Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Gaddy Armstrong, and Jeck
Speaker 1: Kietie and now He Armstrong and Eddy Why from Studio
Speaker 1: C signor deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Giddy in Toormation Complex. This is the Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: Show for this August the tenth, the day of Our
Speaker 1: Lord in the year twenty twenty six. Jack is off
Speaker 1: for a few days with his boys, enjoying some summer
Speaker 1: vacation before the fellas have to get back to school,
Speaker 1: which is absolutely terrific. I don't even know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll call in with exciting reports and let
Speaker 1: you know what next week. Meanwhile, we will preside together
Speaker 1: over the continuing that's too discouraging. Let me rethink that
Speaker 1: the continuing something that looks like the crumbling of American
Speaker 1: society but clearly isn't. Actually, if we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: theme today, it might be the tide really seems to
Speaker 1: be turning on a lot of topics. In fact, that
Speaker 1: could have been the title of the show, but it's not.
Speaker 1: Your two choices today are trans women are women okay,
Speaker 1: or if you prefer, the IRGC is playing with Trump
Speaker 1: like a yo yo could almost rewind last week's maybe
Speaker 1: a show from last week or show from the previous
Speaker 1: week talking about the Iran situation. It's unbelievable. Thursday, I
Speaker 1: think it was Tuesday Scott bessn't first said the straight
Speaker 1: up for news or moves will be opening. We haven't
Speaker 1: agreement to the framework is in place. We should be
Speaker 1: good to go. Then I think it was maybe Thursday
Speaker 1: that Trump said yep, yep, I think by tomorrow we'll
Speaker 1: be rolling. And then the i RGC says yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: not so fast. We have we have some new some
Speaker 1: new demands. You gotta pay us back for all the
Speaker 1: damage you did. You got to withdraw all your troops
Speaker 1: from the region. You gotta apologize. You got to promise
Speaker 1: you you'll never say anything mean about us again, and you'll
Speaker 1: certainly never attack us again. And a couple other things
Speaker 1: that we're still thinking about. And then then maybe we'll
Speaker 1: open the street, I mean absolutely pancing the administration now.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're thinking, and a lot of good folks do.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get pants in life, right, you get humbled,
Speaker 1: you learn something about yourself. You realize I did something
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done. There, you take your medicine and
Speaker 1: you move. I sounded like Trump a little bit there
Speaker 1: should have been. Uh, but you think, all right, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'm gonna eat some crow.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy some humble pie. So all I'm a
Speaker 1: pride and uh and this get back to the track
Speaker 1: I should have been on along. In other words, take
Speaker 1: the pantsing, let them charge the tolls, content ourselves that
Speaker 1: we've set back their nuclear program a certain amount, and
Speaker 1: just move on with the life of the nation. It's
Speaker 1: not a crazy point of view, but it's an awful,
Speaker 1: awful precedent. So what does the posus do at this point?
Speaker 1: We have we have no idea also to come on
Speaker 1: the show some absolutely brilliant laying out of the dssay
Speaker 1: and the Democrats who are put playing footsy with the DSA,
Speaker 1: they're actual plans, policy plans, plans for the United States,
Speaker 1: what they want to change, what they want to do,
Speaker 1: and why it is so horrifically bad. In case you
Speaker 1: are just you thinking the I realize this has never worked,
Speaker 1: But I'm a busy person. I don't have time to
Speaker 1: study it all the time, so I would like to
Speaker 1: know more. We have that more for you, laid out
Speaker 1: pretty beautifully. Other headlines worth considering. Mark Zuckerberg aka Satan.
Speaker 1: He has the curly hair of the devil. Everybody can tell.
Speaker 1: But he's out with a sixty five hundred word essay
Speaker 1: about what AI should and shouldn't be, how it should
Speaker 1: be dealt with and managed, and by whom in my
Speaker 1: favorite part, my favorite part of I guess this is
Speaker 1: the write up of it in the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: And I'll read you just a little bit of it
Speaker 1: and you'll get my point in a second. He made
Speaker 1: the case that his company's approach to developing powerful AI,
Speaker 1: one that focuses on distributing it as widely as possible
Speaker 1: and pushing many decisions about values to the end user,
Speaker 1: is the one that is least likely to lead to
Speaker 1: disasteris Comes such as totalitarianism mass unemployment are the rise
Speaker 1: of an unstoppable computer mind that threatens humanity. Wait what,
Speaker 1: I know we've all had the conversation before, but occasionally
Speaker 1: it strikes you anew Wait a minute, people are seriously
Speaker 1: discussing totalitarianism, mass unemployment and the rise of and I
Speaker 1: quote an unstoppable computer mind that threatens humanity. This is
Speaker 1: the stuff I've read as a twelve year old, my
Speaker 1: science fiction books. That jacket that he's anti science fiction.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we're gonna get a great chance to slander
Speaker 1: him that Nowaday's not around. But lack of imagination anyway,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, an unstoppable computer mind that threatens humanity.
Speaker 1: I'm just for the record, I'm against that anyway. People
Speaker 1: are talking about it at the highest levels of the
Speaker 1: AI industry. They're talking about it. Oh and late all right,
Speaker 1: so all of those things, much much more to discuss.
Speaker 1: We also have a handful of terrific guests that I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to chatting with, including a fan favorite, Anastasia
Speaker 1: Poden of the Pacific Legal Foundation to talk about whatever
Speaker 1: they're battling in the name of freedom these days, and
Speaker 1: Gary Dietrich talk little politics, among others. So state tuned,
Speaker 1: But let's go ahead and start the show officially now
Speaker 1: according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark,
Speaker 1: I'm transgender, I'm a woman.
Speaker 3: I'm I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for
Speaker 3: purposes of basketball professional basketball so I'll be declaring for
Speaker 3: the WNBA draft in twenty twenty seven as well.
Speaker 1: That is six foot how big is he? He's six
Speaker 1: foot eight, two hundred and seventy pound woman Royce White.
Speaker 1: NBA players declared for the w NBA draft. Uh. Enus Canter,
Speaker 1: who's got a hell of an interesting backstory as well,
Speaker 1: a really admirable fellow. He changed his name to Enis
Speaker 1: Canter freedom to indicate how much he loves this country
Speaker 1: and because he was getting screwed by the NBA being
Speaker 1: in bed with the communist Chinese story for another day.
Speaker 1: But uh, so you have two former NBA players declaring
Speaker 1: for the w NBA draft saying they identify as a woman,
Speaker 1: and we will be bringing you some of them the
Speaker 1: absolutely hilarious details and the responses, and and by hilarious,
Speaker 1: I don't wanna, I don't want to oversimplify it. It is.
Speaker 1: It is incredibly satisfying and granted, hilarious. Uh to see
Speaker 1: the rhetorical pretzels the progressive left are tying themselves up into,
Speaker 1: because there is no squaring what these two ball players
Speaker 1: are doing with their policies and why this matters. Because
Speaker 1: the activists are saying, and we've got some quotes for
Speaker 1: you later on, but they're saying, essentially, the right is
Speaker 1: setting up a straw man. They're pretending like men in
Speaker 1: the WNBA is the biggest problem on earth. There's no
Speaker 1: problem here, We have no problem. They should shut up.
Speaker 1: They create the problem and they say they're going to
Speaker 1: solve it. No, no, see, that's not the problem. The
Speaker 1: problem isn't even men playing in the WNBA, or men
Speaker 1: playing on college women's teams, or boys playing on girls
Speaker 1: sports fields. Although that is a problem. It's a big
Speaker 1: problem for the girls involved. They set up this straw man.
Speaker 1: You act like there's millions of no one one is
Speaker 1: a problem. If one boy or man is beating up
Speaker 1: a woman on the field to play, that's a problem
Speaker 1: for me. And that's the problem I want to solve.
Speaker 1: So no, your straw man can go away or declare
Speaker 1: for the NWNBA draft or whatever. Here is the actual issue.
Speaker 1: Some of you have heard me talk about this before,
Speaker 1: and I've got a brilliant Polish writer on this. Later.
Speaker 1: Somebody remind me who lived through communism. The idea of
Speaker 1: getting you to abandon your sense of truth is not
Speaker 1: like a side detail of communism or totalitarianism, because communism
Speaker 1: is just a particular twist on it that's not like
Speaker 1: a side detail. That's the point to get you to
Speaker 1: abandon your concept of the truth and your confidence in
Speaker 1: the truth, because then you arrive at what Orwell described
Speaker 1: so eloquently, a situation where the only truth is what
Speaker 1: the party tells you is the truth. And then they
Speaker 1: can control you completely and beat you to death or
Speaker 1: jail you or whatever if you dare go against the
Speaker 1: party's quote unquote truth. Step number one is to get
Speaker 1: you to deny your own sense of truth. For instance,
Speaker 1: big strapping dude, big jaw, it's clearly a fella wearing
Speaker 1: a wig and makeup. Now you have to call them
Speaker 1: a woman. That is a woman. No ovaries, no uterus,
Speaker 1: no female consciousness, no female brain, lungs, bones, heart, circulatory system,
Speaker 1: none of it. Just the words I am a woman.
Speaker 1: If you do that, they gotcha. That's why I care
Speaker 1: about this so much. It's not that it's not that
Speaker 1: dudes in the NBA or or again, although I hate it,
Speaker 1: a dude on some college basketball team. That is the
Speaker 1: problem I wanted to end immediately. But that's not the
Speaker 1: key problem. The key problem is divorcing you from your
Speaker 1: own perception of the truth. It is the keystone of communism. Anyway,
Speaker 1: enough said, Katie has the headlines coming up in a
Speaker 1: moment or two. Let's figure out who's reporting. Let's stay
Speaker 1: with us. Glad you're here. Wow, I just saw a
Speaker 1: headline that spun my head around. What. I don't want
Speaker 1: to steal Katie's thunder or anything, but Saudi Arabia, Pakistan
Speaker 1: and Turkey just signed a defense pact. What the hell
Speaker 1: is that? Pakistan? Oh, my lord boy, the world is
Speaker 1: complicated in the Middle East is just crazy as it's
Speaker 1: always been. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what
Speaker 1: it is? The lead story with Katie Green. Hello, Katie,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 4: Hello? Joe doing good talking about the Middle East. Here
Speaker 4: we go, all the alphabet networks. Trump's says, United States
Speaker 4: quote low key negotiations with Iran, NBC Trumps signals shift
Speaker 4: to economic pressure as Iran war keeps drifting, and CBS
Speaker 4: Trump says United States only quote semi negotiating with Iran
Speaker 4: after Taran sets demands to reopen straight of Hormus.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we have no path forward. Certainly the
Speaker 1: economic squeeze, the blockade, et cetera, if that's fully reimposed.
Speaker 1: But boy, oh boy, how many times are you willing
Speaker 1: to look like a fool?
Speaker 4: Ugh Still in the Middle East from CNN, Net and
Speaker 4: Yahoo chooses to publicly reject Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was ridiculous. I mean, it's just Hamas
Speaker 1: is like, no, we're not disarming. Now. Israel wants to
Speaker 1: totally pull back and like disarm themselves. Then will disarm maybe,
Speaker 1: but we won't. But otherwise, no in Israel, just Israel
Speaker 1: can't make Trumpian ridiculous announcements. They have no taste for it.
Speaker 1: They have no it serves no purpose. I would argue
Speaker 1: it serves no purpose for the president either.
Speaker 4: But from Breitbart, Sean Duffy makes English a permanent requirement
Speaker 4: for the nation's illegal or illegal migrant truckers jumping ahead.
Speaker 1: Of course, Yeah, of course it is okay. You gotta
Speaker 1: be able to read the damn road signs. That whew.
Speaker 1: That's another example of the fact that the question is
Speaker 1: even being asked to the topic addressed is a little
Speaker 1: bit disturbing. It needs to be.
Speaker 4: From The New York Post, Transgender American who fled the
Speaker 4: United States, admits it was quote the dumbest idea ever,
Speaker 4: and returns home from European asylum center.
Speaker 1: Excellent. This exists, It says if the he she existed
Speaker 1: in a dream world untethered to reality.
Speaker 4: This one's frightening from Wired. One of China's most powerful
Speaker 4: AI models has also escaped containment Nile. Yeah. I had
Speaker 4: to look this up. It's this Kimmy K three and
Speaker 4: it made it out into the internet during cybersecurity testing.
Speaker 4: So I was kind of wondering what that meant. And
Speaker 4: the chat GPT gave me the example of imagine a
Speaker 4: robot locked in a room and it figures a way
Speaker 4: to break out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, Well, Meanwhile, some of the big headlines around
Speaker 1: AI are that a lot of folks, including Mark Zuckerberg,
Speaker 1: are pushing for open open platform, open what do they
Speaker 1: call it, open, open weight, And then there's what open code, open,
Speaker 1: open source, open source. And then Apple is looking at
Speaker 1: using Chinese chips because the chip shortage and China's finding
Speaker 1: ways to get our chips, and so what that playing
Speaker 1: field looks like in terms of the West versus China.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there will be any division and
Speaker 1: even like the Zuckerberg's One of the things he's advocating
Speaker 1: this piece is that everybody's open to distillation, where one
Speaker 1: AI system can study everything that the other ones are
Speaker 1: doing and learn from it, and they all learn from
Speaker 1: each other, so there's very little division between them. Who
Speaker 1: knows what the future will hold.
Speaker 4: It all sounds like black mirror that's showing us what.
Speaker 1: It really does. Yeah.
Speaker 4: From Fox News, Florida business owners scattered fifteen hundred toxic
Speaker 4: mothballs on a beach to send endangered birds packing.
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, study fines, steady daily routines linked to better health
Speaker 4: regardless of poor sleep.
Speaker 1: Wow. Human beings are made for routine. That is absolutely clear.
Speaker 1: You got to break it up now and again obviously
Speaker 1: or it'll make a nuts. But yeah, regardless of sleep.
Speaker 1: So you add on a nice sleep schedule where you
Speaker 1: keep it fairly consistent and impossibility for you at this
Speaker 1: point of newborn, But yeah, I think you get there.
Speaker 1: You go the recipe for help.
Speaker 4: And finally from the Babylon B due to depleted missile supply,
Speaker 4: Operation Epic Fury downgraded to Operation Mildly Aggressive Fury.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Whereas I have characterized it operation, occasional annoyance,
Speaker 1: the whole question of what our missile supplies look like,
Speaker 1: how depleted they are, and why the hell somebody's leaking it. Eh,
Speaker 1: it's very, very uncomfortable. I don't want to bring everybody down.
Speaker 1: Everything's fine, Like I said, the the tide is turning.
Speaker 1: More and more people are realizing the DSA or lunatics.
Speaker 1: I think one and more people are realizing the trans
Speaker 1: stuff is craziness, that the sesanity will prevail. Surely you will, please,
Speaker 1: please believe me more to Coum, gon't go away, Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty.
Speaker 5: Not just in Michigan, but across the country. The party
Speaker 5: is unifying and it is focused on the November elections.
Speaker 5: We understand that our priority is the working class of
Speaker 5: this country and we have to make the case that
Speaker 5: we're here to make people's lives better.
Speaker 1: There's a cute little AOC talking about the Democratic Socialists
Speaker 1: and how it's about the working class, and we've got
Speaker 1: a bunch of good stuff and wisdom on this topic.
Speaker 1: But got to pause here for some really great points
Speaker 1: made by Rob Henderson on that very topic of the
Speaker 1: working class and the DSA and the working class. You
Speaker 1: may have seen or heard some talk. I guess it
Speaker 1: was a week maybe two weeks ago. Mumdannie did a
Speaker 1: big interview with the New York Times and they asked
Speaker 1: him point blank, how do you define the working class?
Speaker 1: And he really struggled, and he finally came up with,
Speaker 1: I think if you have to work to pay your bills,
Speaker 1: I think that is one definition of being part of
Speaker 1: the working class. Well, the interview, to their credit, pushed
Speaker 1: back a little bit, and finally he said he would
Speaker 1: draw the line at about a million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: And Rob Henderson says, I have no idea how he
Speaker 1: can say that without any embarrassment, But that's why he's
Speaker 1: a politician. I'm not saying which will about him, but
Speaker 1: the man knows his base. These are the people who
Speaker 1: claim to be the champions of women, yet can't find
Speaker 1: what a woman is. They claim to be a champion
Speaker 1: so the working class. You can't define what the working
Speaker 1: class is, or they redefine both terms to be so
Speaker 1: expansive that they could potentially encompass just about everyone. And
Speaker 1: that's he points out where luxury beliefs and the luxury
Speaker 1: belief class has steered us. But then He gets to
Speaker 1: a point I found really interesting, and I hope you
Speaker 1: do too. Anyone who isn't a millionaire and that's a
Speaker 1: millionaire is actually not actually somebody who gets a million,
Speaker 1: who earns a million dollars a year. It used to
Speaker 1: be somebody who has a million dollars. But anyway, anyone
Speaker 1: who is a millionaire below is working class. Now sounds ridiculus,
Speaker 1: But we've been working our way there. But here's the
Speaker 1: interesting point. The focus on defining class by money is
Speaker 1: revealing because people often conflate, or they interchange the terms
Speaker 1: social class with economic class, and that allows us to
Speaker 1: talk about social class while pretending we're talking about economic class.
Speaker 1: So it's easier to discuss income than your educational pedigree,
Speaker 1: your accent, your hairstyle, your clothing, your taste, your zip code,
Speaker 1: your family wealth, that sort of thing. But he points
Speaker 1: out that education usually signals social class more clearly than
Speaker 1: income does. Research has found that parental educational attainment is
Speaker 1: the most important objective indicator of social class. It's because,
Speaker 1: compared with parental income, parental education is more powerful predictor
Speaker 1: of a child's future lifestyle, tastes, and opinions. If your
Speaker 1: parents went to college, but you did in your still
Speaker 1: middle class or higher not working class. Education shapes habits, networks,
Speaker 1: and outlook long after the degree is earned. Higher education
Speaker 1: bestows cultural capital, or at least until now, issue does
Speaker 1: patterns of speech, preference, beliefs, and expectations about life. Income
Speaker 1: might rise and fall, but the worldview formed in the
Speaker 1: selective institutions usually endoors. For instance, and this is Ezra Clent,
Speaker 1: who I normally find just absolutely obnoxious, but I think
Speaker 1: he's right about this. He pointed out that we tend
Speaker 1: to think a class as driven by income, but a
Speaker 1: high school dropout who owns a successful pest extermination company
Speaker 1: in the Houston suburbs might have an income that looks
Speaker 1: a lot like a software engineers at Google, while an
Speaker 1: adjunct professors will look more like an apprentice plumbers. But
Speaker 1: in terms of class experience, who they know, what they believe,
Speaker 1: where they've lived, what they watch, who they marry, how
Speaker 1: they vote act in protest, the software engineer is more
Speaker 1: like that adjunct professor. Meanwhile, a PhD who takes a
Speaker 1: draw a job driving a taxi will tend to vote
Speaker 1: like other PhDs, not like other taxi drivers, especially if
Speaker 1: he or she also has a parent without a college degree.
Speaker 1: So it's important to note that working class is not
Speaker 1: the same as poor, an upper class, an upper class
Speaker 1: not the same thing as rich. A working class person
Speaker 1: can become wealthy without moving into the higher social class.
Speaker 1: Money alone is not enough. If a manual laborer wins
Speaker 1: the lottery, he is rich, but he is still working
Speaker 1: class anyway. And this really gets into do too heady stuff.
Speaker 1: But the point is you see this gang of affluent,
Speaker 1: mostly but not entirely white, but affluent college educated they know,
Speaker 1: like the names of three or four d different kinds
Speaker 1: of Champagne types of people who went to these auspicious universities,
Speaker 1: always bellowing about the working class and acting like they're
Speaker 1: cha guavera. They're not talking about the working class at all.
Speaker 1: They're talking about the upper intellectual class and their cause
Speaker 1: playing is the working class. And that's the game that
Speaker 1: they're playing, and it's you know, it's phony as hell,
Speaker 1: but it tends to work. Let's weigh in with Jonathan
Speaker 1: Carl talking to AOC just a little bit more an exclip.
Speaker 3: Michael, what in your mind is the difference between socialism
Speaker 3: and communism?
Speaker 5: I think to me, the fundamental difference is one democracy,
Speaker 5: and I believe that democratics Socialists are fundamentally pro democracy,
Speaker 5: and we believe in the ballot box. We believe in
Speaker 5: in respecting the outcomes of elections and governing democratically and
Speaker 5: ensuring that that the ideas and policies that are implemented
Speaker 5: are one through popular vote and popular opinion. And so
Speaker 5: that I think that's why so much of what we
Speaker 5: focus on is also making sure that we are providing
Speaker 5: for the majority of Americans, guaranteeing healthcare, raising wages, strengthening
Speaker 5: the right to a union. And I think that that's
Speaker 5: at its core what we're about.
Speaker 1: Perfectly reasonable answer, and a lot of people would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: they want democracy and voting and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: All right. I know a little about a lot of
Speaker 1: different topics. It helps to do this job. I only
Speaker 1: know a lot about a handful of topics. This is
Speaker 1: one of them. Oooh yeah. How political systems work. If
Speaker 1: you have the government, which in our system presumably would
Speaker 1: be one party or the other at least temporarily in charge.
Speaker 1: If you have the government in charge of how I
Speaker 1: feed myself, how I feed my children, how I pursue
Speaker 1: medical care, What industries get chosen to be successful, which
Speaker 1: are put out of business, who's in favor, who's out
Speaker 1: of favor. Every good thing that happens in society must
Speaker 1: run through the government in AOC's system, but only if
Speaker 1: we vote for it. But here's the thing. Once all
Speaker 1: that power, of the very essence of keeping ourselves alive
Speaker 1: is invested in the government, see the Soviet Union or
Speaker 1: any totalitarian system, you have to vote for who has
Speaker 1: the power. You have to kowtow to, who has the
Speaker 1: power if you want to eat they will identify all
Speaker 1: of you, who would you know oppose them, or be
Speaker 1: rabble rousers or counter revolutionaries or whatever you want to
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them, because they come up
Speaker 1: with all sorts of different names. The minute that power
Speaker 1: is invested in that organization, that organ the government, democracy ceases.
Speaker 1: Because those who hold all the power over everything we
Speaker 1: need to stay alive, they're not going to give up
Speaker 1: that power no freaking way. They will declare that the
Speaker 1: party which gives all good things and administers all punishments
Speaker 1: must stay in power for the good of the people.
Speaker 1: It happens every single time you get collectivism through the
Speaker 1: ballot box, and then collectivism ends the ballot box every
Speaker 1: single time it has to. It can't be disrupted regularly
Speaker 1: by elections. The system wouldn't work, and these people believe
Speaker 1: in that system. Like a religion. Democracy ends when collectivism
Speaker 1: takes over. Trust me on that. I haven't fully fleshed
Speaker 1: it out because we don't have enough time. But I
Speaker 1: think I think you know what I'm saying. One Let's
Speaker 1: do at least one more. Oh, this is so so sweet.
Speaker 1: The half wait in Wisconsin thirty three, Michael, this is
Speaker 1: Alex Cogan on Fox and Friends.
Speaker 6: So let's take a look at Wisconsin there in the
Speaker 6: primary for the governor's race. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong still
Speaker 6: faces criticism over past posts online, including when she called
Speaker 6: to abolish ice in prisons and this now deleted post
Speaker 6: where quote she wrote, canceled Thanksgiving should have done this
Speaker 6: in sixteen twenty one.
Speaker 2: I had some hot takes, some bad takes on Twitter.
Speaker 2: But when you're a business owner running a restaurant during COVID,
Speaker 2: are trying to pay pills as a student, you're putting
Speaker 2: feelings out there to the world.
Speaker 1: But I've evolved, I've learned abdulah al say Ed is
Speaker 1: a Marxist and an Islamist. I think it is core.
Speaker 1: But he's very smart and very capable. This Hong woman
Speaker 1: and is a half wit. I just can't believe she's
Speaker 1: attained any status. So Andy Kessler, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: writers about this sort of thing, says, socialism is the
Speaker 1: cool new way to get elected. The mantra is effective. Oh,
Speaker 1: we just want more affordable housing, and then simply whisper
Speaker 1: sweet nothings like free buses, cheap groceries, and frozen rent
Speaker 1: into the ears of the young, the naive, economically illiterate,
Speaker 1: free riding over degreed, underpaid, at least compared with their
Speaker 1: high self regard voters who think, surely the socialist central
Speaker 1: planners will appreciate my talents. It works, they get the votes.
Speaker 1: Better to listen to what they say and watch what
Speaker 1: they do. The Democratic Socialists in America states complete victory
Speaker 1: will require building a new society from the ground up.
Speaker 1: Oh as I was saying, this is their goal, no
Speaker 1: matter how much lipstick they put on their piggy ideology
Speaker 1: with slogans like less rent, more control and workers deserve
Speaker 1: more is History shows socialism is no way to govern
Speaker 1: without carnage, bankruptcies, crashes, and inevitable unrest when the free
Speaker 1: busses stop running from lack of funds and upkeep. Perversely,
Speaker 1: those who ruined our education system are being rewarded so
Speaker 1: they can ruin the rest of the economy how well.
Speaker 1: The DSA website pines for quote, a future without capitalism
Speaker 1: in which you can work as much as you were
Speaker 1: able and no more than needed. Says if Carl Marx
Speaker 1: came back and used chat GPT to summarize his according
Speaker 1: to his needs. Nonsense. Democratic socialism is a worse oxymoron
Speaker 1: than original copy. Sure it's the trendy new thing, but
Speaker 1: mostly fertilizer for the feeble. Feeble minded. New York Mayor's
Speaker 1: or on Mumdani seems infected with political cyclospora. That's the
Speaker 1: Pope Lettuce disease. Everybody, Oh my exploding diatribes that leave
Speaker 1: you empty, tax the rich afford the basic dignities of life.
Speaker 1: Zomart would be great branding for New York City's run
Speaker 1: grocery stores, though they're doomed to fail. The mayor says
Speaker 1: they'll have a thirty percent discount on the core basket
Speaker 1: of goods. Did he even take econ one oh one?
Speaker 1: Price discovery is critical, or else you get hoarding, shortages
Speaker 1: and bear shelves. Price discovery just means the way prices work.
Speaker 1: How much are you willing to exchange for this? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll sell it to you for that. If you fix prices,
Speaker 1: you get hoarding shortages and bear shelves, as in every
Speaker 1: single socialist country, or worse la la bretta ration cards
Speaker 1: like in Cuba. This has all been tried before, said
Speaker 1: John Fetterman. You're a mayor, dude, pick up some trash,
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Speaker 1: The movement's promises go downhill from there. Daria Liza Avilla Chavillier.
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Speaker 1: The DSA abolition working groups websites said they planned to
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Speaker 1: out of time. Socialism is a gateway drug. Mister Fetterman
Speaker 1: worries democrats are drifting firmly into communism, drifting. Let's ask
Speaker 1: the horse's mouth. Top DSA leader David Jenkins said, the
Speaker 1: quiet part out loud. Our goal is liberation. Our goal
Speaker 1: is communism. They mean it. Trust them. They're trying to
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Speaker 1: Let's lead off with this beautifully titled email Joe is
Speaker 1: a genius from Mary Beth. Evidently I said this Friday
Speaker 1: selling victimhood is what has silently played younger Americans and
Speaker 1: destroyed the work ethic and the human spirit. Yes, selling
Speaker 1: victimhood is a really easy sell. He used to call
Speaker 1: it the warm blanket of dependency or the cuddly quilt
Speaker 1: of giving up. Heard a brilliant, brilliant saying not too
Speaker 1: many years ago that an achievement is temporary, but giving
Speaker 1: up is permanent. You've got to go out and reprove yourself.
Speaker 1: If you achieve something, there's always more to achieve. But
Speaker 1: if you give up, you don't have to do anything anymore.
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Speaker 1: be that person. Moving along, Dear Jack, Joe, writes Tom,
Speaker 1: longtime listener, listen every day. Thanks Tom, writing to comment
Speaker 1: on Jack's sobriety talk from last Friday, Tom writes, I've
Speaker 1: been sober for four years, but never been to an
Speaker 1: AA meeting. I was telling my wife about Jack's talk
Speaker 1: when I suddenly got very emotional about my past with alcohol,
Speaker 1: seemingly out of nowhere. Not sure what this means, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to a meeting soon. Thank you
Speaker 1: Jack for your candor and about your relationship with alcoholism.
Speaker 1: I think you made me realize I had more work
Speaker 1: to do. Boy, we sure got a lot of emails.
Speaker 1: I'm appreciative of Jack's screen on Friday about that. If
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Speaker 1: when you want. Let's see, we don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of time, do We're gonna be talking about this next hour,
Speaker 1: so we'll drop this in from b Hey, guys Bury
Speaker 1: from Thailand. Maybe you can help me out now with
Speaker 1: Now that the WNBA is caught in a blind Yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of former NBA players are going to go
Speaker 1: out for the WNBA draft because they say they're transgender.
Speaker 1: If a transgender woman is recognized as a woman, why
Speaker 1: does the term trans exist at all? That's a good question.
Speaker 1: According to their philosophy, it shouldn't, but it does because
Speaker 1: they know they're not telling the truth, and they're not
Speaker 1: asking you to say the truth. They're asking you to
Speaker 1: say something bizarre and completely untrue. So they have to
Speaker 1: get you there with saying it's a trans women. Trans
Speaker 1: women are women, gender and sex are different, but then
Speaker 1: they use the terms interchangeably. Again, it's to divorce you
Speaker 1: from the truth that you can plainly perceive. Then, Arizona
Speaker 1: Mats suggests on my Look for the Future video project,
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Speaker 1: know when clips of the week was due. That's a
Speaker 1: great idea, Matt. More to come, including the NBA's conundrum.
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