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Guaranteed Human.

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

How are you doing?

We had to play those numb-nut chicks that were at the Louis G. Mangi-Man Gioni trial.

We've got to play those again. I want to hear myself, and I already heard them once. They're, they're, those astounding. And I will remind you, I don't think they're numb nuts at all. Interesting. I think they're activists. Okay. Well, then maybe that fits in with or doesn't fit in with what I'm about to talk about. I think this is really interesting.

They're activists and numb nuts, clearly.

There are numb nuts involved in a lot of the bad stuff that happens in our country in the world and world history.

According to this, there's a new book out, and this article about it in the New York Times called,

Actually, Democracy Dies in HR.

Actually, this is from the Washington Post, not the New York Times.

Actually, democracy dies in HR, which is a pretty good headline from the Washington Post who had the sub-headline of democracy dies in darkness.

New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarian's maintain power.

And I found this quite fascinating.

Wow.

I can read this whole long article, but it would take like an hour.

But it talks about Putin and Orban and Hungary and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iran, and just any dictatorship you want.

And, of course, they try to extrapolate it to any burgeoning autocracy we have in the United States.

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