Today's Poll Question: Would A Bernie/AOC Ticket Be Viable In 2028?

0:00You're ready to vote on today's Daily Pull question at smirkconnish.com. But first, Michael explains it for you right here. Welcome to the Smirkconnish podcast from SiriusXM for independent vines. Hello, hello. Today is Friday. It's the 25th of September. Very interesting poll result yesterday in heavy voting. The glass half full answer one out, which is more likely A.I.N.s humanity or A.I. Cures cancer. Cures cancer wins by a long shot. And I asked that question because I've had such a great week of reading and interesting books. And one of them was Josh Tear and Gal. Josh Tear and Gal who wrote a book called A.I. for good. And as I said yesterday in the poll podcast against, I won't go through it all again in detail. But there's been this heavy, heavy reporting of doom and gloom about artificial intelligence.

1:02From one bucket that A.I. could someday slip its rails and turn against us. Cox and I think it was Jacob Cox in the anthropic researcher really started that ball rolling. And he then quit the company and anthropic zone CEO Dario Amadei said, you know, the guy's right. And then the second bucket, the one that I'm more concerned about is that A.I. doesn't need to turn against humanity in order to do catastrophic harm. It only needs to be in the wrong hands or needs people to trust it when it's wrong. Like that incident in the Middle East where there was confrontation between an American and Chinese ship that we thought was carrying nuclear weapon components, but it wasn't. It was it was bad info from a chatbot. And then the report from anthropic 140 pages worth that said A.I. has already been used by malevolent actors. And then comes Josh Tyrangel who wrote writes the book A.I. for good. And it's a story of him doing field work at the behest of an editor from the Washington post

2:08and coming back with real stories of people who aren't well known. They're not involved in vanity projects. And frankly, they don't even have tech backgrounds, but they stumble into situations and their curiosity and their fervor for knowledge is such that they end up using artificial intelligence in different scenarios for good in education, in medicine, relative to mental and emotional health in seeking to bring about more effective government, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So yeah, I thought that was really interesting. You know, if I had asked that poll question without the benefit of that interview, I'm not so sure that it would have generated that answer. Today's poll question is a fun one hat tip to Mark Halpern. I'll explain in just a moment, but here it is. Would a Bernie AOC ticket be viable in 2028? This were conch podcast from serious exam. Thank you to my friends at Parks Casino Falls here.

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5:17this again because that schedule was so brutal. But for every primary and for every caucus and every debate and then the election, you know, I was on that, that CNN panel sitting there next to Nea Malika Henderson to my left, then Gloria Borsher to her left and the David Axelrod and then Anderson Cooper in the middle. I can picture it. I can so picture it. And then across from us, more or less a rotating cast of individuals. Yeah. That was the Jeff Zucker era at CNN and it was Jeff who invited me to be on that, that panel and I did it for the whole, the whole cycle, including election item. When that election ended, you know, five o'clock in the morning, having been on all night long, got into a car that they supplied to me with David Axelrod, dropped him off at his hotel, headed for my hotel. It's now 5 a.m. and David Urban, who had been Donald Trump's campaign manager for Pennsylvania, calls me. Didn't need a suit or something. He needed a suit, headed to his apartment because he needed clothes because he had a lot

6:21of TV invitations. Yeah. That was just a little interesting trip down memory lane. Thank you for that. So no, I'm not doing it again in the next cycle. But here's the point I want to make. Here's the point that I want to make. 2028 is going to be interesting because you're going to have action on both sides of the aisle, meaning all slew of debates for the Ds and presumably for the Rs, unless the Rs have a coronation of JD Vance. But you know, theoretically, it could just be a ton, a ton of events, a ton of events. This were punished podcast from serious exam, gang. I am ditching the script for quince because there's something I want to tell you that isn't in the script and it's this. I used to spend a lot of money on sweaters. I didn't have a lot of sweaters, but I spent a lot of money on sweaters. And I have a moth problem. I've had a moth problem. Why did I spend so much on sweaters?

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8:27current issues. Get ready to cast your ballot and leave a rating and review of this podcast on your favorite podcast app. Mark Halpern is here every Wednesday in the third hour of the program. And we were we were talking about, you know, the field and kind of getting ready for it. And Mark every month has his eight, his eight list of the most likely democratic nominee and not really on the Republican side of the aisle because there's not much action. But he has often said here, Bernie's old. But if Bernie wanted it, if Bernie wanted it, Bernie could be the, he could be the candidate. And then there was a profile of AOC that was published in the New York Times this week where AOC is assessing, you know, whether this is going to be her moment in time. And you know, working off the old line of sometimes, you know, a moment is there and you don't take it and it passes you by and she doesn't want to pass it by. But she's made no commitment. Anyway, Mark was on the program and he floats this idea of each of them having shortcomings,

9:32meaning Bernie and AOC, his age, hers, youth and inexperience. But what if they teamed up? Here's what Mark Halpern said to me on the Wednesday program. I did, this is my view and I'm going to float something here for the first time. I meant to do it on one of my platforms. Mix, mix some news. Please go ahead. New Z. It'll be it's a water cooler news. All right. I believe that after the election, she and Senator Sanders will have some talks about who the socialist candidate's going to be because I believe they both put a very high priority on having a strong socialist candidate run to compete for the nomination. If he really feels he can't do it because he's too old, I do think there'll be a fair amount of pressure for her to run. But here's the solution floated to me. A Sanders AOC ticket. If Sanders were a normal candidate, you'd say, well, he's going to pick someone more moderate to bounce the ticket. That ain't the Bernie way. And so what does he get? He gets a chance to run, but he gets to say to his supporters, if something happens

10:33to me, if I die or get sick, you're getting my, you're getting my protege and she gets a chance to run on national ticket without having the pressure of being able to answer every question about the NATO alliance and all these other things that she needs to do more work on. So the news I'm making, it's conceptual news is don't be surprised if she runs for vice president. If I'm right that Rubio and Vance will team up as a ticket far earlier than is the norm. Imagine if in March of next year, Vance and S is I'm running in Marcos, my running mate and Bernie and S is I'm running and AOC is my running mate and everybody else is just running by themselves. Those tickets they'd raised so much more money than everybody else. They'd cover so much ground that everywhere else to get more media attention, everyone else. So they have effectively the general election full ticket set a year before the primaries begin. So there it is. The prospect of a Bernie AOC ticket floated by Mark on the Wednesday program and I thought

11:33this is great fodder. Is that a match that you could sell Bernie at the top of the ticket AOC in second position? No sooner had Mark left the program on Wednesday than an astute caller called and said, hey, could you, you know, God forbid Bernie is in office and something happens to him. He's incapacitated or worse. Could you get the, could you get the Congress to supply the necessary majority vote as required by the 25th amendment for whomever would then follow AOC as the vice president? It kind of caught me cold. I mean, it's been a long time since the country has had to think about this, but Nelson Rockefeller being put forth by Gerald Ford after Nixon leaves the White House. Yes, required a Senate and house vote and got approval, but there are a lot of no votes in the house. So I don't know that that's really a consideration. I just think it's, it's pretty darn interesting. Could you stop that ticket if that ticket formed early in the democratic process?

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