Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Katty and he Armstrong and Natty.
Speaker 2: UNC football coach Bill Belichick last night made his college debut,
Speaker 2: and only six years after his girlfriend made her college debut.
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick embarrassingly lost his first Tar Heels game as
Speaker 3: head coach forty eight to fourteen. The only thing worse
Speaker 3: would have been at the score was seventy three to
Speaker 3: twenty four.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good jokes. Yeah, that is a good joke,
Speaker 4: is it. So we've talked about this many times over
Speaker 4: the past. A lot of humor is to indicate to
Speaker 4: others the guardrails we have in society.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In fact, there's that ang T shirt which I have
Speaker 5: and I wear. It's the Latin phrase, which I can remember.
Speaker 5: It translates as mockery teaches mortals, right, So that's what's
Speaker 5: going on there. All the jokes and they're endless everywhere
Speaker 5: about this is to indicate to others and ourselves that
Speaker 5: we don't think this is really the best way for
Speaker 5: society to have dudes hooking up with girls.
Speaker 1: Fifty years younger. Than them fifty.
Speaker 2: Five zero booty for riches, a pretty face for riches. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't know that's what's going on there, but no,
Speaker 2: but that's where the mockery comes from.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, coming to I was just glancing up at
Speaker 4: the television where they're showing that Chinese parade, which is
Speaker 4: absolutely horrifying, absolutely freaking horrifying.
Speaker 1: But that's not what I was going to te.
Speaker 4: Last week or I guess before you went to England,
Speaker 4: we were talking about how England has gone off the
Speaker 4: rails in terms of free speech. They just went even
Speaker 4: further off the rails in the last forty eight hours
Speaker 4: arresting a guy for a couple of tweets and it's amazing,
Speaker 4: So stay tuned for that story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I decided against intentionally violating their laws and getting arrested.
Speaker 5: I thought, you know, let me get through one visit.
Speaker 5: I'll go back and do that, but I think it'd
Speaker 5: be an interesting experience. I still would like to do it,
Speaker 5: which I realized is a nod thing to say and
Speaker 5: shows premeditation, which will probably get me an.
Speaker 1: Extra day in the brig or the Gulag or the
Speaker 1: Limey or.
Speaker 5: The cracky or whatever the hell the jail over there anyway,
Speaker 5: total change of topic.
Speaker 1: There are times I feel like I'm rereading The.
Speaker 5: Great Gatsby or there's another classic Hemingway book or something
Speaker 5: like that that I remember that The Lover. There was
Speaker 5: a couple that was kind of at the center of
Speaker 5: the novel, and the woman was, you know, beautiful and clever,
Speaker 5: but utterly irresponsible in spending them into oblivion and stuff
Speaker 5: like that, and the guy would object to it, and
Speaker 5: she'd say, oh, darling, you so tiresome. You know that
Speaker 5: that sort of dynamic. And I feel a little bit
Speaker 5: like the Western world is that.
Speaker 1: Woman, Darling.
Speaker 5: We're spending ourselves into oblivion that we'll never recover from.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't be so tiresome.
Speaker 5: And there are some real signs of it. The bond market.
Speaker 5: Nobody cares about the bond market. I'll keep this brief.
Speaker 5: The bond market collectively around the world said, hey, all
Speaker 5: you Western governments, your debt it's starting to look less attractive.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to pay us more interest to.
Speaker 5: Have us lend you any money, Okay, in a pretty
Speaker 5: significant way.
Speaker 1: Eh one day we'll see.
Speaker 5: American companies once again beating profit expectations. Way to go,
Speaker 5: America go. But it's not because of consumer spending and sales.
Speaker 5: It's because of massive cost cuts, massive layoffs, turning to
Speaker 5: new technologies.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is better.
Speaker 5: But company after companies as we're holding down hiring and
Speaker 5: finding ways to get employees to work more efficiently. Oh,
Speaker 5: which reminds me, where is that The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 5: had a piece?
Speaker 1: Oh? Here it is.
Speaker 5: Your boss doesn't have time to talk to you. Amazon
Speaker 5: wants bigger teams. Bank of America is flattening, Corporate America
Speaker 5: is shedding managers, and the workplace is changing radically. And
Speaker 5: here it is. According to this data research and advisory firm.
Speaker 1: There was.
Speaker 5: There was one manager for every five employees in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 5: Looking at big corporations in America, it was a one
Speaker 5: to five manager to team members in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4: It seems like too many managers, doesn't it. Well it
Speaker 4: could well have been absolutely Yeah. These things move in cycles.
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, the Grand theory of democracy. I'm
Speaker 4: always spouting that we veer all the way to the
Speaker 4: right guardrail, figure, Oh this is too far right, so
Speaker 4: we go way to the left and then smash into
Speaker 4: the left guardrail and are way way too far left,
Speaker 4: and we passed the sweet spot in the middle, and
Speaker 4: never have any idea anyway. But that one to five
Speaker 4: has increased to one to fifteen.
Speaker 1: Wow in the intervening eight years. Wow. That's quite a change.
Speaker 5: It appears to be growing further today, according to this
Speaker 5: management corporation. Google recently said it cut thirty five percent
Speaker 5: of its managers of small teams following the restructure Amazon
Speaker 5: as we pronounce it in Britain, one of the US's
Speaker 5: largest employers, told investors earlier this week it was working
Speaker 5: to increase the ratio of employees to managers. Many other
Speaker 5: companies want to flatten hierarchies as well, Intel, Stay Lauder,
Speaker 5: Match Group, City, Bank of America, you had.
Speaker 1: Personal Service and others.
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So that's a trend.
Speaker 5: Back to what I was going to talk about there,
Speaker 5: It is these retailers are selling cameras that are spying
Speaker 5: for the Chinese Communists. As impressive as that military parade was,
Speaker 5: I think more impressive is the rest of China's effort
Speaker 5: to subvert and supplant us all the ways they're effing
Speaker 5: with us. Pardon my French, We're British, including stuff that
Speaker 5: we have no clue about. I think most of us,
Speaker 5: I still say. China decides one day to flip the
Speaker 5: switch and cell phone service disappears, our banks shut down,
Speaker 5: the lights go out, maybe the water stop stops flowing.
Speaker 5: Who knows there's a drone attack on like fifteen different
Speaker 5: military basis. Yeah, from when that they purchased nearby and
Speaker 5: nobody cared.
Speaker 1: Right right, yeah, yeah, Oh hey, it's the free market.
Speaker 1: You know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: Ah, Not to be too big a downer, but if
Speaker 5: you're not familiar with Chinese whole of society, thou to
Speaker 5: achieve their rightful place on earth, which includes stepping on
Speaker 5: our heads every sink, from bankers to plumbers, to school
Speaker 5: teachers to filmmakers, every single Chinese person is required by
Speaker 5: law to aid the effort to become the greatest country
Speaker 5: China can be. And again, a lot of that has
Speaker 5: to do with stepping on our heads anyway. So independent
Speaker 5: analysis have concluded that cameras manufactured by the Dahua company
Speaker 5: have severe security lapses that enable hackers, including Chinese commies,
Speaker 5: to access video and audio feeds. Findings that have spurred
Speaker 5: bands in several other countries. Let's see who has also
Speaker 5: allegedly provided goods at the Chinese government service of its
Speaker 5: weaker genocide and among other sins but anyway. Washington Examiner
Speaker 5: reviewed review identified listenings for Lorex branded cameras that are
Speaker 5: made by these Chinese people on online storefronts managed.
Speaker 1: By Amazon or I'm sorry, Amazon.
Speaker 5: Best Buy, Costco, Cole's Office, Depot, Home Depot, Wayfair, New Egg,
Speaker 5: and Target. In other words, everybody selling Chinese spying tools.
Speaker 1: Chijin Ping has just got to laugh himself to sleep
Speaker 1: every night. Does he die at some point?
Speaker 5: He's kind of a fat old guy. Yeah, you'd think
Speaker 5: Putin's not fat, but he's old. Why did dictators live
Speaker 5: so long? It must be good for him anyway. A
Speaker 5: final note out of Consumer News. Are you a tennis fan?
Speaker 5: I'm not really, but I noticed the US Open is
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of following it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Venus is still in it for a Blushing
Speaker 4: Meadows or forty five. She's aged forty five. She's playing
Speaker 4: doubles with this girl who's twenty two, less than half
Speaker 4: her age of a bellowchick like relationship, and they've upset
Speaker 4: a couple of people and made it into the semifinals.
Speaker 1: Good for her.
Speaker 5: I love rooting for the oldsters anyway. So if you
Speaker 5: go to the US Open, and why wouldn't you, and
Speaker 5: you get a bit packish, as we say in Great Britain.
Speaker 5: Here among your venu selections, caviar topped chicken nuggets for
Speaker 5: one hundred dollars caviar.
Speaker 1: I wish I was kidding. I'm not chicken nuggets. Yes,
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. Boy.
Speaker 4: I try to stay away from chicken nuggets, and I
Speaker 4: don't like caviar, so that's not a lot to like
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 5: There there's a drink cleverly named the Watermelon Slice, which
Speaker 5: includes a watermelon slice. It's thirty nine dollars. Wow, a
Speaker 5: forty dollars drink. You're sitting there in the sun, it's
Speaker 5: a little hot. You're thinking, you know, a little fro
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Speaker 5: me a fro yo. You want the larger, the small,
Speaker 5: the Small's fine. Let's be thrifty nineteen dollars for the
Speaker 5: small frozen yogurt.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I can get past that forty
Speaker 4: dollars drink. I've never had one drink in my life,
Speaker 4: so I'm gonna have two eighty bucks. I want to
Speaker 4: forget all of my problems for at least three days.
Speaker 5: By the way, the nineteen dollars for the small cup
Speaker 5: of frozen yogurt, it's actually a couple of dollars more
Speaker 5: than New York's minimum wage.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I don't know what that means. This well,
Speaker 1: I'll skip to the end. At the end.
Speaker 5: The US Open signature drink, the Honey Deuce, made of
Speaker 5: vodka raspberry liqueur and topped and lemonade, topped with a
Speaker 5: skewer of honeydew melon balls. That's twenty three dollars a pop,
Speaker 5: and they sold thirteen million dollars worth of them last year.
Speaker 5: WHOA Now this writer trying to make some sort of
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Speaker 5: You want one hundred dollars cavard top chicken nuggets.
Speaker 1: I say, go for it.
Speaker 5: Try It's no skin off my note, right, But they
Speaker 5: point out that the amount of money spent on the
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Speaker 5: of groceries for a family of four.
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Speaker 1: of water, nine dollars nine dollars for.
Speaker 4: The bottle of water you can get for forty cents
Speaker 4: at Costco nine dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: remains not one public, credible evidence backed specific allegation against
Speaker 4: anyone besides Epstein and Maxwell as it pertains to a
Speaker 4: child sex trafficking ring.
Speaker 1: None the end, as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4: Okay, if this were a different era, we would have
Speaker 4: come back with the Google Google Dolls song iris. We
Speaker 4: can't play songs anymore because of copyright thingies. But anyway,
Speaker 4: that song was according to the Wall Street Journal, And
Speaker 4: you've heard the song, even if you don't think you've
Speaker 4: heard no the song, know the song because you can't.
Speaker 4: I couldn't escape it for a while. You can't escape
Speaker 4: it now. That song was the number one streamed song
Speaker 4: of the summer. It's from nineteen ninety two or whatever,
Speaker 4: is forty some years old. Oh this summer, this summer.
Speaker 1: Yes, so it was in some.
Speaker 4: Netflix show, and for whatever reason, everybody who is like
Speaker 4: the nineties was their heyday was like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 4: love the Googoo Dolls and started streaming that song again.
Speaker 4: And then it caught on as a big karaoke thing,
Speaker 4: and so it was the number one stream song in
Speaker 4: the summer, and the Googoo Dolls just happened to be
Speaker 4: out touring, you know, like you do if you're a
Speaker 4: band forty years later and now you're old men and
Speaker 4: you think, hey, that'd be kind of fun. Maybe we'd
Speaker 4: make a couple of dollars playing at the county Fair.
Speaker 4: They're bigger than they've ever been. They're bigger than they
Speaker 4: were in the nineties, and the lead singers, I ammed,
Speaker 4: we don't know, this is so crazy. We go around
Speaker 4: and we play absolutely packed houses. We can't sell enough
Speaker 4: T shirts. We never thought this would happen. I just
Speaker 4: thought that was kind of funny.
Speaker 5: Well not to e Quipple, but what I'm say backing
Speaker 5: this through it was thirty years ago, and change if
Speaker 5: it was ninety two, but no, because I'm thinking through
Speaker 5: the cycle of you're hot, then you're not hot, then
Speaker 5: you're old, then you're Oh, I.
Speaker 1: Love those guys again.
Speaker 5: But you've got to wander through the desert of irrelevant
Speaker 5: and kind of embarrassing.
Speaker 1: For fewer years than I think you used to. And
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 4: I was listening to it. So I read this and
Speaker 4: then I dialed it up and I was listening to it.
Speaker 4: And it's got the whole, you know, that whole period
Speaker 4: of ninety songs where they were all that you bleed
Speaker 4: just to know you're alive, just all that angst that
Speaker 4: that all those songs from that era had that inward.
Speaker 1: My life sucks. It's so tough to be a live thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm super emotive. Yeah, that kind of previewed where
Speaker 1: we were going. I feel like as a nation, for
Speaker 1: better or worse.
Speaker 4: But that's gotta be something when you think you're doing
Speaker 4: your kind of embarrassing has been County Fair tour part
Speaker 4: of your life and you end up being bigger than
Speaker 4: you were back when you were young and attractive.
Speaker 1: That's not you take.
Speaker 4: Good for them, Yeah, exactly good for them. You take
Speaker 4: the break, says they come. I was talking to how
Speaker 4: much time by Michael? Okay, two minutes, I'll start it.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll talk about it more later. I was talking
Speaker 4: to my niece, saw her Walter in Kansas for my
Speaker 4: dad's birthday and all that sort of stuff. She was
Speaker 4: in Australia all summer interning for a doctor. There's part
Speaker 4: of her university education and become a doctor. She was
Speaker 4: talking about how Sydney was so clean, no homeless people,
Speaker 4: no trash, nobody talked about crime or anything like that,
Speaker 4: and it got me starting started on the topic I
Speaker 4: think about a lot is just culture. The culture we
Speaker 4: have in the United States, the permissive culture we've let
Speaker 4: toward cultural decay, the cultural decay that we've allowed in
Speaker 4: this country over many many dedays, and whether or not
Speaker 4: we can turn it around.
Speaker 1: And Australia is.
Speaker 4: What we were like in the forties, fifties or just
Speaker 4: the culture was clean, neat, orderly. We don't put up
Speaker 4: with crime or trash and we let that go away.
Speaker 4: And you know, you don't have to do that. It's
Speaker 4: not just inevitable that that happens, right, right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: all a question of balance though. No, no, because I'm
Speaker 4: thinking of an example. I don't have time for this
Speaker 4: whole story. I shouldn't have launched you don't. I shouldn't
Speaker 4: have launched into this. I'll have to get into it later,
Speaker 4: because I think it's a very important discussion about the
Speaker 4: culture of just allowing nonsense to occur.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have that.
Speaker 4: It's not the laws, it's the culture that doesn't get
Speaker 4: enough attention.
Speaker 5: Being tolerant to the point of, well, we have to
Speaker 5: put up with anything, no matter how horrifying, because we're
Speaker 5: not allowed to say we don't like anything. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just kosis. It's terrible to that. But you're right,
Speaker 5: that is an important discussion.
Speaker 4: You to that point, Trump sending the National Guard or
Speaker 4: talking about sending in the National Guard into Chicago to
Speaker 4: deal with the crime.
Speaker 1: Is it legal? Is it constitutional? Is it allowed? All right?
Speaker 5: Those are really good questions. Here's something nobody's talking about.
Speaker 1: It's working.
Speaker 5: It's working unbelievably well, arm strong and getty.
Speaker 6: When you crunch the numbers here that fifty people were
Speaker 6: shot at last check, eight of them fatally. We're told
Speaker 6: those numbers could likely go up later this morning, after
Speaker 6: the full weekend count. Numbers like that only bolster the
Speaker 6: White House's message that true presence is needed in Chicago.
Speaker 7: I think it does, and I think what the President
Speaker 7: can point to is the reduction in crime in Washington,
Speaker 7: d C.
Speaker 1: Since he federalized DC's police.
Speaker 7: Since he deployed National Guard on the streets, assaults are
Speaker 7: down compared to a similar period last year. Assaults were
Speaker 7: down from fifty three to forty three. Burglaries were down
Speaker 7: from seventy seven to forty. Violent crimes were down by
Speaker 7: about half. Homicides were down by more than half. Combined
Speaker 7: violent crime incidents in twenty twenty four during that same period,
Speaker 7: we're one hundred and eighty incidents. During the time that
Speaker 7: the Trump had National Guard on the streets, during the
Speaker 7: time he had federalized federal police, crime went down to
Speaker 7: ninety two incidents, so we're seeing a big reduction crime.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's from News Nation, that's not Fox.
Speaker 4: Just going through the crime statistics of how much it
Speaker 4: changed with the National Guard troops there.
Speaker 1: And I was listening to Morning Joe This Morning Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that people are on social media talking
Speaker 4: about the dictator takeover and how awful this is and
Speaker 4: their protests. He said, but everybody, I know, when we
Speaker 4: get onto a train and we see National Guarden troops,
Speaker 4: we get on the subway, we think cool.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 5: You should point out that was News Nation and not
Speaker 5: you know, avowedly conservative outlet, none other than Murial Bowser,
Speaker 5: the insufferable mayor of DC is saying, hey, this is
Speaker 5: like really really working well and the way I was
Speaker 5: thinking of presenting this information originally, and we've kind of
Speaker 5: already done it. But is that the question of Trump
Speaker 5: deploying like the National Guard to Chicago and whether that's legal, constitutional, etc.
Speaker 5: I mean, you have the Posse Comatatis Act of eighteen
Speaker 5: seventy eight, maybe you know it. Essentially the US military
Speaker 5: can't be used to execute domestic law it's not what
Speaker 5: they're there for. We don't want that, and we don't
Speaker 5: want that. And it's a worthy question and a good
Speaker 5: one and an interesting one, and we will work our
Speaker 5: way through it.
Speaker 1: With the help of some very very helpful judges, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: But that's a distraction from like the question that affects
Speaker 5: actual human beings and their lives, and that question is
Speaker 5: why is it so miserable in America's blue cities and
Speaker 5: can anything be.
Speaker 1: Done about it? Answer is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 7: It can be.
Speaker 4: That's what even Scarborough was saying on MSNBC, and I
Speaker 4: mentioned him because he's they're such an important voice for
Speaker 4: the left that MSNBC show.
Speaker 1: Scarborough even saying, you standing up there saying we.
Speaker 4: Don't want your troops in our city while the headline
Speaker 4: over your head is fifty some shot, eight dead, is
Speaker 4: not working.
Speaker 1: That's not the way normal people react.
Speaker 4: Normal people react to holy crap, fifty some people were
Speaker 4: shot in one weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something needs to be done, of course, says I
Speaker 1: was ranting about yesterday.
Speaker 5: It takes an Ivory Tower type or a media type
Speaker 5: to look at the numbers and not say, my god,
Speaker 5: this is horrible and I don't want to live like this.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, if I got stabbed five times yesterday
Speaker 5: and today I got stabbed four times, that's a twenty
Speaker 5: percent decrease.
Speaker 1: In the stabbings. I don't want to get stabbed anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a difficult point to make.
Speaker 4: So the One Street Journal seems to think there will
Speaker 4: never be a National Guard troop in Chicago, but Trump
Speaker 4: will get the full political win out of it anyway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And there's there's Trump again, and there's
Speaker 5: politics again. Although politics is like everything we govern ourselves
Speaker 5: and Trump is almost a distraction here. Uh. And I
Speaker 5: was gonna get to this point ultimately, But it's about policy.
Speaker 5: It's about Yes, we can make our world better closer
Speaker 5: to home the more you know.
Speaker 1: True, that is.
Speaker 5: But no, crime and filth and junkies and misery and
Speaker 5: fear are absolutely not inevitable.
Speaker 1: They're the opposite. Well, they're evitable. Uh, they can absolutely
Speaker 1: be affected.
Speaker 5: A couple more things very quickly on the mur Muriel
Speaker 5: browser thing, Bowser thing, and and at some point Michael
Speaker 5: reminded me, I really want to take just a few
Speaker 5: minutes to make the case of how stupid Brandon Johnson
Speaker 5: is the mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 1: He is a stupid, awful, stupid man. Two stupids. Yes, anyway,
Speaker 1: excuse me.
Speaker 5: A DC mayor Muriel Bowser just issued in an executive
Speaker 5: order that requires local coordination with federal law enforcement quote
Speaker 5: to the maximum extent allow by law within the district,
Speaker 5: no expiration date. That's the deep blue Mayor of DC
Speaker 5: is like, this is the best thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 5: All law enforcement cooperate with these people all the time, please,
Speaker 5: starting now forever. Bowser issued in an executive order that
Speaker 5: requires local coordination with federal law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Oh I already read that it's a repeat by law.
Speaker 5: Trump's federalization of the DC Police Force lasts thirty days
Speaker 5: and is except to expire next week. Bowser's announcement may
Speaker 5: well any showdown over what happens after. By authorizing continued
Speaker 5: coordination between the city and federal authorities, I have to
Speaker 5: be like just so.
Speaker 4: Drenched in the brainwashing of Trump derangement syndrome to get
Speaker 4: on to walk around the corner in urban DC and
Speaker 4: see a National guardsman and your first thought be, oh
Speaker 4: my god, it's fascism as opposed to cool I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna get.
Speaker 1: Robbed here, right exactly.
Speaker 5: Now, DC is a special case if you're not hip
Speaker 5: to this, because it's a essentially the responsibility of federal government,
Speaker 5: and the federal government. Congress can can grant DC autonomy
Speaker 5: in certain ways. It's like, you know, you let your
Speaker 5: kid plan dinner or whatever. But if your kid's the
Speaker 5: dinner plan is ball bearings and malt liquor, well.
Speaker 8: You're going to get a good meal, not at all,
Speaker 8: not neither savory nor nutritious, a little hard to digest
Speaker 8: a right, Michael, there are a hundred things wrong.
Speaker 5: But anyway, at that point you would say, uh, okay, no,
Speaker 5: now we're having meet and potatoes in avestable. And that's
Speaker 5: the relationship with the federal government has with DC. If
Speaker 5: you're not familiar with this, Chicago's very different case. They
Speaker 5: don't have that relationship. But that's why I'm a little
Speaker 5: bit annoyed by the distraction of some of the you know,
Speaker 5: the big politics of this, because again, in terms of
Speaker 5: how people actually live, the lesson the takeaway ought to be, yes,
Speaker 5: we can deal with this. The I think this is
Speaker 5: The editorial board of the journal points out this is
Speaker 5: a failure of democratic big city governance. Mister Trump is
Speaker 5: showing in DC that the streets can be made safer
Speaker 5: if political leaders have the will. The presidents deployed federal
Speaker 5: officers DC National Guard. Now carjackings are down eighty seven
Speaker 5: percent from.
Speaker 1: A year ago. Now, Muriel Bowser, who initially was.
Speaker 5: Muling about federal overreach, blah blah blah, and she opposes
Speaker 5: massed immigration agents, troops from other states, blah blah blah,
Speaker 5: but quote, we greatly appreciate the surge of officers.
Speaker 4: Well, did you see the quote from that federal judge
Speaker 4: who said it was illegal the way Trump sent troops
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Speaker 5: There are limits to federal power. How can we get
Speaker 5: that result in maybe a little different way. No, the
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Jason Riley speaking of the Journal, brilliant writer. His headline
Speaker 5: today simple solution of violent crime, more cops. The connection
Speaker 5: between poverty and lawlessness is complicated, but Trump gets a
Speaker 5: basic point right, and he's for what it's worth a
Speaker 5: black man, I don't know. He's a thinker and that's
Speaker 5: all I care about. But he's talking about the utter,
Speaker 5: undeniable wrongness of the progressive view of policing and an
Speaker 5: incarceration and how clearly if there's an imbalance of black
Speaker 5: guys in prison, that proves racism and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And he quotes a book that I really have to
Speaker 1: get a hold of.
Speaker 5: It'll join in one hundred other books in an honored
Speaker 5: stack of things I may never read. But it's from
Speaker 5: a fellow by name of Rafael Manguel, who is a
Speaker 5: Manhattan Institute scholar, and he wrote this a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago. But it's criminal justice. What the push for
Speaker 5: decarceraization and deep policing gets wrong and who it hurts
Speaker 5: the most. And the book is all about empirical data
Speaker 5: on crime control strategies that the moron Brandon Johnson is
Speaker 5: staunchly against. He could not be more against traditional policing, incarceration,
Speaker 5: and the bizarre and racist notion that, look, we got
Speaker 5: laws and we got penalties for breaking the law. Now
Speaker 5: follow me here, if you break the law, you're going
Speaker 5: to get those penalties. Say, moron Brandon Johnson is against that.
Speaker 5: And he's not just an ideologue. There are plenty of
Speaker 5: very bright people who are ideologue and their ideology.
Speaker 1: Makes them stupid. Brandon just came to the table stupid.
Speaker 5: But anyway, quoting from the book, the book cites empirical
Speaker 5: data on crime control strategies that mister Johnson dismisses as
Speaker 5: vouted as out of date. But Mangoil writes, quote, if
Speaker 5: I had to summarize one of the most concent and
Speaker 5: robust findings in the criminology of literature in a single sentence,
Speaker 5: it would be more policing means less crime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't doubt that.
Speaker 5: Academic paper a couple of years ago on policing Washington
Speaker 5: found the quote an increase in police presence of about
Speaker 5: fifty percent leads to a statistically an economically significant decrease
Speaker 5: in crime in the order of fifteen percent. Twenty sixteen
Speaker 5: study concluded that an increase in private police controls around
Speaker 5: the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, quote decreased crime
Speaker 5: in adjacent city blocks by forty three to seventy three percent.
Speaker 5: And interestingly, Jason Riley makes the point that this disproportionately
Speaker 5: helps black people.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't doubt that, because if you live in a
Speaker 4: nice neighborhood, you already don't have crime, and more cops
Speaker 4: in the areas where they do have crime, isn't you're
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Speaker 5: Jason Riley the Journal talking about crime and policing and
Speaker 5: how it is. I mean, it's as clear as if
Speaker 5: you put your hand on ha stove it hurts. If
Speaker 5: you can increase policing, you decrease crime. But that point
Speaker 5: he makes there at the end, I don't know why
Speaker 5: we can't make that work for the country. Remember the
Speaker 5: whole idiotic defund the police thing that caught fire there
Speaker 5: for a while, which is the dumbest slogan in the
Speaker 5: history of everything. Why can't the argument be made better
Speaker 5: that no, no, no, no, more cops in your neighborhood
Speaker 5: is disproportionately.
Speaker 1: Unfair to the taxpayer. I mean, this is one of
Speaker 1: those things you should like.
Speaker 4: The people that don't have crime in their neighborhoods are
Speaker 4: paying for more cops in your neighborhood because you pay
Speaker 4: less taxes.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, in the racial part of this, which is
Speaker 5: so easy to demo demogogue, Look, black people disproportionately murder
Speaker 5: more than any other ethnic group, and they mostly murder
Speaker 5: other black people.
Speaker 1: Uncomfortable with that ge, sorry, but that's the fact.
Speaker 5: And according to a twenty twenty analysis of the race
Speaker 5: specific effects of larger police officers, there is now a
Speaker 5: strong consensus in the academic literature that increasing the presence
Speaker 5: and visitibility cops reduces crime and moreover, the authors found
Speaker 5: that quote, though the total reduction in homicide is roughly
Speaker 5: equal across black and white victims, that a climate homicide
Speaker 5: is twice as large for black victims in per capita terms.
Speaker 1: Sure, because there are fewer black folks.
Speaker 5: So yeah, if you break it down by your rate
Speaker 5: or per capita, increasing policing is the best thing you
Speaker 5: could possibly do for black neighborhoods.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of talk obviously about crime and how
Speaker 4: you deal with it and everything like that in the
Speaker 4: National Guards. And I didn't get to finish this thought
Speaker 4: last half hour, so I'm going to do it here.
Speaker 1: The cultural part of it.
Speaker 4: May very well be the biggest part of it, and
Speaker 4: I don't know what you do about it after it
Speaker 4: has slid. And I've thought about this my whole life,
Speaker 4: or anyway, since I moved out of rural areas.
Speaker 1: I grew up in rural America.
Speaker 4: Nobody locked their doors, you left your keys in your car,
Speaker 4: You didn't worry about it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a problem. You didn't have crime.
Speaker 4: So then I start living in more urban areas where
Speaker 4: people lock up stuff, and I always attributed it to
Speaker 4: it being something to do with urbanization, when you get
Speaker 4: people closer together and packed more tightly or whatever, and
Speaker 4: so more anonymous. Certainly that plays a role. But then
Speaker 4: I remember hearing this the old Dennis Miller radio show.
Speaker 4: If you remember that from back in the day, he
Speaker 4: had Red Buttons on, a comedian. Doesn't matter if you
Speaker 4: know who any of these people are. The important thing
Speaker 4: is this guy Red Buttons, who was very, very old
Speaker 4: and grew up in the early twentieth century, was telling
Speaker 4: Dennis Miller about how great New York City was back
Speaker 4: in the day. He said, back in the forties, you
Speaker 4: could go out, you could take your wife to or
Speaker 4: your girlfriend to a Broadway show, and you'd walk down
Speaker 4: the street and you'd sleep in Central Park at night
Speaker 4: and wait up in the morning, and and and and
Speaker 4: Dennis was like, you'd sleep in sunder parts. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: nobody's worried about crime or anything like that. And that
Speaker 4: hit me really hard of course. Okay, so it's not
Speaker 4: necessarily the urban thing. It's not just everybody being packed
Speaker 4: together that causes it to be crime. It's something cultural.
Speaker 4: Remember when Michael Moore that made that movie about Columbine
Speaker 4: and it was up in Canada, going door to door
Speaker 4: and showing that all the doors were unlocked. That's the
Speaker 4: way I grew up. You can have a culture of
Speaker 4: we just don't steal stuff and hurt people. Right now,
Speaker 4: how you create that, I'm not exactly sure how that happened.
Speaker 4: And it was that way for a very long time,
Speaker 4: still that way in many parts. If you live in
Speaker 4: an urban area, it's still that way in many parts
Speaker 4: of the country. You live in a country full of
Speaker 4: people who don't worry about locking their doors or having
Speaker 4: their keys in their car in front of their house.
Speaker 1: They just don't have to.
Speaker 4: So it's a can be a cultural thing. I don't
Speaker 4: know how you get it back. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you can get it back.
Speaker 5: That was one of the more interesting aspects of our
Speaker 5: travels to London, and then conversations with friends who had
Speaker 5: been to other cities around the world. How much safer
Speaker 5: they are than a lot of American cities. How there's
Speaker 5: just not junkies laying everywhere and bum camps and crime. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's cultural. It's you know, politics is downstream of culture.
Speaker 5: And obviously this discussion could be like not only one
Speaker 5: book but a series of them. But one major aspect
Speaker 5: of it is a question of unity. Whether you feel
Speaker 5: like you are part of something that you want to
Speaker 5: be good. It's as simple as that. Whether America is
Speaker 5: a place you believe in and you feel like you
Speaker 5: have a role in making it a good place.
Speaker 1: Maybe or your town, or your city or or your state.
Speaker 4: I think it's a very very underappreciated, understudied aspect of.
Speaker 1: Civilization and human nature. Yes, very complicated, but yeah, that
Speaker 1: could be a lot of it. Just unity. It's complicated
Speaker 1: in a way, but it's heart. It's very very simple.
Speaker 1: I think.
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