An Intense Study of Giraffes

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Bad news, good news. The bad news is our friend Josh Rogan woke up feeling just absolutely awful today and could not come through with the conversation we were looking forward to about Washington mobilizing to deal with the threat of Chinese AI. I've got some other AI stuff. Maybe we can squeeze that in later on. So Josh will not be joining us, which is too bad. Brilliant. Interesting. Don't always agree with them. But sometimes those are my favorite people because they make me think. Anyway, I expressed a bit of frustration toward the end of last hour. that we would not be able to continue the discussion about how to defeat Democratic socialists other than just calling them commies. So we will be able to get to that in a second. But first, the geniuses at the Babylon B, what would happen if we abolish prisons and defund the police? Hi, I'm your social worker. I'm just here to check if you decided to stop robbing and raping and murdering. No, I think I'm going to keep doing that. Rats!

is breaking into my house that sounds awful we can mail you a pamphlet on dealing with the trauma a pamphlet it's free oh okay sure send it crime is down 100% now that the government is no longer tracking crime since it can't do anything substantial about it so true for killing all those people we're giving you the harshest sentence we can which is to ask you not to do it again please don't do it again yeah that's pretty good that's pretty good and anybody with a lick of sense gets that Sometimes I feel like I'm studying giraffes when I look at human beings. Wait a minute. Their ideology can blind them to what is obviously happening all around them. That's a crazy behavior. Huh. Anyway, so Carl Rove, he's no favorite of MAGA. I get that. We're just, we're independent around here. I'm nothing. Labels are for soup cans. You know, cut your own course through life and politics. But anyway, but he's a hell of a good political analyst. Sometimes he's wrong. Sometimes he's right. Stuff business. But he's talking about how to actually defeat the DSA lunatics. And Trump swung and missed in Vegas. He just, oh, my God. Not only, you know, he just said they're trying to destroy the country. They're communists. These are communists. Okay. Yeah, pretty much. But that's not going to win the argument. And then, and this is not about Trump bashing. I'm just getting increasingly frustrated. It was going on about how we're bringing prices down more than ever. And the bad numbers are fake polls. And, oh, my God. No, you're not bringing prices down. People go to the grocery store. They get gas every day. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. So here's how to actually defeat the DSA. It's seven points from Carl Rove. I agree with most of them. First, don't gaslight the voters. The president claimed in Vegas that he produced the greatest economy we've ever had so far with the cost of rent, groceries, and other staples coming down very fast. They're not coming down at all. They're going up. The rate at which they're rising is less. But don't gaslight voters. It never, ever works. Biden tried and we gofought at him, right? Okay, so don't do that. Second. Screaming communist won't win additional votes. Instead, use a Democrats candidate's own words and policies. Remember that Blockbuster Trump 2024, they them add with footage of Kamala Harris endorsing transgender surgery for convicts, make Democrats eat anything they say. That's extreme. Use their words. Third, don't let Democrats get away with disavowing past outrageous positions. Do we have the idiot Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michael? The short version, it doesn't matter. Woke one was crazy. I have a local city councilman that has this saying woke one was crazy. One was crazy. Yeah, don't let Democrats get away with that. Point out how convenient their changes are. Ask when and why they change their minds, like we were talking about yesterday. Raised out, suggesting that they're untrustworthy and nothing keeps them from reverting to those extreme views. He's talking about a column Charlie Cook wrote. And yeah, he pointed out the same thing. When did you change your mind? Why did you change your mind? What did you get wrong? Why did you punish people?

Who disagreed with you at the time, what would you say to them now? They weren't 11 years old when they said those things. They were grown-ass adults in office. Make them answer for it. Fourth, don't let Democrats escape from dangerous associations. If someone like Hasan Piker campaigned for them or another Democrat on the state ticket, make every Democrat defend every terrible comment Mr. Hasan Piker is made. Ask why Democrats would ever associate with someone like that. They always do that to Republicans. The media always does that to Republicans. But, of course, you know, the media treats Democrats differently, but hell, that's the playing field we play on. We've still got to win. You can cry and whine, and I will, but then you have to go out and win. It's like I always told my soccer players because they'd come back and bitch about, you know, one team getting away with fouls and stuff like that. And I would tell them, the rules are what the ref is calling today. You got to adapt. And yeah, the media is an utterly biased referee, quote unquote, referee. They're terrible. But you got to understand the playing field and win anyway. All right. Going on with Carl Rowe. Fifth. Republicans, especially those running against candidates endorsed by the DSA or opponents who share their state ticket with DSA-backed Democrats, they must explain why the DSA's agenda won't work and will hurt voters. The DSA doesn't want Americans to have a landlord or mortgage. That logically means, for instance, the government would assign your housing. And you couldn't accumulate wealth by buying a home and letting it grow in value. The government will handle all that. Explain that to people briefly, but explain it. Sixth, forced normal Democrats to disavowd DSA policies. Yes, that gives some Democrats an opportunity to say, I won't abolish ICE or defund the police or closed prisons, but that could discourage some of their left-wing supporters from turning out. Make them say they won't do the crazy-ass lefty stuff. Because then their 24-year-old women's studies majors, affluent communist idiots won't come out and vote. It's hardball politics, but it works. Finally, Republicans can't simply run on having done a good job last year or last term, whatever. They must show concrete plans to make things better next year. There's practically none of that in the president's hour plus Las Vegas speech. Near its end, he spent 39 seconds on a new health care plan and one minute on the Save Act. Not nearly enough. Republican candidates had better offer more fresh ideas and spend plenty of time on them. Mr. Trump's yelling communist gets headlines, but it won't convert swing voters. And it drowns out the messages Republicans need to win. There's a better way. Let's be strategic. Let's call them out. Let's make them answer for their crap. Not let anybody get away with. Look, I said things in the past. My thinking has evolved. Dude, that was two and a half years ago. And you ended people's careers for disagreeing with you at the time. You can't get away with. Woke one was crazy. Ha, ha, ha. Don't let them get away with that. Bastards.

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You remember James Lindsay yesterday talking about on the last page of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx said communism will aid every uprising around the world if it's an uprising against the status quo and the powers that be. All of them. No matter if it's transgender in the WNBA or. You know, or whatever, you know, gay rights or fighting back against the British government in, you know, in some foreign land or whatever. Just we will aid in every single fight. And climate change is absolutely one of those because it's bent on tearing down the status quo and bringing in a new future, which will be a Marxist future. But anyway, so yeah, you got to get the kids easy. Got to indoctrinate them young. So great. Sesame Street, terrifying the kids about climate change. And I thought this is very, very interesting. As smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into American cities last month, the headlines poured out equally fast. Most blamed climate change. Canada's public broadcast are informed readers that the smoky skies had, quote, only one true fix. Stop burning fossil fuels. But the headlines seem to have missed the most remarkable fact about the wildfires. Canada is having a below average fire year. In fact, the entire world is on track to a record low in area burned, which is how they always measure this stuff. Ottawa's own tally released July 9th, that's the Canadian capital, showed 1.4 million hectares burned. Use acres. Less than a third of the 4.6 million hectares burned by the same date last year. Tucked into the quick facts of the government's press release beneath ministerial quotes about climate change driving ever more severe disasters was the quiet mission that wildfire activity remains below the five-year average. That's understating it. Satellite data, weekly updated by the European Union, confirmed that Canada's total area burned by just the other day was below the 2012-to-25 average. The EU uses the baseline, and the statistical good news keeps coming. The U.S. this year has remained below its 2012 to 2025 average, with its most recent measurement 20% below average as of August the 5th. North America and South America are at record low burns since 2012. Every continent around the globe this year is burning less, some much less than usual. And they go through Oceania, the Europe, Asia, Africa, which is not to say next year might not be worse. I mean, it might be. I don't know. But the never-ending drumbeat. that this is caused by climate change. Gavin Newsom is still saying that about the Palisades fire in California that was set by a leftist. It's leftist political violence, it's not climate change. And yes, the climate is changing. But these people are so obsessed with convincing you that that means we have to overthrow everything and change society. They can't even admit when, yeah, it's super smoky in some parts of the country temporarily, but it's actually a really down year for wildfires.

These people, they either, gosh, they don't know or they don't mind lying or once again, their ideology has just completely blinded their ability to perceive the truth. Bulls. Thank you, Al Gore. Yeah, I tell you who's bulls you. A great perspective on AI and its dangers and opportunities coming up. Zohran Mamdani wants Amazon to go to the Teamsters. A lot to talk about. Armstrong and Getty. The U.S. soccer podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingeberg. And after interviewing so many dudes during this men's World Cup, I'm so happy to be back with my U.S. women's national team players. I know the U.S. men's national team has changed how I think about myself, how I think about being an American, how I think about being on a team. It's one year out from that World Cup, and we're going to talk about the brightest prospects in U.S. soccer. You ready? I'm ready. Let's do it. The U.S. soccer podcast. Presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite. platform. The Armstrong and Getty show. Got to get to that story about China and it's sending thousands of people over to have fake paid for marriages with American citizens. And the weird way that the Justice Department addressed it yesterday, they didn't even bring up national security. It was like it was just an immigration problem, which I don't get. Anyway, that and a whole bunch of stuff. Looking forward to kicking off our number three with Craig Gottwals, Craig the healthcare guru, who's going to talk about... Well, a couple of different topics to help us understand where our health care system is really going wacky and why it's so expensive. So stay tuned for that if you can or if you don't get a grab-it-fi podcast, Armstrong, and getting on demand. So a report here from CBS News, Tony DeCopal, and Tony is by far the least obnoxiously progressive of the news anchors. He's a product of New York News, though. And if you can spend your career in an environment and not be affected by that environment, um, You're a very, very strong person. Even like a sane, conservative, moderate person in that cauldron of progressivism is going to start to pick up some really bad habits and start to drift in the way that lefties drift where they think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's mainstream, for instance. When she's not, not even close. So in this report, and the story itself is unbelievable, but I have one major, major gripe with a... I think Tony DeCopold says it, but go ahead and roll Jason Allen on CBS, Michael. Alaskan Nurse McKenna West has turned to doctors in Texas to try to save the newborn child she carried for a California couple. It was scary to think that something might be wrong and that I may be the one that's not able to...

So it's a serious, serious problem. And it's not like they can give the kid an injection and it'll be fine. It's a serious problem. But gosh, it would be easier if I could just use terms like mom and dad. So sponsors of the surrogacy find out about the heart condition. and say abort the baby, kill the kid. And my views on abortion, actually, I'm not going to go into them in detail, but they're more nuanced than you might think for practical reasons. But like Bill Clinton, oddly, I want abortions to be as rare as possible. Having studied... fetal neurological and physical development obsessively when my wife was pregnant with our first child, Kate. The idea that a fetus and unborn human is not a baby, quote unquote, is hilarious to me. It might not be a baby that's quite ready for the world. But what is it? Is it a loaf of bread? Is it a head of lettuce? Is it the designated hitter rule? Is it the planet Jupiter? No, it's a friggin baby. Anyway, having said that, so sponsor mom and dad say, nope, abort the kid. And surrogate mom says, I'm not going to have this baby inside me dispatched by a surgeon. Maybe she knows what actually happens in an abortion and is sickened by it. So she says, nope, ain't happening. And goes to Texas where she knows the sympathies of the folks and the laws in the government are with the unborn baby. And.

So the baby was just born the other day, and the treatment has begun as mandated by Texas law and Ken Paxton, who I am not a fan of at all. But he's pretty strong on this stuff. And now sponsoring mom and dad, having said abort the baby, are now saying, our kid, we ought to be in charge of the medical decisions. And the nice professor lady at the end, she does have a point in that where the hell do we go from here? Surrogacy is a thing, as the kids say. There's a contract. There are laws governing it and they're pretty, you know, pretty well respected and recognized by the courts. It is their kid to raise. But my God, what a... dizzying moral dilemma. You said kill it like a couple of months ago. When precisely was the diagnosis? I don't remember because I want to be accurate on this. But you having said, no, dispatch the kid, not too long ago are now back in charge of his care. My caramba. This is tough. So if Gabriel, the little fella, does eventually leave the hospital, God bless him, because there's no, it's not 100% that this treatment works. The little fellow has a bad heart. If he does eventually leave the hospital, it's not immediately clear what the legal outcome will be, while a separate court order is prohibiting the sponsor mom. From currently seeing the baby, West, that's, I think the surrogate, would consider taking the child if the court permits, according to her attorney. She wants to raise the baby now, I think. West's legal team believes the termination clause within the surrogacy contract, while standard is offensive to state and federal law. According to the Dallas Morning News, that is if the sponsor mom and dad say, you abort this baby, you got to abort it. That's what it says in the contract. I'm telling you, that is unholy. But the lawyer for the surrogate mom, Ms. West, says the law doesn't permit hitman contract, and this is a hitman contract. The California, who are now a California couple who are suing the surrogate mom, were slated to appear in Dallas County Court. Let's see, in about 12 days. So we'll keep our eye on this one. Where does this go? Is this a Supreme Court type case? If surrogate mom having signed a civil contract. has come to believe, as many women do when they're pregnant, everything I thought about abortion is wrong. And again, I'm not telling you what to think. Maybe you think differently. We can still be friends. A lot of people have a different set of ideas on this, and it's an incredibly important and passionate topic.

And I'm a libertarian, so I don't want the government telling me what to do unless it's absolutely necessary. And I get that if you are pregnant and the government is telling you what to do, it's a conundrum. It is not easy for a lot of people to sort this out. And I am not judgmental. I have my beliefs, but I'm not judgmental. Beyond a certain point. Okay, I am judgmental, but just not beyond a certain point. But you've signed a civil contract. But you have come to believe to your soul that fulfilling that contract is murder. Can the courts and the authorities enforce a hitman contract from the perspective of the woman carrying the baby? Oh, my, this one is not over. We're going to be hearing about it for a while. Meanwhile, prayers are with the little fella. and the ingenious medical care that we have here in America. And I certainly hope the little fellas all right. Speaking of healthcare, Craig, the healthcare guru coming up in a little while. Got some news. The U.S. scrimmaged against Ukraine. And we lost bad. We'll tell you about it in a minute. Armstrong and Getty.

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Our military made uncrewed systems an essential part of warfare. We're really the leader in long-range drones and big, expensive drones and counter-drone technology, you know, Patriot systems, Thad systems, that sort of thing. But close quarter like battlefield stuff, we have so, so much to learn. The drubbing in Germany, quoting the piece now, conveyed lessons from Ukraine focused on the short range battlefield drones. Exercise held in April and May, and now they're talking about it more openly, tested the visiting troops' ability to operate and defend against the proliferation of smaller frontline drones that have dominated the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And they're run precisely so that forces can experience realistic combat conditions and figure out what are we good at, what are we not good at, and what do we need to learn. And Ukraine has been incredibly helpful in this. Incredibly helpful. They are an important ally and we ought to be backing them against the evils of the new Soviet Union. British and Swedish exercises have also resulted in easy Ukrainian triumphs. We and all of our friends are learning. And the Air Force General Alex Grinkewitch, who's NATO's top military leader, said, look, you can't get training like this in the U.S. The change is remarkable, and we're learning volumes to summarize what he said, basically. It is said Elliot Cohen, Scholarit's a center for strategic and international studies. said it is vital that the U.S. military master that, and thus far, unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case. Just all of our techniques involve armored vehicles that kick up dust, and the drones spotters can, or the drones and the guys who operate them, can see what we're doing very, very easily and smash up our vehicles and kill our guys. And so we learned quickly what wasn't working very well. And then the Ukrainians switched teams midway through and said, all right, here's how you use the drone technology offensively. Here's how you use the counter drone stuff. Here's how you scatter your forces. Here's how you conceal yourself. Here's how you use electronics to stymie the drones. It was like drone warfare. grad school and super important and super effective. So I'm glad we're doing this. There's a lot of learning to do, but go get them, fellas, and be humble, be willing to learn. Craig, the healthcare guru coming up next. Always interesting. Stay with us. Armstrong and Getty. The U.S. Soccer Podcast. These players are battered and exhausted, but you don't hurt like this if you don't care about this team, about this country, about this game. I think you can feel the intensity, the goals, the energy that, wow, look at us. Here in the U.S., I have got some news for you. There's so much more to come. My name is Megan Klingberg, and we're just getting started. The U.S. Soccer Podcast, presented by Henkel. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.

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