January 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- 85% of the country agrees to deport criminals
- Reality show about the Baldwins?!
- Joe Biden's 28th amendment tweet
- The BIPOC song & RFK Jr. a political deal?
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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 arm Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The crackdown is not, of course, just affecting those being detained.
It is impacting local communities and workplaces, with migrant workers
not showing up for jobs, including many in the agricultural sector,
out of concern that they could be next.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What are we supposed to do about that as a society?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I mean, are you presenting that as a like an
actual argument for something or is that just kind of
a h and immature?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There's a downside to this? I don't, I don't it's
that one. It's it's hinting that there's an argument here.
I'm not going to hit you with it right now,
but yes, I have a powerful and moral argument against
this being done. You'll note that in a grant communities
I'm sorry, migrant communities are on edge.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
As if that's significant.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, that's why I've been saying to my radio or
TV for the last week like a crazy person, and
so we should what after I hear them say that?
And because of that, we should what the home depot
in the Chicago area didn't have employees show up yesterday
because they're worried about being deported. Okay, and so we
should what not deport people? I mean, what's your what
do you what are you suggesting?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I think a powerful one two punch would be the question.
Help me understand your argument? I don't under I don't
see what your argument is. And then let people talk
and then hit them with what you just said. So
what should we do? I mean, always bring it back
to something needs to be done. You've just expressed a
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very vague emotional reaction. Okay, So what should we do?
I don't know if there's any curing people who see
the world, because I think that Jake Tappers of the
world might actually think and the communities are on edge
or whatever he said, and think, Wow, I'm a good man.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I've reported that communities are on edge. I've done my part.
I mean, what have you done?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This gets into a little bit of what we were
talking about last hour with the young women crying on videos.
This belief that if someone's offended, you've done something offensive.
If people are on edge about being here illegally, we've
done something wrong to make them on edge.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, No, we have laws.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I think a lot of this comes down to a
certain chunk of America doesn't like our immigration laws and
would like them to change. Well, then make that argument,
make the argument of what the laws ought to be,
and talk about changing them. But again, and I'll say
that for this for the five hundred time. This is
according to the New York Times, eighty five percent of Americans.
You can't get eighty five percent of Americans agree on anything.
They agree on this. Illegals with criminal records should be
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booted out. So quit acting like it's controversial or something.
Here's one more aspect of it that I was surprised
to hear from NBC News.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
We get a first hand look in Chicago, riding along
with the agents at Dawn, the First Stop and apartment complex.
They can take a team of federal officers hours to
make one arrest. Me on this team, we're close to
ten gossips to ten, we're just going after one sets.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's a lot of nonpower.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It is ten ice agents taking hours to get one
illegal in this particular case, who was a really bad
guy who had done really awful things a violent past.
But then again, I mean I don't know if they
were suggesting that's too many people in too.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Much money or what I mean. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
We have laws and we are enforced them, or we
should change them, right, I don't know. It just seems
pretty simple to me. And also the whole what this
is going to cost. It's so expensive. Both sides do this,
and it drives me crazy. You only care about the
cost of things when it's something you don't like.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Other than that, spend away right.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, And you know, honestly, I don't mind that. If
we're constantly saying, hey, is this worth the tax dollars
being spent on it? I think that's a good thing.
It's healthy thing. In the case of this, yes, the
answer is yes, do whatever you need. It's fine, I'll
write the check. I was somewhat surprised. Oh, you know,
at the risk of belaboring the point, the idea that
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the moral position is to not advocate, or certainly not
advocate successfully for immigration laws to be changed, but instead
advocate a system where those laws exist. People sneak into
the country, they're at constant risk of being deported, or
they're exploited for for unfair wages, or they can get
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raped and not be able to report it because they're
afraid of deportation. And then is the laws changed and
the administration's changed, they do get deported or whatever. The
idea that like that. Check the Episcopalian minister who was
lecturing Trump and JD.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Van.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
The idea that she was representing a compassionate point of
view is absurd. It really is. That's not compassionate. Either
change the law or enforce the law evenly so people
know what they can expect, they know what decisions to
make with their lives. I tell you what's not compassionate.
(05:08):
And this is a compassionate thing to say about a
lot of the hard working illegals who just want a
better life for their families. We have, as a people
and a government sent the message, at least for the
last four years, come on in, come on in. We
got a job for you. We'll handle paperworker. You come
on in. Don't worry about the luck. Don't worry about it.
And if they're feeling a little whipsawed now, not talking
about the criminals, talking about the other folks, they probably
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do feel like that, and they should feel like that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
We need to stop this.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Enforce the damn law What we need somebody here is
somebody who's got a slow talking Texas drawl, who's not
the least bit exploitive of stories for his own game.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Doctor Phil was following around some Ice agents and this
is actually pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What's your name, Santa Tata walk?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
You have a person, I think, sir saida som Yes.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Where are you from?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Where I was born? Where I'm from?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Where you're born?
Speaker 9 (06:07):
Have you been deported before from the United States?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Never been deported?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
I've been in Yeah. What have you been charged with?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Charged with before?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I'm not the center and I'm gonna touching by lawyer.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Yeah. Are you a citizen?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
My mother's citizen.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Your mother's a citizen, but you're not. Nope, but you've
never been deported before?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Doctor Phil?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Yeah, how do you know me?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
No, I've seen I've seen a doctor Phil you know
on TV?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, Well this is an example of sanctuary cities, right,
we got an illegody I convicted of sex crimes involving children.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Mhm.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
He's walking the streets of Chicago again. The downfall the
problem with the sanctuary city that people like us walking
the street rather than from all force and working on
preseral agents.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
This is what we're dealing with.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Yeah, you been charged with sex crimes with children, not
dy not really have never been deported. Well huh, I'll
take in process and lock him up.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
All right, we've got a bad.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Doctor, phil with obviously maybe recognize the voice by now
Tom Holman, who's everywhere on all the news channels talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What he's trying to do.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He's trying to fulfill Trump's promise to the American voter,
which again has eighty five percent support.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And I would certainly be with him in what appears
to be an effort, a good, righteous effort, to utterly
discredit the idea of being a sanctuary city.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
How did we get this far off track?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm just this popped into my head yesterday on how
even as much as we talk about this, I wasn't
even close to I don't think understanding how far off
track we had gotten on so many things in this country.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I mean, just used to the perversity of it. Yeah,
just we.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Ended up into the world of insanity around some trans stuff,
around sanctuary cities, just into Crazyville, right, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
A little by little you get there, I guess.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And then when you've got the entire media complex on
board convincing you you're a bad person for thinking the
things you're thinking. You keep them quieter. I don't even
know it needs to be studied a century from now.
How it's like the Salem witch trials. Craziness. How have
we got this far off track as a society with
some of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's a real failure of our system of government that
there could be such overwhelming sentiment in a democratic society
to change policies or to just enforce the laws that exist,
and it not be done with impunity.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's angering some of our energy stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
When we've got more fossil fuels, as Trump says, liquid
gold under our feet, we could be completely energy independent,
and we're screaming down the road of wind and all
these different things that aren't working very well yet and
just insanity. And it was gonna keep going, maybe to
(09:32):
a point of being irreversible if Kamala Harris won.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Right, Yeah, agreed, Thank god she didn't. No, So coming
up a few more details on the deportation. Some of
the members are interesting. I was shocked to see the
headline in a fairly conservative publication. Trump ramps up deportation
effort after slow start. I think it's kind of a
misleading headline, but we'll explain what they mean.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Plus we've played the hits.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
How about some of the album cuts, some of the
other executive orders and changes to the United States government
that are happening that if you're, for instance, if you're
working for the State Department, you're acutely.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Aware of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It's front page news, but nobody's talking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So some of those headlines coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Call a lot of good stuff on the way stay here.
I remember hearing about this last year. I just assumed
it went away. The idea of a reality show based
on Alec Baldwin's home wife Alex Baldwick Alec Baldwin, who's
married to a fake Spaniard. When's the story on that
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she called herself Hilaria or something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
She's Hillary from Boston but called herself Hilaria.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Had an act, has has an accent, an accent on
the TV show how do you say?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
What fruitsy cucumber? Babe? You're from Boston? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
She's like thirty years younger than the Alec Baldwin was
an old man and then he started cranking out kids
with her and they have have like nineteen kids or something.
But apparently TLC the Learning Channel. I don't know what
we're learning from. This is going to follow the Baldwins
around and have a reality show. And here's the trailer
for that program.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Seven children, six animals, two parents, The Wild Family.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Why are we eating chocolate? Out your ball?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Gay?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Huma Pool Gross? What'sn't that happy? Fee?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
A son lost his mom in the most unthinkable tragedy.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
This is never something to forget, and we're trying to
parent through it.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
When the world begin cold.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Know that, honestly, from the bottom of my soul, I
don't know where I'd be if I didn't have you
in these cases.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I believe you.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Nope, Sorry, it didn't work man, at least when it
changed from pop music to the slow piano and got serious.
That's when it hooked me. Then I realized it was
layered and complex. I'm gonna watch every episode three times.
I'll probably watch an episode just to see what they're
trying to do there. It's all in the editing and everything,
right those reality shows, that's where the real brilliance comes in.
(12:20):
How you create a story around various facial expressions and
musical interludes. Right, you just create it completely, Yeah, out
of nothing. Here's the law though, new law. You can't
count people watching ironically in your rating, like I flipped
on Joy Read last night on MSNBC. That should in
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no way be construed in any fashion as support or
you know, an encouragement that that crap continues on the air.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I was thinking more, you can't mislabel your channel. You
can't be the learning channel and have a documentary following
around Alec Baldwin. He can't be the History channel and
have never ending Bigfoot stuff all day long like they do.
That's not the history. Yeah, what was I gonna say?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh? Does Alex shoot anybody in this?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Do we know?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Lord, that is inappropriate. I don't appreciate that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Katie, No. I was just hoping that the crew, you
know where it's like bulletproof vests.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Everyone should be everybody. You should show the bulletproof vest. Hey, Alex,
I'm gonna approach you slowly here.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I don't know if you're strapped. Tell you what he
goes to slicing a bagel. I leave the room.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Can't be trusted with a weapon. Oh, you know, your
reference to Bigfoot reminded me of a great piece I
read by Who's this guy, Martin Gory. It's entitled The
Great American Debate Begins Again and he goes into detail,
and I just you can't talk about this stuff enough.
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All of the times that things that were plainly true
at the time and are now undeniably true were Butter
Bolton during the Biden years. You couldn't even argue with
him or you would be branded not just as wrong,
but as evil and probably a person that should be,
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you know, drummed out of your career or whatever. And
part of his list is Donald Trump a dictator, the
events of January sixth constitute and insurgency is Joe Biden
sharp as attack is the science of climate change settled
our Javier Malay of Argentina, Marine le Penne of France
far right is the Wuhan Lableeue hypothesis, a conspiracy theory.
(14:39):
Was the persistence of the virus a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Does Anthony Fauci represent science? And there's several more examples.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Let's answer ask a question about these questions.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Why on Earth were replaced in a position of having
to answer them in an open society, perspectives on reality
confront one another in forceful competition. And he makes the
point that there was a great deal of sympathy that
accumulated for the point of views that no, you're not
even allowed to argue about that, which is perverse.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
My takeaway from the last couple of years, as I
was saying last segment of we're way off, further off
track than I even realized, and it's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
We got so far down that road, is uh.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And I don't know how much of it was caused
by the pandemic, But in a crisis, that's when the
opportunity for craziness is in a crisis, which is not surprising,
but that's when government's going to grab the most power,
or because you're scared, you're going to be more susceptible
to running one direction or the other without thinking it through.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
That obviously happened, sure.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
And that's what hl Menkin was talking about when he
said that the aim of most practical politics is to
keep the populist frightened by an endless series of oobgoblins,
because then you can seize power.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But gury makes the point.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another
in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth
or at least some useful information, or in their wrongness,
help you better understand your rightness.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Anyway, says so even the.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Flat earthers are all out of there, say even the
bigfoot seekers appear on the Discovery channel. Somewhere among the nonsense,
there may be something worth hearing. Because we don't precisely
know where or when. The conversation is never over. If
we all think alike, a single fatal air being shared
by all could destroy the world. And he goes into
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some detail, maybe we'll share a little more of that
during the nine o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Wow as the furthest down the road in my lifetime. Anyway,
that we want that direction of not allowing discourse around
major topics.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I just think we all need to get used to
in a knee jerk fashion. When somebody says, yeah, we're
not allowed to disagree on that, you say, yeah we are.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
In fact, I am sit down. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Chiefs are still one and a half point favorites for
the Super Bowl. Is just checking the odds in case
I want to really get involved with a lot of money,
drop some big money on this game.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Point and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Huh Hanson, can you turn off your Q speaker please,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That's lovely. So I'm torn said.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
We're gonna reveal some of the album cuts of what
Trump is doing behind the scenes that aren't getting as
much attention. But I also have this, and this really
deserves a moment a look at the whole bizarro. Joe
Biden in the twenty eighth Amendment tweet that went out
in the final days of his.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Term also hasn't got enough attention.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
So that's the reaction to it. So crazy, that's double crazy,
all right. But first, well, we'll hit a couple of
highlights what Trump's doing. The headline is Trump ramps up
deportation effort after slow start. To me, and we've come
across a couple of examples of this. It's like he's
been in office five days. Why has any cured inflation?
(18:12):
Like the obnoxious Marty's unfortunate word Margaret Brennan un faced
the nation.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Man is she a she? Wow? Anyway, Yeah, I know
I shouldn't. I just shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It's it's interesting, Well, never mind, we don't have time
for that tangent. So yes, for the first several days
Trump was in office, the deportations were actually roughly on
pace with the Biden administration, around three hundred a day,
which is I mean, okay, So the first three days
they were getting ramped up.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Why do you publish that? Nope?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Anyway, So at the end, when the Biden administration had
adopted the Trump rules that they got rid of, they
were getting rid of three hundred a day. That should
be pointed out they weren't doing that the whole time
because eight million people came in.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Brilliantly said, folks, let's all give them around of applause. Now,
you're right, that's a great point. Anyway, So Trump and
company have absolutely ramped up. Over the weekend, Senior ICE
officials told the rank and file that each of the
agency's offices will now be responsible for hitting a target
of seventy five arrests a day, or roughly one thousand
to fifteen hundred a day across the country, according to
(19:23):
two people familiar with the discussions, ah bah for now people.
According to people familiar, the agency is still conducting arrests
by pursuing immigrants on so called target lists of criminals
developed by the agency, many of which were made before
Trump took office. Officials have repeatedly warn't, however, that if
other deportable immigrants are discovered during ICE operations, they would
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be arrested too. That's fine, nobody actually cares. Stop pretending
that that's somehow a heartbreaking out rage, or that the
child rapist has a child who is now upset that
our dad's going to be deported.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, we still have to deport them, all right. The
grown ups are in charge now.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Moving along, one of President Trump's first day executive orders
proclaim that women are biologically female men are biologically male.
Sounds simple, but translating it into action across a vast
federal bureaucracy won't be. They're right, as social norms around
gender have grown more fluid in recent years. Yeah have they. Well,
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in some quarters they have, including enshrined in government. The
federal government is in a variety of settings that they
have removed to accommodate those who don't identify with their
birth their sex at birth. I'm sorry, so people applying
for travel documents or filing unemployment discrimination claims can check
off an X instead of male or female, and airport
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security agents were instructed not to use gender as a
primary factor when validating traveler's identity, which is hilarious. It
is absolutely hilarious. It's like not publishing the race of
a murder suspect in the newspaper because that would be ray.
You know what you tell me, I'm looking for a
white guy. I don't have to look at the black
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guys in Hispanic guys, all right, that's just IDIODD.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So if I got an ID.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
That says a man on it, or has a man's
name and it looks like a woman, I'm just supposed
to completely ignore that information, right if.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
They barely resemble each other? Whatever, No, you just don't
be a transphobe. So lawyers are saying the changes are
going to be a recipe for confusion, given that most
states allow people to change the gender on both their
birth certificate and driver's licenses. The idea that you're allowed
to change your sex the word is sex by the way,
on your birth certificate is hilarious. It's just it's a
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mark of how far down the road to crazyville we've gotten.
It is possible that individuals could end up with conflicting
government identification documents that use different gender markers. A headache
when completing such tasks. Is opening a do Bank account.
Your driver's license says you're a chick, You're a Federal
government documents say no, he's not. He's a dude, And
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that could cause confusion and headaches and the rest of it. Oh,
and then they quote Kelly Robinson, president of the Human
Rights Campaign, which is one of the leading organizations in
favor of mutilating confused adolescents, feeding them powerful and permanent drugs,
and giving them surgeries because of momentary adolescent confusion. So,
Kelly Robinson, you are an awful human being, and I
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don't give a crap what you say.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Almost used a bad word. What moving along?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Trump officials waste no time in the Justice Department's right
word shift all sorts of changes in the Justice Department,
Biden told prosecutors show leniency to some drug offenders with
a new policy calling for the pursuit of the most
serious charges.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh well, they said, go easy.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Trump now says pursued the most serious charges and the
stiffest penalties for all crimes. They halted much of the
Department's civil rights and environmental work, and they trans for
more than fifteen career employees to relatively marginal positions because
they didn't like the cut of their jib. Also, anybody
who was working for Jack Smith got fired. And Trump
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has made a Justice Department shake up one of his
priorities after sparring with the institution that charged him several times.
The President is accused the Department of wielding his powers
for political ends, and his launched a big inquiry into
the weaponization of government.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So big shake up there.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Trump orders freezing foreign aid haltz programs worldwide prompts confusion
and rush for waivers. Trump administration order pausing almost all
foreign aid. This one, I think is too broad brush.
It's like his January sixth pardons. He need to be
more careful with this stuff, but he ordered a pause.
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It's left counter terrorism training in Somalia, HIV treatment in Uganda,
narcotics interdiction in Colombia, prosthetics for refugees from Yatmar, and
many other US funded overseas assistance programs in sudden limbo.
How long this review takes and how quickly it gets
going again is a big question. But As I've said before,
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there are only three ways to get friends in the world.
Number One, it's in their self interest to be your
friend for obvious reasons. Number two, you threaten them into it.
Number three, you bribe them into it. And foreign aid
is sometimes compassionate, lovely. Often it's just bribery. It's flat
bribery to buy a friend. That's part of foreign policy.
It just is let's see.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Do I have one more? I think christ China is
doing that.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Oh oh yeah, oh yeah. And you know, every hostile
power in the history of the world has done that,
trying to buy loyalty. And we've got to be in
the business too. I know a lot of you don't
like foreign aid, but it would be way too easy
to be surrounded by your enemies for real, serious, expensive,
nasty outcomes if we didn't do some of that outreach,
(24:57):
just the way of the world. I thought this was interesting.
Trump is taking a serious look at the General Services Administration,
the what nobody cares. That's the federal agency that owns, manages,
and leases much of the government's real estate, and some
of the statistics are astonishing. The GSA manages a massive
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portfolio of federal buildings consisting of three hundred and seventy
million square feet nationwide three hundred and seventy million square feet.
Many have been poorly maintained due to lack of funding
and are sitting empty or underused. The GSA testified before
Congress a couple of years ago, and Trump is considering
selling two thirds of the federal government's office stock to
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the private sector.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Two or three people. Wow.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, about three quarters of the seventy million square feet
of office space the GSA leases from private landlords in
DC is also likely to be canceled, which is going
to cause a huge shock in DC commercial property. But
a lot of it's sitting empty, which is really a
crazy distortion of the market. It's like if I bought,
(26:06):
you know, a third of the I don't know whatever eggs.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Eggs are expensive right now.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I bought a third of the eggs sold in the
United States and just smashed them, which would jack up
the demand and raise the prices. Artificially selling it off
ain't the artificial part.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It was the holding it that was So I hope
he does that. Anyway. That's enough.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
State Department only flying American flags everywhere. That's getting a
lot of attention. No Pride flags. The fact that they
ever flew BLM flags anywhere in the world, that's nuts.
I can't believe that happened over any of our federal
buildings anywhere in the world. But Pride Flags was a
big deal. And from here on out it's only the
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American flag, which is just everybody should be on board
with that.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's hard to believe it ever was anything else.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I know, I would think even if you're a lefty
you hate American imperialism so much, you want like pushing
You don't want to push democracy on other countries, but
you want to push gay pride in other countries.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Okay, yes, uh feeding hormones to their confused adolescent girls.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You do want to prep push that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
The part that annoys me, and you know I'm doing
my best against it. But the thing that annoys me
is the number of people who still think black lives matter.
The organization is about black lives mattering.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It's a Marxist organization that's been found taking over institutions and.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
The idea that DEI is about.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I mean, I just read another piece why Costco says
they won't abandon their DEI programs, like so many people are.
Costco says, well, we think we actually have better customer
service if we have a divorce a diverse workforce. Costco
DEI is not about making sure black people can get
a job if they deserve one. It's a masquerade. It's
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Marxists that just want to take over institutions.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Don't discriminate. You shouldn't hire capbable people. That's fine.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Do whatever's best for your business, but don't be full.
DEI is a charade.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I can tell you what there's gonna be the number
one news story tomorrow for a variety of reasons. It's
the RFK junior confirmation hearing. I can tell you a
little bit about that coming up. Two quick things before
we take a break.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
One. Three things.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
One Jim Acosta, who got so much attention on CNN
by arguing if Trump in press conferences is leaving CNN.
He's got no ratings. They offered him a show in
the middle of the night and he said no kind
of a way to fire him, and he's leaving CNN.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
So that's a well, they're in desperate financial straits too, right.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But so he won't be at least it with CNN.
He won't be in the press room puffing out his
chest trying to make a big show fighting.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Trump all the time anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Tom Jones has just announced a tour for twenty twenty five.
Tell your mom or your grandma, maybe Tom Jones Junior
his son. So you're gonna have a bunch of octagenarians
throwing their practical undergarments under the state.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Tell your mother or your grandmother. They'll know who that is.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
And then this, which is actual news, And because Kansas
is my home state, I'm going to look into it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Kansas is facing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
The largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in US history, the worst
tuberculosis outbreak in the nation's history, going on in Kansas
right now.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't know anything about that. I'll read the story.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I guarantee it's about illegal immigrants in UH cattle yards
and meat plants.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I'll see if that's true. But I'll bet you're right.
RFK Junior.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
The New York Post editorial board, which is a pretty
trumpy editorial board, says no vote, no Republican senators on
RFK Junior. They lay out their reasoning. We could get
to that, but we also got this. What is this
the new woke national anthem or something. What is the
girls singing? It's funny, It's funny, no matter what if
you haven't heard it, stated.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
There's you're Tom Jones, who is a big deal with
me sixties.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
He's touring again this year. Lady, grandma, grandma Tom Jones
is touring. What's that? Tom Jones is touring. Oh, she's
a lady. Had some cachet in the seventies as well.
Fine performer, Jack a Welshman, don't you know? Okay?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Speaking of great singers, Speaking of great singers, ladies and gentlemen,
we give you the Pride of Maine, the exquisite woke
song stress that's gone double viral one Molly Gawler sing along.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If you know the words black.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Again, Indigenous people love color, black again, Indigenous people love color.
Lesbian gay bye, transgender queer, lesbian gay bye, transgender queer.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Asian American Pacific Islander, Asian American Pacific Islander, Latino Hispanic
Romani and Creol. Latino Hispanic Romani and Creol.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
We all have the place in this world.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Here you go, we all have the place in this world.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I apologize. I thought she was done.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
You know, it's a lovely sentiment. If expressed by an
eleven year old, it's not much of a contribution though, honestly,
to the intellectual discussions of our time, nobody's calling for
the execution of the Romani.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Trying to figure out why my home state of Kansas
is having the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the history of
the nation, haven't nailed that down. It's all around the
Kansas City area, so that's not feed yard, so I'm
not exactly sure what that is. I'll try to figure
that out. One other thing, re illegal immigration. The vicious
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gang leader who was running that organization that went into
the apartment complex and Aurora, Colorado. We all saw that
he just got arrested in New York. He had gotten
out of Colorado and gone to New York to try
to hide, but he got rounded up in the latest
Trump illegal immigrant criminal raid and he is now arrested
and will be sent back to wherever he's from.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So there's that.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Although Venezuela has announced they will not take these people back,
I think you will.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I think yeah, I think one way or another you will.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I'll bet you two or three of your worthless currency
that you will, my friend.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
So the New York Post their editorial board, probably angering
a lot of Trump fans by saying, hey, Republican senators
vote no on RFK Junior.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
He's a left wing lunatic. And they lay.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Out a couple of paragraphs on how great Trump's other
choices are, to try to.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Make sure you know, hey, remember we're on your side.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Marco, Rubio and Holman and all these different people that
Trump's picked. This is all great, We love all of it.
But RFK Junior, and they point this out. RFK Junior
was a political deal. For a brief moment last year,
Kennedy looked like he might be a tipping point in
the election. He was what he had fifteen eighteen percent
of the vote it looked like in some polls, and
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Trump was worried that that could swing the election. So
Trump jumped on board. He didn't take any chances, says
the New York Post editorial board. He convinced the radical
left lunatic to drop out and endorse him. But as
The New York Post turns out, this position being set
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Secretary of Health and Human Services is way too big
a reward for getting a third party candidate to you know,
endorse you and as a new euro Post says, he's unseerious,
dangerous and a left wing lunatic. As they call him
over and over again, he's a super high tax guy.
He's a couldn't be more environmentally wacko green guy. He
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is abortion up until the point of birth guy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It's worth pointing out that the Wall Street Journal editorial
board is beside themselves with trying to convince everybody this
guy's a crack pot. He's right about a couple of things,
no doubt, sure, But I mean who isn't. But yeah,
it's it's there is very very thin support for the guy.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
He's anti farmer, there's a long list of things. He's
anti NRA. There's a long list of things you care
about that he is like the extreme opposite of.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
He's been known to desecrate bart corpses.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
So his hearing is tomorrow. It's going to be interesting.
Is he gonna try to walk back all these things?
Are the Democrats gonna point him out because they don't mind?
I would think they'd be boosome? What if all the
Democrats vote for him because he's a left wing lunatic?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Wow? Wow, I don't know what's gonna happen with that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
If you miss an hour today or tomorrow, 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 arm Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The crackdown is not, of course, just affecting those being detained.
It is impacting local communities and workplaces, with migrant workers
not showing up for jobs, including many in the agricultural sector,
out of concern that they could be next.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What are we supposed to do about that as a society?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I mean, are you presenting that as a like an
actual argument for something or is that just kind of
a h and immature?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There's a downside to this? I don't, I don't it's
that one. It's it's hinting that there's an argument here.
I'm not going to hit you with it right now,
but yes, I have a powerful and moral argument against
this being done. You'll note that in a grant communities
I'm sorry, migrant communities are on edge.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
As if that's significant.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, that's why I've been saying to my radio or
TV for the last week like a crazy person, and
so we should what after I hear them say that?
And because of that, we should what the home depot
in the Chicago area didn't have employees show up yesterday
because they're worried about being deported. Okay, and so we
should what not deport people? I mean, what's your what
do you what are you suggesting?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I think a powerful one two punch would be the question.
Help me understand your argument? I don't under I don't
see what your argument is. And then let people talk
and then hit them with what you just said. So
what should we do? I mean, always bring it back
to something needs to be done. You've just expressed a
(01:48):
very vague emotional reaction. Okay, So what should we do?
I don't know if there's any curing people who see
the world, because I think that Jake Tappers of the
world might actually think and the communities are on edge
or whatever he said, and think, Wow, I'm a good man.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I've reported that communities are on edge. I've done my part.
I mean, what have you done?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This gets into a little bit of what we were
talking about last hour with the young women crying on videos.
This belief that if someone's offended, you've done something offensive.
If people are on edge about being here illegally, we've
done something wrong to make them on edge.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, No, we have laws.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I think a lot of this comes down to a
certain chunk of America doesn't like our immigration laws and
would like them to change. Well, then make that argument,
make the argument of what the laws ought to be,
and talk about changing them. But again, and I'll say
that for this for the five hundred time. This is
according to the New York Times, eighty five percent of Americans.
You can't get eighty five percent of Americans agree on anything.
They agree on this. Illegals with criminal records should be
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booted out. So quit acting like it's controversial or something.
Here's one more aspect of it that I was surprised
to hear from NBC News.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
We get a first hand look in Chicago, riding along
with the agents at Dawn, the First Stop and apartment complex.
They can take a team of federal officers hours to
make one arrest. Me on this team, we're close to
ten gossips to ten, we're just going after one sets.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's a lot of nonpower.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It is ten ice agents taking hours to get one
illegal in this particular case, who was a really bad
guy who had done really awful things a violent past.
But then again, I mean I don't know if they
were suggesting that's too many people in too.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Much money or what I mean. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
We have laws and we are enforced them, or we
should change them, right, I don't know. It just seems
pretty simple to me. And also the whole what this
is going to cost. It's so expensive. Both sides do this,
and it drives me crazy. You only care about the
cost of things when it's something you don't like.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Other than that, spend away right.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, And you know, honestly, I don't mind that. If
we're constantly saying, hey, is this worth the tax dollars
being spent on it? I think that's a good thing.
It's healthy thing. In the case of this, yes, the
answer is yes, do whatever you need. It's fine, I'll
write the check. I was somewhat surprised. Oh, you know,
at the risk of belaboring the point, the idea that
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the moral position is to not advocate, or certainly not
advocate successfully for immigration laws to be changed, but instead
advocate a system where those laws exist. People sneak into
the country, they're at constant risk of being deported, or
they're exploited for for unfair wages, or they can get
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raped and not be able to report it because they're
afraid of deportation. And then is the laws changed and
the administration's changed, they do get deported or whatever. The
idea that like that. Check the Episcopalian minister who was
lecturing Trump and JD.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Van.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
The idea that she was representing a compassionate point of
view is absurd. It really is. That's not compassionate. Either
change the law or enforce the law evenly so people
know what they can expect, they know what decisions to
make with their lives. I tell you what's not compassionate.
(05:08):
And this is a compassionate thing to say about a
lot of the hard working illegals who just want a
better life for their families. We have, as a people
and a government sent the message, at least for the
last four years, come on in, come on in. We
got a job for you. We'll handle paperworker. You come
on in. Don't worry about the luck. Don't worry about it.
And if they're feeling a little whipsawed now, not talking
about the criminals, talking about the other folks, they probably
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do feel like that, and they should feel like that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
We need to stop this.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Enforce the damn law What we need somebody here is
somebody who's got a slow talking Texas drawl, who's not
the least bit exploitive of stories for his own game.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Doctor Phil was following around some Ice agents and this
is actually pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What's your name, Santa Tata walk?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
You have a person, I think, sir saida som Yes.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Where are you from?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Where I was born? Where I'm from?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Where you're born?
Speaker 9 (06:07):
Have you been deported before from the United States?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Never been deported?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
I've been in Yeah. What have you been charged with?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Charged with before?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I'm not the center and I'm gonna touching by lawyer.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Yeah. Are you a citizen?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
My mother's citizen.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Your mother's a citizen, but you're not. Nope, but you've
never been deported before?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Doctor Phil?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Yeah, how do you know me?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
No, I've seen I've seen a doctor Phil you know
on TV?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, Well this is an example of sanctuary cities, right,
we got an illegody I convicted of sex crimes involving children.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Mhm.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
He's walking the streets of Chicago again. The downfall the
problem with the sanctuary city that people like us walking
the street rather than from all force and working on
preseral agents.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
This is what we're dealing with.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Yeah, you been charged with sex crimes with children, not
dy not really have never been deported. Well huh, I'll
take in process and lock him up.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
All right, we've got a bad.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Doctor, phil with obviously maybe recognize the voice by now
Tom Holman, who's everywhere on all the news channels talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What he's trying to do.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He's trying to fulfill Trump's promise to the American voter,
which again has eighty five percent support.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And I would certainly be with him in what appears
to be an effort, a good, righteous effort, to utterly
discredit the idea of being a sanctuary city.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
How did we get this far off track?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm just this popped into my head yesterday on how
even as much as we talk about this, I wasn't
even close to I don't think understanding how far off
track we had gotten on so many things in this country.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I mean, just used to the perversity of it. Yeah,
just we.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Ended up into the world of insanity around some trans stuff,
around sanctuary cities, just into Crazyville, right, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
A little by little you get there, I guess.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And then when you've got the entire media complex on
board convincing you you're a bad person for thinking the
things you're thinking. You keep them quieter. I don't even
know it needs to be studied a century from now.
How it's like the Salem witch trials. Craziness. How have
we got this far off track as a society with
some of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's a real failure of our system of government that
there could be such overwhelming sentiment in a democratic society
to change policies or to just enforce the laws that exist,
and it not be done with impunity.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's angering some of our energy stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
When we've got more fossil fuels, as Trump says, liquid
gold under our feet, we could be completely energy independent,
and we're screaming down the road of wind and all
these different things that aren't working very well yet and
just insanity. And it was gonna keep going, maybe to
(09:32):
a point of being irreversible if Kamala Harris won.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Right, Yeah, agreed, Thank god she didn't. No, So coming
up a few more details on the deportation. Some of
the members are interesting. I was shocked to see the
headline in a fairly conservative publication. Trump ramps up deportation
effort after slow start. I think it's kind of a
misleading headline, but we'll explain what they mean.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Plus we've played the hits.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
How about some of the album cuts, some of the
other executive orders and changes to the United States government
that are happening that if you're, for instance, if you're
working for the State Department, you're acutely.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Aware of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It's front page news, but nobody's talking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So some of those headlines coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Call a lot of good stuff on the way stay here.
I remember hearing about this last year. I just assumed
it went away. The idea of a reality show based
on Alec Baldwin's home wife Alex Baldwick Alec Baldwin, who's
married to a fake Spaniard. When's the story on that
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she called herself Hilaria or something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
She's Hillary from Boston but called herself Hilaria.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Had an act, has has an accent, an accent on
the TV show how do you say?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
What fruitsy cucumber? Babe? You're from Boston? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
She's like thirty years younger than the Alec Baldwin was
an old man and then he started cranking out kids
with her and they have have like nineteen kids or something.
But apparently TLC the Learning Channel. I don't know what
we're learning from. This is going to follow the Baldwins
around and have a reality show. And here's the trailer
for that program.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Seven children, six animals, two parents, The Wild Family.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Why are we eating chocolate? Out your ball?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Gay?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Huma Pool Gross? What'sn't that happy? Fee?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
A son lost his mom in the most unthinkable tragedy.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
This is never something to forget, and we're trying to
parent through it.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
When the world begin cold.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Know that, honestly, from the bottom of my soul, I
don't know where I'd be if I didn't have you
in these cases.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I believe you.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Nope, Sorry, it didn't work man, at least when it
changed from pop music to the slow piano and got serious.
That's when it hooked me. Then I realized it was
layered and complex. I'm gonna watch every episode three times.
I'll probably watch an episode just to see what they're
trying to do there. It's all in the editing and everything,
right those reality shows, that's where the real brilliance comes in.
(12:20):
How you create a story around various facial expressions and
musical interludes. Right, you just create it completely, Yeah, out
of nothing. Here's the law though, new law. You can't
count people watching ironically in your rating, like I flipped
on Joy Read last night on MSNBC. That should in
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no way be construed in any fashion as support or
you know, an encouragement that that crap continues on the air.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I was thinking more, you can't mislabel your channel. You
can't be the learning channel and have a documentary following
around Alec Baldwin. He can't be the History channel and
have never ending Bigfoot stuff all day long like they do.
That's not the history. Yeah, what was I gonna say?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh? Does Alex shoot anybody in this?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Do we know?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Lord, that is inappropriate. I don't appreciate that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Katie, No. I was just hoping that the crew, you
know where it's like bulletproof vests.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Everyone should be everybody. You should show the bulletproof vest. Hey, Alex,
I'm gonna approach you slowly here.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I don't know if you're strapped. Tell you what he
goes to slicing a bagel. I leave the room.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Can't be trusted with a weapon. Oh, you know, your
reference to Bigfoot reminded me of a great piece I
read by Who's this guy, Martin Gory. It's entitled The
Great American Debate Begins Again and he goes into detail,
and I just you can't talk about this stuff enough.
(13:54):
All of the times that things that were plainly true
at the time and are now undeniably true were Butter
Bolton during the Biden years. You couldn't even argue with
him or you would be branded not just as wrong,
but as evil and probably a person that should be,
(14:14):
you know, drummed out of your career or whatever. And
part of his list is Donald Trump a dictator, the
events of January sixth constitute and insurgency is Joe Biden
sharp as attack is the science of climate change settled
our Javier Malay of Argentina, Marine le Penne of France
far right is the Wuhan Lableeue hypothesis, a conspiracy theory.
(14:39):
Was the persistence of the virus a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Does Anthony Fauci represent science? And there's several more examples.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Let's answer ask a question about these questions.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Why on Earth were replaced in a position of having
to answer them in an open society, perspectives on reality
confront one another in forceful competition. And he makes the
point that there was a great deal of sympathy that
accumulated for the point of views that no, you're not
even allowed to argue about that, which is perverse.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
My takeaway from the last couple of years, as I
was saying last segment of we're way off, further off
track than I even realized, and it's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
We got so far down that road, is uh.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And I don't know how much of it was caused
by the pandemic, But in a crisis, that's when the
opportunity for craziness is in a crisis, which is not surprising,
but that's when government's going to grab the most power,
or because you're scared, you're going to be more susceptible
to running one direction or the other without thinking it through.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
That obviously happened, sure.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
And that's what hl Menkin was talking about when he
said that the aim of most practical politics is to
keep the populist frightened by an endless series of oobgoblins,
because then you can seize power.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But gury makes the point.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another
in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth
or at least some useful information, or in their wrongness,
help you better understand your rightness.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Anyway, says so even the.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Flat earthers are all out of there, say even the
bigfoot seekers appear on the Discovery channel. Somewhere among the nonsense,
there may be something worth hearing. Because we don't precisely
know where or when. The conversation is never over. If
we all think alike, a single fatal air being shared
by all could destroy the world. And he goes into
(16:44):
some detail, maybe we'll share a little more of that
during the nine o'clock hour.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Wow as the furthest down the road in my lifetime. Anyway,
that we want that direction of not allowing discourse around
major topics.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I just think we all need to get used to
in a knee jerk fashion. When somebody says, yeah, we're
not allowed to disagree on that, you say, yeah we are.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
In fact, I am sit down. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Chiefs are still one and a half point favorites for
the Super Bowl. Is just checking the odds in case
I want to really get involved with a lot of money,
drop some big money on this game.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Point and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Huh Hanson, can you turn off your Q speaker please,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That's lovely. So I'm torn said.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
We're gonna reveal some of the album cuts of what
Trump is doing behind the scenes that aren't getting as
much attention. But I also have this, and this really
deserves a moment a look at the whole bizarro. Joe
Biden in the twenty eighth Amendment tweet that went out
in the final days of his.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Term also hasn't got enough attention.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
So that's the reaction to it. So crazy, that's double crazy,
all right. But first, well, we'll hit a couple of
highlights what Trump's doing. The headline is Trump ramps up
deportation effort after slow start. To me, and we've come
across a couple of examples of this. It's like he's
been in office five days. Why has any cured inflation?
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Like the obnoxious Marty's unfortunate word Margaret Brennan un faced
the nation.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Man is she a she? Wow? Anyway, Yeah, I know
I shouldn't. I just shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It's it's interesting, Well, never mind, we don't have time
for that tangent. So yes, for the first several days
Trump was in office, the deportations were actually roughly on
pace with the Biden administration, around three hundred a day,
which is I mean, okay, So the first three days
they were getting ramped up.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Why do you publish that? Nope?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Anyway, So at the end, when the Biden administration had
adopted the Trump rules that they got rid of, they
were getting rid of three hundred a day. That should
be pointed out they weren't doing that the whole time
because eight million people came in.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Brilliantly said, folks, let's all give them around of applause. Now,
you're right, that's a great point. Anyway, So Trump and
company have absolutely ramped up. Over the weekend, Senior ICE
officials told the rank and file that each of the
agency's offices will now be responsible for hitting a target
of seventy five arrests a day, or roughly one thousand
to fifteen hundred a day across the country, according to
(19:23):
two people familiar with the discussions, ah bah for now people.
According to people familiar, the agency is still conducting arrests
by pursuing immigrants on so called target lists of criminals
developed by the agency, many of which were made before
Trump took office. Officials have repeatedly warn't, however, that if
other deportable immigrants are discovered during ICE operations, they would
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be arrested too. That's fine, nobody actually cares. Stop pretending
that that's somehow a heartbreaking out rage, or that the
child rapist has a child who is now upset that
our dad's going to be deported.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, we still have to deport them, all right. The
grown ups are in charge now.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Moving along, one of President Trump's first day executive orders
proclaim that women are biologically female men are biologically male.
Sounds simple, but translating it into action across a vast
federal bureaucracy won't be. They're right, as social norms around
gender have grown more fluid in recent years. Yeah have they. Well,
(20:21):
in some quarters they have, including enshrined in government. The
federal government is in a variety of settings that they
have removed to accommodate those who don't identify with their
birth their sex at birth. I'm sorry, so people applying
for travel documents or filing unemployment discrimination claims can check
off an X instead of male or female, and airport
(20:43):
security agents were instructed not to use gender as a
primary factor when validating traveler's identity, which is hilarious. It
is absolutely hilarious. It's like not publishing the race of
a murder suspect in the newspaper because that would be ray.
You know what you tell me, I'm looking for a
white guy. I don't have to look at the black
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guys in Hispanic guys, all right, that's just IDIODD.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So if I got an ID.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
That says a man on it, or has a man's
name and it looks like a woman, I'm just supposed
to completely ignore that information, right if.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
They barely resemble each other? Whatever, No, you just don't
be a transphobe. So lawyers are saying the changes are
going to be a recipe for confusion, given that most
states allow people to change the gender on both their
birth certificate and driver's licenses. The idea that you're allowed
to change your sex the word is sex by the way,
on your birth certificate is hilarious. It's just it's a
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mark of how far down the road to crazyville we've gotten.
It is possible that individuals could end up with conflicting
government identification documents that use different gender markers. A headache
when completing such tasks. Is opening a do Bank account.
Your driver's license says you're a chick, You're a Federal
government documents say no, he's not. He's a dude, And
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that could cause confusion and headaches and the rest of it. Oh,
and then they quote Kelly Robinson, president of the Human
Rights Campaign, which is one of the leading organizations in
favor of mutilating confused adolescents, feeding them powerful and permanent drugs,
and giving them surgeries because of momentary adolescent confusion. So,
Kelly Robinson, you are an awful human being, and I
(22:26):
don't give a crap what you say.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Almost used a bad word. What moving along?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Trump officials waste no time in the Justice Department's right
word shift all sorts of changes in the Justice Department,
Biden told prosecutors show leniency to some drug offenders with
a new policy calling for the pursuit of the most
serious charges.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh well, they said, go easy.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Trump now says pursued the most serious charges and the
stiffest penalties for all crimes. They halted much of the
Department's civil rights and environmental work, and they trans for
more than fifteen career employees to relatively marginal positions because
they didn't like the cut of their jib. Also, anybody
who was working for Jack Smith got fired. And Trump
(23:14):
has made a Justice Department shake up one of his
priorities after sparring with the institution that charged him several times.
The President is accused the Department of wielding his powers
for political ends, and his launched a big inquiry into
the weaponization of government.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So big shake up there.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Trump orders freezing foreign aid haltz programs worldwide prompts confusion
and rush for waivers. Trump administration order pausing almost all
foreign aid. This one, I think is too broad brush.
It's like his January sixth pardons. He need to be
more careful with this stuff, but he ordered a pause.
(23:49):
It's left counter terrorism training in Somalia, HIV treatment in Uganda,
narcotics interdiction in Colombia, prosthetics for refugees from Yatmar, and
many other US funded overseas assistance programs in sudden limbo.
How long this review takes and how quickly it gets
going again is a big question. But As I've said before,
(24:11):
there are only three ways to get friends in the world.
Number One, it's in their self interest to be your
friend for obvious reasons. Number two, you threaten them into it.
Number three, you bribe them into it. And foreign aid
is sometimes compassionate, lovely. Often it's just bribery. It's flat
bribery to buy a friend. That's part of foreign policy.
It just is let's see.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Do I have one more? I think christ China is
doing that.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Oh oh yeah, oh yeah. And you know, every hostile
power in the history of the world has done that,
trying to buy loyalty. And we've got to be in
the business too. I know a lot of you don't
like foreign aid, but it would be way too easy
to be surrounded by your enemies for real, serious, expensive,
nasty outcomes if we didn't do some of that outreach,
(24:57):
just the way of the world. I thought this was interesting.
Trump is taking a serious look at the General Services Administration,
the what nobody cares. That's the federal agency that owns, manages,
and leases much of the government's real estate, and some
of the statistics are astonishing. The GSA manages a massive
(25:18):
portfolio of federal buildings consisting of three hundred and seventy
million square feet nationwide three hundred and seventy million square feet.
Many have been poorly maintained due to lack of funding
and are sitting empty or underused. The GSA testified before
Congress a couple of years ago, and Trump is considering
selling two thirds of the federal government's office stock to
(25:38):
the private sector.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Two or three people. Wow.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, about three quarters of the seventy million square feet
of office space the GSA leases from private landlords in
DC is also likely to be canceled, which is going
to cause a huge shock in DC commercial property. But
a lot of it's sitting empty, which is really a
crazy distortion of the market. It's like if I bought,
(26:06):
you know, a third of the I don't know whatever eggs.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Eggs are expensive right now.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I bought a third of the eggs sold in the
United States and just smashed them, which would jack up
the demand and raise the prices. Artificially selling it off
ain't the artificial part.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It was the holding it that was So I hope
he does that. Anyway. That's enough.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
State Department only flying American flags everywhere. That's getting a
lot of attention. No Pride flags. The fact that they
ever flew BLM flags anywhere in the world, that's nuts.
I can't believe that happened over any of our federal
buildings anywhere in the world. But Pride Flags was a
big deal. And from here on out it's only the
(26:49):
American flag, which is just everybody should be on board
with that.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's hard to believe it ever was anything else.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I know, I would think even if you're a lefty
you hate American imperialism so much, you want like pushing
You don't want to push democracy on other countries, but
you want to push gay pride in other countries.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Okay, yes, uh feeding hormones to their confused adolescent girls.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You do want to prep push that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
The part that annoys me, and you know I'm doing
my best against it. But the thing that annoys me
is the number of people who still think black lives matter.
The organization is about black lives mattering.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It's a Marxist organization that's been found taking over institutions and.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
The idea that DEI is about.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I mean, I just read another piece why Costco says
they won't abandon their DEI programs, like so many people are.
Costco says, well, we think we actually have better customer
service if we have a divorce a diverse workforce. Costco
DEI is not about making sure black people can get
a job if they deserve one. It's a masquerade. It's
(27:53):
Marxists that just want to take over institutions.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Don't discriminate. You shouldn't hire capbable people. That's fine.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Do whatever's best for your business, but don't be full.
DEI is a charade.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I can tell you what there's gonna be the number
one news story tomorrow for a variety of reasons. It's
the RFK junior confirmation hearing. I can tell you a
little bit about that coming up. Two quick things before
we take a break.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
One. Three things.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
One Jim Acosta, who got so much attention on CNN
by arguing if Trump in press conferences is leaving CNN.
He's got no ratings. They offered him a show in
the middle of the night and he said no kind
of a way to fire him, and he's leaving CNN.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
So that's a well, they're in desperate financial straits too, right.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But so he won't be at least it with CNN.
He won't be in the press room puffing out his
chest trying to make a big show fighting.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Trump all the time anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Tom Jones has just announced a tour for twenty twenty five.
Tell your mom or your grandma, maybe Tom Jones Junior
his son. So you're gonna have a bunch of octagenarians
throwing their practical undergarments under the state.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Tell your mother or your grandmother. They'll know who that is.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
And then this, which is actual news, And because Kansas
is my home state, I'm going to look into it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Kansas is facing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
The largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in US history, the worst
tuberculosis outbreak in the nation's history, going on in Kansas
right now.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't know anything about that. I'll read the story.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I guarantee it's about illegal immigrants in UH cattle yards
and meat plants.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I'll see if that's true. But I'll bet you're right.
RFK Junior.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
The New York Post editorial board, which is a pretty
trumpy editorial board, says no vote, no Republican senators on
RFK Junior. They lay out their reasoning. We could get
to that, but we also got this. What is this
the new woke national anthem or something. What is the
girls singing? It's funny, It's funny, no matter what if
you haven't heard it, stated.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
There's you're Tom Jones, who is a big deal with
me sixties.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
He's touring again this year. Lady, grandma, grandma Tom Jones
is touring. What's that? Tom Jones is touring. Oh, she's
a lady. Had some cachet in the seventies as well.
Fine performer, Jack a Welshman, don't you know? Okay?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Speaking of great singers, Speaking of great singers, ladies and gentlemen,
we give you the Pride of Maine, the exquisite woke
song stress that's gone double viral one Molly Gawler sing along.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If you know the words black.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Again, Indigenous people love color, black again, Indigenous people love color.
Lesbian gay bye, transgender queer, lesbian gay bye, transgender queer.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Asian American Pacific Islander, Asian American Pacific Islander, Latino Hispanic
Romani and Creol. Latino Hispanic Romani and Creol.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
We all have the place in this world.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Here you go, we all have the place in this world.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I apologize. I thought she was done.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
You know, it's a lovely sentiment. If expressed by an
eleven year old, it's not much of a contribution though, honestly,
to the intellectual discussions of our time, nobody's calling for
the execution of the Romani.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Trying to figure out why my home state of Kansas
is having the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the history of
the nation, haven't nailed that down. It's all around the
Kansas City area, so that's not feed yard, so I'm
not exactly sure what that is. I'll try to figure
that out. One other thing, re illegal immigration. The vicious
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gang leader who was running that organization that went into
the apartment complex and Aurora, Colorado. We all saw that
he just got arrested in New York. He had gotten
out of Colorado and gone to New York to try
to hide, but he got rounded up in the latest
Trump illegal immigrant criminal raid and he is now arrested
and will be sent back to wherever he's from.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So there's that.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Although Venezuela has announced they will not take these people back,
I think you will.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I think yeah, I think one way or another you will.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I'll bet you two or three of your worthless currency
that you will, my friend.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
So the New York Post their editorial board, probably angering
a lot of Trump fans by saying, hey, Republican senators
vote no on RFK Junior.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
He's a left wing lunatic. And they lay.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Out a couple of paragraphs on how great Trump's other
choices are, to try to.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Make sure you know, hey, remember we're on your side.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Marco, Rubio and Holman and all these different people that
Trump's picked. This is all great, We love all of it.
But RFK Junior, and they point this out. RFK Junior
was a political deal. For a brief moment last year,
Kennedy looked like he might be a tipping point in
the election. He was what he had fifteen eighteen percent
of the vote it looked like in some polls, and
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Trump was worried that that could swing the election. So
Trump jumped on board. He didn't take any chances, says
the New York Post editorial board. He convinced the radical
left lunatic to drop out and endorse him. But as
The New York Post turns out, this position being set
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Secretary of Health and Human Services is way too big
a reward for getting a third party candidate to you know,
endorse you and as a new euro Post says, he's unseerious,
dangerous and a left wing lunatic. As they call him
over and over again, he's a super high tax guy.
He's a couldn't be more environmentally wacko green guy. He
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is abortion up until the point of birth guy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It's worth pointing out that the Wall Street Journal editorial
board is beside themselves with trying to convince everybody this
guy's a crack pot. He's right about a couple of things,
no doubt, sure, But I mean who isn't. But yeah,
it's it's there is very very thin support for the guy.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
He's anti farmer, there's a long list of things. He's
anti NRA. There's a long list of things you care
about that he is like the extreme opposite of.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
He's been known to desecrate bart corpses.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
So his hearing is tomorrow. It's going to be interesting.
Is he gonna try to walk back all these things?
Are the Democrats gonna point him out because they don't mind?
I would think they'd be boosome? What if all the
Democrats vote for him because he's a left wing lunatic?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Wow? Wow, I don't know what's gonna happen with that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
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