In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Eddy.
Donald Trump is on track, I think to win the selection and maybe win it by a landslide and take with him the Senate and the House. And so for me, this isn't a question about polling. It's not a question about politics. It's a moral question about the future of our country. And I think it's critically important for us to come to grips with what we face if together, we put this country on the path of electing Donald Trump again.
So the New York Times headline today is the Democratic senators have decided Biden can't win, but are doing nothing because they can't force him out, and a lot of them saying behind closed doors that he can't win. Well, Senator Bennett There of Colorado, of Democrat, somebody asked him that reports say behind closed doors, you said he can't win, and he, in a mini profile encourage, unlike most of the other politicians, said yeah, I said it behind closed doors. I should say it out loud. I'm not going to pretend I didn't and so he said, I wanted to go on I think CNN and tell you what I said behind closed doors. Now, most of the other people out front are saying Biden, Biden, Biden. I'm with Joe, just making kind of blanket statements of support without addressing what they're reportedly saying behind closed doors. But Senator Bennett did say it out loud. And you know this is a data driven argument, very much so. So here a little bit of the latest polling that is out the Cook Political Report, one of your more respected polling organizations, has moved a whole bunch of states toward Trump. For instance, Arizona, they've moved from a toss up state to a leaning Republican. Same with Georgia, same with Nevada. New Hampshire went from likely Democrat to lean Democrat, so it's still Democrat, but it's slid. Nebraska the same, Minnesota the same. So every single one of those states moved closer to Trump, some of them now leaning Trump. I mean if he wins those a lot. Well. Wisconsin poll this is Biden's own polling organization. This leaked out yesterday. Biden's own polling organization has Trump up by five in Wisconsin. Wow, there was some talk of this Bloomberg poll that came out over the weekend that showed a little movement toward Trump. It one looks like an outlier, and two even with it, Trump won. And with Trump was up like nine in Pennsylvania, which is the key to the whole election in many ways that you structure, how do you get to two seventy And I must point out that the great challenge of polling is that it's very difficult to figure out who's actually going to show up to vote. Figuring out who's a really a likely voter is an enormous challenge for pollsters. And if indeed things continue on a similar trajectory or even just settle in to where they are now, and Trump can avoid any overt you know, inflaming the suburbs or whatever, the turnout, the enthusiasm and therefore the turnout on election month week, whatever we're doing now these days among Democrats is going to be miserably low, miserably, which is going to just crush the down ballot races. And anybody who tells you I heard some congressmen say, well, I tell you what, we don't need to worry the presidency. He will take care of itself. We need to focus on the down ballot races. Hey, it's dopey, but it's true. The presidential race determines who shows up to vote, so it has an enormous effect on the down ballot stuff. And here's the most impressive polling information that came out yesterday. Sorry, so my point was going to be, so some of those lean this or whatever might shift another notch or even two based on miserable turnout. It could happen. Yeah, people like the raging Cajun what's his name, jims Bum, James Carvill or talking landslide. Now, yeah, that's what the polling looks like, if you want to be honest about it, a landslide for Donald Trump. Anyway, this came out yesterday. This is the first time that a Republican has been ahead after July fourth and a quarter century in a presidential race. He's up by about three and a half in your RCP average of the big polls in twenty twenty. You know, Biden's going around saying they gotta be out in twenty twenty. They were wrong in twenty twenty. In twenty twenty, he was up nine points at this point in the election in the average of the big polls nine and he barely won when he was up nine. How about when he's behind almost four, do you think he's gonna wine? Hillary was owned, Hillary was up almost five at this point in twenty sixteen, barely lost. Obama was up two and a half. Obama was up four, Carry was up two. So there hasn't been a Republican ahead at this point since Bush ahead of Gore in two thousand and Our people hip to why that is because the coastal states are so enormously democrat they kind of distort the national picture, right. But the point being, a Republican can still get elected and obviously and lose the general or be behind at this point. But how about if a Republican is ahead that Democrat has no chants? Nixon seventy two man landslide. God dang it. The autopsy on this, when it's written is going to be something. Oh, speaking of which I thought the Wall Street Journal editorial board absolutely nailed it with something I was reading yesterday. They were talking about how the attempt to defeat Trump through the courts instead of at the polls. I might say in addition at the polls. But anyway, they said it turned out to be one of the greatest political miscalculations in presidential history. And they went into the various cases and how they went sideways and all, but everybody's familiar with that. But they ask is there a hall of fame for political backfires? Democrats cheered on the prosecutions of Trump, hoping to guarantee his defeat. Instead, they re energized his re election effort. They go into the brag thing stretched to misdemeanors into felonies. Almost immediately, mister Trump's supporting the GOP primary jumped several points, and in the real Clear Politics average it never again fell below fifty percent. That is something we were saying at the time. What Bragg did was push people who are like, ah, man, I can't handle Trump into you know, I'm gonna back and screw you people, right, That's what happened. The way I phrased it, as a extremely Trump hesitant conservative is no matter what I think of Trump and how risky I think he is as a president, and I do, the idea of rewarding that sort of lawfare is so repulsive to me. It's morally repugnant. It's constitutionally repugnant. It's just a terrible, terrible idea. I don't want to live in Brazil. If I did, I would move there. So yeah, you can't reward that, even if you don't love Trump. Well anyway, so I wanted to get this on. This is on the ongoing topic of Hey, media, did you just figure out that Joe Biden is struggling as an old man? I mean, you really, if you weren't just outright lying, if you actually like had fooled yourself into believing, no, he's got a stutter or whatever, Oh man, you're delusional. But anyway, So George will wrote quite a scathing piece in the Washington Post, and this is particularly about mourning Joe on MSNBC who It was about a month and a half ago now, the same day that Mark Halprin came out and said, I need to let everybody know behind the scenes, people are saying there's been a drastic change in Joe Biden the last forty five days, and turned out to be absolutely true. That same day, the Wall Street Journal put out their piece that behind the scenes, Joe Biden was really really struggling and Mourning Joe savaged the Wall Street Journal and anybody who believed that, and what a weak piece it was. And that's what George Will's writing about here. The Bleeding Sheep on MSNBC's Mourning Joe reminiscent of a chorus of quadrupeds, and George Oil was Orwell's Animal Farm were vehemently wrong in denouncing the Wall Street Journals meticulously reported June fourth catalog of the abundant evidence of Biden's decline. They called it tilted shocking, a classic hit piece, a hit piece. It's a hit piece to describe Joe Biden as declining, you gotta be kidding me. Back to George Will, that the Sheep are still on the air dispensing undiminished certitudes is evidence of two things that outside of a few bastions of meritocracy and accountability such as professional sports, there is no penalty for failure in contemporary America, and that many prominent people have the scary strength that comes from being incapable of embarrassment. I thought that was really good. Wow, that's a great phrase. Right there. We're into Wait, we talked about a post truth world years ago. We're into a post embarrassment world. You don't have to be held it. You can make a very strong solid claim, be proven to be not only wrong, but like you knew you were wrong at the time, and it just doesn't matter. Well, Trump has that that scary power of being immune to embarrassment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, And what's important in both cases, especially Morning Joe's, is as long as they consistently try as to signal their tribal allegiance, their tribe's not going to reject them for being wildly, completely wrong, dishonest. Yeah. Yeah. Joe Scarborough, who's got like four homes now and travels around the world, would say, yeah, you're not my audience, dude. No, he's got the ear of the president of the United States, which he gets through you know, use your own colorful metaphor for kissing up to someone, which he does on a regular basis, and to the audience that wants that, right, right, Yeah, there's a ton of money acts, even doctor jill is. But you would think it going forward, You would think, you know, we live in a post shame world. But you would think a couple of weeks after you called it a hit piece and embarrassing that people would fall for it when it turns out to be one hundred correct, maybe even understated that you'd have at least some paw, But no, I can picture so easily breaking into MSNBC's regular programming and having Joe Scarborough say, ladies and gentlemen, I just wanted to address the entire audience. What I do is execute the marching orders of the Democratic Party, even if I find them ridiculous from time to time, to keep Trump out of the White House. So if I'm ever wrong or dishonest, I'm just trying to promote the Democratic Party, and his audiences say, yeah, we get that, You're good. We're good. I don't know if that's his old I think his ultimate goal is to be rich and famous, and that ruby to it. I think that has turned out to be the best way to get there. Oh so yeah, I agree completely as a lifelong pro life fiscal conservative who got the Congress on that. He has now become rich and famous and he has the ear of the president by being completely the direction. And he might be like so many people have gone this stay at this point where it's just like it's all over. I've gone so cynical. I'm just going to get what's mine. I'm going to get to do it best. I mean, he's the classic case of if you can't beat him, join him. He got to DC became brutally disillusioned. He's a very bright guy and used to be principled, and he thought, Wow, there's no fight in this. So how do I get mine? And this is how and he's done. Well, maybe I should watch him and take a page out of that. Yeah, well late for that, too late, too late, missed that train, too stubborn. We got a lot more on the way and a bunch of different topics to get to. Definitely want to play a Parkinson's doctor that was interviewed by NBC. As the media continues to be on this story, I wonder how long that will last. But they actually interviewed a Parkinson's doctor on NBC who had some devastating comments. Among other things, this hours to stay with us.
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On the front legs.
See down there, they have advanced technology tennis balls. Now finish your pudding, I mean extreme energy.
Gel Oh boy, oh boy, that was a little much for me, right, the left has turned man. Oh speaking of which, we were going to go in a different direction, but this is getting a bunch of attention Nanzy Pelosi, and we'll play the clip for you in a few minutes. But she's on you have a cough button. Disgusting, Katie, Am I wrong? It is disgusting. It's disgusting, the coughing and the flem just cooling, lack of professionalism. So people have been waiting for Nancy, all right, Nancy like Chuck Schumer or Barack Obama to really say things because they have they have they actually have a little sway with their party. So what has Nancy said, Well, why don't we go ahead and play it? Michael, it's fifty nine just came in.
About a speaker. You just went through the president's record. But let me ask you about the current moment. Does he have your support to be the head of the democraticut.
As long as the president had the president it's up to the president to suicide. If he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. The UH. I think overwhelming support of the of the caucus. It's not for me to say, I'm not the head of the caucus anymore. But he's beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decisions.
He has said he has made the decision. He has said firmly this week he is going to run.
Do you want him to?
I want him to do whatever he decides to do, and that's the way it is.
Whatever he decides, we go in.
Well. Today his word is equivocal. A winter chicken. There not a spring chicken, a winter chicken. I was gonna say, did you have anybody like in their sixties? Even so, he got that old lady with their teeth sliding out, commenting on whether the other guy is too old to be president? Do you support him? It's up to him. He has to decide. Well, he's decided, well he should decide. Oh man. That reminds me of an incident from my parenting days when my son announced that he didn't want to play baseball anymore. He had a terrible coach. He was unfortunate. But I said, wow, you've got plenty of time to think about it. Then he brought it up again, said, you know, Dad, I don't want to play ball. And I'm like, yes, no problem. It's a couple of months ago. We got plenty of time to think about it. Finally said I've already thought about it. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Right. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's a good point, son, And this reminds me of that. Well, he should think about it if he's running for president. He is running, he's literally running. Well he should think about it a little more that they clearly really really want him to not run. But what do you think she was trying to communicate or is she trying not to communicate anything. Well, I think everybody who's saying nobody can really call an into it. But Joe Biden is right, and she was in the most gentle ways from the ancient heights of power in the Democratic Party saying he probably ought to pull out old man. She was absolutely trying to tell like I was trying to tell my son, I really would love for you to play baseball. And I think he should. She was telling him you how to pull out right right coming up, It's up to you, Jack. Two choices, high tech American weapons no longer work against Russia? Or or why America's berries have never tasted so good? Let's just think about it. Why America's berries have never tasted so good? So delicious American berries? Oh my god. A lot more of the way you stay with us, Armstrong and Geddy. Wow, we just played you. The tepid response from Nancy Pelosi. She's been keeping her powder dry, and a lot of pundits saying, you know, you watch Nancy Pelosi, watch Chuck Schumer, what those people say, because they're the only ones that did really have any power. She made a very te So here's the way the Wall Street Journal did their headline on it. Pelosi signaled that Biden should re examine his decision to stay in the race, and New York Times says Nancy Pelosi suggested that President Biden should reconsider his decision to stay in the race. So even the USA today, Nancy Pelosi appears to question whether Biden should be the Democratic nominee. Says it's up to him. I don't know if she wanted it to go that far. She is being preny hesitant to say that, but that's what the headlines are out of her commentary. Okay, that's where we are and why because his brain doesn't work? And what way does his brain not work? None of us know for certain. But I thought it was very brave of NBC to actually pursue this whole Parkinson's story that had a board certified neurologist on who does this for a living to answer questions. His name is Tom loss or NBC's Tom Latis. What's the name of the doctor. It doesn't really matter, doctor Tom Pitts, Doctor Tom Pitts. But here's how this sounded.
So my first question to you is, as somebody who's a neurologist, what you've seen from the president over the last two years, what you saw at the debate, the last few interviews, the way he speaks, the way maybe he walks. Have you noticed anything that gives you a red flag?
As a doctor?
Oh?
Yeah, I see him twenty times a day in clinic. I mean it's ironic because he has.
Just such classic features of nerd degeneration.
I mean, word finding difficult, and that's not Oh I couldn't find the word. That's from degeneration of the word retrieval areas.
A guy who does it for a living saying I see him twenty times a day. Yeah, go on.
It's also overcomes stuttering though, could that be part of that too.
No, this is not a palattle issue or a speech discrepancy, which is very different from a lemon nod dysfunction.
Actual word retrieval where you.
Pick a similar question or talk around the issue. Plus the rigidity, monotone voice.
Wait, go back to that.
The rigidity, rigidity, loss of arms, swings standing up lord Dotically, you notice when he turns, it's kind of end block turning.
It's not a quick turn.
So that's one of the hallmarks of Parkinson's is rigidity and brayed kinesia, slow movement, and he has that hallmark, especially with the low voices that as a cold hypophonia.
A small monotone.
Voice like this over time is a hallmark of parkinsonism. I could have diagnosed him from across the mall.
I can't keep saying this, but I'm gonna so. NBC just notice this. Now, you didn't decide to have a doctor on talking about this six months ago when he was doing the same thing, turning very stiffly, lifting his knees up in a very weird way when he walks. And then obviously he speaking problems right right, And I don't know if we need the next couple of clips they describe the movement disorders, but it's stuff Jack was just describing, well, I and you know, I don't need to hear it, but I have. I noticed that when he walked into the debate. I mean when he walked into the debate in the first five seconds, I was holy crap, because he is doing that. And then after the debate. I don't know if you've seen the video where Jill leads him down the stairs, but the way he lifts his knees so high is completely not the way people normally walk. Yeah, and Parkinson's is both, you know, emotional, intellectual and physical movement disorder. The part I was willing to skip over was he asks the doctor, but Parkinson's is famously hard to diagnose, isn't it. And the doctor says, well, at the very beginning, yes, when a patient becomes aware of you know, I'm not walking normally or I'm having these weird hallucinations in some cases, or I've got a tremor in my left hand and I can't seem to stop it. Well, yeah, it's not. You don't take a blood test and it comes up like you got gonorrhea. You have Parkinson's. There are a number of tests that you undergo, and in its very infancy, when the signs are subtle, yes, it's difficult to diagnose. But as the doctor makes clear, when it's full blown in advanced no, it's a lot like cancer. No, I can see you have a tumor. This is no longer the this is tough to diagnose part of it not at all, Folks, new listeners are whatever. My mom died of complications from Parkinson's a couple of years ago and suffered bravely with it for quite a number of years. And it's different for different patients. But there's absolutely nothing I heard the doctor say that wrong, the slightest bit untrue. You've mentioned that a lot, that it's different for different patients. I've got some family friends, man, what a situation. They're older, they met, they got married, and shortly thereafter they both got diagnosed with Parkinson's and they're going through it together. But they they both they have completely different set of circumstances at roughly the same age, getting diagnosed at roughly the same time, and one of them is more physical and one of them is more mental. But it's interesting. God, what awesome horrible thing that is? Oh yeah, yeah, you want to roll on with Uh, let's go with sixty four.
Michael, Let me ask you if you had if you had you know, and I know you can't. You have no idea what happened in the White House. But a neurologist coming eight times in eight months? Does that tell you anything?
Is that?
Is that?
I mean, I know.
You're just you're just sort of speculating here.
Does that tell you anything? Or?
Now?
Well, I mean I don't know if they're like the best of friends or something. But that's a very specific you know, he's a movement disorder. That's a subspecialist and exactly what he has. And there's very few young people like a marine guard, most people would be med boarded out for any type of movement disorder at a young age, Like if you had Huntington's Korea, early onset, Parkinson's dystonia, bad essential tremor, you're usually med boarded out, So I highly doubt there's does that mean med board. I mean the military would not let you if you have seizures, for example, you cannot.
Usually be in the military, that is, you are medical.
We're seeing what he's responding to. Is KJP at the press briefing saying, well, no, the the neurologist movement disorder specialist is coming as part of routine check of the military personnel who work at the White House. And this doctor's pointing out that if they had any of that stuff that this guy specializes in, they wouldn't be in the military at all, much less working in the White House. Oh wow, that is an interesting angle that nobody had picked up on. More with doctor Tom Pitts.
Let me ask you if you had if you had you know, and I know you can. You know a lot of people have called for a cognitive test.
What exactly would that entail?
What does that mean?
Now that's the key, because we're finding retrieval doesn't necessarily mean you don't know what you want to say. What I cannot comment on is his ability to make good decisions. His motor symptoms are degenerating. He has parkinsonisms. That is a fact, you know he has the generation of the brain.
Show me the MRI.
Show me he doesn't, you know, you put your money in your mouth. Is he definitely has it. But the problem is when you look at his situation, you can't say, oh, I know for a fact that because he didn't retrieve the word, he didn't know what he wanted to say. And that's why both him and Trump should take the four hour neuropsychological testing, which is the hallmark test for cognitive performing m interesting.
Do you want to hear his description of that test? Yeah? Absolutely, Okay, what do you do in this test?
A lot of things.
So for example, they may have you say, like say as many words you can in a minute that start with F block building, a retrieval, I may I may say cup and have you recall it three minutes later, trail drawing. These are done with a profession of PhD in neuropsychology has nothing to do with psychiatry.
And we can tell if you have that four.
Hours long four hour it's a full day. We tell people bring a snack, it is a full day. And that so not the mocha, which was a bedside test that President Trump took. You know, these are tests that are screening tests. They don't rule in.
You know, if you do great, there's no there's no way to sort of lid in this test, to sort of ace it.
Even though you're saying, oh, way.
This one will will it will come out in the wash. For example, if I do the bedside exam to an accountant and I asked them once one hundred minus seven, even the worst NERD degenerated patient, if they worked at a high education level or something like that, is going to get that right. But in the four hour test it will come out.
That it's super forty five. By the way, everybody knows that. A final clip I think is telling. Then we can comment.
Finally, I mean, you said you're a Democrat, you're a doctor.
You sound like you're frustrated with what the White House is saying.
Yeah, why, well, because you know, I'm an American before everything, and I look at it and say, when I used to see Russia, Soviet Union, North Korea when they just make out rageous things, you know, like when North Korea can't keep the lights on and they say, oh, you know, it was some faulty power thing. I kind of hate that kind of stuff. They had four years. My own party had four years to find you know, this was a rec and slow motion and they had four years to find out of three hundred and fifty Americans, one person that could take the place. And here we are the day before school, trying to do the homework and replace a guy who's got a neurodegenerative disease.
Who's got a neuro generative disease. According to an expert who does that for a living, he could diagnose him from across the mall. Yeah, that is something. So no, they're just lying, they're out and out lying at the White House, or they are intentionally not asking the questions of the right people to avoid here the answers. It is absolutely in four K focus. So I don't remember I for his you or somebody I thought, said recently, you don't think he had Parkinson's, But do you now think he does? Or are they doing the thing I was wondering there for a moment listening to the doctor if they're doing the sort of thing Anthony Fauci does about gain of function, very specific scientific term that is not gain of function, but for all practical purposes that's what it is. But he weasels out of it because so Biden's got something that it's a different category, but it's the same as Parkinson's. It's possible. What I've been saying is I can't narrow it down to Parkinson's because there are a number of neurodegenerative disorders he could have, but hearing, and not only doctor Pitt's. I've heard a couple other people who specialize in the movement part of Parkinson's say, oh no, this is clearly Parkinsonism. As they say, I believe him. I believe him to be correct. I mean, it's so advanced point so kind of getting away from the presidential election part of it. So his wife and son and inner circle have either known this completely and are covering it up, keep it in a secret in a way that is horrible, unpatriotic, or they pretended they didn't ask because they didn't want to know the answer, which is just as bad. I mean, that's amazing. I suspect strongly, and this is a bit of a charitable explanation, but not nearly. You know, this does not absolve anybody of anything. But I believe there are people on the left who actually fear Trump in the way that like Rachel Maddow tries to terrify him that he's instantly going to grow the Hitler mustache, say sing hile and march people off to camps. All that ridiculous fear mongering. There are some people who actually believe that to a large extent. And so the Biden family thinks it is their absolute holy mission to get Joe Biden over the finish line in November. Then he withdraws. But you kept Trump out of the White House, and not only have you not done something unpatriotic, you have sacrificed enormously to protect the country. I think that is their thinking. That makes perfect sense. They've done the patriotic thing by keeping Trump out of the White House. And or are they just like having the chef available twenty four to seven. I mean that would be really cool, that White House chef. Or are you like the idea of your dad still being in charge because you know, you trade on his name Bengo. Yeah, it could be both. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. What a heck of a situation, though, So you know not that this this is surprising having watched him now for quite a while, but he is the president of the United states, who could be faced with a do we defend Taiwan or not this afternoon decision? Yeah, has a serious brain disease, and his WHA will become more apparent more in the next several weeks. And if he gets elected, well he's got to stay president. Even if he doesn't get elected till January, that's a long time from now. Could see him resigning if he loses. It's possible, Yeah, long shot, but pass I could. I could see that too well. I tell you what, just you know, to separate yourself from what you might be rooting for, which side you like better? Looking at it from a Democrat's point of view, this is this is just triple miserable. It's impossible because the situation right now, which is the press is in a media frenzy. Will only get will will continue at the at the best possible scenarios, it continues at about the pace it is now, because he will have gaff after gaff after gaff. There will be more people diagnosing him from AFAR or Parkinston's experts coming out, or there will be leaks. I mean, if Nancy Pelosi is saying do I back him, well, it's up to him if he should run, he should really think about that. Please, the leaks have only just begun. Press conference tomorrow. If he gets asked about Ukraine and Russia and he answers about Israel Hamas, does that do him in? It could something like that, start talking about gold on my ear or something. Sure, Sure, Charlie Chaplin just said to me the other day, I don't know who knows what it'll be? JACKI are you here?
Where's Jackie?
Oh boy? What are your thoughts? Text line four one five two nine KFTC switching gears.
Well, guys, amateur records are being broken all across the country as a brutal heat wave continues to slam the US. When it gets this hot, you really start to understand why they have the deodorant locked up at CBS. I'm telling you, it's hot out there. All day, I was sweating like a Democrat watching Joe Biden.
Walks, Oh oh yeah, yeah, you know the go ahead one hundred and twelve where I live today. WHOA, that's warm, m it's hot enough. I hadn't intended to bring this up, but his joke reminded me how much attention the story that we brought to you briefly yesterday is getting it. And that's the absolute bizarre, twisted story out of Sacramento, California, the capital of the most populous state where the radio show has been based for many, many years, that the Sacramento City Attorney is threatening to find a Target Store in Sacramento because it keeps reporting all the crimes that happened there. It's become a real nuisance. So the city is going to prosecute the Target store for telling the city how much crime there is in crime ridden crumbling California. California is crumbling, by the way. Ah, how strange and perverse is that. I got to believe they're crunching the numbers on whether or not they should close up that Target store the way Walgreens and CBS's have done in the Bay Area. So you've got the apps the actual city attorney saying this Target store has become a public nuisance. They call the cops too much, which is shocking. And also I think it was maybe in a quick local section a segment, we brought up the fact that my grocery store for years and years in the town where we Judy and I raised our kids, Rockland California, very upscale, very nice suburb of Sacramento. Now the grocery store has banned unaccompanied kids because the kids from the high school and in the middle school, both of which my kids attended, come in just steal everything, because the cultural norm has become you get to steal if you want in blue cities and towns across America, which is Having again lived there for many many years and been in that store many many times, the idea that now they've had to ban utes because the youth are so willing to steal, represents an unmistakable cultural shift that I think ought to be getting people's attention. I remembered the story from that particular Target store I had gone in there. This was after George Floyd and I went to buy something and I walked up to the front of the Target, like every Target I've been to in America, and they said, the cash registers are back in the back, And I said back in the back and they said, yeah, we got them all stolen during the riot after the George Floyd thing. They came in and stole all our cash register. Now we're checking people out on the back of the store. Mostly peaceful looting ben Way, and I didn't know that until I went to the target because it didn't make the news. I think when you're younger, it's like you can't see the curvature of the Earth. You can't see the curvature of the culture. As well. As we are approaching our seventh decade on Earth, God help us, I can see the arc of cultural degeneracy. Not making this up. This is not alarmism. It's fact. Yeah, and it ain't fun to live through Armstrong and Getty