Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and now he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for being here. I hope you're well.
Speaker 1: Hope you had a good, fun, relaxing slash productive weekend.
Speaker 1: Whatever your goals were, I hope you reached them at
Speaker 1: least partially. Looking forward to talking to Gary Dietrich, longtime
Speaker 1: friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Gary's a non
Speaker 1: partisan CBS television and iHeartRadio political analyst, and Gary joins
Speaker 1: us Now, Hello, Gary, how are you?
Speaker 4: Hey? Joe, good to talk with you.
Speaker 5: Trush your soldiering on towards another NFL season, my friend.
Speaker 1: I am indeed, I am a Gary product of the
Speaker 1: the auspicious Harvard Kennedy School of Government pre grade inflation.
Speaker 2: As you problem.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that notation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, now, Gary.
Speaker 1: Granted, I went to a pathetic state university where many
Speaker 1: of the professors weren't even literate, they couldn't even read,
Speaker 1: and we squatted in min huts on mud floors to study.
Speaker 1: But back in the day, if I got an a
Speaker 1: or a couple of them, I was fist pumping.
Speaker 2: I would dance all the way home. It was.
Speaker 1: It was hard back in the day. Probably understand certified genius.
Speaker 5: But oh no, no, Harley, I understand that. You know,
Speaker 5: I got enough Midwest and I think you know, Joe
Speaker 5: from Kansas and Ohio roots that I always have to
Speaker 5: tell me. Listen, were stuck in the back door. I
Speaker 5: don't know what happened, but I got in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good man. So let's talk about the current scene.
Speaker 1: I read with interest. I was reading the Washington Post
Speaker 1: and they were talking about who's going to succeed Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham in South Carolina. And what was interesting to me
Speaker 1: about the article was that the entire thing was who
Speaker 1: hughes most closely to Trump, Who's Trump credentials are the best.
Speaker 1: It was as if there are no other issues, like
Speaker 1: there was no character. There was just the only thing
Speaker 1: was how trumpy is this person? And I know that's
Speaker 1: becoming a less and less comfortable dynamic in the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: What are you seeing?
Speaker 5: Well, I think you're exactly right, Joe. I mean we
Speaker 5: are right now. This midterm really will be the tipping
Speaker 5: point Joe to you know, how do I say this
Speaker 5: the movement towards a post Trump era. You know, as
Speaker 5: he has already said himself, I'm not on the ballot
Speaker 5: this fall. Well that's not really true because to your point,
Speaker 5: many Republicans in the primaries want Trump to be their
Speaker 5: buddy in this balloting in the primary. But as we
Speaker 5: move towards a you know, absolute critical mid term election here,
Speaker 5: that could determine a lot about the second half of
Speaker 5: the final Trump Trump posts, I mean, Trump presidency. You know,
Speaker 5: Democrats are still going to make the midterm a lot
Speaker 5: about him and pulling numbers. They're pulling up, you know,
Speaker 5: validate a lot of that, and he's down to like
Speaker 5: thirty four percent approval that match just low of his
Speaker 5: first term. He's up in about three quarters of voters
Speaker 5: saying I'm not happy with things economically.
Speaker 4: You know all the data, Joe.
Speaker 5: So it sort of depends on what state you're in
Speaker 5: and whether you're in the primary or a general, be
Speaker 5: the midterm or heading towards twenty eight about whether affiliating
Speaker 5: with Trump right now is a plus and a minus.
Speaker 5: And then many of these swing states know the conundrum
Speaker 5: for the GOP is it's both.
Speaker 1: So I wonder whether We're going to see a lot
Speaker 1: more armstrong and Getty esque statements of Hey, a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff the President's done is great. I support
Speaker 1: it one hundred percent, but there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: I don't like too. So I'm you know, I'm an
Speaker 1: independent god. I'm gonna be with him money's right, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to pose him money's wrong. You think more
Speaker 1: like is standing on your own two feetish?
Speaker 2: Perhaps?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think there's going to be a
Speaker 5: lot more of that, especially in these very very purple states.
Speaker 5: As you know, though, that's a tough tightrope to walk.
Speaker 5: You know, it gets a little nuanced, and you have
Speaker 5: to be careful, as you know, because all of a
Speaker 5: sudden you could find yourself on the wrong end of
Speaker 5: a true social post from the White House saying, you know,
Speaker 5: this person's not trumpy enough, and I withdrawing my endorsement whatever.
Speaker 5: You know, It sort of like cuts cuts both ways.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just suggest to the Republican candidates out there,
Speaker 1: the way I just suggested it is the only way
Speaker 1: to go. You just at some point you do you
Speaker 1: and let the chips fall. If you're constantly reactive and
Speaker 1: just trying to take the path of the East resistance.
Speaker 2: It's just no, no, don't be that.
Speaker 1: But you know, nobody's going to listen to me anyway,
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see how that evolves. Meanwhile, and
Speaker 1: this is really I think the political headline in America, Garry,
Speaker 1: the mainstream of the Democratic Party has got to be
Speaker 1: freaking out a little bit about a little a lot
Speaker 1: about the ascendants of the far far left, the DSA
Speaker 1: and all that hearing from folks close to the party.
Speaker 4: Well, that's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 5: I mean, you've got, you know, loud voices like a
Speaker 5: James Grbel saying, look, I'm about ready to leave or
Speaker 5: they need to get out of our party. Steve, You've
Speaker 5: got that element out there. You got John Freederman saying
Speaker 5: essentially the same thing, you know. And the challenge for
Speaker 5: the Democrats. And this is the thing about this one
Speaker 5: and why this is so juicies, you know, Joe, is
Speaker 5: that this all happened in like six to nine months, right,
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, Mom, Donnie wins Well maybe that
Speaker 5: was a one off whatever, but no, all of a
Speaker 5: sudden in the in the bluest most critical of swing
Speaker 5: state's Michigan you have them guessed it was only about
Speaker 5: one percentage point. But you have you know, a DSA
Speaker 5: affiliated candidate, you have the you know, Democratic nominee for Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: Governor and a formal part.
Speaker 5: Of the Democratic Socialist So I mean, this is becoming
Speaker 5: for Democrats a massive headache where they wanted to make
Speaker 5: this solely about Trump and what they perceived to be
Speaker 5: as weaknesses on Iran, on the economy, especially right now
Speaker 5: they are on defense and Joe. This is going to
Speaker 5: be so interesting to watch because Davin Newsom, for example,
Speaker 5: California governor big time asprint for twenty eight.
Speaker 4: Where was he this weekend in Michigan?
Speaker 5: How close does the how do we say this mainstream
Speaker 5: Democrat or somebody especially that wants to White House in
Speaker 5: twenty eight, how close do they coose you up to
Speaker 5: this new wing you could call out of the party
Speaker 5: knowing that as they say, this is where the energy is,
Speaker 5: et cetera right now.
Speaker 4: But could it become.
Speaker 5: A major albatross both in the midterms and especially as
Speaker 5: we point towards twenty eight.
Speaker 1: The Republicans, obviously Gary are going to try to make
Speaker 1: it the biggest albatross ever seen.
Speaker 2: And I think it will work to some extent.
Speaker 1: I know you, like me, have been studying political movements
Speaker 1: for a very long time. I came across a piece.
Speaker 1: His name always escapes me, Brooks. He writes sort of
Speaker 1: the Free Press. He's professor. He talks about happiness and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And he was positing in a
Speaker 1: column that I responded to. But he said that this
Speaker 1: socialist thing, the DSA, it's just a fad. It's just
Speaker 1: something the kids are trying on for a while, and
Speaker 1: it'll go away like disco or you know, Neon colors
Speaker 1: in the eighties or whatever. And I thought and wrote back,
Speaker 1: I think he's completely wrong, partly because of the way
Speaker 1: the American educational system has been taken over by the left.
Speaker 1: In fact, the very very far left, the critical theory
Speaker 1: crowd in a lot of ways. And I've seen, I've
Speaker 1: studied plenty of mainstream political parties and movements that have
Speaker 1: gotten taken over by the very energetic, small ish, but
Speaker 1: absolutely hell bent, you know, left wing, for instance.
Speaker 2: And I could easily.
Speaker 1: See the democratic establishment thinking, oh, we can handle these people.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, We'll take them in, we'll take
Speaker 1: the energy, we'll get those votes. Then we'll co opt them. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll choke them off, and we'll keep control of the party.
Speaker 1: But we've both seen that sort of thing blow up
Speaker 1: through history.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Joe, I think you're exactly right. I mean, I
Speaker 5: side where you come down on this analysis. And it's
Speaker 5: not just because a younger voters, who, by the way,
Speaker 5: let's remind ourselves, were highly activated.
Speaker 4: This isn't the first time around for this kind of
Speaker 4: a deal.
Speaker 5: Remember how close Bernie Sanders came to completely overthrowing the
Speaker 5: Democratic establishment i e. Related to Hillary Clinton, and most
Speaker 5: young and disaffected voters say, were it not for the
Speaker 5: DNC sort of rigging the game and that election, Bernie
Speaker 5: might have won that nomination. So this has been brewing
Speaker 5: for a while. Add to that, Joe, which you also know,
Speaker 5: and that is the incredible disaffection with the established, really
Speaker 5: older part of the party. Okay, and I'm talking about Nancy.
Speaker 4: Pelosi's just upset.
Speaker 5: But Chuck Schumer, all these octagenarians that younger voters, even
Speaker 5: without the DSA, were saying.
Speaker 4: It is time for you to step aside.
Speaker 5: So this is not going to go away. I don't
Speaker 5: think this is going to be a real challenge, not
Speaker 5: for just the cycle, certainly in twenty eight and maybe beyond.
Speaker 1: And they're right. I mean, they've identified the disease just fine,
Speaker 1: the old Garter hacks, but their cure for the disease
Speaker 1: I think is completely wrong. Garry Dietrich on the line, Hey, Carrie,
Speaker 1: speaking of the DNC. I know they're going to announce
Speaker 1: soon the primary states and what order they're going to
Speaker 1: happen in, and I hear there could be big changes.
Speaker 2: What are they up to? What do you think the
Speaker 2: strategy is?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is actually a really big deal. People say, oh,
Speaker 5: this is a snoozer. No, not at all.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
Speaker 5: Remember that what saved Joe Biden's bacon last time around
Speaker 5: when he got the nomination was this state that had
Speaker 5: never been first in line, and people said, what South Carolina. Well,
Speaker 5: it's happening again, and what's gonna happen formally? So people
Speaker 5: know by the end of this week the DNC will
Speaker 5: determine which states and where they go. Now, here's the
Speaker 5: list we have right now, and this is almost certainly
Speaker 5: reportedly going to be where they end up. South Carolina
Speaker 5: is going to go again, followed by Nevada a little
Speaker 5: bit later, and then New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan, and Virginia.
Speaker 5: Real quick, here's how this breaks down. Joe putting South
Speaker 5: Carolina first really enhances most people believe the block vote
Speaker 5: recognizes that. Remember that that is really Joe Biden lost
Speaker 5: the first two primaries. I will enhishi did that pulled
Speaker 5: it out. So here's the thing people are now saying,
Speaker 5: who does this benefit. Is this basically to rig the
Speaker 5: party structure for the newly progressive, energized wing or is
Speaker 5: it to you know, shore up the old guard? You
Speaker 5: know what, There's no clear analysis on that right now.
Speaker 4: But here's what we do know.
Speaker 5: Putting South Carolina first and Joe, I know your proclivities
Speaker 5: when it comes to the former vice president and her
Speaker 5: aspirations potentially in twenty eight, most people are saying this
Speaker 5: is a serious benefit to Kamala Harris should she run,
Speaker 5: and by a way, all indications are right now that's
Speaker 5: more likely than not. And maybe others maybe a Wes More,
Speaker 5: maybe a Corey Booker, you know, not necessarily just black candidates,
Speaker 5: but there's that, and also people who, let's just say,
Speaker 5: are not in well, you might call it more of
Speaker 5: a mainstream people looking at Kentucky's Andy Basher, the governor
Speaker 5: or Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania. We'll see what this plays out,
Speaker 5: but certainly it's going to begin to set the map
Speaker 5: Joe for twenty eight in a way that is just
Speaker 5: going to enhance the battle we were just talking about
Speaker 5: between the so called new progressive DSA types and the establishment.
Speaker 1: Right now, we've only got about a minute left, Gary
Speaker 1: and I want to get a little into the weeds,
Speaker 1: which means we'll have to check ourselves for tics. But
Speaker 1: so South Carolina is the black vote, which tends to
Speaker 1: be fairly and I'm grossly oversimplifying, but which tends to
Speaker 1: be fairly mainstream Democrat. And then the idea of Nevada
Speaker 1: going next is a lot of unions. They tend to
Speaker 1: be fairly mainstream Democrat. But if I look at some
Speaker 1: of the unions, like the SEIU in California, they're just communists.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are absolutely as far left as you
Speaker 1: can get. Uh is are the is everything changing so
Speaker 1: fast that even the best laid plans of the DNC
Speaker 1: might not go the way they think they're gonna go.
Speaker 1: They can't fix it like they did with Hillary and Bernie.
Speaker 5: For instance, I think you're exactly right, Joe. And just
Speaker 5: to put this real, real, succinctly, the union vote is
Speaker 5: not going to be monolithic. It isn't even in the
Speaker 5: SEIU in California. We don't have time to go into
Speaker 5: the details. But you're gonna see you're gonna share a
Speaker 5: lot of intra union battles. Even remember when when a
Speaker 5: lot of the big unions change. There's another thing. Hey,
Speaker 5: you know what we're thinking about getting behind Trump. You're
Speaker 5: gonna see that battle within the Democratic Party. Which unions,
Speaker 5: not all unions, Which unions go on this side, which
Speaker 5: put their chips on the other side.
Speaker 2: Gary Dietrich, CBS Television and iHeartRadio political analyst, Gary, it's
Speaker 2: been too long, a great pleasure. Let's do it again soon.
Speaker 4: Likewise, Buddy, thanks Bud.
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Speaker 2: Hey man, there's so much great stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2: Just not enough time.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I want to get to Mark Zuckerberg's big
Speaker 1: long piece about AI. Oh gosh, it's a little complicated
Speaker 1: and a story about LA schools. Good lord, is the
Speaker 1: LA school district falling apart. It's the world's most obvious
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Speaker 1: All I guess we can do is keep fighting for
Speaker 1: you know, reasonableness and conservative principles and hope the world
Speaker 1: smarts up. Speaking of Mark Zuckerberg, Akka Satan. The meta
Speaker 1: smart glasses are now increasingly referred to as pervert glasses.
Speaker 1: The backlash against the glasses is growing online. Katie Green
Speaker 1: joins us for a bit of reaction anyway, I hope.
Speaker 1: I don't know, have you heard about any of this
Speaker 1: in the real world yet, Katie, that there are lots
Speaker 1: of people wearing these glasses which look like a regular
Speaker 1: pair of glasses, and they can videotape or audio tape
Speaker 1: with people for that matter, And I still use tape
Speaker 1: because I'm old. They can video or audio record people
Speaker 1: without those people knowing. Now, theoretically there's a little light
Speaker 1: or something, but it can be you know, covered or whatever,
Speaker 1: and what they're trying to do is like they try
Speaker 1: to pick up a woman or hit them with a
Speaker 1: line or say something objectionable, then get their reaction and
Speaker 1: post it online.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't heard about this in my day to
Speaker 6: day life, but I've been reading instances of it, and
Speaker 6: there was a video that went up where a guy
Speaker 6: tried to do this to a woman and she kind
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Speaker 6: Because you can see I mean, they're actually they're at
Speaker 6: least on the ones that I've seen, there is not
Speaker 6: a light. It's just you can if you hone in
Speaker 6: on the outside of the frame, you can see the
Speaker 6: actual camera.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 6: I can see it happening. I don't know how how
Speaker 6: popular that is.
Speaker 2: Some businesses are banning them. Yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've seen where you know, the you can't go
Speaker 6: in with these things on, and I mean I'm looking
Speaker 6: at their website right now. When I purchased mine, which
Speaker 6: I'll we've talked about it before, I use mine to
Speaker 6: videotape my newborn because I can go hands free, and
Speaker 6: I've gotten some great footage of him using these. But
Speaker 6: they've released at least twenty new styles from when I
Speaker 6: purchased mine that don't look like they have cameras in them,
Speaker 6: but they do.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow yeah.
Speaker 1: Here yeah, here is a list of a couple of
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Speaker 1: I think she's gonna kick off our for Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure she has some important, you know, liberty
Speaker 1: constitutional case stuff to talk about. But and we talked
Speaker 1: about the case. What was it in New York? I
Speaker 1: can't even remember the particulars of it.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh.
Speaker 1: It was the couple that was smooching on the park
Speaker 1: bench and some online provocateur videotape them then released it.
Speaker 1: And it turns out the dude was a high powered
Speaker 1: lawyer and the woman was as much younger underling at
Speaker 1: the firm, and he's losing out on a job offer,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah, and and in this new era,
Speaker 1: because the old doctrine is, if you're in public, you
Speaker 1: have no expectations of privacy.
Speaker 2: But what about somebody who exploits.
Speaker 1: That for profit and deliberately provokes an embarrassing encounter so
Speaker 1: they can.
Speaker 2: Exploit that right. Where where are we now?
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Speaker 2: Are ron defiant.
Speaker 7: The president is looking for a way out.
Speaker 2: I'm involved in the negotiation.
Speaker 4: I think we're doing fine.
Speaker 7: But the Iranians say they will never reopen the strait
Speaker 7: of arm moves unless the US corrects its behavior.
Speaker 2: Uh wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 1: It was end of last week, wasn't it that the
Speaker 1: President told reporters he was prepared to launch the biggest
Speaker 1: military military attacks since World War Two, but was then
Speaker 1: was then talked down by US allies because.
Speaker 2: The deal was imminent.
Speaker 1: And on Friday, the president on social media suggested victory
Speaker 1: was already in hand link to an article declaring Donald
Speaker 1: Trump won the Iran War. Vice President Vance told Fox
Speaker 1: News that the US would continue to pressure Iran to
Speaker 1: make long term changes, but essentially the straight thing is settled.
Speaker 2: That was on Friday.
Speaker 1: I guess well, here's a little more information on the
Speaker 1: latest twist.
Speaker 2: Next clip, Michael.
Speaker 8: Iranian leaders are again demanding more concessions from the US,
Speaker 8: including the lifting of the naval blockade, removing sanctions, releasing
Speaker 8: frozen assets, and providing compensation for the war before reopening
Speaker 8: the straight Now it's increasingly clear Iran believes it has
Speaker 8: the upper hand, betting the White House wants to end
Speaker 8: this confrontation more than it does.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the new deal, since the President said the
Speaker 1: strait will be opened, is Iran says, you need to
Speaker 1: permanently end the war, lift the naval blockade, withdraw all
Speaker 1: your forces and all your sanctions, free all of our
Speaker 1: frozen assets, pay US war reparations and all threats and
Speaker 1: insults going forward, and stop military action against any of
Speaker 1: Iran's militia allies around the region, from the she and
Speaker 1: militias in the God forsaking parts of Iraq to Hasbolah
Speaker 1: to the Hothies. Got to call off the dogs on
Speaker 1: all those people, and then we'll open the straight. That's
Speaker 1: the new deal, bitches, and I use that term advisedly.
Speaker 1: That is Iran's attitude at this point. We're not coming
Speaker 1: to you hat in hand asking you for terms. You're
Speaker 1: coming to us Trump, and here's what it's going to take.
Speaker 2: Trump. They are defiant.
Speaker 9: Next clip Aaran well aware of the power of their
Speaker 9: stranglehold over the Straight. His energy prices remain high. They're
Speaker 9: also likely well aware of reports that this war is
Speaker 9: taking a real toll on US munitions.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 9: Aron says they are exchanging messages with the US through intermediaries,
Speaker 9: while President Trump told Axios they are quote only semi
Speaker 9: negotiating with them, Trump saying, we are low.
Speaker 1: Keying it, semi negotiating with some. Let's skip to General
Speaker 1: Jack Keane sixty seven. Here's what he thinks is going on.
Speaker 3: You gotta understand where this regime is really coming from
Speaker 3: the people who are running it. They have an ideology
Speaker 3: that they're holding to. They absolutely believe right now that
Speaker 3: they have the upper hand. I notice people that don't
Speaker 3: want to admit that. But that's where the Iranians are.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that's where they are. I don't believe
Speaker 3: it myself, but it's irrelevant. They believe it. They believe
Speaker 3: the stretch of moves is a strategic asset and they
Speaker 3: are not going to bargain that away.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: As I've said before, they were intent on getting a
Speaker 1: nuke and still are, of course, but they were intent
Speaker 1: on getting it. So that was their veto against any attacker,
Speaker 1: invasion or anything like that. That was their deterrence. And
Speaker 1: now they've realized, oh, the straits of Hermus and that
Speaker 1: other one over or over yander out to the west,
Speaker 1: the El Shababa Aria or whatever they call it. As
Speaker 1: long as the houthies are cooperating, they can shut that
Speaker 1: one down too. And they're thinking, oh, hell, we're working
Speaker 1: on his bomb all the time, all this time, and
Speaker 1: we got the straits we could close. This is great,
Speaker 1: This is our veto. And one more aspect of this
Speaker 1: from General King so.
Speaker 3: We get closer to the midterms. They want to create
Speaker 3: a volatile situation that demonstrates that the administration is not
Speaker 3: managing the war properly so that that will impact them
Speaker 3: in the midterm elections. The Iranians have always multiple administrations
Speaker 3: been tuned into what is happening in America. Where is
Speaker 3: our political resolve? They focus a lot on our people
Speaker 3: to understand where the American will truly is.
Speaker 1: And I've never known exactly what to do about that
Speaker 1: as a huntry, other than maybe just being aware of it.
Speaker 1: All your evil regimes that we talk about all the time,
Speaker 1: primarily you know, China and Russia and Iran. They have
Speaker 1: access to our media, so we have open, free media.
Speaker 1: They have access to gallop poles. I mean, they have
Speaker 1: entire universities full of folks who the government uses to
Speaker 1: study the American political system and where we are right
Speaker 1: now and what levers to push or pull depending on,
Speaker 1: you know, how the lever is. I mean, greatest example,
Speaker 1: I mean most clear example. You remember back when we
Speaker 1: all became aware of the fact that Russia and China
Speaker 1: have all these bought accounts on all the social media
Speaker 1: and or its their intelligence services that have these accounts,
Speaker 1: and they would say, hey, like a lot of black
Speaker 1: people are mad, they've they've fallen for this critical theory stuff,
Speaker 1: George Floyd, et cetera. So let's get in there and
Speaker 1: let's really really push white people are evil simultaneously. Let's
Speaker 1: really really push that that movement is out of hand
Speaker 1: and white people are good and let's just get them
Speaker 1: at each other's throws. So they're intimately acquainted with the
Speaker 1: American political.
Speaker 2: System and media and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're trying to trying to exploit the hell
Speaker 1: out of it the best they can.
Speaker 2: And they're right in this case.
Speaker 1: Whether it's gas prices or just tiring of the war,
Speaker 1: or certainly any loss of life, the American people have
Speaker 1: very low tolerance for it, and the IRGC knows that.
Speaker 1: Though they're getting squeezed pretty severely, I think economically, the
Speaker 1: administration is getting really squeezed politically, and it's definitely a
Speaker 1: game of chicken who can hold out the longest. One
Speaker 1: more note on this, let's go to Vice President J.
Speaker 1: D Vance clip number sixty six describing where he perceives we.
Speaker 2: Are or really in the middle of the game here.
Speaker 7: This thing is not over, and I feel quite confident
Speaker 7: we will get there, but we're still a bit in
Speaker 7: the middle of the game. They're hurting in a big way.
Speaker 7: They want this thing to be over. The question is
Speaker 7: whether they're able, their system is able to give the
Speaker 7: things that are necessary for us to be happy. For
Speaker 7: us to feel like we've gotten what we need out
Speaker 7: of this particular engagement that is still to be determined.
Speaker 7: But I do think that we've made some progress.
Speaker 2: Over the last few days.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody believes you, JD. You might be
Speaker 1: telling the truth. That might be true, but we have
Speaker 1: no way of knowing it's true. You've said we're close
Speaker 1: to a deal, and the President has over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. And whether the Iron GC is undermining
Speaker 1: the negotiators or just everybody's screwing with you, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But we've made progress. Yeah, maybe you have, maybe you haven't.
Speaker 1: Was it a miscalculation, was it a bluffying called?
Speaker 2: Either way, we're in a.
Speaker 1: We're in a bit of a world, a hurt right now,
Speaker 1: I mean not bad hurt as a country, but definitely
Speaker 1: painted ourselves into a corner, not quite sure what to do.
Speaker 1: So I want to talk about the LA school system
Speaker 1: and the miserable state of affairs there in a moment
Speaker 1: or two. Also, I want to squeeze in the jury
Speaker 1: duty scam because I sure as heck don't want you
Speaker 1: to fall for it. I'm telling you, you think you're
Speaker 1: pretty smart, you think you're pretty sophisticated. Yeah, me too,
Speaker 1: But boy, the scammers are getting good.
Speaker 2: That's coming up. Stay with us.
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Speaker 10: is thin skinned and hyper sensitive to public criticism. Now,
Speaker 10: normally i'd make a joke about him, but I don't
Speaker 10: want him to fly a plane into my building.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's an edgy joke there, Greg Guttfeldt, if you
Speaker 1: need them. Looking forward to chatting with Anastasia Boden from
Speaker 1: the Pacific Legal Foundation next hour Man. We have some
Speaker 1: great topics to discuss, including President Trump's recent new attempt
Speaker 1: at an executive order ending birthright or a birth tourism.
Speaker 1: Exactly the right person to talk to you, so we'll
Speaker 1: do it. Public school systems government school systems in America are,
Speaker 1: to a greater or lesser extent, depending on which one
Speaker 1: you're talking about, a union scam to get money masquerading
Speaker 1: as an education system. I think their purpose has been perverted.
Speaker 1: They're now a money money It's bigot for unions and
Speaker 1: looking at some thinking by Elisia Finley here in the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journals.
Speaker 2: She's written a.
Speaker 1: Great piece talking about that public schools across America are
Speaker 1: in the unions that control them are learning about Margaret
Speaker 1: Thatcher's famous quote about the problem with socialism is eventually
Speaker 1: you run out of other people's money. Well, COVID dollars
Speaker 1: from Washington just pumped huge amounts of money into public
Speaker 1: schools and papered over a lot of their structural budget problems.
Speaker 2: For a little while.
Speaker 1: But now that that the incredibly inflation causing ill advised
Speaker 1: federal money is drying up, the red ink is really
Speaker 1: starting to show up. According to Labor Department's monthly Jobs
Speaker 1: Support on Friday, local government education shed fifty thousand jobs
Speaker 1: in July, the leading contributor to the nation's twenty three
Speaker 1: thousand unemployment decline twenty three thousand person unemployment decline net
Speaker 1: and she points out the ground zero is the LA
Speaker 1: Unified School District, the country's second largest after New York.
Speaker 1: The La County Office of Education is their boss. They
Speaker 1: oversee the school district, and last month they warned that
Speaker 1: the district meets the criteria for a lack of going
Speaker 1: concern designate. That's some absolutely lovely uh euphemistic or play
Speaker 1: meaning you're about to go bankrupt. On the current course
Speaker 1: of the district will not be able to pay its
Speaker 1: bills next year, according to the county's letter. In June,
Speaker 1: the district ratified agreements with the unions despite repeated warnings
Speaker 1: by county officials that you can't afford these contracts. The
Speaker 1: union agreements are projected to cost one point one three
Speaker 1: billion dollars this year, one point one to three and
Speaker 1: one point four to four next year, money the district
Speaker 1: knew it didn't have when it agreed to the deals.
Speaker 1: But here's what you need to know about that sort
Speaker 1: of vote. You've got union lawyers on both sides of
Speaker 1: the bargaining table in especially in California. California's like the
Speaker 1: worst example. Illinois terrible too. Where you go from you're
Speaker 1: a union lawyer to you get elected to the legislature
Speaker 1: with union money and then there's no oppositional negotiating. It's
Speaker 1: the same parties on both sides of the table.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Wait, the district even warned in February, a few months
Speaker 1: before agreeing to the labor contracts, that it has an
Speaker 1: eight hundred and seventy seven million dollar deficit that could
Speaker 1: require thousands of layoffs at some point.
Speaker 2: We reached a.
Speaker 1: Breaking point, said then the then superintendent, who resigned in
Speaker 1: late June amid an FBI probe related to district contract.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a shock. Nonetheless, the district, knowing this,
Speaker 1: agreed to boost pay for principles and assistant principles by
Speaker 1: twelve percent.
Speaker 2: Over two years. You got a raise like that, friends, Yeah, me, neither.
Speaker 1: They've increased teacher average pay by fourteen percent over two years,
Speaker 1: and raised compensation for non instructional employees such as Kostonians,
Speaker 1: campus aids, and cafeteria workers by twenty four percent over
Speaker 1: three years. In addition to sweetening health benefits pay for this,
Speaker 1: the district sought to raid its retiree health benefit funds.
Speaker 1: So that's like tapping your four oh one k for
Speaker 1: a holiday you can't afford.
Speaker 2: You're covering up a structural deficit. It's not like you're
Speaker 2: investing it.
Speaker 1: And the LA District's problems are a lot like those
Speaker 1: of other large urban school districts. Unsustainable spending, particularly on
Speaker 1: administration employee benefits, combined with shrinking enrollment. For every buck
Speaker 1: that a teacher earns in conversation, the district and state
Speaker 1: pay thirty cents more toward de pensions, and I've got
Speaker 1: more percentages and numbers and stuff like that, but you
Speaker 1: know what, the tail is wagging the dog in education
Speaker 1: now one hundred percent. And they're a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot of teachers. I love, and they are some of
Speaker 1: the most important people in my life and your life
Speaker 1: and kids' lives all over America. I love teachers, despise
Speaker 1: teachers unions. More to say on that topic, but I
Speaker 1: want to move along to this. It's a story about
Speaker 1: this gal happens to be in Florida, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter. And she was driving driving through the streets,
Speaker 1: talking to the sheriff's deputy about his three young daughters
Speaker 1: as she was heading to a grim errand gathering thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars in bail to avoid arrest for missing jury duty.
Speaker 1: This woman's thirty eight years old, she's a I think
Speaker 1: she's a mom. She's a manager in the finance department
Speaker 1: of a government contractor. And she was convinced by these
Speaker 1: cop scammers that she'd missed jury duty and had to
Speaker 1: pay a fine, and they when she reached the drop
Speaker 1: off point, she balked it was a convenience store with
Speaker 1: abandoned gas pumps and a cryptocurrency machine inside. She was
Speaker 1: told scan this QR code and feed the machine four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in cash. Well, She walked back to her
Speaker 1: car and began to voice doubts that have been building?
Speaker 1: Are you sure this is where I'm supposed to post
Speaker 1: the bail? And the officer's friendly demeanor vanished. His voice rose.
Speaker 1: He reminded her that he was tracking her location and
Speaker 1: the deputies were two blocks away ready to bring her in.
Speaker 1: So she went back inside and made the deposit. Is
Speaker 1: she a soft head? Absolutely? She is a softthead? Are
Speaker 1: you kidding? You're gonna fall for that? But it's worth
Speaker 1: knowing how good these people are because there's scams in
Speaker 1: their strategies.
Speaker 2: Will adapt.
Speaker 1: You got a team of at least five scammers playing
Speaker 1: different roles, each of them with dead perfect Florida accents.
Speaker 1: In this case, they kept her on the phone for
Speaker 1: nearly ten hours and talked to her in a handling
Speaker 1: over twenty five thousand dollars. She said, they had me scared.
Speaker 1: They knew my social Security number, they knew how much
Speaker 1: I had in my bank account, they knew every single
Speaker 1: thing about me. Again, this gal, I'm sure, she's a
Speaker 1: nice gal, she's a bit of a soft head. Why
Speaker 1: would your local police department know how much you have
Speaker 1: in your bank accounts? They don't get to know that.
Speaker 1: That's not a thing, as the kids say. But there
Speaker 1: are so many scams, phony ups, texts, I get those
Speaker 1: all the time, AI generated voices of loved ones in trouble,
Speaker 1: spoofed emails, tricking city governments. People reported losing three and
Speaker 1: a half billion dollars to imposter scams last year. That's
Speaker 1: nearly tripled the level in twenty twenty three and a
Speaker 1: half billion dollars. And friends, that's what people admitted to.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people lose the money and think,
Speaker 1: there's no way I'm going to get this money back
Speaker 1: if I bring it to anybody's attention. And Joe Getty's
Speaker 1: gonna call me a softhead, so I'm just not going
Speaker 1: to bring it to anybody's attention. So that number I'll
Speaker 1: bet is it could easily be double that three point
Speaker 1: five million dollars. Some of the swindles are originating the overseas,
Speaker 1: run by sophisticated criminal syndicates. Some of these some of
Speaker 1: these scammers actually have HR departments in performance reviews. They
Speaker 1: are corporations, but increasingly they come from closer to home.
Speaker 1: For instance, the Justice Department convicted a couple of Georgia
Speaker 1: inmates who ran scams on stolen cell phones from behind bars.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they sound like locals, and they convince you this,
Speaker 1: that and the other. So here's the takeaway. And you
Speaker 1: know I shouldn't use the term softhead. I have three children.
Speaker 1: I adore them. One of them is very savvy, very skeptical.
Speaker 1: One of them is very very credulous. Is a fairly
Speaker 1: easy mark for scammers. And so maybe it's a genetic thing,
Speaker 1: maybe you're born with it, whatever, but authorities are warning
Speaker 1: you they will not call you ever to threaten, arrest
Speaker 1: or demand money over miss jury duty.
Speaker 2: Ever.
Speaker 1: And as hard as it might be to imagine, so
Speaker 1: called panic scams work by triggering your stress responses that
Speaker 1: shift you into fight or flight, which impairs your rational
Speaker 1: thought some people more than others. According to cyber security experts,
Speaker 1: the perpetrators leverage your claimed authority and apply tremendous pressure.
Speaker 2: And in a Reddit thread about the jury.
Speaker 1: Duty scam, for instance, quite a few people who fell
Speaker 1: for it describe being duped and said stuff like quote.
Speaker 2: I would never thought I would fall for this.
Speaker 1: Another one, they basically psychologically kidnap for you and you
Speaker 1: stop thinking clearly just what we said before. And the
Speaker 1: second they get off the phone is the second they
Speaker 1: start thinking on their own. According to this guy who's
Speaker 1: an expert in these scams, oh man, you just got
Speaker 1: to know what these things feel like or sound like
Speaker 1: when they get started. And no, it sounds plausible, but
Speaker 1: if it has these earmarks, it's a scam.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Great discussion about birth tourism, constitutional rights. Can you expect
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