February 12, 2025 • 35 mins
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- DOGE continues the cuts & the lefts new "slogan"
- Elon changes his X handle to "Harry Bōlz" in a pro troll move
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetta and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arms We're from Studio C Say Senor.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're in a dim lit room deeput them the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And today midweek Wednesday, we're under the Tidlage Bauer General Manager.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
The mighty Doge.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Wow, how do you I almost work with the constitution
which is in a crisis. I'm told I want to
talk about that, but uh yeah, the whole the whole
Doage thing continues to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, it seems to be the hottest.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Story in politics, and it's one of the more interesting
things in we've seen happen in any administration. I agree,
it's super interesting on a number of levels. I Mean,
the obvious is everybody knows the everybody with the New
York Times we'll get to that later, knows that the
federal government is incredibly bloated and complex and wasteful and
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the rest of it. So it's fun to see it
cut down the whole question of whether this is a
constitutional crisis. It's not whether Jade Evan said, we will
defy the courts.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
He didn't. How all of that works, how spending works.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's all been very interesting for me doing a deep
dive into it. I used that expression yesterday and it
occurred to me. Nobody ever does a shallow dive.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why not? Or a medium dive. It's always deep.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I often do shallow dives into many things. I'm a
first paragraph guy. That's enough for me.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
The constitutional crisis is getting thrown around a lot. It
seems that when most people talk about a constitutional crisis,
they mean if one branch does something and then the
other branch, using the levers and powers given to them
by the constitution, corrects that like the Trump's I mean
the court with the president, like happened with Biden, and
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it's happened with Trump or Congress or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
They call that a constitutional crisis. It's the opposite.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's a constitution doing exactly what it was designed to do.
The branches, you know, fighting against each other and working out.
That's not a constitutional crisis, right. And as I heard
the brilliant Charlie Cook at National Reviews say the other day,
when their guy does what our guy just did, that's
a constitutional crisis now and must be dealt with and
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rained as power must be rained in right. A constitutional
crisis would be if one of the branches refused to
go along with whatever the decision ends up being, and
then what do you do that things could get difficult.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And we haven't had that happen yet.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, and I mean it would have to be a
Supreme Court ruling that's issued probably that is just openly defied. No,
we're not going along with that and force it if
you can, to paraphrase Andrew Jackson back in the day.
But I firmly, firmly believe there would be an enormous
ground swell of this can't happen. This is an actual
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constitutional crisis that would cross party lines, and it would
be dealt with fairly swiftly, I believe. I think a
president who did that would be impeached. So I keep
saying it should say something to you. The way these
people are digging in over the idea of anybody cutting
any jobs or any budget. I mean, they're like hair
on fire for alarm fire. This is the worst thing
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that has ever happened, the idea of shrinking government. And
it continues, and we got more clips from one of
their shouting rallies yesterday. But I heard one politician, now
remember who it was, standing there and screaming, I am
counting on the American to have our backs, we civil servants,
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to have our backs and protect us.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I thought, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
The weird relationships some people have with the government, or
you think we should have with the government. Why would
America have your back if you might lose your job
anymore than when ten thousand people are fired from Facebook
or people get laid off a GM or anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Why no, we shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But you half the country and all the people in
government think it's a different thing, that it's some sort
of I don't even know how to describe it, like
holy should never be messed with job for some reason, right, right,
just so valuable and sacred it must not be molested
in any way.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I tell you what, and what a weird view, though
I don't have it at all. Where does it come from?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Do you end up thinking that, oh, I got to
tell my story about Oh I got I'm on some
sort of watch list for something I said in a
bank yesterday about the government.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I have to tell that story later.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I'd say you pretend that that's the case, that
it's sacred and untouchable, because that is your constituency, that
keeps you in power, that contributes to your wealth, that's
your peeps.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And that's fine. That's how politics.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But I know plenty of people who aren't politicians who
think that, well, I know, oh oh yeah, well, journey
of voters who feel the same way. Well, government people
shouldn't lose their jobs. They have an incredibly naive and
dopey view of the people and the government and the
relationship between them, which I cannot comprehend. I don't know
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where it comes from, this never ending faith that government
does what's true and right as efficiently as possible at
all times. And my god, we're lucky to have every
single quote unquote civil service on the job. It helps
me sleep at night. I mean, seriously, what color is
the sky in your world? And one more point I
was going to make. It struck me as a very
worth making, which is flit it out of it. I'll
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talk while you're thinking. A long press conference Elon had
in the Oval office yesterday with his you know, dark
maga hat on, his Doughe hat on and a cute
little kid in tow and answering questions and everything like that.
It's interesting. I mean, I'm not frightened that Elon's some
sort of code dictator or something like that, but it's unique.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
There's no doubt about that. Yeah, so I do too
completely Excuse me.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It occurred to me what I was going to say,
and it factors into some great audio we're going to
play for you later on in the show.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But two things.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Number one, the extent to which Democrats will will sacrifice anything,
including America's children, on the altar of being anti Trump,
Trump's arrangement syndrome, it's just amazing. I mean, if they
damaged the little kids, you know, by not letting them
go to school for a year plus, that's evidence enough.
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But to be saying we need huge, voted, wasteful government
in effect, who's with us? Don't you understand there's a
very very little constituency for that. And they're you know,
some of the stunts they're pulling and screeching constitutional crisis
and and and there's a new chant that they're engaging
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in that's not arable. We've had to bleep it. It's
just it's increasingly desperate. It's like the jilted lover who's
gone past a stalker and has killed a cat, and
he's just just desperate for some sort of attention and
none of it's working, and it's increasingly just.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Flailing and foolish.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Look, if you want to opposet Trump, that's fine, that's
how our system works.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Go right ahead. But it's it's getting increasingly frantic.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So what's the body chant that we can't play or
say in the area have to work?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We can play? What do they say? Well, we can
just play it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well I well, I guess it's bleeped. Oh yes, where
should I sit down?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Should I sit down? It's up to you. I'm standing sixteen.
There we go. Here it comes everybody. This is going
to be exciting.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, so
I am going to tell you that we do have to.
I don't swear in public very well.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
But this is the w Yes, yes, we have to.
I'll tell you we still do.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We stop playing clips, Michael, Let's just not play any
clips unless we.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Can play the Carol.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Let's do this next segment. We got to start to
show officially where we're getting all off track here but.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I want to know what. Can you tell me what
the body chant is? Is it Trump? I just flat
out truck Trump Wow? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I got a collection of Democrats people say quite a chance,
Trump Wow, and it's it's it's more than that chance.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's a foul. That's their new slogan. I mean, that's
the new.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Whip inflation now or make America great again.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
We had the whole let's go Brandon thing, but it
wasn't wasn't people in government chanting. It be f Joe
Biden that I remember. It was football stadiums and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But well, and they had the decency to change it
to let's go Brandon.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Right, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this It's Wednesday, jan ho February twelfth,
the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
More Armstrong and getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Let's begin then, officially according the FCC rules and regulations,
here we go, leaping forward at mark now.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
The disruptor in chief Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted
the alias, at least he changed his social media handle
to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning democracy in America is
being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is not
a real judge.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
All right, So is it so Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
When he's only the world richest man and the guy
who owns Twitter and him doing the childish jokes is
I find him fascinating and hilarious, But I don't know
if he's going to take this high role in the government,
be the focal point, have the media talking about him
being co president and all this sort of stuff. He
(10:26):
should change his Twitter handle to Harry Balls. There's a
great deal to be set on this topic. Certainly, I'm
sure he well, he actually tweeted out how much he
enjoyed the mainstream media.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Having to say that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Well, that sort of trolling is absolutely delightful. But this
is unprecedented, or at least very rare in our republic.
You have to go back to an Alexander Hamilton Kristen
himself hughe azz.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
During the Constitutional convention. I guess he was he dead
by then.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Anyway, Oh god, uh, I do have to tell my
story about what I said about the government at the bank.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That's a good one, Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I know I'm on some sort of list now, I
mean seriously, honest to god, he contacted someone and I'll
be other news of the day, huge press conference going
on with Elon explaining what they're doing at DOGE. And
I think a lot of you are gonna really really
love it. I know I do. It's fantastic. How about
we take a look at how we spend money?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Huh? And we're not.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Elected a plutocrat billionaires and him saying, yeah, we'll get
things wrong, we'll go too far, and then we'll let
it back in. We'll do we're going fast. We're gonna
go fast when we try to fix things too. Just
the way we're gonna do it, is he president? Anyway,
We've got lots on the way.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Stay with us, a strong.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I am gonna tell you we do have to. I
don't swear in public.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Very well, but camp.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Please tell my children that I just said that, and
I'll tell you I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
From Jersey, so I'll get a little different. Donald Trump and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well, we've been talking about this for years, the coarsening
over language and the race to the bottom. Were almost
at the bottom. I think once we're to the you
come out on the Capitol steps and you just say,
oh yeah, right, I mean, what is there a step
beyond that? You just squat and poop on the stage?
(12:40):
Point at it. This is I think we are at
the lowest common denominator in American politics. We may have
reached the end. Yes, I don't know what you other
than bodily functions. I don't think we can go any lower. Well,
and then play just the first part of the Dana
Bash clip we opened with Michael eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Now the instructor in chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has
adopted the alias at least he changed his social media
handle to Harry Balls, created this morning.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I truly an idiotra saying when I was an eighth grader,
I would have really enjoyed all this. He spells it
be oh with like a line over it, like it's
some different language. L Z. I think if I was
on CNN, I would have said, Harry Bowles. I'm not
exactly sure how he wants you to pronounce it, but
(13:36):
I get what he's going for. Yeah, But I while
I'm laughing.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
On the inside, I'm crying. I just I just I
know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's not this is not way to accomplish thing on
either side.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Oh my god, I was.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Just looking at the video of it was like last
week on CNN when the guy who went by the
moniker Big Balls was I don't know, the guy that
everybody was talking about for a cup of coffee, and
how the lady on CNN was saying he went by
the online moniker big Balls with a perfectly straight you know,
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very concerned.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And I loved one of that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I think may been Clay Travis, fellow radio guy podcaster
dude credit where its due, who said I think CNN
just exists to be mocked at this point. That's really
their only useful purpose, right. We got to mention this news.
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The inflation numbers are out and they're not good or
well depends on how you look at it. But inflation
picked up speed, rising to three percent in January.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It ticked up.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Now you got our Remember these are the numbers of
what happened in January Trump took over the twentieth This
is being credited to the lasting policies of the Inflation
Reduction Act, which, as Byron York and The Washington Examiner
reminds us, in case you didn't know, the Inflation Reduction
Act was not intended to reduce inflation. It was originally
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called Build Back Better Act. It was two point two
trillion dollars. The name change was only pr It was
really the Green New Deal and it got shoved through
and we're still living with it. But yeah, so starting
at three percent inflation, Yeah, I'm concerned about Trump's some
of Trump's terrify ideas if he actually goes through with them,
and we actually have a really good, helpful checklist of
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where all these things are at this point.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The blizzard of.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Activity out of the Trump administration because tough to keep track,
especially with various legal actions and suits and rulings and
the rest of it. But I'm concerned that if he
does impose tariffs on stealing aluminum, that's going to be
super inflationary and that's going to be bad.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
And I just I don't see any particular need for it.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And we can talk about protection as policies later, but
I'm just I'm so concerned that the not necessary stuff
is going to screw up the effort to do the
good stuff, the really, really good stuff, because you have
to remember, stealing aluminum goes into like every single product
manufactured in America, from cars to dishwashers to everything else,
and so I'm a little concerned about that. So the
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Wall Street Journalist a couple paragraphs on the inflation news
out today, which is getting a lot of attention. Obviously,
inflation has now been around to these rates for some time.
Might not be coming down, says one of their economists
say quote. The bigger than expected increase in prices last
month reflected higher prices for used cars and auto insurance,
according to the Wall Street Journal. And overall, the price
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increases were more than economists at expected.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
So there you go. We have mail bag on the way.
How does that look? Oh it's outstanding.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Great freedom loving quotes of the day from birthday Boy
Abraham Lincoln as well if you want to comment on
any of the news of day or anything text line
four one kftc.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Abraham Lincoln would be two hundred and sixteen today had
he not been murdered by John Wilkes booth.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
That's great. That's what is that?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
A conundrum of paradox is that that which is true
and yet false or something nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Here's your freedom.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Loving quote of today from birthday Boy Abraham Lincoln, whose
birthday I missed sharing by one day because my sainted
mother was impatient. Apparently there are so many to choose from. Sir,
my concern is not whether God is on our side.
My greatest concern is to be on God's side, for
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God is always right. He also said, you cannot escape
the responsibility of tomorrow evading it today. I've tried it
doesn't work. He's right, tried it repeatedly. Yeah, I love
this one. Give me six hours to chop down a tree,
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That was an interesting what does that provoking one? Okay,
you're provoking my thoughts. What is that? What is that?
What's the point of that? Uh?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Do not blunder ahead blindly, think about what you're doing,
have a plan, be smart. Jack is looking sure thought provoked?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Uh yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, because that will make the job go much more
quickly and efficiently. I just wondered, if do you what
do you do six hours sharpening? Six hours seems like
an awful long time to cut down a tree.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
If you told me.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I've got tree in this scenario, huge, I'm gonna give
you three days to clean this studio, and I'm gonna
think it's gonna take me like a half an hour,
so I guess I'll spend the first two and a
half days I don't know, killing time. Label this part
of the segment, Jack argues with the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln,
and perhaps is best known other than the House Divided
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speech is you can fool all of the people some
of the time, and some of the people all of
the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all of the time.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It's pretty good. Mailbag.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Feel free to correspond if you'd like. Mailbag and Armstrong
and Getty dot Com. Thanks everybody who sent along birthday wishes.
I will reply to all of you as soon as
I can. My life has been madness the last couple
of days. A note from se Busy really enjoyed the
One More Thing podcast yesterday about my birthday and related topics.
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It's not as dopey and self indulgent as it sounds.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's Armstrong and Getty One More Thing.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You might as well subscribe, but thank you very much
for the kind words. Barry from Thailand weighing in not
his most eloquent or persuasive email, but I like that
it points out well, he asked, please answer me a question. First,
he says, a lot of expats in Thailand or big
musk fans, we call ourselves musketeers.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Please answer me a question.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
If crazy Maxine Waters and her fellow Democrats had been
allowed in the Department of Education building, what would they
have done inside? What would be accomplished? And the answer,
obviously is they wouldn't have done anything. They wouldn't have
accomplished anything. It was a flailing, frantic publicity stunt to
try to look like they're the brave resistance.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Again. Well, so much of what.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
We do, as we've been saying for years, is performative.
And whether it's that that or Elon. I think Elon's
just getting his jolly's but Elon renaming himself on Twitter
Harry Balls for a day or whatever, it just so
much is just like to fire people up and get
attention and aw yeah yeah, and it's all so quickly
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and readily reported to the entire globe via the Internet,
every one of these idiotic I mean that Maxine Waters,
who is a halfwooted best bellowing outside the Department of Education,
didn't deserve three sentences of ink in any decent newspaper
back in the day. You know, it's pretty good video,
so we also want moving along. Note from Miles, a
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longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, a former
colleague of ours. He's pointing out that yesterday Supervisor Jim
Desmond in the San Diego County Board of Supervisors introduced
a Letter in support of the Protection of Women and
Girls in Sports Act. Couldn't even get a second. It
was defeated two to one. Jim being the one san Diego,
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California standing or San Diego County anyway, standing tall to
allow men to compete and beat the crap out.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Of women in women's sports. What a brave stance that. Wow,
that's interesting. I just saw some polling.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Now this was up on Fox, but polling around this
broken down by party.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We'll have to get that later. But it's well what
you think it would be. Most people think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah, anybody saying does speaking of men's and women's
Note from John, who talks about his sons enjoying hunting
and he says, I don't really give a crap about it.
It's fun, but it's more about hanging out with dudes.
That aren't the p word. Guys that work with their hands, farmers, mechanics, welders.
I don't disparage anyone's path unless you're a comedy. You
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don't have to be able to work with your hands
as a mechanic to get my praise. Just be a
dude and know how to use a screwdriver. Oh man, Yeah, yeah,
a lot of that's upbringing. But if you do not
know righty tidy, lefty lucy, that's why you're a man
in training. So my kids we got new furniture for
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their bedrooms and we went to Ikea. And if you
know anything about Ikea, you know you have to put
this stuff together. And I helped them move the boxes
in the room and I said, you're gonna put it together,
and Henry put it all for a long time.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I said, you're gonna learn to do this.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You cannot have a girlfriend someday who asks you to
assemble an end table and you say, I don't know
how that's not an option. No, No, indeed, that's some
good dad right there. Well done. Speak of Elon Musk
once again. I love this note from Jess and Wiley, Texas.
New York Times reports that Elon Musk is operating in
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deep secrecy quote unquote end quote, descending upon agencies like
a spooky vampire, she writes, and basically making crap out
up about everyone. And it goes into some details. You
gotta be real precious. Well, it has to do with
the us AID and that he'd said people have been
taking kickbacks and a lot of people in the bureaucracy
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somehow had managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars
in net worthwhile they're in that position, without explaining how
he'd made that assessment.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I have more examples of that sort of thing in
a bit.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But you gotta be real precious to think there's nobody
taking kickbacks at USAID, the very least getting lavish stipends.
I'm pretty jealous of Elon right now. Calling Vacas out
is one of the ultimate joys in life. I'm also
the the the the reaction by so many that Elon.
You know, there are gonna be examples out there. He's
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gonna there are people that are gonna need their food
that they're not gonna get there. There are all kinds
of examples of people getting screwed by the government on
a regular basis, remember the VA scandal. I mean it
happens all the time when these agencies are supposedly doing
their best. So if a guy's cutting waste and uh
or attempting to cut waste, or Trump's attempting to cut waste,
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and you get some occasions where somebody who deserve to
get their meal or wheelchair or whatever doesn't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's not like that never happens anyway, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And in a broader sense, what they're claiming those who
are yelling about this most of it's performatives we've been discussing.
But those who are shouting about, well, this program does
some good, as both the President and Elon Musk have
made it clear, well that stuff will get funding, just
give us a minute. So they are in effect making
the argument that we must rein in the grotesque, horrifying
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year responsible over spending of the federal government with zero
inconvenience or disruption to anyone, which is, when you say
it out loud, just a.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Ridiculous point of view.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So I think I can tell this story shortly, okay,
and then I think our frequent correspondent Pallo has absolutely
nailed the drop in fertility and reproduction. Oh really nailed it?
Have we had to do that at a kickoff next
hour because that's a good topic.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's fine with me. That's a good topic. Sure.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So my thirteen year old, and it matters what his
age is, apparently wanted to open a checking account at
the bank or an account at the bank because he's
got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases.
And he doesn't spend his money like his brother does.
He saves it because he wants to be able to
put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So he's got a decent sized chunk of.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Money it up over the years, and he'd been keeping
it in a shoe box. And so he's going to open
an account. And I remember when I opened an account
when I was probably about his age. I started mowing
lawns when I was twelve thirteen and accumulating money and
opening a bank account on the passage.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I remember it myself.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
On the way to the bank, I did say to him,
I said, you know, I haven't I haven't been around
the idea of opening an account for a bank in
forty years something like that, So I don't know if
the rules have changed, but so in case something happens,
but anyway, we should we get it there sure enough.
And so we're trying to open this account and everything
like that. And first of all, many banks everything is
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I don't know if it's because the government comes down
on them so hard or something like that. They treat
everybody like you're a want to be terrorist, Like everything
you do it's like jeez, lighting up. But anyway, he
needs to have two forms of ID. Is where we
ran into the roadblock.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I said, what is a form of ID for a
thirteen year old?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
He said, and they said, well, your Social State Security
card is birth certificate?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Okay, great?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So uh, I said, the fact that I'm his dad
isn't good enough. I can't vouch for the fact that
he's my son and I have an account here and
have had for twenty five years and open an account
for him.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I can't do that. And no, we need to.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And I said, is that a bank policy or the
state law or what is that? Because I was thinking,
if it's a bank policy, I'll go to a different bank.
But it's a federal law. It's part of the patriotarch.
I said, oh, of course, and he said, well, it's
a federal I said, you don't need to explain the
federal government to me. And I hate the federal government,
I said. And then the guy looked at me like
(27:37):
I was Oh. He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're
one of those people. You're Timothy McVeigh, you're you're you're
one of those people.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, clearly I've heard about them.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous.
This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a
bank account for a thirteen year old.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And as his parent, I got it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I got to prove who he is because you can't
take my word for the fact that he's my child,
makes me a child money laundering, little mule for your militia,
whatever you want to call him. The Patriot Act was
so much I was trying to explain it to her.
He was so much crap that they jammed through. It's
all because of nine to eleven.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
So you're gonna stop.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
The next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen year
olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, even
though their parrot, who you know, is sitting right there.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I hate stuff like that. And the and the but
they were there.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Their eyes got so wide when I hate the said
I hate the federal government. And I was thinking if
I was doing this same thing in my and my
where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, and I
said I hate the federal government, the teller would have said, yeah,
me too, don't you high five Joe came end of
that brother, but that just being oh my god, you
shouldn't she said. Oh she gasped. The woman gasped, and
(28:52):
her boss just looked at me white. I'd like, oh,
we about to have a fight. Oh man, I have
the two pieces of ID even though he's my kid.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I just found that amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes.
Get ready to jot this one down and get it right,
would you? Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there
are two emergencies.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, but actually exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And I actually told my son because he was one,
and he was really like, is that something you can't
say out loud?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I said, I told him.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The most revered Republican president of the last maybe century,
Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English
language are I'm here from the I'm from the government,
and I'm here to help you.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I mean, he ran on I hate the government, or.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I just saw a clip this morning. The government isn't
the solution. Government is the problem. And the woman who
was typing furiously after I said that, because she was
so horrified that anybody would say that, I said, you know,
all the money in my account. I made that by
going on the radio every day and saying I hate
the government and.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I make my living.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
By the way, if the Justice Department is listening, or
the FDIC or right the c i A, the NSA,
if I'm happy to testify against this monster.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Now, yes, Michael, So wonder they didn't hit the silent
alarm on you and then you know, cops show up
or something. I would have been I would have loved
to talk to people and explain why it's okay for
me to say I hate the government. No, no, no,
We've got to surveill him for a while and go
through his mail and monitor his phone calls. We've got
the NSA working on it already. What I hate is
the manager guy acting like it makes sense that we
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have a law that I can't vouch for my kid
being my kid. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Two
forms of ID for a child right when their parent
is there. How about he says his name, then I
say his name? Is that two forms of ID?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And if not, what the hell has the world becaught?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I know? Anyway, We've got Katie's headlines coming up next.
I guess in brief to my saying to the manager
at the bank that I hate the federal government. My
feeling comes from I don't know about everybody else's life,
but I feel like my interaction with the government is
either me giving them money or them stopping me from
(31:19):
doing something I want to done.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Of the time.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Sure, I appreciate maintaining a standing army, but yeah, I'm
not day to day interactions. Obviously, you're you know you're
you're going out of your way to be didactic if
you don't understand that we all need roads in an
army and that sort of stuff. But almost of my
interactions are me giving you money and I see around
me it being wasted, or you stopping me from doing
(31:45):
something I want to do.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's mostly didact.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I moving along, we have breaking news. Jd Vance has
renamed himself Amanda Hugging Kiss. Stay with us for details.
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's leads story. What's
a discouraged Katie Katie from CNN.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Wrongfully detained American teacher Mark Fogel meets with Trump after
being released from Russia in a quote exchange.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
We got a bunch of clips about that. What Trump said,
what the released teacher said, Hey, don't smoke marijuana and
Moscow or whatever he was accused of doing.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Yep, NBC isis has an army in waiting, and Trump's
next move could decide whether.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It rises again. Where's that from? I don't know that
strung NBC. I'll have to look at that. I'll add
it to the hotlinks from Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Department of Education calls on NCAA and NFHS to revoke
the titles and championships awarded to transgender athletes.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, you can't have dudes women who were winning women's titles.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's a very short ruling. In fact, that's it. Thanks
for coming from NewsNation.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Christy nom fires four FEMA workers for paying New York
City for hotel to house.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Migrants in definance of orders as I understand it, right, right, Yeah,
tens of millions of dollars from the.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Inflation picks up speed, rising.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
To three percent in January.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Were Yeah, Daily Mail, one in five Democrats say Trump
is doing a good job as his whirldwinds starting off.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
This attracts new fans.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, I meant to break down his high fifty three
percent approval rating. You break it down by various groups.
It's pretty damned impressive, it is. And I would think,
you know, in any other era of American politics, the
Democrats would lay low, see how they could work with them,
say to their constituents, Hey, we're working with them when
it makes sense, We're looking at for you and wait
for an opportunity. Is it just that the fever pitch
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of day to day internet fundraising they're.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
So behind this fiscal year.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Is that why they're making these frantic gestures of where
the resistance in f Trump and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Why don't they just come to hell down for a
few months.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
From the athletic, Kevin Durant becomes eighth player in NBA
history to hit thirty thousand career points.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
There was talk of him coming to the Warriors up
until the trade deadline just a couple of weeks ago,
and that fell apart the last minute.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And because he hates somebody on.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
The Warriors and wouldn't come play with him, they're gonna
take one last chance at winning a title with him.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
From the New York Post quote, I'm lucky to be
alive after sustaining car crash injuries after tripping over my cat.
This guy has a hairless cat. It bit him in
the leg.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
He tripped.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
He ended up fracturing his skull, breaking a bone in
his neck, two fractures in his spine, nine broken ribs,
and blood in his lungs.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Good, my kiddy, don't have hairless cats as the lead
there exactly.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Finally, the Babylon Bee, exhausted media begs Trump to take
a day off.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
God, I believe that. Do you see the assault?
Speaker 3 (34:57):
More breaking news, Marco Rubio has changed wh's his name
to Jack Cass Oh gosh. Trump says he's not going
to allow the Associated Press into the press pool because
they won't refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the
Gulf of America. Fair enough, I say, if you miss
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Speaker 1 (00:44):
The mighty Doge.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Wow, how do you I almost work with the constitution
which is in a crisis. I'm told I want to
talk about that, but uh yeah, the whole the whole
Doage thing continues to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, it seems to be the hottest.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Story in politics, and it's one of the more interesting
things in we've seen happen in any administration. I agree,
it's super interesting on a number of levels. I Mean,
the obvious is everybody knows the everybody with the New
York Times we'll get to that later, knows that the
federal government is incredibly bloated and complex and wasteful and
(01:26):
the rest of it. So it's fun to see it
cut down the whole question of whether this is a
constitutional crisis. It's not whether Jade Evan said, we will
defy the courts.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
He didn't. How all of that works, how spending works.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's all been very interesting for me doing a deep
dive into it. I used that expression yesterday and it
occurred to me. Nobody ever does a shallow dive.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why not? Or a medium dive. It's always deep.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I often do shallow dives into many things. I'm a
first paragraph guy. That's enough for me.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
The constitutional crisis is getting thrown around a lot. It
seems that when most people talk about a constitutional crisis,
they mean if one branch does something and then the
other branch, using the levers and powers given to them
by the constitution, corrects that like the Trump's I mean
the court with the president, like happened with Biden, and
(02:19):
it's happened with Trump or Congress or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
They call that a constitutional crisis. It's the opposite.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's a constitution doing exactly what it was designed to do.
The branches, you know, fighting against each other and working out.
That's not a constitutional crisis, right. And as I heard
the brilliant Charlie Cook at National Reviews say the other day,
when their guy does what our guy just did, that's
a constitutional crisis now and must be dealt with and
(02:45):
rained as power must be rained in right. A constitutional
crisis would be if one of the branches refused to
go along with whatever the decision ends up being, and
then what do you do that things could get difficult.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And we haven't had that happen yet.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, and I mean it would have to be a
Supreme Court ruling that's issued probably that is just openly defied. No,
we're not going along with that and force it if
you can, to paraphrase Andrew Jackson back in the day.
But I firmly, firmly believe there would be an enormous
ground swell of this can't happen. This is an actual
(03:27):
constitutional crisis that would cross party lines, and it would
be dealt with fairly swiftly, I believe. I think a
president who did that would be impeached. So I keep
saying it should say something to you. The way these
people are digging in over the idea of anybody cutting
any jobs or any budget. I mean, they're like hair
on fire for alarm fire. This is the worst thing
(03:50):
that has ever happened, the idea of shrinking government. And
it continues, and we got more clips from one of
their shouting rallies yesterday. But I heard one politician, now
remember who it was, standing there and screaming, I am
counting on the American to have our backs, we civil servants,
(04:11):
to have our backs and protect us.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I thought, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
The weird relationships some people have with the government, or
you think we should have with the government. Why would
America have your back if you might lose your job
anymore than when ten thousand people are fired from Facebook
or people get laid off a GM or anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Why no, we shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But you half the country and all the people in
government think it's a different thing, that it's some sort
of I don't even know how to describe it, like
holy should never be messed with job for some reason, right, right,
just so valuable and sacred it must not be molested
in any way.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I tell you what, and what a weird view, though
I don't have it at all. Where does it come from?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Do you end up thinking that, oh, I got to
tell my story about Oh I got I'm on some
sort of watch list for something I said in a
bank yesterday about the government.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I have to tell that story later.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I'd say you pretend that that's the case, that
it's sacred and untouchable, because that is your constituency, that
keeps you in power, that contributes to your wealth, that's
your peeps.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And that's fine. That's how politics.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But I know plenty of people who aren't politicians who
think that, well, I know, oh oh yeah, well, journey
of voters who feel the same way. Well, government people
shouldn't lose their jobs. They have an incredibly naive and
dopey view of the people and the government and the
relationship between them, which I cannot comprehend. I don't know
(05:45):
where it comes from, this never ending faith that government
does what's true and right as efficiently as possible at
all times. And my god, we're lucky to have every
single quote unquote civil service on the job. It helps
me sleep at night. I mean, seriously, what color is
the sky in your world? And one more point I
was going to make. It struck me as a very
worth making, which is flit it out of it. I'll
(06:05):
talk while you're thinking. A long press conference Elon had
in the Oval office yesterday with his you know, dark
maga hat on, his Doughe hat on and a cute
little kid in tow and answering questions and everything like that.
It's interesting. I mean, I'm not frightened that Elon's some
sort of code dictator or something like that, but it's unique.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
There's no doubt about that. Yeah, so I do too
completely Excuse me.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It occurred to me what I was going to say,
and it factors into some great audio we're going to
play for you later on in the show.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But two things.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Number one, the extent to which Democrats will will sacrifice anything,
including America's children, on the altar of being anti Trump,
Trump's arrangement syndrome, it's just amazing. I mean, if they
damaged the little kids, you know, by not letting them
go to school for a year plus, that's evidence enough.
(07:05):
But to be saying we need huge, voted, wasteful government
in effect, who's with us? Don't you understand there's a
very very little constituency for that. And they're you know,
some of the stunts they're pulling and screeching constitutional crisis
and and and there's a new chant that they're engaging
(07:27):
in that's not arable. We've had to bleep it. It's
just it's increasingly desperate. It's like the jilted lover who's
gone past a stalker and has killed a cat, and
he's just just desperate for some sort of attention and
none of it's working, and it's increasingly just.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Flailing and foolish.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Look, if you want to opposet Trump, that's fine, that's
how our system works.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Go right ahead. But it's it's getting increasingly frantic.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So what's the body chant that we can't play or
say in the area have to work?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We can play? What do they say? Well, we can
just play it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well I well, I guess it's bleeped. Oh yes, where
should I sit down?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Should I sit down? It's up to you. I'm standing sixteen.
There we go. Here it comes everybody. This is going
to be exciting.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, so
I am going to tell you that we do have to.
I don't swear in public very well.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
But this is the w Yes, yes, we have to.
I'll tell you we still do.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We stop playing clips, Michael, Let's just not play any
clips unless we.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Can play the Carol.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Let's do this next segment. We got to start to
show officially where we're getting all off track here but.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I want to know what. Can you tell me what
the body chant is? Is it Trump? I just flat
out truck Trump Wow? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I got a collection of Democrats people say quite a chance,
Trump Wow, and it's it's it's more than that chance.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's a foul. That's their new slogan. I mean, that's
the new.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Whip inflation now or make America great again.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
We had the whole let's go Brandon thing, but it
wasn't wasn't people in government chanting. It be f Joe
Biden that I remember. It was football stadiums and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But well, and they had the decency to change it
to let's go Brandon.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Right, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this It's Wednesday, jan ho February twelfth,
the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
More Armstrong and getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Let's begin then, officially according the FCC rules and regulations,
here we go, leaping forward at mark now.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
The disruptor in chief Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted
the alias, at least he changed his social media handle
to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning democracy in America is
being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is not
a real judge.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
All right, So is it so Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
When he's only the world richest man and the guy
who owns Twitter and him doing the childish jokes is
I find him fascinating and hilarious, But I don't know
if he's going to take this high role in the government,
be the focal point, have the media talking about him
being co president and all this sort of stuff. He
(10:26):
should change his Twitter handle to Harry Balls. There's a
great deal to be set on this topic. Certainly, I'm
sure he well, he actually tweeted out how much he
enjoyed the mainstream media.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Having to say that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Well, that sort of trolling is absolutely delightful. But this
is unprecedented, or at least very rare in our republic.
You have to go back to an Alexander Hamilton Kristen
himself hughe azz.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
During the Constitutional convention. I guess he was he dead
by then.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Anyway, Oh god, uh, I do have to tell my
story about what I said about the government at the bank.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That's a good one, Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I know I'm on some sort of list now, I
mean seriously, honest to god, he contacted someone and I'll
be other news of the day, huge press conference going
on with Elon explaining what they're doing at DOGE. And
I think a lot of you are gonna really really
love it. I know I do. It's fantastic. How about
we take a look at how we spend money?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Huh? And we're not.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Elected a plutocrat billionaires and him saying, yeah, we'll get
things wrong, we'll go too far, and then we'll let
it back in. We'll do we're going fast. We're gonna
go fast when we try to fix things too. Just
the way we're gonna do it, is he president? Anyway,
We've got lots on the way.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Stay with us, a strong.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I am gonna tell you we do have to. I
don't swear in public.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Very well, but camp.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Please tell my children that I just said that, and
I'll tell you I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
From Jersey, so I'll get a little different. Donald Trump and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well, we've been talking about this for years, the coarsening
over language and the race to the bottom. Were almost
at the bottom. I think once we're to the you
come out on the Capitol steps and you just say,
oh yeah, right, I mean, what is there a step
beyond that? You just squat and poop on the stage?
(12:40):
Point at it. This is I think we are at
the lowest common denominator in American politics. We may have
reached the end. Yes, I don't know what you other
than bodily functions. I don't think we can go any lower. Well,
and then play just the first part of the Dana
Bash clip we opened with Michael eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Now the instructor in chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has
adopted the alias at least he changed his social media
handle to Harry Balls, created this morning.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I truly an idiotra saying when I was an eighth grader,
I would have really enjoyed all this. He spells it
be oh with like a line over it, like it's
some different language. L Z. I think if I was
on CNN, I would have said, Harry Bowles. I'm not
exactly sure how he wants you to pronounce it, but
(13:36):
I get what he's going for. Yeah, But I while
I'm laughing.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
On the inside, I'm crying. I just I just I
know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's not this is not way to accomplish thing on
either side.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Oh my god, I was.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Just looking at the video of it was like last
week on CNN when the guy who went by the
moniker Big Balls was I don't know, the guy that
everybody was talking about for a cup of coffee, and
how the lady on CNN was saying he went by
the online moniker big Balls with a perfectly straight you know,
(14:25):
very concerned.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And I loved one of that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I think may been Clay Travis, fellow radio guy podcaster
dude credit where its due, who said I think CNN
just exists to be mocked at this point. That's really
their only useful purpose, right. We got to mention this news.
(14:50):
The inflation numbers are out and they're not good or
well depends on how you look at it. But inflation
picked up speed, rising to three percent in January.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It ticked up.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Now you got our Remember these are the numbers of
what happened in January Trump took over the twentieth This
is being credited to the lasting policies of the Inflation
Reduction Act, which, as Byron York and The Washington Examiner
reminds us, in case you didn't know, the Inflation Reduction
Act was not intended to reduce inflation. It was originally
(15:19):
called Build Back Better Act. It was two point two
trillion dollars. The name change was only pr It was
really the Green New Deal and it got shoved through
and we're still living with it. But yeah, so starting
at three percent inflation, Yeah, I'm concerned about Trump's some
of Trump's terrify ideas if he actually goes through with them,
and we actually have a really good, helpful checklist of
(15:43):
where all these things are at this point.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The blizzard of.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Activity out of the Trump administration because tough to keep track,
especially with various legal actions and suits and rulings and
the rest of it. But I'm concerned that if he
does impose tariffs on stealing aluminum, that's going to be
super inflationary and that's going to be bad.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
And I just I don't see any particular need for it.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And we can talk about protection as policies later, but
I'm just I'm so concerned that the not necessary stuff
is going to screw up the effort to do the
good stuff, the really, really good stuff, because you have
to remember, stealing aluminum goes into like every single product
manufactured in America, from cars to dishwashers to everything else,
and so I'm a little concerned about that. So the
(16:30):
Wall Street Journalist a couple paragraphs on the inflation news
out today, which is getting a lot of attention. Obviously,
inflation has now been around to these rates for some time.
Might not be coming down, says one of their economists
say quote. The bigger than expected increase in prices last
month reflected higher prices for used cars and auto insurance,
according to the Wall Street Journal. And overall, the price
(16:50):
increases were more than economists at expected.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
So there you go. We have mail bag on the way.
How does that look? Oh it's outstanding.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Great freedom loving quotes of the day from birthday Boy
Abraham Lincoln as well if you want to comment on
any of the news of day or anything text line
four one kftc.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Abraham Lincoln would be two hundred and sixteen today had
he not been murdered by John Wilkes booth.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
That's great. That's what is that?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
A conundrum of paradox is that that which is true
and yet false or something nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Here's your freedom.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Loving quote of today from birthday Boy Abraham Lincoln, whose
birthday I missed sharing by one day because my sainted
mother was impatient. Apparently there are so many to choose from. Sir,
my concern is not whether God is on our side.
My greatest concern is to be on God's side, for
(17:55):
God is always right. He also said, you cannot escape
the responsibility of tomorrow evading it today. I've tried it
doesn't work. He's right, tried it repeatedly. Yeah, I love
this one. Give me six hours to chop down a tree,
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That was an interesting what does that provoking one? Okay,
you're provoking my thoughts. What is that? What is that?
What's the point of that? Uh?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Do not blunder ahead blindly, think about what you're doing,
have a plan, be smart. Jack is looking sure thought provoked?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Uh yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, because that will make the job go much more
quickly and efficiently. I just wondered, if do you what
do you do six hours sharpening? Six hours seems like
an awful long time to cut down a tree.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
If you told me.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I've got tree in this scenario, huge, I'm gonna give
you three days to clean this studio, and I'm gonna
think it's gonna take me like a half an hour,
so I guess I'll spend the first two and a
half days I don't know, killing time. Label this part
of the segment, Jack argues with the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln,
and perhaps is best known other than the House Divided
(19:13):
speech is you can fool all of the people some
of the time, and some of the people all of
the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all of the time.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It's pretty good. Mailbag.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Feel free to correspond if you'd like. Mailbag and Armstrong
and Getty dot Com. Thanks everybody who sent along birthday wishes.
I will reply to all of you as soon as
I can. My life has been madness the last couple
of days. A note from se Busy really enjoyed the
One More Thing podcast yesterday about my birthday and related topics.
(19:46):
It's not as dopey and self indulgent as it sounds.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's Armstrong and Getty One More Thing.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You might as well subscribe, but thank you very much
for the kind words. Barry from Thailand weighing in not
his most eloquent or persuasive email, but I like that
it points out well, he asked, please answer me a question. First,
he says, a lot of expats in Thailand or big
musk fans, we call ourselves musketeers.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Please answer me a question.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
If crazy Maxine Waters and her fellow Democrats had been
allowed in the Department of Education building, what would they
have done inside? What would be accomplished? And the answer,
obviously is they wouldn't have done anything. They wouldn't have
accomplished anything. It was a flailing, frantic publicity stunt to
try to look like they're the brave resistance.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Again. Well, so much of what.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
We do, as we've been saying for years, is performative.
And whether it's that that or Elon. I think Elon's
just getting his jolly's but Elon renaming himself on Twitter
Harry Balls for a day or whatever, it just so
much is just like to fire people up and get
attention and aw yeah yeah, and it's all so quickly
(20:53):
and readily reported to the entire globe via the Internet,
every one of these idiotic I mean that Maxine Waters,
who is a halfwooted best bellowing outside the Department of Education,
didn't deserve three sentences of ink in any decent newspaper
back in the day. You know, it's pretty good video,
so we also want moving along. Note from Miles, a
(21:15):
longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, a former
colleague of ours. He's pointing out that yesterday Supervisor Jim
Desmond in the San Diego County Board of Supervisors introduced
a Letter in support of the Protection of Women and
Girls in Sports Act. Couldn't even get a second. It
was defeated two to one. Jim being the one san Diego,
(21:39):
California standing or San Diego County anyway, standing tall to
allow men to compete and beat the crap out.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Of women in women's sports. What a brave stance that. Wow,
that's interesting. I just saw some polling.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Now this was up on Fox, but polling around this
broken down by party.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We'll have to get that later. But it's well what
you think it would be. Most people think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, yeah, anybody saying does speaking of men's and women's
Note from John, who talks about his sons enjoying hunting
and he says, I don't really give a crap about it.
It's fun, but it's more about hanging out with dudes.
That aren't the p word. Guys that work with their hands, farmers, mechanics, welders.
I don't disparage anyone's path unless you're a comedy. You
(22:25):
don't have to be able to work with your hands
as a mechanic to get my praise. Just be a
dude and know how to use a screwdriver. Oh man, Yeah, yeah,
a lot of that's upbringing. But if you do not
know righty tidy, lefty lucy, that's why you're a man
in training. So my kids we got new furniture for
(22:46):
their bedrooms and we went to Ikea. And if you
know anything about Ikea, you know you have to put
this stuff together. And I helped them move the boxes
in the room and I said, you're gonna put it together,
and Henry put it all for a long time.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I said, you're gonna learn to do this.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You cannot have a girlfriend someday who asks you to
assemble an end table and you say, I don't know
how that's not an option. No, No, indeed, that's some
good dad right there. Well done. Speak of Elon Musk
once again. I love this note from Jess and Wiley, Texas.
New York Times reports that Elon Musk is operating in
(23:19):
deep secrecy quote unquote end quote, descending upon agencies like
a spooky vampire, she writes, and basically making crap out
up about everyone. And it goes into some details. You
gotta be real precious. Well, it has to do with
the us AID and that he'd said people have been
taking kickbacks and a lot of people in the bureaucracy
(23:41):
somehow had managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars
in net worthwhile they're in that position, without explaining how
he'd made that assessment.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I have more examples of that sort of thing in
a bit.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But you gotta be real precious to think there's nobody
taking kickbacks at USAID, the very least getting lavish stipends.
I'm pretty jealous of Elon right now. Calling Vacas out
is one of the ultimate joys in life. I'm also
the the the the reaction by so many that Elon.
You know, there are gonna be examples out there. He's
(24:10):
gonna there are people that are gonna need their food
that they're not gonna get there. There are all kinds
of examples of people getting screwed by the government on
a regular basis, remember the VA scandal. I mean it
happens all the time when these agencies are supposedly doing
their best. So if a guy's cutting waste and uh
or attempting to cut waste, or Trump's attempting to cut waste,
(24:33):
and you get some occasions where somebody who deserve to
get their meal or wheelchair or whatever doesn't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's not like that never happens anyway, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And in a broader sense, what they're claiming those who
are yelling about this most of it's performatives we've been discussing.
But those who are shouting about, well, this program does
some good, as both the President and Elon Musk have
made it clear, well that stuff will get funding, just
give us a minute. So they are in effect making
the argument that we must rein in the grotesque, horrifying
(25:07):
year responsible over spending of the federal government with zero
inconvenience or disruption to anyone, which is, when you say
it out loud, just a.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Ridiculous point of view.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So I think I can tell this story shortly, okay,
and then I think our frequent correspondent Pallo has absolutely
nailed the drop in fertility and reproduction. Oh really nailed it?
Have we had to do that at a kickoff next
hour because that's a good topic.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's fine with me. That's a good topic. Sure.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So my thirteen year old, and it matters what his
age is, apparently wanted to open a checking account at
the bank or an account at the bank because he's
got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases.
And he doesn't spend his money like his brother does.
He saves it because he wants to be able to
put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So he's got a decent sized chunk of.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Money it up over the years, and he'd been keeping
it in a shoe box. And so he's going to open
an account. And I remember when I opened an account
when I was probably about his age. I started mowing
lawns when I was twelve thirteen and accumulating money and
opening a bank account on the passage.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I remember it myself.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
On the way to the bank, I did say to him,
I said, you know, I haven't I haven't been around
the idea of opening an account for a bank in
forty years something like that, So I don't know if
the rules have changed, but so in case something happens,
but anyway, we should we get it there sure enough.
And so we're trying to open this account and everything
like that. And first of all, many banks everything is
(26:37):
I don't know if it's because the government comes down
on them so hard or something like that. They treat
everybody like you're a want to be terrorist, Like everything
you do it's like jeez, lighting up. But anyway, he
needs to have two forms of ID. Is where we
ran into the roadblock.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I said, what is a form of ID for a
thirteen year old?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
He said, and they said, well, your Social State Security
card is birth certificate?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Okay, great?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So uh, I said, the fact that I'm his dad
isn't good enough. I can't vouch for the fact that
he's my son and I have an account here and
have had for twenty five years and open an account
for him.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I can't do that. And no, we need to.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And I said, is that a bank policy or the
state law or what is that? Because I was thinking,
if it's a bank policy, I'll go to a different bank.
But it's a federal law. It's part of the patriotarch.
I said, oh, of course, and he said, well, it's
a federal I said, you don't need to explain the
federal government to me. And I hate the federal government,
I said. And then the guy looked at me like
(27:37):
I was Oh. He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're
one of those people. You're Timothy McVeigh, you're you're you're
one of those people.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, clearly I've heard about them.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous.
This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a
bank account for a thirteen year old.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And as his parent, I got it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I got to prove who he is because you can't
take my word for the fact that he's my child,
makes me a child money laundering, little mule for your militia,
whatever you want to call him. The Patriot Act was
so much I was trying to explain it to her.
He was so much crap that they jammed through. It's
all because of nine to eleven.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
So you're gonna stop.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
The next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen year
olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, even
though their parrot, who you know, is sitting right there.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I hate stuff like that. And the and the but
they were there.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Their eyes got so wide when I hate the said
I hate the federal government. And I was thinking if
I was doing this same thing in my and my
where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, and I
said I hate the federal government, the teller would have said, yeah,
me too, don't you high five Joe came end of
that brother, but that just being oh my god, you
shouldn't she said. Oh she gasped. The woman gasped, and
(28:52):
her boss just looked at me white. I'd like, oh,
we about to have a fight. Oh man, I have
the two pieces of ID even though he's my kid.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I just found that amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes.
Get ready to jot this one down and get it right,
would you? Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there
are two emergencies.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, but actually exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And I actually told my son because he was one,
and he was really like, is that something you can't
say out loud?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I said, I told him.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The most revered Republican president of the last maybe century,
Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English
language are I'm here from the I'm from the government,
and I'm here to help you.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I mean, he ran on I hate the government, or.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I just saw a clip this morning. The government isn't
the solution. Government is the problem. And the woman who
was typing furiously after I said that, because she was
so horrified that anybody would say that, I said, you know,
all the money in my account. I made that by
going on the radio every day and saying I hate
the government and.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I make my living.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
By the way, if the Justice Department is listening, or
the FDIC or right the c i A, the NSA,
if I'm happy to testify against this monster.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Now, yes, Michael, So wonder they didn't hit the silent
alarm on you and then you know, cops show up
or something. I would have been I would have loved
to talk to people and explain why it's okay for
me to say I hate the government. No, no, no,
We've got to surveill him for a while and go
through his mail and monitor his phone calls. We've got
the NSA working on it already. What I hate is
the manager guy acting like it makes sense that we
(30:38):
have a law that I can't vouch for my kid
being my kid. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Two
forms of ID for a child right when their parent
is there. How about he says his name, then I
say his name? Is that two forms of ID?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And if not, what the hell has the world becaught?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I know? Anyway, We've got Katie's headlines coming up next.
I guess in brief to my saying to the manager
at the bank that I hate the federal government. My
feeling comes from I don't know about everybody else's life,
but I feel like my interaction with the government is
either me giving them money or them stopping me from
(31:19):
doing something I want to done.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Of the time.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Sure, I appreciate maintaining a standing army, but yeah, I'm
not day to day interactions. Obviously, you're you know you're
you're going out of your way to be didactic if
you don't understand that we all need roads in an
army and that sort of stuff. But almost of my
interactions are me giving you money and I see around
me it being wasted, or you stopping me from doing
(31:45):
something I want to do.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's mostly didact.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I moving along, we have breaking news. Jd Vance has
renamed himself Amanda Hugging Kiss. Stay with us for details.
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's leads story. What's
a discouraged Katie Katie from CNN.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Wrongfully detained American teacher Mark Fogel meets with Trump after
being released from Russia in a quote exchange.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
We got a bunch of clips about that. What Trump said,
what the released teacher said, Hey, don't smoke marijuana and
Moscow or whatever he was accused of doing.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Yep, NBC isis has an army in waiting, and Trump's
next move could decide whether.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It rises again. Where's that from? I don't know that
strung NBC. I'll have to look at that. I'll add
it to the hotlinks from Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Department of Education calls on NCAA and NFHS to revoke
the titles and championships awarded to transgender athletes.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, you can't have dudes women who were winning women's titles.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's a very short ruling. In fact, that's it. Thanks
for coming from NewsNation.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Christy nom fires four FEMA workers for paying New York
City for hotel to house.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Migrants in definance of orders as I understand it, right, right, Yeah,
tens of millions of dollars from the.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Inflation picks up speed, rising.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
To three percent in January.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Were Yeah, Daily Mail, one in five Democrats say Trump
is doing a good job as his whirldwinds starting off.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
This attracts new fans.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, I meant to break down his high fifty three
percent approval rating. You break it down by various groups.
It's pretty damned impressive, it is. And I would think,
you know, in any other era of American politics, the
Democrats would lay low, see how they could work with them,
say to their constituents, Hey, we're working with them when
it makes sense, We're looking at for you and wait
for an opportunity. Is it just that the fever pitch
(33:48):
of day to day internet fundraising they're.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
So behind this fiscal year.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Is that why they're making these frantic gestures of where
the resistance in f Trump and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Why don't they just come to hell down for a
few months.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
From the athletic, Kevin Durant becomes eighth player in NBA
history to hit thirty thousand career points.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
There was talk of him coming to the Warriors up
until the trade deadline just a couple of weeks ago,
and that fell apart the last minute.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And because he hates somebody on.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
The Warriors and wouldn't come play with him, they're gonna
take one last chance at winning a title with him.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
From the New York Post quote, I'm lucky to be
alive after sustaining car crash injuries after tripping over my cat.
This guy has a hairless cat. It bit him in
the leg.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
He tripped.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
He ended up fracturing his skull, breaking a bone in
his neck, two fractures in his spine, nine broken ribs,
and blood in his lungs.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Good, my kiddy, don't have hairless cats as the lead
there exactly.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Finally, the Babylon Bee, exhausted media begs Trump to take
a day off.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
God, I believe that. Do you see the assault?
Speaker 3 (34:57):
More breaking news, Marco Rubio has changed wh's his name
to Jack Cass Oh gosh. Trump says he's not going
to allow the Associated Press into the press pool because
they won't refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the
Gulf of America. Fair enough, I say, if you miss
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