Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong's Joe Getty arm Strong.
Speaker 3: And Getty and he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty these poles. This is not a leap.
Speaker 2: There are only two choices.
Speaker 4: You have a fifty percent chance of being right. It's
Speaker 4: not like you picked the trifecta at the Belmont States.
Speaker 4: There's no magic involved. It's heads or tails. At the
Speaker 4: end of this, the pollsters were wrong will quietly disappear.
Speaker 4: The other ones will be like I told you one percent.
Speaker 4: What did you tell us? You called eight hundred losers
Speaker 4: who didn't have enough sense to not answer an unknown call.
Speaker 2: That's all you did. The results of the polls on
Speaker 2: family feud are more.
Speaker 4: Scientific than survey, says oh Bra RFK Junior, Donald Trump R.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows everything. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I was in this conversation with some of the other
Speaker 5: day and the age old conversation of have.
Speaker 2: You ever been pulled? I've never been polled. I don't
Speaker 2: know anybody who's ever been pulled.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's amazing how many people are in that situation.
Speaker 5: It does make you wonder about all the polls that
Speaker 5: are constantly coming out. It's not like I get called
Speaker 5: every other day by some major poll. I never have
Speaker 5: been called by a major poll.
Speaker 1: Right, But there's three hundred and forty million people in
Speaker 1: the country and a major poll polls eleven hundred.
Speaker 2: People, right. I mean that's really, really thorough.
Speaker 5: And as we pointed out yesterday, the posters would tell you,
Speaker 5: we never claimed.
Speaker 2: To be that accurate. It doesn't exist.
Speaker 5: There's an expectation in America for something that doesn't and
Speaker 5: can't exist. That's an accurate polling about presidential elections.
Speaker 2: It's not a thing well, right, And.
Speaker 1: They're not to blame. It's the media that's to blame.
Speaker 1: This constantly saying a one point move, it appears Trump
Speaker 1: is really gabblyzed on Harris's gas.
Speaker 5: You're absolutely right. And when any polster would tell you no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: forty nine to forty seven is a tie statistically, it
Speaker 5: says so right in our look at our graph, plus
Speaker 5: our mind is to say somebody's ahead is ridiculous. But
Speaker 5: they do it all the time. Move one point and
Speaker 5: it's a headline. So yeah, you trained people to think
Speaker 5: it's a science. It's like putting a thermometer in your
Speaker 5: mouth and figuring out one degree in your temperature, which
Speaker 5: you know is a.
Speaker 2: Deal, but polling is not.
Speaker 1: No, no, indeed more important than that's certainly a peanut.
Speaker 1: The squirrel update.
Speaker 2: I was late to this story. I saw all the headlines.
Speaker 5: I did not grasp the significance of the peanut the
Speaker 5: squirrel story, and I am late to being outraged, where
Speaker 5: some of you have been outraged now for quite a while.
Speaker 5: It's freaking, yeah, unbelievable that this happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in a in a country, in particularly a state,
Speaker 1: a blue state where lawlessness is running anock.
Speaker 5: Yeah, boy, you put into the context of current society,
Speaker 5: and it's extra outrageous.
Speaker 1: And the authorities raid this couple's house. They're there for
Speaker 1: five hours, grilling the woman about our immigration status.
Speaker 5: They order you out of the house and you're sitting
Speaker 5: on the curb while feds go through all your stuff
Speaker 5: because you got a squirrel in your home.
Speaker 1: And you can't pee unless they come with you to
Speaker 1: keep you from hiding evidence of what squirrel trafficking and
Speaker 1: and so. And then they take away these people's pets
Speaker 1: because they could be dangerous and euthanize them even though
Speaker 1: they've been living with them for years. Just it's it's
Speaker 1: the sort of brutality by bureaucrat. Yeah, that and that's
Speaker 1: that's that's the importance of it. It is unelected, unaccountable
Speaker 1: bureaucrats with powers far beyond what you think they have.
Speaker 1: And please the New York State Anti squirrel Police, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Wildlife Commission, whatever they are, their.
Speaker 2: Powers are are are are ants.
Speaker 1: Compared to the EPA, for instance, the Department of Energy,
Speaker 1: you know in cal Unicorny. I just read an outrageous
Speaker 1: couple of stories about the Air Resources Board, which.
Speaker 2: Is just running a muck anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's the oppression of the bureaucracy that
Speaker 1: it's all about.
Speaker 2: Now here's the twist, Jack, What I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna say. I came across some mem yesterday I
Speaker 5: thought was really good. There's a Babylon Bee headline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do do everything you got before I get to
Speaker 1: the twist, because once I hit you with the twist,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go down that.
Speaker 2: Road at one hundred miles.
Speaker 5: Fron, Well, this is not about the squirrel thing specifically,
Speaker 5: but the word you just used. Babylon Bee's headline was
Speaker 5: If Trump wins, it will win bureaucracy as we know it,
Speaker 5: which uh uh you know is what Elon musk goal
Speaker 5: is to end bureaucracy as we know it.
Speaker 2: That I am all on board for. Yeah, I love
Speaker 2: that idea, all right?
Speaker 1: So who rated out the long goes that's the family and.
Speaker 2: You rat out a squirrel? Is that does that work
Speaker 2: that way? Three?
Speaker 1: That is probably an unfortunate metaphor choice of words. Anyway,
Speaker 1: who ratted out the squirrel?
Speaker 2: And why the squirrel was nationally famous? Right? I have
Speaker 2: been following Stagram TikTok famous squirrel.
Speaker 5: I do not follow uh influencer rodents on Instagram like
Speaker 5: many of you do.
Speaker 2: Well, then you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: In the pantheon of famous squirrels, Peanut sets in the
Speaker 1: highest highest stratch.
Speaker 5: So if you had a mount rushmore of park animals
Speaker 5: with Instagram pages, oh yes, peanut.
Speaker 2: The squirrel would be on it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, domesticated common rodents, the peanut is their
Speaker 1: king anyway, So the couple believes that their financial success
Speaker 1: partly fueled by Peanut and his extremely big Instagram slash.
Speaker 1: I think TikTok presence may have made people jealous of
Speaker 1: them because they become very wealthy through Peanut and the
Speaker 1: and the really neglected.
Speaker 2: Mister X.
Speaker 1: In this scenario, which was the raccoon, yes name, I
Speaker 1: do not recall Skippy.
Speaker 2: They had Jimmy MASKI yes, Katie, who is the raccoon?
Speaker 6: It's Fred the raccoon and Fred a big deal influencing people. Also,
Speaker 6: Fred and Peanut both big. Actually have been following Peanut
Speaker 6: and Fred for a while. Peanut wears cowboy hat. It's
Speaker 6: a great show. Yeah, oh interesting. So you were pre
Speaker 6: this blowing up. You were into Fred the raccoon and
Speaker 6: Peanut the squirrel. Yes, okay, there you go.
Speaker 2: And they would dress up finding this out.
Speaker 5: Yes, and you should be working the Peanut desh. So
Speaker 5: tell us so before Jill ruins the whole story as
Speaker 5: eal and I will.
Speaker 2: What was the appeal?
Speaker 5: And I'm not mocking it because I like a good funny,
Speaker 5: you know, break from life myself.
Speaker 6: It was just life with a squirrel and he would
Speaker 6: sit the guy, the owner would sit there and eat breakfast,
Speaker 6: and Peanut would sit on the table holding a little
Speaker 6: post it note that had a sign on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was just fun. It sounds charming
Speaker 2: till the federal government killed Peanut.
Speaker 1: The squirrel tragic or the state anyway. So why are
Speaker 1: people jealous of these people in their money? Well, not
Speaker 1: only have they made a hell of a lot of
Speaker 1: money off of Peanut, but they've used at least a
Speaker 1: little bit Peanut and his friend Fred to promote their
Speaker 1: only fans site. This young, good looking couple has sex
Speaker 1: online and made eight hundred thousand dollars in one months?
Speaker 1: Whoa posting their sections?
Speaker 2: Now the squirrel of you?
Speaker 5: Peanut and Fred aren't involved. Are There is no bestiality
Speaker 5: going on?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, they're merely at times promotional partners
Speaker 1: for the adult Fair.
Speaker 2: There's a letterman nuts joke there somewhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding, huh okay, Well that's an interesting twist.
Speaker 2: I don't think it ruins it for me. No, No, Indeed.
Speaker 5: The bureaucracy's overstepping their bounds or making big deals out
Speaker 5: of nothing. I mean, god, dang it, you have me,
Speaker 5: I would have been I would have probably ended up arrested. Like,
Speaker 5: for real, You're gonna make me sit on the curb
Speaker 5: outside my house and go through all my stuff and
Speaker 5: I'm not allowed to go into my own home. Well,
Speaker 5: they are freaking heroin addicts with loose pit bulls over
Speaker 5: there in the park, and people can smash open any
Speaker 5: window and steal anything. And my car's been broken into
Speaker 5: three times and all that.
Speaker 2: But I'm sitting here on.
Speaker 5: The curb with the the the officers of the law
Speaker 5: inside my home and I'm not allowed to go in.
Speaker 2: I would have been insanely angry.
Speaker 1: And I get laws that say you can't keep wild
Speaker 1: animals in the suburbs, for instance, But the idea that
Speaker 1: you're gonna come to my house because theoretically my squirrel
Speaker 1: might be dangerous and you're going to kill it to
Speaker 1: protect me, not to mention poor Fred the raccoon.
Speaker 2: While all this other stuff is going on, Yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There have been how many murders on subways in New
Speaker 1: York City, for instance, in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: It's a shocking number women being clubbed in the face
Speaker 1: at random by junkies illegal streets, right, Yeah, Venezuelan gangs,
Speaker 1: millions of illegal immigrants flooding the streets and the schools
Speaker 1: and the hospitals and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: And they frog march.
Speaker 1: This another unfortunate animal metaphor frog march this man and
Speaker 1: his wife out onto the street, make him sit on
Speaker 1: the curb for hours while they murder his pets.
Speaker 2: So somebody rat keep the big government. Somebody ran it out.
Speaker 5: The guy who was frog marched out to get to
Speaker 5: his squirrel and raccoon.
Speaker 2: Okay, right, And so many Americans have their head and
Speaker 2: the sandling an ostrich over the whole thing.
Speaker 5: And are we ignoring the elephant in the room, That's
Speaker 5: what I wonder.
Speaker 2: I don't think we are now.
Speaker 5: Actually, that sort of thing makes me so insanely angry,
Speaker 5: like I practically can't think about it, or I can't
Speaker 5: handle life seriously, because I've run into it a couple
Speaker 5: of times in my life. I used the example yesterday
Speaker 5: just to explain it a little more. Where we were
Speaker 5: looking into on our farm with all our goats of
Speaker 5: make of either selling goat milk or making goat soap,
Speaker 5: and we got informed by various people who had done
Speaker 5: that and run afoul of whatever state regulations and had
Speaker 5: their homes raided or fined or whatever. With all the
Speaker 5: crack that's going you have the homeless population in the
Speaker 5: countries in California doing whatever the hell they want, But
Speaker 5: you're gonna using my taxpayer money, come sue me or
Speaker 5: put me up against the wall while you go through
Speaker 5: my home because I might have a legal goat soap,
Speaker 5: I mean, makes me insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree, I would agree. But America is
Speaker 1: a generous country, Jack And a go fund to me
Speaker 1: page set up for Peanut is raised more than one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two thousand.
Speaker 2: To do what.
Speaker 1: You know what I would like to say, see one
Speaker 1: of those big elaborate like not what do you call it,
Speaker 1: like a little mini mausoleum slash giant gravestone for peanuts?
Speaker 2: Do you want?
Speaker 5: You want like what they got in Red Squirrel, like
Speaker 5: what they got in Red Square for Lennon?
Speaker 2: You want that sort of thing? Yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe you have them lie in state. I don't know.
Speaker 1: This'll probably go to some sort of loss suit or
Speaker 1: legal something or other. But seriously, these people make millions
Speaker 1: of dollars doing porn. They don't need your twenty dollars
Speaker 1: in the memory of their squirrel.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, that's a decent point. Yeah, why are you
Speaker 5: sending them ten bucks when they made eight or one
Speaker 5: thousand dollars a month doing important. The fact that they
Speaker 5: do horn though, doesn't change the story at all for me.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 5: I'm sure he got quite attached to the squirrel based
Speaker 5: on some of the videos I've seen over a period
Speaker 5: of time, and the idea of the government coming in
Speaker 5: ordering you out of your own home and going in
Speaker 5: and killing your pet. WHOA, well again with everything else
Speaker 5: that's going on, violent gangs running the streets?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Illegals? By the way, Violent gangs
Speaker 2: of illegals running the streets. Oh, that will make you.
Speaker 2: That will make you nuts, yeah, and make you a
Speaker 2: little militant. Maybe.
Speaker 5: Ah, I don't want wild animals in my home. Squirrel,
Speaker 5: I would be a little concerned about me. No way,
Speaker 5: I'm having a freaking raccoon in my house. I would
Speaker 5: think you're just just waiting for the day that it loses.
Speaker 2: Its s and claws your eyes out right? Right?
Speaker 1: But come on, it's not like they had a tiger
Speaker 1: no now.
Speaker 2: Or a bobcat. They didn't have that one of those either. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Kamala Harris on stage, we believe in freedom. Now,
Speaker 1: all you believe in is abortion. You don't believe in
Speaker 1: property rights? You don't believe in You don't believe in
Speaker 1: any freedom except the freedom to abort a baby and
Speaker 1: the freedom to show porn to kids in school.
Speaker 2: That might your own damn business.
Speaker 5: That is absolutely true, and I wish the Republican side
Speaker 5: could have made a better argument about that. One thing
Speaker 5: I'm noticing on all the cable news panels. That's not
Speaker 5: a shock. Among other things we've got coming up, stay tuned.
Speaker 7: I was thirty years old before I could vote. I
Speaker 7: was born in nineteen thirty five. Civil rights movement was
Speaker 7: high when I was about thirty thirty five years Oh,
Speaker 7: I had seen so many young men and women die
Speaker 7: because of a right to vote.
Speaker 3: And I said, I've got a vote.
Speaker 7: That people have to realize the price that was paid
Speaker 7: for them to vote.
Speaker 3: I've been driving Lyft for nine years.
Speaker 7: Even when I drive locals, I ask him, maybe he
Speaker 7: registered the vote.
Speaker 3: A lot of them say, my vote doesn't count. Oh. Yes,
Speaker 3: one voat can change.
Speaker 7: A conversation, one vote can change a whole society.
Speaker 5: That is a good, true, and uplifting a little speech
Speaker 5: about voting. I wish the majority of our media and
Speaker 5: certainly our politicians, cared about democracy near as much as
Speaker 5: that guy or people.
Speaker 2: Who say that sort of thing, Hey, I would agree.
Speaker 5: They don't, and I've got some examples of that coming
Speaker 5: up next segment.
Speaker 1: More significantly, that's an eighty nine year old lift driver.
Speaker 1: Can we keep our lift drivers? I don't know, seventy
Speaker 1: five or younger? Well, he can general. He sounds pretty
Speaker 1: sharp and he could be really sharp.
Speaker 5: But if I got in my lift and he happened
Speaker 5: the driver happens to mention he's eighty nine, I would think, Wow,
Speaker 5: I probably ought to be ready to grab the wheel
Speaker 5: if I need to.
Speaker 2: Eighty nine is old. That's getting up to I love this,
Speaker 2: love his attitude though maybe yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah I do so.
Speaker 1: I found this very very interesting. The good folks that
Speaker 1: fire the Foundation for Individual Rights, and what is the
Speaker 1: E stand for now that it's not education anymore, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. They're the free speech people and they do wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful work. They talk about, you know, various laws having
Speaker 1: to do with going to the polls. Can you wear
Speaker 1: a mega hat, a Harris Walls T shirt? Is it
Speaker 1: legal to have a no campaigning zone? All sorts of
Speaker 1: different issues that are complicated because of very.
Speaker 2: State by state. But is it anima? Probably not. Pardon
Speaker 2: me the E for enema. I doubt it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can you take ballot selfies? There are a number
Speaker 1: of states around the country, including some of my faves,
Speaker 1: where it is prohibited that you take a selfie of
Speaker 1: yourself at the in the voting boost because to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I voted, because.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I've read it more than once in my
Speaker 1: life and forgotten it because it's not very interesting. They
Speaker 1: just don't want detailed maps of the voting places for
Speaker 1: people to commit.
Speaker 2: Fraud or something.
Speaker 1: But there are also quite a few states where you
Speaker 1: can absolutely take a ballot selfie, and the good folks
Speaker 1: at Fire point out that the laws banning ballot selfie
Speaker 1: stand on very shaky constitutional ground, and Fire is indeed
Speaker 1: currently challenging North Carolina's selfie ban in court.
Speaker 2: I like Fire a lot.
Speaker 5: I just don't know if this is the best use
Speaker 5: of your resources going after this one.
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: I think it's more about the broad principles than the
Speaker 1: specifics of it.
Speaker 5: It's probably no photography inside the polling place, which I
Speaker 5: can understand why you'd want that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think and again I'm half tempted to read
Speaker 1: up on the issue, probably not tempted enough actually do it.
Speaker 1: But the idea is, you are restricting my freedom without
Speaker 1: a sound rationale for it.
Speaker 2: We're not going to put up with that. Fight it
Speaker 2: everywhere all the time.
Speaker 5: One of the many reasons this was such a depressing
Speaker 5: election coming up.
Speaker 2: If you want to be depressed, who tuned into that?
Speaker 2: Who tune into that? Nice job? Yeah, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: If we don't show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible
Speaker 8: that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast
Speaker 8: a ballot again.
Speaker 2: That is either dumb or incredibly irresponsible.
Speaker 5: From open ruined free last night at a Kamala Harris rally,
Speaker 5: It's just ridiculous to stay stuff like that. And I
Speaker 5: know Trump is saying the same stuff, but all the
Speaker 5: surguates don't need to jump on board with the candidates
Speaker 5: and claim that the other side is Hitler or a
Speaker 5: fascist or a communist or democracy ends if the other
Speaker 5: side wins.
Speaker 2: It's just it's why how could we not be better
Speaker 2: than that?
Speaker 5: As I quoted someone earlier, when people say this is
Speaker 5: the most divided we've ever been, that's wrong.
Speaker 2: But the most.
Speaker 5: Divided and stupid we've ever been definitely true, which is
Speaker 5: very disappoint.
Speaker 1: I'm so aghast at what Oakpriss said. I just there
Speaker 1: ought to be and this is probably an incursion against
Speaker 1: the First Amendment.
Speaker 2: But if somebody says something like that, there.
Speaker 1: Should be heavy, heavy fines when they inevitably turn out
Speaker 1: to be completely wrong, I'm not serious with that proposal.
Speaker 1: But you can say crap like that. You can have
Speaker 1: people stirred up to violence and insanity and never pay
Speaker 1: a price for it.
Speaker 2: That's a little frustrating, but right, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: David Birds, who we regularly quote from his Twitter feed,
Speaker 5: said love him.
Speaker 2: I have to chuckle.
Speaker 5: How all these cable news channels that have spent the
Speaker 5: last thirty years pumping insane hysteria take a quick break
Speaker 5: election day to tape up some patriotic bunting and talk
Speaker 5: about quaint Dixville, Notch and bell Weather, Ohio and whatnot.
Speaker 5: That is true, After just all the nutty, crazy, over
Speaker 5: the top stuff everybody says on election day, you put
Speaker 5: up some red, white and blue crape paper and good
Speaker 5: old time.
Speaker 2: He put on a straw hat.
Speaker 5: Right, but more importantly, so I was, I wish I
Speaker 5: could just grab the clip and play it of Charles C. W.
Speaker 5: Cook on the National Review podcast yesterday. Now we're having
Speaker 5: a conversation about where you are on the election, or
Speaker 5: how you feel after election day or whatever, and and
Speaker 5: his take was, how incredibly sad he is just for
Speaker 5: the civic health of the country, no matter what, based
Speaker 5: around all of the insanely over the top misleading stories
Speaker 5: the mainstream media has gone with in the last week,
Speaker 5: really in the last you know, on the entire Trump era,
Speaker 5: but in the last several days, our most important institutional
Speaker 5: media sources, whether it's CBS News, Washington Post, New York
Speaker 5: Times or whatever, you know, talking heads that people respect,
Speaker 5: acting like Trump threatened the life of Liz Cheney or
Speaker 5: good for instance, being willing to play the abbreviated clip
Speaker 5: of there will be a blood bath or whatever, which
Speaker 5: and utterly unforgiven.
Speaker 2: And Charles C. W.
Speaker 5: Cook could not hate Trump more. I mean, he is
Speaker 5: an anti he's absolutely man is not fit for the office.
Speaker 5: But as he says, our civic health we have none.
Speaker 5: If if Trump is not the sort of person that
Speaker 5: you can with real quotes and real statistics and real
Speaker 5: arguments defeat and you're gonna just go with lies. You're
Speaker 5: just gonna make up crap and so as he said,
Speaker 5: and this is true. And this is a situation we've
Speaker 5: been in. So you end up where Trump supporters believe
Speaker 5: none of the stuff that people put out there because
Speaker 5: so much of it is untrue, and Trump haters believe
Speaker 5: all of it because enough of it from Trump is
Speaker 5: true because he does say and do crazy stuff. And
Speaker 5: that's just that's no way to run a country, or
Speaker 5: a society or a national conversation, certainly.
Speaker 1: And neither side has any interest in hearing from respectful
Speaker 1: dissent about a story or.
Speaker 2: What have you. Right, you know what.
Speaker 1: And we've discussed this question of intelligence versus wisdom and
Speaker 1: several contexts already today. But the fact that the people
Speaker 1: of the left, including the media, don't understand the damage
Speaker 1: they're doing to their own influence right by for instance,
Speaker 1: the Liz Cheney thing or the there's going to be
Speaker 1: a blood bath thing. I mean, you give away your creditbility.
Speaker 1: Well there was the excenta javiny, but you.
Speaker 2: Brought this one up yesterday over the weekend.
Speaker 5: At some point I didn't follow all his rallies, he
Speaker 5: says I should have stayed in the White House or whatever.
Speaker 5: He was talking about the open borders and how out
Speaker 5: of control immigration had gotten, and basically just saying I
Speaker 5: should have stayed, you know, to control the border. He
Speaker 5: wasn't making an argument for why on January sixth he
Speaker 5: shouldn't have left the White House, but they used that
Speaker 5: little clip and then portrayed it with January six So.
Speaker 2: Constantly misleading people.
Speaker 5: Does way more damage than either you're recognizing or I
Speaker 5: don't even know what. I don't know, like I've been
Speaker 5: saying now for years, I don't know if they actually
Speaker 5: believe it, if they're so into Trump derangement syndrome that.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't even even know.
Speaker 5: But you're helping Trump get elected with that sort of stuff,
Speaker 5: and more importantly, again the civic health of the country
Speaker 5: where nobody believes anything because you all make crap up
Speaker 5: all the time.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But in a media environment, keeping in mind that
Speaker 1: they as we are, in a for profit business, I
Speaker 1: think probably very smart people have looked at the numbers
Speaker 1: and decided that pandering is clearly the model that works.
Speaker 1: You get a small ish but loyal audience and you
Speaker 1: tell them what they want to hear, over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. And that's the way to survive in
Speaker 1: the current media environment because competition is so intense.
Speaker 5: Well, we're at a new level though, or into a
Speaker 5: new era or something. I watch all Mark Halprin's podcasts
Speaker 5: with all the different strategists and everything like that, and
Speaker 5: he tries as hard as anybody I've seen to be nonpartisan.
Speaker 2: But he said that coverage of the Liz Cheney story.
Speaker 5: Was the most egregious, over the top, especially in the
Speaker 5: final days of an election, of any media coverage he's
Speaker 5: ever seen in his lifetime. To claim that Donald Trump
Speaker 5: was talking about lining Liz Cheney up against the wall
Speaker 5: and executing her the way CBS News did, the way
Speaker 5: the Washington Post did.
Speaker 2: I mean, your organizations is just what do you even
Speaker 2: do with that?
Speaker 1: It's abandoning even the pretense of uh, honestly honesty. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could use fancy journalistic terms about it, but when
Speaker 1: you either knowingly say something you know to be one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty degrees misleading, or you are so crazed
Speaker 1: with your own ideology that you can't even recognize that anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're in a You're in a hell of a spot
Speaker 1: as a as a media landscape, and as a country,
Speaker 1: as a people.
Speaker 2: It is disturbing. It's beyond annoying, right.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about the partisan advantage the Democrats
Speaker 1: get for being, you know, practically uniformly biased, because I'm
Speaker 1: used to that and that's just the landscape we live in.
Speaker 1: I cherish the First Amendment. And if you want to
Speaker 1: use the First Amendment to pretend to be one thing
Speaker 1: and do another, there's nothing I can do about it
Speaker 1: except be better at the game than you. But it's
Speaker 1: just disturbing on a human level that anybody would be
Speaker 1: that dishonest, and then people would either not notice it
Speaker 1: or not care.
Speaker 2: Democracy can't work, No, not like that. It can't.
Speaker 5: And so do we have the ability as a nation
Speaker 5: to turn the tide back toward you know, I don't
Speaker 5: know major influencers, news sources, gatekeepers who are willing to
Speaker 5: call balls and strikes somewhat fairly, or as we head
Speaker 5: into the world of AI and even more siloed information,
Speaker 5: is it just over? Are we just doomed to have
Speaker 5: no ability to figure out what is a true story
Speaker 5: and what is not probably that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some examples, including us of people doing
Speaker 1: pretty well trying to call balls of strikes.
Speaker 2: I mean, we certainly have our point of view.
Speaker 1: But when Trump says something stupid or does something stupid,
Speaker 1: we say, boy, Trump did something or said something stupid.
Speaker 2: It's not that hard major media, You'll get used to it.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 5: I can come up with them off the top of
Speaker 5: my head. He should definitely not up said over the weekend,
Speaker 5: if you try to shoot me, shoot through the media
Speaker 5: to get me or something like that. I mean, just
Speaker 5: the the former president, quite possibly about to be elected
Speaker 5: next president.
Speaker 2: Should not talk about shooting the media.
Speaker 1: No, and tens thousands who knows of suburban women who
Speaker 1: were thinking, you know, the open border, the inflation, you
Speaker 1: know what I am going to vote for Trump heard
Speaker 1: that and put their ballots in a shredder. They just
Speaker 1: too much, too much. Yeah, for instance, so way frustrating.
Speaker 1: Love this on a much lighter note. Latinos have been
Speaker 1: abandoning Kamala Harris and now we have some clues as
Speaker 1: to why, quoting the free press. They don't want to
Speaker 1: be called Latinxes. So for a few years it was
Speaker 1: necessary the Democrats call Latino people Latinxes, despite clear and
Speaker 1: persistent protests. Why because Latino and Latina are gendered words
Speaker 1: and binary ones to boot, and the Dems needed a
Speaker 1: non binary way to speak about this population in case
Speaker 1: any Latinxes use they them pronouns or something. Well, plus,
Speaker 1: the whole postmodern thing, neo Marxist thing, denies that there
Speaker 1: are any binaries. It's stupid and ridiculous. The fact that
Speaker 1: anybody falls for it is amazing. But our entire university
Speaker 1: system is infected in this. But anyway, literally the whole
Speaker 1: group was supposed to accept being renamed for the sake
Speaker 1: of any they them Latino people.
Speaker 2: Needless to say, it didn't work.
Speaker 1: So there's a big serious study out of Harvard University
Speaker 1: about how it being called Latinx made Latinos turn to Trump,
Speaker 1: and they go into a bunch of detail, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a significant effect that it's had on the Latino vote.
Speaker 1: The exposure to it was enough. You can imagine scenarios
Speaker 1: that might do it. One white guy with a man
Speaker 1: bun says something about ola my LATINX brothers and all
Speaker 1: who hear it suddenly decide they must absolutely vote for Trump.
Speaker 1: That very day, You'd think whoever came up with LATINX
Speaker 1: must feel like whoever forgot to lock the door at
Speaker 1: the Wuhan Institute of Virology upon seeing this study, here's
Speaker 1: the punchline.
Speaker 5: I still hear LATINX on NBR. Here, friends, is the punchline.
Speaker 5: Do you think the authors of this study about why
Speaker 5: Latinxes are going to Trump would now recommend LATINX be retired?
Speaker 2: No? No, The conclusion is we need to shame.
Speaker 1: The Latinxes until they accept the term. The studies co
Speaker 1: author Marcel Roman, an assistant professor of government.
Speaker 2: At HAVAD, wrote this about the finding.
Speaker 1: Quote, we should still be using gender inclusive language. The
Speaker 1: problem for Democrats is that segments of the Latino community
Speaker 1: that are queer phobic and would otherwise support them are
Speaker 1: less likely to do so if queerness is made salient
Speaker 1: through inclusive language. So, yes, call them Latinxes, but add
Speaker 1: that they're queer phobic. That'll bring them over, shame them
Speaker 1: into using the term. That's what Harvard says.
Speaker 5: So that's that whole intersectionality where you have to rank
Speaker 5: various groups, and apparently they've ranked the people who don't
Speaker 5: believe in gender above people with brown skin, or at least.
Speaker 1: The brownskinned people are the evil doers until they conform
Speaker 1: to the white grad students orders for what they should
Speaker 1: call themselves.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is something that's from Harvard. Please shut Harvard down.
Speaker 5: Breaking news before we take a break. Trump is voting
Speaker 5: in Florida. He has walked into the polling place with
Speaker 5: his wife at his side, who looks like a model,
Speaker 5: and is leaving her sunglasses on. How do we feel
Speaker 5: about leaving your sunglasses on in the polling place? She
Speaker 5: has a model, so as they give you some leeway
Speaker 5: for leaving your sunglasses on?
Speaker 2: Just seems like an odd look.
Speaker 1: Are they prescription? I wear prescription sunglasses and be walking
Speaker 1: through a grocery store with my sunglasses on.
Speaker 2: She's just standing there with Trump while he talks. Do
Speaker 2: you honestly care about that? I mean, I think it's
Speaker 2: a little I don't think it's a good look. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's the flashbulbs. Maybe she doesn't like the flash.
Speaker 5: Ball I think that's a good look for her to
Speaker 5: leave her sunglasses on while he's standing taking questions.
Speaker 2: For well host overly adamant insults online. That's all you
Speaker 2: can do these days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he looks way older than her. Is that because
Speaker 5: he is that's got to be part of it. So
Speaker 5: maybe the most interesting actual stat not like conjecture, but
Speaker 5: actual stat about voting that is out about Pennsylvania could
Speaker 5: be huge. And I don't know what the explanation for
Speaker 5: it is that, among other things on the way stay tuned, Armstrong, look, look.
Speaker 3: Regrets, you always have regrets.
Speaker 9: I can't think of any to be honest, to use
Speaker 9: her expression, I can't think of any.
Speaker 3: Look. I red great campaign.
Speaker 9: I think it was maybe the best of the three.
Speaker 9: We did great in the first one. We did much
Speaker 9: better in the second one, but something happened and this.
Speaker 3: Was the best. I would say this was the best
Speaker 3: campaign in the man.
Speaker 5: So interesting Trump at the polling place, voting and then
Speaker 5: to answer in a few questions with his sunglassed wife
Speaker 5: standing next to him like expressionless. Maybe that's why draws
Speaker 5: attention to it. She's got sunglasses on as like standing
Speaker 5: like a statue while we talk.
Speaker 2: So I just I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 1: I have believed since twenty fifteen that she hates him
Speaker 1: being in politics. Could she signed on to be the
Speaker 1: trophy wife of a very rich real estate developer, go
Speaker 1: to n alrash rights and responsibilities thereof.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: You fly around on a plane, you go to cool places,
Speaker 5: nice restaurants, wonderful vacations.
Speaker 1: You don't not constantly scrutinized political family.
Speaker 5: I could believe that absolutely anyway. So that was Trump
Speaker 5: whyle him play that first.
Speaker 2: Part to get I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Look, regrets, you always have regrets.
Speaker 9: I can't think of any to be honest, to use
Speaker 9: her expression, I can't think of any.
Speaker 5: To use her expression. I can't think of any any
Speaker 5: differences between you and Biden.
Speaker 2: I can't think of any.
Speaker 1: That was one of the most idiotic and inexplicable political
Speaker 1: answers in the history of journalism from Kamala and I'm
Speaker 1: calling Kamala and I'm calling the view journalists in this scenario,
Speaker 1: which is odd. But not seeing that question coming and
Speaker 1: not having an answer for it, that is, it boggles
Speaker 1: the mind.
Speaker 5: Even if you didn't see it coming, to not be
Speaker 5: able to come up with something other than I can't
Speaker 5: think of.
Speaker 2: Any and nothing comes to mind. Trump was asked another question.
Speaker 3: The possibility that you and Vice President Harris both might
Speaker 3: not get to two hundred and seventy electoral votes by
Speaker 3: the end of tonight.
Speaker 9: It should never happen. A thing like that should never happen.
Speaker 9: This election should be over. They spend all this money
Speaker 9: and machines, and frankly, if they'd use paper ballots, it
Speaker 9: would be over by ten o'clock. And by the way,
Speaker 9: the paper ballots would cost eight percent, would be eight
Speaker 9: percent of the cost. If they would use paper ballots,
Speaker 9: voter ID, proof of citizenship and.
Speaker 3: One day voting, it would all be over by ten
Speaker 3: o'clock in the evening.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
Speaker 5: So this is a stat that a lot of Democrats
Speaker 5: are worried because of and Republicans are hopeful because of it.
Speaker 2: And it's been holding up for a while.
Speaker 5: In Pennsylvania, the number of early votes turned in, remembering
Speaker 5: Biden won the state by less than one hundred thousand
Speaker 5: votes in twenty twenty, so Democrats in twenty twenty went
Speaker 5: into election day with over a million vote lead because
Speaker 5: of early voting. The latest numbers out as of this
Speaker 5: morning today, the Democrats go in with a four hundred
Speaker 5: thousand vote lead, so six hundred thousand thousand votes less
Speaker 5: than twenty twenty for the Democrats while the Republicans increased
Speaker 5: theirs a little bit.
Speaker 2: How do you explain that?
Speaker 5: As Mark Alprin said in his podcast this morning, he
Speaker 5: said he finds it very difficult to see how Kamala
Speaker 5: Harris wins Pennsylvania with those numbers. I mean, what's your
Speaker 5: explanation why Democrat votes dropped off that much while Republican
Speaker 5: votes increased a little bit. That doesn't include Trump running
Speaker 5: away with the state.
Speaker 2: That's a real head scratcher.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Republicans increasing I could explain, but that's
Speaker 1: precipitous drop in the Democrat votes. That's just unless there's
Speaker 1: some sort of unbelievable groundswell of working class America moving
Speaker 1: to the right more than even we've been talking about.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's just crazy. You'd have to come up.
Speaker 5: You'd have to believe that a whole bunch of Democrats
Speaker 5: that voted by mail last time because of COVID maybe
Speaker 5: are going to go to the polls in person today.
Speaker 5: But I mean a lot, and Democrats are the party
Speaker 5: of voting early, So I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 5: if that means anything or not, but it's certainly good.
Speaker 1: Well, the delightful aspect of all of this is that
Speaker 1: sooner or later, all of these questions will be answered.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just hope it's sooner rather than later. Longer it goes,
Speaker 1: the more insane of this country will be.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I do want to talk a little bit about what
Speaker 5: we will learn from this either tomorrow or a week
Speaker 5: or so from now. But there's a whole bunch we're
Speaker 5: going to learn from this election that could be damned interesting,
Speaker 5: like our realignment, like we haven't seen.
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