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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jattie.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And he.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Both Harris and Obama are driving home their message that
a second term of Donald Trump in the Oval office
would amount to four years of bitter revenge from the
former president.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So that's where we're getting a kickout of this week.
Just listening to the evening newscasts on the major networks.
They're opening lines which are, as Joe keeps saying, as
if they were written by the DNC. If the DNC
was writing, and they actually they might tone it down
a little and think this is too much. Nobody will
buy that this is a newscast unless we act like
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we're at least somewhat partial. I mean, they talk about
how Trump is he, here are the evil things Trump
did today? Hey, Meanwhile, and puppy dogs and rainbows. Kamala
Harris continues to be the nicest and greatest person we've
ever met.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I like to post it in the form of the
question if the DNC had written this, how would it
be different? Yeah, speaking of which, I loves Kimster stell
and the journals said, if Kamala loses this because she's
reprised Hillary's campaign and she talks about how Paul after
poll shows people don't know enough about Kamala Harris to
vote for it because she doesn't have any policies. Meanwhile,
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at the Liz Cheney Kamala Harris thing, they went with
the basket of Deplorables strategy excoriating mister Trump for his misdeeds,
and they uncarked the following thesaurus depravity, misogyny, vicious, vitriolic, erratic, unstable, venom, dangerous, cruel,
everything at stake, the rule of law, unserious, unfit, exhausting, harmful,
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easily manipulated, fascist to his core, the F bomb.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Now, there's no way that Kamala came up with this
on our own and is driving the message. So I
guess the considered brilliant Pluffin Company people around the Obama
campaign are considered some of the best campaigners and you know,
have their finger on the pulse of America decided our
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best argument is Trump is hitler to hit.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
On the last couple of weeks, which is surprising to me.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I mean, because you know the Obama campaign was all hope,
change positive. This is something to vote for as opposed
to vote against, you know, that whole thing, and just
I don't know, I don't know what's going on here.
But anyway, well, for instance, Trump has got a big
rally at Madison Square freaking garden tonight in New York City.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And this is what Hillary had to say about it.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Trump actually re enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in
nineteen thirty nine. Neo Nazis fascists in America.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So if you've ever seen that's disturbing, If you've ever
seen the video of that, it's crazy, and you can't
believe that it happened in the United States of America.
You got a Nazi rally with people in the in
the kol Kux Klan gear in the alleys or the
aisles of the Madison Square Garden, packed to the rafters
with Nazi flags and stuff like that. It's before World
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War Two. But it's hard to believe that that happened.
But that aside Hillary Clinton saying Donald Trump is reenacting
the nineteen thirty nine Nazi Madison Square Garden rally is insane.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That's the thing to say.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I mean, it's just crazy in the same way that
Billy Joel's been re enacting it night after night in
recent newness.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Very disturbing.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So the Washington Examiner came up with something yesterday. They
got quite a bit of a bay A song.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'm the Nazi man.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't Billy Joe got pulled into this. No, no,
not right, crazy man.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Just the idea that having a rally in Madison Square
Garden is quote unquote reenacting the Great Nazi Rally a
thirty nine place.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I see your point, reductio ad Hitler. Sixty years of
Democrats claiming the Republican nominee is a fascist, and they
go through all all of them, and I won't do
it all because it's very, very long, but it's pretty
damn interesting to update a famous quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
In this world nothing is certain except death and taxes,
and Democrats labeling the Republican presidential candidate.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
A fascist or Hitler.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
For the last sixty years, it's been an integral part
of the Democratic political playbook, going all the way back
to and they start with and you can go back earlier, actually,
but they have quotes going back to Barry Goldwater, who
was running for president sixty years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
In nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He gave his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention,
and critics said things like Goldwater, who blah blah blah
blah blah, warned that the GOP presidential nominee was an
extreme fascist who had caused considerable harm to the country.
Then Democratic Governor of California, Edward pat dad of Jerry Brown,
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remarked about Goldwater's acceptance speech, claiming it had the stench
of fascism.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
All we needed to hear was Hyle Hitler. Oh, come on, Michael,
where's the ding? Oh my god, the governor.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Of California said that about the Republican nominee, the old.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Sof you hate to have the stench of fishes?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You need to be here, was Hayle Hitler. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Other comments about Goldwater included a scathing rebuke from Martin
Luther King Junior. We see dangerous signs of Hitlerism in
the Goldwater campaign. King said, baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who
broke the color barrier set of Goldwater speech. I would
say now that I believe I know what it felt
like to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany? Are you
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freaking kidding me? So it's been this crazy all along.
Apparently now I know what it was like to be
a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Is so over the top and nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Given the context, well, given almost any context, but that context.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The then mayor of San Francisco, where the sixty four
Republican National Convention was held, which shows you how different
politics have gotten. You would never have the RNC convention
in San Francisco now, said the g much poop sistraits.
The mayor of San Francisco said the GOP had mind
comp as their political bible.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Moving on to the next election in nineteen sixty eight,
Hubert Humphrey, who was running against Richard Nixon, said, if
the British had not fought not nineteen forty, Hitler would
have been in London. If the Democrats do not fight
in sixty eight, Nixon will be in the White House.
Posters showing an image of Adolf Hitler wearing a Nazi
armband holding a mask of Nixon. Wow, for those who
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need a very direct line drawn to get it right,
that's helpful.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
He wonted.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Nixon one in sixty eight, also won in what was
Running Again in seventy two, where he went ran Nix
Nazis was part of the commentary criticizing Ninci Nixon. There's
a photograph from October seventy three of someone wearing a
Nixon mask with the crown giving the Nazi salute. Gerald
form followed Nixon as president. No, not for that's what
I thought. How are you going to do with this?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
With Ford?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
He was called a fascist. In nineteen seventy four, a
member of the ACLU criticized Ford for his lack of
for pardoning Nixon. If President Ford's principal had been the
rule in Nuremberg, Nazi leaders would have been let off
and the only people who carried out their schemes would
have been tried, the ACLU said. Additionally, in the Ford
Library Museum, a document describes an interaction with a woman
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in which Ford was arrested and repeatedly called a fascist
and a fascist pig. Let's move on to Ronald Reagan,
which obviously was a easier category for the lefties because
they hated him so much and he was in office
for eight years. He was the next target for the
Democrat's line of unsubstantiated accusations of fascism. Representative William Clay,
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Democrat of Missouri, stated Reagan wanted to replace the Bill
of Rights with the fascist precips lifted verbatim from mine.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Comp That's not over the top at all. That's reasonable. Again,
that's a fair criticism. I'm sorry who said that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
A representative from Missouri Democrat he wants to replace the
Bill of Rights with words lifted verbatim from mine.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Com Wow, that is to laugh.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Spring Time for head Germany, v An La Times cartoonist
drew a panel depicting Reagan plotting a fascist Putsch and
a darken Munich beer Hall. Harry Stein, who wrote for Esquire,
said that voters who supported Reagan were comparable to the
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good Germans and Hitler's Germany. I was an Esquire magazine. Well,
it's just it's a drum Beatn't that amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's like to go to hey, Michael, by the way,
this is funny. I just I just bugged Michael. Be
sure to play the Hitler ding to illustrate how ridiculous
this is.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I just got a text.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
From my wife, and she can't be the only one
it said, Joe, every time you play the ding, the.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Dog barks, he thinks it's the doorbell. Whoops.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Sorry, folks. Former President George W.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Bush might have been the Republican politician who faced the
harshest and most vile criticism before Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I seemed to be able to remember that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I think that's got more to do with just how
the direction our politics have gone, don't you more than
Bush himself.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It's just whatever's driven this.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I saw a poll the other day that said eighty
five percent of voters say we are more divided than
we were twenty years ago. My only question being, who
are you? There were five percent of voters who said
we aren't. Are you kidding? It didn't used to be
this way. Bush was regularly every name in the book,
from racist to Nazi to fascist to war criminal. Many
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examples of linking Bush to Hitler, Nazis, and fascists. Then
in twenty twelve, Mitt Romney, the same Romney that so
many Democrats love today, was also linked to Nazis and fascism.
A delegate from Kansas said Romney was a habitual liar
and likened the Hitler while criticizing the accuracy of Roy
Romney's campaign talking points. Romney, Man, if you could put
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the Hitler tag on Romney, of all people, goodnye?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Does that not almost?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I mean, I don't mean for you to end the discussion,
but does that not end the discussion?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Really among sane people.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
On the other hand, though, now that I think about it,
Hitler organized a successful Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Romney organized a successful Olympic Games. Do the math. The
only person, the only person I can think of that
could compete with Mitt Romney for that clearly is not
Hitler tag would be his running mate Paul Ryan, who
the chair of the DNC said, Ryan, who's also loved
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by Democrats now, the chair of the DNC, said Paul
Ryan is like the Nazi filmmaker and propagandist Joseph Gerbels.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh, very much like Gerbels. Yeah, Pope's got their widow's
peak for instance. My god, yeah, does any of this
sound familiar?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It should.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It's the same line of attacks are usinking against Trump now.
So for sixty years, this over the top Hitler fascist stuff.
I had not heard a lot of those that that
is what they tended just to.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Grow fuzzy in your memory because they're they're idiotic, and
then eight years later he don't remember it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You know what I'd like to know because I had
this quote earlier Nate Silver, the Polster saying basically, everyone
loses twenty five IQ points in the final two weeks
of her presidential election.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Everyone, the media, the candidates, the voters.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I would like to know how many of those things
were said in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I'll bet most of them. Great question. Yeah, that is
so funny.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Hillary's saying Trump's going to reenact the thirty nine Nazi
rally at Madison Square Garden is freaking ridiculous. I mean,
the only way to responders saying that would be are
you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
But you know, the interviewer on MSNBC or whatever, just
listen you okay.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, And for the longest time, this is yet another
illustration of what they pretender principles are really just weapons.
If you were to make any sort of joke about,
say the Holocaust or slavery or that's some sort of thing,
you'd be excoriated and canceled and humiliated for minimizing the
horrors of dot dot dot. But the horrors in Nazi
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Germany can be wielded in the most ridiculous and unjustifiable
ways if it might conceivably gain you a slight political
advantage against monsters like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh my lord, Nazi Germany. That is something we got
a lot more on the way.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
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Speaker 5 (13:11):
And Harris has a big weekend because tomorrow she's holding
a rally in Texas and Beyonce.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Is joining her.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
What a night, the most powerful woman in the world.
And Kamala Harris, I mean, Beyonce will sing irreplaceable and
Biden will be like too soon. So that's right, Harris
is sharing the stage with Beyonce. Tim Wallas is like,
that's so awesome, as he quietly put away his acoustic guitar.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
If I could say time and about what was that
shot out of nowhere?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I saw a little montage this morning of all the
celebrities from last night, and it had Spike Lee and uh,
who's that movie producer?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
What's his name that gets makes all the money? Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And uh spring Stealer, Perry Yeah, and Springsteen and everybody
out there. And then I saw Kamala afterwards, asked about
and she said It just shows the wide range of
support we have, And I thought, yeah, from singers to
movie makers, that incredibly wide range of super wealthy celebrity lefties.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
What the ever, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
That's well as I as I pointed out, I learned
this from a strategist on a podcast I was watching
the other day. It's all about getting the addresses and names.
That's why they do it. They will, they think, turn
out at least half of the people that show up
to those events that they might normally not get and
because they can bug them. Yeah, because they can bug
them and get them out on election Day. Oh so
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on the Hillary's saying Trump's rally tonight is going to
be a re enactment of the thirty nine Nazi rally
at Madison Square Garden, which is about as over the
top as anything could possibly be. We got this text,
keep doing the Hitler thing, killery, and you'll get somebody
shot again.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
First of all, I like when people refer to as killer.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Secondly, remember the blip of time after Trump got shot,
Just the tiny blip of time when where you're gonna
tone down our rhetoric because it was a micro blip,
acting like you know, whoever your opponent is is going
to end the country, could lead crazy people to think
that it's justifiable that went away. I mean completely, because
if you're gonna go around saying he's a fascist tool
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take over the country, that justifies anything if you believe it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Who was the philosopher who once said these people put
on and take off their principles like their windbreakers.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh that was me, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So uh speaking a stretches. So I love this from
Kim Strassell in the Journal. She's talking about how Kamala's
reprising Hillary's campaign with the basket of deplorables, the Nazi thing,
and they go through just the list of depravity, misogyny, vicious,
vitriolic era, attic on stable, venom, dangerous, cruel, just this long,
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long list of descriptors of Trump. But Kim, as she
often does, gets to the nut of the thing and
she says, Americans have heard all of this before, thousands
of times. Missus Clinton battered Trump in twenty sixteen. Is
more toxic than botulism, utterly unfit for the oval office
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the president. Democrats spent the next four years accusing him
of conspiracy, fraud, self enrichment, authoritarianism, and ineptitude, after which
President Biden turned to maga Republicans into a pejorative. This
is so familiar by now that the definition of an
undecided voter is someone who is aware of mister Trump's
problems yet unpersuaded to vote for his opponent.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
That thought, that was brilliantly written. That is excellent analysis.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yes, and then Kim's next chunk of analysis is that, Okay,
then you have to persuade someone to vote for his
opponent given Trump's issues, and Kamala has failed miserably on
that score, in fact, hasn't even tried. You can ask
her specifically, what would you do, and you get a platitude.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Well, I'm kind of a nerd. I need time to
study these things.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, if you didn't know, last night was the presidential
debate for third party candidates, and things got off to
a rough start with the national anthem, take a look
at this?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Can I go back? Can I go back?
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Please?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Lasting I got too nervous.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Luckily it was the third party debate on c Span two,
so literally nobody saw That's okay.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I'm fascinated by every aspect of this. So there's a
third party debate I didn't even know happened, and.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That Jill Stein who was in Cornell West and the
libertarian person Katie?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Can you google that? Who was in the third party debate?
Who won? Who did anybody land in that count?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Blow?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
What is that? What is the greatest caff? What are
the top five takeaways?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Here we go, Chase Oliver, jill Stein, and Randall Terry.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver, Green Party Jill Stein, Randall Terry,
the Constitution Party argued about whether the government should get smaller,
much larger, or totally reoriented toward Judeo Christian value.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Okay, so I have heard one of those names, So
I feel like we need to hear more of this
national anthem? Do we know who was singing it? I
hate to make fun of, Like, well, yeah, if it's
some special needs student or something somebody called Luna, I'm
told that's correct.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
What do we know about Luna? And like, I don't
know anything about her?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
She like a singing artist trying to put out an
album or something.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, because like yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
She's a pop star, a pop star, I'm willing to
make fun of a you know, a plucky high school
kid who who got nervous when the lights came on
and it's just getting over a sore throat or something.
Can you roll it from the beginning there, Michael, Let's
let's listen to a little of bit this haird on.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
C span two. Oh see can see by the arm
so it works so froude.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Good voice?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Why less clean?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Whose box drives? And by.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Through the pet a little pitchy dog?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You're so good? Lee Strange.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Gets can I go back?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
And I go back?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Please?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Or no?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I don't sting and I got too nervous, gage for roof?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Then n they're a fleg steal there? Whoa said?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I got a bad feeling strain?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Girl, sleep up, lighters back down, don't go.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
For nice, Oh, don't try to rescue it just finished
nice drib a rough patch in the middle. Who among
us has not had a rough.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Patch in the middle exactly?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Do you know what it was?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Right there?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Life?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Marriage, career, anything that was that was an allegory for life.
Right there, I was acting of a good movie and
encountered a difficulty and overcame. We all start off pretty
strong and then we hit a rough patch and then
we overcome and then are one and we say obscenities
multiple times and ask if we can go back.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I don't know. Go ahead, what do you see?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Can you so?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
What are the obscenities on c Span two? Know what
you did?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
You bleep it? Hanson? Does she dropping F? She said
the effort twice? Oh lord, Oh Luna, Luna, whoever you are, Luna, Luna,
we expect more from you, Luna.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That is hilarious. Don't your note and you say.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Seem to be a solid half dozen or so songstresses
who call themselves sells Luna at various points here.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You know you're on television kind of using my figure
quotes it. Your parents are cameras. Everybody's spousing. Parents must
be watching.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
But you don't hit your note. You say F twice
on TV?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Kids, go back, please.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Least you can go back.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Quick drop an F box idiot.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I'm surprised that the person running things and when she
dropped the F bombs not because of the singing, didn't say, well,
that's a decade, that's nothing of that.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Let's you don't have to have an ational anthem for debate.
It's not a law. So let's just start the debate. Wow,
just give her the hook.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Well, yeah, after the F bombs.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Look, there are dozens of people watching this right now.
We gotta have F bombs. God, that is funny. What
a funny reaction. And if I ever sang the national
anthem in public, first of all, you gotta start really
low so you avoid that problem. But it'd be hard
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to not have that in the back of your mind
the whole time you're singing, which is probably why she
got some of the words wrong. If you didn't notice that,
it was kind of hilarious. But I would have in
the back of my mind the whole time. By it's coming,
How am I feeling. I think I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Did I warm up? I think I'm all right. I
got a little dry mouth that could be a problem,
But there's a lot of people here. Man, this is
gonna go viral if I don't get it right. Look
at everybody phones out. Oh, this is gonna be a
meme if I don't hit this.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Ah, I'm sure like professional or frequent anthem singers have
a saying about the whole rockets red glare part.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You know, red glare wrong? Song goes down. I don't
know what it would be, but yeah, that's the tough part,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
She just yells, O f F F f it. Can
I go back?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Can I go back? I don't care, quit saint f
the F word? What are you talking about? Skip to
the end. I don't care. You're alone a cappella. I
don't know. Do whatever you want to do, exactly exactly. Wow,
poor gal had a rough night. Oh yeah, and soulful
voice too.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And uh, the worst part, of course, is it sullyed
the important third party debate that nobody.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I appreciate your cynicism, although reading an account of it,
it was actually a really stimulating trading of ideas about
the nature of government.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's not what we do.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We insult each other, you call each other hitler, you're
a fascist, you're you're dumb.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
That's what you do policy discussions.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I corrected, Speaking of which, a great piece by the
fabulous Peggy Noonan about the US can take a tough election. Uh,
we've been through and she says, she says, listen, I
know this, but we've been through so many tough times
before as a country. An ugliness and dissent and that
sort of thing, and we've come through it before. And
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she actually quotes Electionis to Tolkville and Democracy in America,
which is a wonderful book.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
If you've never read it, you read it, you should.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
He wrote that every presidential election is a kind of
national crisis that drives people crazy, but that the madness
dissipates when the election ends. I'm not sure it dissipates
enough anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It certainly used to How he had such a sense
of the country in eighteen thirty seven, that our national
character is so like obvious and consistent has always been
amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, it is. Again, it's difficult to properly describe how
amazing it is. It's I mean, on a scale of
one to ten, it's thirty.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
His insight, his wisdom, is prescience, is mind bottling.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
But anyway, getting back to the question of a tough
election and the national meltdown, is that is certain to ensue,
and it will ensue. The precise shape of it, how
crazy it gets, how much violence there is, Whether Katie
Perry is crying, Lady Gaga is crying, we don't know.
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But it'll be a poop show, no doubt, enhanced along
by at least Russia and Iran, if not.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
China, got to remember that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yes, senior intelligence officials are warning this week in a
classified memo or I'm sorry it's a declassified memo, citing
two recent examples of foreign intelligence agencies seeking to sow
discord ahead of the vote and crank up dissension and
violence and craziness afterward. The memo, released Tuesday by the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence that both countries
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could support violent protests, either by covertly organizing events themselves
or by incouraging participation in those planned by domestic groups.
The aim, of course, to cast doubt on election results
and complicate the transfer presidential power.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And we've seen in the past how this goes.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They spend I mean, they have entire cores of people
pawing through online postings by Americans, and they find who's
fired up, who's vehement, who seems to have a talent
for like getting a rally together, and they will feed them,
you know, a fiery rhetoric or even financing or offer
to help organize the rally or whatever. And whoever's going
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to cause the most dissension and and craziness, they will
support and encourage.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
So there's you know, two different things that can happen
or probably will happen simultaneously.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
There could be violence places Trump wins.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You could have the young crowd doing their thing on
college campuses or in the streets or whatever, and the
cops will put up with it because that's what we
do now.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Trump barely loses.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
You know, you could have the January sixth crowd, but
even after that gets tamped down and we'll get a
lot of attention if Trump wins. The never ending attack
on his administration's ability to function like happened.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Last time around is just going to be awful based
on whatever pretext, real or imagined.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah right, It'll be just never ending from all media
sources in the Democratic Party to where there's just no
chance of getting an actual administrative even though that's what
the country voted for. It'll be so difficult to try
to function in any way like a normal administration.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
And it's unfortunate but true from everything I've read, I've
never worked in a White house that if you are
dealt a crisis like the Russia collusion gate thing, and
you've got to spend all of your time sending witnesses
up and briefing lawyer and fighting allegations and the rest
of it. It is actually distracting and costly to an administration.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And so they'll get that going as much as they can.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Back very briefly to the post election crisis thing, they
mentioned that the Ruskies and Iranians and whatever are going
to either create wholesale election irregularities or take innocent irregularities
or mistakes or whatever and trumpet them into or trump
them up into something nefarious and horrifying that threatens the
very union. So, just friends, I would caution you there
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are not only people who profit mightily from telling you
what you want to hear or firing you up. There
are vicious, nasty foreign powers that are in the game
of causing you to doubt the peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, and it's legitimacy. You don't be careful.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, you don't want to be manipulated by the communist Chinese,
do you, right?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Don't be so quick to go along with that stuff,
because there are a lot of evil, evil, dam m
people or trying to push those buttons.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
We at some point need to jump into the whole
Menindez Brother's story, as Gastrine came out yesterday and said
he thinks he they've served their debt to society. That's
an interesting one.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Maybe will in a.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Quick clarification, if I might, the singer who slaughtered the
anthem not Luna, but Loo Miss Loo. Miss was spelled
with a dollar sign at the end instead.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Of an s loom. The dollar.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
S okay, the great loom miss dollar. Oh f f
she said, and on and knowlence was she sullied? The
third party debate and c span two. I mean both
of them. It's a it's a tragedy. More in the way,
stay here.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Armstrong and Getty Young Brands, the owner of fast food
chains including Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, says it's
removing fresh onions from its meals at select locations. Taylor Farms,
the supplier of fresh sliced onions to McDonald's in the region,
removed yellow onions from its plant in Colorado out of
an abundance of caution. Even though the company says no
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traces of the bacteria have been found. Health authorities continue
to investigate other possible sources of contamination, including quarter pounder
beef patties, but the FDA says the onions are a
likely culprit.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It's the poopy onions.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I was actually thinking about and reading about how amazing
it is that this almost never happens, that it's news
makingly shocking when it does happen, When we've got so
much food traveling so far, for gazillions of restaurants like
this that they've got, we've got a system in place
that you can get it, you know, farmed to plastic
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wrapper with almost no problem, like all practically always since.
Surely a wonder of modern refrigeration and transportation and all
kinds of different things.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
And part of it is you've.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Railed against the paranoia of American regulations. Yeah, and everything
has to be post pasteurized and homogenized.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I do think we go too far.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
A couple of headlines I've got for you that I
came across and I haven't really dug into, but they're
all interesting breaking news from the Wall Street Journal Last
night before I went to bed, Russia provided satellite targeting
data for hoothy rebels as they were attacking all those
Western ships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones.
So one it was amazing, Remember that's when Biden was
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still president, and it was a drum beat at least
on the right of how many times are you gonna
let Houthy's shoot at ships and interrupt a quarter of
global trade without fighting back? And Russia was giving them
the targeting information. Russia was helping with that, Oh we
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don't want to escalate. Yeah, that should be a big
and there should be a price to pay for that.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
That whole unholy access of a hole's backscratching situation where
Russia is helping the houthis target on behalf of Iran,
who is sending oil to Russia, which is getting troops
from North Korea, who are getting Russian missile technology with
Chinese money.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, there's a lot of bad actors involved in all
of that. Another headline, a year after world leaders made
a landmark promise to cut fossil fuels, guess what happened.
I'm gonna let you guess for a second. Yeah, we've
cut it die half. Countries have essentially made no progress,
a UN report said. A year after world leaders made
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a landmark promise the biggest promise that had ever been.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Made in world history by the major.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Polluting companies to cut fossil fuels. There's been zero progress.
Why would we want to damage our economy and way
of life when China and India and Europe have no
interest whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
And interestingly, there are two words that Kamala Harris has
hardly uttered since getting the nomination.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Shockingly, those two words climate change.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
She gave it the briefest passing mention in her acceptance
speech and it's hardly been mentioned since. What does that
tell you, friends, Well, among other things, it tells you
that the elite classes jabber about it constantly, including the media,
but it polls terribly even among Democrats. Will tell you
about that next hour.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, and a prominent Harvard something or other with an
amazing statement about free speech. That's getting a lot of attention.
Oh really, Oh my god. I didn't think free speech
was on the table for discussion really, but apparently it is.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You've not been paying attention to me. I'm trying to
tell you this. I'm trying to sound the alarm I
thought you were an alarmist. Oh damn you.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
A couple of things that have happened in Great Britain
recently refree speech. They're just horrifying one if by land,
two if by sea. Oh there's Paul Revere. Such an alarmist.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Now that's the point. I'm trying to sound the damn
it armstrong and getdy