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Kamala Harris · Wanzology

Kamala Harris Bee-bee-bee-bee-bee-bee, Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hey, hey, hey!!! Welcome to another episode of WANZOLOGY!! I'm your host, The Wanz! It's nice to be here. Hopefully you're having a wonderful time existing on this planet, hm-hmm, at this time. Today, I wanna tell you about an experience that I just had. I was lucky enough to go and listen to one Kamala Harris, ex-vice president, ex-presidential candidate, and it was enlightening in the sense that to listen to someone and feel emotionally stirred by them doesn't happen to me very often. I want to tell you about the experience of what it's like listening to someone who's bubbling positivity can be resilient and replicated inside, inside. I was very excited because in 2019 I actually, uh, I had the opportunity to get a meet and greet, and when I did when it was my turn, I was wearing a Seahawk jersey and it had WANZ on the back of it. She said, “What's your name?”, and I said, “WANZ”. And she looked at me and went, “WANZ?” and I said, “Yeah, WANZ!” And then she tilted her head like a curious dog and went, “WANZ?”, and I said, “Yeah!! That one!” She said, “Well, you'll have to sing something!”, and so I started to sing “That's why Darling, it's incredible,”, and she joined me, “How someone so unforgettable, makes me feel forgettable too…”, and then we did a high five! She was laughing her laugh, which is marvelous, and I looked at her and I said, “You know, I really feel blessed to be here. I wish you and your staff and your family all the best. May you have safe travels.”, and she said, “Thank you!”, with a big smile on her face. And I started to walk off only to find out that no one had caught that moment. No one had filmed me singing with the soon to be Vice President of the United States. So yesterday, actually, about two weeks ago, I stumbled across a little ad on my Facebook feed saying that she was gonna be in town. I spent a lot of money in order to have another opportunity to replicate what happened in 2019. So, I got to the venue like an hour before doors opened and there was nobody there. So that meant I was first in line, ha-ha- ha. And I was first at the security gate to go in and that led me to be first in the meet and greet line and it took forever. And finally it was time to go in and I had my phone ready to record 'cause I was just gonna hand it to an aide and say, “Would you please film this?” Then I got the news, no, you can't have anything in your hand when you go in. And I was like, uh, but I understood, given what had happened to Charlie Kirk and DorkBoy twice, yeah, I got it. Security protocols. Our security protocols. So I rounded the corner and I started walking towards her and they said my name and I looked at her and I said, “It is so nice to see you again!” And she stopped for a second and she looked, she goes, “Oh, it's you!!! And I said, "Yes it is!! How are you?” She said, and I said, I'm, I'm hanging in there, it's very challenging times.”. And she said, “Yes it is.”, and I said, “You know, the last time I was here, nobody recorded us when we sang.” And she goes, “Well, we'll have to fix that.” And I was excited. I looked at the camera that was taking our picture and I said, “I hope you're rolling.”, and I was about to start singing and the handler, the aide said, “Okay, thank you!”, and that was it! I walked away and that was it. And when I got out from behind the little area that she was in and picked up my phone, I was severely disappointed. Now, why was I disappointed? I had been looking forward to recapturing that moment of singing with one Kamala Harris. She's a very good singer, by the way, and it didn't happen. So when I left the room where the meet and greet was at I picked up a copy of her book that was complimentary and scanned the QR code where the pictures are going to be in something like 48 hours or something like that, and I started walking away feeling disappointed, a little down because what I had hoped would happen didn't happen. Now in my head of heads, the big one, I was contemplating the expectation of being able to replicate what happened in 2019. Now that that expectation was unmet, how was I feeling? Well, I already said I was disappointed, but what does that really mean? Does that mean that the whole thing was a wrap and that was the end? No. Time passed, like it always does. I went and found my seat, which was up near the nosebleed seats, I found my seat right about the time that she was introduced, sat down as she started talking, and it was captivating for me. To listen to someone who has been through an emotional ringer that I can't even imagine! I can't imagine what it must have felt like when she got the news that she was not going to win the presidency. I remember what I felt like. I was extremely pissed because I understood what had happened. Because of outside forces, namely misinformation because there were people who upset at the process, namely Biden being so late in exiting the process. That's what her book is about, it only gave her 107 days, and that's the title of the book. But she went on and wonderfully sensitively and masterfully explained how she processed her disappointment, because she had given everything that she had. There were so many people I talked to who think that she sold out. That she was disingenuous, that she had lied about Biden's condition to keep Biden in office, and I explained, you don't understand how politics works. How it works is this, the party is made up of various factions, and when you're the leader of the party, every faction must be taken into consideration. Which is what I already knew and that's what I understood, but I was around people who really didn't see very much farther than what their aspirations for Ms. Harris were. I felt a little outcast. I felt a little sad that people who wanted so much could not understand that the person that they wanted this from, was so much more disappointed than they were. So she was asked a myriad of questions and most of it was explaining the process of how she came to ‘right-size’ her mind enough to write this book? No, I haven't read it yet, I'm about to. But she explained in the book that there were a number of factors that went into a lot of the decisions that were made, and they were not all decisions that she agreed with. Case in point, she made it very pointed that she did not agree with the administration's stance on what happened in Israel. She said, “There were levers that could have been pulled that were not pulled.”, and I'm like, “Man, you're reading my mind!” In my mind, understanding the pain and tragedy of October 7th, I still have a bit of, uh, animosity and suspicion around the Jewish government and their response. Their response to me was, okay, we're not gonna screw around anymore, we're just going to pulverize everything. And I get that. I get more than you would probably imagine. I understand how the plight of the Jewish people plays out and why it is more so than most. A lot of the Jewish struggle was replicated with black people. The discrimination. The suspicion, all the stereotypes, they were different stereotypes, but the similarity is blacks were thought of being ‘less than’, just like Jews were thought of being ‘less than’ and not trusted. So there are some parallels, and you know, maybe I'm stretching a little bit and my perspective may be skewed, but that's my perspective, nonetheless. Listening to her talk about how things have been handled because she's not in office, I could hear the tinge of anger, not disappointment, but anger in her voice and how the current administration has gone about handling what happened. And then she went on with that same bit of anger, talking about. The plight of people in this country and how they were lied to. Those who support him, support him blindly, and how they have been reprogrammed by misinformation. This is stuff I already knew. It's hard to have a discussion with someone who is a Trump supporter, because they will blindly lock themselves out of considering anything other than what they already believe. You could tell them up is up and down, is down, and they won't believe you. They'll find all sorts of reasons like diagonal sideways, “You're just saying that because you listen to the mainstream media! Science doesn't know anything! God didn't make up or down, he made everything!!! Rrrrrr-ight. More power to 'em for believing what they believe. But what I can't really get next to is not extending the same respect to my views as they expect about theirs. And that's where the rub comes in. There are people in this country who can hold one opinion in one hand and in one opinion in another hand, and they can distinguish between the two opinions. Most hardcore MAGA folk don't do that because Trump doesn't do that. Trump thinks he knows everything, and he thinks he knows everything. Even when he is wrong, he still knows that it had to be somebody else's fault because he was right. That's, to me, that's just not ‘crackin’. Between that and the lies and the corruption, the self-dealing, the lack of consideration for people who are not, I repeat NOT in his economic circle, people he can't get anything from. And that's another thing, he will take and take and take. Rarely gives anything to anyone. It's weird. I used to listen to Mary Trump, his niece, a lot and her descriptions of what family life used to be like are just, they're just psychologically terrifying. But I digress. At the end of the night, Ms. Harris had enveloped the crowd in a ‘hope blanket’. And when I say ‘hope blanket’, I mean everyone who got out of their seat and was leaving the auditorium was like walking two feet off the ground, including myself. I felt more hopeful. I felt like there was a chance that the madness that we are currently experiencing in the year 2025, had an end. It's been really hard to picture there actually being an end. I still wouldn't put it past Trump to somehow rig the process of the midterms because he knows he's unpopular and he is only gonna get less popular. He knows that if he loses one of the two chambers of Congress, he's in deep, deep trouble. He knows that if he loses the Senate, he will be impeached and removed, not just impeached. But in the meantime, he is executing his consolidation of power regardless of the Constitution, regardless of Congress, who I think is being held hostage, but that's another topic, and regardless of the will of the majority of the American people. We were reminded by Ms. Harris, that the government is owned by the people because we vote for people to represent us in this constitutional republic. It's that, that makes America different from any other constitutional republic, or any republic that's come before it. The people choose their leaders. Right now, it just feels like the Republican party wants to choose their voters. They're trying to keep people from voting. They're not proposing any ideas that actually help anyone who doesn't make a lot of money, anyone who has a lot of kids, anyone who is just trying to start out, or anyone who wants to improve themselves. There is no help from the government that all of us pay money to, and I don't think that's right. I think that because they take money out of Americans wages, they ask us to pay and support the government through taxes, I think that it is more about finding the things that will benefit Americans than it is companies. I think that we should do away with Citizens United first and foremost, so that ideas rather than money, determine who is a better candidate. Now, lastly, I'll finish with this. After I got outside, there were probably 15, 10, 15 people out there protesting, banging on things, protesting what has happened in Gaza, they call it a genocide, which I agree with, but what didn't make sense to me was that they were outside protesting at an event for a person who is not in power. And I tried to start the conversation with, “Help me understand how this is helpful.” The first thing I got back was, “Oh!! So you're FOR genocide? You're for the killing of babies? And I said, “No! I'm not for the killing of anyone, but I'm also not into pouring water into a bucket with a hole in it!! Explain why it's this event? Why aren't you protesting at, I don't know, Jewish Foundation? I mean, it's the Jewish state that's doing all the damage.” “Oh, but they get the weapons from the United States!!” and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, “Yeah, but this is Kamala Harris who is not in power. Do you honestly think that if she had been elected president, this would be where we're at right now? Do you think that we still would've sent over so many weapons at blank check to Netanyahu if she would've been elected president?” Oh yeah, they were like, “Yeah!!” They were convinced. And I'm going, “Wow! You weren't in there and you didn't read the book! From what she said, there is more concern for the people of both Gaza and Israel. Her solutions were more ‘human’ than has been currently projected.” And I talked to like three or four people. Two of the three actually listened and I thanked them for it. One person started to listen and then turned it against me because they were not going to listen to what my opinion was and the questions that formed that opinion, which amazingly was exactly like talking to a hardcore MAGA person. No new ideas. Their way of the highway, their opinion is a light switch. My experience has been, opinions are more like a dimmer. Life is circumstantial and depending on a certain set of circumstances, everybody's going to behave and believe a little differently, not radically, just a little. As I was walking to my car, I felt very, very buoyant, because I had seen that there is a person who, I won't agree with everything that they say, but I do believe that they have the best interest of every single American in mind when they are proposing policy. I believe that Kamala Harris has more of an open mind than anyone serving in the administration in 2025, I think for those who live in rural America, those who live in suburban America, those who live in urban America and everywhere in between, Kamala Harris has ideas and wants to enact policies that will benefit everyone, not just the upper 2%. not just the big corporations, not just the special interests. I'll let you decide after you pick up and read her book, “107 days” because none of us has, uh, a fully formed opinion. If we haven't, like me seen her speak or read her book, I'm not saying it's gonna change your mind, but I always believe that the more information one has, the better the decisions they'll make. Knowledge is power. Never stop learning. Thanks for tuning in this week. Keep on stepping, keep on breathing and I'll see you next week.