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It's just we all know, he's just his mind doesn't work, and he's tired, and he barely knows what day it is, and he doesn't even know who won the election. But ah, isn't it? Is that just that seems that I don't know. I guess that's the way we're gonna wrap this up. Yeah, yeah, that is exhibit A in one of the two really interesting tectonic plate shifts that I think this election had made clear. One is what the hell is the Democratic

Party and can they reform themselves? But the other one is new media versus old media, the world of podcasting, alternative media like ourselves for instance, and the alphabet networks and the cable news guys and the rest of it. And a case has been made quite eloquently, and to me, I mean it's just the jury doesn't even need to

retire to the jury room. That the mainstream media was utterly dishonest about Joe Biden and his senility, and then when it became so inescapably clear, everybody had to admit it. They immediately switched to the incredibly unpopular, never elected to a national office. Kamala Harris is a political genius and everybody knows it, and she's below and that people noticed it, and the legacy media is hurting for certain. But on the other as it's dressed by uh, Jeff Bezos that

his first name. Yeah, for some reason, I didn't sell right Bezos in the Washington Post right before the election. You know, you change things, We're going to be complete, completely irrelevant and dominated by podcasts and whatnot. So he gets it, and there's a chance some good changes come

out of all this. Yeah. If I had a choice between, say I had some sort of cause that I really really wanted to pitch, or I wanted to get elected to something, and you gave me a choice between the front page of the Watch Washington Post or Joe Rogan, please, right, I wouldn't even think about it. I wouldn't even ask anybody's advice. So that's one of the interesting tectonic plates

shifts that's become apparent and will be interesting to see. Oh, by the way, if you get a chance to recommend the Armstrong You Getty show or podcast of friends, do it, which I that'd be lovely. We're in dire strait, so oh my lord, my wife she spends and she spent kidding. She's one of the most practical women who's ever existed on the planet. God bless her anyway. The other super

interesting tectonic shift is what is the Democratic Party? And I use the term the say no crats last hour because I've come across a couple of died in the world Democrats, including maybe we'll start with this. I don't know how to pronounce the man's name. It's are you why his last name is to Shera? But is that Roy? Is that like a Hispanic version of Roy? Or is it Ruy or I don't know. So no, no disrespect to mister Riff for not knowing how to pronounce his name.

But his his sub stack blog article column thing he is called the Liberal Patriot and his article today is the shattering of the Democratic Coalition and it's time to face the fact. And man is he thorough. He goes through well, he starts with the whole the obligatory calling your opponents fascists and Nazis, and how ugly and stupid that is as a strategy, and then he goes into just an astounding set of statistics about how Harris underperformed

Biden among men and women. The reason there was such a big gender gap was, well, she performed Biden way worse among men than she underperformed among women. But she underformed underperformed both and Blacks and Hispanics and Asian Americans and young people and except for the sixty five plus woman crowd, old people, everybody, but like middle aged and white college aged educated women. I mean, like everybody, but that group that is so enamored with calling everybody Nazis

and totally into critical race theory and transgender. You know, men can be birthing persons, menstruating little boys. That crowd, I mean, that's like the only ones. And then he gets too and this is why I coin the term canocrats. He writes, here's an idea to start with, have every democrat ostentatiously say they subscribe to the following principles, and he says these principles would signal to normy voters, particularly working class voters of all races, the Democrats values and

priorities are not so different from theirs. So prerequisite for getting these voters to listen to Democrats pitch and take it seriously. So here it is every Democrat has to say they subscribe to the following principles. Equality of opportunity is a fundamental American principle. Equality of outcome is not. America is not perfect, but it is good to be

patriotic and proud of this country. Well, I see, I agree with this stuff, But like that first one, you're never going to get a Democratic candidate or people running for the nomination to say that out loud, not a chance. Then the Democratic Party will die. That's his point. The only way the Democratic Party saves itself is by and there's no reason to say go back to because you know, there's no such thing as going back to restore the core principles of America to the core principles of the

Democratic Party, or they will die. What did I see? I mean fitting in with that a little bit. Elon tweeted it out yesterday, I think the number was Kamala had something like seventy five billionaires on her side, and you know, everybody acts like Elon's the only billionaire and he put the he wait in for Trump and that made the difference. And the billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. Okay, But back to to SHARE's list. Discrimination and racism are bad, but they are not the

cause of all disparities in American society. Racial achievement gaps are bad and we should seek to close them. However, they are not just due to race, and standards of high achievement should be maintained for people of all races. Do you hear that California? You hear that Oregon, Washington eliminating any sort of test to get a high school diploma. No one is completely without bias, but calling all white people racists who benefit from white privilege in American society

as a white supremacist society is not right or fair. God, I hope this is dead? Is it dead? Is the whole anti racist Ebram Kenny thing? Is it over? Was it just an unfortunate blip that I had to live through where you talk about crap like white privilege? And the more you deny your white privilege, the more it's proof you've got it, and all that crap. I sure

hope it will be eventually. But you know, as I have pointed out before, the problem is that we've almost got the opposite problem of like the Japanese soldiers who hadn't heard about the surrender and we're stuck in the jungles with their guns waiting to fight again. We've got the opposite thing. We have tens of that hundred millions of young people being churned out of an education system that is teaching this stuff one hundred percent as much

as they were two three, four years ago. Everybody else has realized, oh, this is poison and it's wrong, but not our education system. So we've got like millions of Japanese soldiers coming out of their military academies looking for the fight, which is why we're we're at the end

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name right Warrior Foundation dot org. Talking about Warrior Foundation and the fact that Veterans Day is coming up reminds me I do want to talk a little bit about the unsettled world Trump is about to inherit and the different directions a couple of things could go. But more on that later. So back to Tishaar's piece, which is so good and a lot of it follows the same kind of ab form and I get why like this one. America benefits from the presence of immigrants and no immigrant

even if illegals should be mistreated. So he starts with the disclaimer on all of these to make it a little more palatable for DS. But border security is hugely important, as is an enforceable system that fairly decides who can enter the country. Then he talks about police brutalities bad. However, more and better policing is needed to get criminals off the streets and secure public safety that cannot be provided by defunding the police. And then he touches on uh oh,

and I love this, love this, love this. People who want to live as a gender different from their biological sex should have that right. However, biological sex is real and space is limited to biological women in areas like sports in prisons should be preserved. Medical treatments like drugs and surgery are serious interventions that should not be available on demand, especially for children. Then he gets into language policing and a very sane view of climate change, including

the fact that we're gonna need fossil fuels. He says, we must make America more equal, but we must also make it richer. There's no contradiction between the two. A richer country will make it easier to promote equality, and he goes on and on. So watching this battle unfold, it's like a civil war on the left side of the aisle. I think reality bats last. As you pointed out many times, Jack, I like the sane side to win that fight for the Democratic Party, but man, it's

going to be a bloody civil war. Got some more information on that giant Chinese hack of all our cell phones, the biggest hack in US history. China currently can listen to your phone calls and read your text like today. Did you know that They've been doing it for like a year, So we don't even actually know. We don't know if we can ever boot them out of our cell phone systems. We don't know how to do it, or if we ever can. I mean, it's the most

underreported story in America right now. But a new angle on that and a bunch of other stuff on the way stay here.

But I do find this angle interesting, whether you know who the guy was or not. How the hell do you possibly determine blame in situations where he got people, everybody's partying like crazy, out of their minds high, and one guy who's depressed jumps off a balcony. I mean, I just I don't. I can't imagine how you nailed down people who are at fault for that or whatever.

I don't know. I'm sympathetic to the idea that there's liability there, and certainly if they are poisoned, which is different from like an overdose, in that you gave them a substance you mis represented what you were giving them, that's a poisoning, not an overdose. His cause of death

seems to have been gravity. Yeah, well, yeah, I don't right, as I said, extremely as I said at the time, and I regret he went one direction down and I was really beating up pretty harshly for that, as was appropriate, as was appropriate. But yeah, I was jumping off the balcony that killed him. But I don't know. Can you imagine trying to sort out that sort of a mess on who's to blame? It's like you're gonna be charged

with I don't know, I know that happens. Well, I also don't know anything about argentinium laws, but I am happy that it's some places in California to your point, and around the country. They're now charging people. You give somebody a fentanyl pill and they die, you murdered them, right, Yeah, which is good. But if you need more of that, someone's super distraught and drinking and taking drugs for on a binge for weeks at a time, and they jump off a balcony, how would you possibly nail down I

don't know. I guess we'll see how that trial turns out. The Chinese are listening, can listen to your phone calls today. I was talking to my kids about this yesterday and my son said, and he is correct, Why would the Chinese have any interest in what I'm saying on my

phone call? Well, they probably don't, but you suppose they're recording them all some sort of terabytes of because I said, for one thing, we don't know what you're going to be someday, if you're a police chief or a politician or a who knows what, and then they've got something on you that they can use for blackmail. I mean,

that's one of the reasons that they're doing it. How about all your texts over the last year, anybody got any texts out there of any kind that you'd rather not have be shared with the world, China adds them, Yeah, yeah, And now I am fairly certain, based partly on conversations I've had with folks in the counter intelligence business and partly just my own surmising, but China absolutely has probably some sort of color coded or some sort of code of Americans based on what they do and who they

are and how they could conceivably be useful to the Chinese Communist Party. And then I'm sure they cross reference with and this is fairly easy to do with computers, people who say things that are clearly you know, blackmailable. Well, how about so, once again to bring up the twenty twenty eight presidential election, way too early. Every single person that's going to run for president in twenty twenty eight, on both sides, try to be a nominee. China has

their phone calls and texts of the last year. I think there's anything in there for any of those governors or senators or mayors of small towns or whatever that are going to run for president that the Chinese could use as blackmail or embarrassment or something well right, and if you have blackmailable, slash embarrassing material, that's you know, that's coded in your software or whatever, and then in five years you cross reference that with who works for

an aerospace company. Oh and I left out one of the headlines. The federal government told the whole bunch of federal employees yesterday to don't do anything sensitive on your phones anymore. So back to paper and pen. I guess that's something armstrong and getty.

literally go for yourself. If you voted for Donald Trump, if you are so sad about your groceries being expensive, get a better paying job, do better in life, get a education, do something because you're stupid, And I hope you go jump off of a fire bridge.

guy believes. That that's the big conundrum if you're a Democrat, because all those like my I come from a family, like everybody on my dad's side's a Democrat, all like Iowa farmer type people, Democrats from the old Democrat tradition. But there's not a one of them that thinks, you know, dudes should be in women's sports, or you should use the term latinix or any of those things. If they've even you know, not a one of them, You just

you've abandoned that kind of Democrat. And that's why all those people, I'd be shocked if like every one of them didn't vote for Trump this past Tuesday. Also lifelong Democrats, So you know, and I was, we're so in the moment, I had to be reminded of some things in the very recent past, like I wonder how many of your dad's kin would be in favor of firing any soldier, firefighter, healthy young man, for instance, who wouldn't get the COVID

jab right right right? Keeping schools closed even though the one next door that's private is open. How in favor of that? Were they? A couple of things here? One, there was a rumor going around. I don't know what you call news anymore. That's not true. Do you call him rumors? I guess you call it misinformation. There was a misinformation going around on social media from a number

of fairly high profile people on Twitter, for instance. Trump has announced that he was misleading people about Project twenty twenty five and he plans to enact it within hours of the president and people were taking it seriously. Oh geez, what's the matter with you? People with ad journalist from The Dispatch, which is a very fair organization, anti Trump, but very fair news organization, the Dispatch. Trump hasn't announced

he lied about Project twenty twenty five. He hasn't even mentioned Project twenty twenty five since becoming president elect, and during a campaign Trump called it seriously extreme and said he never read it, which is the truth, right? Yeah, that's hilarious on so many levels. You think Trump is taking the views of think tanks. I mean, what view of you on the left is it of Trump that includes him big on think tanks telling him what to do.

It just doesn't fit. Yeah. Yeah, But here's one of my favorite things that came across yesterday from the New York Times if I can find it, the headline being news analysis for Black women. America has revealed its true self. Kamala Harris's resounding defeat affirmed the worst of what many

Black women believed about their country. Even if some of them looked to the future with waryed determination, and they go through blah blah blah blah blah what happened, But underneath their hope and determination for Kamala Harris was a persistent Was America ready? They asked to elect a black woman? The painful answer arrived this week. This is news analysis in the New York Times, not just some people's opinions that can be proven wrong by all the data from

all just exit pollings, flat out data. However you want to look at it. It's very easily refuted that this is true, but your news analysis goes along with it. Back to the news analysis, it affirmed the worst of what many black women believed about their country, that it would rather choose a man who was and they list all the things about Donald Trump that they don't like than send a woman of color to the White House. Yeah, that's exactly what it was. It was all about it

being a woman of color. They're actually delusional. I would think if you want to win elections, you'd want to get to the bottom of what actually happened. I mean, it's really easy to say it was racism and sexism and just rest on I don't know what we do racists and sexist. That's nuts. You're nuts if you actually believe that, you're crazier or I know you can't handle the truth as a trite phrase, but maybe you actually can't handle the truth. No, it's a good one. That's

a fine phrase. Yeah, And you know it's funny. There's part of me, the part of me that wants conservative values to be the ones that rule the day, who's like, yeah, just keep going down that road, keep making it all about identity politics, even as many Democrats, and we have a number of their voices ready to go today, are saying we've got to dump the woke thing, the transgender thing, We've got to dump identity politics. It's unhealthy and Unamerican.

But they have They're the ones who publish the newsletter. They've got the media and entertainment and education. Those lunatics, you know who I pity. I pity moderate Democrats all are Oh man, you got you got crazy people in your house and they're running around brandishing knives. It's like fatal Attraction was at the movie with the Glenn Closes and the rabbit and everything. You've got actual murderous lunatics running around in your own house. So we've got Trump,

but you know it will deal with that. So then they build their case for this news analysis by quoting a whole bunch of older black women who unfortunately are delusional or have been misled by what's actually going on, and they, you know, they go with the whole multiple anecdotes equals data thing. So you have six people agreeing with you, and so that's proof that this is true,

I guess. And then they get to what a lot of journalists on the right call the to be sure paragraph, where you have to throw in some reality to like justify your journalism. I guess many Democrats saw the brutal political environment for the party. Yeah, like inflation and immigration peppered with anger about President Biden's leadership has more to blame for Miss Harris's crushing loss than the double edged

sword of racism and sexism. But others reflecting on a campaign listen to this description from The New York Times. This is news analysis. This is not supposed to be an opinion piece. Others reflecting on a campaign devoid of controversy or obvious missteps by a qualified candidate who almost never held out a race or gender as reasons to vote for or found it difficult to ignore suspicions about

why mister Trump won with the such ease. So the New York Times Day narrative stated many times in many forums it was practically a perfect can the New York Times saying with a straight face that the campaign was devoid of controversy or obvious missteps, the not answering any questions, Uh, what would be different about you from Biden? I can't think of anything. Are you kidding me? Really? I mean, come on, even the people on your side, the David Axelrods of the world, were like, oh my god, this

is a disaster. I mean, come on, New York Times not even trying. This has got to be a manifestation of the fact that politics is now identity. Your politics are your identity, and so much democratic politics is identity politics, and the whole critical theory Neo Marx's postmodern thing that is who I am. And if you tell me Kamala Harris lost because of this stuff, which is who I am, that's very difficult to get people to swallow and confess to,

really difficult. It's very different. I'm sorry, go ahead. I don't know what the point of having having a conversation with somebody would be. If somebody is going to say, well, her campaign, she made no mistakes. There was no controversy throughout the entire thing, so it has to be racism, and say, well, why are we even talking?

off a bridge like that pathetic blanking professor. My god, he did. There isn't mental health care good enough for him to start him out for the rest of his life. I mean, if you took the rest of his life, that's just looney tunes. Kamala didn't go to the Al Smith dinner and then lost some Catholic areas that a Democrat hadn't lost in decades and decades and decades, that there'd be a possible misstep. I can think of many more. No, No,

there weren't any there. It was a perfect campaign. There were no missteps nor controversies.

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at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Oh wow. I've been claiming that there's no way we can do that, while planning to do it very clever. We're leaving today, but he doesn't listen to talk radio, so I'm really not worried about this getting back to him. But we're leaving today, going to Vegas and and go to the Sphere to see the Eagles, and I'm looking forward to seeing them to be like, we saw a show at the Sphere

like a movie and it was fantastic. I don't know what it's going to be like to see a concert there. I don't quite get it why you want to basically watch a music video with a soundtrack of the music you like, but it's live, but you're not watching them, you're watching the music video. I just I don't quite get the idea behind it because it's like an old timey movie theater where the guy's in the organ with

the silent movie. Because it's set up and way that it's not for you know, the best seats are up close where you can see the band. The best seats are far away so you can watch the movie spectacle and listen to them play live to it, which I don't know. It kind of feels like to me, like, how about you don't have the band and you just play a recording of their songs and I'll watch this movie. I don't know. I like, I said, I don't quite

get it. I saw Vince gilb the country star who's in the Eagles now, and I'm a big Vince Gill fan, so that'll be cool. But him say, it's the most ignored I've ever been in any performance in my life. He said, nobody's looking at us. Everybody's watching the screen. So it's kind of weird from that standpoint. Yeah, I don't want to be old guy who yells at clouds, but there's absolutely been a shift. I was watching a police show, the band The Police from nineteen eighty three.

I think it was like the show was within a week of when I met my wife, which was kind of fun in nostalgia e ah, since their album was number one when we met. But it was the biggest band in the world. Three guys and their backup singers on a stage with the spareest of lighting playing their songs, and the very large auditorium was wrapped with attention. Right, that's funny. That's now, it's gotta be a zillion things going on. It one spectacle. Well, I don't know if

it has to be or not. I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to think this is a good Vince Gill in his interview, and I doubt the people at the sphere like this. He said, I don't get it. He said, I'm a guy about music. I've never liked pyrotetrics or shows or anything like that. I'm there for the music when I go to see a show. I want everybody else to be there for music. But this is what people want. It's what they want. It's basically what he said I'm getting seats on the floor

closer to the band. I want to watch the band. I hope I'm not too distracted by the music video that I don't care that much about. But i'll see what. I'll report back on Monday of what I think of the whole thing. The sound will be amazing. They have one hundred and twenty six thousand speakers in that place. I have never heard sound like I heard when we

went to movie there. I mean, it's like anything my ears have ever experienced in my life, the way it comes from everywhere and inside you and Base like you didn't even know Base could be this way. So from that standpoint, it'll be cool. We wear the brown note. Yeah, more on that to come, a lot more on the way stay here. Yeah. The main thing I'm looking for is Joe Walsh playing this song. I looked at the setlist.

They closed with it. Oh really? Now coming up the media lost in a landslide, no doubt, and the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. More on the coming civil war and it'll be bloody between the Satokratz and the woke lunatics. Stay with us so I like the autopsies over all, this stuff both campaigns, media coverage, that sort of stuff. But I'm definitely ready to turn toward policy and how we're going to handle a whole bunch of things going on in the world, what Trump's

view of it. Like I said, through the whole campaign, I don't actually know what Trump's feelings are about China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Hamas. I don't actually know. Here's a woman from the Economist on Morning Joe Today talking about what she thinks Trump's going to be like for Ukraine Russia, And actually, I think, and.

they needed. There was a sense that there was so much worry in Washington right now about escalation by Trump by Blutin. So I think we're just it's like the whole post w order has been thrown out own, it's shaken up.

If you're going to take anything away from that book, it wouldn't be the couple little anecdotes about Trump that everybody talked about a couple of weeks ago. It would be about the frustration around Biden's handling of Ukraine. From the beginning. Wow, that's really interesting incrementalism. You could hear little Mika not exactly digging right, her guests Eric right,

and her inescapable logic. Yeah, which is interesting because her dad, I believe, who was the National security advisor for Carter, would have been really upset about Biden's timidity, understanding how the only way you can deal with these people is to show you're willing to stand up to them.

do anything. And also that the Obama administration reacting the way they did in twenty fourteen when he went in also led him to believe that the Biden Obama crowd was weak and would never push back. That's pretty harsh judgment from Bob Woodward book, But that got no attention. No. All the coverage of the book was about and somebody called trumpet jerk. Yeah great, the war for the soul of the Democratic Party. Who will win?