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James Talarico in 2022 argued that poverty is violence, pollution is violence, and prison is violence. What a way to redefine violence. Words in postmodern America mean whatever you want them to mean. You know what's actually violent is rape? Rape is violence. A man has been arrested for attempting to rape a woman in Savannah, Georgia. He's been arrested 22 times since the year 2020. He was arrested eight times this year alone and was released from jail 17 days prior to raping, attempting to rape the woman. Claire Williams is the judge in Savannah, Georgia, who has kept releasing La Shawadoy. Let me read you this from WJCL22 ABC affiliate there in Savannah, Georgia. The woman is homeless. She was using the shower at a woman's pool restroom and believed she was safe because it was around noon. She told WJCL TV, there was somebody in the shower. Of course, the curtains closed. I couldn't tell it was a man. The door opens. I'm pushed back into the bathroom stall where I'm sexually assaulted. Police have charged 30-year-old Lashawadoy with attempted rape, aggravated sexual battery, and false imprisonment after they say he attacked her inside the public restroom. The victim says she screamed for minutes before pool staff and an off-duty police officer came to help. I'm very lucky. I want to raise awareness, she said. Police said the off-duty officer was working with the Catholic school across the street that hires police officers to watch the kids during recess. The officer saw the man running naked toward the playground and stopped him before he got too close to the kids. Antonio Dixon Branch, a local resident, said the incident raises concerns about safety and resources in the area. Court records showed Doyle had been arrested 27 times. This is his eighth arrest this year. A June 4th, 2026 police reports said witnesses recognized him outside the Helmsman of downtown apartment complex geared towards SCAD students, Savannah College of Art Design students. Witnesses and security told police he was screaming at women and touching himself, leading to public indecency and criminal trespass arrests. His most recent arrest, aside from the attempted sexual assault, was on July 20th for criminal trespass. How many times it's going to take before we protect our community? Because Daffin Park is everybody's parks. As Nick Palumbo, Savannah District 4 Alderman, it's time for the criminal justice system to do their thing. It could have been a lot worse. I did use my hands to help. I'm very lucky he didn't do worse, the victim said. I don't want to go there with what she's describing.

The judge keeps letting him out. By the way, this judge has been judged for 34 years, not a recent progressive judge, just an old white woman who's a liberal who believes that putting people in jail is bad. Prisons are violence, James Talarico says, and this judge apparently believes as well. You know what's violent is actually trying to rape a woman in a public restroom? That's actual violence. James Talarico in Texas says prisons are violent, pollution is violence, poverty is violent, actual violent people were making excuses for them to keep them from going to jail for being violent. I got to tell you, I reject the idea that prisons are for reformation. We have made a mistake, and I remember, I hated philosophy classes in college. I took one. And I remember my argument in class, and ironically, the professor was an old guy who was a big lib, but he actually agreed with me on this, that prisons are not there for rehabilitation. Prisons are for punishment. And the idea that we need to send someone to prison and rehabilitate them, no, we need to send them to prison to punish them. James Talarico? He says tragally his father was an alcoholic, a high school graduate who was abusive and went to jail. And he thinks if just somebody could have saved his, he's got daddy issues. And I don't mean that to sound disrespectful, but if somebody could have saved his daddy from himself, if somebody could have rehabilitated his daddy, he wants the state to rehabilitate. The state's not good at very much, and it's not good at keeping us safe anymore. And James Talarico's worldview, given his data issues, is now that prison is violence, pollution is violence, poverty is violence, that no, no, there are violent people, but a situation is not violence. There are violent situations. When someone is throwing punches in your face, that is a violent person in a violent situation. When you live in squalor, that is not violence. You may not like it, but it is not violence. The words you use is not what you mean. James Talarico, though, wants to solve homelessness by giving people houses. We call it unhousedness now. They are unhoused. Give them a house. You solve the homelessness. But the homelessness is a byproduct of the problem. And the problem is mental health and drug addiction. We don't have a homelessness problem in the United States. We have a feral drug use and mental health problem in the United States. The people who are homeless are battling drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental health issues. treated them for those problems, we wouldn't have a homeless problem. But you won't allow the left will not allow people to be rounded up and put into institutions to be rehabilitated against their will because, you know, prisons are violence. This is the assininity of the left-wing position here. We can't forcibly incarcerate someone and treat their mental health problem because that's violence against that person. We instead have to allow that person to be on the street and be violent against non-crazy people. And the non-crazy

People are just expected to accept it as a way of life. This is why progressivism itself is a mental health disorder. I mean, think about it. We are not allowed in American society, according to the left, to round up the crazy, feral drug users we call homeless, and put them in rehabilitation against their will. We're not allowed to do that because that's violence against that person. But you and I are expected as a way of life to be accosted by that feral drug user on a daily basis when we walk down our streets. And that's fine. That's not violence, according to the left. The violence against the law-abiding citizens is not violence. The violence is against the lawbreakers. There is, again, an opportunity here, I think, for Republicans to start making the case. that the left not only perpetuates cycles and systems of violence, but they make cities ungovernable. Now, in many cities, you're not going to win on that argument because the left is taken over the cities and they believe that prisons are violence. But for the rest of us, there are some communities. Miami's had a Republican mayor, Jacksonville, Florida's Massa City, had a Republican mayor in large cities in Texas that haven't been completely overrun by the wokes. Management of a city. You promise to clean up the city. Zohran Mamdani right now in New York. is running a PR campaign, but I saw a poll the other day. He's got 30% popularity at a time that the polling is benefiting the Democrats. Let me play you this audio. This is the mayor of New York. Seeing a lot of examples of what it can look like to have that focus on the working person. People who understand that affordability isn't just something you say. It's something you have to deliver. And that in doing this, we're not running away from the Democratic Party. We're going back to what the party used to be. You think about FDR and LaGuardia. You think about the New Deal. That's what the Democratic Party once was. That's what it could be again. And if we want to win, I think that's what we have to become. But it's the working class that keeps rejecting these clowns because the working class understands that what they're doing is they're raising costs. They're raising prices. In New York now, it's more valuable to have an empty apartment than a filled department because the filled apartment requires so much in terms of regulation and compliance with laws that it's worth it for people who own the apartments to just keep them vacant. It's actually kind of crazy to watch how the left is ruining things and driving up costs for people.

I'm just completely amazed. And now they want to say that prisons are violent. By the way, is that woke 1.0? Because that way, so they'll now say that they reject that idea but still believe it. They'll still want to get people out. They'll still want to tear down the jails. They just say, oh, we don't believe that anymore. The far left doesn't have the solutions. They're making our lives less safe as a people. And Republicans, I think, need to capitalize on this. The president is not doing well in the polling right now. This is not meant to bash the president. But you do need to recognize the reality here. This is Harriet on CNN. President Trump's job approval rating on jobs has really taken a tumble, my goodness gracious, from where it was at the beginning of term number two, as well as at this point in term number one. Just take a look here. Okay, right now in my aggregate of polls when it comes to President Trump's net approval rating on jobs, look at this. He's 22 points underwater, a very unlucky two-two for President Trump. Get this. That has a 31 point decline from where he was at the beginning of term number two. And more than that, look at where he was at this point in term number one. He was 10 points above water. That is his approval rating was 10 points greater than his disapproval rating. So right now, President Trump, when it comes to jobs, is very much, well... There I say, in the red as the font color is right here on this screen. And the big question is why? Why is President Trump's job approval rating on jobs underwater in the deep red sea in this particular case? Well, simply put, Americans just don't think that we're on the right track when it comes to jobs. That's true. He's underwater overall. He's underwater on job creation, but he's still more popular than the Democrats and the Democratic Socialists. That blows the minds of some Democrats. And when you have progressive judges who keep letting criminals out of jail who do harm to people, sane Americans, and the majority of us are still saying, recognize that prisons aren't violent, violent people should be put in prison. Sane people don't want the Democratic Socialists in charge. The Republicans have an opportunity here. People may not be happy with the president. They may not be happy with the economy, but they're scared of the Democratic Socialists, just let the Democratic Socialists speak in their own words, and people will be more and more horrified by them. Oh, I got the leader of the Democratic Socialists of America in her own words. When we come back, it'll blow your mind. These people are the dumbest people I think I've ever encountered in politics. Follow Eric on X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble. Search E. W. Erickson. Just joined us? No worries. Check out the Eric Erickson Show 24-7 stream at Ericerickson.com. Available for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

Welcome back. It is Eric Eurekson here. So David Rimnick at The New Yorker has interviewed the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. And she is as dim-witted as you might imagine and has no idea what she actually stands for. Just listen to some of this. But we do believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires. Yeah, absolutely. Well, what is taxing the hell out of the mean? Yeah, you know, again, I don't have like a solid, but I think. But shouldn't you? I mean, if you're the co-chair of the DSA, shouldn't you be more specific than just taxing the hell out of something? What exactly do you mean? So, again, it's democracy, right? And we have to look at what we need to spend and what we need. We don't want to depend on the existence of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited. So, yeah, we need to look at what we need to pay for in the interim, what sort of tax base we need for that to happen, and then build from there. Word salad, just a word salad. This is just unfathomable to me that this is a leader. By the way, you should hear the Ukraine answer. The invasion of Ukraine, DSA's International Committee released a statement. blaming NATO expansion and the United States essentially for the crisis. After the invasion, DSA released the statement condemning the invasion and calling for a ceasefire. And there have been people in DSA who have been even more firm about that it was mainly the United States' fault that Russia felt compelled to. invade Ukraine. How do you feel about it? We do not believe in pouring U.S. money, military weapons into anything. We don't think it makes it better anywhere. But obviously Russia is this oligarchic dictatorship. which is hyper-capitalist, and Vladimir Putin is this crazy right-wing oligarch, of course he is going to make horrific human life-ending decisions. Well, this is precisely why those countries wanted to be in NATO? Yes, but why aren't we doing... any amount of actual diplomacy. Why aren't we doing any amount of actual sending actual human beings to talk to human beings and figure out what... I don't understand what kind of... There's been all kinds of diplomacy, however, failed since the beginning of the invasion. We shouldn't send weapons to the Ukrainians? No. So just allow Russia to overrun Ukraine. I love that she thinks Vladimir Putin is capitalist. My goodness. Folks, high prices are here to stay, gas and groceries and insurance. And if your homeowner, you've probably wondered if there's something you can do to refinance and pay off credit card debt that keeps growing. And then you probably second-guessed yourself because of low mortgage rates you currently have. Listen, the low rate you've got, it's not saving you if you're drowning in credit card interest at 25% or more. There's...

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who he writes these explainers. And it shows up in my feet all the time. I don't follow the guy, but, you know, Elon Musk has screwed up Twitter to a degree. It now defaults to the 4U tab instead of defaulting to the following tab. The following tab is no longer chronological. It's just it annoys me to no end that a guy who is clearly a very smart guy continues to just screw up Twitter, a site that so many people have for so long use. He certainly protected Twitter. He protected it from the wokes. But he's also done a lot of not good stuff. And one of those people who keeps getting elevated is a guy who continually writes about issues around the world, explainer pieces. And you can tell just by reading the piece that he's using AI to generate the piece. And ironically, you click through to his name and it tells you that he's an AI innovator. And ironically, as I'm talking about this now, I can't remember the guy's name, and I'm trying to go through to give you an example, and I can't find the guy something. First name starts with an A, last name starts with a G. I can't think what it is now. But you find these explainer pieces he writes about stuff. And you can very clearly tell there's a rhythm and a rhymed AI. That's the problem with AI. It is duplicative. It's iterative. It's not imaginative, and it's not something new. You can't get new things. All AI can. do is look at old stuff and repackage it. I got very frustrated with my morning piece. I want to give you my experience. Now, I have a program called Grammarly because I do all of my own writing, and I am a terrible proofreader. And I use Grammarly, and Grammarly drives me insane because half the time it's suggestions are worse than what I've already written. It wants commas and hyphens everywhere. And so I've started using Claude. I read earlier a portion of my morning piece on while populism is an emotion, it's not a grounding for public policy. And I wrote my morning piece yesterday because I knew what I wanted to write. And I wrote it and I put it into Claude. Claude is the best of the AI systems out there right now. It may not always be, but it's very good. And I put it into Claude. And Claude first corrected my grammar and typos way better than Grammarly did. And it said to me, in the past, you have mentioned these issues. It would bolster your argument if you incorporated them into your piece. Two of them were. It reminded me I had done a monologue last year on JD Vance's quote about, we don't want cheap toasters. We want high-paying jobs. And if that means toasters become more expensive, so be it. And the other was the president's comment about kids don't need $30. They might get $2 or they might be a little more expensive. And Claude was like, if you're writing about people being concerned about the $20 burrito, it's worth noting that the same people concerned about the $20 burrito.

We're cheering on the more expensive toaster for the better paying job and don't buy as many dolls. You should incorporate those pieces. It didn't write any of it. It suggested to me that I should. And I appreciate it. It was like, you know, those are really good ideas. It proof read what I wrote. It challenged me on some of my points and said I was making a weak argument. One of the times it said I was making a bad faith argument and I revised it. And my piece became better by being challenged by the AI algorithm. But what did the AI algorithm do? All it had was the stuff that I've written and said in the past. There are people like, for example, Elon Musk has argued that he is going to get Grock to produce a Odyssey-based movie because Odyssey is woke. If you've seen Odyssey, it's not woke. And if you think it's woke, your brain is broken by politics. I don't care if you like the movie or not, but there were a lot of lies about it. And I've now seen it three times, two times at the theater. And I liked it the second time of the theater better. The third total time, the movie has improved to me. By the way, when the Cyclops screams, we saw it in real IMAX, 70 millimeter film, and my loud noise alert went off on my Apple Watch. And it was loud. Over 90 decibels, the scream was. The problem with Elon Musk doing an AI version of The Odyssey is it can't create something new. Now, The Odyssey is a multi-thousand-year-old story, so you're not really creating something new, but the way it's going to tell the story is going to look iterative. Everything about AI looks iterative. Nothing looks new. And the people who have started outsourcing their thinking to AI... are now no longer thinking for themselves. They're allowing it to do it. Look at the rise of the pro-China sentiment or the pro-Palestinian sentiment in the United States. So much of that sentiment is actually about what the algorithm is feeding them. And the algorithm is the big problem with AI. The algorithm... is indoctrinating people. It's making people dumber. There was a story. I mentioned the story earlier that some guy who's a bartender and bouncer at a place says that Jin Alpha doesn't know how to dress. Jin Z doesn't know how to dress. It's like they've never worn clothes before. They don't know how to wear them. One of the other issues out there now is because of the algorithm that everybody thinks something new and shiny and it's the algorithm and it's not new in shiny. They're all going to the same vacation spot. They all want the same look. They all take the same photo on the same steps of the same island in Italy. They all wear the same clothes. They all think the same things. They all look for the same sort of stuff. And it's all because of the algorithm. They are fed the algorithm and the algorithm controls their thinking. And that's the problem with AI. We are creating automaton. You know, if you step back, one of my overarching criticisms of Common Core.

was that Common Core was taking critical thinking out of education and teaching kids to be good worker bees for the Fortune 500. You were essentially sapping kids of the entrepreneurial spirit. The way Common Core math works, you could no longer depend on your parents. You had to depend on the state. The way Common Core reading works, you were incentivized to read as many things, not complex things, but read as many things as you could to get an award, not to read the complex challenging thing. Common Core is not good. It sapped kids of innovation and how they thought it instead trained them to think for the Fortune 500. It wanted to build automatones for the Fortune 500 through the educational system in a way that deprived the Fortune 500 of real competition from within. It's why kids who go to classical schools where they're challenged and they teach Latin and they teach logic, they are more engaged with adults than kids in common core schools. Kids in common core schools, and that is most public schools in the country, even though they change the name is now community core. It's not, we're not teaching. It's Singapore math. It's not common core math. Way to blame your bad math program on the Singaporeans.

The kids are not taught to challenge, to engage, to think critically, to make arguments, to defend their positions. They're taught to run a formula to learn how to add and subtract in a way that takes an entire page as opposed to memorization and then move on. And they've lost their abilities to think. They've lost their abilities to be critical when they need to be critical of things around them. I mentioned before, I'm proud of my daughter. She wanted to be an engineer. She decided she didn't want to fight with calculus. So she did accounting and finance. Now, she's really, several of her professors have told her she should go to law school, do finance and go to law school. And she did a summer program at Georgia Tech. And she was very intimidated because the high school she went to did not have a lot. It was not a wealthy school, did not have the latest cutting edge technology for computers and the like. My son will graduate from there. It's a fantastic school. And she realized she was going to a great school when she didn't think she was when she was in this program at Georgia Tech with a bunch of high school kids who had come from elite institutions, elite high schools with STEM and with robotics and with computers. And my kid was the only one who could stand up and hold a conversation with a professor. All these other kids that come from these elite public schools and private schools that embrace Common Core. My kid went to a classical Christian school where she had to stand every day and argue with her teachers about stuff. And she could have a conversation and make a presentation and answer questions about the problems and be challenged and did not cry, but have an answer instead or challenged back because that's the sort of school she went to. And when you go to a public school these days, when you go to a private school, a lot of times that they embrace Common Core, they're essentially they've embraced algorithmic education and everything is iterative. Everything is the same. And when you deviate from that sameness, you're uncomfortable. Meanwhile, you've got kids like my kids who go to the school where the technology is verboten. There are no tablets. There are actual books. There are no cell phones allowed in the school. Everything gets locked up when you enter the door and is given to you when you leave. And they can't use AI. And they can't depend on the algorithm. You know, my son actually, a while back, deleted Instagram again. He's done this several times. The first time he did it, he said it was consuming all of his attention. And he deleted it again recently. I said, why did you delete it again? Was it sapping your attention? It didn't seem like you wrote it a lot. And he said, no, it didn't sap my attention. It took away my creativity. I was seeing all the stuff on Instagram, thinking these things are cool. And I realized that everybody had the same look. Everybody had the same style. Everybody was doing the same sort of video. and I just decided that I don't want the sameness of thinking. I was like, you know, you're pretty responsible for a 17-year-old. And the problem more and more with AI is the unthoughtfulness of it. And we're seeing this now with these, the rise, I mean, this Democratic Socialist leader, I want to play you one more clip.

of the Democratic Socialists, talking to David Rimnik of the New York. Just listen to this conversation. Elisa Avila Chevalier recently won a primary election in New York City, and it's almost sure to win the general election. She attended an October 8th pro-Palestinian pro-Hamas rally, which many people saw as a justification of the October 7th attack. And some of her tweets have been extremely ugly on this score and on others. Do you... Do you fully support her in all these activities and what she's had to say? I think Daria Lisa can speak for herself, certainly, and I think she's apologized for some pieces of that and has been quite quite unapologetic about other pieces of that. Do you support her yourself in that? Yeah, I do. Why? In other words, you would have gone to that rally had you been able? Uh, that's a good question. I probably would have. Yeah, yeah. I don't live in New York City, so I wouldn't have... One day after the slaughter of 1,200 people and taking over 200 hostages, you would have come and rallied behind Hamas. I think that October 7th was largely inevitable. If you put people in an open-air concentration camp and you deprive them of rights of dignity, of food, of the ability to live in safety, you have to expect that they are going to not take that for that long. That's the duplicative iterative defenses that you find on TikTok. It was an open-air concentration camp. But now that the Israelis have bombed it, we see pictures of this is what we lost. This is what Israel took. Was it a open-air concentration camp or not? It depends on their framing. It depends on their algorithm. It depends on what things they've seen on TikTok. That's the problem with AI is it is making us lazy and rotting our brains. That's the danger of it. It's necessary. It's needed. It's useful. But boy. do we need to be aware that it is just iterative it creates nothing new there are no new ideas no innovations just old things repackaged and it's causing old anti-Semitic ideas to be repackaged in people's brains as well Now, I got to tell you, before I get a break, I'm running along, but I got to tell you about Cozy Earth. I do love my Cozy Earth sheets. If you have heard of Cozy Earth or not, you should, because they've got these sheets. They are made from bamboo. They are lightweight, and they are super cool, and they help you sleep better. And Cozy Earth, their sheets are premium. In fact... They have a 100-night sleep trial on their sheets. When's the last time you heard of a company willing to send you their sheets? Tell you sleep on them for 100 nights. And if you don't like them, let us know. They've even got a 10-year warranty. A 10-year warranty. You go to cozy earth.com. Use code Eric for up to 20% off. That's code Eric for up to 20% off. And if you get a post-purch survey, mention you heard about Cozy Earth here. Cozy Earth has fantastic sheets. And again,

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