WEBVTT - I Have Emotions Too... Apparently 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:11.399 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:17.320 and know he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.160 It is time for tonight's show sponsors. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:33.200 Here we are strong spot. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:41.800 Election polls on accurate twenty percent of the time. Cors 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.879 Light when you just want just a hint of beer, amc. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.400 Nothing goes with a twenty dollars movie. Better than a 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:55.040 twenty five dollars soda supercuts still better than having your 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.920 drunk friend cut your bangs with a set of car keys. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.560 Denny's for people who like waffle House but don't want 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:04.520 to get hit with a chair. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.120 Cours Light if you want a hint of beer. I 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.720 gotta push back on the polling thing. The the the 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.640 drum beat of the poles are wrong again. Who believes 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.760 what they they had it? It was gonna be within 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.480 like three four points that was the margin of air, 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.080 and they could go either way, and lots of people 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.240 were saying they could all break the same direction. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.840 Right, So I saw a big long list of everything 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.039 that was one and a half points off. That's great. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.080 Yeah, how accurate do you want them to be? And 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.399 in what world do you think that could possibly happen? 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.399 Uh So, Elon Musk is getting a fair amount of attention. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.119 I noticed. Let me read just a couple of things 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.480 for you. This is from the wappo. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.280 I think with his super pack, Elon Musk was able 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.360 to put a thumb on the scale of a presidential 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.000 election like no ultra wealthy donor before him. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:03.120 All right, ignoring I'll imagine that social media playing a 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.800 role in what people say, Ignoring all the other gazillionaires 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.160 that have weighed in Zuckerberg, Google, everybody else. But more 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.000 on that. In just a second tick tack, you have many, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.120 many multiples of the people on Twitter. Okay, came across 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:16.600 this guy. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.119 I don't know his name, but he's a big deal 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:25.000 in lefty media politics sort of person tweeted out. Democrats 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.839 are going to keep losing until they have their own 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.840 Joe Rogan, their own Elon Muskin, until they create their 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.840 own alternative to Fox News. It is not good enough 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.840 to contest conservative messaging in these existing spaces. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.280 Democrats must create their own. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.799 So the idea so having the CBS Evening News, ABC 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.040 Evening News, Washington Post, New York Times, all of Hollywood, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.280 all of social media except for Twitter. Education now all 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.280 the schools from kindergarten through graduate school. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:57.840 That's not good enough. I guess it's incredibly mockable. But 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.720 maybe it's just my mood. I'm just I'm so intrigued 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:09.360 trying to understand someone who is that blind? Or is 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:14.280 it that so many people have bought the notion that 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:21.639 the massive media entertainment education complex is not biased. That's it, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:22.240 that's it. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.800 He doesn't think him stating we need our own Fox News. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.520 You have it. He's got like eleven of them. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.160 It's called enos, NBC and CNN. And did you watch 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.720 the debates for interest for instance? Did you watch those 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.000 or most of the interviews that were clearly designed to 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:42.960 help your side? 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.080 But it doesn't feel that way to them. I guess 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:51.280 you need your own Joe Rogan NPR. It's like the 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:56.280 biggest thing in terrestrial radio, as we call old school radio. Yeah, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.200 that that just again. I would like to and will 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.200 mock people like that, but I am just interested in them. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.040 The idea that Google and Facebook and all the things 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.440 we've already mentioned don't balance out Elon Muskin anyway. But 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.200 I can't tell you how many times I've heard in 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.760 the last twenty four hours the idea, well, when you 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.800 get Elon Musk, world's richest man weighing in. Okay, So 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.240 how about this political ad spending across the swing states? 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:28.479 Only in Pennsylvania did the Republicans come close to spending 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.359 as much money on ads as the Democrats did. Still 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.800 less but close, And every other swing state that Trump 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:37.720 won it. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:38.560 Wasn't even close. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.839 It was like nine to one in terms of Democrats 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.599 spending versus Republicans spending. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.480 Yeah, at the bottom of the hour, I want to 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:51.880 go through a number of learned and eminent Democrats assessments 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.440 of what went wrong, and it is every bit as 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.880 astonishing as the fella's point of view that Jack just 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.239 brought us. But I had a point I was working 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.599 my way toward. It doesn't matter on the spend. I 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.279 just I don't understand how you how you don't get 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.760 to we spend all this money, We have the heft 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.719 of all this media. Maybe we had bad candidates and 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.839 or bad ideas that people don't like and they just 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.359 never get there. Boy, no kidding, that should be it. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.839 See, we had the advantage in money we control, like 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.000 practically all the information and we're still lost. So maybe 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:34.000 people don't like our policies. Doesn't that doesn't get to anyone, apparently. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.600 I guess that would be hurtful to like, realize people. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.080 Don't like what I think. I don't know, I don't, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:46.120 but I don't understand hurtful. That's an emotional reaction. I 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.400 get it. I have emotions too, allegedly, But I still 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.360 say the great divide and the American people is and 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.160 you know, everybody's got a touch of both in them, obviously, 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.880 but the great divide between the American people is the 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.160 practical people and the emotional people. People who live practical 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.680 lives that are enriched by their emotions, or people whose 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:14.000 reaction to everything is emotional and practical considerations don't even 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:19.120 enter into it if they cause, you know, negative emotions. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.800 The idea that I as a political being, as a 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.520 radio show, for instance, if I could not handle that 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.120 people hate it when you X and they love it 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.760 when you why. And I was so freaked out by that. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.000 I was like, no, no, no, don't tell me that. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.919 Don't tell me that. I can't even imagine functioning in 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.760 that way. You know, it would be a great number. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.120 To know, what of all the people that had to 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.159 call therapists yesterday to deal with the election? 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.760 Yeah? All of them? How often? 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.320 How many of those people will Obviously you wouldn't be 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.240 unhappy of your leaned right because your guy one, But 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:04.160 if Kamala had one, how many conservatives or Republicans would 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.160 have called a therapist to have an emergency meeting because 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.640 they were falling apart and couldn't go to work any 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.120 I mean, I've. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.920 Been on the losing out of plenty of lections, chagrined, annoyed, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.840 maybe even a little pissed off. But the idea that 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.920 I can't function, I can't go to work is so 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.239 foreign to me. I'm I'm maybe it's that I'm getting older. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.400 I'm through being flabbergasted by it, and I just would 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.240 like to understand it and try to figure out, for 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.160 the good of the republic and our politics and our society, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.520 how do you communicate with those people. Is it possible 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.760 to reach them and pat them on the head or 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.840 does that sound condescending? I apologize pat them on the back? 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.080 Well I was, and say, look, I sincerely believe it 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.760 is this to my bones, and I've got an example 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.120 coming up later, there are people who actually think Trump 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.480 is going to suppress the free press in this country. Well, yeah, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.280 I had a blanket chance. Not for a minute. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.840 I mentioned person I saw in a focus group who said, 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.040 I have a friend there. They're gay, married, and there 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.040 they they're worried about their marriage being you know, taken 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:09.360 away from them if Trump wins. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:10.559 Yes, it's not gonna happen. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:16.120 Which isn't even nobody's having that conversation anywhere in America, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:17.720 let alone is it going to happen. 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.480 The legitimately sickening clip we ran from Jimmy Kimmel in 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.160 which he is breaking down in tears because of what's 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.920 going to happen to the children and the old people. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.560 And I'm sing the immigrants that have voted for Trump, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.720 by the way, the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.240 that make this country go, well, they'll be fine. The 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.040 Venezuelan gang members are going to get their asses booted out, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.240 thank goodness, Jimmy. But you're gonna be okay, sweetheart. Oh 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.880 there I was condescending again. I am so sorry. I'm 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:48.800 gonna have to work at this. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.560 I love hearing the left explaining why a majority of 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.480 Hispanic men voted for the guy who's promising mass deportation. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.839 It's not hard for me to understand, but it's very 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.160 hard for them to understand. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.360 Yeah, and you could make the argument that a lot 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.120 of folks from Mexico, the Triangle country of Central America, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.079 and Venezuelans, because you know, the majority of Venezuelans who 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.280 come to this country are not members of trende Arragua. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.520 There's some people are looking for a better life for 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.120 their family. But if you were to sit them down 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.240 and ask them in Spanish about why do you believe this, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.240 that and the other, it would all boil down to 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:34.400 lawlessness and chaos. They understand that lawlessness breeds pain and death. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.960 You don't have to explain that to them. They know it, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.480 they've seen it, they've experienced it. So how could it 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.480 be that Hispanic people are good? Because your entire narrative 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.560 that wanting reasonable enforcement of our immigration laws is racist 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.160 is fictional. It's not true. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.400 Just to finish off the money story that we started with, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.040 when it turns out money was the big difference maker 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.600 in a presidential election, it'll be the first time and 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.160 we'll bring you that story but so far it hasn't happened. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.080 Read the money being spent you mean AD dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.200 money being spent, not the economy. Money being spent AD 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.760 dollars are the idea of buying the election. It just 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:15.520 hasn't happened. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:16.120 And so far. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.040 Read the freakonomics book from years ago or whatever. There's 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.520 example of an example of it not happening. And I 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.480 just went through all the swing states where the Harris 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.400 people outspent the Trump people like. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:27.040 Ten to one. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.560 So I understand it makes you would think that it 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.679 would make a difference, but for whatever reason, it doesn't. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.480 Interestingly, analysts on all sides are saying the one ad 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.120 that moved the needle wasn't about inflation, it was about 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.640 the gender bending madness. Yeah. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.760 Like I said yesterday, it's impossible to know how much 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.760 of that stuff is in the back of people's minds. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.480 It's just like an overall feeling of I can't vote 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.360 for that side, right, Yeah, Yeah, I read a great thing. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.640 I got to dig that up from a tran I'm 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.320 so time changes and trans I can't get straight. It's 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:11.640 weird this person dresses as a woman, So that's a 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:12.480 trans woman. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.560 Yeah, it's a dude. That's it. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.599 Well, for the sake of this argument, this is she 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.280 presents as a woman and goes by a female name and 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.000 calls herself her. She wrote a great piece yesterday about Hey, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.560 we made so much progress a trans being able to 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.200 be accepted and be in the workplace. We've got to 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:36.080 get away from this craziness of making people accept dudes 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.920 in girls' sports or forcing people to put pronouns. I mean, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.640 we've ruined our lives with this. What are we doing? 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.160 It was really good. Yeah, well, said my friend. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.720 Yeah. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.320 So, like I said, I actually have some hope for 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.960 the first time in a long time that maybe we 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:53.920 crossed some sort. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.520 Of line of craziness and we're going back with a 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:02.040 variety of things. Yes, yeah, again, I feel the hope 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:07.720 of a huge job has begun and we've made a 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.439 little progress for the demo. There are millions of twenty 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.520 two year olds being churned out of colleges this spring 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.880 who believe the woke badness to their bones. That's true. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.600 It's going to be a long fight. That's a good point. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.880 The advantage that side has is that our side is 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.600 dying off and the side that believes that crap is 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.360 about to take. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.320 Over, and there are forty million k through twelve verse 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.839 right now who are being taught that garbage in your 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.400 local schools this moment. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.839 Even though I've seen so many Democratic strategists on various 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.680 cable news channels and read their columns recently talking about 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.360 we've gone too far with the culture stuff. That's not 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.920 where America is. That's not where the working classes. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.560 Education is a subculture and it is utterly it's become 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.120 utterly perverse in this country. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.320 Yes, I do want to at some point talk about 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.560 the difference in the coverage of Trump winning this time 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.479 versus last time, because you might not remember. It's completely 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.679 different and in a good way. But we got a 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:06.800 lot of stuff to talk about today. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:12.040 Stay with us. I was just looking at the ABC 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.000 News report. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:18.120 This is breaking news that North Korean troops are fighting Ukrainians. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:18.920 Now I don't know. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.000 I'm hoping that's in Russia where they're doing that, because 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.000 there are Ukrainian troops in Russia. Remember they took some territory. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.880 Because NATO announced that if Ukrainian troops are fighting in Ukraine, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.280 if North Korean troops are fighting in Ukraine. NATO's gonna 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.880 put troops in Ukraine. Then we really got a world 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.480 war going on. Wow, Yeah, craziness. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.040 Plus Russia tried to bring down a couple of American 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.880 airplanes and nobody's talking about it. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.240 Yeah, because it happened that news broke during the last 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.000 days of an election, right, right. But I found this 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.240 so interesting and different. It's a completely different topic. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.520 I am going to quote the vice president who is 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.040 still sitting and Joe Biden is still the president. I'm 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.720 told that seems wrong atleact he's given a speech today. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.360 I'll be good. They mentioned the million times that Kamala 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.760 Harris said it's about paying their fair share. I'm not 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.439 mad at anybody for achieving success, but everyone should pay 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.240 their fair share. And of course, pay their fair share 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.440 is a practiced mantra in Washington. Is this think piece 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.079 points out and quotes everybody from Bernie Sanders Dooci to 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.440 Elizabeth Warren over and over and over again. Then, as usual, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.880 we turned to the statistics that show the top one 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:30.840 percent of earners paid forty six percent of all federal 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.560 income taxes, so damn near half for one percent. Yeah, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:39.160 and the top five percent paid sixty six percent of 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.479 income taxes, thirds of taxes. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.280 Paid by five percent. Again, I always ask define fair 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.080 to me? What would be the fair number to you? 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.040 All of it? Right, three learners? What's it supposed to be? 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:54.760 It's funny that something that's ubiquitous and the political conversation 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.800 is so wrong. Anyway, this isn't about that exactly. It's 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:06.240 a historical look at the quote unquote rich and the 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:11.400 products that they embraced. And then, as Ludwig von Mises said, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.280 every innovation makes its appearance as a luxury of the 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.960 few well to do. After industry has become aware of it, 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:23.880 the luxury then becomes a necessity for all. And I'll 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.880 give you some examples. But by this mechanism, to quote 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.040 a different thinker, capitalism has its own built in welfare 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:35.520 transfer system from rich to the poor. Home electricity first 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.480 introduced that the world's fair in eighteen ninety three. In 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.240 eighteen eighty one, a single light bulb cost thirty one 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.320 dollars in today's money. It is unlikely today any city 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.560 would grant a certificate of occupancy if a building were 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.040 not connected to the electrical grid. But rich people adopted 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.200 their light bulb industry said, Wow, that's a great idea, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.360 and they found a way to manufacture them much more cheaply, 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.320 and then everybody could have them. Conditioning back when Willis 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.120 Carrier came up with it in nineteen oh two in 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.760 a way that could be commercialized. The first air conditioners 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:14.640 took an entire room and cost the equivalent of three 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.920 hundred thousand to one point six million dollars. Wow. In 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.800 modern dollars, economies of scale reduced the price between five 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.200 and ten thousand dollars installed for a central unit. You 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.560 can get a wall unit for two hundred dollars. Automobiles 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:33.400 an incredible luxury of only the super rich until it 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.120 caught on and an industry jumped in cell phones, remember 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.800 the brick phones, Hollywood agents and the rest of it. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.160 And the point of this piece, which is really quite 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.560 interesting and we'll post it at Armstrong and Getty dot com, is, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.160 instead of vilifying success and claiming the rich don't pay 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.760 their fair share, policy makers should recognize the vital role 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.520 that wealth creation plays in society. Punitive tax policies aimed 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.240 at the ultra rich will do more harm than goods, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.680 stifling entrepreneurship and the very drivers of human and progress 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.520 that benefit all Americans. It's a hard thing to sell 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.840 because nobody wants to stand up for wealthy people. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.119 Well, I got so much to say about that, but 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.040 we are out of time. We have more on the way. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:16.159 If you miss an ur get the podcast Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:18.920 There's misogyny. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.320 But it's not just misogyny for white men. It's misogyny 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.240 from Hispanic men, right, it's misogyny from black men. Things 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.560 we've all been talking about. Who do not want a 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:30.439 woman leading? 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.840 The Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:34.480 voters did not. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.480 She is a person of color, she is a she, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.439 and she is an interracial marriage. And I wonder I 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.639 have this question mark in my mind. Oh we wherether 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.800 All of those things combined was too much for pockets 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:49.560 of this country. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.240 There were appeals to racism in this campaign, and there 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.040 is racial bias in this country, and there is sexism 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.200 in this country. And anybody who thinks that that did 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.560 not in any way impact on the outcome of this 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:02.720 race is wrong. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.080 In any way. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.879 Okay, So if anybody, if there's a single vote out 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.040 of one hundred and fifty million vote that had something 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:09.720 to do with the race. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.560 That's worth having the That's not the driving force though, 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:17.320 or even close right. I'm just maybe it's the mood 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:21.439 I'm in. I am so interested in the blindness of 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.600 these people, and I will want to kick them and 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.560 mock them again soon, but for now, I just I'm 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:28.960 trying to figure out a way for the good of 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.160 the country to reach them. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.359 A friend of mine said to this text yesterday their workplace, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.480 which actually is a government workplace, I said, anybody at 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.800 your work need counseling, because they actually had offered counseling 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.760 the day before for anybody who would be upset, probably 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.440 a taxpair expense. A lot of puffy eyes from the men. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.080 One of them put his arm around my shoulder, which 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.760 I shrugged off, and told me anyone who voted for 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:54.720 Trump is a racist. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:55.959 It's the only explanation. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.240 And this person was assuming that the person they put 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.240 their arm around a read with them politically, of course, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.520 because for some reason, the left particularly just assumes you 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.600 can say extraordinarily out of bounds things to everyone, and 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.280 we're just supposed to keep our mouths shut and put 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:10.679 up with it. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.439 Well, they have created their own bubble in that, and 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.440 I'm speaking mostly for people in Bluish parts of the 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.840 country that if somebody says they're a liberal among conservatives, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.680 the reaction is, so, what are you gonna do? If 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.320 somebody says they're a conservative. Among liberals, the reaction is 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.159 never ending shower of hate and derision. So could it 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.280 be that there are lots of people who are these strange, 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.240 hateful people. They're close to you, but they don't say 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:40.600 anything because you're so mean. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.800 Anyway, I got in the workplace yesterday with a whole 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.480 bunch of people I would have never have guessed were 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.880 so thrilled with Drum's victory because you have to keep 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:48.480 your mouth shut. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:53.040 Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, listening to that montage of clips, 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:59.800 I'm just I'm fascinated and well, just astounded by nobody 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:07.560 to Kamala Harris failed miserably in the Democratic primaries not 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:12.560 long ago. She had awful approval ratings as the vice president. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.600 So if you had a white dude who failed miserably 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.400 in the primaries, then had awful approval numbers as vice 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:30.960 president and he lost, why would you explain that racism? Okay, okay, okay, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.720 So why is that incredibly so obvious. I'm not even 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:39.440 gonna bother repeating it. Explanation not applicable here, Help me understand, 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:40.879 I would love to have that country. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.280 Well for a guy to put his armor on someone 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.119 say racism. It's the only explanation? 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:47.680 Is it the only explanation? I feel like I could come. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.200 Up with some like start with maybe the two issues 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.200 that every pool showed were the most important issues to people, 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.560 the economy in the border, which were right well on the. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:00.600 Side of Trump. Thanks for the Thanks for the companying 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.280 arm around my shoulder, But what about the by far 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.320 two biggest issues in the election, anything any significance to those? 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:11.080 You think? Yeah, just frustrating. So I've been pouring through 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.000 all sorts of different think pieces from the liberal media, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.919 including this forum between many of the greatest thinkers at 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.200 the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus and David something I can't 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.159 even remember, but anyway, David says, my biggest question is 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.800 what comes next for Democrats. There will inevitably be hard 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.000 questions about why Harris didn't do better. I'm not sure 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.840 whether people will blame the progressive wing of the party 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.240 or progressives will claim they were right and Harris made 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.760 a big mistake in moving to the center. For the Republicans, 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:45.800 the next step read it that way. Good luck you 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:50.040 were progressive enough. Yeah, that's a good read. Again, I'm 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.560 just weird. I just don't get it. The biggest and 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.600 scariest question as we contemplate the likelihood of a Trump 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.199 victory is will they wage a war of retribution? And 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.080 Matt asks, I mean we say, oh, you mentioned the 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.280 former AIDS who described Trump as a fascist, which is 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.280 true they did. But David says, Ruth, you know the 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.800 legal system better than anyone. Do you think our courts 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.440 and legal institutions are strong enough to protect our country 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:17.440