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April 14, 2023 14 mins

Why did President Biden decide to take a family trip to Ireland?  It is a sign of things to come?  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Armstrong and Getty show. I do want to take
about talk about taking the kids to Arby's last night?
Am I correct that the truth is one hundred percent
defense against slander or libel? That's true, isn't it? Yeah?
I love I love Arbies, but I mean my story

(00:20):
might not be the favorite thing they've ever heard, but
it's all true. Yeah. Yeah, I tweeted out some pictures.
If you saw them, it's weird. I did not. This
is this is troubling. Normally you've been a staunch defender
of Arby's. Oh I love Arbies. I still will be,
but it's just some interesting things to point out, so

(00:40):
that later in the show, I guess. So I look
at the what is this called Worldwide News or whatever
it is site every single day with journalist Mark Halpern
putting it together, and I'm about to read through the
official White House transcript of Joe Biden's event in Ireland,
one of his events, and so it was released by

(01:01):
the White House. This is not you know, Fox News
didn't craft it to make him look bad. And Mark
Halprin says, I'll give you the punchline before we get
into the trainscript. He said, I find this scene to
be both lovely and heartbreaking, and I now believe that
this trip will be a seminal moment in the history
of the Biden presidency for reasons I shall reveal in
good time. And Mark Halprin said the other day he

(01:22):
has close sources he can't give any more information about,
who are very concerned about the president's current mental and
physical state, and that he couldn't say more at the time.
I haven't said this. It flitted into my mind the
other day and it hadn't thought about it for a while.
But in watching Biden ooch around Ireland there with some

(01:42):
family members, including Hunter, it looked very much like somebody
wanting to do something before they died, you know, seeing
the old country where his family came from. Yeah, it
very much had that feeling, which is which is fine.
But if you're not present of a right before I
die like next months, that's why people have been mockingly

(02:07):
calling it a family trip and everything. And he's there
with Hunter and his wife and tour around and stuff. Anyway,
I don't know how much of this I'll read. It's
very long. Again. These are the official remarks put out
by the White House. Were they released by the White House,
are leaked released? They put out, you know, a transcript
of everything the president says. Remarks by President Biden and
meet and greet with embassy families and firefighters Dublin Airport.

(02:30):
When he arrived, the President Hello, Hello, Hello, is this
working there? You go? Well? How are you? Applause? God
love you all, so great to see you all. Welcome
to Donnegal. Yeah, I'm with you. God bless Ireland. Well,
I'll tell you what the and I don't know this
word tao I saac h t dowse each, I don't know.

(02:51):
I don't know what that is. Well, I'll tell you
what the dows each is here, you know, and our
ambassador is here. Applause, dows Each, come on over here, Leo,
come on. This is a guy who has become I
don't want to hear his reputation politically. But in addition
to us being allies, we're also friends. Is a good
man right here. And by the way, Claire Cronin, come aware, Claire,
microphone disconnects, reconnects. And at that time I ran as

(03:12):
a twenty six year old council and then as a senator.
If you're not following this, neither in my or in
is anybody else. I've had overwhelming support from the American firefighters,
and there's an expression God made man. And then he
made a few firefighters. Laughter. Then he made a few
firefighters because who else is crazy enough to run into
a fire, which is a weird thing to say. By

(03:33):
the way, I was raised in a little town called Claimont, Delaware.
He sounds like it's really hard for me not to
go into my Grandpa Simpson voice, which was the style
at the time. By the way, I was raised in
a little town called Clairemont, Delaware, and we moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania,
and Claimont, Delaware was an old steel town, and I
went to my sister nine brother went to a little

(03:54):
Catholic school called Holy Rosary. This is Grandpa Simpson, yes, Scott,
And right across the street was the Claimant fire Hall.
Everybody I grew up with it. They became a cop,
a firefighter, or a priest. I couldn't qualify for any
of them. So here I am. That's how I got here.
Once again, I've been saying this for a long time.
He's got all these stories that he's been telling for

(04:15):
fifty freaking years. But his brain can't put him in
the right place or pull them off in the right way.
But he's got all those chestnuts that he's been thrown
out at, you know, various little gatherings forever that worked
back in the day, and he kind of remembers him.
He just doesn't know when to use him or all
the details or what leads into what. After the straight race,

(04:37):
you'd bang him on the curb. So having done that aside,
he says, anyway, thank you all, thank you for being here,
turns to address the children in the audience, and by
the way, who are these guys over here? Who are
these guys? Holy mackerel, look at all these hi guys.
How are you? And aid says, it's not going to
go that far. Apparently he was trying to get somewhere
at the microphone. I think it will go close. Well
maybe it won't. Here you go. How are y'all doing? Kid,

(05:00):
says mister president. How are you doing? Will you sign? Please?
Can I sign? I promise I'll sign. It's good to
see you guys, cold yeah, yeah. The president, thank you
all so very much. And by the way, to all
the parents. I want to thank you, because you know,
being working in an embassy, everybody thinks back home, it's glamorous.
But I don't want you know, you don't want to
be around the day you got to walk home and
tell your thirteen year old kid you're not going back

(05:21):
to the same school, and you got to stop dating
the girl you were with and the boy you liked
very much. You're not gonna be around. So I want
to thank the kids too, and I really mean it.
Thank you, Thank you for being for taking care of
your moms and dads. Thank you. And you guys want
to ask me questions little kids? Says yeah. President says,
what do you want to ask me? Whoa? Whoa? The
Air Force? There's look at this, it's Air Force one

(05:41):
right here. Pretty cool man. Hunter says in back, He's
got a question, President, what's your question? What's the top
step to success? What's the top what step steps to success?
What's the top step to success? Yes? Oh, well, making
sure that we didn't all have COVID. Why what are

(06:03):
we talking about? Child starts to say, like, then, Hunter says,
if you can, it's what are the keys to success?
He says to his dad. President says, oh, what's the
key to success? You know what I found out as
the key to success. And I'm not sure I'm the
best guy to explain it, but these guys can tell you.
The key to success is whenever you disagree with someone,
it's okay to question their judgment, whether they're right or wrong,

(06:24):
but it's never okay to question their motive. If you
question their motive, then you never get to be able
to agree. For example, if you say to someone the
reason why you don't agree with me is because you're stupid,
You're bad. You just don't like people I like, instead
of being I just He goes on for quite a
while through this whole thing. Oh wow, I learned a
lesson a long time ago. I say that to all
the embassy folks too. I learned that a long time ago.

(06:45):
There was this guy named Jesse Helms from South Carolina,
from North Carolina. From South Carolina, Hunter says, north North Carolina,
and he was a very conservative guy. Who see he
went back and forth on the North South thing like
five times before Hunter jumps in. Well, and I've heard
it suggested that Hunter Biden is the new Press secretary
and would be much better than KJP anyway, North Carolina.

(07:08):
And he was a very conservative guy who was very
very well, not very crazy about African Americans. When he
got here, he was all, well, we had fights. And
one day I was going into the United States Senate
and Jesse Helms said was on the floor and the
Senate saying some terrible things about Ted Kennedy and Bob Dole.
I'm sure these kids are low wow. I like you

(07:28):
got a bunch of twelve year olds standing there with
their eyes wide open, thinking what is going on? And
listen to their story from the seventies about Ted Kennedy
and Bob Dole. Was wearing an onion around my belt.
When Senator Elms was from West Virginia, Virginia, West vir Virginia,
West Virginia, Virginia, Dad the Republican leader who both had

(07:49):
introduced a bill for making sure people with disabilities have
access to curb cuts, access to buses and all these things.
It's called the Americans with Disabilities Act. Wait, how do
we get to hear? I don't know? Go on? And
what happened was I was very upset when I walked
in to go see the majority leader when I heard
this debate and Unfortunately, I was more afraid of the
majority leader being late than I was to go to talk.
And I walked, at what are you talking about? And

(08:09):
I walked in. I ye, I looked like I was angry.
And he looked at me and he said, what's the matter, Joe?
I was thirty two years old, which is almost fifty
years ago. And I said, and I went on about
Jesse Helms that he has no social redeem and value.
How could he possibly say things like that? I couldn't
believe it. And he looked at me and he said, Joe,
what would you say if I told you Jesse Helms
in nineteen seventy's sitting in his living room with his wife,

(08:31):
say this goes on for a very very long time
about I'm fascinated by this. By the way, you don't
don't skip it on Minecraff. This is this is crazy.
And he looked at me. He said, Joe, what would
he do if I told you that Jesse Helms in
nineteen seventy sitting in his living room with his wife.
Dot and Raleigh were reading the paper and there was
a photograph of a young man and crutches, sixteen years

(08:52):
old with braces under his arms all the way down
to his ankles, and two steel crutches, And I said,
would you? And it was an advertisement for an orphanage
and it All I want is someone to take me
home for Christmas and love me. He said, what would
you say, Joe, if I told you that adopted young man,
I'd feel foolish. Well, then they did adopt him. They
did adopt him, and I said, and I went to
apologize to Jesse Holmes because the idea that I disagreed

(09:15):
with everything he said. But when he but the suggestion
that he's doing it because he didn't care about people
with disabilities was wrong. I questioned his motive. And I
never dated again. That's a long answer to a real
quick question. Yes, another kid says, how are you. How's
your dog doing? The President? My dog is doing well.
His name is Commander. Yeah, what's your dog. He's name Louie, Louie, Louie,

(09:36):
all right, Louie. Anyway, guys, Hunter said, you're supposed to
do the rope line, Dad, I'm supposed to do the
rope line. Hunter says, just say hi to everybody. President says,
all right, well, guys, thank you guys, and that's when
Mark Halprin writes, I find a scene to be both
lovely and heartbreaking, And I get it. It was nice
with the kids and the caring about the kids and
everything like that, but it's also heartbreak. And the gist

(09:59):
of story about Jesse Helms was actually a message worth conveyed. Absolutely,
it was just conveyed in a near incomprehensible way by
a very old man. I don't know if you tell
it to an eight year old in that setting, but
there's that. I find this seem to be lovely and heartbreaking,
and I now believe that this trip will be a
seminal moment in the history of the Biden presidency for

(10:21):
reasons I shall reveal in good time. And again he
has sources close to the president are very worried about
his mental state, in his physical state. Yeah, I have
a comment slash question in a moment. It has to
do with the keys to success, which I believe start
and end with making sure no one has COVID. Wait

(10:44):
what I think you have it nailed down exactly. I
don't know when the moment is coming where he's going
to call a press conference and say, looking talking with
my wife and my son and my doctors. Um, you know,
this is something that happens to millions Americans every year.
And blah blah blah blah blah. And he's and he

(11:05):
steps announces he's stepping aside, and we'll find out that
this trip was a kind of like a capper to
a long career as as an old Irish guy getting
to go back just the third president to ever speak
in whatever haul he spoke in yesterday, JFK and somebody else,
um uh. And you know it was a big deal
for him personally, but there's there's there's no US foreign

(11:30):
policy reason for this giant, long, week long family trip
to be occurring while taking no questions dealing with any
of the giant geopolitical things that have been going on,
the whole China Taiwan thing that happened last week at
at level we've never seen before, these leaks and everything
that's happening, which he said, I haven't seen anything that's important. Yeah,

(11:54):
it's so obvious what's happening. And halpern uh. It's funny
because obviously he was given in formation off the record,
strictly on background, and he agreed it will not see
print until you tell me. And he hint that hinting
by just releasing the transcript from the White House and

(12:14):
basically saying nothing else. Right, So what he was told
is that the president realizes he's slipping quickly and he
wanted to do a thing or two before he's done,
before he you know, I said before he passes away earlier,
it could be before he resigns the presidency. I could
be wrong on that one, but I think the president

(12:36):
senses he's nearing the end of his life. And that's
the part that Halpern couldn't print. He was told that
that the president knows, he knows how bad it's gotten. Yeah,
and it's a you got to have your son here,
not just a cheapest staff or some other White House aid. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

(13:01):
I honestly, and again it's heartbreaking, you know, um putting
politics aside, going with dad to the old country one
last time before he passes Sure, but it's very sweet.
Yeah he should even if no he shouldn't, he absolutely
should not be president. And you know the fact that

(13:22):
it was a formerly naked, gun wheeled and crackhead who
is doing the loving Sun thing is actually a testament
to the resilience of the human spirit and I admire it. Hunter,
You're a loser, stripper, baby daddy, naked, gun doting crack. Hey,
some heart times I made some bad decisions to come on,
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