November 13, 2024 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Katy Grimes talks to A&G about Gavin Newsom & all things CA
- Biden and Trump reunite and it went well
- Chaos & violence in Amsterdam
- Is Pete Hegseth fit for the job?
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Bitcoin soaring to new heights today, flirting with a new
record ninety thousand US dollars per coin.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's the latest and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A crypto frenzy fueled by President Trump's reelection win. The
industry believes Trump's win signals a new crypto friendly government,
a departure from the Biden administration's harsher crackdown.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
There's nothing I know less about than this, but I
do know this.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yesterday when we were talking about the new record bitcoin
sent and how I wish i'd have gotten in. If
I'd have gotten in at that time, I would have
made a ton of money because it went up.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So much yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh boy, Yeah, Trump bound to be more friendly toward cryptocurrency.
Is Joe Biden was still commenting that the Nichols don't
have buffalo's on them anymore. You got that speaking of
the recent electoral results in which the Democratic Party took
a hell of a drubbing, in particular the more progressive
(01:21):
side of it, and anybody who was advocating the wildest
of the woke policies, really took it on the chin.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Thank god.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It seems like an odd moment for perhaps the most
progressive of America's governors to decide this is my moment,
But Gavi Newsome of California did just that with a
maneuver or two, which we will discuss with our guest,
Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the California Globe,
who has been covering the California state capital for Ages
(01:52):
and Ages. Katie, Welcome, How are you.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Good morning, Joe, Good morning Jack. I'm well. I'm especially
well after the election.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I'd imagined so. I love the headline your recent piece,
Gaven Newsom is attempting to play on a stage well
above his pay grade. Would you agree it seems like
an odd moment for the woke Gavin to decide this
is my time.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, he needs to learn to read the room, because
he's about as popular as Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I understand the wanting to be the first in as
the leader of the resistance for the you know, the
nomination of a Democratic candidate for twenty twenty eight. He
wants to me the first name out there. But this
whole fighting on a couple of areas that seem to
(02:43):
be thoroughly beaten, at least in this most recent relection.
What's he thinking?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
You know, you ask a really good question, because I
don't have an answer to that. I don't think the
way he does, thankfully, because he's just a full blown narcissist.
And I think part of the problem is a he
has no interest in governing, and he has no clue
in governing, so his natural inclination is to pivot to
something that's going to get him some media headlines. And
(03:13):
so you know, claiming to fight Trump is going to
certainly provide him some headlines on our lefty media.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So you've made your career covering California and California politics.
For folks listening around the country, what has the trend
been in California? And you can pick whatever item you want,
But I'm struck by the illustration and your piece in
the California Globe of the presidential results by county from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty four, for instance.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yes, yes, isn't that There's nothing like a good visual.
So it looks like in this election, Republicans slipped at
least eight states that we know of right now, and
that's only with seventy two percent of the votes counted
county Summer saying it might yes, it might be as
they as ten counties slipping to the red. And so
(04:03):
that's why that visuals so lovely. My point in this
is even Californians are fed up with these ridiculous, horrible,
damaging policies that frankly, they're harming people in California, whether
it's the you know, the increase in crime, or you know,
withholding water to our agriculture, or I mean you just
(04:26):
use the lousy schools. Even lefties are tired of this
because Lesties, while they might vote very left in California,
they live like Republicans. They're tight with a buck, they
want their kids to go to good schools. They do
care about the roads in which their rims are getting
bent on. There's all kinds of things, and of course
the crime just is in everybody's face.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mentioned that my cars in the shop for a
week because I cracked my wheel on a pothole because
of our crappy, crappy roads so.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ripped from real life.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So it is interesting to see that there is a
limit to how long people will put up with the
same party despite the results.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah, and I think what we're talking about are same people,
maybe people who don't pay a lot of attention to
politics day in and day out the way we do,
but they know what's happening right outside their front door.
And you know, in this case, it's a lot of crime,
it's really lousy maintenance in their cities and counties, you
(05:26):
know everything. Just in California, we're starting to look like
a third world country in many places. And this is
supposed to be, you know, the Golden State.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And Gavin's contention is that and he's utterly a con man.
His contention is that we have all these challenges and
we're dealing with them courageously and creatively, as if these
challenges came out of nowhere. Is if they fell like
rain and all of a sudden you got to you know,
a million bums and junkies on the streets, As if
they're not a result of the very policies that he's espoused.
(05:58):
But I mean, he took a hell of us spanking recently,
and the voter's overwhelmingly approving proposition thirty six, which overturned
the disastrous proposition forty seven. You'd think he'd wake up
and smell the discontent.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yeah, he has no ability to do that, and I
think that that shows his unbridled narcissism. All he conceived
got tunnel vision, and he's focused on national politics next.
That's where his career was supposed to take him. So,
by golly, you know, he's going to shove Josh Shapiro
out of the way as fast.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
As he can, right.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, he wants to jump ahead of Josh Shapiro and
a number of other people out there. Kamala Harris, Well,
does Kamala Harris have any future?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Or is she just done?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
That's hilarious. I just published an article this morning and
I titled it, are you kidding? Berkeley poll reports California
voters want Kamala for governor. No, this is an absolute
last gass attempt by Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times
to try to see if her fledgling political career could
be saved.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I just that's that's that hit be Like, Yeah, I
got to take a knee real quick. Are you skilled
in the arts of karate or what?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That shut out of me? Yeah, I can't even imagine that.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So once again, for people who are listening around the
country who may not be familiar, can you give us
the nickel version of Gavin Newsom's energy policies and and
and just and as Katie talked, perhaps folks, you can
imagine this being implemented nationwide.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah, Actually, what Gavin Newsom is doing is imposing unbelievable
regulations on our oil and gas industry. We're not fracking
for natural gas in California, even though we sit on
top of the world's largest gas reserves. So he's he's
trying to restrict all this. He's forcing oil and gas
companies to withhold hold back some of their oil and gas,
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and it's going to lead to even higher gas prices.
His California Air Sources Board that that's the regulatory agency
for our global warming policies just passed amount to at
least the sixty five cent additional tax on top of
our highest gas prices in the entire country. So what
(08:10):
he's doing is creating shortages of everything, including water deliveries.
I mean, it's hard to make this stuff up. It's
almost like the un is running Gavin Newsom and California,
because nobody in this state wants to live like this,
and yet these morons are still voting for this.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
So is there any chance that he's not actually angling
to be the nominee in twenty twenty eight, that he's
trying to get some other really lucrative gig, like an
al Gore type lifestyle or something. I mean, is it
just a money grab that I don't quite understand yet.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
It's about power and money. I wrote right before the
election and article about how the only thing he really
has left to focus on is his climate change chops,
and so he's trying to pivot to become the next
al Gore on the net.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
There's a lot of money that There's a lot of
freaking money at that and you don't have the scrutiny
of politics exactly, and.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You don't have to you don't have to produce anything.
There's no results necessary. You go around and blather on
about climate change this and that and carbon emissions, and
for some reason the media buys it hook line and
sinker oh boy.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Katie Grimes is the editor in chief of the California Globe.
Katie I picture Gavin announcing officially for president. The presidency.
Within a couple of years, we will organize a march
of all forty million Californians from California to DC, Kansas.
You're gonna need to stock up on avocado toast, but
we will march to DC and declare America. Please don't
(09:41):
do this to yourselves, Please don't. We've linked Katie's a
couple of recent pieces up top at the hot links
at armstrong in giddy dot com if you want to
take a read.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Katie. Great to talk to you is always keep fighting
the good fight.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Thanks, great to be with you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Always fun. Thanks. Yeah, just you know, I don't want
to embarrass.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Katie here, but she she is a fairly mainstream to
left leaning journalist who just prized old school journalism telling
the truth. And she has gone from you know, absolutely
you know, tolerant and sympathetic toward kind of the center
left to being aghast at what she's seeing in her
home state, as so many are.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I think this is my current working theory that he's
not actually angling to be the twenty eight nominee, that
he's trying to raise his Q factor, his name and
everything like that, just in progressive circles and become something
that makes him a lot of money for a long
time Al Gore style.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, he's calculating enough that I still say he is absolutely,
fully turgid aroused for the idea of the White House.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I alway that I think you are enjoying. The imagery
is what's going on.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Shakespeare had sexy stuff in his place too, and he's
worshiped so anyway. But but you do make an interesting point.
He's calculating enough that that's his main goal, but he's
positioning himself in such a way that other goals are
pursued at the same time. Yeah, he's really, in a word, evil,
an evil human being.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So doge coin, different than bitcoin but also a cryptocurrency,
has now as of today, jumped twenty percent since Trump
announced Elon and the Doge Group or whatever they're going
to call it, doge the Department of Government Efficiency. So
(11:32):
because it's named the same as their cryptocurrency, they're people
invested in the cryptocurrency.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well, the general friendliness toward cryptocurrency plus the branding wise
that helps.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
God, I got to figure out the timing on this,
Like yesterday, I thought it too late.
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So to paint the picture for you, it's Trump and Biden,
all smiles in blue suits and red ties, sitting there
in front of a roaring fireplace there in the Oval Office.
And Biden's good at that whole backslapping were pals thing
he's been doing for since before most of us were born.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And it's the only thing he's good at. Yeah, it's
really his only uh.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And and Trump, of course is joining the fact that
he has defeated that side thoroughly. First time they've been
together since the debate that ended Biden's career. Oh my god,
Trump probably never been as happy as life then, sitting
next to this guy that he's so thoroughly trounced, having
stood he slaps Biden on the back and says, remind
Hunter to pay his taxes.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Huh see rounds. If there are any highlights from this
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Speaker 4 (14:02):
And it's a tradition in modern America that the newly
elected president comes and sits down.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
In the off oval office shortly after the election.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And you know, it's just a signal to the world
about our peaceful transition of power. And even though they're
fighting tooth and nail for weeks, months, years, we come together.
Blah blah blah. Trump didn't do this with Biden last
time around, but generally we do it. Obama did it
with Trump, even though his side really criticized him for
(14:34):
dignifying the election and acting like it was real. Do
you remember that people were still acting like, no, he
isn't actually the president, This is a fluke, this will
get fixed real soon. That went on for years in
the first term of Trump. So luckily that is not
happening this time around. But Biden and Trump just sat
down in the Oval office. Here's a little of the
audio looking forward to having Like I.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Said, we get screw a transition.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
We can make sure you're a comminator.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What you need.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
We're gonna get a chance to talk us some out today.
But welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Thank you, Jed, thank you very much. And politics is tough,
and it's many cases not a very nice world, but
it is a nice world today. And I appreciate very
much a transition that's so smooth. It'll be as smooth
as it can get. And I very much appreciate that. Joe,
you are, thank you all.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That's that's great for the country and the world to
have Trump saying thank you, Joe and Joe saying you're welcome.
I mean, that's good, that's good for us. What I
wonder is, I'm hoping this is true. I hope you've
got a whole new generation of.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Voters that just went through that. This guy's hitler. It's
the end of the world if he wins.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And then the election's over and they sit down and
smile and say, hey, thanks for helping me.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh, no problem, happy to do it, and you realize, oh,
that was all crap. That was all a bunch of crap. Okay,
I'll remember that for the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, Between a cynic and an idealist, I'll take the
cynic every single time. If you can master the art
of cynical idealism, then you're in.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The sweet spot.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
But yeah, anybody who actually believed the you know what, Oh,
we have a great example, young man wrote to us
at Jones of three point forty four Oak Street, Right,
keep me anonymous. I'm a fifteen year old currently in
a public high school in a suburb of Sacramento, California.
(16:42):
During my English class, girl walks into classics next to
me tells me how scared she is about the election,
how fearful she is for all women. When I asked why,
she told me Trump's banning all abortions. Then she brought
up Project twenty twenty five, how Trump is sending gay
people straight to concentration cams. When I tried to explain
this wasn't actually happening, she told me that's because I'm
a white straight mail I don't understand these things.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
She proceeded to talk about how all the mainstream media
are grossly biased to conservatives and favored Trump the whole election.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Again. Oh my god, now that's warious. There's a lot here. Again.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I tried to explain, the big cities, how's the main
news media is in the big seat. Is it mainly blue?
That's only part of it. But yeah, that's true. She
fought me again, standing that all the major cities Austin, Nashville,
San Francisco voted for Trump and won him the election.
Then a classmate brought up how he thought Israel was
in the right. She started ranting about how Israel committed
genocide at center. Then she had to go to our
(17:33):
school's health and wellness center because she stated she couldn't
be in a classroom with people with these beliefs. Oh boy,
I've never believed that anybody is actually that fair far out,
but she proved me wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Ah. So, like I said, I think it's good for
the country in the world to see them smile and
shake hands and basically signal to the world that this
is why.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
We do our politics. We say these crazy things, but
we don't really mean it.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Unfortunately, the delusional will retreat further into their bubbles so
they're not challenged anymore by reality.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's tough to draw them out of the cult, really is.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
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Speaker 7 (18:13):
In the Heart of Amsterdam, anti Semitic thugs attack a tram,
throwing rocks, then fireworks, setting it alight, next hurling racist slurs.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Three people arrested.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The fabled European city has been on edge since last
week when fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabee Tel Aviv
arrived in the city ahead of a match with the
Dutch team Iaks Thursday.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Maccabee fans were chased and beaten.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Israeli officials quick to draw horrific World War II comparisons.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
If I'm trans, I'm not worried about the state of
the world. If I'm gay, if I'm Hispanic, if I'm
lots of different things. If I'm a woman in America,
I'm not worried about the state of the world. If
I'm Jewish, I'm freaking worried about the state of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I would agree, and it is.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I don't want to get off too far on this tangent,
but it's absolutely striking the double or triple standard that
exists in American media, including the Wall Street Journal for
exist for instance, in how they, when, they and if
they identify assailants. White man shoots a black man, It's
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all about the white man. Black man shoots a white man,
it's just a shooting. If Arab Muslim Arabic speakers hunt
down Jews and declare a jew hunt on popular apps,
well that's just anti Semitic activists. But you read down
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far enough in the New York Times, you'll never get
to any mention of who was doing the attacking. But
you read down far enough, it becomes clear. But you've
got to get eight ten paragraphs in to see the
assays once identified it all.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
So when the story first broke, what a week ago
whenever it was the soccer match there in Amsterdam. Uh,
things got so bad that night, I mean on the
West coast. We were still following it as we were
going to bed. Netanyahu set planes to Amsterdam to try
to rescue people because they didn't know how long this
violence against Jews that was just spilling out into the streets,
(20:23):
and you could watch on Twitter live videos of you know,
Jewish guys on the ground being beaten. And then the
reporting of the next day there was a fair amount
of well we now know that the Jewish soccer fans
were taunting and hitting, and hell they started the violence,
really did the Jewish people had are coming they said
(20:43):
and did provocative things. We now know that when a
whole bunch of uh jew hayten Muslims found out there
were going to be some Jews at the soccer match,
they went on all these different social media apps and
said we're going.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
To have a Jew hunt and planned it all right.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
And have you ever heard the expression America loves a
dead Jew, meaning Americans love to grieve over the Holocaust
and that sort of thing. But when it comes to
like protecting today's Jewish folks against anti semesm, I'm sorry,
I'm all fired up anti Semitism, particularly pro Islamic anti Semitism.
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Nobody's there because they don't want to feel. They don't
want to be you know, I don't want to be
bigot it or anything. The campaign was organized. Dutch authority said.
The attackers were equipped with fireworks and moved quickly, targeting
Israeli fans with hit and run assaults. It's also worth
mentioning that some of the provocative actions of the Israeli
fans included pulling down a Palestinian flag and chanting about
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Israel's war against Tomas in Gaza. So now like pulling
down a flag or posters of abductees or chanting about
the war in Gaza?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Does justify violence if it's to Jews.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
How about if it's toward college students, does it justify violence? Then?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
How about if it's toward Muslim people? Is that okay?
That's funny. What an odd double standard you have major media.
It's disgusting.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, to that point, Brett Stevens writes about the Wall
Street Journal article, which I believe was the first reporting
about the Jew hunt that was being announced on message
boards around Amsterdam that day. What makes it even more remarkable,
writes Brett Stevens in The New York Times, is how
strenuously some people initially tried to obscure the nature of
the Amsterdam pogrim. The media are rarely shy about calling
(22:37):
out certain kinds of hate crimes as racist, Yet for
days the word anti Semitic was either put inside quotation
marks or attributed to Dutch officials when talking about the violence.
The identity of the attackers attackers has been treated as
a mystery or a secret, beyond delicate references to people
with a migration background. In the words of the Dutch
Prime Minister, a great deal of attention also has been
(22:59):
paid some Israeli fans who pulled down a Palestinian flag.
As you just mentioned, bandalies, a Taxian and Hebrew chanted
ugly anti air phrases. There's no excuse for any of that.
But rowdy English soccer fans in Germany have been known
to celebrate German wark casualties. Somehow, it doesn't lead to
a frenzy of organized violence.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
A screenshot of a pro Palestinian WhatsApp group chat called
for the Jew hunt and referred to a standoff on
Wednesday night which a group of Israeli fans were cornered
by a crowd. They knew everything, set a thirty year
old Jewish fan of the soccer team. They knew exactly
where we stayed, they knew which hotels, which street we
were going to take. It was well organized, well prepared.
(23:39):
Outside the casino, This other fellow who's beaten and hit
with the rock said he saw around two hundred people,
many of them Arabic speakers. That's weird and Amsterdam must
be a coincidence. Waiting for the Israeli fans to leave
the hotel in casino. Brett Stevens goes on in The
New York Times. Anti Semitism in Europe has now reached
the point where the future of many of its Jewish
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Committee communities is seriously in doubt. I'm not sure most
Europeans understand what a civilizational catastrophe this represents, albeit less
for Europe's Jews, most of whom will find other places
to go and thrive, than for Europe itself. The fate
of societies that become free of Jews has not historically
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been a happy one, and he says the United States
is still a long way from this point. Thankfully, Americans
and not just Jews, should be aware if we stay
on this path, the jew hunt of Amsterdam may be
upon us two and sooner than we think. And he
talks about all the different examples you can come up
within the United States, college campuses, various crimes, everything like that,
where we've fudged the language, or hidden the attacker from
(24:44):
the news, or not mentioned what the motive was, or
the you know, the one in Chicago being the best example,
where that guy got shot as he was going to
Saturday services and they kept it a secret that he
was a Jew and that the guy was a Muslim.
And well, he said, and all that sort of stuff
for a long time in the press.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Just egregious.
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that jihad against Jews is a war against the West.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh geehaw. That's that's provocative. Andrew, Please, there's.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
A lesson to be drawn from Thursday Nights Sharia supremacist,
pogrim against Jews, Sharia supremacist. You don't hear that term
from the American media. If one were to assign what
characteristics are required to label something as a blank supremacist,
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how many of us would be willing to go ahead
and sit down and say, all right, is that actually
white supremacist? What is said in America all the time
saying punctuality is important and America is the land of opportunity,
that was part trade as white supremacist and still is
in our nation's schools. How blanking absurd is that. But
(27:06):
people who want to spread Sharia law at the point
of a gun around the world, nobody has the guts
to call them Shuria supremacist. Well, Andrew McCarthy does, anyway.
Sharia's supremacist program against Jews, not Zionists. Jews in the
Islamic Emirate of Amsterdam, formerly known as the capital of
the Netherlands, the beating heart of transnational, progressive, multicultural, post
(27:29):
sovereign Europe. It's a lesson I've been writing about here
for over twenty years, but now is an opportune time
for a refresher, with Donald Trump's elections president having opened
the possibility of a new American national security footing. This
is not just a jihad against Jews. This is a
war against I'm sorry, The war against Israel is the
war of Jew hatred in Europe. Russia's war against Ukraine
(27:51):
is materially supported by Iran, the jahattist maestro of the
war against Israel. And then he goes into the Biden
Harris's administration's woeful failure of deterrence that have empowered China
and Russian to ran that sort of thing, but the
jihadigainst jewses that j hat against the West. The attacks
were blood boiling, but not surprising. Europe has been overrun
(28:13):
by Muslim migrants from Sharia's supremacist strongholds. The Netherlands, and
country of about seventeen million estimates that only about five
percent of the population is Muslim. But that population, centered
in Holland's major cities Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague, punches
way above its weight. No one really knows how robust
it is literally, and he goes into some of the
(28:34):
history of it. But just after Hamas carried out its
barbaric attacks in October, a week later, twenty thousand pro
Hamas demonstrators marched on Amsterdam. Wow, Israel's counter had not
even begun in any serious way at that point, and
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ever since, protests have been the soundtrack of Dutch life.
That's also why get Wilder's Freedom Party stunningly triumphed in
the last general election. That Dutch populous nationalist party is
opposed without apology to Sharia, supremacism, open borders and post
national European political project. You know, we could go on
(29:18):
and belabor this a little bit more not be labored,
but flesh it out. But I'm here to tell you
we don't need to, because this is going to be
one of the great stories of the next twenty thirty
forty years in Europe, especially in the United States. The
idea that the post post nine to eleven era where
(29:38):
we stopped talking about, you know, Sharia supremacy, Islamic supremacy,
Islama fascists, that sort of thing. People got lulled into thinking,
I guess that kind of went away. Oh oh lord,
go to Europe and then tell me whether you think
has gone away.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
So you should probably know a little bit about Donald
Trump's secretary of Defense choice, because most of the mainstream
media coverage is focusing on the fact that he's a
Fox host and an attempt to belittle his career.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
He's got more to his background.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I don't know if it makes him qualified to be
the Secretary of Defense or not, but there is more
to him than being just a Fox host.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So you should know that, among other things. On the
way stay with Us Armstrong.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
And yet I confess I did not know who Pete
Haigsas was until about twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
He does not seem to have much of a detailed
background in DoD policy.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
To the extent he's worked on any of that stuff,
it has been on veteran's policy, not on DoD issues.
So it's the lack of experience is concerning. Now I
have not heard what his plans are, so we will
see what his plans are. But it was surprising and
it is concerning.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Just give us to this representative Adam Smith, he's a
Democrat talking about Trump's pick of Pete haig Seth to
be the Secretary of Defense, which is obviously a really
big job.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
And this guy's on.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
One of your committees. It's important to that whole thing.
And had never even heard of him. Usually who was
going to be in the incoming sect death is somebody
that's well known in the defense community.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, very very well known for many many years.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Pete Hegseeth, if you don't know, is a regular on
Fox and Friends, well known to the Fox audience. A
little more about his background in a second, but here's
one of the things he's talked about a fair amount
on his various podcasts and Fox shows and that sort
of thing.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
Pete Hegseeth is dedicated to taking wokeism out of the military,
which if you love the US military and you love
this country, you have to do they've been distracted. We
live in a very dangerous world, and he's vowed to
get rid of generals. He doesn't care who you are,
but if you're distracted from the mission to take care
of your virtue signaling and your wokeism, he wants you.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Out of there.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Yeah, there's some thought that Trump has a lot of
interest in getting rid of a whole bunch of generals
and admirals that he don't he doesn't think are the
right kind of people. I don't know how EASi or
hard that is to do.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I also there's a draft executive order floating around doing
just that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, this hegxeth.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
By the way, he went to he served in Afghanistan
and Iraq and has got multiple accommodations for you know,
actual battle experience in those ways.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
He's highly educated.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
He went to Princeton, then he went back to Harvard
Kennedy School, where he got a master's in public policy.
So he's not just a Fox and Friends host, as
he's being described by most of the lefty media to
try to, you know, make him look smaller, Yeah, be
a little, But of course, running the world's biggest buocracy
is no small task. And he doesn't seem to have
(32:45):
any background in running giant bureaucracies. Yeah, he's an extremely
bright guy and seems like a very very good man.
Whether he's a good fit for the job, I've got
to admit it's it's not. It's a little surprising. Well,
if you gave me that job having no background in
running a giant bureaucracy, my first thing to do would
be find somebody who has a background in that, and
they're my number two, and explain to me what we
(33:08):
should do, and I will.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Sign off on it or not. All right?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
And that is that's absolutely true, and people like well
some of the great secretary's of Defense would tell you that. Listen,
I set the principles with the president. If you think
I'm actually like doing the paperwork and the grunt work,
and that's not what the sec def does. At times,
(33:33):
I know Gates wished he was doing more of the
grunt work because he couldn't get anything done because the
bureaucracy was opposed to his goals. But yeah, I think
if Pete's principles are solid and I suspect strongly that
they are. He will find implementers and administrators who can
translate those principles into action. Having said that, I agree
(33:53):
it's somewhat surprising choice. But now I'm not going to
join in some sort of knee jerk condemnation because he's
not an old Washington hen right.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I hope a year from now he's not the point
man for running a war against China, but he could be,
so be good.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I didn't have somebody good in that position.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah, I would agree, And if I were to offer
a counter argument against myself, it would be well, being
an old Washington, end is how you learn the strategies
for actually getting a bureaucracy to do what you want
them to do.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's the hard part. I'll have to see.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah, the one that has some devil, I'll give him
that back to you. Yeah, yeah, you got to be
to be on Fox and Friends course.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Uh, Leggy, Leggy a young woman certainly.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
The one that's hanging out there that a lot of
people are waiting for is Trump's appointment of who's going
to be as Attorney General, which will be a big
deal and signal some of his priorities and the people
that think Trump is hitler. I think he's going to
appoint somebody that's all about retribution.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I have no idea if that's true enough.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I've called for Daytime TV's Judge Joe to be appointed.
Ag is that will continue African American voters migration toward
the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Somebody who's floating the name Peter Doocey yesterday for let's.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Play this, just to remind you who that is, ah
By by by by By I head it right here.
President Biden says that he's not going to part in it,
Sun Hunter. Is he going to ask Donald Trump to
do that? I don't have anything else to share about that.
I'm not going to get and go down a rabbit
hole on this. I've been very clear, The President's been
(35:42):
very clear when.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
We've been so you recognize Peter Deocy's voice from many
many clips we've played over many many years, and he
would be reversing the role if he got named White
House Press Secretary presser today. I don't If I'm Trump,
I don't do that. I I'd rather have him out
there asking questions to politicians and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
But I don't know. I think he'd be good at it.
He's a combative son of a gun. God, what a
miserable job that would be. I don't know. I think
I would like it. Oh, you like arguing with people?
I would hate it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I do.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I do.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I like arguing with people more than you do. You disagree,
I don't disagree? All right? We agree?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Then?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
All right, damn it, that's not fun. Actually, you know what,
do we have time? We really don't. We'll play it
Next Hour for you.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
It's a longer clip of Pete Doocey and KJP sparring,
and it's pretty pretty damned amusing.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
If you don't get Next.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Hour you don't have time or whatever, just grab it
later via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You probably
ought to subscribe it auto downloads. You don't have to
go to any work whatsoever. She's always there for you.
And we've got all sorts of good stuff to talk about,
including some very strange bedfellows saying, yeah, the left is
a cult, there's something wrong with them. Thank god they
lost Now how quickly can we get them out of schools?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Including lefties who have just.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Been afraid say anything because they're scared, and I don't
blame them.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
They'd lost their careers. They poke it up against the
woke lunatics. So we do four dang hours of this
every single day. You probably don't hear all of it.
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Bitcoin soaring to new heights today, flirting with a new
record ninety thousand US dollars per coin.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's the latest and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A crypto frenzy fueled by President Trump's reelection win. The
industry believes Trump's win signals a new crypto friendly government,
a departure from the Biden administration's harsher crackdown.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
There's nothing I know less about than this, but I
do know this.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yesterday when we were talking about the new record bitcoin
sent and how I wish i'd have gotten in. If
I'd have gotten in at that time, I would have
made a ton of money because it went up.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So much yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh boy, Yeah, Trump bound to be more friendly toward cryptocurrency.
Is Joe Biden was still commenting that the Nichols don't
have buffalo's on them anymore. You got that speaking of
the recent electoral results in which the Democratic Party took
a hell of a drubbing, in particular the more progressive
(01:21):
side of it, and anybody who was advocating the wildest
of the woke policies, really took it on the chin.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Thank god.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It seems like an odd moment for perhaps the most
progressive of America's governors to decide this is my moment,
But Gavi Newsome of California did just that with a
maneuver or two, which we will discuss with our guest,
Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the California Globe,
who has been covering the California state capital for Ages
(01:52):
and Ages. Katie, Welcome, How are you.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Good morning, Joe, Good morning Jack. I'm well. I'm especially
well after the election.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I'd imagined so. I love the headline your recent piece,
Gaven Newsom is attempting to play on a stage well
above his pay grade. Would you agree it seems like
an odd moment for the woke Gavin to decide this
is my time.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, he needs to learn to read the room, because
he's about as popular as Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I understand the wanting to be the first in as
the leader of the resistance for the you know, the
nomination of a Democratic candidate for twenty twenty eight. He
wants to me the first name out there. But this
whole fighting on a couple of areas that seem to
(02:43):
be thoroughly beaten, at least in this most recent relection.
What's he thinking?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
You know, you ask a really good question, because I
don't have an answer to that. I don't think the
way he does, thankfully, because he's just a full blown narcissist.
And I think part of the problem is a he
has no interest in governing, and he has no clue
in governing, so his natural inclination is to pivot to
something that's going to get him some media headlines. And
(03:13):
so you know, claiming to fight Trump is going to
certainly provide him some headlines on our lefty media.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So you've made your career covering California and California politics.
For folks listening around the country, what has the trend
been in California? And you can pick whatever item you want,
But I'm struck by the illustration and your piece in
the California Globe of the presidential results by county from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty four, for instance.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yes, yes, isn't that There's nothing like a good visual.
So it looks like in this election, Republicans slipped at
least eight states that we know of right now, and
that's only with seventy two percent of the votes counted
county Summer saying it might yes, it might be as
they as ten counties slipping to the red. And so
(04:03):
that's why that visuals so lovely. My point in this
is even Californians are fed up with these ridiculous, horrible,
damaging policies that frankly, they're harming people in California, whether
it's the you know, the increase in crime, or you know,
withholding water to our agriculture, or I mean you just
(04:26):
use the lousy schools. Even lefties are tired of this
because Lesties, while they might vote very left in California,
they live like Republicans. They're tight with a buck, they
want their kids to go to good schools. They do
care about the roads in which their rims are getting
bent on. There's all kinds of things, and of course
the crime just is in everybody's face.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mentioned that my cars in the shop for a
week because I cracked my wheel on a pothole because
of our crappy, crappy roads so.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ripped from real life.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So it is interesting to see that there is a
limit to how long people will put up with the
same party despite the results.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah, and I think what we're talking about are same people,
maybe people who don't pay a lot of attention to
politics day in and day out the way we do,
but they know what's happening right outside their front door.
And you know, in this case, it's a lot of crime,
it's really lousy maintenance in their cities and counties, you
(05:26):
know everything. Just in California, we're starting to look like
a third world country in many places. And this is
supposed to be, you know, the Golden State.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And Gavin's contention is that and he's utterly a con man.
His contention is that we have all these challenges and
we're dealing with them courageously and creatively, as if these
challenges came out of nowhere. Is if they fell like
rain and all of a sudden you got to you know,
a million bums and junkies on the streets, As if
they're not a result of the very policies that he's espoused.
(05:58):
But I mean, he took a hell of us spanking recently,
and the voter's overwhelmingly approving proposition thirty six, which overturned
the disastrous proposition forty seven. You'd think he'd wake up
and smell the discontent.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yeah, he has no ability to do that, and I
think that that shows his unbridled narcissism. All he conceived
got tunnel vision, and he's focused on national politics next.
That's where his career was supposed to take him. So,
by golly, you know, he's going to shove Josh Shapiro
out of the way as fast.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
As he can, right.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, he wants to jump ahead of Josh Shapiro and
a number of other people out there. Kamala Harris, Well,
does Kamala Harris have any future?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Or is she just done?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
That's hilarious. I just published an article this morning and
I titled it, are you kidding? Berkeley poll reports California
voters want Kamala for governor. No, this is an absolute
last gass attempt by Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times
to try to see if her fledgling political career could
be saved.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I just that's that's that hit be Like, Yeah, I
got to take a knee real quick. Are you skilled
in the arts of karate or what?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That shut out of me? Yeah, I can't even imagine that.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So once again, for people who are listening around the
country who may not be familiar, can you give us
the nickel version of Gavin Newsom's energy policies and and
and just and as Katie talked, perhaps folks, you can
imagine this being implemented nationwide.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah, Actually, what Gavin Newsom is doing is imposing unbelievable
regulations on our oil and gas industry. We're not fracking
for natural gas in California, even though we sit on
top of the world's largest gas reserves. So he's he's
trying to restrict all this. He's forcing oil and gas
companies to withhold hold back some of their oil and gas,
(07:48):
and it's going to lead to even higher gas prices.
His California Air Sources Board that that's the regulatory agency
for our global warming policies just passed amount to at
least the sixty five cent additional tax on top of
our highest gas prices in the entire country. So what
(08:10):
he's doing is creating shortages of everything, including water deliveries.
I mean, it's hard to make this stuff up. It's
almost like the un is running Gavin Newsom and California,
because nobody in this state wants to live like this,
and yet these morons are still voting for this.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
So is there any chance that he's not actually angling
to be the nominee in twenty twenty eight, that he's
trying to get some other really lucrative gig, like an
al Gore type lifestyle or something. I mean, is it
just a money grab that I don't quite understand yet.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
It's about power and money. I wrote right before the
election and article about how the only thing he really
has left to focus on is his climate change chops,
and so he's trying to pivot to become the next
al Gore on the net.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
There's a lot of money that There's a lot of
freaking money at that and you don't have the scrutiny
of politics exactly, and.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You don't have to you don't have to produce anything.
There's no results necessary. You go around and blather on
about climate change this and that and carbon emissions, and
for some reason the media buys it hook line and
sinker oh boy.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Katie Grimes is the editor in chief of the California Globe.
Katie I picture Gavin announcing officially for president. The presidency.
Within a couple of years, we will organize a march
of all forty million Californians from California to DC, Kansas.
You're gonna need to stock up on avocado toast, but
we will march to DC and declare America. Please don't
(09:41):
do this to yourselves, Please don't. We've linked Katie's a
couple of recent pieces up top at the hot links
at armstrong in giddy dot com if you want to
take a read.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Katie. Great to talk to you is always keep fighting
the good fight.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Thanks, great to be with you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Always fun. Thanks. Yeah, just you know, I don't want
to embarrass.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Katie here, but she she is a fairly mainstream to
left leaning journalist who just prized old school journalism telling
the truth. And she has gone from you know, absolutely
you know, tolerant and sympathetic toward kind of the center
left to being aghast at what she's seeing in her
home state, as so many are.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I think this is my current working theory that he's
not actually angling to be the twenty eight nominee, that
he's trying to raise his Q factor, his name and
everything like that, just in progressive circles and become something
that makes him a lot of money for a long
time Al Gore style.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, he's calculating enough that I still say he is absolutely,
fully turgid aroused for the idea of the White House.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I alway that I think you are enjoying. The imagery
is what's going on.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Shakespeare had sexy stuff in his place too, and he's
worshiped so anyway. But but you do make an interesting point.
He's calculating enough that that's his main goal, but he's
positioning himself in such a way that other goals are
pursued at the same time. Yeah, he's really, in a word, evil,
an evil human being.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So doge coin, different than bitcoin but also a cryptocurrency,
has now as of today, jumped twenty percent since Trump
announced Elon and the Doge Group or whatever they're going
to call it, doge the Department of Government Efficiency. So
(11:32):
because it's named the same as their cryptocurrency, they're people
invested in the cryptocurrency.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well, the general friendliness toward cryptocurrency plus the branding wise
that helps.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
God, I got to figure out the timing on this,
Like yesterday, I thought it too late.
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If I had invested in bitcoin, yesterday, I'd be significantly
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So to paint the picture for you, it's Trump and Biden,
all smiles in blue suits and red ties, sitting there
in front of a roaring fireplace there in the Oval Office.
And Biden's good at that whole backslapping were pals thing
he's been doing for since before most of us were born.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And it's the only thing he's good at. Yeah, it's
really his only uh.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And and Trump, of course is joining the fact that
he has defeated that side thoroughly. First time they've been
together since the debate that ended Biden's career. Oh my god,
Trump probably never been as happy as life then, sitting
next to this guy that he's so thoroughly trounced, having
stood he slaps Biden on the back and says, remind
Hunter to pay his taxes.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Huh see rounds. If there are any highlights from this
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Speaker 4 (14:02):
And it's a tradition in modern America that the newly
elected president comes and sits down.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
In the off oval office shortly after the election.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And you know, it's just a signal to the world
about our peaceful transition of power. And even though they're
fighting tooth and nail for weeks, months, years, we come together.
Blah blah blah. Trump didn't do this with Biden last
time around, but generally we do it. Obama did it
with Trump, even though his side really criticized him for
(14:34):
dignifying the election and acting like it was real. Do
you remember that people were still acting like, no, he
isn't actually the president, This is a fluke, this will
get fixed real soon. That went on for years in
the first term of Trump. So luckily that is not
happening this time around. But Biden and Trump just sat
down in the Oval office. Here's a little of the
audio looking forward to having Like I.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Said, we get screw a transition.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
We can make sure you're a comminator.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
What you need.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
We're gonna get a chance to talk us some out today.
But welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Thank you, Jed, thank you very much. And politics is tough,
and it's many cases not a very nice world, but
it is a nice world today. And I appreciate very
much a transition that's so smooth. It'll be as smooth
as it can get. And I very much appreciate that. Joe,
you are, thank you all.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That's that's great for the country and the world to
have Trump saying thank you, Joe and Joe saying you're welcome.
I mean, that's good, that's good for us. What I
wonder is, I'm hoping this is true. I hope you've
got a whole new generation of.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Voters that just went through that. This guy's hitler. It's
the end of the world if he wins.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And then the election's over and they sit down and
smile and say, hey, thanks for helping me.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh, no problem, happy to do it, and you realize, oh,
that was all crap. That was all a bunch of crap. Okay,
I'll remember that for the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, Between a cynic and an idealist, I'll take the
cynic every single time. If you can master the art
of cynical idealism, then you're in.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The sweet spot.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
But yeah, anybody who actually believed the you know what, Oh,
we have a great example, young man wrote to us
at Jones of three point forty four Oak Street, Right,
keep me anonymous. I'm a fifteen year old currently in
a public high school in a suburb of Sacramento, California.
(16:42):
During my English class, girl walks into classics next to
me tells me how scared she is about the election,
how fearful she is for all women. When I asked why,
she told me Trump's banning all abortions. Then she brought
up Project twenty twenty five, how Trump is sending gay
people straight to concentration cams. When I tried to explain
this wasn't actually happening, she told me that's because I'm
a white straight mail I don't understand these things.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
She proceeded to talk about how all the mainstream media
are grossly biased to conservatives and favored Trump the whole election.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Again. Oh my god, now that's warious. There's a lot here. Again.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I tried to explain, the big cities, how's the main
news media is in the big seat. Is it mainly blue?
That's only part of it. But yeah, that's true. She
fought me again, standing that all the major cities Austin, Nashville,
San Francisco voted for Trump and won him the election.
Then a classmate brought up how he thought Israel was
in the right. She started ranting about how Israel committed
genocide at center. Then she had to go to our
(17:33):
school's health and wellness center because she stated she couldn't
be in a classroom with people with these beliefs. Oh boy,
I've never believed that anybody is actually that fair far out,
but she proved me wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Ah. So, like I said, I think it's good for
the country in the world to see them smile and
shake hands and basically signal to the world that this
is why.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
We do our politics. We say these crazy things, but
we don't really mean it.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Unfortunately, the delusional will retreat further into their bubbles so
they're not challenged anymore by reality.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's tough to draw them out of the cult, really is.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
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Speaker 7 (18:13):
In the Heart of Amsterdam, anti Semitic thugs attack a tram,
throwing rocks, then fireworks, setting it alight, next hurling racist slurs.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Three people arrested.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The fabled European city has been on edge since last
week when fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabee Tel Aviv
arrived in the city ahead of a match with the
Dutch team Iaks Thursday.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Maccabee fans were chased and beaten.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Israeli officials quick to draw horrific World War II comparisons.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
If I'm trans, I'm not worried about the state of
the world. If I'm gay, if I'm Hispanic, if I'm
lots of different things. If I'm a woman in America,
I'm not worried about the state of the world. If
I'm Jewish, I'm freaking worried about the state of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I would agree, and it is.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I don't want to get off too far on this tangent,
but it's absolutely striking the double or triple standard that
exists in American media, including the Wall Street Journal for
exist for instance, in how they, when, they and if
they identify assailants. White man shoots a black man, It's
(19:29):
all about the white man. Black man shoots a white man,
it's just a shooting. If Arab Muslim Arabic speakers hunt
down Jews and declare a jew hunt on popular apps,
well that's just anti Semitic activists. But you read down
(19:49):
far enough in the New York Times, you'll never get
to any mention of who was doing the attacking. But
you read down far enough, it becomes clear. But you've
got to get eight ten paragraphs in to see the
assays once identified it all.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
So when the story first broke, what a week ago
whenever it was the soccer match there in Amsterdam. Uh,
things got so bad that night, I mean on the
West coast. We were still following it as we were
going to bed. Netanyahu set planes to Amsterdam to try
to rescue people because they didn't know how long this
violence against Jews that was just spilling out into the streets,
(20:23):
and you could watch on Twitter live videos of you know,
Jewish guys on the ground being beaten. And then the
reporting of the next day there was a fair amount
of well we now know that the Jewish soccer fans
were taunting and hitting, and hell they started the violence,
really did the Jewish people had are coming they said
(20:43):
and did provocative things. We now know that when a
whole bunch of uh jew hayten Muslims found out there
were going to be some Jews at the soccer match,
they went on all these different social media apps and
said we're going.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
To have a Jew hunt and planned it all right.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
And have you ever heard the expression America loves a
dead Jew, meaning Americans love to grieve over the Holocaust
and that sort of thing. But when it comes to
like protecting today's Jewish folks against anti semesm, I'm sorry,
I'm all fired up anti Semitism, particularly pro Islamic anti Semitism.
(21:23):
Nobody's there because they don't want to feel. They don't
want to be you know, I don't want to be
bigot it or anything. The campaign was organized. Dutch authority said.
The attackers were equipped with fireworks and moved quickly, targeting
Israeli fans with hit and run assaults. It's also worth
mentioning that some of the provocative actions of the Israeli
fans included pulling down a Palestinian flag and chanting about
(21:46):
Israel's war against Tomas in Gaza. So now like pulling
down a flag or posters of abductees or chanting about
the war in Gaza?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Does justify violence if it's to Jews.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
How about if it's toward college students, does it justify violence? Then?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
How about if it's toward Muslim people? Is that okay?
That's funny. What an odd double standard you have major media.
It's disgusting.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, to that point, Brett Stevens writes about the Wall
Street Journal article, which I believe was the first reporting
about the Jew hunt that was being announced on message
boards around Amsterdam that day. What makes it even more remarkable,
writes Brett Stevens in The New York Times, is how
strenuously some people initially tried to obscure the nature of
the Amsterdam pogrim. The media are rarely shy about calling
(22:37):
out certain kinds of hate crimes as racist, Yet for
days the word anti Semitic was either put inside quotation
marks or attributed to Dutch officials when talking about the violence.
The identity of the attackers attackers has been treated as
a mystery or a secret, beyond delicate references to people
with a migration background. In the words of the Dutch
Prime Minister, a great deal of attention also has been
(22:59):
paid some Israeli fans who pulled down a Palestinian flag.
As you just mentioned, bandalies, a Taxian and Hebrew chanted
ugly anti air phrases. There's no excuse for any of that.
But rowdy English soccer fans in Germany have been known
to celebrate German wark casualties. Somehow, it doesn't lead to
a frenzy of organized violence.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
A screenshot of a pro Palestinian WhatsApp group chat called
for the Jew hunt and referred to a standoff on
Wednesday night which a group of Israeli fans were cornered
by a crowd. They knew everything, set a thirty year
old Jewish fan of the soccer team. They knew exactly
where we stayed, they knew which hotels, which street we
were going to take. It was well organized, well prepared.
(23:39):
Outside the casino, This other fellow who's beaten and hit
with the rock said he saw around two hundred people,
many of them Arabic speakers. That's weird and Amsterdam must
be a coincidence. Waiting for the Israeli fans to leave
the hotel in casino. Brett Stevens goes on in The
New York Times. Anti Semitism in Europe has now reached
the point where the future of many of its Jewish
(23:59):
Committee communities is seriously in doubt. I'm not sure most
Europeans understand what a civilizational catastrophe this represents, albeit less
for Europe's Jews, most of whom will find other places
to go and thrive, than for Europe itself. The fate
of societies that become free of Jews has not historically
(24:19):
been a happy one, and he says the United States
is still a long way from this point. Thankfully, Americans
and not just Jews, should be aware if we stay
on this path, the jew hunt of Amsterdam may be
upon us two and sooner than we think. And he
talks about all the different examples you can come up
within the United States, college campuses, various crimes, everything like that,
where we've fudged the language, or hidden the attacker from
(24:44):
the news, or not mentioned what the motive was, or
the you know, the one in Chicago being the best example,
where that guy got shot as he was going to
Saturday services and they kept it a secret that he
was a Jew and that the guy was a Muslim.
And well, he said, and all that sort of stuff
for a long time in the press.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Just egregious.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
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National Review said as well, after a quick word from
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So Andrew McCarthy entitles his piece for the National Review
that jihad against Jews is a war against the West.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh geehaw. That's that's provocative. Andrew, Please, there's.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
A lesson to be drawn from Thursday Nights Sharia supremacist,
pogrim against Jews, Sharia supremacist. You don't hear that term
from the American media. If one were to assign what
characteristics are required to label something as a blank supremacist,
(26:46):
how many of us would be willing to go ahead
and sit down and say, all right, is that actually
white supremacist? What is said in America all the time
saying punctuality is important and America is the land of opportunity,
that was part trade as white supremacist and still is
in our nation's schools. How blanking absurd is that. But
(27:06):
people who want to spread Sharia law at the point
of a gun around the world, nobody has the guts
to call them Shuria supremacist. Well, Andrew McCarthy does, anyway.
Sharia's supremacist program against Jews, not Zionists. Jews in the
Islamic Emirate of Amsterdam, formerly known as the capital of
the Netherlands, the beating heart of transnational, progressive, multicultural, post
(27:29):
sovereign Europe. It's a lesson I've been writing about here
for over twenty years, but now is an opportune time
for a refresher, with Donald Trump's elections president having opened
the possibility of a new American national security footing. This
is not just a jihad against Jews. This is a
war against I'm sorry, The war against Israel is the
war of Jew hatred in Europe. Russia's war against Ukraine
(27:51):
is materially supported by Iran, the jahattist maestro of the
war against Israel. And then he goes into the Biden
Harris's administration's woeful failure of deterrence that have empowered China
and Russian to ran that sort of thing, but the
jihadigainst jewses that j hat against the West. The attacks
were blood boiling, but not surprising. Europe has been overrun
(28:13):
by Muslim migrants from Sharia's supremacist strongholds. The Netherlands, and
country of about seventeen million estimates that only about five
percent of the population is Muslim. But that population, centered
in Holland's major cities Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague, punches
way above its weight. No one really knows how robust
it is literally, and he goes into some of the
(28:34):
history of it. But just after Hamas carried out its
barbaric attacks in October, a week later, twenty thousand pro
Hamas demonstrators marched on Amsterdam. Wow, Israel's counter had not
even begun in any serious way at that point, and
(28:57):
ever since, protests have been the soundtrack of Dutch life.
That's also why get Wilder's Freedom Party stunningly triumphed in
the last general election. That Dutch populous nationalist party is
opposed without apology to Sharia, supremacism, open borders and post
national European political project. You know, we could go on
(29:18):
and belabor this a little bit more not be labored,
but flesh it out. But I'm here to tell you
we don't need to, because this is going to be
one of the great stories of the next twenty thirty
forty years in Europe, especially in the United States. The
idea that the post post nine to eleven era where
(29:38):
we stopped talking about, you know, Sharia supremacy, Islamic supremacy,
Islama fascists, that sort of thing. People got lulled into thinking,
I guess that kind of went away. Oh oh lord,
go to Europe and then tell me whether you think
has gone away.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
So you should probably know a little bit about Donald
Trump's secretary of Defense choice, because most of the mainstream
media coverage is focusing on the fact that he's a
Fox host and an attempt to belittle his career.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
He's got more to his background.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I don't know if it makes him qualified to be
the Secretary of Defense or not, but there is more
to him than being just a Fox host.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So you should know that, among other things. On the
way stay with Us Armstrong.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
And yet I confess I did not know who Pete
Haigsas was until about twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
He does not seem to have much of a detailed
background in DoD policy.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
To the extent he's worked on any of that stuff,
it has been on veteran's policy, not on DoD issues.
So it's the lack of experience is concerning. Now I
have not heard what his plans are, so we will
see what his plans are. But it was surprising and
it is concerning.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Just give us to this representative Adam Smith, he's a
Democrat talking about Trump's pick of Pete haig Seth to
be the Secretary of Defense, which is obviously a really
big job.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
And this guy's on.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
One of your committees. It's important to that whole thing.
And had never even heard of him. Usually who was
going to be in the incoming sect death is somebody
that's well known in the defense community.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, very very well known for many many years.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Pete Hegseeth, if you don't know, is a regular on
Fox and Friends, well known to the Fox audience. A
little more about his background in a second, but here's
one of the things he's talked about a fair amount
on his various podcasts and Fox shows and that sort
of thing.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
Pete Hegseeth is dedicated to taking wokeism out of the military,
which if you love the US military and you love
this country, you have to do they've been distracted. We
live in a very dangerous world, and he's vowed to
get rid of generals. He doesn't care who you are,
but if you're distracted from the mission to take care
of your virtue signaling and your wokeism, he wants you.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Out of there.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Yeah, there's some thought that Trump has a lot of
interest in getting rid of a whole bunch of generals
and admirals that he don't he doesn't think are the
right kind of people. I don't know how EASi or
hard that is to do.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I also there's a draft executive order floating around doing
just that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, this hegxeth.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
By the way, he went to he served in Afghanistan
and Iraq and has got multiple accommodations for you know,
actual battle experience in those ways.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
He's highly educated.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
He went to Princeton, then he went back to Harvard
Kennedy School, where he got a master's in public policy.
So he's not just a Fox and Friends host, as
he's being described by most of the lefty media to
try to, you know, make him look smaller, Yeah, be
a little, But of course, running the world's biggest buocracy
is no small task. And he doesn't seem to have
(32:45):
any background in running giant bureaucracies. Yeah, he's an extremely
bright guy and seems like a very very good man.
Whether he's a good fit for the job, I've got
to admit it's it's not. It's a little surprising. Well,
if you gave me that job having no background in
running a giant bureaucracy, my first thing to do would
be find somebody who has a background in that, and
they're my number two, and explain to me what we
(33:08):
should do, and I will.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Sign off on it or not. All right?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
And that is that's absolutely true, and people like well
some of the great secretary's of Defense would tell you that. Listen,
I set the principles with the president. If you think
I'm actually like doing the paperwork and the grunt work,
and that's not what the sec def does. At times,
(33:33):
I know Gates wished he was doing more of the
grunt work because he couldn't get anything done because the
bureaucracy was opposed to his goals. But yeah, I think
if Pete's principles are solid and I suspect strongly that
they are. He will find implementers and administrators who can
translate those principles into action. Having said that, I agree
(33:53):
it's somewhat surprising choice. But now I'm not going to
join in some sort of knee jerk condemnation because he's
not an old Washington hen right.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I hope a year from now he's not the point
man for running a war against China, but he could be,
so be good.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I didn't have somebody good in that position.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah, I would agree, And if I were to offer
a counter argument against myself, it would be well, being
an old Washington, end is how you learn the strategies
for actually getting a bureaucracy to do what you want
them to do.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
That's the hard part. I'll have to see.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah, the one that has some devil, I'll give him
that back to you. Yeah, yeah, you got to be
to be on Fox and Friends course.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Uh, Leggy, Leggy a young woman certainly.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
The one that's hanging out there that a lot of
people are waiting for is Trump's appointment of who's going
to be as Attorney General, which will be a big
deal and signal some of his priorities and the people
that think Trump is hitler. I think he's going to
appoint somebody that's all about retribution.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I have no idea if that's true enough.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I've called for Daytime TV's Judge Joe to be appointed.
Ag is that will continue African American voters migration toward
the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Somebody who's floating the name Peter Doocey yesterday for let's.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Play this, just to remind you who that is, ah
By by by by By I head it right here.
President Biden says that he's not going to part in it,
Sun Hunter. Is he going to ask Donald Trump to
do that? I don't have anything else to share about that.
I'm not going to get and go down a rabbit
hole on this. I've been very clear, The President's been
(35:42):
very clear when.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
We've been so you recognize Peter Deocy's voice from many
many clips we've played over many many years, and he
would be reversing the role if he got named White
House Press Secretary presser today. I don't If I'm Trump,
I don't do that. I I'd rather have him out
there asking questions to politicians and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
But I don't know. I think he'd be good at it.
He's a combative son of a gun. God, what a
miserable job that would be. I don't know. I think
I would like it. Oh, you like arguing with people?
I would hate it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I do.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I do.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I like arguing with people more than you do. You disagree,
I don't disagree? All right? We agree?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Then?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
All right, damn it, that's not fun. Actually, you know what,
do we have time? We really don't. We'll play it
Next Hour for you.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
It's a longer clip of Pete Doocey and KJP sparring,
and it's pretty pretty damned amusing.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
If you don't get Next.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Hour you don't have time or whatever, just grab it
later via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You probably
ought to subscribe it auto downloads. You don't have to
go to any work whatsoever. She's always there for you.
And we've got all sorts of good stuff to talk about,
including some very strange bedfellows saying, yeah, the left is
a cult, there's something wrong with them. Thank god they
lost Now how quickly can we get them out of schools?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Including lefties who have just.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Been afraid say anything because they're scared, and I don't
blame them.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
They'd lost their careers. They poke it up against the
woke lunatics. So we do four dang hours of this
every single day. You probably don't hear all of it.
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