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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 1: I am from Studio C.
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Speaker 2: C.O.
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Speaker 1: Senior. Midweek, deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Hey, y'all, today we are toiling under the title of the show.
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Speaker 2: A bloodbath inside a dumpster fire out back behind the poop show.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's gross.
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Speaker 2: Or if you prefer, vote as if I'm on the ballot. America says you got it.
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Speaker 1: It is an interesting strategy when you're the second least popular candidate President going into a midterm in the last 80 years or something like that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to analyze that psychologically unless it's just self-delusion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an odd thing to try to do, but I'm not sure it would have made any difference to not go around saying that. I'm not sure a lot of things would have made any difference. As you've been saying for a long time, and it's just, you know, when everything's really expensive, that's the issue.
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Speaker 2: Well, and what if, on top of that, you took a big running leap of faith gamble on a guy you weren't really sure about purely because you thought the one thing he does right is the economy?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: And keeping prices down.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: I am going to put all of my doubts and misgivings aside. I'm going to clamp my jaw shut. And I am going to make that leap of faith because by God, this man will don't.
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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if the Democrats can keep from overreaching because neither party has been able to do that for a lot of cycles now.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, how did you say that with a straight face?
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Speaker 1: Where you think, well, we've been voted in to completely upend society and the economy and everything that's ever happened. That's what people voted us in for, as opposed to, we don't like what's currently happening.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 5: And.
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Speaker 1: I stole this from somebody else, but I tweeted it out before I went to bed last night. Hey, Democrats, you're still the least popular you've ever been in your party's history. That's statistically true. 28% approval for the Democratic Party in the United States of America. It's the least popular they've ever been in their history. So the idea that because you beat the party that brought gas prices, Warren Iran tariffs, all that sort of stuff, that all of a sudden you're not living with 28% approval rating, don't fool yourself. You're still not popular.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I would say, and I agree completely, given the incredible low regard with which the Democratic Party is held, in which, at which, by America, I mean, they're loathed to go.
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Speaker 1: That far. blue in in the reddest of states is.
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Speaker 2: A repudiation that is beyond belief your swing states go your independent minded go the other way that's that's midterms that happens texas south carolina georgia again this is a brutal.
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Speaker 1: Repudiation brutal yeah um The candidate choice stuff, which we can talk about more later, but I don't think Cornyn would have won in Texas either. When the governor gets booted out, yeah, I don't think it would have made any difference.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas is a special case. I've been looking at the red estates that got overturned. I mean, for instance, in South Carolina, and this is striking, the statehouse stayed red. the governorship, the attorney general, the Congress flowed way blue compared to past results, but not, it's still a red state. But Darlene Graham got absolutely whooped.
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Speaker 1: And should. There's no way she should be in the Senate. And you know what? She didn't want to be in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: But she licked Trump's boots so clean. They were shiny.
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Speaker 1: She didn't do it to get the nomination, though. She's just being nice. You know what? You're right.
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Speaker 2: You're right. That is unfair to that poor, nice old lady who really just wants to advocate for the blind and got caught up in a whirlwind.
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Speaker 1: That describes Paxton. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Darlene Graham was just seen by Trump as somebody who will vote for me all the time.
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Speaker 1: No, she wasn't maneuvering behind the scenes to get the job. She was begging to be let out of it, I would guess. Oh, I guarantee you. Like I said yesterday morning, I guarantee you, in deep inside her, it was relief last night.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to go there. And my, but the, a lot of funny tweets I got that I gathered throughout the night, but this one from Ann Coulter, I thought was funny. Hard to believe the Darlene Graham era is coming to an end. The lioness of the Senate. Okay. That's fun.
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Speaker 2: That's really funny.
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Speaker 1: I like the people who are tweeting out ridiculous exaggerations of how awful everything is going to be now. Oh, Every cheesecake factory is going to be an abortion clinic.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: Starting tomorrow, you have to put your pronouns on your tax forms. That sort of thing. Oh, boy.
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Speaker 2: I tell you what, and I, trust me, for a variety of reasons, I don't even think about this until after it's happened. But for our jobs, the amount of insanity we're going to be Talking about reporting on the maneuvers, the efforts to view this as some sort of mandate from the American people to go completely woke again is going to be just a prairie fire. And it's going to be interesting as hell.
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Speaker 1: Well, getting back to the whole overreading the election. There are a handful of DSA members that got elected, but that's not who won all across the country. It's tons and tons of moderate Democrats who booted out the Republican all across the country, tons of them. So if the AOCs of the world or whoever or the media or whoever thinks it's a giant DSA takeover is what happened yesterday, they're just wrong. Right.
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Speaker 2: There was definitely progress if you are on the DSA side of things. They definitely clawed more ground, clawed their way to more ground.
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Speaker 1: Not a ton. There's like six. There's like six DSA members in the entire House.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Being an open member is... That's... No!
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Speaker 2: No! They're sympathetic with their policies. They are not openly members because they know that's poison. Abdul El-Sayed could get elected the president. Do they have a president of the DSA tomorrow? He is so down with their program. But he said, no, I'm not an active member. Come on!
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Speaker 3: Come on!
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Speaker 1: No, I think the vast majority of all those those districts all across Texas and all those different states. It's just it's more regular. Who's been serving kind of the regular Democrat? Well, first of all, just because you voted Democrat doesn't make you a Democrat. Yesterday, there's a whole bunch of people that voted Democrat. There aren't that many Democrats. You're a Trump rejecter. Yeah, you're a Trump rejecter. Probably a maybe a former Democrat, maybe a former Republican. Probably haven't been either party for many, many years. That's who won all those house seats all across the country. The interesting thing is the redistricting ploy in Texas completely went the wrong direction.
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Speaker 2: Whoops.
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Speaker 1: Lost every single one of those. The what was the term they were using at the time? Dummy districting or dummy mandering instead of gerrymandering. That's one of the problems with the gerrymandering thing is you take a really solid district and spread it out to a whole bunch of other ones thinking you can, you know, put some of it here, put some of it here, put some turn it into five, win them all. But in a wave election, they're all weak districts and they all go. And that's what happened in Texas. Every single one of them.
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Speaker 2: So getting back to the question of to what extent the far left gained ground, it.
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Speaker 1: Is so difficult to tell.
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Speaker 2: There are a handful of races I was following where the Democratic candidate absolutely tacked to the center for the purposes of running. But I know enough people like this, and I have studied them like a primatologist studies apes. A lot of these people said whatever it took to be in the in crowd during the woke thing. And so they have this history of saying the wokiest woke things from the woke apocalypse. To what extent did they really mean that? To what extent do they mean anything? Or do they just... As we often describe, as I often describe, do they view the entire world and policy through the lens of acceptability? They just go with what everybody around them is saying because they want to go along to get along. So, like, the chick who beat down Luann from King of the Hill, Darlene Graham, she is on record as being super soft on the transgender stuff, really.
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Speaker 1: Woke on that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Now she says, oh, no, no, no, no, I didn't mean that stuff.
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Speaker 1: What does she actually believe? Who knows? Yeah. Here's one of my favorite tweets from somebody I'd never heard of before. Since I'm one of like four limited government conservatives left in the entire country, here's my election season reminder. That if government did less and spent less, election outcomes would matter less. That's true. If the government wasn't so all-pervasive and all-powerful and took so much of your money, these elections wouldn't be as big a deal.
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Speaker 2: I wish I'd thought to make that point a million freaking times. Let's start the show officially, which makes a point also. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, November 4th, the year 2026. We're Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this year's program. All right, let's begin managing the inevitable decline, precisely according to FCC rules and regulations, impeaching the liars at mark.
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Speaker 5: Well, I say this. Congratulations to the Democrats. They did a good job. They've been looking for this one for 11 years. And they finally got it. But I don't view it as a hit on me. But I say congratulations to the Democrats. They worked very hard and long.
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Speaker 1: As you heard it there, he's denying the election results. He is called in the army. They've gone to polling places. They've grabbed the ballot boxes. As everyone predicted, Trump would act when he lost.
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Speaker 2: Made Tehran look like a May Day parade. Can we get away? The blood.
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Speaker 1: Can we get away from acting like every election's the last election of our lifetime? Can we do that? Can we just move past the whole era of that? The Flight 93 election idea.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my Lord, that's distasteful. But it's clear enough as a metaphor. I'd like to sit down with Chuck Schumer and ask him, that whole we're all going to die, the next election will be the last one, etc., Is that just like for 27 and unders? And he'd say, oh, yes, yes, they'll fall for anything. So you tell them, yes, you're going to die if you don't vote Democrat. The rest of the people we have to make kind of an argument, but the youngsters, oh, they're so easy.
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Speaker 1: Definitely once you get older and you've lived through a whole bunch of these swings back and forth. All the cheering crowds acting like the world has changed forever in their direction. I mean, whatever. I remember when Obama was running and was really hot in 2008, and I live in a blue town, and I'm certain this person was a Democrat, but I knew this young woman who wore a button that said, you're going to be disappointed. And I thought, well, that's interesting. But that's, you are.
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Speaker 2: You are.
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Speaker 1: If you're young and your team finally won and you think everything's fixed forever, you're going to be disappointed.
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Speaker 2: The graft is going to flow in a slightly different direction, and dumb policies are going to be enacted in a different direction.
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Speaker 1: There's an election every two years. Reagan lost eight Senate seats. Don't you threaten me. Reagan lost eight Senate seats in the midterm, won 49 states two years later. Trump got hammered two years later. Obama lost 63 seats two years after his election. Everybody's cheering because everything's fixed forever.
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Speaker 2: He lost 63 freaking House.
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Speaker 1: Seats, then got reelected. If Trump were on the ballot to run again, I wouldn't bet against the idea that he gets reelected in two years. That's how much we swing back and forth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but oh my God, his approval ratings are just historic.
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Speaker 1: So was Reagan. He was like 40 or something like that. Fate 39, when the midterms came back and won 49 states. We are just so flitty as an electorate. Just, I thought you were going to do better than that. And then you go the other direction. Of course, most of us don't go back and forth as we keep talking about it. It's the people that don't pay that much attention that swing back and forth.
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Speaker 2: I saw a bunch of men on the street interviews last night, and every single person they talked to, I would describe as a practically no information voter. Yeah, but one more thought, then we need to take a break. Your scenario where if Trump were running again, he could actually win again, for that to happen, the Democrats would have to run an absolute idiot.
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Speaker 1: So, pretty good chance. There you go. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you're not running against God Almighty, as the late Joe Biden used to say. Oh, he's still alive? Well, technically. We got Katie's headlines next.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 1: Motors overwhelmingly rejected data centers across the country. Big blow to the world of AI. Was that one of your headlines, Katie? I'm sorry. Do it anyway. Do it anyway and then pretend I didn't say it. We'll all pretend I didn't say it.
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Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with the victimized Katie Green.
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Speaker 1: It's because I'm a woman, huh? It's because you're a woman. That's the only reason I do it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the ugly head of misogyny.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: Shocking.
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Speaker 3: All of the alphabet networks sticking with the midterms. ABC, Trump says he was a little bit surprised after Democrats win big. NBC wants me to subscribe.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
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Speaker 3: NBC, Democrats capture full control of Congress. NBC News projects fueled by victories in.
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Speaker 1: Deeply Republican states.
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Speaker 3: And CNN, a historic blue wave in all caps.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised at all by the blue wave because we had that information yesterday morning. That's one of the reasons you should listen. But Texas surprised me as thoroughly as Texas went blue.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: New York Times facing return to war. More Iranians want a nuclear missile.
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Speaker 1: The Iran war. What exit polling said about that issue is interesting. We'll talk about that later. Washington Post.
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Speaker 3: Voters reject data centers across the country.
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard that.
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Speaker 2: Fascinating.
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Speaker 1: Shut up.
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Speaker 3: Across the country as the AI backlash grows.
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Speaker 1: That is something, though. That is something.
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Speaker 2: We've got to figure that out. We are a country full of jerking knees. I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 3: We are.
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Speaker 1: Reading Chinese bots.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal.
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Speaker 3: Americans cut back on boats and RVs but can't stop buying Harley Davidsons.
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Speaker 1: Wow. That's interesting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Harley's doing great.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Daily Mail.
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Speaker 3: Passenger slams airport store for charging mandatory, quote, employee and retention fee despite using the self-checkout counter.
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Speaker 1: Oh. Now you have to pay for the kiosks.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: New York Post.
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Speaker 3: New York dog moms are lavishing pooches with $ 100, 000 a year luxury retreats and themed birthday parties.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if you have a themed birthday party for your dog, I do want you taxed at a higher rate. I'm sorry, I have to go against my own principles.
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Speaker 2: Well, people, people, no, no, private enterprises figuring out how to steal these people's money, and I say go for it.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: Don't give it to the government.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want a themed birthday party for your dog?
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Speaker 1: You got it.
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Speaker 2: Name the date.
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Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon Bee. Vote goes uncounted after a woman fails to post a selfie with her, quote, I voted sticker.
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Speaker 1: That's part of the requirement, constitutionally. We've got so much more. Stay here.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. My name.
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Speaker 4: Is Abdulrahman Mohamed Al Sayed.
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Speaker 1: And I am so proud and honored.
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Speaker 4: to stand here as your senator-elect.
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Speaker 1: From the great state of Michigan.
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Speaker 4: Up until right about now, you might have noticed I always say, inshallah, or God willing, whenever the outcome of this race was mentioned. But today, tonight, we can turn that inshallah into alhamdulillah.
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Speaker 1: Alhamdulillah.
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Speaker 2: Super.
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Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't be such a big deal that we elect the Muslim senator who comes out there and does his name like that, everything like that, if he was also a, I'm so happy my family came to this country, I love America, blah, blah, blah, as opposed to a guy who hates the country and everything we do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Muslim and Islamist are two different things, and America is about to learn this, I think. To be a Muslim or Islam is a religion. It's a personal religion. It's fine. An Islamist believes in the fundamentalist version of Islam that says Islam should be in charge of everything and that Muslims and non-Muslims are treated very, very differently under the law. Non-Muslims are allowed to keep their blood in them, but only under very.
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Speaker 1: Specific and limited circumstances. It's awful. Awful.
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Speaker 2: It's the most dangerous political movement on earth by far. Jim Garrity, who writes for the National Review, and if you don't follow the National Review or whatever, Garrity is a very reasonable, amiable, funny, very smart guy, but he's the kind of guy you could picture being a great neighbor and you'd laugh in your driveway having a beer together. And he wrote a column, Islamism is on the ballot. And he goes over the whole objectionable, horrific, Schenck-Wieger TV ad that it was the Jews causing high prices and And as he put it, even a certain failed German painter would have found the ad's message a little heavy-handed. And he goes through that, but then he goes on, and this is worth... uh i think checking off this list did we make it clear else i had one in michigan last night oh yeah he's going to be hit for the room he is going to be the democratic senator for them it's not surprising to have a democrat win in michigan in fact a republican hasn't won in a very very long time but Having a guy who's so anti-Israel as him and so comfortable with all the socialism stuff win. Right.
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Speaker 1: And he won easily by, what, eight, nine points.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he whooped up on Mike Rogers. Yeah, absolutely true. So, and Garrity's main point is if you're a Jewish American for whom the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish state is important, it's getting increasingly difficult to remain in the Democratic Party. And he points out it's not just Abdul El-Sayed or New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani in his declaration that he has no opinion about the future of Hamas. It's Milet Kouros, all but certain to be Colorado's first to be elected, declining to describe a Molotov cocktail attack on a Gaza hostage demonstration. He declined to describe that as an act of anti-Semitism. She did. Stating she did not know the perpetrator's intention or the protesters' beliefs. They were demonstrating on behalf of the hostages in Gaza. It is unsuccessful Texas Democratic House candidate Maureen Galindo contending we have Israeli Zionists who are influencing our local politics and our South Texas politics. Do you know that ICE trains with the IDF in Israel? It's the Democratic Socialists of America Liberation Caucus, a self-described Marxist-Leninist-Maoist caucus within the DSA, calling for the release of Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners. Elias Rodriguez shot and murdered Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram in cold blood after they left the young diplomat's reception of the American Jewish Committee in Washington, D.C., back in 25. And perhaps more than anyone, and I've been shocked by the lack of attention to this— I.
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Speaker 1: Should have talked about it more— It is Adam Hamaway.
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Speaker 2: A few days before Election Day, the Atlantic magazine realized that a guy who had worked for an al-Qaeda front is about to get elected to Congress from New Jersey. Hamaway is not in this, quoting the Atlantic. Throughout his campaign, Hamaway has not fully accounted for why, as a young man, he kept company with Abdel Rahman, the blind sheik, and others in his circle. Perhaps Hamaway was merely young, curious, hapless, did not fully buy into the sheik's ideas. Or perhaps he harbored beliefs that he has since renounced. But Hamaway himself has provided little explanation. And then they go into all sorts of statements he made that in... Al-Sayed style said, any questions about that are right-wing media and racist. It's anti-Muslim. It's Islamophobia. All right, here we go, folks. It's a brand new day. The Francification of America has stepped forward, has moved forward. In both the socialist nightmare and the Islamist one.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear more from Abdul Al-Sayed. He didn't go with the... you know, the, you have the tough battle, you're at each other and then you win. I'd like to thank my opponent. You know, he called me tonight and, uh, congratulate me on the win. And I said, thank you for a hard, tough fight. And, uh, we're going to move forward and, uh, make Michigan. And he didn't go with that. He's like, I won stick it in your eye.
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Speaker 2: Abdul.
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Speaker 1: I'll say it. He is one cocky dude. Let's hear more from him. Just roll through those. Michael, I want you to let.
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Speaker 4: Them know, let them know that we together fighting for something bigger.
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Speaker 1: We won. So Mike, enjoy your retirement.
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Speaker 4: I know you got a house in Florida and two yachts. See, you chose hate and Michigan chose hope.
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Speaker 1: May we never have.
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Speaker 4: To see the likes of you in the state again.
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Speaker 1: That's usually not what you say when you win the big offices about your opponent. You usually go with the more, you know, let's bring us all together again thing.
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Speaker 4: Nope.
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Speaker 1: Hope we never see you again. You chose hate.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: El Sayed goes on.
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Speaker 2: JD.
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Speaker 1: Habibi.
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Speaker 4: There is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 2: So you know what that means?
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Speaker 1: Wolverine won, Buckeyes zero.
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Speaker 2: That was a pretty clever line there. Very clever line.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember a time for a big office where the victory speech included the continuation of the craziness of the campaign? I don't remember that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, mocking your opponent and mocking the sitting vice president and He's that he's that combative, which I think is a good thing because he is very smart and effective. But he is so full of himself and so committed to his principles. He can't hide them, which is going to help the good. It's going to help America. It's going to help the Constitution because his beliefs are utterly incompatible with Constitution.
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Speaker 1: He took a shot at Trump here.
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Speaker 4: Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name. So after J.D. swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator.
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Speaker 1: I mean, to the last clip, I don't... Seriously, I can't remember any time where anybody wins and gets up there. Now you have to swear me in. Suck on that, man. I mean, it's just... I remember hearing that sort of thing before. That is not usually what we do. And then finally this. I want to say something here.
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Speaker 2: See.
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Speaker 4: They try to call you hateful if you believe that Palestinian kids should get to grow up in the land of their forefathers without.
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Speaker 1: Being murdered by our tax dollars.
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Speaker 4: If you believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination.
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Speaker 1: That's not hate, it's love.
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Speaker 4: Michiganders, we want our taxes spent here for schools here and healthcare here and infrastructure here.
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Speaker 1: We don't want our money.
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Speaker 4: Sent to do apartheid or genocide or war.
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Speaker 2: No, it's not apartheid or genocide. It certainly is war. So now Democrats are against foreign aid. That's a headline.
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Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see. But just for the Jews.
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Speaker 2: That's the punchline.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see how he gets along with other senators or if other senators keep their mouths shut. I mean, the Senate's only 100 people and your own caucus is only going to be, what are they going to have, 55, 56 at the end of the day? That's not a ton of people in a room when you have your conversations. And I got to believe the John Fettermans and some other people that haven't been as loud about it hate what he said last night. Don't just don't agree with his politics. Like, hate that.
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Speaker 2: Well, and the fun thing about Al-Sayed is that you can despise the barely veiled Islamism, but his economic policies, he is in all but name a DSA member, a leader. And so there are plenty of moderate Democrat senators who find his beliefs abhorrent. on, you know, the purely non-Islamist stuff. So, yeah, that's going to be a really interesting dynamic. And given that speech, I mean, the obvious question, if we did not just hear that speech, was, all right, you know, what's his demeanor going to be in the Senate? Is he going to be a let's get together, let's find some compromises, cut some deals guy?
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Speaker 1: Or is he going to be a defiant firebrand.
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Speaker 2: A DF?
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Speaker 1: I just saw the final numbers from Texas. Tallarica won by 12. 12 points. That's not a close race.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, if you are into the wanting to know how things turn out before they do, listen to pundits who have access to internal polls. They got the story. Because the public polls, they're doing their best with their limited budgets, but That's not even a close race. One of the Dan Sullivans is still a point ahead up there in Alaska, and they're still, you know, taking dog sleds out to villages, climbing in.
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Speaker 1: What do you call those things with the ice blocks?
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Speaker 2: Igloos?
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Speaker 1: Climbing in igloos and asking you how you voted, getting the votes, and so on and so forth. So collecting votes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Some fine Alaska cliches there. Michael, what did you say into our ears? Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 1: WarriorFoundation.org. So I've got to get to some of the exit polling. Three-quarters of people put Iran very high on the list, the war, and that all was by people that don't really dig the war. We should talk about that issue because that's an interesting one. Among other things on the way, like I said, I've got to– so there's the Alaska race still out there. What's the other one? There's one other they haven't finished counting. Which one is that? Flit it out of my mind.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. I don't know. It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: They'll figure it out. It's all over. Well, directionally, it's over. No doubt about that. We've got Mailbag on the way next, and you can weigh in. Any thoughts? Text line 415-295-KFTC. Armstrong and Getty. So the Dees will have 54 Senate seats at least, and there's two out there. It's Alaska and Mississippi is the other one. Alaska, it's going to be a long time because of the way they count votes in Alaska. They'll probably find out Mississippi fairly early. Soon, but either way, Joe is right. It's over directionally in terms of the Democrats do solidly have the Senate and the House.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so much more to be said analyzing the results and looking forward to the future.
00:30:58
Speaker 1: But first, it's your freedom-loving quote of the day.
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Speaker 2: What could be better than one of H.L. Mencken's greatest hits? Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. Amen to that.
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Speaker 1: Mailbag.
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Speaker 2: And on that topic, Joe G. from Reno says a couple of observations. I would characterize the vote as Trump fatigue. Yeah, in large measure. It's always bothered me that 20% of the electorate in the mushy middle always determines elections. These people, generally speaking, are devoid of any ideological or philosophical consistency, and they don't really follow the news. They tend to vote in an emotional, knee-jerk fashion. They have no idea who they just voted for. Yeah. I would agree.
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Speaker 1: Like I said yesterday, it's like, you read op-ed pieces, you have long discussions, you go to speeches, stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God, I know.
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Speaker 1: People that decide the election are like, I just think the gas is too high.
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Speaker 2: At the end. You know, until Joe sent along that Mencken quote, I was going to.
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Speaker 2: I was going to go with Churchill. Not democracy is the worst form of government, except all others that have been tried, which is one of the great quotes in the history of mankind. But is the other one out here?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 2: He said anybody who's a believer in democracy, democracy should spend five minutes with the average voter, which is also very cynical and very realistic.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Ah.
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Speaker 2: Okay, this is from J.D. in Reno, different to Renoite. It's good to hear from the good folks in beautiful Reno. Good morning, fine gentlemen. I woke up to my biggest fear as an individual who was born and raised in Nevada. My state has turned blue. I attribute all that to the individuals who left California and moved here. They forgot why they left and continue to vote the same way and wonder why the issues they had in California are here now.
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Speaker 1: J.D., I disagree with you. Left voters, and this.
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Speaker 2: Is astonishing to those of us who are not left voters. I know you just have to accept it. It's like as a dude learning to accept your sweetheart and her womanly quirks.
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Speaker 1: You just have to.
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Speaker 2: People on the left don't connect policy and outcome.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know it's insane.
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Speaker 2: They don't. Let's see. The American people have lost their minds, and we as a country are going to suffer. To some extent, yeah. As I look at the individuals of one throughout the nation, it makes me wonder what's going to happen in the next two years.
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Speaker 1: I pray God to have mercy on America.
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Speaker 2: Okay? Wow, that's super interesting about the freezer hacks, but I want to stick with the election for now. Good morning, guys. I know you're going to preach about how Republicans put forth bad candidates like Paxton, but Ilhan Omar accrues to an easy win, and she's got a ton of baggage and is currently under investigation. Well, she's an Islamist Somali, and all the Islamist Somalis pushed her over the top in concert with the woke lefties in Minnesota. But Let's see. This is Xena says the problem isn't bad candidates. It's Democrats just want to win. They, unlike Republicans, will vote for death row inmates as long as they're a Democrat. There's no choosing a person with values or dignity or even intelligence. I mean, heck, they just elected Becerra in California.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Even Susan Collins up in Maine finally lost the Republican. She lost to some guy. He barely run because the whole the whole Platner thing. Platner, if he hadn't been such a weirdo and those texts had come out, he'd be a U.S. senator. He was because people were ready to reject their Republican.
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Speaker 2: The ruggedly handsome oyster fisherman or lobster wrangler or whatever the hell he claimed to be. Sideshow Bob with an interesting... Who wanted to rape burglars with a sword or something. Oh, that's right.
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Speaker 1: He's a would-be burglar rapist.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: To show his dominance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So Sideshow Bob makes a couple of points, but he brings me to one of my favorite things to talk about. I never thought I'd say this, but it appears the voters in California are smarter than those here in Washington. They voted down the billionaire tax while we voted for a state income tax for the first time. Only a million dollars of income now, but as soon as those folks move to Idaho, that number will drop rapidly. At least we got rid of boys and girls sports, which is a moral victory. Yeah, in the bluest of blue states, Washington, they said, it's self-evident you can't have boys and girls sports. That's what girls sports are. But that was a question in America for about a decade, thanks to.
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Speaker 1: The loonies of the left. I like what I was going to— Well, do you, Finney?
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Speaker 2: Go ahead. Yeah, the thing I wanted to throw in is that you're absolutely right, Shai, Joe, Bob, in that the revenue they're projecting for the so-called millionaire income tax— Once revenue comes in, it's permanent. It must never be eliminated. The programs or graft or whatever the hell is paid for by that money is permanent because all government programs are permanent. They never shrink, although the Trump administration has tried to their credit. Anyway, so yeah, the minute the tax dollars from people who make a million dollars a year aren't sufficient, well, three quarters of a million dollars is a hell of a lot of 200,000.
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Speaker 1: You're rich if you, yep, it'll go and it'll go and it'll grow and it'll grow. We got a couple of great analysts coming up a little bit later in the show. We'll go through some of the various ballot measures across the state. Man, data centers are not popular. Any party, anywhere. If you miss a segment, get to podcast Armstrong and Getty On Demand.
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Speaker 1: Senior. Midweek, deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Hey, y'all, today we are toiling under the title of the show.
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Speaker 2: A bloodbath inside a dumpster fire out back behind the poop show.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's gross.
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Speaker 2: Or if you prefer, vote as if I'm on the ballot. America says you got it.
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Speaker 1: It is an interesting strategy when you're the second least popular candidate President going into a midterm in the last 80 years or something like that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to analyze that psychologically unless it's just self-delusion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an odd thing to try to do, but I'm not sure it would have made any difference to not go around saying that. I'm not sure a lot of things would have made any difference. As you've been saying for a long time, and it's just, you know, when everything's really expensive, that's the issue.
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Speaker 2: Well, and what if, on top of that, you took a big running leap of faith gamble on a guy you weren't really sure about purely because you thought the one thing he does right is the economy?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: And keeping prices down.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: I am going to put all of my doubts and misgivings aside. I'm going to clamp my jaw shut. And I am going to make that leap of faith because by God, this man will don't.
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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if the Democrats can keep from overreaching because neither party has been able to do that for a lot of cycles now.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, how did you say that with a straight face?
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Speaker 1: Where you think, well, we've been voted in to completely upend society and the economy and everything that's ever happened. That's what people voted us in for, as opposed to, we don't like what's currently happening.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 5: And.
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Speaker 1: I stole this from somebody else, but I tweeted it out before I went to bed last night. Hey, Democrats, you're still the least popular you've ever been in your party's history. That's statistically true. 28% approval for the Democratic Party in the United States of America. It's the least popular they've ever been in their history. So the idea that because you beat the party that brought gas prices, Warren Iran tariffs, all that sort of stuff, that all of a sudden you're not living with 28% approval rating, don't fool yourself. You're still not popular.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I would say, and I agree completely, given the incredible low regard with which the Democratic Party is held, in which, at which, by America, I mean, they're loathed to go.
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Speaker 1: That far. blue in in the reddest of states is.
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Speaker 2: A repudiation that is beyond belief your swing states go your independent minded go the other way that's that's midterms that happens texas south carolina georgia again this is a brutal.
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Speaker 1: Repudiation brutal yeah um The candidate choice stuff, which we can talk about more later, but I don't think Cornyn would have won in Texas either. When the governor gets booted out, yeah, I don't think it would have made any difference.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas is a special case. I've been looking at the red estates that got overturned. I mean, for instance, in South Carolina, and this is striking, the statehouse stayed red. the governorship, the attorney general, the Congress flowed way blue compared to past results, but not, it's still a red state. But Darlene Graham got absolutely whooped.
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Speaker 1: And should. There's no way she should be in the Senate. And you know what? She didn't want to be in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: But she licked Trump's boots so clean. They were shiny.
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Speaker 1: She didn't do it to get the nomination, though. She's just being nice. You know what? You're right.
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Speaker 2: You're right. That is unfair to that poor, nice old lady who really just wants to advocate for the blind and got caught up in a whirlwind.
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Speaker 1: That describes Paxton. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Darlene Graham was just seen by Trump as somebody who will vote for me all the time.
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Speaker 1: No, she wasn't maneuvering behind the scenes to get the job. She was begging to be let out of it, I would guess. Oh, I guarantee you. Like I said yesterday morning, I guarantee you, in deep inside her, it was relief last night.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to go there. And my, but the, a lot of funny tweets I got that I gathered throughout the night, but this one from Ann Coulter, I thought was funny. Hard to believe the Darlene Graham era is coming to an end. The lioness of the Senate. Okay. That's fun.
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Speaker 2: That's really funny.
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Speaker 1: I like the people who are tweeting out ridiculous exaggerations of how awful everything is going to be now. Oh, Every cheesecake factory is going to be an abortion clinic.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: Starting tomorrow, you have to put your pronouns on your tax forms. That sort of thing. Oh, boy.
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Speaker 2: I tell you what, and I, trust me, for a variety of reasons, I don't even think about this until after it's happened. But for our jobs, the amount of insanity we're going to be Talking about reporting on the maneuvers, the efforts to view this as some sort of mandate from the American people to go completely woke again is going to be just a prairie fire. And it's going to be interesting as hell.
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Speaker 1: Well, getting back to the whole overreading the election. There are a handful of DSA members that got elected, but that's not who won all across the country. It's tons and tons of moderate Democrats who booted out the Republican all across the country, tons of them. So if the AOCs of the world or whoever or the media or whoever thinks it's a giant DSA takeover is what happened yesterday, they're just wrong. Right.
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Speaker 2: There was definitely progress if you are on the DSA side of things. They definitely clawed more ground, clawed their way to more ground.
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Speaker 1: Not a ton. There's like six. There's like six DSA members in the entire House.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Being an open member is... That's... No!
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Speaker 2: No! They're sympathetic with their policies. They are not openly members because they know that's poison. Abdul El-Sayed could get elected the president. Do they have a president of the DSA tomorrow? He is so down with their program. But he said, no, I'm not an active member. Come on!
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Speaker 3: Come on!
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Speaker 1: No, I think the vast majority of all those those districts all across Texas and all those different states. It's just it's more regular. Who's been serving kind of the regular Democrat? Well, first of all, just because you voted Democrat doesn't make you a Democrat. Yesterday, there's a whole bunch of people that voted Democrat. There aren't that many Democrats. You're a Trump rejecter. Yeah, you're a Trump rejecter. Probably a maybe a former Democrat, maybe a former Republican. Probably haven't been either party for many, many years. That's who won all those house seats all across the country. The interesting thing is the redistricting ploy in Texas completely went the wrong direction.
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Speaker 2: Whoops.
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Speaker 1: Lost every single one of those. The what was the term they were using at the time? Dummy districting or dummy mandering instead of gerrymandering. That's one of the problems with the gerrymandering thing is you take a really solid district and spread it out to a whole bunch of other ones thinking you can, you know, put some of it here, put some of it here, put some turn it into five, win them all. But in a wave election, they're all weak districts and they all go. And that's what happened in Texas. Every single one of them.
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Speaker 2: So getting back to the question of to what extent the far left gained ground, it.
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Speaker 1: Is so difficult to tell.
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Speaker 2: There are a handful of races I was following where the Democratic candidate absolutely tacked to the center for the purposes of running. But I know enough people like this, and I have studied them like a primatologist studies apes. A lot of these people said whatever it took to be in the in crowd during the woke thing. And so they have this history of saying the wokiest woke things from the woke apocalypse. To what extent did they really mean that? To what extent do they mean anything? Or do they just... As we often describe, as I often describe, do they view the entire world and policy through the lens of acceptability? They just go with what everybody around them is saying because they want to go along to get along. So, like, the chick who beat down Luann from King of the Hill, Darlene Graham, she is on record as being super soft on the transgender stuff, really.
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Speaker 1: Woke on that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Now she says, oh, no, no, no, no, I didn't mean that stuff.
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Speaker 1: What does she actually believe? Who knows? Yeah. Here's one of my favorite tweets from somebody I'd never heard of before. Since I'm one of like four limited government conservatives left in the entire country, here's my election season reminder. That if government did less and spent less, election outcomes would matter less. That's true. If the government wasn't so all-pervasive and all-powerful and took so much of your money, these elections wouldn't be as big a deal.
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Speaker 2: I wish I'd thought to make that point a million freaking times. Let's start the show officially, which makes a point also. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, November 4th, the year 2026. We're Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this year's program. All right, let's begin managing the inevitable decline, precisely according to FCC rules and regulations, impeaching the liars at mark.
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Speaker 5: Well, I say this. Congratulations to the Democrats. They did a good job. They've been looking for this one for 11 years. And they finally got it. But I don't view it as a hit on me. But I say congratulations to the Democrats. They worked very hard and long.
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Speaker 1: As you heard it there, he's denying the election results. He is called in the army. They've gone to polling places. They've grabbed the ballot boxes. As everyone predicted, Trump would act when he lost.
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Speaker 2: Made Tehran look like a May Day parade. Can we get away? The blood.
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Speaker 1: Can we get away from acting like every election's the last election of our lifetime? Can we do that? Can we just move past the whole era of that? The Flight 93 election idea.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my Lord, that's distasteful. But it's clear enough as a metaphor. I'd like to sit down with Chuck Schumer and ask him, that whole we're all going to die, the next election will be the last one, etc., Is that just like for 27 and unders? And he'd say, oh, yes, yes, they'll fall for anything. So you tell them, yes, you're going to die if you don't vote Democrat. The rest of the people we have to make kind of an argument, but the youngsters, oh, they're so easy.
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Speaker 1: Definitely once you get older and you've lived through a whole bunch of these swings back and forth. All the cheering crowds acting like the world has changed forever in their direction. I mean, whatever. I remember when Obama was running and was really hot in 2008, and I live in a blue town, and I'm certain this person was a Democrat, but I knew this young woman who wore a button that said, you're going to be disappointed. And I thought, well, that's interesting. But that's, you are.
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Speaker 2: You are.
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Speaker 1: If you're young and your team finally won and you think everything's fixed forever, you're going to be disappointed.
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Speaker 2: The graft is going to flow in a slightly different direction, and dumb policies are going to be enacted in a different direction.
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Speaker 1: There's an election every two years. Reagan lost eight Senate seats. Don't you threaten me. Reagan lost eight Senate seats in the midterm, won 49 states two years later. Trump got hammered two years later. Obama lost 63 seats two years after his election. Everybody's cheering because everything's fixed forever.
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Speaker 2: He lost 63 freaking House.
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Speaker 1: Seats, then got reelected. If Trump were on the ballot to run again, I wouldn't bet against the idea that he gets reelected in two years. That's how much we swing back and forth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but oh my God, his approval ratings are just historic.
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Speaker 1: So was Reagan. He was like 40 or something like that. Fate 39, when the midterms came back and won 49 states. We are just so flitty as an electorate. Just, I thought you were going to do better than that. And then you go the other direction. Of course, most of us don't go back and forth as we keep talking about it. It's the people that don't pay that much attention that swing back and forth.
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Speaker 2: I saw a bunch of men on the street interviews last night, and every single person they talked to, I would describe as a practically no information voter. Yeah, but one more thought, then we need to take a break. Your scenario where if Trump were running again, he could actually win again, for that to happen, the Democrats would have to run an absolute idiot.
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Speaker 1: So, pretty good chance. There you go. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you're not running against God Almighty, as the late Joe Biden used to say. Oh, he's still alive? Well, technically. We got Katie's headlines next.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 1: Motors overwhelmingly rejected data centers across the country. Big blow to the world of AI. Was that one of your headlines, Katie? I'm sorry. Do it anyway. Do it anyway and then pretend I didn't say it. We'll all pretend I didn't say it.
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Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with the victimized Katie Green.
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Speaker 1: It's because I'm a woman, huh? It's because you're a woman. That's the only reason I do it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the ugly head of misogyny.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: Shocking.
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Speaker 3: All of the alphabet networks sticking with the midterms. ABC, Trump says he was a little bit surprised after Democrats win big. NBC wants me to subscribe.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
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Speaker 3: NBC, Democrats capture full control of Congress. NBC News projects fueled by victories in.
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Speaker 1: Deeply Republican states.
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Speaker 3: And CNN, a historic blue wave in all caps.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised at all by the blue wave because we had that information yesterday morning. That's one of the reasons you should listen. But Texas surprised me as thoroughly as Texas went blue.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: New York Times facing return to war. More Iranians want a nuclear missile.
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Speaker 1: The Iran war. What exit polling said about that issue is interesting. We'll talk about that later. Washington Post.
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Speaker 3: Voters reject data centers across the country.
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard that.
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Speaker 2: Fascinating.
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Speaker 1: Shut up.
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Speaker 3: Across the country as the AI backlash grows.
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Speaker 1: That is something, though. That is something.
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Speaker 2: We've got to figure that out. We are a country full of jerking knees. I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 3: We are.
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Speaker 1: Reading Chinese bots.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal.
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Speaker 3: Americans cut back on boats and RVs but can't stop buying Harley Davidsons.
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Speaker 1: Wow. That's interesting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Harley's doing great.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Daily Mail.
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Speaker 3: Passenger slams airport store for charging mandatory, quote, employee and retention fee despite using the self-checkout counter.
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Speaker 1: Oh. Now you have to pay for the kiosks.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: New York Post.
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Speaker 3: New York dog moms are lavishing pooches with $ 100, 000 a year luxury retreats and themed birthday parties.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if you have a themed birthday party for your dog, I do want you taxed at a higher rate. I'm sorry, I have to go against my own principles.
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Speaker 2: Well, people, people, no, no, private enterprises figuring out how to steal these people's money, and I say go for it.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: Don't give it to the government.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want a themed birthday party for your dog?
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Speaker 1: You got it.
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Speaker 2: Name the date.
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Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon Bee. Vote goes uncounted after a woman fails to post a selfie with her, quote, I voted sticker.
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Speaker 1: That's part of the requirement, constitutionally. We've got so much more. Stay here.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. My name.
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Speaker 4: Is Abdulrahman Mohamed Al Sayed.
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Speaker 1: And I am so proud and honored.
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Speaker 4: to stand here as your senator-elect.
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Speaker 1: From the great state of Michigan.
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Speaker 4: Up until right about now, you might have noticed I always say, inshallah, or God willing, whenever the outcome of this race was mentioned. But today, tonight, we can turn that inshallah into alhamdulillah.
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Speaker 1: Alhamdulillah.
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Speaker 2: Super.
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Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't be such a big deal that we elect the Muslim senator who comes out there and does his name like that, everything like that, if he was also a, I'm so happy my family came to this country, I love America, blah, blah, blah, as opposed to a guy who hates the country and everything we do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Muslim and Islamist are two different things, and America is about to learn this, I think. To be a Muslim or Islam is a religion. It's a personal religion. It's fine. An Islamist believes in the fundamentalist version of Islam that says Islam should be in charge of everything and that Muslims and non-Muslims are treated very, very differently under the law. Non-Muslims are allowed to keep their blood in them, but only under very.
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Speaker 1: Specific and limited circumstances. It's awful. Awful.
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Speaker 2: It's the most dangerous political movement on earth by far. Jim Garrity, who writes for the National Review, and if you don't follow the National Review or whatever, Garrity is a very reasonable, amiable, funny, very smart guy, but he's the kind of guy you could picture being a great neighbor and you'd laugh in your driveway having a beer together. And he wrote a column, Islamism is on the ballot. And he goes over the whole objectionable, horrific, Schenck-Wieger TV ad that it was the Jews causing high prices and And as he put it, even a certain failed German painter would have found the ad's message a little heavy-handed. And he goes through that, but then he goes on, and this is worth... uh i think checking off this list did we make it clear else i had one in michigan last night oh yeah he's going to be hit for the room he is going to be the democratic senator for them it's not surprising to have a democrat win in michigan in fact a republican hasn't won in a very very long time but Having a guy who's so anti-Israel as him and so comfortable with all the socialism stuff win. Right.
00:20:12
Speaker 1: And he won easily by, what, eight, nine points.
00:20:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, he whooped up on Mike Rogers. Yeah, absolutely true. So, and Garrity's main point is if you're a Jewish American for whom the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish state is important, it's getting increasingly difficult to remain in the Democratic Party. And he points out it's not just Abdul El-Sayed or New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani in his declaration that he has no opinion about the future of Hamas. It's Milet Kouros, all but certain to be Colorado's first to be elected, declining to describe a Molotov cocktail attack on a Gaza hostage demonstration. He declined to describe that as an act of anti-Semitism. She did. Stating she did not know the perpetrator's intention or the protesters' beliefs. They were demonstrating on behalf of the hostages in Gaza. It is unsuccessful Texas Democratic House candidate Maureen Galindo contending we have Israeli Zionists who are influencing our local politics and our South Texas politics. Do you know that ICE trains with the IDF in Israel? It's the Democratic Socialists of America Liberation Caucus, a self-described Marxist-Leninist-Maoist caucus within the DSA, calling for the release of Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners. Elias Rodriguez shot and murdered Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram in cold blood after they left the young diplomat's reception of the American Jewish Committee in Washington, D.C., back in 25. And perhaps more than anyone, and I've been shocked by the lack of attention to this— I.
00:21:43
Speaker 1: Should have talked about it more— It is Adam Hamaway.
00:21:46
Speaker 2: A few days before Election Day, the Atlantic magazine realized that a guy who had worked for an al-Qaeda front is about to get elected to Congress from New Jersey. Hamaway is not in this, quoting the Atlantic. Throughout his campaign, Hamaway has not fully accounted for why, as a young man, he kept company with Abdel Rahman, the blind sheik, and others in his circle. Perhaps Hamaway was merely young, curious, hapless, did not fully buy into the sheik's ideas. Or perhaps he harbored beliefs that he has since renounced. But Hamaway himself has provided little explanation. And then they go into all sorts of statements he made that in... Al-Sayed style said, any questions about that are right-wing media and racist. It's anti-Muslim. It's Islamophobia. All right, here we go, folks. It's a brand new day. The Francification of America has stepped forward, has moved forward. In both the socialist nightmare and the Islamist one.
00:22:45
Speaker 1: Let's hear more from Abdul Al-Sayed. He didn't go with the... you know, the, you have the tough battle, you're at each other and then you win. I'd like to thank my opponent. You know, he called me tonight and, uh, congratulate me on the win. And I said, thank you for a hard, tough fight. And, uh, we're going to move forward and, uh, make Michigan. And he didn't go with that. He's like, I won stick it in your eye.
00:23:08
Speaker 2: Abdul.
00:23:09
Speaker 1: I'll say it. He is one cocky dude. Let's hear more from him. Just roll through those. Michael, I want you to let.
00:23:13
Speaker 4: Them know, let them know that we together fighting for something bigger.
00:23:18
Speaker 1: We won. So Mike, enjoy your retirement.
00:23:28
Speaker 4: I know you got a house in Florida and two yachts. See, you chose hate and Michigan chose hope.
00:23:39
Speaker 1: May we never have.
00:23:40
Speaker 4: To see the likes of you in the state again.
00:23:44
Speaker 1: That's usually not what you say when you win the big offices about your opponent. You usually go with the more, you know, let's bring us all together again thing.
00:23:51
Speaker 4: Nope.
00:23:52
Speaker 1: Hope we never see you again. You chose hate.
00:23:54
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:23:55
Speaker 1: El Sayed goes on.
00:23:56
Speaker 2: JD.
00:24:00
Speaker 1: Habibi.
00:24:04
Speaker 4: There is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.
00:24:17
Speaker 5: Wow.
00:24:19
Speaker 2: So you know what that means?
00:24:22
Speaker 1: Wolverine won, Buckeyes zero.
00:24:24
Speaker 2: That was a pretty clever line there. Very clever line.
00:24:30
Speaker 1: Do you remember a time for a big office where the victory speech included the continuation of the craziness of the campaign? I don't remember that.
00:24:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, mocking your opponent and mocking the sitting vice president and He's that he's that combative, which I think is a good thing because he is very smart and effective. But he is so full of himself and so committed to his principles. He can't hide them, which is going to help the good. It's going to help America. It's going to help the Constitution because his beliefs are utterly incompatible with Constitution.
00:25:08
Speaker 1: He took a shot at Trump here.
00:25:10
Speaker 4: Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name. So after J.D. swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator.
00:25:24
Speaker 1: I mean, to the last clip, I don't... Seriously, I can't remember any time where anybody wins and gets up there. Now you have to swear me in. Suck on that, man. I mean, it's just... I remember hearing that sort of thing before. That is not usually what we do. And then finally this. I want to say something here.
00:25:44
Speaker 2: See.
00:25:45
Speaker 4: They try to call you hateful if you believe that Palestinian kids should get to grow up in the land of their forefathers without.
00:25:54
Speaker 1: Being murdered by our tax dollars.
00:25:58
Speaker 4: If you believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination.
00:26:02
Speaker 1: That's not hate, it's love.
00:26:07
Speaker 4: Michiganders, we want our taxes spent here for schools here and healthcare here and infrastructure here.
00:26:14
Speaker 1: We don't want our money.
00:26:15
Speaker 4: Sent to do apartheid or genocide or war.
00:26:17
Speaker 2: No, it's not apartheid or genocide. It certainly is war. So now Democrats are against foreign aid. That's a headline.
00:26:28
Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see. But just for the Jews.
00:26:32
Speaker 2: That's the punchline.
00:26:33
Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see how he gets along with other senators or if other senators keep their mouths shut. I mean, the Senate's only 100 people and your own caucus is only going to be, what are they going to have, 55, 56 at the end of the day? That's not a ton of people in a room when you have your conversations. And I got to believe the John Fettermans and some other people that haven't been as loud about it hate what he said last night. Don't just don't agree with his politics. Like, hate that.
00:27:00
Speaker 2: Well, and the fun thing about Al-Sayed is that you can despise the barely veiled Islamism, but his economic policies, he is in all but name a DSA member, a leader. And so there are plenty of moderate Democrat senators who find his beliefs abhorrent. on, you know, the purely non-Islamist stuff. So, yeah, that's going to be a really interesting dynamic. And given that speech, I mean, the obvious question, if we did not just hear that speech, was, all right, you know, what's his demeanor going to be in the Senate? Is he going to be a let's get together, let's find some compromises, cut some deals guy?
00:27:45
Speaker 1: Or is he going to be a defiant firebrand.
00:27:49
Speaker 2: A DF?
00:27:51
Speaker 1: I just saw the final numbers from Texas. Tallarica won by 12. 12 points. That's not a close race.
00:28:02
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:28:04
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, if you are into the wanting to know how things turn out before they do, listen to pundits who have access to internal polls. They got the story. Because the public polls, they're doing their best with their limited budgets, but That's not even a close race. One of the Dan Sullivans is still a point ahead up there in Alaska, and they're still, you know, taking dog sleds out to villages, climbing in.
00:28:38
Speaker 1: What do you call those things with the ice blocks?
00:28:41
Speaker 2: Igloos?
00:28:42
Speaker 1: Climbing in igloos and asking you how you voted, getting the votes, and so on and so forth. So collecting votes, sir.
00:28:47
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Some fine Alaska cliches there. Michael, what did you say into our ears? Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 1: WarriorFoundation.org. So I've got to get to some of the exit polling. Three-quarters of people put Iran very high on the list, the war, and that all was by people that don't really dig the war. We should talk about that issue because that's an interesting one. Among other things on the way, like I said, I've got to– so there's the Alaska race still out there. What's the other one? There's one other they haven't finished counting. Which one is that? Flit it out of my mind.
00:30:14
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. I don't know. It doesn't matter.
00:30:16
Speaker 1: They'll figure it out. It's all over. Well, directionally, it's over. No doubt about that. We've got Mailbag on the way next, and you can weigh in. Any thoughts? Text line 415-295-KFTC. Armstrong and Getty. So the Dees will have 54 Senate seats at least, and there's two out there. It's Alaska and Mississippi is the other one. Alaska, it's going to be a long time because of the way they count votes in Alaska. They'll probably find out Mississippi fairly early. Soon, but either way, Joe is right. It's over directionally in terms of the Democrats do solidly have the Senate and the House.
00:30:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, so much more to be said analyzing the results and looking forward to the future.
00:30:58
Speaker 1: But first, it's your freedom-loving quote of the day.
00:31:01
Speaker 2: What could be better than one of H.L. Mencken's greatest hits? Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. Amen to that.
00:31:13
Speaker 1: Mailbag.
00:31:16
Speaker 2: And on that topic, Joe G. from Reno says a couple of observations. I would characterize the vote as Trump fatigue. Yeah, in large measure. It's always bothered me that 20% of the electorate in the mushy middle always determines elections. These people, generally speaking, are devoid of any ideological or philosophical consistency, and they don't really follow the news. They tend to vote in an emotional, knee-jerk fashion. They have no idea who they just voted for. Yeah. I would agree.
00:31:49
Speaker 1: Like I said yesterday, it's like, you read op-ed pieces, you have long discussions, you go to speeches, stuff like that.
00:31:56
Speaker 2: Oh my God, I know.
00:31:57
Speaker 1: People that decide the election are like, I just think the gas is too high.
00:32:02
Speaker 2: At the end. You know, until Joe sent along that Mencken quote, I was going to.
00:32:09
Speaker 2: I was going to go with Churchill. Not democracy is the worst form of government, except all others that have been tried, which is one of the great quotes in the history of mankind. But is the other one out here?
00:32:21
Speaker 5: No.
00:32:22
Speaker 2: He said anybody who's a believer in democracy, democracy should spend five minutes with the average voter, which is also very cynical and very realistic.
00:32:31
Speaker 1: Wow.
00:32:32
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:32:33
Speaker 4: Yeah. Ah.
00:32:36
Speaker 2: Okay, this is from J.D. in Reno, different to Renoite. It's good to hear from the good folks in beautiful Reno. Good morning, fine gentlemen. I woke up to my biggest fear as an individual who was born and raised in Nevada. My state has turned blue. I attribute all that to the individuals who left California and moved here. They forgot why they left and continue to vote the same way and wonder why the issues they had in California are here now.
00:32:58
Speaker 1: J.D., I disagree with you. Left voters, and this.
00:33:04
Speaker 2: Is astonishing to those of us who are not left voters. I know you just have to accept it. It's like as a dude learning to accept your sweetheart and her womanly quirks.
00:33:16
Speaker 1: You just have to.
00:33:18
Speaker 2: People on the left don't connect policy and outcome.
00:33:24
Speaker 1: I know, I know it's insane.
00:33:27
Speaker 2: They don't. Let's see. The American people have lost their minds, and we as a country are going to suffer. To some extent, yeah. As I look at the individuals of one throughout the nation, it makes me wonder what's going to happen in the next two years.
00:33:38
Speaker 1: I pray God to have mercy on America.
00:33:40
Speaker 2: Okay? Wow, that's super interesting about the freezer hacks, but I want to stick with the election for now. Good morning, guys. I know you're going to preach about how Republicans put forth bad candidates like Paxton, but Ilhan Omar accrues to an easy win, and she's got a ton of baggage and is currently under investigation. Well, she's an Islamist Somali, and all the Islamist Somalis pushed her over the top in concert with the woke lefties in Minnesota. But Let's see. This is Xena says the problem isn't bad candidates. It's Democrats just want to win. They, unlike Republicans, will vote for death row inmates as long as they're a Democrat. There's no choosing a person with values or dignity or even intelligence. I mean, heck, they just elected Becerra in California.
00:34:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Even Susan Collins up in Maine finally lost the Republican. She lost to some guy. He barely run because the whole the whole Platner thing. Platner, if he hadn't been such a weirdo and those texts had come out, he'd be a U.S. senator. He was because people were ready to reject their Republican.
00:34:45
Speaker 2: The ruggedly handsome oyster fisherman or lobster wrangler or whatever the hell he claimed to be. Sideshow Bob with an interesting... Who wanted to rape burglars with a sword or something. Oh, that's right.
00:34:59
Speaker 1: He's a would-be burglar rapist.
00:35:01
Speaker 2: Right.
00:35:02
Speaker 1: To show his dominance.
00:35:03
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Sideshow Bob makes a couple of points, but he brings me to one of my favorite things to talk about. I never thought I'd say this, but it appears the voters in California are smarter than those here in Washington. They voted down the billionaire tax while we voted for a state income tax for the first time. Only a million dollars of income now, but as soon as those folks move to Idaho, that number will drop rapidly. At least we got rid of boys and girls sports, which is a moral victory. Yeah, in the bluest of blue states, Washington, they said, it's self-evident you can't have boys and girls sports. That's what girls sports are. But that was a question in America for about a decade, thanks to.
00:35:41
Speaker 1: The loonies of the left. I like what I was going to— Well, do you, Finney?
00:35:44
Speaker 2: Go ahead. Yeah, the thing I wanted to throw in is that you're absolutely right, Shai, Joe, Bob, in that the revenue they're projecting for the so-called millionaire income tax— Once revenue comes in, it's permanent. It must never be eliminated. The programs or graft or whatever the hell is paid for by that money is permanent because all government programs are permanent. They never shrink, although the Trump administration has tried to their credit. Anyway, so yeah, the minute the tax dollars from people who make a million dollars a year aren't sufficient, well, three quarters of a million dollars is a hell of a lot of 200,000.
00:36:23
Speaker 1: You're rich if you, yep, it'll go and it'll go and it'll grow and it'll grow. We got a couple of great analysts coming up a little bit later in the show. We'll go through some of the various ballot measures across the state. Man, data centers are not popular. Any party, anywhere. If you miss a segment, get to podcast Armstrong and Getty On Demand.
00:36:45
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
