March 31, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Trump's tariffs & the guys are at the ballpark!
- Have Trump's policies made you better or worse off?
- The "Tesla Take Down" protests & the DOGE teams
- Rebuilding Gaza
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getti and no He.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The economic fallout and uncertainty from the latest tariffs scheduled
to launch. The President said to escalate his trade war
this week as market's real over tariff's he's already put
in place.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So how will Trump's.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Next moves shape the economy and how do Americans feel
about it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, we got some of the polling on that. That's
Martha Radditt's of ABC, but CBS actually had a poll
which we can get into and a little bit on
all that. But one thing I would like to point
out that is this, if a Democrat is president, the
only thing that matters is the approval rating, and they
go with that. So the fact that Barack Obama was
polling poorly with Obamacare or Fast and Furious or the Border,
(01:05):
as long as his overall poll mumbing was fifty percent,
that's what they talked about, right. Yeah, with Trump, they
ignore the overall number, like nobody's really interested in approval rating.
They want these individual numbers, and so they hammer how
he's upside down on some of the economic stuff, which
are about to tell you, And at the very bottom
of the story if you're reading it, or at the
end of the cast if you're watching it on facination yesterday,
(01:27):
they meant drudgingly admit he's at fifty percent, which is
higher than he ever was in the first term.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It's so interesting to watch, though, a guy like Trump, who,
in contrast to virtually every president before him, wants to
avoid stoking uncertainty in the markets, in the business community, whatever,
just for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Big business especially hates uncertainty.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Trump with this whole tariff thing, and what's going to
happen on Wednesday, I guess is April second. Do the math,
Joe clearly Wednesday? What's going to actually be implemented and
what's not? What are his goals?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Really?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Trump thrives on uncertainty in negotiations in a way I've
never seen from a president before.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And I can't.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Decide if I admire his commitment to do it his
way more or am concerned by the chaos it's unleashing
more Because the markets are way down worldwide, auto stock
are down, s and P five hundred one course, for
its biggest quarterly loss in nearly three years.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Nearly three years.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
That's about to jump in with that because I heard
that yesterday the worst week since twenty twenty three. Whenever
they say that sort of stuff, I think, what so
a couple of years ago. It's not like I was
eating my neighbors or whatever, right right?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You weren't to you know, you know what, it's an.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Never mind, by the way, you weren't prostituting yourself for cash.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I have a much funnier way to convey that.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
But it struck me for some reason that this moment,
partly because we have people kind of looking at us.
We're at a Major League ballpark right now for opening Day,
just for fun doing the show. Anyway, I decided not
to go with the full version of that. But anyway, Yeah,
it was fine. It goes up, it goes down. There
are little corrections up and down. What actually happens Tuesday, though,
will have long term effects. On the other hand, what
(03:21):
is totally underrated in this and then I'll shut up
and let you go on, is if indeed what he
is striving to do is moved much much closer to
reciprocal tariffs and away from the post World War II
reality where the be a mouth United States economy was
granting indulgences and love to all of the struggling, smaller
(03:45):
post World War two countries as they tried to bounce back,
or in the case of Asia, we're trying to develop
in the first place. If he's just trying to get
to a twenty first century trade relationship with all these countries,
that's a great idea, just a bumpy road getting there.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, he's an ideologue on this issue, obviously, unless you
can come up with some other reason. He's doing this
because it's not helping him short term. Like I say, yeah,
he's clearly committed. Play since Joe brought it up the
car tariff hitting play clip twenty Michael.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Some economists warn't American businesses will pay those tariffs and
then raise prices for consumers. By one estimate, the price
of a new car should shoot up more than six
thousand dollars by next year.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's a lot. Yeah, that's there's a reason they go
with that estimate. It's because it's the highest, most exciting one.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And that's a year from now, and Trump is certainly
not planning on the tariff's beating place for a year.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah, speaking of the uncertainty, he says it's over, you know,
fentanyl and all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But it's not. But he just wants reciprocal tariffs.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I think I was reading something, I think it was
in the Wall Street Journal that a lot of your
big money people are disappointed to find out that Trump
does not worry about the stock market as much as
they assumed. A lot of people had thought he just
does whatever he's got to do to keep stock market high,
you know, so he can keep the economy home and
along so it's good for his ratings. Well, he's clearly
not just doing that now.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Right, And whether it's this fundamentally restructuring our trade relationships
for the twenty first century, which is I hope what
he's doing as opposed to like a permanent regime of
high tariffs to rebuild American industry.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I just I don't think he's got the time horizon
for that.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And it's not going to work the way people who
think it should will. Anyway, he's thinking, oh, indulge the
other obvious example, he's thinking about the long term health
and prosperity of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I wonder if he actually His biggest thing is he
wants to be remembered decades from now, as a century
from now, as a major figure that, like you, really
saw the direction of the world was going.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He wants to be hailed as a hero after he's gone.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I never thought that that he probably was like that,
that kind of guy, but he might. He almost has
to be. That's the only reason he would do this.
So I want to get to that polling. Maybe we'll
do that. Next segment, we are at a Major League
ballpark broadcasting live where the A's now play. The A's
who used to be a vocaland now play in Sacramento
at least for the next three years. Do they build
a stadium in Las Vegas anyway? So right at the ballpark,
(06:14):
it's morning time. There are workers here, The grounds crew
people are just going out now. So did you know
the grounds crew people start working on the field. What
is it eleven hours before the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
The squeegeye guys squeege during is squeeging the rain fall
off of the giant tarp that protects the infield.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
These squeegee guys don't spit on your windshield and pretend
to clean it.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
How much money does it cost to run a Major
League baseball team? I mean cause how many employees. There's
like six guys out there doing this twelve hours before.
They all probably make a salary, support their families on
being squeegey guy, groundskeeper person, probably.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Do a dozen different things. Sure.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, I remember the first time I was ever in
the bowels of a Major League baseball stadium. Pregame hours,
pregame begga gladys, Thank you, gladys with a gladdys.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Used to play the organ at the old Polo Grounds
in the Dun Dun dunt.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, when Willie May's made the catch, she was there
playing the organ. That's right, big old pipe organ. Anyway,
I was shocked. It was a seven o'clock game, and
we're there at about three thirty four o'clock in the afternoon,
and it was started to rest on a cliche, but
a hive of activity. The hundreds and hundreds of people
(07:31):
scurrying to and fro with giant rolling racks full of
hot dog buns and coolers full of meat, and the
ground crews were busy as hack and the business people
were running back and forth feverishly. The press people were
all shouting at each other. Was really amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, I wish that was happening now because I want
a hot dog. I really want a ballpark hot dog.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You'll get no hot dog.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I wonder how early they get hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Ready, you go down?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
What a dog?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I keep yelling that, but nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Go get a raw hot dog, getting onaw on it.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Like you're a six year old kid, that's your only option. Uh.
There's a lot of people here though, It's funny. Were
starting to wake up. Yeah, setting up the concession stands,
working on the field, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It is eight fourteen Pacific time as we speak. That's
kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's starting to seem like a ballpark before it was
an empathy building.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So I don't have a ticket for to night. I'm
thinking about finding a restroom and getting in the stall,
standing on the seat, yeah, and waiting until first pitch
perfect reasonable plan there. Yeah, if I didn't have to
get home that kids, I might actually do that because
it'd be a good story. Because a lot of people
post those YouTube videos like it's a common thing to
(08:45):
hide in an ikea. That's like its own YouTube channel.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, how are you going to have you?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We saw some people doing that when we were at
the last Ika. There are three young people in pajamas
and they climbed up behind some chairs, like up on
the shelf and get behind the chairs. And I was like,
I don't care. Actually saw them in action, yeah, because
we were there like an hour before closing and they
were finding a place to hide in the idea. But
I would absolutely do that here at the ballpark if
I didn't get have to get home to my kids. Yeah,
(09:10):
I would stand on the seat in a toilet if
anybody came in, because I want to see my feet
and know that I'm there.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Might be a more effective place to hide. But if
you're not going to implement the plant, I'm not going
to or less gross. I'm not gonna bother.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, the toilets are clean, it's gotta be a closet somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I could just get in sure, sure, or just sit
in that last, that very last seat and refuse to leave.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I got my phone, I could just surf my phone
until what time do you suppose they open the gates
where they start letting people in. That'd be quite a
bit earlier then I could roam around. I'm just an
early arriver at that point, right, Yeah, just a big
baseball probably five o'clock. Yeah, I don't have to kill
that many times. We'll get to some of that polling
coming up. Some of this stuff y'all don't like much,
(09:53):
the not emphasizing inflation that seems to be happening or
some of that. But a lot of the other thing
that things that the media tells you are incredibly unpopular,
Like Doge, They're more popular than I thought based on
this polling and other stuff on the way, So stay here.
The Genetic Casting Company twenty three and meters says it
(10:15):
is bankrupt and also two percent Cherokee. I like that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's funny. That reminds me.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We're at a major League baseball stadium today. I just
passed one of the luxury boxes and it is for
the the something or other band of the Mewalk Indians,
and that's what they call themselves Indians.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Right, they don't consider it racist. I mean, come on,
but if.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You're a baseball team, you can't be there, right. So
CBS out with they're polling yesterday. They got a fair
amount of attention burying the headline that Trump is still
at fifty percent approval, which is unbelievable really, I mean,
if you think about the big picture of things. But anyway, I.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Think he's getting from people what you never get from
the press, say, I hope he's right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Let's wait and see.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, right, you're gonna see that in all these great
internal questions. So the most negative thing, and of course
that's what they lead with on CBS, that you can
come up with Trump administration focusing on lowering prices, which
when he would go around saying he'd lower the price
of milk or whatever, he's going to lower the price
of I always said he can't. You're not going to.
(11:24):
You can slow inflation, that's fantastic, but you're not going
to lower prices. Really.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh, he was talking about energy being so cheap that
would do it, and I look forward to that happening.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But anyway, in terms of the focus, two thirds of
Americans say the Trump administration is not focusing on that enough. Yeah,
I think that I.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Should catch up with you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I would guess at some point in you're approval rating.
I don't know, but two thirds say not enough focus
on lowering prices and then on putting on tariffs, almost
sixty percent say too much, but hanging in at fifty
percent approval, So.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They're nervous about the economics.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
To your point, people seem to be over looking that stuff,
uh for the approval rating or hoping he's right that
the long term restructural and restructuring will be good for America.
Have Trump's policies made you better off or worse off financially?
When he took office, it was two to one expectation
of better off to worse off. Now that we're how
(12:19):
many months in three months in it's like a year
and a half, it does it's two to one worse
off forty two, not quite but almost forty two to
twenty three.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
So if the election were held today, Jack, that would
violate the Constitution. And it's not going to be impact
of new tariffs on prices. Almost three quarters of Americans
expected to make prices higher short term. So that's people
understanding tariff's better than I might have given them credit for.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, I read an interesting piece that said it won't
cause generalized inflation because if the price of one product
goes up, people have les money to spend on other things,
so that will tend to be deflationary in those sectors.
I'd like to see it play out. I wasn't around
Jack for McKinley in the Smoot Holly era.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm not that old. So with a modern economy, who knows.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So that was short term and who knows if he
actually implements any of this stuff or you know, the
short term versus long term might not be long term
on any of these, right, but long term even still,
half think it'll increase prices long term. Who's most responsible
for today's inflation, which is still higher than we'd like
(13:34):
it to be. Biden leads the way at thirty eight,
as he should, as he should, Trump behind at thirty four,
then both equally nineteen, So I think he's safe there
for a while.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, although that's uncomfortably close. I mean, he's been in
office for three months. What inflation are we talking about here?
The two and a half percent or I'm sorry, two
tenths of a percent that prices have risen in the
last several months.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It's perception Trump's handleg of immigration, it's over fifty percent,
fifty three forty seven. You certainly wouldn't get that from
the media because it's all negative all the time. God,
what did I hear?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
And anybody who's against the policies is getting deported too, Solly,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
H on my ongoing beat up NPR thing that I
like to do with. Listen to NPR today and they're
talking about some state. I didn't even know this was
a How did I not know this? The Supreme Court
in the eighties rule that you couldn't as a school
decide to not educate children of illegals. We've been doing
(14:36):
that since the eighties. Yeah, what kind of theory is
that for a country anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I might live here, you get educated period.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Apparently, Well, anyway, one state is challenging that they're going
to try to They're gonna try to implement in the
state and then challenge it so that it goes to
the Supreme Court, similar to the way that they did
with Roe versus Wade. You get a state and then
you go to the Supreme and take another look at
it because they think maybe they could get a better
result this time around. Anyway, NPR was one hundred percent
(15:07):
on why it is awful and talking to various people
about how awful that would be that illegals can't get
their kids educated by other taxpayers in this country right
for free. Yeah, that's really interesting anyway. On the immigration thing,
it's over fifty percent approval. On the economy, it's about
fifty to fifty. It's fifty two disapproved, forty eight approved,
but that's within the margin of error. And on inflation,
(15:29):
it's a little beyond the margin of era fifty six
to forty four. But again, Trump's overall job rating is
fifty percent. The program to deport immigrants illegally in the
United States is at sixty percent approval. Wow, even with
all the negative coverage, what's the against or do they
not say forty two? Okay, sixty to forty two. Somebody
(15:52):
voted twice. Let me see, I wanted to get this
one on Trump's efforts to cut staff at government agencies
as a fifty fifty the issue U bah blah bah
bah using the signal messaging app to discuss military plans
was not appropriate according to three quarters of Americans. But
(16:12):
is it a big deal? Not that many people think
it's serious. Thirty percent somewhat serious, twenty five percent not
at all serious. So what effect has it had on
anybody's life.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
By the way, Mike Wallace, he's thinking, I shouldn't have
bought that big house in Georgetown.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Two thirds of Americans are against taking control of Greenland. Wow,
which is kind of surprising to me.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
They'll change their mind when they have their first vacation there.
Exactly what do you love better? The biting cold or
the howling wind? Hard to choose or the lack of
anything to see? So there are things Trump is doing
economically that make me nervous. But you've got to remember
how incredibly unpopular Reagan was the first couple of years
(16:58):
of his first term because he was doing the tough
things that needed to be done to restructure things long term,
and he became very, very popular when it worked.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We'll see that's Trump's plan and it may work.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Or Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That is a sound from one of the demonstrations across
the country, more than two hundred that were scheduled to
take place outside Tesla's showrooms on Saturday for the Tesla
takedown scheduled by whom. I find myself wondering and Elon
he's been talking about that a lot, Yeah, trying to
(17:51):
figure out who's behind this. I mean, somebody's organizing the thing.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's a lot of the Soros and a couple of
the other big lefty finan seers, those organizations they fund.
It's it's astro turf, as they say, it's the grassroots
has been professionalized. Yeah, these giant networks that are completely
organized that turn.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Out the people and often pay them to stand.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
There in chance.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I almost hate to bring that up, just because you know,
there have been movements on my side of politics before
they get called astro turf that were not. But like
I saw some Republican congressmen facing chants at he went
back home for a town hall meeting, and they were
chanting tax the rich, And I thought, there's no freaking
(18:34):
way a bunch of Republicans are chanting tax the rich
at their congressman. No, or even just your average workaday
Democrats in that congressman's district, because they have a right
to petition their man for a redress of their angrievances,
to quote a phrase. Well, they were presenting on an
MSNBC though that that Republicans. There's Republican House members, their
(18:55):
own voters are not unhappy with them.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Because of all this channing tax the rich tax don't
load of crap.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
That's what I thought, right Anyway, the Tesla take down, O, Katie,
you got a Tesla a version of a Tesla takedown story.
I do.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
And if you if you're looking at the mainstream media
about this, you're just seeing these large well the way
they're framing the photos, large crowds and whatnot. I happen
to know that in the Treasure Valley in Idaho, there
was one of these Tesla takedown protests and there was
a count. So the Tesla takedown protesters there were thirty
of them. The counter protests, the pro Elon folks showed
(19:30):
up in the number a two hundred plus wow wow.
And one of the anti Elon guys got into a
verbal altercation with one of the pro Elon guys and
the anti Elon guy hit.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
The guy with his car. No sent him to the
hospital out of moins.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
So that's that's where all the coverage is going to be,
not the seven to one pro out numbering the anti.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
People are crazy. Well that sound we just played the
video was something else. I think I tweeted it out, Yeah,
I retweeted it. It's a guy in a cyber truck
now he's wearing a Maga hat. But he pulls up
by the Tesla protests there at the dealership in his
cyber truck, and people lost their minds. I mean, they
just looked crazy. Like just said earlier, you could imagine
(20:18):
those people burning Elon at the stake. They look that mad. Justnut.
I'm reading this business insider view of this writer went
to a couple of the Tesla takedown protests won in
ann Arbor to college Town if you don't know that,
that's where the University of Michigan. And there were four
hundred protesters outside the Tesla showroom there in ann Arbor, chanting, hey, hey,
(20:41):
ho ho, Elon Musk has got to go.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh devastating that and the shame shame chant I hope.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Elon will endure. He noticed this writer that the people
the protesters were primarily over the age of sixty five,
white and retired from jobs that depended on public funding
as teachers, professionals at local universities and social work.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
That is so funny.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I'm watching the video that you were referencing that you tweeted,
and it is a bunch of angry women who appear
to be sixty five plus every single one of them white.
I am a white person, full disclosure. I'm not anti white.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Full disclosure.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh there's a dude.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh there's an old fellow making an old Italian gesture
for fu that is out of bounds. Sir, Is there
a product or service associated with some big lefty activist
on Elon Musk at the left that I mean, you
could do the same thing too, Does that even exist?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Briefly kind of bud light was, Yeah, that was.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
That was one idiot ad exec But because there isn't,
Because I was thinking if I were to go say
it was, I don't want to say it's anything.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I don't know Elm Trees.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You know, if Elm Trees suddenly you know, identified with
George Soros or Kamala Harris or something like that, if
I were to take my Saturday afternoon to go and
screech at the top of my lungs with my eyes
bulging out of my head of my hatred for this,
that or the other thing, that.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Would make me an idiot and a loser.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
And I'm looking at these There is not a person
in that video who's like a who looked upon with
respect and love from their community. It is just a
bunch of angry dipsses. Sorry, you think we've reached peak
Tesla revolt around Elon? Because it's really Elon revolt? Or
(22:40):
is this gonna continue? I mean he got more involved
over the weekend. If he didn't see that, he went
to Wisconsin to do some rallies, handing out millions of
dollars to try to get people all excited to vote
for a Republican judge because he thinks that the world
civilization hangs in the balance. Elon said, because the if
the Democrats win with the judges, then they rule on
(23:04):
the redistricting, and then that might cost the Republicans a
couple of House seats, and as close as it is,
that might mean they vote against the Doge cuts, which
might mean the United States goes broke, which means the
world order that we have loved for so long disappears. Cannibalism, warfare,
planet of the beavers. Yeah, exactly. Well, let's you know
it's in es since he's saying this is the most
important election of our lifetimes or anybody else's hyperbolic. But
(23:30):
my question of do you think we've had had peak
Elon Revolt? Or is it going to grow is he
gets more involved. He is one of the most creative
people on the planet, so yes, he will find new
ways to.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Piss them off.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, I don't Yeah, I think there's more to come.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I don't know. It's it's bizarre. Things are getting weird fast.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Because I just bought I mentioned this, I bought a
cyber truck over the weekend. And how do I deal
with if I run into one of these lunatictis you will, well,
I know I will, actually in the town I live in.
So how do I deal with that? The fact that
I bought it now, like in my neighborhood particularly, is
going to be notices.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Oh yeah, that that's a boss move on your part.
I'm really impressed.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Or it's one of the stupid things I've ever done,
But that's another form of being impressed. How you know,
how how do I respond to an angry lunatic?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I think you need to and I'm happy to help
if you'll have me, But you need to formulate a
concise response that you have ready to go. That's all right,
there are no bad ideas. That's very concise, A concise
statement of your contempt for their over emotional knee jerk
(24:46):
reactions something to that effect.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
What if I do judo, which is you use their
weight and strength against them? Yeah, I care about climate change?
Oh oh we're onto something, folks.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Elon Musk's momentary political amusings have nothing to do with
the planet and the existential threat we're under.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I immediately go with some stupid stat In eight years,
New York will be underwater. That's why I'm driving a testa.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Well, get your niche on, Lee.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
If you a hole, they'll yell at you. Hey Jack, Yes,
I've heard that. Teslas they can make flatulent noises. Couldn't
you do that? When people are insulting, you just start
hitting your horn and just noises. And I feel like
we're devolving If I respond to their idiocy with flatuless noises,
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I feel like that's not elevating the conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You're a cultist, you have no capacity for rational thought. Well,
you are a cultist, you have no capacity for rational thought.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
And then you repeat it again.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
So I'd like to knowlitally, when does the domestic terrorism
kick in. If somebody you know slash slashes the tires
in my car, why is that just random vandalism? As
opposed to you're trying to scare me from buying a
certain product.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And you could absolutely get really really.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Good representation pushing that point of view if you wanted it.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
If you want to become a test.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Case, you could be the Miranda like the Miranda warnings,
the armstrong warning. If you slash my tires, I will
bare spray you. Fair game, right there. I'm just then
you probably ought to have bear spray involved with your response.
I think that may be illegal in cal Unicornia. Well
you never know until you try, right.
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There's no way to research this service stuff.
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Speaker 3 (27:56):
Doge, as I mentioned from the CBS poll, is fifty
to fifty do you support what does doing or not?
I think that's an amazingly high number for support given
all the negative coverage. Have you seen any positive coverage
outside of Fox? I haven't seen anything even close to
positive coverage.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
No, not really, And you certainly have not seen any
version of the interviews Brett Bair did that we aired
last week in which the Doge guys spelled out very
soberly and very seriously, and these are very very serious
men that we are heading for bankruptcy. The federal government
(28:30):
is abusive to taxpayers, it's wasteful of their money, and
their goal is to make the federal government do a
better job for the American people.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
If you've never even heard that stated, all.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
You know is that the world's richest man is casting
loyal public servants into poverty.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well, then yeah, you're going.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
To have a terrible perception of it. And it's still
fifty to fifty. I think you need to give the
American people some pretty good credit for understanding, you know,
what's going on behind the breathless, in idiotic media reports.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Everybody I know who's watched that interview that they did
with the Doge team was really impressed by Greg Guttfeld
said the other night that it was the best thing
Fox has ever aired.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I was blown away by how good it was, how
serious it was, and how how important it was just
as a taxpayer putting politics aside.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I was grateful for the information. Back in the day,
that would have been the sort of thing like an
ABC would have done in prime time, you know, some
really big news story. Yeah, that you know, a third
of America would have seen on TV. Unfortunately, only Fox
viewers saw this, and it's I don't even even if
(29:43):
you're the most anti Elon anti Doge person, if you
watch that interview, I don't know how you could come
away with the feeling that they're just out to benefit
billionaires or something.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh no, no, you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I mean you might say they're playing too fast and
too loose. They said, when they find mistakes, they correct them.
They need to move a little more slowly and a
little more carefully. That's a legitimate point of view, but
it's fact based, as opposed to the entirely emotion based
arguments that you're hearing against it. I mean, I can
just picture that moron David Muir. Have you noticed ABC
(30:18):
is promoting David Muir really aggressively right now watching sports
over the last several days.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I've noticed it.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
And he's gripped. He spends a lot of time in
the gym. Anyway, he's got giant guns. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
But I can just picture him if, for instance, the
administration or Elon or Doge said, hey, we want to
be completely transparent, we want to talk to everybody interviewers.
I could just picture David Muir doing that interview, and after,
(30:46):
you know, one of those very very serious innovative men
explain that, you know, we've got thirty seven different IT
systems for a single department. They can't talk to each other.
It's wasteful. You can't get help if, for instance, you're
Social Security payments go sideways. We've got to be better
for the America. I talked to Jenny McCarthy, who's a
(31:09):
forty year employee, and her children have starved to death.
Now their corpses lie in her kitchen. That's all they
would do is emotional sing. I don't know that we
have enough serious media to spread the truth about it successfully,
not to mention, you know, well, just being honest, I
think would be a start.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Puppy caught on fire in Pleasantville, Michigan, and there wasn't
a fire hydrant.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah to water the dog flaming puppies.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Thanks to Doge, my punk band, we never got a
record deal. You have any thoughts on that. What should
I say if I get verbally attacked by a lunatic?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, what's your contradiction? The oceans are boiling? Yes, I
like that.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Then they got to respond to that made Greta Tuneberg cry,
are you proud of yourself?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That poor little girl?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Okay, we got more of the way. Stay here, armstrong
and getty.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Baseball the time, this field, this game, it's a part
of our pastory. It reminds us all that once was good.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I like baseball. I don't know if it reminds me
of all that once was good and can be again,
but I like baseball.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Darth Vader designated hitter, the Dark Side of the Force, huh,
all ties together?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
James Earl Jones or whatever your real name is. I
think that's his real name.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Oh so, anyway, And the reason for that is we're
out at a baseball stadium because it's opening day for
the Athletics, which are playing in Sacramento, California, instead of
Oakland this year before they get their stadium built in
Las Vegas. I was just reading the New York Times
article and there's a lot of excitement around the league
for people in you know, wherever you are right now.
You got a favorite team somewhere when they play the A's,
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you should come. Because this is a tiny ballpark. Oh yeah,
it's a tripa a park eighteen nineteen soth you told
me nineteen. But like the worst seat, like right over there,
there's still a fantastic seat compared to most Major League
Baseball stadium.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You yell at the ump from there, they'll hear you.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
So complete different topic, really interesting if you're still into
the Israel Hamas conflict, the.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Aftermath of the horrors of October.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Seventh, the realization that Israel's come to that they cannot
live side by side with any you know, any people,
any regime, anything that's ruled by militant anti jew Islamists,
including Hamas course or Hesbela for that matter. And I
have wondered whether Donald J didn't let a bit of
(33:56):
a cat out of the bag when he was talking about, Hey,
we're just going to take over the the Gaza.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Turned it into a resort, golf courses, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Because the story out of gin In on the West
Bank right now is for for decades now, Israel has
had to do various security operations in there, because it's
full of Islamic Islamist militants, and it's narrow, twisting alleys
crammed full of tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees, and
it's been a cat and mouse game of killing and
(34:28):
reprisals with the Israeli forces and militants. But now those
decade those alleys rather are empty. Israeli bulldozers looking for
hid explosives have reduced much of the roads to sand
and mud.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Century old train station now a heap of debris.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
The schools, the mosques cleared out, the shops left unshuttered
or full of supplies, clothes still hanging to dry, signs
that those who left thought they would soon return. Only
Israeli soldiers indefinitely stationed here in genin patrol its streets
and foot on foot and in armored vehicles. They appear
to be clearing out swathes of land, which would be
(35:09):
extremely controversial globally speaking. On the other hand, and this
might shock you if you've never spent ten.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Minutes looking at history. That's what you do.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
If you conquer your enemy, anybody's going to be loyal
to that enemy and to be a continued threat in
your midst or on your doorstep, you clear them the
hell out. Every single time there's been an armed conflict
in human history, you either come to a mutually agreeable
piece which is enforceable, or you clear people the hell out.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hasn't been done in a very long time.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Though, No, no, not what The camera's a rolling, But
I'm telling you this is what's old is new. This
should not be shocking to anybody, but I think that
may be what's happening.
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getti and no He.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The economic fallout and uncertainty from the latest tariffs scheduled
to launch. The President said to escalate his trade war
this week as market's real over tariff's he's already put
in place.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So how will Trump's.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Next moves shape the economy and how do Americans feel
about it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, we got some of the polling on that. That's
Martha Radditt's of ABC, but CBS actually had a poll
which we can get into and a little bit on
all that. But one thing I would like to point
out that is this, if a Democrat is president, the
only thing that matters is the approval rating, and they
go with that. So the fact that Barack Obama was
polling poorly with Obamacare or Fast and Furious or the Border,
(01:05):
as long as his overall poll mumbing was fifty percent,
that's what they talked about, right. Yeah, with Trump, they
ignore the overall number, like nobody's really interested in approval rating.
They want these individual numbers, and so they hammer how
he's upside down on some of the economic stuff, which
are about to tell you, And at the very bottom
of the story if you're reading it, or at the
end of the cast if you're watching it on facination yesterday,
(01:27):
they meant drudgingly admit he's at fifty percent, which is
higher than he ever was in the first term.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It's so interesting to watch, though, a guy like Trump, who,
in contrast to virtually every president before him, wants to
avoid stoking uncertainty in the markets, in the business community, whatever,
just for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Big business especially hates uncertainty.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Trump with this whole tariff thing, and what's going to
happen on Wednesday, I guess is April second. Do the math,
Joe clearly Wednesday? What's going to actually be implemented and
what's not? What are his goals?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Really?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Trump thrives on uncertainty in negotiations in a way I've
never seen from a president before.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And I can't.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Decide if I admire his commitment to do it his
way more or am concerned by the chaos it's unleashing
more Because the markets are way down worldwide, auto stock
are down, s and P five hundred one course, for
its biggest quarterly loss in nearly three years.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Nearly three years.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
That's about to jump in with that because I heard
that yesterday the worst week since twenty twenty three. Whenever
they say that sort of stuff, I think, what so
a couple of years ago. It's not like I was
eating my neighbors or whatever, right right?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You weren't to you know, you know what, it's an.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Never mind, by the way, you weren't prostituting yourself for cash.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I have a much funnier way to convey that.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
But it struck me for some reason that this moment,
partly because we have people kind of looking at us.
We're at a Major League ballpark right now for opening Day,
just for fun doing the show. Anyway, I decided not
to go with the full version of that. But anyway, Yeah,
it was fine. It goes up, it goes down. There
are little corrections up and down. What actually happens Tuesday, though,
will have long term effects. On the other hand, what
(03:21):
is totally underrated in this and then I'll shut up
and let you go on, is if indeed what he
is striving to do is moved much much closer to
reciprocal tariffs and away from the post World War II
reality where the be a mouth United States economy was
granting indulgences and love to all of the struggling, smaller
(03:45):
post World War two countries as they tried to bounce back,
or in the case of Asia, we're trying to develop
in the first place. If he's just trying to get
to a twenty first century trade relationship with all these countries,
that's a great idea, just a bumpy road getting there.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, he's an ideologue on this issue, obviously, unless you
can come up with some other reason. He's doing this
because it's not helping him short term. Like I say, yeah,
he's clearly committed. Play since Joe brought it up the
car tariff hitting play clip twenty Michael.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Some economists warn't American businesses will pay those tariffs and
then raise prices for consumers. By one estimate, the price
of a new car should shoot up more than six
thousand dollars by next year.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's a lot. Yeah, that's there's a reason they go
with that estimate. It's because it's the highest, most exciting one.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And that's a year from now, and Trump is certainly
not planning on the tariff's beating place for a year.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah, speaking of the uncertainty, he says it's over, you know,
fentanyl and all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But it's not. But he just wants reciprocal tariffs.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I think I was reading something, I think it was
in the Wall Street Journal that a lot of your
big money people are disappointed to find out that Trump
does not worry about the stock market as much as
they assumed. A lot of people had thought he just
does whatever he's got to do to keep stock market high,
you know, so he can keep the economy home and
along so it's good for his ratings. Well, he's clearly
not just doing that now.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Right, And whether it's this fundamentally restructuring our trade relationships
for the twenty first century, which is I hope what
he's doing as opposed to like a permanent regime of
high tariffs to rebuild American industry.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I just I don't think he's got the time horizon
for that.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And it's not going to work the way people who
think it should will. Anyway, he's thinking, oh, indulge the
other obvious example, he's thinking about the long term health
and prosperity of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I wonder if he actually His biggest thing is he
wants to be remembered decades from now, as a century
from now, as a major figure that, like you, really
saw the direction of the world was going.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He wants to be hailed as a hero after he's gone.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I never thought that that he probably was like that,
that kind of guy, but he might. He almost has
to be. That's the only reason he would do this.
So I want to get to that polling. Maybe we'll
do that. Next segment, we are at a Major League
ballpark broadcasting live where the A's now play. The A's
who used to be a vocaland now play in Sacramento
at least for the next three years. Do they build
a stadium in Las Vegas anyway? So right at the ballpark,
(06:14):
it's morning time. There are workers here, The grounds crew
people are just going out now. So did you know
the grounds crew people start working on the field. What
is it eleven hours before the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
The squeegeye guys squeege during is squeeging the rain fall
off of the giant tarp that protects the infield.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
These squeegee guys don't spit on your windshield and pretend
to clean it.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
How much money does it cost to run a Major
League baseball team? I mean cause how many employees. There's
like six guys out there doing this twelve hours before.
They all probably make a salary, support their families on
being squeegey guy, groundskeeper person, probably.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Do a dozen different things. Sure.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, I remember the first time I was ever in
the bowels of a Major League baseball stadium. Pregame hours,
pregame begga gladys, Thank you, gladys with a gladdys.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Used to play the organ at the old Polo Grounds
in the Dun Dun dunt.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, when Willie May's made the catch, she was there
playing the organ. That's right, big old pipe organ. Anyway,
I was shocked. It was a seven o'clock game, and
we're there at about three thirty four o'clock in the afternoon,
and it was started to rest on a cliche, but
a hive of activity. The hundreds and hundreds of people
(07:31):
scurrying to and fro with giant rolling racks full of
hot dog buns and coolers full of meat, and the
ground crews were busy as hack and the business people
were running back and forth feverishly. The press people were
all shouting at each other. Was really amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, I wish that was happening now because I want
a hot dog. I really want a ballpark hot dog.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You'll get no hot dog.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I wonder how early they get hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Ready, you go down?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
What a dog?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I keep yelling that, but nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Go get a raw hot dog, getting onaw on it.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Like you're a six year old kid, that's your only option. Uh.
There's a lot of people here though, It's funny. Were
starting to wake up. Yeah, setting up the concession stands,
working on the field, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It is eight fourteen Pacific time as we speak. That's
kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's starting to seem like a ballpark before it was
an empathy building.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So I don't have a ticket for to night. I'm
thinking about finding a restroom and getting in the stall,
standing on the seat, yeah, and waiting until first pitch
perfect reasonable plan there. Yeah, if I didn't have to
get home that kids, I might actually do that because
it'd be a good story. Because a lot of people
post those YouTube videos like it's a common thing to
(08:45):
hide in an ikea. That's like its own YouTube channel.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, how are you going to have you?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We saw some people doing that when we were at
the last Ika. There are three young people in pajamas
and they climbed up behind some chairs, like up on
the shelf and get behind the chairs. And I was like,
I don't care. Actually saw them in action, yeah, because
we were there like an hour before closing and they
were finding a place to hide in the idea. But
I would absolutely do that here at the ballpark if
I didn't get have to get home to my kids. Yeah,
(09:10):
I would stand on the seat in a toilet if
anybody came in, because I want to see my feet
and know that I'm there.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Might be a more effective place to hide. But if
you're not going to implement the plant, I'm not going
to or less gross. I'm not gonna bother.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well, the toilets are clean, it's gotta be a closet somewhere.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I could just get in sure, sure, or just sit
in that last, that very last seat and refuse to leave.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I got my phone, I could just surf my phone
until what time do you suppose they open the gates
where they start letting people in. That'd be quite a
bit earlier then I could roam around. I'm just an
early arriver at that point, right, Yeah, just a big
baseball probably five o'clock. Yeah, I don't have to kill
that many times. We'll get to some of that polling
coming up. Some of this stuff y'all don't like much,
(09:53):
the not emphasizing inflation that seems to be happening or
some of that. But a lot of the other thing
that things that the media tells you are incredibly unpopular,
Like Doge, They're more popular than I thought based on
this polling and other stuff on the way, So stay here.
The Genetic Casting Company twenty three and meters says it
(10:15):
is bankrupt and also two percent Cherokee. I like that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That's funny. That reminds me.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We're at a major League baseball stadium today. I just
passed one of the luxury boxes and it is for
the the something or other band of the Mewalk Indians,
and that's what they call themselves Indians.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Right, they don't consider it racist. I mean, come on,
but if.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You're a baseball team, you can't be there, right. So
CBS out with they're polling yesterday. They got a fair
amount of attention burying the headline that Trump is still
at fifty percent approval, which is unbelievable really, I mean,
if you think about the big picture of things. But anyway, I.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Think he's getting from people what you never get from
the press, say, I hope he's right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Let's wait and see.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, right, you're gonna see that in all these great
internal questions. So the most negative thing, and of course
that's what they lead with on CBS, that you can
come up with Trump administration focusing on lowering prices, which
when he would go around saying he'd lower the price
of milk or whatever, he's going to lower the price
of I always said he can't. You're not going to.
(11:24):
You can slow inflation, that's fantastic, but you're not going
to lower prices. Really.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh, he was talking about energy being so cheap that
would do it, and I look forward to that happening.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But anyway, in terms of the focus, two thirds of
Americans say the Trump administration is not focusing on that enough. Yeah,
I think that I.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Should catch up with you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I would guess at some point in you're approval rating.
I don't know, but two thirds say not enough focus
on lowering prices and then on putting on tariffs, almost
sixty percent say too much, but hanging in at fifty
percent approval, So.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They're nervous about the economics.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
To your point, people seem to be over looking that stuff,
uh for the approval rating or hoping he's right that
the long term restructural and restructuring will be good for America.
Have Trump's policies made you better off or worse off financially?
When he took office, it was two to one expectation
of better off to worse off. Now that we're how
(12:19):
many months in three months in it's like a year
and a half, it does it's two to one worse
off forty two, not quite but almost forty two to
twenty three.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
So if the election were held today, Jack, that would
violate the Constitution. And it's not going to be impact
of new tariffs on prices. Almost three quarters of Americans
expected to make prices higher short term. So that's people
understanding tariff's better than I might have given them credit for.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, I read an interesting piece that said it won't
cause generalized inflation because if the price of one product
goes up, people have les money to spend on other things,
so that will tend to be deflationary in those sectors.
I'd like to see it play out. I wasn't around
Jack for McKinley in the Smoot Holly era.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm not that old. So with a modern economy, who knows.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So that was short term and who knows if he
actually implements any of this stuff or you know, the
short term versus long term might not be long term
on any of these, right, but long term even still,
half think it'll increase prices long term. Who's most responsible
for today's inflation, which is still higher than we'd like
(13:34):
it to be. Biden leads the way at thirty eight,
as he should, as he should, Trump behind at thirty four,
then both equally nineteen, So I think he's safe there
for a while.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, although that's uncomfortably close. I mean, he's been in
office for three months. What inflation are we talking about here?
The two and a half percent or I'm sorry, two
tenths of a percent that prices have risen in the
last several months.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It's perception Trump's handleg of immigration, it's over fifty percent,
fifty three forty seven. You certainly wouldn't get that from
the media because it's all negative all the time. God,
what did I hear?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
And anybody who's against the policies is getting deported too, Solly,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
H on my ongoing beat up NPR thing that I
like to do with. Listen to NPR today and they're
talking about some state. I didn't even know this was
a How did I not know this? The Supreme Court
in the eighties rule that you couldn't as a school
decide to not educate children of illegals. We've been doing
(14:36):
that since the eighties. Yeah, what kind of theory is
that for a country anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I might live here, you get educated period.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Apparently, Well, anyway, one state is challenging that they're going
to try to They're gonna try to implement in the
state and then challenge it so that it goes to
the Supreme Court, similar to the way that they did
with Roe versus Wade. You get a state and then
you go to the Supreme and take another look at
it because they think maybe they could get a better
result this time around. Anyway, NPR was one hundred percent
(15:07):
on why it is awful and talking to various people
about how awful that would be that illegals can't get
their kids educated by other taxpayers in this country right
for free. Yeah, that's really interesting anyway. On the immigration thing,
it's over fifty percent approval. On the economy, it's about
fifty to fifty. It's fifty two disapproved, forty eight approved,
but that's within the margin of error. And on inflation,
(15:29):
it's a little beyond the margin of era fifty six
to forty four. But again, Trump's overall job rating is
fifty percent. The program to deport immigrants illegally in the
United States is at sixty percent approval. Wow, even with
all the negative coverage, what's the against or do they
not say forty two? Okay, sixty to forty two. Somebody
(15:52):
voted twice. Let me see, I wanted to get this
one on Trump's efforts to cut staff at government agencies
as a fifty fifty the issue U bah blah bah
bah using the signal messaging app to discuss military plans
was not appropriate according to three quarters of Americans. But
(16:12):
is it a big deal? Not that many people think
it's serious. Thirty percent somewhat serious, twenty five percent not
at all serious. So what effect has it had on
anybody's life.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
By the way, Mike Wallace, he's thinking, I shouldn't have
bought that big house in Georgetown.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Two thirds of Americans are against taking control of Greenland. Wow,
which is kind of surprising to me.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
They'll change their mind when they have their first vacation there.
Exactly what do you love better? The biting cold or
the howling wind? Hard to choose or the lack of
anything to see? So there are things Trump is doing
economically that make me nervous. But you've got to remember
how incredibly unpopular Reagan was the first couple of years
(16:58):
of his first term because he was doing the tough
things that needed to be done to restructure things long term,
and he became very, very popular when it worked.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We'll see that's Trump's plan and it may work.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Or Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That is a sound from one of the demonstrations across
the country, more than two hundred that were scheduled to
take place outside Tesla's showrooms on Saturday for the Tesla
takedown scheduled by whom. I find myself wondering and Elon
he's been talking about that a lot, Yeah, trying to
(17:51):
figure out who's behind this. I mean, somebody's organizing the thing.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's a lot of the Soros and a couple of
the other big lefty finan seers, those organizations they fund.
It's it's astro turf, as they say, it's the grassroots
has been professionalized. Yeah, these giant networks that are completely
organized that turn.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Out the people and often pay them to stand.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
There in chance.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I almost hate to bring that up, just because you know,
there have been movements on my side of politics before
they get called astro turf that were not. But like
I saw some Republican congressmen facing chants at he went
back home for a town hall meeting, and they were
chanting tax the rich, And I thought, there's no freaking
(18:34):
way a bunch of Republicans are chanting tax the rich
at their congressman. No, or even just your average workaday
Democrats in that congressman's district, because they have a right
to petition their man for a redress of their angrievances,
to quote a phrase. Well, they were presenting on an
MSNBC though that that Republicans. There's Republican House members, their
(18:55):
own voters are not unhappy with them.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Because of all this channing tax the rich tax don't
load of crap.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
That's what I thought, right Anyway, the Tesla take down, O, Katie,
you got a Tesla a version of a Tesla takedown story.
I do.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
And if you if you're looking at the mainstream media
about this, you're just seeing these large well the way
they're framing the photos, large crowds and whatnot. I happen
to know that in the Treasure Valley in Idaho, there
was one of these Tesla takedown protests and there was
a count. So the Tesla takedown protesters there were thirty
of them. The counter protests, the pro Elon folks showed
(19:30):
up in the number a two hundred plus wow wow.
And one of the anti Elon guys got into a
verbal altercation with one of the pro Elon guys and
the anti Elon guy hit.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
The guy with his car. No sent him to the
hospital out of moins.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
So that's that's where all the coverage is going to be,
not the seven to one pro out numbering the anti.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
People are crazy. Well that sound we just played the
video was something else. I think I tweeted it out, Yeah,
I retweeted it. It's a guy in a cyber truck
now he's wearing a Maga hat. But he pulls up
by the Tesla protests there at the dealership in his
cyber truck, and people lost their minds. I mean, they
just looked crazy. Like just said earlier, you could imagine
(20:18):
those people burning Elon at the stake. They look that mad. Justnut.
I'm reading this business insider view of this writer went
to a couple of the Tesla takedown protests won in
ann Arbor to college Town if you don't know that,
that's where the University of Michigan. And there were four
hundred protesters outside the Tesla showroom there in ann Arbor, chanting, hey, hey,
(20:41):
ho ho, Elon Musk has got to go.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh devastating that and the shame shame chant I hope.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Elon will endure. He noticed this writer that the people
the protesters were primarily over the age of sixty five,
white and retired from jobs that depended on public funding
as teachers, professionals at local universities and social work.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
That is so funny.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I'm watching the video that you were referencing that you tweeted,
and it is a bunch of angry women who appear
to be sixty five plus every single one of them white.
I am a white person, full disclosure. I'm not anti white.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Full disclosure.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh there's a dude.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh there's an old fellow making an old Italian gesture
for fu that is out of bounds. Sir, Is there
a product or service associated with some big lefty activist
on Elon Musk at the left that I mean, you
could do the same thing too, Does that even exist?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Briefly kind of bud light was, Yeah, that was.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
That was one idiot ad exec But because there isn't,
Because I was thinking if I were to go say
it was, I don't want to say it's anything.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I don't know Elm Trees.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
You know, if Elm Trees suddenly you know, identified with
George Soros or Kamala Harris or something like that, if
I were to take my Saturday afternoon to go and
screech at the top of my lungs with my eyes
bulging out of my head of my hatred for this,
that or the other thing, that.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Would make me an idiot and a loser.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
And I'm looking at these There is not a person
in that video who's like a who looked upon with
respect and love from their community. It is just a
bunch of angry dipsses. Sorry, you think we've reached peak
Tesla revolt around Elon? Because it's really Elon revolt? Or
(22:40):
is this gonna continue? I mean he got more involved
over the weekend. If he didn't see that, he went
to Wisconsin to do some rallies, handing out millions of
dollars to try to get people all excited to vote
for a Republican judge because he thinks that the world
civilization hangs in the balance. Elon said, because the if
the Democrats win with the judges, then they rule on
(23:04):
the redistricting, and then that might cost the Republicans a
couple of House seats, and as close as it is,
that might mean they vote against the Doge cuts, which
might mean the United States goes broke, which means the
world order that we have loved for so long disappears. Cannibalism, warfare,
planet of the beavers. Yeah, exactly. Well, let's you know
it's in es since he's saying this is the most
important election of our lifetimes or anybody else's hyperbolic. But
(23:30):
my question of do you think we've had had peak
Elon Revolt? Or is it going to grow is he
gets more involved. He is one of the most creative
people on the planet, so yes, he will find new
ways to.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Piss them off.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, I don't Yeah, I think there's more to come.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I don't know. It's it's bizarre. Things are getting weird fast.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Because I just bought I mentioned this, I bought a
cyber truck over the weekend. And how do I deal
with if I run into one of these lunatictis you will, well,
I know I will, actually in the town I live in.
So how do I deal with that? The fact that
I bought it now, like in my neighborhood particularly, is
going to be notices.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Oh yeah, that that's a boss move on your part.
I'm really impressed.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Or it's one of the stupid things I've ever done,
But that's another form of being impressed. How you know,
how how do I respond to an angry lunatic?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I think you need to and I'm happy to help
if you'll have me, But you need to formulate a
concise response that you have ready to go. That's all right,
there are no bad ideas. That's very concise, A concise
statement of your contempt for their over emotional knee jerk
(24:46):
reactions something to that effect.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
What if I do judo, which is you use their
weight and strength against them? Yeah, I care about climate change?
Oh oh we're onto something, folks.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Elon Musk's momentary political amusings have nothing to do with
the planet and the existential threat we're under.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I immediately go with some stupid stat In eight years,
New York will be underwater. That's why I'm driving a testa.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Well, get your niche on, Lee.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
If you a hole, they'll yell at you. Hey Jack, Yes,
I've heard that. Teslas they can make flatulent noises. Couldn't
you do that? When people are insulting, you just start
hitting your horn and just noises. And I feel like
we're devolving If I respond to their idiocy with flatuless noises,
(25:40):
I feel like that's not elevating the conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You're a cultist, you have no capacity for rational thought. Well,
you are a cultist, you have no capacity for rational thought.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
And then you repeat it again.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
So I'd like to knowlitally, when does the domestic terrorism
kick in. If somebody you know slash slashes the tires
in my car, why is that just random vandalism? As
opposed to you're trying to scare me from buying a
certain product.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And you could absolutely get really really.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Good representation pushing that point of view if you wanted it.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
If you want to become a test.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Case, you could be the Miranda like the Miranda warnings,
the armstrong warning. If you slash my tires, I will
bare spray you. Fair game, right there. I'm just then
you probably ought to have bear spray involved with your response.
I think that may be illegal in cal Unicornia. Well
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There's no safe like simply safe. The polling on.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Doge, as I mentioned from the CBS poll, is fifty
to fifty do you support what does doing or not?
I think that's an amazingly high number for support given
all the negative coverage. Have you seen any positive coverage
outside of Fox? I haven't seen anything even close to
positive coverage.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
No, not really, And you certainly have not seen any
version of the interviews Brett Bair did that we aired
last week in which the Doge guys spelled out very
soberly and very seriously, and these are very very serious
men that we are heading for bankruptcy. The federal government
(28:30):
is abusive to taxpayers, it's wasteful of their money, and
their goal is to make the federal government do a
better job for the American people.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
If you've never even heard that stated, all.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
You know is that the world's richest man is casting
loyal public servants into poverty.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well, then yeah, you're going.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
To have a terrible perception of it. And it's still
fifty to fifty. I think you need to give the
American people some pretty good credit for understanding, you know,
what's going on behind the breathless, in idiotic media reports.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Everybody I know who's watched that interview that they did
with the Doge team was really impressed by Greg Guttfeld
said the other night that it was the best thing
Fox has ever aired.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I was blown away by how good it was, how
serious it was, and how how important it was just
as a taxpayer putting politics aside.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I was grateful for the information. Back in the day,
that would have been the sort of thing like an
ABC would have done in prime time, you know, some
really big news story. Yeah, that you know, a third
of America would have seen on TV. Unfortunately, only Fox
viewers saw this, and it's I don't even even if
(29:43):
you're the most anti Elon anti Doge person, if you
watch that interview, I don't know how you could come
away with the feeling that they're just out to benefit
billionaires or something.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh no, no, you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I mean you might say they're playing too fast and
too loose. They said, when they find mistakes, they correct them.
They need to move a little more slowly and a
little more carefully. That's a legitimate point of view, but
it's fact based, as opposed to the entirely emotion based
arguments that you're hearing against it. I mean, I can
just picture that moron David Muir. Have you noticed ABC
(30:18):
is promoting David Muir really aggressively right now watching sports
over the last several days.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I've noticed it.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
And he's gripped. He spends a lot of time in
the gym. Anyway, he's got giant guns. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
But I can just picture him if, for instance, the
administration or Elon or Doge said, hey, we want to
be completely transparent, we want to talk to everybody interviewers.
I could just picture David Muir doing that interview, and after,
(30:46):
you know, one of those very very serious innovative men
explain that, you know, we've got thirty seven different IT
systems for a single department. They can't talk to each other.
It's wasteful. You can't get help if, for instance, you're
Social Security payments go sideways. We've got to be better
for the America. I talked to Jenny McCarthy, who's a
(31:09):
forty year employee, and her children have starved to death.
Now their corpses lie in her kitchen. That's all they
would do is emotional sing. I don't know that we
have enough serious media to spread the truth about it successfully,
not to mention, you know, well, just being honest, I
think would be a start.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Puppy caught on fire in Pleasantville, Michigan, and there wasn't
a fire hydrant.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah to water the dog flaming puppies.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Thanks to Doge, my punk band, we never got a
record deal. You have any thoughts on that. What should
I say if I get verbally attacked by a lunatic?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, what's your contradiction? The oceans are boiling? Yes, I
like that.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Then they got to respond to that made Greta Tuneberg cry,
are you proud of yourself?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That poor little girl?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Okay, we got more of the way. Stay here, armstrong
and getty.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Baseball the time, this field, this game, it's a part
of our pastory. It reminds us all that once was good.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I like baseball. I don't know if it reminds me
of all that once was good and can be again,
but I like baseball.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Darth Vader designated hitter, the Dark Side of the Force, huh,
all ties together?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
James Earl Jones or whatever your real name is. I
think that's his real name.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Oh so, anyway, And the reason for that is we're
out at a baseball stadium because it's opening day for
the Athletics, which are playing in Sacramento, California, instead of
Oakland this year before they get their stadium built in
Las Vegas. I was just reading the New York Times
article and there's a lot of excitement around the league
for people in you know, wherever you are right now.
You got a favorite team somewhere when they play the A's,
(33:07):
you should come. Because this is a tiny ballpark. Oh yeah,
it's a tripa a park eighteen nineteen soth you told
me nineteen. But like the worst seat, like right over there,
there's still a fantastic seat compared to most Major League
Baseball stadium.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You yell at the ump from there, they'll hear you.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
So complete different topic, really interesting if you're still into
the Israel Hamas conflict, the.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Aftermath of the horrors of October.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Seventh, the realization that Israel's come to that they cannot
live side by side with any you know, any people,
any regime, anything that's ruled by militant anti jew Islamists,
including Hamas course or Hesbela for that matter. And I
have wondered whether Donald J didn't let a bit of
(33:56):
a cat out of the bag when he was talking about, Hey,
we're just going to take over the the Gaza.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Turned it into a resort, golf courses, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Because the story out of gin In on the West
Bank right now is for for decades now, Israel has
had to do various security operations in there, because it's
full of Islamic Islamist militants, and it's narrow, twisting alleys
crammed full of tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees, and
it's been a cat and mouse game of killing and
(34:28):
reprisals with the Israeli forces and militants. But now those
decade those alleys rather are empty. Israeli bulldozers looking for
hid explosives have reduced much of the roads to sand
and mud.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Century old train station now a heap of debris.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
The schools, the mosques cleared out, the shops left unshuttered
or full of supplies, clothes still hanging to dry, signs
that those who left thought they would soon return. Only
Israeli soldiers indefinitely stationed here in genin patrol its streets
and foot on foot and in armored vehicles. They appear
to be clearing out swathes of land, which would be
(35:09):
extremely controversial globally speaking. On the other hand, and this
might shock you if you've never spent ten.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Minutes looking at history. That's what you do.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
If you conquer your enemy, anybody's going to be loyal
to that enemy and to be a continued threat in
your midst or on your doorstep, you clear them the
hell out. Every single time there's been an armed conflict
in human history, you either come to a mutually agreeable
piece which is enforceable, or you clear people the hell out.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hasn't been done in a very long time.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Though, No, no, not what The camera's a rolling, But
I'm telling you this is what's old is new. This
should not be shocking to anybody, but I think that
may be what's happening.
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