Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
"This is the true story of a Gen X-er picked to do a podcast and give his personal views on Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more, So find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. - ‘Get Of My Lawn’ As we grow into an ever changing world and new Generations are born, only one stays the same with their distain for all others - ‘Gen X’. We survived riding bikes without helmets, No cell phones, understanding you go home when the street lights go on. We lived through Hair Metal and watched the birth of Grunge. We witnessed ‘Two’ Bush’s become President (That’s what she said.) and the First African American take office. We watched in horror as the Towers fell and rejoiced at the Socialize Digital Age. (‘The Internet’ - Sorry Al you didn’t invent it.)But all in all, We lived our lives with the understanding that playing it safe is not the way to go through your existence. As the world is facing more turmoil than we have every seen before and as we witness a clear division of our Society a voice of ‘reason’ and ‘sanity’ needs to be heard. To bad that ain’t me … Hear me ramble daily about everything from Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more and get the clear as ‘Mud’ perspective of this Rambling Gen X-er. Enjoy!
Get Off My Lawn! - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
Kamala Harris: Diversity Hire or Political Powerhouse? Unraveling the Intricacies of Her Identity and Career
Is Kamala Harris's vice presidency the result of a DEI initiative or a testament to her multifaceted heritage and political acumen? Join us as we unravel the complexities of her identity, from her Indian roots to her African-American identity, and explore how these elements have shaped public perception and political commentary. We'll take a closer look at the profound influence of her mother and maternal grandfather, shedding light on the deep personal connections that define her. This episode challenges the simplistic narratives around Harris, providing a nuanced view of her background and the broader implications for mixed heritage individuals in politics.
Next, we dissect Kamala Harris's political journey and the polarized opinions she elicits. Is she a far-left liberal pushing a socialist agenda, or is that a mischaracterization? We scrutinize her prosecutorial record, particularly its impact on African-American communities, and address her unpopularity among certain voter groups. Highlighting a notable rally where attendees left after a brief concert, we discuss public disinterest and question the Democratic Party's strategy. We'll also anticipate a potential debate with Trump, analyzing the high stakes and what it could mean for Harris's future. By the end of this episode, you'll have a deeper understanding of Kamala Harris's political landscape and the diverse opinions surrounding her.
Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the first black and Asian-American woman to serve as vice president, be on a major party ticket as a DEI hire. Is that acceptable language to you and will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?
Speaker 2:How do you define? Dei Go ahead. How do you define?
Speaker 1:it Diversity equity inclusion.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, go ahead. Is that what your definition? That is literally the words Give me a definition, then Would you give me a definition?
Speaker 1:of that.
Speaker 2:Give me a definition of that, Sir.
Speaker 1:I'm asking you a question, a very direct question.
Speaker 2:Define it for me if you will.
Speaker 1:I just defined it, sir. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman?
Speaker 2:Well, I can say no, I think it's maybe a little bit different. So I've known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know. Is she Indian or is she black?
Speaker 1:She is always identified as a black. I respect either one.
Speaker 2:I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't, because she was Indian all the way. And then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went. She became a black person.
Speaker 1:Just to be clear, sir. Do you believe that she is a I?
Speaker 2:think somebody should look into that too. When you ask a, continue in a very hostile, nasty tone.
Speaker 1:It's a direct question, sir Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is a DEI hire?
Speaker 2:as some Republicans have said. I mean I really don't know, could be, could be.
Speaker 4:There are Indian.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, okay, and I don't know that, everybody knows that. But I find that wherever I go and I see Indian people at the supermarket, on the street, everyone's like. You know, kamala Harris is Indian. Right, it's like our thing we're so excited about to have you running for president. Yeah, so we're both Indian. Yes, but actually we're both South Indian. Yes, but actually we're both South Indian.
Speaker 4:Yes, you look like the entire one half of my family. Okay, thank you, you do. I've been telling people we're related already, so this is perfect. It's basically true.
Speaker 3:And so were you raised eating South Indian food.
Speaker 1:My mother, who raised me and my sister, was a proud woman. She was a brown woman, she was a woman with a heavy accent.
Speaker 4:And her mother. Shyamala Gopalan was also the biggest influence in Kamala Harris's life.
Speaker 2:The answer is absolutely yes, Jo.
Speaker 4:After the big announcement, harris's sister wrote in a Twitter post you can't know who Kamala Harris is without knowing who our mother was. In 1958, a precocious 19-year-old Indian, gopalan, traveled thousands of miles from her home and family to pursue a doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology in America. She soon became an active civil rights crusader while studying at UC Berkeley Once she went there she almost felt free and she took part in politics.
Speaker 5:She took in. She used to bring a whole series of literature, leftist literature, from Karl Popper's. You know he was a great philosopher.
Speaker 4:In her book, Harris says there is no title or honor on earth I'll treasure more than to say I am Shyamala Gopalan, Harris's daughter. Harris's visits to India with her mother kept her connected to her roots. Her grandfather, who had strong views on humanitarian issues, worked closely with officials to reallocate refugees. Their conversations had a strong influence on her.
Speaker 2:Those walks along the beach in India really planted something in my mind and created a commitment in me. Before I even realized it. It has led me to where I am today.
Speaker 4:Harris's maternal uncle, gopalan Balachandran, who lives in Delhi, tells us how the senator turns to her amma which means mother in Tamil for guidance, even after her death.
Speaker 5:I don't have to tell her make your mother proud. She says what are you telling me? Everything that I do. I ask myself would Amma approve of this?
Speaker 4:Kamla in Hindi means lotus flower and is an important symbol in Indian culture, rooted deep in the bottom of the river, very similar to Harris's Indian identity, which she wears on her sleeve. There's no doubt that the primary source of learning for Senator Harris was from her mother's experiences and the conversations that she had with her maternal grandfather when she visited India, which was very often accompanying her mother, or when the grandparents would visit them in America. Back to you, rosemary, and you all helped us win in 2020, and we're going to do it again in 2024. Yes, we will. Yes, we will. So let's get right.
Speaker 6:That, my friends, is what we call the chameleon Kamala Harris. First she's black, then she's Indian, then she's indian black, then she's chinese, then she, all of a sudden, is from the deep south. She, she, she is channeling her inner, her inner, gone with the wind, as always. This is dennis. Get off my lawn. The mad r Ramleys of a Gen Xer. Oh, I want to talk about the chameleon Kamala Harris. We don't know what the hell she is.
Speaker 6:And Trump today was at an event. It was for the African-American journalists. He went to this event in the middle of Chicago, very hostile environment, very hostile area. Kamala Harris was invited. She declined because she had a sorority to go to speak at, another sorority to speak at. She's big on the sorority vote.
Speaker 6:And one of the moderators asked him as you saw in the clip, that is Kamala Harris, a DEI candidate. And I actually thought it was very interesting when he kind of went back at the moderator, the co-moderator, and said define DEI. And of course she was like diversity, equity and inclusion, and I knew what he was getting at. He was saying, okay, yes, it's diversity, equity and inclusion, but define that. Every word has a definition. You go to Webster's, go look up the word house. Go look up the word chameleon. Each word has a definition. You can't define a word by saying this is the word it is. I'm going to define diversity, equity and inclusion by saying, well, it's diversity, equity and inclusion, okay, define it for me. And when she kind of got a little snippy about it, you know Trump, who some people thought he was going to get himself in trouble with this, I actually think was a brilliant. I think I think it was a brilliant stroke of genius here he said you know, listen, she wasn't black, or she didn't identify as black until recently, until she started running.
Speaker 6:Now, previously, she was Indian and everyone gasped. Well, the crowd didn't gasp. A lot of the crowd laughed, but everyone on social media and all liberals gasped oh, how could he say something like that? Well, that's why I pulled up all those clips that was only about three and a half minutes of clips of Kamala Harris embracing her Indian heritage to the point that she was using that as a key factor when she was running back in 2020. That was a key factor for her. That was a key factor for her campaign. She was Asian, she was Indian, first one. And then you saw the article where she is the first Indian senator. And then you saw the article where she is the first Indian senator. Then we saw the other article going back to her days as that tough-as-nails prosecutor over in San Francisco who she went into the tunnels with the police, caught these guys and prosecuted them.
Speaker 6:We just forget about the illegal immigrant she let go who murdered somebody. We're not going to talk about that. No, no, no, don't talk about that. Look at this hand, see what this hand's doing. But she can never figure out. You can never figure out what exactly Kamala Harris is. And I'm not just talking about her ethnicity, because I don't think that defines a person. Some people think that defines themselves. I don't think your ethnicity defines a person. I think the person that you are defines who you are and your actions define what you do, but you can never nail her down on anything.
Speaker 6:She has this long track record of saying things and being so liberal that she makes Bernie Sanders at times look like he's Ronald Reagan. Right, she going back to the previous election. I'm against fracking. We have to stop fracking Now. No, no, no, I've changed my opinion. Frack away, okay. We have multitudes of videos and soundbites of her saying about gun control, about what she's going to do within the first 100 days, that if Congress doesn't act, she is going to act with executive orders and confiscate guns and do this. We have tons of film and audio and video on this.
Speaker 6:No, no, no, I never said that we had this, where she talked about Medicare for all. We need to get away from private insurance. Getting away from private insurance has killed the industry, has made prices go up so astronomically. It's not even funny. I always talk about the fact that when Obamacare kicked in full force, my insurance went up for my family $1,800 a year and then the next year it went up $3,600. And then the next year it went up $3,600, and then next year it went up an additional $3,600, and then it went up an additional $1,800. And every year for four years we got a letter saying well, it's because of the affordable care act. Well, so you're making my insurance unaffordable because I have a fucking job and other people who don't have jobs, don't have incomes, are going to get better rates and sometimes better coverage than I'm going to get, and I'm working paying into the system. But that's neither here nor there. So her whole thing was a couple years back. We're going to abolish privatized medicine, medicare for all? No, no, no. Now it's no, no, no, no, no, no. Never said that, I said it and I meant it at the time, but I don't really mean it now it's like the border. I was never she's the border czar. I was never the border czar. What are you? What are you fucking crazy? And now it's. Now. I'm gonna be tough on the border.
Speaker 6:Before she wanted amnesty for all legal immigrants, a clear path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. To the fact that Pocahontas, elizabeth Warren, is saying the same thing we're going to have a clear citizenship path or citizenship to all these people that are in here illegally. When you let 10 to 15 million people come in here illegally and then all of a sudden, you're going to turn and say, yeah, you know what? Let's just give them a path to citizenship. They can't all be bad, even though they they. They arrested some terrorists just recently and you have people, especially on the border, saying we basically probably could have let terrorists in and we don't even know it because we're not, we're not, we're not vetting, we're not vetting anyone, but that's all right.
Speaker 6:Kamala harris is jello, especially now. You can't nail her down or anything. You could have all this audio. You could have all this video on everything that she has said, the policies that she has tried to enact, enacted the things that she wanted to do to this country that were so far to the left now that she's running to president, it's scary. And now she wanted to do to this country that were so far to the left now that she's running to president, it's scary. And now she has to deny everything that we heard her say, basically by saying no, I, I was like I always love what littles. I didn't say that you took that out of context. What the fuck were you thinking that was out of context? That's not what I meant. Say what I mean, not what I not mean what I say. It's just, it's just a bad. I mean and I'm sorry there there are too many stupid people that are gen z that fall for this, that really fall for this garbage, because then they'll be like well, you know what? Know what? She's not that bad. Look at all these things she does and doesn't want to do.
Speaker 6:A leopard can't change its spots, except for Kamala Harris. She can. She can change her spots, it's okay. But a leopard truly cannot change its spots. She is what she is. She is a far-left liberal that wants to do what they refer to either as socialism or communism in the united states of america and shape it in the guise of equity. It's always about equity.
Speaker 6:Every no, kamala harrison even says not everyone starts off at the same spot, but we all should be in the same place. Now I I okay, I'm a little confused by that one. That one confused me too, because you know what life isn't fair. I should be a millionaire. Why? Why were my parents millionaires? Why do they have to work? Why do both parents have to work? Why did I have to get student loans? Why did I have to sit there for years and work two jobs to pay back my student loans when I could have just waited? But we have a candidate and kamala harris that has such a unlikeability about her. She really does.
Speaker 6:I see her in a cringe and I love when they go to Trump. Well, you're old, she's going to be 60. It's not like she's 40 years old or 37 years old, she's going to be 60. And I always, I always love the tough talk with her. I'm gonna get tough on the border, not like trump was really, because trump, over in four years, I believe, had two million illegal border crossings. You have anywhere between six to ten, and it's not even been a full four years yet. Everything that you want to say you've done as a prosecutor, yeah, that's great. You prosecuted so many African-Americans and sent them to jail for petty crimes. That should be a crime, but that never happened, because she's just tough on crime and I love it.
Speaker 6:Because they had the what's her name Something? Stallion, the hip-hop artist, go out to Atlanta and do and and do a song and do a, you know, for her rally and they had like 10,000 people at the rally. But this is something they don't tell you, cause I know people that went to this rally, which I think is funny as shit. So the stallion performed and after she performed and Kamala was talking, people just started leaving because they thought it was a concert. It was pitched to them as a concert and then, once they found out it wasn't a concert and she only put on one song, people started going.
Speaker 6:People started leaving like, no, we don't want to. We don't want to listen to the whack job, we want to look, we want to listen to the slut. What the hell, man we've. We've come to a dangerous point, we come to a precipice, and really, what it is is the fact that there's a certain segment of this population that only relies on how you look if you're a man, if you're a woman, what's your race, what's your ethnicity, and that's how they judge everything and that's how they judge fairness. So we need to have a woman of color as president. We don't need it, we don't. We need that, we don't. She doesn't have to be qualified, she doesn't actually have to win the vote.
Speaker 6:Democrats and the liberals are. We are the party of law, we are the party of of. You must do think we are here to protect democracy. We're, but we are going to just kind of push Kamala through and not tell anybody. We're not going to say anything. Those 11 million people that voted for Biden, we're not going to do anything. Your fucking vote doesn't count. It's the backroom deals with the liberals that that vote counts more. Their dollars count more than your vote. But they are the party of democracy and protecting democracy. Go figure that one out.
Speaker 6:This campaign is going to get so interesting because at one point in time, kamala, I cannot wait for the debate. I think Trump can't wait for the debate either. And Trump is smart, his campaign. I love it, because Kamala is like he's dodging me. No, he's just waiting for you to actually be the candidate. You are the presumptive candidate. You have not been officially announced as the candidate for the Democratic Party. You are the presumptive candidate, so sooner or later there's going to have to be a debate. Sooner or later she's going to have to do a sit down interview and actually talk about all the things. I mean literally.
Speaker 6:She has changed her entire philosophy and her entire mindset on all these policies to the polar opposite. She's like I said, she's the human chameleon and it doesn't matter if she's black, it doesn't matter if she's white, it doesn't matter if she's Indian, it doesn't matter if she's black, it doesn't matter if she's white, it doesn't matter if she's Indian, it doesn't matter if she's a woman. She is just not qualified to make these decisions for the country because she is so far left and the fact that she can't even make a definitive statement of what she is. If she's black, if she's Indian, she doesn't know which heritage to use, but she uses it when it's to her advantage. She is good if she goes and speaks to a rally full. You know that's got. That's for the indian asian population. She's indian, she goes to. She goes to atlanta. She's black, she's southern black.
Speaker 6:And Trump was right. You could hate what he said and how he said it, but he was 100% fucking right. He nailed it. She was Indian. For all these years she portrayed herself as an Indian, but now she needs to turn over the black card. You know, like they say, you have the white. You know you, you have your, your white card. Here's my white card. I don't have one. They never gave me one. They never gave me a white privilege card. I don't know why. I've always been trying to get one but I never could get one. But now she's turning her black privilege card after. She's going to put her indian privilege card back in her wallet because she's the most diverse candidate. She's, her diversity is there when she needs to be.
Speaker 6:This is a woman. That's an opportunist. Ask willie brown. Willie brown, remember will her lover, her way older lover, gave her a car, took her on lavish trips, increased her, basically put her in a position to enroll that she shouldn't have been in and gave her raises for it. Because, you know, she gave him a raise. That's what she said. Oh hey, oh sorry, hey, oh sorry about that. Um, but she's an opportunist.
Speaker 6:Kamala harris is an opportunist and you have to worry about people falling for that, falling for the fact that she is gonna just tell you what you want to hear and then, at the end of the day, she's just going to do what she does because, like I said, leopard does not change its spots. It doesn't. And you, you can. You can hate that. You mean, like I said, you could hate people for telling you the truth, but trump was 100 right, he spoke the truth. And now more and more of these. This is the problem with kamala harris. This is why she's such a flawed candidate. Everything she says, there's like 20 hours of video of her saying the exact opposite.
Speaker 6:So she's going to have to defend her own record of their own words, of what she said, plus the fact that she saddled with the policies of the crazy Joe Biden policies, this whole Supreme court thing. She should never have co-sponsored the the bill. She should have got out from underneath that kind of like she did willie brown, but she should just get out from underneath that, because it's such a wacky thing to bring up right now because they don't have anything else to run on it's abortion. It's it's abortion and democracy. That was last year, that was before, that was the last year mid-year elections it's abortion and democracy. Now it's now. It's abortion in the Supreme Court. It's great, because if you can't afford an abortion because it's too expensive because of inflation, energy prices, everything else, what does it matter?
Speaker 6:We've just reached it's a we've just reached a scary moment in time. We really have and we have a candidate now that's more dangerous than Joe Biden, because she is going, like any other politician she is going to lie and she is going to lie repeatedly. She's going to put on these false faces repeatedly. She's going to put on these false faces. She is going to pander to whoever she's in front of Trump, love him or hate him. He tells you what he is, but she is going to pander to these people and you're going to have a segment of the population that's going to fall for it and say, oh, I have to vote for her because I'm black and I'm a woman. No, you need to vote for the best candidate. Use your brain.
Speaker 6:If you think Kamala Harris is the best candidate, tell me why. Tell me what she has done to enhance your way of life through government. I always put that question are you better off now than you were four years ago? No, people tell you no, I'm not. We now have a health crisis in reference to mental health, in regards to people now being people. Now there's a large segment of the population that is in such credit card debt because they paid or used their credit card to pay groceries, to eat, to feed their family. Now those bills are coming due and they don't have the money to pay that and they don't have the money to pay their family. But don't worry, we're going to hear about how Kamala Harris used to wash collard greens in the sink no, in the bathtub, sorry, in the bathtub, because even though she's on with Mindy McCone whoever that woman's name is talking about how all she ate was Southern Indian food.
Speaker 6:Can you just figure it out for me? Can you just be honest about it? Can you just understand that? Why don't, just as as as a candidate, tell us what you're really about, not what you want us to think you are about, so you can get elected, then do whatever the hell you want, and then it's like the joe biden thing with the student loans. He dangled that student loan carrot, knowing damn well that it was against the law.
Speaker 6:But you then had the. You would then had the gen y and the gen z fall for it. And then, when it doesn't happen, they're like well, I got bamboozled. Well, welcome to the real world, kitties. This is what politicians do, and you have one right now. That will lie cheat steal. She's already slept with people to get it career. It's well documented. She was the mistress. Willie Brown's even wrote about it in a book. She was the mistress. But that's what she is going to do just to get your vote and then do the exact opposite when she gets in and she doesn't care how she does it she will be the diversity, equity and inclusion candidate. Oh, you know what this election season is going to be? A good time Again. Don't forget to like. Don't forget to put the notification thing, don't forget to ring the bell, don't forget to do all that crap and always remember this is the truth. Show always sets you free. This is Tim. This is Scott. I'm out of here and I'm out of here.