An election about class (10-28-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] So yesterday, I had a visitor at the door, right in the middle of dinner. And it was some anemic-looking, not anemic, yeah, no. Isn't anemic, isn't that the blood disorder? It was a very thin guy. He's very thin, like a wispy little man, maybe like 20 years old, 21, maybe. I don't know. As I get older, it gets harder for me to ascertain age.

[00:00:58] A young guy, very thin, and he comes to the door, and he wants to know if we have voted. And Christy says to him that she has already voted. And then he asks, well, has Peter Kaliner voted? And she says, well, if yeah, do you want to talk with him? Yeah, you can come on in. I was like, no. Stop.

[00:01:27] Because I'm literally, like, chewing my food as I'm walking out to the door. And I said, I already know who I'm going to vote for. I said, I work in news talk.

[00:01:42] I'm well aware of the candidates. I know some of them personally. I do not need to talk with you.

[00:01:47] But he knew that I was the one in the House that had not voted.

[00:01:53] And then he said, oh, do you know where you're going to vote? And I said, yes, I do. And I told him the location. Oh, do you know when you're going to vote? And I'm looking at him. He's got a little button on his little sweater vest there.

[00:02:03] And it's like something like, you know, be the change or we can do it or we can change everything or like we're commies, whatever, something like that.

[00:02:10] I don't remember what the button said, but it it gave off lefty vibes, you know.

[00:02:17] And for a split second, I almost thought, let's have some fun.

[00:02:22] But. I'm a nice guy, plus.

[00:02:27] This is my day off. I do not need to be engaging with this individual talking about, you know, politics and stuff on my day off.

[00:02:35] You know. If you want that kid, you listen to the program here noon to three.

[00:02:45] So let me go over and talk to Donald.

[00:02:48] Hello, Donald. Welcome to the program. How are you?

[00:02:52] I'm doing good.

[00:02:53] No, good.

[00:02:54] Enjoy listening to your show.

[00:02:56] Thanks, sir.

[00:02:56] When I get a chance.

[00:02:57] Well, thank you.

[00:02:58] When I'm not working.

[00:02:58] But I didn't know if it struck anybody else other than me.

[00:03:04] The Rachel Hunt ad with her coming out with a gallon of Clorox to go in Mark Robinson's office.

[00:03:13] Does that just think a little bit of racism?

[00:03:16] Well, if she were a Republican, yes.

[00:03:20] I think that would be all we would be hearing about that ad.

[00:03:25] But because she's a Democrat, she gets the protection of the media.

[00:03:29] That's the big D shield, as I call it.

[00:03:31] It protects her from any kind of attack.

[00:03:34] That would that would be what you're talking about.

[00:03:37] But I suspect her campaign recognizes that they did get a sufficient amount of blowback on that, that they turned the as I saw AP Dillon from the North State Journal.

[00:03:51] I saw a tweet from her this morning that said that they had turned that ad on the YouTube.

[00:03:59] They turned it to private.

[00:04:00] So you couldn't watch it on the YouTube channel unless, I guess, you had the direct link.

[00:04:05] So they took it.

[00:04:07] They they they turned it off as a publicly viewable video and they they made it privately viewable only.

[00:04:14] So, yeah.

[00:04:15] So, look, I understand.

[00:04:17] I don't think it's a clean city news this morning.

[00:04:18] Yeah.

[00:04:20] They're still running it on TV.

[00:04:21] And I think maybe part of that has to do with the fact that they bought the ad time and they may not have another ad to swap it out with.

[00:04:28] I don't know.

[00:04:29] Or they just are trying to contain it as a viral video that's causing them damage.

[00:04:36] Otherwise, I don't know why you would turn the YouTube video on to private, but leave it running on TV.

[00:04:43] But, you know, look, I do I think that Rachel Hunt was trying to make a racist video?

[00:04:50] No, I do not.

[00:04:52] Do I think that that would that it would be interpreted as such if her party identification were reversed?

[00:04:59] Yes, I do.

[00:05:01] I think, like I said, that that would be all anybody would be focusing on and everybody would be forced.

[00:05:06] Every Republican would be forced to defend or disavow the ad.

[00:05:10] I understand, like she's making a joke about having to clean the lieutenant governor's office because he has deposited various bodily fluids all over the office because of the stories accusing him of watching porn.

[00:05:30] That's that's the connection she's trying to make about having to disinfect the office is because, ew, he watched porn.

[00:05:38] Right.

[00:05:39] Even though the porn was on like VHS cassettes or something 20 years ago.

[00:05:44] Yeah, I know.

[00:05:45] But it's just the hypocrisy is what strikes me.

[00:05:47] Sure.

[00:05:48] Oh, yeah.

[00:05:48] Oh, yeah.

[00:05:49] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:05:50] There's a double standard.

[00:05:51] And the fact that no other Democrats are being asked to defend or disavow that ad is proof of the double standard, you know.

[00:05:58] And if anybody starts squawking too loudly about it being kind of racist, then the stories would be about the Republican reaction to the scandal, because that's journalism in rule number two, which is when Democrats are involved in a scandal.

[00:06:16] The media story is about the Republican reaction to the scandal.

[00:06:21] If a Republican is the subject of a scandal, then the media story is the scandal.

[00:06:26] Right.

[00:06:26] You just focus on the scandal.

[00:06:28] But if it's about a Democrat, then you focus on the reaction by Republicans.

[00:06:31] So that's like, yeah, that's the obvious standard.

[00:06:35] Donald, I appreciate the call.

[00:06:37] Yeah, she's been Rachel Hunt is running for lieutenant governor and decided to try to make the connection to Mark Robinson after the hit piece against him by CNN.

[00:06:50] And then.

[00:06:51] And then.

[00:06:52] Over the accusations that he had the porn that he's making comments on this porn website and then the porn shop employee.

[00:07:03] Who had made the accusations that Robinson was going into the porn shop and buying all these VHS movies all the time.

[00:07:09] So the idea is, oh, look at this.

[00:07:12] He watches all this porn.

[00:07:13] And so I'm going to have to, like, you know, scrub down the office because he's obviously watching porn in the lieutenant governor's office.

[00:07:19] Like, that's the message that she's conveying.

[00:07:23] I don't know if that.

[00:07:25] I don't know if that's particularly effective.

[00:07:28] You know, I don't know how many people know about the story.

[00:07:32] I don't know if they know the like the level of detail in order to make that joke land.

[00:07:38] I haven't seen the ad.

[00:07:39] She turned it private.

[00:07:40] I don't care to see the ad.

[00:07:42] It doesn't really matter to me.

[00:07:46] And she's trying to connect how weatherman to that.

[00:07:48] It's just it's just.

[00:07:51] It's just stupid.

[00:07:52] But we live in very stupid times and we have very stupid people that are running campaigns for stupid candidates.

[00:07:59] So here we are.

[00:08:01] You know, that's.

[00:08:02] Look, I mean, when I first started doing this, when I was I went from reporter to hosting.

[00:08:10] And I would do, you know, deep dives on policy and philosophy, the ideologies and stuff that animate the policies and the elected leaders and stuff.

[00:08:24] And like over the last 20 years.

[00:08:29] Like mankind has.

[00:08:32] Grown dumber at an accelerating rate, you know, or at least our politics has.

[00:08:38] And it's just it just it gets worse and worse.

[00:08:42] So, you know, Donald is correct.

[00:08:44] If the if Rachel Hunt had done that kind of an ad against a Democrat black man.

[00:08:50] Then.

[00:08:51] Then.

[00:08:52] There would be the obvious connection between bleach and race.

[00:08:59] So, again, I don't ascribe the worst motives to people.

[00:09:04] I assume that what the what the joke there was was about the porn stories, not the race.

[00:09:13] But if I were a, you know, political consultant or campaign manager or comms guy for a campaign.

[00:09:20] Oh, yeah.

[00:09:21] You totally make hay off of that.

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[00:10:26] Let's go to the phones.

[00:10:27] Corey.

[00:10:28] Hello, Corey.

[00:10:29] How are you doing today?

[00:10:31] Hey, thank you for taking my call.

[00:10:32] Yes, sir.

[00:10:34] Full disclosure, I'm not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, any of those fictitious.

[00:10:40] The ad about the young man to me didn't even remotely come near racist.

[00:10:46] But it did show the man's character.

[00:10:49] And I thought about how Hunter Biden was done the same way with the laptop, the accusations, things of that nature.

[00:10:56] So I'm just the one in the middle to say both parties are clowns and comical and American people just being fooled.

[00:11:03] So what what is the connection between the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was correct and and legitimate?

[00:11:13] And there's evidence that it is true.

[00:11:17] And there's evidence that it is true versus the story about Mark Robinson's comments on a porn site 15 years ago, which could not be corroborated.

[00:11:28] So you ask me what's the difference in the two?

[00:11:32] Yeah.

[00:11:33] Yeah.

[00:11:33] I mean, you said it was the same.

[00:11:35] One is corroborated and one wasn't.

[00:11:36] You just made that point.

[00:11:38] Right.

[00:11:38] But you said they you said they you said they were the same.

[00:11:42] Yeah, because they're both comical.

[00:11:44] They're just used to make sure you can decide on which person to be voted for side.

[00:11:49] So what's your opinion on the Hunter Biden laptop?

[00:11:53] Do you believe do you believe it was real?

[00:11:56] I really could care less whether it was real or not.

[00:11:59] Why?

[00:12:00] It had no bearing on me.

[00:12:03] OK, so do you know what the what was on the Hunter Biden laptop?

[00:12:08] And I'm not talking about the the naked pictures of Russia scandal, the the thing of the money.

[00:12:14] Right.

[00:12:15] That whole spider web.

[00:12:17] Right.

[00:12:17] So you don't think it would be important to know if Joe Biden's family is compromised by foreign governments?

[00:12:24] No, because all of them are.

[00:12:26] All all presidential candidates are compromised because they they took money from corrupt foreign governments.

[00:12:35] Yes, sir.

[00:12:37] Except for except for Kennedy.

[00:12:39] We see what happened to him.

[00:12:41] Do you think the Kennedys are not corrupted?

[00:12:46] To a degree.

[00:12:47] OK, so.

[00:12:49] So do you vote at all?

[00:12:51] No, sir.

[00:12:52] OK, cool.

[00:12:53] All right.

[00:12:53] Well, good talk.

[00:12:54] I mean, I don't know.

[00:12:55] So I don't know what what do you get out of listening to political discourse then?

[00:13:01] Oh, I get to hear the the lies, the foolery, the stories, the convict.

[00:13:06] But you don't believe any of it matters.

[00:13:12] No, it's a dog and pony show.

[00:13:14] Israel runs the show at the end of the day.

[00:13:16] Oh, there it is.

[00:13:17] Israel.

[00:13:18] It's the Jews.

[00:13:19] Right, Corey?

[00:13:20] The Jews run us all.

[00:13:22] No, just that old crazy man over there, whatever his name is.

[00:13:25] So one Jew.

[00:13:27] I don't care what his description is.

[00:13:29] I just know.

[00:13:29] I mean, you were the one that brought up.

[00:13:31] You said Israel, but then you limited it.

[00:13:33] You said Jews.

[00:13:34] No, no, no.

[00:13:34] You said Israel.

[00:13:37] You said Israel.

[00:13:38] So then I said the Jews.

[00:13:40] And then you said, no, just one.

[00:13:42] So that's not Israel.

[00:13:43] That's just one guy who leads Israel.

[00:13:46] Is that what you're saying?

[00:13:46] It's just one Jewish guy?

[00:13:49] Whoever that crazy guy is.

[00:13:51] You don't even know his name and he runs everything?

[00:13:53] I just can't pronounce it.

[00:13:54] I just can't pronounce it.

[00:13:55] That's all.

[00:13:55] I don't want to look like a fool trying to pronounce it.

[00:13:57] Benjamin Netanyahu.

[00:13:58] Or you can call him Bibby.

[00:14:00] Everybody calls him Bibby.

[00:14:01] Yeah.

[00:14:02] So you think Bibby runs everything?

[00:14:05] Oh, yeah.

[00:14:06] He was told you in his interview.

[00:14:07] So he runs the Democrats and the Republicans?

[00:14:13] Yeah, he told you in the interview.

[00:14:15] What did he tell me in what interview?

[00:14:16] He said America's in the palm of our hands.

[00:14:19] They love us so much.

[00:14:20] They will not buck back.

[00:14:22] And so what does that mean to you?

[00:14:25] That means the political party system is sold.

[00:14:31] The fact that America views Israel as an ally

[00:14:35] and will back Israel in virtually all cases,

[00:14:40] you equate that to being sold?

[00:14:43] All cases.

[00:14:45] That's preposterous.

[00:14:47] In virtually all, I said virtually all cases,

[00:14:49] because you're getting pushback from various sectors

[00:14:52] in the American population right now against Israel.

[00:14:56] And look what's being done to them.

[00:14:58] They're being ostracized and they're Americans.

[00:15:02] Well, I mean, being an American doesn't preclude you

[00:15:05] from being ostracized if you have really abhorrent views.

[00:15:08] Being from Israel does not put you above Americans.

[00:15:11] And did anybody make that case that they are above Americans?

[00:15:15] Surely is.

[00:15:16] If you start trying to get all these protesters rounded up.

[00:15:19] What do you mean rounded up?

[00:15:22] However Trump or however most of his supporters want to put it.

[00:15:26] But we're about to see it.

[00:15:28] We're about to see what?

[00:15:32] Protesters being arrested.

[00:15:34] Protesters being whatever they bring,

[00:15:38] which that they use when it comes to them.

[00:15:41] So if you've got people that are harassing and intimidating

[00:15:46] and even assaulting Jewish people on the streets,

[00:15:50] do you think that's protest?

[00:15:52] Or do you think that is an arrestable offense?

[00:15:55] I think it's wrong.

[00:15:56] That's not what I asked.

[00:16:01] It's wrong.

[00:16:02] Do you think that's,

[00:16:04] do you think that that is an arrestable offense?

[00:16:07] It depends on the action.

[00:16:09] Sure.

[00:16:09] So if you're right,

[00:16:11] if you are,

[00:16:11] let's say,

[00:16:12] blocking Jews from accessing a building.

[00:16:17] Not arrestable.

[00:16:18] No,

[00:16:19] you don't think that's arrestable.

[00:16:20] So how about surrounding Jews on the street and screaming at them as they attempt to,

[00:16:26] you know,

[00:16:27] go about their lives in peace?

[00:16:29] It's not arrestable.

[00:16:30] Not arrestable.

[00:16:31] How about taking over public property with tents and such?

[00:16:37] It's not arrestable.

[00:16:38] Yeah.

[00:16:39] How about calling for the annihilation of Jews?

[00:16:44] It's not arrestable.

[00:16:45] Hmm.

[00:16:46] So is there anything that is arrestable when it comes to harassing Jews?

[00:16:51] putting your hands on me.

[00:16:52] Somebody physically.

[00:16:54] Okay,

[00:16:54] well,

[00:16:54] that's just battery.

[00:16:55] What about assault?

[00:16:56] Because what you've just described is battery.

[00:16:59] What about just assault?

[00:17:00] Mm-hmm.

[00:17:03] Because what I outlined,

[00:17:04] your hair is,

[00:17:05] no,

[00:17:06] because what I,

[00:17:07] if I'm saying,

[00:17:07] hey,

[00:17:07] Pete,

[00:17:08] your hair is raggedy,

[00:17:09] I'm assaulting you verbally.

[00:17:10] No,

[00:17:11] if there's an element of intimidation or an implied threat.

[00:17:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:17:17] Right?

[00:17:17] And so,

[00:17:17] like,

[00:17:18] that's what I was describing are various cases that are assault.

[00:17:22] Where you,

[00:17:23] like,

[00:17:23] if I were to just jump out at you,

[00:17:25] like,

[00:17:25] to scare you,

[00:17:26] quote,

[00:17:26] unquote,

[00:17:27] like,

[00:17:27] that's assault.

[00:17:28] That's why it's assault and battery.

[00:17:29] If I jump out,

[00:17:31] scare you,

[00:17:31] and then I hit you,

[00:17:32] then that's assault and battery.

[00:17:35] So,

[00:17:35] what you said,

[00:17:36] like,

[00:17:37] these levels of assault that I ran through,

[00:17:39] like,

[00:17:39] to you,

[00:17:40] those are not,

[00:17:41] those are not arrestable offenses.

[00:17:43] No, sir.

[00:17:43] If you jump out and try to scare me,

[00:17:45] I'm going to go,

[00:17:45] oh,

[00:17:45] my Jesus.

[00:17:46] But you're not getting arrested.

[00:17:48] No,

[00:17:48] with the,

[00:17:49] if I,

[00:17:49] yes,

[00:17:50] you can be arrested.

[00:17:51] That's cool.

[00:17:51] Like I said,

[00:17:52] that's assault.

[00:17:52] I would not put charges on you.

[00:17:54] Well,

[00:17:54] you may not.

[00:17:54] I would not do that to you.

[00:17:55] Corey,

[00:17:56] you may not.

[00:17:57] But if I,

[00:17:58] hang on,

[00:17:58] that's good.

[00:18:02] 200 other people.

[00:18:03] Corey,

[00:18:04] if I,

[00:18:05] you have that right.

[00:18:05] If I,

[00:18:06] along with 200 other people,

[00:18:08] all surround you,

[00:18:10] and,

[00:18:11] and cost you,

[00:18:12] right,

[00:18:12] and jump at you,

[00:18:13] and intimidate,

[00:18:14] and threaten you,

[00:18:16] you're saying,

[00:18:17] that's not arrestable.

[00:18:18] And I'm saying that,

[00:18:19] I'm saying that,

[00:18:20] that actually is,

[00:18:21] an arrestable offense.

[00:18:23] And most people that,

[00:18:24] because you're scared.

[00:18:26] That's why it's arrestable.

[00:18:27] Your fear.

[00:18:28] No,

[00:18:28] it's because the action,

[00:18:30] of the person doing the thing,

[00:18:32] is codified,

[00:18:34] as against the law.

[00:18:36] So if y'all do it to each other,

[00:18:37] then what?

[00:18:38] Corey,

[00:18:38] Corey,

[00:18:39] you're being purposefully obtuse,

[00:18:41] because I think you feel like,

[00:18:42] Yes,

[00:18:42] I am.

[00:18:43] Yes,

[00:18:43] I am.

[00:18:43] You know that.

[00:18:44] Yeah,

[00:18:44] yeah,

[00:18:49] think.

[00:18:49] I mean,

[00:18:50] I don't know,

[00:18:50] I could have done anything,

[00:18:51] and that I prepped,

[00:18:52] rather than,

[00:18:54] kill that eight minutes.

[00:18:55] Anyway,

[00:18:56] I can't believe,

[00:18:59] and,

[00:18:59] this is not,

[00:19:00] this is not that Ben Dreyfuss.

[00:19:03] Or wait,

[00:19:04] the actor,

[00:19:05] is his name Ben Dreyfuss?

[00:19:07] Richard Dreyfuss.

[00:19:08] Ben,

[00:19:08] I think is his son.

[00:19:09] But maybe not.

[00:19:10] Let me see.

[00:19:11] I don't care.

[00:19:14] I think it is actually his son.

[00:19:15] Anyway,

[00:19:16] he says,

[00:19:16] I can't believe,

[00:19:17] in a little over one week,

[00:19:18] half of the country,

[00:19:20] and we still don't know,

[00:19:21] even which half.

[00:19:27] Steve says,

[00:19:28] Pete,

[00:19:29] it would appear that Corey,

[00:19:30] does not know the meaning,

[00:19:31] of the word obtuse.

[00:19:34] Or maybe he does.

[00:19:35] I don't know.

[00:19:36] Yeah,

[00:19:36] I don't think he does.

[00:19:40] Alan says,

[00:19:41] Corey is the king of vagary.

[00:19:44] Since he has no substance,

[00:19:46] he cannot make a point.

[00:19:49] No,

[00:19:49] I think,

[00:19:50] I think the point he was making,

[00:19:52] was,

[00:19:53] that it's the Jews,

[00:20:00] actually,

[00:20:01] no,

[00:20:01] sorry,

[00:20:01] it's just one.

[00:20:02] My bad.

[00:20:02] Sorry.

[00:20:03] I don't want to mischaracterize.

[00:20:04] It's just one.

[00:20:05] It's one Jewish man,

[00:20:07] is able to control,

[00:20:07] all of America,

[00:20:09] and all of the people,

[00:20:10] all of the,

[00:20:14] yeah.

[00:20:17] Um,

[00:20:20] oh,

[00:20:20] hang on a second.

[00:20:21] I did not mean to delete that.

[00:20:23] John says,

[00:20:24] the frightening part of that call,

[00:20:25] was realizing that there are people,

[00:20:27] who think he is intelligent.

[00:20:29] Well,

[00:20:30] I'm sure Corey believes,

[00:20:32] that his ideas make sense.

[00:20:34] Most people do not hold views,

[00:20:36] that they believe are incorrect,

[00:20:38] right?

[00:20:39] And so Corey believes that,

[00:20:40] he has it figured out,

[00:20:42] and I'm sure that gives him peace.

[00:20:44] And I'm sure he really does believe,

[00:20:45] that he is,

[00:20:46] he is none of these labels,

[00:20:48] none of these political labels,

[00:20:50] but he doesn't vote.

[00:20:51] So,

[00:20:54] that's awesome.

[00:20:55] No,

[00:20:55] really,

[00:20:56] it's awesome,

[00:20:57] that he does not vote.

[00:20:58] He is not going to cancel out,

[00:21:00] anybody else,

[00:21:01] who pays attention.

[00:21:02] So,

[00:21:03] that's a good thing.

[00:21:05] Um,

[00:21:08] yeah,

[00:21:09] Greg does not believe,

[00:21:10] that Corey is a neutral observer.

[00:21:12] Uh,

[00:21:13] Stan says,

[00:21:13] you confirm for me,

[00:21:14] why I like you,

[00:21:15] and listen to your show.

[00:21:17] Anyone whose idea of fun,

[00:21:18] in their off time,

[00:21:19] is messing with the minds,

[00:21:21] of the lefty vibes type,

[00:21:22] is my kind of person.

[00:21:24] Sometimes it's just too hard,

[00:21:25] to resist though.

[00:21:26] Yeah,

[00:21:26] no,

[00:21:27] it's,

[00:21:28] I,

[00:21:29] yes,

[00:21:29] I'm aware the live streaming,

[00:21:31] uh,

[00:21:31] is,

[00:21:31] uh,

[00:21:32] not working correctly,

[00:21:33] or has not been working correctly.

[00:21:35] Um,

[00:21:37] the previous caller said,

[00:21:38] he thought all politicians were on the take,

[00:21:40] and it didn't matter enough to vote,

[00:21:42] but still listens to it all,

[00:21:43] and then blames all of the world's ills,

[00:21:47] on the Jews.

[00:21:49] No.

[00:21:51] No.

[00:21:52] Just one.

[00:21:53] It's just one.

[00:21:55] But he doesn't want to appear stupid,

[00:21:56] because he can't pronounce a name correctly.

[00:21:58] It's an example of why this country is in trouble.

[00:22:02] Don't know how I feel about him voting.

[00:22:04] Catch 22 for me there.

[00:22:05] Yeah.

[00:22:05] No,

[00:22:06] it's good that he's not voting.

[00:22:07] He's not canceling somebody else's vote out,

[00:22:10] who has actually,

[00:22:10] you know,

[00:22:11] done their homework,

[00:22:12] enough to,

[00:22:13] you know,

[00:22:13] give a flying fig Newton,

[00:22:15] about the direction of the country.

[00:22:18] Um,

[00:22:20] let me get to this piece here.

[00:22:21] I've had it for a couple of days.

[00:22:23] It was by David Strom,

[00:22:24] again,

[00:22:25] from hotair.com.

[00:22:26] Um,

[00:22:28] it's about a week ago.

[00:22:31] And,

[00:22:31] uh,

[00:22:32] he makes the argument that this election is not about race.

[00:22:35] It's not about party.

[00:22:36] It's about class.

[00:22:38] Not like,

[00:22:39] I'm classy.

[00:22:41] Not like that.

[00:22:42] But,

[00:22:43] class as in social structures.

[00:22:46] I would quote the entire thing.

[00:22:49] I would read the whole thing to you,

[00:22:50] but I'm not going to do that.

[00:22:51] I'm going to give you the highlights as I do.

[00:22:54] The coalitions,

[00:22:55] he says that once were the Republican and Democrat parties have cracked and begun to fall apart.

[00:23:02] And in their place,

[00:23:03] a new alignment is developing that's based almost entirely on social class,

[00:23:08] not economic classes,

[00:23:09] which in the United States are more fluid than anywhere else in the world.

[00:23:13] Right?

[00:23:14] Because you could become rich and then you can fall out of that rich class if you lose your money.

[00:23:19] Right?

[00:23:20] But social classes,

[00:23:22] which are hardly as fluid because they are foundational to our identity in a way that our purchasing power is not.

[00:23:32] Right?

[00:23:33] You can have a lot of money,

[00:23:34] but still be low class.

[00:23:35] You can have no money,

[00:23:37] but still be classy.

[00:23:38] You know?

[00:23:38] Like,

[00:23:39] it's your social class,

[00:23:41] as he's talking about.

[00:23:43] Right?

[00:23:43] You have manners.

[00:23:45] You don't have to have money to have manners.

[00:23:48] You don't have to have money to have certain ideological views.

[00:23:53] White college educated voters,

[00:23:55] especially those who have attended prestigious colleges and universities,

[00:23:59] and the cultural elite are four square behind the Democrats in a vote blue,

[00:24:04] no matter who fashion.

[00:24:06] Working class people,

[00:24:08] increasingly of every race,

[00:24:10] are backing Trump and moving towards the populist Republicans.

[00:24:14] Blacks and Hispanics are trending rightward,

[00:24:18] while suburban white collar voters are increasingly Democrat.

[00:24:22] Democrat.

[00:24:23] I was watching a program.

[00:24:24] I actually pulled some of the audio.

[00:24:25] Maybe I'll play it tomorrow.

[00:24:27] I was going to play it today,

[00:24:27] but I'll play it tomorrow.

[00:24:28] It's from a PBS roundtable discussion show called State Lines,

[00:24:35] and it's hosted by Kelly McCullen,

[00:24:39] and he had on two strategists,

[00:24:43] Paul Shoemaker from the Republican side

[00:24:46] and Morgan Jackson from the Democrat side,

[00:24:48] and one of them,

[00:24:50] I forget who it was,

[00:24:51] I think it was Jackson,

[00:24:52] the Democrat,

[00:24:52] who said that college education,

[00:24:55] whether or not you have a college degree,

[00:24:56] is like the best indicator right now

[00:24:59] of which party you're going to vote for.

[00:25:03] But do not say that educational institutions

[00:25:08] are indoctrinating people into a certain way of thinking.

[00:25:11] Okay, that's just crazy talk.

[00:25:14] It's just coincidental that after you go through the college system,

[00:25:18] you come out a lefty.

[00:25:24] There was an essay by Joseph Epstein.

[00:25:27] Epstein,

[00:25:29] who wrote a piece at the Wall Street Journal,

[00:25:31] and he explained

[00:25:32] why he simply cannot vote for Trump

[00:25:34] despite finding him ideologically simpatico

[00:25:37] on most of the major issues.

[00:25:39] In other words,

[00:25:40] this guy Epstein,

[00:25:42] who as I understand it did not kill himself,

[00:25:44] but he wrote a piece at the Wall Street Journal

[00:25:45] saying like basically he agrees with Trump on stuff,

[00:25:47] but he just can't bring himself to vote for Trump.

[00:25:49] What's precisely wrong with him, he writes?

[00:25:51] Well, to start with the obvious,

[00:25:53] his vanity,

[00:25:54] his preposterously bleached and elaborately quaffed hairdo,

[00:26:00] his sprayed-on tan,

[00:26:01] the lengthy neckties,

[00:26:05] add to this his propensity

[00:26:07] for insulting his political enemies,

[00:26:09] his hyperbole.

[00:26:12] Now, the author, David Strom,

[00:26:14] of this piece at Hot Air,

[00:26:16] says, broadly speaking,

[00:26:17] he is of the same class as Epstein.

[00:26:21] He kind of goes through

[00:26:22] and he highlights all of the similarities

[00:26:25] in their background,

[00:26:26] you know, college degree,

[00:26:27] middle-class family,

[00:26:29] like Kamala, right?

[00:26:30] Anyway,

[00:26:30] and to be honest,

[00:26:32] he says,

[00:26:32] I do find Donald Trump crass and bombastic.

[00:26:35] Trump is not of my class,

[00:26:37] in other words,

[00:26:38] and I have a residual distaste

[00:26:40] for his Queens,

[00:26:42] New York,

[00:26:43] loudness of voice,

[00:26:45] his locker room talk,

[00:26:46] and his gaudiness.

[00:26:48] The difference is,

[00:26:50] I don't really care about any of that.

[00:26:52] It is not just superficial,

[00:26:53] it is stupid to care.

[00:26:55] After all,

[00:26:56] members of my class are worse in every way.

[00:26:58] They virtue signal by approving

[00:27:00] the murder of infants,

[00:27:01] the sterilization and mutilization of children,

[00:27:04] and the recruitment of teens

[00:27:05] into alphabet cults.

[00:27:06] They sacrifice the well-being

[00:27:08] of my fellow citizens

[00:27:09] and import into the country

[00:27:10] criminals and uneducated welfare recipients,

[00:27:13] hoping to recruit them

[00:27:14] to become low-wage workers on farms,

[00:27:16] nursing homes,

[00:27:17] and lawn care companies.

[00:27:18] The educated class

[00:27:19] finds their fellow Americans so crass

[00:27:22] that they must be censored.

[00:27:24] They view us as disease vectors

[00:27:27] from COVID.

[00:27:28] Remember that?

[00:27:28] They call us deplorables,

[00:27:30] and they want to restrict our mobility

[00:27:32] and reduce the energy consumption

[00:27:33] that we need

[00:27:34] to make a better life for ourselves.

[00:27:36] That they do all of this

[00:27:38] while speaking in the dulcet tones

[00:27:40] of midwit NPR hosts

[00:27:42] is no comfort.

[00:27:43] In fact,

[00:27:44] it is even more infuriating.

[00:27:47] Right?

[00:27:47] That's the thing I...

[00:27:48] He has put his finger on it.

[00:27:50] The thing that drives me

[00:27:51] the most nuts about NPR

[00:27:54] is it's not...

[00:27:55] It's not the bias

[00:27:57] that's so overt and obvious,

[00:28:00] but it's the delivery.

[00:28:02] It's the delivery as if

[00:28:03] I am superior

[00:28:05] because I am talking to you like this,

[00:28:08] and so I'm going to say

[00:28:09] completely bat guano crazy stuff,

[00:28:12] but it's going to sound true

[00:28:14] because I'm saying it like this.

[00:28:17] Sorry, not enough vocal fry there.

[00:28:19] I should have done more of that.

[00:28:23] Vocal fry.

[00:28:25] I guess it's a job requirement over there.

[00:28:27] I don't know.

[00:28:28] I'm getting a message here from Bibby

[00:28:31] of how to address this latest topic.

[00:28:35] No, I'm kidding.

[00:28:37] David Strom writing at hotair.com

[00:28:41] talking about how this is an election

[00:28:43] about social class.

[00:28:46] What have I been saying?

[00:28:47] That the parties are realigning, right?

[00:28:49] We are witnessing a realignment

[00:28:51] of the two political parties,

[00:28:56] and it looks like they're starting

[00:28:58] to kind of take some bit of shape,

[00:29:03] and you've got sort of this,

[00:29:04] you know,

[00:29:05] this populist working class social movement

[00:29:09] on the Republican side,

[00:29:11] and then you've got this

[00:29:12] quote-unquote intelligentsia,

[00:29:14] this, I would say,

[00:29:16] over-educated class

[00:29:19] that looked down their nose

[00:29:21] on a lot of people.

[00:29:23] I mean, I think it's,

[00:29:24] when you look at the way

[00:29:27] that the Madison Square Garden rally

[00:29:30] was covered

[00:29:32] by those people in that second class,

[00:29:35] right,

[00:29:36] the quote-unquote intelligentsia,

[00:29:38] the white-collar class,

[00:29:39] if you will,

[00:29:40] I mean, they're dismissing

[00:29:41] all of the people at the rally

[00:29:43] as like some sort of

[00:29:44] modern incarnation of Nazis

[00:29:47] because they held a rally

[00:29:49] for their candidate

[00:29:50] at Madison Square Garden,

[00:29:51] which is just patently absurd.

[00:29:55] I mean, again,

[00:29:57] like, Madison Square Garden

[00:29:58] is an iconic place,

[00:30:00] and anybody from New York

[00:30:03] would love to do a rally

[00:30:04] and fill up Madison Square Garden,

[00:30:05] would love to play

[00:30:06] Madison Square Garden,

[00:30:07] like, to go to Madison,

[00:30:08] MSG,

[00:30:09] I mean, people love it.

[00:30:12] In fact, I had a,

[00:30:14] where was it here?

[00:30:15] Oh, yeah, here it is.

[00:30:16] John said,

[00:30:18] how long did Billy Joel

[00:30:19] play at Madison Square Garden?

[00:30:20] Didn't he have a concert there

[00:30:22] like once a week or something?

[00:30:23] Yes, he did.

[00:30:24] His residency or whatever.

[00:30:27] Yeah, he,

[00:30:30] yeah, he did it for,

[00:30:32] yeah,

[00:30:32] his residency

[00:30:33] at Madison Square Garden

[00:30:35] lasted 10 years

[00:30:36] and included 104 monthly shows.

[00:30:39] That was from John.

[00:30:41] Right, does that mean that,

[00:30:42] that he's a Nazi?

[00:30:44] Because there was a rally,

[00:30:48] actually, hang on a second.

[00:30:51] I thought I had a,

[00:30:53] yeah, here it is.

[00:30:55] This was from Chip.

[00:30:57] At the risk of sounding

[00:30:58] like a Nazi apologist,

[00:30:59] oh, I love emails

[00:31:00] that start like that,

[00:31:01] the German-American Bund

[00:31:03] held the gathering

[00:31:05] in February of 1939.

[00:31:08] Germany did not invade Poland

[00:31:10] until September,

[00:31:11] so like nine months later.

[00:31:13] There were probably five times

[00:31:15] as many protesters

[00:31:16] outside of MSG

[00:31:18] than participants inside.

[00:31:20] Don't forget that both Stalin

[00:31:22] and Mussolini

[00:31:23] were popular in the U.S.

[00:31:26] at various points

[00:31:27] during that period.

[00:31:28] Cherry-picking history

[00:31:29] is as old

[00:31:30] as history itself.

[00:31:32] Indeed.

[00:31:33] Right?

[00:31:34] You'll recall

[00:31:35] that America

[00:31:37] had

[00:31:37] its own

[00:31:39] dalliances,

[00:31:40] if you will,

[00:31:41] in

[00:31:42] social engineering.

[00:31:45] They called it

[00:31:46] eugenics,

[00:31:47] Planned Parenthood,

[00:31:49] Margaret Sanger,

[00:31:50] Charles Kuralt's

[00:31:52] father,

[00:31:53] Charles Kuralt,

[00:31:54] the famous

[00:31:54] North Carolina

[00:31:55] journalist guy,

[00:31:56] his dad

[00:31:57] was like

[00:31:58] the Mecklenburg County

[00:31:59] health commissioner

[00:32:01] or something,

[00:32:02] and he was all in

[00:32:04] on this stuff.

[00:32:06] So,

[00:32:07] this was the,

[00:32:09] it was the,

[00:32:10] it was the original

[00:32:11] earliest form

[00:32:12] of this idea

[00:32:13] that technocrats

[00:32:14] will save us,

[00:32:16] that these

[00:32:17] quote-unquote

[00:32:17] experts

[00:32:18] using science

[00:32:19] and data,

[00:32:20] that these people

[00:32:21] will be able to

[00:32:22] construct

[00:32:22] all the parameters

[00:32:24] needed

[00:32:24] for our society

[00:32:26] to function

[00:32:26] properly,

[00:32:27] because they're

[00:32:28] the experts.

[00:32:30] Not you,

[00:32:31] hoi polloi.

[00:32:33] Right?

[00:32:33] So,

[00:32:33] this is still

[00:32:34] the same

[00:32:37] class structure,

[00:32:38] I don't want to say

[00:32:39] class warfare,

[00:32:40] but this is still

[00:32:40] the same

[00:32:41] disagreement,

[00:32:42] shall we say.

[00:32:44] David Strom

[00:32:44] goes on to say,

[00:32:45] I recognize in

[00:32:46] Trump all the flaws

[00:32:48] that the writer

[00:32:49] at the Wall Street

[00:32:50] Journal

[00:32:51] wrote about,

[00:32:52] he sees the flaws,

[00:32:53] I see the flaws,

[00:32:55] I would have

[00:32:56] preferred a

[00:32:57] different candidate

[00:32:58] or a more

[00:32:59] modest Donald

[00:33:00] Trump for that

[00:33:00] matter,

[00:33:01] but Trump is

[00:33:02] the right man

[00:33:02] for the job

[00:33:03] at the right

[00:33:04] time,

[00:33:04] Strom says.

[00:33:05] That is why

[00:33:06] mavericks,

[00:33:07] people who care

[00:33:08] more about results

[00:33:09] than vibes,

[00:33:11] that's why

[00:33:12] mavericks are

[00:33:12] flocking to

[00:33:13] Trump,

[00:33:14] that Elon Musk,

[00:33:15] whose sophomoric

[00:33:17] sense of humor

[00:33:18] is as classless

[00:33:20] as Trump's

[00:33:21] boastfulness,

[00:33:21] but that's why

[00:33:22] Musk has allied

[00:33:23] himself with

[00:33:24] Trump,

[00:33:24] and it says

[00:33:25] quite a bit

[00:33:26] actually.

[00:33:26] The man

[00:33:27] who will get

[00:33:28] us to Mars

[00:33:29] before NASA

[00:33:30] gets us

[00:33:30] back to the

[00:33:31] moon

[00:33:31] is backing

[00:33:32] Trump because

[00:33:33] he knows

[00:33:34] that a classy

[00:33:35] decline

[00:33:35] is still

[00:33:36] a decline

[00:33:37] and that

[00:33:39] progress

[00:33:39] and brashness

[00:33:40] are often

[00:33:42] traveling

[00:33:43] hand in

[00:33:43] hand.

[00:33:44] It was not

[00:33:45] the soft-handed,

[00:33:47] tweed-wearing

[00:33:47] college professors

[00:33:48] who settled

[00:33:49] the West.

[00:33:50] It was

[00:33:51] hard men

[00:33:51] doing hard

[00:33:52] things

[00:33:53] with hardy

[00:33:54] wives

[00:33:54] who braved

[00:33:55] the wilds.

[00:33:58] He goes

[00:33:58] on to say

[00:33:59] it is often

[00:34:00] the crass

[00:34:01] and the hardy

[00:34:02] who push

[00:34:03] humanity forward.

[00:34:05] It is

[00:34:06] General Patton's

[00:34:07] who win wars

[00:34:08] on the battlefield.

[00:34:09] MacArthur

[00:34:10] was crass

[00:34:11] and egotistical

[00:34:12] and you

[00:34:12] wouldn't want

[00:34:13] a world

[00:34:13] only populated

[00:34:14] by such people.

[00:34:15] But

[00:34:17] society

[00:34:17] needs them

[00:34:19] especially

[00:34:20] when it is

[00:34:20] in trouble

[00:34:21] and America

[00:34:22] is in

[00:34:23] trouble.

[00:34:24] That's David

[00:34:25] Strom.

[00:34:26] I just gave you

[00:34:26] the highlights.

[00:34:27] Like I said,

[00:34:27] I would have

[00:34:27] done the whole

[00:34:28] thing,

[00:34:28] the whole

[00:34:29] piece.

[00:34:29] It was

[00:34:30] headlined,

[00:34:31] as I said,

[00:34:32] this election

[00:34:32] is about

[00:34:33] class,

[00:34:33] not race

[00:34:34] or party.

[00:34:34] And I

[00:34:35] found it

[00:34:36] dead on

[00:34:37] mainly because

[00:34:38] it confirmed

[00:34:39] what I had

[00:34:39] already been

[00:34:40] saying for

[00:34:40] the last

[00:34:41] couple of

[00:34:41] years.

[00:34:41] And so

[00:34:42] it's always

[00:34:42] good when

[00:34:42] somebody

[00:34:43] in a

[00:34:43] position

[00:34:44] of

[00:34:47] higher

[00:34:47] media

[00:34:48] reach,

[00:34:48] you know,

[00:34:49] when they

[00:34:50] say things

[00:34:51] that confirm

[00:34:51] my prior

[00:34:52] opinion.

[00:34:53] Those make

[00:34:54] the best

[00:34:54] columns for

[00:34:55] me to read.

[00:34:55] I'm sure

[00:34:56] you feel

[00:34:56] the same.

[00:34:58] Ari

[00:34:59] Fleischer,

[00:34:59] the former

[00:35:00] press secretary

[00:35:01] for the

[00:35:02] George W.

[00:35:03] Bush White

[00:35:03] House.

[00:35:04] He says

[00:35:05] he's got

[00:35:07] some data

[00:35:07] out of

[00:35:09] Pennsylvania

[00:35:09] that when

[00:35:13] Obama was

[00:35:14] president,

[00:35:15] Democrats

[00:35:16] had a

[00:35:16] voter

[00:35:17] registration

[00:35:18] advantage

[00:35:19] over

[00:35:19] Republicans.

[00:35:20] Democrats

[00:35:20] had 1.3

[00:35:23] million more

[00:35:25] voters

[00:35:25] registered

[00:35:26] in Pennsylvania

[00:35:27] than Republicans

[00:35:28] did when

[00:35:30] Obama was

[00:35:31] president.

[00:35:32] 1.3

[00:35:33] million.

[00:35:33] Now

[00:35:34] it's below

[00:35:35] 300,000

[00:35:36] margin.

[00:35:37] That is a

[00:35:38] 1 million

[00:35:39] voter loss

[00:35:40] for Democrats.

[00:35:42] Pennsylvania,

[00:35:43] he says,

[00:35:44] is turning

[00:35:45] to the

[00:35:45] red side

[00:35:46] of purple.

[00:35:48] Not just

[00:35:49] boosting

[00:35:49] Trump's

[00:35:50] chances,

[00:35:51] but also

[00:35:51] Dave McCormick

[00:35:52] in his

[00:35:53] Senate race.

[00:35:54] He said

[00:35:54] this is a

[00:35:55] huge shift.

[00:35:57] See,

[00:35:58] and I like

[00:35:58] that tweet

[00:35:59] because once

[00:35:59] again,

[00:36:00] it seems

[00:36:01] to confirm

[00:36:01] what I've

[00:36:02] been saying,

[00:36:02] that there's

[00:36:02] a realignment

[00:36:03] of the parties.

[00:36:04] All right,

[00:36:04] that'll do it

[00:36:05] for this episode.

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