November 14, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Gascon's motive with the Menenedez brothers & friends/family cutting off friends/family over Trump
- The left is a cult
- Trump's recent picks
- The Hanson Theory
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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 Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Authorities in Italy recently sees more than twenty one hundred
fake pieces of art and connection with a large scale forgery.
Network officials first became suspicious when they realized the last
supper had burger cake.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I'm not pleased with that. Can you give me another joke, Michael,
I need to be amused before I can move on.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I too am unamused. Weth switching gears. This is from
the National Toy Hall of Fame. Just asked.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
This year's inductees are my little Pony.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's great? The card game Phase ten. Yeah, they all
made it into the Hall of Fame. But a lot
of less popular toys got left out. I'm gonna show
you some of them right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
If we have mister potato head hoofs all arms.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Next up we have square Hula hoof that's hard to
got frustrated.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, and finally there's Clue Menanda's brothers and come on,
I'm just saying they.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Didn't make it. Look how frustrated that little girl is
speaking of the Menendez brother That leads us in perfectly so.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
At the very end of the campaign where Chay Gascone,
the DA of La County, was a running four uh
to continue to let people get away with crimes and.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Overthrow Western civilization. Correct, yeah, he's a he's a Marxist.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
There at the very end he made a big pitch
for I think the men brothers have is weird talking.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We need to review with the Menendez case again to
bring real justice.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Right, you do a good impersonation of him to bet
his goal. That moment is passed. Yeah to that. But
the end everybody is like, what your foot your Your
closing argument to get re elected is letting loose Menendez brothers.
The only way the new guy is not as interested
in that. You have a new LA DA. Thank god.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
The Los Angeles DA called for a judge to free
the Menendez brothers, the newly elected district Attorney Nathan Hoffman
telling us not so fast. Hawkman says he now wants
to review all the evidence.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
If you just signed this case based on just reviewing
a Netflix documentary, you're not doing a You're doing a
disservice to the Menendez brothers, to the victim family members,
to the public.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Hawkman questioning the motive and the timing of DA George
Gascone's decision.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So close to the election. Is it a just decision
or was it just a political ploy?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
There are two other possible paths of freedom here for
the Menendez Right now, a junt is reviewing new alleged
evidence in this case. There's a hearing set for that
later this month. But also at any time, the governor
could grant clemency.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And also that news report included just in general because
of Menendez brothers are just one, you know, tiny angle
of everything is that new La DA got elected with
the idea that Gascone wasn't locking up enough criminals, and
I'm going to lock up criminals. People break the law,
I'm going to lock them up, which is really the
important thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Radical Das kicked in the arse and sent a packing
in LA in San Francisco, in Oakland, cal Unicorne is
starting to wake up a little bit to the horrific
results of the schemes that the poor people in California
had been sold.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It's shocking how bad things have to get before the
electorate reacts, but it's good to know there is a limit.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The great limiting factor on how far the backlash goes
is the public employee unions. They weren't gonna kill themselves
to defend Georgia s khone. But in terms of getting
real reformers elected state wise and a statewide and some
of the Blue states, is going to be a tough one.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Tough one. So, speaking of poor relations this is shocking
to me and sad. Shocking and sad.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The number of people freaking out over family members who
voted for Trump and ending like lifelong or decades.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Long relationships over it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And I think I understand the dynamics. To understand something
is not to condone it. But I get, Okay, you
bought the most frantic, screeching, overblown hyperbole about the other
guy on the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Okay, fine, But at the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Point that it's like a cherished friendship, don't you like
opt in favor of.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It? Would kill me lose this friendship. Let's take a
serious look at this.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But if you're a cultist and you have been convinced
of your cult's righteousness, I guess you don't.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Let's agree to not talk politics and you go on
with your lives. But if you actually believe I talked
about this last week, somebody I know was at work
the next day and somebody put their arm around them
and said, racism is.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The only thing that explains it. Are you okay? Like
what it is? Not inflation or anything else? Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But so if you actually believe that though, and you thought, well,
I'm not going to hang out with racists or Nazis
or whatever fascists, Yeah, I get that, right.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, Katie, you've dealt with this on one level or another.
Right that Katie is Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
If I if I knew it, if I found out
a friend, even if we were pretty good friends, was
secretly a Nazi who believes in exterminating the Jews, I
probably actually wouldn't be friends with them anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I had a friend and coworker who was actually part
of my wedding party who ended up telling me that
she no longer knew what kind of heart I had,
and obviously she said my soul was dark and she
couldn't associate with me anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It's similar language to the friend I mentioned last week
who the best friend of twenty five years said I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
For you, and I don't even know who you are anymore,
and that.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Sort of stuff like, yeah, what, I think you probably
know who I am pretty well after twenty five years
of being close friends.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
MSNBC had this Yale associated psychologist or something on saying
LGBTQ plus people especially, you do not owe your family
any of your time or love if they have turned
against you. Oh, that's some good counsel on their sweetheart.
I saw it as a momentary overwrought politics.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I saw on that topic a report that calls to
crisis lines from the LBGTQ community were up seven hundred
and fifty percent after the election. Well, then that's a
bunch of people who've been misled by nonsense because you
got nothing, zero, absolutely zero to be worried about.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Our friend Katie Grimes, who we just talked to yesterday
yesterday about a different topic, wrote a great piece in
the California Globe today going through all sorts of the insanity,
and it's it's liberal white women mostly, although some women
of color. But she says, my own experience proves that
no amount of logic irrationale will soothe maniaca leftists. In
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November twenty sixteen, when Donald Trump was first elected, female
step members of my family were distraught, inconsolable, deeply troubled,
bordering on mad. I only reminded them of their misery.
Thanksgiving and Christmas meals together that year were non existence,
non existent. By the time Trump was inaugurated, it was
obvious that my female family members were not speaking to me,
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although there wasn't a formal proclamation yet until my book
was published in twenty seventeen, and she co wrote a
book called California's War Against Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who Wins? Who Loses?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I received a scathing email from the step matriarch describing
what a ghastly, selfish and insensitive daughter I was, sending
the parents a mass email announcing the publication of the
book apparently triggered an unhealthy response by the females in
my family.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
In twenty sixteen. And what issue would that have been?
Mostly his like treatment of women from the.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, that sort of thing, Yeah, yeah, Who is it
not that more people grasp that there's all kinds.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Of you only have two choices, there's all kinds of
reasons you pick one over the other.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It doesn't have to be.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It's because I don't women to have want women to
have abortions, unless you specifically said that that's the reason
you voted for Trump. There's all kinds of economic reasons
or tax reasons, just all kinds of things policy.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
This is all coming from the same group of people
who cannot tell us what a woman is anymore right?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right? Which is madness? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I just I have trouble getting in the headspace of
like thinking of somebody I would cut off because they
voted the other way.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's just inconceivable to me. Now, the very notion is
ridiculous to me. I want to quote Matt Taibi coming up.
He wrote a piece entitled Charmingly ding Dong. The cult
is dead. The cult is not dead, but it's it's
been identified at the very least.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh what was I was about to say something else?
Dang it, flit it right out of my mind. The
square hula hoop. Look, how sad that little girl is
looks really discouraged.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
So we got that stuff on the way, stay with us.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I want to talk about that new Gladiator movie. I
just saw a trailer for it. Looks awesome. First though
this happened the other day on CNN.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
I think there are a lot of families out there
who don't believe boys should play girls sports.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I'm trans girl boy.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When you use.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
How changed, they're not boys, they're they're not playing girl
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Sit there listener a second.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
But that's why Republicans kept running those ads over and
over and over again, because they saw the metrics suggestion
that lie in those ads over and over again and
using rhetoric, Mike, you just use saying this is boys
playing girls sports, which.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Talking about trans girls playing playing being allowed to play
with the people.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Who are in their gender.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
And if you don't believe that, you don't have to
listen to me, listen to the American Medical Association, the
American psychologal.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You're going to you're gonna die on that hill, dude,
Well you're gonna die in the of America. America hates
the idea of boys playing in girl sports. This guy
is of the cult that believes that if a boy
says I'm a girl, that is a girl magically transformed
into a girl. In defiance of all science. It's funny
because they were browbeating us and imprisoning us in our
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homes chanting believe the science only a couple of years ago.
Matt Taibi, who is a man of the center left,
a good old journalist. He is like so many center
left type people, as as vehement a critic and enemy
of the woke mind cult as us on the right are.
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And it's interesting and I get it. But he wrote
ding dong, the cult is dead. The national mass psychosis
is finally delta blow, making it safe to be sane again.
As I've said many times, Matt is not the beginning
of the end. This is the end of the beginning.
I mean, we have a lot of fighting to do
because they rule academia and are churning out more cult
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members every single day. I've got all sorts of stories
about universities we can't get to today. But and he
goes through a bunch of different examples of just the
madness and how they can't rat each other out fast enough.
This is the second time Democrats have bet the house
on suburban white women see the Bacari sellers to CNN's
Casey Hunt. And the second time they've been left at
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the altar. It's all about white supremacy, of course, and
he quotes a bunch of different people. Asked about the
upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, Yale psychologist demanded Joy Calhoun on MSNBC
disputed the societal norm that if someone is your family,
they are entitled to your time.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
If someone in.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Your life voted the wrong way, talk, let me finish
your thought. If someone in your life voted the wrong
way quote, it's completely fine to not be around those people.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well, you must have a really rich and an enjoyable
life with that view of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And because it's not crazy at all, says tab Sarcastic
women like this gal are joining a knockoff version of
South Korean four B movement, swearing off sex and children
and a parent effort to incentivize white dudes for Harris
types to throw their man buns under the tank treads
of American misogyny. Quote no spread for red, they charmingly
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acclaim as one of their slogans.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Throw their man buns under the tank treads. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Of American misogyny. I love Taybe even when I disagree
with him. He's such a great writer. But here's the
main point. Yes, it's a cult. The mass movement that
continually renamed itself, appearing as ashtag resistance, anti racism, pro democracy,
et cetera, hits most all the classic definitions. It demonizes outsiders,
rejects critical thought, that's one of the key aspects of it.
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Encourages cutting off family and friends, never more than this week.
How cultish is that demands adherence to bizarre, non traditional beliefs,
embraces lies in recruitment, Russia Gate, worship, secrecy, exaggerates the
sinfulness of old beliefs, and has an answer for everything,
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and he mentions interestingly, for a cult, it doesn't have
like a charismatic leader, it has a charismatic anti leader.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Trump is the load star, but kind of in reverse.
He's the motivator for everything. Conveniently, I mean, as soon
as if Trump died tomorrow, the neo Marxist postmodern critical
theory cult would find a new demon. But that's like
their energy right now, that's their battery.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And I love this.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Even those of us with few partisan inclinations could fall
afoul just by hesitating before any of the movements. Gazillions
of weird proclamations from being on time as racist to
Beethoven is the patriarchy, to Facebook's fifty eight gender options,
to god knows what else. He says, I was banned
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about nine different times, initially for failing to embrace Trump's
Russian status.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's no way out of it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You're either called an ally or, like Glenn Greenwald, you
woke up to find your former boss telling the New
Yorker that you refuse to accept trump putin theories because
you resented quote the ascendants of women and people of
color in the party. It's hard to overstate how crazy
and infuriating it all was.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
That's really good.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I'd forgotten the Facebook fifty eight different genders thing. Wow,
did they go one hundred percent down that road?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, like that was ever going to be a workable
philosophy for mankind going forward.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Fifty eight genders.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Right, And I don't want to wear you out with
this stuff, but it all fits together, and once you
see the pattern of it, it's inescapable, and this stuff matters.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
It really doesn't matter. As loopy as it is.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They're indoctrinating your children to embrace despising the United States
and despising its principles in Western civilization general.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So it really matters. But it all comes down.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
To if there is no objective truth, all there is
is the marching orders of the party. The term the
party line comes from that thinking in the Soviet Union
of MOUs. Whatever the party line is today, you must
echo it as if it's your most cherished belief. And
if the party line tomorrow directly contradicts that tomorrow, you
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better echo it tomorrow. And if you do today's party
line tomorrow, you're a counter.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Revolutionary and you will be killed.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And at that point you have nothing but obedience to
the party. And that's what they're going for. It's straight
out orwell and political theory. And Chairman Mao, the man
fifty eight gender is my ass. There's boys and girls please.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
The man bun does not have a good rep with
a good chunk of America, does it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm a former long hour on hot days you wanted
out of your way. But the man Vun is just it's.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
A bridge too far, Chack.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
It's something I don't know any women that really dig it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Armstrong and Getty, I'm.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Going to tell you that I love you every day.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I promised that I waited tell this moment to tell
you that I love.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
You and I want to spend the rest of my
life with you.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I've been waiting forever to do this show where you
marry me, Crystal, marry you, Katie.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I need you to look up the ages on these
people real quick, because I didn't watch The Golden Bachelor.
They've done the Golden Bachelorette where you had the woman
who was in her sixties, and then you get the
Golden Bachelor. Now it's it's a little it's definitely it's
all weird, obviously, but it's a little different the whole
you know, divorced, widowed, whatever. Now you're single again later
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in life, committing to each other for the last fifteen
years or whatever. Your life is definitely different than you're
twenty two and you met on a game show, you know,
and you're gonna start your life together.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But what so he is sixty and she is sixty one. Okay, yeah,
longer than fifteen years, but not that long.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
All right, Well, you're grown up, so I mean it's
easier for me to believe you're in your sixties and
you meet somebody and think, yeah, I could see us
doing this, and you don't have you know, you're not
raising kids together. You're already got your careers over probably
and yeah, you know, and your.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Picker's more sophisticated. Yeah exactly. I think at that point
I live in retirement with you. We'll play golf, will
travel around, we'll do whatever we could do that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, boy, she's obnoxious and duplicitous. But man, does she
have big boobs? I mean, that's just you're not going
to do that. No, No, in your sixties, probably not right.
The cranium starts to take over the thinking. Thank god,
Finally it's about time. Anyway, on a completely different topic,
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if I might, we have been talking on and off
today about some of the more surprising and controversial cabinet
choices that Donald J has made of light. I characterize
the last three of them as Pete hegseeth that defense
surprising but intriguing, Tulsi Gabbard at d and I surprising
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yet surprising. Yeah, and Matt Gates at DOJ is surprising
yet idiotic.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I think I cranked Tulsi Gabbard up a little higher
than a lot of our listeners apparently do. I mean,
she doesn't believe the reports that Assad bombed and gassed
his own people. She thinks that's fake news. What are
you freaking talking about? You lunatic? Is my response. That's
strong stuff. I don't get her. I think she may
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be half nuts. I really don't know. At times she
comes off it's perfectly lucid, sensible and smart. But then
she'll go into one or for you know, Asad's a
good guy and Putin's okay once you get to know
him stuff, and I just I'm sorry he lost me there.
She will be our first Hawaiian America D and I
director Hawaiian American, whereas Matt Gates would be our first
truth bag American.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Truly historical once again.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So one of my favorite folks in government is Mark
Wayne Mullen, the Senator from Oklahoma that we really hit
it off with it the r NC this past summer.
He is he is the classic example of an American
who found his way into government for part of his career,
as opposed to one of these guys who from their
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sophomore year of college was utterly dedicated into getting into government.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That's their whole life. Anyway, Mark Wayne Mullen talking.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
About Pete hegsith who if you don't know, you know
what he might get into it. He's a decorated veteran,
has served in a couple of different combat theaters, and
is a good and decent fella with some very strong
opinions about the troops and how they're treated and that
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sort of thing. He is a surprising pick to head
up a gigantic government bureaucracy. But let's have Mark Wayne
Mullen have a say.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
The Defense Secretary's position. A Secretary events is supposed to
be a civilian position, right, Yes, he fits that bill.
He also has two Bronze Stars and served twenty years
in the military. He also has a military experience. The
whole point of the Secretary of Defense is to bring
a different perspective to the Pentagonum.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
H, that was a lovely clips. Let's have seventy two please.
Michael gets that look on his face. I don't see that.
He gets out of the mic. He says, that was
seventy two.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
And I trust President Trump's decision this one. I feel
like he's a good pick that'll bring a perspective to
the to the army, or to the military, or to
the Pentagon without being necessarily politically correct. Politically correctness is
what's killed this country right now. People just want to
tell me the way it is, tell me what the
facts are, and less move forward. He did serve this country,
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He does have a loan for this country. He has
respect for the service too, of the men and women
that's in uniform. He just brings a unique perspective that
may be different than you and I, but I'm actually
excited about them.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I've never quite understood this about people who run big
organizations of various kinds, private sector or government. It's always
seemed pretty clear to me, because sometimes you're an expert
in whatever it is you're doing, and then which he is.
You know, he knows a lot about the military and
fighting and on the ground, and you know, combat and
training and all that sort of stuff. And sometimes you're
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an expert in organizational stuff. And the person who's an
expert in organizational stuff then hires people that are experts
in the particulars of what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And then the reverse.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
If you're an expert in the particulars, then you hire
people right beneath you who are experts in running a
big organization.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I don't understand why that's so hard.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, one might be more common than the other, and
one might work better more often than the other, but
you're right, they both happen. So Interestingly enough, the editorial
board at the Wall Street Journal, who has been weighing
in on all these picks, is they're like me. They're interested,
but hesitant. He seems why Trump wants Hegseth a defense
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He seems to want a culture warrior to take on
the military brass.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
There are bigger security.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Issues, and they point out the choice of mister Hegseth
is shocked many in Washington that by itself might be
a recommendation. He could hardly do worse than the so
called adults in the room. Of recent years, the armed
services can't make their recruiting quotas, America's military industrial base
has been exposed as inadequate with little protest from Pentagon leaders,
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and no one in the civilian or military ranks was
held accountable for the Afghanistan de bakle Bo.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
That's pretty good stuff right there. That's a pretty good
argument right there.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
They talk about mister Hegseth's combat experience. He's been an
advocate for veterans both on TV and his member of
veterans groups.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He's smart and telligenic.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
On the other hand, he's never run a big institution,
much less one of the largest and most hide bound
on the planet. You're familiar with the term hide and
bound essentially means so stuck in its ways it can't
be changed. He has no experience in government outside the military,
and no small risk is that the bureaucracy will eat
him alive. And they're a little bit concerned that Trump
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picked him purely to go off after the woke crowd
in the Pentagon, which is a very worthy mission in
my opinion, or what as they point out, there are
ginormous security risks out there, or because he watched him
on Fox and Friends a lot. Oh that might have
been ninety percent of it. Who knows, Yeah, I never
know with Trump, and that's that's my concern about Pete.
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And honestly, I don't think he would restrict restrict himself
for being a culture warrior to go against the world
because he cares too much about the troops because he's
being there, So.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm less concerned about that.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
But the and again, a lot of people who just
want knee work, throw grenade or punch the establishment the
nose and enjoy their their bleeding. The problem with that
is that it's such a short lived pleasure.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, I've taken in the first forty eight hours of
pushback against him from the liberal media, and if the
best they can come up with is he's said negative
things about women in combat.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Whatever, folks, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Use an unfortunate and rude letter here, and I hope
that you can forgive me f the left wing media.
My thoughts on this is that, and again, maybe he
can find people who are experts in this and help
execute his vision. But the numbnumber one challenge is Robert
Gates could tell you at the Pentagon is the Pentagon itself,
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it is hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What's the millions, It's over a million.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The Department of Defense, yeah you know, yeah, well yeah,
which is essentially an extension of the Pentagon. So you
got hundreds of thousands to millions of people, depending on
where you're pointing to, and many of them spend their
entire day like the creatures of any bureaucracy, their purpose
is to protect the bureaucracy and protect their jobs.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
If they have five.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Minutes at the end of the day to execute your
vision for defending the United States of America or or
or helping our brave men and women in uniform. If
they got five minutes at the end of the day,
maybe they get around to it. Their main job is
protecting the bureaucracy. So what you're sending a fighter in
there to rein that in and if you can't get
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that going, you can't get anything gone.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Maybe I'm just naive.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I'm sure I am naive about this, but I understand
why he couldn't talk to Robert Gates and Leon Panetta,
for instance, at length. They come up with several great
names of people that would be good to do the
running the organization stuff for you while you're the vision guy,
which is often the case with the very top person and.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Kackaneer to Elon Musk in his opinion on all of us, Yeah, again,
I'm intrigued by Pete. It could be a train wreck.
But like the Wall Street Journal, I'm thinking, hmm.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
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want this Warrior Foundation dot org.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I just saw this headline. I'm gonna have to look
into it. Political chaos breaks out in New Zealand Parliament
after controversial dance. Okay, can't imagine what that was.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Was it the Lombarda, the forbidden dance? I don't know.
Was it the hokey pokey?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Who did I see? I think it was right before
the the election, said all of you people who are
such fans of democracy and the people's voice. These are
the same people who went crazy over the macarena not
long ago.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Speaking of forbidden dance.
Speaker 11 (29:28):
Hey Macarrena, Our executive producer Hansen has come up with
a fantastic theory around the whole Matt Gates nomination for
Attorney General.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Then maybe we can explore and we can hear some
people's reactions to that odd bombastic pick, among other things
on the way in a hot movie I can't wait
to see too, Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It is an art choosing gladiators and usually prisoners of war.
I claim the city for the glory of Rome. You
have something in your wage. I haven't let it go.
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It will carry you to quaintness.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Denzel Washington steals the movie, although he's the star of
Gladiator too, which looks freaking fantastic. I just saw a
trailer in which a bloody horned rhinoceros being ridden by
some Roman gladiators riding towards somebody else with a sword.
I don't know how that turns out. I don't like
his chances, but I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Not sure I liked the counselor he was working with
who told him to hang on to his rage.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I don't think that's healthy.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It's got the guy from The Mandalorian is one of
the stars who I was reading something that Sandals and
Swords movies, as they're known in Hollywood. I guess there's
an arc to them. Every couple of years we put
out a big Sandals and Swords movie that is a
huge hit that the public seems to hunger for, and
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it kind of fits in with that whole men think
about the Roman Empire roughly three times a day thing. Yeah,
there's just such a fascination with the Roman Empire, especially
among men, that every few years we need a new
sandalan swords movie to like satisfy that hunger.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And here's going to be the latest interesting analysis. Yeah,
it is.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
It doesn't surprise me. I read about the Roman Empire
fairly regularly. So the big political bombshell that was naming
Matt Gates to be attorney general yesterday, and we're going
to talk about more about that next hour. But our
own executive producer came up with a pretty decent.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Theory as to why that is.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
But let's hear this report from one of your newscasts
about it.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
You got a thing about this guy. This is a
guy that didn't have that the media didn't give a
time at day to after he was accused of sleeping
with an This is what.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I asked at all. No, no, no, the way we're
going to do? Uh? Where is it now? Okay, I'll
have to find it again.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Thirty five, the President elects electing a fierce loyalist Florida
Congressman Matt Gates as his attorney general. Gates now tapped
to lead the Justice Department, the same department that was
investigating the congressman for years for alleged obstruction of justice
and for alleged sex trafficking, the DOJ ultimately closing the
investigation and bringing no charges against Gates. The congressman is
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currently at the center of an ongoing bipartisan House Ethics
Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug
use allegations. Gates has denied, calling the investigation frivolous.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
So that's the table setting, and then the report was
supposed to come out tomorrow. That seems like a heck
of a coincidence. And the report is said to be
very damaging. That's according to Republicans on the various committees
that have leaked to the news sources in the last
twenty four hours. Now, he has a lot of enemies
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Democrats and Republicans Senate and House, and a few friends
and very few friends. So maybe they're overstating how damaging
it is. I doubt it, but it's fairly damaging, and
I have a feeling it is going to be leaked
out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Or this weekend. So that's interesting on its own.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
There are already three senators on the record, Republican senators
on the record that say they're not going to vote
for him. You can only lose three to get to fifty,
because then it would be a tie in jd Vance,
you assume would cast the winning vote as the Vice president.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Sure for his boss I've pictured the Democrats. Every time
a Republican votes, know, they say, all right, Jim, you're up,
and Democrat votes say, yeah, we'd love him to be
attorney general.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Let's see how it goes and force more and more
Republicans than over him.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
But so Hanson, our executive producer's theory is my theory
yesterday was just Trump likes watching heads explode. I don't
even know if he's thought down the road to whether
or not Gates will be confirmed. If he doesn't get confirmab,
I'll pick somebody else. I'm not sure Trump worries about
that stuff that much. But he just loved watching people
on CNN and MSNBC and CBS go nuts.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Over this yesterday. Yeah, and he just gets such a
kick out of that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
But Hanson's theory is, and this could very well be true,
that every once in a while he does one of
these things and then sits back and watches television and
figures out who's really with me and who's not really
with me. The people the Republicans that are asked on
a mic, what do you think of this choice?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Who say I think it's good.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
I'm willing to keep an open mind and give Matt
Gates the fair hearing he deserves, and Trump thinks, okay,
they're willing to who ignore their own beliefs for my sake.
Put that down on the little chart that way, or
the people who just can't bite their tongue and are like,
what the hell and you reloud, there's somebody that can't.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Count on Hanson.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You may be right, but it's a little Saddam Husseini
ish for my tastes.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I bet it's true.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You don't think he keeps track of the people that
are willing to bend their own thinking to support me
no matter what, practically, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Again, I think it may be right. That doesn't make
it right. It is correct and yet terrible because so
like even I want you to kill this child for me.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
I mean, it's it's very mob bossy. It's a little
Canaan ably a little al Capone. Or is it that's
the right story? God said to Abraham, give me a
sen Abe said, God, you must be putting me on.
I only know that story from the Bob Dylan song.
But it's that side of story. God testing to see
if you're a you know, yeah, but at the last
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minute gots no, no, no, we're good.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You can leave the kid down. Well, I think what's
going to happen here is Gate.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
According to Bachman Turner Overdrive, who I look to for biblical.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Knowledge, Gates is not going to get confirmed, but Trump
will have his answers. If you miss an hour, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
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 Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Authorities in Italy recently sees more than twenty one hundred
fake pieces of art and connection with a large scale forgery.
Network officials first became suspicious when they realized the last
supper had burger cake.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I'm not pleased with that. Can you give me another joke, Michael,
I need to be amused before I can move on.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I too am unamused. Weth switching gears. This is from
the National Toy Hall of Fame. Just asked.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
This year's inductees are my little Pony.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's great? The card game Phase ten. Yeah, they all
made it into the Hall of Fame. But a lot
of less popular toys got left out. I'm gonna show
you some of them right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
If we have mister potato head hoofs all arms.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Next up we have square Hula hoof that's hard to
got frustrated.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, and finally there's Clue Menanda's brothers and come on,
I'm just saying they.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Didn't make it. Look how frustrated that little girl is
speaking of the Menendez brother That leads us in perfectly so.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
At the very end of the campaign where Chay Gascone,
the DA of La County, was a running four uh
to continue to let people get away with crimes and.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Overthrow Western civilization. Correct, yeah, he's a he's a Marxist.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
There at the very end he made a big pitch
for I think the men brothers have is weird talking.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We need to review with the Menendez case again to
bring real justice.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Right, you do a good impersonation of him to bet
his goal. That moment is passed. Yeah to that. But
the end everybody is like, what your foot your Your
closing argument to get re elected is letting loose Menendez brothers.
The only way the new guy is not as interested
in that. You have a new LA DA. Thank god.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
The Los Angeles DA called for a judge to free
the Menendez brothers, the newly elected district Attorney Nathan Hoffman
telling us not so fast. Hawkman says he now wants
to review all the evidence.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
If you just signed this case based on just reviewing
a Netflix documentary, you're not doing a You're doing a
disservice to the Menendez brothers, to the victim family members,
to the public.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Hawkman questioning the motive and the timing of DA George
Gascone's decision.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So close to the election. Is it a just decision
or was it just a political ploy?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
There are two other possible paths of freedom here for
the Menendez Right now, a junt is reviewing new alleged
evidence in this case. There's a hearing set for that
later this month. But also at any time, the governor
could grant clemency.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And also that news report included just in general because
of Menendez brothers are just one, you know, tiny angle
of everything is that new La DA got elected with
the idea that Gascone wasn't locking up enough criminals, and
I'm going to lock up criminals. People break the law,
I'm going to lock them up, which is really the
important thing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Radical Das kicked in the arse and sent a packing
in LA in San Francisco, in Oakland, cal Unicorne is
starting to wake up a little bit to the horrific
results of the schemes that the poor people in California
had been sold.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It's shocking how bad things have to get before the
electorate reacts, but it's good to know there is a limit.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The great limiting factor on how far the backlash goes
is the public employee unions. They weren't gonna kill themselves
to defend Georgia s khone. But in terms of getting
real reformers elected state wise and a statewide and some
of the Blue states, is going to be a tough one.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Tough one. So, speaking of poor relations this is shocking
to me and sad. Shocking and sad.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The number of people freaking out over family members who
voted for Trump and ending like lifelong or decades.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Long relationships over it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And I think I understand the dynamics. To understand something
is not to condone it. But I get, Okay, you
bought the most frantic, screeching, overblown hyperbole about the other
guy on the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Okay, fine, But at the.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Point that it's like a cherished friendship, don't you like
opt in favor of.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It? Would kill me lose this friendship. Let's take a
serious look at this.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But if you're a cultist and you have been convinced
of your cult's righteousness, I guess you don't.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Let's agree to not talk politics and you go on
with your lives. But if you actually believe I talked
about this last week, somebody I know was at work
the next day and somebody put their arm around them
and said, racism is.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The only thing that explains it. Are you okay? Like
what it is? Not inflation or anything else? Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But so if you actually believe that though, and you thought, well,
I'm not going to hang out with racists or Nazis
or whatever fascists, Yeah, I get that, right.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, Katie, you've dealt with this on one level or another.
Right that Katie is Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
If I if I knew it, if I found out
a friend, even if we were pretty good friends, was
secretly a Nazi who believes in exterminating the Jews, I
probably actually wouldn't be friends with them anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I had a friend and coworker who was actually part
of my wedding party who ended up telling me that
she no longer knew what kind of heart I had,
and obviously she said my soul was dark and she
couldn't associate with me anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It's similar language to the friend I mentioned last week
who the best friend of twenty five years said I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
For you, and I don't even know who you are anymore,
and that.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Sort of stuff like, yeah, what, I think you probably
know who I am pretty well after twenty five years
of being close friends.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
MSNBC had this Yale associated psychologist or something on saying
LGBTQ plus people especially, you do not owe your family
any of your time or love if they have turned
against you. Oh, that's some good counsel on their sweetheart.
I saw it as a momentary overwrought politics.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I saw on that topic a report that calls to
crisis lines from the LBGTQ community were up seven hundred
and fifty percent after the election. Well, then that's a
bunch of people who've been misled by nonsense because you
got nothing, zero, absolutely zero to be worried about.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Our friend Katie Grimes, who we just talked to yesterday
yesterday about a different topic, wrote a great piece in
the California Globe today going through all sorts of the insanity,
and it's it's liberal white women mostly, although some women
of color. But she says, my own experience proves that
no amount of logic irrationale will soothe maniaca leftists. In
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November twenty sixteen, when Donald Trump was first elected, female
step members of my family were distraught, inconsolable, deeply troubled,
bordering on mad. I only reminded them of their misery.
Thanksgiving and Christmas meals together that year were non existence,
non existent. By the time Trump was inaugurated, it was
obvious that my female family members were not speaking to me,
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although there wasn't a formal proclamation yet until my book
was published in twenty seventeen, and she co wrote a
book called California's War Against Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who Wins? Who Loses?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I received a scathing email from the step matriarch describing
what a ghastly, selfish and insensitive daughter I was, sending
the parents a mass email announcing the publication of the
book apparently triggered an unhealthy response by the females in
my family.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
In twenty sixteen. And what issue would that have been?
Mostly his like treatment of women from the.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, that sort of thing, Yeah, yeah, Who is it
not that more people grasp that there's all kinds.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Of you only have two choices, there's all kinds of
reasons you pick one over the other.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It doesn't have to be.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It's because I don't women to have want women to
have abortions, unless you specifically said that that's the reason
you voted for Trump. There's all kinds of economic reasons
or tax reasons, just all kinds of things policy.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
This is all coming from the same group of people
who cannot tell us what a woman is anymore right?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right? Which is madness? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I just I have trouble getting in the headspace of
like thinking of somebody I would cut off because they
voted the other way.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's just inconceivable to me. Now, the very notion is
ridiculous to me. I want to quote Matt Taibi coming up.
He wrote a piece entitled Charmingly ding Dong. The cult
is dead. The cult is not dead, but it's it's
been identified at the very least.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh what was I was about to say something else?
Dang it, flit it right out of my mind. The
square hula hoop. Look, how sad that little girl is
looks really discouraged.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
So we got that stuff on the way, stay with us.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I want to talk about that new Gladiator movie. I
just saw a trailer for it. Looks awesome. First though
this happened the other day on CNN.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
I think there are a lot of families out there
who don't believe boys should play girls sports.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I'm trans girl boy.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When you use.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
How changed, they're not boys, they're they're not playing girl
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Sit there listener a second.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
But that's why Republicans kept running those ads over and
over and over again, because they saw the metrics suggestion
that lie in those ads over and over again and
using rhetoric, Mike, you just use saying this is boys
playing girls sports, which.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Talking about trans girls playing playing being allowed to play
with the people.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Who are in their gender.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
And if you don't believe that, you don't have to
listen to me, listen to the American Medical Association, the
American psychologal.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You're going to you're gonna die on that hill, dude,
Well you're gonna die in the of America. America hates
the idea of boys playing in girl sports. This guy
is of the cult that believes that if a boy
says I'm a girl, that is a girl magically transformed
into a girl. In defiance of all science. It's funny
because they were browbeating us and imprisoning us in our
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homes chanting believe the science only a couple of years ago.
Matt Taibi, who is a man of the center left,
a good old journalist. He is like so many center
left type people, as as vehement a critic and enemy
of the woke mind cult as us on the right are.
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And it's interesting and I get it. But he wrote
ding dong, the cult is dead. The national mass psychosis
is finally delta blow, making it safe to be sane again.
As I've said many times, Matt is not the beginning
of the end. This is the end of the beginning.
I mean, we have a lot of fighting to do
because they rule academia and are churning out more cult
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members every single day. I've got all sorts of stories
about universities we can't get to today. But and he
goes through a bunch of different examples of just the
madness and how they can't rat each other out fast enough.
This is the second time Democrats have bet the house
on suburban white women see the Bacari sellers to CNN's
Casey Hunt. And the second time they've been left at
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the altar. It's all about white supremacy, of course, and
he quotes a bunch of different people. Asked about the
upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, Yale psychologist demanded Joy Calhoun on MSNBC
disputed the societal norm that if someone is your family,
they are entitled to your time.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
If someone in.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Your life voted the wrong way, talk, let me finish
your thought. If someone in your life voted the wrong
way quote, it's completely fine to not be around those people.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well, you must have a really rich and an enjoyable
life with that view of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And because it's not crazy at all, says tab Sarcastic
women like this gal are joining a knockoff version of
South Korean four B movement, swearing off sex and children
and a parent effort to incentivize white dudes for Harris
types to throw their man buns under the tank treads
of American misogyny. Quote no spread for red, they charmingly
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acclaim as one of their slogans.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Throw their man buns under the tank treads. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Of American misogyny. I love Taybe even when I disagree
with him. He's such a great writer. But here's the
main point. Yes, it's a cult. The mass movement that
continually renamed itself, appearing as ashtag resistance, anti racism, pro democracy,
et cetera, hits most all the classic definitions. It demonizes outsiders,
rejects critical thought, that's one of the key aspects of it.
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Encourages cutting off family and friends, never more than this week.
How cultish is that demands adherence to bizarre, non traditional beliefs,
embraces lies in recruitment, Russia Gate, worship, secrecy, exaggerates the
sinfulness of old beliefs, and has an answer for everything,
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and he mentions interestingly, for a cult, it doesn't have
like a charismatic leader, it has a charismatic anti leader.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Trump is the load star, but kind of in reverse.
He's the motivator for everything. Conveniently, I mean, as soon
as if Trump died tomorrow, the neo Marxist postmodern critical
theory cult would find a new demon. But that's like
their energy right now, that's their battery.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And I love this.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Even those of us with few partisan inclinations could fall
afoul just by hesitating before any of the movements. Gazillions
of weird proclamations from being on time as racist to
Beethoven is the patriarchy, to Facebook's fifty eight gender options,
to god knows what else. He says, I was banned
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about nine different times, initially for failing to embrace Trump's
Russian status.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's no way out of it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You're either called an ally or, like Glenn Greenwald, you
woke up to find your former boss telling the New
Yorker that you refuse to accept trump putin theories because
you resented quote the ascendants of women and people of
color in the party. It's hard to overstate how crazy
and infuriating it all was.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
That's really good.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I'd forgotten the Facebook fifty eight different genders thing. Wow,
did they go one hundred percent down that road?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, like that was ever going to be a workable
philosophy for mankind going forward.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Fifty eight genders.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Right, And I don't want to wear you out with
this stuff, but it all fits together, and once you
see the pattern of it, it's inescapable, and this stuff matters.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
It really doesn't matter. As loopy as it is.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They're indoctrinating your children to embrace despising the United States
and despising its principles in Western civilization general.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So it really matters. But it all comes down.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
To if there is no objective truth, all there is
is the marching orders of the party. The term the
party line comes from that thinking in the Soviet Union
of MOUs. Whatever the party line is today, you must
echo it as if it's your most cherished belief. And
if the party line tomorrow directly contradicts that tomorrow, you
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better echo it tomorrow. And if you do today's party
line tomorrow, you're a counter.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Revolutionary and you will be killed.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And at that point you have nothing but obedience to
the party. And that's what they're going for. It's straight
out orwell and political theory. And Chairman Mao, the man
fifty eight gender is my ass. There's boys and girls please.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
The man bun does not have a good rep with
a good chunk of America, does it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm a former long hour on hot days you wanted
out of your way. But the man Vun is just it's.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
A bridge too far, Chack.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
It's something I don't know any women that really dig it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Armstrong and Getty, I'm.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Going to tell you that I love you every day.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I promised that I waited tell this moment to tell
you that I love.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
You and I want to spend the rest of my
life with you.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I've been waiting forever to do this show where you
marry me, Crystal, marry you, Katie.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I need you to look up the ages on these
people real quick, because I didn't watch The Golden Bachelor.
They've done the Golden Bachelorette where you had the woman
who was in her sixties, and then you get the
Golden Bachelor. Now it's it's a little it's definitely it's
all weird, obviously, but it's a little different the whole
you know, divorced, widowed, whatever. Now you're single again later
(18:02):
in life, committing to each other for the last fifteen
years or whatever. Your life is definitely different than you're
twenty two and you met on a game show, you know,
and you're gonna start your life together.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But what so he is sixty and she is sixty one. Okay, yeah,
longer than fifteen years, but not that long.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
All right, Well, you're grown up, so I mean it's
easier for me to believe you're in your sixties and
you meet somebody and think, yeah, I could see us
doing this, and you don't have you know, you're not
raising kids together. You're already got your careers over probably
and yeah, you know, and your.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Picker's more sophisticated. Yeah exactly. I think at that point
I live in retirement with you. We'll play golf, will
travel around, we'll do whatever we could do that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, boy, she's obnoxious and duplicitous. But man, does she
have big boobs? I mean, that's just you're not going
to do that. No, No, in your sixties, probably not right.
The cranium starts to take over the thinking. Thank god,
Finally it's about time. Anyway, on a completely different topic,
(19:08):
if I might, we have been talking on and off
today about some of the more surprising and controversial cabinet
choices that Donald J has made of light. I characterize
the last three of them as Pete hegseeth that defense
surprising but intriguing, Tulsi Gabbard at d and I surprising
(19:30):
yet surprising. Yeah, and Matt Gates at DOJ is surprising
yet idiotic.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I think I cranked Tulsi Gabbard up a little higher
than a lot of our listeners apparently do. I mean,
she doesn't believe the reports that Assad bombed and gassed
his own people. She thinks that's fake news. What are
you freaking talking about? You lunatic? Is my response. That's
strong stuff. I don't get her. I think she may
(19:59):
be half nuts. I really don't know. At times she
comes off it's perfectly lucid, sensible and smart. But then
she'll go into one or for you know, Asad's a
good guy and Putin's okay once you get to know
him stuff, and I just I'm sorry he lost me there.
She will be our first Hawaiian America D and I
director Hawaiian American, whereas Matt Gates would be our first
truth bag American.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Truly historical once again.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So one of my favorite folks in government is Mark
Wayne Mullen, the Senator from Oklahoma that we really hit
it off with it the r NC this past summer.
He is he is the classic example of an American
who found his way into government for part of his career,
as opposed to one of these guys who from their
(20:43):
sophomore year of college was utterly dedicated into getting into government.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That's their whole life. Anyway, Mark Wayne Mullen talking.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
About Pete hegsith who if you don't know, you know
what he might get into it. He's a decorated veteran,
has served in a couple of different combat theaters, and
is a good and decent fella with some very strong
opinions about the troops and how they're treated and that
(21:13):
sort of thing. He is a surprising pick to head
up a gigantic government bureaucracy. But let's have Mark Wayne
Mullen have a say.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
The Defense Secretary's position. A Secretary events is supposed to
be a civilian position, right, Yes, he fits that bill.
He also has two Bronze Stars and served twenty years
in the military. He also has a military experience. The
whole point of the Secretary of Defense is to bring
a different perspective to the Pentagonum.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
H, that was a lovely clips. Let's have seventy two please.
Michael gets that look on his face. I don't see that.
He gets out of the mic. He says, that was
seventy two.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
And I trust President Trump's decision this one. I feel
like he's a good pick that'll bring a perspective to
the to the army, or to the military, or to
the Pentagon without being necessarily politically correct. Politically correctness is
what's killed this country right now. People just want to
tell me the way it is, tell me what the
facts are, and less move forward. He did serve this country,
(22:15):
He does have a loan for this country. He has
respect for the service too, of the men and women
that's in uniform. He just brings a unique perspective that
may be different than you and I, but I'm actually
excited about them.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I've never quite understood this about people who run big
organizations of various kinds, private sector or government. It's always
seemed pretty clear to me, because sometimes you're an expert
in whatever it is you're doing, and then which he is.
You know, he knows a lot about the military and
fighting and on the ground, and you know, combat and
training and all that sort of stuff. And sometimes you're
(22:49):
an expert in organizational stuff. And the person who's an
expert in organizational stuff then hires people that are experts
in the particulars of what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And then the reverse.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
If you're an expert in the particulars, then you hire
people right beneath you who are experts in running a
big organization.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I don't understand why that's so hard.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, one might be more common than the other, and
one might work better more often than the other, but
you're right, they both happen. So Interestingly enough, the editorial
board at the Wall Street Journal, who has been weighing
in on all these picks, is they're like me. They're interested,
but hesitant. He seems why Trump wants Hegseth a defense
(23:31):
He seems to want a culture warrior to take on
the military brass.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
There are bigger security.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Issues, and they point out the choice of mister Hegseth
is shocked many in Washington that by itself might be
a recommendation. He could hardly do worse than the so
called adults in the room. Of recent years, the armed
services can't make their recruiting quotas, America's military industrial base
has been exposed as inadequate with little protest from Pentagon leaders,
(23:56):
and no one in the civilian or military ranks was
held accountable for the Afghanistan de bakle Bo.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
That's pretty good stuff right there. That's a pretty good
argument right there.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
They talk about mister Hegseth's combat experience. He's been an
advocate for veterans both on TV and his member of
veterans groups.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He's smart and telligenic.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
On the other hand, he's never run a big institution,
much less one of the largest and most hide bound
on the planet. You're familiar with the term hide and
bound essentially means so stuck in its ways it can't
be changed. He has no experience in government outside the military,
and no small risk is that the bureaucracy will eat
him alive. And they're a little bit concerned that Trump
(24:37):
picked him purely to go off after the woke crowd
in the Pentagon, which is a very worthy mission in
my opinion, or what as they point out, there are
ginormous security risks out there, or because he watched him
on Fox and Friends a lot. Oh that might have
been ninety percent of it. Who knows, Yeah, I never
know with Trump, and that's that's my concern about Pete.
(25:03):
And honestly, I don't think he would restrict restrict himself
for being a culture warrior to go against the world
because he cares too much about the troops because he's
being there, So.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm less concerned about that.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
But the and again, a lot of people who just
want knee work, throw grenade or punch the establishment the
nose and enjoy their their bleeding. The problem with that
is that it's such a short lived pleasure.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Well, I've taken in the first forty eight hours of
pushback against him from the liberal media, and if the
best they can come up with is he's said negative
things about women in combat.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Whatever, folks, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Use an unfortunate and rude letter here, and I hope
that you can forgive me f the left wing media.
My thoughts on this is that, and again, maybe he
can find people who are experts in this and help
execute his vision. But the numbnumber one challenge is Robert
Gates could tell you at the Pentagon is the Pentagon itself,
(26:07):
it is hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What's the millions, It's over a million.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The Department of Defense, yeah you know, yeah, well yeah,
which is essentially an extension of the Pentagon. So you
got hundreds of thousands to millions of people, depending on
where you're pointing to, and many of them spend their
entire day like the creatures of any bureaucracy, their purpose
is to protect the bureaucracy and protect their jobs.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
If they have five.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Minutes at the end of the day to execute your
vision for defending the United States of America or or
or helping our brave men and women in uniform. If
they got five minutes at the end of the day,
maybe they get around to it. Their main job is
protecting the bureaucracy. So what you're sending a fighter in
there to rein that in and if you can't get
(26:58):
that going, you can't get anything gone.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Maybe I'm just naive.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I'm sure I am naive about this, but I understand
why he couldn't talk to Robert Gates and Leon Panetta,
for instance, at length. They come up with several great
names of people that would be good to do the
running the organization stuff for you while you're the vision guy,
which is often the case with the very top person and.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Kackaneer to Elon Musk in his opinion on all of us, Yeah, again,
I'm intrigued by Pete. It could be a train wreck.
But like the Wall Street Journal, I'm thinking, hmm.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Speaking of our brave folks in uniform, we have been
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It's near and dear to both of us. It means
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Speaker 4 (27:59):
And we've been helping out with this particular aspect of
Warrior Foundation for years. And that's the flying our heroes
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(28:19):
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that's fabulous. If you're a whale and you can spend
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(28:45):
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Speaker 4 (28:49):
I just saw this headline. I'm gonna have to look
into it. Political chaos breaks out in New Zealand Parliament
after controversial dance. Okay, can't imagine what that was.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Was it the Lombarda, the forbidden dance? I don't know.
Was it the hokey pokey?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Who did I see? I think it was right before
the the election, said all of you people who are
such fans of democracy and the people's voice. These are
the same people who went crazy over the macarena not
long ago.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Speaking of forbidden dance.
Speaker 11 (29:28):
Hey Macarrena, Our executive producer Hansen has come up with
a fantastic theory around the whole Matt Gates nomination for
Attorney General.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Then maybe we can explore and we can hear some
people's reactions to that odd bombastic pick, among other things
on the way in a hot movie I can't wait
to see too, Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It is an art choosing gladiators and usually prisoners of war.
I claim the city for the glory of Rome. You
have something in your wage. I haven't let it go.
(30:22):
It will carry you to quaintness.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Denzel Washington steals the movie, although he's the star of
Gladiator too, which looks freaking fantastic. I just saw a
trailer in which a bloody horned rhinoceros being ridden by
some Roman gladiators riding towards somebody else with a sword.
I don't know how that turns out. I don't like
his chances, but I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Not sure I liked the counselor he was working with
who told him to hang on to his rage.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I don't think that's healthy.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It's got the guy from The Mandalorian is one of
the stars who I was reading something that Sandals and
Swords movies, as they're known in Hollywood. I guess there's
an arc to them. Every couple of years we put
out a big Sandals and Swords movie that is a
huge hit that the public seems to hunger for, and
(31:18):
it kind of fits in with that whole men think
about the Roman Empire roughly three times a day thing. Yeah,
there's just such a fascination with the Roman Empire, especially
among men, that every few years we need a new
sandalan swords movie to like satisfy that hunger.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And here's going to be the latest interesting analysis. Yeah,
it is.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
It doesn't surprise me. I read about the Roman Empire
fairly regularly. So the big political bombshell that was naming
Matt Gates to be attorney general yesterday, and we're going
to talk about more about that next hour. But our
own executive producer came up with a pretty decent.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Theory as to why that is.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
But let's hear this report from one of your newscasts
about it.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
You got a thing about this guy. This is a
guy that didn't have that the media didn't give a
time at day to after he was accused of sleeping
with an This is what.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I asked at all. No, no, no, the way we're
going to do? Uh? Where is it now? Okay, I'll
have to find it again.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Thirty five, the President elects electing a fierce loyalist Florida
Congressman Matt Gates as his attorney general. Gates now tapped
to lead the Justice Department, the same department that was
investigating the congressman for years for alleged obstruction of justice
and for alleged sex trafficking, the DOJ ultimately closing the
investigation and bringing no charges against Gates. The congressman is
(32:44):
currently at the center of an ongoing bipartisan House Ethics
Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug
use allegations. Gates has denied, calling the investigation frivolous.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
So that's the table setting, and then the report was
supposed to come out tomorrow. That seems like a heck
of a coincidence. And the report is said to be
very damaging. That's according to Republicans on the various committees
that have leaked to the news sources in the last
twenty four hours. Now, he has a lot of enemies
(33:17):
Democrats and Republicans Senate and House, and a few friends
and very few friends. So maybe they're overstating how damaging
it is. I doubt it, but it's fairly damaging, and
I have a feeling it is going to be leaked
out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Or this weekend. So that's interesting on its own.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
There are already three senators on the record, Republican senators
on the record that say they're not going to vote
for him. You can only lose three to get to fifty,
because then it would be a tie in jd Vance,
you assume would cast the winning vote as the Vice president.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Sure for his boss I've pictured the Democrats. Every time
a Republican votes, know, they say, all right, Jim, you're up,
and Democrat votes say, yeah, we'd love him to be
attorney general.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Let's see how it goes and force more and more
Republicans than over him.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
But so Hanson, our executive producer's theory is my theory
yesterday was just Trump likes watching heads explode. I don't
even know if he's thought down the road to whether
or not Gates will be confirmed. If he doesn't get confirmab,
I'll pick somebody else. I'm not sure Trump worries about
that stuff that much. But he just loved watching people
on CNN and MSNBC and CBS go nuts.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Over this yesterday. Yeah, and he just gets such a
kick out of that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
But Hanson's theory is, and this could very well be true,
that every once in a while he does one of
these things and then sits back and watches television and
figures out who's really with me and who's not really
with me. The people the Republicans that are asked on
a mic, what do you think of this choice?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Who say I think it's good.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
I'm willing to keep an open mind and give Matt
Gates the fair hearing he deserves, and Trump thinks, okay,
they're willing to who ignore their own beliefs for my sake.
Put that down on the little chart that way, or
the people who just can't bite their tongue and are like,
what the hell and you reloud, there's somebody that can't.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Count on Hanson.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You may be right, but it's a little Saddam Husseini
ish for my tastes.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I bet it's true.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You don't think he keeps track of the people that
are willing to bend their own thinking to support me
no matter what, practically, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Again, I think it may be right. That doesn't make
it right. It is correct and yet terrible because so
like even I want you to kill this child for me.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
I mean, it's it's very mob bossy. It's a little
Canaan ably a little al Capone. Or is it that's
the right story? God said to Abraham, give me a
sen Abe said, God, you must be putting me on.
I only know that story from the Bob Dylan song.
But it's that side of story. God testing to see
if you're a you know, yeah, but at the last
(36:07):
minute gots no, no, no, we're good.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You can leave the kid down. Well, I think what's
going to happen here is Gate.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
According to Bachman Turner Overdrive, who I look to for biblical.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Knowledge, Gates is not going to get confirmed, but Trump
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