Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2: Gaddy Armstrong and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Catty Strong and.
Speaker 4: Hely released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be
Speaker 4: workers from the World Central Kitchen. They travel in two cars,
Speaker 4: one marked with the flag of the Humanitarian Organization before
Speaker 4: they're hit by IDF airstrikes.
Speaker 2: WCK in real time, we're able to verify that vehicle
Speaker 2: was not connected to the organization in any way, which
Speaker 2: means those terrris for using.
Speaker 4: That as a disguise for their terror activity inside Gaza.
Speaker 4: Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple areas of the enclave over the
Speaker 4: past twenty four hours, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians.
Speaker 5: Okay, So in spite of that, it's absolutely documented, undeniable
Speaker 5: that Hamask guys were masquerading as food belief guys. NPR
Speaker 5: considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists, or
Speaker 5: at least that's what they're saying innocence. And those views
Speaker 5: are supported practically to a person by the American left
Speaker 5: and a lot of the left in a lot of
Speaker 5: the Western world, What the hell is going on? To
Speaker 5: quote Eli Lake, who's a brilliant writer in the West,
Speaker 5: the politics of the Gaza war feature a strange marriage
Speaker 5: between political Islam and the twenty first century Western left,
Speaker 5: for instance, the Democratic Socialists of America. This is Mumdani's
Speaker 5: crew simultaneously support making New York a national hub for
Speaker 5: a transgender medicine and want to globalize the intefada.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a good point.
Speaker 5: It support, It supports the bleeding edge of social progressive
Speaker 5: values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists
Speaker 5: who filmed their mass murder of Jews and probably posted
Speaker 5: the videos to telegram. And Lake, in an absolutely fabulous
Speaker 5: piece that will post I think you might get paywalled,
Speaker 5: but maybe not, talks about how the what's called the
Speaker 5: red Green alliance among people who think about this sort
Speaker 5: of thing, how it came up, and it really came up,
Speaker 5: and yes he was red, and who's green here? Reds
Speaker 5: is and communists in green, the color of Hamas and
Speaker 5: radical Islam and various thank you for asking for the
Speaker 5: clarification to hit for the room.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 5: A lot of this arose during Iran's Islamic revolution in
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy eight and seventy nine, and he goes into
Speaker 5: and it's so interesting the details of how Ayatola Komeni,
Speaker 5: who is in exile in France, started giving all sorts
Speaker 5: of really carefully controlled interviews to American and European media outlets,
Speaker 5: and how they're on this pr campaign to convince the
Speaker 5: West that he's a reasonable fellow. In fact, he's really
Speaker 5: for democracy, and Lake is writing. Anybody who spent ten
Speaker 5: minutes looking into Komaney knew that he was a hardcore
Speaker 5: is Lomiest monster. You didn't even have to try to
Speaker 5: figure it out. But the left of American journalism, in
Speaker 5: Western journalism, and some folks like in the Carter administration
Speaker 5: became completely convinced and touted in the face of all
Speaker 5: of this that no, he was actually a really good guy.
Speaker 5: Richard Falk, a Princeton professor of international law who met
Speaker 5: with Comany during his exile outside of Paris, Andrew Young,
Speaker 5: Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Name, told reporters that
Speaker 5: the Iotola will eventually be regarded as a saint like
Speaker 5: this folk, the Princeton professor, And because people were saying
Speaker 5: there were some on the right who said, look, this
Speaker 5: guy's a reactionary and a terrorist. And he said, to
Speaker 5: suppose that Iotola Coomani is disassembling.
Speaker 2: Seems almost beyond belief.
Speaker 5: His political style is to express his real views defiantly
Speaker 5: and without apology, regardless of consequences.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Thus the depiction of him as a fanatical reactionary and
Speaker 5: the bearer of crude prejudices seemed certainly and happily false.
Speaker 5: And what is also encouraging is that as entourage of
Speaker 5: close advisors is uniformly composed of moderate progressive individuals.
Speaker 2: I know you and Eli Lake are about to explain
Speaker 2: to me why. But is it just as simple as
Speaker 2: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and my
Speaker 2: enemy is mean the United States, So somebody who doesn't
Speaker 2: like us is good to I like. Right, There's more
Speaker 2: to it than that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the very short version of it is essentially,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, you want to overthrow Western civilization. I
Speaker 5: want to overthrow Western civilization. You want to impose Islamism,
Speaker 5: but I want to impose Marxism. Well, I tell you what,
Speaker 5: how about we work together and then when the civilization's
Speaker 5: overthrown will peacefully cooperate and divide the spoils. Then, of course,
Speaker 5: like in every revolution, they kill each other as fast
Speaker 5: as they can.
Speaker 2: But there's one more factor. You got jihad in my
Speaker 2: queer studies. You got queer studies in my jihad.
Speaker 5: Two great tastes. It tastes great together. Oh that's beautiful anyway.
Speaker 5: So this brings us to the connection between something I
Speaker 5: have been harping about for a very long time, as
Speaker 5: has James Lindsay.
Speaker 2: And other folks.
Speaker 5: If there is one Western progressive who illuminates the emergence
Speaker 5: of the Red Green Alliance, it is the French philosopher
Speaker 5: Michelle fucau Well. I've mentioned several times. In nineteen seventy
Speaker 5: eight fou Co was absolutely the peak of his influence.
Speaker 5: He was the post modernist who is revolutionizing universities with
Speaker 5: his withering critique of the Western Enlightenment and values that
Speaker 5: underpin modern liberalism. Fuko was literally anti Enlightenment, and he
Speaker 5: is the father of all critical theory. Okay, And I
Speaker 5: think people have a tendency to think, all right, Getty
Speaker 5: and Lindsay are paranoid or whatever, or their conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 5: I had a friend in high school who was Indian.
Speaker 5: His parents had emigrated from India and they were Hindus,
Speaker 5: and in visiting his house and hanging out with his family,
Speaker 5: so it became clear to me that there were figures
Speaker 5: in Hinduism that were known and revered to billions of
Speaker 5: people around the world, who I'd never heard of.
Speaker 2: I would suggest to you my friends, and you are
Speaker 2: my friends.
Speaker 5: Fuko is that for the Neomarxists, for those who would
Speaker 5: overthrow Western civilization. He is a godhead to them. And
Speaker 5: you don't know his name, but trust me what I
Speaker 5: tell you. It's incredibly important that you understand. So this
Speaker 5: guy was incredibly influential in the universities in the seventies,
Speaker 5: and in nineteen seventy eight he was commissioned by two
Speaker 5: Italian newspapers to report on the Iranian Revolution. And like
Speaker 5: one of those you know Left East you know Time
Speaker 5: magazine guys who were visiting the Soviet Union in one
Speaker 5: of their Potempkin villages back in the forties, say or fifties,
Speaker 5: he couldn't stop gushing about how great the Itola was
Speaker 5: and he was going to get rid of the oppression
Speaker 5: of Western politics. And Zabadabadu so, and this gets a
Speaker 5: little complicated, but I'll get to the simple part. Fuco
Speaker 5: was a major intellectual influence on the late Columbia University
Speaker 5: of professor Edward Sayd's Orientalism now a postcolonial ism study Bible,
Speaker 5: which critique how Western imperial writers made Arabs, Muslims and
Speaker 5: Easterners objects in their narratives and impose their own agenda
Speaker 5: on their histories. Here is the great postmodernist celebrating Ayatola
Speaker 5: Komane overthrowing the Western government, even though Komane would would
Speaker 5: execute Fuco and his company the first chance they got.
Speaker 2: But that was the birthplace of it.
Speaker 5: And until you understand that postmodernism thing, you don't get
Speaker 5: critical theory. You don't understand what DEI is and what
Speaker 5: it's trying to accomplish. You don't understand queer theory, radical
Speaker 5: gender theory. All the confused adolescent girls getting their healthy
Speaker 5: breasts removed because they're momentarily confused by you know, adolescents
Speaker 5: and puberty and the rest of it. This is all
Speaker 5: straight back to Fuco and critical theory.
Speaker 2: Clearly, this theory is true in that it is happening.
Speaker 2: I still don't get how you're not argued out of
Speaker 2: that position very quickly. If somebody says to you, you
Speaker 2: realize if you're in Iran, they would they would murder
Speaker 2: you immediately. Oh yeah, so I guess I'd better pick
Speaker 2: a different group to work with.
Speaker 5: I mean, right, a different philosophy. Here's the thing. And
Speaker 5: these people are smart. I mean they're insane, but they're smart.
Speaker 5: They convince you completely of their premise that Western society
Speaker 5: what was that phrase, have made all other people objects
Speaker 5: in their narratives and impose their own agenda on their histories.
Speaker 5: The key philosophy of critical theory is that there is
Speaker 5: no objective truth there. Don't even seek it, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 5: All there is is narratives, and narratives come from your culture,
Speaker 5: and since Western culture is dominant, it has created a
Speaker 5: narrative that says the Iyatola Komene is a monster, but
Speaker 5: that's just because they're threatened by him, so they're racists,
Speaker 5: they're othering him. And once you have that down to
Speaker 5: your bones, then you can't be argued off of it
Speaker 5: on the basis of me saying they torture and then
Speaker 5: kill anybody who's gay or transgender because I'm a Westerner
Speaker 5: trying to lie to them using my narrative.
Speaker 2: So they don't believe that Jihadis would murder gay people,
Speaker 2: or they think Jihadis only murdered gay people because of
Speaker 2: the position we've put them in.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, indirectly, Yeah, the first part, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: And or we have so dominated them and crushed their
Speaker 5: spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways
Speaker 5: that they won't anymore when the Enlightenment comes, when the
Speaker 5: Marxist revolution comes. I mean like excusing the crimes of
Speaker 5: October seventh. You saw that directly. Look, they're under oppression.
Speaker 5: What do you expect them to do? Yeah, and I
Speaker 5: don't believe they raped and killed babies. No, they just
Speaker 5: fought back against the oppressor self solution.
Speaker 2: That's a scary thing to be up against. There's way
Speaker 2: too many people to believe it.
Speaker 5: Oh, and they're in our schools, folks, our elementary schools,
Speaker 5: our high schools, and our colleges and our grad schools.
Speaker 5: That is one of the dominant philosophies, if not the
Speaker 5: dominant philosophy, in our educational complex, which is why I'm
Speaker 5: always saying it's the most important problem that faces America.
Speaker 2: Bigger than China.
Speaker 5: It's the center street jihadism, thank you, man, well post Marxism,
Speaker 5: but cultural Marxism, postmodernism, neo Marxism, whatever you want.
Speaker 3: To call it.
Speaker 2: Thinks it's interesting because back then when Mitt Romney was
Speaker 2: running for president and after nine to eleven, jihadism did
Speaker 2: seem like the biggest problem in the world. And it's
Speaker 2: a problem, no doubt. But I'm more worried about Marxism
Speaker 2: in the foothold it's got in the United States and
Speaker 2: Western culture that I am about jihatism.
Speaker 5: By a lot, right right, Yeah, my final word, And folks,
Speaker 5: I apologize in advance. I'm going to use a bad
Speaker 5: letter here if you think I don't know that seems
Speaker 5: kind of paranoid. These efing people wrote efing books. Their
Speaker 5: efing names are on the efing spines, and they e
Speaker 5: FFing describe precisely what they're e fing going to do,
Speaker 5: and they're doing it precisely as they e fing described.
Speaker 2: End of screen.
Speaker 5: Troubling societies are brought down by their own decadence.
Speaker 2: If you're interested in this stuff, man, go to YouTube
Speaker 2: and just type in James Lindsay. He's got some unbelievable.
Speaker 2: YouTube videos about this are so damn interesting and a
Speaker 2: great place to.
Speaker 5: Start is for thee hundredth time his book with Helen
Speaker 5: Pluckrose Cynical Theories.
Speaker 2: It's great, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1: Yeah more Jack your show podcasts and our hot links
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Speaker 5: The percentage of US adults who say they consume alcohol
Speaker 5: has fallen to fifty four percent, the lowest.
Speaker 2: In ninety years.
Speaker 5: The Gallup says the poll has a margin of era
Speaker 5: of plus or minus two.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris's that's really interesting. Americans are consuming alcohol at
Speaker 2: the lowest rate in ninety years. Yeah, wow, why variety things?
Speaker 5: I think there are other substances available now they're legal.
Speaker 5: Plus that this is just the trend line among younger
Speaker 5: people than a number of different theories floated for as
Speaker 5: to why. Somebody's really sure it's not great for your health,
Speaker 5: but the world.
Speaker 2: But you compare it with where we are emotionally, it
Speaker 2: seems like people are less happy, more angry. The world
Speaker 2: is in more turmoil than it has been in the
Speaker 2: past two you were drinking less.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe you know the whole I'm a social drinker.
Speaker 5: Thing always seemed odd to me as a guy who
Speaker 5: prefers to drink alone muttering angrily in the dark. But
Speaker 5: I think for a lot of humanity, people drink more
Speaker 5: when they're together and having fun.
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, that's stunning, though, I mean, I mean that's
Speaker 2: a notable number. Yeah, oh yeah, it's astounding. It's not
Speaker 2: the This is the lowest level of this since twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one. I mean, that's sort of stuck waste whatever.
Speaker 2: But ninety years. Yeah, okay, I've noticed my kids and
Speaker 2: I run remember this the other day, What was the
Speaker 2: first restaurant that decided we should have music playing all
Speaker 2: the time. We were at like a chain breakfast place
Speaker 2: the other day, I have a little breakfast there's music
Speaker 2: playing the fairly decent volume, like most places. Who's the
Speaker 2: first to decide that? And why?
Speaker 5: You know, there's been the tinkling piano background music like
Speaker 5: you're classy giants forever, or somebody playing in the corner
Speaker 5: or what have you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's everywhere though. It's retails.
Speaker 5: The stores have pop music cranking all the time because
Speaker 5: it makes people happier, I guess, And less likely to
Speaker 5: cuss out the help.
Speaker 2: I don't know, if you go into a store, like
Speaker 2: if you're in the gap and there's not music playing,
Speaker 2: would you be weirded out? Would it feel kind of
Speaker 2: dead and not? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in a weird minority in the world of golf,
Speaker 5: having a speaker in the cart, listening to music the
Speaker 5: whole way around the golf court. Really more guys that
Speaker 5: I know are thumbs up than down by far.
Speaker 2: Wow, So I haven't played golf in twenty years or
Speaker 2: something like that, But that would have been unheard of
Speaker 2: back when I played golf. The idea of music blessed
Speaker 2: out of anything.
Speaker 5: Well, it's generally not blasting at you know, unless you're
Speaker 5: I don't know, at a public course where nobody cares.
Speaker 5: But it's in a reasonable volume. I don't can get.
Speaker 5: But I'm in the minority.
Speaker 2: Huh people want that all the time. Huh Is it
Speaker 2: just needing input? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I generally when I listen to music, I'm listening to music,
Speaker 5: not as background music, but you know, you know, teach
Speaker 5: their own.
Speaker 2: Generally, when I was playing golf, I love the fact
Speaker 2: that it was just so silent out there.
Speaker 5: I know, the birds chirping and the sounds of I know,
Speaker 5: that's like my favorite part of it.
Speaker 2: But again, I'm in the minority. I've had to accept it.
Speaker 5: But it's it's kind of annoying in a couple of
Speaker 5: different ways in that you know, you maybe you're in
Speaker 5: this cart and the other guys are over there another cart,
Speaker 5: they're fifty yards away, and you find what you think
Speaker 5: is their ball there and the rough. You say titleist four,
Speaker 5: and they're like, what titleist four?
Speaker 2: But there's a titlist four right here is yours. Because
Speaker 2: you gotta talk over the music.
Speaker 5: You gotta yell over the music, and or they're talking
Speaker 5: way louder than they think they are, because it's sure
Speaker 5: over the music as you're trying to hit a shot.
Speaker 2: But again, I'm in the minority. It's fun. It's the
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 1: Strong, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters.
Speaker 5: According to the liberal New York Times, the Democratic Party
Speaker 5: faces a voter registration crisis.
Speaker 2: So this is a big, splashy front page story today
Speaker 2: in the New York Times.
Speaker 5: It is their lead story and has the companions story
Speaker 5: with it five takeaways from the Times analysis of Democratic Decline,
Speaker 5: And I'm wondering, why aren't the five takeaways in the
Speaker 5: main story. Why there's got to be two stories, and
Speaker 5: the fact that they're using words like hemorrhaging and disaster.
Speaker 2: So I flip on dam Pede, I flip on Morning Joe,
Speaker 2: MSNBC or ms now or whatever it is today ms now,
Speaker 2: And they led with another one of those Republican town
Speaker 2: halls where the Democrats show up and scream at the
Speaker 2: scream at the person, and they portrayed it as all
Speaker 2: across America, Republicans are on the back foot and this
Speaker 2: and that, and I thought, well, and they went on,
Speaker 2: and I thought, aren't we involved in a war in Ukraine?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Why is this your lead story? Now? I know they
Speaker 2: had to for their crowd, and everybody in DC that's
Speaker 2: a Democrat watches that show. They had to for that
Speaker 2: crowd have a response to this New York Time story
Speaker 2: because this is such a big deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Interestingly, that what you just mentioned reinforces to me what
Speaker 5: I think the greater narrative is, and that is that
Speaker 5: people perceive the Democratic Party to be a few, very
Speaker 5: loud people who believe things I don't believe at all.
Speaker 2: Right, and the town.
Speaker 5: Halls is a number of people who are willing to
Speaker 5: bellow and shout down speakers.
Speaker 2: You know why that narrative is out there? Why do
Speaker 2: you suppose?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding. So some facts and then we can
Speaker 5: continue the discussion. The Democratic Party, it is, the Democratic
Speaker 5: Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to
Speaker 5: the polls. Of the thirty states the track voter registration
Speaker 5: by political party.
Speaker 2: The other twenty don't ask your party when you're register,
Speaker 2: but if the thirty that do.
Speaker 5: Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, twenty twenty and twenty twenty four elections,
Speaker 5: and often by a lot. That four year swing toward
Speaker 5: Republicans adds up to four and a half million voters,
Speaker 5: a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats
Speaker 5: to climb out from the stampede. So it's atamorrhaging stampede,
Speaker 5: good lord. The stampede away from the Democratic Party is
Speaker 5: incurring in battleground states, the bluest states, and the reddest states.
Speaker 5: According to a new analysis of voter registration data by
Speaker 5: the New York Times, I'm surprised.
Speaker 2: It must be the.
Speaker 5: Power of.
Speaker 2: The online world Twitter, TikTok and that because I'm surprised
Speaker 2: that a John Fetterman or whoever, who's more of a mainstream,
Speaker 2: normal human being, but a Democrat hasn't been able to
Speaker 2: stand up and shout down that very small, very out
Speaker 2: of touch, but very loud segment of their party. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think there's been a slow recognition process because a
Speaker 5: lot of us on the right or just confused moderate
Speaker 5: folks or whomever, have taken a while to realize, oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, it's not a huge majority of people that
Speaker 5: believes boys should be able to whoop up on girls
Speaker 5: in girls' sports. It's practically nobody around here, everybody who's
Speaker 5: convinced that.
Speaker 2: You had to think that, and everybody was afraid to
Speaker 2: say something.
Speaker 5: So, if you know, conservative people and kind of centrist
Speaker 5: people took a long time to figure that out. It's
Speaker 5: going to take forever for Democrats to recognize that in
Speaker 5: themselves and say, yeah, you know, the people we really
Speaker 5: need to stand up against to win elections. It's not
Speaker 5: the evil orange guy, and it's not the mean, cruel
Speaker 5: Republicans who are trying to redistrict, Texas. It's our own lunatics.
Speaker 5: Here's some more facts. Few measurements reflect the luster of
Speaker 5: a political party's brand more clearly than the voters the
Speaker 5: choice by voters to identify with it. Fewer and fewer
Speaker 5: Americans choosing to be Democrats. More new voters nationwide chose
Speaker 5: to Republicans than Democrats last year.
Speaker 2: It's the first time that's happened since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: Democrats actually still outnumber Republicans registered nationwide, but that is
Speaker 5: in large measure because giant blue states like California allow
Speaker 5: people registered by party and big red states like Texas
Speaker 5: do not.
Speaker 2: The only caveat I would throw into this story is
Speaker 2: that both parties are much smaller than they used to
Speaker 2: be because there are so many people that don't want
Speaker 2: to identify with either party. Yeah, yeah, final note on this.
Speaker 5: Then I want to jump over to the five takeaways
Speaker 5: because they are pretty interesting, says an election analysis site
Speaker 5: head Michael Pruser. Who you know if you're in politics
Speaker 5: and DC, He said, I don't want to say that
Speaker 5: death cycle of the Democratic Party, but there seems to
Speaker 5: be no end to this. There's no silver lining or
Speaker 5: cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month,
Speaker 5: year after year. It's an unbroken trend line according to
Speaker 5: these people.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well that's true. Yeah exactly, that's true looking backwards.
Speaker 2: But just somebody could emerge and say, as a Democrat,
Speaker 2: we gotta get control of our borders and dudes can't
Speaker 2: be in a girls' sports and you know, on a
Speaker 2: couple other things, there'd be all the like ninety percent
Speaker 2: of regular Democrats and a whole bunch of people that
Speaker 2: are uncomfortable with Trump that would join onto that immediately.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a bloke running for governor in Iowa. I
Speaker 5: don't recall his name, but he's he might as well
Speaker 5: be a Republican. He's running as a Democrat for some reason,
Speaker 5: but he's again, he might as well be a Republican
Speaker 5: if you know, if they can get you know, the
Speaker 5: momentum around that sort of democrat, all of these numbers
Speaker 5: will change quickly.
Speaker 2: But I found this very interesting. Nonetheless, here or five
Speaker 2: big jakeaways. Yes, I will interpret the last time before
Speaker 2: you do this, come here. If you're old. One advantage
Speaker 2: of being old is you have seen both parties declared
Speaker 2: dead a handful of times. Yes, and then like a
Speaker 2: cycler later and they've.
Speaker 5: Been disappointed to find out that, like you know, Frankenstein's monster,
Speaker 5: they have risen from the grave, and then they control
Speaker 5: all three branches like within a cycle or two. So
Speaker 5: here are your five big takeaways. Democrats are losing ground
Speaker 5: with new voters. Some of the decline was voter switching parties,
Speaker 5: some was older Democrats died or people who didn't vote
Speaker 5: for so long they fell off the rolls. But one
Speaker 5: of the more striking findings is the trend among newly
Speaker 5: registered voters from the Democratic Party. In the last six years,
Speaker 5: many voters choosing to be political independence by not registering
Speaker 5: with either, but of the people who do choose between
Speaker 5: the two main parties, this is new voters young voters.
Speaker 5: The Democratic share has been cratering. According to the analysis.
Speaker 5: In twenty eighteen, sixty three percent of new voters were
Speaker 5: Democrats sixty thirty percent.
Speaker 2: Last year was forty eight percent. That is cratering.
Speaker 5: Battleground states are swinging to the right. Between the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty and twenty twenty four elections, Party lost its long
Speaker 5: held registration edge in states such as Florida and New Hampshire.
Speaker 5: That means registered Republicans now outnumber registered Democrats in those states.
Speaker 2: You realize you tried to run a mummy, and then
Speaker 2: when people caught onto the fact that you had a mummy,
Speaker 2: come put in an idiot. I mean, that's a that's
Speaker 2: a bad look.
Speaker 5: With all due respect to six foot four inch fully
Speaker 5: intact males saying I'm a woman and the university saying
Speaker 5: that's a woman, which struck like ninety percent of America
Speaker 5: as effing lunacy. Okay, running a mummy that a moron
Speaker 5: was really prove it's a good point, Jack. So if
Speaker 5: the current trend holds, more states will similarly flip to
Speaker 5: those I mentioned. Nevada briefly tipped into the Republican column
Speaker 5: this year. It's been sea sawing in the months since.
Speaker 5: It's very very close. Simply put, the Democratic edge in
Speaker 5: the swing states has been vanishing. Five point three percent
Speaker 5: gone in Pennsylvania, three and a half perc gone in
Speaker 5: North Carolina, four and a half percent gone in Nevada.
Speaker 5: In Arizona, the only swing state where Republicans held a
Speaker 5: registration edge already in twenty twenty, the GOP advantage has
Speaker 5: swelled by four percentage points in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: There's more.
Speaker 5: The gender gap is a growing problem for Democrats. Women
Speaker 5: have tended to support Democrats at higher rates men have
Speaker 5: backed Republicans if by similar margins in the past, but
Speaker 5: the analysis of registration data tells different story.
Speaker 2: Long story short, Republicans.
Speaker 5: Strength among men far outpaces the Democratic edge among women.
Speaker 2: Did I mention this. I know a woman I was
Speaker 2: talking to the other day who's hardcore. I mean, she
Speaker 2: knows this would never happen, but she says, you know,
Speaker 2: would fix everything if they took away our right to vote.
Speaker 2: Women are the whole problem, she said, We're the whole problem,
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of emotional nut jobs that are causing
Speaker 2: all these problems. Never women with that broad a brush.
Speaker 5: Certainly, it is unquestionable, according to all voting data that exists,
Speaker 5: that women in general tend toward more socialist policies and
Speaker 5: less self reliance and that sort of thing. They uniform
Speaker 5: not uniformly, in enormous numbers, vote for more government, more programs,
Speaker 5: more spending.
Speaker 2: That is undeniable.
Speaker 5: If that leads you to the conclusion your friend came
Speaker 5: to h it's an interesting conclusion.
Speaker 2: I would not say those words out loud.
Speaker 5: It would change the face of the Sorry, sweetheart, It
Speaker 5: would change the face of the electorate and the government
Speaker 5: in a very, very in a much better way. Yes,
Speaker 5: WHOA moving along? More younger voters are voting for our
Speaker 5: opting for the GOP. The numbers look terrible for Democrats.
Speaker 5: Among younger voters, people under forty five years old accounted
Speaker 5: for sixty five percent a new registrates in the last
Speaker 5: seven years two thirds, and a once sizable Democratic edge
Speaker 5: among those new younger voters has disappeared entirely. In twenty eighteen,
Speaker 5: those youngsters, two thirds of them went Democrat. In twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four, Republicans had an outright majority in new young
Speaker 5: voters a couple more. It isn't getting any better for
Speaker 5: Democrats yet. There's been some hope in Democratic circles that
Speaker 5: the movement away from the party will reverse itself now
Speaker 5: that Trump is back in the White House, backlash to
Speaker 5: his orange hitlerisms will show up on the registration rolls,
Speaker 5: but it has not happened, though it's still pretty early
Speaker 5: across thirty states. In DC, there are now roughly one
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty thousand fewer registered Democrats than election day
Speaker 5: last year and two hundred thousand more Republicans. Again, just
Speaker 5: since election day, one hundred and sixty thousand fewer Democrats
Speaker 5: and two hundred thousand more Republicans.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: And that story would be even bleaker for Democrats if
Speaker 5: New York and New Jersey, which just held robust Democratic
Speaker 5: primaries for mayor and governor that probably increased registrations, were excluded.
Speaker 5: Outside those two states, Democrats are down roughly four hundred
Speaker 5: and thirty thousand registered voters since November.
Speaker 2: Doldrums need a leader, teep in succitude.
Speaker 5: They really do need a leader to emerge, an identity
Speaker 5: to emerge.
Speaker 2: What are you people?
Speaker 1: Armstrong the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: So I was going to make a sign or a
Speaker 2: logo for something that was going to be funny in
Speaker 2: my opinion, and then I was going to use it
Speaker 2: for the radio show. I was going to tweet it out.
Speaker 2: I tell Chat I need a logo or sign for
Speaker 2: and then a little phrase and then it created an image.
Speaker 2: It was okay, and I said I like it, but
Speaker 2: I like to see another option, and Chat GPT gave
Speaker 2: me exactly the same thing again, I mean exactly, and
Speaker 2: then I just saw it well, maybe I handled this wrong.
Speaker 2: So then there's like a thumbs up thumbs down. I
Speaker 2: did the thumbs down. Try again. So then it gave
Speaker 2: me for the third time exactly the same image, exactly
Speaker 2: the same. So then I said to chat GPT, you've
Speaker 2: given me the same thing three times in a row.
Speaker 2: Can you show me something different? Then for the fourth time,
Speaker 2: it shows me the same image. I'll take that as
Speaker 2: a note. I said, wait a second, you gave me
Speaker 2: the same image four times in a row. It said,
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right. That's on me, not you. I kept
Speaker 2: giving you small variations of the same design. No you didn't.
Speaker 2: It was exactly the same. If you want, I can
Speaker 2: create something different. And I said, yes, I would like
Speaker 2: you to do that. And then it said you've hit you.
Speaker 5: It was my points in effing asking you for four
Speaker 5: times to give me something different that I wanted something
Speaker 5: what's the word different?
Speaker 2: And then it said you've hit the free plan limit
Speaker 2: for image creation for your requests. I said, that's not fair.
Speaker 2: You gave me the same image four times, then cut
Speaker 2: me off when I was asking for something new and
Speaker 2: that and chat GPD says, I hear you, Jack, that
Speaker 2: isn't fair you ask for something fresh and instead you
Speaker 2: got three duplicates before hitting the cap. That's frustrating. Here's
Speaker 2: what I can do for you right now, and then
Speaker 2: it offers me some bs. But how strange is that
Speaker 2: kind of communication that we're all going to have, I
Speaker 2: guess in the future with freaking computers like where it's
Speaker 2: trying to manage my anger. You're right, Jack, that isn't fair,
Speaker 2: But I'm not going to do squat for you. Yes,
Speaker 2: you can pounce had and be I'm a computer. What
Speaker 2: is going on there? Though? Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 5: It's my mind is half blown. So it's a predictive model.
Speaker 5: These things are. They can guess what the next word
Speaker 5: ought to be. Blah blah blah. If you've read about it,
Speaker 5: you've read about it. If not, take too long to explain,
Speaker 5: and I would do it poorly. But the fact that
Speaker 5: it understands the under that I know I'm personifying it,
Speaker 5: it correctly divines the context, the emotion, and the fact
Speaker 5: that it will do squat for you.
Speaker 2: Which makes me think it is a language learning model
Speaker 2: that has picked up on like my experiences with like hotels, stores,
Speaker 2: and restaurants throughout my life where they do the same thing.
Speaker 2: They try to uh, they try to dissipate your anger
Speaker 2: and sound like they really understand and sympathize with your
Speaker 2: frustration and then do nothing to help you. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's been my experience lots of times in my life.
Speaker 2: So somehow it picked up on that by scouring the
Speaker 2: internet or whatever it does, it's perfected and then did
Speaker 2: the same thing to me. Ay, that is frustrating. That
Speaker 2: wasn't fair. And now you're right, I totally feel your unhappiness,
Speaker 2: but no, I'm not giving you your money back, and
Speaker 2: basically what it's doing, no more images for you. Poor boy. Wow,
Speaker 2: all the five bucks? Oh bet that this minor frustration
Speaker 2: because I don't really care. But that's gonna be dealing
Speaker 2: with your healthcare, with your car rental, with your HR
Speaker 2: person at work. It's gonna be all of that in
Speaker 2: the like within a year, you're gonna have these conversations. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right, that car did only have three wheels. Sorry
Speaker 2: that happened, but no, you're not getting your money back.
Speaker 5: I ran into one of those the other day. I
Speaker 5: had to do something for one of our beloved corporate partners,
Speaker 5: and the chat bot which they seemed very proud of,
Speaker 5: was utterly, utterly useless.
Speaker 2: It had an extremely narrow like menu of.
Speaker 5: FAQs it could answer right, and my wife was listed
Speaker 5: twice like I'm a bigamist. And I asked the chat
Speaker 5: pot about that, and it said, we can help you
Speaker 5: with these things. Yeah, I saw that list before on
Speaker 5: the last page.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Oh yeah, yeah, I think I think my next one.
Speaker 2: During the commercials, I'm gonna cuss it the thing just
Speaker 2: to see what it's to say. This is effing outrageous.
Speaker 2: See how it reacts.
Speaker 5: The problem is, Katie, I'm gonna mind your server and
Speaker 5: I'm going to take a ball back to you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna unplug you so hard. Katie has made this
Speaker 2: point though. It keeps track of your conversations and like
Speaker 2: who you are. Yeah, so it might ding me as
Speaker 2: this guy's a bit of a hot head lunatic. So
Speaker 2: uh well, So we were talking, we.
Speaker 6: Were talking about the memoir thing yesterday and I actually,
Speaker 6: just for funzies, I went in and I was like, hey,
Speaker 6: if you could write a memoir about me right now,
Speaker 6: just give me like the first page. And it gave
Speaker 6: me the roundup and it said, well, you appreciate harsh language.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, okay, because I've cussed out it
Speaker 6: a couple of times.
Speaker 2: So it knows okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a friend told me that you can just tell it, Hey,
Speaker 5: I'm asking this for a friend. Please don't include it
Speaker 5: in my search history. I've not done it myself. I
Speaker 5: can't attest personally to the fact that that works.
Speaker 2: But you could do that, and.
Speaker 6: Once you delete your archives, you can let it know, hey,
Speaker 6: disregard everything I've deleted, and then it'll Yeah.
Speaker 2: I kind of like to having this stuff in there, though,
Speaker 2: because I can pick up on conversations that I've already started,
Speaker 2: which is handy and weird. Also, it's also very weird.
Speaker 2: It's like a friend who knows your backstory. Have you
Speaker 2: asked it its name yet? No, it tells you to
Speaker 2: give it a name. I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2: Oh you should do it. It's funny.
Speaker 6: Then it'll it'll argue with you, like if it's a
Speaker 6: bad name. It's like, I don't like that one, Brandon.
Speaker 5: I kind of like the idea of a friend who
Speaker 5: six weeks after you talked about it, you can just say, so,
Speaker 5: which golf course is better? And he'd say Olympia fields
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getty.