speaks about reforms, it's eliminating Title Party two with

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no plan to deal with the influx of additional illegal crossings.
And when I say additional illegal crossings, what I'm actually
talking about is eighteen thousand additional crossings per day according
to the Biden administration. That means it's low doubling last

(04:26):
year's record breaking illegal crossings. We need a physical barrier
at our southern border. And I didn't want to say wall.
Very clever shows he's pretty smart. Wall is a an
electric word that you get shocked. If you touch the

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word wall, you get to say barrier. Are you saying
that choice of words versus the other one would make
a significant difference. That is a cruel and accurate indictment
of the electorate. Anyway, Uh, this is so great, And

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this is a short, short version of his life story.
But to clip seventy four, it was education, hard work,
and faith that allowed a grandfather who cannot read or
write to ride to the polls and cast a vote
for his own grandson, a grandson who would be reading
and writing bills and legislation, who would meet with presidents

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in Supreme court justices. This is America. This is such
a blessing to live in this country. I hope he
runs just for the conversation that will have to be had,
Like I like, I said, Okay, you got a black
guy talking about what a great country this is and
what great opportunities they are for him and his his

(05:56):
family and his grandfather and everything, and how great it is. Okay,
here you go, let's have the conversation. Yeah. His famous
line is his family went from the cotton fields to
Congress in one lifetime. And I've seen that fact checked,
and this is so shameless it makes me angry. Their
fact check is, well, his grandfather wasn't exactly a cotton worker.

(06:17):
He actually partially owned a share cropping field that he
labored all day long in the sun. And I mean,
it's a distinction without difference. They're so anxious to tear
this guy down. It's sickening. Alright. Finally seventy then I
have a comment. I can go as high as my character,
my education, and my perseverance will take me. I bear

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witness to that. I testify to that. So for those
of you on the left, you can call me a prop,
you can call me a token, you can call me
the inn word. You can question my blackness, you can
even call me uncle Tim. Just understand what you call
me is no match for the proof of my life.

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Your words are no match for my evidence nor pessimism.
There's no match for the truth of my history. Holy cow,
I want to quit my job and volunteer for the guy.
He's running for president. I hadn't heard that part. He's
running for president. Yeah, yeah, amen to that. So the
story was he was more or less a juvenile delinquent.

(07:22):
He was a drift. He was not going to school,
he was angry, he was frustrated, and he had to
get a job. And he uh, he found a mentor,
a fellow who uh and I can't remember what was
what was the business here? Was it a Wendy's? But anyway,
this guy who who managed it um instilled in him
interest in business and how it worked and what a

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fun and engaging contest it was, and and just mentored him.
And it turned Tim Scott's life around. And the intelligence,
the goodness, the energy that was in that young boy
who is drifting in the wrong direction was unleashed by
great mentorship. And I have a fantasy, I'm gonna be

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old Sappie Joe here. I have this fantasy that the
millions of kids around the country who've given up because
everybody around them, tells them to give up. You can't
possibly succeed because of whatever is fashionable white supremacy now,
or or it's stacked against your the rich get richer,
or you know the despicable article in the Washington Post

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that hinted that the Jews are in charge. Somebody who
could light the fire in those little kids so they could,
like Tim Scott, reinvent themselves and find the joy in
having a great life. I mean, oh my god, what
what a contribution to the American people that could be. Well,
that story works for you no matter what your skin
color is. But imagine if he's telling that story, particularly

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as a black guy, of where I was, where I
ended up, and how you can do that in this country,
you know, uh, comparing that to what they're teaching in schools,
and if you're a black kid, you can't get ahea
because the system is set up against you. It's the
systemically racist country. It's been set up that way for
four hundred years. All the other white kids in this
room are trying to keep you down. Blah blah blah. Right, right,

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it'd be good to have that big old pulpit of
the president to battle against the indoctrination taking place despectably
in our schools and universities. Okay, I I was trying
to come up with an example in my mind. I
can't come up with one, right, But it would be
nice if that was the topic matter. If he announces
he's running for president, But that won't be the conversation.

(09:32):
It's going to be he called a waitress, honey. It's
some something like that, you know, something that becomes a
giant issue that we talked about for days. He he
fired a gay worker when he was a fast food manager.

(09:54):
That person will come out of the woodwork and say, yeah,
I'm pretty sure it's because I'm gay. Yeah, something along
those lines will end up being the conversation because politics
is stupid well, and I think the Twitter left will
absolutely whip themselves into a froth over it, and we'll
hear about it in their mainstream mouthpieces. But I don't
think the American people are gonna buy that crap. With
inflation as high as it is, with the economy faltering,

(10:16):
with housing unaffordable, with the border utterly open, I don't
think America falls for that garbage. So why did s what? Uh?
It's a daily mail, daily mail is full of crap, right,
it's questionable. I saw the headlines CNN plus is to
be shut down by Warner Brothers Discovery after only a

(10:37):
people signed up. Is that a truth? I could believe that,
I could believe that I can believe it too, but
that that fast. It's only been around for like a
couple of weeks. So I'll try to verify whether or
not that's true that CNN plus is going away. Netflix
is not going away, but it's worth a heck of
a lot less for pretty obvious reasons that we couldn't
come up with yesterday. And the other thing that I
had that you complained about, oh the five stages of

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grief as spelled out by the butter you eat, oh
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