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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 3: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. This running of this miscellaneous character with the same name as the incumbent Republican Senator... It's a dirty trick if there ever was one, and it's about as cynical politically as anything you could imagine. And I think if we had a different media climate in the country and in Alaska, this would have been a subject of a great deal of coverage and a lot of pressure on the Democrats to get this guy to drop out.
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Speaker 4: Wow, that's interesting. Britt Hume, senior political analyst and old... You know, he's still got the sensibilities of a bygone era. Because that's, you know, clearly never going to happen now or in the future. But you've got that extra Dan Sullivan running in Alaska. And the reason I wanted to bring this up is... uh i think it was face the nation it was one of the sunday shows doesn't matter which one where the uh female host had on the current attorney general and they were talking about this extra dan sullivan running in alaska thing and and the attorney general kept talking about the term extra dan sullivan you know in case you need one in this case the first one breaks down yes runs out of matter sullivan yeah um and uh The attorney general kept talking about like humor, like this is clearly a dirty trick and the person should should should drop out or the Democrats should condemn it or whatever. And the host and I think it was Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation kept saying, look, there is no evidence that this is not just a coincidence. I mean, she was just sticking with the this is not a dirty trick. No, there's no proof that this is a dirty trick. Give me a break.
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Speaker 5: Wow, that's one of the most stark examples of willful blindness I've ever heard.
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Speaker 4: That's hilarious. Hilarious. No court has ruled that this is illegal or on purpose. Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 5: Wow, she is such a nasty woman.
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Speaker 4: You're assuming an intent to confuse voters with another guy with exactly the same name.
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Speaker 5: I almost used an unfortunate term for females. I'm glad I didn't. Yes, back to you. It's just funny.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And I agree with Brent Hume. In a different era, a lot of these contests were talking about the U.S. effing Senate. We're not talking about the House. All kinds of weirdos get elected a House member.
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Speaker 5: And who cares? They're gone in two years. You forget their names.
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Speaker 4: Being a U.S. Senator is a big deal. Six years, and there's only 100 of them. And and this is one of the races and help decide the power. So, yeah, what a crazy one there.
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Speaker 5: The other.
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Speaker 4: Many interesting stories unfolding a week from today, we have the dang midterm election. Thank God that'll be over. And as everybody has pointed out, starting as soon as the polls closed. Tuesday night, the race is on for the presidential election for twenty twenty eight, because that's the way we do politics now. And I'm excited about trying to figure out, are the Democrats going to decide we're all in on socialism or are we going to try? We think that there's no way we can nominate a socialist candidate to run for president. We'll get we'll lose forty nine states. I think you would, too.
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Speaker 5: I hope you would. Or will it be a long and bloody battle, an antietam of politics as the two sides go at each other?
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Speaker 4: But if you're listening on, I guess it was Thursday, had Lonnie Chen on. This idea of Gavin Newsom is, you know, got to pick a lane. Is he going to pick a lane? Is he going to go with, I'm going to be the moderate choice, not a crazy AOC sort of candidate. I'm going to get the nomination, and I'm going to get elected president of the United States, or is an AOC type going to win? Well, so, I haven't heard this. This is Newsom weighing in on where things are with the whole battle, internal battle in the Democratic Party. Who's in charge, DSA or who?
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Speaker 1: I was wondering, because I'm a younger voter, and a lot of us, like, we want to see the Democratic.
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Speaker 2: Party move forward.
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Speaker 5: You know, we don't want more Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 1: We want, you know, more, I guess, Democratic Socialist politics.
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Speaker 5: Like, where do you see, I guess, the Democratic Party going? I think it's, I mean, I think.
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Speaker 6: No one is arguing to manage the status quo or fail more efficiently. So I think that the DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, non-incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be a mainstream democratic movement.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: No question in my mind. Wow, that's so interesting, especially because one of the emails that we didn't get to finish was talking about how a lot of the chaos that's going on right now was deliberate in order to break the system. Because if you can claim that as Gavin.
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Speaker 4: Newsom just did, look, the system is broken.
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Speaker 5: The time for incremental change, managing the decline, that's over. You need wholesale change. That is straight out of the Marxist playbook.
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Speaker 4: Is that what he believes? Is that how he's going to run? Or is he just telling that one person who asked him the question in a loud hall that to make the young person happy?
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Speaker 5: I'm going to answer this very sincerely because I have bashed Gavi for various reasons through the years. He doesn't like me. That's fine. I have no idea what he believes. I don't know if he believes anything.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I don't. I don't think in terms of politics, he does believe anything. I think he believes I'm going to craft whichever message will get me elected to the next highest office. I think he's definitely one of those people. But I doubt that he's all in on the socialism. I think if he if he if he goes that direction, it will be in a cynical way.
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Speaker 5: It'll be. Well, this is the.
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Speaker 4: Oh, sure. This is the moment we're in. So this is what I'm going to do. But I don't think he believes that that's the way to go. There's no way he can, as a guy who's run a business, think that that makes any sense.
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Speaker 5: No, no, but he's in a different business now with different incentives and disadvantages. So Gavin's greatest strength is that he's very bright. His greatest weakness is that he's not quite as bright as he thinks he is. And so what he is going to do, and you heard it there, is he is going to Call for no more incremental managing the decline, no more yesterday's Democratic Party. It's time for big change, wholesale change, changing the system because the system's broke. But he's going to keep it pretty vague. Yeah, he's going to. And, you know, it's the classic politics, hope and change. He's going to go with hope. In fact, he probably. has a team of people working on, all right, we need something that short, that punchy, and that appealing, and that vague.
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Speaker 4: Bring it to me by the close of business Friday. Well, I think he's going to be on a debate stage, and I don't know when.
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Speaker 5: He'll probably just go with change and hope.
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Speaker 4: This summer? Next summer? When did the debate start? I don't even know.
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Speaker 5: Any minute now.
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Speaker 4: He's going to stand there, and somebody's going to ask the question with the 15 candidates up there, ranging from AOC to Gavin to whoever else. Raise your hand if you're in favor of cradle-to-grave health care. Raise your hand if you're for abolishing the prisons. I mean, there's going to be some pretty serious questions. They've got to pick a lane. I mean, you're not going to be able to be wishy-washy on those, I don't think.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, depending on the moderators, of course.
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Speaker 4: And then that's hung around your neck, as Kamala Harris found. You got to, yeah. I don't know. If I was a cynical person who only wanted to get the nomination, I don't know what I would do. If I care about the country and humanity, I would, you know, I'd run away from socialism and try to convince people why it doesn't work. I was listening to Bill Mars down in the basement pot smoking podcast he had on Justine Bateman. So it's interesting if you've ever followed her on Twitter, man, she is an outspoken hater of the left. She was my first crush. So it's really interesting to watch her. She was on Family Ties as Michael J. Fox's sister. We're almost exactly the same age. So when I was 12, she was 12, watching her on TV. And I just thought, oh, my God, she is the most amazing woman that has ever existed. Girl at that time. And now she's a grown up and has the same politics as me, which I just think is fantastic. But she and Bill Maher reach out.
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Speaker 5: You're famous. She's famous.
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Speaker 4: She and Bill Maher were just going on about how insane the DSA website is. Bill Maher is just like, this is cuckoo nuts. How can these people believe that abolish the prisons, free housing? This is cuckoo land. How are there people that believe this? Even Bill Maher thinks that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, clearly. I think what those of us on the right have to accept, and I don't know what to do about it, but acceptance is the first step. We need to accept that people like that, especially young people who have not really forged an identity yet, they haven't forged a worldview yet, we've got to somehow accept that people who see the world through the lens of acceptability as opposed to truth, logic, and consequences. All they know is, do I get social approval for saying this, for saying I believe this?
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Speaker 2: It?
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Speaker 5: A person like me can't even conceive. I mean, I can conceive of it around the edges. If I say something funny among a group of guys and they all laugh, that feels good. But to not even really spend any time thinking about what are the downsides of this policy I'm offering up.
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Speaker 4: Have I heard the.
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Speaker 5: Israel side of this dispute or anything? All you care about is getting social acceptance. It's difficult for us to see the world through their eyes and to figure out how to reach them. I don't know if it can be done. It probably can be done. Maybe a good slapping. I don't know. But that's the great divide and brings us back, as always, to Thomas Sowell's Conflict of Visions. Well, they just don't ask the same questions we do. This DSA stuff.
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Speaker 4: So my son last night, I don't know how he got on this topic, but my junior in high school said, there's amazing how many kids in my class think socialism is an awesome idea. And I thought, wow. So they haven't grown up with the lectures I've given my kids because my kids both like roll their eyes at the word.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: Because I've been telling them since they were little kids how it doesn't work. The same way my dad told me. I remember explaining it to me as a little kid. Well, if everybody got stuff the same amount and for nothing, then nobody would work. So then you'd have no money.
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Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 4: That makes sense. And that was the end of it for me. That was the end of the discussion. I've never needed to think about it again because that's 100% true. That is the whole flaw right there. It doesn't work.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: There's no complex. You don't need to write a thousand page book. das capital or anything like that it just doesn't work you run out of money very quickly um but his friends have never heard that i guess and then their parents don't understand well you're watching it.
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Speaker 5: In france yeah i know i know it's it is a stark it's literally on fire and there are videos of it what happens with socialism and people don't connect those things Which, I mean, it's incredibly frustrating. It's why politics is so stupid, because if that giant intellectual leap can't be made by people, how do you design your political messaging? The problem is incredibly frustrating. I know there are millions of people in my fantasies. hundreds of thousands anyway, listening, who are.
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Speaker 4: Thinking, I'm frustrated too.
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Speaker 5: It makes me insane. But by golly, that's the challenge we have. We've got to communicate. And maybe it's as simple as this. When somebody proposes this crap, young or old, say that's completely impractical or that's insane, it would never work. Why not? Well, because, and then give them 30 seconds on, well, there are, and opening up the prisons. Well, there are some people who are just greedy and want other people's stuff. No, they only steal because of capitalism, blah, blah, blah. But see, that's the problem. We're not fighting common sense with common sense. We're fighting common sense against indoctrination. And you have to be a little more versed in the arguments than I was suggesting you do. I retract my comments. It's hard.
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Speaker 4: The pitch, though, is so good. Free health care, free housing. Then you don't have to worry about where you live.
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Speaker 7: Oh, awesome.
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Speaker 4: You're about to come out of high school and you're wondering how you're going to make a living and you hear about AI. You're hearing free housing, free health care.
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Speaker 5: Cool.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: It's an effective con for sure.
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Speaker 4: Free needs to be banished from the English language.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 5: That's a bit of an extreme move, but. We'll consider that. Plus, the term Islamophobia. Why you should never permit it to be used in your presence. And when speaking of words, I got a big scrabble question. Major scrabble question. I want to get to people washing people's feet back in biblical times.
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Speaker 4: What the hell? I did some research on this. Ripped from today's headlines. I could not have lived back in those times.
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Speaker 4: Because I ain't washing your feet.
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Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 4: Does whether or not you get Alzheimer's have anything to do with the shape of your head? Some new science on that. That'd be interesting.
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Speaker 5: I hope having a giant head is a good thing.
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Speaker 4: Oh, we have lots to get to today. So, um, I don't remember how I got started on this recently. It was probably some biblical verse about, uh, Jesus washing people's feet. And, you know, I've been hearing that since I was a little kid, uh, sitting in church and foot washing came up all the time. And so I did some research on that and, uh, people almost exclusively wore sandals thousands of years ago in the, you know, they were hippies, but so it was a thing. If you went to somebody's house, it was considered good hospitality is you, you would, they you'd welcome into your house and then you'd go over and you'd kneel down and wash their feet. Everybody did that at your house. And I just, man, I don't have anybody come over to my house now, but if I had to wash your feet, it'd really be off the table. I am not washing somebody's feet.
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Speaker 3: No!
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine how gnarly people's feet were back then?
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Speaker 5: You're making God sad with this talk. You're not willing to serve others. That's the point. It's the ultimate act of service.
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Speaker 4: I'm fine with it as a metaphor.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 4: But I'm not getting down on my knees and washing your freaking feet.
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Speaker 5: Metaphors don't feed the bulldog. We're talking about actually doing the thing. Ew. Ain't God sad.
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Speaker 4: Big old bunion. Oh, what? But I was just trying to imagine what feet must have been like when all you had was whatever crappy hand-hewn sandals they had.
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 4: That's all you ever had walking around with little to no bathing. Those toenails.
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Speaker 5: It's very sandy.
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Speaker 6: Very.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. The toenails had to be horrendous. There were not clippers. There were not pumice stones. There were not.
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Speaker 3: Oh, wait a minute.
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Speaker 5: A pumice stone is a stone. Literally, the Stone Age had stones. So I'm going to stop you there.
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Speaker 4: An aggressive scent. You think people were making sure their heels were not too rough?
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Speaker 5: I don't know. So, Michael, there would not be an aggressive scent because you're wearing open shoes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know about it. I don't know its smell, but it'd be, oh, you'd be, oh, you'd be so horrifically dirty. And then it's not like I can put on rubber gloves or anything. Like, I gotta touch your, oh God, just disgusting.
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Speaker 5: You'd have made a bad Samaritan. Stone me.
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Speaker 4: You've heard of the good Samaritan? Go ahead and stone me.
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Speaker 5: Here's the bad one, folks. You'd have kicked the guy and kept walking.
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Speaker 4: Or at least the not so hot Samaritan. God, I'm glad that that went. Mediocre Samira. I'm glad that's in the past, that whole thing.
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Speaker 5: I say we bring it back just to annoy you.
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Speaker 4: Have some guys come over to watch a football game, and the first thing I got to do is they take off their socks and shoes. I got to get down on the floor and clean their feet. Let's get this over with so we can get on to the charcuterie.
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Speaker 5: Oh, boy. Never permit the word Islamophobia to be used around you.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 5: Plus an update on old Abdul Al-Sayed. Coming up.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 5: I'm here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator.
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Speaker 4: And that's the fact. I'm not going to let that happen.
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Speaker 5: And is Trump referring to Abdul Al-Sayed in some fairly broad terms?
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Speaker 4: That's a heck of a thing to just call him a Muslim Brotherhood member.
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Speaker 5: And a jihadist. I don't think it's inaccurate. It's a little broad, but that's a little sledgehammery, but that's Trump for you. The awful, insufferable Kristen Welker asked Mike Rogers, Al Sayed's opponent, about that sort of thing on Meet the Press the other day.
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Speaker 8: Let me ask you about your words and the words of President Trump. President Trump says your opponent is a violent terrorist, violent. Again, there's just no proof of that. And he has denounced he was asked directly if he denounces the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Speaker 4: He has.
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Speaker 8: Do you agree with calling him a violent terrorist?
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Speaker 5: That's not true.
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Speaker 6: Hold on.
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Speaker 8: Do you agree with calling him a violent terrorist?
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Speaker 4: The guy said, are you going to answer the question, will you disavow? And he said, yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 8: Do you agree with calling him a violent terrorist? Is that up to your standard?
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Speaker 5: No, I don't. I've never called him a terrorist. Here's my question. Does Kristen Welker know how biased she is and embrace it, or does she not get it?
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Speaker 4: I don't think they get in any of those shows. They, I don't think they, I wish somebody would show them back to back the way they interview a Republican and the way they interview a Democrat on a Democrat. They bring up their talking point and let them expound on Republicans. It is a, well, if you did it the same way for both of them, it would be fine. You, you push them on every issue and make them explain things, but they only do it for one side. Uh, yeah, the whole I've is denounced the word they always use.
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Speaker 5: I think so.
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Speaker 4: I've denounced them over and over again. OK, where's the video of that? I haven't seen the video where you actually do that.
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Speaker 5: Do you denounce them? Well, yes, but yeah, no, that's not a denouncing. Explain the change in your thinking from when you signed that letter in 2012 to now. Explain exactly what you believe, what you don't believe, what you've said you condemn Hamas. I think he said that. In what way? For what things? But he's then excused them over and over again. If you pinned him down even a little bit, he would not be able to answer.
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Speaker 4: As I mentioned last week, in case you don't know this history, there are two great examples of how you separate yourself from a group that you're associated with you think that is damaging you. The way John F. Kennedy gave a major speech about his Catholic faith when he was running for president back in, I don't know if it was 59 or 60. But during that election campaign and Barack Obama doing the same thing about the Reverend Wright and the church that he attended, he gave an entire speech dedicated to that topic alone to try to put that to rest. Not a single yes, but.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: El Sayed has not done that at all.
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Speaker 5: So the Atlantic headline, the insufferable The Atlantic, is Islamophobia is Trump's closing midterm gambit. Keeping in mind the wise words of the great thinker Andrew Cummins, Islamophobia is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. The idea that you could have a phobia against the largest political philosophy on earth. There are way more fundamentalist Muslims than there are people living in democratic societies. I mean, it's not only is it enormous, it's relentlessly expansionist and willing to kill people to do it. So the resistance to or desire to limit the growth of Islam as a political system to describe that as Islamophobia is absolutely idiotic. Again, it's a word designed by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. Don't permit it in your life. So, I mean, for instance, Abdul El-Sayed just had a big interview and sit down with anti-Israel voters in Dearborn. He had a roundtable discussion with a local activist named Osama Seblani, who's called Hamas and Hezbollah freedom fighters and called for Israeli Jews to be sent back to Poland. He sat for the interview in the roundtable at the Dearborn offices of Seblani's newspaper, the Arab American News. Seblani urged El-Sayed to say something right now to soothe people. in majority Arab Dearborn, who were mad because Al-Sayed campaigned with Kamala Harris, who was part of the evil Biden-Harris administration, remember, that supported Israel in fighting back against Hamas after the horrors of October 7th, 23. And so the hardcore Muslim fundamentalists in that part of the world are really, really mad that Al-Sayed would appear with Kamala Harris. Al-Sayed, of course, supported the uncommitted movement in Michigan 24, blah, blah, blah. There's no perfect candidate, Al-Sayed responded, pledging to keep taxpayer funds in Michigan, quote, rather than send it abroad to kill or maim people who might be related to you in the south of Lebanon or in Gaza or in the West Bank. With very few exceptions, the only people being killed in south Lebanon are Hezbollah members, Hezbollah fighters. And the answer may appeal to Dearborn voters, but El-Sayed's association with Sablani is likely to alienate more persuadable voters like Jews and Democrats. I'm quoting from The Free Beacon now. Sablani's brother, Ghassan, was a security chief for Lebanon's Hezbollah-aligned Amal party in the 80s. He's called many terrorist groups freedom fighters in interviews over the year. At a rally in Dearborn last year, Sablani praised Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a hero and urged that Israeli Jews be sent back to Poland. That's not Islamophobia. That's concern about his adherence to a particular political philosophy. Moving along, as if there wasn't enough, here's a commercial Al-Sayed is running in Michigan in the closing days of the campaign. Yeah, I got them too.
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Speaker 3: But, honey.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 5: You're going to have to put those eggs back.
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Speaker 7: They don't like eggs anymore?
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Speaker 2: No, they like eggs.
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Speaker 8: But we have to set that $ 7 aside.
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Speaker 5: For killing Palestinians.
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Speaker 7: What? I mean, don't we give Israel $ 4 billion a year anyways?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: And now we're giving them another $ 26 billion. Do you know how much that is per American taxpayer?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 8: It's like $ 161 per person. Apparently it's costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.
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Speaker 5: That's terrible.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Don't they get universal health care, too? Yeah, they do.
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Speaker 8: Paying for that, too, probably.
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Speaker 3: Might as well put the bananas back.
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Speaker 7: Why the f * * * do we have to pay for all this?
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Speaker 3: Don't cuss at me.
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Speaker 4: Why does Mike Rogers care so much about what Israelis want and so little about what you want? Mike Rogers is for.
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Speaker 5: They-them.
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Speaker 4: Abdul and Syed is for you.
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Speaker 5: So as this commentator puts it, painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this Al-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby killers and money-grubbing villains who are on the root cause of every bad thing, not just in the world, but in your life, from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can't have free health care, is not just low-grade Jew hate. It's pure Third Reich stuff translated directly from the original Germans. I've read Mein Kampf. He's right.
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Speaker 4: That's a heck of a jump. So it's bad enough to talk about how we're financing a genocide, which is inaccurate. But the reason your eggs are expensive and your gas is expensive is the Jews. The reason you don't have cradle to grave health care is the Jews.
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Speaker 5: Wow. It's pure Nazi grade Jew hate. Out of Al-Sayed. Why would he do that? Because it appeals to voters who are fundamentalist Muslims. Period.
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Speaker 4: Got a good text on the whole. I used two examples, JFK with his Catholicism, Obama with his ties to that church in Chicago and the Reverend Wright. Mitt Romney had to promise his Mormonism wouldn't affect his leadership, and was asked about it constantly. As a Mormon? Who's scared of the Mormons? How vanilla compared to the Muslim Brotherhood?
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: Or, you know, just how far do you go with your belief in Sharia law and all that sort of stuff? Yeah, that doesn't come up, because that would be Islamophobia for Kristen Welker on MSNBC to say, how much will your Muslim belief influence your decisions as a U S senators? You're not ever going to ask that question, but if you're a Mormon, you certainly have to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: A different aside. Um, I was quoting or referencing JFK when he ran for president and thinking he's been in 59 or 60 and then remembered, no, no, no, that's not the way we used to do it. If you were running for president in 1960, you announced and ran in 1960. Presidential elections didn't last that long. It was just months that we did that. Our presidential election starts a week from tonight. And there's a decent chance people are going to be announcing before the first of the year. In this year. A full two years ahead of time.
00:28:34
Speaker 2: Right. Right.
00:28:36
Speaker 4: Which is nuts. But that's what we do now.
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Speaker 5: I wish there were a way for somebody to covertly get in touch with the money people. Because that's what it's all about. That's why you announced so early. You try to coalesce the great campaign aides and the money people around you. I wish there was some way that somebody could convince those people. Look, I'm getting in March of next year. A couple months before the primaries, here's my message. Here's my crew. And just lay in the weeds. And then jump up and beat the sh... Whoops. Out of everybody. And win. Because that might change things.
00:29:12
Speaker 4: Because it's insufferable. It really is. Back in the famous 2020 presidential election, which started almost in 18, but just barely in 19. Kamala Harris announced in January of 19... So somebody is going to be earlier than that this time around. They'll probably go December of this year. Somebody was.
00:29:34
Speaker 5: Was that her famous speech in Oakland that was the peak of her campaign?
00:29:38
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:29:38
Speaker 4: And then she got out. of the race in December of 19. She didn't even make it to the year 2020. Yeah.
00:29:47
Speaker 5: Didn't make it to the first primary and ended up a heartbeat, a one-thready heartbeat away from the presidency. Our politics is so screwed up.
00:29:56
Speaker 4: And according to a bunch of polls, she is currently the leader.
00:29:59
Speaker 5: Oh, that's a load of crap. I agree. I agree.
00:30:02
Speaker 4: What was the thing? Oh, I got an interesting Scrabble question for you I want to get to at some point.
00:30:09
Speaker 5: Anybody ever use the term Islamophobic around you? Ask them, have you ever used the term Israeli-phobic? How about fascist phobic? How about socialist phobic? How about Democrat phobic? Why do you only cast it as an irrational fear when it comes to Islam, which is a gigantic political system?
00:30:28
Speaker 4: It's as if it's a strategy. Yeah, Christopher Hitchens gave some great information on this way back in the day before anybody was using that term. In fact, I saw one the other day where he said, get ready for this. You're going to start hearing the term Islamophobia. And we need to shoot that down before it grabs hold or it's too late because it did grab hold.
00:30:49
Speaker 5: Can we grab Chris Hitchens and have that in our holsters? I know we've run it before. Maybe later on. We should.
00:30:54
Speaker 4: Lots of good stuff on the way. Stay here.
00:30:57
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
00:31:13
Speaker 7: Families complained about Nevada's behavior on the field and his mom's behavior on the sidelines. So what did the youth soccer director do? He called 911.
00:31:23
Speaker 4: There's a parent here that's really, really disruptive.
00:31:26
Speaker 7: Nevada's mom tells a different story.
00:31:28
Speaker 4: They're literally kicking him out of this place because he's good at soccer.
00:31:32
Speaker 7: Nevada's mom told CBS News the coach told Nevada he could stay in if he passed the ball. But about halfway through the game, he got the cops involved. You had this little kid who was dominating the soccer match like my niece used to. He's three, by the way.
00:31:49
Speaker 4: And it would make all the other parents really mad because if you've ever watched youth sports, there's often, soccer particularly, there's often like a kid who one has the... physical ability and talent, and two, understands what they're supposed to be doing. That seems to be the main thing for little kid sports when I was watching it. And has any desire to do that.
00:32:08
Speaker 5: Right.
00:32:09
Speaker 4: One, knows what they're supposed to do and gives a crap enough to want to do it. And if there is one that doesn't, they can just run up and down the field and score. But he was supposed to pass the ball and didn't, so somebody called the cops. Before we weigh in on that, let's hear the police and the parents clip, and then we'll opine.
00:32:24
Speaker 7: I guess one of the coaches advised that they don't want you guys here anymore, okay?
00:32:29
Speaker 3: If you guys don't mind leaving.
00:32:30
Speaker 2: What is the real reason that he called the police?
00:32:33
Speaker 3: So I guess he's just calling because I guess he believes that you guys were causing a disturbance that was interfering with the game play.
00:32:38
Speaker 5: They're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer.
00:32:41
Speaker 1: So I'm a little confused and I'm a little like baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer.
00:32:48
Speaker 4: So they literally kicking him out of this place because.
00:32:51
Speaker 7: He's good at soccer.
00:32:52
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about this lady or what she said or did on the sidelines, but she does not sound unhinged.
00:32:57
Speaker 5: She sounds very reasonable.
00:32:58
Speaker 4: Yes, she does.
00:32:59
Speaker 5: So this kid's three years old, and he's dominating a game that's a five-year-old game. And the parents of the child, well, this is all very vague.
00:33:10
Speaker 2: Three?
00:33:11
Speaker 5: He was being scorned for playing well and was being taken out of the game.
00:33:15
Speaker 4: How are you even doing anything at three? I saw the video. He's really good.
00:33:21
Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah. He's obviously a natural athlete.
00:33:26
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:33:28
Speaker 5: Wow, this is all, we can't govern ourselves anymore. Apparently I don't.
00:33:33
Speaker 4: It's well, it's, it's, I've watched a lot of youth sports as you have and you coach and everything like, yeah, it's, it's, it sucks when there's, it sucks for everybody. When you have one team that's way better than the other or, or a player that dominates because they're not learning anything. And then the, nobody's learning anything.
00:33:49
Speaker 5: And so I get the idea that the other parents were yelling, you know, take him out, take him out of the game for, let the other kids play or whatever. And, And the mom, too, you know, I can't blame her, was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why is everybody yelling at and about my kid just because he's good? This is ridiculous. It's unfortunate.
00:34:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to get him into an older group and maybe he has to play with seven-year-olds. I don't know what. He's three. I don't remember my kids, like, being able to do really anything at three.
00:34:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's astonishing.
00:34:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Okay, different question. Scrabble. So I have a friend who ruined Scrabble, I think. Like globally or just for you? For me and for my son, because the way they played Scrabble, they would use this Scrabble dictionary, and it was just... I don't know how you avoid this, but it was just... Yeah, okay, and then... they'd memorized all these obscure words with the complicated letters. No, Q-X-I, what's another valuable letter? Q-X-I-J. Q-X-I-J, what kind of word is that? You know, it's from a medieval poem in Iran in the 4th century. There was a, okay, I guess. I mean, but so if it becomes that, I didn't find it to be any fun whatsoever. Because I haven't decided to memorize medical terms, endless medical terms that you would never, ever know unless you decided to study the Scrabble dictionary.
00:35:27
Speaker 5: Well, you are the five-year-old getting whooped on the field by the three-year-old. He takes it much more seriously than you do. You've got to find somebody else to play with.
00:35:34
Speaker 4: Well, if you're just sitting around playing Scrabble, isn't it within a certain range of normal words?
00:35:42
Speaker 5: No, because if you play a lot, you learn. I mean, there's the people who are extreme like you're talking about. I don't know all those words.
00:35:48
Speaker 4: Nobody knows those words. That's the point. Nobody knows those words unless you're just going to memorize the most obscure words for Scrabble.
00:35:56
Speaker 5: But that's how you win at Scrabble if you play at a high level. That's what the game is. I'm not talking about playing at a high level.
00:36:02
Speaker 4: I'm talking about getting out the game on a rainy day when you got five people sitting around in your place.
00:36:07
Speaker 5: Scrabble.
00:36:08
Speaker 4: If somebody is going to start throwing up medical terms from the second century, then there's no point in anybody else playing.
00:36:15
Speaker 5: Well, right. Don't play with them. Okay. Well, what do you want them to do? Well, I could play this word, but it's somewhat obscure and Jack might not know it.
00:36:23
Speaker 4: I don't know. That's what I'm saying.
00:36:25
Speaker 2: Right.
00:36:25
Speaker 4: I don't know what you do. I don't know what you do, but I played Scrabble my whole life and it was fine with everybody I ever played with until I ran into this guy. And then it's just, there's no point.
00:36:36
Speaker 5: Just play checkers. There you go. Time-honored game.
00:36:39
Speaker 4: Anyway, I wanted to get into this and I didn't even to the ridiculous rules for Scrabble. These are official Scrabble rules and their inconsistency about cheeses. Cheeses they accept and cheeses they do not accept. Completely inconsistent. According to Tim Sandefur.
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Speaker 5: I'll rip from today's headlines.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 3: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. This running of this miscellaneous character with the same name as the incumbent Republican Senator... It's a dirty trick if there ever was one, and it's about as cynical politically as anything you could imagine. And I think if we had a different media climate in the country and in Alaska, this would have been a subject of a great deal of coverage and a lot of pressure on the Democrats to get this guy to drop out.
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Speaker 4: Wow, that's interesting. Britt Hume, senior political analyst and old... You know, he's still got the sensibilities of a bygone era. Because that's, you know, clearly never going to happen now or in the future. But you've got that extra Dan Sullivan running in Alaska. And the reason I wanted to bring this up is... uh i think it was face the nation it was one of the sunday shows doesn't matter which one where the uh female host had on the current attorney general and they were talking about this extra dan sullivan running in alaska thing and and the attorney general kept talking about the term extra dan sullivan you know in case you need one in this case the first one breaks down yes runs out of matter sullivan yeah um and uh The attorney general kept talking about like humor, like this is clearly a dirty trick and the person should should should drop out or the Democrats should condemn it or whatever. And the host and I think it was Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation kept saying, look, there is no evidence that this is not just a coincidence. I mean, she was just sticking with the this is not a dirty trick. No, there's no proof that this is a dirty trick. Give me a break.
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Speaker 5: Wow, that's one of the most stark examples of willful blindness I've ever heard.
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Speaker 4: That's hilarious. Hilarious. No court has ruled that this is illegal or on purpose. Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 5: Wow, she is such a nasty woman.
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Speaker 4: You're assuming an intent to confuse voters with another guy with exactly the same name.
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Speaker 5: I almost used an unfortunate term for females. I'm glad I didn't. Yes, back to you. It's just funny.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And I agree with Brent Hume. In a different era, a lot of these contests were talking about the U.S. effing Senate. We're not talking about the House. All kinds of weirdos get elected a House member.
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Speaker 5: And who cares? They're gone in two years. You forget their names.
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Speaker 4: Being a U.S. Senator is a big deal. Six years, and there's only 100 of them. And and this is one of the races and help decide the power. So, yeah, what a crazy one there.
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Speaker 5: The other.
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Speaker 4: Many interesting stories unfolding a week from today, we have the dang midterm election. Thank God that'll be over. And as everybody has pointed out, starting as soon as the polls closed. Tuesday night, the race is on for the presidential election for twenty twenty eight, because that's the way we do politics now. And I'm excited about trying to figure out, are the Democrats going to decide we're all in on socialism or are we going to try? We think that there's no way we can nominate a socialist candidate to run for president. We'll get we'll lose forty nine states. I think you would, too.
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Speaker 5: I hope you would. Or will it be a long and bloody battle, an antietam of politics as the two sides go at each other?
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Speaker 4: But if you're listening on, I guess it was Thursday, had Lonnie Chen on. This idea of Gavin Newsom is, you know, got to pick a lane. Is he going to pick a lane? Is he going to go with, I'm going to be the moderate choice, not a crazy AOC sort of candidate. I'm going to get the nomination, and I'm going to get elected president of the United States, or is an AOC type going to win? Well, so, I haven't heard this. This is Newsom weighing in on where things are with the whole battle, internal battle in the Democratic Party. Who's in charge, DSA or who?
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Speaker 1: I was wondering, because I'm a younger voter, and a lot of us, like, we want to see the Democratic.
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Speaker 2: Party move forward.
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Speaker 5: You know, we don't want more Kamala Harris.
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Speaker 1: We want, you know, more, I guess, Democratic Socialist politics.
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Speaker 5: Like, where do you see, I guess, the Democratic Party going? I think it's, I mean, I think.
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Speaker 6: No one is arguing to manage the status quo or fail more efficiently. So I think that the DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, non-incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be a mainstream democratic movement.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: No question in my mind. Wow, that's so interesting, especially because one of the emails that we didn't get to finish was talking about how a lot of the chaos that's going on right now was deliberate in order to break the system. Because if you can claim that as Gavin.
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Speaker 4: Newsom just did, look, the system is broken.
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Speaker 5: The time for incremental change, managing the decline, that's over. You need wholesale change. That is straight out of the Marxist playbook.
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Speaker 4: Is that what he believes? Is that how he's going to run? Or is he just telling that one person who asked him the question in a loud hall that to make the young person happy?
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Speaker 5: I'm going to answer this very sincerely because I have bashed Gavi for various reasons through the years. He doesn't like me. That's fine. I have no idea what he believes. I don't know if he believes anything.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I don't. I don't think in terms of politics, he does believe anything. I think he believes I'm going to craft whichever message will get me elected to the next highest office. I think he's definitely one of those people. But I doubt that he's all in on the socialism. I think if he if he if he goes that direction, it will be in a cynical way.
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Speaker 5: It'll be. Well, this is the.
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Speaker 4: Oh, sure. This is the moment we're in. So this is what I'm going to do. But I don't think he believes that that's the way to go. There's no way he can, as a guy who's run a business, think that that makes any sense.
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Speaker 5: No, no, but he's in a different business now with different incentives and disadvantages. So Gavin's greatest strength is that he's very bright. His greatest weakness is that he's not quite as bright as he thinks he is. And so what he is going to do, and you heard it there, is he is going to Call for no more incremental managing the decline, no more yesterday's Democratic Party. It's time for big change, wholesale change, changing the system because the system's broke. But he's going to keep it pretty vague. Yeah, he's going to. And, you know, it's the classic politics, hope and change. He's going to go with hope. In fact, he probably. has a team of people working on, all right, we need something that short, that punchy, and that appealing, and that vague.
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Speaker 4: Bring it to me by the close of business Friday. Well, I think he's going to be on a debate stage, and I don't know when.
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Speaker 5: He'll probably just go with change and hope.
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Speaker 4: This summer? Next summer? When did the debate start? I don't even know.
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Speaker 5: Any minute now.
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Speaker 4: He's going to stand there, and somebody's going to ask the question with the 15 candidates up there, ranging from AOC to Gavin to whoever else. Raise your hand if you're in favor of cradle-to-grave health care. Raise your hand if you're for abolishing the prisons. I mean, there's going to be some pretty serious questions. They've got to pick a lane. I mean, you're not going to be able to be wishy-washy on those, I don't think.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, depending on the moderators, of course.
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Speaker 4: And then that's hung around your neck, as Kamala Harris found. You got to, yeah. I don't know. If I was a cynical person who only wanted to get the nomination, I don't know what I would do. If I care about the country and humanity, I would, you know, I'd run away from socialism and try to convince people why it doesn't work. I was listening to Bill Mars down in the basement pot smoking podcast he had on Justine Bateman. So it's interesting if you've ever followed her on Twitter, man, she is an outspoken hater of the left. She was my first crush. So it's really interesting to watch her. She was on Family Ties as Michael J. Fox's sister. We're almost exactly the same age. So when I was 12, she was 12, watching her on TV. And I just thought, oh, my God, she is the most amazing woman that has ever existed. Girl at that time. And now she's a grown up and has the same politics as me, which I just think is fantastic. But she and Bill Maher reach out.
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Speaker 5: You're famous. She's famous.
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Speaker 4: She and Bill Maher were just going on about how insane the DSA website is. Bill Maher is just like, this is cuckoo nuts. How can these people believe that abolish the prisons, free housing? This is cuckoo land. How are there people that believe this? Even Bill Maher thinks that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, clearly. I think what those of us on the right have to accept, and I don't know what to do about it, but acceptance is the first step. We need to accept that people like that, especially young people who have not really forged an identity yet, they haven't forged a worldview yet, we've got to somehow accept that people who see the world through the lens of acceptability as opposed to truth, logic, and consequences. All they know is, do I get social approval for saying this, for saying I believe this?
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Speaker 2: It?
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Speaker 5: A person like me can't even conceive. I mean, I can conceive of it around the edges. If I say something funny among a group of guys and they all laugh, that feels good. But to not even really spend any time thinking about what are the downsides of this policy I'm offering up.
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Speaker 4: Have I heard the.
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Speaker 5: Israel side of this dispute or anything? All you care about is getting social acceptance. It's difficult for us to see the world through their eyes and to figure out how to reach them. I don't know if it can be done. It probably can be done. Maybe a good slapping. I don't know. But that's the great divide and brings us back, as always, to Thomas Sowell's Conflict of Visions. Well, they just don't ask the same questions we do. This DSA stuff.
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Speaker 4: So my son last night, I don't know how he got on this topic, but my junior in high school said, there's amazing how many kids in my class think socialism is an awesome idea. And I thought, wow. So they haven't grown up with the lectures I've given my kids because my kids both like roll their eyes at the word.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: Because I've been telling them since they were little kids how it doesn't work. The same way my dad told me. I remember explaining it to me as a little kid. Well, if everybody got stuff the same amount and for nothing, then nobody would work. So then you'd have no money.
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Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 4: That makes sense. And that was the end of it for me. That was the end of the discussion. I've never needed to think about it again because that's 100% true. That is the whole flaw right there. It doesn't work.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 4: There's no complex. You don't need to write a thousand page book. das capital or anything like that it just doesn't work you run out of money very quickly um but his friends have never heard that i guess and then their parents don't understand well you're watching it.
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Speaker 5: In france yeah i know i know it's it is a stark it's literally on fire and there are videos of it what happens with socialism and people don't connect those things Which, I mean, it's incredibly frustrating. It's why politics is so stupid, because if that giant intellectual leap can't be made by people, how do you design your political messaging? The problem is incredibly frustrating. I know there are millions of people in my fantasies. hundreds of thousands anyway, listening, who are.
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Speaker 4: Thinking, I'm frustrated too.
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Speaker 5: It makes me insane. But by golly, that's the challenge we have. We've got to communicate. And maybe it's as simple as this. When somebody proposes this crap, young or old, say that's completely impractical or that's insane, it would never work. Why not? Well, because, and then give them 30 seconds on, well, there are, and opening up the prisons. Well, there are some people who are just greedy and want other people's stuff. No, they only steal because of capitalism, blah, blah, blah. But see, that's the problem. We're not fighting common sense with common sense. We're fighting common sense against indoctrination. And you have to be a little more versed in the arguments than I was suggesting you do. I retract my comments. It's hard.
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Speaker 4: The pitch, though, is so good. Free health care, free housing. Then you don't have to worry about where you live.
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Speaker 7: Oh, awesome.
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Speaker 4: You're about to come out of high school and you're wondering how you're going to make a living and you hear about AI. You're hearing free housing, free health care.
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Speaker 5: Cool.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: It's an effective con for sure.
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Speaker 4: Free needs to be banished from the English language.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 5: That's a bit of an extreme move, but. We'll consider that. Plus, the term Islamophobia. Why you should never permit it to be used in your presence. And when speaking of words, I got a big scrabble question. Major scrabble question. I want to get to people washing people's feet back in biblical times.
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Speaker 4: What the hell? I did some research on this. Ripped from today's headlines. I could not have lived back in those times.
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Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 4: Because I ain't washing your feet.
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Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 4: Does whether or not you get Alzheimer's have anything to do with the shape of your head? Some new science on that. That'd be interesting.
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Speaker 5: I hope having a giant head is a good thing.
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Speaker 4: Oh, we have lots to get to today. So, um, I don't remember how I got started on this recently. It was probably some biblical verse about, uh, Jesus washing people's feet. And, you know, I've been hearing that since I was a little kid, uh, sitting in church and foot washing came up all the time. And so I did some research on that and, uh, people almost exclusively wore sandals thousands of years ago in the, you know, they were hippies, but so it was a thing. If you went to somebody's house, it was considered good hospitality is you, you would, they you'd welcome into your house and then you'd go over and you'd kneel down and wash their feet. Everybody did that at your house. And I just, man, I don't have anybody come over to my house now, but if I had to wash your feet, it'd really be off the table. I am not washing somebody's feet.
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Speaker 3: No!
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine how gnarly people's feet were back then?
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Speaker 5: You're making God sad with this talk. You're not willing to serve others. That's the point. It's the ultimate act of service.
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Speaker 4: I'm fine with it as a metaphor.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 4: But I'm not getting down on my knees and washing your freaking feet.
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Speaker 5: Metaphors don't feed the bulldog. We're talking about actually doing the thing. Ew. Ain't God sad.
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Speaker 4: Big old bunion. Oh, what? But I was just trying to imagine what feet must have been like when all you had was whatever crappy hand-hewn sandals they had.
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 4: That's all you ever had walking around with little to no bathing. Those toenails.
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Speaker 5: It's very sandy.
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Speaker 6: Very.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. The toenails had to be horrendous. There were not clippers. There were not pumice stones. There were not.
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Speaker 3: Oh, wait a minute.
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Speaker 5: A pumice stone is a stone. Literally, the Stone Age had stones. So I'm going to stop you there.
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Speaker 4: An aggressive scent. You think people were making sure their heels were not too rough?
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Speaker 5: I don't know. So, Michael, there would not be an aggressive scent because you're wearing open shoes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know about it. I don't know its smell, but it'd be, oh, you'd be, oh, you'd be so horrifically dirty. And then it's not like I can put on rubber gloves or anything. Like, I gotta touch your, oh God, just disgusting.
00:17:50
Speaker 5: You'd have made a bad Samaritan. Stone me.
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Speaker 4: You've heard of the good Samaritan? Go ahead and stone me.
00:17:54
Speaker 5: Here's the bad one, folks. You'd have kicked the guy and kept walking.
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Speaker 4: Or at least the not so hot Samaritan. God, I'm glad that that went. Mediocre Samira. I'm glad that's in the past, that whole thing.
00:18:07
Speaker 5: I say we bring it back just to annoy you.
00:18:09
Speaker 4: Have some guys come over to watch a football game, and the first thing I got to do is they take off their socks and shoes. I got to get down on the floor and clean their feet. Let's get this over with so we can get on to the charcuterie.
00:18:21
Speaker 5: Oh, boy. Never permit the word Islamophobia to be used around you.
00:18:27
Speaker 2: Why?
00:18:27
Speaker 5: Plus an update on old Abdul Al-Sayed. Coming up.
00:18:32
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
00:18:40
Speaker 5: I'm here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator.
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Speaker 4: And that's the fact. I'm not going to let that happen.
00:18:58
Speaker 5: And is Trump referring to Abdul Al-Sayed in some fairly broad terms?
00:19:02
Speaker 4: That's a heck of a thing to just call him a Muslim Brotherhood member.
00:19:07
Speaker 5: And a jihadist. I don't think it's inaccurate. It's a little broad, but that's a little sledgehammery, but that's Trump for you. The awful, insufferable Kristen Welker asked Mike Rogers, Al Sayed's opponent, about that sort of thing on Meet the Press the other day.
00:19:24
Speaker 8: Let me ask you about your words and the words of President Trump. President Trump says your opponent is a violent terrorist, violent. Again, there's just no proof of that. And he has denounced he was asked directly if he denounces the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:19:39
Speaker 4: He has.
00:19:40
Speaker 8: Do you agree with calling him a violent terrorist?
00:19:42
Speaker 5: That's not true.
00:19:42
Speaker 6: Hold on.
00:19:43
Speaker 8: Do you agree with calling him a violent terrorist?
00:19:45
Speaker 4: The guy said, are you going to answer the question, will you disavow? And he said, yeah, absolutely.
00:19:51
Speaker 8: Do you agree with calling him a violent terrorist? Is that up to your standard?
00:19:55
Speaker 5: No, I don't. I've never called him a terrorist. Here's my question. Does Kristen Welker know how biased she is and embrace it, or does she not get it?
00:20:05
Speaker 4: I don't think they get in any of those shows. They, I don't think they, I wish somebody would show them back to back the way they interview a Republican and the way they interview a Democrat on a Democrat. They bring up their talking point and let them expound on Republicans. It is a, well, if you did it the same way for both of them, it would be fine. You, you push them on every issue and make them explain things, but they only do it for one side. Uh, yeah, the whole I've is denounced the word they always use.
00:20:35
Speaker 5: I think so.
00:20:36
Speaker 4: I've denounced them over and over again. OK, where's the video of that? I haven't seen the video where you actually do that.
00:20:44
Speaker 5: Do you denounce them? Well, yes, but yeah, no, that's not a denouncing. Explain the change in your thinking from when you signed that letter in 2012 to now. Explain exactly what you believe, what you don't believe, what you've said you condemn Hamas. I think he said that. In what way? For what things? But he's then excused them over and over again. If you pinned him down even a little bit, he would not be able to answer.
00:21:09
Speaker 4: As I mentioned last week, in case you don't know this history, there are two great examples of how you separate yourself from a group that you're associated with you think that is damaging you. The way John F. Kennedy gave a major speech about his Catholic faith when he was running for president back in, I don't know if it was 59 or 60. But during that election campaign and Barack Obama doing the same thing about the Reverend Wright and the church that he attended, he gave an entire speech dedicated to that topic alone to try to put that to rest. Not a single yes, but.
00:21:44
Speaker 5: Right.
00:21:44
Speaker 4: El Sayed has not done that at all.
00:21:47
Speaker 5: So the Atlantic headline, the insufferable The Atlantic, is Islamophobia is Trump's closing midterm gambit. Keeping in mind the wise words of the great thinker Andrew Cummins, Islamophobia is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. The idea that you could have a phobia against the largest political philosophy on earth. There are way more fundamentalist Muslims than there are people living in democratic societies. I mean, it's not only is it enormous, it's relentlessly expansionist and willing to kill people to do it. So the resistance to or desire to limit the growth of Islam as a political system to describe that as Islamophobia is absolutely idiotic. Again, it's a word designed by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. Don't permit it in your life. So, I mean, for instance, Abdul El-Sayed just had a big interview and sit down with anti-Israel voters in Dearborn. He had a roundtable discussion with a local activist named Osama Seblani, who's called Hamas and Hezbollah freedom fighters and called for Israeli Jews to be sent back to Poland. He sat for the interview in the roundtable at the Dearborn offices of Seblani's newspaper, the Arab American News. Seblani urged El-Sayed to say something right now to soothe people. in majority Arab Dearborn, who were mad because Al-Sayed campaigned with Kamala Harris, who was part of the evil Biden-Harris administration, remember, that supported Israel in fighting back against Hamas after the horrors of October 7th, 23. And so the hardcore Muslim fundamentalists in that part of the world are really, really mad that Al-Sayed would appear with Kamala Harris. Al-Sayed, of course, supported the uncommitted movement in Michigan 24, blah, blah, blah. There's no perfect candidate, Al-Sayed responded, pledging to keep taxpayer funds in Michigan, quote, rather than send it abroad to kill or maim people who might be related to you in the south of Lebanon or in Gaza or in the West Bank. With very few exceptions, the only people being killed in south Lebanon are Hezbollah members, Hezbollah fighters. And the answer may appeal to Dearborn voters, but El-Sayed's association with Sablani is likely to alienate more persuadable voters like Jews and Democrats. I'm quoting from The Free Beacon now. Sablani's brother, Ghassan, was a security chief for Lebanon's Hezbollah-aligned Amal party in the 80s. He's called many terrorist groups freedom fighters in interviews over the year. At a rally in Dearborn last year, Sablani praised Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a hero and urged that Israeli Jews be sent back to Poland. That's not Islamophobia. That's concern about his adherence to a particular political philosophy. Moving along, as if there wasn't enough, here's a commercial Al-Sayed is running in Michigan in the closing days of the campaign. Yeah, I got them too.
00:25:00
Speaker 3: But, honey.
00:25:02
Speaker 4: What?
00:25:03
Speaker 5: You're going to have to put those eggs back.
00:25:05
Speaker 7: They don't like eggs anymore?
00:25:06
Speaker 2: No, they like eggs.
00:25:08
Speaker 8: But we have to set that $ 7 aside.
00:25:11
Speaker 5: For killing Palestinians.
00:25:13
Speaker 7: What? I mean, don't we give Israel $ 4 billion a year anyways?
00:25:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:25:17
Speaker 8: And now we're giving them another $ 26 billion. Do you know how much that is per American taxpayer?
00:25:23
Speaker 2: No.
00:25:25
Speaker 8: It's like $ 161 per person. Apparently it's costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.
00:25:31
Speaker 5: That's terrible.
00:25:33
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:25:34
Speaker 4: Don't they get universal health care, too? Yeah, they do.
00:25:39
Speaker 8: Paying for that, too, probably.
00:25:40
Speaker 3: Might as well put the bananas back.
00:25:42
Speaker 7: Why the f * * * do we have to pay for all this?
00:25:46
Speaker 3: Don't cuss at me.
00:25:48
Speaker 4: Why does Mike Rogers care so much about what Israelis want and so little about what you want? Mike Rogers is for.
00:25:57
Speaker 5: They-them.
00:25:58
Speaker 4: Abdul and Syed is for you.
00:26:02
Speaker 5: So as this commentator puts it, painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this Al-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby killers and money-grubbing villains who are on the root cause of every bad thing, not just in the world, but in your life, from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can't have free health care, is not just low-grade Jew hate. It's pure Third Reich stuff translated directly from the original Germans. I've read Mein Kampf. He's right.
00:26:32
Speaker 4: That's a heck of a jump. So it's bad enough to talk about how we're financing a genocide, which is inaccurate. But the reason your eggs are expensive and your gas is expensive is the Jews. The reason you don't have cradle to grave health care is the Jews.
00:26:50
Speaker 5: Wow. It's pure Nazi grade Jew hate. Out of Al-Sayed. Why would he do that? Because it appeals to voters who are fundamentalist Muslims. Period.
00:27:07
Speaker 4: Got a good text on the whole. I used two examples, JFK with his Catholicism, Obama with his ties to that church in Chicago and the Reverend Wright. Mitt Romney had to promise his Mormonism wouldn't affect his leadership, and was asked about it constantly. As a Mormon? Who's scared of the Mormons? How vanilla compared to the Muslim Brotherhood?
00:27:32
Speaker 5: Right.
00:27:34
Speaker 4: Or, you know, just how far do you go with your belief in Sharia law and all that sort of stuff? Yeah, that doesn't come up, because that would be Islamophobia for Kristen Welker on MSNBC to say, how much will your Muslim belief influence your decisions as a U S senators? You're not ever going to ask that question, but if you're a Mormon, you certainly have to.
00:27:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:59
Speaker 4: A different aside. Um, I was quoting or referencing JFK when he ran for president and thinking he's been in 59 or 60 and then remembered, no, no, no, that's not the way we used to do it. If you were running for president in 1960, you announced and ran in 1960. Presidential elections didn't last that long. It was just months that we did that. Our presidential election starts a week from tonight. And there's a decent chance people are going to be announcing before the first of the year. In this year. A full two years ahead of time.
00:28:34
Speaker 2: Right. Right.
00:28:36
Speaker 4: Which is nuts. But that's what we do now.
00:28:39
Speaker 5: I wish there were a way for somebody to covertly get in touch with the money people. Because that's what it's all about. That's why you announced so early. You try to coalesce the great campaign aides and the money people around you. I wish there was some way that somebody could convince those people. Look, I'm getting in March of next year. A couple months before the primaries, here's my message. Here's my crew. And just lay in the weeds. And then jump up and beat the sh... Whoops. Out of everybody. And win. Because that might change things.
00:29:12
Speaker 4: Because it's insufferable. It really is. Back in the famous 2020 presidential election, which started almost in 18, but just barely in 19. Kamala Harris announced in January of 19... So somebody is going to be earlier than that this time around. They'll probably go December of this year. Somebody was.
00:29:34
Speaker 5: Was that her famous speech in Oakland that was the peak of her campaign?
00:29:38
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:29:38
Speaker 4: And then she got out. of the race in December of 19. She didn't even make it to the year 2020. Yeah.
00:29:47
Speaker 5: Didn't make it to the first primary and ended up a heartbeat, a one-thready heartbeat away from the presidency. Our politics is so screwed up.
00:29:56
Speaker 4: And according to a bunch of polls, she is currently the leader.
00:29:59
Speaker 5: Oh, that's a load of crap. I agree. I agree.
00:30:02
Speaker 4: What was the thing? Oh, I got an interesting Scrabble question for you I want to get to at some point.
00:30:09
Speaker 5: Anybody ever use the term Islamophobic around you? Ask them, have you ever used the term Israeli-phobic? How about fascist phobic? How about socialist phobic? How about Democrat phobic? Why do you only cast it as an irrational fear when it comes to Islam, which is a gigantic political system?
00:30:28
Speaker 4: It's as if it's a strategy. Yeah, Christopher Hitchens gave some great information on this way back in the day before anybody was using that term. In fact, I saw one the other day where he said, get ready for this. You're going to start hearing the term Islamophobia. And we need to shoot that down before it grabs hold or it's too late because it did grab hold.
00:30:49
Speaker 5: Can we grab Chris Hitchens and have that in our holsters? I know we've run it before. Maybe later on. We should.
00:30:54
Speaker 4: Lots of good stuff on the way. Stay here.
00:30:57
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
00:31:13
Speaker 7: Families complained about Nevada's behavior on the field and his mom's behavior on the sidelines. So what did the youth soccer director do? He called 911.
00:31:23
Speaker 4: There's a parent here that's really, really disruptive.
00:31:26
Speaker 7: Nevada's mom tells a different story.
00:31:28
Speaker 4: They're literally kicking him out of this place because he's good at soccer.
00:31:32
Speaker 7: Nevada's mom told CBS News the coach told Nevada he could stay in if he passed the ball. But about halfway through the game, he got the cops involved. You had this little kid who was dominating the soccer match like my niece used to. He's three, by the way.
00:31:49
Speaker 4: And it would make all the other parents really mad because if you've ever watched youth sports, there's often, soccer particularly, there's often like a kid who one has the... physical ability and talent, and two, understands what they're supposed to be doing. That seems to be the main thing for little kid sports when I was watching it. And has any desire to do that.
00:32:08
Speaker 5: Right.
00:32:09
Speaker 4: One, knows what they're supposed to do and gives a crap enough to want to do it. And if there is one that doesn't, they can just run up and down the field and score. But he was supposed to pass the ball and didn't, so somebody called the cops. Before we weigh in on that, let's hear the police and the parents clip, and then we'll opine.
00:32:24
Speaker 7: I guess one of the coaches advised that they don't want you guys here anymore, okay?
00:32:29
Speaker 3: If you guys don't mind leaving.
00:32:30
Speaker 2: What is the real reason that he called the police?
00:32:33
Speaker 3: So I guess he's just calling because I guess he believes that you guys were causing a disturbance that was interfering with the game play.
00:32:38
Speaker 5: They're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer.
00:32:41
Speaker 1: So I'm a little confused and I'm a little like baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer.
00:32:48
Speaker 4: So they literally kicking him out of this place because.
00:32:51
Speaker 7: He's good at soccer.
00:32:52
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about this lady or what she said or did on the sidelines, but she does not sound unhinged.
00:32:57
Speaker 5: She sounds very reasonable.
00:32:58
Speaker 4: Yes, she does.
00:32:59
Speaker 5: So this kid's three years old, and he's dominating a game that's a five-year-old game. And the parents of the child, well, this is all very vague.
00:33:10
Speaker 2: Three?
00:33:11
Speaker 5: He was being scorned for playing well and was being taken out of the game.
00:33:15
Speaker 4: How are you even doing anything at three? I saw the video. He's really good.
00:33:21
Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah. He's obviously a natural athlete.
00:33:26
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:33:28
Speaker 5: Wow, this is all, we can't govern ourselves anymore. Apparently I don't.
00:33:33
Speaker 4: It's well, it's, it's, I've watched a lot of youth sports as you have and you coach and everything like, yeah, it's, it's, it sucks when there's, it sucks for everybody. When you have one team that's way better than the other or, or a player that dominates because they're not learning anything. And then the, nobody's learning anything.
00:33:49
Speaker 5: And so I get the idea that the other parents were yelling, you know, take him out, take him out of the game for, let the other kids play or whatever. And, And the mom, too, you know, I can't blame her, was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why is everybody yelling at and about my kid just because he's good? This is ridiculous. It's unfortunate.
00:34:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to get him into an older group and maybe he has to play with seven-year-olds. I don't know what. He's three. I don't remember my kids, like, being able to do really anything at three.
00:34:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's astonishing.
00:34:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:34:20
Speaker 4: Okay, different question. Scrabble. So I have a friend who ruined Scrabble, I think. Like globally or just for you? For me and for my son, because the way they played Scrabble, they would use this Scrabble dictionary, and it was just... I don't know how you avoid this, but it was just... Yeah, okay, and then... they'd memorized all these obscure words with the complicated letters. No, Q-X-I, what's another valuable letter? Q-X-I-J. Q-X-I-J, what kind of word is that? You know, it's from a medieval poem in Iran in the 4th century. There was a, okay, I guess. I mean, but so if it becomes that, I didn't find it to be any fun whatsoever. Because I haven't decided to memorize medical terms, endless medical terms that you would never, ever know unless you decided to study the Scrabble dictionary.
00:35:27
Speaker 5: Well, you are the five-year-old getting whooped on the field by the three-year-old. He takes it much more seriously than you do. You've got to find somebody else to play with.
00:35:34
Speaker 4: Well, if you're just sitting around playing Scrabble, isn't it within a certain range of normal words?
00:35:42
Speaker 5: No, because if you play a lot, you learn. I mean, there's the people who are extreme like you're talking about. I don't know all those words.
00:35:48
Speaker 4: Nobody knows those words. That's the point. Nobody knows those words unless you're just going to memorize the most obscure words for Scrabble.
00:35:56
Speaker 5: But that's how you win at Scrabble if you play at a high level. That's what the game is. I'm not talking about playing at a high level.
00:36:02
Speaker 4: I'm talking about getting out the game on a rainy day when you got five people sitting around in your place.
00:36:07
Speaker 5: Scrabble.
00:36:08
Speaker 4: If somebody is going to start throwing up medical terms from the second century, then there's no point in anybody else playing.
00:36:15
Speaker 5: Well, right. Don't play with them. Okay. Well, what do you want them to do? Well, I could play this word, but it's somewhat obscure and Jack might not know it.
00:36:23
Speaker 4: I don't know. That's what I'm saying.
00:36:25
Speaker 2: Right.
00:36:25
Speaker 4: I don't know what you do. I don't know what you do, but I played Scrabble my whole life and it was fine with everybody I ever played with until I ran into this guy. And then it's just, there's no point.
00:36:36
Speaker 5: Just play checkers. There you go. Time-honored game.
00:36:39
Speaker 4: Anyway, I wanted to get into this and I didn't even to the ridiculous rules for Scrabble. These are official Scrabble rules and their inconsistency about cheeses. Cheeses they accept and cheeses they do not accept. Completely inconsistent. According to Tim Sandefur.
00:36:55
Speaker 5: I'll rip from today's headlines.
00:36:58
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
