Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm.
Speaker 2: Strong and Jattie and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3: You even had the Secretary of Homeland Security saying there's
Speaker 3: not enough money left in the fund. So it is
Speaker 3: the case that the administration itself, the secretary who oversees famous,
Speaker 3: said there's not enough money left in the fund. And
Speaker 3: they have been spending billions of dollars for the last
Speaker 3: four years to move migrants from our border, to put
Speaker 3: them up in hotels and give them room service and maids.
Speaker 3: That's simply a fact.
Speaker 1: So that's Tom Cotton on Meat the Press yesterday. We're
Speaker 1: going to hear a little bit more from him. So
Speaker 1: this is around the topic of the hurricane relief. I'm
Speaker 1: looking up at my CBS, ABC, A look over there, CNN.
Speaker 1: Every TV I've got in here is leading with hurricane
Speaker 1: coverage of one kind, either Helene in the damage and
Speaker 1: the recovery, or the one that's coming toward Florida. Milton,
Speaker 1: which has just been upgraded to a Category four and
Speaker 1: on the cusp of a five as it heads toward Florida.
Speaker 1: So this might be end up being the October surprise
Speaker 1: of the election, is hurricanes events, some event that you
Speaker 1: don't see coming having an effect on the way people vote.
Speaker 2: And I know in.
Speaker 1: The right leaning social media world, the as they see it,
Speaker 1: poor job the federal government is doing. And helping out
Speaker 1: these people in North Carolina and Tennessee and Georgia is
Speaker 1: a huge story.
Speaker 2: I mean it's freaking huge. Some of it is.
Speaker 1: About stuff that's not true, which you can talk about later,
Speaker 1: but plenty of it is. First of all, in case
Speaker 1: you didn't hear the from Friday, of course this didn't
Speaker 1: get attention. It should have been on the evening newscasts.
Speaker 4: Our ancients should have been accompanied by calls for the
Speaker 4: twenty fifth Amendment to be invoked. In my opinion, our
Speaker 4: ancient president had flown around in a helicopter to survey
Speaker 4: some of the hurricane damage because somebody decided at some
Speaker 4: point that our presidents need to look out the window
Speaker 4: of a plane whenever there's a disaster, or they don't.
Speaker 2: And this was in North Carolina specifically.
Speaker 1: So this was on Friday, and Biden gets off the
Speaker 1: plane and he's He doesn't do many interviews unless he's
Speaker 1: next to a really loud plane or helicopter.
Speaker 2: But here's how it went. What does the states the
Speaker 2: storm zone need, Mike the President?
Speaker 1: What are the states and the storm zone?
Speaker 5: What do they need after what you saw today?
Speaker 2: How on the storm zone?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I'm going what stormer's talking about.
Speaker 2: They getting everything they need. They're very happy to go
Speaker 2: off the board. Oh in the storm zone.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what storm you're talking about, the giant
Speaker 1: one that everyone's talking about all across the country.
Speaker 2: That one, the one that you just just toured, Yes,
Speaker 2: that storm.
Speaker 1: Oh the storm zone. I didn't know what your storm
Speaker 1: you're talking about. And then they're getting everything you need,
Speaker 1: they need, they're happy across the board. Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think anybody's claiming that. Nobody is claiming that.
Speaker 2: Ah. So that was quite a moment on the whole
Speaker 2: How with it?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 2: He thing? Right?
Speaker 4: And I think context matters too, because you know, after
Speaker 4: every disaster, the other side tries to make.
Speaker 2: Political hay out of the response to it.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, yep, the context is that
Speaker 4: the Department of Homeland Security and its various organs, including
Speaker 4: FEMA and the Customs and Border Protection have laid down
Speaker 4: their arms and permitted an invasion of the country by
Speaker 4: millions and millions of illegal immigrants, And the fact that
Speaker 4: that's all one department is blooming into some politically potent
Speaker 4: resentment of the fact that the Biden administration is just
Speaker 4: not looking out for the interests of the American people,
Speaker 4: particularly through the Department of Homeland Security, which we're leading
Speaker 4: up to a discussion.
Speaker 1: Often, does it make sense the Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: is in charge of the border, storm relief and stopping
Speaker 1: a terrorist attack. I mean, I get it fits into
Speaker 1: the name, but that's an awful lot for one department.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get it on a logic level, but on
Speaker 4: an administrative level, is that helpful? And there's a very
Speaker 4: different things to be an expert in border security stopping
Speaker 4: a terrorist attack and helping people after a hurricane or
Speaker 4: an earthquake. I think the argument would probably be that, well,
Speaker 4: that way they can coordinate. If there's like a MA
Speaker 4: massive casualty the events right due to terrorism, then FEMA's
Speaker 4: are under the same But you're all under the umbrella
Speaker 4: of the federal government, right, there's already a framework.
Speaker 1: Well, and this was the complaint at the time, right
Speaker 1: after nine to eleven when they developed the Department Homeland Security,
Speaker 1: that was just going to make it bigger and slower,
Speaker 1: which it may be what happened.
Speaker 5: I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on.
Speaker 1: That's got to be in the running for clip with
Speaker 1: the Clips of the Year and our Clips of the
Speaker 1: Year contest this year is going to be fantastic. So
Speaker 1: Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas was on Meat the Price
Speaker 1: yesterday and got hit immediately from Welker Kirsten Kristen Kirsten
Speaker 1: Welker that all of dismissinformation Trump is lying about the
Speaker 1: hurricane relief. Trump was at Israelly on Saturday claiming the
Speaker 1: federal government is not helping the people, and that's all lies,
Speaker 1: that he's not helping red states, that all the money
Speaker 1: is going to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. These are all lies, to which Tom
Speaker 2: gotten replied, My.
Speaker 1: Broader question to you, I think is about this misinformation.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is a time to put falsehoods aside,
Speaker 1: like the idea that FEMA funds are being redirected to migrants, which.
Speaker 2: Is just not true.
Speaker 3: It is true that FEMA and the Department of Homeland
Speaker 3: Security have been spending billions of dollars on migrants, and
Speaker 3: I understand some people say they're separate funds, but we
Speaker 3: just passed the short term spending bill. It's very common
Speaker 3: for the administration to come and ask for permission to
Speaker 3: move money between funds, especially to prepare for emergencies. And second,
Speaker 3: I would note that this administration seems to have no
Speaker 3: problem finding money when they want to spend it on
Speaker 3: their priorities. When they need hundreds of billions of dollars
Speaker 3: to pay off student loans for graduate students and gender
Speaker 3: studies programs, they somehow find it. When it's trying to
Speaker 3: get helicopters to deliver food and water and cellular service
Speaker 3: and life saving medicine into these mountain valleys, they somehow
Speaker 3: can't seem to find the money.
Speaker 1: That was excellent, I thought, But he was using senate speak.
Speaker 2: What was that word? He was using?
Speaker 1: Different finds. That's a different find, I realize, as.
Speaker 2: We all know. Find. I didn't catch. It's some senate term.
Speaker 1: I don't know, so try to talk in words normal
Speaker 1: people understand their Senator cotton.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: If you want to bail out student loans, even if
Speaker 1: it's been you've been told it's illegal over and over again.
Speaker 2: You figure out a way to come up with the money.
Speaker 2: But for this a lot of money, So what are
Speaker 2: you gonna do?
Speaker 4: Well, and Kristin Welker's saying that you know these are
Speaker 4: falsehoods that the femas. We've got some tape working on
Speaker 4: it right now. Of barely two years ago, KJP proudly
Speaker 4: bragging that they were using FEMA funds to deal with
Speaker 4: the migrants and keep them comfortable and everything, and then
Speaker 4: two years later she denies that that's happening.
Speaker 1: Just unbelievable dishonesty. Tiny bit more from Tom Cotton here.
Speaker 3: This administration seems to have no problem finding money when
Speaker 3: they want to spend it on their priorities.
Speaker 2: Of the same longer clip that happened. Okay, let's say that,
Speaker 2: yess I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I particularly like him throwing in the whole
Speaker 1: gender studies program thing.
Speaker 2: I don't mind that at all.
Speaker 1: Bailing out college kids with stupid degrees. You can come
Speaker 1: up with that money easily. So to the misinformation thing.
Speaker 1: The front page of New York Times story yesterday was
Speaker 1: about hoax's conspiracy theories that are flying around the hurricane areas,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Okay, this is going to be one
Speaker 1: of those New York Times sorts of pieces where they're
Speaker 1: claiming things that are actually true or conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2: But no, they were.
Speaker 1: They were talking about conspiracy theories and a way I
Speaker 1: found very very interesting. They used examples of I think
Speaker 1: it was Eastern Tennessee. Anyway, they pulled together some sort
Speaker 1: of the mayor and the remaining two people of the
Speaker 1: city council tried to have a meeting out in a
Speaker 1: field to try to figure out what was happening. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all the people there in the crowd started badgering the
Speaker 1: city council about the bulldoze in our homes to make
Speaker 1: a lifia mine that's the reason they're here.
Speaker 2: And the mayor is like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: And everybody's like, what are you not paying attention?
Speaker 1: The bulldozers are here to knock down our homes for
Speaker 1: the Lofian minds, And it was just the crowd was
Speaker 1: incensed over this, and the city council is like, we
Speaker 1: don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: And no, no, they're not.
Speaker 1: And it had many examples like that of things that
Speaker 1: have come from either Russia or China or somehow got
Speaker 1: into the social media stream that people believe for a
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. And it reminded me of the conversation
Speaker 1: we had a week or so ago. I was listening
Speaker 1: to that podcast with the AI expert that started Google's podcast.
Speaker 2: He said, the.
Speaker 1: Things that are going to happen in the next couple
Speaker 1: areas years, He said, the first thing that's going to
Speaker 1: happen is the complete death of the truth is going
Speaker 1: to happen in couple of years, where it's just it's
Speaker 1: just impossible for anybody to know what's true or not,
Speaker 1: and we'll just be operating in a world where everybody's
Speaker 1: got different realities. And I thought, this is this is
Speaker 1: the first best example I've seen this where in the
Speaker 1: middle of an emergency, people are trying to come together
Speaker 1: and answer questions and they're getting hit with stuff. It's
Speaker 1: like somebody else with just a completely different reality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's as real to them as anything else. I
Speaker 1: don't know how we're gonna function as a society with this.
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, I don't even slightly have what the
Speaker 1: answer is going to.
Speaker 2: Be with this, yipes.
Speaker 4: If somebody could promise me it will unfold, that the
Speaker 4: change will unfold at a pace somewhat similar to change
Speaker 4: in the history of mankind, I would say, no, we'll adapt.
Speaker 4: I mean sayings will take shape, you know, don't trust
Speaker 4: it till you've seen it or whatever.
Speaker 2: We'll just we'll get more skeptical as of people.
Speaker 4: But the pace of change is so quick now, the
Speaker 4: number of people who aren't hip.
Speaker 2: To doesn't it seem extraordinary.
Speaker 4: To you that they're bulldozing people's homes to put up
Speaker 4: a lithium mind Maybe we got to get a source
Speaker 4: on this or something, or observe something with our own eyes,
Speaker 4: or talk to somebody we know.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I don't know. I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 1: Well, my hope is that because we should have a
Speaker 1: hunger for truth, there will be some news organizations that
Speaker 1: will have to emerge that are trusted by the bulk
Speaker 1: of people, and they'll have to do a really good
Speaker 1: job of holding on to that trust by working really
Speaker 1: hard to be you know, deserving of trust, by not
Speaker 1: spinning for one side or the other.
Speaker 4: But we don't have much of that right now, right,
Speaker 4: and you know, not to freak everybody out on a Monday,
Speaker 4: you're just getting started. I'm certainly concerned about the post
Speaker 4: truth world. But then that will be used as an
Speaker 4: excuse by certain forces to justify a rampant government censorship
Speaker 4: and management of the information you get, which would.
Speaker 2: Be even worse. But we're screaming in the fight against that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're certainly screaming in the wrong direction, though, when
Speaker 1: half the country can see with their own eyes a
Speaker 1: presidential debate where okay, there's one set of facts for
Speaker 1: one side and one set of facts for the other side,
Speaker 1: and you're only interested in facts on one side, your facts.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's very, very frustrating. But I did enjoy
Speaker 1: Tom Cotton pushing back on the it's a hoax that
Speaker 1: money is being diverted from hurricane relief to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you guys seem to be able to come
Speaker 2: up with.
Speaker 1: Money for illegals and hotels and college students student loans,
Speaker 1: but not for this, for some reason.
Speaker 4: At the drop of a hat, even if the Supreme
Speaker 4: Court tells you not to. Yeah, now you're out of money.
Speaker 1: Okay, four weeks from the election, I can tell you
Speaker 1: in one sentence where we are polling wise without boring
Speaker 1: you to death, and a whole bunch of other stuff
Speaker 1: on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here, armstrong.
Speaker 5: Now the debates are apparently all finished, and I'm upset.
Speaker 5: How did we never get to see RFK.
Speaker 2: Junior in a debate? How were we robbed of that?
Speaker 5: I love that RFK Junior admitted he dumped a dead
Speaker 5: bear in Central Park. He chainsaw the head off a
Speaker 5: dead whale, strapped it to the roof of his car
Speaker 5: like a Christmas tree, and he told us a worm
Speaker 5: was living in his brain, eating through his head. And
Speaker 5: still everyone is like, you know who's weird?
Speaker 2: Jd Vance, that's pretty well crafted. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Again, the bear story just made me more likely it
Speaker 4: is port RFK Jr. So, speaking of frightening controversies, jackets
Speaker 4: spreading around the country, the bitter argument over Skelley the
Speaker 4: twelve foot skeleton, also known as the Big Labone Ski,
Speaker 4: or name it furious.
Speaker 1: I had heard the Big Lobone Ski. I almost got
Speaker 1: it this year. I saw the article in the New
Speaker 1: York Times probably a month ago. There they were talking
Speaker 1: about how if you want to get it, you got
Speaker 1: to get it now because they sell out so fast.
Speaker 4: Right, Let's see home depots sells the two hundred and
Speaker 4: ninety nine dollars Skelley earlier and earlier with limited online
Speaker 4: sales limits how many shoppers can buy, only allowing one
Speaker 4: at a time to reselling. Why are you buying more
Speaker 4: than one to sell them?
Speaker 2: Because they sell out? Check up the price so here
Speaker 2: and the gouging are against.
Speaker 4: So for whatever reason, people are super into their twelve
Speaker 4: foot skeleton and homeowners' associations neighborhood associations around the country.
Speaker 2: Have these rules that you got to take down.
Speaker 4: Your holiday decorations within two weeks after the holiday. But
Speaker 4: these these people are so into it or they're so
Speaker 4: peeved at being harassed over the skeleton.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now they keep it up year round and change its
Speaker 4: outfit for Easter and the fourth of July, so there's
Speaker 4: like all back to school, and so there's always a
Speaker 4: holiday that it's dressed for.
Speaker 1: I love that I've got one not far from me.
Speaker 1: We drive by it on a regular basis to the
Speaker 1: kid of kids, and I love it. What's it dressed as? Now?
Speaker 2: It's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Well, and you guys will remember last year mine wasn't
Speaker 1: twelve feet but it was eight and I definitely put
Speaker 1: a Santa hat on it, yeah, for Christmas. Fantastic. And
Speaker 1: it's got the scarf a on its neck because it's
Speaker 1: fall or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: This one guy who who had one of these things
Speaker 4: and he was getting guff from his homeowners' association, some
Speaker 4: neighbors and everything. He uh, and this is so funny
Speaker 4: because he said, I really didn't have time to take
Speaker 4: it down.
Speaker 2: I got a baby in the house.
Speaker 4: But he's become so militant about it now he spends
Speaker 4: a tremendous amount of time changing the things outfits and
Speaker 4: it's really clever.
Speaker 2: We'll have the like at Armstrong getdy dot com.
Speaker 4: But here he is, like in a top hat with
Speaker 4: a big inflatable bottle of champagne for New Year's Eve
Speaker 4: and he's got the whole Uncle Sam thing going with
Speaker 4: fire inflatable fire crackers from Fourth of July.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had one down the street that was very
Speaker 1: patriotic on fourth of July.
Speaker 2: It was fantastic. Well, the thing I.
Speaker 1: Want to add to my collection is now Skelley has
Speaker 1: a dog.
Speaker 2: Yes he does, and five foot high at the shoulder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my right My thing is I got one really
Speaker 1: big thing a couple of years ago, Halloween related and
Speaker 1: just where you keep it, that's my thing. And when
Speaker 1: I decided I'm not getting the skeletons because it takes
Speaker 1: up so much space in your garage you're attic or
Speaker 1: wherever you're gonna put it. That's why you leave it up,
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah.
Speaker 4: Or you leave it up, you know the idea of
Speaker 4: leaving up a giant skeleton because some of these illustrations
Speaker 4: with the articles, some of them are pretty scary for
Speaker 4: little kids. I don't love twelve foot inflatables up all
Speaker 4: year round, but I'm also not going to write an
Speaker 4: angry letter to the homeowner's association about it. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think I got a fifteen foot jack O lantern. I
Speaker 4: gotta air that baby up soon.
Speaker 1: Although it's one hundred and one degree so it's hard
Speaker 1: to get into the whole Halloween fall mode.
Speaker 4: The manufacturer of the Skelly Skelley has found out people
Speaker 4: using year rounds, so they're rejiggering their manufacturing so it
Speaker 4: holds up in the sun and everything.
Speaker 2: Oh, I ain't that America Armstrong Andngetty.
Speaker 1: Governor Walls you claimed you were in Hong Kong during
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty nine tannem and Square Maxacre when you
Speaker 1: were home in Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Can you explain that? So?
Speaker 2: I think what happened is I went to epcop.
Speaker 4: You can go around the whole world, and I had
Speaker 4: a couple in the Germany section, and I thought.
Speaker 2: I went to China. Anyway, I'm a knucklehead.
Speaker 1: So that's from the open up Saturday Night Live, where
Speaker 1: the theme was Kamala, Who's always drinking wine? What's that
Speaker 1: all about? That's a that's definitely a thing on Saturday Live.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The Maya Rudolph portrayal of Kamala is she's always got
Speaker 1: a glass of wine in her hand, and she made
Speaker 1: some comment about needing another bottle. Yeah, we have received
Speaker 1: emails at an irregular but regular pace. Infrequent but regular,
Speaker 1: I should say, suggesting that she's really into the bottle. Well,
Speaker 1: SNL's part of the reason that she she's doing some
Speaker 1: sort of you know whatever Minnesota Women's conference and she
Speaker 1: unleashes that rambling nonsense.
Speaker 2: The reason is she's two and a half classes in Wow. Well,
Speaker 2: Saturday Live must think that's a.
Speaker 1: Doable theme because it has become you know, when you
Speaker 1: do humor that kind of impersonation, they always pick up
Speaker 1: on a couple of aspects of a person's mannerisms or
Speaker 1: personalities to define them. And it's interesting that SNL is
Speaker 1: gone with her always having a glass of wine in
Speaker 1: her hand and talking about drinking. So we'll see if
Speaker 1: that turns into anything. And you need to know this
Speaker 1: for what you're about to hear. So it's Kamala and
Speaker 1: her husband as portrayed in a very funny way by
Speaker 1: Andy Samberg. They're sitting around watching the vice presidential debate
Speaker 1: and Joe Biden shows up at their house, and the
Speaker 1: long pause you hear is the new Dana Carvey thing
Speaker 1: he does with the Joe Biden where he locks up
Speaker 1: and stares at the camera with his mouth half open,
Speaker 1: which is something.
Speaker 2: That they've added that in anyway, this is what it
Speaker 2: sounded like, Mama, it's Joe Biden' I can't talk right now. Tom,
Speaker 2: I'm not here.
Speaker 5: No, no, like he's in the room.
Speaker 4: You're not.
Speaker 2: You're not here. I'll come back, no even no, tell
Speaker 2: dry you've been watching this guy? Come on, walls, what's
Speaker 2: wrong with that guy? It's crazy?
Speaker 5: Kill your facts straight, Jack.
Speaker 2: You gotta hit him with a no, Joe, here's the deal.
Speaker 2: Let me be clear. Anyway, guess what. And by the way,
Speaker 2: you should be.
Speaker 5: Talking about all the great things we've done. Gas prices
Speaker 5: down or crossings down.
Speaker 2: I mean's for the bear down. Everybody get down tonight.
Speaker 2: Benny locks up again.
Speaker 1: So that's an interesting portrayal from a left leaning organization
Speaker 1: that the current president locks up and stares.
Speaker 2: Off into space regularly.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, we are four weeks from the
Speaker 1: election tomorrow. A couple things you ought.
Speaker 4: To know about, thank god. Yeah, because after that everything
Speaker 4: will be settled. Yeah, that ain't the way it works, unfortunately.
Speaker 4: So the Holman Jenkins in the Wall Street Journal over
Speaker 4: the weekend, writing particularly around not only is it going
Speaker 4: to be a very close election with a lot of
Speaker 4: states that do their mail in ballots, like in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 4: they don't start counting till election, so if it's you know,
Speaker 4: separated by a couple thousand votes, they got to get
Speaker 4: them all counted.
Speaker 2: So you can't do that in one day. So right there,
Speaker 2: that's a problem.
Speaker 1: And then, as you've been talking about, a couple of
Speaker 1: the really hard hit states from the hurricane they're going
Speaker 1: to be relying more on mail in ballots and then
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where the mail in billets are anyway,
Speaker 1: this is what they wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: This will be the second election in a row decided
Speaker 1: by mail in ballots, whose validity is inherently easy to
Speaker 1: question an impossible to demonstrate. Election Day may become election
Speaker 1: month this year, with fights over missing signatures and postmarks,
Speaker 1: amid the inevitable demand that some but not all and
Speaker 1: properly marked ballots will be counted in the name of democracy.
Speaker 1: Never mind also the vexed business of ballot harvesting, which
Speaker 1: is legal in some states and not others, and that
Speaker 1: will be argued to death.
Speaker 2: So there's something to look forward to.
Speaker 1: If you thought this nightmare was going to end on
Speaker 1: November fifth, it's just it's not. In fact, it could get,
Speaker 1: you know, really be dialed up to horrifying and like
Speaker 1: really horrifying, like you think.
Speaker 2: It being stolen. I saw the quote from North Carolina.
Speaker 4: How are we supposed to have mail in ballots when
Speaker 4: we don't have mail and have no prospect of having
Speaker 4: any till god knows when.
Speaker 1: Just to the current polling, it's still a tie, and
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin pointed this out in his newsletter over the weekend.
Speaker 1: There's six tenths of a point difference that Kamala is
Speaker 1: ahead by in the national averages. There a month out
Speaker 1: from the election, current President Joe Biden was up by
Speaker 1: more than seven on the average of the polls. At
Speaker 1: this point, Joe Biden was up by seven and ended
Speaker 1: up winning by four and a half. Not seven tenths,
Speaker 1: no seven full points. So if the models stay the same,
Speaker 1: Kamala is gonna lose. That's the whole ballgame right now
Speaker 1: from all the polsters. Nate Cone talked about that in
Speaker 1: the New York Times over the weekend. Although they've got
Speaker 1: a really big, thorough, expensive poll coming out this week,
Speaker 1: But it's all about the modeling at this point. If
Speaker 1: the models match up from the last couple of go rounds,
Speaker 1: Trump's gonna win.
Speaker 2: But nobody knows.
Speaker 1: If it they will match up or not, if there'll
Speaker 1: be an incredible turnout around young people are abortion or
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Trump people will stay home this
Speaker 1: time that came out last time.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows that.
Speaker 1: But if the past election patterns hold up, Trump is
Speaker 1: going to win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you, the worst thing that happened in
Speaker 4: recent months to Trump is the damage to western North Carolina.
Speaker 4: I've been reading about that, how they're just really really
Speaker 4: concerned about turnout in those areas and the ability to
Speaker 4: get ballots in and North Carolina. I don't remember offhand
Speaker 4: how many electoral votes it gets, but it's in your
Speaker 4: top ten most populous states.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if Trump loses North Carolina, it makes his path
Speaker 1: much much harder.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: And there's one of my favorite pundits writing the Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live cold open was a perfect distillation of how
Speaker 1: many in the political class see the presidential contest currently,
Speaker 1: including the race is very close. Tim Walls was horrible
Speaker 1: in the debate, but it doesn't matter. Jd Vance is
Speaker 1: slick and smart as the nineteen eighties version of Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting that the takeaway is that
Speaker 1: that's kind of the general consensus of DC is that
Speaker 1: Jade Vance is very slick and very smart, kind of
Speaker 1: like an eighties Bill Clinton. That Joe Biden is showing
Speaker 1: signs of serious decline.
Speaker 2: That's obviously. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris likes to drink is another consensus. Well, I
Speaker 1: hate to be the one to cast stones.
Speaker 4: I mean, if it interferes with your work or your
Speaker 4: personal life, then that's no good. I mean if she
Speaker 4: merely enjoys a glass of wine. Now on again, are
Speaker 4: we talking about what's fair or it's not fair?
Speaker 2: No, what you just had.
Speaker 4: Thing for fair in politics is a lot like asking
Speaker 4: for fair in life.
Speaker 1: And some stories about Doug Amoff are too hot to touch,
Speaker 1: as in Sarah Alive didn't touch any of them, but
Speaker 1: that there are some rumblings in the political class that
Speaker 1: there are more shoes to drop in the whole bughem Off's.
Speaker 2: Relationship past.
Speaker 4: Maybe I've been looking at the story in the wrong way.
Speaker 4: In a way, Doug Amhoff is reinventing masculinity. If you
Speaker 4: can get away with knocking up your granny or having
Speaker 4: an abortion, then you slap your your next girlfriend nanny.
Speaker 2: He did not knock that, I say, granny. Yes, I
Speaker 2: think you did that last week too. I think I
Speaker 2: did that last week. He is not.
Speaker 1: There are a number of reasons you cannot impregnate a grandmother.
Speaker 4: Now, maybe your granny is your nanny, but don't could
Speaker 4: be so well said, Well, I'm stand corrected.
Speaker 1: Now it's possible you can have Speaking of the South,
Speaker 1: you could have a baby at sixteen. Some people do.
Speaker 1: And then that kid has a baby at sixteen and
Speaker 1: you're only thirty two, so you're knock up.
Speaker 2: A ball again.
Speaker 1: But in general, absolutely, in general, grandmothers do not get pregnant,
Speaker 1: So no, you're nanny.
Speaker 4: Having conceded that point, the idea that he's been fond
Speaker 4: over as some sort of paragon of Allen all to
Speaker 4: esque limp wristed manhood is is I mean, it's it's
Speaker 4: disgusting from both angles.
Speaker 1: Well, I like that SNL's portraying him is kind of
Speaker 1: a really sad example of manhood. I like, Okay, And
Speaker 1: then this the final thing on the election, Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. This is from Axios over the weekend because
Speaker 1: I guess she was asked about it, but as usual,
Speaker 1: she didn't answer. She had people a spokesman answer to Axios.
Speaker 1: That's what she does. Of course, Vice President Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: has full confidence. Let's play that Biden clip again, the
Speaker 1: asking him about the hurricane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do the states the storm zone need?
Speaker 3: Mister president?
Speaker 1: What are the states and the storm zone?
Speaker 5: What do they need after what you saw today.
Speaker 2: On the storm zone. Yes, sir, I'm learning what Storm
Speaker 2: is talking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but getting everything they need, they're very happy calt
Speaker 4: the board.
Speaker 1: That is not super slick politician Joe Biden of my
Speaker 1: entire lifetime, where he would have found a way.
Speaker 2: To craft that. But we're still doing event. There's people that.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah now just getting everything they need, happy
Speaker 1: across the board. What storm, I didn't know what storm
Speaker 1: you were talking about, Kamala Harris told Axios, Well, no,
Speaker 1: she didn't. A spokesman for Kamala Harris Harris told Axios
Speaker 1: that she has full confidence that President Biden has the
Speaker 1: stamina and around the clock clarity of mind to handle
Speaker 1: the domestic international crisis is in front of him.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, she's got to be hammered for that.
Speaker 4: That is so clearly untrue.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that she didn't say it herself though
Speaker 1: a spokesman did so. She wasn't willing to have her
Speaker 1: own voice out there saying that, wow, for obvious reasons
Speaker 1: for it. Nanny bangers and granny slappers. I mean, how
Speaker 1: can you trust these people? What I guess it was
Speaker 1: this Daily slat. Anyway, what do you bring that grandma
Speaker 1: onto this? I just grandma has no role as far
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the one year anniversary of
Speaker 1: the horror in Israel at some point. Also, we need
Speaker 1: to get to the Supreme Court is taking up or
Speaker 1: turning down cases as it is the first Monday in
Speaker 1: October when.
Speaker 2: They new session.
Speaker 4: Surprisingly, yes, surprisingly, they're taking on some very controversial cases.
Speaker 1: Okay, and turning down some which means that the former
Speaker 1: ruling stands right. That's what happens in the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: so we're not taking it up generally, which is a
Speaker 1: decision on its own. So some of those are exciting
Speaker 1: to talk about, and lots on the stay here. I
Speaker 1: forgot my nieces in Orlando right now for an internship.
Speaker 1: She's doing part of graduate school or something, but anyway,
Speaker 1: she just sent a picture of completely empty store shelves
Speaker 1: in all the local stories like not most lampty, but
Speaker 1: like there's not a scrap there. So, yes, that's why
Speaker 1: they're getting ready for Hurricane Milton, which is bearing down.
Speaker 1: As this will continue to be a giant political story
Speaker 1: and we'll be talking about it.
Speaker 4: It's Florida still reels from Helene. Yeah, just awful after
Speaker 4: an incredibly quiet hurricane season.
Speaker 2: Go figure.
Speaker 4: So the Supreme Court, which starts as the justices return
Speaker 4: to the bench on Monday, that would be today, correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first Monday in October. There's bucks and movies about that.
Speaker 4: Oh, this was published yesterday, that explains it already features
Speaker 4: cases on transgender rights, on traceable ghost guns, and whether
Speaker 4: Mexico may suit American firearms manufactures. Although my joke last
Speaker 4: segment aside, it's a comparatively non controversial term compared to,
Speaker 4: you know, three momentous terms. To quote the New York
Speaker 4: Times in which the Court eliminated abortion rights. That's an
Speaker 4: incredibly prejudicial way to put it. But this is the
Speaker 4: New York effing Times, which is as dishonest as any.
Speaker 2: Publication on her.
Speaker 1: Eliminated abortion rights is a sentence written to imply that
Speaker 1: it was a right that was taken away, right, Well,
Speaker 1: the opposite of what the Supreme The majority of the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court decided it's not a constitutional right, all right.
Speaker 4: Terribly decided, Yeah, anyway, did away with race conscious college admissions.
Speaker 4: The aftermath of that has been so interesting to observe
Speaker 4: where a lot of colleges their ratios of various ethnicities
Speaker 4: admitted to have changed, but in some of the big
Speaker 4: ones they've stayed precisely the same as if they're giving
Speaker 4: the finger to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: How odd.
Speaker 4: Let's see, in the last session created substantial immunity for
Speaker 4: presidential crimes, but the ducket is for now less controversial.
Speaker 4: One of the cases will decide a First Amendment challenge
Speaker 4: to a Texas law aiming at shielding miners from online pornography.
Speaker 4: That one definitely worth watching. It's not like the pro
Speaker 4: miners watching porn crowd is going to be demonstrating in
Speaker 4: the streets. But where the First Amendment goes and how
Speaker 4: it's managed in the era of online well ubiquitous porn
Speaker 4: for its Oh my god, Oh it's a sticky wicket,
Speaker 4: it really is, and it's a serious problem for society.
Speaker 4: Then they're looking at the FDA's efforts to discourage young
Speaker 4: people from smoking e cigarettes. Let's see DNA testing for
Speaker 4: death row inmates, a disposal of nuclear waste, in the
Speaker 4: police use of deadly force. They could include Second Amendment cases,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. One that I will be watching carefully
Speaker 4: is Us versus Scurmetti, a challenge to a Tennessee law
Speaker 4: that bans some medical treatments for transgender miners. You know
Speaker 4: we need to start affirming surgery, Joe affirming care. No,
Speaker 4: I think we need to start at the very beginning
Speaker 4: of this with the language. In fact, I don't think it,
Speaker 4: I know it. I'm adamant about it. Treatments for transgender
Speaker 4: miners immediately assumes that there is such a thing as
Speaker 4: transgender miners. I reject that notion. What do you want
Speaker 4: I agree with you? What do you want the language
Speaker 4: to be?
Speaker 1: Because I Fox this morning actually said one of the
Speaker 1: cases they may take up is a case around gender
Speaker 1: affirming care, and I thought.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're using that term on Fox.
Speaker 4: I've actually tweeted Brett bar not that he ever sees it,
Speaker 4: but yeah, they're using that incredibly prejudicial, radical gender theory
Speaker 4: term on Fox News.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just using that phrase means you agree with it. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could call it a number of things, experimental, secondary,
Speaker 4: sexual characteristic procedures. It's a little bit of a mouthful,
Speaker 4: but calling it gender affirming care seeds the battlefield of
Speaker 4: language to your enemy, which is an incredible mistake.
Speaker 1: Is in my offense talking to a woman the other
Speaker 1: day who had gone to her doctor and was wondering
Speaker 1: if this is a new thing heard like a check
Speaker 1: up or something like that, and her doctor had said,
Speaker 1: are you taking any supplemental hormones?
Speaker 2: Either male or female?
Speaker 1: And it had never been asked that before. Are you
Speaker 1: taking any male hormones? And wondered, like, do I look
Speaker 1: like I'm transitioning? Is that what you're trying to say?
Speaker 2: Wow? Thank you for that. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, way to make a girl feel pretty exactly.
Speaker 4: Male or female hormones is an odd way to put it, too,
Speaker 4: since I believe we all have all of them, just
Speaker 4: in different measures.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 4: A good point anyway, that more than twenty other states
Speaker 4: have similar laws against cruel experimental treatments for confused adolescence.
Speaker 4: That's you know, I don't I will never use the
Speaker 4: term transgender miner. They're confused adolescents. They have one of
Speaker 4: a variety of psychological problems, including, in large numbers of them, autism,
Speaker 4: and the idea that we have.
Speaker 2: To affirm their gender.
Speaker 4: Yees, since when do we affirm what a confused adolescent
Speaker 4: thinks ought to happen in the world?
Speaker 2: When did that start? You're right, way to make a
Speaker 2: girl feel pretty? Please do not use gendered language to
Speaker 2: advest everyone, doctor saysnia, So how's the transition coming along? Whoa, whoa? Whoa?
Speaker 2: What now? That's like wheneer you do for what? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Just don't go there the tennis. Listen to this from
Speaker 4: the New York Times. Damn them. The Tennessee law prohibits
Speaker 4: medical providers from prescribing puberty blockers or hormones to treat
Speaker 4: the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and
Speaker 4: that assigned at birth. There's no such thing as experienced gender.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 4: They're making all this crap up and trying to infect
Speaker 4: society with it.
Speaker 2: Reject it. Experienced gender.
Speaker 1: To one year anniversary of a horrific day in Israel,
Speaker 1: we should talk a little bit about that in the
Speaker 1: politics around it.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty