Hour 3 of A&G features...
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Also with US tonight forty five being ushered in by UFC CEO Kato White, Donald Trump. It's in the building of the Prima Presidents any extending ovation from the assembled.
Masses there are UFC three to two.
Boy, the round of a pause he's getting right now is pretty staggering, and you had to imagine that's what was gonna happen.
I And by the way, at the end of the UFC announcement, there was Joe Rogan, who voted for Bernie Sanders last time around, so talking about the massive ovation for Donald Trump when he showed up to the big UFC match the other night, and that was that wasn't one of those Was it mostly booze or mostly cheers?
I can't really tell.
No, Well, that was a look they see him on the screen eruption of enthusiasm.
Yeah, I'd say there's a large overlap between Trump fans and people who like to see other people kicked in the head, a huge.
Over But.
Is the UFC crowd doesn't represent all of America. But it's closer to representing America than your Sunday morning talk shows or the met Gala or Hollywood, I guarantee you.
Yeah. Yeah.
And we haven't talked much at all today about the good aftermath of the conviction. But the one thing that's been striking to me and Matt Tyebi wrote a really good piece about this, is the number of people in the lefty media who have a shred of honesty, who are squirming a bit and saying, look, this is a very weird case in a lot of ways, and it's just it's so widely recognized. I am more and more certain that it's a net positive and a significant getting a positive for Trump this case.
He raised, what did it ended up? The brad case?
Obviously seventy eight million dollars and forty eight hours.
That is something. Yeah, so hey.
Occasionally, I suppose it's possible that we come off as like unsympathetic to homeless people, and that's not true if by homeless people you mean people who don't have the capability, through no fault of their own, to support themselves, or have had terrible things happen to them or whatever, and end up being unhoused. Those people are get a great deal of my sympathy. And if there are taxpayer programs to help that smallish percentage of people.
On the street, I'm fine with that. That's not what the problem is in these cities is that crowd.
Though.
That crowd we got them as bums and junkies, we got We have plenty of money to take care of those people.
If we stop worrying about the ninety eight percent of the people on the street, we're just freaking drug addicts. We're making our lives miserable, and we're putting up with it. For some reason, I was looking at houses in a particular area of my town. My son said, yeah, we ride bikes over there. There there are no homeless people over there. And I thought this was funny. This is a super lefty progressive area of a super lefty progressive town. Pretty pretty pricey, but anyway, and it's brand new. And all of the benches they have everywhere, all the benches and picnic tables and everything like that have armrests and various things that make it impossible for you to sleep.
On the bench or the picnic table or whatever. I found that funny.
So you went out of your way to make it impossible for anybody to sleep on the bench here, but overall we're okay with the street population.
Being over there.
Yeah yeah, well I thought everks Max Dubler's work, But I came across him on Twitter, which is soon to be formally allowing hardcore porn and may offer something like only fans on Twitter, which is just great because there's not enough pornography to alut the minds of our young people as it is. Anyway, Elon, what are you thinking?
Always thinking? He makeson wants to make money.
Doesn't seem interesting you. I don't know if you've seen this, I'll tweet out a picture of it. They make Sometimes they put armrests, like you needed armrests on benches throughout history. They're there, some arm is tired. But now they've just got these like metal things that stick up. They're just a little I don't know, they're like the end of a bookend. They just kind of stick up in the middle of the bench. They're just so you can't lay down on the bench. So for hundreds of years all over the place you can have city park benches and this is fine, But now you have to put some sort of metal thing halfway in the middle of it, because you've created a society.
Where people are good drug addicts are going to sleep there.
Yeah, progressive policies and progressive judges have ruined a lot of our civilization.
I just hope that people will wake up to it.
So anyway, this Max Dubler guy who I became aware of on the Twitter is a guy who writes about housing and housing policy and that sort of stuff and why housing's so expensive. And there are a couple of clues to his account that he's definitely a man of the left.
So I thought this was.
Really really good about the homeless industrial complex and how it works. And he's writing about this notorious non Oh I'm sorry, he's actually quoting an essay by somebody else. But there's a notorious nonprofit in San Francisco called the Tenants and Owners Development Corporation or Toddco for short. Despite the having the word development in its name, has not developed a single property in approximately twenty years. More and more, it isn't spending its money to help its current tenants either, and they go into some of the figures that prove that they exist to pay each other's salaries, and they barely do anything other than that. Their buildings are rat infested, the tap waters, foul roaches everywhere. One guy thought he'd been bitten by a rat as he slept, because his neck all of a sudden had a burning pain in a non't a rat, It was a gunshot wound. Thank god he survived it. But so anyway, it turned out to her.
Not to get shot with a gun, but a rat bite while I'm sleeping ain't great either.
I tell you what you offered me, the choice between the two. I'm an unhappy man. I gotta get bit by a rat or shot.
These are my only two choices. What's called what's happening here?
Anyway? Poor son of a gun?
It turned out, instead of spending money on housing development and tenants support, Toddco boosted executive pay and funneled.
Millions into lobbying.
No way, lobbying for what you might ask more money. As Todd Co Is, spending on its tenants declined by seventeen percentage points.
Executive pay quadrupled.
Meanwhile, Todd Co's president, John ebber Elberling launched the year but Buena Neighborhood Consortium a political lobbying organization.
This is all in cal Unicornia, of course.
And between twenty twelve and twenty twenty, Todd COO's direct lobbying of legislative bodies increased ninety five times five percent, ninety five times, from five thousand dollars to four hundred and seventy thousand dollars spent on lobbying, also known as invasting. I give you four hundred and seventy thousand dollars, you give me five million dollars in tax money.
Everybody went.
The Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium spent another one point three five million dollars on a ballot referenda. And within these small pond of municipal politics, that much money, if strategically deployed, can buy a shocking amount of influence. Here's where the story gets strange. Although Todco's nonprofit status is predicated on helping poor people fort housing, Toddco lobbies incessantly to prevent the construction of affordable units in some of San Francisco's most expensive neighborhoods. In twenty eighteen, they sued to prevent the construction of mixed use buildings on the grounds that it would cast.
New shadows on a community garden.
They then dropped the lawsuit after the buildings developer paid them ninety eight thousand dollars, raising questions as to whether Todco was merely using San Francis Goes Byzantine permitting process to extract a bribe from another developer.
Absolutely they were.
In another case, they lobbied to block a four hundred and ninety five unit housing development that would have included over one hundred affordable units, in other words, an affordable housing. Nonprofits repeatedly suit other developers to prevent the construction of the same affordable units that they are supposed to be working to provide. If you want a little more of this, we can post it at Armstrong and Yeddi dot com. Always, always, always, when you're talking about government spending, remember somebody got that money. Who got that money? Did they do anything for that money? Who will they vote for every single time? And do you think that is a coincidence? If you do, you're a jacass. Sorry to be hurtful. Oh, which reminds me, I got some more government money being doled out info. Here's the adline that Biden administration is going to drop a million dollars to study quote unquote Latina rezis, distance and intra minority solidarity. One of the federally funded efforts is the goal of this project is to investigate how Latinas choose to engage in various resistance behaviors. As from the National Science Foundation.
That's uh.
A million dollars to study that. That's a million dollars to buy votes. If I'm running that research institute, you think I'm going to vote for the party that doesn't give me that money to research my woke bowl crap.
You wouldn't even have to do anything though, Oh no, no, In fact, I doubt that they do. You wouldn't even have to fake up a paper. Just don't do anything.
Nobody's ever going to check, although I would suggest that, I mean, you have your AI crank out some crap about what was that. I can't memorize it because it's nonsense, Latina resistance in intra minority solidaria solidarity. You can have AI cranked that out in the blink of an eye, and you know your name to it.
Hilarious.
Let's see it granted another six hundred plus thousand to support a study of the University Washington centered around promoting intra minority solidarity and how different framings of racism influenced Asian Americans intra minority solidarity with Black Americans. All right, beautiful, And then this one. I really liked this one too. The Pentagon awarded nearly half a million dollars to a small firm in rural Alaska to research indigenous knowledge. This is in scientists say, this is so dangerous. It's a pseudoscience that posits that Native Indians possess unique insights into the working of the universe. President Joe Biden has instructed all federal agencies to prioritize quote, incorporating Indigenous knowledge in the rulemaking, something scientists horm is extremely dangerous. What the internal agency guidelines produced by the White House encouraged federal employees to speak with spiritual leaders.
And reject methodological dogma. Now, of course, if you add Christian leaders of some sort what you.
Try to build a theocracy, you're a Christian nationalist.
I read about you in the Atlantic.
Yeah, if you said go to the Mormon Church and ask them what their knowledge is about that, he'd be be.
Called a whack job.
So, but some Native American religion view of science makes sense. They have a special insight into the universe, don't you know?
Yeah, exactly, so, keeping in mind, of course it's just about handing out the money to buy loyalty.
But the idea that I'm going.
To go to a tribal elder who's going to tell me when the seal dies, the whale dies. Yeah, yeah, we know that's because the whales are eating the seals and then they starve. If there's no seals. When the whale moves, the seal moves farther, Yeah, all right, whatever, why are they moving? Because of the ocean gods?
All right?
So, as we mentioned a couple of times, we're not really big on any aftermath of the Trump conviction.
I don't really need to hear hardly another word about a beginning of.
My life until the appeal comes, and I feel like when the election gets here, it'll be a distant memory. I don't know if it'll have an effect on anybody. Another intended or unintended consequence of another trial, the Hunter Biden trial that starts today, which I don't think has been talked about enough. We should hit you with does Dad pardon Hunter? I read some about that over the weekend, and man, that could be a big deal. But that and other stuff on the way, stay with us.
These people are sick. They're sick, they're deranged.
You know.
I talk about the enemy on the outside and the enemy from within. Say, if Russia you have China, but if you have a smart president, you always handle him quite easily. Actually we have a lot of advantages. But the the enemy from within, they are doing damage to this country. They want open borders, they want high interest rates. They now want to quadruple your taxes, quadruple you know, all my life I watched politics and it was always like, politicians want a lower tax, it's not quadruple them. There's a whole sickness going on right now.
Trump did a long interview with Fox and he should pivot to borders, taxes, inflation, any question that's ever asked him about the verdict immediately, in my opinion, But we.
Got a text.
I want to mention before I get into some of the polling around that whole thing. I threw out one of the stupider questions I've ever mentioned, which is a long list.
I don't like my scent. What would does he may have a recommendation. Got this.
As a retired UPS driver, I've always used sure, anti persper and unscented, no offensive scent, no sweatstains.
Okay.
I never wanted a custom to remember me by my smell. Hey Joe, how's the wife. That's an old joke going back way back to the beginning of the Armstrong and Getty show back in the day for a UBS driver saying, Hey Joe, how's the wife. Oh, talk about a possible affair the judy was having with the UPS driver Katie.
She was unusually friendly with this UPS driver we had. And my son looks a lot like him.
That's it. And so the UPS driver takes house the wife. All right, Well that escalated quickly. Yeah, I'd say.
It really did. Oh is that a throwback, my friend? Thank you for that chuckle? Oh, and what a thing to chuckle about. Uh, ABC with sorry CBS with some of the polling that came out, And I think all this polling will settle down over time. But so this is the polling that came out days after the verdict. Fifty seven percent of America says it was the right verdict. Fifty six percent says it was a fair trial and you got the mid forties on the other side of it.
Every poll needs to open with the question do you know anything about this topic?
Right?
No?
Not really? All right, Hey, sorry to bother you. Thanks.
That would be especially on the question of was it the right verdict? I'd like to add, is there are there two percent of the respondents who could explain the charge and how they put it together?
I doubt it. I can't. I can't, and I've read a lot about it. Anyway.
Of course, it was like one hundred percent of Democrats and a much smaller percentage of reportcause. Anyway, on this question here as a shock, is Trump fit to be president now that he's convicted? Fifty one percent say no, forty percent say yes, eight percent not sure. I my belief has come November. This is going to seem like it happened ten years ago, and it's going to have no effect on practically anybody's vote.
But that's just my belief. We'll see.
Yeah, I'm so outraged by the use of lawfare and the zombie charges and the rest of it.
It's it's hard to admit that.
But yeah, I mean, everything fades, Everything fades and becomes less significant with time.
Especially now because we're so dead dug in on our various things. So Hunter Biden trial begins today. We talked a little bit earlier about how they do not the Feds do not bring these things to trial unless they're almost guaranteed to.
Not having acquittal. So we'll see what happens here.
But there has been some talk of if Hunter is found guilty of something, would his dad pardon him? His dad, it is said by The New York Times, cares more about this issue that it's the number one thing on his plate every single day, is Hunters of legal problems. Does he take the big giant political hit it would be to save his son from going to prison if that would be a possibility.
Yeah, probably after the election.
They'll they'll string out any having to report for prison as long as they can. But this, if I was as chief of staff, this one isn't even a challenge. All Right, Somebody cook up a program whereby old drug addicts have their records expunged and we let a bunch of people out of prison for drug laws. That'll give us political cover. I'm not doing it for Hunter, I'm doing it for everyone who struggled with drug abuse. All right, what's next, I'd say, is chief of staff.
Our unfair and racist drug penalty system throwing a little bit. No, my son's a rich, elite university white kid.
Armstrong and Getty.
The investigation of doctor Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health and the public interest. And he is not a comic book super villain. He did not fund research to create the COVID nineteen pandemic. He did not lie to Congress about gain of function research in Wuhan, and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign.
That is one of the handful of politicians I truly loathe a representative Jamie Raskin, an Adam Schiffl like character who doesn't even consider what the truth is as he's, you know, unveiling his partisan blasts.
He's a despicable character.
Continuing the almost unanimous drum beat of support for Anthony Fauci from the Democrats. And I suppose you have to because you shut down the government, you allowed people to be miserable. You just shut down I'm sorry, you shut down the economy. You just shut down schools. You made kids miserable, They've lost education, they'll never get back against. So you've got to hang in there with the we did everything right.
So that's from the opening of the open hearing that is going on today. First time Fauci has been grilled since he retired. First time Fauci has been grilled since all those emails and texts came out a couple of weeks ago, showing, I think, just definitive proof that they were trying to hide what they were doing. And then Politico is reporting today, as we mentioned that a number of Democrats are siding with the Republicans now in saying, hey, whoa what was going on here? Were you covering something up? Even with that, he got raskin saying that he's no supervillain. He's just a good, honest, hardworking man who cares about helpful America.
How dare you wow?
All right, so old foucher who's trying to cover up the fact that he did, indeed finance the experiments that led to the deaths of millions and encourage them because he thought he was doing the right thing. In his opening statement, we'll start with seventy one go from there, Michael.
The accusation being circulated that I influenced these scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false and simply preposterous. I had no input into the content of the published paper.
I need to know some context that didn't stand on its own seventy two.
It is inconceivable that anyone who reads this email could conclude that I was trying to cover up the possibility of a lab leak. I have always kept an open mind to the different possibilities.
You and your buddies organized the infamous letter from all those epidemiologists who said it had to have originated in the wild, and any lab leak was a crazy ass conspiracy theory. You started that letter, You organized that, you liar.
Plus the most likely thing from the beginning was a guess you know, it's the famous John Stewart on Stephen Colbert thing. I wonder where it came from. A bad virus shows up right next to a lab where they.
Study bad viruses.
I mean, even if that turned out not to be true, that's the first place you would start. And Fauci and his crew did the opposite they immediately went with no, no, no, It's definitely not.
That unfreaking believable. One more seventy three.
This is talking about that John was Moran's character who was Fauci's closest advisor and wrote all those emails explaining, Hey, they explained to us how we can get around Foyer requests and destroy the emails without anybody noticing. Oh and by the way, Peter Dazak, whose EcoHealth Alliance was specifically working with and financing the Wuhan Institute of Virologies gain a function experiment. Hey, I happen to know we have a plan in the works to protect you and others. This is the guy that now Fauci's going to claim he's he's never met him or something.
Seventy three.
Another issue is that of doctor David Morians, who has the title of senior Advisor to the NID Director and who recently began has been investigated for conduct unbecoming a government official. Naturally given his title, a connection is made to me with respect to his recent testimony before this subcommittee. I knew nothing of doctor Moore Orren's actions regarding doctor Dazac Eco Health or his emails.
All right, Deny, deny, deny, the Clinton strategy. That's fine.
One of the things that will make you very cynical about government is that, no matter what happens, very very seldom does anybody ever pay a price for it. Yeah, you have hearings and investigations and people say they didn't do it, and there's a new election coming up, and people dig in and we move on, and that happens. You know, housing crisis, COVID in school, name your issue. Over my lifetime, how often does anybody ever pay a price for anything? Almost never, fast and furious. I mean, you can come up with so many of them. Ben Ghazi.
Here's here's Joe Getty's class how to be more cynical. I heard this phrase a few decades a day go. I don't recall when exactly when I was a flatter of belly and browner of hair.
You blame a building in Washington, d C.
There were serious issues that the Department of not killing you with bat fevers and that we are going to look into and investigate, and we have several strong recommendations to reform the Department of making sure you don't die of bat fevers.
You blame a.
Building and act like you're taking strong actions.
Okay, all right.
You know it's like when we were talking about the idiotic experiments that we the taxpayers, are financing to the tune of millions of dollars per year. And again, the point is not the experiments. The point is giving the money to the researchers will always support your political party because that's how they're making their living. That's why Milton Friedman said, reflects reject all tax increases reflexively, because the only way to limit government to the things it has to do is to starve it for funds.
Oh well, I don't know if this is the right place for this or not. It's good, it's good no matter where I do it, but maybe it fits in here. This is from George Orwell and came across it on social media over the weekend and I actually thought, ah, right, this is one of those this is a little too perfect. But so I dug a little deeper and it's actually on a variety of Orwell websites and that sort of thing. It's from one of his nonfiction books that he wrote, and this was coming out of the Civil War there in Spain, where he actually was involved and got shot. See if this sounds familiar to you. I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards, and traders and others who had never seen a show fire hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories. And I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies, and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened, but of what ought to have happened, according to various party lines.
I think that's a perfect comment on the Fauci hearings.
Well, that's what, Yeah, that's why I brought it.
But I just I don't know, what do you so from the beginning that was written in the thirties, so from the beginning of modern journalism.
There's just what's the point. Why do we read the newspaper?
Right?
You know?
Earlier today, I summarized all of history with the phrase the week get bulldozed.
Everything else is just examples.
Okay, I can summarize the founding Father's philosophy.
People sucks, you don't give them power. People suck, so don't give them power.
Right, I mean, because if you are sitting here having heard the Rwell quote and the dishonesty and the fauci hearing and the rest of it, and you're you know, it's frustrating, you want to throw up your hands because you're thinking, well, what the hell can I do as a voter about this, or or even a patriot, a concerned citizen if I'm lied to so constantly becomes incredibly.
Difficult to know what the truth is. That is a big part.
Well, it's a great example of how people suck, and you shouldn't give them too much power. They'll lie, they'll cheat, they'll waste your tax money whatever. You know, I'm not a small government guy, because I don't know, I'm some sort of you know, dungeons dragons cat.
Who wants lower taxes on the backs of the people who hers backs are hurting.
I may be fat, but in the words of that one attorney Michael, I'm not a cat anyway.
Oh, it's just.
I fear that we as a people have culturally fallen for the sales pitch, that is, if you give us money and power, we'll give you like really great lives, or just give you a bunch of money other people's money. And we've lost our revulsion at the very idea of an all powerful and all encompassing government, which is everything from our mother to our protector.
I just I worry.
So speaking of journalism, and I do think it's very, very important and we got to try our best to demand the truth.
The Washington Post has got somebody.
New running the newsroom and interesting reasons behind that. And like it or not, it's one of the most important newspapers in the world, certainly in America. So you can hit you with you just a little bit about that. It's nice to see that they were failing with their bull less over the last Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that either. But anyway, a bunch of stuff on the way stay with us.
So Republicans, the top Republicans in this country are privately telling me they're not ruling out the possibility that Trump could be in prison when he accepts the nomination. And there's a real concern that some traditional Republicans, suburban Republicans might look at someone being called a convicted felon and say, I really can't go there, even as it motivates so many of Trump's core supporters.
How does Robert Costa of the Washington Post, which we're about to talk about, go on Face the Nation and say, Republicans I'm talking about are concerned he's going to be running from prison when everybody's saying the chance of that is almost zero. What any free thing's click bait even on Face the Nation, there's nothing to click. But anyway, that's Robert Cossa, the Washington Post, and that's what we're going to talk about. So I don't know how much you ever read the Washington Post, whether you do or don't. It's one of the most influential newspapers in America and has a lot of power, and it's been really sucky for a number of years. And they changed the person that's going to be making a lot of the decisions over the weekend, Sally. This was their headline in the Washington Post. Sally Busby steps down as executive editor of the Washington Post. Matt Murray and Robert Wine to take editorial leadership roles in the new newsroom culture. Okay, so then I got on this Twitter thread from this person Kyle Smith, who's the film critic for the Wall Street Journal, and had a whole bunch of comments on this. This sounds like a climb down from the wokest editorship in the history of the Wappo. Hiring editors from the Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal to replace Busby a total disaster seems very smart and very much a total reversal.
Of course, I hope that's true. It does. It sounds that way, but that would be a good.
Thing for all of us if they are reversing course during Busby's nightmare tenure. This is the writing of the person from the Wall Street Journal. The wappole became a joke newspaper that was completely obsessed with woke garbage and has headline after headline of example. But we've been talking about them for quite a few years now. I could definitely a test. Her appointment was, of course, originally heralded with DEI talk.
Now two white guys have replaced her.
You know, not that that's necessarily thing, but you know they well, whatever the paper was apparently profitable as recently as twenty twenty one.
It lost seventy seven million dollars.
Last year, as both The Wall Street Journal the New York Times grew the readerships, so as the other two most important newspapers in America grew and made more money, the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post lost seventy seven million dollars. That's the main reason, because I mean, we can say this from the radio business. You can have all kinds of ideas about this and that, but if you're not making your company money, they don't care.
Right, You're gone. You're gone.
You have no voice, no platform. Uh, you know, I'd like to know more about this. But boy, that would be gratifying. If indeed them going woke is the is the main reason behind them being so unsuccessful, That make me very happy.
I wonder if she's the one responsible for the ridiculous democracy dies in Darkness headline thing on the masthead. But anyway, before the WAPO, Busby presided over the wocification of the Associated Press, which she ran for four years, and turned it into a parody of its former self. Yes, amen, the WAPPO fired her so abruptly that The press release didn't even contain a quotation from her about how excited she is to move on to her new opportunities.
Wow.
I just gave her the cardboard box and frog marched her out to her car.
It's the way to do it.
And hired somebody from the Telegraph in the Wall Street Journal, a couple of guys to run the place. Now, we'll see, we'll see if it changes. It has had over the last several years, and we've talked about many of them. Some of the most ridiculous articles I've ever seen in my life in a major newspaper.
Yeah, utterly unquestioning of well COVID policy for one thing, of the Russian collusion hoax, just not They wouldn't even ask the question.
About is are we sure about this? No, they were just fully on board.
Well, and some of their stuff over the last however long it's been now eight months around Israel and Hamas has just been crazy.
Oh that's right, Yeah, loathsome.
Different topic. Elon Musk tweeted this out, and it's kind of funny. I hadn't thought about it, but it's true. There are many liberals wearing a Trump mugshot shirt and many conservatives also wearing a Trump mugshot shirt for different reasons.
This is our guy, political prisoner.
They're trying to ruin him by But are you going to vote for this guy? Look at him, he's in jail. Both wearing the Trump mugshot shirt. Yeah, she can't tell from seeing somebody in a Trump mugshot shirt. You have no idea what their politics are.
It's flipp of coin. You don't have the slightest idea.
Which is probably a good things Peggy Noonan and Bill Maher have been writing about recently, or just we're so at each other's throats and enjoying it. I think it was Tomorrow gave the example of you can't ride a subway through Manhattan with a Maga hat on. It's just that it's too dangerous, which is really a hell of way to be. There's two parties in the country. Is that a new notion to you? Some people like the other one better than the one you liked better. Does that really make you angry?
I don't you know?
That's I mean, I'm into the ideological wrestling match for sure, but I'm not offended by the idea that there is a democratic party and people vote for it.
I would just like to change their minds.
I did come across this article in the Wall Street Journal that I liked yesterday because I had this happen to me on Friday, and it was weird the way I reacted.
I had texted.
Somebody wanting to have a conversation with him, like I don't remember what it was like Tuesday or Wednesday, hadn't heard back from him, and they called me Friday, like in my mind, out of a blue right, And I answered the phone and I ended up talking to.
Them, which was fine. That's the way phone calls used to work.
But it seemed weird that we hadn't like planned this phone call.
You just called me out of nowhere.
And the Wall Street Journal had this article, don't you drek call me without texting first?
Extremely annoyed.
The etiquette of unexpected phone calls divides friends, families, and coworkers.
The idea that.
For it's mostly younger generation, but we've all some of us have become accustomed to this, the idea of a call without warning. Hate it, it's own settling for some reason. And tell me that person that when I text message you, you call me in response don't do that.
I saw it. Go ahead, Joe.
Yeah, I read this too, and exactly it was like a straight forty five degree angle line based on age eighteen to twenty four, hate it twenty four to thirty four.
There, Well, I prefer not, but it's fine and just.
It was absolutely stratified by age.
But I've certainly had the opposite a couple of times recently, where either I or they jump on the phone because we're going back and forth with these long texts trying to figure out some sort of thing.
It's like, why are we doing this?
This is quaking twenty times as long as it would take to have the conversation right.
So, I don't know. We need to find a happy medium in there somewhere.
But it's weird that even I, as an old guy, reacted when I got the phone call.
Ah. I don't know what they want.
I wonder if they're gonna ask me questions. Well, I know the answers. What's going to happen?
Come on, everybody, Armstrong and Getty