October 30, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Mamdani's dangerous rhetoric
- World Series, Sydney Sweeney & breaking records
- The meeting with Xi & the exchange of nuclear weapons
- Illegal truckers with licenses from CA
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty,
and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We have to make clear that when the boot of
the MIYPD is on your neck, it's been released by
the ideas.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That is Zorn Mumdani a couple of years ago at
a Democratic Socialists of America meeting, trying to explain. We're
going to play a longer clip where he explains it
himself what he's trying to do, but he wants people
to know, you know, if you get beat up by
New York cop man.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It was the Jews behind it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Well, the fact that he's so down on the NYPD
to start with that, you know, the police are the
source of bad not good, is a heck of a
position for the guy who's going to be mayor.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The fact that it's they're bad because of Israel. Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Right, And again this is not when he was fifteen
thirty five years ago. This is a couple of years back,
a vowed Democratic Socialist.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Here is the longer version of that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It gets a little slow in the middle, but he
really comes to the point that the to his main
point at the end.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You know, I think in the first question there is
there is this setting up of a context where he
set you hyperlocal and international, and I think that for
anyone to care about these issues, we have to make
them hyperlocal. We have to make clear that when the
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food of the mipe is on your neck, it's been
laced by the idea. If we have to make non
specifically that example all the time, just to say that
for working class people who have very time, we have
so many stresses, who are under so many rushers, there
isn't that much time for symbolism. We have to make
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it materially connected to their life. And I think that
what an opportunity we have is that we are in
a country where those connections abound, Especially in New York City.
You have so many opportunities to make clear the ways
in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalism.
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You'st over here.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, So what he's saying is we're globally against capitalism
and the Jews, but people locally aren't going to care
about it unless you can say, and here's how it
affects you at home.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Any police brutality that's the IDF and that's the global struggle.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
He is a dedicated socialist Marxist who is saying the
global struggle needs to be brought home to these poor,
simple people who don't have a lot of attention, time
to pay attention. But understand the most important part of
that is he's not relating the local stuff he cares
about to other things happening around the world. He is
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in a global Marxist struggle, and he's talking about how
to radicalize local New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's what his whole campaign is.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's so interesting that mindset that most of your that
kind of person grew up with privileged backgrounds and they
end up dedicated to the working class or man Psychosama
bin Laden or there's so many marks, there's so many
examples through history of these people.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's an egotism.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
They believe I am so smart and so right, I
should be allowed to change the world light of people
and force people to do it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Is there some level of guilt that I was born
into an easy life or something driving that be an
ingredient in this stoke?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So odd, but so how.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Many do we know exactly how many years ago that was,
Oh I don't remember. He just turned thirty four, like right,
just like a week ago.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So h and as recently as earlier this year, he
was absolutely pledging loyalty the Democratic Socialists of America. He's
now kind of weak in that, but remember Marxists lie
all the time to get their schemes through.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's lying. He's still a dedicated DSA guy. He nailed
it down, Katie. Yeah, he said that in twenty twenty three. Okay,
so two years ago. I'm sorry he was two years ago.
He was thirty one years old.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
But so did he not think he was running for
mayor as recently as two years ago? Because that seems
like you wouldn't say that anywhere where somebody could record
it if you were going to run for mayor.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He might yeah, yeah, well, and he probably didn't expect
that tape to get out. But there is a chorus
of voices emerging in these late moments to crying the
idea of Donnie winning. Here are a couple of them.
Just came across an editorial bar by Bernard Henri Levie,
who's a French Jew and an author. He says, I've
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just well the headline is Europeans watched New York's mayor's
race with fear Zoron Mumdani's victory would imperil Jews and
emboldened totalitarians everyone everywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And he says, I've just returned from a brief stay
in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
On every European's lips in conversation on the news, on
social networks, there's only one subject. This is Europeans now
next Tuesday's election, which may make thirty four year old
Zoron Mamdani new York's mayor. And he goes into the
fact that he has no substantial political past, He has
no jobs. Apart from a few demagogic populist resolutions, he
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accomplished nothing in the legislature. He has no record of
running anything much less one hundred and ten billion dollar
budget and three hundred thousand municipal employees. Last, but not least,
he has made statements of unheard, unheard of violence about
Israelis and Jews simi or as some extreme leftists in France,
who he mentions the man the polls is say is
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likely to be the next mayor, as a resolute supporter
of boycotting the only Jewish state on the planet. He
denies that the country the survivors of the Pulgrims and
the show the Holocaust and built over the past seventy
seven years, has the right.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
To exist as a Jewish state.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
He doesn't hide that he came to politics through the
Palestinian cause, and thanks to it he adopts adopts as
his own without calms, the lies that Israel has engaged
in organized famine and genocide. He has said he'd order
the Prime Minister of Israel arrested if he comes into
the city for the United Nations General Assembly. He condemns
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the Hamas massacre of October seventh, twenty three, but only
half heartedly, also condemning in the same breath the occupation
and apartheid. Subscribing to the theme that Jews are the
source of the world's problems and pulling strings everywhere, he's
able to make the moronic statement about the New York
PD when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck,
it's laced by the IDF behinds nothing to object to
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in the project to globalize the Intafada, which implies he
wouldn't be unfavorable to the idea of seeing Jewish civilians
targeted everywhere, including New York, etc. Oh, one final note
for Americans. When he commemorates the anti American atrocity of
September eleventh, there is only one victim who seems to
provoke a tear from him. Not the thousands murdered in
the burning towers and I would throw in. Not the
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unspeakably brave cops and firefighters who ran in while everybody's
running out. But it was his aunt, or maybe he
was a cousin who, because she wore the hit job,
no longer felt safe on the subway in the weeks
after the terrorist attack. With that, and then he buckled
down to insist that his brew haha around his comments
only proved that Islamophobia runs.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Wild in New York. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
National Review made the point yesterday in a column that
so New York is so Islamophobic that they're about to
elect a Muslim guy as mayor.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, the kind of runs counter to your theory there.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I mean, twenty years after nine to eleven perpetrated by Islam,
a Muslim guy is gonna be mayor. And that's your
proof that it's such an islamophobic city. That stuff about
the police are evil and are driven by the Jews.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Right, wow, I mean that.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Is that's an extreme position, and he explained to the DSA,
at the risk of overhammering this point, he said, look,
it's the global Marxist struggle that is our priority.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We're going to talk about local issues just because that
will fire up the local people to join us in
the Marxist struggle, which frequently targets the Jews.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Look at Russian history, so he admitted that's what drives him.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Rich Lowry wrote a great piece that Jack referenced about
Zoron's New York is islamophobic piece. Karl Rove alls, so
with a humdinger, I am going to quote now briefly
with days Togo. In the New York City mayoral contest,
Zora Mandami offen smooth and Kara's marimatic made a real misstep,
revealed a new ugly side to his message that will
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likely cut his election margin. Despite being a proud member
of the Democratic Socialist America and previously espousing radical views,
mister mcdonnie's largely emphasized populist topics in his mayoral campaign.
You know the expenses of the stuff. But while he
refuses to condemn calls to globalize theft into fauda. He
talks about dismantling the police. Then last Friday, MUNBOUNDI changed course.
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In an emotional speech in the Bronx, he accused his
opponents of Islamophobia. Even less wise, he posted on YouTube
and nearly seven minute speech to speak to the Muslims
of New York. And I'm surprised how little coverage it
has gotten, and I want to hear the whole thing.
While eloquent and flawlessly delivered, it was also angry.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Bitter, divisive, and dumb.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
In the video, which has over a quarter million views
in counting, mister mcdonnie depicts the remarkably diverse community he
hopes to lead as a hotbed of bigotry as.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I quote the first, but not bigotry toward Jews, as
like on the Columbia campus they're in New York, but
toward Muslims right right, he says, is quote the first
major Muslim candidate for mayor in New York City history.
He initially thought I could build a campaign for universality.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
He now realizes that that was futile.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He was mistaken in thinking he could divine himself quote
as the leader, I aspire to be one representing every
New york In, no matter their color of skin or religion.
It was impossible to rally the city united's committees, communities
and appeal to every citizen's better angels. I was wrong,
he said, And then he tells several stories which are
probably all false, about his family members, saying Hi, that
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you're a Muslim, and my poor aunt he pauses the
White Way, the non existent tears was afraid to get
on the subway because of her hit job. Then declared
that Muslim teachers and police officers all make daily sacrifices
on behalf of the city, only to see their leaders
spit in their face.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
But by the way, first of all, there are not,
you know, a lot of examples of anti Islam attacks
or anything like that after nine to eleven. But if
you get attacked and thousands upon thousands of people die
because you find out there was a plot right beneath your.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Very nose of.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Muslims from other countries who were plotting to kill you,
it's not a crazy notion to give a side eye
to the next person you see right who looks like
those people.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I mean that only makes.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You normal, right right, I would agree, But what an
interesting maneuver. What did he think this wouldn't get out
or wouldn't be heard. He went hard at Muslims in
New York, saying, this city hates you, it is so bigoted.
I wish you were wait to lead you to a
great Islamic victory. I wish he wasn't gonna win.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
It's gonna be an interesting experiment to see how this
plays out. When he wins. Is he going to like
be even more vocal? It would seem like maybe he
is even going to be more vocal about his positions.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, one final final note, hit hit fifty for me, Michael,
and then we'll fade it out.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Hi Rabbi, Rabbi, Hi, Rabbi, Hi, Rabbi Hi.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We're among the thousands of Jewish New Yorkers who've been
out door knocking and phone banking to Alexa Ron Mamdani.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
We're also rabbis.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
We know Zurana Wilphi to make our city affordable and
safe for our families.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And that sent off of that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So it's four rabbis part of Jews for Zorn. The
video that last rabbi was a radical leftist, transgender, lunatic,
and the other three were all parts of like splinter
sects of Judaism that aren't even recognized by the Jewish,
you know, mainstream. They're like super out there, weird Marxist Jews.
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So if you hear anything about Jews for Zoron, they
practically don't exist except among hardcore radicals who happen to
be raised into Jewish household and can semi legitimately claim
to be Jews. Why did the opening of the World
Series cause a liberal meltdown?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
On social media? The other day it's like.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I don't care, but I'm glad it did, among other things.
On the waist they hear.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Zorn Mannie, here's the one swinging a ball drilled left field.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
If it's fair, it's gone, and that one is fair
and it's gone.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Back to back to begin the game, and.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The Blue Jays, lady, it's too nothing.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
In Los Angeles last night, the Dodgers, who have a
one point three billion dollar pitching staff, one of their
super stars, first pitch home run, third pitch home run.
That's really something for a way to start a game.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And it's now there have been seven hundred and five
World Series games since it began, and that was the
first time that's ever happened.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Back to back home runs to start a game. That
is something.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So anyway, it's going back to Toronto, Canada with a
chance for the Toronto Blue Jays to win the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But has I really been into the World Series?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And I've been watching a lot, and I noticed the
other night they put together a little package before the
game starts, and every night it's different. It's it's something
really highly produced, usually with the celebrity involved doing a
voice over with a bunch of highlights and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It's cool to get y'all amped up for the game.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And the one two nights ago was that Nazi jeans
girl Sidney Sweeney, the one who pushes the fascist dungeries.
I'm actually I'm wearing my American Eagle Nazi jeans right now.
I really like them. She got new haircut. That's not
like people will melted down. It was just the fact
that the baseball had the nerve. And of course it's
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Fox to air the Nazi chick with my my good genes,
which is.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Just straight out of Hitlers.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Oh plays, It's hardly even translated. Sidney Sweeney sparks liberal
meltdown for the crime of making a cameo during Fox's
World series coverage, says The New York Post. She's surprised
millions of you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They can't even they can't even gin up a shut
up out of me.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I know, so silly. I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, And.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I can't ever figure out how much of this is
even the slightest bit real that there's somebody upset. How
many of the responses are bots, How many of people
are kind of trolling their own side.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
By getting involved in these things.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I don't even patrolling the other side, right, Yeah, I
don't know. I could see writing breathless, angry posts about
Sidney Sweeney just to beclown the left. I don't have
the time, but I could see it. Perhaps in my
younger days.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Has something I don't know I think about that you
don't have near as many celebrities in the stands in Toronto.
That's one thing about your Los Angeles games, where it's
the Lakers or the Dodgers, you get all the celebrities
that anytime there's a good play, you get to go
to Jason Bateman, you know, high fighting his hot girlfriend,
or there's fat Magic Johnson dancing.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Around with somebody or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, at some point I want to talk about trey
Ya Savage, who was the pitcher for the Blue Jays
last night. Lives in a hotel, yeah, because he started
the year in single A ball to the high single A,
then double A, then triple A, then the majors. And
he's now got like five postseason starts compared to only
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three regular season starts, and he's dominant. Yeah, and he's
like the most cool headed, unassuming guy in sports history.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
He he's the youngest guy to what is it.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
He broke a record going up to going back to
like two fingers McGee in nineteen oh eight.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I mean, it's just unbelievable this guy's story.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Anyway, more to Coom Armstrong and Getty, President Trump called
the meeting with she that lasted about two hours quotes amazing.
The president said the US will lower tariffs on China's
forty seven percent, down from fifty seven percent. He also
said a lot of other decisions were made on soybean exports,
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fentanyl and computer chips, and official traveling with the president
also saying that China has agreed to keep exports of
rare earth minerals flowing.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Well, we'll see how this all shakes out and where
the numbers end up. As looking at Ian Bremer's analysis,
his takeaway was that the two biggest economies in the
world have decided neither one of them are actually interested
in a trade war.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
That was his takeaway. So I hope that's what ends
up happening.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
That's the feel of it, isn't it that It's like
two hockey players circling each other and decide, all right,
we're not going to fight now, we'll fight later.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
So let's take a minute.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
President Trump met with the leader of China, President She
for a couple of hours, and Trump came out and
said it was a.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Twelve out of ten. Twelve out of ten, that's how
great it was. I wish I would adopt more of that.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There's a lot of people that do that, super optimistic,
always put a positive spin on everything like that, whose
lives seem to work out pretty well. And I don't
know why I don't adopt that. It's just not the
way I'm built.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
But or do they go home lock their doors and
weep bitterly and how disappointed they really are with the world.
Put on that Jerry face to the world. That's what
me too, Michael.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I've always kind of gone with the whole Ben Franklin,
Pessimism is the best way.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Usually things aren't going to work out the way you want,
so you're already prepared for it. And if it works
out better, it's pretty easy to adjust if things go
better than you were expecting.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Me well, as I always say as a pessimist, there
are two outcomes.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I was right or wasn'tly surprised? Right, right, right?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
If what you're happy either way see I told you,
or cool I was wrong. I'm glad I was wrong.
Here's David Sanger of the New York Times. He's one
of the most respected writers on this sort of stuff.
I actually haven't heard this on what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Chijiping was the only one who managed to stand up
directly to President Trump on the tariffs cut off. The
rar earths said, you want to play this game, we
can as well. So I think the best you could
hope for would be that they basically reset the clock
to January, get rid of the tariffs, China starts buying
soybeans again, they suspend the rare earth halt and so forth.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, and one more clip of Sanger of The New
York Times.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Yeah, the relationship is so much bigger. Well, it's military Russian,
it's Taiwan. It's cyber attacks, Salt Typhoon and Fault Typhoon,
both aimed at the United States. It's the growth of
the largest nuclear weapons program that we have seen. It's
taking land from uh and islands from the Philippines, and
so far the president has really focused only on the
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trade aspect.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's I didn't know this until I read in the
Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Actually today China's got the most aggressive nuclear program on
the planet. Part of that is there behind where Russia
and the United States got during the Cold War, we
got we and Russia got we had to taper down
the number of nuclear weapons we had. If you look
at the back in the day, in the eighties, we
each had like thirty forty thousand nuclear weapons, and now
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we've got it down to like eight thousand each or something.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
But it's just I don't even what was what was
the goal at that point? What was God?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I mean, I've read a lot about it, but what
was the actual nuts and bolts thinking of each country
could destroy the planet five hundred times, but will make
even more nuclear weapons. Right, It's like buying your three
hundreds handgun, you know, because you know when the s
gets started, and I want to be ready now, you'll
never get that far down into your collection.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I didn't I didn't know at the time. I still
don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You have to have a certain amount of strategic flexibility
in case certain numbers of the weapons are taken out
or your commanding control is hurt in this way and
that way. But at some point, I mean, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
But China is a fair amount behind the two powers
that are Russia and US from the old Cold War,
and they're catching up rapidly, which is one of the
reasons that Trump announced today that we're going to restart
nuclear testing for the first time in thirty plus years. Now.
Wasn't perfectly clear where whether he meant like setting off
bomb somewhere out in the ocean or a desert or something,
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or if he meant nuclear delivery weapons testing like Russia
did over the weekend with what Vladimir Putin called his
unstoppable missile. He says he's got a missile that nobody
can possibly stop from traveling wherever the hell he wants
to send a nuclear weapon, which if.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Trivia warning shot at Canada, let him know how it's
going to go. If they in our world series, Just
to set a tone, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Rooting for Toronto.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
So kind of an aside, kind of nott do you
think in our lifetime, let's assume we each got Joe
and I are exactly the same age. More lest let's
assume we got twenty years left. You think that's a
fair assumption. Think you got twenty years left? I feel
like I probably. I don't know eighty I bet money
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I got to lady, I don't know. Okay, But so
in our lifetime, nuclear weapons will be fired in anger.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Wow, that's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I'm a one hundred percent yes. But I would have
said that in nineteen forty eight too and been.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Wrong because of proliferation, meaning different countries are going to
get them, more people have more of them. Oh man,
I'm a very regretful hesitant. Yes, I suspect it will
be a tactical weapon, not a reduced an entire city
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to ashes weapon. It'll be a tactical warning shottish use
of nukes.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
They'll take out.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Omaha, for instance, no offense, Omaha lovely town, and then
we'll take out Kirkutsk or something like that, and everybody
will say we're serious, Yeah, we're serious, and you know,
ratchet down tensions.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I hope you don't think it would be.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
A thing to contemplate, especially on today, the day before Halloween.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
It ought to be contemplated more often.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I'm amazed that we don't contemplate it on a regular
rasis not individual humans, but governments, world leaders.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I think they did.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
They probably do to some extent, especially with as you've
been hot on the beat of all these advanced, practically
undetectable missiles being developed. I think that's got the attention
of the Pentagon for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah, there's a new movie coming out about nuclear war,
documentary sort of movie something or other.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, are you talking about the uh? What is it?
Is it on Netflix?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Or one of your famous directors are behind it? Anyway,
I'll look that up because it sounds really, really interesting.
But there's been a couple of great books in the
last few years about the exchange of nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's inevitable, isn't it? Isn't it inevitable? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
If you look at world history, yes, right, and three
countries now getting more at least vocally aggressive with their
nuclear stockpiles, the US, China and Russia. Putin maybe leading
the way. So I don't know where that's going to happen.
But Trump coming out and saying we're gonna restart testing
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is a heck of a thing, now, David Ignatious in
the Washington posta that's aimed mostly at Putin, but also
you know, letting China know that it's not off the
table of US getting involved. No way we're going to
go to nuclear war over Taiwan. I don't know why
we even pretend. I don't understand international diplomacy. It just
doesn't make any sense to me. All these things that
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are like fanciful and are so unlikely to actually happen
that you threaten.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
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Speaker 1 (26:25):
Oh. One more thing.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So Richard Haas, who used to run the one of
your think tanks about foreign policy, I saw him today saying, President,
She's legacy that he cares about the most, more than
anything else, is getting Taiwan back under the fold. For
whatever reason, that seems nuts to me that that would
be your highest priority. But that's his highest priority for
(26:48):
his life, is to get Taiwan back in the fold
of China. That's what he wants to be known for.
And so that ain't nothing, No, no, i'd say not.
He rather powerful in China and gets his will and
get an old Yeah, yeah, got a great note.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
You want to talk about this for sure, Let's see
the value of strategic ambiguity with respect to China or
Taiwan rather from JT and livermore. Uh, let me start
by saying, I understand how seemingly contradictory it is for
the US to be against China invading Taiwan but not
willing to say they will definitively defend Chaiwan against Chinese
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military invasion and or do anything at all if China
decides to move on Taiwan. Enter the brilliance of strategic
ambiguity in China, there must be two camps with different
preferences for taking over Taiwan. One would favor the long term,
non military approaching can to the takeover of Hong Kong,
a plan that literally took decades and decades to fulfill
(27:47):
but ultimately achieved a bloodless Chinese takeover. The other camp
favors a decisive military campaign, a campaign that our own
war case game simulations show would result in massive losses
on both sides and uncert in victory by the US.
That's I think it's mostly victory by China. If the
US were to declare that we would definitively not intervene
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in a Chinese attempt to take over Taiwan, then that
would be a major PR victory for China. Major PR
loss for Taiwan would pave the way for China to
choose whichever pathway they thought was most conducive to their goals.
If the US were to declare that we would definitively
intervene in a Chinese attempt to take over Taiwan, then
the military hawks in China would win the argument could
proceed with a first takeover, first strike takeover of Taiwan.
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Before America could do anything. And then he points out
the geographical inequity. It's right around the corner from China,
in thousands of miles from US. One of the only
things keeping China from choosing the military option is that
they may prefer a bloodless takeover in order to preserve
their military and their economy, much the same way they
took over Hong Kong. As long as we don't declare
absolutely that we will defend Taiwan in either instance, China
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still has the option for the long term peaceful takeover thing,
and that keeps that point of view alive in China.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Interesting thought. Yeah, i'd say so.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Trump announcing we're going to restart nuclear testing. Man, he
likes to just get the troll. It's not a troll,
but he likes to have something on a near daily
basis that gets people kind of rattled and talking, whether
it's economics or military or what or I'm gonna run
for a third term or whatever.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah, you know, there's a story out right now to
your point, if the Democrats retake the House of Representatives,
there's one hundred percent chance Trump gets impeached. Yes, and
the story is out that will they will impeach him
on this story, and they would have a pretty good case.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Nobody is talking about.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It, which one it's one of his pardons, the pardon
of the big cryptocurrency guy.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
That would be the impeachment boy. That have to explain
that to the American people, but they're probably prepared to
do that.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Oh yeah, it was. They worked out a deal.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
The Trump family made zillions of dollars off this company
that got there stable coin up and going, and then
they released the guy from prison.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And what would be the high crime or misdemeanor corruption?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, exactly, bribery essentially, you know, And and
the defense would be, well, wait a second, Joe Biden
did this over and over again, similar stuff. The dollar
value may have been a little lower, but come on,
it's obvious, which leaves us in a real, real moral muddle.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That'll be fun to live through. That's not what I
wanted to hear the day. Oh yeah, people to hear
it from us first.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
If yes, the most depressing radio show, Oh stop this,
you shut up, low voice. If I can turn off
your synthesizers.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If I can live till eighty, I get to live
through another Trump impeachment. So that's fantastic. Maybe a bit
better off, crook. You know, go to chat GPT, it'll
help you out.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah yeah, I don't like the democrats prospects in the
midterm in spite of the history, you know, the out
party blah blah blah game seats. Their brand is just
so toxic. It's so scattered.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I only need to flip five seats, right, isn't that
the Republicans barely have the majority.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
And instead of improving their message or the candidates, they're
trying to jerry mander their way and Republicans are responding
in kind.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
It took all the fun out, so much fun, as
in watching the World Series, having a good time, and
then you gave along your honor.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I'd like to plead guilty of being a killjoy. You're
absolutely right guilty. Yes, what the most depressing line? No again,
shut up, you ever and your synthesizer, get out more
on the way.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
What's up with you?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
So this is an Arkansas cop has pulled over the
driver of a big rig. Okay, we've been talking now
for a couple of weeks about this rash of states
that are handing out commercial driver's licenses to immigrants sometimes
illegals who can't speak or read English can't pass the
tests and are killing people on America's highways. The one
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thing to note in this is will become clear. Uh,
the driver in question has a bit of a wardrobe
difficulty going on?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Why do you park here?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (32:16):
I'm talking at the howork Do you understand English?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Why did you park here?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (32:22):
No, no good, I'm officer Headings Arkansa Highway Police. I
need your driver's license. Is there anybody else in the truck?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That company? In your company?
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Okay, you don't understand English? Put you some clothes on, paints,
put your pants on, put your pants on, paints, put.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Some paints on.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, okay, you don't understand English.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What company do you work for the company? Your company
is called California. Yeah, yeah, you don't understand me. I
love that California. It's all I need to say.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Oh California, where they give out driver's licenses to commercial
truck drivers piloting gazillion ton weapons of death to anybody,
whether you're from this country or not, whether you speak
English or not. That's fantastic and sartorial. California state flag
has been unleashed.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Jack it was the bear, of course, and then it
was the unicorn for cal Unicornia. Now it's a pantless
Asian illegal immigrant commercial truck driver sitting with his drawers
visible in the cab of a truck the new California flag.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Now, is there anything on toward going on?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Or is he just parked someplace he shouldn't park to
climb in his sleeper and sleep. Then you know, I
take my pants off to sleep too. He was parked
dangerously close to a land of the highway right amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
As an immigrant who cannot speak nor read English, which
is absolutely required for commercial truck drivers.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
The reason he was parked someplace you shouldn't park when
you're pulling over your truck to sleep is he had
no training or you know, because how could you possibly
have any training because he didn't take the test or
pass it. I like, how many of these people, including
that guy who killed a bunch of people the other day,
have flunked the test over and over and over again,
so that there's a lot of people that should be
(34:21):
on the hook of that. Obviously, the state of Washington
and California or whatever states are given out these driver's licenses.
How about these companies that are probably bribing politicians to
push for let us hire drivers from other countries because
we can pay him nothing, versus hire having to hire
somebody from you know, inside of the United States who
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speaks English and can actually pass the test.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So there's a lot of people on the hook for this.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah, yeah, no kidding, lawlessness.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
It's not like these trucking companies don't know that they're
employing people that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Can't speak or read English at all. You'd find that
out as.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You remember, we got that email from Galen Yuba City, California,
which has become this giant trucking center.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
And there are a bunch.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Of Indian families who own trucking companies that apploy employ immigrants,
some of whom have documents, some of whom don't, some
of whom can speak English, some of whom cannot. And
there have been all sorts of problems. It's a huge
problem in the trucking industry right now. And you know,
in California at least, which is your recall, was that
Fine Fellows trucking company. They're handing them out like you know,
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like I don't know, freebies at the costco.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Put your pants on. Paints, Put some paints on.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Yeah, I like the police going with the classic. I'll
see it slower and louder to see if somehow he.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Had to pat his pants and point at him pants
l trouser Zo. The guy's Asian Spanish isn't gonna help.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
We have to make clear that when the boot of
the MIYPD is on your neck, it's been released by
the ideas.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That is Zorn Mumdani a couple of years ago at
a Democratic Socialists of America meeting, trying to explain. We're
going to play a longer clip where he explains it
himself what he's trying to do, but he wants people
to know, you know, if you get beat up by
New York cop man.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It was the Jews behind it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Well, the fact that he's so down on the NYPD
to start with that, you know, the police are the
source of bad not good, is a heck of a
position for the guy who's going to be mayor.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The fact that it's they're bad because of Israel. Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Right, And again this is not when he was fifteen
thirty five years ago. This is a couple of years back,
a vowed Democratic Socialist.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Here is the longer version of that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It gets a little slow in the middle, but he
really comes to the point that the to his main
point at the end.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You know, I think in the first question there is
there is this setting up of a context where he
set you hyperlocal and international, and I think that for
anyone to care about these issues, we have to make
them hyperlocal. We have to make clear that when the
(01:47):
food of the mipe is on your neck, it's been
laced by the idea. If we have to make non
specifically that example all the time, just to say that
for working class people who have very time, we have
so many stresses, who are under so many rushers, there
isn't that much time for symbolism. We have to make
(02:08):
it materially connected to their life. And I think that
what an opportunity we have is that we are in
a country where those connections abound, Especially in New York City.
You have so many opportunities to make clear the ways
in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalism.
(02:28):
You'st over here.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, So what he's saying is we're globally against capitalism
and the Jews, but people locally aren't going to care
about it unless you can say, and here's how it
affects you at home.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Any police brutality that's the IDF and that's the global struggle.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
He is a dedicated socialist Marxist who is saying the
global struggle needs to be brought home to these poor,
simple people who don't have a lot of attention, time
to pay attention. But understand the most important part of
that is he's not relating the local stuff he cares
about to other things happening around the world. He is
(03:15):
in a global Marxist struggle, and he's talking about how
to radicalize local New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's what his whole campaign is.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's so interesting that mindset that most of your that
kind of person grew up with privileged backgrounds and they
end up dedicated to the working class or man Psychosama
bin Laden or there's so many marks, there's so many
examples through history of these people.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's an egotism.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
They believe I am so smart and so right, I
should be allowed to change the world light of people
and force people to do it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Is there some level of guilt that I was born
into an easy life or something driving that be an
ingredient in this stoke?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So odd, but so how.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Many do we know exactly how many years ago that was,
Oh I don't remember. He just turned thirty four, like right,
just like a week ago.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So h and as recently as earlier this year, he
was absolutely pledging loyalty the Democratic Socialists of America. He's
now kind of weak in that, but remember Marxists lie
all the time to get their schemes through.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's lying. He's still a dedicated DSA guy. He nailed
it down, Katie. Yeah, he said that in twenty twenty three. Okay,
so two years ago. I'm sorry he was two years ago.
He was thirty one years old.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
But so did he not think he was running for
mayor as recently as two years ago? Because that seems
like you wouldn't say that anywhere where somebody could record
it if you were going to run for mayor.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He might yeah, yeah, well, and he probably didn't expect
that tape to get out. But there is a chorus
of voices emerging in these late moments to crying the
idea of Donnie winning. Here are a couple of them.
Just came across an editorial bar by Bernard Henri Levie,
who's a French Jew and an author. He says, I've
(05:10):
just well the headline is Europeans watched New York's mayor's
race with fear Zoron Mumdani's victory would imperil Jews and
emboldened totalitarians everyone everywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And he says, I've just returned from a brief stay
in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
On every European's lips in conversation on the news, on
social networks, there's only one subject. This is Europeans now
next Tuesday's election, which may make thirty four year old
Zoron Mamdani new York's mayor. And he goes into the
fact that he has no substantial political past, He has
no jobs. Apart from a few demagogic populist resolutions, he
(05:44):
accomplished nothing in the legislature. He has no record of
running anything much less one hundred and ten billion dollar
budget and three hundred thousand municipal employees. Last, but not least,
he has made statements of unheard, unheard of violence about
Israelis and Jews simi or as some extreme leftists in France,
who he mentions the man the polls is say is
(06:05):
likely to be the next mayor, as a resolute supporter
of boycotting the only Jewish state on the planet. He
denies that the country the survivors of the Pulgrims and
the show the Holocaust and built over the past seventy
seven years, has the right.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
To exist as a Jewish state.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
He doesn't hide that he came to politics through the
Palestinian cause, and thanks to it he adopts adopts as
his own without calms, the lies that Israel has engaged
in organized famine and genocide. He has said he'd order
the Prime Minister of Israel arrested if he comes into
the city for the United Nations General Assembly. He condemns
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the Hamas massacre of October seventh, twenty three, but only
half heartedly, also condemning in the same breath the occupation
and apartheid. Subscribing to the theme that Jews are the
source of the world's problems and pulling strings everywhere, he's
able to make the moronic statement about the New York
PD when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck,
it's laced by the IDF behinds nothing to object to
(07:01):
in the project to globalize the Intafada, which implies he
wouldn't be unfavorable to the idea of seeing Jewish civilians
targeted everywhere, including New York, etc. Oh, one final note
for Americans. When he commemorates the anti American atrocity of
September eleventh, there is only one victim who seems to
provoke a tear from him. Not the thousands murdered in
the burning towers and I would throw in. Not the
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unspeakably brave cops and firefighters who ran in while everybody's
running out. But it was his aunt, or maybe he
was a cousin who, because she wore the hit job,
no longer felt safe on the subway in the weeks
after the terrorist attack. With that, and then he buckled
down to insist that his brew haha around his comments
only proved that Islamophobia runs.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Wild in New York. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
National Review made the point yesterday in a column that
so New York is so Islamophobic that they're about to
elect a Muslim guy as mayor.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, the kind of runs counter to your theory there.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I mean, twenty years after nine to eleven perpetrated by Islam,
a Muslim guy is gonna be mayor. And that's your
proof that it's such an islamophobic city. That stuff about
the police are evil and are driven by the Jews.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Right, wow, I mean that.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Is that's an extreme position, and he explained to the DSA,
at the risk of overhammering this point, he said, look,
it's the global Marxist struggle that is our priority.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We're going to talk about local issues just because that
will fire up the local people to join us in
the Marxist struggle, which frequently targets the Jews.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Look at Russian history, so he admitted that's what drives him.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Rich Lowry wrote a great piece that Jack referenced about
Zoron's New York is islamophobic piece. Karl Rove alls, so
with a humdinger, I am going to quote now briefly
with days Togo. In the New York City mayoral contest,
Zora Mandami offen smooth and Kara's marimatic made a real misstep,
revealed a new ugly side to his message that will
(09:13):
likely cut his election margin. Despite being a proud member
of the Democratic Socialist America and previously espousing radical views,
mister mcdonnie's largely emphasized populist topics in his mayoral campaign.
You know the expenses of the stuff. But while he
refuses to condemn calls to globalize theft into fauda. He
talks about dismantling the police. Then last Friday, MUNBOUNDI changed course.
(09:36):
In an emotional speech in the Bronx, he accused his
opponents of Islamophobia. Even less wise, he posted on YouTube
and nearly seven minute speech to speak to the Muslims
of New York. And I'm surprised how little coverage it
has gotten, and I want to hear the whole thing.
While eloquent and flawlessly delivered, it was also angry.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Bitter, divisive, and dumb.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
In the video, which has over a quarter million views
in counting, mister mcdonnie depicts the remarkably diverse community he
hopes to lead as a hotbed of bigotry as.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I quote the first, but not bigotry toward Jews, as
like on the Columbia campus they're in New York, but
toward Muslims right right, he says, is quote the first
major Muslim candidate for mayor in New York City history.
He initially thought I could build a campaign for universality.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
He now realizes that that was futile.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He was mistaken in thinking he could divine himself quote
as the leader, I aspire to be one representing every
New york In, no matter their color of skin or religion.
It was impossible to rally the city united's committees, communities
and appeal to every citizen's better angels. I was wrong,
he said, And then he tells several stories which are
probably all false, about his family members, saying Hi, that
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you're a Muslim, and my poor aunt he pauses the
White Way, the non existent tears was afraid to get
on the subway because of her hit job. Then declared
that Muslim teachers and police officers all make daily sacrifices
on behalf of the city, only to see their leaders
spit in their face.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
But by the way, first of all, there are not,
you know, a lot of examples of anti Islam attacks
or anything like that after nine to eleven. But if
you get attacked and thousands upon thousands of people die
because you find out there was a plot right beneath your.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Very nose of.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Muslims from other countries who were plotting to kill you,
it's not a crazy notion to give a side eye
to the next person you see right who looks like
those people.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I mean that only makes.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You normal, right right, I would agree, But what an
interesting maneuver. What did he think this wouldn't get out
or wouldn't be heard. He went hard at Muslims in
New York, saying, this city hates you, it is so bigoted.
I wish you were wait to lead you to a
great Islamic victory. I wish he wasn't gonna win.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
It's gonna be an interesting experiment to see how this
plays out. When he wins. Is he going to like
be even more vocal? It would seem like maybe he
is even going to be more vocal about his positions.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, one final final note, hit hit fifty for me, Michael,
and then we'll fade it out.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Hi Rabbi, Rabbi, Hi, Rabbi, Hi, Rabbi Hi.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We're among the thousands of Jewish New Yorkers who've been
out door knocking and phone banking to Alexa Ron Mamdani.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
We're also rabbis.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
We know Zurana Wilphi to make our city affordable and
safe for our families.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And that sent off of that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So it's four rabbis part of Jews for Zorn. The
video that last rabbi was a radical leftist, transgender, lunatic,
and the other three were all parts of like splinter
sects of Judaism that aren't even recognized by the Jewish,
you know, mainstream. They're like super out there, weird Marxist Jews.
(13:04):
So if you hear anything about Jews for Zoron, they
practically don't exist except among hardcore radicals who happen to
be raised into Jewish household and can semi legitimately claim
to be Jews. Why did the opening of the World
Series cause a liberal meltdown?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
On social media? The other day it's like.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I don't care, but I'm glad it did, among other things.
On the waist they hear.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Zorn Mannie, here's the one swinging a ball drilled left field.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
If it's fair, it's gone, and that one is fair
and it's gone.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Back to back to begin the game, and.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The Blue Jays, lady, it's too nothing.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
In Los Angeles last night, the Dodgers, who have a
one point three billion dollar pitching staff, one of their
super stars, first pitch home run, third pitch home run.
That's really something for a way to start a game.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And it's now there have been seven hundred and five
World Series games since it began, and that was the
first time that's ever happened.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Back to back home runs to start a game. That
is something.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So anyway, it's going back to Toronto, Canada with a
chance for the Toronto Blue Jays to win the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But has I really been into the World Series?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And I've been watching a lot, and I noticed the
other night they put together a little package before the
game starts, and every night it's different. It's it's something
really highly produced, usually with the celebrity involved doing a
voice over with a bunch of highlights and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It's cool to get y'all amped up for the game.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And the one two nights ago was that Nazi jeans
girl Sidney Sweeney, the one who pushes the fascist dungeries.
I'm actually I'm wearing my American Eagle Nazi jeans right now.
I really like them. She got new haircut. That's not
like people will melted down. It was just the fact
that the baseball had the nerve. And of course it's
(15:07):
Fox to air the Nazi chick with my my good genes,
which is.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Just straight out of Hitlers.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Oh plays, It's hardly even translated. Sidney Sweeney sparks liberal
meltdown for the crime of making a cameo during Fox's
World series coverage, says The New York Post. She's surprised
millions of you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They can't even they can't even gin up a shut
up out of me.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I know, so silly. I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, And.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I can't ever figure out how much of this is
even the slightest bit real that there's somebody upset. How
many of the responses are bots, How many of people
are kind of trolling their own side.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
By getting involved in these things.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I don't even patrolling the other side, right, Yeah, I
don't know. I could see writing breathless, angry posts about
Sidney Sweeney just to beclown the left. I don't have
the time, but I could see it. Perhaps in my
younger days.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Has something I don't know I think about that you
don't have near as many celebrities in the stands in Toronto.
That's one thing about your Los Angeles games, where it's
the Lakers or the Dodgers, you get all the celebrities
that anytime there's a good play, you get to go
to Jason Bateman, you know, high fighting his hot girlfriend,
or there's fat Magic Johnson dancing.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Around with somebody or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, at some point I want to talk about trey
Ya Savage, who was the pitcher for the Blue Jays
last night. Lives in a hotel, yeah, because he started
the year in single A ball to the high single A,
then double A, then triple A, then the majors. And
he's now got like five postseason starts compared to only
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three regular season starts, and he's dominant. Yeah, and he's
like the most cool headed, unassuming guy in sports history.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
He he's the youngest guy to what is it.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
He broke a record going up to going back to
like two fingers McGee in nineteen oh eight.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I mean, it's just unbelievable this guy's story.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Anyway, more to Coom Armstrong and Getty, President Trump called
the meeting with she that lasted about two hours quotes amazing.
The president said the US will lower tariffs on China's
forty seven percent, down from fifty seven percent. He also
said a lot of other decisions were made on soybean exports,
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fentanyl and computer chips, and official traveling with the president
also saying that China has agreed to keep exports of
rare earth minerals flowing.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Well, we'll see how this all shakes out and where
the numbers end up. As looking at Ian Bremer's analysis,
his takeaway was that the two biggest economies in the
world have decided neither one of them are actually interested
in a trade war.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
That was his takeaway. So I hope that's what ends
up happening.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
That's the feel of it, isn't it that It's like
two hockey players circling each other and decide, all right,
we're not going to fight now, we'll fight later.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
So let's take a minute.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
President Trump met with the leader of China, President She
for a couple of hours, and Trump came out and
said it was a.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Twelve out of ten. Twelve out of ten, that's how
great it was. I wish I would adopt more of that.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There's a lot of people that do that, super optimistic,
always put a positive spin on everything like that, whose
lives seem to work out pretty well. And I don't
know why I don't adopt that. It's just not the
way I'm built.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
But or do they go home lock their doors and
weep bitterly and how disappointed they really are with the world.
Put on that Jerry face to the world. That's what
me too, Michael.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I've always kind of gone with the whole Ben Franklin,
Pessimism is the best way.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Usually things aren't going to work out the way you want,
so you're already prepared for it. And if it works
out better, it's pretty easy to adjust if things go
better than you were expecting.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Me well, as I always say as a pessimist, there
are two outcomes.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I was right or wasn'tly surprised? Right, right, right?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
If what you're happy either way see I told you,
or cool I was wrong. I'm glad I was wrong.
Here's David Sanger of the New York Times. He's one
of the most respected writers on this sort of stuff.
I actually haven't heard this on what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Chijiping was the only one who managed to stand up
directly to President Trump on the tariffs cut off. The
rar earths said, you want to play this game, we
can as well. So I think the best you could
hope for would be that they basically reset the clock
to January, get rid of the tariffs, China starts buying
soybeans again, they suspend the rare earth halt and so forth.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, and one more clip of Sanger of The New
York Times.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Yeah, the relationship is so much bigger. Well, it's military Russian,
it's Taiwan. It's cyber attacks, Salt Typhoon and Fault Typhoon,
both aimed at the United States. It's the growth of
the largest nuclear weapons program that we have seen. It's
taking land from uh and islands from the Philippines, and
so far the president has really focused only on the
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trade aspect.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's I didn't know this until I read in the
Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Actually today China's got the most aggressive nuclear program on
the planet. Part of that is there behind where Russia
and the United States got during the Cold War, we
got we and Russia got we had to taper down
the number of nuclear weapons we had. If you look
at the back in the day, in the eighties, we
each had like thirty forty thousand nuclear weapons, and now
(20:35):
we've got it down to like eight thousand each or something.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
But it's just I don't even what was what was
the goal at that point? What was God?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I mean, I've read a lot about it, but what
was the actual nuts and bolts thinking of each country
could destroy the planet five hundred times, but will make
even more nuclear weapons. Right, It's like buying your three
hundreds handgun, you know, because you know when the s
gets started, and I want to be ready now, you'll
never get that far down into your collection.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I didn't I didn't know at the time. I still
don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You have to have a certain amount of strategic flexibility
in case certain numbers of the weapons are taken out
or your commanding control is hurt in this way and
that way. But at some point, I mean, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
But China is a fair amount behind the two powers
that are Russia and US from the old Cold War,
and they're catching up rapidly, which is one of the
reasons that Trump announced today that we're going to restart
nuclear testing for the first time in thirty plus years. Now.
Wasn't perfectly clear where whether he meant like setting off
bomb somewhere out in the ocean or a desert or something,
(21:40):
or if he meant nuclear delivery weapons testing like Russia
did over the weekend with what Vladimir Putin called his
unstoppable missile. He says he's got a missile that nobody
can possibly stop from traveling wherever the hell he wants
to send a nuclear weapon, which if.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Trivia warning shot at Canada, let him know how it's
going to go. If they in our world series, Just
to set a tone, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Rooting for Toronto.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
So kind of an aside, kind of nott do you
think in our lifetime, let's assume we each got Joe
and I are exactly the same age. More lest let's
assume we got twenty years left. You think that's a
fair assumption. Think you got twenty years left? I feel
like I probably. I don't know eighty I bet money
(22:25):
I got to lady, I don't know. Okay, But so
in our lifetime, nuclear weapons will be fired in anger.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Wow, that's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I'm a one hundred percent yes. But I would have
said that in nineteen forty eight too and been.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Wrong because of proliferation, meaning different countries are going to
get them, more people have more of them. Oh man,
I'm a very regretful hesitant. Yes, I suspect it will
be a tactical weapon, not a reduced an entire city
(23:05):
to ashes weapon. It'll be a tactical warning shottish use
of nukes.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
They'll take out.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Omaha, for instance, no offense, Omaha lovely town, and then
we'll take out Kirkutsk or something like that, and everybody
will say we're serious, Yeah, we're serious, and you know,
ratchet down tensions.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I hope you don't think it would be.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
A thing to contemplate, especially on today, the day before Halloween.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
It ought to be contemplated more often.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I'm amazed that we don't contemplate it on a regular
rasis not individual humans, but governments, world leaders.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I think they did.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
They probably do to some extent, especially with as you've
been hot on the beat of all these advanced, practically
undetectable missiles being developed. I think that's got the attention
of the Pentagon for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah, there's a new movie coming out about nuclear war,
documentary sort of movie something or other.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, are you talking about the uh? What is it?
Is it on Netflix?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Or one of your famous directors are behind it? Anyway,
I'll look that up because it sounds really, really interesting.
But there's been a couple of great books in the
last few years about the exchange of nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's inevitable, isn't it? Isn't it inevitable? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
If you look at world history, yes, right, and three
countries now getting more at least vocally aggressive with their
nuclear stockpiles, the US, China and Russia. Putin maybe leading
the way. So I don't know where that's going to happen.
But Trump coming out and saying we're gonna restart testing
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is a heck of a thing, now, David Ignatious in
the Washington posta that's aimed mostly at Putin, but also
you know, letting China know that it's not off the
table of US getting involved. No way we're going to
go to nuclear war over Taiwan. I don't know why
we even pretend. I don't understand international diplomacy. It just
doesn't make any sense to me. All these things that
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are like fanciful and are so unlikely to actually happen
that you threaten.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, yeah, more on the Taiwan thing. Got a great
email on that topic afterward from our friends that simply
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Speaker 1 (26:25):
Oh. One more thing.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So Richard Haas, who used to run the one of
your think tanks about foreign policy, I saw him today saying, President,
She's legacy that he cares about the most, more than
anything else, is getting Taiwan back under the fold. For
whatever reason, that seems nuts to me that that would
be your highest priority. But that's his highest priority for
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his life, is to get Taiwan back in the fold
of China. That's what he wants to be known for.
And so that ain't nothing, No, no, i'd say not.
He rather powerful in China and gets his will and
get an old Yeah, yeah, got a great note.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
You want to talk about this for sure, Let's see
the value of strategic ambiguity with respect to China or
Taiwan rather from JT and livermore. Uh, let me start
by saying, I understand how seemingly contradictory it is for
the US to be against China invading Taiwan but not
willing to say they will definitively defend Chaiwan against Chinese
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military invasion and or do anything at all if China
decides to move on Taiwan. Enter the brilliance of strategic
ambiguity in China, there must be two camps with different
preferences for taking over Taiwan. One would favor the long term,
non military approaching can to the takeover of Hong Kong,
a plan that literally took decades and decades to fulfill
(27:47):
but ultimately achieved a bloodless Chinese takeover. The other camp
favors a decisive military campaign, a campaign that our own
war case game simulations show would result in massive losses
on both sides and uncert in victory by the US.
That's I think it's mostly victory by China. If the
US were to declare that we would definitively not intervene
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in a Chinese attempt to take over Taiwan, then that
would be a major PR victory for China. Major PR
loss for Taiwan would pave the way for China to
choose whichever pathway they thought was most conducive to their goals.
If the US were to declare that we would definitively
intervene in a Chinese attempt to take over Taiwan, then
the military hawks in China would win the argument could
proceed with a first takeover, first strike takeover of Taiwan.
(28:31):
Before America could do anything. And then he points out
the geographical inequity. It's right around the corner from China,
in thousands of miles from US. One of the only
things keeping China from choosing the military option is that
they may prefer a bloodless takeover in order to preserve
their military and their economy, much the same way they
took over Hong Kong. As long as we don't declare
absolutely that we will defend Taiwan in either instance, China
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still has the option for the long term peaceful takeover thing,
and that keeps that point of view alive in China.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Interesting thought. Yeah, i'd say so.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Trump announcing we're going to restart nuclear testing. Man, he
likes to just get the troll. It's not a troll,
but he likes to have something on a near daily
basis that gets people kind of rattled and talking, whether
it's economics or military or what or I'm gonna run
for a third term or whatever.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah, you know, there's a story out right now to
your point, if the Democrats retake the House of Representatives,
there's one hundred percent chance Trump gets impeached. Yes, and
the story is out that will they will impeach him
on this story, and they would have a pretty good case.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Nobody is talking about.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It, which one it's one of his pardons, the pardon
of the big cryptocurrency guy.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
That would be the impeachment boy. That have to explain
that to the American people, but they're probably prepared to
do that.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Oh yeah, it was. They worked out a deal.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
The Trump family made zillions of dollars off this company
that got there stable coin up and going, and then
they released the guy from prison.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And what would be the high crime or misdemeanor corruption?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, exactly, bribery essentially, you know, And and
the defense would be, well, wait a second, Joe Biden
did this over and over again, similar stuff. The dollar
value may have been a little lower, but come on,
it's obvious, which leaves us in a real, real moral muddle.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That'll be fun to live through. That's not what I
wanted to hear the day. Oh yeah, people to hear
it from us first.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
If yes, the most depressing radio show, Oh stop this,
you shut up, low voice. If I can turn off
your synthesizers.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If I can live till eighty, I get to live
through another Trump impeachment. So that's fantastic. Maybe a bit
better off, crook. You know, go to chat GPT, it'll
help you out.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah yeah, I don't like the democrats prospects in the
midterm in spite of the history, you know, the out
party blah blah blah game seats. Their brand is just
so toxic. It's so scattered.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I only need to flip five seats, right, isn't that
the Republicans barely have the majority.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
And instead of improving their message or the candidates, they're
trying to jerry mander their way and Republicans are responding
in kind.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
It took all the fun out, so much fun, as
in watching the World Series, having a good time, and
then you gave along your honor.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I'd like to plead guilty of being a killjoy. You're
absolutely right guilty. Yes, what the most depressing line? No again,
shut up, you ever and your synthesizer, get out more
on the way.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
What's up with you?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
So this is an Arkansas cop has pulled over the
driver of a big rig. Okay, we've been talking now
for a couple of weeks about this rash of states
that are handing out commercial driver's licenses to immigrants sometimes
illegals who can't speak or read English can't pass the
tests and are killing people on America's highways. The one
(32:05):
thing to note in this is will become clear. Uh,
the driver in question has a bit of a wardrobe
difficulty going on?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Why do you park here?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (32:16):
I'm talking at the howork Do you understand English?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Why did you park here?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (32:22):
No, no good, I'm officer Headings Arkansa Highway Police. I
need your driver's license. Is there anybody else in the truck?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That company? In your company?
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Okay, you don't understand English? Put you some clothes on, paints,
put your pants on, put your pants on, paints, put.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Some paints on.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, okay, you don't understand English.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What company do you work for the company? Your company
is called California. Yeah, yeah, you don't understand me. I
love that California. It's all I need to say.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Oh California, where they give out driver's licenses to commercial
truck drivers piloting gazillion ton weapons of death to anybody,
whether you're from this country or not, whether you speak
English or not. That's fantastic and sartorial. California state flag
has been unleashed.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Jack it was the bear, of course, and then it
was the unicorn for cal Unicornia. Now it's a pantless
Asian illegal immigrant commercial truck driver sitting with his drawers
visible in the cab of a truck the new California flag.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Now, is there anything on toward going on?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Or is he just parked someplace he shouldn't park to
climb in his sleeper and sleep. Then you know, I
take my pants off to sleep too. He was parked
dangerously close to a land of the highway right amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
As an immigrant who cannot speak nor read English, which
is absolutely required for commercial truck drivers.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
The reason he was parked someplace you shouldn't park when
you're pulling over your truck to sleep is he had
no training or you know, because how could you possibly
have any training because he didn't take the test or
pass it. I like, how many of these people, including
that guy who killed a bunch of people the other day,
have flunked the test over and over and over again,
so that there's a lot of people that should be
(34:21):
on the hook of that. Obviously, the state of Washington
and California or whatever states are given out these driver's licenses.
How about these companies that are probably bribing politicians to
push for let us hire drivers from other countries because
we can pay him nothing, versus hire having to hire
somebody from you know, inside of the United States who
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speaks English and can actually pass the test.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So there's a lot of people on the hook for this.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah, yeah, no kidding, lawlessness.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
It's not like these trucking companies don't know that they're
employing people that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Can't speak or read English at all. You'd find that
out as.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You remember, we got that email from Galen Yuba City, California,
which has become this giant trucking center.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
And there are a bunch.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Of Indian families who own trucking companies that apploy employ immigrants,
some of whom have documents, some of whom don't, some
of whom can speak English, some of whom cannot. And
there have been all sorts of problems. It's a huge
problem in the trucking industry right now. And you know,
in California at least, which is your recall, was that
Fine Fellows trucking company. They're handing them out like you know,
(35:33):
like I don't know, freebies at the costco.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Put your pants on. Paints, Put some paints on.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Yeah, I like the police going with the classic. I'll
see it slower and louder to see if somehow he.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Had to pat his pants and point at him pants
l trouser Zo. The guy's Asian Spanish isn't gonna help.
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