March 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Trump threatens Hamas
- The kingdom in the sky!
- Is Trump starting a trade war?
- The Chiefs fans who froze to death - an update!
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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, Armstrong and Jetty, I.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The frozen pizza company Dejorno has partnered with makers of
Hidden Valley Rants to offer a chicken bacon ranch stuffed
crust pizza. So, I guess add Italy to the countries
that hate us.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
What's stuffed in there kind of made me nauseous. Of course,
I'm chicken bacon.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's one of my favorite pizzas, Like chicken bacon garlic,
that sort of thing. Delicious, chicken bacon garlic. I've never
had one. Yeah, So a couple of things. Number one,
to cap off the discussion last hour, and if you
didn't get last you weren't here. What were you? We
waited and we waited. Grab it if my podcast our
one Armstrong e Getty on demand, we probably ought to
(01:03):
subscribe today's date. But anyway, we were talking about horrific
wastes of taxpayer dollars. Well, it's graft. Is theft under
the guise of the Green New Deal and the rest
of it. The one way to get Americans to care
about the incredible graft in our government is to broaden
the tax code. Have everybody have significant skin in the game,
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and you will see populism like you've never seen before
in favor of fiscal responsibility. That's why the left is
constantly harping on about the rich need to pay their
shape fair share so they can narrow the tax base.
It is a specific strategy. Secondly, in his not the
State of the Union address the other night, Donald Trump,
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enlisting a bunch of stupid expenditures that they've gotten rid of,
mentioned a giant grant for something ridiculous to the country
of Lesotho, which he said as a country nobody's even
heard of. Well, I've heard of Lesotho, and I'm here
to tell you it's a fascinating land that leads the
world in not one category, but two, actually three. Stay
(02:06):
with us, fascinating Lesotho.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Narrow it down to a hemisphere for me, it's it's
in Africa, Okay, southern hemisphere.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
In World War three news, a couple of different things.
First of all, this Donald J. Trump, he is at
real Donald Trump on your Twitter tweeted this out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This is how the world got.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
This news Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye. You can
choose release all of the hostages now, not later, and
immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people
you murdered, or it's over for you. In all caps
only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are
sick and twisted.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Exclamation point.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job.
Not a single Hamas set member will be safe if
you don't do as I say. I've just met with
your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is your last warning. Exclamation point.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He met in the Oval office with a whole bunch
of hostages who were released and told him their horrifying
stories of abuse and torture and people they saw murdered,
so it was fresh on his mind when he sent
out this tweet.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well and again to echo the President's sentiments. What kind
of sickos hold back the dead bodies is extortion is
a bargaining chip for the leadership.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still
have a chance. Also, to the people of Gaza, a
beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages. If
you do you are dead all caps exclamation point.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Make a smart decision.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Smart in all caps, and the rest of the messages
all caps, capital letters. Release the hostages now or there
will be hell to pay later.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. Wow. Wow,
Are you able to get through all that veiled diplomatic talk,
Jack to get it the message he's trying to send
anything he means it. Yes, I do too. Now, he
was fired up from that meeting with the hostages, and
(04:16):
you probably shouldn't decide national policy while you're fired up,
or maybe you should. Well that's an interesting thought. Yeah,
and he has said that sort of thing before, so
obviously it's not just a momentary whim. Look, here's my
point of view, which I've made fairly clear. They are
Islamic supremacist bent on wiping out the Jews. This is
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Hamas and the radicals, and that includes many of the
average folks in Palestine, in the Palestinian territories they believe
this too. They're bent on dominating the entire world in
the name of Muhammad, period, no matter who they have
to kill or how many of them have to die.
They're Islamic supremacists. They're incredibly dangerous, as dangerous as any
movement that's ever existed on Earth period. Refute me if
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you can.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Almost always it's a bad idea to make big decisions
or pronouncements when you're emotional. But maybe in this case,
fresh off of talking to people who were held by
these monsters, is a good time to make a very
clear declaration before you get bogged down in a whole
bunch of foreign policy papers of Saudi Arabian oil prices
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and blah blah blah and this and that tectonic plates
and Nana and just flat you know, I just heard
this woman's story of being raped and seeing people murdered.
Screw these people. You release all the hostages and bodies now,
or I'm killing you all. I guarantee being the autopsy
reports of that young mom and her two little boys
who were murdered deliberately in cold blood with their.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Hands by Hamas.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish
the job. Not a single HOMAS member will be safe.
This is your last warning. You got to follow through
on that. I mean, you lose all credibility.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Boy. I bet the gender studies classes at Columbia University
are a buzz this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
How about that opening Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You can choose. It's like aloha Jack, It's very similar.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Release all the hostages now, not later, or it is
over for you. Well, I don't know that there's not
a specific deadline on this.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Now. Does now mean.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
By a close of business COB or this weekend or
in the next month.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I think it means we are now taking the steps.
The countdown has begun to massive strikes, et cetera. We
are going to unleash them the moment they're ready unless
you make a move.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Or Israel will release them and you're what's going to
be different is you're not going to hear a peep
out of the president of concerns for going too far
or don't as Kamala Harris said to Benjamin Netanyahu when
he was talking about going into Romala.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Or wherever he was going to go to Rafa, Yeah, yeah, don'ticulous.
Who got to pursue the two state solution? Yeah, So
that's one part of World War three. Here's the other part.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So we got the trade war ramping up with China,
which is we keep saying is a completely different story
than Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
UH.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
China's Defense ministry spokesman put out this message yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
This is from the This.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Came out of their their embassy here in the United States,
basically their their spokesman for the second Deaf Well, and
unlike Pete Heggsath occasionally getting out over his skis UH,
this is with the full approval Ishesion Ping.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's it's without a doubt. Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
This is actually a different one, which is also very
provocative than the one I was thinking of earlier.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But anyway, put out this statement.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
If a war is what the US wants, be it
a terraff war, a trade war, or any other type
of war, We're ready to fight till the end.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's from the Chinese embassy. Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
And obviously that's pretty provocative because you could have said,
you know, we're standing up to any teriff war, but
or any other type of war, we're ready to fight.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Till the end. Is pretty provocative.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Between the two most powerful, well two of the three
most powerful countries on Earth, Russia being the other one.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
By the way, although as has been said many times
about Russia, it's like a midget with one gigantic calarm,
which is metaphor that's tough to get passed to the substance.
I didn't know what you were going to say. That's
that is, ah, the lighter side of nuclear holocaust. That
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is the problem with that metaphor. It's an excellent one,
but Russia is a paper tiger. It's a little Aputian.
But its gigantic arm is its nuclear arms. And so
if you if you assume nobody's going to get into
a nuclear holocaust, then don't even mention Russia to me, well,
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questionably more powerful.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Apparently we regularly do assume they're willing to do that.
I mean all of our decisions on arming Ukraine in
the Biden administration were based around how likely Putin would
use nukes, So that was the whole thing. Yeah, will
the midget hit us with his giant giant arm?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Wow, I've got more on that thought right after that,
you no, I apologize.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's a useful metaphor, but it's derailed the entire conversation.
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So there is some interesting reporting in the Wall Street
Journal about Trump's trade war, particularly with China.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'll read that later.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
It's the first like fold, this is what Trump's trying
to accomplish with China actually makes sense sort of thing
I've read. Yeah, and it's in the Wall Street Staday,
So we'll get to that later. When it comes to
trade though, China is like a pig with an enormously
long tongue. I mean, really if you think about Oh,
(11:19):
I'm sorry, but I was listening to a podcast yesterday
speaking of you know, militaries and who's tough and who's not?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is how weak Britain is? Now? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes, their army is seventy eight thousand men.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, seventy eight thousand men. That's the British army. How
do you like that? And it's if you think the
US army is woke and not built as a lethal
war machine. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to
the panty wearing British military. Now that's said with all
due respect to the fighting they did in Iraq and
(11:57):
Afghanistan is a close ally of ours. I'm not talking
about any individual man or a unit. By God, they're
an old friend. I hope they can revive their their
national spirits someday. But as an institution, the British military
is completely unimpressive.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Well, you know, in a century ago, little more in
a century ago, was the dominant military on the planet.
It has now got seventy eight thousand people in their army,
thirty two grand in the Navy, thirty eight thousand in
the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's a tiny military.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yes, they fight above their weight because they got some
pretty high technology and they are in nuclear power. But
that is really something, and it's why all this talk
of Europe stepping up to the plate and being able
to defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I got more on that, but we're out of time.
I'll get to that later. Yeah, Germany has made some
major moves in the last twenty four hours or so.
They are shaken out of the slumber by trumpet, would
es seem, and they've they've declared, no, we're going to
be a military power again.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Good for y'all, be an ally worth having. That's funny
though I read something the other day. I remember who
it was, but saying, you know, maybe this whole not
letting Germany rearm since the last two World Wars was,
you know for a reason.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Maybe we're about to find out.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
AnyWho, a lot more of the way stay here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Thirty two million dollars for.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
A left wing propaganda operation in Goldova, ten million dollars
for mail circumcision in Mozambique, twenty million dollars for the
Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East program, twenty million
dollars for a program one point nine billion dollars to
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recently created decarbonization of homes committee headed up and.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
We know she's involved.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Just at the last moment the money was passed over
by a woman named Stacy Abrams.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Have you ever heard of.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
A three point five million dollar consulting contract for Lavish
fish monitoring? One point five million dollars for voter confidence
in Liberia, fourteen million dollars for social cohesion in Mali.
Fifty nine million dollars for legal alien hotel rooms in
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New York City. He's a real estate develop He's done
very well. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to increase
vagan local climate action innovation in Zambia, forty two million
dollars for social and behavior change in Uganda, fourteen million
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dollars for improving public procurement in Serbia, forty seven million
dollars for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing
very well with learning. You know what we're doing. We
should use it ourselves. At one hundred and one million
dollars for DEI contracts at the Department of Education, the
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most ever paid nothing even like it under the Trump administration.
All of these scams, and they're far worse, but I
didn't think it was appropriate to talk about them.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They're so bad.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly
terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Ended up by you know, I was looking for something specific.
We thought it was in that clip, but I was
enjoying it so much I didn't want to cut it off.
And that was the grant of However, whatever giant stack
of money it was to some dopey program in Lesotho
which Trump mentioned country nobody's ever heard of. Well, Losothan's
jack as you might imagine, are a gas at that
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and offended, and so here's welcome to Lesotho. Almer.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
If you had to ask me, is this the name
of an actual country, it would have been a coin
flip for me, yes or no.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah. It's known as the Kingdom in the Sky. It's
the only independent state in the world that lies entirely
above thirty two hundred feet in elevation and is entirely
surrounded by South Africa. Oh okay, so we were near
there in the middle of South.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Africa when we did our fabulous broadcasts from South Africa.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We were near that country. It is known to have
the world's most intimidating airstrips to land on. Blah blah blah.
The people of Lesotho, who number more than two millions,
share some cultural and language similarities with South Africa. Nobody
cares about that resources are scarce in Lesotho, a consequence
of harsh environment. Blah blah blah. Its biggest resource is water,
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known locally as white gold, which is exported to South Africa.
Also diamonds, which are known as diamonds. It has the
highest ski resort in Africa. Jack very very popular. They're
known for their traditional blankets and conical hats, which actually
appear on the country's flag. But let's get down to
the really important stuff. Losotho has perhaps the highest rate
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of HIV in the world, with one in five adults
living with the heavy one in five, that's correct. Lesotho
also exports genes to the US and has the world's
highest suicide Ratey.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And why did we give them money? Why did they
get some of my tax para money?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Die? I don't know, help the kids, reads and influence people.
They have eighty seven and a half people per one
hundred thousand of the population take their life every year.
This is nearly ten times the global average. That's something.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
But you know, in all these individual programs, maybe you
could justify some Maybe some of them you can't. Maybe
some of them you could justify, but only half as much.
And again, how efficiently is the money used? Nobody's paying
any attention at all to that. Of course, murder mystery solved,
Big one National one.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
If you haven't heard that, stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Armstrong and Getty, the CEOs of the Big three American
automakers Ford, Silantis and General Motors, making a personal appeal
to President Trump, calling him to say his twenty five
percent tariffs on everything imported from Canada and Mexico will
devastate their industry.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Begging him for a reprieve.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
The President agreeing to pause his tariffs for one month
on cars coming into the US from Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
So that's the car's portion of the tariffs between Canada
and Mexico and the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Okay, so there's that.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
But then you got the China tariffs, which are a
different topic. As we keep saying, and they are our
global enemy and they are hell bent on taking over
the world, and we need to try to stop that.
And as I mentioned, they their embassy put out this
statement yesterday, if war is what the United States wants,
be it a tariff, for a trade war or any
other type war, We're ready to fight till the end.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's pretty belligerent. And then the.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Sec Death of China put out this statement yesterday about
to Taiwan, we will come and get you sooner or later.
We make no promise to renounce the use of force
which is targeted at the Taiwan independence separatist forces and
external interference. We warned the US side playing sneaky tricks
on Taiwan with only backfire.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So that's pretty belligerent. Wow, yeah, you want to go,
let's go. And this gets to I think we did
this on Monday to start the week.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Ross Douthat's Peace in the New York Times, where he
is basically saying, for people that you know, talk about
the world order and this and that, and Trump is
just realizing what already is the world. The old US
led world order is already over, the old europe and.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
US led world order is all.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
And Trump's just recognizing that that is already over and
recognizing what things currently are, which leads to this I
think in the Wall Street Journal about the trade war
with China, and this is what the Wall Street Journal
wrote today. Soon after Donald Trump won the presidential election
in November, President Xi of China asked his aids to
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urgently analyze the Cold War rivalry between the United States and.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The Soviet Union. That's fascinating.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
She's concern, according to people who consult with senior Chinese officials,
was that as President Trump gears up for a showdown,
Beijing could get isolated like Moscow did during that era.
He's not wrong to worry, writes to Wall Street Journal,
even though Trump may be the one who currently looks
isolated on the world stage, picking trade fights with allies
like Mexico and Canada, alarming Europe over his handling of
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the war in Ukraine, and vowing to annex Greenland and
the Panama Canal. The truth is that China doesn't hold
a strong hand, with a domestic economy and crisis, playing defense,
hoping to salvage as much as possible of a global
trade system that helped pull his country out of poverty
across the specific Trump is intent on rewriting that very
trade system, which he and his advisors see as having
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benefited the rest of the world and China most of all,
at the US's expense.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So, Mark, that's that's a great point that's seldom made,
is that nobody has benefited more from the giant global
trade system that we have run than China. Right.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And then, so the analysis Mark Alprin has in his
newsletter today about the Wall Street Journal piece is this,
while a lot of people say Trump starting a trade
war makes no sense, it's a huge, unnecessary distraction, and
blah blah blah, Mark Alprin says, what you should be
saying is Hair's will be mussed China will be broken
because Trump believes that China must be broken. He sees
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that as the ultimate goal and an absolute one necessity,
that we break China.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Economically. Yeah, how and when is the great question?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
But sure, and then fitting in with that whole thing,
I think this holds together in my mind anyway. The
so the other day, you know, they had their elections
in Germany, and you got this guy fred Mertz who's
gonna take over in Germany, and he gave his little
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speech in the what is that thing? What do they
call that thing? We thought the name was hilarious. After
they have elections in Germany, they get everybody who ran
for election like that night together on a stage and
they'd all talk about the issues of the day, which
is the elephant round. Yeah, yeah, I don't know if
our politics would allow for that. Could you had Kamala
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and Trump get together that night and discuss the issues?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I would be fascinated by it. No, it is the
answer to that question. It will never happen.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
But anyway, so old Fred Mertz gave his speech and said,
we no longer can rely on the United States. We
need to be able to, you know, fend for ourselves.
And Trump haters took that as look, how awful this is.
Trump is abandon our allies and now they're desperate enough
that they feel like they need to support themselves. Well,
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I missed this last week, so referring and everybody believes
this was referring to fred Mertz's statement there in Germany
about how we need to you know, I guess we're
gonna have to fend for ourselves.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh, poor you.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Donald Tusk, who is the guy who runs Poland, he's
a Prime Minister of Poland, speaking in Warsaw on his
way to London because he had just heard what fred
Mertz said. Yeah, Europe needs to become more independent so
we can be a better ally.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But he also said.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
It is ridiculous saying to three hundred million Americans that
five hundred million Europeans need to be defended from one
hundred and forty one million Russians.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Wow the w Yeah, into the elephant round. Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Well he's basically saying, yeah, fred Mertz, and we should
be able to defend ourselves. So you're saying three hundred
million Americans need to defend us five hundred million Europeans
from a much smaller Russia because I can't or shouldn't
act to or what are you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Like that quote? Love that quote? And then do you
have more on that?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, because the next foot to drop was so interesting.
There was a hastily convened press conference late on Tuesday
in Germany and Friedrich Mehrtz. Fred Mertz announced a break
with German tradition for the last seventy five years from
now on Germany's famously strict fiscal rules. Is it even
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worth noting? Post WW one till WW two Germany was
a financial ruin. That's one of the reasons Hitler was
able to take power. So you know why.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I just learned this recently from reading that book about
the Impressionists and Paris in eighteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I have an idea, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, after Prussia, which became Germany during that war so
soundly defeated France, France started the war with Germany then
just thrashed them like in a couple of days. They
imposed such over the top onerous financial penalties on Paris.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's why Paris.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Went so far after French, France, Germany and World War One.
They were still angry from that war. In eighteen seventy
and they went too far. Isn't that interesting the way
history works?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely so. So anyway, so from now on,
Mertz said, Germany's famously strict fiscal rules would no longer
apply to military spending, paving the way for a rapid
acceleration in the country's rearmament. The incoming government was also
set up a five one hundred billion euro infrastructure investment
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fund to rebuild the country's long neglected transport, energy and
digital infrastructure. He added, quote, given the threats to our
freedom and to peace on our continent, we must do
whatever it takes for our continent. The country needed to
re arm he added, and so to do so, it
needed to rebuild its economic muscle at all as well.
Rather so this is and look, I'm not willing, I'm
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not going to rush in and praise Trump as some
sort of grand historic puppeteer, because we have to see
how all of this plays out. But it sure seems
to be going in the direction of at least some
of the European powers are becoming I believe the paraphrase
tusk Ally's worth having, right, I mean, what the hell's
(26:47):
the point Britain is a good old friend. We used
to have a king together. Those were good times. Common language, English,
common law, blah blah blah. I love the Brits, I
love the UK. But as an ally, maybe too many.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Dudes are people just in general have watched too many
World War Two movies and documentaries and still think of Germany,
France and Great Britain as these.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Dominant global military powers. Yeah, when they're not the vaunted
British Navy, the German ground forces and tank columns and Luftwaffe. No,
not so much. It's it's like thinking I'm the baseball
player I was in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I'm not, and neither are they. Yeah, and I heard
some of the math on this. It's very troubling. Even
if you know Germany actually does and France does, and
Britain does really commit to spending a lot more money
and building up their forces. It would take years for
them to get up to a place where they're somewhere
close to the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean, we're the dominant military power.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
They have five hundred million people is Europe, and they're
not even close to the United States, Russia or China
militarily and their economy, the EU economy, especially if you
include Britain, has depending on how you measure it an economy,
the same sizes are slightly more slightly less depending on
(28:14):
what year you're talking about. So it's more people every
bit the economy. And they have like a stick as
they're military because and it's it's.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Like so many things we say, you know, soft people
are soft. Easy times produce soft people. Soft people produce
hard times. Hard times produce tough people. Blah blah, that cycle.
And in the same way that we often say, hey,
the kids didn't raise themselves, Europe is the product of
the United States security umbrella being so impregnable and we
are so serious about keeping it strong. And you know, frankly,
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the Soviet Union crumbled and China wasn't much and so
there weren't any great threats. They became very, very soft
in the way that it's practically inevitable for countries to
do and people to do. But now and lefties who
just try to discredit Trump are blaming Trump for this.
That's ridiculous. I'm blaming Vladimir Putin and Chijan Ping and
(29:10):
just the way the world changes. But they've realized that
period is over. These are the tough times that we
warned about, and soft people in soft countries will get squashed.
You know, it was a great saying. Who said this,
Dostoski or King Lear on it? I can't remember. It's uh.
(29:30):
Powerful countries do what they will, Weak countries do what
they must. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
The MSNBC crowd constantly that portraying this is us abandoning
our I mean, I I'm for I think we should
sport Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Blah blah blah. I said that a million times. I'm
not making that argument. But the idea is a very
very useful alliance. But the idea that that we're abandoning them.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
They abandoned us a long time ago, or they abandoned
the commitment to the current world order right, they like it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
They just want us to make sure we do it.
And there's not no value to continuing to speak of
our strong reliance. That does actually have value some but
the old guard placed so much value on saying the
right things and acting as if it was still the
(30:24):
NATO of nineteen fifty that they ignored the utter rot within,
and Trump is not putting up with that. On paper,
it's great, it's indisputably great. Just have to see how
it plays out.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, I personally could talk about this all day, but
for better or worse, we will be talking about it
for the coming days, weeks, months, years, and maybe centuries.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I have more information on beautiful Lesotho. No, okay, never mind.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I do want to get to the You remember the
story of the Kansas City Chiefs fans. They go over
to a buddy's house to watch a game. He falls
asleep on the couch. His last thing he remembers, passes out. Yeah,
his buddies apparently went out in the backyard and FROs
to death. He didn't know they were out there, so
he says, anyway, there have been some arrests in that
(31:12):
whole thing, and kind of if you're a partier, you
might want to hear how this story is going down. Anyway,
lots of stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Stay here, Farmstrong Ngetti.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Authorities booking the so called chemist along with another man
on manslaughter charges yesterday, the first offend at Jordan Willis
owns the home where his friends and bodies were found
back in January of twenty twenty four. Now, after searching
Willis's home, investigators found a bag of drugs with Willis's
DNA on it, another bag of Fittanel had traces of
Carson's DNA, and a witness who was watching the game
(31:47):
with the victims providing a probable cost statement claiming he
saw a large plate of cocaine supplied by Willis for
the rest of the group earlier that day.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
So we talked about this a lot.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
When it happened, it was fourteen months ago, as a
year and two months ago, they found those chief sickles
in the backyard of that guy's house. Three Kansas City
Chiefs fans that froze to death, and everybody's trying to
figure out and he was passed out in the house
and it was like three days. People tried to get
a hold of him. He didn't answer the phone or whatever.
Finally people had to come knock on the door. He's like,
(32:20):
you know, they're asking you, have you've seen Jim.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Somebody at some point looks in the backyard and Jim's
frozen solid.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Him and two other dudes. Yeah. Yeah, seemed pretty clearly
a drug overdose thing at the time, and that's what
it turned out to be.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
But now they've made some arrests so you have a
party at your house. It's probably not unusual. I'm guessing.
I doubt this was the first time they've ever had
this sort of get together. But you have a party
at your house, you supply the Inebrians they freeze to death.
(32:59):
A mirror is more traditional, but back too, and then
you're charged with what it's so, my gosh, I just
saw the story of manslaughter.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's sort of pretty bad. Not uh yeah, it's a
serious crime. Yeah, it's not murder per se. But and
and to me, the guy who served up the drugs,
the homeowner, the buddy, that's a different situation than the
guy who sold it to.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Them, right, Well, that's why I've been focusing on the dude.
To just he owned the house and he did what
his friends probably do. Also, the drug dealer is a
different thing. Uh And and you know, if this scares
drug dealers all across the country, holy crap, I'm on
the hook for murder.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
If some stinks into the drugs, well good, you know
I have no problem with that, right yeah, yeah, I
love this idea. And we've known some great, you know,
grieving parents whose kids thought they were taking a zanax
and they found them dead in their bedroom in the morning.
There are no pills or powder drugs that are safe
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at this point, there are no street drugs that are safe.
In short, and people selling death are responsible for the deaths.
I mean, on the left, you have bizarre arguments that
a firearms manufacturer is responsible if somebody commits a murder.
I mean, that's a stretch, beyond a stretch. But somebody
who sells drugs that might be one thing or not
(34:28):
or the other and people die from it, I mean
that is clearly a crime if you're misrepresenting what you've sold,
your poisoning people, which I was about to say, in
the drug dealer's defense, he's entitled to it a defense
jacket's in the constitutions.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Unless you're gonna like every because you've got your supplier
who's probably a scary person or works for a very
scary person. But what are you supposed to do if
you want to be in that line of work? And
maybe maybe the overall point here is you shouldn't be
in that line of work, I suppose. But oh, if
you're in that line of work as a drug dealer,
are you supposed to have like a chemistry set and
(35:10):
check everything you get to make sure it's not laced with.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Something or Yeah, that would probably be a really really
good idea unless you want to be on the hook
for a murder. Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
And again, like, if this ends up driving lots of
people away from wanting to do this for a living, fine,
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
But God, that guy who just.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Threw the party, just like I'm sure many parties they've had,
maybe they did it every home Chiefs game or twice
a week or whatever. All of a sudden, you're gonna
be going to prison because they froze the death in
the back yard and you're like asleep the whole time.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
That's gotta be quite the thing, right, Yeah, you all
just got together to get hammered and then three people
are dead. Yeah, it's it's damned Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
How do you think they ended up in the backyard though?
You think they went out I was always suspecting they
went out there to smoke cigarettes something like that, and
then the fetanyl kicked in.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Or something right exactly, or even you know they're going
to their car for the night or whatever, but yet
it kicked in they passed out.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Well, let that be a warning, kids, adults, don't do drugs,
Do not do drugs, Kids, street drugs, bad coming up,
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The frozen pizza company Dejorno has partnered with makers of
Hidden Valley Rants to offer a chicken bacon ranch stuffed
crust pizza. So, I guess add Italy to the countries
that hate us.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
What's stuffed in there kind of made me nauseous. Of course,
I'm chicken bacon.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's one of my favorite pizzas, Like chicken bacon garlic,
that sort of thing. Delicious, chicken bacon garlic. I've never
had one. Yeah, So a couple of things. Number one,
to cap off the discussion last hour, and if you
didn't get last you weren't here. What were you? We
waited and we waited. Grab it if my podcast our
one Armstrong e Getty on demand, we probably ought to
(01:03):
subscribe today's date. But anyway, we were talking about horrific
wastes of taxpayer dollars. Well, it's graft. Is theft under
the guise of the Green New Deal and the rest
of it. The one way to get Americans to care
about the incredible graft in our government is to broaden
the tax code. Have everybody have significant skin in the game,
(01:25):
and you will see populism like you've never seen before
in favor of fiscal responsibility. That's why the left is
constantly harping on about the rich need to pay their
shape fair share so they can narrow the tax base.
It is a specific strategy. Secondly, in his not the
State of the Union address the other night, Donald Trump,
(01:45):
enlisting a bunch of stupid expenditures that they've gotten rid of,
mentioned a giant grant for something ridiculous to the country
of Lesotho, which he said as a country nobody's even
heard of. Well, I've heard of Lesotho, and I'm here
to tell you it's a fascinating land that leads the
world in not one category, but two, actually three. Stay
(02:06):
with us, fascinating Lesotho.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Narrow it down to a hemisphere for me, it's it's
in Africa, Okay, southern hemisphere.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
In World War three news, a couple of different things.
First of all, this Donald J. Trump, he is at
real Donald Trump on your Twitter tweeted this out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
This is how the world got.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
This news Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye. You can
choose release all of the hostages now, not later, and
immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people
you murdered, or it's over for you. In all caps
only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are
sick and twisted.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Exclamation point.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job.
Not a single Hamas set member will be safe if
you don't do as I say. I've just met with
your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is your last warning. Exclamation point.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He met in the Oval office with a whole bunch
of hostages who were released and told him their horrifying
stories of abuse and torture and people they saw murdered,
so it was fresh on his mind when he sent
out this tweet.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well and again to echo the President's sentiments. What kind
of sickos hold back the dead bodies is extortion is
a bargaining chip for the leadership.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still
have a chance. Also, to the people of Gaza, a
beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages. If
you do you are dead all caps exclamation point.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Make a smart decision.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Smart in all caps, and the rest of the messages
all caps, capital letters. Release the hostages now or there
will be hell to pay later.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. Wow. Wow,
Are you able to get through all that veiled diplomatic talk,
Jack to get it the message he's trying to send
anything he means it. Yes, I do too. Now, he
was fired up from that meeting with the hostages, and
(04:16):
you probably shouldn't decide national policy while you're fired up,
or maybe you should. Well that's an interesting thought. Yeah,
and he has said that sort of thing before, so
obviously it's not just a momentary whim. Look, here's my
point of view, which I've made fairly clear. They are
Islamic supremacist bent on wiping out the Jews. This is
(04:38):
Hamas and the radicals, and that includes many of the
average folks in Palestine, in the Palestinian territories they believe
this too. They're bent on dominating the entire world in
the name of Muhammad, period, no matter who they have
to kill or how many of them have to die.
They're Islamic supremacists. They're incredibly dangerous, as dangerous as any
movement that's ever existed on Earth period. Refute me if
(05:01):
you can.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Almost always it's a bad idea to make big decisions
or pronouncements when you're emotional. But maybe in this case,
fresh off of talking to people who were held by
these monsters, is a good time to make a very
clear declaration before you get bogged down in a whole
bunch of foreign policy papers of Saudi Arabian oil prices
(05:26):
and blah blah blah and this and that tectonic plates
and Nana and just flat you know, I just heard
this woman's story of being raped and seeing people murdered.
Screw these people. You release all the hostages and bodies now,
or I'm killing you all. I guarantee being the autopsy
reports of that young mom and her two little boys
who were murdered deliberately in cold blood with their.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Hands by Hamas.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish
the job. Not a single HOMAS member will be safe.
This is your last warning. You got to follow through
on that. I mean, you lose all credibility.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Boy. I bet the gender studies classes at Columbia University
are a buzz this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
How about that opening Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You can choose. It's like aloha Jack, It's very similar.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Release all the hostages now, not later, or it is
over for you. Well, I don't know that there's not
a specific deadline on this.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Now. Does now mean.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
By a close of business COB or this weekend or
in the next month.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I think it means we are now taking the steps.
The countdown has begun to massive strikes, et cetera. We
are going to unleash them the moment they're ready unless
you make a move.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Or Israel will release them and you're what's going to
be different is you're not going to hear a peep
out of the president of concerns for going too far
or don't as Kamala Harris said to Benjamin Netanyahu when
he was talking about going into Romala.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Or wherever he was going to go to Rafa, Yeah, yeah, don'ticulous.
Who got to pursue the two state solution? Yeah, So
that's one part of World War three. Here's the other part.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So we got the trade war ramping up with China,
which is we keep saying is a completely different story
than Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
UH.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
China's Defense ministry spokesman put out this message yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
This is from the This.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Came out of their their embassy here in the United States,
basically their their spokesman for the second Deaf Well, and
unlike Pete Heggsath occasionally getting out over his skis UH,
this is with the full approval Ishesion Ping.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's it's without a doubt. Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
This is actually a different one, which is also very
provocative than the one I was thinking of earlier.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But anyway, put out this statement.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
If a war is what the US wants, be it
a terraff war, a trade war, or any other type
of war, We're ready to fight till the end.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's from the Chinese embassy. Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
And obviously that's pretty provocative because you could have said,
you know, we're standing up to any teriff war, but
or any other type of war, we're ready to fight.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Till the end. Is pretty provocative.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Between the two most powerful, well two of the three
most powerful countries on Earth, Russia being the other one.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
By the way, although as has been said many times
about Russia, it's like a midget with one gigantic calarm,
which is metaphor that's tough to get passed to the substance.
I didn't know what you were going to say. That's
that is, ah, the lighter side of nuclear holocaust. That
(09:00):
is the problem with that metaphor. It's an excellent one,
but Russia is a paper tiger. It's a little Aputian.
But its gigantic arm is its nuclear arms. And so
if you if you assume nobody's going to get into
a nuclear holocaust, then don't even mention Russia to me, well,
(09:20):
questionably more powerful.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Apparently we regularly do assume they're willing to do that.
I mean all of our decisions on arming Ukraine in
the Biden administration were based around how likely Putin would
use nukes, So that was the whole thing. Yeah, will
the midget hit us with his giant giant arm?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Wow, I've got more on that thought right after that,
you no, I apologize.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's a useful metaphor, but it's derailed the entire conversation.
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Speaker 4 (10:51):
So there is some interesting reporting in the Wall Street
Journal about Trump's trade war, particularly with China.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'll read that later.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
It's the first like fold, this is what Trump's trying
to accomplish with China actually makes sense sort of thing
I've read. Yeah, and it's in the Wall Street Staday,
So we'll get to that later. When it comes to
trade though, China is like a pig with an enormously
long tongue. I mean, really if you think about Oh,
(11:19):
I'm sorry, but I was listening to a podcast yesterday
speaking of you know, militaries and who's tough and who's not?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is how weak Britain is? Now? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes, their army is seventy eight thousand men.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, seventy eight thousand men. That's the British army. How
do you like that? And it's if you think the
US army is woke and not built as a lethal
war machine. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to
the panty wearing British military. Now that's said with all
due respect to the fighting they did in Iraq and
(11:57):
Afghanistan is a close ally of ours. I'm not talking
about any individual man or a unit. By God, they're
an old friend. I hope they can revive their their
national spirits someday. But as an institution, the British military
is completely unimpressive.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Well, you know, in a century ago, little more in
a century ago, was the dominant military on the planet.
It has now got seventy eight thousand people in their army,
thirty two grand in the Navy, thirty eight thousand in
the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's a tiny military.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yes, they fight above their weight because they got some
pretty high technology and they are in nuclear power. But
that is really something, and it's why all this talk
of Europe stepping up to the plate and being able
to defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I got more on that, but we're out of time.
I'll get to that later. Yeah, Germany has made some
major moves in the last twenty four hours or so.
They are shaken out of the slumber by trumpet, would
es seem, and they've they've declared, no, we're going to
be a military power again.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Good for y'all, be an ally worth having. That's funny
though I read something the other day. I remember who
it was, but saying, you know, maybe this whole not
letting Germany rearm since the last two World Wars was,
you know for a reason.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Maybe we're about to find out.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
AnyWho, a lot more of the way stay here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Thirty two million dollars for.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
A left wing propaganda operation in Goldova, ten million dollars
for mail circumcision in Mozambique, twenty million dollars for the
Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East program, twenty million
dollars for a program one point nine billion dollars to
(13:52):
recently created decarbonization of homes committee headed up and.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
We know she's involved.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Just at the last moment the money was passed over
by a woman named Stacy Abrams.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Have you ever heard of.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
A three point five million dollar consulting contract for Lavish
fish monitoring? One point five million dollars for voter confidence
in Liberia, fourteen million dollars for social cohesion in Mali.
Fifty nine million dollars for legal alien hotel rooms in
(14:31):
New York City. He's a real estate develop He's done
very well. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to increase
vagan local climate action innovation in Zambia, forty two million
dollars for social and behavior change in Uganda, fourteen million
(14:53):
dollars for improving public procurement in Serbia, forty seven million
dollars for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing
very well with learning. You know what we're doing. We
should use it ourselves. At one hundred and one million
dollars for DEI contracts at the Department of Education, the
(15:16):
most ever paid nothing even like it under the Trump administration.
All of these scams, and they're far worse, but I
didn't think it was appropriate to talk about them.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They're so bad.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly
terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Ended up by you know, I was looking for something specific.
We thought it was in that clip, but I was
enjoying it so much I didn't want to cut it off.
And that was the grant of However, whatever giant stack
of money it was to some dopey program in Lesotho
which Trump mentioned country nobody's ever heard of. Well, Losothan's
jack as you might imagine, are a gas at that
(16:00):
and offended, and so here's welcome to Lesotho. Almer.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
If you had to ask me, is this the name
of an actual country, it would have been a coin
flip for me, yes or no.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah. It's known as the Kingdom in the Sky. It's
the only independent state in the world that lies entirely
above thirty two hundred feet in elevation and is entirely
surrounded by South Africa. Oh okay, so we were near
there in the middle of South.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Africa when we did our fabulous broadcasts from South Africa.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We were near that country. It is known to have
the world's most intimidating airstrips to land on. Blah blah blah.
The people of Lesotho, who number more than two millions,
share some cultural and language similarities with South Africa. Nobody
cares about that resources are scarce in Lesotho, a consequence
of harsh environment. Blah blah blah. Its biggest resource is water,
(16:49):
known locally as white gold, which is exported to South Africa.
Also diamonds, which are known as diamonds. It has the
highest ski resort in Africa. Jack very very popular. They're
known for their traditional blankets and conical hats, which actually
appear on the country's flag. But let's get down to
the really important stuff. Losotho has perhaps the highest rate
(17:10):
of HIV in the world, with one in five adults
living with the heavy one in five, that's correct. Lesotho
also exports genes to the US and has the world's
highest suicide Ratey.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And why did we give them money? Why did they
get some of my tax para money?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Die? I don't know, help the kids, reads and influence people.
They have eighty seven and a half people per one
hundred thousand of the population take their life every year.
This is nearly ten times the global average. That's something.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
But you know, in all these individual programs, maybe you
could justify some Maybe some of them you can't. Maybe
some of them you could justify, but only half as much.
And again, how efficiently is the money used? Nobody's paying
any attention at all to that. Of course, murder mystery solved,
Big one National one.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
If you haven't heard that, stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Armstrong and Getty, the CEOs of the Big three American
automakers Ford, Silantis and General Motors, making a personal appeal
to President Trump, calling him to say his twenty five
percent tariffs on everything imported from Canada and Mexico will
devastate their industry.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Begging him for a reprieve.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
The President agreeing to pause his tariffs for one month
on cars coming into the US from Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
So that's the car's portion of the tariffs between Canada
and Mexico and the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Okay, so there's that.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
But then you got the China tariffs, which are a
different topic. As we keep saying, and they are our
global enemy and they are hell bent on taking over
the world, and we need to try to stop that.
And as I mentioned, they their embassy put out this
statement yesterday, if war is what the United States wants,
be it a tariff, for a trade war or any
other type war, We're ready to fight till the end.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's pretty belligerent. And then the.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Sec Death of China put out this statement yesterday about
to Taiwan, we will come and get you sooner or later.
We make no promise to renounce the use of force
which is targeted at the Taiwan independence separatist forces and
external interference. We warned the US side playing sneaky tricks
on Taiwan with only backfire.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So that's pretty belligerent. Wow, yeah, you want to go,
let's go. And this gets to I think we did
this on Monday to start the week.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Ross Douthat's Peace in the New York Times, where he
is basically saying, for people that you know, talk about
the world order and this and that, and Trump is
just realizing what already is the world. The old US
led world order is already over, the old europe and.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
US led world order is all.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
And Trump's just recognizing that that is already over and
recognizing what things currently are, which leads to this I
think in the Wall Street Journal about the trade war
with China, and this is what the Wall Street Journal
wrote today. Soon after Donald Trump won the presidential election
in November, President Xi of China asked his aids to
(20:22):
urgently analyze the Cold War rivalry between the United States and.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The Soviet Union. That's fascinating.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
She's concern, according to people who consult with senior Chinese officials,
was that as President Trump gears up for a showdown,
Beijing could get isolated like Moscow did during that era.
He's not wrong to worry, writes to Wall Street Journal,
even though Trump may be the one who currently looks
isolated on the world stage, picking trade fights with allies
like Mexico and Canada, alarming Europe over his handling of
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the war in Ukraine, and vowing to annex Greenland and
the Panama Canal. The truth is that China doesn't hold
a strong hand, with a domestic economy and crisis, playing defense,
hoping to salvage as much as possible of a global
trade system that helped pull his country out of poverty
across the specific Trump is intent on rewriting that very
trade system, which he and his advisors see as having
(21:12):
benefited the rest of the world and China most of all,
at the US's expense.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So, Mark, that's that's a great point that's seldom made,
is that nobody has benefited more from the giant global
trade system that we have run than China. Right.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And then, so the analysis Mark Alprin has in his
newsletter today about the Wall Street Journal piece is this,
while a lot of people say Trump starting a trade
war makes no sense, it's a huge, unnecessary distraction, and
blah blah blah, Mark Alprin says, what you should be
saying is Hair's will be mussed China will be broken
because Trump believes that China must be broken. He sees
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that as the ultimate goal and an absolute one necessity,
that we break China.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Economically. Yeah, how and when is the great question?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
But sure, and then fitting in with that whole thing,
I think this holds together in my mind anyway. The
so the other day, you know, they had their elections
in Germany, and you got this guy fred Mertz who's
gonna take over in Germany, and he gave his little
(22:27):
speech in the what is that thing? What do they
call that thing? We thought the name was hilarious. After
they have elections in Germany, they get everybody who ran
for election like that night together on a stage and
they'd all talk about the issues of the day, which
is the elephant round. Yeah, yeah, I don't know if
our politics would allow for that. Could you had Kamala
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and Trump get together that night and discuss the issues?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I would be fascinated by it. No, it is the
answer to that question. It will never happen.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
But anyway, so old Fred Mertz gave his speech and said,
we no longer can rely on the United States. We
need to be able to, you know, fend for ourselves.
And Trump haters took that as look, how awful this is.
Trump is abandon our allies and now they're desperate enough
that they feel like they need to support themselves. Well,
(23:19):
I missed this last week, so referring and everybody believes
this was referring to fred Mertz's statement there in Germany
about how we need to you know, I guess we're
gonna have to fend for ourselves.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh, poor you.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Donald Tusk, who is the guy who runs Poland, he's
a Prime Minister of Poland, speaking in Warsaw on his
way to London because he had just heard what fred
Mertz said. Yeah, Europe needs to become more independent so
we can be a better ally.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But he also said.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
It is ridiculous saying to three hundred million Americans that
five hundred million Europeans need to be defended from one
hundred and forty one million Russians.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Wow the w Yeah, into the elephant round. Huh.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Well he's basically saying, yeah, fred Mertz, and we should
be able to defend ourselves. So you're saying three hundred
million Americans need to defend us five hundred million Europeans
from a much smaller Russia because I can't or shouldn't
act to or what are you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Like that quote? Love that quote? And then do you
have more on that?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, because the next foot to drop was so interesting.
There was a hastily convened press conference late on Tuesday
in Germany and Friedrich Mehrtz. Fred Mertz announced a break
with German tradition for the last seventy five years from
now on Germany's famously strict fiscal rules. Is it even
(24:55):
worth noting? Post WW one till WW two Germany was
a financial ruin. That's one of the reasons Hitler was
able to take power. So you know why.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I just learned this recently from reading that book about
the Impressionists and Paris in eighteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I have an idea, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, after Prussia, which became Germany during that war so
soundly defeated France, France started the war with Germany then
just thrashed them like in a couple of days. They
imposed such over the top onerous financial penalties on Paris.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's why Paris.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Went so far after French, France, Germany and World War One.
They were still angry from that war. In eighteen seventy
and they went too far. Isn't that interesting the way
history works?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely so. So anyway, so from now on,
Mertz said, Germany's famously strict fiscal rules would no longer
apply to military spending, paving the way for a rapid
acceleration in the country's rearmament. The incoming government was also
set up a five one hundred billion euro infrastructure investment
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fund to rebuild the country's long neglected transport, energy and
digital infrastructure. He added, quote, given the threats to our
freedom and to peace on our continent, we must do
whatever it takes for our continent. The country needed to
re arm he added, and so to do so, it
needed to rebuild its economic muscle at all as well.
Rather so this is and look, I'm not willing, I'm
(26:26):
not going to rush in and praise Trump as some
sort of grand historic puppeteer, because we have to see
how all of this plays out. But it sure seems
to be going in the direction of at least some
of the European powers are becoming I believe the paraphrase
tusk Ally's worth having, right, I mean, what the hell's
(26:47):
the point Britain is a good old friend. We used
to have a king together. Those were good times. Common language, English,
common law, blah blah blah. I love the Brits, I
love the UK. But as an ally, maybe too many.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Dudes are people just in general have watched too many
World War Two movies and documentaries and still think of Germany,
France and Great Britain as these.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Dominant global military powers. Yeah, when they're not the vaunted
British Navy, the German ground forces and tank columns and Luftwaffe. No,
not so much. It's it's like thinking I'm the baseball
player I was in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I'm not, and neither are they. Yeah, and I heard
some of the math on this. It's very troubling. Even
if you know Germany actually does and France does, and
Britain does really commit to spending a lot more money
and building up their forces. It would take years for
them to get up to a place where they're somewhere
close to the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean, we're the dominant military power.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
They have five hundred million people is Europe, and they're
not even close to the United States, Russia or China
militarily and their economy, the EU economy, especially if you
include Britain, has depending on how you measure it an economy,
the same sizes are slightly more slightly less depending on
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what year you're talking about. So it's more people every
bit the economy. And they have like a stick as
they're military because and it's it's.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Like so many things we say, you know, soft people
are soft. Easy times produce soft people. Soft people produce
hard times. Hard times produce tough people. Blah blah, that cycle.
And in the same way that we often say, hey,
the kids didn't raise themselves, Europe is the product of
the United States security umbrella being so impregnable and we
are so serious about keeping it strong. And you know, frankly,
(28:48):
the Soviet Union crumbled and China wasn't much and so
there weren't any great threats. They became very, very soft
in the way that it's practically inevitable for countries to
do and people to do. But now and lefties who
just try to discredit Trump are blaming Trump for this.
That's ridiculous. I'm blaming Vladimir Putin and Chijan Ping and
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just the way the world changes. But they've realized that
period is over. These are the tough times that we
warned about, and soft people in soft countries will get squashed.
You know, it was a great saying. Who said this,
Dostoski or King Lear on it? I can't remember. It's uh.
(29:30):
Powerful countries do what they will, Weak countries do what
they must. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
The MSNBC crowd constantly that portraying this is us abandoning
our I mean, I I'm for I think we should
sport Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Blah blah blah. I said that a million times. I'm
not making that argument. But the idea is a very
very useful alliance. But the idea that that we're abandoning them.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
They abandoned us a long time ago, or they abandoned
the commitment to the current world order right, they like it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
They just want us to make sure we do it.
And there's not no value to continuing to speak of
our strong reliance. That does actually have value some but
the old guard placed so much value on saying the
right things and acting as if it was still the
(30:24):
NATO of nineteen fifty that they ignored the utter rot within,
and Trump is not putting up with that. On paper,
it's great, it's indisputably great. Just have to see how
it plays out.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, I personally could talk about this all day, but
for better or worse, we will be talking about it
for the coming days, weeks, months, years, and maybe centuries.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I have more information on beautiful Lesotho. No, okay, never mind.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I do want to get to the You remember the
story of the Kansas City Chiefs fans. They go over
to a buddy's house to watch a game. He falls
asleep on the couch. His last thing he remembers, passes out. Yeah,
his buddies apparently went out in the backyard and FROs
to death. He didn't know they were out there, so
he says, anyway, there have been some arrests in that
(31:12):
whole thing, and kind of if you're a partier, you
might want to hear how this story is going down. Anyway,
lots of stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Stay here, Farmstrong Ngetti.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Authorities booking the so called chemist along with another man
on manslaughter charges yesterday, the first offend at Jordan Willis
owns the home where his friends and bodies were found
back in January of twenty twenty four. Now, after searching
Willis's home, investigators found a bag of drugs with Willis's
DNA on it, another bag of Fittanel had traces of
Carson's DNA, and a witness who was watching the game
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with the victims providing a probable cost statement claiming he
saw a large plate of cocaine supplied by Willis for
the rest of the group earlier that day.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
So we talked about this a lot.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
When it happened, it was fourteen months ago, as a
year and two months ago, they found those chief sickles
in the backyard of that guy's house. Three Kansas City
Chiefs fans that froze to death, and everybody's trying to
figure out and he was passed out in the house
and it was like three days. People tried to get
a hold of him. He didn't answer the phone or whatever.
Finally people had to come knock on the door. He's like,
(32:20):
you know, they're asking you, have you've seen Jim.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Somebody at some point looks in the backyard and Jim's
frozen solid.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Him and two other dudes. Yeah. Yeah, seemed pretty clearly
a drug overdose thing at the time, and that's what
it turned out to be.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
But now they've made some arrests so you have a
party at your house. It's probably not unusual. I'm guessing.
I doubt this was the first time they've ever had
this sort of get together. But you have a party
at your house, you supply the Inebrians they freeze to death.
(32:59):
A mirror is more traditional, but back too, and then
you're charged with what it's so, my gosh, I just
saw the story of manslaughter.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's sort of pretty bad. Not uh yeah, it's a
serious crime. Yeah, it's not murder per se. But and
and to me, the guy who served up the drugs,
the homeowner, the buddy, that's a different situation than the
guy who sold it to.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Them, right, Well, that's why I've been focusing on the dude.
To just he owned the house and he did what
his friends probably do. Also, the drug dealer is a
different thing. Uh And and you know, if this scares
drug dealers all across the country, holy crap, I'm on
the hook for murder.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
If some stinks into the drugs, well good, you know
I have no problem with that, right yeah, yeah, I
love this idea. And we've known some great, you know,
grieving parents whose kids thought they were taking a zanax
and they found them dead in their bedroom in the morning.
There are no pills or powder drugs that are safe
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at this point, there are no street drugs that are safe.
In short, and people selling death are responsible for the deaths.
I mean, on the left, you have bizarre arguments that
a firearms manufacturer is responsible if somebody commits a murder.
I mean, that's a stretch, beyond a stretch. But somebody
who sells drugs that might be one thing or not
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or the other and people die from it, I mean
that is clearly a crime if you're misrepresenting what you've sold,
your poisoning people, which I was about to say, in
the drug dealer's defense, he's entitled to it a defense
jacket's in the constitutions.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Unless you're gonna like every because you've got your supplier
who's probably a scary person or works for a very
scary person. But what are you supposed to do if
you want to be in that line of work? And
maybe maybe the overall point here is you shouldn't be
in that line of work, I suppose. But oh, if
you're in that line of work as a drug dealer,
are you supposed to have like a chemistry set and
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check everything you get to make sure it's not laced with.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Something or Yeah, that would probably be a really really
good idea unless you want to be on the hook
for a murder. Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
And again, like, if this ends up driving lots of
people away from wanting to do this for a living, fine,
I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
But God, that guy who just.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Threw the party, just like I'm sure many parties they've had,
maybe they did it every home Chiefs game or twice
a week or whatever. All of a sudden, you're gonna
be going to prison because they froze the death in
the back yard and you're like asleep the whole time.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
That's gotta be quite the thing, right, Yeah, you all
just got together to get hammered and then three people
are dead. Yeah, it's it's damned Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
How do you think they ended up in the backyard though?
You think they went out I was always suspecting they
went out there to smoke cigarettes something like that, and
then the fetanyl kicked in.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Or something right exactly, or even you know they're going
to their car for the night or whatever, but yet
it kicked in they passed out.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Well, let that be a warning, kids, adults, don't do drugs,
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