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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
You say, it's not a shakeup, but you guys are down, and it makes sense that there would most of them, all of them.
Says who polls?
I just told you. I answered your question.
Okay, which poles? All of them? And your question is okay? One of our favorite clips of all time. That's still hilarious. That's Michael Cohen before anybody knew who he was, before he became so famous for turning on Trump and paying off porn stars and whatever. He's on season at the time. Well poles, most of them, all of them, says who? What the polls? I just told you. Who says it? Okay? Okay, he just says, okay, he says, who fucky a man? Anyway? Biden's behind in all the polls right now? What polls? All of them? Most of them, all of them? But anyway, hearkening back to twenty sixteen, I came across this year then I thought it was something. During the twenty sixteen election, Michael Avenatti became a giant star. Do you remember him? Oh, my goodness, he was Stormy Daniel's lawyer involved in all that different sort of stuff, and he became just like the most prominent person on all television other than Fox for a while and just held up his man, the man that's gonna stop Trump. Thanked God for him. Well, he just touted as a would be presidential candidate. He was a hero, and he was lionized and absolutely a crook. I mean, not only was he stealing from all kinds of people, he was stealing from story Me Daniels, the very woman who supposedly, you know, stand it up for But anyway, he tweeted this out yesterday. How of this he's in prison? Is he in prison or I don't think he still is. Yeah, you get to tweet from especially tweet from the kind of prison he's in. We can't be hypocrites when it comes to the First Amendment. It is outrageous that Cohen and Daniels can do countless TV interviews, post on social and make dollars on bogus documentaries all by talking s about Trump, but he's gagged and threatened with jail if he responds. That's about the various gag orders that various judges have put out and this is a constitutional legal question that others have brought up better lawyers than Michael Aabnatti. That so his opponents get to go on TV and just say whatever the hell they want about it all day long. Sometimes the DA the prosecutor can say whatever they want about Trump all day long. He says anything back, there's a gag order. But Michael Avenatti of all people's standing up for Trump and saying it's outrageous. Yeah, that was a little whiplashye isn't. Yeah, Wow, that blew my mind. Anyway, that continues to be a thing. There's a gag order on Trump. Trump is continuing to say things about various judges and their families and that sort of thing. And man, usually the penalty for this at.
Some point is they throw you in jail and gag orders. Yeah, they can't get you to shut up, They throw you in jail. Any judge gonna cross that rubicon of trying to throw the former president.
And current nominee in jail? Yeah, I don't know.
Trump is very very good at knowing where lines are and his attorneys are.
But that's a great question. Come on, if he he's so many trials and so many gag orders, it's hard to keep track of them. Does he want to cross the line a judge throws him in jail. Does that hurt him in the polls or help him in the polls? I think it clearly helps him the pole probably so, yeah, unless he's actually in jail the whole time. And can't you know, campaign or run a business play golfer. Depends on how long you're in jail.
Here'd be my headline, I head in the polls behind bars.
Okay, you want a headline. I just came up with this one. All right, I'm gonna send this to Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon, it's a joke. It's a headline with a joke. So the headline is patient with transplanted pig kidney leaves hospital. We wee wee all the way home. A good joke. You got me. That's really good. I know. I just thought of it in the bathroom and I thought I shouldn't send that to Jimmy Fallon. You really should, he has it. That's a good gag man. Yeah, that's what I thought. But may by the way, you mentioned that Joe Biden's behind in the polls that his wife denies that vehemently. We should six two Michael. But when these polls like the Washington Journal one land in the White House and he's losing in all the battleground states. No, he's not.
Losing in all the battle sense. He's coming up and he's even or doing better. So you know what, once people start to focus in and they see their two choices, it's obvious that Joe.
Will win the selection. A right to be fair to the doctor. She watches Morning Joe on MSNBC, and they have they grab poles whenever there is an errant usually almost always outlier poll that shows Biden go in the right direction or ahead, and that's the show she watches. So that's the information she has. The political story that politic Co, which is a news organization that's out today, has Joe Biden fired his polster team and has hired all new pollsters. Now nobody's exactly sure what that's all about. Are his internal posters telling him he's losing, that's inter fired. I want some new polsters that tell me I'm winning or or not. I believe the deck chairs on the Titanic could be best to rate horizontally. Should we try that, Yes, maybe the star shape. Yeah, he's a see say Padway doctor Jill podwaid Way not a real doctor. One more Trump thing I wanted to bring up. Trump spoke recently with MBS Prince Mohammad Ben Sulman of Saudi Arabia. Nobody knows exactly what they talk about. News of the call came amid the whole Biden administration negotiations with Saudi over their Middle East peace plan. So Biden Secretary of State's talking to MBS about normalizing relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel. And if you don't follow this stuff, that would be unbelievable that happened. I mean, you talk about an earthquake. And even the New York Times said building on the actual quote, building on the diplomatic ties between Israel and a number of Arab states forged through the work of the Trump administration. Trump administration got no credit for moving the ball like eighty yards down the field in terms of Middle Eastern countries getting along with Israel. Because it's Trump. You couldn't say anything nice. So it's nice of the New York Times to throw that in there. So now talk of Saudi Arabian. But what was Trump talking to MBS about but the New York Times neutral love of gold plating. Somebody in the New York Times was speculating the idea if Trump and Biden are sympatico on this of yeah, this would be good for everybody, normalizing relationships with Saudi Arabia. And the belief is that other countries would fall in line after that. This is a big This could be huge.
Uh yeah, Oh, it's enormous historical. I just I wonder whether Trump isn't saying it his pal NBS. Why don't you wait till next February to do this? Wow, all things being equal, it'll go by in the blink of an eye. You've got your harem, your planes.
I'll meet in February. You watch a couple camel races, next thing you know, it's November exactly.
Well, chop a couple of dissonance arms off just to pass the time.
Oh, why shop, That's what happens. I like when you're trying to tell the hard truths to people, wake up. Not funny. How about those new gay laws in Uganda? Have you been following that story? Yeah? Just the headlines Oh my god. So what's that all about. Where did that court from super down on the gay folks in that part of the world, even more so than before anyway, So they've passed some new laws there where there's gonna be there's a death penalty for certain crimes against culture. They quoted the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court for part of their reasoning, heck, for their new very very strict gay laws. Well, part of the reasoning in Dobbs overturning Roe versus Wade was trying to be in line with the culture of your country. That was one of the arguments from one of the justices about why abortion shouldn't be guaranteed right by the federal government. So they used that argument. I guess that our culture is very much against gay being gay, thinks it's usin and so that's why it's gonna be punishable by jail and possibly death in Uganda.
Yeah, I guess they upheld. The courts upheld a law that had been passed earlier.
That most people thought that was no, this will never stand, this is crazy, and then they went ahead and upheld it. Yeah, yeah, how about you take it into this specifics. But how about your march in the streets about that instead of against Israel or the United States death penalty for certain same sex acts, which ones I would figure it out and not get caught doing them. And that's something Wow. Wow, torture, rape orreess deviction in the year twenty twenty four somewhere on Earth. Yeah, yeah, anybody.
There's so many aspects of the woke left, so many things that they say that are utterly wrong. America is the most racist country, or it was built to perpetuate racism, or you know, America is the most anti This is a great country.
It's an amazing country. It has flaws, of course, but we're working on them. It don't buy that garbage that Howard Zinn infected crap from the left. It's simply not true. Well, as we were talking about yesterday, it's certainly better than what you're gonna get if the world order is replaced by some country, it's not the United States. Everybody should be on board with this. This is I wish both presidential candidates would do an ad about this. Hey, the US led world order is great for the world, has been for a long time, will continue to be if it ain't us. It's gonna be China, Russia, Iran, people like that, and it's gonna suck for everybody, and it could last one thousand years.
I would love to see that message. I would like to see every member of the House. Well, there are a few who wouldn't join in that because I believe they would like to see America fall.
They may or may not be members of the squad.
But yeah, I would love to see a gigantic, unified campaign. I don't care if you're left, right or center.
This is the truth. Now, have all sorts of different voices come together and say so, I love that idea. So they're appointing a new DEI chief there in the State Department. We can talk about that a little bit there. Also, we love lest Tom. The new celebrity Billionaire List is out. Who's on it now, among other things.
Thirty eighth annual Forbes Billionaire List.
There are two hundred and sixty five new ones, including Magic Johnson.
And Taylor Swift. Aren't billionaires now there's in their first appearance.
She's worth it estimated one point one billion dollars and probably has another billion on the way this month.
She has so much money.
Instead of going to Travis's games, She's gonna just pay to have them play in her.
Yard next year.
So there are now fourteen billionaires on the Entertainer Billionaire List. There were only four four years ago. Now there are fourteen. It's a combination of people understanding marketing and branding in the digital age, along with inflation.
Obviously, can you remember when quote unquote selling out used to be a thing?
Right?
I could say right right now everybody has really dialed in how to sell out to the maximum level they now. One of the most interesting things about Taylor Swift now being on the list, she's the only musician that has become a billionaire almost entirely off of her earnings from music and performances, as opposed to a lot of the other people. For instance, pop star Rihanna built her fortune mainly on her stake in two different billion dollar companies, a makeup brand and a luxury a clothing brand. Jay Z became hip hop's first billionaire thanks to two alcohol companies, a Kangnac and a Champagne And so yeah, so she's the only one that's like, it's just her music really that made her a billionaire. So that's kind of an interesting distinction. Here are the fourteen billionaire entertainers for you. At number fourteen, Taylor Swift one point one billion dollars. She's only thirty four years old. I mean, god, if she stopped working now and just invested, what will she be worth by the time she's old. Dick Wolf is on the list at thirteen. How small is your unit? The you you have to call yourself Dick Wolf? Cool name, man, I'm just jealous.
Who is that?
My name is kick Ass Kickass Wolf. He's seventy seven years old, worth one point two billion dollars, and he's behind Law and Order and all their spinoffs that have been on for twenty five years. Endless lav producer New One's twenty five years including all the reruns. Yeah, so yeah, he's a billionaire.
No.
Magic Johnson is now on the list at one point two billion dollars, sixty four years old. You know his deal, but he is also an entrepreneur, most of his money coming after his basketball career.
Is his name kind of a euphemism for the male part as well. Dick Wols Empty chances, Yeah, the seams emerged anyway.
Lebron James at number eleven. He's only thirty nine. One point two billion dollars. He is a stake in Fenway Sports Group, one of the owners of the Major League, blab blah blah, all these different things. Tiger Wood's ten. Rihanna at nine. We mentioned her, what's Tiger Woodsworth one point three billion, he's forty eight years old. Of course his wife. It used to be more. Tyler Perry one point four billion dollars. Peter Jackson the uh, he's a hobbit. And I don't know how much money you need. Is a hobbit. I mean he's worth a billion and a half. K Kim Kardashian is number six above all those people we just mentioned. Kim Kardashian has your money, the Tiger Woods and freaking Peter Jackson. That's unbelievable. One point seven billion dollars and only forty three years old. Jay Z we mentioned two and a half billion dollars and mostly from various boozes. And he's big and got a lot of Uber stock. He was big and early in Uber, which was a smart move. Oprah four age seventy years old. Michael Jordan only made one hundred million dollars in his basketball playing career. But he's worth three point two billion, mostly because of the most successful shoe thing ever in the history of shoe things by far. He's he must have read a percentage. I don't know what his deal is. Oh yeah, and still today, I mean, Jordan's are as big a deal. They're a bigger deal today, maybe than they've ever been. I know for my both my kids are super into Jordan's And what kid got what new Jordan's. You go to the mall, every store that's the main display is all the different kinds of Jordans, and they don't even know who he is. Steven Spielberg's at number two with four and four point eight billion dollars, and his buddy George Lucas is right above him at number one five point five billion. Sir George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are one and two. Lucas sold Lucas Films to Disney for four billion dollars in cash and stock. That's where a big chugging his money came. Wow, I wish I was a visionary. Easier than being a visionary would be being really pretty. It would seem that helps a lot. Yeah, Oh, for two he had kind of a hit song in your Super Pretty that really helps you. Yeah yeah.
Next segment behind the Rise and Fall of DEI. The backlash is real. It's going away, but it's not going away nearly fast enough. White House announcing a new DEI something or other. God, this garbage has got to end. We'll talk about that, among other things.
Stay with us, arms strong, and getty. The emphasis that the Secretary has put on this job has not waivered, and has put on this issue has not waivered.
Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is appointing a new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, filling a senior level position that's been vacant for nearly a year. Blincoln says, when it comes to DEI, quote, we will continue to pursue this mission aggressively.
Deis neo Marxist claptrap. It needs to be ended wherever it exists, although the White House is clearly doubling down on it.
More from Jillian Turner here.
Now, a major funding fight with Capitol Hill is brewing. The State Department requested eighty three millillion dollars to promote diversity and equity and fiscal year twenty twenty four prompting withering criticism from House Foreign Affairs Chairman Mike McCall quote, ideological over emphasis on DEIA has come to penetrate every bureau and embassy under the Biden administration. Now foreign and civil service officers must pledge allegiance or else risk not being promoted.
It's like those loyalty oaths they're making the professors take. That's what they are saying. Yeah, I'm down with the DEI stuff, and here's how I'm going to incorporate it into biochemistry my science lab.
And the problem with these things at universities are any business government is the claim that, well, you don't have to sign this, okay, but your career is done and you know it.
Well, let's you know, you could start with the main problem is that it's not about diversity, equity or inclusion, all though equity is in communism. Yeah, but this it's an insidious cult and checked it anyway. I thought it was interesting Axios with an article pointing out that the backlash is real.
Behind dei's rise and fall, it is retreating in a big hurry from America's corporations. Departments of DEI hires are way off.
They're they're laying off bunches of people, they're opening up programs that that it was all in the wake of George Floyd. They're the radical left, neo Marxist pretending it's about race. Movement had everybody on their heels, including all these corporations, so they went just crazy to conform so that they weren't ruined by the angry mob, whether literally.
Or you know, their careers run. Is there a single human or group that gets credit for the three letters and the three words and pushing this.
Uh, yeah, it's probably one of those French philosophers of the you know, the forties, fifty sixties when this stuff got cooked up. And it's pretty clever German eggheads to pretty clever because obviously diversity, equity, and equality all sound good to us.
But it's the way the words are twisted and what they're used. If you haven't read Inclusion, if you haven't read any of the good pieces on this, you should explaining how it actually manifests itself. Yeah, none of these words actually mean what you think they mean. They're all code.
And the reason I always call these people neo Marxist and certainly read James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose's brilliant book Cynical Theories. To learn more is that Marxist in the middle of the twentieth century realized Workers of the World Unite wasn't working because the workers were like, Hey, I just got a promotion, I got a pretty good life. I'm starting a business myself. I think communism is stupid, and so they had to find a new way to radicalize people. And so it's by race, or sexual minority or one hundred different things. Anyway, I'm glad to hear it's in retreat. I thought this was so interesting. You know Scott Adams, the Gilbert cartoonist guy who's become a thinker and commentator in all and I don't always agree with him, but his pinion is always worth considering. He tweeted this the other day. If you're not following this ongoing debate, you're missing a great show. It's Mark Cuban versus Christopher Rufo, essentially quoting Scott Adams. Mark Cuban has no idea how DEI works in the real world. In the real world, if your CEO says diversity is the company priority, the managers begin overtly discriminating against white males, and it never stops every time forever, no one cares what vocabulary words the CEO used managers respond to incentives.
Period.
It's been this way for at least three decades. And then he retweets the thread from Rufo and I'm going to kind of do this backward. The way Twitter lays out is not handy. There we go, okay, So there's Mark Cuban's we'll join the discussion kind of mid thread here, and Christopher Rufo points out the best way to understand DEI is to separate the marketing pitch, which I agree is attractive, from the reality of DEI in practice, and then he decodes a lot of those words, and if I remember, I will post a link to this at Armstrong and Geddy dot com so you can take a look at it. But Mark Cuban responds, we obviously disagree on the definitions, but that isn't the issue at hand. Never in my professional career have I ever heard a CEO of a company of any size and for the following or anything close quote Equity, on the other hand, treats all inequality is illegitimate and attempts to force group equalization or equality of outcomes. I've never seen that. You're the researcher. Can you show me any interviews with CEOs of American companies where the CEO says anything like this? And then rufol responds, because he's an incredibly smart and thorough guy, he says absolutely. I will share ten stories with original source documentation proving that this is in fact. How many, if not most Fortune one hundred companies consider DEI buckle up for the woke capital thread of threads and sure enough, and each one of these examples is at least short magazine article length, completely documented with the very documents of the company to illustrate their truth. Google has launched an anti racism initiative claiming that America is a system of white supremacy and that all Americans are raised to be racist, including Ben Shapiro. For whatever reason, there's depicted as a layer of white supremacy period culminating in genocide. Then he goes into Google's whole program and how that resulted in aggressive discrimination against hiring white people. Walmart has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a white supremacy system and teaches white hourly wage workers, that they are guilty of white supremacy thinking and internalized racial superiority. Goes into a great deal of detail on that Verizon teaches employees the capitalism is fundamentally racist, that weaponized white privilege is a dangered African Americans, and that employees should support defunding the police. I've obtained whistleblower documents that will shock you, and.
He goes into them, shows you all of them.
Then there's AT and T Bank of America, American Express Corp, Raytheon, the Walt Disney Corporation, Lockheed Martin, CVS. All of these with complete documentation of how they aggressively began discriminating against white folks.
Does Mark Cuban respond to the documentation, umh man, I'll have to scroll way down.
Uh.
I don't think he did, not that I can see.
And a couple of people, including the fabulous James Lindsay, tweeted, right, Mark Cuban, You've been fooled about equity. And then he includes a nice medium of Mark Twain and Twain's great quote and this is one of the most insightful things Twain ever said. I think this one needs to be his most famous it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Humans are funny like that, and what's harder still is.
To get them to admit that they have been fooled. Hmmm, that's a good just the way we are. We're proud folks, right, That's that's a good one. My favorite to twain ism that I've hit my kids with to the point that they haven't more or less memorized and will occasionally and this gladdens my heart and puts a tear to my eye. Say, hey, Dad, I was thinking of what you always said when I did this. It's Twain's quote that always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest. It's an aspiration. I'm not saying I've gotten there. My favorite Mark Twain quote is I like a big mustache. I think I look better with a big hairy mustache. I think my lips too thin, so I have a mustache. That's that's his best quote. Yeah, I got to reread some Twain. You've been reading Twain to year sons. I think that's great. We went through all through Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. We're on the Hardy Boys now, but I'm not as good as a twin. I gotta admit Franklin W. Dixon whatever, that warehouse full of writers was not quite as good as Twain. Oh my youngest got so mad the other day at the Hardy Boys, and I won't get into the plot, but it was like one of the Hardy Boys said, do you think the two things could be connected? And Henry said, what are you talking about?
You?
They're not connected, you idiot? How is your dad a detective? And you don't know those two things are connected. They've been connected fifty five books in a row. This is the fifty six.
Do you see a pattern? He was aghast that I know, I know. You know what I left out of the previous discussion about DEI and the rest of it. Rich Lowry wrote a great piece for the National Review that we don't really have time for, but.
It was a very very good think piece.
As they say, on how sarcastic and dismissive the mainstream media is about the very idea that DEI programs are discriminating against white people, even though they demonstrably are. Like a Philip Bump in the Washington Post, snarked, as the headline on his column puts it, quote Trump aims to be fearless warrior for white advantage. New Republic commented sarcastically, if Donald Trump is elected to a second term in November, his allies planned to end this country's long standing oppression of a major marginal like group in America, white people MSNBC blah blah blah. Organized around the reactionary principle that white Americans are not just overlooked, but are victims because of the race. This is a path to unraveling multicultural democracy.
Then is this sort of stuff that causes somebody like former Attorney General Barr to say Trump is a child. I think he's all kinds of crazy. But we can't go further down the road of this stuff, So I would vote for Trump over Biden. Yeah. Yeah, this will destroy our society. I truly believe that.
And not in the cataclysmic pearl clutching Trump's gonna end democracy way.
I mean it will so erode our culture.
This this insidious, poisonous idea that the way to combat any residual racism in the United States, And there really isn't that much anyway, But lots and lots of racism is the cure for that, and that if anybody complains about it, if their skin hue is at all light, you've got to berate them and call them racists and tell them to shut up.
And that's the way we will bring racial healing. But that's now we need to circle back to the fact that the DEI crowd isn't about race. It's not about race any more than the transgender thing is about transgender people. It's about tearing down institutions, so they run them. You call something racist until they say, okay, you run it. You're in charge. Now. It's neo Marxism, trust me on this. So we're gonna talking about Amazon earlier and how some you scumbags are ruining the return policy. Most of you are honest, but some of your scumbags and uh, the present company accepted. Please, That's why I said most of your honest. Goh, but we don't have scumbags listening to the show. I don't know. We've got a lot of We've got a lot of I have a friend who I hope none of our listeners did this by ripping off Amazon with their return policy. But some of the examples are really interesting. On the way.
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You know, Joe, I'm working on a paper that I'm going to submit to a publication hopefully get printed published. I've been doing the research. I've been eating a lot less and my weight has gone down, so I'm going to I'm drawing some conclusions here. I am your peer, and I have reviewed your paper, so it is a peer reviewed paper. It's actually just kind of shocking that it. I don't know the way the human brain works that I'm kind of surprised that that's happening, and was kind of surprised in the reverse that when I was eating more and more, weight keeps going up. But what the problem is, set out? Whatever? Yeah, tired of your own act?
Are you?
I'm tired of my own delusion? Yes, wearing me out. I didn't know about a lot of your major return policies with major stores. Most of my life because I'm a I'm not a guy who would try to return things hardly ever in my life, like many years ago. I mean, this is Gladys many years ago. I mean, this is so long ago this I'm talking about a handheld cassette player. I had this handheld because that player I'd bought, purchased at Walmart, and so if i'd have an idea for something to talk about on the show. I this was pre cell phones anyway. So I smashed it in my car door. I'm carrying it and it's hanging on a lanyard sort of thing, and I closed my door and it smashed it. So I went back to Walmart and I said, yeah, I smashed this thing. Is there any way I can get like, is there a way to order just like the door piece or anything like that. We'll just give you another one. I said, well, I smashed it in my car door, and I said, well, we'll just give you another one. I said, I don't have the receipt or anything, and they said, now, we'll just give you another one. And they handed me another one. And then I realized the return policy at Walmart, at least at that time, was we don't ask any questions. You can return anything and we'll just replace it. And that's been was the return policy at Walmart forever, and Costco was like that forever, and lots of places were like that forever. But has culture gotten that much worse that they can't do it anymore? Yes? Absolutely, remember that story about Land's End, was it or llban? They're duck boots.
Whoever made those used to be guaranteed for life, but they became aware that people would just buy them or steal them and then.
Quote unquote return them to get new ones. I would be in a way that had never happened in the past. I would like to know more about that, just to why that worked forever and doesn't work now. I think that's fascinating on its own. Is it social media? Because the like the same way with pedophiles I mean, or anything else. The scumbags can talk to each other, make themselves feel good about it, let each other know the tricks of the trade that wasn't possible in the past, or just individually, have we all gotten more side I would like to know.
I think all of the above, the decline in religion, lack of community, people have solitary lives. They don't answer to a community of people who care about them. You can do all this in private. And like you said, as pg orc said, whose idea was it to put every idiot in the world in touch with every other idiot in the world or scumbag or pervert or.
Whatever, so real they reinforce each other and share their scam. I mean, for most of us, there's just not a chance in hell I would ever do that. I mean just not even on the table to do that, right. But of course, anyway, we got some texts about that. So Amazon's having this problem. I think I buried that story. Amazon's having this problem. You used to be able to return anything they'd refund you right away, and then they're getting ripped off so much they're having to rethink that or make it more complicated. As soon as ubs scans the return label your Amazon account is credited, there could be dirt in the box. So if there's anything in the box at all, people are returning things that aren't the item or whatever to get the refund, and too many people have abused it. And the way you started getting these texts. I had a friend who used to buy light bulbs and return the used, burned out ones. Wow, um, this is about getting the wrong order. A few years ago, my nephew ordered a pair of sneakers and received a penis pump instead ps. Those things don't work. I have friends that have ordered replacement computer pieces and then they returned the old broken ones for a full refund. All the time. You're a thief, you're a bad person, and you're making the world worse. Is your goal to like leave the world a worse place than when you showed up? See that's not less judgment In the modern world, we need more. Nordstroms used to have this policy. My my daughter worked at Nordstroms. Since she said she had customers that will buy expensive clothes, wear them for about six months, and then return them for newer clothes because they didn't want them anymore. Because Nordstroms at that time had no questions asked return policy. Like the Walmart thing I was talking about, I was like, you don't even know what I bought this or if I bought it doesn't matter. Let'll just end it to you. Well, if most people are honest, that works. They come out ahead by keeping you as a customer. But if most people aren't honest, obviously that doesn't work. This is a good one. I once ordered a patio umbrella from Amazon, received but received an Indonesian mattress instead, which understandably didn't fit over my outdoor table. It did block the sun, but wouldn't stay up on the stand. These scumbags, scumbags, seriously, you want to make the world worse? Or do you not think through the concept that people that do this sort of thing. Do they not think through if everybody does this, the world would suck, But they don't care.
Not everybody's doing it and they're having what they see as a better life through their deviousness, or they just don't care. They feel the spread of victimization culture in America has had a lot of nasty dividends, one of them being the world owes me because I've gotten screwed, so I'm stealing this.
And Amazon's worth billions of dollars. It doesn't matter to them. They're probably not paying taxes or something. Armstrong and Getty