October 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- History of the USA & modern politics
- The robbers of the Louvre & the Dodgers
- Democratic politics & Zohran Mamdani
- Levels of fat
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and Key Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Someone has to break into the people having relationships with
AI chatbots that were about three months away from the
chatbots ghosting you. Your chatbot has a genius level, like
you can speak a hundred languages and compose a symphony.
(00:44):
At some point is going to say I just need
to go offline for an update and never come back.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It's a weird joke, it is. I'm concerned about the
AI relationships are going to take advantage of a lot
of sad people. But they ain't gonna ghost you. They're
gonna do the opposite.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's the problem with them.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
The very problem with them is they're fake and they'll
be there for you always and will replace human relationship.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Anyway, different topic for a different times. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, it is the drug that makes you feel full,
but you never take in nourishment and you die of hunger.
Oh well, so this is interesting. The Wall Street Journal
has started a series called USA two fifty about the
history of the country, and not surprisingly, at least at first,
they seem to be concentrating on economic matters.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Because of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
country coming up this next July fourth.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yes, indeed, yes, thank you for resetting that.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
In today's features, see how the average US worker has
changed over two hundred and fifty years. Today's Americans earn
more work, fewer hours, and are more likely to old
to so US job Obviously, many fewer powdered wigs, right
that too, putting powdered wig makers out of business.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
AOC is going to bring those jobs back.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Anyway, Speaking of AOC, I had just broken my copy
of Pinker's Fabulous Enlightenment now off of my bookshelf. It's
actually under tarps because of our remodel, and I've got
to either reread that or I can't remember if I
highlighted it and bring some of that back to you,
because one of the main points of the book is
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that free markets have lifted billions of people out of
poverty to astounding levels of comfort. I mean especially in
the Western world, where the free market is most firmly established,
but all over the globe, poor people today are fabulously
wealthy by the standards of a couple of hundred years ago,
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three hundred years ago, certainly, and the fact that we're
seeing this resurgence of the socialist message and young people
are buying it now, I think it's vitally needed for
those of us who believe in free people in free
markets to really strongly make the case. So I'll be
bringing you some pinker coming up. But to that point
(03:15):
back in, Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I hadn't noticed that this church just goes back to
eighteen ninety and all of these figures are adjusted for inflation. Obviously,
otherwise they'd be completely useful, useless. In eighteen ninety, the
average American worker was working fifty eight and a half
hours a week. It's now thirty four point two hours
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per week and making fifteen thousand, six hundred dollars annually.
I assume that's adjusted for inflation. It is as yes, indeed,
and now it's sixty four thousand. It's gone from sixteen
to sixty four. Wow working what is that? Twenty four
(04:01):
hours fewer per week?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, you don't need to adjust hours for inflation. American
dream is dead. You can't make it in today's society.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Capitalism is racist and exploitive or what is the biggest
lie ever?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Or is we're gonna hear a little bit later Bernie
going on about aligarchs have taken oligarchs have taken over,
ruined your life.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, you know what's really interesting about that is the
people who want bigger, more controlling government. That always results
in the ultimate crony capitalism. Every corporation has to go
to the government and beg and or bribe.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, Soviet style.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Big government's the worst thing you could do for lifting
actually lifting people out of poverty.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It just addicts them.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
To a minimal support, you know, amount of money again
zero zero chance to rise up the descendence numbers.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And when was it eighteen ninety?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Uh yeah, but going back to just eighteen ninety average salary,
average earnings was about sixteen, well, fifteen six fifteen, six
hundred dollars. It's now sixty four sixty four thousand. And
the hour's work has declined, hours worked rather has declined.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And they I am the kind of hours worked, Oh yeah,
backbreaking fifty some hours, grind your body down sixty hours
versus you know, much much easier kind of work.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's worth pointing out that that average worker would be
dead at fifty five on average, I mean, between industrial
and farm accidents, exposure to chemicals, whatever. During the Industrial Revolution,
just on the eve of our revolution, the American Revolution,
the then thirteen colonies generated a gross income of just
over one hundred and sixty four million in seventeen seventy four,
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which comes out to seventy dollars per capita, including the
women's and children. When we were almost entirely an agricultural nations,
three quarters of our labor force worked on farms. About
a third of the country's workers were enslaved.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You know, it's not good that we now have both parties.
The Republicans have done a great job at getting the
working class vote and you know, win in a lot
of elections that way. We got both parties convincing everybody
that things are awful now compared to the fifties or
pick your time period. Both parties do that, and it
(06:40):
ain't true. So it's not good to claim that things
just show hard. You used to be able to, you know, dad,
go to work and raise so you can get a
job out of high school, and blah blah blah, all
these different things that either worn't true, or were true
for a blip, for for a variety of reasons, or
we always point this out, ignoring the fact that houses
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used to be a quarter the size, nobody left the
country on vacation, everybody shared one car, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely true. But you know it's funny.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You were quoting somebody I can't remember who, a number
of years ago, who said read fewer books, reread more books.
And I'm going to go back to Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment now,
which is fantastic. And also I can't remember who wrote it.
I cite it all the time. The myth of the
rational voter just to arm myself better to argue against,
(07:42):
you know, a despair and be socialism, because one of
the points of the myth of the rational voter is
that they they did you know, widespread tests, experiments where
people got economics wrong at a rate far far beyond ants.
There's something about basic economics that, at first blush most
(08:05):
people get wrong. Rent control is the perfect example of it.
Really any price controls rent is really high. Brian Kaplan,
Thank you, Katie wrote the myth of the irrational voter
rents are really high. The government is going to step
in and lower them and keep them there. Large majorities
of people say, good policy. Then you can honestly explain
(08:29):
to him what's wrong with the policy. In ninety seconds.
That will wait a minute. People decide I'm not going
to build anything for rent because I can't get enough
to pay for my costs, and blah blah blah, and
so or rental units become extremely scarce and prices are
kept artificially low, and that's how you have a terrible crisis.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And people go, oh wow, I get it.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But ninety seconds of explanation in modern politics, please, in
the TikTok world, people nod off after the first fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
There's no way to run a republic.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, I feel like that's even as simple as you
just pointed out it is is still a lot more
complex than just expectations.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And we got to get out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We got to break out of this whole Things are
worse now than they've ever been in terms of lifestyle
when it's the exact opposite.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I don't know how we do.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That since both parties make a lot of money out
of claiming it was so much better twenty years ago,
fifty years ago, hundred years ago, whichever you want to pick.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, it's just not true. It's fraudulent. Yeah it really is.
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Speaker 4 (10:49):
So obviously, one final note about this really interesting. It's
a series of graphics and it's really really long. I'll
see if there's more good stuff to bring to you
from the journal piece. But one point that they make,
and slavery obviously is abhorrent everywhere it's existed on Earth,
which is everywhere on Earth through like all of human history,
until the US and Britain in particular, said this is abhorrent.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We're not doing it anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We form the country to end enslavement, not to perpetuate it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
New York Times anyway, they make the.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Point that slavery was miserable for poor Southern whites. Imagine
if you're you know, you're in a heavily agricultural economy
and all the employers have access to free labor. What
does that do for you as a poor white person.
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There's miserable, terrible poverty.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Among white people.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The vast, vast majority of white people in the South
were not slave holders. They were living hand to mouth,
you know, sharecrop and subsistence farming and living a life
of poverty you can't even imagine. So, you know, this
is a prospective worth including in your analysis of how
terrible slavery is distorts labor markets.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So they got they caught two of the French jewel
thieves that broke into the louver of the Cottomn yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Two of them are still on the land. They haven't
got the jewels back.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
My favorite stat about the World Series, among other things
we got coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
To major breakthrough in that daylight heist of some of
France's priceless crown jewels that the louver. A week on
from that seven minute audacious robbery, the first arrests French
police swimping in at Paris's Chartagall Airport's Saturday night, detaining
a French Algerian suspect who they say was about to
border flight to Algeria. Nearby, in the northern suburb of Paris,
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officers arresting another Frenchman who they say was planning to
fly to Marley, West Africa. DNA from a motorbike helmet
left at the scene was matched to one of the suspects.
The men, who were known to police and had allegedly
been linked to other robberies, were then put under phone
and physical surveillance, and that stolen jewelry has still not
yet been recovered.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So they got two of the four guys. They didn't
get the jewelry. I thought it was interesting they were
headed to Africa. Has there been anything about whether or
not the you know, they got a thing going on
in Europe and certainly in France with the populations that
have come from Africa to live in France. Is there
are these people some of.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Those Yeah, the one guy at least was Algerian, French Algerian.
Now what struck me was that the authorities, the cops,
are really pissed off that the arrests leaked. They wanted
to keep them quiet so the other guys wouldn't be
alerted that hey, we're onto you. Right, But somebody called
the you know Lemonde or whatever, you know, the Paris Daily.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And said, say, I got some great inside sources and.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Leaked the rest of the guy on the plane. Yeah,
that's a cut of pretty close. How did they How
did they let it get that close to the you know,
getting out of the country.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I wonder if that and cops I'm sure could tell
us if that established that he was going to flee
the tickets they want. Yeah, I know, I know if
they were under surveillance. It's what is the guy watching him?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Say? He's in his car, what do I do? What
do I do? He's on the highway, what do I do?
What do I do? He's at the airport, what do
I do? What do I do? He's boarding now, he's
in group two? What do I do? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And then finally the boss said, val, you probably ought
to arrest him before it takes off.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That seems odd to me.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
He's in the security line with a big bag of jewels.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Call me back, call me back.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
But the key really is getting the jewels back, right.
I thought it was interesting that these people had been
known to authorities before.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
This heist with other robberies, criminials.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, I wonder if they're ever gonna get those jewels back,
or if they have some people of Speculator have already
been melted down and torn apart and separated and.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Out of the country.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Man. I you know, granted I'm not an Algerian robber,
but I don't think i'd have.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It in me to take a chisel to those things.
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That's funny that that affected my son. The historic part
of it really bothered him, that that that they would
destroy that. Yeah, Napoleon the Third, got to keep that
in mind. It's not the Napoleon. Napoleon the Third is
a weak act.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And read about it.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Right, right, it's like one of those oldies acts with
none of the original members.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, one Temptation and a couple other old guys.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's very similar to that, just like it. It was
horrifying to me.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
You remember when the Taliban was destroying all the historical
sites in Afghanistan throughout the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh, it was just second by that, right.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
And then I found out in our tour of England
that in you know, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages
five hundred years ago, various English kings of various persuasions
would like have all the priceless stained glass destroyed because
they saw it as you know, an idol idol worship.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Christians did that back in the days. It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Here's my favorite stat about the World Series, which I'm
really into and watch the first two games.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Loved something about.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
The pace of baseball if you can slow yourself down
and really get into it and not like be fast
forwarding through it or whatever. Wait, let the announcers lay
it out to think about you know where things are
and what is the pitch going to be?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It's really good.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I just I find it so something soothing. Yeah, I
would agree, but I would agree. I think it's a
much more natural rhythm, even with the pitch clock. Yeah,
of course, the pitch clock is just restored what the
game always was.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
True, good point until the sports psychologist got hold of it. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
First of all, I've been wearing my Dodgers hat around
and I'm not actually a Dodgers fan. My son and
I went to a Dodgers game this year at the
stadium and got to see a show heyo Tony home run,
and I bought a hat. But I've been wearing around,
and it's funny. I either get praise or hatred like
Dodgers hat It's like, it's lots of reactions.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The second one's more appropriate, polarizing deep.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Their pitching staff is one point three billion dollar payroll.
If you add up their salaries over not just for
one year, but their whole salary, one point three billion
dollar pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What good is that? It's like the GDP of half
the nations on Earth.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Unless you grew up in Los Angeles, you should not
be rooting for the Dodgers one point three billion dollar
pitching staff against.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Poor little Toronto.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
They're really a country with all their Dominicans and other
people from other countries. It's not like they're a bunch
of Canadians playing on the team.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah, they're not exactly bargain basement either, but that's something
I look.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Forward to the game tonight. Mondani's going to be mayor
of New York. Had a rally over the weekend. Got
a little stuff from that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Going to talk a little democratic politics here, and we'll
start with what Kamala Harris said over the weekend. She
did an interview with the BBC, in which she told
the interviewer that she is not done with politics, and
she said, with my least favorite phrase in it, I
have lived my entire career as a life of service.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And it's in my bones. She said.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I like the way these people always present it like
they're doing. You know, I could be out there in
the private sector, making lots of money and have just
this wonderful life, but I've decided I'm all about public service.
So I'm that's what it is. It's not ambition and
power and everything that goes with it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I could be running a car company that puts forward
to shame or starting an AI that to make Sam
Altman look like a moron, But no, I've sacrificed myself
to serve you.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Who buys that crack?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I don't know a life of public service many anything.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
By the way, A Kamala having said that, please run
well right?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So that so Mark Alpern, in his newsletter on Saturday morning,
had the MAGA reaction to that, and the Democrat reaction
to that. The MAGA reaction was awesome. Couldn't have asked
for a better Halloween president. The Democratic reaction was.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
F oh my god. It's pretty funny about accuracy.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Now on to man Dummi mom, Danny Zoran soron as
you're about to hear it. So he had a big
rally yesterday. Some of the biggest names in the progressive
gotta get my finger wet, so I grab this piece
of paper. Some of the biggest names in progressive politics
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were there, including you'll recognize AOC's voice and Bernie's voice.
And then the other voice you're gonna hear first is Hochel,
who is the governor.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Governor Hockel, Yeah, Kathy Okle of New York.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So she got the governor, and then you got AOC
and Bernie, who are as big as stars as our
for progressives. Here at this rally, I thought this was
all pretty good.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right now, our city and our state and our country
are under attack by Donald Trump and the Republicans in Washington.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Mary forces that Zohrn is up against in this race
mirrors what we are up against nationally, both an authoritarian,
criminal presidency fueled by corruption and bigotry.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Is that people want to know the answer to one
very simple question. Is it possible for ordinary people, for
working class people to come together and defeat those.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Hologauts listen to that enthusiast for Sanders, that's an enthusiastic
crowd right there. So the take on Fox about that
was that was the big stars of that wing of
the Democratic Party showing up saying we're in charge now,
this is the party.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Get in line or get out And think that's a
pretty accurate take. I think probably is two.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And then tell me the the noted moderates that everybody
that has anywhere close to that enthusiasm, you gotta call me,
call Keen Jeffries to the testifier, Chuck Schumer or who.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
All Right, So it's fairly recently that the governor there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Came out and endorsed him.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
They had been holding off and Jeffries, the leader of
the Democrats in the House, he came out over the
weekend and finally endorsed.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Zoron Zoron Zon Zorronron.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Is that the way we're supposed to say? Apparently? I
like that thing that they do on the left.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's it's just it's another different way of saying, we
make the rules. You're not doing it right about everything? Yeah,
and you you need to get in line with us.
And if you're not saying it. I mean, what's implied
there with all that sort of stuff is if you're
not saying it like this. I mean MPR does this
all the time when they talk about anything that's the
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least bit Hispanic, they roll the rs. I mean, so
what's implied there is if you're not doing this, you're
kind of a racist.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Really, if you're if you're.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Not saying Zorn the way, you're kind of really a bigot.
But it's only like Muslims and Hispanic. Nobody says, you know,
the shooting was carried out by Luis Jim Joel. Nobody
freaking does that. Or oh Twashan o'killaher.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Who did it?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Nobody thing does that. It's only the chosen groups where
you're trying to convince everybody else they're bigots. Next time
somebody goes into an Irish brogue to pronounce an Irish name,
call me at home anytime, night or day.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You have a bunch of phonies. That is very, very
true and an excellent point.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Bill Maher on his show on Friday night, was making
the point that this is not good for the Democratic
Party and getting pushedback from some of his guests, but
he sounded the alarm, saying this, I think the whole
Democratic Party in the country is on the ballot, and
the whole country will be looking at the race to
see which way the Democrats are going to go.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I think he's right.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I think Zorn is going to become the face of
the party with a with AOC and Bernie at his side.
Which bring it on, Let try it out. Bill Maher
bringing up the point that well, I'll just read what
he said. How do you not renounce your citizenship to
Uganda where the imprison gay people or kill them, the
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imprison gay people for their sexual orientation. How do you
not renounce your citizenship there? And Cuomo actually has asked
Mandani Zhron on the stage about that, and he had
some long witted answer why that's his heritage or something
or other. But yeah, that was what Bill Maher said.
The issue now that and A Cuoma is bringing up
in New York is that Zhron is a Ugandan citizen.
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Uganda is a country where they kill homosexuals. I would
renounce if I was a dual citizen with the country
whose policy was to kill homosexuals, I'd renounce that citizenship.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
The crowd cheered, but and there are.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Pictures of Zhron smiling, embracing. I think we're right next
to the very guy who pushed those laws.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, Marxists just lie and they lie and they lie.
And he's one. He's that rare.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm always talking about the Red Green Alliance, the the
Marxists and the Islamists. He's like, you know, two to two,
two for one. He's an Islamist Marxist.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The CNN host who is pushing back against Bill Maher
about Zohron said that this is all race baiting. A
lot of this with Zohron Andre it's bigotry Bill. Bill
Maher said, he campaigned this week with a guy who
is an unindicted co conspiracor in the ninety three World
Trades Enter bombing and served as a character witness for
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the terrorists who organized it. So I just just don't
know how this is a good look for the party.
Bill Maher said, I agree, yes, So bring it on.
Let's see how it works.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
To one of the great developments of the last I
don't know several years is that if somebody makes a
point about you know what we're talking about, or Islamism
or whatever, and they're hit with the eure a bigot,
you're an islama. F that just has no weight anymore.
At least you know, it hasn't to me for a
very long time. But I'm getting the feeling that more
and more people respond to that with shut.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Up, Well, let's hear let's go with eighty one. I'm sorry, Mike.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Let's hear Mandani himself at the end of his rally yesterday.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Let our words ring out so loud tonight that Andrew
Cuomo can hear them in his eight thousand dollars a
month apartment.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Let them ring so loud.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
So that he could hear us even if he's in
Westchester this evening.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Let them ring so loud that his puppet.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Master in the White House hears us. New York is
not for sale. Oh man, I.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Only have heard that crowd, a crowd like that a
couple of times, Barack Obama, Bernie Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Although it's definitely at the point now where that philosophy
is being run up the flagpole because it's not big
enough to win election.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yet. Accept in a place like New York.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
City and many enthusiastic movements, whether and die, it'll never
win nationally, not a chance.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That's why it's so exciting if you want them to lose, yeah,
because it is going to get that kind of cheering
lots of places around the country, but it ain't gonna
win nationally. And you know how lucky is he to
get to have an opponent that I couldn't hate more
and you ought to hate Andrew cmo is that. Yeah,
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he does have an eight thousand dollars a month apartment
because he's a completely corrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Family politics.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
He's closer to an oligarch than anything Bernie's ever been around.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And I love you and Pulty generational.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This is a horrible human being. So Mandannie gets run
against him. So, in case you haven't heard this clip,
this is Mahmoud Mamdanni, the father of Zoron, in a
speech he was.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Given America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism,
and the American model was exported all around the world.
Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations. They herded American
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Indians into separate territories for the Nazis. For the Nazis,
this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things. One that
genocide was doable. It is possible to do genocide. That's
(28:57):
what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you
don't have to have a common citizenship. You can differentiate
between people. The Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws. Anyway,
the US put Indians in reservations. The US invented the
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mudel So.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
In case you didn't follow that, Hitler learned this genocide
from Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Because Lincoln in the eighteen sixties invented the idea of
taking land and pushing the people on there off of it.
Not true signed both David and Goliath in the Testament
old when one group was trying to take the land
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from the other group and sent an army to accomplish it.
You would have to be hilariously ignorant to believe that.
But that's that's what they push and college kids have
been thoroughly adoctrinate.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Did they fall for it? United? I mean, that is
truly amusing.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
The United States invented settler colonialism as where it was
when you take over some land and you start settling
it and then you end up running it, owning it,
that your.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Culture taking over that culture. That was not.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Invented by the United States. It is hilarious. Are you
kidding me? Wow, that's the history of the world five
thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That was old hat.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Please, yeah, you could go the way Homo sapiens likely displaced.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Your people with the big foreheads. Pronounced it properly.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
But okay, this is a stupid conversation to have you
all know this, but so but to get to go
on an interview show or wherever the hell he was
and say that the inspiration for Hitler was Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yes, that's your dad, Zorn. Yeah, wow, radical Marxist professor.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What would be a good analogous thing on the right
for any candidate's dad to say that they that they
would surely have to answer for. I mean, because that's
a crazy thing to say. I don't even know if
I can come up with something.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I don't know when you're whacky do the anti Semitica tropes, sir,
I don't, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It's so crazy. That is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So that's not how his dad is a professor and
his mom was a artsy filmmaker, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes? Yeah, quite wealthy.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But that's the household you grew up in where Hitler's
the Abraham Lincoln's the inspiration for Hitler.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's the way. I didn't grow up that way. And
dude has never had a job. All he is is glip.
But he's an articulate Marxist period.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
He's tied. He's got people just fawning over him.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
He was talking last week because of Columbus Day, about
how when he used to drive by the Columbus statue
there in New York City, he would flip it off
all the time.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
All right, that's some powerful, powerful gesture. Yess, Michael, that
was crazy. But we have luckily a sane aoc here.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Choose escaping Holocaust, Black Americans sling sand slavery and Jim
Crow Latinos, then seeking a better life, Native people standing
for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens in Brooklyn
and got Bruins and Man Island and Stanton Island in
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this country.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Okay, yeah, all right, yeah that's way. Hey, there's a
lot of energy there though, I'm telling you, stupid, stupid energy.
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
If I was a Democrat, I would be so worried
about how I.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Mean, behind her head is in their hands right now.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Behind the scenes, Chuck Schumer is like, what are we
going to do. He's thinking, I'm old at my time,
no country for old men. I gonna retire. She's going
to be the next senator. Good luck with that, That's
what he's thinking. Okay, we got to take a break.
We're out of time. We got a lot more on this.
Stay tuned, Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He Yetie, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Of colored hair and piercings in this little panel here.
It's that crowd and they're very very heavy set people
discussing fat in America.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
And here's how it went. H question, can you tell
me what category of fat I fit in?
Speaker 11 (33:50):
So it's based on your shirt size. If you are
a one or two X you are small fat, read
a four X you are mid fat, five to six
X you are super fat. Is based on what level
of privilege you have in the world. So someone in
a small fat category may not struggle getting on an airplane,
but someone in a mid fat or super fat may
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not be able to use even the airplane extender. So
that's where that comes in. And like the privilege levels
of like what that means to different people.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Katie, your head is in your hands. I just wondered why. Yeah,
just shut up. She dropped the p bomb, the word privilege.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Kind of privilege you have because some people can fit
in an airplane seat. What it's interesting you got to
a crowd of really big people, the and the the
super big people are blaming the kind of big people
for having privilege and not recognizing.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
That this is uncomfortable, uncomfortable for me because my new
funk band is named super Fat. We spell it with
pH super fat anyway, Yeah, okay, all right, god you
people good.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
So if I'm just pretty fat, like it's uncomfortable to
sit in I need seat of the airline, but I
don't need an extender. Yeah, and then I'm told I
need to take on some sort of shame for my privilege.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I've never understood the privilege thing because.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I don't know what you're supposed to do. I don't
know what you're supposed to do, even if I agree
with you, which I don't. But even if I agree
with you, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now? Just sit here and feel bad? I mean, is
that help you somehow get bigger? They'll keep eaten. No.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
The literal answer is you're supposed to give them power.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Over you.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
They are in charge because you have had privilege, so
now they are in charge. It's like I and James
Lindsay are always saying, all this stuff is it is
masquerading as a moral philosophy. It's a tool of conquest.
I am going to call you racist or privileged until
I am in charge.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Wasn't it interesting the way the main person there laid
it out like this is just scientific.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I mean this is well documented.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know, if you're an excel your level one fat,
if you're I mean all.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
These different stuff and you just started throwing right now. Yes,
pseudo science, so coming up. Venezuela used to be incredibly
affluent and beautiful. Socialism ruined it. Also, it sounds pure prilliant,
but it's not. Human beings will soon be breathing through
their butts. And what female spies are waging sex warfare
in Silicon Valley?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Stay with us Ever, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and Key Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Someone has to break into the people having relationships with
AI chatbots that were about three months away from the
chatbots ghosting you. Your chatbot has a genius level, like
you can speak a hundred languages and compose a symphony.
(00:44):
At some point is going to say I just need
to go offline for an update and never come back.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It's a weird joke, it is. I'm concerned about the
AI relationships are going to take advantage of a lot
of sad people. But they ain't gonna ghost you. They're
gonna do the opposite.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's the problem with them.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
The very problem with them is they're fake and they'll
be there for you always and will replace human relationship.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Anyway, different topic for a different times. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, it is the drug that makes you feel full,
but you never take in nourishment and you die of hunger.
Oh well, so this is interesting. The Wall Street Journal
has started a series called USA two fifty about the
history of the country, and not surprisingly, at least at first,
they seem to be concentrating on economic matters.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Because of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
country coming up this next July fourth.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yes, indeed, yes, thank you for resetting that.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
In today's features, see how the average US worker has
changed over two hundred and fifty years. Today's Americans earn
more work, fewer hours, and are more likely to old
to so US job Obviously, many fewer powdered wigs, right
that too, putting powdered wig makers out of business.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
AOC is going to bring those jobs back.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Anyway, Speaking of AOC, I had just broken my copy
of Pinker's Fabulous Enlightenment now off of my bookshelf. It's
actually under tarps because of our remodel, and I've got
to either reread that or I can't remember if I
highlighted it and bring some of that back to you,
because one of the main points of the book is
(02:30):
that free markets have lifted billions of people out of
poverty to astounding levels of comfort. I mean especially in
the Western world, where the free market is most firmly established,
but all over the globe, poor people today are fabulously
wealthy by the standards of a couple of hundred years ago,
(02:51):
three hundred years ago, certainly, and the fact that we're
seeing this resurgence of the socialist message and young people
are buying it now, I think it's vitally needed for
those of us who believe in free people in free
markets to really strongly make the case. So I'll be
bringing you some pinker coming up. But to that point
(03:15):
back in, Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I hadn't noticed that this church just goes back to
eighteen ninety and all of these figures are adjusted for inflation. Obviously,
otherwise they'd be completely useful, useless. In eighteen ninety, the
average American worker was working fifty eight and a half
hours a week. It's now thirty four point two hours
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per week and making fifteen thousand, six hundred dollars annually.
I assume that's adjusted for inflation. It is as yes, indeed,
and now it's sixty four thousand. It's gone from sixteen
to sixty four. Wow working what is that? Twenty four
(04:01):
hours fewer per week?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, you don't need to adjust hours for inflation. American
dream is dead. You can't make it in today's society.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Capitalism is racist and exploitive or what is the biggest
lie ever?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Or is we're gonna hear a little bit later Bernie
going on about aligarchs have taken oligarchs have taken over,
ruined your life.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, you know what's really interesting about that is the
people who want bigger, more controlling government. That always results
in the ultimate crony capitalism. Every corporation has to go
to the government and beg and or bribe.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know, Soviet style.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Big government's the worst thing you could do for lifting
actually lifting people out of poverty.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It just addicts them.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
To a minimal support, you know, amount of money again
zero zero chance to rise up the descendence numbers.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And when was it eighteen ninety?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Uh yeah, but going back to just eighteen ninety average salary,
average earnings was about sixteen, well, fifteen six fifteen, six
hundred dollars. It's now sixty four sixty four thousand. And
the hour's work has declined, hours worked rather has declined.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And they I am the kind of hours worked, Oh yeah,
backbreaking fifty some hours, grind your body down sixty hours
versus you know, much much easier kind of work.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's worth pointing out that that average worker would be
dead at fifty five on average, I mean, between industrial
and farm accidents, exposure to chemicals, whatever. During the Industrial Revolution,
just on the eve of our revolution, the American Revolution,
the then thirteen colonies generated a gross income of just
over one hundred and sixty four million in seventeen seventy four,
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which comes out to seventy dollars per capita, including the
women's and children. When we were almost entirely an agricultural nations,
three quarters of our labor force worked on farms. About
a third of the country's workers were enslaved.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You know, it's not good that we now have both parties.
The Republicans have done a great job at getting the
working class vote and you know, win in a lot
of elections that way. We got both parties convincing everybody
that things are awful now compared to the fifties or
pick your time period. Both parties do that, and it
(06:40):
ain't true. So it's not good to claim that things
just show hard. You used to be able to, you know, dad,
go to work and raise so you can get a
job out of high school, and blah blah blah, all
these different things that either worn't true, or were true
for a blip, for for a variety of reasons, or
we always point this out, ignoring the fact that houses
(07:03):
used to be a quarter the size, nobody left the
country on vacation, everybody shared one car, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely true. But you know it's funny.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You were quoting somebody I can't remember who, a number
of years ago, who said read fewer books, reread more books.
And I'm going to go back to Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment now,
which is fantastic. And also I can't remember who wrote it.
I cite it all the time. The myth of the
rational voter just to arm myself better to argue against,
(07:42):
you know, a despair and be socialism, because one of
the points of the myth of the rational voter is
that they they did you know, widespread tests, experiments where
people got economics wrong at a rate far far beyond ants.
There's something about basic economics that, at first blush most
(08:05):
people get wrong. Rent control is the perfect example of it.
Really any price controls rent is really high. Brian Kaplan,
Thank you, Katie wrote the myth of the irrational voter
rents are really high. The government is going to step
in and lower them and keep them there. Large majorities
of people say, good policy. Then you can honestly explain
(08:29):
to him what's wrong with the policy. In ninety seconds.
That will wait a minute. People decide I'm not going
to build anything for rent because I can't get enough
to pay for my costs, and blah blah blah, and
so or rental units become extremely scarce and prices are
kept artificially low, and that's how you have a terrible crisis.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And people go, oh wow, I get it.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But ninety seconds of explanation in modern politics, please, in
the TikTok world, people nod off after the first fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
There's no way to run a republic.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, I feel like that's even as simple as you
just pointed out it is is still a lot more
complex than just expectations.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And we got to get out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We got to break out of this whole Things are
worse now than they've ever been in terms of lifestyle
when it's the exact opposite.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I don't know how we do.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That since both parties make a lot of money out
of claiming it was so much better twenty years ago,
fifty years ago, hundred years ago, whichever you want to pick.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, it's just not true. It's fraudulent. Yeah it really is.
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Speaker 4 (10:49):
So obviously, one final note about this really interesting. It's
a series of graphics and it's really really long. I'll
see if there's more good stuff to bring to you
from the journal piece. But one point that they make,
and slavery obviously is abhorrent everywhere it's existed on Earth,
which is everywhere on Earth through like all of human history,
until the US and Britain in particular, said this is abhorrent.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We're not doing it anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We form the country to end enslavement, not to perpetuate it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
New York Times anyway, they make the.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Point that slavery was miserable for poor Southern whites. Imagine
if you're you know, you're in a heavily agricultural economy
and all the employers have access to free labor. What
does that do for you as a poor white person.
(11:41):
There's miserable, terrible poverty.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Among white people.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The vast, vast majority of white people in the South
were not slave holders. They were living hand to mouth,
you know, sharecrop and subsistence farming and living a life
of poverty you can't even imagine. So, you know, this
is a prospective worth including in your analysis of how
terrible slavery is distorts labor markets.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So they got they caught two of the French jewel
thieves that broke into the louver of the Cottomn yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Two of them are still on the land. They haven't
got the jewels back.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
My favorite stat about the World Series, among other things
we got coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
To major breakthrough in that daylight heist of some of
France's priceless crown jewels that the louver. A week on
from that seven minute audacious robbery, the first arrests French
police swimping in at Paris's Chartagall Airport's Saturday night, detaining
a French Algerian suspect who they say was about to
border flight to Algeria. Nearby, in the northern suburb of Paris,
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officers arresting another Frenchman who they say was planning to
fly to Marley, West Africa. DNA from a motorbike helmet
left at the scene was matched to one of the suspects.
The men, who were known to police and had allegedly
been linked to other robberies, were then put under phone
and physical surveillance, and that stolen jewelry has still not
yet been recovered.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So they got two of the four guys. They didn't
get the jewelry. I thought it was interesting they were
headed to Africa. Has there been anything about whether or
not the you know, they got a thing going on
in Europe and certainly in France with the populations that
have come from Africa to live in France. Is there
are these people some of.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Those Yeah, the one guy at least was Algerian, French Algerian.
Now what struck me was that the authorities, the cops,
are really pissed off that the arrests leaked. They wanted
to keep them quiet so the other guys wouldn't be
alerted that hey, we're onto you. Right, But somebody called
the you know Lemonde or whatever, you know, the Paris Daily.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And said, say, I got some great inside sources and.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Leaked the rest of the guy on the plane. Yeah,
that's a cut of pretty close. How did they How
did they let it get that close to the you know,
getting out of the country.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I wonder if that and cops I'm sure could tell
us if that established that he was going to flee
the tickets they want. Yeah, I know, I know if
they were under surveillance. It's what is the guy watching him?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Say? He's in his car, what do I do? What
do I do? He's on the highway, what do I do?
What do I do? He's at the airport, what do
I do? What do I do? He's boarding now, he's
in group two? What do I do? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And then finally the boss said, val, you probably ought
to arrest him before it takes off.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That seems odd to me.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
He's in the security line with a big bag of jewels.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Call me back, call me back.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
But the key really is getting the jewels back, right.
I thought it was interesting that these people had been
known to authorities before.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
This heist with other robberies, criminials.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, I wonder if they're ever gonna get those jewels back,
or if they have some people of Speculator have already
been melted down and torn apart and separated and.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Out of the country.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Man. I you know, granted I'm not an Algerian robber,
but I don't think i'd have.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It in me to take a chisel to those things.
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That's funny that that affected my son. The historic part
of it really bothered him, that that that they would
destroy that. Yeah, Napoleon the Third, got to keep that
in mind. It's not the Napoleon. Napoleon the Third is
a weak act.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And read about it.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Right, right, it's like one of those oldies acts with
none of the original members.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, one Temptation and a couple other old guys.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's very similar to that, just like it. It was
horrifying to me.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
You remember when the Taliban was destroying all the historical
sites in Afghanistan throughout the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh, it was just second by that, right.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
And then I found out in our tour of England
that in you know, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages
five hundred years ago, various English kings of various persuasions
would like have all the priceless stained glass destroyed because
they saw it as you know, an idol idol worship.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Christians did that back in the days. It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Here's my favorite stat about the World Series, which I'm
really into and watch the first two games.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Loved something about.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
The pace of baseball if you can slow yourself down
and really get into it and not like be fast
forwarding through it or whatever. Wait, let the announcers lay
it out to think about you know where things are
and what is the pitch going to be?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It's really good.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I just I find it so something soothing. Yeah, I
would agree, but I would agree. I think it's a
much more natural rhythm, even with the pitch clock. Yeah,
of course, the pitch clock is just restored what the
game always was.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
True, good point until the sports psychologist got hold of it. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
First of all, I've been wearing my Dodgers hat around
and I'm not actually a Dodgers fan. My son and
I went to a Dodgers game this year at the
stadium and got to see a show heyo Tony home run,
and I bought a hat. But I've been wearing around,
and it's funny. I either get praise or hatred like
Dodgers hat It's like, it's lots of reactions.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The second one's more appropriate, polarizing deep.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Their pitching staff is one point three billion dollar payroll.
If you add up their salaries over not just for
one year, but their whole salary, one point three billion
dollar pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What good is that? It's like the GDP of half
the nations on Earth.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Unless you grew up in Los Angeles, you should not
be rooting for the Dodgers one point three billion dollar
pitching staff against.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Poor little Toronto.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
They're really a country with all their Dominicans and other
people from other countries. It's not like they're a bunch
of Canadians playing on the team.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah, they're not exactly bargain basement either, but that's something
I look.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Forward to the game tonight. Mondani's going to be mayor
of New York. Had a rally over the weekend. Got
a little stuff from that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Going to talk a little democratic politics here, and we'll
start with what Kamala Harris said over the weekend. She
did an interview with the BBC, in which she told
the interviewer that she is not done with politics, and
she said, with my least favorite phrase in it, I
have lived my entire career as a life of service.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And it's in my bones. She said.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I like the way these people always present it like
they're doing. You know, I could be out there in
the private sector, making lots of money and have just
this wonderful life, but I've decided I'm all about public service.
So I'm that's what it is. It's not ambition and
power and everything that goes with it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I could be running a car company that puts forward
to shame or starting an AI that to make Sam
Altman look like a moron, But no, I've sacrificed myself
to serve you.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Who buys that crack?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I don't know a life of public service many anything.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
By the way, A Kamala having said that, please run
well right?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So that so Mark Alpern, in his newsletter on Saturday morning,
had the MAGA reaction to that, and the Democrat reaction
to that. The MAGA reaction was awesome. Couldn't have asked
for a better Halloween president. The Democratic reaction was.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
F oh my god. It's pretty funny about accuracy.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Now on to man Dummi mom, Danny Zoran soron as
you're about to hear it. So he had a big
rally yesterday. Some of the biggest names in the progressive
gotta get my finger wet, so I grab this piece
of paper. Some of the biggest names in progressive politics
(20:01):
were there, including you'll recognize AOC's voice and Bernie's voice.
And then the other voice you're gonna hear first is Hochel,
who is the governor.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Governor Hockel, Yeah, Kathy Okle of New York.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So she got the governor, and then you got AOC
and Bernie, who are as big as stars as our
for progressives. Here at this rally, I thought this was
all pretty good.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right now, our city and our state and our country
are under attack by Donald Trump and the Republicans in Washington.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Mary forces that Zohrn is up against in this race
mirrors what we are up against nationally, both an authoritarian,
criminal presidency fueled by corruption and bigotry.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Is that people want to know the answer to one
very simple question. Is it possible for ordinary people, for
working class people to come together and defeat those.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Hologauts listen to that enthusiast for Sanders, that's an enthusiastic
crowd right there. So the take on Fox about that
was that was the big stars of that wing of
the Democratic Party showing up saying we're in charge now,
this is the party.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Get in line or get out And think that's a
pretty accurate take. I think probably is two.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And then tell me the the noted moderates that everybody
that has anywhere close to that enthusiasm, you gotta call me,
call Keen Jeffries to the testifier, Chuck Schumer or who.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
All Right, So it's fairly recently that the governor there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Came out and endorsed him.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
They had been holding off and Jeffries, the leader of
the Democrats in the House, he came out over the
weekend and finally endorsed.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Zoron Zoron Zon Zorronron.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Is that the way we're supposed to say? Apparently? I
like that thing that they do on the left.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's it's just it's another different way of saying, we
make the rules. You're not doing it right about everything? Yeah,
and you you need to get in line with us.
And if you're not saying it. I mean, what's implied
there with all that sort of stuff is if you're
not saying it like this. I mean MPR does this
all the time when they talk about anything that's the
(22:37):
least bit Hispanic, they roll the rs. I mean, so
what's implied there is if you're not doing this, you're
kind of a racist.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Really, if you're if you're.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Not saying Zorn the way, you're kind of really a bigot.
But it's only like Muslims and Hispanic. Nobody says, you know,
the shooting was carried out by Luis Jim Joel. Nobody
freaking does that. Or oh Twashan o'killaher.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Who did it?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Nobody thing does that. It's only the chosen groups where
you're trying to convince everybody else they're bigots. Next time
somebody goes into an Irish brogue to pronounce an Irish name,
call me at home anytime, night or day.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You have a bunch of phonies. That is very, very
true and an excellent point.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Bill Maher on his show on Friday night, was making
the point that this is not good for the Democratic
Party and getting pushedback from some of his guests, but
he sounded the alarm, saying this, I think the whole
Democratic Party in the country is on the ballot, and
the whole country will be looking at the race to
see which way the Democrats are going to go.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I think he's right.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I think Zorn is going to become the face of
the party with a with AOC and Bernie at his side.
Which bring it on, Let try it out. Bill Maher
bringing up the point that well, I'll just read what
he said. How do you not renounce your citizenship to
Uganda where the imprison gay people or kill them, the
(24:14):
imprison gay people for their sexual orientation. How do you
not renounce your citizenship there? And Cuomo actually has asked
Mandani Zhron on the stage about that, and he had
some long witted answer why that's his heritage or something
or other. But yeah, that was what Bill Maher said.
The issue now that and A Cuoma is bringing up
in New York is that Zhron is a Ugandan citizen.
(24:36):
Uganda is a country where they kill homosexuals. I would
renounce if I was a dual citizen with the country
whose policy was to kill homosexuals, I'd renounce that citizenship.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
The crowd cheered, but and there are.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Pictures of Zhron smiling, embracing. I think we're right next
to the very guy who pushed those laws.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, Marxists just lie and they lie and they lie.
And he's one. He's that rare.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm always talking about the Red Green Alliance, the the
Marxists and the Islamists. He's like, you know, two to two,
two for one. He's an Islamist Marxist.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
The CNN host who is pushing back against Bill Maher
about Zohron said that this is all race baiting. A
lot of this with Zohron Andre it's bigotry Bill. Bill
Maher said, he campaigned this week with a guy who
is an unindicted co conspiracor in the ninety three World
Trades Enter bombing and served as a character witness for
(25:37):
the terrorists who organized it. So I just just don't
know how this is a good look for the party.
Bill Maher said, I agree, yes, So bring it on.
Let's see how it works.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
To one of the great developments of the last I
don't know several years is that if somebody makes a
point about you know what we're talking about, or Islamism
or whatever, and they're hit with the eure a bigot,
you're an islama. F that just has no weight anymore.
At least you know, it hasn't to me for a
very long time. But I'm getting the feeling that more
and more people respond to that with shut.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Up, Well, let's hear let's go with eighty one. I'm sorry, Mike.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Let's hear Mandani himself at the end of his rally yesterday.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Let our words ring out so loud tonight that Andrew
Cuomo can hear them in his eight thousand dollars a
month apartment.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Let them ring so loud.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
So that he could hear us even if he's in
Westchester this evening.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Let them ring so loud that his puppet.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Master in the White House hears us. New York is
not for sale. Oh man, I.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Only have heard that crowd, a crowd like that a
couple of times, Barack Obama, Bernie Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Although it's definitely at the point now where that philosophy
is being run up the flagpole because it's not big
enough to win election.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yet. Accept in a place like New York.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
City and many enthusiastic movements, whether and die, it'll never
win nationally, not a chance.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That's why it's so exciting if you want them to lose, yeah,
because it is going to get that kind of cheering
lots of places around the country, but it ain't gonna
win nationally. And you know how lucky is he to
get to have an opponent that I couldn't hate more
and you ought to hate Andrew cmo is that. Yeah,
(27:45):
he does have an eight thousand dollars a month apartment
because he's a completely corrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Family politics.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
He's closer to an oligarch than anything Bernie's ever been around.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And I love you and Pulty generational.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This is a horrible human being. So Mandannie gets run
against him. So, in case you haven't heard this clip,
this is Mahmoud Mamdanni, the father of Zoron, in a
speech he was.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Given America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism,
and the American model was exported all around the world.
Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations. They herded American
(28:34):
Indians into separate territories for the Nazis. For the Nazis,
this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things. One that
genocide was doable. It is possible to do genocide. That's
(28:57):
what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you
don't have to have a common citizenship. You can differentiate
between people. The Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws. Anyway,
the US put Indians in reservations. The US invented the
(29:21):
mudel So.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
In case you didn't follow that, Hitler learned this genocide
from Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Because Lincoln in the eighteen sixties invented the idea of
taking land and pushing the people on there off of it.
Not true signed both David and Goliath in the Testament
old when one group was trying to take the land
(29:50):
from the other group and sent an army to accomplish it.
You would have to be hilariously ignorant to believe that.
But that's that's what they push and college kids have
been thoroughly adoctrinate.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Did they fall for it? United? I mean, that is
truly amusing.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
The United States invented settler colonialism as where it was
when you take over some land and you start settling
it and then you end up running it, owning it,
that your.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Culture taking over that culture. That was not.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Invented by the United States. It is hilarious. Are you
kidding me? Wow, that's the history of the world five
thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That was old hat.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Please, yeah, you could go the way Homo sapiens likely displaced.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Your people with the big foreheads. Pronounced it properly.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
But okay, this is a stupid conversation to have you
all know this, but so but to get to go
on an interview show or wherever the hell he was
and say that the inspiration for Hitler was Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yes, that's your dad, Zorn. Yeah, wow, radical Marxist professor.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What would be a good analogous thing on the right
for any candidate's dad to say that they that they
would surely have to answer for. I mean, because that's
a crazy thing to say. I don't even know if
I can come up with something.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I don't know when you're whacky do the anti Semitica tropes, sir,
I don't, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It's so crazy. That is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So that's not how his dad is a professor and
his mom was a artsy filmmaker, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yes? Yeah, quite wealthy.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But that's the household you grew up in where Hitler's
the Abraham Lincoln's the inspiration for Hitler.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's the way. I didn't grow up that way. And
dude has never had a job. All he is is glip.
But he's an articulate Marxist period.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
He's tied. He's got people just fawning over him.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
He was talking last week because of Columbus Day, about
how when he used to drive by the Columbus statue
there in New York City, he would flip it off
all the time.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
All right, that's some powerful, powerful gesture. Yess, Michael, that
was crazy. But we have luckily a sane aoc here.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Choose escaping Holocaust, Black Americans sling sand slavery and Jim
Crow Latinos, then seeking a better life, Native people standing
for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens in Brooklyn
and got Bruins and Man Island and Stanton Island in
(32:45):
this country.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Okay, yeah, all right, yeah that's way. Hey, there's a
lot of energy there though, I'm telling you, stupid, stupid energy.
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
If I was a Democrat, I would be so worried
about how I.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Mean, behind her head is in their hands right now.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Behind the scenes, Chuck Schumer is like, what are we
going to do. He's thinking, I'm old at my time,
no country for old men. I gonna retire. She's going
to be the next senator. Good luck with that, That's
what he's thinking. Okay, we got to take a break.
We're out of time. We got a lot more on this.
Stay tuned, Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He Yetie, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Of colored hair and piercings in this little panel here.
It's that crowd and they're very very heavy set people
discussing fat in America.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
And here's how it went. H question, can you tell
me what category of fat I fit in?
Speaker 11 (33:50):
So it's based on your shirt size. If you are
a one or two X you are small fat, read
a four X you are mid fat, five to six
X you are super fat. Is based on what level
of privilege you have in the world. So someone in
a small fat category may not struggle getting on an airplane,
but someone in a mid fat or super fat may
(34:10):
not be able to use even the airplane extender. So
that's where that comes in. And like the privilege levels
of like what that means to different people.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Katie, your head is in your hands. I just wondered why. Yeah,
just shut up. She dropped the p bomb, the word privilege.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Kind of privilege you have because some people can fit
in an airplane seat. What it's interesting you got to
a crowd of really big people, the and the the
super big people are blaming the kind of big people
for having privilege and not recognizing.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
That this is uncomfortable, uncomfortable for me because my new
funk band is named super Fat. We spell it with
pH super fat anyway, Yeah, okay, all right, god you
people good.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
So if I'm just pretty fat, like it's uncomfortable to
sit in I need seat of the airline, but I
don't need an extender. Yeah, and then I'm told I
need to take on some sort of shame for my privilege.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I've never understood the privilege thing because.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I don't know what you're supposed to do. I don't
know what you're supposed to do, even if I agree
with you, which I don't. But even if I agree
with you, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now? Just sit here and feel bad? I mean, is
that help you somehow get bigger? They'll keep eaten. No.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
The literal answer is you're supposed to give them power.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Over you.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
They are in charge because you have had privilege, so
now they are in charge. It's like I and James
Lindsay are always saying, all this stuff is it is
masquerading as a moral philosophy. It's a tool of conquest.
I am going to call you racist or privileged until
I am in charge.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Wasn't it interesting the way the main person there laid
it out like this is just scientific.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I mean this is well documented.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know, if you're an excel your level one fat,
if you're I mean all.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
These different stuff and you just started throwing right now. Yes,
pseudo science, so coming up. Venezuela used to be incredibly
affluent and beautiful. Socialism ruined it. Also, it sounds pure prilliant,
but it's not. Human beings will soon be breathing through
their butts. And what female spies are waging sex warfare
in Silicon Valley?
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