¶ Welcome to Escaping the Cave
Howdy kids, and welcome to another episode of Escaping the Cave. It is the Toddzilla X-Bot, not baseball this time. It's number 144. The record date on this guy is October 7th, early morning hours of Monday, October 7th of 2024. Big anniversary today. If I was ever going to return to this, I guess this is the day to do it, right? I apologize if you've gotten a little confused in the last month or so. I've done a lot of podcasts, just not these.
It's been nice, I gotta tell you. It's been real nice. I'm focused on something. Music. Positive. Something fun. I come in here and spew into the microphone for however long. And walk out of here feeling like I walked through. I don't know. Like Andrew Dufresne escaping from prison, right? Climbing through a pipe of shit. That's what it feels like. So the Tigers have mercifully spared me that for, I don't know, last month or so. I think I've recorded six episodes.
This is number 144 of Escaping the Cave, the normal stuff. And I think I'd be up on 150 if I were numbering these things like that. And I'm kind of releasing those things as bonus episodes. And the reason I just, I like the number thing because I'm having a conversation with somebody. I want to direct them. I can tell them, okay, go look for episode number blah.
So it's getting a little confusing in there. I think what I might do with the podcast, the baseball stuff anyway, is I may send that stuff to YouTube. I may just do video clips on that and maybe not do an audio episode because it really, it's, come from the radio background, this is almost like entertainment malpractice. You get somebody tuning into your stuff, expecting a certain thing, right? And then all of a sudden you do baseball.
The people here for politics or the disinformation or the propaganda psychology, whatever, they're suddenly being sent baseball material. And the baseball people used to hearing about Tarek Scooble and the Detroit Tigers and the run that they've been on the last month or so. And all of a sudden, you're going to get this. It's like, oh, what the hell is he going to do? Now, you don't know what to expect. Tried to fight that battle anyway since the beginning of this podcast.
I ventured off into sports. I did the episodes with the old network guys. I even started a baseball podcast back in 2019. Yeah, so I've tried this, and I wanted to do different things with this show. And not simply, it's not because anybody's demanding it, and it's not to expand my listener base or anything else. It's I enjoy that stuff. I enjoy doing that stuff. And it's nice not to feel like Andy Dufresne, climbing through a pipe full of sewage after recording in here for an hour or two.
And not focusing and not having to do research on shit. Not having to watch the political scene and the global political scene. Not having to pay attention to Fox News and MSNBC. I don't pay it now. I lied to you. I never pay attention to MSNBC. You know that. Or CNN. I don't have to watch these morning shows, these Sunday morning shows. I don't have to flip over to The Five every afternoon to see what Fox News is talking about. I don't have to watch Gutfeld at night to see what they're saying.
I am very interested in what's happening in Lebanon right now. It looks like to me and to everybody else that that whole region could explode and drag a whole bunch of people into a wider war. So in that sense, I am interested in what's going on. Now, it's really hard because, again, I know where I'm going with this, and I've done it a hundred times or at least five on the show.
Usually when I come back from some sort of time off, right, I'll go into this whole diatribe about how I want to do this podcast on disinformation, on propaganda, the psychology behind it.
Narrative stories truth whether or not we can actually tell the truth or whether or not we're interested in it the state of informational the growing state of informational anarchy, that we're in but also i've sort of planted my flag in the last few years steadily coming from from this sort of a centrist camp, moderately liberal, to being rabidly anti-Wolkin specifically. It's going to make a few of you cringe when I say it. You ready? You ready? Anti-communist, anti-Marxist, anti-extreme left.
So how are you supposed to balance that? How can you be one? How can you fight against what you see, or what I see anyway, and a lot of other people see as a growing extreme left infiltration of the institutions. While still trying to analyze objectively propaganda, disinformation, informational anarchy, how can you do both at the same time? Is it even possible to do both at the same time? I don't know.
Because as soon as you choose a side, you've alienated Half of the people who would be listening to you. Because they're not going to listen to anything you have to say anymore. You are a blasphemer. You are the enemy. Hell, you can't even sell art. You can't even sell music to the other crowd if you come out with some sort of an opinion or if you have planted any kind of a political flag anywhere. The other side will see you as impure. You are a heretic.
So what do you do? And there's not a small part of me. And I hesitate to say this, but I probably should. You know, there's a very small part of me that knows that once you, not a small part, a large part. Actually, I understand this because once you plant that flag and once you decide to join either for or against something, one direction or another.
Other said this a million times the side that doesn't use propaganda and that doesn't use the dark arts of rhetorical warfare will be stampeded by the side that does, so all the stuff that i've talked about since 2018 if i am truly going to be.
This anti-woke crusader guy that advocates for free speech doesn't think there's 46 different genders and doesn't think that we should be compelled to pretend, rhetorically, verbally that there is, I have to use the stuff that I've been talking about, if I'm going to do it properly if I'm not just going to be a guy that's on the I almost said on the radio but on the internet at on this podcast.
I'm babbling about this, that, and the other thing. You've got to use this stuff because I may as well be masturbating on OnlyFans if I don't. Because the other side obviously is. Leftists have been, they've had agitation in their DNA for a hundred years. You know what they're doing? It's what you're seeing in New York City. You're seeing the colleges All of these marches that we saw over the weekend virtually celebrating the anniversary of October 7th.
All over the world, really, and there's been, there was marches in Paris, London. This is agitation, foreign agitators, a lot of them, at least overseas, not so many here. But they're very well versed in the art of agitation. It's in their DNA. This goes all the way back to Lenin. They're using it.
Everybody's using it. But each and every one of us is, if we're online and we have decided to advocate, pick a side, every one of us has learned how to use propaganda, disinformation, whatever you want to call it, over the last 20 years. By osmosis, almost, because it's everywhere. Not only is it on cable news, which is dying on the vine as we speak, but social media.
Each and every one of us have become to some extent to some degree anybody who's affiliated positively or negatively affiliated with a side each and every one of us have become manchurian propagandists we have seen it used and we don't even know it i don't think most people know it i don't think they realize it but they see an effective piece of propaganda effective piece of verbal manipulation. And they pick up on it and they use it themselves. It's almost like Google, right?
You weren't trained in it. You just got a piece of information that you could drop and deploy. Well, this is a tactic. This is a technique. Word napping, whatever. Just straight out propaganda plagiarism in some cases.
¶ The Rise of Propaganda
But we've all learned how to do this. over the last 20 years, if we've been politically engaged at all, even socially engaged at all, we figured it out. I realized this five, six years ago and was horrified, really, as I understood that the firehose of information, when it comes to propaganda, misinformation, intellectual manipulation, emotional manipulation specifically, that's the big one, right? The emotional manipulation, triggering anger, it's what the algorithms are designed
to do to trigger engagement, right? Well, how do you do that? By stoking hatred. It's the most powerful of human emotions. Don't tell me it's love. I've said this a hundred times. If you tell me it's love, I'm going to laugh in your face. It's not. It's hatred. It's tribalism. Feeling threatened. One way or another. Either you or your family or your kind. Feeling threatened. The reptilian mind. The reptilian emotional brain.
The easiest to provoke. To action. It's the easiest way to create allules, proselytes, and militants. Stoking anger, disgust. That's another big one, disgust. That's the easiest way to demonize the enemy and sort of put yourself up on a pedestal as being upon the side of righteousness and God. I've said it a million times. If you've listened to the show, you've heard me say that a million times by now. So what are you supposed to do? If you're in my place, what are you supposed
to do? You have to kind of pick a lane, right? And for the last couple of years, I think since 22, I think I did that episode, I'd fly with my flag. I've focused a great deal on the anti-left, the anti-woke, the anti-Marxist material. Kind of avoided and moved away from the analysis of propaganda for the most part. I've kind of gone back and forth on it a little bit, and some of the stuff that I've done I thought was pretty good. But I don't know what to do. I don't know where to take this now.
Now, I don't feel entirely comfortable doing just the anti-woke material because I feel like that at some point, I've just got to go full bore at it. And I've got to take the stuff that I've been talking about, the stuff that I've tried to raise awareness about over the last five or six years, however long it's been, I guess it's been six, and I've got to use it. I've got to deploy it. Take what I've learned and put it to use. If I'm to do that, I absolutely have to do that.
Because if I'm not, again, I may as well be on OnlyFans. Start an OnlyFans channel called Jerk and Todd. I may as well be physically masturbating because anything else I'm doing, if I don't use that stuff. Yeah. Wasting my time Because it's just going to get steamrolled By those who do use it.
And I have it I've, you know Consciously tried not to Go through the old material The old books Take what I've learned about The techniques, And turn it around I've intentionally not done that, But maybe I should It's either that or I have to get completely out of the political, sociological, culture war stuff I have to get completely out of it Put a firewall up, completely, And only analyze the informational ecosystem itself, Is that even possible now?
Is that something that can even be done at this point? Could you do it? Could you try to be completely objective about this stuff? Could you just take the information as it comes in, sift through everything? Nobody can do that. I was watching Bill Maher Friday, and he started talking about, he didn't use the phrase, maybe he will one day.
He started talking about informational anarchy. They did a poll and that something like 60% of people, I don't remember the percentage, maybe it was higher, maybe it was lower than that, but some very significant percentage of people did not know what to believe. They have no idea what the truth is. And my instinct was that that number seems low.
Though, if people were really being honest with themselves and they didn't just claim that what they choose to believe is truth, that number would be a lot higher. Now, he used the example of crime rates. States, that you watch one channel, crime's down because the Democrats in office, MSNBC and CNN, they're going to claim, they're going to try to make things look better for the Democrats, and they're going to say that crime has fallen in the last, God, whatever, how many years.
Whereas the folks at Fox News and the Trump supporters are going to say crime is skyrocketing. What's the truth? What is the truth? Depending on who you turn to to interpret, get your interpretation of reality, that's who you're going to believe. Or if you've already adopted a side, adopted a narrative, taken, you know, clutched on, glommed onto a narrative, a chosen narrative.
So you don't have to do what I was just talking about where you don't have to go and take every single piece of information, data, all that crap that I talked about in the data, information, knowledge, wisdom pyramid. You don't have to even mess around. You don't have to fuck with that lower level because you already have somebody who you have decided will do that for you, either online or on electronic media, the traditional television media.
You get your, it's the daily portion. You get your daily portion, as Jacques Ellul put it. It's easier. And if you don't know, No, if you don't know who or what to believe, what's the alternative? It's the pathway to empathy that I started talking about in 2018 or 2019. You can understand why people, what does that do? Where does that take us? It is informational anarchy, but it's something beyond that. It's tribal warfare, informational tribalism. I don't know. I need a new phrase for it.
But it's something beyond just informational anarchy, where you get this image of this mental picture of every man for themselves, right? That's what anarchy is to me. This is something else. It's almost like dimensional warfare, like informational dimensional warfare. The people in this informational universe and the people in this completely mutually exclusive informational universe or informational ecosystem, they're going to collide matter and informational matter and antimatter.
Because people don't know what to believe or which has been my working thesis most people don't care what to believe they don't care what's true it's the story whatever narrative, what's them in their mind on the side of the good guys, human deceit deception self-interest the quest for status there's so much that goes into this that goes beyond just the informational environment. It's human psychology, it's human ego, the emotional superstructure on which we all live our lives, the status game.
William Storr has a book in the bed. It's one of those books that I've tried to sit down and read before I go to sleep, but I can't. That's usually when I read, I'm in bed and I'm trying to go to sleep. But there are some books that just, Just as soon as I start reading these damn things, man, my brain just, and I can't, I can't sleep. And it's another one of those books that scares me because I'm afraid that if I get too far into it, it's going to open up so many different doors.
I'm going to have these endless sorts of connections that I've got to make to everything that I've talked about. Chasing status. Online, wherever. At work. In the dating scene, the status is huge. Why do you think Twitter, Facebook, all of these social media companies put your follower counts right up front? It's status. How popular is this person? How many people really value what this person has to say or what this person posts? Status.
Social media influencers, it's just another way of saying high status social media. Fucks. Just another way of putting it. Social media influence. Why do they have influence? Because they have status. There's so many things that go into this. Most of it comes back to really primitive human, basic human psychology, social psychology, human nature. Self-righteous bug. Telling yourself that you're on the side of God. Telling your friends that you're on the side of God. Maybe your kids.
That's what virtue signaling is, right? The purity outbursts of canceling people who lived 30, 40 years ago. There's this whole kick going on. I forget the publications. One of those liberal regs. But they are constantly posting stuff about how we need to cancel this or that artist because, oh my God, they were impure. They weren't as enlightened as we are. Stuff like the PMRC in the 1980s. They are not the right kind of people to be putting out art that people can see.
They were not pure enough. Ton of that. A virtue signaling, a righteousness signaling. I forget how I found her, but I sort of stumbled across a woman who lives up in Ann Arbor. She may be a teacher up at U of M. She had written a book on disinformation and the dangers of disinformation and what do we do about it.
And nowhere in her Twitter feed did I see anything that had anything to do with investigating human nature, investigating people, digging deep into the human psyche to see why we are susceptible to this. It was all good versus evil, spy versus spy, the dangers and the evils of social media. Of course, she was a liberal. Of course, she was coming from the left. Of course, she was trying to sort of, I don't know if she was really trying
to. I didn't read her book, and I'm not going to read her book. But she was, it seemed to be coming from the angle that if we're not careful of these right wingers, oh my God, disinformation is going to, it's going to destroy everything. We have to clamp down. We have to get control on speech because, oh, well, who decides what disinformation is? I was in this camp a few years ago. I knew this crackdown was coming.
I want to toot my own horn here, but I'm not really happy that I was right about it. I'm not saying that informational anarchy is going to lead to the actual kind of anarchy eventually. Eventually, if it is not clamped down on, the powers that be understand this and they're going to work to put the clamps down eventually. Either that or, as I said in that quote a billion times, people that can't tell truth from falsehood don't remain free.
Either bamboozled in tyranny or their own disinterest or inability to see the truth, decipher truth from falsehood will lead to an informational crackdown. And it's coming. There are little whispers here and there. You can see it all. Hillary Clinton, well, if we don't clamp down and regulate free speech, and social media is what she said, but what she really meant was if we don't clamp down and regulate free speech, we're going to lose control. Lose control of what?
What are you going to lose control of? Well, that's what I meant. That's what I was getting at a few years ago. Four years ago, I was talking about, maybe five. And now, the advent of AI, deep fakes, I mean, again, this is just primitive shit right now. But I saw earlier this week, a couple days ago, we were talking about the stuff going on down in North Carolina and Tennessee. Apparently, a very well done AI image went viral. Wasn't even real, people thought it was.
¶ Emotional Manipulation in Media
This is just the primitive version of this stuff. I mean, if we can't tell the truth from falsehood now, if we're so disinterested in figuring out how to tell the truth, how to find external truth, how to find truth separate from what we want or choose to believe, the coming technology, the actors who are going to be manipulating us via this very sophisticated filter on reality, when we're not interested anyway, the future is ugly.
Here's another example for you. What you believe is true about the events of October 7th, about what's happened in Gaza since October 7th, and what is happening now in Lebanon, Beirut particularly, is completely dependent upon what you choose, who you choose to believe. And that is always, almost 99% of the time, has nothing to do with fact. It all has to do with who you are aligned with, your predetermined biases, preferences, whatever you want to call it.
I've seen people cheering. What happened a year ago today in Israel at those kibbutzes saying it's Israel's fault, victim blaming, really? They'd had it coming. And these same people are crying, screaming bloody murder about what happened in Gaza, about what's happening in Lebanon. Oh, my God, it's genocide coming after an attack from an organization that literally has written genocide into their charter.
But the reaction, the counter-strike, if you will, and you just did, this is my podcast, the counter-strike, oh, my God, that's genocide. Really? Is that what that is? Yeah, because they're bombing schools and churches and mosques. Where I was going with this was, well, are they using mosques and schools and whatever else as places to store their troops, to hide their troops? Their personnel, their weapons? Are they using their own population as human shields?
Whether you believe that or not is going to be completely dependent upon your predisposition toward that group or towards the Israelis or the Jews themselves. And almost always, your predisposition, your bias, toward one group or another will determine where you go for your information. Are you reading Haaretz, which is basically Salon, Israel's Salon, or Huffington Post, MSNBC, whatever? Where are you choosing to get your information? The same thing with Lebanon.
Some of the most incredible things have happened in Lebanon in the last few weeks. Exploding pagers, exploding walkie-talkies. He's Hezbollah's leadership getting blown up and then getting blown up again and again and again. As soon as they're replaced, Israel strikes and wipes them out. And my God, the anti-American crowd are screaming. They're screaming bloody murder. Oh, my God, can you believe Israel's doing this? Yeah, I can, actually.
After you've been lobbing missiles into northern Israel for how long? Yeah, I believe it. But you see, that's genocide. Oh my God, that's a war crime. They never, ever, ever, ever, ever mention the playground that was hit by missiles. They never mention anything about October 7th and Hezbollah and Hamas and ISIS and the Houthis and Iran to me are indistinguishable. They are the same group. Yeah, they are Pepsi and Mountain Dew under the same company.
I have personally, of course, obviously, zero issue. In fact, I would like to thank Benjamin Netanyahu for what he's doing over there right now. He's doing the dirty work. I remember September 11th. I remember the coal. I remember all of these terrible things that ISIS did in the Middle East. Before they were sort of, I guess, neutered, castrated. These are the same people. You saw this a year ago today. If you haven't seen the video that they themselves record, I have. I went and watched it.
It has to be the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in my life. And you support these people? You don't support those people. You support them and you're rooting for them because they are just as, at their core, as anti-American, as anti-West as you are. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here.
I'm assuming that deep down inside you are not the kind of horrific horrendous human being who would support a group that would go in murder children's parents burn children's parents rape them and then take a selfie with the orphaned children i'm assuming Assuming you're not that vile. So why are you rooting for these people? Why are you in the streets supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran? Why? Why are you screaming genocide when it's clearly not? There's no genocide.
You don't know what genocide is if you think that is genocide. And if you're so against genocide, why are you supporting groups who actually have that as their mission statement, wiping out the Jews? So if you're so against genocide, why are you supporting those people? Because they support your true enemy, the United States a la the West. That's what this is. It's the issue du jour. It doesn't matter what the issue is. It's always the same people.
First, it was the BLM. I don't know if it was first, whatever. But the BLM thing, the same people, the same people who were dressed up and marching for that are out marching in favor of Hamas, Hezbollah, against Israel, whatever. They're marching against the West. They are marching against this country. They are anti-American at their core, first and foremost. It doesn't matter what the issue is. It could be about Swiss cheese.
You know, you hear white supremacy, anti-Americanism, anti-West, anti-European. Under this whole blanket. I don't care what they call themselves. They can call themselves socialists. They can call themselves anarchists. They can call themselves democratic socialists. We're about the DSA. I don't care how they self-identify. If you have a penis, you are a man.
And if you scream about colonialism, and if you scream about economic injustice, and you scream about global citizenry and economic equity, equitable outcomes. If you scream about communes, getting rid of private property, a whole litany, a whole plethora of familiar threadbare issues, I don't care what you call yourself. You are a communist or a Marxist. And maybe you don't even know it. I'm convinced there are some people who have been relatively close to me.
In the last, I don't know, 10, 15 years, I know, based on their own words and things that they've said, that they are. Whether they know it or not, whether they believe it or not, are at least communist or Marxist adjacent. I don't think they realize it. I don't think they themselves understand that. But again, as I said in the episode a couple of weeks ago, if it walks like a duck, I don't care what you call yourself.
¶ The Nature of Self-Interest
I don't care to what degree you're an anti-American. I don't care to what degree you want to tear this country down. You want to see this country fail. You want to. I don't care. The brand name that you use to me does not matter. How dare you? Now, before I said all that, I was talking about how your predetermined biases, your chosen perspective, point of view, will choose and sort of color how you see things and what you call the truth.
We all have them. Every single one of us has these things, and the propaganda manipulation targets that. The pre-existing stereotypes it targets what's already there and if it's done well it's a targeted strike it knows who it's talking to in some ways knows the target better than the target knows itself so knows how to craft and design the informational munitions to best have the most impactful strike i guess.
For me personally, I grew up during the Cold War. I grew up in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember having missile drills in elementary school. I remember the Cold War very, very well. I remember Gorbachev. I remember Brezhnev and Dropov. Every time one of the Soviet leaders would die, it was a big deal here. Oh, what's this guy? Is this guy going to be like a warmonger or going to get nuked?
Uh i remember glasnost remember the fall of the berlin wall how everybody thought that that was going to be the coming of the new age of peace you know we don't have to worry about the the communist threat the communists don't have to worry about the capitalist threat we're all going to get along and you know we became friends after decades of um sort of this adversarial attitude, didn't take long terrorism quickly replaced communism but i also have read enough
history I've got a pretty good idea of what communism is. I do not have it in my DNA to abide that, Marxism, any of it. I guess maybe 10 years ago, I was a little more accommodating in that sense. A lot of people, a lot of these folks are good people. It comes from a good place. You know, the people who adhere to the socialist doctrine, they do so most of the time. They don't see themselves as tyrannical.
They do see themselves as a social justice warrior, a crusader, looking out for the little guy, looking out for the people. Where the self-righteousness comes from, it's not a show. They really do think they're better than everyone else. They think they're more moral. It's written both in their words. It's written on their face most of the time, the smug. I'm better than you. The language, oh my God. But it comes from their perspective. It comes from a good place.
They're trying to do the right thing, but they don't understand. They don't understand that in their fanaticism, in their self-righteous quest to be the Messiah, to be the savior of all mankind, to be the savior of the little people, they're actually trying to do is remake human beings. Trying an informational mass eugenics program to change the entire species, to change human nature, go against human nature, self-interest. People are self-interested. That's what capitalism has long exploited.
I like to tell the story about Plymouth. One of the more shocking things that I learned was that when they landed, they created sort of a commune, a collective where everybody shared everything. And that first winter, they nearly starved. But they quickly, quickly figured out that when people had things provided by other people for them, they didn't do anything. They did the bare minimum to get by because they knew that the stuff was coming in.
So what they did was they gave people their own property and left it up to them to fend for themselves. And that's when the Plymouth Colony finally took off. They finally tapped into self-interest, self-preservation, the survival instinct, greed, producing more than they needed to sell or trade to someone else to get more for themselves. Communism, Marxism, completely ignores all of that, not to mention ignoring
the fact that people need the struggle. If you could create utopia, if you could do it, can't be done. But if you could, let's just pretend that next week you've got utopia built. Human beings would almost immediately start to sabotage it and tear it down because they'd be bored. There's nothing to do, nothing to struggle for. One of the things that these social justice warriors don't even realize,
they're fighting for something bigger than themselves. They keep saying that, but once there's nothing bigger than themselves to fight for, utopia, what do you got? You got to go create it. You got to go create the problem to fix, to be the self-righteous warrior, to fix something. If nothing's wrong, what is there to fix? Where is there to go? What hill is there to climb? What mountain are you going to conquer? To feel good about yourself, to show off, to virtue, whatever. or whatever.
A lot of people think that that's what's happened to this country, that we have it so well here. I've seen the third world, kids. We have it incredibly well here, even with our little imperfections. We have it better than just about anybody anywhere. If you're going to say Europe has it better, they've got their social programs, sure, and we subsidize it with the military-industrial complex. That's the reason they have that. Take that protective blanket away.
Make Norway and Sweden, they can protect themselves. Watch what happens to those social safety nets. Bye-bye. Europe should be on its knees thanking us for their educational system and their health care system and their pensions, blah, blah, blah. They think they're so, so, so much more evolved than we do. A lot of them do. They don't realize that the only reason they have that, the only reason that their people can afford that is because we are the club.
We are the, we are the bouncer sitting at the door. Letting all these countries in Europe have their little party. The bouncer leaves. What's going to happen? Everything about communism, everything about the far left, it's a facade. It's built on bullshit. It always has been. That's why just about every large-scale communist experiment, collective experiment, including Jonestown, by the way. You know, Jim Jones was, he was the original woke flake. I'm still going to do that thing on him.
I threatened you with that earlier this year. I'm still going to do that. He was the original woke flake. Jimmy Jones. Yeah, that guy.
¶ The Illusion of Utopia
But all of these experiments, all of these communes, all of these communist experiments, large scale, they all fall into some kind of totalitarianism, some sort of a dictatorship, some sort of a hyper controlled state. You have to support the facade, the utopian facade, because the people, people aren't built that way. People are not wired that way to effectively live in a communal society. Self-interest. It's what's for dinner. So anyway, here we are. We're a few weeks away, I guess. What,
three weeks? Are we three weeks? A month? About a month. Away from the election, still a toss-up. Kamala Harris has not been able to pull away from Trump. Great video on her the other day. Yeah, the DEI queen. Was given a speech somewhere, and her teleprompter died. This would be great. If we have any hackers listening to the show, and you can get into her teleprompter system on a regular, That was great. She had no idea what to say. This happened just a few days ago.
And she kept repeating, 32 days, we got 32. Looking at the teleprompter, waiting for it to come back. She had no idea. The woman cannot think on her feet. She looked like a, I don't like a lost child on stage, but she was trying very, very hard. Not to look like that lost child, but she was. It was incredible. The woman is a dimwit. I can imagine Trump doesn't even stick to the teleprompter anyway.
Even when his are working perfectly well, Trump would have no problem going on and giving a speech without a teleprompter. He may sound like an idiot, but he'd get through it. He wouldn't keep repeating the same thing over and over in 32 days. Oh, we got 32 days. Well, we got 32 days. They have her so controlled because they know as soon as she is given a hot mic and no script, holy Christ. Do you think the line, I became friends with school shooters was bad? Wait until Kamala gets going.
Oh, boy. If she wins, oh, my God, we're going to have Dan Quayle with tits for four years. And Donald Trump, he doesn't seem to be able to close the deal either. He's not the same guy he was four years ago. A lot of people on the left try to drive that point home. They're trying to use the same argumentation that the right used against Biden. And to some degree, not to the extent, he's not as far gone, nearly as far gone as Biden is.
But if he gets elected next month, it would be really interesting to see in a year or two's time where he is cognitively. He's not the same guy he was even four years ago. He definitely is not the same candidate he was in 2016. It really is a shit show, man. Man, I got to say, I would give almost anything to have a normal candidate on this ballot. And it ain't Kamala Harris. I don't care what you say. You're not going to sell me that bill of goods.
I know it's become unfashionable to say she's the DEI Trojan horse, but that's exactly what she is still. It's what she has always been. It's what she will always be. Her greatest qualification is her vagina of color. her. That's why she's there. She was always going to be on the ballot. That's why she was installed as Biden's VP. In the first place, Biden screwed everything up by that. I can run. Why not? I like it.
I will never get past that. I will never be able to see this woman as a legitimate presidential candidate. She is. I don't even. I was going to say she is a legitimate presidential candidate, But is she? Is she? Did she win the primaries? Did she really? Really? Or was she installed, appointed? No. No, not with me. That dog ain't going to hunt with me. I will give her credit on one thing, at least rhetorically speaking, at least as far as the lines that she's spitting out at her events.
She does seem to be more on board with Israel than Biden was at the beginning of the year. I do believe, and I will give them credit here, they are renouncing the far left wing of their party, at least as far as Israel goes. These far left lunatics, they hate her. That's a good sign to me. It's a good thing. Sheda Tlaib, oh my God, she's perclimbed. Ilhan Omar the AOC that whole Hezbollah wing I can't stand her. People marching in the streets, they blame her, they blame Biden,
they just, they can't, they can't deal with her. And Jill Stein, have you noticed that? She's crawled out from her rock again. Go figure. Just in time for another election, she showed up and she's all over X. Every few days she'll post something, we demand that the U.S. Stops funding and supplying arms to Israel. We demand this, we demand, who the hell are you to demand anything? Well, you know what? The people who are aligned with me, we demand that the United States supports its ally.
We appreciate the fact that Israel is fighting this in their own region, thereby making this country, at least in the short term, a little more safe. We appreciate the work that the IDF, Netanyahu, and Israel is doing. Because they are, whether it's intentional or not, doing this on our behalf for and to our benefit. So we demand that they continue. So whose demands should be listened to? Yours, Jill?
It's really funny how she just pops up every four years or so to sort of throw her Green Party phallus into the works to sort of influence and affect an election. I can't stand her. If you listen to her music, she used to sing. Do you know that? I'd rather listen to Yoko Ono. Bleh. Music.
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All right. Well, you wanted a normal podcast. There you go. Baseball, folks. Sorry. I told you. I told a lot of you. Avoid these podcasts. If you listen to the baseball stuff, If you know me, part of the wife's family, I told you, be careful of these podcasts. So if you're listening, despite that warning, it's on you. Music. Boom. Boom. Tarek Skubal, Matt Boyd, Tigers tomorrow.
Down 1-0 to Cleveland as we speak. Going to do another baseball show after that series winds up, if you're interested in those. Music. That's going to be a great game tomorrow. Former Tiger, Matt Boyd, Tarek Skubal. Oof. They win this one. They beat the Indians. American League Championship Series. Tonzilla X over at Substack. Tonzilla X over at the YouTube as well. If you want to check that out, I would appreciate it.
And yeah, I don't know what else to say. Other than, we'll talk to you next time. So long.