
Link Lauren gives his take on Kamala Harris’ approval rating tanking, her disastrous book tour and Hillary Clinton’s latest comments about political demonization. Then, “The Beau Show” host, Beau Davidson joins with his take on Jimmy Kimmel being back on air after his off-color remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Kamala Harris on “The View” and more. Plus, Link breaks down why Prince Harry will never be allowed to be a part-time royal. Pique: Get 20% off your order plus a FREE frother & glass beaker with this exclusive link: https://piquelife.com/LINK Chapter: For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 661-370-3275 or go to https://askchapter.org/link Disclaimer: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and standalone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract ren...
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Hey, my friends. Welcome back to Spot on with Link Lauren. We have so much to discuss. Today we're going to be breaking down Kamala Harris's book tour, some of Hillary Clinton's new comments, Jimmy Kimmel's return to television with which was also an utter calamity and a total disaster. We're gonna break all of that down. But before we dive into the main show, there was a shooting this morning in Dallas. An anti ice shooting, allegedly, according to Cash Patel. There were anti ice messages on the shell casings. I just wanted to say that my thoughts and my prayers are with my hometown of Dallas. I don't like seeing political violence of any kind. So we'll be tracking the story. By the time you listen to this podcast, maybe we'll have more information. But without further ado, let's dive into today's well, we have to start off by talking about Ms. Kamalamity Harris. Kamala Harris is back. I'm running out of nicknames for Kamala. We have cabernet kamala, Ms. Kamalamity. I've got to come up with some new ones, so drop a comment. Tell me if you have any nicknames for her. But she is back. Okay. This is her comeback tour with her new book. Her book is called 107 Days because that's all Kamala Harris has that's interesting to her, right? This 107 day campaign where she didn't even give interviews for for the first 40 days. Imagine, you know, you only have 107 days. You then spend 40% of that not talking to the press and ducking from reporters. Now Kamala Harris wants to come around and say she didn't have enough time. She didn't have enough time to introduce herself. So we'll get into that a little bit later. But I want to start off by looking at a clip from CNN CNN was even discussing Kamala's favorability. She is so unpopular, you can't even believe it.
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Well, let's take a look at her net favorable ratings nationwide. You know, back In October of 2024, she was minus five points. Not exactly great, but pretty close to the zero mark, right? Pretty close to even. But now down under she goes. She's at minus 13 points. That's an eight point drop since the general election among the overall electorate. She is not well liked at this particular point. The American people, they don't want this. They don't want her.
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I'm not shocked whatsoever that Kamala Harris is unpopular. She was incredibly unpopular when she ran in 2020, but she was chose vice president because honestly, she was a DEI hire. And the Democrats even admitted that. They said, we need a black woman to be vice president. Are we going to do Val Demings? Are we going to do Kamala Harris? They literally made a list and they chose Kamala. You know, she looks pretty sometimes. She looks nice sometimes. She's from California. She has a little bit of experience. Let's choose her. And then Kamala Harris was an abject failure as vice president. And when it comes to this book, right. If her behavior as vice president was any indicator, I don't think that she wrote this book because Kamala Harris is one of the laziest people in politics. Okay? The only way to get Kamala Harris to work is if you leave a trail of margaritas like Hansel and Gretel. Okay? She will follow the trail. Okay? The only thing Kamala Harris ever finishes is a box of wine. The woman does not ever want to work. So I question the fact that she actually wrote this book. I question if she wrote the book. And then when we see this book tour, she has no answers. She has no answers. You think she would be more prepared if she wrote the book? If she lived it, if she prepared for the interviews? How do you not have answers to these questions? But Kamala Harris, here we have another clip where she's discussing Biden's presidency and his reelection. Let's take a look at that clip and then discuss.
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My concern about him running for reelection was completely separate from my admiration and knowledge about his capacity to serve as president, United States, which was consistent and never wavered.
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But when we sit here, as we sit here today, do you think he would have been up for running the country for four more years?
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I. Here's the distinction that I make. It's. And having had the experience myself, it is one thing to have the capacity to govern. It is another thing to go through an election for president of the United States.
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So I'm not in minsa, but I'm a pretty smart person. Tell me how this makes sense. Biden, he couldn't run for reelection. Okay? He was too brain dead to run for reelection. But he somehow wasn't too brain dead to have the nuclear codes and to run the country. Or whoever was controlling the auto pin. Whoever was running the country. Kamala Harris, you are still an idiot, okay? You are still an idiot. There's a reason you were polling at like 0.5% back in 2020. We see it now. But I hope Kamala runs in 2028. I really hope Kamala Harris runs in 2028 because she will never win this woman. I just don't understand Biden. This is my thing. Also, when Biden stepped out of the race. Remember last July when he stepped out of the race? Okay, so he's not going to run again, but he's going to stay president till January of 2025. Make that make sense. Make that make sense. It's a miracle we're even here today. But Kamala Harris, something else. She seems to be sort of switching her tune on because she's trying to survive. This is political survival. She's talking about trans sports. Now, Kamala Harris has never defended women's sports, girls in sports. She's never spoken out about, you know, Riley Gaines or any of this stuff that's gone on for years. But here's what she's had to say, right? I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage. When we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports, with goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this without vilifying and demonizing children. Can't you just say, no men in women's sports? This is my thing with Kamala Harris. Just say, no men in women's sports. And that's all we need to hear. We don't need all this buffoonery and tomfoolery and malarkey. We really don't need it. This is all a bunch of garbledy goop. This is a bunch of focus grouped bs. Okay? Either you support girls in sports or you don't. Either you want men in their locker rooms or you don't. There shouldn't be any wiggle room on this. You know what I'm saying? And I question all this. I Think maybe if Kamala Harris were a mother, if she had a daughter of her own who had to go through something like this, maybe she would feel differently. But the fact that she's doing these long run on sentences. Well, we need to take into account this and we need to take into account that, and then we're done taking that into account. Having said that, no. Okay. It's very simple. No men and women's sports. And what I don't understand about Kamala is it's overwhelmingly popular not to want men and women's sports. This is an 8020 issue according to a New York Times poll. Imagine if you did a poll that wasn't New York Times. It's probably a 95. 5 issue. 98. 2. Okay. Nobody with logic and common sense on planet Earth, you know, who's touched grass recently thinks that men should be in women's sports. But Kamala Harris, she's wavering on this now. Something else Kamala Harris has done on her book tour the last few days. She went on Rachel Maddow show on msnbc. Right. Not. Not a hardball show for Democrats to go on. But she hasn't really toned down her rhetoric. The left wants to talk about toning down the rhetoric all the time. One of the first things she does when she goes on Maddow, she calls President Trump a dictator. Let's look at that.
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A tyrant. We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That's what we're dealing with right now. Donald Trump.
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So she's calling President Trump a communist dictator. This is rich. Okay. This is so rich coming from a woman who didn't even do a primary. They slotted her in at the last minute without a primary. No one voted for her and she was on the ballot. That, to me, feels very dictatorial. Okay. And she wants to talk about communism. In the same interview, she endorsed Zoran Mamdani, who's running to be mayor of New York City. So she endorses Zoran Mamdani. Doesn't Zoran Mamdani want us to stand in line for like government issued loaves of bread? That sounds pretty communist to me. So she's endorsing communists and then she's calling President Trump a communist dictator. I think she's so mad. I think Kamala Harris is like licking her wounds. I think she hasn't recovered to the fact that President Trump won the popular vote. Every single swing state, the electoral college, and he's back on top. And Kamala Harris had everything going to her advantage. This is something she doesn't want to take any culpability for. She had everything to her advantage, right? She had the media, she had the press, she had the lawsuits against President Trump. I mean, he had to run a campaign and was also going in and out of court every day with these bogus lawsuits. And they were clearly bogus because they never went anywhere. Right? If there was merit to them, he wouldn't be president right now. You understand what I'm saying? And so Kamala Harris had everything going her way. She had billions of dollars blew through. Billions of dollars in 107 days. And what we haven't seen in the book yet is any culpability, any culpability for her own failures. She says she didn't have enough time to introduce herself to the country. BS. You went 40 days without an interview. You had four years as vice president to introduce yourself. And you snuck around and had dinners and drank wine and partied and had a good time and went to concerts. Kamala Harris on her campaign, as far as I knew, she went to the Sphere in Las Vegas. Why did you go to the Sphere in Las Vegas? I think she went to go see the Eagles. She went to go see some band at the Sphere in Las Vegas. If you were serious about running for president, you wouldn't be going to concerts. That's the mistake Hillary Clinton made in 2016. Hillary Clinton was going to Beyonce concerts and having a good time. And then Kamala Harris, right? All she needed to do was connect with working class Americans. All she had to do is connect with working class Americans. Go to Michigan. Right. Talk to people who are the backbone of the United States of America. What did she do? She held events with Lizzo. Lizzo, okay, the obese singer. Not anymore because of Ozempic. But she held events with Beyonce. Okay. And Beyonce seemed like she was being, you know, held against her will to even endorse Kamala. I think people knew Kamala was a clown, but if they didn't stick in line with the talking points in the dnc, they were going to get ousted from Hollywood society. So Kamala Harris had everything going for her, and she won't take any accountability and culpability for her own mistakes. She couldn't give straight answers. She couldn't do interviews. She did not instill confidence in anyone. And she's on this book tour saying, of course misogyny and race and gender play a role in how we vote. I don't think it matters. I think if Kamala Harris were a handsome white guy, she would have even be held. She would be held to a higher standard. I actually don't think it really mattered that much. I would be saying the same things about Kamala Harris if she were a hot, handsome looking white man. Okay? Gender and race played no factor in my judgment of Kamala Harris. Okay? I judged her just like everybody else. Okay? If a man went out there and did those word salads, I would say the same thing. She's an absolute, utter calamity. But that's who Kamala Harris is. Okay, now we have another clip. Kamala Harris is still talking about the fact that Pete Buttigieg was too risky. She couldn't choose Pete Buttigieg to be her running mate because it was too much of a risk. Let's look at that clip.
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To say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay is hard to hear.
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No, no, no. That's not what I said, that he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. My point, as I write in the book, is that I was clear that in 107 days, in one of the most hotly contested elections for president of the United States against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor, to be a black woman running for president of the United States, and as a vice presidential running mate, a gay man, with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad. But I also realized it would be a real risk.
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Now, as I said on our last episode, she didn't want Pete Buttigieg because he was gay. So she then went and chose Tim Walls, who's an overgrown Disney adult who walks into every room like Bob Fosse. Okay? Tim Walls is Mr. Jazz Hands at this point. So she went and chose him as her alpha male, masculine figure. I need a minute. I need a minute, you guys. I just can't. I can't with the bs. I can't with all the identity politics. Nobody cares, okay, who you sleep with. They care about the content of your character and if you're going to get the job done. She didn't choose Pete Buttigieg. You know why she doesn't want to say this out loud? Because Pete Buttigieg sucked as Secretary of transportation, okay? He couldn't get anything done. Look at the East Palestine train derailment. Look at all that push for electric vehicles. And we're going to spend billions on ev. And then where did that go? Where did that go? So Kamala Harris, she can blame it on the fact that Pete Buttigieg was gay. She didn't want him if she would just come out and say that, you know what? I really don't want people to judge, we might respect her just a little bit more. Now, this last clip I want to play you, it's not actually of Kamala Harris. It's of another Democratic female figure, Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is back making the rounds, talking about how we shouldn't be demonizing folks in politics. Let's look at that.
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We have got to stop demonizing each other.
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Yeah.
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Now, I think most of that right now in our country's history is coming, you know, from the right, coming from people who want to dominate. They want their point of view.
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This is rich coming from Hillary Clinton because she called half the country deplorables. There's not a more divisive woman in politics than Hillary Clinton. She called the Madison Square Garden rally a Nazi rally. She said it was a Nazi Hitler rally. That Hillary Clinton says we shouldn't demonize people. And this demonization is coming from the right. All the demonization I see is coming from the left. All the political violence I see is coming from the left. Okay? President Trump had multiple assassination attempts. Charlie Kirk horrifically, barbarically assassinated by a left wing radical kid who fell into these online chat group. So for Hillary Clinton to say, stop the demonization, and then they go out there and they call us dictators and tyrants and threats to democracy and deplorables every single day. Shame on you, Hillary Clinton. The only thing, the only thing positive I have to say about Hillary Clinton is her neck and her facelift and her new hairdo look pretty good. I will say that about Hillary Clinton. She has clearly had some plastic surgery recently. She might be on Ozempic. Maybe this is just a new Hillary Clinton. Maybe she's been cloned in a lab. George Soros has cloned her in a lab. And they have the fourth iteration of Hillary Clinton, but no Hillary Clinton. She might have had some good cosmetic work, but she needs to work on her soul. Hillary Clinton, you're a disgusting human being. You call half the country deplorables. You're the most divisive figure. And then you want to go out there and it's the rules for the. Not for me. It's the pot calling the kettle black. You demonize us every single day. Hillary Clinton, you demonize us. And Hillary Clinton forgets most of the policies that are overwhelmingly popular with the Republican Party right now. A lot of them were 90s Democrat policies, right? Like voter ID, secure borders, strong immigration policy, reducing government waste, fraud and abuse. All of that was popular in the 90s. Hillary Clinton now doesn't want to come around and admit that President Trump is right about things. Come around and admit President Trump is right about things. But this is the loser crew. Okay, to round out this segment, this is the loser crew. Kamala Harris, loser. Hillary Clinton, loser. And they want to blame it on the fact that they're women. Has nothing to do with the fact that you're women. In fact, women are the ones, ones who did not vote for you. Your own gender and sex are the ones who said, we don't like you guys because you're the most unlikable, ridiculous women we've ever seen. So Democrats go back to the drawing board. I don't think trotting Hillary Clinton out every few weeks to do press is going to help the Democratic brand. In fact, voters say they want fresh meat. The Democratic bench is terrible. Something, something about Hillary Clinton spacelift allegedly makes me think she wants to run in 2028. If that's the case, good for you, Hillary Clinton. We got to pay some bills. And when we come back, we've got a gu us to discuss Jimmy Kimmel and more hot topics. I don't know about you, but after I travel, my skin is dry. That's when Peak's radiant skin duo came to the rescue. This doctor recommended duo, trusted by experts like Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Jason Fung, and Dr. Will Cole, supports whole body wellness from the inside out. Sun goddess Matcha provides steady, calm energy throughout the day. Packed with L theanine for focus and EGCG antioxidants, it supports skin clarity and gut health. BT fountain electrolytes hydrate like nothing else and help lock moisture in making skin look amazing. And Peak ensures all ingredients are free from heavy metals, pesticides and mold. If you need more hydration, then give Peak a try. Get 20% off plus a free frother and glass beaker. Here peaklife.com link Again, that's peaklife.com link well, my friends, for this next segment, I want to bring in political commentator and the host of the Bo Davidson podcast. Let's bring in Bo Davidson. How are you doing, my friend?
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I'm doing great, link. It's great to be with you.
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Thanks for being here. I want to talk to you about Jimmy Kimmel. Okay. Last night, Jimmy Kimmel came back on air. We're going to play you a clip. You tell me if you think Jimmy Kimmel is really expressing contrition. If he's sorry, let's take a look at it.
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But I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human. And that is, you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man, nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what it was. Obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some that felt either ill timed or unclear, Erica Kirk forgave the man who shot her husband. She forgave him. That is an example we should follow.
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Okay. Did you hear an apology in there? What was your take of Jimmy Kimmel's comeback last night, Link?
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I don't think it was an apology. He's saying it wasn't his intention. I don't buy it. I'm sorry. Because you don't say it. You know that your words matter. You've been doing this for 20 something odd years. You know what you're saying matters. You know that when people hear it, what rolls off the tongue is going to land on people. Lest you. Don't make the joke now, now, I'm taking this with a mixed bag link, because what he said about Erica Kirk offering forgiveness to her husband's killer is worth noting. I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. It's important to note that Jimmy said we should follow the teachings of Jesus as he believes. That's the first time I've really ever heard that. This is a unique moment in our culture, in our society right now, to talk about Jesus, to talk about what our faith is. It just seems a little strange coming out of the mouth of someone who just trashes Donald Trump and the right and MAGA and Charlie Kirk and all of his followers on a daily basis when he says it wasn't his intention. I don't see how there's any other intention to it to say that this guy was anything other than maga. He has to know that it was, it was blatantly false. And so when, when Jimmy Kimmel cries free speech and the government taking away his speech, I don't know if there's sincerity to it. I, I don't see it that way. I don't think the government forced his hand. It was, it was a completely. It was a decision based upon capitalism and Sinclair's affiliates and nexstar's affiliates. So when it comes to contrition, he stopped short of an apology. It's just so odd, Link, to hear him talk in one breath about faith in Jesus and How we should follow that example and then spend the whole second half of his monologue trashing MAGA and Donald Trump. It's very difficult to take that. But I don't want to throw it, all of it away because there were moments of what I felt, there were bright spots.
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No, absolutely. I would have respected him more as a man if he just said, you know what? I apologize, I am sorry, I screwed up. Because every once in a while you gotta just look into the camera and say, you know what? I really screwed up. But he really lied and obfuscated the truth on purpose. He knew when he went out there and said the guy was mad gun, he tried to paint Tyler Robinson as right wing. They knew it was a lie, but they were trying to do it to push a narrative that they thought their audience would like. I mean, my perception of him getting choked up was that he saw his career potentially slipping away. For the first time in a long time, he's sort of been able to coast. He hasn't had to work that hard. He's been on TV talking to his niche audience, and for the first time he was rattled and thought his career was going to slip away. Could that be a part of it too, Bo? Maybe the reason for a little bit of the tears.
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Yeah. And here's the thing, link is I think Jimmy actually does have a heart. I've seen him cry about things before. They've just been kind of like he uses it in the wrong way and at the wrong time. My mom always tells me there's two words that can really change relationships. That can so many things. Those words are I'm sorry. It's exactly what you said. The fact that he has to stop short of that and say, well, it wasn't my intention to. Is stopping short of saying I'm sorry. Why is it so hard to say? Why is it so hard to say that the senseless death of an innocent man is worth apologizing about when you mischaracterize his shooter? And to also, not just obfuscate, but to also. To overlook the fact that the person who did this is coming from a segment of the ideological left that is brainwashed, that has taken up a militants that thinks that violence is the solution. If you don't address that when you have such a national audience, you're missing an opportunity. And so to spend the rest of your monologue saying, well, Donald Trump is a Hitler and Nazi. He's terrible. Look at what Brendan Carr said. It kind of washes out what he said in the beginning so I'm taking it with a mixed bag. And, yes, I do think he might have seen his career flashing before his eyes a little bit. But when you make $15 million a year, Lincoln, you're so upset about what's going to happen to your staff, why not give some of that 50 million out to your staff? Would that be so hard for you to do? All these people, they don't practice what they preach.
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Well, exactly, Bo. And that was my thing with Stephen Colbert, right? He was running a $40 million deficit. Why don't you take a little bit of a pay cut if you care so much about your staff? And, you know, people keep saying this is a free speech issue. We've talked about this on here. I've talked about it on social media. To me, this was never a free speech issue. It wasn't that, you know, government overreach, in my opinion. Clearly it wasn't, because the guy is back on air two days later. This was about capitalism. It was about. You said something that was offensive and you got repercussions. If you go to work at McDonald's, right, and you go out there and you tell the customer something that's wrong or you lie, your manager could suspend you. That's life. I think Jimmy Kimmel, for the first time in years, being this Hollywood elite who hosts the Oscars, he got his ass handed to him, and he was humbled. I think he was humbled for the first time in a long time. I don't know if you have any final thoughts. If not, we're going to move on to Kamala.
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Just to say that when you have 72 affiliates that aren't running your show still, that's not. That's not an. That's not a loss of free speech. That's capitalism. As you just said, affiliate syndicates have a right to curtail what you say. And that doesn't mean that it's a free speech issue. It means that you've said something that borders the line of slander. And if anything, in this being a teachable moment and talking about faith and what we can point towards, it all should be a teachable moment for Jimmy and for others that are like him. You know, you can't just keep saying the same words over and over again and not have repercussions.
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Absolutely. Now, turning the tables over to Kamala Harris. She is back with this book tour, and it's pretty much a disaster. I forgot how. How much I enjoyed Kamala Harris's interviews because they're the gift that keeps on giving. But she went on the View because they needed one more insufferable woman on that table. She went on the View, she talked about how she didn't have enough time. The reason she lost the election is because she didn't have enough time. Let's take a look at that clip.
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I felt so good going into election day, and then I read in the book that you did, too. I went into election day thinking you were going to win. So did you? Yeah, I did. So, I mean, it was a very tight race, but ultimately, if you have to pin it down to one thing, what was the primary reason, do you think that you lost?
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There are many factors, I think that that played into the outcome of that election, but I think probably one of the biggest in my mind is we just didn't have enough time. We didn't have enough time.
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Oh, yeah. Bo, are you buying this? You need a new segment. Is Beau buying it? I'm not buying it for a myriad of reasons because she didn't even give interviews for 40 days. She went 40 days without doing an interview. Do you think that was the reason she lost? Because she just didn't have enough time, though?
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Not enough time? No. Kamala, you didn't have enough brains, you didn't have enough policies, you didn't have enough complete sentences. And look at your running mate, Tim Walls. And you got the nerve to get up there and say that Pete Buddha Judge was too gay to be your vp. Did you see who you had yet? A guy that got up there was completely incompetent. He might not be gay, but you know what, he sure is incompetent. It. And he certainly didn't help you. I personally think Pete Buttigieg would have helped Kamal Harris. And to say it was close, Are you kidding me? He mopped the floor with her in terms of the electoral college is so disingenuous. It's just trying to find excuse after excuse for someone who was a terrible candidate and was never. People just didn't believe in her. She's not authentic.
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Absolutely. She couldn't give answers. And then when she was asked on the View, how are you different from Joe Biden? She said, not a thing comes to mind. I really think of Kamala Harris had started out day one, let's say the day Biden drops out, she just lets those walls down and said, look, we're going to do interviews. We're going to let the press in. The way President Trump just lets the press in all the time. He'll sit there and take Questions for hours. Even if you say the wrong thing, even if you put your foot in your mouth, sometimes as a politician, at least you're open and transparent. I think Kamala Harris was just focus group to death. Did you ever feel like Kamala Harris is too worried about saying the right thing and instead of just saying what she actually believed? Probably.
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But also in. In looking link at this. At this rehearsed performance that was on the View. That's what I call it. It was a performance. It was so rehearsed. It was meticulously crafted and planned. And still, guess what? It was devoid of any content, of any valuable information that we could use. This is why she lost. If Kamala could just go back and look at the tape, watch what, you know, athletes do all the time, watch the tape. You'll see that you're devoid of anything that is authentic, that is informative, that makes people's lives better, that gives them hope, that gives them optimism. Joe Biden at least did that kind of earlier part of his career. Obama did it. She doesn't have it. And she doesn't understand that this is why she lost. And to see those six lackeys get up there, say, oh, oh, yeah, that's the. Didn't have enough time.
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Yeah.
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And it was so close, by the way. It was just so close. Are you kidding me? This is the maniacal insanity that we see on a daily basis. And I think it's just ridiculous.
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Absolutely. Now, one last clip. I don't want to make the audience sick, you guys. We have one last clip of Kamala Harris talking about how she grew, grieved, the election loss. Let's look at that one.
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I've always, on election night, done family and friends and dinner. But that night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died.
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Wow.
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And it was. I was. The pain was. It was not at all about losing a race. I knew what it was going to mean for the country. I was going to say for the family. And that's how I felt for the country.
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We all agreed.
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I knew what it was going to mean, but I knew. And all I could say over and over again is, my God, My God, My God.
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Okay, I call BS on this for two reasons. Number one, if she actually loved and cared about the country, she would have done the work as vice president for four years. She wouldn't have overseen the worst invasion ever at the southern border, and she was put in charge of the southern border. Bo, what do you think about what she had to say?
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Hollow, devoid of anything. Again, as I said, anything authentic. Grieve. You haven't grieved like that since your mother died. Well, then you need to do some more grieving because that's pretty pathetic. I just think that she's. Again, just as we watch this tape, you could play it over and over again and no one's going to take anything more away from it than no one cares. You just you. You lost. And as you astutely just said, you had four years of a vice presidency where you could have done something. You could have stopped the. The unfortunate flow across our border. The fentanyl that is killing all these people under the age of 45. You were put in charge of that and you failed. So, see, here's the thing. We had a track record of her to run on, which didn't matter if she came out and she said anything to the press. We saw what she was running on, which was hollow. And then when you do speak, you don't have anything to add to that. That then your first decision, which everybody knows as potential president, is to pick your vice president and you pick Tim Walz automatically. I know you're not a good decision maker and you've proven it time and time again. No retroactive 2020 vision going on the View is going to change that. The reason why you lost is because you don't have the policies and you also don't have the authenticity to make people believe that you can make it better for their family. And that's just the simple honest truth.
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Truth. No, you're totally, totally right. And my second reason, okay, I call BS on her, saying she grieved this, you know, more than her mother, as much as when her mother died. It was a hundred days. I have stuff that's been in my freezer, you know, for years. I have stuff in the fridge. Pizza that's been there longer. I gotta clean it out. But she said 100 days. I mean, how invested could you be in something that you did for 100 days? I don't understand that. She only had. I was like, Kim Kardashian, 72 day marriage. Remember? Kim Kardashian was married for 72 days. I don't know how Kamala is grieving something. It was like three months. I mean, she. If she cared that much, it was only three months. But Kamala Harris, we hope she continues going to give interviews and we wish you well. Kamala, I think she's hoping this book will sell and she can just go live as a rich LA woman. Now speaking of dip. No, go on.
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Don't discount that. She could run in 2028. She, she has not completely ruled that out yet. And God help us if she does. But hey, let, let, let her run.
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No, please, please. Kamala, Kamala, if you're listening to this, if you're watching our podcast, you're amazing. You're a once in a generation talent.
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We need run.
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Run. Yes. Run like Usain Bolt. Run like Bruce in the decathlon. Okay, speaking of Democratic elites, we got to finish by talking about the Obamas on vacation. Now, Barack Obama has gone out there and spoken about, you know, Charlie Kirk's assassination, some of the recent events in our country. He's still a very divisive figure. Anytime Barack Obama goes out there, Michelle Obama as well, she says very divisive, divisive things. They still seem to look down on the rest of their, the rest of the country from their, you know, mansion in Martha's Vineyard. What do you think about them being on vacation on Steven Spielberg's 250 million dollar, 357 foot luxury super yacht and the Italian Riviera? Doesn't this just speak to this sort of elitism in the Democratic Party that they want to go online and tell us how to live our lives and then you come to find out because their pictures that they're on a super yacht in Italy?
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Yeah, Link, I don't know if you have the picture or you'll be able to put it up, but I don't know what the hell.
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Michelle Obama, we can't afford the picture.
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Getting on that yacht in the Canadian tuxedo. I hope we don't have to put that on your viewers, but it's pretty atrocious. It was like people of Walmart, if I'm going to the Italian Riviera, that ain't what I'm wearing. I'm just saying that, I mean, like, this is, this is ridiculous what the woman is wearing. I just, I'm sorry, I have to point that out. It's such like a fashion faux pas. Like, I'd be like, that's my wife getting on that, that yacht. Are you kidding me? Steven Spielberg dress a little bit better, honey. But as you pointed out with Barack and Michelle, they are divisive figures. And I think about the comments that Obama made about Charlie Kirk. One of the first things he said was, we don't know yet what motivated the killer. Are you kidding me? How disingenuous is that? You know exactly what it was. Everybody knows what it was that motivated him.
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And then look at the, look at.
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The shooting at ice as well, the Dallas ice facility. Do we know what maybe motivated that shooter? Oh, I don't know. Maybe a radical ideological position from the left that believes that violence and killing is the answer. This is the part of the mind virus they just don't get. And so this is why people still look up to the Obamas as like the de facto leaders of the Democratic Party and they still swing and miss. You know, you got Kamala, who's hollow. When Barack speaks, it's so much more fluid and effortless and erudite. But the problem is that what he says gives you just a bad feeling. Like, where was the optimism and hope, the hope and change that you called for in one breath? You say, it's so tragic that Charlie lost his life, but we don't know what the motivation of the killer was. That's so intellectually dishonest. And in addition to the fashion faux pas and the fact that that was a horrendous outfit that Michelle had on, I would just say that they refuse to see that there is a woke. Well, not just woke, but there's a mind virus from the ideological left. And I look at what happened in the Dallas ICE facility, I look at Charlie Kirk shooter and I see it's no different from Islamic terrorism because these people now link, are willing to die. They're willing to shoot themselves, they're willing to be shot at to die. It's no different from Islamic terrorism. And the problem is that, yes, there are kooks on the right, let's be honest, but the ones coming from the left that are now taking it upon themselves to shoot other people because they disagree with them, it's unfortunately spreading. It's a cancer that's spreading. And Barack Obama, in being a leader in the lefties, to step out and speak about it, he has an opportunity to. And I'm sorry, when you're waving from the, from the Italian Riviera as you get on your tour $250 million lot yacht that Steven Spielberg owns, it rings hollow. It just seems tone deaf.
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It totally seems tone deaf. Especially at a time when Americans feel like the American dream is less attainable on the left. They feel like, look, we had sky high inflation under Biden, we can't afford homes when Democrats are in power. And then you see Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on a massive yacht in the Italian Riviera. It's not good for the Democratic brand. And I don't think Barack Obama helped Kamala Harris at all with this reelection or her election last summer. I don't think he helped her at all. I mean, he was trying to scold these young black men into voting for her. She's one of you. She's one of you. And the guys are like, why should we have to vote just based off of skin color? I guess that's the last thing I'd love to ask you before we round out this segment. Kamala Harris, something we spoke about earlier in the show. She's kind of blaming her loss on misogyny and skin color. And then, you know, her comments about Pete Buttigieg. It seems like they're just so much more focused on identity politics. I don't think Kamala's gender or skin color had anything to do with her overwhelming loss. I think it was just her track record. Don't you kind of call a flag on the play with her saying it's gender and race?
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Definitely. Flag, absolutely. But it's. It's the way she's trying to legitimize the loss. And I'll just say this to people. I think that America is ready for a female president, but they've got to be ready for the right female president. They're ready for someone who's even black, who's minority, who's Latino. Those are all great things, but you don't lead with those things. Those are just. Look at Marco, Ruby Rubio. He doesn't lead with the fact that he's Latino. It just so happens he is the son of a bartender, Cuban immigrant. That's part of his story, and it's very compelling. But Marco has led by example from from son of an immigrant to senator to now secretary of state. He's not leading with his skin. He's leading with the content of his character and his leadership and what he aims to do. So when Democrats have this branding issue, which I think they do, which is, oh, it was because I lost because I was gay. I lost because I was a female, lost because I was black.
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Black.
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None of that is true. We had the first African American president, did we not? People can see beyond skin color, but you've got to give them something to believe in. And Kamala's inauthenticity and being disingenuous is exactly why she lost. She just refuses to see it that way. So the more Democrats can look inward at their hearts and at their character, what they can offer people, they'll do better off, I think, with the populace. But until then, blaming it on ideological or identity politics is not going to help them in the long run at all. And we're seeing that play out because they just keep losing. And I think Gavin Newsom is trying to pick up some of that slack. He thinks he's the next Charlie Kirk. Good luck with that, buddy.
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No, Gavin Newsom does not even come close to having sort of the political skill of Charlie Kirk. But now hopefully the Democrats come to learn at some point that we want a merit based society. We want you to exceed no matter what skin color, gender. And that's how President Trump is. He doesn't care at all. I mean, people say Scott Bessant's gay, oh my God, he's a gay cabinet member. Trump's like, no, he's just a cabinet member who's excellent and good at his job. So I'm so grateful.
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And Rick Grinnell too. And I'll just say this in closing link is just that I think that the left and Democrats specifically have a real opportunity right now to come together with a lot of the right to say we've got to stamp out this ideological extremism. It's just that there's no tolerance for it. And forget the Jimmy Kimmel, forget all that stuff that's going on kind of on the periphery. There's an opportunity right now to say as Americans, the ideals that we believe in, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, these are things that we believe in and we've got to stamp it out from the far right and the far left. Unfortunately, a lot of it's coming from the left. And when it's your team and when it's your side, what do you do? You cut that cancer out, you address the team and you say, this can't happen. And if you see it happening, you better let us know. That's what Barack Obama, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, you name it, that's what they need to be doing. And they need to lead by example. They need to lead by faith, too. A lot of them are people who go to church and are Christians and they should be leading with that. They should follow Erica Kirk's example.
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Example, absolutely. I think there are many people who could follow Erica Kirk's example. But I am not holding my breath that the Democrats are going to learn from their mistakes. But Bo Davidson, thank you so much for coming on. We wanted you to come on for so long. I'm so grateful. I hope you'll come back. I want to come on your show, have an amazing rest of the week. Thank you for coming on.
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Anytime. Thank you.
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Well, we have to round out the show with a mini royal roundup. We have a quick story about Prince Harry. Prince Harry is apparently seeing this relationship right now between William, his father Charles, his beautiful state visit they had with the first lady and the President of the United States. I think Harry is seeing that, according to some sources over in California and thinking, should I get back into the royal family? Did I make the right choice? I mean, how could you not see that state banquet? And we'll put a picture or a clip up on the screen. How could you not see that state banquet they had with the entire American delegation and all the royals and Princess Catherine and William and Camilla and King Charles? How could you not see that and feel a little bit of FOMO? Right. Harry's over there in Montecito in the McMansion with Meghan Markle and her jean booty shorts, and he's like, wait a second, wait a second. What the hell did I do? What did I do? So, according to some of these sources, Prince Harry might want to get back into the royal family, but the royals really don't want someone who's half in, half out. And that was the problem five years ago. Now, here's a quote from the Daily Mail. The King is a forgiving man, but has been absolutely clear in upholding his late mother's decision that there cannot be half in, half out members of the working royal family. The insider added that President Trump's visit to the UK was a show of strength for Charles and Prince William. As last week's state visit clearly demonstrated, the power and impact of the modern monarchy lies in the unshakable bond between the King and the Prince of Wales, supported by other working members of the family. I agree. Right. If you have a family business, you can't have people who are half in, half out. Fair weather fans, okay? Prince Harry, a major bed. You have to lie in it. If you want to come back and be a working member of the royal family and have all the trappings and the accoutrement of being a royal senior royal, you got to do the work and you got to pay the piper. I don't think you can live in California part time and then pop in for the fun stuff, because the other folks, Catherine and Williams, you guys might not want to call it work. They go to a million charity events, they visit hospitals, they visit schools. They shine light on issues that really need to be, you know, magnified. So, Prince Harry, if you don't want to do the grunt work, I don't think you should be able to just fly in to have crumpets and scones when times are good. And I don't think anybody's ever going to accept Meghan Markle back in the UK. Okay. They accepted her in 2018 with open arms. Well, I will say. I will say President Trump's state visit, I feel like they did more for President Trump's state visit than they did for Meghan Markle's wedding. They had, like, this massive event for Trump and Melania, and Meghan Markle's wedding kind of looked like, you know, a McDonald's play place. Next to that, it was pretty iconic with the flyovers. I mean, I'd never seen anything. The pop, the circumstance, the pageantry. Oh, my. But no, I think Meghan Markle will never, never be accepted back in the royal family ever again back in the uk. But we also heard from a source online I know many of you have heard this. Prince Harry is toying with the idea now of sending his kids to school in the UK because of the community. I thought you said the UK wasn't safe. I thought you said the UK just wasn't safe, even though you were out ringing doorbells in the middle of the day. So Prince Harry, I think the last point I have to make is we're not dealing with someone who has a full deck of cards. And I'm using my words very carefully. I think Prince Harry might have some underlying issues, emotional issues, maybe he's a little bit stunted emotionally, he's a little less mature than he should be for his age because he kind of just jumps from thing to thing. He doesn't think things through too clearly and too, you know, methodically. So none of this is really tracking the uk. Six months ago you say it's not safe and you can't go back there. Now you think you might send your kids there. Now you're toying with the idea of maybe getting back involved with the Royal Family. I think Prince Harry needs to have a stern conversation with himself about what he wants out of his life. You have a massive platform, you're massively famous, you're massively wealthy. With that comes some responsibility. So I hope Prince Harry can grow up. Who knows that the family will ever accept him. I would be very careful accepting him back in. 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Well, that concludes this episode of Spot on with Link Lauren. I want to thank you guys for tuning in. I want to thank you for sharing the episodes with your friends. You guys always take the links from YouTube and you share them with your friends and you send them around on Facebook and on social media. And for that we are very, very grateful because so much of the success of the podcast has come from word of mouth. So thank you so much and I'm glad we can discuss a wide range of topics on the show. I hope you guys have an amazing rest of the week. We will be back on Friday on YouTube discussing this whole Tylenol situation. Okay, Liberal women are downing bottles of Tylenol on TikTok despite President Trump. We'll be talking about that on Friday. I will see you guys soon. Bye.
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Episode: Jimmy Kimmel's Crocodile Tears, Kamala's Calamitous Book Tour, and Michelle Obama's Superyacht Vacay
Date: September 24, 2025
Host: Link Lauren
Guest: Bo Davidson
In this episode, Link Lauren unpacks recent headlines and controversies involving Kamala Harris's disastrous book tour, Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional (and possibly strategic) television return after controversy, Hillary Clinton’s attempt at a unity message, and the Obamas' luxury vacation, exploring the hypocrisy and political narratives coming from elite Democrats. Joined mid-episode by political commentator Bo Davidson, the discussion is sharp, irreverent, and packed with cutting commentary on current events, media narratives, and political figures.
(00:46—13:30, 23:14—29:39)
Kamala's Unpopularity:
“[Kamala Harris] is not well-liked at this particular point. The American people, they don’t want this. They don’t want her.” — CNN Clip (02:25)
Book and Media Tour Critiques:
“The only thing Kamala Harris ever finishes is a box of wine. The woman does not ever want to work.” — Link Lauren (02:49)
“So, I’m not in Mensa, but I’m a pretty smart person. Tell me how this makes sense.” — Link Lauren (04:43)
Trans Athlete Rhetoric & Political Survival:
“This is all a bunch of garbledy goop… focus-grouped BS. Either you support girls in sports or you don’t.” — Link Lauren (06:13)
Kamala Accuses Trump of Dictatorship:
“No one voted for her and she was on the ballot. That, to me, feels very dictatorial.” — Link Lauren (07:54)
Lack of Accountability:
“You went 40 days without an interview. You had four years as vice president to introduce yourself.” — Link Lauren (08:57)
Identity Politics & Pete Buttigieg:
“She didn’t want Pete Buttigieg because he was gay. So she then went and chose Tim Walz, who’s an overgrown Disney adult.” — Link Lauren (12:17)
(13:30—16:30)
Demonization Accusations:
“There’s not a more divisive woman in politics than Hillary Clinton.” — Link Lauren (13:42)
Call for Democratic Renewal:
“I don’t think trotting Hillary Clinton out every few weeks…is going to help the Democratic brand.” (16:24)
(17:21—23:14)
Kimmel's On-Air "Apology":
“It was never my intention to make light of the murder… That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make.” — Jimmy Kimmel (17:35)
Was It an Apology?
“I don’t think it was an apology. He’s saying it wasn’t his intention. I don’t buy it… You know that your words matter.”
“I would have respected him more if he just said, ‘I am sorry. I screwed up.’” — Link Lauren (19:58) “Why is it so hard to say that the senseless death of an innocent man is worth apologizing about…” — Bo Davidson (20:41)
Not a Free Speech Issue—A Capitalism Issue:
“This was about capitalism. It was about: you said something that was offensive and you got repercussions.” — Link Lauren (21:57) “When you have 72 affiliates that aren’t running your show still… that’s not a loss of free speech. That’s capitalism.” — Bo Davidson (22:43)
(29:54—34:06)
Obamas Vacation on Spielberg’s Yacht:
“[They] look down on the rest of the country from their mansion in Martha’s Vineyard… on Steven Spielberg’s 250 million dollar, 357 foot luxury super yacht.” — Link Lauren (30:44)
Tone-Deaf Optics:
“In one breath you say it’s so tragic that Charlie lost his life, but we don’t know what the motivation of the killer was. That’s so intellectually dishonest.” — Bo Davidson (32:49) “It totally seems tone deaf. Especially at a time when Americans feel like the American dream is less attainable on the left…” — Link Lauren (33:11)
Identity Politics & Democratic Branding:
“America is ready for a female president… They’re ready for someone who’s even black, who’s minority, who’s Latino. Those are all great things, but you don’t lead with those things.” — Bo Davidson (34:06)
(38:36—43:18)
“I think Prince Harry needs to have a stern conversation with himself about what he wants out of his life… With that comes some responsibility. So I hope Prince Harry can grow up.” — Link Lauren (42:55)
Kamala Harris & Accountability (04:43):
“Biden couldn’t run for reelection, he was too brain dead… but he’s okay to have the nuclear codes? Kamala Harris, you are still an idiot.” — Link Lauren
On Kamala’s Trans Sports Stance (06:13):
“This is all a bunch of garbledy goop. This is a bunch of focus-grouped BS.” — Link Lauren
Kamala’s Loss Excuses (24:26):
“Not enough time? No, Kamala, you didn’t have enough brains, you didn’t have enough policies, you didn’t have enough complete sentences.” — Bo Davidson
Jimmy Kimmel’s Contrition (19:58):
“I would have respected him more as a man if he just said, ‘I apologize, I am sorry, I screwed up.’ But he really lied and obfuscated the truth on purpose.” — Link Lauren
Obama Yacht Optics (33:11):
“It totally seems tone deaf. Especially at a time when Americans feel like the American dream is less attainable…” — Link Lauren
This episode of Spot On with Link Lauren is a no-holds-barred ride through recent political missteps and media drama. Link insists Kamala Harris’s struggles are not about identity but authenticity, Jimmy Kimmel’s tears are more career than conscience, Democratic elites are out of touch, and Harry may be regretting his royal exodus. Whether mocking wine boxes or dissecting superyacht optics, Link and Bo make it clear: the American electorate wants substance, not more focus-grouped spin or crocodile tears.