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The episode discusses America's 250th birthday celebrations and analyzes Kamala Harris's potential presidential run.

America turned 250 and the party flopped. ecord 102 degree heat, a lightning evacuation of the National Mall, and a president speaking to rows of empty chairs after 11 p.m., where he misquoted the Declaration of Independence at the document's own birthday party. Then came 850,000 fireworks, a Code Red air quality alert, briefly the worst air of any major city on Earth, and a 100+ post Truth Social meltdown featuring attacks on a federal judge, pool water, and a Home Alone 2 throwback. Meanwhile, hundreds of masked Patriot Front members marched through DC with Confederate flags, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum declined, three times, to condemn them. But that's only 25% of the show. The main event: Kamala Harris is running for president, and the receipts say so. The private call to Zohran Mamdani. The closed-door meeting with AOC. The outreach to Uncommitted Movement co-founder Abbas Alawieh and James Zogby. The policy briefings on China, AI, and Venezuela. She hasn't announced, but nobody schedules Venezuela briefings for fun. So this episode does something radical: it talks about Kamala Harris fairly. The real prosecutor record vs. the meme (1,956 marijuana convictions, 45…

People in this episode

Host: We Saw the Devil

Topics covered

• America's 250th birthday
• Kamala Harris presidential run
• political analysis
• true crime
• air quality issues
• Patriot Front march
• DNC autopsy

Keywords

• Kamala Harris
• July 4th
• National Mall
• air quality
• Patriot Front
• political analysis
• Declaration of Independence
• Gaza
• DNC autopsy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Declaration of Independence

Places: America, National Mall, DC

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