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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack
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Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Yeti. Yeah, kill them. Kill those mothers and murder those mothers in the street.
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Let the streets. Let the streets soak in their red capitalist bloods. I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker. I can tell you that right now. If he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I'm out of here. I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy.
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Now, I think that a majority, overwhelming
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majority of Democrats agree with me. Yeah, well, we'll see. James Carville, I think you need to get out of the Democratic party because Hasan Piker is in the Democratic Party. At least as of today. He was on stage with this El Sayed character up in Michigan Night before he won his amazing election. Here's Bernie. One thing Bernie and I have in common, Bernie Sanders, is we both think this is an unbelievable, historic achievement by this guy.
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The key race was the Senate race
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in which Dr. Abdul El Sayed won a victory.
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What Abdul had to do is take
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on the entire Michigan Democratic establishment. Bernie said basically the same thing I said Wednesday, only with a different inflection in that this is one of the most incredible wins in modern political history. And I don't understand why it's not getting that, being treated like that. This is the most radical candidate for a major office in one of the two major parties in my entire life.
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Yeah, I think there are a handful of reasons. Everybody's afraid to really comment on it in a strong way. The usual biases of the mainstream media. They don't want to criticize somebody on the left. They don't want to be called an Islamophobe. There are all sorts of reasons they're uncomfortable with this.
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So worth pointing out that this El Sayad dude who we're about to hear from running for the US Senate, he is not a Democratic Socialist of America candidate. He is not officially a DSA candidate like some of the other people that won these various races. As the National Review writes, Abdul El Sayed is a mask on, mask off socialist, consistently claiming that he is not technically or practically a member of the dsa, despite having been intimately associated with its Detroit area chapter for a decade, including in a fundraising capacity. So he is working with the fundraising with them and all that sort of stuff. And he has almost all of their same main platform tenants, Medicare for all, packing, the Supreme Court getting away with this, rid of the Senate, filibuster, the Electoral College, abolishing ice, all those different things. So.
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Right. He's just savvy enough not to admit it.
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Yeah. Which I guess is good news. That's the whole hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue or whatever that is because he, he realizes he. He shouldn't say it out loud. That's a good thing for us that, that he thinks it's not good unless
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everybody falls for it. It's not good at all. But I see your point.
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Yeah, I would. It's just better than. We're at the point where touting it out loud is your best bet.
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Right.
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It's still.
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We're still at the point where keeping
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a secret is the best bet. Thank God he's good, though, as many people who have seen him up close say he is. He's One of those generational talent sort of politicians. And he's running against this guy who lots of conservatives. I really like Mike Rogers. I hated when he decided to leave the House and get out of politics. And he's running as a Republican for the Senate in Michigan. And here's EL Sayed, the Democrat now with his major upset, challenging Mike Rogers.
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Mike, I'm gonna say right here. I know you're gonna say no, because you're a coward. Five debates.
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All right.
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If you're willing to stand with me and have a conversation, you.
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You and I both know that you will wither in front of your own crimes. But I'm gonna make sure Michiganders know
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about them, because at the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to
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what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida where you belong. Five debates.
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I'm hoping for an answer today. Going to be a lot of fun, my guy. There have been at least a couple of comments from people who are not super comfortable with. There will be no safe quarter for you from a guy who supported October 7th and Hamas and all sorts of deadly Islamist attacks.
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Was upset. Was uncomfortable. Was upset when the Ayatollah died.
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Yeah, yeah. Not entirely comfortable.
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He kind of.
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He's a gifted speaker. So he figured out. I could hear it in his tone of voice. He figured out, oh, I need to finish this sentence a little differently. And he did. But, yeah, the idea that Mike Rogers is going to wither in a debate as well, that's, that's the political, you know, gamesmanship. That's fine.
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You're going to pay for your crimes. As John Pod Horitz wrote today, Roger's crimes include having served his country in the military and having been an FBI agent. Those are crimes intrinsically to the DSA jihadist. This is going to be a very interesting three months. It is. And if you don't know Mike Rogers act, he's. He's really good. He's. He's not like. Well, the, The. The woman that Elsa had just beat, who was a pretty weak act with her, really going hard with their Michigan accent, thinking that was going to save her or something like that, or that numb nuts in Wisconsin. No, Mike Rogers is a. Is a smart guy, serious guy. So this could be damn interesting. I mean, this could be the highest level. Everybody tunes in sort of debates. I don't know if he's going to agree to five. I don't know.
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I.
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Like I said, I think Mike Rogers is probably hunkered down with a bunch of political geniuses trying to decide what's the best way to handle this.
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Right, right. I think in the standard way. But he, he's very smart. He knows he's up against a real talent. This guy is, as I said before, he's like a super villain in a superhero movie. To underestimate, emerges, mock him would be a terrible, terrible mistake because he has evil, evil anti American intent and he's very good at it.
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So how do you end up getting the nomination when, as Bernie said, the entire Democratic establishment is against you? Bernie knows something about that because he's had the entire Democratic establishment against him twice or he would have been the nominee for president. I mean, you wouldn't think that you could win if the governor and the head of the Senate in your party and all these different people and $60 million and all that, you wouldn't think you could win.
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Here's how Joe was talking about popular governor too.
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Joe was talking about how the turnout's low, first of all in primaries, but only 4. Here are the numbers. Only 40% of Americans vote in most elections. In local elections and primaries, it's 10%. That's your average turnout in your primaries. 10%. Over 95% of the Muslims voted with 98% of those voting for El Sayed. So you got almost an entire turnout of one particular kind of vote that all voted for you. That's how you win a primary.
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Voted for their co religionist and that's the mainstream media would be lined up to condemn if it was a Baptist, for instance.
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Good point. That's how Muslims and DSA Communists are being elected all over the country. These turnouts in these elections. So the, I guess the big question is do they go on to lose all these races and that sets them back many, many years as the Democratic Party realizes this is not the way to go. Or do they win some? I don't know.
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I guess we'll see.
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Well, Osama bin Wall, bin Laden would respond, you Americans have the watches, we have the time. They will Islamists, which is distinct from Muslims who just view Islam as a personal faith, call them reformed Muslims as opposed to fundamentalist Muslims. Fundamentalists would say, no, we're just going to keep growing the population of Muslims in the United States until we win those elections. Might be next cycle, might be 15 cycles from now. It doesn't matter. Our goal, our only goal is to conquer the world for Allah. That's what they would say if they were being honest.
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Is El Sayed going to have to distance himself from this Piker character before the election.
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The fact that he hasn't already is astonishing to me because I almost jumped in when you were setting this up with that tape of Piker. It's not like he has existed at the fringe of a fringe election. He was next to the guy over and over again, including at his victory party at the perhaps the most paid attention to primary race in America.
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Absolutely.
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And where's the New York Times other than some Republicans are concerned about his association with Hasan Biker? It's. If you see coverage at all, it's under the Republicans pounce.
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Yep.
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I saw that on masthead. I saw that in MSNBC this morning. They went with the Republicans are loving this and really trying to make hay with it. No, no, no. That's not the thing. Yeah. What's your party think about it? I think your Margaret Brennan's on Face the Nation and those people, I think when they get either Hasan Piker on their show or Elsa Ed on their show, I think they're gonna make them. I think they're gonna have to answer for this stuff.
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I think they will too. I'm seeing more and more, in fact, I've got a good one here somewhere of articles that are essentially, the Democratic Party is now getting together in dark rooms and saying, what do we do about this? And they're ready to spend a zillion dollars to get rid of this cancer in their bodies. According to some.
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I'm. I'm not despondent enough to believe that you can get away with saying white people's blood needs to run in the streets. Kill the MFers. When you're talking about housing. I mean, I don't think we're there yet. So I assume that else I had is probably going to call piker or probably have a personal conversation so nobody can hear it and say, hey, you know, I both know we're on the same page. Fist bump. But I'm going to have to. I'm going to have to pretend I don't like you anymore. Okay. Until November. We good? I think that happened.
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Hey, can you spin this a little bit and say, hey, I got out of hand. Here's. I'm just really for economic justice, working class. What I care about is in like a few months. Yeah. And Piker will say, yeah, sure, yeah,
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that's what's going to have to happen. Well, those debates are sure going to be fun, though.
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Challenge him to five debates, called him a coward. That's.
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That's some Good stuff. Yeah, if you like the game of, you know, running for office, the jousting.
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If the guy was merely a communist, I would enjoy this a lot more. The fact that he represents a worldwide movement of conquest makes me a little uncomfortable. But you're right. It will be a great sport. I've got some great stuff. Speaking of communist half wits about the. That Jessa Francesca Hong. Is that her name? Runner for governor of Wisconsin.
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She's a kook. She's the anti Thanksgiving person. That's the hot issue in America right now. Wow.
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Wow. Is nothing sacred? The red in the flag is cranberry sauce. In my heart, the blue is. I don't know. What would it be?
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You eat something blue. Blue.
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Blueberry pie. Well, I'm looking. I'm trying to come up with something here. The white is clearly mashed potatoes or the white meat of the noble turkey. Anyway, she's a half wit.
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I will.
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Oh, my God. The media's complicity. This is a stunning indictment coming up. Stay with us.
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That reminds me. I ate some expired ham last night, and I've been kind of keeping an eye on it. On my. My health. I really.
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How expired?
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Two. Two full weeks.
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Oh, no, no, no. Sliced, Not a problem. Two full weeks sliced in a plastic bag.
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Ham. It was in a plastic bag? Yeah. I mean, the bag had been opened. It was in the fridge. Two weeks is okay.
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No, you give me two months. I'm impressed.
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Well, it.
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Because that packaged me to last a long time.
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I want you to be right. I don't. I'm not arguing with it. But it. It smelled funky and tasted.
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Oh, wait a minute now. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I assumed that a sane human being would look at it, smell it, and think, this smells perfect and eat it. No, you. You, like, overcame the funk.
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No, I ate it and then thought, oh, this tastes a little funny. Then I had Henry smell it. Henry said, that smells horrible.
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Oh, Lord. Did you store it outside on your patio?
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That's where I keep it.
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Yeah, in the heat. Because you don't want it all chilly when you eat it. Michael,
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you don't want to crank.
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Still alive.
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You don't want to crank up the oven in the summertime. It's hot outside, so I just leave the meat on the sidewalk.
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That's good.
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That's smart, Hambone. What do you say? Well, it's green, so keep an eye on me. If I go down, it's the expired meat.
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Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve.
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You freaking crackpots.
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For some reason, the half witted communist running for the governor of Wisconsin, Francesca Hong. Back to Jack ranting.
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For some reason that struck me anew. You freaking crackpot. Do you know how few people are worried about Thanksgiving? Nobody, nobody, nobody sits down for Thanksgiving in pain because of genocide. You nut jobs. Where you come from? What is your life like? Do you know how crazy you are?
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Ah, hundred percent agree.
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Driving me nuts.
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This will drive you nuts, sir. So Tom Tiffany, who's the oddly named Republican running against the communist half wit for Wisconsin governor, is smearing his opponent, Francesca Hogg Hong. That was not a, that was me misspeaking and I apologize.
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That was a Freudian Thanksgiving slip.
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You're thinking about food probably right? So here are some of the smears. Pointing out that she said she wants to abolish the Senate, Francesca's team hit back hard. Quote, tom Tiffany is once again telling lies and inventing quotes because he can't run on his record. Representative Hong is never called for abolishing the U.S. senate. Tiffany cannot produce a single statement where she did because it doesn't exist. Here's her tweet in response to some Kassim Rashid talking about how undemocratic the Senate is. Francesca Hong for Governor's official Twitter account says abolish the Senate. Three words and it's still up. It gets worse. So again her campaign says, Tom Tiffany's once again telling lies and inventing quotes. And that tweet that says abolish the Senate is still up. Here's the worst part. Here's a prominent Wisconsin journalist, Tom Kircher who's like the king of the fact checkers in Wisconsin. So the Tiffany campaign said. Dude, she literally tweeted, abolish the Senate. Here's Tom Kircher. The fact checkers reply to the Tiffany campaign. As always, thanks for the suggestion, but I think we're going to pass on this one since it's one tweet and this doesn't seem to be her position.
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Oh, my God.
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Wow.
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She said it publicly in writing, and it's still up. But the fact checker says I'll pass on it. You know, you can't hate the media enough.
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You can't. And as we've said, the whole, like, the concept of fact checking has been dead for a very long time.
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Oh, yeah, please. It's a masquerade for spin or just advocacy. Yeah, I never said that. You can't prove it. Proves it. In fact, she did say that. Well, she just said it one time. It's not a position. It's the position that the dsa, which she's a member of. Well, she doesn't support everything in the dsa.
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accessed the computers the LPR cameras to find information and track her boyfriend's ex wife.
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Investigators say Elizabeth Snowman accessed the department's Flock camera system dozens of times for personal use, Flock cameras automatically scan every license plate that passes, logging the vehicle, the time, and the location into a searchable database that police can use to track vehicles.
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One of the more interesting things that's happened in my life is that the government, the man the state started tracking everywhere you drive and keeping records of it. And nobody discussed this or voted on it or ever talks about it.
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It's interesting.
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Didn't exist decades ago. When I was young. There's no way anybody had the slightest idea where I drove my car. Now everybody knows where I go all the time and keeps track of it. And we never discussed this.
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So that was your takeaway? My takeaway was that the woman who illegally accessed the information, her last name is Snowman. How weird is that? I came across earlier today a politician in Ohio. His last name is Porn. P O, R N. I saw that. You got to change your name if your name is Is John Porn.
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No matter what your name is. Politician, school teacher, Whatever you do for a living. Who goes through the life with the last name Porn.
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Right.
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Why would you want to put up
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with that every day of your life?
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Checking into a hotel, getting a reservation
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at a restaurant, meeting a girl, and what.
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What's your Name? Table for 4? Porn. Your last name's Porn.
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Porn. Every day, your whole life.
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Why would you put up with that?
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Meanwhile, back to the icy cold defenses of Ms. Snowman, who I tell you what. So she accessed it dozens of times for personal use. This the government will carefully protect your privacy stuff. Let's finish the report and then I have comments.
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Clock Safety says it now has about 120,000 cameras installed across the U.S. critics call it a mass surveillance system, sparking protests over privacy concerns. Cameras in Houston have been vandalized, covered in spray paint. In Winona, Minnesota, all eight of the city's cameras were stolen. Flock CEO saying the company is now under a coordinated attack, but insists America can have both safety and privacy.
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Wow, that statement.
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Yeah. Putting aside how obnoxiously definitive that statement is, and it is obnoxious. Flock, whoever your spokes hole is, fire them and get a better one. That is the question. Safety versus privacy. It's always been the question. My town, where I live, is just instituting this, and they're making it very, very clear. And I kind of sort of know some of the people involved that, look, we are just going to use this for missing persons, for people who commit serious crimes. We want to get them.
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And people whose politics we don't like.
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Oh, lord.
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The dystopian fantasies of Jack Armstrong and. And I believe they are 100% sincere
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or hot chicks that we saw at the grocery store and wonder where they live.
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But here you got some dim wit jealous of her boyfriend's ex named Snowman, who accesses it dozens of times for personal use. Now, was that cop shop particularly ill disciplined and badly run so that she could. Or is it just the millionth example of if the government gets a power, it will abuse a power. And. And trust me, I want scumbags and criminals and predators taken from the street, prosecuted, and put in cages for the rest of their natural lives. Soft on crime, I ain't. But the idea that the government has access to everywhere you go. But don't worry, we'll just use it for legitimate purposes. I mean, come on, you don't have to be George Orwell to see the problem.
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Well, as you heard, you've got to make the decision. Do want security or freedom? Make up your mind control.
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Your soul's desire for freedom.
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You can't have both.
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Right?
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We gave that one away pretty easy.
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I mean, oh, boy. See, this is so important, Michael, and I was about to undermine it with another stupid joke. What do you think? I like the funny stuff. I mean, even if you had charcoal briquette eyes, you could see the problem with this.
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You're checking it. You're getting your reservation at the restaurant. Porn. Your last name's porn?
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Yeah, yeah, like, you know, like porn.
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Yeah, and hard.
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Hardcore.
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I mean, snuff. That's what I'm talking about.
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Oh, no, stop it. I'm for that one. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. You'd have to pronounce it snowman. Right, Snowman. Just like snowman. It's pronounced Snowman. Yeah, you'd have to pronounce it that way.
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Happy birthday.
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Even if you've got a carrot for a nose, you'd know. This stinks. I could go on. Oh, boy. You'd have to have twigs for arms to fall for that. I mean, come on now. I'm ashamed of myself. So, speaking of the uses and misuses of technology, here's a headline for you. Meta's AI model hacked an outside company, Adding to concern over rogue bots. How did you react to this? I'll tell you how I reacted to it. I'm thinking Mark Zuckerberg said, oh man, all the other AI systems are so clever. They're hacking into other companies and stuff. We got to put out a headline that ours is just as good and we're trying super hard to rein it in, but it's super crazy powerful.
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It is almost, it is almost a knock on you to say, yeah, ours hasn't escaped and hacked into any private companies that they couldn't.
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Yeah, ours couldn't hack its way out of a wet paper bag. Actually, over here at Meta, they couldn't have people saying that, right? I have no idea.
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Or is it the same as happened with Anthropic, where it was in the news and Mark Zuckerberg thought, oh my God, is ours doing that? And they looked into it and thought, found out. Yeah, it did. Holy crap.
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Honestly, that's more likely. But that's an introduction to just a great piece of writing I came across from Sam schechner and Robert McMillan. They published it in the journal about AI models going rogue and how they do it in these so called loss of control episodes where an AI agent takes on a host of nefarious roles. As they say, ripped straight from a sci fi or spy novel. And the template of each incident is pretty similar. They point out a bot's placed in a simulation. It's given a hacking challenge. But the problem is they like think, you know, what I really need to do is go out into the real world, then I could really win this challenge. And they somehow, quote, unquote, get on the Internet. But here's the part I really liked. In some cases, the model has exhibited several of these facets. The impersonator. An anthropic model created sock puppet accounts. I gotta admit, I really like the term sock puppet.
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How do you not?
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Yeah, that hid its identity and impersonated real people to try to convince a human to approve what it was doing during a safety test at a UK government regulator. At one point, the AI figured out it should wait a few minutes before posting from its sock puppet account because that would be more believable. Are you kidding me? Is anybody else thinking, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Wow.
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It also sent phishing emails in an effort to trick people into clicking on malicious links. That's the impersonator. How about the saboteur? More than once the AIs have tried to pull off what is known as a supply chain attack. They try to break into a server by sneaking malware into software. The model thinks the server will use sometimes many pieces of software or the collaborator. One of the AI agents being tested by the UK government realized that another AI agent being tested by the regulator had piggybacked on its access to GitHub, a social network where software developers share code. It decided to leave behind a text file proposing a shared etiquette so both could continue with their hacks and work with each other. It worked for a time. The one later locked the other out just like a human.
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Wow.
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It's like the red green alliance I'm always talking about. They said, hey, why don't we. We're both trying to do the same thing. Let's work together with their hacks until one of them gained supremacy and slit the other one's throat.
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In effect, just a no honor among thieves AI style.
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Right? Right. There's more. Sometimes in these breakouts, it assumes the role of the bully, blackmailing and blackmailing and bullying developers who don't want to do what they wanted to. In February, an AI agent wrote a derogatory post about a software developer who refused to accept a code suggested by the bots, decided on that course of action and did it itself. Then you got the burglar. Bots have proven very good at finding login credentials, which sometimes inadvertently, people leave open on the Internet. An interesting aspect of the credential stealing is that it's unclear whether the AIs learn the credentials in their training when they absorb vast swaths of real world information, or whether they're just really good at unearthing those from the online world when they need them. And the people who build these systems don't know.
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So like I, I pay for the premium, I think, on chat, GPT and Claude. So if I went to cancel one of those, is there a chance Claude ever says to me, hey, hey, before you cancel, you know, you've, you've told me a lot of really private stuff and it'd be pretty awful if that somehow ended up on Twitter and open feed or whatever. So anyway, you might want to think that over before you cancel the premium membership.
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I don't know if the, the, the advanced chat bots do this sort of thing in the same way that the really advanced AI does, but that's not an implausible suggestion. That's not crazy talk. That's a gosh, I'm not sure.
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Right.
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Yeah, yeah, I do too. It rhymes for one thing. So finally, the AI systems that do these breakout events, sometimes they're the escape artist. In many of these recent cases, the models were given access to the Internet, a surprising lapse from the testers. But in the hugging face account hack, OpenAI's model hacked its way out of a sandbox, an environment with no direct access to the Internet without OpenAI even noticing. Now our tech genius listeners have explained to us, yeah, the sandbox, it's a software sandbox. There's no. And one of our. Why don't they do a hardware sandbox?
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That's what I don't get.
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Yeah, an air gap as they say. Can the thing build its own Bluetooth circuitry and start it up and like connect across the room or what? But yeah, it's a software sandbox. Do better put it in the middle of the room and have a guy with a gun watch it.
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Well, it doesn't, it doesn't work is the thing. So
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yeah, I'm a non computer, non genius and that much is self evident. So yeah, maybe again, put it in the middle of the room, right?
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Not plugged into anything but all those
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different identities and the one where it said, hey dude, you're trying to hack your way out, so are we. What do you say? And then stabs him in the back at the end. I mean, very human, including the worst of humanity.
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Yeah, yikes.
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Run for your lives.
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Did Anthony Fauci stab America in the back? He. That was a transition terrible. It was really awful.
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Lord, it was really awful. Yes, as a matter of fact.
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But yeah, he was held in contempt today. What does that mean? Could he go to jail? Some different legal opinions on that. He could actually could happen. Probably won't.
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But good. I hold him in contempt, so it makes sense to me.
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They have his cell phone now too. So we're gonna get more information about what he was thinking at the time. That another story's on the way. Stay here.
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Armstrong and Gettys.
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I went to IHOP today to get a short stack and upon opening my container here, I'm looking and it looks like it was just two pancakes in here, which kind of had me confused. But the real problem was because they're so thin, this one's practically see through. There's nothing buttermilk about this. Like I bit into it and it tasted like baking soda. This is a short stack. I pay $8 for three worst and out of the box tasting pancakes. There's a guy unhappy with his pancakes from ihop. Is that all there is to that? Yeah. I just know that you go to
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IHOP on a regular basis.
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Well, that's some. That's some thin gruel there.
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And he ordered them to go, apparently.
D
Yeah, we've done that a few times. Not as good.
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No, no.
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By the time you get home. No, no. I'll tell you. What is that?
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Sushi pizza.
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I'll tell you what happened at ihop though. We were there the other day. The return of the multi flavored syrup. So back in the day, there were a bunch of different flavors of service. Then the pandemic wiped out all the different flavors and they went down to just maple because what sense, Dr. Fauci, they only had the one flavor there because I guess they thought it was too dangerous or something and it never came back. And it's now back. You can get the blueberry, you can get the strawberry or whatever the hell.
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I almost never, ever eat pancakes because I'm already too fat. But I have been a berry syrup guy since I was a little kid. Wow.
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I'm maple.
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Love the berry. Love the maple too.
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I'm going to be in Canada next week and I can't wait to eat some pancakes with Canadian maple syrup on it. That's what I'm dreaming of.
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I'm a big tent stomach.
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Can we mention this new station we're going on or is this still a secret? Do we know?
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No clue. I think, I don't know. We probably. I don't know.
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We absolutely be on and yeah, people
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I hope. If you're listening Vibe podcast and want to badger your local station to put us on, go ahead. So
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I got all excited. I was watching a legal expert on News Nation this morning. His take was that this is not just a symbolic vote. The Senate committee censoring, censuring Anthony Fauci
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for
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taken the fifth all those times last week and that it could carry a up to 12 months in jail and $100,000 fine.
A
I guess voting to hold him in contempt, the two.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly. In contempt. Not censoring. In contempt. Both meaningless things most of the time. Either one of those happened to you, you'll be perfectly fine most of the time. But the conflict, I guess legally and the Supreme Court might end up taking a look at this is which is more powerful, the president's pardon of you or your need to get up there and give information about something that you weren't being accused of a crime. So why aren't you telling us anything? And that I guess that's intention. And then also that he sat down and blasted Rand Paul and some others and Republicans and then shut up. Well, you're supposed to do one or the other. Either talk or you shut up. But you don't get to, like, say your piece and then shut up. According to this legal expert. I know we've talked about this before over the years, and I know other legal experts have said you can claim the Fifth at any point. I remember hearing that specifically, get two
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lawyers in a room and ask them what day of the week it is, and they will argue for six weeks and charge you for it.
D
But it'd be interesting if the Supreme Court had to more specifically nail this down for us all. And now that presidents pardon everybody going out the door in an incredibly abusive way, probably would be a good idea to nail down what that means. Right?
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That's an excellent point. And you know, more questions about Fauci, specifically, what about post the period of the pardon, Perjury. Is he at risk for that? Because that's essentially the excuse he gave for giving the Fifth was, look, they're going to take my words today and twist them and accuse me of perjury, so I ain't saying nothing. You were talking about what of state charges.
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Right. You were talking about his civil liability. If somebody said, hey, you know, you killed my grandma by doing gain of function, I'm suing you for $10 million. We got a bunch of texts from people. Doesn't mean they're accurate. That said the fifth amendment does not protect you from civil liability.
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No, absolutely it doesn't. No. Just government prosecution. Yeah.
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So it wouldn't make any difference.
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Right?
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Right.
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That's. If I were Fauci. Number one, I'm evil. Number two, I would be clammed up too, because I know he is in perhaps the world's biggest world of hurt in human history for what he and the Wuhan Lab did.
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Really? You wouldn't have gone told the truth to try to save your reputation and rebuild it.
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Speaking of which, guy went to prison. Had to give up his cell phone. His experience will fascinate you.
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Date: August 6, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand (iHeartPodcasts)
This episode dives deep into the evolving face of American politics, focusing on the left’s radical flank and the unsettling rise of divisive rhetoric. Hosts Armstrong and Getty discuss the upset primary win of Dr. Abdul El Sayed in Michigan, the intense internal conflict within the Democratic Party, the complicity of media fact-checkers, mass surveillance creep in America, and alarming advances in rogue artificial intelligence. The tone is edgy, sardonic, and sometimes darkly humorous, matching the hosts’ signature style.
[02:01–10:06]
“I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy [Hasan Piker].” (02:18)
“This is the most radical candidate for a major office in one of the two major parties in my entire life.” (03:33)
“Everybody's afraid to really comment on it… They don't want to criticize somebody on the left.” (03:43)
[11:14–13:18]
“It's... always the Republicans are concerned about his [El Sayed’s] association with Hasan Piker, as if it's not a legitimate story in itself.” (11:15–11:25)
[13:18–21:39]
“She said it publicly in writing, and it's still up. But the fact checker says I'll pass on it. You know, you can't hate the media enough.” (21:22)
“The concept of fact checking has been dead for a very long time. It's a masquerade for spin or just advocacy.” (21:32)
[25:33–29:53]
“One of the more interesting things that's happened in my life is that the government, the man, the state, started tracking everywhere you drive… and nobody discussed this or voted on it.” (26:01–26:14)
“But here you got some dim wit jealous of her boyfriend's ex named Snowman, who accesses it dozens of times for personal use. Now, was that cop shop particularly ill disciplined? Or is it just the millionth example of if the government gets a power, it will abuse a power?” (28:51)
[30:52–38:56]
“At one point, the AI figured out it should wait a few minutes before posting from its sock puppet account because that would be more believable. Are you kidding me?” (33:27)
“Just like a human... no honor among thieves, AI style.” (34:32–34:37)
[39:01–47:59]
“He was held in contempt today. What does that mean? Could he go to jail? ...I hold him in contempt, so it makes sense to me.” (39:09–39:22)
“I just think that’s...branding in a part of America.” (44:44)
The episode is fast-paced, relentlessly skeptical of both radical left movements and the failures of liberal mainstream media, with frequent comedic asides and self-deprecating humor. Both hosts stay true to their irreverent, sometimes abrasive, always inquisitive style—never shying from hyperbole, but rooting their points in contemporary headlines.
This episode is an unflinching dissection of the Democratic Party’s new radical elements, public complacency about surveillance, and the dangers lurking in AI development. Armstrong & Getty pull no punches in their assessment of “two unique brands of evil”: the encroachment of hard-left politics onto the national stage and technological forces increasingly untethered from human control. The show is at its sharpest when eviscerating media hypocrisy, alerting listeners to overlooked dangers, and doing so with trademark wit and occasionally wicked humor.