February 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Hours 2 of A&G features...
- Jack is sick & the horrors of Islamic supremacists
- The case for Trump's plan for Gaza
- Near miss on runway in Chicago & Jeff Bezos' note to WaPo staff
- Portlandia's gender detective!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Meanwhile, I saw that Joanne Fabrics is going out of
business and closing all of its stores. Yeah, now your
mom knows how your dad feels about Hooter is going banking.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Joanne Fabrics? Did you know?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I got a question with my voice and being sick today,
because your voice, your voice can go two ways. When
you're sick, You can get and it sounds sexy, or
you can just sound like you're dying, which am I
closer to. Oh my god, thanks for putting me in
that position. Uh, half and a half.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Dying's not a sexy thing.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Straddling the line between bedroom voice and one foot in
the grave.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yes, I think they're like very white.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's funny that we do find and I find this
kind of the husky, gravelly voice hot even for a woman.
But if it crosses into your ill our animal brain thinks,
get away from them.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
They've got something.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yes, yeah, that is interesting. Perhaps a linguist would like
to write us a note and explain that for us,
or an anthropologist or something like that. So it's funny
about to go into the situation that Israel's facing as
the ceasefire hostage negotiations thingy is about to draw to
close this weekend, even though there are dozens more hostages
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being held. I said, fifty three maybe, and more than
half of them are dead, allegedly murdered at the hands
of Hamas, whether on October seventh or while in captivity.
Did they ever actually give back the body of that
mom from last weekend?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, not that I'm aware of them.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And that's got to be because she is so brutalized
and it would be so obvious.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You know, I don't want.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Say the things, but you know, it would be obvious
how how she was treated.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And they don't. They don't. They don't want that out there, right.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I suppose it's conceivable that they lost the body, although
I was listening to one very informed person on the
topic say no, that's virtually impossible because they knew they
were such important bargaining chips. But I don't know. I
don't know for sure. So here's here's the story to
get us into this. And you did not hear this
on the news. It's an example of a couple of
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different stories that you just are not covered by American
media because it makes them uncomfortable. If there is a
bit of smoke on some airliner going from Minneapolis to Dubuque,
you'll see it on every single newscast all day long.
Here's the headline for you, Jiehattists behead seventy Christians in
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the Democratic Republic of the Congo. You know, I saw
that the other day and I meant to check up
on if that was real or not because I hadn't
heard it.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I thought this can't be real, or I would have
heard about this.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yes, it's absolutely real. Why did it get no coverage?
The Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces the ADF, surrounded the
village of Such and Such, forced residents from their homes,
rounded up total seventy Christian villagers, forced them into a
Protestant church in the nearby town of Kasanga. It'd being
abandoned by its congregants because of the security situation there.
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They murdered all seventy of them inside the church, with
beheading reportedly their preferred method of execution. So mad, here's
how horrific that was? Well, yeah, we could, but I'd
prefer not too. And here's why we were talking last
hour about how even on the center left now they
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are saying out loud, oh yeah, rampant, uncontrolled immigration is
terrible for working people, it's terrible for average citizens. It's
being rejected all over the world. And people were called racist.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
For trying to bring people's attention to rampant, uncontrolled immigration.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How terrible that was.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I mean, many of the same people who are saying
it over and over again as those of us on
the right side of the aisle were saying, Look, we
can have lots of immigration.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
If you want. We just need laws and we need
to follow the laws.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So there has been a sea change in the way
people talk about immigration now, and it's just so charming. Anyway,
I find myself wondering whether a similar sea change is
going to happen on the topic of Islamic supremacists, which
is my preferred term these days. Islama fascists was common
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for a while, Shuria supremacists whatever, or justists.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, Islamists.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
This is the branch of Islam that is expansionist, a conquering, military, legal,
societal philosophy of Islam, which is very common around the world.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's certainly not universal.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And I was thinking about how to present this, and
you know, one obvious comparison is to be white is
not to be a white supremacist, unlike what Joy Reid
and the DEI crowd would tell you, mostly so they
could call you into silence and take over institutions and
usher and neomarxism anyway. And to be Muslim is not
to be an Islamic supremacist at all. On the other hand,
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it exists as an ideology. It's well armed, it's absolutely brutal,
and it thinks God is on its side, and it's
more than happy to martyr lots of people, including women
and children, because they think they go straight to heaven
and is great. And I just wonder whether the world
is going to wake up to it and start talking
about it openly.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Here's a headline for you.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
A decimated Hamas prepares for a new fight with Israel.
They've recorded a recruited thousands of new fighters. They hand
them pamphlets on how to be guerrilla warriors. That's most
of the training, and now they're willing to go back
to war with the evil Jews to wipe them off
the face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
There are currently one point nine billion Muslims in the world.
I just looked that up. I don't know what percentage
are okay with sharia law the way attacked it out
by the crazies, but it wouldn't need to be a
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very big percentage to be a hell of a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
When the total number is almost two.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Billion, Well if it were twenty percent, for instance, that
would be three hundred and eighty million people, far larger
than the United States of America bent worldwide on conquest
and the slaughter of the non believers.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Just to back up to your original story, why do
you think seventy Christians being beheaded by Muslims doesn't make
the news.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The utterly.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Strange subculture that is the American media is so dedicated
to their woke principles. A they they're just super uncomfortable
saying anything critical about anything foreign.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
There's Zeno files.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And the second thing is and they would tell you
this because they're so deluded.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You know, the story's horrible.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
But if we were to report that Islamophobia might rise
and there might be a backlash against peace loving Muslims.
I mean, we've heard that over and over again.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well wait, now we also know you'd get bigger pushback
from Muslim activists to your management, advertisers, whatever, So just
makes it more difficult.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And care Right, which is an utterly awful organization that
is more than happy to support Islamism, Islamic supremacism when
it can, while acting like their moderates.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
They are.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
They're always on the march. They're trying to cow people
into submission, have for decades. Now one more note and
then we need to take a break. And I want
to come back because I haven't even gotten to the
main point of this screed, which is about to unfold
in front of all of our eyes and be the
biggest story on earth probably Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And that's the renewed.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Fighting in Gaza, slash the West Bank, slash Israel.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Ilia Shapiro, the law professor tweeted this. It is.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
The map of the Palestinian state that Ahoud old Merit proposed.
He's the former Prime Minister of Israel. This is one
of the offers for a Palestinian state that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The PLO and the and the.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
PLA and then Hamas now have rejected. And if you
could see this map, it is an enormous Palestinian state.
It's very very generous. It's everything they ask for, and
it's and it was rejected like every other settlement that
Jimmy Carter came to, that Bill Clinton came to.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's because they.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Don't want a Palestinian state as much as they want
to wipe the Jews off the map and have all
of it. That is the only position that they will accept.
And there's no negotiating it with them. They only negotiate
to cover that because they are say it with me,
Islamic supremacists. That's not the controversial part. The controversial part
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after a short break, Well, you're dealing with people in
Hamas who murder babies with their bare hands, and as
we learned from that report that came out last week,
in some cases the majority of the people that went
into Israel in October seventh were just regular Palestinians. They
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weren't members of Hamas. Right, We're just pretty horrifying. Getting
back to what percentage, yeah, et cetera. Yeah, So the
really controversial part probably a career ender a boy coming
up next, stay with us.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I think it's freaking shocking.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Seventy Christians were beheaded by Muslim radicals, and it doesn't
make the news.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
No, as we said, if some stortis falls down and
hurts her knee on an airplane. Lately, it makes the
news constantly because we're fixated on airplanes with seventy Christians beheaded.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No, because the media is uncomfortable with that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
It might cause an anti Muslim backlash anyway, if you're
just tuning in number one where you've been. Secondly, we
were talking about how we're hoping people start talking honestly
about Islamic supremacists Islamism the way all of a sudden,
now it's fine to say rampant immigration is terrible for
countries when you were called a racist for saying that
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for decades. Anyway, a couple of thoughts really quickly, and
then to the main point. Finally, there's a big rally
in New York City on that big, medium sized for
Hassan Nazraala, the dead Hasbola leader, and the reporter from
the Free Press went in and all the Kafia wearing hamas,
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flag waving candles and pictures people. They had a hard
time finding anybody who even knew the name of the
person or who they were or what they did. They
just knew they were supposed to show up as part
of the brave resistance and put on their terrorist scarf.
As I heard it characterized the other day, it's just
utterly foolish. It's like all the college kids who say
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chant from the river to the sea, but they don't
know what river and what sea. Moving along editorial here
from early curlyonchik Yuri curlyon chick I should say he's
an Israeli, he says. When I was a boy, Israel
was a leftist country. We had a huge We had
huge peace rallies. The Oslo Accords were celebrated as if
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they were going to save the world, and we even
had a subject in school called peace in honor of
our treaty with Jordan. People who were skeptical of this
all consuming love fest reviews were viewed as crazy racists
and messionic fanatics. To even suggest that not all societies
wanted peace was seen as vulgar and uncouth. Nice people
cried for the innocent on both sides. The saying was,
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we could forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but
not for making us kill theirs. But then this euphoria
of peace was followed by decades of barbarism and that
eroded the pity reserves of the majority of the Israeli people.
Then he goes through the long list of slaughters and
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bus explosions and child murders that I don't even want
to describe to you. People were mutilated, castrated, crippled, not
as collateral damage, but meticulously with sadistic precision by an enemy.
You preferred to go after defenseless civilians who seemed to
revel in atrocity, as if atrocity was an end in
and of itself.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well, did you know there was a near miss over
the weekend They got no reporting.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Several buses Israeli buses had explosions on them overnight and
the guesses and Hamas has taken credit for this. The
guess is, just like we all have done with our
alarm clock, they got the AMPM wrong on setting the bombs.
They went off when the buses were empty. But if
they'd have gone off as it is suspected they were
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supposed to, this would be the biggest story going on
right now. They'd evand they went off just after midnight
instead of lunchtime, it would have been one of the
biggest attacks in the history of attacking.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Israel, I'll be talking about it.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
And then juxtaposed that with, as we said last segment,
the multiple peace plans for a two state solution that
were at the last second rejected by the leadership of
Hamas or the PLO or whatever, leaving American lefties Righty's
everybody shaking their heads thinking, I thought we had the deal.
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Let's because they don't want the deal. Brings me to
the ultimate point. I think it's absolutely correct. Andrew Roberts
wrote this in the Free Press, the historical case for
Trump's Gaza plan, and it's not the Mara Gaza part
of it, but it's essentially total victory. And he says
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historical precedent suggests that Hamas's invasion of southern Israel that
day on October seventh, and its punishment by the Israeli
defense forces have severe implications for whether the Gazas still
have the right to decide their own destiny and who
governs them. And then he makes an inescapable historical point
that I don't think the modern world is willing to
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say out loud, even though everybody knows.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It to be true.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Anybody who has any sense again, and again in the past,
people who unleash unprovoked aggressive wars against their neighbors and
are then defeated, as the godsens have been on any
conceivable metric, lose either their government or their sovereignty or both.
It would be strange, he says in an understatement. Were
Hamas somehow to buck this historical trend again, you on
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leishan unprovoked aggressive war against your neighbor and are then defeated.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You're done every damn time in history.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
The Boer Wars in Southern Africa, the transvall and Orange
Free State, British colonies, and blah blah uh, you got
the Nazis and the Sudate Land, the Czech State and
everything else they did, and a bunch of other historical examples.
It's always the same, because if you think about it,
what is the especially when it's done repeatedly, repeatedly, friends,
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what's the alternative saying all right now, you can't do
that anymore, Okay, we'll live peacefully side by side. It's
almost funny when you say it out loud, especially given
the history of it. The only thing the radical Islamists
have done during periods of peace is prepare themselves for
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new and horrifying attacks, and you people saying, well, Israel
really needs to negotiate a two state solution. You are
living in a dreamland and Israel has finally woken up
to that fact.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So do you think that's what's gonna start back up
here again soon? And this time around with the backing
of the US president, not the US president constantly saying
don't right right?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
VC France joined with the Allies gone, Imperial Japan attack,
Pearl Harbor gone, North Korea, attacked South Korea and June
nineteen fifty punished terribly, became a prie estate.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
As history interesting, we had a lot more on the
way if you missed a secment to get the podcast
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Chicago's Midway Airport a runway disaster averted by seconds. Southwest
seven thirty seven comes in for landing that jet going
one hundred and fifty miles per hour, just feet before
touching down. When the quick thinking pilots abort the landing,
pulling back into the air just as that private business
jet crossing in front of them, Those Southwest pilots asking
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air traffic control what went wrong? Air Traffic Control told
that flex jet aircraft not to cross that runway. If
the Southwest crew hadn't been so alert and seeing this
aircraft crossing the runway, this could have been a terrible,
terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Could have been.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I like how they described the pilots as quick thinking,
as if you know, you see another plane crossing your
own runway and turned to the co pilot and say,
what do you suppose we ought to do? I mean,
there's another plane right where we're going.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Hmm, wait a minute, we could pull up.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Well. That led every national newscast last night, and there's
the implication that something's going on with flying. Every day
there's a near disaster or a disaster, and I hope
it's not the shark attacks of pre nine to eleven
happening right now where we're having the plane scare of
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the day before something major in real happens.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Some of the stories are pretty dopey, but I think
it's a legit story that the FAA and our air
traffic control system is antiquate and south dated, it's understaffed.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think that's a legit story. This is a legit story.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
So lots of talk about the world richest man Elon Musk,
Who's going to be in the cabinet meeting today. This
is interesting having a cabinet meeting and Elon is going to.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Be there and they can wear it fast as the
chief advisor to Trump. Okay, Department of Government efficiency.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But checking in with the second rigishment man in the world,
Jeff Bezos. Today he tweeted out this note he shared
with his workers at the Washington Post. Case you don't know,
Jeff Bezos owns Amazon. That's why he's the world's second
richest man. And he also owns the Washington Post. And
he this is what he tweeted out. I shared this
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note with the Washington Post team this morning. I'm writing
to let you know about a change coming to our
opinion pages. We're going to be writing every day in
support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free markets.
We'll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing
those pillars will be left to be published by others.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Je Again, their opinion pages are going to stress personal
liberties and free markets. He goes on, there was time
on a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly,
might have seen it as a service to bring to
the reader's doorstep every morning a broad based opinion section
that sought to cover all views. Today, the Internet does
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that job. I am of America and for America, and
proud to be so. Our country did not get here
by being typical, and a big part of America's success
has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.
Freedom is ethical, It minimizes coercion and practical. It drives creativity, invention,
and prosperity.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Halle Louisa, I know, wow, Finally, finally.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Everybody's understood we're in a fight.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I always better fight for the things we cherished, because
we've assumed everybody liked him for too long.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He goes on.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity
to lead this new chapter. I I know that name,
but I don't remember who that is anyway, Jeff Bezos says.
I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't hell yes,
then it had to be no. After careful consideration, David
decided to step away. This is a significant shift. It
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won't be easy, and it will require one hundred percent commitment.
I respect his decision. We'll be searching for a new
opinion editor to own this new direction. I'm confident that
three free markets and personal liberties are right for America.
I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current
market of ideas and news opinion.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I'm excited for us together to fill that void. Oh
my god, how fantastic is this. They're gonna have to
install like gutters and drains there at the WAPO to
channel the bitter tears of the young wolkesters. But this this,
to do it, it's great, But to say it so
forcefully and publicly is even better.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
We need a hell of a lot more of that.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, he's saying, in effect one, we're going to emphasize
personal liberty and economic freedom and it's underserved yes in
the national media, and we're gonna fill that role.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And if you're not for it, as he told the
guy currently running the opinion page, if you're not hell yes,
then you're a no. And the guy was clearly not
a hell yes. So get I'll find somebody who is
a hell yes.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Here's the counter argument, because it popped up in my head. Well,
having a range of views on every topic is the
traditional role of the op ed sections, as he mentioned,
and it seems weird and like controlling to get away
from that. But my answer would be he's one hundred
percent right, and it's really important to say so, especially
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now because so many of our young have been indoctrinated
into thinking the opposite, that the US is a force
for bad, that free markets are somehow exploitive, and that
socialism is the way forward. Look, I've heard the arguments
for socialism, communism, collectivism my entire life.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
They suck. Well, let me put it this, I should
put it like this.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
They're seductive, but they always end in disaster, always, always, always.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm old enough to be confident to say that now, Yeah,
I would.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, we got to know we're not gonna see the
argument to a bunch of neo Marxist elementary slash high
school slash college teachers. Yeah, I would say that the
arguments definitely don't suck. The arguments are exactly what you said, seductive,
I mean, because capitalism's got all kinds of looks bad.
But the data, the results of trying different systems is clear.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
If you haven't read Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment, now, at least
the first chunk of it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do it, do it.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So it's utterly convincing that free markets and free people
have brought all of the prosperity and goodness you see
around the world.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So it has already headed this direction.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I think anyway is the is a mainstream left and
far left gonna turn on Jeff Bezos now and think, oh,
he's just for this because he's become the world second
richest man through greed crushing capitalism, and.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They're printing employees to death.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
They're printing the prefab placards right now to walk around
and chant around the WAPA.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
This this could be a significant development. I love it.
I could not love it more. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Than you.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Say this one out loud too, Jeff. A lot of
the stifling regulation that crushes people's entrepreneurial dreams is perpetrated
by big corporations like yours because.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
They know the little guy can't bear the.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
What do they call it, the compliance costs. They don't
have a big enough legal team to file all those
papers that the regulations say.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So there are.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
There are perversions of the free market that come from
capitalist players, and we've got to recognize that and be
honest about that too.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Man. Amazon is tough to compete with.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It came across another situation yesterday Henry needed some stuff
for a school science project and there were a couple
of things. I could go downtown to the local hardware store,
nice guy, nice people. Or I could order it on
Amazon and have it in a couple hours oh my
house on a busy day. I mean, how do you
compete with that? I never do the same day thing,
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so I don't think of it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But yeah, that's how I do it. All all, you're not
Amazon Prime. You got to be Amazon prob. Well I am,
but I just it's like having a butler.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It is. I'm a shocked every time every time I
need a cord for something where that cord I'll just
I need a new one.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They're like nine bucks and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I ordered it's gonna be there, you know, be here.
But after five today? What it is like having a butler?
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Oh, for long time listeners to the show, sleeve Boy
is no longer with me. I have put sleeve Boy
on unpaid leave. He's my servant who exists merely to
button that little button on dress shirts.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
It's like halfway up the arm anyway.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Those but I ordered sleeve boy to submit a list
of the five things he's done for me this past month.
And since I almost never wear dress shirts, he had nothing,
and so I put him on leave.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, I don't believe me. Listen to this quick tale
before I take a break. There's not much to it.
It's a near tragedy. We like most people do who
have dogs in a backyard that's fenced. You open the
door and let your dog go outside to peow, and
then and then you leave him out there for five
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to minutes to a half an hour depending on the day,
and there want and then you see him standing in
the door and you go let him back in again.
Got a pool has never been a problem, Henry. For
whatever reason, God intervened or whatever looks out after we
let Pop out and Pup was swimming in the pool
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m and Henry ran out there and got him out
of there. He would have absolutely drowned. There's no way
he could get out of that pool. He's a pug,
No way he could to get out of the pool.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Somehow he fell in the pool.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And and we never look out the window after you
let him out to pete to keep an eye on
him or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Why would you? You can't do that every time.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Uh just happened to look out there and see him
and ran out there and fished him out. He was
he had just gone under. Oh yeah, oh it would
have been horrible. Oh my god, for for that, my
current my son's mental health, and that's his companion, and
blah blah blah, it would have been just devastating.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Oh don't even want to think him. No, thanks, Yeah,
that dog? Dogs?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Back to why how's a dog fall in the pool? Yea,
and see it, It's not like animals don't fall in
ponds all the time. Well, the problem with pools. You
can walk into a pond and out of it again.
A pool you can get in, but you can't get out.
If you're a dog, has he ever shown a proclivity
for swimming before? No, No, Pugs don't have a proclivity
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for anything other than struggling to breathe.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Wow, they're God's mistake. Wow Wow, Okay, so moving along.
Thank God, your dog's all right, obviously, But what what
made him.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Look out the window? Just then?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
You attribute that to God intervening or just locker? Maybe
it's your cruel limiting, limiting of screen time. He just
decided to He was so bored because I took away
screen time.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yep. There he looked out a window. That's how bored
he is. He's looking out windows.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Now Here is the punchline, how did we go from
this being a ridiculous joke to being state mandated beliefs?
The setup to that punchline coming up in a few moments.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
We got lots to get to today.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Our text line if you want to join in the
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Speaker 1 (29:11):
Jack Tapper of CNN's got a new.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Book out about the Biden presidency and the cover up
of his mental decline, which we'll talk about next hour.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Wow our three.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, I knew it wouldn't take long for that the
truth to emerge, I so obvious to everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Anyway, more on that to come.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
As I said, the punchline of this is how did
we go from this being a ridiculous joke? And we're
talking about clip eighteen, Michael, I don't think I told
you that from being a ridiculous joke to being state
mandated beliefs and We ran this clip ages ago. It
was from Fred Armison's genius hilarious Portlandia, mocking the at
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the time fairly geographic, restricted, woke crowd. But what we
the people didn't realize was that those attitudes had absolutely
infiltrated education K through grad school, and the kids were
being indoctrinated in it, even as we laughed at Portlandia.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But this is from Portlandia. A number of years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
It went from a ridiculous joke to a state mandated belief.
You need to picture the fella that you hear is
talking to his lesbian mom and her partner that run
this store, and the guy has a baby in the
little baby carrier on his chest.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
You don't want to know the gender of the baby.
We don't want to know the sex. And you know
that I don't know your gender. I don't know canvases.
I don't know mine.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You don't know my gender. I don't do I look
like a woman.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I don't know what a woman looks like. Do you?
I just feel like I'm good at recognizing a woman
when I see one. What are you? You're a detective?
A gender detective? No? I just lifting up skirts and
pulling down pants and just getting in there with your magnifying.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Never done that.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I didn't even consider your gender, and I know you
still didn't didn't get I've accepted it now. I accept
you're a man. I think you have a penis. That
doesn't mean it's gonna stay that way.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Excuse me? Is there a problem?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Because we can discuss our whole family history right now
if you want.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
But I don't think that would be appropriate.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
That's your father talking.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That is your disc gusting father. I'm sorry I didn't
I don't know why you're man.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I raised you right, Do you remember I do? I
definitely kept it fuzzy when it came to what gender
you are, not raising you by any kind of binary
gender coade.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Do you remember?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I'd dress you up in a ballerina costume one day
and the next one a sailor outfit, and still confusing.
All of our world's geniuses were confused. Einstein was very confused.
He said, was Einstein a man or a woman? He
turned out to be a man because of the mustache
that will give away even a woman cannot have a mustache.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That that's a true.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
I'm proud of you. You know that right, even though
you're a man, I can't change that.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Actually, First of all, Fred Harmison is one of the
funniest people who's ever lived, true fact. But oh my god,
so that was because PORTLANDI is pretty old. Now, I
mean that was like fifteen years ago. Probably it was
before this madness started. They couldn't have done that now.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
They couldn't have done They could do it now, They
couldn't have done it five years ago, right, right, it
would they would have been brutalized for it. And again,
wait a minute, how did that go from hilarious crazy
people to you dare not argue with it?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Well, Fred Armison, I mean he's a he's a lefty musician,
artist guy.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's not like he's a right winger.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
But right, So, how did it go from lefties making
fun of this because it's just too out there to
nobody could make fun out of it, make fun of
it to back, you'll get arrested in California for misgendering.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Someone, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
So on a more serious note, Jonathan Turley, writing about
this in a little noticed study rot at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Of that where they're all just I have no idea
what you are. You don't know what I know. I
have no idea. I haven't even thought.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I'd like to think I'm pretty good at recognizing women.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
What are you a detective?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
So idiotic? All right, I've got to get to this.
I'm sorry, I'm going to ruin the fund, but that's
what I do. The first circuit just held that parents
have no right to know about their eleven year old
changing gender in their school. Jonathan Turley writing about this
with some quotes, This unwritten policy was viewed as overriding
parental rights. The decision is defended as a reflection of
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our pluralistic society. In the court ruling, the court wrote, quote,
our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions to
the expertise of school officials charged with the responsibility of
educating children. Turley points out, there's no more cherished right
that citizens possessed than raising their children. Indeed, the right
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to raise one's children according to your own faith and
values is the touchstone of freedom. Conversely, the subordination of
such rights is the harbinger of state tyranny. True pluralism
allows families with different norms and values to thrive.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Public schools are effectively.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Demanding the parents give up their rights to critical aspects
of rearing their children as a condition for public education.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
It is a virtual slogan for school choice.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, that has been the goal for quite some time now,
and it's pretty obvious it's not just about the trans
stuff in all kinds of different ways. The school wants
a world and where they make the decisions for raising kids,
not the parents. The parents are a detriment to the
raising of the children.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
To pry them away from the nuclear family is their purpose.
I had professors, a professor a Marxist in college who
said it openly, No, the nuclear family stands in the
way of progress. It is an organ of open depression.
And I sat there listening to this woman, thinking, you're
a lunatic, because I wasn't familiar with that Marxist tenant
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at that point.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That's what's happening in schools. Wow, well, this will get overturned,
but it'll take a while. It'll take a while.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
That is very disturbing. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Meanwhile, I saw that Joanne Fabrics is going out of
business and closing all of its stores. Yeah, now your
mom knows how your dad feels about Hooter is going banking.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Joanne Fabrics? Did you know?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I got a question with my voice and being sick today,
because your voice, your voice can go two ways. When
you're sick, You can get and it sounds sexy, or
you can just sound like you're dying, which am I
closer to. Oh my god, thanks for putting me in
that position. Uh, half and a half.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Dying's not a sexy thing.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Straddling the line between bedroom voice and one foot in
the grave.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yes, I think they're like very white.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's funny that we do find and I find this
kind of the husky, gravelly voice hot even for a woman.
But if it crosses into your ill our animal brain thinks,
get away from them.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
They've got something.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yes, yeah, that is interesting. Perhaps a linguist would like
to write us a note and explain that for us,
or an anthropologist or something like that. So it's funny
about to go into the situation that Israel's facing as
the ceasefire hostage negotiations thingy is about to draw to
close this weekend, even though there are dozens more hostages
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being held. I said, fifty three maybe, and more than
half of them are dead, allegedly murdered at the hands
of Hamas, whether on October seventh or while in captivity.
Did they ever actually give back the body of that
mom from last weekend?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, not that I'm aware of them.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And that's got to be because she is so brutalized
and it would be so obvious.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You know, I don't want.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Say the things, but you know, it would be obvious
how how she was treated.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And they don't. They don't. They don't want that out there, right.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I suppose it's conceivable that they lost the body, although
I was listening to one very informed person on the
topic say no, that's virtually impossible because they knew they
were such important bargaining chips. But I don't know. I
don't know for sure. So here's here's the story to
get us into this. And you did not hear this
on the news. It's an example of a couple of
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different stories that you just are not covered by American
media because it makes them uncomfortable. If there is a
bit of smoke on some airliner going from Minneapolis to Dubuque,
you'll see it on every single newscast all day long.
Here's the headline for you, Jiehattists behead seventy Christians in
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the Democratic Republic of the Congo. You know, I saw
that the other day and I meant to check up
on if that was real or not because I hadn't
heard it.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I thought this can't be real, or I would have
heard about this.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yes, it's absolutely real. Why did it get no coverage?
The Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces the ADF, surrounded the
village of Such and Such, forced residents from their homes,
rounded up total seventy Christian villagers, forced them into a
Protestant church in the nearby town of Kasanga. It'd being
abandoned by its congregants because of the security situation there.
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They murdered all seventy of them inside the church, with
beheading reportedly their preferred method of execution. So mad, here's
how horrific that was? Well, yeah, we could, but I'd
prefer not too. And here's why we were talking last
hour about how even on the center left now they
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are saying out loud, oh yeah, rampant, uncontrolled immigration is
terrible for working people, it's terrible for average citizens. It's
being rejected all over the world. And people were called racist.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
For trying to bring people's attention to rampant, uncontrolled immigration.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How terrible that was.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I mean, many of the same people who are saying
it over and over again as those of us on
the right side of the aisle were saying, Look, we
can have lots of immigration.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
If you want. We just need laws and we need
to follow the laws.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So there has been a sea change in the way
people talk about immigration now, and it's just so charming. Anyway,
I find myself wondering whether a similar sea change is
going to happen on the topic of Islamic supremacists, which
is my preferred term these days. Islama fascists was common
(04:49):
for a while, Shuria supremacists whatever, or justists.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, Islamists.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
This is the branch of Islam that is expansionist, a conquering, military, legal,
societal philosophy of Islam, which is very common around the world.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's certainly not universal.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And I was thinking about how to present this, and
you know, one obvious comparison is to be white is
not to be a white supremacist, unlike what Joy Reid
and the DEI crowd would tell you, mostly so they
could call you into silence and take over institutions and
usher and neomarxism anyway. And to be Muslim is not
to be an Islamic supremacist at all. On the other hand,
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it exists as an ideology. It's well armed, it's absolutely brutal,
and it thinks God is on its side, and it's
more than happy to martyr lots of people, including women
and children, because they think they go straight to heaven
and is great. And I just wonder whether the world
is going to wake up to it and start talking
about it openly.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Here's a headline for you.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
A decimated Hamas prepares for a new fight with Israel.
They've recorded a recruited thousands of new fighters. They hand
them pamphlets on how to be guerrilla warriors. That's most
of the training, and now they're willing to go back
to war with the evil Jews to wipe them off
the face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
There are currently one point nine billion Muslims in the world.
I just looked that up. I don't know what percentage
are okay with sharia law the way attacked it out
by the crazies, but it wouldn't need to be a
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very big percentage to be a hell of a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
When the total number is almost two.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Billion, Well if it were twenty percent, for instance, that
would be three hundred and eighty million people, far larger
than the United States of America bent worldwide on conquest
and the slaughter of the non believers.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Just to back up to your original story, why do
you think seventy Christians being beheaded by Muslims doesn't make
the news.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The utterly.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Strange subculture that is the American media is so dedicated
to their woke principles. A they they're just super uncomfortable
saying anything critical about anything foreign.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
There's Zeno files.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And the second thing is and they would tell you
this because they're so deluded.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You know, the story's horrible.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
But if we were to report that Islamophobia might rise
and there might be a backlash against peace loving Muslims.
I mean, we've heard that over and over again.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well wait, now we also know you'd get bigger pushback
from Muslim activists to your management, advertisers, whatever, So just
makes it more difficult.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And care Right, which is an utterly awful organization that
is more than happy to support Islamism, Islamic supremacism when
it can, while acting like their moderates.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
They are.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
They're always on the march. They're trying to cow people
into submission, have for decades. Now one more note and
then we need to take a break. And I want
to come back because I haven't even gotten to the
main point of this screed, which is about to unfold
in front of all of our eyes and be the
biggest story on earth probably Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And that's the renewed.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Fighting in Gaza, slash the West Bank, slash Israel.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Ilia Shapiro, the law professor tweeted this. It is.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
The map of the Palestinian state that Ahoud old Merit proposed.
He's the former Prime Minister of Israel. This is one
of the offers for a Palestinian state that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The PLO and the and the.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
PLA and then Hamas now have rejected. And if you
could see this map, it is an enormous Palestinian state.
It's very very generous. It's everything they ask for, and
it's and it was rejected like every other settlement that
Jimmy Carter came to, that Bill Clinton came to.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's because they.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Don't want a Palestinian state as much as they want
to wipe the Jews off the map and have all
of it. That is the only position that they will accept.
And there's no negotiating it with them. They only negotiate
to cover that because they are say it with me,
Islamic supremacists. That's not the controversial part. The controversial part
(09:50):
after a short break, Well, you're dealing with people in
Hamas who murder babies with their bare hands, and as
we learned from that report that came out last week,
in some cases the majority of the people that went
into Israel in October seventh were just regular Palestinians. They
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weren't members of Hamas. Right, We're just pretty horrifying. Getting
back to what percentage, yeah, et cetera. Yeah, So the
really controversial part probably a career ender a boy coming
up next, stay with us.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I think it's freaking shocking.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Seventy Christians were beheaded by Muslim radicals, and it doesn't
make the news.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
No, as we said, if some stortis falls down and
hurts her knee on an airplane. Lately, it makes the
news constantly because we're fixated on airplanes with seventy Christians beheaded.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No, because the media is uncomfortable with that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
It might cause an anti Muslim backlash anyway, if you're
just tuning in number one where you've been. Secondly, we
were talking about how we're hoping people start talking honestly
about Islamic supremacists Islamism the way all of a sudden,
now it's fine to say rampant immigration is terrible for
countries when you were called a racist for saying that
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for decades. Anyway, a couple of thoughts really quickly, and
then to the main point. Finally, there's a big rally
in New York City on that big, medium sized for
Hassan Nazraala, the dead Hasbola leader, and the reporter from
the Free Press went in and all the Kafia wearing hamas,
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flag waving candles and pictures people. They had a hard
time finding anybody who even knew the name of the
person or who they were or what they did. They
just knew they were supposed to show up as part
of the brave resistance and put on their terrorist scarf.
As I heard it characterized the other day, it's just
utterly foolish. It's like all the college kids who say
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chant from the river to the sea, but they don't
know what river and what sea. Moving along editorial here
from early curlyonchik Yuri curlyon chick I should say he's
an Israeli, he says. When I was a boy, Israel
was a leftist country. We had a huge We had
huge peace rallies. The Oslo Accords were celebrated as if
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they were going to save the world, and we even
had a subject in school called peace in honor of
our treaty with Jordan. People who were skeptical of this
all consuming love fest reviews were viewed as crazy racists
and messionic fanatics. To even suggest that not all societies
wanted peace was seen as vulgar and uncouth. Nice people
cried for the innocent on both sides. The saying was,
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we could forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but
not for making us kill theirs. But then this euphoria
of peace was followed by decades of barbarism and that
eroded the pity reserves of the majority of the Israeli people.
Then he goes through the long list of slaughters and
(13:04):
bus explosions and child murders that I don't even want
to describe to you. People were mutilated, castrated, crippled, not
as collateral damage, but meticulously with sadistic precision by an enemy.
You preferred to go after defenseless civilians who seemed to
revel in atrocity, as if atrocity was an end in
and of itself.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well, did you know there was a near miss over
the weekend They got no reporting.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Several buses Israeli buses had explosions on them overnight and
the guesses and Hamas has taken credit for this. The
guess is, just like we all have done with our
alarm clock, they got the AMPM wrong on setting the bombs.
They went off when the buses were empty. But if
they'd have gone off as it is suspected they were
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supposed to, this would be the biggest story going on
right now. They'd evand they went off just after midnight
instead of lunchtime, it would have been one of the
biggest attacks in the history of attacking.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Israel, I'll be talking about it.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
And then juxtaposed that with, as we said last segment,
the multiple peace plans for a two state solution that
were at the last second rejected by the leadership of
Hamas or the PLO or whatever, leaving American lefties Righty's
everybody shaking their heads thinking, I thought we had the deal.
(14:25):
Let's because they don't want the deal. Brings me to
the ultimate point. I think it's absolutely correct. Andrew Roberts
wrote this in the Free Press, the historical case for
Trump's Gaza plan, and it's not the Mara Gaza part
of it, but it's essentially total victory. And he says
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historical precedent suggests that Hamas's invasion of southern Israel that
day on October seventh, and its punishment by the Israeli
defense forces have severe implications for whether the Gazas still
have the right to decide their own destiny and who
governs them. And then he makes an inescapable historical point
that I don't think the modern world is willing to
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say out loud, even though everybody knows.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It to be true.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Anybody who has any sense again, and again in the past,
people who unleash unprovoked aggressive wars against their neighbors and
are then defeated, as the godsens have been on any
conceivable metric, lose either their government or their sovereignty or both.
It would be strange, he says in an understatement. Were
Hamas somehow to buck this historical trend again, you on
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leishan unprovoked aggressive war against your neighbor and are then defeated.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You're done every damn time in history.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
The Boer Wars in Southern Africa, the transvall and Orange
Free State, British colonies, and blah blah uh, you got
the Nazis and the Sudate Land, the Czech State and
everything else they did, and a bunch of other historical examples.
It's always the same, because if you think about it,
what is the especially when it's done repeatedly, repeatedly, friends,
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what's the alternative saying all right now, you can't do
that anymore, Okay, we'll live peacefully side by side. It's
almost funny when you say it out loud, especially given
the history of it. The only thing the radical Islamists
have done during periods of peace is prepare themselves for
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new and horrifying attacks, and you people saying, well, Israel
really needs to negotiate a two state solution. You are
living in a dreamland and Israel has finally woken up
to that fact.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So do you think that's what's gonna start back up
here again soon? And this time around with the backing
of the US president, not the US president constantly saying
don't right right?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
VC France joined with the Allies gone, Imperial Japan attack,
Pearl Harbor gone, North Korea, attacked South Korea and June
nineteen fifty punished terribly, became a prie estate.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
As history interesting, we had a lot more on the
way if you missed a secment to get the podcast
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Chicago's Midway Airport a runway disaster averted by seconds. Southwest
seven thirty seven comes in for landing that jet going
one hundred and fifty miles per hour, just feet before
touching down. When the quick thinking pilots abort the landing,
pulling back into the air just as that private business
jet crossing in front of them, Those Southwest pilots asking
(17:35):
air traffic control what went wrong? Air Traffic Control told
that flex jet aircraft not to cross that runway. If
the Southwest crew hadn't been so alert and seeing this
aircraft crossing the runway, this could have been a terrible,
terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Could have been.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I like how they described the pilots as quick thinking,
as if you know, you see another plane crossing your
own runway and turned to the co pilot and say,
what do you suppose we ought to do? I mean,
there's another plane right where we're going.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Hmm, wait a minute, we could pull up.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Well. That led every national newscast last night, and there's
the implication that something's going on with flying. Every day
there's a near disaster or a disaster, and I hope
it's not the shark attacks of pre nine to eleven
happening right now where we're having the plane scare of
(18:30):
the day before something major in real happens.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Some of the stories are pretty dopey, but I think
it's a legit story that the FAA and our air
traffic control system is antiquate and south dated, it's understaffed.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think that's a legit story. This is a legit story.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
So lots of talk about the world richest man Elon Musk,
Who's going to be in the cabinet meeting today. This
is interesting having a cabinet meeting and Elon is going to.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Be there and they can wear it fast as the
chief advisor to Trump. Okay, Department of Government efficiency.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But checking in with the second rigishment man in the world,
Jeff Bezos. Today he tweeted out this note he shared
with his workers at the Washington Post. Case you don't know,
Jeff Bezos owns Amazon. That's why he's the world's second
richest man. And he also owns the Washington Post. And
he this is what he tweeted out. I shared this
(19:27):
note with the Washington Post team this morning. I'm writing
to let you know about a change coming to our
opinion pages. We're going to be writing every day in
support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free markets.
We'll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing
those pillars will be left to be published by others.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Je Again, their opinion pages are going to stress personal
liberties and free markets. He goes on, there was time
on a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly,
might have seen it as a service to bring to
the reader's doorstep every morning a broad based opinion section
that sought to cover all views. Today, the Internet does
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that job. I am of America and for America, and
proud to be so. Our country did not get here
by being typical, and a big part of America's success
has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.
Freedom is ethical, It minimizes coercion and practical. It drives creativity, invention,
and prosperity.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Halle Louisa, I know, wow, Finally, finally.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Everybody's understood we're in a fight.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I always better fight for the things we cherished, because
we've assumed everybody liked him for too long.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He goes on.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity
to lead this new chapter. I I know that name,
but I don't remember who that is anyway, Jeff Bezos says.
I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't hell yes,
then it had to be no. After careful consideration, David
decided to step away. This is a significant shift. It
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won't be easy, and it will require one hundred percent commitment.
I respect his decision. We'll be searching for a new
opinion editor to own this new direction. I'm confident that
three free markets and personal liberties are right for America.
I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current
market of ideas and news opinion.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I'm excited for us together to fill that void. Oh
my god, how fantastic is this. They're gonna have to
install like gutters and drains there at the WAPO to
channel the bitter tears of the young wolkesters. But this this,
to do it, it's great, But to say it so
forcefully and publicly is even better.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
We need a hell of a lot more of that.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, he's saying, in effect one, we're going to emphasize
personal liberty and economic freedom and it's underserved yes in
the national media, and we're gonna fill that role.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And if you're not for it, as he told the
guy currently running the opinion page, if you're not hell yes,
then you're a no. And the guy was clearly not
a hell yes. So get I'll find somebody who is
a hell yes.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Here's the counter argument, because it popped up in my head. Well,
having a range of views on every topic is the
traditional role of the op ed sections, as he mentioned,
and it seems weird and like controlling to get away
from that. But my answer would be he's one hundred
percent right, and it's really important to say so, especially
(22:35):
now because so many of our young have been indoctrinated
into thinking the opposite, that the US is a force
for bad, that free markets are somehow exploitive, and that
socialism is the way forward. Look, I've heard the arguments
for socialism, communism, collectivism my entire life.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
They suck. Well, let me put it this, I should
put it like this.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
They're seductive, but they always end in disaster, always, always, always.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm old enough to be confident to say that now, Yeah,
I would.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, we got to know we're not gonna see the
argument to a bunch of neo Marxist elementary slash high
school slash college teachers. Yeah, I would say that the
arguments definitely don't suck. The arguments are exactly what you said, seductive,
I mean, because capitalism's got all kinds of looks bad.
But the data, the results of trying different systems is clear.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
If you haven't read Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment, now, at least
the first chunk of it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do it, do it.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So it's utterly convincing that free markets and free people
have brought all of the prosperity and goodness you see
around the world.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So it has already headed this direction.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I think anyway is the is a mainstream left and
far left gonna turn on Jeff Bezos now and think, oh,
he's just for this because he's become the world second
richest man through greed crushing capitalism, and.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They're printing employees to death.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
They're printing the prefab placards right now to walk around
and chant around the WAPA.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
This this could be a significant development. I love it.
I could not love it more. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Than you.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Say this one out loud too, Jeff. A lot of
the stifling regulation that crushes people's entrepreneurial dreams is perpetrated
by big corporations like yours because.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
They know the little guy can't bear the.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
What do they call it, the compliance costs. They don't
have a big enough legal team to file all those
papers that the regulations say.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So there are.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
There are perversions of the free market that come from
capitalist players, and we've got to recognize that and be
honest about that too.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Man. Amazon is tough to compete with.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It came across another situation yesterday Henry needed some stuff
for a school science project and there were a couple
of things. I could go downtown to the local hardware store,
nice guy, nice people. Or I could order it on
Amazon and have it in a couple hours oh my
house on a busy day. I mean, how do you
compete with that? I never do the same day thing,
(25:32):
so I don't think of it.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But yeah, that's how I do it. All all, you're not
Amazon Prime. You got to be Amazon prob. Well I am,
but I just it's like having a butler.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It is. I'm a shocked every time every time I
need a cord for something where that cord I'll just
I need a new one.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They're like nine bucks and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I ordered it's gonna be there, you know, be here.
But after five today? What it is like having a butler?
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Oh, for long time listeners to the show, sleeve Boy
is no longer with me. I have put sleeve Boy
on unpaid leave. He's my servant who exists merely to
button that little button on dress shirts.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
It's like halfway up the arm anyway.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Those but I ordered sleeve boy to submit a list
of the five things he's done for me this past month.
And since I almost never wear dress shirts, he had nothing,
and so I put him on leave.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, I don't believe me. Listen to this quick tale
before I take a break. There's not much to it.
It's a near tragedy. We like most people do who
have dogs in a backyard that's fenced. You open the
door and let your dog go outside to peow, and
then and then you leave him out there for five
(26:46):
to minutes to a half an hour depending on the day,
and there want and then you see him standing in
the door and you go let him back in again.
Got a pool has never been a problem, Henry. For
whatever reason, God intervened or whatever looks out after we
let Pop out and Pup was swimming in the pool
(27:08):
m and Henry ran out there and got him out
of there. He would have absolutely drowned. There's no way
he could get out of that pool. He's a pug,
No way he could to get out of the pool.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Somehow he fell in the pool.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And and we never look out the window after you
let him out to pete to keep an eye on
him or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Why would you? You can't do that every time.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Uh just happened to look out there and see him
and ran out there and fished him out. He was
he had just gone under. Oh yeah, oh it would
have been horrible. Oh my god, for for that, my
current my son's mental health, and that's his companion, and
blah blah blah, it would have been just devastating.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Oh don't even want to think him. No, thanks, Yeah,
that dog? Dogs?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Back to why how's a dog fall in the pool? Yea,
and see it, It's not like animals don't fall in
ponds all the time. Well, the problem with pools. You
can walk into a pond and out of it again.
A pool you can get in, but you can't get out.
If you're a dog, has he ever shown a proclivity
for swimming before? No, No, Pugs don't have a proclivity
(28:11):
for anything other than struggling to breathe.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Wow, they're God's mistake. Wow Wow, Okay, so moving along.
Thank God, your dog's all right, obviously, But what what
made him.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Look out the window? Just then?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
You attribute that to God intervening or just locker? Maybe
it's your cruel limiting, limiting of screen time. He just
decided to He was so bored because I took away
screen time.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yep. There he looked out a window. That's how bored
he is. He's looking out windows.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Now Here is the punchline, how did we go from
this being a ridiculous joke to being state mandated beliefs?
The setup to that punchline coming up in a few moments.
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of his mental decline, which we'll talk about next hour.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Wow our three.
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Yeah, I knew it wouldn't take long for that the
truth to emerge, I so obvious to everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Anyway, more on that to come.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
As I said, the punchline of this is how did
we go from this being a ridiculous joke? And we're
talking about clip eighteen, Michael, I don't think I told
you that from being a ridiculous joke to being state
mandated beliefs and We ran this clip ages ago. It
was from Fred Armison's genius hilarious Portlandia, mocking the at
(29:55):
the time fairly geographic, restricted, woke crowd. But what we
the people didn't realize was that those attitudes had absolutely
infiltrated education K through grad school, and the kids were
being indoctrinated in it, even as we laughed at Portlandia.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But this is from Portlandia. A number of years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
It went from a ridiculous joke to a state mandated belief.
You need to picture the fella that you hear is
talking to his lesbian mom and her partner that run
this store, and the guy has a baby in the
little baby carrier on his chest.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
You don't want to know the gender of the baby.
We don't want to know the sex. And you know
that I don't know your gender. I don't know canvases.
I don't know mine.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You don't know my gender. I don't do I look
like a woman.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I don't know what a woman looks like. Do you?
I just feel like I'm good at recognizing a woman
when I see one. What are you? You're a detective?
A gender detective? No? I just lifting up skirts and
pulling down pants and just getting in there with your magnifying.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Never done that.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I didn't even consider your gender, and I know you
still didn't didn't get I've accepted it now. I accept
you're a man. I think you have a penis. That
doesn't mean it's gonna stay that way.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Excuse me? Is there a problem?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Because we can discuss our whole family history right now
if you want.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
But I don't think that would be appropriate.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
That's your father talking.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That is your disc gusting father. I'm sorry I didn't
I don't know why you're man.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I raised you right, Do you remember I do? I
definitely kept it fuzzy when it came to what gender
you are, not raising you by any kind of binary
gender coade.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Do you remember?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I'd dress you up in a ballerina costume one day
and the next one a sailor outfit, and still confusing.
All of our world's geniuses were confused. Einstein was very confused.
He said, was Einstein a man or a woman? He
turned out to be a man because of the mustache
that will give away even a woman cannot have a mustache.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That that's a true.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
I'm proud of you. You know that right, even though
you're a man, I can't change that.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Actually, First of all, Fred Harmison is one of the
funniest people who's ever lived, true fact. But oh my god,
so that was because PORTLANDI is pretty old. Now, I
mean that was like fifteen years ago. Probably it was
before this madness started. They couldn't have done that now.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
They couldn't have done They could do it now, They
couldn't have done it five years ago, right, right, it
would they would have been brutalized for it. And again,
wait a minute, how did that go from hilarious crazy
people to you dare not argue with it?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Well, Fred Armison, I mean he's a he's a lefty musician,
artist guy.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's not like he's a right winger.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
But right, So, how did it go from lefties making
fun of this because it's just too out there to
nobody could make fun out of it, make fun of
it to back, you'll get arrested in California for misgendering.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Someone, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
So on a more serious note, Jonathan Turley, writing about
this in a little noticed study rot at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Of that where they're all just I have no idea
what you are. You don't know what I know. I
have no idea. I haven't even thought.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I'd like to think I'm pretty good at recognizing women.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
What are you a detective?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
So idiotic? All right, I've got to get to this.
I'm sorry, I'm going to ruin the fund, but that's
what I do. The first circuit just held that parents
have no right to know about their eleven year old
changing gender in their school. Jonathan Turley writing about this
with some quotes, This unwritten policy was viewed as overriding
parental rights. The decision is defended as a reflection of
(33:41):
our pluralistic society. In the court ruling, the court wrote, quote,
our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions to
the expertise of school officials charged with the responsibility of
educating children. Turley points out, there's no more cherished right
that citizens possessed than raising their children. Indeed, the right
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to raise one's children according to your own faith and
values is the touchstone of freedom. Conversely, the subordination of
such rights is the harbinger of state tyranny. True pluralism
allows families with different norms and values to thrive.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Public schools are effectively.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Demanding the parents give up their rights to critical aspects
of rearing their children as a condition for public education.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
It is a virtual slogan for school choice.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, that has been the goal for quite some time now,
and it's pretty obvious it's not just about the trans
stuff in all kinds of different ways. The school wants
a world and where they make the decisions for raising kids,
not the parents. The parents are a detriment to the
raising of the children.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
To pry them away from the nuclear family is their purpose.
I had professors, a professor a Marxist in college who
said it openly, No, the nuclear family stands in the
way of progress. It is an organ of open depression.
And I sat there listening to this woman, thinking, you're
a lunatic, because I wasn't familiar with that Marxist tenant
(35:06):
at that point.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That's what's happening in schools. Wow, well, this will get overturned,
but it'll take a while. It'll take a while.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
That is very disturbing. Armstrong and Getty
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