WEBVTT - A&G Replay Friday Hour Three 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.360 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.400 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:21.200 Gaddy Armstrong and he. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:41.880 Armstrong and Catty Strong and. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.920 Hely released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.760 workers from the World Central Kitchen. They travel in two cars, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.720 one marked with the flag of the Humanitarian Organization before 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.440 they're hit by IDF airstrikes. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.280 WCK in real time, we're able to verify that vehicle 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.800 was not connected to the organization in any way, which 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.520 means those terrris for using. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.120 That as a disguise for their terror activity inside Gaza. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.000 Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple areas of the enclave over the 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.920 past twenty four hours, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.040 Okay, So in spite of that, it's absolutely documented, undeniable 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:19.880 that Hamask guys were masquerading as food belief guys. NPR 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.960 considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists, or 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.640 at least that's what they're saying innocence. And those views 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.520 are supported practically to a person by the American left 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:31.800 and a lot of the left in a lot of 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.480 the Western world, What the hell is going on? To 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.320 quote Eli Lake, who's a brilliant writer in the West, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.840 the politics of the Gaza war feature a strange marriage 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.800 between political Islam and the twenty first century Western left, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.560 for instance, the Democratic Socialists of America. This is Mumdani's 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:54.480 crew simultaneously support making New York a national hub for 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:59.000 a transgender medicine and want to globalize the intefada. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.560 Yeah, that is a good point. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.680 It support, It supports the bleeding edge of social progressive 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.280 values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.079 who filmed their mass murder of Jews and probably posted 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:17.240 the videos to telegram. And Lake, in an absolutely fabulous 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.800 piece that will post I think you might get paywalled, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.880 but maybe not, talks about how the what's called the 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.359 red Green alliance among people who think about this sort 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.000 of thing, how it came up, and it really came up, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.120 and yes he was red, and who's green here? Reds 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.760 is and communists in green, the color of Hamas and 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.760 radical Islam and various thank you for asking for the 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.680 clarification to hit for the room. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:42.200 Anyway. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.200 A lot of this arose during Iran's Islamic revolution in 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.240 nineteen seventy eight and seventy nine, and he goes into 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:54.880 and it's so interesting the details of how Ayatola Komeni, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:59.440 who is in exile in France, started giving all sorts 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:05.480 of really carefully controlled interviews to American and European media outlets, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:12.200 and how they're on this pr campaign to convince the 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.359 West that he's a reasonable fellow. In fact, he's really 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:20.600 for democracy, and Lake is writing. Anybody who spent ten 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:26.160 minutes looking into Komaney knew that he was a hardcore 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.360 is Lomiest monster. You didn't even have to try to 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.960 figure it out. But the left of American journalism, in 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.920 Western journalism, and some folks like in the Carter administration 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:45.240 became completely convinced and touted in the face of all 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.440 of this that no, he was actually a really good guy. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.080 Richard Falk, a Princeton professor of international law who met 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.720 with Comany during his exile outside of Paris, Andrew Young, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.800 Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Name, told reporters that 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.840 the Iotola will eventually be regarded as a saint like 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:11.760 this folk, the Princeton professor, And because people were saying 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.160 there were some on the right who said, look, this 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.479 guy's a reactionary and a terrorist. And he said, to 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.600 suppose that Iotola Coomani is disassembling. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.480 Seems almost beyond belief. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.280 His political style is to express his real views defiantly 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.120 and without apology, regardless of consequences. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:30.240 Blah blah blah. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.000 Thus the depiction of him as a fanatical reactionary and 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.479 the bearer of crude prejudices seemed certainly and happily false. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.479 And what is also encouraging is that as entourage of 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:45.039 close advisors is uniformly composed of moderate progressive individuals. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.080 I know you and Eli Lake are about to explain 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.039 to me why. But is it just as simple as 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.159 the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and my 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.880 enemy is mean the United States, So somebody who doesn't 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.320 like us is good to I like. Right, There's more 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.080 to it than that. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.840 But yeah, the very short version of it is essentially, 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:07.320 wait a minute, you want to overthrow Western civilization. I 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.760 want to overthrow Western civilization. You want to impose Islamism, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.680 but I want to impose Marxism. Well, I tell you what, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.720 how about we work together and then when the civilization's 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.160 overthrown will peacefully cooperate and divide the spoils. Then, of course, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.279 like in every revolution, they kill each other as fast 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:25.800 as they can. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.719 But there's one more factor. You got jihad in my 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.200 queer studies. You got queer studies in my jihad. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.279 Two great tastes. It tastes great together. Oh that's beautiful anyway. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:41.200 So this brings us to the connection between something I 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.480 have been harping about for a very long time, as 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.120 has James Lindsay. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:46.520 And other folks. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.799 If there is one Western progressive who illuminates the emergence 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.080 of the Red Green Alliance, it is the French philosopher 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.320 Michelle fucau Well. I've mentioned several times. In nineteen seventy 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.200 eight fou Co was absolutely the peak of his influence. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:06.640 He was the post modernist who is revolutionizing universities with 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.400 his withering critique of the Western Enlightenment and values that 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:17.640 underpin modern liberalism. Fuko was literally anti Enlightenment, and he 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:22.520 is the father of all critical theory. Okay, And I 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.040 think people have a tendency to think, all right, Getty 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.080 and Lindsay are paranoid or whatever, or their conspiracy theorists. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.440 I had a friend in high school who was Indian. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:40.760 His parents had emigrated from India and they were Hindus, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.520 and in visiting his house and hanging out with his family, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.040 so it became clear to me that there were figures 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:54.599 in Hinduism that were known and revered to billions of 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.840 people around the world, who I'd never heard of. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.120 I would suggest to you my friends, and you are 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:01.640 my friends. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:10.120 Fuko is that for the Neomarxists, for those who would 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.480 overthrow Western civilization. He is a godhead to them. And 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.200 you don't know his name, but trust me what I 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.240 tell you. It's incredibly important that you understand. So this 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.800 guy was incredibly influential in the universities in the seventies, 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.120 and in nineteen seventy eight he was commissioned by two 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.760 Italian newspapers to report on the Iranian Revolution. And like 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.080 one of those you know Left East you know Time 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.720 magazine guys who were visiting the Soviet Union in one 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.400 of their Potempkin villages back in the forties, say or fifties, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:44.880 he couldn't stop gushing about how great the Itola was 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.240 and he was going to get rid of the oppression 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:54.160 of Western politics. And Zabadabadu so, and this gets a 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.360 little complicated, but I'll get to the simple part. Fuco 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.800 was a major intellectual influence on the late Columbia University 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:05.760 of professor Edward Sayd's Orientalism now a postcolonial ism study Bible, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:10.240 which critique how Western imperial writers made Arabs, Muslims and 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.920 Easterners objects in their narratives and impose their own agenda 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:19.560 on their histories. Here is the great postmodernist celebrating Ayatola 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:24.119 Komane overthrowing the Western government, even though Komane would would 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.840 execute Fuco and his company the first chance they got. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.720 But that was the birthplace of it. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.240 And until you understand that postmodernism thing, you don't get 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.800 critical theory. You don't understand what DEI is and what 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.120 it's trying to accomplish. You don't understand queer theory, radical 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.080 gender theory. All the confused adolescent girls getting their healthy 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:52.000 breasts removed because they're momentarily confused by you know, adolescents 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.839 and puberty and the rest of it. This is all 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.400 straight back to Fuco and critical theory. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:03.280 Clearly, this theory is true in that it is happening. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.600 I still don't get how you're not argued out of 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.240 that position very quickly. If somebody says to you, you 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.280 realize if you're in Iran, they would they would murder 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.640 you immediately. Oh yeah, so I guess I'd better pick 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.920 a different group to work with. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.600 I mean, right, a different philosophy. Here's the thing. And 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.640 these people are smart. I mean they're insane, but they're smart. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.720 They convince you completely of their premise that Western society 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:39.240 what was that phrase, have made all other people objects 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.120 in their narratives and impose their own agenda on their histories. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.120 The key philosophy of critical theory is that there is 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.680 no objective truth there. Don't even seek it, it doesn't exist. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:57.200 All there is is narratives, and narratives come from your culture, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.400 and since Western culture is dominant, it has created a 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:07.200 narrative that says the Iyatola Komene is a monster, but 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:11.720 that's just because they're threatened by him, so they're racists, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.560 they're othering him. And once you have that down to 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.120 your bones, then you can't be argued off of it 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.679 on the basis of me saying they torture and then 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.920 kill anybody who's gay or transgender because I'm a Westerner 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.079 trying to lie to them using my narrative. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:37.800 So they don't believe that Jihadis would murder gay people, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.280 or they think Jihadis only murdered gay people because of 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:42.679 the position we've put them in. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.760 Uh yeah, indirectly, Yeah, the first part, one hundred percent. 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:52.120 And or we have so dominated them and crushed their 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.959 spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.440 that they won't anymore when the Enlightenment comes, when the 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.040 Marxist revolution comes. I mean like excusing the crimes of 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:06.560 October seventh. You saw that directly. Look, they're under oppression. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.280 What do you expect them to do? Yeah, and I 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.640 don't believe they raped and killed babies. No, they just 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.080 fought back against the oppressor self solution. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.120 That's a scary thing to be up against. There's way 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.400 too many people to believe it. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.160 Oh, and they're in our schools, folks, our elementary schools, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.600 our high schools, and our colleges and our grad schools. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.720 That is one of the dominant philosophies, if not the 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.040 dominant philosophy, in our educational complex, which is why I'm 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.600 always saying it's the most important problem that faces America. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:36.480 Bigger than China. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.880 It's the center street jihadism, thank you, man, well post Marxism, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.800 but cultural Marxism, postmodernism, neo Marxism, whatever you want. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:46.880 To call it. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.040 Thinks it's interesting because back then when Mitt Romney was 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.199 running for president and after nine to eleven, jihadism did 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.920 seem like the biggest problem in the world. And it's 0:11:55.920 --> 0:12:00.680 a problem, no doubt. But I'm more worried about Marxism 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.760 in the foothold it's got in the United States and 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.640 Western culture that I am about jihatism. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:09.079 By a lot, right right, Yeah, my final word, And folks, 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.480 I apologize in advance. I'm going to use a bad 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.480 letter here if you think I don't know that seems 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:21.760 kind of paranoid. These efing people wrote efing books. Their 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:26.080 efing names are on the efing spines, and they e 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.440 FFing describe precisely what they're e fing going to do, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.720 and they're doing it precisely as they e fing described. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:37.600 End of screen. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:45.000 Troubling societies are brought down by their own decadence. 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.880 If you're interested in this stuff, man, go to YouTube 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.439 and just type in James Lindsay. He's got some unbelievable. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.360 YouTube videos about this are so damn interesting and a 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:56.040 great place to. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.280 Start is for thee hundredth time his book with Helen 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.200 Pluckrose Cynical Theories. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.800 It's great, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:10.160 Yeah more Jack your show podcasts and our hot links 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:18.480 and Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.360 The percentage of US adults who say they consume alcohol 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.920 has fallen to fifty four percent, the lowest. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:24.560 In ninety years. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.400 The Gallup says the poll has a margin of era 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:28.720 of plus or minus two. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:38.000 Kamala Harris's that's really interesting. Americans are consuming alcohol at 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:46.880 the lowest rate in ninety years. Yeah, wow, why variety things? 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.640 I think there are other substances available now they're legal. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.959 Plus that this is just the trend line among younger 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.800 people than a number of different theories floated for as 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.640 to why. Somebody's really sure it's not great for your health, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:02.720 but the world. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:08.120 But you compare it with where we are emotionally, it 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:14.720 seems like people are less happy, more angry. The world 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.760 is in more turmoil than it has been in the 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.559 past two you were drinking less. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.520 Well, maybe you know the whole I'm a social drinker. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.360 Thing always seemed odd to me as a guy who 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:30.240 prefers to drink alone muttering angrily in the dark. But 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.160 I think for a lot of humanity, people drink more 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.800 when they're together and having fun. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:42.400 Wow. Okay, that's stunning, though, I mean, I mean that's 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.760 a notable number. Yeah, oh yeah, it's astounding. It's not 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.680 the This is the lowest level of this since twenty 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.080 twenty one. I mean, that's sort of stuck waste whatever. 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:58.000 But ninety years. Yeah, okay, I've noticed my kids and 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.680 I run remember this the other day, What was the 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.640 first restaurant that decided we should have music playing all 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:08.000 the time. We were at like a chain breakfast place 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.320 the other day, I have a little breakfast there's music 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:15.280 playing the fairly decent volume, like most places. Who's the 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.720 first to decide that? And why? 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.480 You know, there's been the tinkling piano background music like 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.200 you're classy giants forever, or somebody playing in the corner 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:25.760 or what have you. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.440 I don't know. It's everywhere though. It's retails. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.480 The stores have pop music cranking all the time because 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.320 it makes people happier, I guess, And less likely to 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:36.240 cuss out the help. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.640 I don't know, if you go into a store, like 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.680 if you're in the gap and there's not music playing, 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.560 would you be weirded out? Would it feel kind of 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:43.960 dead and not? I don't know. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.800 Yeah, I'm in a weird minority in the world of golf, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.440 having a speaker in the cart, listening to music the 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.920 whole way around the golf court. Really more guys that 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.760 I know are thumbs up than down by far. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.400 Wow, So I haven't played golf in twenty years or 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.480 something like that, But that would have been unheard of 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.520 back when I played golf. The idea of music blessed 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.320 out of anything. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.240 Well, it's generally not blasting at you know, unless you're 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.080 I don't know, at a public course where nobody cares. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.760 But it's in a reasonable volume. I don't can get. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:20.960 But I'm in the minority. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.480 Huh people want that all the time. Huh Is it 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.960 just needing input? I don't know. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.200 I generally when I listen to music, I'm listening to music, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.880 not as background music, but you know, you know, teach 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:33.640 their own. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.560 Generally, when I was playing golf, I love the fact 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.480 that it was just so silent out there. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.960 I know, the birds chirping and the sounds of I know, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.360 that's like my favorite part of it. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.520 But again, I'm in the minority. I've had to accept it. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.600 But it's it's kind of annoying in a couple of 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.440 different ways in that you know, you maybe you're in 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.680 this cart and the other guys are over there another cart, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.480 they're fifty yards away, and you find what you think 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.320 is their ball there and the rough. You say titleist four, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.680 and they're like, what titleist four? 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:06.480 But there's a titlist four right here is yours. Because 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:07.840 you gotta talk over the music. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.680 You gotta yell over the music, and or they're talking 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.119 way louder than they think they are, because it's sure 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.120 over the music as you're trying to hit a shot. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.240 But again, I'm in the minority. It's fun. It's the 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:21.600 Armstrong and Getty show. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:41.560 Strong, the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.800 The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:53.080 According to the liberal New York Times, the Democratic Party 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.440 faces a voter registration crisis. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.880 So this is a big, splashy front page story today 0:17:58.920 --> 0:17:59.680 in the New York Times. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.960 It is their lead story and has the companions story 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.320 with it five takeaways from the Times analysis of Democratic Decline, 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.680 And I'm wondering, why aren't the five takeaways in the 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.680 main story. Why there's got to be two stories, and 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.680 the fact that they're using words like hemorrhaging and disaster. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.560 So I flip on dam Pede, I flip on Morning Joe, 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.400 MSNBC or ms now or whatever it is today ms now, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.080 And they led with another one of those Republican town 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.639 halls where the Democrats show up and scream at the 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.520 scream at the person, and they portrayed it as all 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.920 across America, Republicans are on the back foot and this 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:43.480 and that, and I thought, well, and they went on, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.520 and I thought, aren't we involved in a war in Ukraine? 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:46.720 Like? 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.360 Why is this your lead story? Now? I know they 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.360 had to for their crowd, and everybody in DC that's 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.520 a Democrat watches that show. They had to for that 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.560 crowd have a response to this New York Time story 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.280 because this is such a big deal. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:03.480 Yeah. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:08.280 Interestingly, that what you just mentioned reinforces to me what 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.480 I think the greater narrative is, and that is that 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:17.240 people perceive the Democratic Party to be a few, very 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.240 loud people who believe things I don't believe at all. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.720 Right, and the town. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.399 Halls is a number of people who are willing to 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.320 bellow and shout down speakers. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.600 You know why that narrative is out there? Why do 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:31.160 you suppose? 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.959 Yeah, no kidding. So some facts and then we can 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.520 continue the discussion. The Democratic Party, it is, the Democratic 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.600 Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.720 the polls. Of the thirty states the track voter registration 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:45.760 by political party. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.320 The other twenty don't ask your party when you're register, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:49.680 but if the thirty that do. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.800 Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.200 twenty twenty four, twenty twenty and twenty twenty four elections, 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.880 and often by a lot. That four year swing toward 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.439 Republicans adds up to four and a half million voters, 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.880 a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:12.720 to climb out from the stampede. So it's atamorrhaging stampede, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.879 good lord. The stampede away from the Democratic Party is 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.639 incurring in battleground states, the bluest states, and the reddest states. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.800 According to a new analysis of voter registration data by 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.640 the New York Times, I'm surprised. 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:29.520 It must be the. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:30.280 Power of. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:36.159 The online world Twitter, TikTok and that because I'm surprised 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:41.520 that a John Fetterman or whoever, who's more of a mainstream, 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.879 normal human being, but a Democrat hasn't been able to 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.720 stand up and shout down that very small, very out 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.520 of touch, but very loud segment of their party. Yeah. 0:20:54.960 --> 0:21:00.600 I think there's been a slow recognition process because a 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:05.200 lot of us on the right or just confused moderate 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.520 folks or whomever, have taken a while to realize, oh 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.399 my gosh, it's not a huge majority of people that 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.200 believes boys should be able to whoop up on girls 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:19.120 in girls' sports. It's practically nobody around here, everybody who's 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:19.600 convinced that. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.800 You had to think that, and everybody was afraid to 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:22.399 say something. 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.119 So, if you know, conservative people and kind of centrist 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.160 people took a long time to figure that out. It's 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.600 going to take forever for Democrats to recognize that in 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:34.439 themselves and say, yeah, you know, the people we really 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.600 need to stand up against to win elections. It's not 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.280 the evil orange guy, and it's not the mean, cruel 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.360 Republicans who are trying to redistrict, Texas. It's our own lunatics. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.040 Here's some more facts. Few measurements reflect the luster of 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.280 a political party's brand more clearly than the voters the 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.200 choice by voters to identify with it. Fewer and fewer 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:59.840 Americans choosing to be Democrats. More new voters nationwide chose 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:01.840 to Republicans than Democrats last year. 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:03.920 It's the first time that's happened since twenty eighteen. 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:10.480 Democrats actually still outnumber Republicans registered nationwide, but that is 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.120 in large measure because giant blue states like California allow 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:16.919 people registered by party and big red states like Texas 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:17.320 do not. 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.920 The only caveat I would throw into this story is 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:22.119 that both parties are much smaller than they used to 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:23.879 be because there are so many people that don't want 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:28.639 to identify with either party. Yeah, yeah, final note on this. 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:30.360 Then I want to jump over to the five takeaways 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:34.879 because they are pretty interesting, says an election analysis site 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.520 head Michael Pruser. Who you know if you're in politics 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.240 and DC, He said, I don't want to say that 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.800 death cycle of the Democratic Party, but there seems to 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.320 be no end to this. There's no silver lining or 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.560 cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:56.240 year after year. It's an unbroken trend line according to 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:56.760 these people. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:02.320 So yeah, well that's true. Yeah exactly, that's true looking backwards. 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:06.880 But just somebody could emerge and say, as a Democrat, 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.240 we gotta get control of our borders and dudes can't 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.000 be in a girls' sports and you know, on a 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:17.200 couple other things, there'd be all the like ninety percent 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:20.119 of regular Democrats and a whole bunch of people that 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.640 are uncomfortable with Trump that would join onto that immediately. 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.960 Yeah, there's a bloke running for governor in Iowa. I 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.719 don't recall his name, but he's he might as well 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.879 be a Republican. He's running as a Democrat for some reason, 0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:37.000 but he's again, he might as well be a Republican 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:39.240 if you know, if they can get you know, the 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.880 momentum around that sort of democrat, all of these numbers 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:43.879 will change quickly. 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:47.240 But I found this very interesting. Nonetheless, here or five 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:50.080 big jakeaways. Yes, I will interpret the last time before 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:53.240