March 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Gavin Newsom set off the left with his trans comments & states ranked
- What in the world is China doing?
- Elon the villain & beans in chili
- The Russia/Ukraine war
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's like you right now should come out and be like,
you know what, the young man who's about to win
the state championship in the long jump in female sports,
that's that that shouldn't happen. You as the governor should
step out and say no, no, And I appreciate, and
but like, would you do something like that, would you
say no men in female sports?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, it's I think it's an issue of fairness. I
completely agree with you on that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What are you talking about? He didn't even say anything there.
How did it become controversial and he got attacked from
the left for betraying the transgender community.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He went wishy washy on that.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Well, although he broke cranks. It was like the far left,
the intersectionality crowd. It's like, you know, the the Russian
soldiers on the front in Ukraine. If say so much
as turn in the wrong direction their own people shoot them.
And Gavin showed signs of betraying transgender women.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And you can't betray anybody.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The Eskimos need to stick with, the transgenders need to
stick with, the immigrants need to stick with. The Palestinians
need to you know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Now I heard he walked with that back over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Do we have that anywhere? Has anybody got that in
written or audio form? I meant to look that up,
that he walked that back after getting blasted by a
number of your more woke democrats in the country. And
again he didn't even make a strong declarative sentence there.
He just said, oh, no, I agree, it's an issue
of fairness, okay, and you think it's fair to what
(01:48):
allowed transgender girls unfair exactly sicily you still haven't said.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Right, right, yeah, and yet that was way too much
for their crowd. But anyway, that whole you know, NATO
of intersectionality, whatever you want to describe it, that's how
you end up with something as patently absurd as queers
for Palestine. I mean, what could be more idiotic then?
You know, people who would be immediately tortured, killed, throw
off buildings, et cetera, rallying in favor of Islamism. Anyway,
(02:19):
Speaking of Gaviy Newsome, his state of kel Unicornia. How
did it rank? Can US News and World Reports do
ranking of the states?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
US News and World Report appears to exist only for
ranking various things these days, and their methodology is certainly
worth griping about. But I think generally speaking, if you're ranked, say,
forty seventh in education, you're not great at it. Can
we all agree on that, at least broadly speaking. But
(02:50):
your top state overall, ladies and gentlemen, think about it.
Lowish crime, solid economy, good education that's probably not real,
woke infrastructure, great natural environment. I give you Utah. New
(03:18):
Hampshire took the number two spot overall. Nebraska came in
at number three overall. This is an article from an
Orlando outlet. So they talked about Florida. Fairmount Florida placed
number nine, partly because the Sunshine State ranked highest among
all fifty states for higher education and the economy. Anyway, Hey,
(03:41):
you know, we could do the overall rankings if you want.
You want your top ten, bottom.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Ten for overall all criteria.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, your top ten mass counting up to number one, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington, Vermont, Iowa, Idaho, Minnesota, Nebraska,
New Hampshire utah of your body.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Really small and or low population states. There, not all
of them, but a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yes, I would agree, Yeah yeah, and some right, some left,
some center, blah blah blah. Again, you could certainly quibble
with the various methodologies.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I always keep dougging into it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I mean, because if you have, for instance, like Illinois,
Let's see where do they rank in education? Because Illinois
got a number of eminent universities, they ranked quite high,
sixteenth in education. But I guarantee you elementary through high
school education is unforgivably horrifically.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's a state and that's what I want ranked.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, yeah, really in a lot of ways, because that
there's a direct correlation between that and whether they're they're
teaching the basics. Actually, here are allegedly your worst states,
and these might surprise as well. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Michigan, Oklahoma,
South Calabama leading the country and shooting criminals in the
(05:07):
chest right well, and population growth as a percentage, so
it ain't that crappy. Alabama, Alaska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi,
New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And wah wah wah.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Sad Marty Ga trombone for Louisiana. It's a funny punch
line if I hadn't stumbled over it. But some of
these numbers, I mean, like South Cakilac, which I know
pretty well, is nineteenth for environment.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What does that even mean?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
See, And that's the trouble I have, Especially.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If you get into overall ratings, you'd throw in a
whole bunch of squishy numbers and come up with one big,
giant squishy number the environment.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And it's quite possible that I would rank them completely
upside down on their criteria for whether I want to
live there or not.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
If they say that they rank it high because they
have better recycling programs with the garbage, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So I would have an inverse relationship with that. Yeah,
let's see. Yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Actually, I think the whole looking at their methodology might
be interesting then more interesting than the actual the results.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You know. I'm on this.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I have been for a long time, this kick of
public education and how we're failing so much that should
be we should be talking about that all the time.
How many people are graduating from your local grade school
or high school?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That can read or do math.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That should everybody should know that off the top of
their head those numbers, right.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, I would agree. I would agree completely. Who's doing
the measuring and what are their standards? That's what you
need to know. Oh, that reminds me on a completely
different topic of the sky rocketing rate of autism diagnosis
in the United States, and Alicia Finley, I think it
(07:08):
was wrote a really interesting piece. And I have a kid,
an adult child now, who's autistic, and I'm fairly up
on this sort of thing, and I certainly have a.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Sympathetic view of it.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But this is a classic example of trying to understand
what's happening in the modern world and plawing through the
layer after layer of statistics and trying to figure out
what's true and not. I believe firmly that there is
a rise in autism in the United States. I have
no idea what's costing with doubt actual cases of kids
(07:42):
with the characteristics that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Describe autism. Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
On the other hand, there have been all sorts of
changes in diagnosis and in the financial rewards.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
For school districts.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
For instance, for kids diagnosed they get extra money and
so to rely on any of the statistics. Well, Trump
throughout the other day that we've gone from one in
ten thousand kids it's diagnosed with autism, now it's one
in thirty six.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There's something wrong, one in thirty six.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
He said, A large measure of that statistic is just
changes in incentives and diagnosis, but not all of it.
And so I'm not leaping to some fist pounding, angry
talk show host conclusion here. I'm just saying it's really
difficult to figure out what's actually going on into what extent.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, and then, if I'm going to be fair, even
though I complain, we complain constantly about how many layers
of administration they've added to schools clear across the country,
which is also true, all kinds of people that don't
need to be there making a living in your school,
getting the tax money, as opposed to getting into the classroom.
(08:58):
If you got way more kids with autism and all
kinds of different issues, you're gonna need more support. Just
a regular teacher only can't handle a class if you
got five autistic kids in there, right, right, It's a
classic example of both are true. I think there's a
rise in autism and a skyrocketing rise in the diagnosis.
(09:20):
They mentioned in the Wall Street Journal here that one
kid out of six in American public schools or diagnosis
having a disability, one out of six and five in
every class of thirty kids.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But do they really.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, and then if you I know, I know a
lot about this, But it wants the infrastructure to deal
with that is, the human infrastructure is huge and very expensive.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Right right, And where he's needed a beautiful example of
a compassionate society, in my opinion, where it's legitimate.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, well, you know, you don't need all those layers
of DEI chieftains and their and their armies.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's a completely different thing. But was I gonna say.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I was gonna say, they're talking about you get down
there their kids, and then the teachers, and you get
all thets.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I forgot what I was gonna say. It's probably being
out Trump. I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
The upside is I can uh hide my own Easter eggs.
You know, I can watch the same sitcom over and
over again, laugh every time because I never heard.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't remember the joke. The downside is I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I was about to say, maybe we could get an
official diagnosis out of you and get some gunman money
for the show. Michael can be your minder. Michael, we'll
cut you in on the profits. Were fair.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That sounds fine, fair minded. This is really bothering me.
I can't think of this because this is an important topic.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
It was a complex and last diagnosing more kids with
more things, and so you got to have the humans
there to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And I don't know one more thought.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Bill Cassidy was a doctor, medical doctor, not a fake
doctor like Jill Biden. He's a Republican senator and an
r f K Jr. And he were disagreeing leading up
to RFK Junior's hearings, right what do they call it,
you know, consent hearings and and and RFK kept saying, hey,
(11:24):
you show me the science that says these inoculations are
not related to autism, and I will change my tune.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I will believe it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
And Bill Cassidy says, I brought him absolutely sterling, silver science,
huge studies, carefully controlled, peer reviewed blah blah blah, that
made the case. And he dismissed it out of hand
and said, now I don't believe that stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh really, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, and so Cassidy's really frustrating, frustrated with him that
and and one of the reasons R F. K. Junior said,
I don't believe that because of this paper here. Cassidy
said that that paper has been discredited in every which way,
And I have no horse in this race. It's just
it's the methodology was terrible, but Harf Cages wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So it's, you know, tough to get to the truth
these days. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And I have spent a lot of money and a
lot of time, including this past weekend, on dealing with
one kid that's got a variety of the problems that
exists in this world.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
But I'm not concerned they came from the vaccine. So
that's just me. Send your emails to Joe if you
have a different thought on that. I'm more on the
way here.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
If fetanyl ends, I think these will come off. But
if fetanyl does not end, or he's uncertain about it,
they will stay this way until he is comfortable. This
is black and white. You got to save American lives.
So with respect with respect to fetanyl, this is about
the border and fetanyl.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
That's Howard Lutnick to the Secretary Commerce talking about the tariffs,
the fentanyl, the precursor chemicals at the very least, which
come from China then flow through Mexico and to a
lesser extent Canada in.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And speaking of China, really interesting analysis I came across
and troubling from a handful of the writers and analysts
in the Wall Street Journal. Umbrella. It's about China's projection.
They're waging a gray zone campaign. And here's what they
mean by that, and it's, you know, the South China Sea,
(13:30):
the Taiwan Strait, even up into the Himalayas. They're operating
in the hazy zone between war and peace to extend
their power.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Here's what it looks like.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Beijing carefully calibrates each move with the aim of staying
just below the threshold of action that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Could trigger outright conflict.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
But step by incremental step, it is pushed deeper into
contested areas, exhausting opponents and eroding their strength with a
thousand cuts. What they're talking about is probes by warplanes,
maneuvered by kost guard ships, or the creeping construction of
new civilian settlements. They push you in the region right
to the brink of war, over and over and over again,
(14:11):
and they carefully calculate what's going to bring a shooting
war on and calibrate just below that, over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
This article is illustrated visually in a way that I
wish we could show you well. Post it at an
armstrong in getty dot com under hotlines. It'll probably get paywall,
I don't know, but it shows the actual tracking of
ships for instances little lines, and where there have been
a bunch of ships circling an island or whatever, it
becomes a very thick, heavy line. So you can look
at what China's doing physically satellite images and plane tracking
(14:44):
equipment and that sort of thing. But it is so
obviously increasingly aggressive in ways that are indefensible by their rhetoric,
Like they're pushing closer and closer and closer to the
coast of the Philippines and claiming islands and taking over islands,
or so heavily patrolling those islands and ramming ships. We've
(15:08):
seen that recently. Sometimes it's the Chinese Coast Guard. Sometimes
it's this militia of private fishing vessels which they've deputized
to just make life living hell for for instance, Filipino
fishermen or their navy or whatever, and so bit by
bit by bit, they're pushing everybody back and staying just
under what would trigger a shooting war.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Now I'm endlessly fascinated with the whole China thing, and
I think everybody should be, because yeah, they're hell bent
on taking over the world. Do you think there would
be you could have when do we have the Beijing
Olympics coming some medy google that real quick.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
When we have the Olympics of Beijing? Wasn't that long ago?
I remember, I was shocked that it happened. I didn't
think it was like twenty twelve or something like that.
But anyway we can look it up. That'll that'll never
happen again. What do you got there? Oh no, No,
the Winter Olympics isn't either.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, Putin promised he wouldn't evade during the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It's what twenty two, Yeah, so it was right before
the war in Ukraine. But I remember thinking then that
I can't believe we're participating. I mean, the whole world
is going to China and acting like they're just a
regular country.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Surely we wouldn't now, but maybe we would. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
The un is ridiculous, Yes it is, and it's worth
reviewing that whole system of little islands they created in
the South China Sea, where they built them up but
swore they wouldn't militarize them, then built you know, landing
strips and said, but don't worry, we won't put weapons
systems on them. And the reason that's been even more
(16:41):
important than anybody realized is because now all those islands
are like little military bases. They're stopping points so they
can patrol in a much wider area and not have
to come back home, so they can refuel, refeed the guys, whatever,
and project their power much more efficiently over a much
bigger zone. So that you have militarized a huge section
(17:02):
of the ocean that never was before.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That is really interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I have things to say about that, but maybe some
other time, because this topic will be around for a
very long time.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Armstrong and Geeddy, now.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Look, I can't have you two at each other's throats, Okay,
after all, I have a perfect record. Everyone who's ever
worked for me has left on good terms and then
gone on to write a book called The Man.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Who Ruined Everything.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
So you too need to start acting like mature adults.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, so let's begin with Marco Parno.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
No Eli, I'm trying to talk to MARCOO.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
What is that? What's this? What's this? Doing this? What's this?
Nobody knows? Okay, it's his little dance. We let him
do it. It's his least unsettling trick.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So that's from Saturday Night Live, which, weirdly, I'd like
to actually talk to Lorden Mark Michaels about this. I mean,
he's a genius of keeping that thing relevant over a
half a century, but the opening thing is always so
off putting to those of us who don't agree with
his politics.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Then the rest of the show is sketch comedy. But
you got like a big chunk of the country that
can't get past your open every week.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So you're a sketch comedy that's just about any topic.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's non political. The show is mostly.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Non political, but for a whole bunch of Saturday Night
Live haters in this country, it's a political show because.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I only see your opening segment. Stop with it? Would
you just stop?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Well, when your opening segment is a loud declaration of
you're not welcome here every week.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It's an odd marketing.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Maneuver, right, But anyway, Elon now being portrayed by Mike
Myers and I come back Saturday Night Live, and just
the idea that Elon is now such a villain of
the left is man who saw that coming ten years ago?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
No, nobody, nobody. I mean, he was the leader of.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
We need to go electric with cars, climate changes our
biggest problem, you know, all that sort of stuff, and
a hero of the left, and you know, I live
in a part of the country, or people buying were
buying Tesla's even though they didn't make sense, and we're
way too expensive virtue signaling. Now it's flipped completely the
opposite direction, as we all know. Over the weekend, hundreds
of New Yorkers swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer
(19:19):
in Manhattan. They shut down a major car dealership, an
electric car dealership. Six were arrested after occupying the showroom
and shattering all the windows and everything. And then they
said had to post a police at the big Tesla
dealerships and a whole bunch of other cities around the
country to try to try to protect them.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I saw a video.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean it was just one nut job running out
of the street and pounding on a cyber truck in traffic.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I don't know what this is going to do to
the value of Tesla's.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I almost want to buy a cyber truck now, just
as a giant middle finger to the people who ate
eln so much, because it's such a noticeable thing, just
like blon so the folks who pull this.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Sort of thing. Back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Two found that twenty two percent of car shoppers surveyed
said they would definitely consider a Tesla for their next vehicle,
purchased twenty two percent. By last summer, the percentage you
dropped to seven percent, dropped by more than two thirds,
roughly in line with Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But it's now more popular with Republicans than Democrats. Even
though they're not actually probably going to buy the car,
their view of it is higher.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's It's definitely an unprecedented alignment of a
product with a political point of view in a way
that you know, it's not like, I mean, Target was
selling repugnant items for confused adolescents during their whole up
with trans thing. Okay, Tesla's just you get in it,
(20:55):
you go to the store, and then you come back
home again. It's not like it's plays Trump speeches and
that you can't turn them off or.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
It'll you know, it'll only take you.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
To the the VA, you know, any and not to
the ballet or.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
The self driving system runs over government workers if it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Sees them right.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's an agnostic product. It's just but uh, well, more
on that in a second. Would there's a we got
some sort of protest locally you have, Katie, There was
a protest at the Tesla dealership on Arden Arcade on Saturday.
More than one hundred protesters showed up and they lined
both sides of the thoroughfare. One hundred's a pretty good
turnout on a Saturday for a car dealership because you
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don't like the politics of the guy who started it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's now a publicly traded company.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I mean, it's just I mean, boy cutting bud light
because they had the trans person on there. You know, yeah, okay,
I'll drink a different beer that tastes exactly the same
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's just there's so little but telling your car or
attacking the dealership just seems.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
The other aspect of it that we point out many
times and we'll continue to is that the Trump voter
is about half of America, or at least you know, Conservatives, Republicans,
whatever it is, it's half of America. So you're saying
that something that is aligned with half of the country
is so repugnant and outrageous. I won't even be seen
in it, even if it's a fabulous product. The whole
(22:29):
up with trans thing is a tiny percentage, So again,
it's just a poor comparison.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, And then you have the weird aspect that's unique
that Tesla's main appeal was too progressives to start with, right,
because it was more of a gesture than a reality
of you were perfectly okay with the car you had before.
You're not actually affecting climate change by getting a Tesla.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
But you know that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So the Washington Post has an article anger at Elon
Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla dealerships,
and uh, here's one of the breakdowns of the story.
Anger at Elon Musk is turning violent. People are burning
his cars and shooting his stores, leaving front like Tesla
workers and ordinary vehicle owners to bear the brunt of
(23:17):
the anger incited by Musk's politics. Is how they write it.
He incited this. They have no coneyway.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What am I supposed to do? He incited me?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And that's in the New York Post, Washington Post, a
Washington Post.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, yeah, elon Musks because he is a fiscal conservative
and supports Trump, has incited you to shooting up a
Tesla dealership.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That's an interesting way good left wing journalism right there.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, unbelievable. See what they did, well caught? Yeah, I said,
well I should dig this up because this is really good.
Go ahead in a way.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It's kind of ironic that and we've been saying this
for a long time, and this, I think this is
proof that the whole electric vehicle thing is not clearly
a net positive for the environment. Even if you are
staunchily in favor of doing whatever is best environmentally, it
is far far from indisputable that electric cars do anything
good because the battery and the weight and the tires
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and the excavation and the materials and the rearers.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And the mining and blah blah blah, blah blah. We've
all gone over that many times.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
But isn't this proof that since it was just symbolic anyway,
well you might as well stop buying them because it
was just symbolic anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean Tesla is the most
is the most valuable car dealership in the world because
of symbolism, not because there are no numbers to back
that up.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It doesn't make.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Any sense to one as soever. It's such a tiny
number of cars. That's fine motor car indeed. But somebody
made the point. I remember who it was. Can you
imagine if MAGA was vandalizing electric vehicles across the what
a news story it would be and how it would
be portrayed right as a bunch of science denying poltroons.
(25:07):
But when lefties are attacking an electric car dealership at
they were incited by the evil.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Hitler want to be Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
They are incited into mostly peaceful protests. Yesh, And we
mentioned this earlier in the show. Tesla's stock has dropped
forty five percent since December. That is extraordinary, and it's
still valued at eight hundred and forty seven billion dollars,
(25:38):
more than any other car company.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Which is inexplicable.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, the percentage of Democrats had said they consider buying
a Tesla declined from twenty three percent last summer to
I guess those two summers ago, twenty three percent to
thirteen percent.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Recently.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Over that period, the percentage would be Republican buyers grew
from fifteen to twenty six percent.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That's funny, isn't that something?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And again that is a would consider because I don't
think Republicans are gonna buy Tesla's. Most of the places
Republicans live is not that handy a vehicle for them.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Is this the inevitable fallout of a society that's gone
from hardly thinking about politics at all to obsessing about
it all the time and identifying ourselves as one thing
or another might be?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
So it is worth telling you, I gotta.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Start, you know, Joe's star spangled breakfast cereals.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Then we'd expanded Jim shoes.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Of course Trump has already kind of done that, but
Joe's star spangled, but be the brand. We'd have star
spangled poasters.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Pens, clothing, This reminding nasal spray for allergy season. I'm
stealing this from Sarah. I isger of the Dispatch, so
all credit to her for bringing this to my attention.
I'm not pretentding I caught onto this on my own,
but she was talking about it on the Dispatch podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
The other day.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So down in Texas, this guy pranked one of his
friends and it worked, which gets to your point. So
this this dude claimed to a bunch of people there's
a Texas chili cookoff going on sort of thing, and
claim to the friends that you know, beans in chili
(27:19):
is a woke thing, and how real chili only ever
had meat in it, and back in the day the
wolkester is trying to get us off of meat and
convince us that we needed to eat beans, got it
into chili and made all this different sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But anyway, so this chili guy.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Started taking beans out of the chili, making the declaration
that I'm not this is not woke chili. And then
the dude had to go to the other dude and say,
I was just kidding, that was a joke. I was
that isn't true, and then he got very very angry.
But the fact that it worked is the thing. It
gets to your point of is it just mean that
we've become too obsessed with politics now that you're gonna
(27:59):
choose how you make you're chili or which car you
drive or whatever based on how it aligns with politics.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
If somebody convinced me that only progressive was like tomato
sauce on pizza and that grape jelly is really the
conservative way to go, I'm still eating the hole right, Okay,
it doesn't make me a transgender or or whatever woke
or you know, the sanctuary said, I'm for good pizza
and cars that run.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
And yeah, it's just what's the matter with everybody calmed down? Yeah,
makes it difficult, makes it difficult. Oh, I know I
shouldn't mention. We're not a stock show. But this is,
in all fairness.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The way that Tesla could drop forty five percent since
December is he had a huge bump after the election.
Tesla stock shot through the roof after the election. He
was already high, but so that has been erased since
the election, and now it's.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Back to where it was already very very high before.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
So ah, oh, an important asterisk right there.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, fair to mention, But that other stuff about how
popular it is among the republics and Democrats.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's all true. We got a lot more in the
ways today.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Here there are battles, I mean intense battles taking place.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
There's video of Russians.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Making their way through abandoned gas pipes to try and
get to the Ukrainians to fight of drone strikes on
Ukrainian tanks in that area of Kursk. Why is that
so intense? Why is it so important? Because Ukrainians hope
to hold that ground in order to negotiate a swap
of some kind of territory, territorial swap. I mean, that's
what we perceive the Ukrainians want to do. Now, if
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they lose that ground and the Russians are clearly determined
that they will, then that obviously changes the negotiation. And
that's all important too. Going back to your question, because ultimately,
if you are the Kremlin and you think that you
are winning in Kursk, and you think that you will
get that ground back in the weeks, but maybe months ahead,
why would you agree to a seiz fin.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Now that's a very good question, Cure Simmons of NBC,
and we're I don't quite understand some of the strategy.
Ucia really went hard at Ukraine over the weekend. Probably
worth playing this back and forth with Trump and a reporter.
Do you, as a president, think that Vladimir Putin is
(30:12):
taking advantage of the US pause right now on intelligence
and military aid to Ukraine.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
I actually think he's doing what anybody else would do.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I think he's.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I think he wants to get it stopped and settled.
And I think he's hitting him harder than he's been
hitting him, And I think probably anybody in that position
would be doing that right now. He wants to get
it ended, and I think Ukraine wants to get it ended.
But I don't see it's crazy. They're taking tremendous punishment.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I don't understand that position at all, nor do I
doesn't make any sense to me. Well, the Ukrainians resisted
the invasion of a hostile.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Neighbor, so they wouldn't die anybody else would have done
and live under the thumb of a dictator, and so
we stopped. Now today Trump has said, oh, we're going
to start the intelligence sharing up real soon again.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So maybe we are.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't know, but we stopped sharing intelligence, which I
guess is more important than practically anything else. You know,
several days back sharing intelligence with Ukraine, Russia attacks the
be Jesus out of him. Trump's asked about that, he says, well,
Putin's doing what anybody would do. He wants to end
this thing, so he's gonna kill as many innocent Ukrainians
as possible so they'll submit and he gets to take
(31:31):
as much of their country. I don't I don't get
this at all. I know a lot of you. I
don't know if a lot of you, but some of
you are really in favor of that. Some I don't
understand the philosophy in any way whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, I was kicking around social media over the weekend.
Always a mistake, but and it was funny because there
was kind of like an overlap between the situation in
Syria right now where the new regime which is the
former al Kada guys are fighting tooth and nail and
all sorts of people are being killed in the streets
as a SOD loyalist or loyalists or fighting them. Then
(32:07):
allegedly some of the Syrian regime Islamist fundamentalist guys are
killing minorities and Christians and whatever, and then the Ukraine
there's this weird element of American I don't want to
call it conservatism. That's got this. The Jews are in charge.
Putin's a good guy. The US is a bad country.
(32:29):
We've fallen under the sway of the global something or other.
Then it gets back to the Jews, and getting any
sort of reliable information is getting harder and harder because
they've all got, you know, completely diametrically opposed spins of
what's happening and why it's happening, and just the conversation
on the conservative side of things has gotten very, very
(32:51):
weird in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
If at some point it becomes clear that we're really
sticking it to Putin behind the scenes, or about to
really stick it to Putin, and this was all part
of a strategy or whatever, I will openly admit that,
I promise, But right now, when ya ever gonna say
anything that even hints at Putin being a bad guy
(33:13):
or he did something he shouldn't have done that is
awful as opposed to well, Putin's doing what anybody would do.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
He's trying to end this.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I would like to see a little more effort out
of Ukraine and trying to end this. So the guy
who's bombed a hotel over the weekend and killed people.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Is trying to end the war.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
The side that is continuing to defend itself and doesn't
want to just give up is the problem.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
I read one analyst trying to explain how that was
five dimensional chess to bring Putin to the table or something.
But the idea that weakening Ukraine will bring Putin to
the table sooner is bizarre to me.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Right, I don't understand why, And so far there's been
no real word out of Putin's side that he Everybody
likes this idea, but Putin, Why would I if I'm Putin?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Stop now?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, the United States is finally tired of this with
all their support.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Now I got a chance to actually get what I
originally wanted the whole damn country.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Well, this guy's point of view is that Putin is
so much weaker domestically speaking than people are talking about
that ending it would be great for him.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
See there you go. That's the sort of thing. And
if that turns out to be true, I'm more than
willing to say Trump new things. We didn't know it
was three dimensional chess. Brilliant blah blah, blah, But I
don't know that that's the case. And again, you got
this whole giant idea of China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Greenland, everything,
(34:48):
that big face of influence that people keep talking about.
Are we gonna be allowed to uh have a national
debate about that at some pointer?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I don't know how that's gonna play out. Yeah, yeah,
don't know. Man.
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Speaker 4 (35:14):
Keeping trans athletes out of sports is state sanctioned genocide,
according to the Lunatics.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Next hour, you get it, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's like you right now should come out and be like,
you know what, the young man who's about to win
the state championship in the long jump in female sports,
that's that that shouldn't happen. You as the governor should
step out and say no, no, And I appreciate, and
but like, would you do something like that, would you
say no men in female sports?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, it's I think it's an issue of fairness. I
completely agree with you on that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What are you talking about? He didn't even say anything there.
How did it become controversial and he got attacked from
the left for betraying the transgender community.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He went wishy washy on that.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Well, although he broke cranks. It was like the far left,
the intersectionality crowd. It's like, you know, the the Russian
soldiers on the front in Ukraine. If say so much
as turn in the wrong direction their own people shoot them.
And Gavin showed signs of betraying transgender women.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And you can't betray anybody.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The Eskimos need to stick with, the transgenders need to
stick with, the immigrants need to stick with. The Palestinians
need to you know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Now I heard he walked with that back over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Do we have that anywhere? Has anybody got that in
written or audio form? I meant to look that up,
that he walked that back after getting blasted by a
number of your more woke democrats in the country. And
again he didn't even make a strong declarative sentence there.
He just said, oh, no, I agree, it's an issue
of fairness, okay, and you think it's fair to what
(01:48):
allowed transgender girls unfair exactly sicily you still haven't said.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Right, right, yeah, and yet that was way too much
for their crowd. But anyway, that whole you know, NATO
of intersectionality, whatever you want to describe it, that's how
you end up with something as patently absurd as queers
for Palestine. I mean, what could be more idiotic then?
You know, people who would be immediately tortured, killed, throw
off buildings, et cetera, rallying in favor of Islamism. Anyway,
(02:19):
Speaking of Gaviy Newsome, his state of kel Unicornia. How
did it rank? Can US News and World Reports do
ranking of the states?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
US News and World Report appears to exist only for
ranking various things these days, and their methodology is certainly
worth griping about. But I think generally speaking, if you're ranked, say,
forty seventh in education, you're not great at it. Can
we all agree on that, at least broadly speaking. But
(02:50):
your top state overall, ladies and gentlemen, think about it.
Lowish crime, solid economy, good education that's probably not real,
woke infrastructure, great natural environment. I give you Utah. New
(03:18):
Hampshire took the number two spot overall. Nebraska came in
at number three overall. This is an article from an
Orlando outlet. So they talked about Florida. Fairmount Florida placed
number nine, partly because the Sunshine State ranked highest among
all fifty states for higher education and the economy. Anyway, Hey,
(03:41):
you know, we could do the overall rankings if you want.
You want your top ten, bottom.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Ten for overall all criteria.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, your top ten mass counting up to number one, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington, Vermont, Iowa, Idaho, Minnesota, Nebraska,
New Hampshire utah of your body.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Really small and or low population states. There, not all
of them, but a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yes, I would agree, Yeah yeah, and some right, some left,
some center, blah blah blah. Again, you could certainly quibble
with the various methodologies.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I always keep dougging into it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I mean, because if you have, for instance, like Illinois,
Let's see where do they rank in education? Because Illinois
got a number of eminent universities, they ranked quite high,
sixteenth in education. But I guarantee you elementary through high
school education is unforgivably horrifically.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's a state and that's what I want ranked.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, yeah, really in a lot of ways, because that
there's a direct correlation between that and whether they're they're
teaching the basics. Actually, here are allegedly your worst states,
and these might surprise as well. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Michigan, Oklahoma,
South Calabama leading the country and shooting criminals in the
(05:07):
chest right well, and population growth as a percentage, so
it ain't that crappy. Alabama, Alaska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi,
New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And wah wah wah.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Sad Marty Ga trombone for Louisiana. It's a funny punch
line if I hadn't stumbled over it. But some of
these numbers, I mean, like South Cakilac, which I know
pretty well, is nineteenth for environment.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What does that even mean?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
See, And that's the trouble I have, Especially.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If you get into overall ratings, you'd throw in a
whole bunch of squishy numbers and come up with one big,
giant squishy number the environment.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And it's quite possible that I would rank them completely
upside down on their criteria for whether I want to
live there or not.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
If they say that they rank it high because they
have better recycling programs with the garbage, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So I would have an inverse relationship with that. Yeah,
let's see. Yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Actually, I think the whole looking at their methodology might
be interesting then more interesting than the actual the results.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You know. I'm on this.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I have been for a long time, this kick of
public education and how we're failing so much that should
be we should be talking about that all the time.
How many people are graduating from your local grade school
or high school?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That can read or do math.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That should everybody should know that off the top of
their head those numbers, right.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, I would agree. I would agree completely. Who's doing
the measuring and what are their standards? That's what you
need to know. Oh, that reminds me on a completely
different topic of the sky rocketing rate of autism diagnosis
in the United States, and Alicia Finley, I think it
(07:08):
was wrote a really interesting piece. And I have a kid,
an adult child now, who's autistic, and I'm fairly up
on this sort of thing, and I certainly have a.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Sympathetic view of it.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But this is a classic example of trying to understand
what's happening in the modern world and plawing through the
layer after layer of statistics and trying to figure out
what's true and not. I believe firmly that there is
a rise in autism in the United States. I have
no idea what's costing with doubt actual cases of kids
(07:42):
with the characteristics that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Describe autism. Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
On the other hand, there have been all sorts of
changes in diagnosis and in the financial rewards.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
For school districts.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
For instance, for kids diagnosed they get extra money and
so to rely on any of the statistics. Well, Trump
throughout the other day that we've gone from one in
ten thousand kids it's diagnosed with autism, now it's one
in thirty six.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There's something wrong, one in thirty six.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
He said, A large measure of that statistic is just
changes in incentives and diagnosis, but not all of it.
And so I'm not leaping to some fist pounding, angry
talk show host conclusion here. I'm just saying it's really
difficult to figure out what's actually going on into what extent.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, and then, if I'm going to be fair, even
though I complain, we complain constantly about how many layers
of administration they've added to schools clear across the country,
which is also true, all kinds of people that don't
need to be there making a living in your school,
getting the tax money, as opposed to getting into the classroom.
(08:58):
If you got way more kids with autism and all
kinds of different issues, you're gonna need more support. Just
a regular teacher only can't handle a class if you
got five autistic kids in there, right, right, It's a
classic example of both are true. I think there's a
rise in autism and a skyrocketing rise in the diagnosis.
(09:20):
They mentioned in the Wall Street Journal here that one
kid out of six in American public schools or diagnosis
having a disability, one out of six and five in
every class of thirty kids.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But do they really.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, and then if you I know, I know a
lot about this, But it wants the infrastructure to deal
with that is, the human infrastructure is huge and very expensive.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Right right, And where he's needed a beautiful example of
a compassionate society, in my opinion, where it's legitimate.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, well, you know, you don't need all those layers
of DEI chieftains and their and their armies.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's a completely different thing. But was I gonna say.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I was gonna say, they're talking about you get down
there their kids, and then the teachers, and you get
all thets.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I forgot what I was gonna say. It's probably being
out Trump. I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
The upside is I can uh hide my own Easter eggs.
You know, I can watch the same sitcom over and
over again, laugh every time because I never heard.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't remember the joke. The downside is I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I was about to say, maybe we could get an
official diagnosis out of you and get some gunman money
for the show. Michael can be your minder. Michael, we'll
cut you in on the profits. Were fair.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That sounds fine, fair minded. This is really bothering me.
I can't think of this because this is an important topic.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
It was a complex and last diagnosing more kids with
more things, and so you got to have the humans
there to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And I don't know one more thought.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Bill Cassidy was a doctor, medical doctor, not a fake
doctor like Jill Biden. He's a Republican senator and an
r f K Jr. And he were disagreeing leading up
to RFK Junior's hearings, right what do they call it,
you know, consent hearings and and and RFK kept saying, hey,
(11:24):
you show me the science that says these inoculations are
not related to autism, and I will change my tune.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I will believe it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
And Bill Cassidy says, I brought him absolutely sterling, silver science,
huge studies, carefully controlled, peer reviewed blah blah blah, that
made the case. And he dismissed it out of hand
and said, now I don't believe that stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh really, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, and so Cassidy's really frustrating, frustrated with him that
and and one of the reasons R F. K. Junior said,
I don't believe that because of this paper here. Cassidy
said that that paper has been discredited in every which way,
And I have no horse in this race. It's just
it's the methodology was terrible, but Harf Cages wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So it's, you know, tough to get to the truth
these days. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And I have spent a lot of money and a
lot of time, including this past weekend, on dealing with
one kid that's got a variety of the problems that
exists in this world.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
But I'm not concerned they came from the vaccine. So
that's just me. Send your emails to Joe if you
have a different thought on that. I'm more on the
way here.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
If fetanyl ends, I think these will come off. But
if fetanyl does not end, or he's uncertain about it,
they will stay this way until he is comfortable. This
is black and white. You got to save American lives.
So with respect with respect to fetanyl, this is about
the border and fetanyl.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
That's Howard Lutnick to the Secretary Commerce talking about the tariffs,
the fentanyl, the precursor chemicals at the very least, which
come from China then flow through Mexico and to a
lesser extent Canada in.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And speaking of China, really interesting analysis I came across
and troubling from a handful of the writers and analysts
in the Wall Street Journal. Umbrella. It's about China's projection.
They're waging a gray zone campaign. And here's what they
mean by that, and it's, you know, the South China Sea,
(13:30):
the Taiwan Strait, even up into the Himalayas. They're operating
in the hazy zone between war and peace to extend
their power.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Here's what it looks like.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Beijing carefully calibrates each move with the aim of staying
just below the threshold of action that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Could trigger outright conflict.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
But step by incremental step, it is pushed deeper into
contested areas, exhausting opponents and eroding their strength with a
thousand cuts. What they're talking about is probes by warplanes,
maneuvered by kost guard ships, or the creeping construction of
new civilian settlements. They push you in the region right
to the brink of war, over and over and over again,
(14:11):
and they carefully calculate what's going to bring a shooting
war on and calibrate just below that, over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
This article is illustrated visually in a way that I
wish we could show you well. Post it at an
armstrong in getty dot com under hotlines. It'll probably get paywall,
I don't know, but it shows the actual tracking of
ships for instances little lines, and where there have been
a bunch of ships circling an island or whatever, it
becomes a very thick, heavy line. So you can look
at what China's doing physically satellite images and plane tracking
(14:44):
equipment and that sort of thing. But it is so
obviously increasingly aggressive in ways that are indefensible by their rhetoric,
Like they're pushing closer and closer and closer to the
coast of the Philippines and claiming islands and taking over islands,
or so heavily patrolling those islands and ramming ships. We've
(15:08):
seen that recently. Sometimes it's the Chinese Coast Guard. Sometimes
it's this militia of private fishing vessels which they've deputized
to just make life living hell for for instance, Filipino
fishermen or their navy or whatever, and so bit by
bit by bit, they're pushing everybody back and staying just
under what would trigger a shooting war.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Now I'm endlessly fascinated with the whole China thing, and
I think everybody should be, because yeah, they're hell bent
on taking over the world. Do you think there would
be you could have when do we have the Beijing
Olympics coming some medy google that real quick.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
When we have the Olympics of Beijing? Wasn't that long ago?
I remember, I was shocked that it happened. I didn't
think it was like twenty twelve or something like that.
But anyway we can look it up. That'll that'll never
happen again. What do you got there? Oh no, No,
the Winter Olympics isn't either.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, Putin promised he wouldn't evade during the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It's what twenty two, Yeah, so it was right before
the war in Ukraine. But I remember thinking then that
I can't believe we're participating. I mean, the whole world
is going to China and acting like they're just a
regular country.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Surely we wouldn't now, but maybe we would. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
The un is ridiculous, Yes it is, and it's worth
reviewing that whole system of little islands they created in
the South China Sea, where they built them up but
swore they wouldn't militarize them, then built you know, landing
strips and said, but don't worry, we won't put weapons
systems on them. And the reason that's been even more
(16:41):
important than anybody realized is because now all those islands
are like little military bases. They're stopping points so they
can patrol in a much wider area and not have
to come back home, so they can refuel, refeed the guys, whatever,
and project their power much more efficiently over a much
bigger zone. So that you have militarized a huge section
(17:02):
of the ocean that never was before.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That is really interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I have things to say about that, but maybe some
other time, because this topic will be around for a
very long time.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Armstrong and Geeddy, now.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Look, I can't have you two at each other's throats, Okay,
after all, I have a perfect record. Everyone who's ever
worked for me has left on good terms and then
gone on to write a book called The Man.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Who Ruined Everything.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
So you too need to start acting like mature adults.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, so let's begin with Marco Parno.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
No Eli, I'm trying to talk to MARCOO.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
What is that? What's this? What's this? Doing this? What's this?
Nobody knows? Okay, it's his little dance. We let him
do it. It's his least unsettling trick.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So that's from Saturday Night Live, which, weirdly, I'd like
to actually talk to Lorden Mark Michaels about this. I mean,
he's a genius of keeping that thing relevant over a
half a century, but the opening thing is always so
off putting to those of us who don't agree with
his politics.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Then the rest of the show is sketch comedy. But
you got like a big chunk of the country that
can't get past your open every week.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So you're a sketch comedy that's just about any topic.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's non political. The show is mostly.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Non political, but for a whole bunch of Saturday Night
Live haters in this country, it's a political show because.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I only see your opening segment. Stop with it? Would
you just stop?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Well, when your opening segment is a loud declaration of
you're not welcome here every week.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It's an odd marketing.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Maneuver, right, But anyway, Elon now being portrayed by Mike
Myers and I come back Saturday Night Live, and just
the idea that Elon is now such a villain of
the left is man who saw that coming ten years ago?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
No, nobody, nobody. I mean, he was the leader of.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
We need to go electric with cars, climate changes our
biggest problem, you know, all that sort of stuff, and
a hero of the left, and you know, I live
in a part of the country, or people buying were
buying Tesla's even though they didn't make sense, and we're
way too expensive virtue signaling. Now it's flipped completely the
opposite direction, as we all know. Over the weekend, hundreds
of New Yorkers swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer
(19:19):
in Manhattan. They shut down a major car dealership, an
electric car dealership. Six were arrested after occupying the showroom
and shattering all the windows and everything. And then they
said had to post a police at the big Tesla
dealerships and a whole bunch of other cities around the
country to try to try to protect them.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I saw a video.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I mean it was just one nut job running out
of the street and pounding on a cyber truck in traffic.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I don't know what this is going to do to
the value of Tesla's.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I almost want to buy a cyber truck now, just
as a giant middle finger to the people who ate
eln so much, because it's such a noticeable thing, just
like blon so the folks who pull this.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Sort of thing. Back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Two found that twenty two percent of car shoppers surveyed
said they would definitely consider a Tesla for their next vehicle,
purchased twenty two percent. By last summer, the percentage you
dropped to seven percent, dropped by more than two thirds,
roughly in line with Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But it's now more popular with Republicans than Democrats. Even
though they're not actually probably going to buy the car,
their view of it is higher.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's It's definitely an unprecedented alignment of a
product with a political point of view in a way
that you know, it's not like, I mean, Target was
selling repugnant items for confused adolescents during their whole up
with trans thing. Okay, Tesla's just you get in it,
(20:55):
you go to the store, and then you come back
home again. It's not like it's plays Trump speeches and
that you can't turn them off or.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
It'll you know, it'll only take you.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
To the the VA, you know, any and not to
the ballet or.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
The self driving system runs over government workers if it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Sees them right.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's an agnostic product. It's just but uh, well, more
on that in a second. Would there's a we got
some sort of protest locally you have, Katie, There was
a protest at the Tesla dealership on Arden Arcade on Saturday.
More than one hundred protesters showed up and they lined
both sides of the thoroughfare. One hundred's a pretty good
turnout on a Saturday for a car dealership because you
(21:39):
don't like the politics of the guy who started it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It's now a publicly traded company.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I mean, it's just I mean, boy cutting bud light
because they had the trans person on there. You know, yeah, okay,
I'll drink a different beer that tastes exactly the same
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's just there's so little but telling your car or
attacking the dealership just seems.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
The other aspect of it that we point out many
times and we'll continue to is that the Trump voter
is about half of America, or at least you know, Conservatives, Republicans,
whatever it is, it's half of America. So you're saying
that something that is aligned with half of the country
is so repugnant and outrageous. I won't even be seen
in it, even if it's a fabulous product. The whole
(22:29):
up with trans thing is a tiny percentage, So again,
it's just a poor comparison.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, And then you have the weird aspect that's unique
that Tesla's main appeal was too progressives to start with, right,
because it was more of a gesture than a reality
of you were perfectly okay with the car you had before.
You're not actually affecting climate change by getting a Tesla.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
But you know that whole thing.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So the Washington Post has an article anger at Elon
Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla dealerships,
and uh, here's one of the breakdowns of the story.
Anger at Elon Musk is turning violent. People are burning
his cars and shooting his stores, leaving front like Tesla
workers and ordinary vehicle owners to bear the brunt of
(23:17):
the anger incited by Musk's politics. Is how they write it.
He incited this. They have no coneyway.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
What am I supposed to do? He incited me?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And that's in the New York Post, Washington Post, a
Washington Post.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, yeah, elon Musks because he is a fiscal conservative
and supports Trump, has incited you to shooting up a
Tesla dealership.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That's an interesting way good left wing journalism right there.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, unbelievable. See what they did, well caught? Yeah, I said,
well I should dig this up because this is really good.
Go ahead in a way.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It's kind of ironic that and we've been saying this
for a long time, and this, I think this is
proof that the whole electric vehicle thing is not clearly
a net positive for the environment. Even if you are
staunchily in favor of doing whatever is best environmentally, it
is far far from indisputable that electric cars do anything
good because the battery and the weight and the tires
(24:18):
and the excavation and the materials and the rearers.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And the mining and blah blah blah, blah blah. We've
all gone over that many times.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
But isn't this proof that since it was just symbolic anyway,
well you might as well stop buying them because it
was just symbolic anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean Tesla is the most
is the most valuable car dealership in the world because
of symbolism, not because there are no numbers to back
that up.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It doesn't make.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Any sense to one as soever. It's such a tiny
number of cars. That's fine motor car indeed. But somebody
made the point. I remember who it was. Can you
imagine if MAGA was vandalizing electric vehicles across the what
a news story it would be and how it would
be portrayed right as a bunch of science denying poltroons.
(25:07):
But when lefties are attacking an electric car dealership at
they were incited by the evil.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Hitler want to be Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
They are incited into mostly peaceful protests. Yesh, And we
mentioned this earlier in the show. Tesla's stock has dropped
forty five percent since December. That is extraordinary, and it's
still valued at eight hundred and forty seven billion dollars,
(25:38):
more than any other car company.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Which is inexplicable.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, the percentage of Democrats had said they consider buying
a Tesla declined from twenty three percent last summer to
I guess those two summers ago, twenty three percent to
thirteen percent.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Recently.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Over that period, the percentage would be Republican buyers grew
from fifteen to twenty six percent.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That's funny, isn't that something?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And again that is a would consider because I don't
think Republicans are gonna buy Tesla's. Most of the places
Republicans live is not that handy a vehicle for them.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Is this the inevitable fallout of a society that's gone
from hardly thinking about politics at all to obsessing about
it all the time and identifying ourselves as one thing
or another might be?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
So it is worth telling you, I gotta.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Start, you know, Joe's star spangled breakfast cereals.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Then we'd expanded Jim shoes.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Of course Trump has already kind of done that, but
Joe's star spangled, but be the brand. We'd have star
spangled poasters.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Pens, clothing, This reminding nasal spray for allergy season. I'm
stealing this from Sarah. I isger of the Dispatch, so
all credit to her for bringing this to my attention.
I'm not pretentding I caught onto this on my own,
but she was talking about it on the Dispatch podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
The other day.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So down in Texas, this guy pranked one of his
friends and it worked, which gets to your point. So
this this dude claimed to a bunch of people there's
a Texas chili cookoff going on sort of thing, and
claim to the friends that you know, beans in chili
(27:19):
is a woke thing, and how real chili only ever
had meat in it, and back in the day the
wolkester is trying to get us off of meat and
convince us that we needed to eat beans, got it
into chili and made all this different sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But anyway, so this chili guy.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Started taking beans out of the chili, making the declaration
that I'm not this is not woke chili. And then
the dude had to go to the other dude and say,
I was just kidding, that was a joke. I was
that isn't true, and then he got very very angry.
But the fact that it worked is the thing. It
gets to your point of is it just mean that
we've become too obsessed with politics now that you're gonna
(27:59):
choose how you make you're chili or which car you
drive or whatever based on how it aligns with politics.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
If somebody convinced me that only progressive was like tomato
sauce on pizza and that grape jelly is really the
conservative way to go, I'm still eating the hole right, Okay,
it doesn't make me a transgender or or whatever woke
or you know, the sanctuary said, I'm for good pizza
and cars that run.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
And yeah, it's just what's the matter with everybody calmed down? Yeah,
makes it difficult, makes it difficult. Oh, I know I
shouldn't mention. We're not a stock show. But this is,
in all fairness.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The way that Tesla could drop forty five percent since
December is he had a huge bump after the election.
Tesla stock shot through the roof after the election. He
was already high, but so that has been erased since
the election, and now it's.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Back to where it was already very very high before.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
So ah, oh, an important asterisk right there.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, fair to mention, But that other stuff about how
popular it is among the republics and Democrats.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's all true. We got a lot more in the
ways today.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Here there are battles, I mean intense battles taking place.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
There's video of Russians.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Making their way through abandoned gas pipes to try and
get to the Ukrainians to fight of drone strikes on
Ukrainian tanks in that area of Kursk. Why is that
so intense? Why is it so important? Because Ukrainians hope
to hold that ground in order to negotiate a swap
of some kind of territory, territorial swap. I mean, that's
what we perceive the Ukrainians want to do. Now, if
(29:31):
they lose that ground and the Russians are clearly determined
that they will, then that obviously changes the negotiation. And
that's all important too. Going back to your question, because ultimately,
if you are the Kremlin and you think that you
are winning in Kursk, and you think that you will
get that ground back in the weeks, but maybe months ahead,
why would you agree to a seiz fin.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Now that's a very good question, Cure Simmons of NBC,
and we're I don't quite understand some of the strategy.
Ucia really went hard at Ukraine over the weekend. Probably
worth playing this back and forth with Trump and a reporter.
Do you, as a president, think that Vladimir Putin is
(30:12):
taking advantage of the US pause right now on intelligence
and military aid to Ukraine.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
I actually think he's doing what anybody else would do.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I think he's.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I think he wants to get it stopped and settled.
And I think he's hitting him harder than he's been
hitting him, And I think probably anybody in that position
would be doing that right now. He wants to get
it ended, and I think Ukraine wants to get it ended.
But I don't see it's crazy. They're taking tremendous punishment.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I don't understand that position at all, nor do I
doesn't make any sense to me. Well, the Ukrainians resisted
the invasion of a hostile.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Neighbor, so they wouldn't die anybody else would have done
and live under the thumb of a dictator, and so
we stopped. Now today Trump has said, oh, we're going
to start the intelligence sharing up real soon again.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So maybe we are.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't know, but we stopped sharing intelligence, which I
guess is more important than practically anything else. You know,
several days back sharing intelligence with Ukraine, Russia attacks the
be Jesus out of him. Trump's asked about that, he says, well,
Putin's doing what anybody would do. He wants to end
this thing, so he's gonna kill as many innocent Ukrainians
as possible so they'll submit and he gets to take
(31:31):
as much of their country. I don't I don't get
this at all. I know a lot of you. I
don't know if a lot of you, but some of
you are really in favor of that. Some I don't
understand the philosophy in any way whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, I was kicking around social media over the weekend.
Always a mistake, but and it was funny because there
was kind of like an overlap between the situation in
Syria right now where the new regime which is the
former al Kada guys are fighting tooth and nail and
all sorts of people are being killed in the streets
as a SOD loyalist or loyalists or fighting them. Then
(32:07):
allegedly some of the Syrian regime Islamist fundamentalist guys are
killing minorities and Christians and whatever, and then the Ukraine
there's this weird element of American I don't want to
call it conservatism. That's got this. The Jews are in charge.
Putin's a good guy. The US is a bad country.
(32:29):
We've fallen under the sway of the global something or other.
Then it gets back to the Jews, and getting any
sort of reliable information is getting harder and harder because
they've all got, you know, completely diametrically opposed spins of
what's happening and why it's happening, and just the conversation
on the conservative side of things has gotten very, very
(32:51):
weird in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
If at some point it becomes clear that we're really
sticking it to Putin behind the scenes, or about to
really stick it to Putin, and this was all part
of a strategy or whatever, I will openly admit that,
I promise, But right now, when ya ever gonna say
anything that even hints at Putin being a bad guy
(33:13):
or he did something he shouldn't have done that is
awful as opposed to well, Putin's doing what anybody would do.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
He's trying to end this.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I would like to see a little more effort out
of Ukraine and trying to end this. So the guy
who's bombed a hotel over the weekend and killed people.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Is trying to end the war.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
The side that is continuing to defend itself and doesn't
want to just give up is the problem.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
I read one analyst trying to explain how that was
five dimensional chess to bring Putin to the table or something.
But the idea that weakening Ukraine will bring Putin to
the table sooner is bizarre to me.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Right, I don't understand why, And so far there's been
no real word out of Putin's side that he Everybody
likes this idea, but Putin, Why would I if I'm Putin?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Stop now?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, the United States is finally tired of this with
all their support.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Now I got a chance to actually get what I
originally wanted the whole damn country.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Well, this guy's point of view is that Putin is
so much weaker domestically speaking than people are talking about
that ending it would be great for him.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
See there you go. That's the sort of thing. And
if that turns out to be true, I'm more than
willing to say Trump new things. We didn't know it
was three dimensional chess. Brilliant blah blah, blah, But I
don't know that that's the case. And again, you got
this whole giant idea of China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Greenland, everything,
(34:48):
that big face of influence that people keep talking about.
Are we gonna be allowed to uh have a national
debate about that at some pointer?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I don't know how that's gonna play out. Yeah, yeah,
don't know. Man.
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