July 30, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Keir Starmer on recognizing a Palestinian state.
- AI & super intelligence
- The Sydney Sweeney "controversy"
- Eric Swalwell "pumps iron" & Cory Booker meltdown
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And the UK announced that it will recognize the state
of Palestine unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire by September
and improves the situation in Gaza. President Trump said the
UK's move would be rewarding Hamas.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah, well so McCrone last week said France will recognized
Palestine as a state.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Whatever that means.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
That's no recognized government nor set borders, So what the
hell does that mean?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Pretty major break since the all of our friends had
stuck with us all these years on not recognizing Palestine
as a state, even though all the other countries in
the UN have recognized Palestine as state for decades. But,
as Trump responded to Macron, it doesn't make any difference.
This is going to have no effect, Trump said, which
is probably two but directionally it's not good. But now
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Great Britain has done it, but with a qualification.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Kiers Starmer, the UK Prime Minister, spoke with the bb
NET Yaho for a couple hours in which net Yahu
was said to have rejected the conditions set by Starmer
for a cease fire, which included Israel ruling out future
annexation of the West Bank in a commitment toward a
two state solution with quote unquote Palestine. And you know,
(01:38):
a number of people, including me, responded with, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, wait a minute. You just said, if
you don't capitulate to Hamas's demands, we will recognize Palestine,
and Israel's put in a position of where's our motivation
here exactly? And if the Hama knows that a non piece,
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the non reaching of a peace agreement means you recognize
their country quote unquote, whatever that means, they'll never come
to a peace agreement. You've removed every incentive for Hamas
to come to any sort of agreement, even though Israel
doesn't really want one anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
With Hamas, first of all, I think it should be
an international law that the name of your leader sounds
like they're from your country. The leader of Great Britain,
care Starmer, shouldn't sound like he's the leader of Germany.
That's just no good. The leader of Great Britain needs
to be named you know, Winston, heichel Mheugh, Winston, Hufflepuffle
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or something. I mean, it's got to be a British name,
so that I don't like that to start with. But
this seems so obvious to me that I feel like,
is there something missing? You just said to Hamas that
if you you don't agree to a seaspier deal, we'll
give you what you've been wanting forever.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Okay, right in essence?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, so you mentioned Emmanuel Macron's recognizing again a Palestinian state,
whatever that means. And Gearrett Wilders of the Netherlands, whose
name is very, very familiar to anybody who's been concerned
about Islamism, islama fascism around the country and particularly in Europe,
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widespread unchecked migration of Muslims into European cities and towns
and changing their very culture. And he now he has
gone from a pariah in the Netherlands to.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I believe, let's.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
See, I just read about he had a landslide electoral
victory a year and a half ago, winning almost forty
of one hundred and fifty parliamentary seats in what was
described as one of the most significant political upheavals in
the Netherlands since World War Two. So the so called
anti immigrant, which is just anti our country becoming something
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completely different than it's ever been, has gone from the
fringes in Europe to the very much in the mainstream.
Not surprisingly so anyway, that's who Wilders is if you
don't know his act. But anyway, he responded to the
Macrone decision online on a tweet featuring a map of
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southern France along with the sardonic suggestion that the region
could serve as the new Palestinian homeland. Here will be
the new Palestinian state. Big parts of France or Islamic anyway,
the Netherlands will close its borders immediately. Happy suicide. Then
he gets. Then he went, you know, with a much
more cerebral post, stating France rewards the Islamic terrorists of
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Hamas for their October seventh massacre by recognizing the Palestinian state.
The Netherlands must never do that. Moreover, there's already a
Palestinian state that we have recognized, and that is Jordan.
Jordan equals Palestine, and that's been central to his approach
since his rise to prominence many years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
He points out that.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Jordan was created from seventy seven percent of the original
British mandate for quote unquote Palestine, which the British named
after the old Roman name for that part of the world,
which the Romans name that because the Philistines. It's a
bastardization of Philistines essentially, or Philistines who are kind of
(05:35):
the dominant sect at that point when the Romans came
into that part of the world. That is an imprecise
and sloppy description of what happened, but it's closely.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Two thousand years ago, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So Jordan was created from seventy to seven percent of
the original British fairly, you know, arbitrary lines that they drew,
and a majority of its population is ethnically Palestinian or
the people, the non Jewish people from that part of
the world. Many fled or were expelled during the nineteen
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forty eight Arab Israeli War in the nineteen sixty seven
Six Day War, with Jordan being the only Arab country
to fully integrate Palestinian refugees. In both of those wars,
Israel was attacked by Muslims by Arabs that attempted to
remove it from the map, and a lot of Arabs
fled during the fighting because they were convinced that the
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Muslims would win, the Jews would be ejected, and they
could just take over the whole country. But Israel said
to a lot of them, no, you don't get to
come back in anyway. So Wilders is making the argument
that there's already Palestinian homeland, there are Arab Muslim lands
surrounding Israel, and that's the place.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
To be, not taking over Israel anyway. I thought that
was interesting. A couple of what.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Do you think Starmar, the Prime Minister of Great Britain
is up to with this? What do you think his
angle is? Like I said, I feel like there's something
missing here.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Here's a quiz for everybody. At the basis of all
foreign policy is what domestic politics. And Starmer and Britain
have a serious challenge with a large Muslim minority, large
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extremely vocal and activist Muslim minority that has a set
of beliefs about what Britain ought to be in the
world that are very, very different than what Britain has
ever been. They have a completely different worldview than the
West has traditionally had. I think he's under enormous pressure
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from his left flank because the Muslims in Britain are
heavily lefty, I mean like very, very very heavily lefty,
and so he like the you know, you remember Biden Harris,
how they were bending over backward. As it turns out,
wildly out of proportion of the threat to please the
Muslim voters in say ham Tramick, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
In Patterson, New Jersey, turned out it was way overblown.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Starmar's feeling that he also might be looking at the death,
the horror and the starvation in Gaza and thinking it's
got to end, and in a Barack Obama style way,
thinking surely we can come.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We'll get our.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Smartest people around the table, and we'll convince Israel and
Hamas to live side by side, and we'll try again
to get Hamas to lay down their arms and just
be a governing body. Let's try it again, because this
is too much death and horror. It's not a bad impulse.
I just think it's naive.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'm not sure Hamas wants a Palestinian state. I mean
they want a Palestinian state that doesn't include Israel existing right,
but a Palestinian a Palestinian state next to Israel would
not stop Amaas from doing what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No, and that's why, And that's my main point in
bringing this up. And my preliminaries have exhausted most of
the time, as I often do. There is no math
that you can do that leads to a settlement between
Israel and quote unquote the Palestinians that leaves Hamas intact.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The math doesn't work, it will not happen.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's why I was surprised by all the talk I
was hearing yesterday from a variety of quarters about how
Israel have satisfied their military objectives? What are they doing
now other than committing genocide? How have they satisfied their
military objectives? Hamas utterly false?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
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com slash armstrong. So what I wanted to go into
is two things. Number One, a couple of folks in
the Wall Street Journal why Israel and Hamas won't stop fighting,
And they go into the horror of it, which is undeniable,
and it's terrible, it's terrible human suffering. But the main
(11:07):
point of the piece is the strategic goals of the
warring parties seem nearly unbridgable. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nutt
Yahoo is seeking the complete surrender or elimination of Hamas
Because Hamas, that was behind the slaughter of October seventh,
pretended to be a peace loving governmental organization, as their
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internal documents have revealed, for the express purpose of luring
the Jews into letting their guard down. That will never
ever happen again. And the one thing Hamas will not
give up, despite the loss of its senior leadership and
fighting capabilities and the suffering of the people in Gaza,
they will not give up its existence as an armed
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group fighting Israel. Until one gives in, the war is
likely to grind on. That is the best smartest writing
I've read about this in a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, not super brilliant, though, I mean that's it's obvious
to me. It seems obviously the problem.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Well, and back to Jack's point just before the commercial,
And I don't revel in this. I'm not a hack
for Israel. I'm just doing geopolitical math. Hamas wants to
wipe all Jews off the face of the earth, starting
with the Israelis the humiliation of Jews occupying what they
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see as legitimate Muslim lands. You do not get because
you're not a radical Muslim. The Palestinian people quote unquote,
and the idea of a Palestinian state is a pr
tool they use, and that's it. That's not their goal.
If they can achieve their goal, which I just described,
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and I defy anybody to in a reasonable way contradict me,
the people of Gaza have nothing to do with their
ultimate goal except as a tool. People don't understand religious
slash political fanaticism. They think it can't be they think
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it's got to be overrated. At their heart, they've just
got to want to have good lives for their people
and peace. They've just been oppressed. That's the only reason
they're mad. You are a fool. Well, no, I'm sorry,
you've been misinformed.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
If you're a college kid and you care about the
Palestinian people, you know there's something you don't have in
common with Hamas.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
They don't care if ten Palestinian kids die today. In fact,
they good news. How do we get this into the media.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
As was said a long time ago by a learned observer,
the only thing the radical Islamists like better than a
dead Jewish child is a dead Palestinian child, because it's
much more useful propaganda wise, they can't win with guns.
They cannot win by force. They can win through horror
and propaganda.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Co parenting with chat GPT becoming a thing. Got admit,
I've done it myself. I don't know if I should
be embarrassed or not.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That and other stuff on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
He's got curly hair and go T Now he wears
a T shirt. He's cooler. It's Mark Zuckerberg who runs Facebook.
Here's his view of the future.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
AI keeps accelerating, and over the past few months we've
begun to see glimpses of AI systems improving themselves. So
developing superintelligence is now in sight.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
But there's this.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Big open question about what we should direct superintelligence towards.
A lot has been written about the scientific and economic
advances that AI can bring, and I'm really optimistic about this.
What I think an even more meaningful impact in our
lives is going to come from everyone having a personal
superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you
want to see in the world, be a better friend,
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and grow to become the person that you aspire to be.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I like, why do I smell brimstone?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I like the part about maybe being more productive, but
the part about being a better friend. HM, that worries me. Anyway,
he goes on.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
This vision is different from others in the industry who
wanted direct AI at automating all of the valuable work.
At META, we believe in putting the power of superintelligence
in people's hands to direct it towards what they value
in their own lives. Some of this will be about
improving productivity, but a lot of it may be more
personal in nature.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Okay, go on, and then we'll discuss.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
This is going to be a new era in some ways,
but in others it's just a continuation of historical trends.
About two hundred years ago, ninety percent of people were
farmers growing food to survive. Today, fewer than two percent
grow all of our food. Advances in technology have freed
much of humanity to focus less on subsistence and more
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on the pursuits that we choose, and at each step
along the way, most people have decided to use their
newfound productivity to spend more time on creativity. Culture relationships,
just enjoying life, and I expect super intelligence to accelerate
this trend even more.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
A Mark here for tail flapped out of your pants.
You might want to tuck that back in.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
So two things about that. One, the Industrial Revolution, Yes,
it did move us off the farms. It played out
over decades and there's still were revolutions around the world
and much blood spilled. This is going to be bigger
and happen faster, so it ain't exactly going to be smooth.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Salein he acted like that whole move.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
From the farms to the industry was without pain.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And then the stupid thing that everybody keeps throwing out,
And I'll give us more time to enjoy art and
just relax.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
What's your guarantee that that's going to be good for humanity?
When we got more time to sit around on the
couch and play guitar and look out the window, all
of a sudden, people are going to be happier and yay.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Remember when you're talking about like subsistence, you know that
means feeding yourself, right, So anyway, so there I am
on my guitars, on my couch, Trump and my guitar
and writing bad poetry.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
How am I going to feed myself? Is what I'm wondering.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yeah, and I'm sorry. The bitter irony of the guy
who practically single handedly devalued the meaning of the word
friend from somebody you can trust and count on to
somebody you vaguely know that you interact with online once
a month. The idea that he's telling me that he'll
help me have be a better friend, that's obscene.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Well yeah, and when they get into that stuff, that's
where it just it really makes me uncomfortable. The idea
of AI, can you know, do this with medicines? Okay,
I get that, and how that would be good. But
when you start talking about better relationships and stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
What Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, the dumbest controversy ever this might be in the running.
The whole blue gene ad thing actually is getting some
mind share out there.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Is it nazism? Jack? Is it white supremacy? Clearly?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
So we'll bring you the latest sdrinkle on that. I
thought this was dumb yesterday, it's dumber today. If you
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Speaker 2 (18:18):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
We begin with the backlash of our new ad campaign
featuring actress Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is
Sidney Sweeney has great genes Now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
In one ad, the blondehair, blue.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Eyed actress talks about genes as in DNA, being passed
down from her parents.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
The play on words is being compared to.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Nazi propaganda with racial undertones. The pun good genes activates
a troubling historical associations for this country. The American eugenics
movement and it's prime between like nineteen hundred and nineteen forty,
weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacism.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Despite that backlash, American Eagles thought has been soaring.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Are you blanking kidding me? That was on Good Morning
America yesterday?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Nazi may that's right, Sarah.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
This may be the greatest ratio of running running it
up the flagpole to number of people who salute that
I've ever seen. There are dozens of publications around the
country that have probably reprinted stories about it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's a controversy.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Some people are offended or thinking that evokes white supremacy,
blah blah blah, and nobody other than like a smallish
cabal of like lefty TikTok agitators with multiple piercings and
purple hair are buying this garbage.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, ABC found that college professor old woman to say
it smacks of white supremacy and eugenics from an earlier
part of the twentieth cent The pressers.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Were the eugenics people, by the way, Yeah yeah, Woodrow
Wilson google it. Okay, so maybe we're missing the power
and sensibleness of their argument.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Jack Oh. First of all, here's here's the voiceover of.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
The saxy miss Sweeney, buttoning up her genes and making
her eugenic soaked racist Nazi paternalistic.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Ironically, because she's a hatch. Comments jans are passed down
from parents to offspring, often determining traits like heigh, color, personality,
and even eye color.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
My genes are blue, Sydney Sweeney has great genes.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Okay, so they're selling genes and we all understand that.
And not one in a million normal people would have
seen that ad and had any reaction at all. Really,
perhaps if you're a dude, you'd think, well, she's attractive,
or if you're a female, you might think I might
get those genes, but no, but not one normal person
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out of a million would have seen any controversy in
that at all. And so my question is mostly the
people like the people on ABC who played that college professor.
They're pretending, right, They got to be pretending.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They can't actually do it. But a producer took the
time to find a college professor and then go to
her office with a camera and film her saying that
crap about eugenics and white supremacy? Do they believe it?
Do they think the Gens company is trying to promote
white supremacy through their dungarees? Is that what they're doing?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Apparently, I'm looking at the list of headlines Sydney Sweeney's
American Eagle ad shows a cultural shift toward whiteness. On MSNBC,
Real American Eagle sparks backlash for touting Sydney Sween's great Genes.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Okay, and just said, we have a clip twenty eight
that answers my very question.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So okay, look, I'm not saying that Sidney Sweeney personally
wrote this ad to revive the Third Reich, but American
Eagle absolutely knew what they.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Were doing here.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You don't get to drop lines about inherited traits, blue
eyes and great jeens while zooming in on somebody that
could have walked straight off of a Nazi propaganda poster
and expect people not to catch that reference.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Wow, okay, well okay, she believes it means.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Nazi? Are you blanking kidding me? We gotta go with
clip twenty seven. Here's another one.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Don't forget to boycott American Eagle for they're racist. They're
racist online talking about blue jeans and white people. Boycott
American Eagle. Boycott out of them, Boycott American Eagle, do
not buy them, and cancel this person, Miss Sweeney. Cancel
for her being racist, for doing Nazi propaganda. Cancel American Eagle.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
That woman makes her living as a nurse in a
psychiatric ward. Wow, at least she's where she ought to be.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
She's just wearing the exactly. There's you on the wrong
side of it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You keep off your nurse outfit and put on the
jacket with the sleeves in the back.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I need to do more reading, and I did, like
a couple of years ago, and found it so interesting.
Do some reading about the history of mass delusion in populations,
and how it starts, how it spreads, the earmarks of it,
historical examples of it, where a completely implausible premise becomes
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fashionable and people become not only convinced of its truths,
but become.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Like energetic advocates to spread it.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
It's really an interesting phenomenon among human beings. But there's
it's so hilariously unsupportably dope. Well think about it for
like twenty seconds, but man, these people are utterly convinced
of how right they are and how important it is
to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I appreciate that the young actress goes with the jean
shirt jean pants look that I often go with, referred
to as the Canadian tuxedo.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I like that look myself, but or the inmate.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I'm wearing my what was that movie that I just
watched recently for the first time with the Prisoner and
Tim Robbins Shank Redemption look today right exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
If they I'm trying to think of who would be
the the it girl. I don't care about popular culture
much these days, but like the gorgeous black woman like
what was her name? Supermodel had the talk to the
models sh just an unbelievably pretty girl and shapely and
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the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That joke would have been.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Precisely the same, slightly rewritten with her in there. Tyra
Branks has great genes. Yeah, she's a gorgeous woman with
an unbelievable body. I get the joke. Okay, uh again
these people please.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well, congratulations to American Eagle. I no wonder their stock
is up. I mean talk about a win. They had
a Yeah, they all met at the bar last night
afterwards and ordered.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
The top shelf stuff because it was a win for them.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And gave Nazi salutes to each other. I'm sure nazi
jerdany no but no, but no.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Idiots, But nobody ever leaps to that second step where
you have to you have to say out loud that
you I want you to say this out loud. Okay,
college professor or those two women we heard there, I
want you to say it out loud, just for the record,
say it out loud. America Eagle. American Eagle.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
American Eagle is more interested not in trying to sell
clothes and make a profit. Their main goal as a
company is to promote white supremacy.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
American that's code eagle evokes right wingers and promote Nazism
and rid the world of people who don't have blue eyes.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Now say it out loud for me.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I want you to put that on the record, that
that's what you think this gene company is doing. They're
not trying to figure out how to sell jens and
hit their quarterly numbers so they can all standployed. They're
mostly concerned with promoting a white, blue eyed race.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Go ahead and say it out loud.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You don't understand how orn No, they're oh my god,
listen to the patriarchy. No, they would respond, Yeah, they're
trying to sell genes to white people by reinforcing white supremacy.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And the reason so I would buy those genes because hey,
they're on my team, the white supremacist team.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Right, yeah, exactly, speaking post to those multi hued skin
gap genes, They'll put up with brown eyes and blue eyes,
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Speaker 4 (28:18):
Have voted against even talking about this gene commercial thing yesterday.
I don't like dignifying it like I did I didn't
think it was real, But I mean the fact that
the fact that Good Morning America found a college professor
to comment on it, I mean, she really has anything.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Every every news site on the internet had a headline
about this. It's it's pathetic, it's clickbait. Speaking of ridiculous
political stunting. Got a couple more great examples for you. Look,
it's undeniable. It happens to each party. It comes and
it goes. The Democratic Party is in the depths of despair.
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They are at their lowest point in decades generation. Where
there is desperation, there is desperate flailing, and the flailing
has begun.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Let's all enjoy it together. Coming up in moments.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Cool and I just became aware of the adult summer
camp trend.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Why hasn't this happened before? This is an awesome idea?
Is it shades of a Hitler? You I'm not a
fan of Hitler?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You know who else had adult summer camps? Genghis Khan?
All right, stay tuned. I should be working right now.
I should be at the Capitol. I should be in
a suit.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Instead, Republicans sent us home because they would.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Rather stand up for Donald Trump. Than release the Epstein
files and stand up for victims.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
We could be Washington, DC, lowering your healthcare costs, lowering
your grocery costs, and restoring your rights.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I should be working right now. Instead I'm pumping out
from the geminal.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
All right, that's Eric Swallwell. A little background. First of all, Man,
they touched. He touched on a lot of different stuff
in that attempt to make Republicans look bad.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I guess he's a congress person.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, he ran for president a while back. Got no traction.
Eric Swalwell, a California famous for.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
God, he ran for president and you were big on
swall Well.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Swallwell, that's right, and famous for betting a Chinese spy
as well. But so anyway, it wasn't long ago that
you remember, Democrats were releasing because they're desperately trying to
figure out who they are as a party. They were
releasing those cringey videos where they all swore to prove
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how earth and authentic they were.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
And then I'm.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Told, passionate, how how much they're fighting Trump, right, and
and they're just regular folks like us, because they'd lost
the working class, and so they were desperate to reconnect
by using the F word anyway, and then I'm told
I missed this complete that they a number of them
put out really cringey.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Dance videos like TikTok imitation or actually on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Look how cool I am? That was so cringey.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Now they're doing like working out videos because they ought
to be at work doing all those things. Okay, anyway,
Senator Mark Wayne Mullen responding to the Swalwell pumping. What
I'm told is one hundred and thirty five pounds, which
bench pressing it. That's who am I to criticize? Anyway,
Here's Mullen, Look.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
What Eric Swalwell was doing.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
I mean, if he actually wanted to be real rather
than sitting there saying whatever words he was that he's
trying to work out with one hundred and thirty five pounds,
which any man with self respect would laugh at.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What he really should have been.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Talking about is I wonder if this will help me
win back faning thing, because that's actually more believable.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Woh no, same fang shot, Mark Wayne, come on, be better.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Eric Swalwell's forty four, that's still pretty young. I was
thinking if he is sixty, give him a pass.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But forty four, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I wouldn't at age forty four allow the camera to
record what I was lifting if I was mentioning hundred
and thirty five.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, all right, So that's enough
with small swallow.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Well he's a featherweight, doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
This is Senator Correy Booker, Corey who going back to
you remember was that the Kavanaugh hearings is ridiculous, Spartacus
speech that got so much derision.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And then he had the longest.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Speech on Flora history not long ago, twenty five hours
I think it was in April. And he had another
stunt like a week or two ago that was little
noticed or disgust. But he's just desperate to be the
guy because the Democratic Party needs a captain the ship.
And so he went on the floor I think it
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was yesterday, bellowing about a law that had been about
to pass on a unanimous consent decree because everybody agreed
on it.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But he called a halt to it at the top
of his lungs.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Rather than supporting law enforcement agencies and officers equally across
the nation, they're weaponizing public safety grants to punish state
and local jurisdictions that resist the Trump policy agenda, including
my home state of New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
All right, he gets more fired up in sixty five, Michael,
you got a picture. His eyes are bulging, He's gestering wildly.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
What I am tired of.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Is when the president of the United States of America
violates the constitution. Trashes are norms and traditions.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
And what does a Democratic party do.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Comply allow him beg for scraps?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
No, I demand justice, all right?
Speaker 5 (34:00):
And so the bipartisan co sponsors of the bill both
got together and were like, I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
So Politico wrote, there's a quoting from Booker. Apparently he
goes on to say, scream, there's a lot of us
in this caucus that want to effing fight, Booker told
other Democrats. And what's bothering me right now is we
don't see enough fight in this caucus. It's time for
Democrats have a backbone. The Wall Street Journal said this
rare public back and forth highlighted Democratic party divisions over
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how to best cope with a government that Donald Trump
is running over right now and.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Having full control of. You know what, they're flailing I guess.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead hit us with sixty six, Michael,
just to give us a flavor of it.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
It's time for Democrats have a backbone. It's time for
us to fight. It's time for us to draw lines.
And when it comes to the safety of my state
being denied these grants, that's why I'm standing here. Don't
question my integrity, don't question my.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Motives standing for Jersey, I.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Am standing for my police officers. I'm standing for the Constitution,
and I'm standing for what's right.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
So Democratic Senator Catherine Cortes Mastow, is one of the
co sponsors Clip sixty three, reacted thusly.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I agree with holding funding for law enforcement anywhere in
the country, across the country is just not acceptable and
it should.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Not be done.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
My bill doesn't even talk about grand funding.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
There's no funding associated with it, but yet he wants
to put it on my piece of legislation.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
This is why this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
This is an attempt to kill all of these bills.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Both Cortes Mastow and Amy Klobacher noted that the bills
passed the Judiciary Committee unanimously, and Booker is on the
Judiciary Committee. He said he missed the votes and the
chance to object earlier because of a hasty scheduling by
the committee, said.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Clobacher, do we have that quote? Yeah, go ahead, sixty four.
Speaker 11 (36:00):
One of the things I don't understand here is that
we have committees for a reason, and we have hearings
for a reason. And you can't do one thing on
police Week and not show up and not object and
let these bills go through and then say another a
few weeks later in a big speech on the floor.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah. Wow, way to go.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Corey, trying desperately to position himself is the face of
democratic resistance.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Uh yeah, That's what Mark Alprin wrote today. Booker is
clearly adding to his social media following and winning MSNBC
hearts and minds, but he's unlikely advancing any of the
party's cause. He might even be setting it back right
smart Alpert. But he did win the Matto Brownie points
as an Yeah, so whatever, we're one of our biggest
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problem is everybody, And you know, you put Marjorie Taylor
Green in the same category. Your performative this and that
raises a lot of money, keeps you in office, doesn't
move the ball down the field at all for your side.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
But right, oh, I.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Heard on Brett Parres show last night the senator a woman.
I'm sorry, I don't remember her name, former Cia gal
a senator in Michigan, crazy smart, really moderate, the anti
Corey Booker.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So they're out there if.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
And the UK announced that it will recognize the state
of Palestine unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire by September
and improves the situation in Gaza. President Trump said the
UK's move would be rewarding Hamas.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah, well so McCrone last week said France will recognized
Palestine as a state.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Whatever that means.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
That's no recognized government nor set borders, So what the
hell does that mean?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Pretty major break since the all of our friends had
stuck with us all these years on not recognizing Palestine
as a state, even though all the other countries in
the UN have recognized Palestine as state for decades. But,
as Trump responded to Macron, it doesn't make any difference.
This is going to have no effect, Trump said, which
is probably two but directionally it's not good. But now
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Great Britain has done it, but with a qualification.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Kiers Starmer, the UK Prime Minister, spoke with the bb
NET Yaho for a couple hours in which net Yahu
was said to have rejected the conditions set by Starmer
for a cease fire, which included Israel ruling out future
annexation of the West Bank in a commitment toward a
two state solution with quote unquote Palestine. And you know,
(01:38):
a number of people, including me, responded with, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, wait a minute. You just said, if
you don't capitulate to Hamas's demands, we will recognize Palestine,
and Israel's put in a position of where's our motivation
here exactly? And if the Hama knows that a non piece,
(02:04):
the non reaching of a peace agreement means you recognize
their country quote unquote, whatever that means, they'll never come
to a peace agreement. You've removed every incentive for Hamas
to come to any sort of agreement, even though Israel
doesn't really want one anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
With Hamas, first of all, I think it should be
an international law that the name of your leader sounds
like they're from your country. The leader of Great Britain,
care Starmer, shouldn't sound like he's the leader of Germany.
That's just no good. The leader of Great Britain needs
to be named you know, Winston, heichel Mheugh, Winston, Hufflepuffle
(02:47):
or something. I mean, it's got to be a British name,
so that I don't like that to start with. But
this seems so obvious to me that I feel like,
is there something missing? You just said to Hamas that
if you you don't agree to a seaspier deal, we'll
give you what you've been wanting forever.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Okay, right in essence?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, so you mentioned Emmanuel Macron's recognizing again a Palestinian state,
whatever that means. And Gearrett Wilders of the Netherlands, whose
name is very, very familiar to anybody who's been concerned
about Islamism, islama fascism around the country and particularly in Europe,
(03:28):
widespread unchecked migration of Muslims into European cities and towns
and changing their very culture. And he now he has
gone from a pariah in the Netherlands to.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I believe, let's.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
See, I just read about he had a landslide electoral
victory a year and a half ago, winning almost forty
of one hundred and fifty parliamentary seats in what was
described as one of the most significant political upheavals in
the Netherlands since World War Two. So the so called
anti immigrant, which is just anti our country becoming something
(04:07):
completely different than it's ever been, has gone from the
fringes in Europe to the very much in the mainstream.
Not surprisingly so anyway, that's who Wilders is if you
don't know his act. But anyway, he responded to the
Macrone decision online on a tweet featuring a map of
(04:28):
southern France along with the sardonic suggestion that the region
could serve as the new Palestinian homeland. Here will be
the new Palestinian state. Big parts of France or Islamic anyway,
the Netherlands will close its borders immediately. Happy suicide. Then
he gets. Then he went, you know, with a much
more cerebral post, stating France rewards the Islamic terrorists of
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Hamas for their October seventh massacre by recognizing the Palestinian state.
The Netherlands must never do that. Moreover, there's already a
Palestinian state that we have recognized, and that is Jordan.
Jordan equals Palestine, and that's been central to his approach
since his rise to prominence many years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
He points out that.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Jordan was created from seventy seven percent of the original
British mandate for quote unquote Palestine, which the British named
after the old Roman name for that part of the world,
which the Romans name that because the Philistines. It's a
bastardization of Philistines essentially, or Philistines who are kind of
(05:35):
the dominant sect at that point when the Romans came
into that part of the world. That is an imprecise
and sloppy description of what happened, but it's closely.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Two thousand years ago, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So Jordan was created from seventy to seven percent of
the original British fairly, you know, arbitrary lines that they drew,
and a majority of its population is ethnically Palestinian or
the people, the non Jewish people from that part of
the world. Many fled or were expelled during the nineteen
(06:06):
forty eight Arab Israeli War in the nineteen sixty seven
Six Day War, with Jordan being the only Arab country
to fully integrate Palestinian refugees. In both of those wars,
Israel was attacked by Muslims by Arabs that attempted to
remove it from the map, and a lot of Arabs
fled during the fighting because they were convinced that the
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Muslims would win, the Jews would be ejected, and they
could just take over the whole country. But Israel said
to a lot of them, no, you don't get to
come back in anyway. So Wilders is making the argument
that there's already Palestinian homeland, there are Arab Muslim lands
surrounding Israel, and that's the place.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
To be, not taking over Israel anyway. I thought that
was interesting. A couple of what.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Do you think Starmar, the Prime Minister of Great Britain
is up to with this? What do you think his
angle is? Like I said, I feel like there's something
missing here.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Here's a quiz for everybody. At the basis of all
foreign policy is what domestic politics. And Starmer and Britain
have a serious challenge with a large Muslim minority, large
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extremely vocal and activist Muslim minority that has a set
of beliefs about what Britain ought to be in the
world that are very, very different than what Britain has
ever been. They have a completely different worldview than the
West has traditionally had. I think he's under enormous pressure
(07:53):
from his left flank because the Muslims in Britain are
heavily lefty, I mean like very, very very heavily lefty,
and so he like the you know, you remember Biden Harris,
how they were bending over backward. As it turns out,
wildly out of proportion of the threat to please the
Muslim voters in say ham Tramick, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
In Patterson, New Jersey, turned out it was way overblown.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Starmar's feeling that he also might be looking at the death,
the horror and the starvation in Gaza and thinking it's
got to end, and in a Barack Obama style way,
thinking surely we can come.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We'll get our.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Smartest people around the table, and we'll convince Israel and
Hamas to live side by side, and we'll try again
to get Hamas to lay down their arms and just
be a governing body. Let's try it again, because this
is too much death and horror. It's not a bad impulse.
I just think it's naive.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'm not sure Hamas wants a Palestinian state. I mean
they want a Palestinian state that doesn't include Israel existing right,
but a Palestinian a Palestinian state next to Israel would
not stop Amaas from doing what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No, and that's why, And that's my main point in
bringing this up. And my preliminaries have exhausted most of
the time, as I often do. There is no math
that you can do that leads to a settlement between
Israel and quote unquote the Palestinians that leaves Hamas intact.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The math doesn't work, it will not happen.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's why I was surprised by all the talk I
was hearing yesterday from a variety of quarters about how
Israel have satisfied their military objectives? What are they doing
now other than committing genocide? How have they satisfied their
military objectives? Hamas utterly false?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
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com slash armstrong. So what I wanted to go into
is two things. Number One, a couple of folks in
the Wall Street Journal why Israel and Hamas won't stop fighting,
And they go into the horror of it, which is undeniable,
and it's terrible, it's terrible human suffering. But the main
(11:07):
point of the piece is the strategic goals of the
warring parties seem nearly unbridgable. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nutt
Yahoo is seeking the complete surrender or elimination of Hamas
Because Hamas, that was behind the slaughter of October seventh,
pretended to be a peace loving governmental organization, as their
(11:29):
internal documents have revealed, for the express purpose of luring
the Jews into letting their guard down. That will never
ever happen again. And the one thing Hamas will not
give up, despite the loss of its senior leadership and
fighting capabilities and the suffering of the people in Gaza,
they will not give up its existence as an armed
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group fighting Israel. Until one gives in, the war is
likely to grind on. That is the best smartest writing
I've read about this in a long time.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, not super brilliant, though, I mean that's it's obvious
to me. It seems obviously the problem.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Well, and back to Jack's point just before the commercial,
And I don't revel in this. I'm not a hack
for Israel. I'm just doing geopolitical math. Hamas wants to
wipe all Jews off the face of the earth, starting
with the Israelis the humiliation of Jews occupying what they
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see as legitimate Muslim lands. You do not get because
you're not a radical Muslim. The Palestinian people quote unquote,
and the idea of a Palestinian state is a pr
tool they use, and that's it. That's not their goal.
If they can achieve their goal, which I just described,
(12:51):
and I defy anybody to in a reasonable way contradict me,
the people of Gaza have nothing to do with their
ultimate goal except as a tool. People don't understand religious
slash political fanaticism. They think it can't be they think
(13:12):
it's got to be overrated. At their heart, they've just
got to want to have good lives for their people
and peace. They've just been oppressed. That's the only reason
they're mad. You are a fool. Well, no, I'm sorry,
you've been misinformed.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
If you're a college kid and you care about the
Palestinian people, you know there's something you don't have in
common with Hamas.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
They don't care if ten Palestinian kids die today. In fact,
they good news. How do we get this into the media.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
As was said a long time ago by a learned observer,
the only thing the radical Islamists like better than a
dead Jewish child is a dead Palestinian child, because it's
much more useful propaganda wise, they can't win with guns.
They cannot win by force. They can win through horror
and propaganda.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Co parenting with chat GPT becoming a thing. Got admit,
I've done it myself. I don't know if I should
be embarrassed or not.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That and other stuff on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
He's got curly hair and go T Now he wears
a T shirt. He's cooler. It's Mark Zuckerberg who runs Facebook.
Here's his view of the future.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
AI keeps accelerating, and over the past few months we've
begun to see glimpses of AI systems improving themselves. So
developing superintelligence is now in sight.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
But there's this.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Big open question about what we should direct superintelligence towards.
A lot has been written about the scientific and economic
advances that AI can bring, and I'm really optimistic about this.
What I think an even more meaningful impact in our
lives is going to come from everyone having a personal
superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you
want to see in the world, be a better friend,
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and grow to become the person that you aspire to be.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I like, why do I smell brimstone?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I like the part about maybe being more productive, but
the part about being a better friend. HM, that worries me. Anyway,
he goes on.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
This vision is different from others in the industry who
wanted direct AI at automating all of the valuable work.
At META, we believe in putting the power of superintelligence
in people's hands to direct it towards what they value
in their own lives. Some of this will be about
improving productivity, but a lot of it may be more
personal in nature.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Okay, go on, and then we'll discuss.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
This is going to be a new era in some ways,
but in others it's just a continuation of historical trends.
About two hundred years ago, ninety percent of people were
farmers growing food to survive. Today, fewer than two percent
grow all of our food. Advances in technology have freed
much of humanity to focus less on subsistence and more
(15:54):
on the pursuits that we choose, and at each step
along the way, most people have decided to use their
newfound productivity to spend more time on creativity. Culture relationships,
just enjoying life, and I expect super intelligence to accelerate
this trend even more.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
A Mark here for tail flapped out of your pants.
You might want to tuck that back in.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
So two things about that. One, the Industrial Revolution, Yes,
it did move us off the farms. It played out
over decades and there's still were revolutions around the world
and much blood spilled. This is going to be bigger
and happen faster, so it ain't exactly going to be smooth.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Salein he acted like that whole move.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
From the farms to the industry was without pain.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And then the stupid thing that everybody keeps throwing out,
And I'll give us more time to enjoy art and
just relax.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
What's your guarantee that that's going to be good for humanity?
When we got more time to sit around on the
couch and play guitar and look out the window, all
of a sudden, people are going to be happier and yay.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Remember when you're talking about like subsistence, you know that
means feeding yourself, right, So anyway, so there I am
on my guitars, on my couch, Trump and my guitar
and writing bad poetry.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
How am I going to feed myself? Is what I'm wondering.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yeah, and I'm sorry. The bitter irony of the guy
who practically single handedly devalued the meaning of the word
friend from somebody you can trust and count on to
somebody you vaguely know that you interact with online once
a month. The idea that he's telling me that he'll
help me have be a better friend, that's obscene.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Well yeah, and when they get into that stuff, that's
where it just it really makes me uncomfortable. The idea
of AI, can you know, do this with medicines? Okay,
I get that, and how that would be good. But
when you start talking about better relationships and stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
What Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, the dumbest controversy ever this might be in the running.
The whole blue gene ad thing actually is getting some
mind share out there.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Is it nazism? Jack? Is it white supremacy? Clearly?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
So we'll bring you the latest sdrinkle on that. I
thought this was dumb yesterday, it's dumber today. If you
missed a segment an hour get the podcast, you should
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Speaker 2 (18:18):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
We begin with the backlash of our new ad campaign
featuring actress Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is
Sidney Sweeney has great genes Now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
In one ad, the blondehair, blue.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Eyed actress talks about genes as in DNA, being passed
down from her parents.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
The play on words is being compared to.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Nazi propaganda with racial undertones. The pun good genes activates
a troubling historical associations for this country. The American eugenics
movement and it's prime between like nineteen hundred and nineteen forty,
weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacism.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Despite that backlash, American Eagles thought has been soaring.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Are you blanking kidding me? That was on Good Morning
America yesterday?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Nazi may that's right, Sarah.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
This may be the greatest ratio of running running it
up the flagpole to number of people who salute that
I've ever seen. There are dozens of publications around the
country that have probably reprinted stories about it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's a controversy.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Some people are offended or thinking that evokes white supremacy,
blah blah blah, and nobody other than like a smallish
cabal of like lefty TikTok agitators with multiple piercings and
purple hair are buying this garbage.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, ABC found that college professor old woman to say
it smacks of white supremacy and eugenics from an earlier
part of the twentieth cent The pressers.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Were the eugenics people, by the way, Yeah yeah, Woodrow
Wilson google it. Okay, so maybe we're missing the power
and sensibleness of their argument.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Jack Oh. First of all, here's here's the voiceover of.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
The saxy miss Sweeney, buttoning up her genes and making
her eugenic soaked racist Nazi paternalistic.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Ironically, because she's a hatch. Comments jans are passed down
from parents to offspring, often determining traits like heigh, color, personality,
and even eye color.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
My genes are blue, Sydney Sweeney has great genes.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Okay, so they're selling genes and we all understand that.
And not one in a million normal people would have
seen that ad and had any reaction at all. Really,
perhaps if you're a dude, you'd think, well, she's attractive,
or if you're a female, you might think I might
get those genes, but no, but not one normal person
(21:02):
out of a million would have seen any controversy in
that at all. And so my question is mostly the
people like the people on ABC who played that college professor.
They're pretending, right, They got to be pretending.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They can't actually do it. But a producer took the
time to find a college professor and then go to
her office with a camera and film her saying that
crap about eugenics and white supremacy? Do they believe it?
Do they think the Gens company is trying to promote
white supremacy through their dungarees? Is that what they're doing?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Apparently, I'm looking at the list of headlines Sydney Sweeney's
American Eagle ad shows a cultural shift toward whiteness. On MSNBC,
Real American Eagle sparks backlash for touting Sydney Sween's great Genes.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Okay, and just said, we have a clip twenty eight
that answers my very question.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So okay, look, I'm not saying that Sidney Sweeney personally
wrote this ad to revive the Third Reich, but American
Eagle absolutely knew what they.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Were doing here.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You don't get to drop lines about inherited traits, blue
eyes and great jeens while zooming in on somebody that
could have walked straight off of a Nazi propaganda poster
and expect people not to catch that reference.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Wow, okay, well okay, she believes it means.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Nazi? Are you blanking kidding me? We gotta go with
clip twenty seven. Here's another one.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Don't forget to boycott American Eagle for they're racist. They're
racist online talking about blue jeans and white people. Boycott
American Eagle. Boycott out of them, Boycott American Eagle, do
not buy them, and cancel this person, Miss Sweeney. Cancel
for her being racist, for doing Nazi propaganda. Cancel American Eagle.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
That woman makes her living as a nurse in a
psychiatric ward. Wow, at least she's where she ought to be.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
She's just wearing the exactly. There's you on the wrong
side of it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You keep off your nurse outfit and put on the
jacket with the sleeves in the back.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I need to do more reading, and I did, like
a couple of years ago, and found it so interesting.
Do some reading about the history of mass delusion in populations,
and how it starts, how it spreads, the earmarks of it,
historical examples of it, where a completely implausible premise becomes
(23:43):
fashionable and people become not only convinced of its truths,
but become.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Like energetic advocates to spread it.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
It's really an interesting phenomenon among human beings. But there's
it's so hilariously unsupportably dope. Well think about it for
like twenty seconds, but man, these people are utterly convinced
of how right they are and how important it is
to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I appreciate that the young actress goes with the jean
shirt jean pants look that I often go with, referred
to as the Canadian tuxedo.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I like that look myself, but or the inmate.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I'm wearing my what was that movie that I just
watched recently for the first time with the Prisoner and
Tim Robbins Shank Redemption look today right exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
If they I'm trying to think of who would be
the the it girl. I don't care about popular culture
much these days, but like the gorgeous black woman like
what was her name? Supermodel had the talk to the
models sh just an unbelievably pretty girl and shapely and
(25:06):
the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That joke would have been.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Precisely the same, slightly rewritten with her in there. Tyra
Branks has great genes. Yeah, she's a gorgeous woman with
an unbelievable body. I get the joke. Okay, uh again
these people please.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Well, congratulations to American Eagle. I no wonder their stock
is up. I mean talk about a win. They had
a Yeah, they all met at the bar last night
afterwards and ordered.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
The top shelf stuff because it was a win for them.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And gave Nazi salutes to each other. I'm sure nazi
jerdany no but no, but no.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Idiots, But nobody ever leaps to that second step where
you have to you have to say out loud that
you I want you to say this out loud. Okay,
college professor or those two women we heard there, I
want you to say it out loud, just for the record,
say it out loud. America Eagle. American Eagle.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
American Eagle is more interested not in trying to sell
clothes and make a profit. Their main goal as a
company is to promote white supremacy.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
American that's code eagle evokes right wingers and promote Nazism
and rid the world of people who don't have blue eyes.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Now say it out loud for me.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I want you to put that on the record, that
that's what you think this gene company is doing. They're
not trying to figure out how to sell jens and
hit their quarterly numbers so they can all standployed. They're
mostly concerned with promoting a white, blue eyed race.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Go ahead and say it out loud.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You don't understand how orn No, they're oh my god,
listen to the patriarchy. No, they would respond, Yeah, they're
trying to sell genes to white people by reinforcing white supremacy.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And the reason so I would buy those genes because hey,
they're on my team, the white supremacist team.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Right, yeah, exactly, speaking post to those multi hued skin
gap genes, They'll put up with brown eyes and blue eyes,
green eyes and everything else over there at the old Navy,
and I'm putting up with it. Speaking of moronic political stunting,
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There's no safe like simply saying I like I would.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Have voted against even talking about this gene commercial thing yesterday.
I don't like dignifying it like I did I didn't
think it was real, But I mean the fact that
the fact that Good Morning America found a college professor
to comment on it, I mean, she really has anything.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Every every news site on the internet had a headline
about this. It's it's pathetic, it's clickbait. Speaking of ridiculous
political stunting. Got a couple more great examples for you. Look,
it's undeniable. It happens to each party. It comes and
it goes. The Democratic Party is in the depths of despair.
(28:56):
They are at their lowest point in decades generation. Where
there is desperation, there is desperate flailing, and the flailing
has begun.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Let's all enjoy it together. Coming up in moments.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Cool and I just became aware of the adult summer
camp trend.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Why hasn't this happened before? This is an awesome idea?
Is it shades of a Hitler? You I'm not a
fan of Hitler?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You know who else had adult summer camps? Genghis Khan?
All right, stay tuned. I should be working right now.
I should be at the Capitol. I should be in
a suit.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Instead, Republicans sent us home because they would.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Rather stand up for Donald Trump. Than release the Epstein
files and stand up for victims.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
We could be Washington, DC, lowering your healthcare costs, lowering
your grocery costs, and restoring your rights.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I should be working right now. Instead I'm pumping out
from the geminal.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
All right, that's Eric Swallwell. A little background. First of all, Man,
they touched. He touched on a lot of different stuff
in that attempt to make Republicans look bad.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I guess he's a congress person.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, he ran for president a while back. Got no traction.
Eric Swalwell, a California famous for.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
God, he ran for president and you were big on
swall Well.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Swallwell, that's right, and famous for betting a Chinese spy
as well. But so anyway, it wasn't long ago that
you remember, Democrats were releasing because they're desperately trying to
figure out who they are as a party. They were
releasing those cringey videos where they all swore to prove
(30:42):
how earth and authentic they were.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
And then I'm.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Told, passionate, how how much they're fighting Trump, right, and
and they're just regular folks like us, because they'd lost
the working class, and so they were desperate to reconnect
by using the F word anyway, and then I'm told
I missed this complete that they a number of them
put out really cringey.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Dance videos like TikTok imitation or actually on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Look how cool I am? That was so cringey.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Now they're doing like working out videos because they ought
to be at work doing all those things. Okay, anyway,
Senator Mark Wayne Mullen responding to the Swalwell pumping. What
I'm told is one hundred and thirty five pounds, which
bench pressing it. That's who am I to criticize? Anyway,
Here's Mullen, Look.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
What Eric Swalwell was doing.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
I mean, if he actually wanted to be real rather
than sitting there saying whatever words he was that he's
trying to work out with one hundred and thirty five pounds,
which any man with self respect would laugh at.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What he really should have been.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Talking about is I wonder if this will help me
win back faning thing, because that's actually more believable.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Woh no, same fang shot, Mark Wayne, come on, be better.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Eric Swalwell's forty four, that's still pretty young. I was
thinking if he is sixty, give him a pass.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But forty four, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I wouldn't at age forty four allow the camera to
record what I was lifting if I was mentioning hundred
and thirty five.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, all right, So that's enough
with small swallow.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Well he's a featherweight, doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
This is Senator Correy Booker, Corey who going back to
you remember was that the Kavanaugh hearings is ridiculous, Spartacus
speech that got so much derision.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And then he had the longest.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Speech on Flora history not long ago, twenty five hours
I think it was in April. And he had another
stunt like a week or two ago that was little
noticed or disgust. But he's just desperate to be the
guy because the Democratic Party needs a captain the ship.
And so he went on the floor I think it
(32:54):
was yesterday, bellowing about a law that had been about
to pass on a unanimous consent decree because everybody agreed
on it.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But he called a halt to it at the top
of his lungs.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Rather than supporting law enforcement agencies and officers equally across
the nation, they're weaponizing public safety grants to punish state
and local jurisdictions that resist the Trump policy agenda, including
my home state of New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
All right, he gets more fired up in sixty five, Michael,
you got a picture. His eyes are bulging, He's gestering wildly.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
What I am tired of.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Is when the president of the United States of America
violates the constitution. Trashes are norms and traditions.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
And what does a Democratic party do.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Comply allow him beg for scraps?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
No, I demand justice, all right?
Speaker 5 (34:00):
And so the bipartisan co sponsors of the bill both
got together and were like, I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
So Politico wrote, there's a quoting from Booker. Apparently he
goes on to say, scream, there's a lot of us
in this caucus that want to effing fight, Booker told
other Democrats. And what's bothering me right now is we
don't see enough fight in this caucus. It's time for
Democrats have a backbone. The Wall Street Journal said this
rare public back and forth highlighted Democratic party divisions over
(34:31):
how to best cope with a government that Donald Trump
is running over right now and.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Having full control of. You know what, they're flailing I guess.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead hit us with sixty six, Michael,
just to give us a flavor of it.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
It's time for Democrats have a backbone. It's time for
us to fight. It's time for us to draw lines.
And when it comes to the safety of my state
being denied these grants, that's why I'm standing here. Don't
question my integrity, don't question my.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Motives standing for Jersey, I.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Am standing for my police officers. I'm standing for the Constitution,
and I'm standing for what's right.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
So Democratic Senator Catherine Cortes Mastow, is one of the
co sponsors Clip sixty three, reacted thusly.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I agree with holding funding for law enforcement anywhere in
the country, across the country is just not acceptable and
it should.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Not be done.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
My bill doesn't even talk about grand funding.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
There's no funding associated with it, but yet he wants
to put it on my piece of legislation.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
This is why this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
This is an attempt to kill all of these bills.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Both Cortes Mastow and Amy Klobacher noted that the bills
passed the Judiciary Committee unanimously, and Booker is on the
Judiciary Committee. He said he missed the votes and the
chance to object earlier because of a hasty scheduling by
the committee, said.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Clobacher, do we have that quote? Yeah, go ahead, sixty four.
Speaker 11 (36:00):
One of the things I don't understand here is that
we have committees for a reason, and we have hearings
for a reason. And you can't do one thing on
police Week and not show up and not object and
let these bills go through and then say another a
few weeks later in a big speech on the floor.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah. Wow, way to go.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Corey, trying desperately to position himself is the face of
democratic resistance.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Uh yeah, That's what Mark Alprin wrote today. Booker is
clearly adding to his social media following and winning MSNBC
hearts and minds, but he's unlikely advancing any of the
party's cause. He might even be setting it back right
smart Alpert. But he did win the Matto Brownie points
as an Yeah, so whatever, we're one of our biggest
(36:55):
problem is everybody, And you know, you put Marjorie Taylor
Green in the same category. Your performative this and that
raises a lot of money, keeps you in office, doesn't
move the ball down the field at all for your side.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
But right, oh, I.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Heard on Brett Parres show last night the senator a woman.
I'm sorry, I don't remember her name, former Cia gal
a senator in Michigan, crazy smart, really moderate, the anti
Corey Booker.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So they're out there if.
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