Charlie James talks AI threats, GOP strategy, and modern political tropes.

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Full Transcript Charlie James: All right, let's go to the Ingles Market Talk Line. We'll talk to Robert in Mills River. Robert, what's on your mind, friend? Robert: Um, I'm just calling in, Charlie, to let people know, you know, the Quality Learning Center and all that. And if people—yeah, and if people like used to read comic books like I did as a kid, Ultron's kind of as most AI as you could get, you know? Ultron, they build him, and he thought, "Well, I'm smarter than they are," and he nearly killed all of the Avengers! So I mean, um— Charlie James: Yeah, you're right. Robert: That's how—that's how it is. Charlie James: What we have got going on right now is a very dangerous, very scary thing. And it's like they're talking about over at Anthropic, they got to find a way to make sure that it doesn't break containment in some way. Now listen, that's the best way I can put it. In other words, if you give AI a problem, "Solve this problem," and then AI decides you're the problem, what the heck's going to happen there? Well, the um the midterm convention is underway in Dallas, Texas. They're calling it the "Trump-a-palooza." Trump is going to be speaking tonight and tomorrow night at this event. Now, here's the thing: Trump has said tomorrow night he's going to lay out something um in his speech that is just going to blow your minds. Well, we'll see what happens with that uh coming up tomorrow night. But these Republicans, they've got a problem right now. They've got to make sure that they—they regain control of the House and the Senate. And hopefully they'll do so, "Oh, we promise we'll do something with it this time," yeah, whatever. So, one of the things that they really need to do is they really need to point out the utter hypocrisy of the folks at the Democratic Socialists of America. They have to do that. There was—there was actually a um uh what was it? It was a uh the socialist convention of of sorts, and they tried to tell you that fitness—fitness was fascism. That's right. You—you heard me right: fitness is fascism. In fact, they had this—this one guy on there uh who described himself as a "fat queer." A fat queer, he's a communist activist, and he wants you to know that getting fit is nothing more than fascism. Folks, you literally cannot make this stuff up. You cannot make it up. In fact, he goes on to blame um uh what is it uh GLP-1s, he's calling that fascism. I really think these people need to learn the definition of what fascism—what fascism is. Listen to this guy, here we go: Audio Clip: "The political deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people. This is a structural critique that asks what happens when the conditions produced by capitalism, by public health, by the state apparatus, and by anti-Black desire align around a single bodily ideal that leaves little to no room for diversions and punishes any body that does. Whereas earlier diet drugs were often associated with vanity or addiction, GLP-1s are positioned as responsible medicine, promising relief rather than restraint. But to understand why the deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic requires turning to Frantz Fanon's account of Black flesh under colonial surveillance..." Charlie James: Oh my gosh, so many words! They love their words over on the left. Colonialization—what the what the heck does GLP-1 have to do with—I will agree with him on one thing: GLP-1s do not change behavior. And you, sir, need your behavior changed, because you're a fatty boombalatty. And maybe you ought to look into these GLP-1s. That's it! They don't even—they even—because some people, you see, that's the whole thing about socialism. Whole thing about socialism: it's based on envy. There are some people out there that can push away from the table. Some people can't. And the people that can't are envious of the people that can. The ...

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