WEBVTT - Another Bite At The Apple 0:00:01.830 --> 0:00:05.680 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.720 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.210 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.489 --> 0:00:26.970 So it's a big difference between Texas, which that was 0:00:27.110 --> 0:00:30.370 a potential extinction event there because they got swept out 0:00:30.410 --> 0:00:34.229 of everything from governor to the Supreme Court and even 0:00:34.270 --> 0:00:37.459 the House of Representatives. That is going to do damage, 0:00:37.500 --> 0:00:40.380 not just in Texas. It's going to hurt the Republican 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.400 Party going forward. And if we can't win in places 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.280 like Texas or Kansas or Iowa, you know, we are 0:00:47.340 --> 0:00:48.659 not viable nationally. 0:00:49.409 --> 0:00:53.090 Ron DeSantis will be the next president of the United 0:00:53.190 --> 0:00:57.450 States is something somebody might say if they believe that. 0:00:57.730 --> 0:00:59.490 If they had never seen him in public. 0:01:00.350 --> 0:01:03.370 I'm going to address that very question and talk about 0:01:03.450 --> 0:01:06.009 Ron's speech the other day and his appearance on Laura 0:01:06.110 --> 0:01:07.530 Ingraham's show and a bunch more. 0:01:07.550 --> 0:01:10.390 But first, this. So there's a couple of things going 0:01:10.510 --> 0:01:13.950 on that you should know about. First of all, it's 0:01:14.010 --> 0:01:16.830 a day of rioting in Paris. Watching some of the videos, 0:01:16.850 --> 0:01:18.910 you have to search for them because for whatever reason, 0:01:18.930 --> 0:01:22.230 the media is not interested in the France riots. 0:01:22.650 --> 0:01:25.550 Yeah, it turns out it's angry leftists and not plucky 0:01:25.610 --> 0:01:27.850 young students who just want higher teacher pay. 0:01:27.890 --> 0:01:30.910 They're expecting between a half million and a three quarter 0:01:31.130 --> 0:01:35.140 million people in the streets today in France. 70,000 police 0:01:36.180 --> 0:01:37.720 are on hand to deal with that. So it could 0:01:37.740 --> 0:01:40.699 be quite the day in France. Going over to England, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.289 cross the channel. Russell Brand has been found guilty of 0:01:44.530 --> 0:01:47.670 one count of rape and several counts of sexual assault. 0:01:48.300 --> 0:01:50.980 I did a dive into what that means under their 0:01:51.060 --> 0:01:55.140 laws over there. He is likely... He's 51 years old. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.060 He is likely to spend most of his 50s in jail. 0:01:59.180 --> 0:02:02.040 Russell Brand is a very rich celebrity who they often 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.400 call a comedian, yet I've never heard him say anything 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.760 funny one time ever. But he's become a really big 0:02:07.780 --> 0:02:11.560 deal for a lot of you. He's big on... Well, 0:02:11.580 --> 0:02:15.329 Tucker Carlson and a bunch of different new right stuff. 0:02:16.389 --> 0:02:19.690 He's a huge figure. So I don't know how y'all 0:02:19.710 --> 0:02:24.010 feel about that. And then a couple of races that 0:02:24.060 --> 0:02:26.560 we don't know the answer to yet in Los Angeles. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:33.490 Ramen noodles. The ramen, the socialist is leading over Karen Bass. 0:02:34.900 --> 0:02:37.359 barely like a point and a half, but 30% of 0:02:37.380 --> 0:02:40.210 the vote yet to count because California is just so 0:02:40.250 --> 0:02:43.130 ridiculous in the way we count ballots. How can Los Angeles, 0:02:43.150 --> 0:02:47.350 one of the most modern cities on planet Earth, have 30% 0:02:47.350 --> 0:02:49.650 of the vote yet to count? How is that even possible? 0:02:50.090 --> 0:02:51.970 Here's my headline for the L.A. race. 0:02:53.090 --> 0:02:57.010 In the race between insane and incompetent, insane has pulled 0:02:57.030 --> 0:02:57.989 ahead for the moment. 0:02:58.210 --> 0:03:00.870 Yeah, no kidding. Then up there in Alaska, where one 0:03:00.889 --> 0:03:02.989 of your Dan Sullivans used to be, or is a 0:03:03.010 --> 0:03:06.310 senator currently, and running against that other woman, Peltola. Peltola's 0:03:06.350 --> 0:03:12.460 in the lead. 600 vote difference between the two. That 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.120 is razor thin. And they think because of the way 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.780 Alaska is. Now, Alaska's different. It's so spread out and 0:03:17.820 --> 0:03:20.680 so rural. L.A., I don't know your excuse, but Alaska, 0:03:20.700 --> 0:03:22.540 they think it might be a month before they have 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.620 the results. Wow, wow. 0:03:24.700 --> 0:03:27.799 Plus, you've got their Byzantine ranked choice stuff to go through. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.590 I don't know how long that takes. Many things struck 0:03:31.630 --> 0:03:35.390 me about being in Alaska this summer. One of them 0:03:35.550 --> 0:03:39.000 was that there are towns you've all heard of, everybody's 0:03:39.020 --> 0:03:44.480 heard of in Alaska. And not just like Anchorage, but Haines, Alaska, Sitka, 0:03:44.620 --> 0:03:45.380 you know, various towns. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:46.480 They're tiny. 0:03:47.020 --> 0:03:50.160 They're absolutely tiny. They're just the only towns of any 0:03:50.220 --> 0:03:52.820 significant size, and so people know their names. Just like, 0:03:52.860 --> 0:03:56.230 you know, Lincoln, Nebraska. You know, everybody knows a town 0:03:56.290 --> 0:03:59.650 from each state. At least one to three towns. But 0:03:59.670 --> 0:04:05.290 they're tiny. So, yeah, 600 votes, that's amazing. So, I 0:04:05.330 --> 0:04:09.740 don't know how you could possibly think... A U.S. Senate 0:04:09.790 --> 0:04:12.400 seat on the line and the amount of money and 0:04:12.500 --> 0:04:13.780 power that's involved in a U.S. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.040 Senate seat. How do you keep skullduggery from happening when 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:21.620 it's that close on either side? 600 votes. I mean, 0:04:21.660 --> 0:04:22.940 you don't have to do it. It's very difficult. Yeah, 0:04:23.100 --> 0:04:23.440 I'll bet. 0:04:24.060 --> 0:04:27.050 Not many skulls have to be dug. So back to 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.770 the question of Ron DeSantis being the next president. Jack 0:04:31.010 --> 0:04:33.830 jumped the gun there a bit with his cynical dismissal. 0:04:34.690 --> 0:04:39.739 Accurate. Ron, accurate that it's cynical, Ron. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.200 DeSantis is one of the few people who's going to 0:04:43.230 --> 0:04:47.690 get a solid, credible second chance to run for president. 0:04:48.670 --> 0:04:52.150 I consciously decided not to use the phrase another bite 0:04:52.190 --> 0:04:55.950 at the apple because it's such a cliche in commentary 0:04:55.990 --> 0:04:56.380 these days. 0:04:57.010 --> 0:04:59.720 Just say what you mean. I was listening to him yesterday. 0:04:59.740 --> 0:05:02.530 I thought he would be president if it were the 1800s. 0:05:02.940 --> 0:05:04.780 If everybody is taking this all in in print. 0:05:05.529 --> 0:05:07.550 Or if it were 2028 and I'm about to make 0:05:07.570 --> 0:05:09.750 the case, I'll thank you to stop with your cynicism, 0:05:10.270 --> 0:05:11.090 your skepticism. 0:05:11.910 --> 0:05:15.770 Get back in my barrel. Exactly. Crawl into your jar, idiot. 0:05:16.970 --> 0:05:21.330 Ron DeSantis made the mistake that we swore we were 0:05:21.370 --> 0:05:25.430 not going to make in our radio career. Try it 0:05:25.570 --> 0:05:28.250 as somebody else's version of what we ought to be. 0:05:28.950 --> 0:05:32.790 Here's my Ron DeSantis impersonation. Oh, my God. You see 0:05:32.810 --> 0:05:33.510 what I'm working with? 0:05:35.050 --> 0:05:38.950 He's making awkward movements. He's standing awkwardly. His arms are 0:05:38.970 --> 0:05:42.469 doing odd things. Posture is somewhat offbeat. 0:05:42.910 --> 0:05:45.390 This is not working well. He's tucked his neck down. 0:05:45.450 --> 0:05:47.130 He doesn't know what to do with his hands. He's 0:05:47.170 --> 0:05:49.909 one of those people that's so uncomfortable. He just is like, 0:05:49.930 --> 0:05:53.310 where should I put my hands here? Does this look relaxed? 0:05:53.690 --> 0:05:56.490 Katie, in retrospect, maybe we should have done our show 0:05:56.529 --> 0:05:57.789 in the way others advised. 0:05:57.810 --> 0:06:01.750 Right, yeah. Anyway. Okay, so here's my point. 0:06:02.450 --> 0:06:08.350 Ron DeSantis ran as the professional political consultant's version of 0:06:08.430 --> 0:06:13.550 Ron DeSantis last time. And combined with the Trump comeback, 0:06:14.390 --> 0:06:18.380 he was doomed. This time, Ron Diaz is going to 0:06:18.460 --> 0:06:21.679 run as Ron Diaz. He's going to say, look, I'm awkward. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.890 I'm not very charismatic, but I get stuff done. Here's 0:06:24.930 --> 0:06:28.010 my record in Florida. Do we want another game show host? 0:06:28.450 --> 0:06:31.530 Do we want another slick politician? I get stuff done. 0:06:31.770 --> 0:06:33.580 Here's the stuff I want to get. And we'll play 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.940 some of what he said recently. I'm not saying he 0:06:36.980 --> 0:06:41.120 has any more than a, you know. double-digit-ish chance, just 0:06:41.180 --> 0:06:44.230 as nobody does this far out. But I think it 0:06:44.310 --> 0:06:45.950 could be a different process. 0:06:45.970 --> 0:06:48.109 The fact that he has to think about when to 0:06:48.190 --> 0:06:49.970 smile and all that sort of stuff, or at least 0:06:49.990 --> 0:06:52.490 the last time around he did, I hate the fact 0:06:52.529 --> 0:06:54.670 that that matters. That's not the way you should choose 0:06:54.710 --> 0:06:55.730 your chief executive. 0:06:56.290 --> 0:07:01.080 Right, and I think he's figured that out. So, quickly, 0:07:01.460 --> 0:07:03.640 let's do 50, what he said the other night in 0:07:03.660 --> 0:07:04.820 a speech got a lot of attention. 0:07:05.420 --> 0:07:07.980 Well, first, we were not immune to this wave. 0:07:08.060 --> 0:07:11.060 I mean, we felt it. We saw it in our data. 0:07:11.580 --> 0:07:15.500 I told candidates in the beginning of the fall, take 0:07:15.540 --> 0:07:19.760 what President Trump got here two years ago, 13-point margin statewide. 0:07:20.140 --> 0:07:22.850 Take 10 points off that. That's the new line of 0:07:22.890 --> 0:07:25.710 scrimmage with where voters were there. And so if he 0:07:25.750 --> 0:07:29.250 won your district by 15, you're down to a five-point race. 0:07:29.310 --> 0:07:30.990 And so we always plan for that. 0:07:31.350 --> 0:07:34.350 And I think if you look at Texas had basically 0:07:34.390 --> 0:07:35.610 a 20-point swing. 0:07:36.010 --> 0:07:36.730 Trump won by 13. 0:07:36.730 --> 0:07:40.420 They lose the governor's race by 7%. They lost the 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.420 Senate race by more than that. We had about that 0:07:43.420 --> 0:07:46.580 10 to 12-point swing. We didn't do the 20. And 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.020 I think it's because we've built up a lot of 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.180 trust with our voters over the years that when we're 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.200 asking them to come out, they do. So we were 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.170 able to mitigate the downside. We were not immune to it, 0:07:57.380 --> 0:08:00.830 but we want every statewide race, U.S. Senate, governor, all 0:08:00.910 --> 0:08:04.330 our cabinet races— We had a 27 out of 40 0:08:04.330 --> 0:08:05.170 in the Florida Senate. 0:08:05.390 --> 0:08:09.000 We did lose one. I'm not a Floridian. The fact 0:08:09.010 --> 0:08:13.320 that Florida won every statewide race for Republicans and Texas 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.190 lost every single statewide race for Democrats. What a stark 0:08:18.260 --> 0:08:20.350 difference between two large red states. 0:08:21.150 --> 0:08:24.510 I know Floridians, some of them famous, some of them not, 0:08:24.670 --> 0:08:28.520 and they all say it's a really well-governed state. We 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.740 try stuff, and if it doesn't work out right, we 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:31.420 just change it. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:36.590 He's probably the best state executive in the country. Yeah, yeah. 0:08:36.830 --> 0:08:39.270 I want to feature one more thing that he said 0:08:39.410 --> 0:08:41.250 on Laura Ingraham's show. This is clip 53, Michael. 0:08:42.460 --> 0:08:45.710 If you're going to do huge conservative things that are 0:08:45.750 --> 0:08:49.230 going to reorient the country for a generation, fine. But 0:08:49.290 --> 0:08:53.110 I saw no indication that the current group of Republican 0:08:53.170 --> 0:08:57.790 senators were interested in doing that type of bold conservative change. 0:08:57.830 --> 0:09:02.420 I mean, why haven't we done immigration? Shut off H-1B visas. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:08.079 Why haven't we codified Trump's immigration executive orders? There's so— why 0:09:07.500 --> 0:09:12.600 haven't we— Strip jurisdiction from the federal courts over deportation cases. 0:09:12.820 --> 0:09:15.439 There's so many things that could have been done. They 0:09:15.460 --> 0:09:17.940 didn't even attempt it, Laura. They would say, oh, if 0:09:18.020 --> 0:09:19.839 only we needed 50 votes, we would have done it. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.000 You don't have 50 votes for doing conservative things. You've 0:09:23.090 --> 0:09:26.910 never shown that you'll do conservative things even with 50 votes. 0:09:27.190 --> 0:09:29.270 So I hear you. I'd love to see all this 0:09:29.309 --> 0:09:32.330 great stuff being done. I just never saw an indication 0:09:32.350 --> 0:09:32.910 that they did it. 0:09:33.250 --> 0:09:33.969 Wow, that's good. 0:09:35.179 --> 0:09:37.570 Yeah, his point, midterm was a real rebuke of the 0:09:37.630 --> 0:09:40.710 president and Congress, and voters stayed home from frustration because 0:09:40.730 --> 0:09:44.189 they didn't see what they were promised being executed. And 0:09:45.070 --> 0:09:48.210 you cannot have enough contempt for Congress at this point, 0:09:48.490 --> 0:09:52.490 both parties. I mean, they don't do much, and what 0:09:52.530 --> 0:09:56.270 they do is the wrong thing. No wonder people are 0:09:56.309 --> 0:09:59.969 frustrated and America vaults back and forth from one crappy 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.920 party to the other one, back. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.380 And forth and back and forth every couple of years. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.560 What will break the logjam? Nobody knows. 0:10:08.420 --> 0:10:12.630 Anyway, I think Ron has a real chance. He has 0:10:12.710 --> 0:10:17.510 got to hang a lantern on his awkwardness. Although, you know, 0:10:17.690 --> 0:10:20.770 against like a Marco Rubio, who's another solid conservative and 0:10:20.870 --> 0:10:27.280 is significantly more articulate, it's going to be a tough sled. 0:10:27.340 --> 0:10:28.000 But who knows? 0:10:28.940 --> 0:10:29.220 I don't know. 0:10:29.340 --> 0:10:30.720 It's going to be fun to watch. I think we 0:10:30.780 --> 0:10:39.490 care more now about presentation and glibness and the showbiz 0:10:39.570 --> 0:10:42.689 angle of it than we ever have. It's not his time, man. 0:10:42.750 --> 0:10:45.290 If it was 1888 or something, it'd be perfect. Do 0:10:45.309 --> 0:10:45.910 you think.... 0:10:47.450 --> 0:10:53.209 The backlash against the Trumpian I'm an entertainer thing. 0:10:53.730 --> 0:10:55.890 Again, if he hangs his lantern on. No, we're going 0:10:55.910 --> 0:10:59.480 to choose a different entertainer. Okay. You know, you're probably right. 0:11:00.700 --> 0:11:00.890 I am. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.980 I'm wishing my wishes are the father of my thoughts. So, 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:11.120 scammers and data salesmen and online jerks, they know who's 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.200 the father of my thoughts because they have all sorts 0:11:13.220 --> 0:11:17.839 of information on me. 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Now the 0:12:37.450 --> 0:12:40.130 Democrats have been elected and that means the steady government. 0:12:40.190 --> 0:12:43.209 People are feeling comfortable. What happened now? We don't feel 0:12:43.250 --> 0:12:44.110 comfortable a day later. 0:12:44.790 --> 0:12:46.790 Keeping in mind, you're the same guy who said that 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:47.580 stuff yesterday. 0:12:47.940 --> 0:12:55.119 Right. Exactly. Too much AI in too many areas of 0:12:55.179 --> 0:12:57.240 our lives. Want to talk about that, among other things. 0:12:57.300 --> 0:13:00.220 Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.460 From Belgium to Ireland to the Netherlands, several grocery stores 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.339 say they were also impacted by cyber attacks. One store 0:13:08.380 --> 0:13:11.760 in Sweden saying, overnight, our refrigerators and freezers were hacked 0:13:11.820 --> 0:13:14.420 and the temperature set to 50 degrees. The store meaning 0:13:14.420 --> 0:13:18.640 50 degrees Celsius, which is about 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.270 attacks forcing some stores to close. Many left with empty shelves. 0:13:22.690 --> 0:13:25.050 One Swedish grocery store employee saying they had to throw 0:13:25.110 --> 0:13:28.770 away all of their frozen goods. I mean, the only 0:13:28.809 --> 0:13:30.830 thing you notice is that it was actually warm inside 0:13:30.870 --> 0:13:33.600 the freezer and that sort of thing. Various supermarket chain 0:13:33.650 --> 0:13:36.840 representatives across the continent say the attacks resulted in millions 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.179 of dollars of spoiled food. 0:13:38.260 --> 0:13:39.940 So I saw this clip on the list and I 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.380 actually said to the producer, Hanson, is this new or 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:44.920 is this the same one from the other day? No, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:49.620 it's an ongoing story. The internet hacking of freezers across Europe. 0:13:49.990 --> 0:13:52.770 What the heck is going on? A couple of things. 0:13:52.830 --> 0:13:57.010 Number one, finding a motive is tough. There is some 0:13:57.070 --> 0:13:59.850 speculation that Putin is sending the message. Okay, you're going 0:13:59.870 --> 0:14:02.130 to support Ukraine, are you? I am going to mess 0:14:02.170 --> 0:14:04.150 with you every day. I am going to make your 0:14:04.190 --> 0:14:04.990 lives hard. 0:14:05.790 --> 0:14:06.209 Maybe. 0:14:06.230 --> 0:14:10.010 I'm always a little confused by sending a message that 0:14:10.270 --> 0:14:15.230 people aren't sure if it's from you or not. He always. 0:14:16.380 --> 0:14:19.180 He always preserves plausible deniability. I mean, that's part of 0:14:19.220 --> 0:14:19.620 his thing. 0:14:19.660 --> 0:14:23.730 That's why terrorists, you know, often take responsibility for it, like, 0:14:24.130 --> 0:14:26.410 within an hour or the next day. We want you 0:14:26.430 --> 0:14:29.010 to know we did this, okay? We're trying to get 0:14:29.050 --> 0:14:32.020 a result from what we're doing. This brings us back 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.600 to a conversation we've had many times. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:40.840 Why does Putin bother preserving not even credible deniability, plausible deniability? 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.480 I don't know exactly. 0:14:42.740 --> 0:14:45.680 But like the many drone attacks and explosions at airports 0:14:45.740 --> 0:14:46.280 and the rest of. 0:14:46.300 --> 0:14:49.960 It, he's sending a message. He figures you know who 0:14:50.020 --> 0:14:50.260 did it. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.220 Which is in contrast to his domestic thing, which is 0:14:54.260 --> 0:14:56.330 to make it so freaking obvious who did it. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.620 I'm not even going to cover my tracks, he says. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:00.700 That's how scary I am. 0:15:00.940 --> 0:15:04.250 Anyway. The other thing that I thought was interesting was 0:15:04.330 --> 0:15:08.570 that hackers are like, if it's connected to the internet, 0:15:08.650 --> 0:15:13.660 it is hackable. From refrigerators to your ring doorbell or whatever, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.820 you know, if it's not, they've got decent security. The hackers, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.140 I guess, are going all over the place. This is 0:15:19.180 --> 0:15:22.400 another vote for living in a jar. See you, hour two. 0:15:23.740 --> 0:15:29.580 The default administrator password for this, the controller, temperature controller 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.180 that's involved in a lot of these places, these freezers, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:38.220 the default administrator password is 12345. And a lot of 0:15:38.260 --> 0:15:41.480 supermarket chains or its people don't change the password. 0:15:41.500 --> 0:15:43.320 I wouldn't. I would just leave it to whatever it was. 0:15:43.940 --> 0:15:46.300 I'm not going to put a new password on my freezer. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.600 Why do we even have a password, I would think. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:50.500 I know, I know. 0:15:50.620 --> 0:15:52.820 But if it is connected to the Internet, it's got 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.220 to have a password, and it better not be 12345. 0:15:55.220 --> 0:15:57.900 The other interesting aspect of the long report I read 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:02.740 on it was that somebody or other, where is this? 0:16:03.020 --> 0:16:08.470 Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Clarity successfully used Anthropix Cloud 0:16:08.850 --> 0:16:11.270 after the French cyberattacks last month to build a test 0:16:11.330 --> 0:16:14.610 program to attack refrigerator systems. It took them 30 minutes 0:16:14.650 --> 0:16:18.390 and $ 6. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:17.600 With AI, you just. 0:16:17.540 --> 0:16:20.820 Prompt it and get a coffee, said the chief technology officer. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:21.640 Interesting. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.000 Hot and cold running cyber attacks is my prediction. 0:16:26.590 --> 0:16:29.010 For, I don't know, until we figure out what to 0:16:29.050 --> 0:16:33.090 do about it. It could be just a weirdo, right? 0:16:33.110 --> 0:16:39.630 It's like, why do you vandalize the park equipment? Yeah, 0:16:39.650 --> 0:16:43.670 a vandal. It's a vandal, yeah. Yeah. Could be that. 0:16:44.630 --> 0:16:46.650 That'd actually be better news than if it's Putin sending 0:16:46.670 --> 0:16:48.070 a message. I can reach out and touch you in 0:16:48.110 --> 0:16:49.970 so many different ways. Yeah. 0:16:50.770 --> 0:16:51.010 Yeah. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.700 There's so many with everything hooked to the Internet. If 0:16:53.740 --> 0:16:56.340 the Chinese decide to attack Taiwan and they want to 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.320 disrupt the United States or Russia or whoever does that, 0:16:59.500 --> 0:17:02.140 there's so many different ways to do it. Power plants, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.359 cell phones, freezers at grocery stores is one I had 0:17:05.500 --> 0:17:06.879 didn't have on my radar. 0:17:07.820 --> 0:17:09.040 Sure. Yeah. Yeah. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.800 Use your imagination. It's all on the table. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.780 And Xi Jinping has a building full of the smartest 0:17:14.830 --> 0:17:17.570 people in China, the smartest computer people in China working 0:17:17.630 --> 0:17:21.649 on that very thing right now, as we speak. And 0:17:21.670 --> 0:17:24.110 they're building ships for the Navy as fast as they can. 0:17:25.330 --> 0:17:31.280 So the biggest online dating company in the world is 0:17:31.340 --> 0:17:35.000 saying no AI bots on our site. 0:17:35.020 --> 0:17:35.160 Right. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.760 Because they're worried about people just using AI bots and 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.800 then what's the point? Which is kind of an interesting 0:17:40.859 --> 0:17:42.939 topic and fits in with other things. It's a New 0:17:42.980 --> 0:17:45.560 York Times guest essay today. Maybe we'll get to that 0:17:45.580 --> 0:17:46.140 a little bit later. 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.480 And as we scan the horizon for interesting and wise 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.120 autopsies of the recent election, we've come across a couple 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.780 of people who are very, very stupid. Who are commenting 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.500 on it as well. So we'll share those with you 0:17:59.540 --> 0:18:00.120 next half hour. 0:18:00.380 --> 0:18:02.760 New York Times has got a great inside the war 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.070 room in recent days of the Trump people. There's some 0:18:06.109 --> 0:18:10.550 interesting nuggets in that. Of just how bad the gallows 0:18:10.590 --> 0:18:12.810 humor was leading up to the election. They saw it coming. 0:18:13.130 --> 0:18:14.310 Struck you as authentic, huh? 0:18:14.550 --> 0:18:16.030 Oh, yeah. 0:18:16.090 --> 0:18:17.280 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:20.879 Now, look, I mean, if I were in the ballot, 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:21.560 we would have won. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.940 You saw the people that were packed. Thousands and thousands of. 0:18:24.900 --> 0:18:27.560 People at every rally. And if I was on the ballot, 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.160 we would have won. But you couldn't transfer that love. 0:18:31.180 --> 0:18:34.530 There was such love at those rallies. It was incredible. 0:18:34.570 --> 0:18:37.010 We weren't able to transfer the love to candidates. 0:18:37.770 --> 0:18:41.190 Vice President Vance says the reason Republicans. 0:18:40.630 --> 0:18:43.890 Lost last night was the war in Iran. 0:18:43.950 --> 0:18:48.270 Well, I think it's largely true because it drove the 0:18:48.350 --> 0:18:49.410 gasoline up a little. 0:18:49.230 --> 0:18:49.930 Bit short term. 0:18:50.890 --> 0:18:53.869 And probably that's, uh, probably it's true. But at the 0:18:53.910 --> 0:18:55.510 same time, if I had it to do again, I'd 0:18:55.530 --> 0:18:58.230 have to do it again because long-term, uh, it's the 0:18:58.270 --> 0:18:58.770 only answer. 0:18:58.810 --> 0:19:00.850 You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:02.380 I do. 0:19:02.390 --> 0:19:02.540 Yeah. 0:19:02.580 --> 0:19:05.400 I can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon or everything 0:19:05.420 --> 0:19:08.679 that you see here someday might not exist. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.880 So do you think Trump understood what Vance did right there? 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:19.760 So the reporting by Fox yesterday was that, uh, all your, uh, 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.600 Important people there in the White House gathered together. What's 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.860 our messaging going to be coming out of last night's 0:19:24.940 --> 0:19:28.440 ass kicking? And Vance immediately runs to the Twitter machine 0:19:28.660 --> 0:19:31.239 and tweets out his reason for it, which wasn't what 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:35.619 they were going to say, obviously. Got ahead of their messaging. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.450 You think Trump understands what's going on there? Yeah, I 0:19:39.510 --> 0:19:41.530 think he does. Probably. 0:19:42.090 --> 0:19:44.790 Yeah, I suspect so. I just like this line that 0:19:44.850 --> 0:19:46.390 he couldn't transfer the love. 0:19:46.430 --> 0:19:47.990 That's all I'm trying to do, baby. I'm trying to 0:19:48.030 --> 0:19:51.899 transfer my love. Yeah, you can't. can't transfer love. Yeah, 0:19:51.940 --> 0:19:58.300 you'll just have to wait. Beautiful. So New York Times 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:04.820 with an interesting piece today. They're liberals. They are. I 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.340 give more credit to any story that includes Jonathan Swan, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.230 and this one does. I've seen the enemy and it 0:20:10.310 --> 0:20:13.290 is us inside Team Trump's historic collapse. I'll just give 0:20:13.310 --> 0:20:14.540 you a little bit of this because we don't need 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.940 to spend a lot of time on this. The Washington 0:20:16.980 --> 0:20:18.700 Post has got a good article about what the Democrats 0:20:18.740 --> 0:20:21.120 are going to do or what they're the decision they're facing. 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.340 So I'll get to that here, too. But this is 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.659 back to The New York Times. Six days before the election, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.409 more than two dozen of President Trump's top strategists logged 0:20:29.470 --> 0:20:32.409 on to a private video call. The mood was grim. 0:20:32.830 --> 0:20:36.050 The discussion began with talk of cyanide. Do you want 0:20:36.070 --> 0:20:38.240 the white pill first or the black pill first? Ask 0:20:38.300 --> 0:20:43.359 some guy you don't know. But it was there looking 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.150