WEBVTT - They're Selling Hope 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:19.040 Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.800 And if I may say so, it is a particular 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.960 person to be back in this wonderful building, the heart 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:36.680 of your democracy, on this occasion. I cannot help noticing 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:43.159 the readjustments to the east wings to President following your 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.040 visit to Windsor Castle last year. And I'm sorry to 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.560 say that we British, of course made our own small 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.880 attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:54.800 eighteen fourteen. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:03.240 Boo, never forget flat room temperature, water under the bridge. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.000 That's what I say, bygones, a special relationship, etc. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.000 You're gonna let a king come to our country and 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.560 joke about trying to burn down the White House. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.479 A bugger about and find out King Chuck. That's what I. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.200 Say, Katie. I need King's protesters right now. That's a 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.559 good point. You got a damn king in the White House. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.600 That's what you warned us about, Katie. I need an 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:33.199 age in King Charles. I'm guessing seventy eight, Hell, seventy 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:33.560 eight is. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:34.920 What I'm going with. Maybe he's older than that. I 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.480 don't know. Oh seventy seven. There you go. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:40.720 Wait, he looks older than that. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:41.360 He does. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.360 Wow, he could pass for eighty five heavy rests the 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.440 crown on the head of that fella or something Shakespeare said. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.680 So he gave pretty good speech yesterday, and the Congress 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.880 really enjoyed it. And I thought it was all very, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.520 very nice. And if you're gonna try to show the 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.480 world that we're still close, you gotta have King Charles here, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.520 because their actual prime minister, the actual power of their politics, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.280 is a thirteen percent approval reigning in his own country. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.640 So nobody gives a crap what he thinks about anything. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.000 Here's a little montage of various things King Charles said yesterday, Missus. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:22.040 Speaker, this is by no means my first visit to Washington, DC, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.720 the capital of this great Republic. It is, in fact 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.840 my twentieth visit to the United States, and my first 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.040 as king and head of the Commonwealth. This is a 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.760 city which symbolizes a period in our shared history, or 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:46.520 what Charles Dickens might have called a tale of two Georges. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.120 Trying to have at the appoller sign good on, I 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:55.520 got it. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.080 The first President George Washington, and my five times great 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.440 grandfather can do. The third King George as your name 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:09.600 never set foot in America, and please rest assured when 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.560 I am not here as part of some cunning rear 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:13.359 God action. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.360 That's that's funny. Yeah, yeah, but that's wild that. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.160 The King George of the American Revolution two hundred and 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:29.839 fifty years ago this July is his great great, great 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.640 great great five times grandfather. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.000 That's just wild, and it's indefensible. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:40.040 Yes, by enlightenedment standard, that's quite wild that that's possible 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.800 today that there would still be any line of succession 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.480 like that anywhere on earth. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.240 God save the Queen, because tourists are money. Johnny Rotten 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:51.320 nineteen seventy seven. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.720 Yeah, that is something AnyWho. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.840 Yeah, I liked your screen earlier, and honestly I appre 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.560 shate the spirit of the visit because we have been 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.680 very close friends and incredibly close allies at extremely important 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.480 times over the last one hundred years, especially one hundred 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:16.599 and twenty five years, and sometimes you have rough patches 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.479 with a friend. But it's helpful to be reminded, Hey, 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.599 we're old friends. Let's not do too much damage here. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.119 On the other hand, as you pointed out, our old 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.279 friend is not our old friend anymore. We remember him 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.040 when he was a friend and ally now he's well, 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.240 I'll let you take over. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:37.279 Yeah. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:43.400 The media portraying it as an attempt to re establish 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.159 our close relationship as it's frayed because of Trump and 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:47.600 how awful Trump is and this and that. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.479 I think it's more Great Britain coming. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.920 Great Britain's worried about the frayed relationship more than we are. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.719 They're incredibly weak. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.600 Great Britain is the weakest they've ever been, maybe ever, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:06.080 certainly in like a thousand years, relative to other world powers. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.039 And they need us more than they have ever needed ever. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.720 They can't have any sort of daylight between the United 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.640 States and them. They're your old college friend who has 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.760 come back and you're like, hey, I haven't talked to 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.760 you for years. You talk about some old times and 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.720 you kind of laugh, and he makes some judkes. You 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.599 remember the time when and then he hit you. You know, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.440 if you could help me out, I really could use 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.039 some money. That's I think that's what yesterday is. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.200 The five grand till the end of the months. Yeah, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:34.960 I think that's what yesterday's visit was. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.680 Yeah, remember you kind of need to protect us because 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.640 we don't really have a navy anymore. So those jokes 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:41.960 about King George, that was funny. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.360 Huh yeah, yeah, I guarantee you they're like, you know, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.400 even your mid sized tuna companies have more impressive navies 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.160 than the Brits, which is just. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.440 Shocked with their history. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.719 I don't like the way Trump has talked about NATO 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.720 necessarily all the time, or our European friends, but. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.440 They need us more than we need them. By four 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:05.080 It's not. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.240 Even close in terms of a relationship, and I feel 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.000 like mainstream media portrays it all the other way around. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:16.239 And we have had a very very toxically helicopter parenty 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.600 relationship with Europe for a very long time, as we've 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.479 talked about on many occasions, but we have allowed them 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:27.280 to become the most worthless, lazy, lacking in character trust 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:32.520 fund kid you can imagine, and like, you know, some 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.839 drug addicted, useless, unemployable, rich thirty four year old. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.200 Is there any fix in them at this point? 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.839 I know, I don't know, and we've you know, we've 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.760 talked about this over and over again, but to say 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.719 it one more time to portray Trump as somebody trying 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:56.920 to destroy one of the great organizations in world history, NATO, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.839 and not say NATO, all those other Natal countries not 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.920 honoring their commitment of spending the amount of money that 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.360 they swore legally signed a piece of paper that they 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.000 would do over decades. They're the ones that haven't honored 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.800 the NATO commitment for decades. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.240 How do you not look at it that way? 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.560 No, I know, because they are so obsessed with Trump. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.640 Who again, you know, he said some stuff this unhelpful. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:27.760 But yeah, the way you described this. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.240 Is the most full alliance in world history because we 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.640 continued to pay for it all. That's why it wouldn't 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.880 have been six If we had done what Germany did 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.400 and only spent the amount of GDP on our military 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.400 they did, the whole thing would be worthless. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.480 Right, Yeah, and don't get out. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:52.120 Yeah, Well, the media are utterly ideological liars. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:53.880 I want to. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.040 Give you a couple of pieces of information that are 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.920 so interesting as applies as applied to how people's perceptions 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.440 have been formed in the last to ten, maybe even 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:12.960 twenty years about a quote unquote bigotry and b left 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.800 wing and right wing violence, and how those numbers and 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.720 perceptions have been so manipulated. I think maybe we'll do 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.840 that at the bottom of the hour in a little bit. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.040 But I mean, for instance, just to give you a 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:30.280 little sampling of what we're talking about, mentions of say, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.360 racism racist racists in the New York Times, Washington Post, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.360 LA Times, and Wall Street Journal percolated along at more 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.640 or less the same level, with a few ups and 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:46.680 downs for forty years, and then all of a sudden 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:52.400 they skyrocketed to triple and quadruple the number of mentions 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.880 that they'd ever had. Is that because America became more 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.840 racist with more racists, or is it the whole critical 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.280 theory crowd taking over the universities in the media who 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.800 want to divide us all by race or sexual minority 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.160 as an excuse to bring down Western civilization. It's so obvious. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.880 But we'll have those stats where you're coming up. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:16.960 So, Katy, I got something I would like you to 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.679 look into, because this seems like the sort of thing 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:19.760 you'd be good at reporting on. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:21.800 Uh oh okay. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.000 A photo of President Trump is going viral, showing him 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.320 holding a b in his hand alongside an apparently shocked 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.240 first lady yesterday. If you could look into that story 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.440 for me, I would like to know what's going on 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.080 holding a B in his hand? 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.679 Okay, so we'll have that among other things on the way. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:48.439 Stay here, let's get a couple of things off our plate. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.520 First of all, did Donald Trump hold a B in 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:51.439 his hand yesterday? 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.160 Or is that ai? I think it's real. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.439 It's real. H Okay, just caught a B and decided 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:58.120 to show up to people. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.760 All right, they're doing that hole adding a beehive to 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:02.560 the rose garden. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:03.680 I didn't know that. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.480 Oh, a little context there, or it was another assassination attempt. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:08.720 We don't know, Okay, cool. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.760 Remember when this happened last year, the California Coastal Commission 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.120 wasn't going to allow SpaceX to launch something because of 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:25.920 Elon's political views. Well, they issued a formal apology yesterday, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.800 adding that it will not consider the political views or 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.240 speech in future regulatory decisions whether or not SpaceX can 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:34.480 launch a rocket or whatever. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.360 Oh that's so enlightened than. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.760 The Commission admitted some officials made politically biased and improper 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.080 statements about SpaceX. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:46.480 That's unbelievable. People aren't so crazy. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:51.800 Cal Unicornia is so run on like righteous adolescent emotion, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.080 including builking the taxpayers. But yeah, you are crazy if 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.760 you did that, I were not really an adult yet. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.800 I wanted to mention this because it's cold and flu season. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.920 When is it not cold and flu season? A cold 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.959 is going through the house. And I'm just always amused 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:08.800 when I when I go. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.640 To buy some cold medicine at the pharmacy and all 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.760 the stuff that has that fenerin men in it fenyl 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.599 fenorin I don't know how to pronounce it. Starts with 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.400 the pH that does nothing, that was announced a couple 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.040 of years ago, does nothing. So I did a little 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.839 deep dive on your AI chatbots about it. Yep, the 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.960 FDA found that it doesn't do anything, but they didn't 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.720 ban it. And it's still like the leading ingredient and 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.480 most cold medicine that's there at your pharmacy when you 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:34.560 go to buy cold medicine. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.200 It does nothing. Wow, it's so wild that it's still there. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.600 Manufacturers started putting it in their product when they made 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.720 pseudo a fedrin go behind the counter, which actually does 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.679 do something. That's a cold medicine that actually has an effect. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.760 But because people were making meth out of it, they 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.920 had to move it behind the counter, and because they 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.600 wanted to have something out there, they had this thing 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.440 that kind of looks like it and sounds like it, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.760 and so you kind of think maybe it's similar. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.920 But all the study show it does zero for you. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.440 That's why I disagree. It gives you hope that so 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.480 you'll feel better. They're selling hope. Jack, Maybe I'd have 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.679 been better off not knowing it does nothing. But just 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.160 keep that in mind. It's your ear plus. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.719 CBA, as you often say exactly, Hey, you didn't hear 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.520 this story. We don't need to spend a lot of 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.520 time on it. It's funny how little this was reported. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.000 Happened several days ago, but a federal jurey on Friday 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.760 in Dallas, not this Friday. Last Friday, convicted eight people 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.720 on terrorism charges over that shooting at the Texas Immigration facility, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.920 all eight of them tied to Antifa. Eight people convicted 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:46.040 of terrorism charges tied to Antifa. Funny how all these 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.439 outlets that have been telling us Antifa doesn't. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.440 Really exist, or the fact that that case, or the 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.600 fact that I just heard this from you and not 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:54.400 anywhere else. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.079 Yeah, I know, I know, it's unbelievable. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.679 You had a right winger that did anything like that, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.560 I would definitely have heard about it. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:02.880 Yeah. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:08.359 Yeah, California's billionaire tax made the or has enough signatures 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.520 to make the ballot officially. According to the backers, they 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.280 got way way more than they need, so even if 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.560 a bunch get tossed out. But I thought it was 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:22.000 worth mentioning that virtually every non partisan institute to look 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.760 at this has said that it will ultimately cost a 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.160 great deal of money to the state of California. A 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.559 California Tax foundation, which does not take positions on state legislation, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.760 estimated the billionaire tax would reduce state revenues by three 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.719 point five to three to four point four to nine 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.320 billion dollars a year due to billionaire departures in their 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.000 economic spillover effects. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.160 California's non partisan. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.200 Legislative Office, by the way, said the wealth tax would 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:52.880 probably generate a few tens of billions once while costing 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.440 hundreds of millions of dollars or more annually. The backers 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.920 claim it'll immediately raise one hundred billion dollars even if 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.200 billionaires leave California. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:07.280 It's it's frauds. It's ot our fraud. It's gonna happen. Yeah. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.000 The unions that are backing it, they just want the 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.240 one time cash grab. That's all they care about. And 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:13.880 so you wake up and figure that out, the better. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:18.480 You're gonna be, oh, incredibly short sighted, and we'll pay 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.280 a price for it in California for a long time 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.240 and it won't be a one time thing, which will 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.800 really drive the billionaires out. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.520 Uh yeah, yeah, But again, the union goons are not simpletons. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.520 They know precisely what they're doing. They just don't care. 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.600 It's the voters who are being duped. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.680 People don't understand Laffer's curve. But whatever, maybe another day 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:38.320 we'll talk about that. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.680 No, and they don't understand. They never ever think about 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:48.800 second tier effects. What will people do in reaction to 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.640 this must be asked of every single lawn regulations past, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.240 but people don't for whatever reason, because they're stupid. There's 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.840 a Supreme Court case that's gone more or less unnoticed 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.240 that I'd love to talk about more. It has to 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.480 do with the what's what's the name of this thing? 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.640 Geofence warrants. Cops say, hey, there was a terrible murder, 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.720 maybe like a poor Savannah Guthrie's mom disappearing terrible crime. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.160 We are going to subpoena all of the cell phone 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.560 carriers data for a you know, size of like a 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.359 large city park around her property. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.840 We need all the numbers wow that went through there? Wow. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.520 And whether that's a defensible warrant? Is it a violation 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.040 of the Bill of Rights? The Fourth Amendment? Et cetera, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.880 et cetera. Is the first blush. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:40.520 I don't like it. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.320 Uh oh, yeah, first blush. I think a lot of 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.080 people don't like it. It's really useful to law enforcement, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.160 but that's sort of gobbling up of huge amounts of 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:54.120 data involving huge numbers of Americans, each of whom there's 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.200 no reason to suspect whatsoever. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.360 It'll be happening constantly. It'll be overlapping geofences as you'll 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.440 be having your data grabbed up all the time and 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.760 in various investigations. And you know, similar to the one 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.240 time tax, that will turn into a multi time tax. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.880 I would guess that it would expand to more and 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.040 more instances where they'd be willing to do that. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.720 Minute by minute location tracking is based on GPS data 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.600 pings to nearby cell towers, Bluetooth beacons, and Wi Fi 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.520 connections can be remarkably effective at identifying new suspects and 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.000 cold cases, but it can also reveal information about the 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.480 movement of innocent people, including their visits to sensitive places 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.720 like churches, doctors' offices, or political organizations, or their wife 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.480 cross town and their illegitimate kids or whatever. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.080 Or yeah, you did something that would be really inconvenient 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.320 for you and you're in the other party and somebody's 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.080 running for office. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.720 I mean, all that stuff could happen. Yeah, yeah, I 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:50.320 don't like it. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.480 Yeah, I'm really uneasy with it. It's super interesting in 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.160 a topic, though, and the soups are going to deal 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.840 with it maybe probably, I hope it's not one of 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.760 the years so called narrow rulings a different topic. Have 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.160 you noticed, I know, you have all of these progressive 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.399 attitudes that you're supposed to mindlessly repeat came out of 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.040 nowhere at more or less the same time. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.639 Yep, stay with us, armstrong and getdy. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.840 Iranians are undergoing hardships they haven't seen in many, many decades, 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.200 maybe going back to the Iran Iraq War. According to 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.320 The Wall Street Journal, we'll having a Ran War update 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.560 coming up a little bit later. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:25.639 Looking forward to it. Great. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.399 So I'm going to build a case right now, and 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:33.840 I feel like it is pretty damn strong about why, 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.840 all of a sudden, Like after twenty ten or so, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.159 all of us started hearing about these radical ideologies about 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:49.199 systemic racism or transphobia or transgenderism in general, and you know, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:54.159 all your gender bending madness and your there are actually 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.639 a number of variations. You should read James Lindsay's in 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.960 Helen Pluckrose's fabulous book Cynical Theories about the critical theory crowd. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.399 But everybody started. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.000 Hearing about this all of a sudden, and then it 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.040 like washed across the landscape like a tide, and all 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:07.800 of a sudden, if. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.320 You were to say, wait a minute, that's cuckoo nuts. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.800 I'd never even heard this until a year ago, and 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.960 now you're telling me I have to parrot it or 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.119 I lose my job. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.639 What the hell are we doing here? Thought many many people. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.639 Some of us set it out loud, some of you 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.000 weren't in a position to do that. But I've been 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.320 looking at a bunch of different statistics and they all 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.960 kind of come together in my head The first one 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.040 is a set of graphs, and we'll post these at 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:38.160 Armstrong and Giddy dot com about mentions of terms like racism, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.480 racist racists in your big four newspapers New York Times, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.720 Washington Post, LA Times, and Wall Street Journal. Also sexism, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:55.879 sexist and misogyny, and homophobia and homophobic, transphobia, transphobic, islamophobia, islamophobic, 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.240 and finally anti semitism and anti Semitic. I will tell 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.440 you in advance that that one's not nearly as notable 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:04.200 for reasons which. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.240 I'll bet you could figure out. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.439 But so these graphs virtually and they all have little variations, 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.960 but the overall shape of them are identical, with the 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.760 exception of the anti semitism one. They kind of burbled 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:22.040 along with events at a very low rate through and oh, 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.280 I'm sorry I should mention to you that this is 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:25.760 who did this poll. 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.240 Oh I can't see it. It's half obscured. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.440 But they've been doing this poll since or the data 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.680 went back to nineteen seventy. So anyway, they burbled along 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.240 with little ups and downs as news occurred in the 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.719 United States. But then all of a sudden, in like 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:45.359 twenty twelve, racism, racists, racist, all those mentions in the 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:50.160 Big four newspapers skyrocketed to many multiples of what they've 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:50.800 been in the past. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:51.640 Interesting. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:59.639 Likewise, sexist, sexist, misogyny, as you might guess, transphobic didn't exist. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.199 Well, yeah, that one, of course. Yeah, but prior to 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.679 like twenty oh eight. Then in twenty twelve or so, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.880 it started to skyrocket. Likewise, islamophobian, islamophobic. This has been 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.879 going on for so long now. I didn't note that 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:20.920 there were much fewer mentions of racist prior to twenty twelve. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:25.119 I didn't perceive that it's been going so long. I 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:26.040 guess I don't remember. 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.720 Yeah, yeah, the whole Well, generally you had to have 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.920 racism to call something racist. And i'll skip to the 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.800 end the conclusion, then i'll back it up. But my 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:36.960 conclusion is. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:43.840 The critical mass of critical theory infecting our schools and universities, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:45.520 which started in the nineteen seventies. 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.840 I'll spare you the whole history of it, but it achieved. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:53.400 A real critical mass in around twenty eight twenty ten 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:56.879 for reasons which we'll get into in a minute. But 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.520 I remember I read a great editorial to y'all several 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.560 weeks ago from a professor who said, Hey, I was 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.800 a professor at that time in the seventies, and we thought, look, 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.560 if we're going to be an institutional vote and inquiry, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.200 we've got to admit these radical leftist professors in who 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.760 are doing the air anti colonial stuff and critical theory 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:15.440 and all the crap that you hear all the time. 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.480 Now out of the mouths of your college sophomore just 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.200 came home unrecognizable to the little girl you'd sent away. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:23.760 Anyway. 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.960 But then once those people got in, they closed the 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.480 door behind them and refused to hire anybody but those people. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:37.360 And I just think that critical mass in academia infected 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:42.959 media and your social type of majors and just people 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.600 who tend to think like that around you know, the 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.800 late two thousands, and then it just exploded because they 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:51.880 felt like they had the power to advocate for themselves 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.000 around twenty ten or so. And again, these graphs are 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.600 quite striking to look at. I told you i'd back 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.119 it up. You know that's I'm gonna skip over here. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:07.440 Back it up, backing it up totally different meaning ah so, 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.879 and this is from the invaluable Chris Rufo. 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.320 But he's been involved in a bit of an online 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.600 debate about taking the middle ground or trying to be 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.560 fair blah blah blah universities and where will they get you? 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:24.159