WEBVTT - Like a Yo-Yo 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:05.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:10.800 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Gaddy Armstrong, and Jeck 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:24.440 Kietie and now He Armstrong and Eddy Why from Studio 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.600 C signor deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.640 Giddy in Toormation Complex. This is the Armstrong and Getty 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:36.479 Show for this August the tenth, the day of Our 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:41.200 Lord in the year twenty twenty six. Jack is off 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.720 for a few days with his boys, enjoying some summer 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.479 vacation before the fellas have to get back to school, 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.920 which is absolutely terrific. I don't even know what they're doing. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:55.120 I'm sure he'll call in with exciting reports and let 0:00:55.160 --> 0:01:00.240 you know what next week. Meanwhile, we will preside together 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:05.640 over the continuing that's too discouraging. Let me rethink that 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:11.400 the continuing something that looks like the crumbling of American 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.640 society but clearly isn't. Actually, if we're gonna have a 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:20.200 theme today, it might be the tide really seems to 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.720 be turning on a lot of topics. In fact, that 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.440 could have been the title of the show, but it's not. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.400 Your two choices today are trans women are women okay, 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.160 or if you prefer, the IRGC is playing with Trump 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:43.640 like a yo yo could almost rewind last week's maybe 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.759 a show from last week or show from the previous 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:52.760 week talking about the Iran situation. It's unbelievable. Thursday, I 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.840 think it was Tuesday Scott bessn't first said the straight 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.960 up for news or moves will be opening. We haven't 0:01:59.920 --> 0:02:02.360 agreement to the framework is in place. We should be 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.320 good to go. Then I think it was maybe Thursday 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.880 that Trump said yep, yep, I think by tomorrow we'll 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.799 be rolling. And then the i RGC says yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.160 not so fast. We have we have some new some 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.880 new demands. You gotta pay us back for all the 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.919 damage you did. You got to withdraw all your troops 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.840 from the region. You gotta apologize. You got to promise 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.359 you you'll never say anything mean about us again, and you'll 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.359 certainly never attack us again. And a couple other things 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.040 that we're still thinking about. And then then maybe we'll 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:41.240 open the street, I mean absolutely pancing the administration now. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.800 Maybe you're thinking, and a lot of good folks do. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:48.200 So. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.120 Sometimes you get pants in life, right, you get humbled, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.080 you learn something about yourself. You realize I did something 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.440 I shouldn't have done. There, you take your medicine and 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.359 you move. I sounded like Trump a little bit there 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.400 should have been. Uh, but you think, all right, you 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.160 know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'm gonna eat some crow. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.160 I'm gonna enjoy some humble pie. So all I'm a 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.520 pride and uh and this get back to the track 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.680 I should have been on along. In other words, take 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:20.600 the pantsing, let them charge the tolls, content ourselves that 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.639 we've set back their nuclear program a certain amount, and 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.639 just move on with the life of the nation. It's 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.960 not a crazy point of view, but it's an awful, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.960 awful precedent. So what does the posus do at this point? 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.960 We have we have no idea also to come on 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:45.800 the show some absolutely brilliant laying out of the dssay 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.280 and the Democrats who are put playing footsy with the DSA, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.960 they're actual plans, policy plans, plans for the United States, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.720 what they want to change, what they want to do, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.240 and why it is so horrifically bad. In case you 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.400 are just you thinking the I realize this has never worked, 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.480 But I'm a busy person. I don't have time to 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.440 study it all the time, so I would like to 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.840 know more. We have that more for you, laid out 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:13.080 pretty beautifully. Other headlines worth considering. Mark Zuckerberg aka Satan. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.200 He has the curly hair of the devil. Everybody can tell. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.000 But he's out with a sixty five hundred word essay 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.440 about what AI should and shouldn't be, how it should 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:30.080 be dealt with and managed, and by whom in my 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:35.120 favorite part, my favorite part of I guess this is 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.120 the write up of it in the Wall Street Journal, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.720 And I'll read you just a little bit of it 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.920 and you'll get my point in a second. He made 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.800 the case that his company's approach to developing powerful AI, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.919 one that focuses on distributing it as widely as possible 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.480 and pushing many decisions about values to the end user, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.520 is the one that is least likely to lead to 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:03.920 disasteris Comes such as totalitarianism mass unemployment are the rise 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:09.640 of an unstoppable computer mind that threatens humanity. Wait what, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.800 I know we've all had the conversation before, but occasionally 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.719 it strikes you anew Wait a minute, people are seriously 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:24.479 discussing totalitarianism, mass unemployment and the rise of and I 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:30.640 quote an unstoppable computer mind that threatens humanity. This is 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.120 the stuff I've read as a twelve year old, my 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.279 science fiction books. That jacket that he's anti science fiction. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.160 Oh man, we're gonna get a great chance to slander 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.239 him that Nowaday's not around. But lack of imagination anyway, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:51.280 Oh yeah, yeah, an unstoppable computer mind that threatens humanity. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.640 I'm just for the record, I'm against that anyway. People 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.680 are talking about it at the highest levels of the 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:02.320 AI industry. They're talking about it. Oh and late all right, 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.520 so all of those things, much much more to discuss. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.560 We also have a handful of terrific guests that I'm 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:12.440 looking forward to chatting with, including a fan favorite, Anastasia 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.400 Poden of the Pacific Legal Foundation to talk about whatever 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.239 they're battling in the name of freedom these days, and 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.560 Gary Dietrich talk little politics, among others. So state tuned, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.720 But let's go ahead and start the show officially now 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.839 according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark, 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.320 I'm transgender, I'm a woman. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:36.599 I'm I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.080 purposes of basketball professional basketball so I'll be declaring for 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.600 the WNBA draft in twenty twenty seven as well. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:54.800 That is six foot how big is he? He's six 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.159 foot eight, two hundred and seventy pound woman Royce White. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:05.320 NBA players declared for the w NBA draft. Uh. Enus Canter, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.000 who's got a hell of an interesting backstory as well, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.320 a really admirable fellow. He changed his name to Enis 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.560 Canter freedom to indicate how much he loves this country 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.960 and because he was getting screwed by the NBA being 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.640 in bed with the communist Chinese story for another day. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.920 But uh, so you have two former NBA players declaring 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.800 for the w NBA draft saying they identify as a woman, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.680 and we will be bringing you some of them the 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:34.640 absolutely hilarious details and the responses, and and by hilarious, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.160 I don't wanna, I don't want to oversimplify it. It is. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:45.360 It is incredibly satisfying and granted, hilarious. Uh to see 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:51.520 the rhetorical pretzels the progressive left are tying themselves up into, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:58.960 because there is no squaring what these two ball players 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:05.560 are doing with their policies and why this matters. Because 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.960 the activists are saying, and we've got some quotes for 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.560 you later on, but they're saying, essentially, the right is 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.880 setting up a straw man. They're pretending like men in 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.120 the WNBA is the biggest problem on earth. There's no 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.000 problem here, We have no problem. They should shut up. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.680 They create the problem and they say they're going to 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.040 solve it. No, no, see, that's not the problem. The 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:31.800 problem isn't even men playing in the WNBA, or men 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.000 playing on college women's teams, or boys playing on girls 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.200 sports fields. Although that is a problem. It's a big 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.319 problem for the girls involved. They set up this straw man. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.240 You act like there's millions of no one one is 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.400 a problem. If one boy or man is beating up 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.600 a woman on the field to play, that's a problem 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.480 for me. And that's the problem I want to solve. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.000 So no, your straw man can go away or declare 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:02.280 for the NWNBA draft or whatever. Here is the actual issue. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.520 Some of you have heard me talk about this before, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:13.240 and I've got a brilliant Polish writer on this. Later. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:20.680 Somebody remind me who lived through communism. The idea of 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:26.080 getting you to abandon your sense of truth is not 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:32.000 like a side detail of communism or totalitarianism, because communism 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.520 is just a particular twist on it that's not like 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:41.160 a side detail. That's the point to get you to 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.840 abandon your concept of the truth and your confidence in 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:49.240 the truth, because then you arrive at what Orwell described 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.560 so eloquently, a situation where the only truth is what 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.640 the party tells you is the truth. And then they 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.160 can control you completely and beat you to death or 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.760 jail you or whatever if you dare go against the 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.400 party's quote unquote truth. Step number one is to get 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:11.319 you to deny your own sense of truth. For instance, 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:19.960 big strapping dude, big jaw, it's clearly a fella wearing 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.920 a wig and makeup. Now you have to call them 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:27.240 a woman. That is a woman. No ovaries, no uterus, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:37.240 no female consciousness, no female brain, lungs, bones, heart, circulatory system, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.000 none of it. Just the words I am a woman. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.760 If you do that, they gotcha. That's why I care 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.480 about this so much. It's not that it's not that 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.800 dudes in the NBA or or again, although I hate it, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.079 a dude on some college basketball team. That is the 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.000 problem I wanted to end immediately. But that's not the 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.800 key problem. The key problem is divorcing you from your 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.640 own perception of the truth. It is the keystone of communism. Anyway, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.320 enough said, Katie has the headlines coming up in a 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.600 moment or two. Let's figure out who's reporting. Let's stay 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:23.880 with us. Glad you're here. Wow, I just saw a 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:29.959 headline that spun my head around. What. I don't want 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:35.280 to steal Katie's thunder or anything, but Saudi Arabia, Pakistan 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.079 and Turkey just signed a defense pact. What the hell 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:44.600 is that? Pakistan? Oh, my lord boy, the world is 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.679 complicated in the Middle East is just crazy as it's 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.280 always been. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.960 it is? The lead story with Katie Green. Hello, Katie, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:54.280 how are you? 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.520 Hello? Joe doing good talking about the Middle East. Here 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.160 we go, all the alphabet networks. Trump's says, United States 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:06.120 quote low key negotiations with Iran, NBC Trumps signals shift 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:10.239 to economic pressure as Iran war keeps drifting, and CBS 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.760 Trump says United States only quote semi negotiating with Iran 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.640 after Taran sets demands to reopen straight of Hormus. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.360 I'm not saying we have no path forward. Certainly the 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.040 economic squeeze, the blockade, et cetera, if that's fully reimposed. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.440 But boy, oh boy, how many times are you willing 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:29.600 to look like a fool? 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.400 Ugh Still in the Middle East from CNN, Net and 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:39.240 Yahoo chooses to publicly reject Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:45.280 Yeah, because it was ridiculous. I mean, it's just Hamas 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.440 is like, no, we're not disarming. Now. Israel wants to 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.720 totally pull back and like disarm themselves. Then will disarm maybe, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.160 but we won't. But otherwise, no in Israel, just Israel 0:12:55.480 --> 0:13:00.080 can't make Trumpian ridiculous announcements. They have no taste for it. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.120 They have no it serves no purpose. I would argue 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:04.800 it serves no purpose for the president either. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:12.679 But from Breitbart, Sean Duffy makes English a permanent requirement 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:18.199 for the nation's illegal or illegal migrant truckers jumping ahead. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.280 Of course, Yeah, of course it is okay. You gotta 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.280 be able to read the damn road signs. That whew. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.480 That's another example of the fact that the question is 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.680 even being asked to the topic addressed is a little 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.640 bit disturbing. It needs to be. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:38.400 From The New York Post, Transgender American who fled the 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.600 United States, admits it was quote the dumbest idea ever, 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.360 and returns home from European asylum center. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.160 Excellent. This exists, It says if the he she existed 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.280 in a dream world untethered to reality. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.600 This one's frightening from Wired. One of China's most powerful 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:05.480 AI models has also escaped containment Nile. Yeah. I had 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.880 to look this up. It's this Kimmy K three and 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.760 it made it out into the internet during cybersecurity testing. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.240 So I was kind of wondering what that meant. And 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.719 the chat GPT gave me the example of imagine a 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.800 robot locked in a room and it figures a way 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:18.920 to break out. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.640 Yeah. Right, Well, Meanwhile, some of the big headlines around 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.560 AI are that a lot of folks, including Mark Zuckerberg, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:31.640 are pushing for open open platform, open what do they 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.240 call it, open, open weight, And then there's what open code, open, 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.480 open source, open source. And then Apple is looking at 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.040 using Chinese chips because the chip shortage and China's finding 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.440 ways to get our chips, and so what that playing 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.240 field looks like in terms of the West versus China. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.680 I don't know that there will be any division and 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.960 even like the Zuckerberg's One of the things he's advocating 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.160 this piece is that everybody's open to distillation, where one 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.400 AI system can study everything that the other ones are 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.360 doing and learn from it, and they all learn from 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:09.280 each other, so there's very little division between them. Who 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.400 knows what the future will hold. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.600 It all sounds like black mirror that's showing us what. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.400 It really does. Yeah. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:22.320 From Fox News, Florida business owners scattered fifteen hundred toxic 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:26.800 mothballs on a beach to send endangered birds packing. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.560 Oh boy. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:37.440 Yeah, study fines, steady daily routines linked to better health 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.440 regardless of poor sleep. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:46.600 Wow. Human beings are made for routine. That is absolutely clear. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.480 You got to break it up now and again obviously 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.960 or it'll make a nuts. But yeah, regardless of sleep. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.840 So you add on a nice sleep schedule where you 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.480 keep it fairly consistent and impossibility for you at this 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.040 point of newborn, But yeah, I think you get there. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.280 You go the recipe for help. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:07.320 And finally from the Babylon B due to depleted missile supply, 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.680 Operation Epic Fury downgraded to Operation Mildly Aggressive Fury. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:18.240 Yeah. Yeah. Whereas I have characterized it operation, occasional annoyance, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.600 the whole question of what our missile supplies look like, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:27.000 how depleted they are, and why the hell somebody's leaking it. Eh, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:33.440 it's very, very uncomfortable. I don't want to bring everybody down. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.600 Everything's fine, Like I said, the the tide is turning. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.280 More and more people are realizing the DSA or lunatics. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.520 I think one and more people are realizing the trans 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.720 stuff is craziness, that the sesanity will prevail. Surely you will, please, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.600 please believe me more to Coum, gon't go away, Armstrong 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:53.240 and Getty. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.040 Not just in Michigan, but across the country. The party 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.920 is unifying and it is focused on the November elections. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.719 We understand that our priority is the working class of 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.440 this country and we have to make the case that 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.679 we're here to make people's lives better. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.000 There's a cute little AOC talking about the Democratic Socialists 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.600 and how it's about the working class, and we've got 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.119 a bunch of good stuff and wisdom on this topic. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.880 But got to pause here for some really great points 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.240 made by Rob Henderson on that very topic of the 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.399 working class and the DSA and the working class. You 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.960 may have seen or heard some talk. I guess it 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.600 was a week maybe two weeks ago. Mumdannie did a 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.320 big interview with the New York Times and they asked 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.520 him point blank, how do you define the working class? 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.520 And he really struggled, and he finally came up with, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.960 I think if you have to work to pay your bills, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.240 I think that is one definition of being part of 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.520 the working class. Well, the interview, to their credit, pushed 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.360 back a little bit, and finally he said he would 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.560 draw the line at about a million dollars a year. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.639 And Rob Henderson says, I have no idea how he 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.120 can say that without any embarrassment, But that's why he's 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.280 a politician. I'm not saying which will about him, but 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:19.000 the man knows his base. These are the people who 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.160 claim to be the champions of women, yet can't find 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:23.919 what a woman is. They claim to be a champion 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:25.960 so the working class. You can't define what the working 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.520 class is, or they redefine both terms to be so 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.800 expansive that they could potentially encompass just about everyone. And 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:37.160 that's he points out where luxury beliefs and the luxury 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.359 belief class has steered us. But then He gets to 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.639 a point I found really interesting, and I hope you 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.800 do too. Anyone who isn't a millionaire and that's a 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.600 millionaire is actually not actually somebody who gets a million, 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.560 who earns a million dollars a year. It used to 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.160 be somebody who has a million dollars. But anyway, anyone 0:18:55.200 --> 0:19:00.240 who is a millionaire below is working class. Now sounds ridiculus, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.800 But we've been working our way there. But here's the 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:09.800 interesting point. The focus on defining class by money is 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:15.520 revealing because people often conflate, or they interchange the terms 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.879 social class with economic class, and that allows us to 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:25.880 talk about social class while pretending we're talking about economic class. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.960 So it's easier to discuss income than your educational pedigree, 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.320 your accent, your hairstyle, your clothing, your taste, your zip code, 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.600 your family wealth, that sort of thing. But he points 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.800 out that education usually signals social class more clearly than 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.760 income does. Research has found that parental educational attainment is 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.840 the most important objective indicator of social class. It's because, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.400 compared with parental income, parental education is more powerful predictor 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.320 of a child's future lifestyle, tastes, and opinions. If your 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.320 parents went to college, but you did in your still 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.160 middle class or higher not working class. Education shapes habits, networks, 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.760 and outlook long after the degree is earned. Higher education 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.359 bestows cultural capital, or at least until now, issue does 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.080 patterns of speech, preference, beliefs, and expectations about life. Income 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.439 might rise and fall, but the worldview formed in the 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:27.400 selective institutions usually endoors. For instance, and this is Ezra Clent, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.360 who I normally find just absolutely obnoxious, but I think 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.200 he's right about this. He pointed out that we tend 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.119 to think a class as driven by income, but a 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:39.040 high school dropout who owns a successful pest extermination company 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.119 in the Houston suburbs might have an income that looks 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.120 a lot like a software engineers at Google, while an 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:52.879 adjunct professors will look more like an apprentice plumbers. But 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.639 in terms of class experience, who they know, what they believe, 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.840 where they've lived, what they watch, who they marry, how 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.480 they vote act in protest, the software engineer is more 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:09.280 like that adjunct professor. Meanwhile, a PhD who takes a 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.520 draw a job driving a taxi will tend to vote 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:16.880 like other PhDs, not like other taxi drivers, especially if 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.480 he or she also has a parent without a college degree. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:23.919 So it's important to note that working class is not 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.520 the same as poor, an upper class, an upper class 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.879 not the same thing as rich. A working class person 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.840 can become wealthy without moving into the higher social class. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.200 Money alone is not enough. If a manual laborer wins 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:38.520 the lottery, he is rich, but he is still working 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:43.480 class anyway. And this really gets into do too heady stuff. 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:49.919 But the point is you see this gang of affluent, 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:57.879 mostly but not entirely white, but affluent college educated they know, 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.680 like the names of three or four d different kinds 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:05.159 of Champagne types of people who went to these auspicious universities, 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:08.760 always bellowing about the working class and acting like they're 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:13.200 cha guavera. They're not talking about the working class at all. 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.520 They're talking about the upper intellectual class and their cause 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.879 playing is the working class. And that's the game that 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.600 they're playing, and it's you know, it's phony as hell, 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:28.760 but it tends to work. Let's weigh in with Jonathan 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:31.840 Carl talking to AOC just a little bit more an exclip. 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.639 Michael, what in your mind is the difference between socialism 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:35.439 and communism? 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:41.399 I think to me, the fundamental difference is one democracy, 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:48.520 and I believe that democratics Socialists are fundamentally pro democracy, 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.480 and we believe in the ballot box. We believe in 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:58.440 in respecting the outcomes of elections and governing democratically and 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:03.040 ensuring that that the ideas and policies that are implemented 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.760 are one through popular vote and popular opinion. And so 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.080 that I think that's why so much of what we 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.400 focus on is also making sure that we are providing 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:17.920 for the majority of Americans, guaranteeing healthcare, raising wages, strengthening 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:21.960 the right to a union. And I think that that's 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:24.840 at its core what we're about. 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:28.640 Perfectly reasonable answer, and a lot of people would say, yeah, 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:30.879 they want democracy and voting and that sort of thing. 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:33.639 All right. I know a little about a lot of 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:37.200 different topics. It helps to do this job. I only 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:40.679 know a lot about a handful of topics. This is 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:46.800 one of them. Oooh yeah. How political systems work. If 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:52.480 you have the government, which in our system presumably would 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:58.400 be one party or the other at least temporarily in charge. 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:05.000 If you have the government in charge of how I 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:09.280 feed myself, how I feed my children, how I pursue 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:15.280 medical care, What industries get chosen to be successful, which 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:18.080 are put out of business, who's in favor, who's out 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:24.040 of favor. Every good thing that happens in society must 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:27.800 run through the government in AOC's system, but only if 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:31.040 we vote for it. But here's the thing. Once all 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:35.040 that power, of the very essence of keeping ourselves alive 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:38.480 is invested in the government, see the Soviet Union or 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.320 any totalitarian system, you have to vote for who has 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:46.159 the power. You have to kowtow to, who has the 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:50.880 power if you want to eat they will identify all 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:54.320 of you, who would you know oppose them, or be 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:57.680 rabble rousers or counter revolutionaries or whatever you want to 0:24:58.000 --> 0:24:59.439 whatever you want to call them, because they come up 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:01.840 with all sorts of different names. The minute that power 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:07.520 is invested in that organization, that organ the government, democracy ceases. 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:11.760 Because those who hold all the power over everything we 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:13.800 need to stay alive, they're not going to give up 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:18.040 that power no freaking way. They will declare that the 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:22.000 party which gives all good things and administers all punishments 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:24.960 must stay in power for the good of the people. 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:30.760 It happens every single time you get collectivism through the 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:35.000 ballot box, and then collectivism ends the ballot box every 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:42.480 single time it has to. It can't be disrupted regularly 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:47.240 by elections. The system wouldn't work, and these people believe 0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:54.160 in that system. Like a religion. Democracy ends when collectivism 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:57.480 takes over. Trust me on that. I haven't fully fleshed 0:25:57.480 --> 0:25:58.840 it out because we don't have enough time. But I 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:02.240 think I think you know what I'm saying. One Let's 0:26:02.280 --> 0:26:05.879 do at least one more. Oh, this is so so sweet. 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:08.720 The half wait in Wisconsin thirty three, Michael, this is 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:10.280 Alex Cogan on Fox and Friends. 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:12.240 So let's take a look at Wisconsin there in the 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:17.760 primary for the governor's race. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong still 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:21.560