Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jack and he is Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Why from studio scene sees or a dimly lit room
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Speaker 2: Communications Compound kicking off the brand new week elections tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Until day we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2: The last nerve has him what everybody's.
Speaker 1: On at this point.
Speaker 2: Boy, first polls close six Eastern time tomorrow, three.
Speaker 1: O'clock my time, our ton.
Speaker 2: But maybe it won't have any results for royal. Hard
Speaker 2: to say. Here's the most interesting thing I learned over
Speaker 2: the weekend. This is not about a particular poll. This
Speaker 2: is about the polling in general. We talked about this.
Speaker 3: On I'm going to say, anybody brings up polls, we're fighting, well,
Speaker 3: this is well.
Speaker 2: This is why you were right about that. This is
Speaker 2: why you walked into the rooms and said, oh, be Gorer,
Speaker 2: I saw a poll that was interesting. I would just
Speaker 2: go ahead and get my head beat in because I'm
Speaker 2: fighting and anybody who brings up any posts but anyway,
Speaker 2: this backs up your thinking excellent. So we talked about
Speaker 2: this a little on Friday. The new term that I
Speaker 2: learned that seems to be the big thing is hurting
Speaker 2: in the world of polling, where you don't want to
Speaker 2: put out a poll that's an outlier because it could
Speaker 2: make you look bad or something like that. Even though
Speaker 2: that's the way polling works, they should be kind of
Speaker 2: all over the place, just kind of moving a direction
Speaker 2: or not. Nate Silver ran the numbers and decided that
Speaker 2: for all seven swing states, he said, even if all
Speaker 2: seven swing states are actually tied down to the vote,
Speaker 2: for all of the polls to show erase this close
Speaker 2: without hurting, like without the pollsters getting involved and trying
Speaker 2: to make them close, that would be a one and
Speaker 2: nine point five trillion chance of all of the polls
Speaker 2: being all the states being this close at the same
Speaker 2: time in all the polls. Wow, one on nine point
Speaker 2: five trillion chance of that happening.
Speaker 3: Statistic. I was ready for a big number. I wasn't
Speaker 3: ready for that Bega number. And in other words, this
Speaker 3: is absolutely laughable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it could be well, he said, even
Speaker 2: if they're tied, it would be so, but they could
Speaker 2: be that close.
Speaker 1: But they're definitely not. That's not accurate.
Speaker 2: It could one candidate could easily win every state and
Speaker 2: be that far ahead because they were just working so
Speaker 2: hard to We're underestimating Trump and will be killed for
Speaker 2: this for the next four years, or we're overestimating Trump
Speaker 2: and all the Harris people are gonna be mad at
Speaker 2: this or whatever they're doing to try to get it closer,
Speaker 2: and it's just not realistic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a couple of thoughts, especially for people
Speaker 3: who didn't hear that segment last week. Number One, you
Speaker 3: would expect with a margin for air three percent in
Speaker 3: either direction, and it really ought to be called a
Speaker 3: it's not error per se. It's a margin of inexactitude.
Speaker 2: I think that's the I think that might be one
Speaker 2: of the problems. I was thinking about this all weekend
Speaker 2: as I learn more about this. Somehow we got in
Speaker 2: our heads with no evidence that polling is a bit
Speaker 2: exact dish of a science and it's just not never
Speaker 2: has been, never will be.
Speaker 3: It's impossible. Oh yeah, it's a shotgun. It's not a
Speaker 3: sniper's right. It shouldn't be called the margin of error.
Speaker 3: It's not an error, but you'd expect that if all
Speaker 3: the polls were honest, you would have a fairly randomized
Speaker 3: set of results that spanned the so called margin of error, right,
Speaker 3: not all of them ending up. It's just impossible. They're
Speaker 3: not that accurate. Again, it's a shotgun. You wouldn't hit
Speaker 3: the bulls eye and only the bulls eye every single time.
Speaker 3: So that's thought number one. Second, second thought in hell,
Speaker 3: this is for you, Jack, as much as it is
Speaker 3: for the audience. It reminds me so much of every
Speaker 3: executive in show business, in entertainment, in communication, the creative arts, whatever.
Speaker 3: None of them get fired for doing what everybody else
Speaker 3: is doing, right, so they think, yeah, yeah, let's not innovator,
Speaker 3: take a chance.
Speaker 1: Let's just do what everybody's doing all the damn time,
Speaker 1: even if it's failing.
Speaker 3: Across an industry, they just don't want to be the
Speaker 3: guy who tries something different, because then you're at risk. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this reminds me of that principle. But now, among polsters.
Speaker 2: One in nine point five trillion chants of having all
Speaker 2: the polls come out that close, that is guffaw worthy.
Speaker 2: It absolutely is. So.
Speaker 3: I appreciate Nate Silver's recent turn to the speaker of
Speaker 3: truth I mean he's always kind of been that, but
Speaker 3: he's well.
Speaker 1: In a call out as you know, the powers that
Speaker 1: be I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that gives you an idea of where things
Speaker 2: are on that and then.
Speaker 1: The polls start closing.
Speaker 2: Indiana and Kentucky will close at six eastern three on
Speaker 2: the West coast, which is right in the middle of
Speaker 2: the afternoon, and we'll start getting some results, but you know,
Speaker 2: if they're super close. Who knows who came up with
Speaker 2: these weird rules that, Like, for probably the most important
Speaker 2: state in the entire election, Pennsylvania, they don't start opening
Speaker 2: the ballots until the polls close. That's the state law.
Speaker 2: Why why do you wait till seven at night to
Speaker 2: start opening the ballots? I mean, what's the theory behind that?
Speaker 3: I suspect so no preliminary results or trends get out
Speaker 3: that might influence the election. I think back in the
Speaker 3: day when it was a few mail in ballots, and
Speaker 3: remember these these rules were crafted Like it's as if
Speaker 3: our traffic laws were crafted for nineteen twenty seven, when
Speaker 3: there's like fifteen cars on the road in Manhattan. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was crafted for when there were a few mail
Speaker 3: in ballots. The rest were, you know, live ballot packs.
Speaker 1: Et cetera.
Speaker 2: We're actually going to play a clip later. I came
Speaker 2: across this. It got fed to me and my algorithm
Speaker 2: on YouTube. It was election night nineteen eighty four. And
Speaker 2: if that's how different politics are now, and I guess
Speaker 2: our patients nineteen eighty four, if you don't remember, Ronald
Speaker 2: Reagan won every single state but one. And so the
Speaker 2: election results are rolling in and it's a monta. It's
Speaker 2: like edited together.
Speaker 1: Like an hour long.
Speaker 2: I didn't listen to the whole thing, but it's really
Speaker 2: hilarious compared to the way they would handle it now.
Speaker 2: We now have another state in and Ronald Reagan currently
Speaker 2: leads one ninety two to zero.
Speaker 1: Jim and they, but nobody called it.
Speaker 2: Nobody called the race even though so clearly over, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure all the polling leading up to it showed
Speaker 2: it to be not even close. But they still hung
Speaker 2: in there as journalists and didn't call it until it
Speaker 2: was over, which is so different than the way we
Speaker 2: do thing now. It's a race to see who can
Speaker 2: call it first or not call it first if it's
Speaker 2: not going your political direction.
Speaker 1: Forty years ago.
Speaker 2: That's something now, though, I think they hung in there
Speaker 2: saying it's now two hundred and eleven for Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1: Michael Dukakis has zero.
Speaker 3: A reminders that President Reagan has not yet crossed the
Speaker 3: threshold seventy electoral votes and so their results are uncertain.
Speaker 1: Has a different time, man, different time.
Speaker 2: And I remember we had Newt Gingrich on this show
Speaker 2: years ago, and I remember asking him the question, when
Speaker 2: will this whole polarization thing be over? And he said,
Speaker 2: when one side wins? And I was thinking, man, that
Speaker 2: election nineteen eighty four, one side had won at least
Speaker 2: for a while, clearly, I mean it was, you know,
Speaker 2: we're not at each other's throats, because it was clear
Speaker 2: where the vast majority of people were. Yeah, And the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party went back home and reinvented itself and came
Speaker 2: up with a moderate, a conservative by today's standards, and
Speaker 2: absolutely yeah, who was pro capital punishment and wanted to
Speaker 2: make people work for their welfare check and all kinds
Speaker 2: of different things. That's the way politics works. But we're
Speaker 2: a long way from that now, good lord.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, it's funny not to get too winding
Speaker 3: in our roadmap of topics here.
Speaker 1: So we're we're doing the Trump weave. That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had a conversation with a couple of friends over
Speaker 3: the week, including one Jewish fellow, who agreed completely that
Speaker 3: the Israeli peace plan of will defeat our enemies is
Speaker 3: absolutely necessary. How does this incredible violence end when one
Speaker 3: side wins? That's the story human history, not Barack Obama
Speaker 3: sitting at a bargaining table and coming up with some
Speaker 3: intellectually superior set of agreements and counterbalances. No one side's
Speaker 3: got a win. Seems ugly to the modern consciousness, but.
Speaker 1: That's the way humans are.
Speaker 2: There are two stories that made me very angry over
Speaker 2: the weekend, both of them in the same direction politically
Speaker 2: against Trump and four Harris just unbelievable. But we should
Speaker 2: start to show officially before mention that I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, November the fourth, man.
Speaker 2: November the fifth has been thrown around as a threat
Speaker 2: or a promise for so long, good lord, and it's
Speaker 2: tomorrow finally. Anyway, it's your twenty twenty four life. Will
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Speaker 1: So on election night, don't expect to know the winner.
Speaker 2: We probably will have a pretty good idea who won
Speaker 2: the presidency, maybe around Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's from sixty minutes last night.
Speaker 3: You know what they're gonna do. They're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 3: be like one hundred post polling polls that come out,
Speaker 3: according to the New York Times, see in a post
Speaker 3: election poll, it appears Trump may have won.
Speaker 2: If they're right that it'll be Thursday or Friday, you
Speaker 2: could easily skip the news tomorrow and not miss a thing, right,
Speaker 2: a thing, not a thing that matters. There'll be all
Speaker 2: kinds of conjecture, and this could happen, that could happen,
Speaker 2: but not a thing of substance if it plays.
Speaker 1: Out the way they just described it.
Speaker 3: There not unless you are an uber political geek who
Speaker 3: wants to know how the fourth district of Indiana went,
Speaker 3: because that's frequently a bell weather for the blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you just want to know who's winning
Speaker 3: the game, no, forget it, complete waste of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so I had build all this excitement for uh,
Speaker 2: you know, it's gonna get sitters and get a little
Speaker 2: meth and whatever it took to be able to go
Speaker 2: all day long and all night long. But there might
Speaker 2: not be any actual news to be had on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: November fifth.
Speaker 3: And what's so funny is then somebody I'll go ahead
Speaker 3: and say it ways in and says, on the other hand,
Speaker 3: it might be a decisive sweep for Trump or Harris
Speaker 3: or something nobody knows.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna hang on to the two incredibly
Speaker 2: egregious things that happened over the weekend politically that you
Speaker 2: get more commentary just freaking angering. But I guess it's
Speaker 2: where we are in our politics. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: at the bottomn How does mail bag.
Speaker 1: Look very strong start to the week? Awesome?
Speaker 2: Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2: I am so flexible now after a couple of months
Speaker 2: of stretching every single.
Speaker 1: Day's so flexible. Well, congratulations, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I just threw my foot up on the counter at
Speaker 2: the time my shoes in a way that I could
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Speaker 1: What wow, good for you.
Speaker 2: I got my foot way up here, huh up on
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Speaker 1: It's awesome. Well, it was just a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1: If I'd dropped a pen on the floor, Sam, can
Speaker 1: you come downstairs? Your father has dropped a pen. I
Speaker 1: couldn't bend over to pick it up.
Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, I too, as you know, have embraced stretching
Speaker 3: rapidly for me to save myself from excruciating pain.
Speaker 1: But it's been, you know, a good thing. In general.
Speaker 1: I think I could put both feet behind my head.
Speaker 3: You want to see me? O, Lord, please Michael quick
Speaker 3: play the freedom loving quote of the day. Music or
Speaker 3: cut off is mike, or or hand out cups of
Speaker 3: hemlock or something whatever. Mix it in, So beloved listener
Speaker 3: Steve sent this along Patrick Henry and Donald Trump, and
Speaker 3: it begins with a quote from Patrick Henry and.
Speaker 1: Ends with one from Trump.
Speaker 3: This is the complete Patrick Henry quote on King George
Speaker 3: the Third, Like so many of the great quotes from
Speaker 3: the Revolutionary period, off and the context is lost because
Speaker 3: they want to keep it good and pithy.
Speaker 1: But he's talking about King George the Third.
Speaker 3: Caesar had his brutus, Charles the first, his Cromwell and
Speaker 3: George the third may profit by their example. If this
Speaker 3: be treason, make the most of it, which is a
Speaker 3: great restatement of Look, if you take a shot.
Speaker 1: At the king, don't miss.
Speaker 3: All right, If we're committing treason, we gotta get it
Speaker 3: done all the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2: You can't partially do that, or you end up dead
Speaker 2: and accomplishing nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the greatest sin is to hit softly and then
Speaker 3: trump on warhawk Liz Cheney, she is a radical warhawk.
Speaker 3: Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine
Speaker 3: barrels shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels
Speaker 3: about it, you know, when the guns are trained on
Speaker 3: her face.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I'm not sure what Steve's point is in judgeaposing
Speaker 3: those two quotes.
Speaker 1: I don't know either.
Speaker 2: But that whole quote is not played very often. That's
Speaker 2: one of the things that has me so angry. The
Speaker 2: coverage of that story is and this is an extraordinary statement,
Speaker 2: I realize, but it is the single worst coverage of
Speaker 2: a major story that matters in my lifetime. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just a hundred percent lie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lot to say, but I think it represents the
Speaker 3: complete abandonment of the principles of journalism to which many
Speaker 3: of us had clung for many years. Yeah, any semblance
Speaker 3: of accuracy or even handedness. Mailbag, drop us a note,
Speaker 3: mailbag at Armstrong you getty dot com. Keep it as
Speaker 3: short as you can, but you know with any reason.
Speaker 3: Got this note from mad Dog. It's Monday morning. Where
Speaker 3: are you guys withdrawals?
Speaker 1: Where did it.
Speaker 3: Work for the same schedule where maybe you forgot to
Speaker 3: spring backward or fall.
Speaker 1: To the side or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's right, there's a time change, so probably a quarter
Speaker 2: of our audience had heart attacks.
Speaker 3: Stats bear that out. Jack moving along. I like this
Speaker 3: from Steve and Everett Washington. Grew up in a JFK
Speaker 3: household where we were revered free speech, individual choice, civil liberties,
Speaker 3: civil rights. I want to conserve those liberal values. Does
Speaker 3: that make me a liberal or a conservative?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the interesting thing about the term something.
Speaker 3: He's as I came up with a test, and he
Speaker 3: talks about your high school self and if you'd be
Speaker 3: shocked at where you are politically these days, and then
Speaker 3: he says, the Republican of today is not demonstrably different
Speaker 3: than when I was in high school. However, the Democrat
Speaker 3: of today would absolutely shock the Democrat of the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3: Make of that what you will. Well, a hell of
Speaker 3: a lot of people Steve are saying that I didn't
Speaker 3: leave the party. The party left me, and I hope
Speaker 3: more wake up to the absurdities of the modern woke
Speaker 3: Democratic Party, the absurdities and obscenities. Anyway, moving along, this
Speaker 3: is from Frank just c and know. I was told
Speaker 3: by an officer at the vote by mail office I
Speaker 3: should drop my stuff at a dropbox or just go
Speaker 3: to the voting center because they're having postal issues. Drop
Speaker 3: Boxes are nowhere to be found anywhere in my zip code.
Speaker 3: I have to drop it off at the voting center.
Speaker 3: I might as well vote there. Don't get me started on.
Speaker 3: Even if the vote is safe and voter fraud is
Speaker 3: extremely rare, if people have a widespread perception that it's.
Speaker 1: The wild West, and who who knows.
Speaker 3: What's going on with all the ballots, you've lost, You've
Speaker 3: lost the game.
Speaker 1: Did you see this story, Jahad?
Speaker 2: Did you see the story about the Chinese national voting
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania?
Speaker 1: I think over the weekend, I.
Speaker 2: Just saw the headline Marco Rubio is going big on
Speaker 2: that on facin Nation yesterday.
Speaker 3: We can talk about that. This from rich Trump's doing
Speaker 3: a lot of stupid. It's almost as if he's trying
Speaker 3: to lose or something. He's lost as marbles. Oh this weekend. Anyway,
Speaker 3: he said he should not have left the White House
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty. Oh lord, he said he's going to
Speaker 3: eliminate fluoride. We grew up in Latin America. No fluoride.
Speaker 3: We all have terrible teeth.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's RFK Junior's big thing, taking the floor
Speaker 2: out out of the water. And Trump says he's going
Speaker 2: to appoint him. But so did Trump say I shouldn't
Speaker 2: have left the White House?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said something of that effect. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's not the right thing to say. In the closing days.
Speaker 2: Wherever Harris, if she wins with this strategy, and she might,
Speaker 2: it's horrible for our politics and horrible for America. Are
Speaker 2: not weighing in on important topics just so she can
Speaker 2: have it both ways. The worst, most egregious example coming up,
Speaker 2: and a lot more. If you miss now or get
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Speaker 4: Kamala, take my Pamela. The American people want to stop
Speaker 4: the chaos and end the DRAMAA with a cool new step.
Speaker 4: Mamala came back in our pajamaa's and watch a rum Kamala.
Speaker 1: You know that was funny.
Speaker 2: I thought she was good on there for what politicians do.
Speaker 2: And this was interesting to me though, that the FCC commissioner,
Speaker 2: who was a Republican, came out immediately and said, that's
Speaker 2: not fair. You don't get to have one candidate on
Speaker 2: and not the other. So NBC had to have Trump
Speaker 2: on last night for Sunday Night Football, the most watched
Speaker 2: show in America, and he got to do a couple
Speaker 2: of ads at the end of the game to balance
Speaker 2: it out. So I got the big NASCAR race too.
Speaker 2: That's how that worked over the weekend. I think you're
Speaker 2: actually better off as Trump. I guarantee you you're better
Speaker 2: off as Trump at the end of the NFL game
Speaker 2: than you are on Saturday Night Live. So that that's
Speaker 2: a pretty good equal time for him.
Speaker 3: Boy, unless he unleashed Martin Luther esque statement of principles
Speaker 3: and persuasion, he's not gonna move anybody watching Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: No, and they wouldn't they wouldn't treat him fairly anyway,
Speaker 2: What was I gonna say, Oh, so we'll get into
Speaker 2: it later.
Speaker 1: The whole.
Speaker 2: Trump saying Liz Cheney is a chicken hawk. This is,
Speaker 2: by the way, as you all know, the criticism that
Speaker 2: the left has been using on Liz chaneing your dad
Speaker 2: for twenty years.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not even like unconservatives. I mean it's
Speaker 3: literally the same person, right that they vote for war,
Speaker 3: but they don't have to fight him themselves. And Trump
Speaker 3: said exactly the same thing with very colorful language about
Speaker 3: how about if she's out there with a gun and
Speaker 3: she's got nine guns trained at her face?
Speaker 1: But the media endited that down and.
Speaker 2: Presented it for four days now as if Trump had
Speaker 2: threatened Liz Cheney with a firing squad.
Speaker 1: Basically is the way it was portrayed on all media.
Speaker 2: I mean, just absolutely, egregiously lying about the context, even
Speaker 2: when that's the exact thing they've been saying about Dick
Speaker 2: Cheney and his daughter for years.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm sorry, are we not talking about this now
Speaker 3: or we are gonna.
Speaker 1: Play the clips later? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Because I want to get to this. This is why
Speaker 2: I had to steam for. Sorry, I went too far
Speaker 2: with the thing I'm not talking about.
Speaker 1: This is the one.
Speaker 2: This is the one that really makes me mad though.
Speaker 2: And if you can get If Kamala Harris wins, we're
Speaker 2: into a new era. I guess that hopefully only applies
Speaker 2: when you're running against Trump. The most important thing going
Speaker 2: on in California for those of us who live here
Speaker 2: is Prop thirty six, where they'll m make crime a
Speaker 2: crime again. That's the idea that currently, because of a
Speaker 2: prop that misled a bunch of soft heads from several
Speaker 2: years back, you can steal up to one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: with a stuff at a store and it's not a
Speaker 2: felony and so, and you can do it over and
Speaker 2: over again. That's why those of you around the rest
Speaker 2: of the country have seen all the videos of people
Speaker 2: going into a Walgreens and sweeping all the stuff off
Speaker 2: the shelf into the bag. That's why all the Walgreens
Speaker 2: have closed. That's why all the CBS's have closed. That's
Speaker 2: why your toothpaste and everything that's worth more than fifty cents.
Speaker 1: Is locked up, locked up.
Speaker 2: My toothpaste is because of that, and Prop thirty six
Speaker 2: will reverse it and Kamala Harris listen to how this
Speaker 2: played out. She's a Californian still, she was a senator
Speaker 2: from California. She refused to answer when asked how she
Speaker 2: would vote on a measure to impose harsher sentences on criminals.
Speaker 2: She was taking questions from reporters in Michigan yesterday when
Speaker 2: she discussed she had cast her own ballot in the
Speaker 2: final hours of the race. She confirmed that she was
Speaker 2: voting by mail and hoped it would get to her
Speaker 2: home state on time. She was then asked how she
Speaker 2: voted on Proposition thirteen, which by the way, is passing
Speaker 2: like seventy five percent to twenty currently, so she could
Speaker 2: easily get on the right side of that in California,
Speaker 2: a ballot major that would finally be to a fun crime. Harris,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, blah blah blah. I'll get to the
Speaker 2: actual quotes. So I have my ballot, which is a
Speaker 2: typical Kamala Harris sort of way to jump into answering
Speaker 2: a question.
Speaker 3: She asked directly, did you vote for it thirty So
Speaker 3: I have my ballot? Yes, How did you vote on
Speaker 3: Prop thirty six?
Speaker 1: Was the question? So I have my ballot.
Speaker 2: It's on its way to California, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: trust the system that it will arrive there. And I'm
Speaker 2: not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly,
Speaker 2: it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend
Speaker 2: to create an endorsement one way or another around it.
Speaker 1: And then she walked off.
Speaker 2: Wow, if you can get elected president with your answer
Speaker 2: to the question is, so, do you support taxpayers funding
Speaker 2: sex changes for illegals? I'm going to follow the law? Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: but do you support that policy? I'm going to follow
Speaker 2: the law. And on Prop thirty six, do you support
Speaker 2: locking up criminals so they don't drive every convenience store
Speaker 2: and UH and pharmacy out of California.
Speaker 1: I don't want to weigh in on that and put
Speaker 1: my thumb on I.
Speaker 3: Have my ballot. I grew up in a middle class family.
Speaker 3: Freaking unbelievable. Well, imagine the level of spinallessness and fecklessness
Speaker 3: that you don't even have the political instincts to go
Speaker 3: with what's popular, right, say, hey, the previous prop it
Speaker 3: had some unforeseen consequences. If the people at California want
Speaker 3: to reform the system again and try again. I'm with them, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I voted in that would be populist nothing burger, a
Speaker 3: populist nothing burger. But she doesn't even have the confidence
Speaker 3: to offer up a nothing burger.
Speaker 1: She the only thing I can figure out.
Speaker 2: So I was watching one of the zoom calls that
Speaker 2: I watch all the time with heavyweight strategists, and a
Speaker 2: couple of the Democrats are saying, it's a mystery within
Speaker 2: democratic circles as to why she can't answer these questions.
Speaker 1: We're not exactly sure why.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you know, you have to assume that David pluf
Speaker 2: and all the geniuses she's got around her haven't chosen
Speaker 2: the strategy of don't answer the question. She just for
Speaker 2: some reason can't answer the question, and nobody knows why.
Speaker 2: But I'll bet they hadn't trained her up on this one,
Speaker 2: and she went into oh no, oh, no, I better
Speaker 2: not take a position mode.
Speaker 1: Rather, she has no instincts. She has no positions or instincts.
Speaker 2: She's the opposite of Trump or Obama or any of
Speaker 2: these people that have a you know, a point of view.
Speaker 1: She has none.
Speaker 2: How can you not take a position on making it
Speaker 2: against the law again to freaking rob convenience. How can
Speaker 2: you not take a position, especially when it I'll bet
Speaker 2: she she has no idea how it's pulling. She just
Speaker 2: does not that deep in the policy that is entirely possible.
Speaker 2: I can't come up with an explanation, as you say,
Speaker 2: if Democrats are mystified, I sure am, But I mean, seriously,
Speaker 2: she is the most vacuous candidate I've ever seen in
Speaker 2: my life. She makes Michael Ducaccus, John Kerry look like
Speaker 2: ideological dynamos, Walter Mondale, you name your losing candidate. They
Speaker 2: were way more forceful and their positions understood than her.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why she's going with this strategy, being the
Speaker 2: mystery woman the black box, who knows what's in there
Speaker 2: we don't know. And as Bill Clinton famously said, and
Speaker 2: it seems to be true, it's better to be strong
Speaker 2: and wrong than we can right. It's just to be
Speaker 2: to have a strong position on something, which is what
Speaker 2: works for Trump.
Speaker 1: But this one's so easy. Crime is an issue all
Speaker 1: across the country.
Speaker 2: He got seventy five percent of Californians saying, yeah, we
Speaker 2: got to make crime pay again, uh not pay again.
Speaker 3: And she will not even here It is Unbelichael, play
Speaker 3: the ding, play the ding sound for me just went
Speaker 3: off in my head.
Speaker 1: The light bulb, she's Hitler.
Speaker 3: This is both the somebody making a gratuitous Hitler mentioned
Speaker 3: alarm and the idea has gone off in my head.
Speaker 1: The light bulb is going on.
Speaker 3: She dare not betray the far left flank of the
Speaker 3: party that got the neo Marxist so called criminal justice
Speaker 3: reform going.
Speaker 1: She she can't go there ideologically.
Speaker 2: I think more importantly than that, And this is my suspicion,
Speaker 2: that's who she really is.
Speaker 1: That is entirely possible.
Speaker 2: The reason I think it's likely, the reason that pops
Speaker 2: into her head is not just she doesn't want to
Speaker 2: anger those people. That's who she is. And it rubs
Speaker 2: her the wrong way to say those things.
Speaker 3: Tell you what, I'm running for president someday, God help
Speaker 3: the Republic. But if if my polsters come to me
Speaker 3: and say, hey, Joe, all you have to do is
Speaker 3: say you really need to limit the First Amendment. Hate
Speaker 3: speech should be illegal. You're gonna win this thing now,
Speaker 3: not with a shotgun to my head. And you think
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that, and you're saying the similar with
Speaker 3: her She's not gonna come out and say we should
Speaker 3: lock up criminals because she believes it's systemic racism or
Speaker 3: something like that. She's not gonna say taxpayers shouldn't fund
Speaker 3: sex changes for criminals because she thinks they should.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm torn between the incompatible ideas of she can't betray
Speaker 3: a sacred principle, which is bring on Marxism, and the
Speaker 3: notion that she doesn't have any sacred principles whatsoever. This
Speaker 3: is purely a transactional decision. She doesn't want to lose
Speaker 3: her far left flank. I think it's probably the latter,
Speaker 3: because the former assumes she has, you know, like bone
Speaker 3: deep level principles.
Speaker 1: Prop.
Speaker 2: Forty seven, which is one of the biggest disasters for
Speaker 2: California in its history.
Speaker 1: It might be the s not might be.
Speaker 2: It's probably almost certainly the single number one top reason
Speaker 2: that California started losing population for the first time in
Speaker 2: its history. Prop forty seven, and this is an effort
Speaker 2: to reverse it, and she won't take a stand on it.
Speaker 2: She's asked specifically in her answers. So I have my ballot,
Speaker 2: it's on it's way to California, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: trust the system that will arrive there. And I'm not
Speaker 2: going to talk about the vote on that because honestly,
Speaker 2: it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend
Speaker 2: to create an endorsement one way or another around it.
Speaker 2: Nice freaking leadership, Madam President, good Lord.
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Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 2: Even the Washington Examiner says, which is a right leaning newspaper,
Speaker 2: if you didn't know that Trump has charted his own
Speaker 2: path in the final fateful days, going off script on
Speaker 2: various tangents that have either stunned or energized supporters. But
Speaker 2: even the examiners saying, stunning supporters, Yeah, this is the
Speaker 2: last weekend and now you're doing the whole rambling not
Speaker 2: talking about immigration and crime ah an inflation?
Speaker 1: Ah? Is it just ill discipline? It's got to be.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just I have this weird thought that
Speaker 3: if a book came out down the road where it's
Speaker 3: disclosed that Trump was highly ambivalent about serving another term
Speaker 3: as president. At his age and given his luxurious lifestyle,
Speaker 3: he wanted the win to go out a winner, but
Speaker 3: wasn't sure he wanted to do.
Speaker 2: The job again, I could believe it if you heard
Speaker 2: that with that shock you No, absolutely not. I mean,
Speaker 2: how else to explain some of the bizarro crap he
Speaker 2: said in the last couple of weeks when it looked
Speaker 2: like he was on not a glide path exactly, but
Speaker 2: really on the front foot, right. I think for yesterday,
Speaker 2: I think he saw that Iowall pull, which we could
Speaker 2: talk about later, but Joe will punch me in the face.
Speaker 2: That was really not good news and just came out
Speaker 2: yesterday and had the people who follow Pole's world flapping
Speaker 2: their gums, and he just, you know, he just gets
Speaker 2: stuff like that gets under his skin.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He called the polster from Eyewall kinds of bad names
Speaker 2: during the rally.
Speaker 1: I mean that's one tell right there, right right.
Speaker 3: Anybody up for psychoanalyzing Trump for the million and third time?
Speaker 1: No, me neither.
Speaker 3: All right, then, moving along, Oh, you know you brought
Speaker 3: up that California stuff. I've got an absolutely fabulous California's
Speaker 3: crumbling update for later on in the show. I'm just
Speaker 3: going to hit you with one statistic if I can
Speaker 3: find it real fast. Hang on now, I think I've
Speaker 3: got it.
Speaker 1: Here. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, since September twenty two, when Emperor Gavin Newsom had
Speaker 3: the state on full lockdown, remember, leaving the state of
Speaker 3: emergency way beyond any possible justification given the wording of
Speaker 3: the state of emergency.
Speaker 1: Clause in California's constitution.
Speaker 3: Anyway, since September twenty two, California has lost one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty four thousand jobs in the private sector and
Speaker 3: gained three hundred and sixty one thousand in.
Speaker 1: Government and government related sectors. Wow.
Speaker 3: It has become more and more a high tax heavy
Speaker 3: government job killing state.
Speaker 1: Wow. That is something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's from the Legislative Analyst's office too. This
Speaker 3: is these are solid numbers.
Speaker 2: So one really great thing Trump did at the rally
Speaker 2: over the weekend, want to tell you about. Maybe throw
Speaker 2: that into Katie's headlines which are coming up.
Speaker 5: I prefer that Trump would win over Harris, and that's
Speaker 5: why I was disappointing that he kind of went angry
Speaker 5: off the script yesterday for his big rally in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: But at his Virginia rally. He's doing seven rallies in
Speaker 2: two days, which is a lot when you're about eighty
Speaker 2: years old and fat. The entire Ronoke College swimming team
Speaker 2: was on stage with him wearing shirts. Oh sang, you know,
Speaker 2: protect women against men in sports, and that's that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's a good love.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 1: Way to go, ladies, way to have the courage.
Speaker 2: We have a couple of celebrity endorsements have just rolled
Speaker 2: in before we get to Katie. Oh both of them,
Speaker 2: both of them for Kamala Harris. Oh no really, Monica
Speaker 2: Lewinsky and Harrison Ford have both weigh in with their endorsements.
Speaker 1: Boy, now my mind has changed, right right, whatever, you know.
Speaker 3: I it's too bad that I really don't believe Monica
Speaker 3: deserves a kicking at this late date because I had
Speaker 3: a really funny line flash through my mind, but you'll
Speaker 3: never hear it, folks.
Speaker 1: Sorry, wow, But the fact.
Speaker 3: That Hans Solo has gone to the dark side, if
Speaker 3: you would, very disturbing. I felt a disturbance in the
Speaker 3: forest right before the show, and now I know what
Speaker 3: it was. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
Speaker 3: the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 1: Katie, Thank you guys, NBC.
Speaker 4: Nearly seventy seven million mail in and early in person
Speaker 4: votes have been cast nationally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be eighty million at least, So
Speaker 2: over half the votes ahead of time were either okay
Speaker 2: with that or or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. CNN.
Speaker 4: Trump offers darkness, Harris offers optimism on election eve in America.
Speaker 2: Just in general. You could do that every single day.
Speaker 2: You can pick quotes out of Harris's rallies that are
Speaker 2: all dark. I mean, when she's talking about he's Hitler
Speaker 2: and an authoritarian and it'll never be another election.
Speaker 1: That's dark.
Speaker 2: But you choose the happy quotes for her if you're
Speaker 2: a liberal out well, and.
Speaker 3: She offered hope that inflation will continue to be high
Speaker 3: and that there will be a dude ogling your eleven
Speaker 3: year old daughter in a locking room, locker room.
Speaker 1: That's sort of hope, yay.
Speaker 2: But yet Indiana Jones in the Temple of Equity is
Speaker 2: on her side.
Speaker 4: Woo from Forbes US accuses Russia of election interference over
Speaker 4: viral videos with FBI seals.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that reminds me.
Speaker 2: Microsoft came out with the warning, remember several weeks ago,
Speaker 2: that they believe the last forty eight hours which we're
Speaker 2: in is going to be high time for China, Russia, Iran, everybody,
Speaker 2: all the evil doers to really try to mess with
Speaker 2: our elections in social media and stuff like that. So
Speaker 2: keep an eye out for phony videos that you promote.
Speaker 3: The other's one of a Haitian guy who says he
Speaker 3: voted nine times or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's completely fake. Did he have a cat leg hanging
Speaker 1: out of his mouth? Oh wow, No, see that's not
Speaker 1: the accurate. Oh.
Speaker 4: From the Associated Press, the man who took in orphaned
Speaker 4: Peanut the Squirrel says, it's quote surreal that officials euthanized
Speaker 4: his pet.
Speaker 3: We got to go big on that story. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't wait. And it's much more important than it
Speaker 3: might seem at first. Blush, Okay, it has real significance.
Speaker 2: I'll take your word for it because I had not
Speaker 2: looked into pean at the Squirrel. I just saw the headlines.
Speaker 4: ABC, drunes and rockets fired at Israel from two different directions.
Speaker 2: One thing that will happen when this election is finally over,
Speaker 2: which hopefully will be this week, we can go back
Speaker 2: to paying attention to some really important stories in the
Speaker 2: world that were completely ignoring as a country.
Speaker 4: From Breitbart, New Jersey woman votes in her bra after
Speaker 4: being told to ditch.
Speaker 1: Her Maga year. I saw that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, USA today TGI Friday's files for bankruptcy. However,
Speaker 4: restaurants will remain open amid restructuring.
Speaker 3: I just think it's all the remote workers. Nobody cares
Speaker 3: if it's Friday or not, because they kind of screw
Speaker 3: off all week long.
Speaker 4: Huh do you mean of the day we turned back
Speaker 4: our clocks? An hour? An extra hour of twenty twenty
Speaker 4: four is like a bonus track.
Speaker 1: On a Yoko Ono album. Hilarious.
Speaker 4: And the Babylon b New kam Alexa edition of Amazon
Speaker 4: Echo will just ramble on for ten minutes without ever
Speaker 4: answering your questions.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's good.
Speaker 2: The Chinese might be listening to your phone calls. Honest
Speaker 2: to god, We're going to talk to Josh Rogan of
Speaker 2: The Washington Post an hour or two, Armstrong and Getty