September 24, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- SIM farms in NYC & robot wolves
- Jack's Ukrainian girlfriend update
- The Russia/Ukraine war
- A great Charlie Kirk moment
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty, and He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Malibu mansion, previously owned by talk show host Johnny Carson,
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
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you can't afford it. When I was younger, I probably
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, everybody's in a different financial position, different priorities, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But yeah, I hear you. Oh that's so annoying. And
the way they position them, they do a good job
of putting the ads in like the most annoying spot
of whatever you're watching. It's just been announced that Donald
Trump's presidential library will be in Miami. That's kind of interesting,
different topic, so maybe anyway, go ahead. Yet another story
(01:29):
that should be elevated above the brave return of Jimmy
Kimmel to Lake Nice because who freaking cares? Is that
phone server bank thingy they found in New York yesterday
that could have disrupted all of the New York cell
phone and we're trying to figure out who it is.
This is the way ABC covered it last night.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
A system so powerful authorities say it could have been
used to disrupt all cell phone service for the entire
city of New York, including police, fire and ems. The
so called sim farm capable of sending thirty million text
messages a minute, source of selling ABC News the operation
is connected to the Chinese government sought he found the
sim farm while investigating anonymous threatening calls earlier this year,
(02:11):
targeting three people, including one with direct access to President Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So that's highly troubling. Obviously, it seems like exactly the
way you'd lay the groundwork for a giant attack, right,
we'll discuss after. This is CNN's version of the story.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Can I you okay real quick? Or ask a follow
up question? Pierre Thomas there stated that police and fire
would be unable to communicate with each other because of
the cell phone system crashing.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Surely we have a redundancy or radios or something that
doesn't depend on the civilian system.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's crazy. Yeah, I don't know. That's horrifying. If anybody
knows about that, we'd love to hear from him.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
That's what we do know is that foreign governments and
criminals located in the United States are using this network
to run their organizations. That includes cartels, that includes human traffickers,
that includes terrorists are on this network.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
If there is some organization behind this, we have to
assume that there's one in LA one in Washington, d C.
Another in Chicago, because if it's a nation state that
wants to attack infrastructure during crisis to break communications and
we don't know exactly what the timing of that crisis
would be for the type, that's the kind of thing
(03:38):
that the Secret Service, the Director of National Intelligence, Home
Land Security, and I'm sure eventually the FBI will have
to really work to get to the bottom of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, that's John Miller on CNN who used to be
in the FBI and has great sources.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, it's like a sleeper cell or a sleeper virus
that just lurks on the hard drive until you need it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I'm sure there's a lot of stuff they're not telling us,
but they it announced that it is a nation state
that was behind putting the stuff in, and then they're
coordinating with people in the United States. But there's only
a couple of nation states you can imagine that would
be doing this, right, China, Russia, Iran, maybe North Korea.
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It rhymes with Pina, but we can't say anything else
at this time.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Uh, how many other.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Sleeper systems, trip wires, booby traps are in our infrastructure?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well how about John Miller saying I hadn't even thought
this that you have to assume that if they had
one in New York, they got it in all the
other major cities also, yeah, yeah, well that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I was thinking of it more in terms of a
plot against something happening in New York, since New York
is New York, home of the UN and financial capital
of the world, and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Worth pointing out that while it was announced yesterday, the
week of the UN meeting, which made it seem like
was it something about the UN It was discovered quite
a while back, so they just announced it yesterday for
some reason.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Right, But to finish my thought that what you just
expressed makes more sense if it is a Chinese you know, uh,
a weapon waiting to be deployed, a sleep or weapon,
it makes much much more sense to have it deployed
much more in a widespread fashion.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah. And if you've ever gotten halfway to work and
realized you didn't bring your cell phone and it seems like,
oh my god.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Oh my god, how is my life possibly going to
function if I don't have my phone with me? Oh am,
I good to even though you know, if you're of
a certain age, you used to go to work without
a cell phone and everything that comes with it all
the time, and you were perfectly fine. You drove across
the country you want, on vacations, you did everything you
did without a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You were fine. But nobody can anymore, and we all
feel like in a panic and naked. Imagine if your
cell phone didn't work, but you're getting some sort of
news about they're the attack of some sort a nine
to eleven style attack anywhere, and all of a sudden,
cell phones don't work imagine the panic that that would
sew nationwide. It's just it's something from a horror movie. Yeah,
(06:13):
you think, oh my god, I need to get a
hold of my kids and you can't, or your wife
or your husband or whatever. Well, I was just thinking there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You could probably name at least a half dozen different
crisis scenarios where you know, I could ask you what
would you do? And the answer would be, well, I'd
grab my cell phone and I would dial, or I
would click on, or I would tune in, or I
would be no, you will do nothing, friends.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I would get on Twitter for all the latest this
and that, and I would head home and the first
thing I would do is jump on my GPS thing
on my phone to figure out the traffic, because traffic
is in gridlock out there as everybody's in a panic,
and nobody has access to any of that through their
cell phone. Wi Fi would still work, wouldn't it, I assume.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Unless they bring that down to the insidious Chinese communist
hortus already thought of that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm sure what just on a broader worse which might
make things worse. I mean, if if some people had
some information and then as soon as you get away
from your building with Wi Fi. You got no communication.
I just can't imagine the panic that would. Oh yeah,
it's horrendous, horrendus. Yeah, what was I about to say?
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Oh, from a thirty thousand foot mattage point, a technologically
advanced totalitarian state competing against a technologically advanced open society.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
With freedom, a movement, a non surveillance state. Mostly can
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Speaker 2 (09:02):
Can a open, free society that is a democracy with
all the red tape that entails defeat in autocracy? That
is the question for planet Earth. It's probably number one
question on planet Earth for the future. I think you
were on vacation when China did that big show about
(09:22):
that bridge they built. You weren't here for that, were you? Oh? Correct? Ye.
They parked all these trucks across the world's biggest suspension bridge,
which they built in like nine months, across some giant
gorge and it's just stunning structure. Just to show that
they could build that sort of thing that fast. That
he parked all these giant trucks on it to show
(09:43):
how strong it is, so you couldn't make the comment, well,
probably fall apart. And I was just thinking, you know
those stories that you hear all the time about how
we built the Empire State Building in six months during depression.
Now it takes the thirty years to lay one mile
of track for a supposed bullet train. Because of all
kinds of environmental concerns and this and that, we can't
do anything anymore. So you've got that aspect of it.
(10:05):
Then you got the whole security state versus non security
state thing. But I think it's worth pointing out that
China is not Johnny Knoxville. I mean, they're not running
a jackass operation. Where wouldn't it be funny if we
shut off their cell phones and watch how they panic.
They have a goal. Their goal is to supplant us
(10:27):
as the world's hyperpower. So yeah, I got to think
in terms of what they're not like the Muslim fanatics
where they just want to knock down a building. I mean,
they have a goal. So what sort of thing would
they do where they then shut down our cell phones
in all our major cities. I can't imagine what that
would be. Oh, my goodness. You know, our goal would
(10:48):
have to be to defeat our military, do enough damage
to our military or our economy like Japan hoped to
do on Pearl Harbor, that we can't fight back, that
they could win a war, that they could do whatever
they want.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, the economy and our liberties are the engine that
drives everything, including our military. No economy, no military, And
so as China seek global supremacy and tries to line
up as many countries as possible on their team as
opposed to our team in the case of the Bridge,
they're sending the message, Hey, we're effective, period, we get
(11:23):
stuff done. These people are so wrapped up in their
own you know, legal system and stated principles they can't
get anything done. Oh and by the way, they're going
to lecture you on your human rights. We don't give
a crap. And in an effort to surpass us economically
or just weaken us economically, that might be reason enough
to take down the cell system in New York for
(11:47):
you know, three or four days, none all of a sudden,
like the denial of service attacks and the ransomware attacks,
all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh, look at that no.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Hospital on the West coast can conduct its business because
we've met with their systems or something like that. Just
one after the other every couple of months, that might
be enough.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Combine that with a drone attack on all our big
military bases.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, okay, so you're going for the big, big attack.
I'm trying to point out it doesn't need to be that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
All that land that they've purchased near military bases across
the country, that's no good much as shipping containers open
up and drones fly out like Ukraine did to Russia.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Are those robot wolves galloping across the landscape? Okay, so
now we're gonna get silly? Is that what we've decided?
What what you're taking robot wolves lightly?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'm not a robot wolves start galloping across meadows. You're
running as fast as you can, but it's like your
legs are in quicksand you just can't run any faster,
and the robots gaining on you.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They'll put speakers on them so they can howl atl
Why are they howling?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
They're robots? Oh my god? It first that I thought
these are some awful scenarios we've laid out. Are we
are we can tough it up America. Okay, more on
the waist to hear a school local to where we
broadcast from in Sacramento just voted yesterday to keep having
(13:12):
boys in girls' sports and we can't believe it. We'll
talk more about that coming up. Just absolutely amazing. An
update on my Ukrainian girlfriend. If you've been following this, well,
if you haven't been following this saga, a quick background,
so you know, my email has been hacked, like yours
has a million times. All kinds of people have your
email address, and some bad actor is trying to get
(13:35):
me involved in a scam, like happens all the time,
but in this case it love as a scam. In
this case it somebody portrayed themselves as a young Ukrainian
woman who like immediately was in love with me just
because of my email address or something like that. Jack Armstrong,
precious fight and she she writes in funny ways. I
(13:55):
guess you would if you don't you're not a native
English speaker. She's Ukrainian. She says things like Jack, my
precious diamond love you know that sort of thing, and
how much she loves me, and she sends pictures The
weird thing is all the pictures are like different girls.
She looks different than the different pictures. But anyway, she's
like lady guy guys. She's constantly reinventing herself. So what
I was wondering is what was the scam? What's the scam?
(14:18):
Is it gonna be the as she asks for money?
Does she get to try to get me to click
on a link? She did send me like voice memos
if you would like to hear my voice? How beautiful
it is? You know here it is, So there was
something to click on. I did not click on it.
And I've been like sending one word replies or a
one sentence replies every now and then. You know, been
thinking of you all night. You know, how are you?
(14:40):
That sort of thing? Wow, good man, waiting for waiting
for the scam? I just wondered, what which kind of
scam this is? Well, Hanson came up with the idea
of scam her first tell her you have had a
medical emergency and need five thousand dollars, or you're in
jail or whatever it's going to be, ask her for money.
But we decided to lead up to that, and so
(15:03):
I had sent this email two days ago. You were
on my mind the entire weekend. I really want to
see you, my Buttercup, and I really want to see you.
Who is gonna be followed by I have almost all
the money I need for a plane ticket. I just
need five hundred dollars more or something like that. But
her response shocked me. All my kisses for you, Jack,
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exclamation point, exclamation point. If you really want to have
a relationship with me, please answer all the letters I
wrote to you and all my questions another way. Please
do not disturb me anymore. Wow. She actually like, if
you're not gonna actually email me back and participate in
(15:46):
this relationship, I want out, is the way she responded,
which is surprising to me. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
She replied, if I might, don't build me up, Buttercup,
just to let me down, to quote the old Motowness song.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So I don't know what to think now. But that's
a weird scam.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh no, no, it's good. It's smart. She's trying to
convince you of her sincerity.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So that's supposed to make me as a really pathetic, sad, lonely,
perhaps mentally ill person. Oh no, I'm in jeopardy of
losing this.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I've got to be serious about this.
I've got to treat this girl like she deserves to
be treated. Yes, God, I got to answer all our questions.
I don't want to answer all our questions. He had
a lot of questions about, like, you know, what's your
favorite movie or flower or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I don't know. You know the way, you know, the
way women are with their questions while you're trying to
watch TV. Did you have a comment, Katie.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
No, It just sounds like she's totally trying to guilt
you into keeping this going. Oh okay, gotcha, And I
heavily think you should answer all of the questions and
continue this because this is fantastic entertainment.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
God, we've only been together for two weeks and already
it's nan And why didn't she answer my question? I
was working? Do you know what you did? Yeah? Exactly? Okay,
Well I guess i'll respond. I really want to know
what the ask is going to be. When she's going.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
To be small small ish, I can't remember what the
term for it is, but she will need a pitdlling
amount of money.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
She well keep her pretty five dollars. It's either a
bot or some you know, criminal gang. It's not some
bearded guy in his mom's basement.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's more likely some poor bastard and slaved
in Southeast Asia being.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Forced to do this. Well, because that's what a lot
of it is. That's not romantic, that's not my buttercup.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yes, Skatie, Yeah, I think it'll be a small amount,
but for something that's very serious, she'll create some major
crisis and just be like, this is all I need though,
in order to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And then it's going to grow from there.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Look at it like a series of interviews. The you
responded was the first interview. We've looked at your resume
and it's pretty attractive. We'd like you to come back
for a second interview. The second interview is the can
we lure this guy in to sending forty dollars on
some pretext? And if that happens, then you get the
full court press. They bring in their real pros. I
(18:08):
am her precious Rose, at least that's what she says,
and here is something diamond as well.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Armstrong Andngetti.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Ukrainian leader Vladimir'slinsky will be addressing the UN General Assembly
after President Donald Trump threatened even more sanctions and tariffs
against Russia during his own speech, and now President Trump
saying that Ukraine, with NATO's help, might be able to
win back land taken by Russia. Those comments from the
President came after this post to truth social where he
(18:37):
described Russia as looking like a paper tiger and how
a quote real military power would have had a quick victory.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, that's a heck of a development that has happened
in the last twenty four hours. That caught everybody by surprise,
including the president of Ukraine. Let's listen to a little
of what Trump said. This is after his un speech,
when he was sitting around with reporters.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
Now you got to head it to the Quatian soldiers
and everybody involved. It's still going on, and that's that's
not a good thing for Russia.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This was supposed to be quick.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
And so you know, Russian doesn't look very distinguished having
taken three and a half years now, right about three
and a half years of very hard fighting, and it
looks like it's snuck it in for a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
He's sitting with Zelensky, he goes on.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
So we'll see what happens. But the other side can
fight too, and they've proven that. Maybe it's a pay
It could be that Russia is a paper tiger. I
don't know what they are. But three and a half
years of fighting and killing everybody and killing seven thousand people.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
A week.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
For nothing, for nothing. So it's a very sad situation.
But most of you have seen the recent statement I
put out a little while ago, and I'm glad you
got it, but I feel that way. I really don't
feel that we let them get their land back.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
So we'll see how it all works out.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
So the statement Trump referring to, after getting to know
and fully understand the Ukraine Russia military and economic situation,
and after seeing the economic trouble it's causing Russia, I
think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is
in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine
back in its original form with time patients, in the
financial support of Europe and in particular NATO, the original
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borders from where this war started is very much an option.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow, the heck of a thing to say, see in that?
Or is that a bargaining position?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I don't know. I don't know, well, yeah, could could be.
I mean, he wants the war to end. I mean,
if this, if this would scare Russia into an agreement
of some sort.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I think it's notable that Moscow responded with mockery and humor.
Kremlin spokesman said Russia is in no way at tie.
Russia is more compared.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
With a bear. There are no paper bears.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And then the Medvedyev mocked Trump's new position, saying you'd
been given a dose of alternative reality and mocked Trump
Trump's changing views.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I have no doubt he will come back. He always
comes back.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
The main thing is to radically change your point of
view on various issues more often, and everything will be fine.
That's the essence of successful government through social media.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Trump's post was very, very long. Most people are only
reading part of it, but a little more of it.
When the people living in Moscow and all the great cities,
towns and districts all throughout Russia find out what is
really going on with this war, I thought that might
be a tell. Are we about to somehow figure out
a way to distribute that information to the people of Russia. Anyway,
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The fact that it's almost impossible for them to get
gasoline through the long lines that are being formed and
all other things that are taking place in their war economy,
where most of their money is being spent on fighting Ukraine,
which has great spirit and is only getting better. Ukraine
would be able to take back their country in its
original form, and who knows, maybe even go further than that.
(22:08):
What is that maybe Ukraine off a little Russia. Maybe
Ukraine takes some of your land. What do you think
of that? Putting in Russia are in big economic trouble
and this is the time for Ukraine to act in
any event, I wish both countries well, what good luck
to all? He says, thank you for your attention to
this matter, and he said, we will continue to supply
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weapons to NATO for NATO to do to do what
they want with them. This is a long way from
where we were Trump. It's a long way from where
we were with Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm so perplexed by this
and have no idea what to expect. We got this note,
we asked to it, what do you think the Kremlin's
strategy is in mocking Trump?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Impossible to imagine what the upside is. But Putin's a
smart guy. Well, you've got to at least consider this
from Terry. I think China and Russia have a plan together.
If they draw Trump into some stupid, smaller problem, China
now has their chance to assert themselves. I think she
means they know that the Western world is very reluctant
to ever use nuclear weapons. I don't think Putin and
(23:19):
she are as reluctant. I could one.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hundred percent picture Shijin Ping having the following conversation, mister chairman,
an exchange of nuclear weapons will cost one and a
half million lives on each side, But we believe that
would then neutralize the United States blah blah blah, because
they would fear every using them again. Are you willing
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to trade those million and a half lives? And she
would say absolutely, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I don't think we would fire back with nuclear weapons.
I think we'd absorb it. I've read enough about this.
I think that is our current stance. We would just
absorb it, try to negotiate something which is be fine
with China and Russia. Probably. Yeah. So, I know a
lot of people listening think this is some sort of
(24:12):
crazy talk. This is absolutely one hundred percent the history
of the world. This is what has happened every single
time with every more powerful tribe, without every more powerful country.
I mean, you name the circumstance. This is what always happens.
The up and comer at some point strikes against the
aging lion, you know, the lion that is no longer
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the king of this particular jungle. And and just to
think that it's not going to happen again, you're foolish.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I need to point out that we have literally invoked
lions and tigers and bears in this discussion. Oh my,
but you're you're absolutely right. But here, here's here's a
real twist for you. The only way that's quicker to
bring on horrific quality conflict than resisting them is to
(25:05):
give in to them. Then you're really going to get
a horrific conflict. Going Yeah, I don't know, Martin.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I mean, finding those phone servers around New York and
now finding out that they're probably all over the country,
in every major city with the ability to shut down
our cell phone service. There are barbarians at the gate. Yeah,
I mean they're staring at the gate, peering in between
the bars. You can see Oh no, no, no, they're inside.
They're in Rome ooching around openly in our open society.
(25:42):
You know, I was thinking about.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
This speaking of thirty thousand foot of views, and this
is just me thinking I'm not in favor of this
per se. But how many times have you heard me
going on about how the post WW two global economy
was a unique woment in hit that would never be repeated,
where the US stood astride the world like a colossus.
(26:05):
Europe was decimated, Japan was decimated, the rest of Asia
was still living in huts, and we did the vast
majority of the manufacturing of advanced products throughout the world.
And you could stumble out of high school a half
wit in Detroit, Michigan, get a job at the Ford
Motor Plant, and be profitably employed, get yourself a nice
house in a car in the suburbs, and raise your
(26:27):
kids and have a lovely life in America and everything
subsequent to that, people have.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Said, well, what happened to that? That's the American tream.
Now there was a snapshot in time. Okay, So here's
my question, and that was only for some people. Everybody
focuses on the people who lived in Detroit and got
to work for GM. But wasn't that way for a
lot of the country.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Absolutely true. Yeah, So here's the question for you. And
we were talking about this, when was the last hour
and earlier this hour. It doesn't matter ken a technically
advanced open society compete successfully against a technically advanced totalitarian
society that is a police state and does not have
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nearly the vulnerabilities we do internally as we do. Okay, So,
having set that or long preamble, here's my question. And
if you've studied the constitution and individual rights in America,
you know they have varied a lot through our history.
They've gone up, they've gone down, free speech, censorship. Hell,
(27:31):
we had slaves at one point. Perhaps you heard that
in your local school. Anyway, it's all kind of gone
up and down through the years. Could it be that
the post say civil rights movement late twentieth century early
twenty first century America of civil liberties and lack of
(27:55):
government intrusion was also a moment in time that will
not be repeated because it makes us too vulnerable to
a technically advanced, gigantic, economically powerful totalitarian state.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well, that discussion will be had after the result of
whatever is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I'm guessing, so you don't have the courage to answer
me having asked you a question that really requires a
five hundred page book.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Anyway, Well, all right, so what one more sentence from
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Speaker 2 (29:41):
First of all, where's JD vance? And those of you
who agree with his stance on Ukraine? Ain our circus,
not our monkeys. We shouldn't even be involved in this.
Were that part of maga? How did they feel about
Trump coming out?
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I think Ukraine could give back all their land and
maybe even more. And what's JD saying right now? I
want and we're here to help you. But part of
Trump's very long post yesterday was Russia has been fighting
aimlessly for three and a half years, a war that
it should have, that should have taken a real military
power less than a week to win. That's one odd
(30:17):
and troubling thing to say, but that's what God under
Putin's skin, I think would have taken a real military
power less than a week to win. This is not
distinguishing Russia. In fact, it's very much making look like
a paper tiger. That's quitny thing about unprovoked aggression and
wars of conquest or how it was morally wrong and
(30:37):
any no no, which would have been nice. Probably Yeah,
how this plays out, I have no idea. The Washington
Post columnist says it's Trump sensing weakness, maybe with some
data to back that up, that their military and economy
economy are about to fall. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
So my question is, will you and your Ukrainian girlfriend
live here in the States or will you probably settle
in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I'd be a heck of a thing. Huh. I've decided
to move to Ukraine. Which reminds me.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
We got a handful of emails from folks who said
all of those questions about your favorite, this, that, and
the other is they're trying to plumb data to get
your passwords. Oh interesting, because they have algorithms and computers
and that really helps them. My passwords have nothing to
do with any of that stuff, but I'll bet it does.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Most of the time. It often does. Yeah. Yeah, so
I'm really dumb bad I have really dumb bad passwords.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It's a multi pronged attack where they'll try to get
a little cash from you and then a little more cash,
and during that process they're also trying to figure out
how to steal your identity, speaking of web route.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Protection, and then yeah, then that would be a nightmare.
Webroot dot com slash arms from there, I am living
in a war torn country or here. Either way you'll
be penniless and a fool with someone who appears to
be about a third by age. So I don't know
what are we gonna have in common? Kidneys Hanson says,
I'm my kidneys. We don't speak the same language. I
don't know. I don't like our chances. We have so
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many more things we've got to get to.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Gavin Newsom was making a fool of himself on national
television again.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
He was on he's almost as funny as Kamala. Oh yeah,
we got some Kamal eclipse she's making. She she's having
one of the worst launches of a book tour in
the history of book tours. So we got a lot
of good stuff on the way. Stay here, Jack Armstrong,
my precious. We're gonna talk AI and our three. I've
(32:44):
been using three different AI platforms and comparing them. I
want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So the lefties who are refusing to say pass a
resolution honoring Charlie Kirk and the Congress are constantly saying, well,
he would question the intelligence of black women, or he
would say racially divisive things, because if you don't go
with the progressive left's view of race and racism and
(33:10):
the rest of it, they accuse you of being a racist,
even though they are wrong and absolutely flamingly counterproductive. Instead
of talking about the idiot Jimmy Kimmel, let's talk about
Charlie Kirk in his message. Here is a great conversation
he had on a college campus.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
It is a fact, obviously that black people disproportionately commit
crime in this country. You know what's arguing that. But
you either believe that that is due to a complex
intersection of social, economic and like leftover effects from previous inequalities,
or you believe that that is an inherent trait to
the race.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
No, I don't, because they weren't that way.
Speaker 12 (33:43):
In the nineteen forties and fifties, Black America was one
of the most peaceful, flourishing, fastest growing economically communities in
the country. It's not genetic. You're trying to point something
on me that I don't believe. Instead that I believe.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
That it's non genetics. So you do think CRT is correct.
Speaker 12 (33:58):
In the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, Black America was
prosperous and was on pace to be richer and wealthier
than white America. More dads were staying with the women
that they were with, There was monogamy.
Speaker 13 (34:09):
What change you're supporting my argument?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Hold on, but what answered the question? What change?
Speaker 12 (34:13):
Did America get more racists since nineteen fifty to nineteen?
Speaker 13 (34:15):
I would argue there were more racist policies passed. There
were more policies dedicated in the nineteen fifties pushing them
into poor housing and poor schools.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
Wait a second. In the nineteen fifties, Jackie Robinson had
not even broken the color barrier. We had Jim Crow laws,
we hadn't passed the Civil Rights Act, and we hadn't
passed the Voting Rights Act. Yet blacks were better in
the nineteen fifties per capita than they are today. So
we have become less racist, We've passed more anti racist
laws and given more stuff, and blacks are worse than
they were seventy years ago.
Speaker 13 (34:44):
Why so you're equating here institutional and social racism. Social
racism was certainly worse in the nineteen fifties, I'm sure
everyone would agree. But institutional racism occurs when policies are
passed against people come on, which can increase over time.
Speaker 12 (35:00):
You're not being intellectually honest. You know that there was
black only drinking fountains in the nineteen fifties. We don't
have those any anymore. Well, we're bringing it back with
you know, black only dormitories.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
But we had we had.
Speaker 12 (35:09):
We had for example, in the in the Antebellum South
in the nineteen fifties, we had white only communities, white
by law. We got rid of that with the Civil
Rights Act, but it didn't Unfortunately, we look around. The
numbers speak for themselves. Black youth are less likely that fathers.
They're not doing as well as far as economically, they
commit more crime. So something changed, And our argument is
(35:33):
what changed is three things. Number one, the imposition of
the Great Society Project by Lyndon Baines Johnson of spending
thirty trillion dollars since nineteen sixties on Section eight housing,
on welfare on you know, all sorts of where as
I said that young black women married the government and
the divorced young black men. And then we also have
had the as Thomas Soul and as Clarence Thomas would say,
(35:55):
the soft bigotry of law expectations, and we have been
afraid to get to the root of the issue or
even speak about it because we don't be called the racist.
Speaker 13 (36:02):
So who what is imposing those low expectations.
Speaker 12 (36:06):
It's part of it is like white academic culture. I'll
give you an example. I'm not saying you believe this,
but Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States,
has come out and said having an ID to vote
is racist. Now is code for saying black people are
too dumb to get a voter ID.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I'm surprised Charlie didn't answer directly her question by saying
progressive policies. I mean, I agree with her in a
weird way that the institutional legal framework.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
In America damaged Black America.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I believe that one hundred percent, and it was practically
one hundred percent from progressives who did that damage.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, they're not intentionally racist policies, though the idea being
forced into bad housing, bad schools. Right.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
No, it's it's building a culture of dependence see and
non self sufficiency. That's one of the most horrifying, cruel
things you could do to a person.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Big picture, big picture takeaway from that, though, aside from
the specifics that guy got shot, I got murdered for that,
having those kind of conversations. We need so many more
of those kind of conversations on every topic. Yep. It's
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Yeah, everybody's in a different financial position, different priorities, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But yeah, I hear you. Oh that's so annoying. And
the way they position them, they do a good job
of putting the ads in like the most annoying spot
of whatever you're watching. It's just been announced that Donald
Trump's presidential library will be in Miami. That's kind of interesting,
different topic, so maybe anyway, go ahead. Yet another story
(01:29):
that should be elevated above the brave return of Jimmy
Kimmel to Lake Nice because who freaking cares? Is that
phone server bank thingy they found in New York yesterday
that could have disrupted all of the New York cell
phone and we're trying to figure out who it is.
This is the way ABC covered it last night.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
A system so powerful authorities say it could have been
used to disrupt all cell phone service for the entire
city of New York, including police, fire and ems. The
so called sim farm capable of sending thirty million text
messages a minute, source of selling ABC News the operation
is connected to the Chinese government sought he found the
sim farm while investigating anonymous threatening calls earlier this year,
(02:11):
targeting three people, including one with direct access to President Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So that's highly troubling. Obviously, it seems like exactly the
way you'd lay the groundwork for a giant attack, right,
we'll discuss after. This is CNN's version of the story.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Can I you okay real quick? Or ask a follow
up question? Pierre Thomas there stated that police and fire
would be unable to communicate with each other because of
the cell phone system crashing.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Surely we have a redundancy or radios or something that
doesn't depend on the civilian system.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's crazy. Yeah, I don't know. That's horrifying. If anybody
knows about that, we'd love to hear from him.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
That's what we do know is that foreign governments and
criminals located in the United States are using this network
to run their organizations. That includes cartels, that includes human traffickers,
that includes terrorists are on this network.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
If there is some organization behind this, we have to
assume that there's one in LA one in Washington, d C.
Another in Chicago, because if it's a nation state that
wants to attack infrastructure during crisis to break communications and
we don't know exactly what the timing of that crisis
would be for the type, that's the kind of thing
(03:38):
that the Secret Service, the Director of National Intelligence, Home
Land Security, and I'm sure eventually the FBI will have
to really work to get to the bottom of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, that's John Miller on CNN who used to be
in the FBI and has great sources.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, it's like a sleeper cell or a sleeper virus
that just lurks on the hard drive until you need it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I'm sure there's a lot of stuff they're not telling us,
but they it announced that it is a nation state
that was behind putting the stuff in, and then they're
coordinating with people in the United States. But there's only
a couple of nation states you can imagine that would
be doing this, right, China, Russia, Iran, maybe North Korea.
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It rhymes with Pina, but we can't say anything else
at this time.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Uh, how many other.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Sleeper systems, trip wires, booby traps are in our infrastructure?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well how about John Miller saying I hadn't even thought
this that you have to assume that if they had
one in New York, they got it in all the
other major cities also, yeah, yeah, well that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I was thinking of it more in terms of a
plot against something happening in New York, since New York
is New York, home of the UN and financial capital
of the world, and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Worth pointing out that while it was announced yesterday, the
week of the UN meeting, which made it seem like
was it something about the UN It was discovered quite
a while back, so they just announced it yesterday for
some reason.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Right, But to finish my thought that what you just
expressed makes more sense if it is a Chinese you know, uh,
a weapon waiting to be deployed, a sleep or weapon,
it makes much much more sense to have it deployed
much more in a widespread fashion.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah. And if you've ever gotten halfway to work and
realized you didn't bring your cell phone and it seems like,
oh my god.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Oh my god, how is my life possibly going to
function if I don't have my phone with me? Oh am,
I good to even though you know, if you're of
a certain age, you used to go to work without
a cell phone and everything that comes with it all
the time, and you were perfectly fine. You drove across
the country you want, on vacations, you did everything you
did without a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You were fine. But nobody can anymore, and we all
feel like in a panic and naked. Imagine if your
cell phone didn't work, but you're getting some sort of
news about they're the attack of some sort a nine
to eleven style attack anywhere, and all of a sudden,
cell phones don't work imagine the panic that that would
sew nationwide. It's just it's something from a horror movie. Yeah,
(06:13):
you think, oh my god, I need to get a
hold of my kids and you can't, or your wife
or your husband or whatever. Well, I was just thinking there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You could probably name at least a half dozen different
crisis scenarios where you know, I could ask you what
would you do? And the answer would be, well, I'd
grab my cell phone and I would dial, or I
would click on, or I would tune in, or I
would be no, you will do nothing, friends.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I would get on Twitter for all the latest this
and that, and I would head home and the first
thing I would do is jump on my GPS thing
on my phone to figure out the traffic, because traffic
is in gridlock out there as everybody's in a panic,
and nobody has access to any of that through their
cell phone. Wi Fi would still work, wouldn't it, I assume.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Unless they bring that down to the insidious Chinese communist
hortus already thought of that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm sure what just on a broader worse which might
make things worse. I mean, if if some people had
some information and then as soon as you get away
from your building with Wi Fi. You got no communication.
I just can't imagine the panic that would. Oh yeah,
it's horrendous, horrendus. Yeah, what was I about to say?
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Oh, from a thirty thousand foot mattage point, a technologically
advanced totalitarian state competing against a technologically advanced open society.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
With freedom, a movement, a non surveillance state. Mostly can
the open society possibly win? I think that is the
big question. I think that is the big question. I
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Speaker 2 (09:02):
Can a open, free society that is a democracy with
all the red tape that entails defeat in autocracy? That
is the question for planet Earth. It's probably number one
question on planet Earth for the future. I think you
were on vacation when China did that big show about
(09:22):
that bridge they built. You weren't here for that, were you? Oh? Correct? Ye.
They parked all these trucks across the world's biggest suspension bridge,
which they built in like nine months, across some giant
gorge and it's just stunning structure. Just to show that
they could build that sort of thing that fast. That
he parked all these giant trucks on it to show
(09:43):
how strong it is, so you couldn't make the comment, well,
probably fall apart. And I was just thinking, you know
those stories that you hear all the time about how
we built the Empire State Building in six months during depression.
Now it takes the thirty years to lay one mile
of track for a supposed bullet train. Because of all
kinds of environmental concerns and this and that, we can't
do anything anymore. So you've got that aspect of it.
(10:05):
Then you got the whole security state versus non security
state thing. But I think it's worth pointing out that
China is not Johnny Knoxville. I mean, they're not running
a jackass operation. Where wouldn't it be funny if we
shut off their cell phones and watch how they panic.
They have a goal. Their goal is to supplant us
(10:27):
as the world's hyperpower. So yeah, I got to think
in terms of what they're not like the Muslim fanatics
where they just want to knock down a building. I mean,
they have a goal. So what sort of thing would
they do where they then shut down our cell phones
in all our major cities. I can't imagine what that
would be. Oh, my goodness. You know, our goal would
(10:48):
have to be to defeat our military, do enough damage
to our military or our economy like Japan hoped to
do on Pearl Harbor, that we can't fight back, that
they could win a war, that they could do whatever
they want.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, the economy and our liberties are the engine that
drives everything, including our military. No economy, no military, And
so as China seek global supremacy and tries to line
up as many countries as possible on their team as
opposed to our team in the case of the Bridge,
they're sending the message, Hey, we're effective, period, we get
(11:23):
stuff done. These people are so wrapped up in their
own you know, legal system and stated principles they can't
get anything done. Oh and by the way, they're going
to lecture you on your human rights. We don't give
a crap. And in an effort to surpass us economically
or just weaken us economically, that might be reason enough
to take down the cell system in New York for
(11:47):
you know, three or four days, none all of a sudden,
like the denial of service attacks and the ransomware attacks,
all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh, look at that no.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Hospital on the West coast can conduct its business because
we've met with their systems or something like that. Just
one after the other every couple of months, that might
be enough.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Combine that with a drone attack on all our big
military bases.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, okay, so you're going for the big, big attack.
I'm trying to point out it doesn't need to be that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
All that land that they've purchased near military bases across
the country, that's no good much as shipping containers open
up and drones fly out like Ukraine did to Russia.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Are those robot wolves galloping across the landscape? Okay, so
now we're gonna get silly? Is that what we've decided?
What what you're taking robot wolves lightly?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'm not a robot wolves start galloping across meadows. You're
running as fast as you can, but it's like your
legs are in quicksand you just can't run any faster,
and the robots gaining on you.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They'll put speakers on them so they can howl atl
Why are they howling?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
They're robots? Oh my god? It first that I thought
these are some awful scenarios we've laid out. Are we
are we can tough it up America. Okay, more on
the waist to hear a school local to where we
broadcast from in Sacramento just voted yesterday to keep having
(13:12):
boys in girls' sports and we can't believe it. We'll
talk more about that coming up. Just absolutely amazing. An
update on my Ukrainian girlfriend. If you've been following this, well,
if you haven't been following this saga, a quick background,
so you know, my email has been hacked, like yours
has a million times. All kinds of people have your
email address, and some bad actor is trying to get
(13:35):
me involved in a scam, like happens all the time,
but in this case it love as a scam. In
this case it somebody portrayed themselves as a young Ukrainian
woman who like immediately was in love with me just
because of my email address or something like that. Jack Armstrong,
precious fight and she she writes in funny ways. I
(13:55):
guess you would if you don't you're not a native
English speaker. She's Ukrainian. She says things like Jack, my
precious diamond love you know that sort of thing, and
how much she loves me, and she sends pictures The
weird thing is all the pictures are like different girls.
She looks different than the different pictures. But anyway, she's
like lady guy guys. She's constantly reinventing herself. So what
I was wondering is what was the scam? What's the scam?
(14:18):
Is it gonna be the as she asks for money?
Does she get to try to get me to click
on a link? She did send me like voice memos
if you would like to hear my voice? How beautiful
it is? You know here it is, So there was
something to click on. I did not click on it.
And I've been like sending one word replies or a
one sentence replies every now and then. You know, been
thinking of you all night. You know, how are you?
(14:40):
That sort of thing? Wow, good man, waiting for waiting
for the scam? I just wondered, what which kind of
scam this is? Well, Hanson came up with the idea
of scam her first tell her you have had a
medical emergency and need five thousand dollars, or you're in
jail or whatever it's going to be, ask her for money.
But we decided to lead up to that, and so
(15:03):
I had sent this email two days ago. You were
on my mind the entire weekend. I really want to
see you, my Buttercup, and I really want to see you.
Who is gonna be followed by I have almost all
the money I need for a plane ticket. I just
need five hundred dollars more or something like that. But
her response shocked me. All my kisses for you, Jack,
(15:25):
exclamation point, exclamation point. If you really want to have
a relationship with me, please answer all the letters I
wrote to you and all my questions another way. Please
do not disturb me anymore. Wow. She actually like, if
you're not gonna actually email me back and participate in
(15:46):
this relationship, I want out, is the way she responded,
which is surprising to me. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
She replied, if I might, don't build me up, Buttercup,
just to let me down, to quote the old Motowness song.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So I don't know what to think now. But that's
a weird scam.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh no, no, it's good. It's smart. She's trying to
convince you of her sincerity.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So that's supposed to make me as a really pathetic, sad, lonely,
perhaps mentally ill person. Oh no, I'm in jeopardy of
losing this.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I've got to be serious about this.
I've got to treat this girl like she deserves to
be treated. Yes, God, I got to answer all our questions.
I don't want to answer all our questions. He had
a lot of questions about, like, you know, what's your
favorite movie or flower or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I don't know. You know the way, you know, the
way women are with their questions while you're trying to
watch TV. Did you have a comment, Katie.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
No, It just sounds like she's totally trying to guilt
you into keeping this going. Oh okay, gotcha, And I
heavily think you should answer all of the questions and
continue this because this is fantastic entertainment.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
God, we've only been together for two weeks and already
it's nan And why didn't she answer my question? I
was working? Do you know what you did? Yeah? Exactly? Okay,
Well I guess i'll respond. I really want to know
what the ask is going to be. When she's going.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
To be small small ish, I can't remember what the
term for it is, but she will need a pitdlling
amount of money.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
She well keep her pretty five dollars. It's either a
bot or some you know, criminal gang. It's not some
bearded guy in his mom's basement.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's more likely some poor bastard and slaved
in Southeast Asia being.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Forced to do this. Well, because that's what a lot
of it is. That's not romantic, that's not my buttercup.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yes, Skatie, Yeah, I think it'll be a small amount,
but for something that's very serious, she'll create some major
crisis and just be like, this is all I need though,
in order to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And then it's going to grow from there.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Look at it like a series of interviews. The you
responded was the first interview. We've looked at your resume
and it's pretty attractive. We'd like you to come back
for a second interview. The second interview is the can
we lure this guy in to sending forty dollars on
some pretext? And if that happens, then you get the
full court press. They bring in their real pros. I
(18:08):
am her precious Rose, at least that's what she says,
and here is something diamond as well.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Armstrong Andngetti.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Ukrainian leader Vladimir'slinsky will be addressing the UN General Assembly
after President Donald Trump threatened even more sanctions and tariffs
against Russia during his own speech, and now President Trump
saying that Ukraine, with NATO's help, might be able to
win back land taken by Russia. Those comments from the
President came after this post to truth social where he
(18:37):
described Russia as looking like a paper tiger and how
a quote real military power would have had a quick victory.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, that's a heck of a development that has happened
in the last twenty four hours. That caught everybody by surprise,
including the president of Ukraine. Let's listen to a little
of what Trump said. This is after his un speech,
when he was sitting around with reporters.
Speaker 11 (19:00):
Now you got to head it to the Quatian soldiers
and everybody involved. It's still going on, and that's that's
not a good thing for Russia.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This was supposed to be quick.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
And so you know, Russian doesn't look very distinguished having
taken three and a half years now, right about three
and a half years of very hard fighting, and it
looks like it's snuck it in for a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
He's sitting with Zelensky, he goes on.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
So we'll see what happens. But the other side can
fight too, and they've proven that. Maybe it's a pay
It could be that Russia is a paper tiger. I
don't know what they are. But three and a half
years of fighting and killing everybody and killing seven thousand people.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
A week.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
For nothing, for nothing. So it's a very sad situation.
But most of you have seen the recent statement I
put out a little while ago, and I'm glad you
got it, but I feel that way. I really don't
feel that we let them get their land back.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
So we'll see how it all works out.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
So the statement Trump referring to, after getting to know
and fully understand the Ukraine Russia military and economic situation,
and after seeing the economic trouble it's causing Russia, I
think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is
in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine
back in its original form with time patients, in the
financial support of Europe and in particular NATO, the original
(20:21):
borders from where this war started is very much an option.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow, the heck of a thing to say, see in that?
Or is that a bargaining position?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I don't know. I don't know, well, yeah, could could be.
I mean, he wants the war to end. I mean,
if this, if this would scare Russia into an agreement
of some sort.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I think it's notable that Moscow responded with mockery and humor.
Kremlin spokesman said Russia is in no way at tie.
Russia is more compared.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
With a bear. There are no paper bears.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And then the Medvedyev mocked Trump's new position, saying you'd
been given a dose of alternative reality and mocked Trump
Trump's changing views.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I have no doubt he will come back. He always
comes back.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
The main thing is to radically change your point of
view on various issues more often, and everything will be fine.
That's the essence of successful government through social media.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Trump's post was very, very long. Most people are only
reading part of it, but a little more of it.
When the people living in Moscow and all the great cities,
towns and districts all throughout Russia find out what is
really going on with this war, I thought that might
be a tell. Are we about to somehow figure out
a way to distribute that information to the people of Russia. Anyway,
(21:48):
The fact that it's almost impossible for them to get
gasoline through the long lines that are being formed and
all other things that are taking place in their war economy,
where most of their money is being spent on fighting Ukraine,
which has great spirit and is only getting better. Ukraine
would be able to take back their country in its
original form, and who knows, maybe even go further than that.
(22:08):
What is that maybe Ukraine off a little Russia. Maybe
Ukraine takes some of your land. What do you think
of that? Putting in Russia are in big economic trouble
and this is the time for Ukraine to act in
any event, I wish both countries well, what good luck
to all? He says, thank you for your attention to
this matter, and he said, we will continue to supply
(22:31):
weapons to NATO for NATO to do to do what
they want with them. This is a long way from
where we were Trump. It's a long way from where
we were with Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm so perplexed by this
and have no idea what to expect. We got this note,
we asked to it, what do you think the Kremlin's
strategy is in mocking Trump?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Impossible to imagine what the upside is. But Putin's a
smart guy. Well, you've got to at least consider this
from Terry. I think China and Russia have a plan together.
If they draw Trump into some stupid, smaller problem, China
now has their chance to assert themselves. I think she
means they know that the Western world is very reluctant
to ever use nuclear weapons. I don't think Putin and
(23:19):
she are as reluctant. I could one.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hundred percent picture Shijin Ping having the following conversation, mister chairman,
an exchange of nuclear weapons will cost one and a
half million lives on each side, But we believe that
would then neutralize the United States blah blah blah, because
they would fear every using them again. Are you willing
(23:46):
to trade those million and a half lives? And she
would say absolutely, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I don't think we would fire back with nuclear weapons.
I think we'd absorb it. I've read enough about this.
I think that is our current stance. We would just
absorb it, try to negotiate something which is be fine
with China and Russia. Probably. Yeah. So, I know a
lot of people listening think this is some sort of
(24:12):
crazy talk. This is absolutely one hundred percent the history
of the world. This is what has happened every single
time with every more powerful tribe, without every more powerful country.
I mean, you name the circumstance. This is what always happens.
The up and comer at some point strikes against the
aging lion, you know, the lion that is no longer
(24:35):
the king of this particular jungle. And and just to
think that it's not going to happen again, you're foolish.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I need to point out that we have literally invoked
lions and tigers and bears in this discussion. Oh my,
but you're you're absolutely right. But here, here's here's a
real twist for you. The only way that's quicker to
bring on horrific quality conflict than resisting them is to
(25:05):
give in to them. Then you're really going to get
a horrific conflict. Going Yeah, I don't know, Martin.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I mean, finding those phone servers around New York and
now finding out that they're probably all over the country,
in every major city with the ability to shut down
our cell phone service. There are barbarians at the gate. Yeah,
I mean they're staring at the gate, peering in between
the bars. You can see Oh no, no, no, they're inside.
They're in Rome ooching around openly in our open society.
(25:42):
You know, I was thinking about.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
This speaking of thirty thousand foot of views, and this
is just me thinking I'm not in favor of this
per se. But how many times have you heard me
going on about how the post WW two global economy
was a unique woment in hit that would never be repeated,
where the US stood astride the world like a colossus.
(26:05):
Europe was decimated, Japan was decimated, the rest of Asia
was still living in huts, and we did the vast
majority of the manufacturing of advanced products throughout the world.
And you could stumble out of high school a half
wit in Detroit, Michigan, get a job at the Ford
Motor Plant, and be profitably employed, get yourself a nice
house in a car in the suburbs, and raise your
(26:27):
kids and have a lovely life in America and everything
subsequent to that, people have.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Said, well, what happened to that? That's the American tream.
Now there was a snapshot in time. Okay, So here's
my question, and that was only for some people. Everybody
focuses on the people who lived in Detroit and got
to work for GM. But wasn't that way for a
lot of the country.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Absolutely true. Yeah, So here's the question for you. And
we were talking about this, when was the last hour
and earlier this hour. It doesn't matter ken a technically
advanced open society compete successfully against a technically advanced totalitarian
society that is a police state and does not have
(27:09):
nearly the vulnerabilities we do internally as we do. Okay, So,
having set that or long preamble, here's my question. And
if you've studied the constitution and individual rights in America,
you know they have varied a lot through our history.
They've gone up, they've gone down, free speech, censorship. Hell,
(27:31):
we had slaves at one point. Perhaps you heard that
in your local school. Anyway, it's all kind of gone
up and down through the years. Could it be that
the post say civil rights movement late twentieth century early
twenty first century America of civil liberties and lack of
(27:55):
government intrusion was also a moment in time that will
not be repeated because it makes us too vulnerable to
a technically advanced, gigantic, economically powerful totalitarian state.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well, that discussion will be had after the result of
whatever is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I'm guessing, so you don't have the courage to answer
me having asked you a question that really requires a
five hundred page book.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Anyway, Well, all right, so what one more sentence from
what Trump truthed out yesterday. I mean, this is some
this should be taken very seriously, such a big deal.
But anyway, I'll have another sentence for you after this. Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (29:41):
First of all, where's JD vance? And those of you
who agree with his stance on Ukraine? Ain our circus,
not our monkeys. We shouldn't even be involved in this.
Were that part of maga? How did they feel about
Trump coming out?
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I think Ukraine could give back all their land and
maybe even more. And what's JD saying right now? I
want and we're here to help you. But part of
Trump's very long post yesterday was Russia has been fighting
aimlessly for three and a half years, a war that
it should have, that should have taken a real military
power less than a week to win. That's one odd
(30:17):
and troubling thing to say, but that's what God under
Putin's skin, I think would have taken a real military
power less than a week to win. This is not
distinguishing Russia. In fact, it's very much making look like
a paper tiger. That's quitny thing about unprovoked aggression and
wars of conquest or how it was morally wrong and
(30:37):
any no no, which would have been nice. Probably Yeah,
how this plays out, I have no idea. The Washington
Post columnist says it's Trump sensing weakness, maybe with some
data to back that up, that their military and economy
economy are about to fall. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
So my question is, will you and your Ukrainian girlfriend
live here in the States or will you probably settle
in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I'd be a heck of a thing. Huh. I've decided
to move to Ukraine. Which reminds me.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
We got a handful of emails from folks who said
all of those questions about your favorite, this, that, and
the other is they're trying to plumb data to get
your passwords. Oh interesting, because they have algorithms and computers
and that really helps them. My passwords have nothing to
do with any of that stuff, but I'll bet it does.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Most of the time. It often does. Yeah. Yeah, so
I'm really dumb bad I have really dumb bad passwords.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It's a multi pronged attack where they'll try to get
a little cash from you and then a little more cash,
and during that process they're also trying to figure out
how to steal your identity, speaking of web route.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Protection, and then yeah, then that would be a nightmare.
Webroot dot com slash arms from there, I am living
in a war torn country or here. Either way you'll
be penniless and a fool with someone who appears to
be about a third by age. So I don't know
what are we gonna have in common? Kidneys Hanson says,
I'm my kidneys. We don't speak the same language. I
don't know. I don't like our chances. We have so
(32:13):
many more things we've got to get to.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Gavin Newsom was making a fool of himself on national
television again.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
He was on he's almost as funny as Kamala. Oh yeah,
we got some Kamal eclipse she's making. She she's having
one of the worst launches of a book tour in
the history of book tours. So we got a lot
of good stuff on the way. Stay here, Jack Armstrong,
my precious. We're gonna talk AI and our three. I've
(32:44):
been using three different AI platforms and comparing them. I
want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So the lefties who are refusing to say pass a
resolution honoring Charlie Kirk and the Congress are constantly saying, well,
he would question the intelligence of black women, or he
would say racially divisive things, because if you don't go
with the progressive left's view of race and racism and
(33:10):
the rest of it, they accuse you of being a racist,
even though they are wrong and absolutely flamingly counterproductive. Instead
of talking about the idiot Jimmy Kimmel, let's talk about
Charlie Kirk in his message. Here is a great conversation
he had on a college campus.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
It is a fact, obviously that black people disproportionately commit
crime in this country. You know what's arguing that. But
you either believe that that is due to a complex
intersection of social, economic and like leftover effects from previous inequalities,
or you believe that that is an inherent trait to
the race.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
No, I don't, because they weren't that way.
Speaker 12 (33:43):
In the nineteen forties and fifties, Black America was one
of the most peaceful, flourishing, fastest growing economically communities in
the country. It's not genetic. You're trying to point something
on me that I don't believe. Instead that I believe.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
That it's non genetics. So you do think CRT is correct.
Speaker 12 (33:58):
In the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, Black America was
prosperous and was on pace to be richer and wealthier
than white America. More dads were staying with the women
that they were with, There was monogamy.
Speaker 13 (34:09):
What change you're supporting my argument?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Hold on, but what answered the question? What change?
Speaker 12 (34:13):
Did America get more racists since nineteen fifty to nineteen?
Speaker 13 (34:15):
I would argue there were more racist policies passed. There
were more policies dedicated in the nineteen fifties pushing them
into poor housing and poor schools.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
Wait a second. In the nineteen fifties, Jackie Robinson had
not even broken the color barrier. We had Jim Crow laws,
we hadn't passed the Civil Rights Act, and we hadn't
passed the Voting Rights Act. Yet blacks were better in
the nineteen fifties per capita than they are today. So
we have become less racist, We've passed more anti racist
laws and given more stuff, and blacks are worse than
they were seventy years ago.
Speaker 13 (34:44):
Why so you're equating here institutional and social racism. Social
racism was certainly worse in the nineteen fifties, I'm sure
everyone would agree. But institutional racism occurs when policies are
passed against people come on, which can increase over time.
Speaker 12 (35:00):
You're not being intellectually honest. You know that there was
black only drinking fountains in the nineteen fifties. We don't
have those any anymore. Well, we're bringing it back with
you know, black only dormitories.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
But we had we had.
Speaker 12 (35:09):
We had for example, in the in the Antebellum South
in the nineteen fifties, we had white only communities, white
by law. We got rid of that with the Civil
Rights Act, but it didn't Unfortunately, we look around. The
numbers speak for themselves. Black youth are less likely that fathers.
They're not doing as well as far as economically, they
commit more crime. So something changed, And our argument is
(35:33):
what changed is three things. Number one, the imposition of
the Great Society Project by Lyndon Baines Johnson of spending
thirty trillion dollars since nineteen sixties on Section eight housing,
on welfare on you know, all sorts of where as
I said that young black women married the government and
the divorced young black men. And then we also have
had the as Thomas Soul and as Clarence Thomas would say,
(35:55):
the soft bigotry of law expectations, and we have been
afraid to get to the root of the issue or
even speak about it because we don't be called the racist.
Speaker 13 (36:02):
So who what is imposing those low expectations.
Speaker 12 (36:06):
It's part of it is like white academic culture. I'll
give you an example. I'm not saying you believe this,
but Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States,
has come out and said having an ID to vote
is racist. Now is code for saying black people are
too dumb to get a voter ID.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I'm surprised Charlie didn't answer directly her question by saying
progressive policies. I mean, I agree with her in a
weird way that the institutional legal framework.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
In America damaged Black America.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I believe that one hundred percent, and it was practically
one hundred percent from progressives who did that damage.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, they're not intentionally racist policies, though the idea being
forced into bad housing, bad schools. Right.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
No, it's it's building a culture of dependence see and
non self sufficiency. That's one of the most horrifying, cruel
things you could do to a person.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Big picture, big picture takeaway from that, though, aside from
the specifics that guy got shot, I got murdered for that,
having those kind of conversations. We need so many more
of those kind of conversations on every topic. Yep. It's
very unfortunt run with it friends, very unfortunate. If you
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