November 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Mamdani wins, Prop 50, Grok & more!
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Mamdani wins NYC & anger in politics
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
It from studio c signor it is a dimly lit room.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Give with from the bowels of.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The Armstrong and getting communications compound.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And hey, y'all is it mint all? God dang it's
and he wants to see him over there.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The camel's in the studio because it's hump day, midweek,
and it is Wednesday, November fifth, year, twenty twenty five,
and today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I guess the communist what the communist Marxist Islamist Khan
man Zorn Mumdani, the guy who presided over New York's
descent into filth, crime and horror way back in the day,
Ed Koch once said something very very funny. He said,
(01:24):
the voters have gotten what they want and now they
will be punished for it. And I think that's that's
funny coming from him. But yes, I would suggest if
you had thought of going to New York to take
in a show or just enjoy, enjoy that amazing dynamic city.
You do it fairly quickly before the rot begins to
fully take hold.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What sort of are you expecting crime? There will be
much more crime.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
There will be a you know, if you live there,
rents are going to go up, up, up, up up.
As if Mumdani the commune is successful in restricting rises
rent more broadly, there'll be a terrible, terrible shortage all
sorts of stuff. Islamism will rise in New York City,
(02:09):
parts of the city where you shouldn't go. It'll be
a little more like Brussels or Paris or parts of London.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, imagine the Columbia style protests with Mom Dominie as mayor.
Oh yeah, encouraging the anti senitism and the pro Islamism. Yeah,
what an experiment they're running. Yeah, interesting to watch. I'll
watch from over here. I don't know how much. I
don't know how much the economic stuff he actually has
the ability to do. It's troubling just fraud. It's troubling
(02:37):
that directionally he wants it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But I don't know much how much.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Mayor can't take over grocery stores and make them government run,
for instance. Right, But you're probably right about the crime thing.
He won't have the back of the police department and
they'll know it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Ran saying he would keep the current commissioner, who's pretty
popular around, but who knows for how long and with
how much support?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Interesting?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Uh, it's uh, we'll play some of Danny's speech last
night tonight. I think of most of this stuff, most elections,
especially elections that aren't national around the country, they don't matter.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
To you and Leslie live there.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
They're way overblown. I just it drives me nuts, so overblown.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So it's well, it's like a Blue Jay's losing didn't
affect me in the very least, but I spent many
hours engaged in it.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's all excited about it. Politics is our true national
If you find it entertaining, go ahead. I don't and
I can't talk about it. I don't find it entertaining
to talk about races three thousand miles away that don't
mean anything.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So a Democrat won in a blue state, big freaking deal.
I don't, I don't care. I just and I don't
think it means anything.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
The Mom Donny thing means something, and the Prop fifty
thing in California, I find that highly troubling, highly troubling. Yes,
that Islick, I laugh, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Its funny.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I's just riding up the elevator with a woman, and
we've never ride up in the elevator with her a
lot because we get to work roughly. At the same time.
We've never talked politics, because I don't talk politics with anybody.
I was talking about the rain and everything like that,
and I said, but the weather has been great. You know,
it's gonna be as crowded as Los Angeles around here
the weather keeps up. She said, not with Prop fifty passing,
(04:21):
a lot of people are gonna leave. And I thought, wow, okay,
now I have an idea of how you feel about
how high five since? But that's just a highly troubling
move because when Gavin Newsom originally proposed the idea of
further jerry man during California, I wish the media would
even have done a close to good job of describing
(04:42):
what was happening instead of acting like California is a
perfectly pristinely drawn state with all the Republicans getting exactly
the amount of representatives they deserve.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Wasn't even close.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It was already a jerrymandered state, but the media presented
it is, as you know, Gavin Newsom has to do
this to fight back against Texas, and that's even worse
than you're describing would go on. And originally when it
was proposed, voters, including Democrats, were like, no, no, that
would be terrible. We don't want the politicians picking the
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lines and not nearly immoral and non American and having
the forty percent of the state which votes Republican not
represented hardly at all.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That would be terrible. But they were able to turn it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Into a Trump thing and it passed overwhelmingly, and that's
where we are. And now more states are going to
become even more jerry mandered, so a state is either
all blue or all red in terms of representatives, even if,
like in California, forty percent of the people.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Vote Republican, right, I mean, that's horrifying.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That is not good, and the number will be far
higher if a you know, non trumpy Republican is running too,
a fairly moderate Republican. Yeah, it's yeah, I'm completely disgusted
by it. I'm also disgusted by the victory of that
Jay Jones, monstrous sicko in Virginia. I know you've just
disdained looking at races that aren't immediate to you, but
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it's a sign of how sick we become politically speaking.
That's the guy with the text about murdering opponents public kidroom. Yeah,
and I hope your kids die in your arms. And
then when he was called on it, he doubled down.
You got to make people suffer physically to change their politics.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
He is a monster, He is a sicko. He is
a twisted little man. Well, and he's now the top law.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Enforcement officer in Virginia merely because you know, the people
tend to vote to straight ticket ish and the Republican
candidate for governor was fairly weak in an off year.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But he got lifted over the top in spite of
just absolutely exposing himself as a sick human being.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Even as attorney general. It's not like he's running is
I think that is Again I talked regularly. I think
we got this race to the bottom going on that
I don't know how we stop we Now, there's like
no scandal that can practically doom you if you're the
right party in the right district, state, whatever. Just the scandals,
(07:11):
there's there's we have no bar that you need to
meet for like morality or behavior or anything like that.
Interestingly enough, Trump dislike of Trump swayed many of the
elections we're talking about, and the Democrats absolute lawlessness, amorality,
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and and and clear dishonesty, especially in the media, got
Trump elected.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I mean, propping up.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The corpse of Joe Biden, you know, White House at
Bernie's style, pretending he could run, got Trump elected.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Now Trump's getting all these people elected because we're so divided.
Part of my unwi over this is being old enough
to have gone through some back and forth of the
elections and realizing they last like a month or six
months or a year or two years or whatever, depending
on their race, and it means nothing for the next
time around.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You use the example yesterday, Barack Obama's the most popular
person elected in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Two years later got wiped out. The Democrats got wiped
out two years later. Right, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The end of anything or the beginning of anything. It
was just to be swung that way for a while.
Now we're gonna swing this way for a while. And everybody, interestingly,
at least large trends in them that are gonna beat
but by our lives for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The reason he got booted out of I'm sorry that
the Democrats lost the midterm so miserably was people didn't
like Obamacare.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They saw that it was a pig in a poke.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It was sold dishonestly, and it's gotten far, far worse
since then. It is practically a disaster, a disease on
the American body politic, but it's too confusing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
People aren't really sure out of following Bamama.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Although I would suggest to you, my cynical friend, in
the business we're in, I mean, getting back to my
World Series analogy, what if the announcers has said, well,
the Blue Jay's one game seven, but we're just gonna
start another season in April. I've got a tent matter,
I've got a perfect We're in that business.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
No, we're not, well, i'm not. Maybe you think you are.
I'm not. I'm not. They're in the business.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If you're in the business of calling baseball games, you
better talk about baseball. I do not feel like I'm
in the business of having you talk about politics. For
my whole life, I watch these cable news shows and
I think man if you're somebody who turns on cable
and all you care about is politics in your life,
I actually feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
There are lots of really interesting things that happen in the.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
World all the time, with schools and kids and AI
and culture and medicine that aren't Who won one race
three thousand miles from you and listening to a panel
of seven people talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It, and I'm going to Angus King like now caucus
with your party and point out that this worship of
politics all the time is antithetical to what this country
was found absolutely, which is limited government. But we're I
don't know. I think I feel like that that ship
is sailed. It's over the horizon and it's a halfway
to his destination.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Have some great AI stories, by the way, for my
own personal life, just amazing now.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The one that we shared with Craig the healthcare guru, good,
gracious and dove my.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Mind, I haven't told you my favorite one with my
son and I getting into a bit of an argument
with the groc lady yesterday in my car and the
way it turned.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Out she's not it's not a lady.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That's what he keeps telling me. Let's start to show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday,
November fifth five. You know, it was one year ago
today that Trump won. Think about how much has happened
in the last year. That much is going to happen
in the next year before the next election. No, So,
(10:48):
acting like everything the world stopped today and that's how
people are going to vote a year from now is nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's a fellow weather. Don't hit me, don't hit me,
and we approve it this program.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right, let's begin then officially according FCC rules regulations,
here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I am a democratic socialist, and most damning of all,
I refuse to apologize for any of this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
How about that crowd? So exit polling showed.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
More than a quarter of New Yorkers identified as socialist.
Forty percent of the young voters identified as socialists in
New York. My hope is they don't know what that means,
that's my hope. Yeah, or they have a fanciful idea
of what it means.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's like an eleven year old girl's conception of love,
you know, romantic love. It's just based on fantasy and
little else.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Maybe you don't know this if you saw his speech
or didn't see a speech or whatever, but his opening
line was from Eugene Debs, who ran as the socialist
can it five times in a row? Way back in
the early part of the twentieth century. And yeah, so
he quotes a socialist first thing. If you were wondering,
you know, if he was going to moderate or anything
like that, or say I'm here for all New Yorkers
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or blah blah blah. Oh no, and he was very
proud that he'd gotten elected as a Muslim, to emphasize that. Again,
Our only hope is that young people don't actually know
what they're talking about. They just think it means being
kind of a demo more of a democrat.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
They have gotten what they asked for, and now we'll
be punished for it. We got Katie's headlines on the way,
We got lots of news of the day, some horrifying
Grock stories, AI stories, and all lots of stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I hope you can stay here. Our text line has
always four one, five, two nine five kftc.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Armstrong Nghetty the most depressing radio show, What Shut Up,
Shut Up? You Your aim.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Strong announcement for people who work at this radio station.
I have put all my Halloween candy in the lunch room.
If you want some candy, there are bags and bags
of candy in the lunch.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Room right now.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You want some Reese's peanut butter cups or M and
M's or what are the little mint things that are
a klondike mint bar thingies. There's lots of candy in there.
Please eat it or taking home or throw it in
the garbage or doing anything with it. But I don't
want it near me or my kids.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I heard that if you were inclined to eat
candy but had none and couldn't afford to get any. Again,
the presence of free food resulting in people eating that,
I know really as a head scratcher if you think
about it, or just.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Being at hand. I'd eaten candy every day since Saturday
when we bought it. I would I would never get
like off the couch, get in my car, drive to
the store and bike it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'm gonna get some candy. No, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, it's an interesting i'd probably say, as some anthropological
truth behind it. Anyway, let's figure out who's reporting what
it's lee story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Katie starting with ABC government shutdown becomes the longest in history.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
All right, I forgot that story was going on.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Although a friend of mine who has been enjoying hiking
and having a paid vacation starting to run up against
their savings, having not been paid now for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that's gonna happen to a lot more people.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
The only part of yesterday I enjoyed from News Now
zorun Mom Donny's HQ screen hijacked after his win.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It says, quote Trump is your president. H oh mind.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
It flashed across his big screen as he was coming out.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Frank, that was some enthusiastic crowd.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
And from the Wall Street Journal, Hamas returns last dead
American Israeli hostage to Israel.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
We've said this, not enough people have said it from
the beginning. How Americans being taken hostage by Hamas did
become a bigger news.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Story is a bit of a mystery in it. I
think the dual citizenship part played a role. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
From Fox News, dramatic video shows catastrophic ups plane disaster
that left at least nine dead and eleven injured.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
What happened there.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Some sort of engine problem that there was the flames
coming out of one of the engines as it was
taking off, and it went down right after take off
with I think it was either twenty eight or thirty
eight thousand gallons of fuel aboard.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Wow killing kerb bluid killed nine people, yeah, and counting
from USA today.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Murder hornet swarm kills father and son, Ziplining.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I saw that. Oh what, that's a rough story. Hair
stung more than one hundred times. Murder horn off first victim.
Oh my god, you can't even run for cover, You're
just sliding along. Good lord, this is this is no good.
This is no good. Do you have anything that doesn't
make me want to, you know, curl up in the
fetal position.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
We like everyone to start the day with. Here's a
list of things you should be deadly afraid of.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Exactly from the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Second monkey that escaped from overturned truck gunned down in Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
One more still on the loose. Maybe the hornets will
get it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So there were two monkeys on the loose. Now there's
one monkey on the loose. I thought they'd got them
all they're not. I don't think they're being completely honest
about this.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
This sounds like a really dark childhood rhyme that you
do while you tug on your kid's little toes or something.
This little monkey escaped the lab, this little monkey got shot,
This little monkey went on a rampage. This little monkey
did not and this little monkey went we we we
all the way through minutes Mississippi, it's waking dark.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Off the top of my head. What brief.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Yeah, Joe from the Babylon Bee Snap beneficiaries wishing there
was some way they can trade their labor and services
for money to buy food.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Ah, that's good, that is good. That is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Wow that the notion rejected in our nation's most important city.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
No kidding. Okay, we got lots to talk about obviously,
So stick around Armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
So hear me, President Trump when I say this, to
get to any of us, you will have to get
through all of us.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, we're all together.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
No wonder the young gets so fired up. They haven't
heard all this crap before you get older. You've heard
this so many times from so many people. Are you
ready to rock? He wants to know if we're ready
to rock. We better show him that we're ready to rock,
or we won't be able to rock. Oh lord, I've
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got some I think, really interesting analysis of the whole thing,
the whole current climate, not just the election, but the
whole current climate from Mark Halpern.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Coming up in a minute, but here is.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
A little more of Zoran from last night after winning
to be mayor of New York. He doesn't take office
till January. By the way, here we go.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
After all the conventional wisdom would tell you that I
am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite
my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim, a
democratic socialists, and most damning of all, I refuse to
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apologize for any of this.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Who was asking you to apologize for being Muslim? That's
a made up controversy that he's done a pretty good
job of writing.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But can you menage a child of wells and privilege?
And he's got to be a victim of something.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
If you specifically got up and said and I'm Christian,
and the crowd went wild, like all the mainstream media
would present that as scary, Yes, yeah, when Christianity wants
merely to get you right, with the Lord, and Islam
wants to take over the politics and economics of the
entire world at the point.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Of a spear.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Here's a little analysis for Mark Helpern and I thought
that was interesting. He said, anger used to make party
elders nervous. Now it's the entry ticket to all politics.
Voters numbed by years of chaos, fed up by the buffeting,
seemed to crave candidates who channel fury into authenticity. Zorn Mamdani,
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the New York assemblyman who has become a rising voice
in the Democratic Left, tapped into that energy in his
own insurgent campaign.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
He understood something basic.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
People want someone who will rage against a system they
believe has failed him. Trump has owned that tone for
a long time now now leaders like AOC and Gavin
Newsom have learned to wield it, and they do so
with a fluency that unnerves their opponents. It is all
about and absolutely this is what Trump is good at.
It's just channeling that just you're angry at the system,
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kind of vaguely angry at the system. And maybe it's uh,
your rent being too high, Maybe it's the fact that
the media is all one sided.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Whatever it is, maybe you can't get a woman or
a man or or a job, or you're not you
feel disconnected with people and you're lonely and a little
bit bitter.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Right, that's a good one too. It doesn't have to
be anything.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
It doesn't have to be something that's got a mayor
or a governor answer to it. It's just they they're
angry at me too. I'm angry and they're angry. Bye,
I'm my behind if I'm voting for them. That might
be where we are now. Yeah, that's interesting. I don't
know how that works.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And because and I surprise myself with my own you know,
sociological jibe there or whatever that was, that we're in
an era where people look to government to solve all
of their problems. Yeah, and we'll say so openly. So
the new promise is friends in every pub and a
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hobby on every couch, as opposed to the old slogan
chickens and pots, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's one of the reasons I hate to join in
the hole making this your life. I mean, it's like
your mission in life is to stop the schools from
teaching everybody to be to Marxists, which is a a
good goal.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
My goal is to like make people stop paying attention
to politics so much.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It does not the only I can't imagine living my
life through an individual house race somewhere on the other
side of the country and watching the analysis all day
long and getting upset or happy either way about it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's not what life is. Here's here's the counter to that.
And in a weird way, I agree with you. The
distance between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party twenty
five years ago was pretty subtle, and thirty five years
ago was very subtle. Now there is an enormous gulf.
I'm talking about teaching Marxism in schools. The Democratic Party
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is staunchly in favor of that, and so politics matters
in a way it didn't used to. I mean, going
back and forth from Jerry Ford to Jimmy Carter. I
mean it had significance, no doubt, but it's nothing like
I if Trump were to give way to a you know,
a Gavin Newsom or some or God forbid, an AOC
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type character. So it's all part of a giant So
it's difficult. There's a real tension there.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, well, yeah, there's it's all part of a giant
swirling problem that I don't know how we break out of.
Because he got that, which is true. But if people
make politics their lives and get all worked up about
it emotionally the way Mark Alprin's talking about and then
we go further to the the other side is ruining
America on both sides, and it just get angrier and
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more involved.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And I don't see a way out that way.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
No neither do I is King Solomon available page in
King Solomon, King Solomon to the studio.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
This needs to be discussed more. And it is like
some of the podcasts I listen do they do discuss
this sort of thing with modern fundraising and the role
that social media plays in our news feeds? And is
there any breaking out of this? Channeling anger is our
politics and it's the only sport in town?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oof? Right? Oof? Indeed?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I read an unnecessarily long Kevin Williams in Peace about
the old Tucker Carlson anti Semitism and his little cabal
of parents' basement dwelling Jew haters, and that's.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
A good description. And he wrote something very very very
very smart about here. It is. I had it handy.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
My complaint with Carlson at al is at rude a
religious one.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It could not be a political one.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Tucker Carlson's politics in these waning days of twenty twenty
five are not worth disagreeing with, and neither are Kevin
Roberts sees the guy from the Heritage Foundation who's embarrassed
himself anyway, either you know about it or you don't.
He's here's the part I like, like every other self
ab abate take two, Like every other self abasing servant
of the digital mob, their politics are insipid, superficial, and
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subject to instantaneous revision as soon as the necessity requires it,
every self abasing servant of the digital mob.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I mean it's like, I've gut seen.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
A number of examples of your strictly online rabble rousers,
of the brand of Candace Owens and similar characters and
wild about faces, just complete self contradiction just weeks and
months later. But the skill that they have in their
grift is they explain that one hundred and eighty degree
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turn based on what the evil doers have done and
how they've been forced to react to it. I mean,
that's the con man skill that's required to that grift.
But anyway back to mum, Donnie's grift and the really
interesting part to me as a student of politics at
least his genius, among other things, is that he looked
(25:44):
at legitimate sources of concern, specifically affordability, which is clearly
you know, the you know, a bold faced word that
will appear in democratic politics, especially going forward.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
He addressed that through fanciful, ridiculous Marxist you know, fantasies,
excuse the redundants, but he recognized what people were actually
worried about, and Republicans had better do that and offer
better policy prescriptions or they are screwed. Trump, for instance,
(26:23):
ran on a handful of things, a couple of which
he has delivered in spades, I mean, lived up to
his promises more than anybody thought he.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Would or could.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
The more iggressions, for instance, Yeah, yeah, clearly, and a
couple of other things. On the other hand, one of
the main planks of his platform was I'll bring consumer
prices down, and that it was impossible, right, although I
would suggest that the whole tariff thing, and only part
of that, is misguided.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
As always, some of it was necessary, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Owing the big Supreme Court oral arguments are today on
that blockbuster case. But inflation is still running fifty percent
higher than the goal. You know, three percent isn't a ton,
but it's tough. People are struggling.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Is there any policy prescription that isn't giving people stuff,
taking money from uh higher wage earners and spreading it
around more. That seems to be the only policy prescription
anybody ever comes up with.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, well, a lot of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Us have been begging the Trump administration to deregulate, double
down on that, make that doja's priority, deregulation, free up
American enterprise.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
How that would help? So the whole no any enemies
to my left or no enemies to my right.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Thing that has caught on, which is a recipe for
disaster for our fright. It just don't mean there's no
winning with that philosophy. I mean that guy, that guy
I wanted Virginia with his texts that my opponent should
be dead, and I wish his wife was crying with
her children knowing dad died in front of them. I mean,
(28:01):
in the children die in their arms. What the hell?
I mean, that's just they're you know, that's the sort
of the equivalent of ivy could shoot somebody on fifth
Avenue and get away with it, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I mean that should be the end of any political career.
It's diseased, absolutely diseased.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well, speaking of diseases viruses, for instance, he says, by
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I didn't know if you're talking about to talk about
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You, or I didn't know where you're going. So it
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Speaker 3 (29:38):
Can you believe it was a year ago today that
Trump won the presidency? Doesn't that seem like it has
to be longer than that.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, and then you bear in mind that it was
only what two and a half or December? Yeah, two
and a half months later that he actually took office,
So only nine and a half months in office.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
My point being really that we got a long way
to go before the next election, so any projections about
what people are going to be voting on seems silly
to me. A year out, you want, you want some
good news, I mean, it's kind of the seed that's
growing and showing green shoots. But a big time financier
whose name was only vaguely familiar to me, just gave
(30:21):
one hundred million dollars to the University of Texas at Austin.
That institution founded by Barry Weiss, among others, who employing
Neil Ferguson some of our intellectual heroes. That is absolutely
dedicated to free intellectual inquiry and making a university what
a university ought to be. And that far from green shoots,
(30:43):
it's showing a good sturdy stem and more and more
people are coming out to support it. That sort of
program around the country is really getting air.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
You just never hear it reported.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
In the corrupt, dishonest, despicable mainstream media. But man, you
find places and institutions like that and support them with
your money, your time, your energy, however you can. You know,
I griping is good because it raises attention, but at
some point you got to do the work. And I'm
glad to hear there are people who are actually doing it.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
That's a good story. And as Joe mentioned, the Supreme
Court is hearing the arguments today on whether or not
one guy Trump can do the tariff thing he's been
doing since he became president. That'll be interesting to fall.
Can't wait we start hearing some of the leaks of
the oral arguments that are going on today.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We've got mail bag on the way next, lots of
good stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Say, for instance, keep this in mind as you go
through your day of taken in news for people under thirty.
And that's not exactly kids under thirty, More than forty
percent of them say they get the bulk of their
news from TikTok.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Uh oh.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I mean, so I don't even know what they're seeing, right,
So how can I have any comment on why they're
doing things they're doing. I haven't the slightest idea what their.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
View of the world is, right, right, which is an
odd circumstance, Yes it is. Yeah, let's talk more about
that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Continuing on, perhaps in vain, with our series from John
Stuart Mills on Liberty, maybe the most important book ever
wrote written.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
In the English language.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion
is that it is robbing the human race. If the
opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of
exchanging error for truth. If wrong, they lose what is
almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier
impression of truth produced by its collision with error.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Got an example of a school I think it's in Oklahoma,
another major public university, where somebody at a table set
up in favor of something is anti gay marriage or
something thing. Anyway, somebody came along and flipped over the
table and knocked all over in the university.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Did nothing about it, of course, not nope.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Mail bag, drop us a notes mail bag at armstrong
e geddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Here's your meme of the day. It's a New York
Post cover.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Zoron Mamdami with a hammer and sickle hoisted joyfully over
his head, and the headline is on your marks.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Get set Zo.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Socialist Mumdani wins race for mayor the red Apple.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
That's pretty good. On your marks, Get set though, how
Low from Santa Cruz. The recent election may not be
a perfect bell wether, but I think the Democrats might
have finally found their voice, not just We're not Trump,
but something.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
That hits much wider audience. One simple word, affordability. It's
not left or right, it's everyone who's trying to survive
the checkout line.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
This is brilliant. Howlow, did you write this.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You can't chant four more years when you can't afford
four more eggs.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
See what he did devastating. It's a twist, so it's smart.
It's more truth than the truth. That isn't a twist.
Years and eggs are completely different things.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Right, did it substruded the woodwork for the other at
the end of the sentence.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Actually, it's very clever. Oh, it's real good, real good. Yeah,
that's terrific. Dave from South Carolina. Uh mam, Donnie's first
speech and he already sounds like ding Hitler. Don't mess
with Zohan. I mean Zohan, I mean first London, now
New York City. Unbelievable. This is happening in my lifetime.
I am not joking. Look for blasphemy laws in New York.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Soon.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
They will not be called blasphemy laws. They will be
anti hate speech laws, in which it becomes a crime
to insult the prophet. Wow, look for it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Mark it down.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
November fifth, Joe Getty said it. Uh, dear cold Warrior
and old fancy Jack Ryan from here rights.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Congress members who are all millionaires and control trillions of
dollars and poorly are mad at billionaires who at the
very least have built massive companies that employ millions of people.
His title I should have read was millionaires controlling trillionaires.
Millionaires con controlling trillions, mad at billionaires. Not to mention
if they could somehow siphon all of Elon Musk's wealth,
(35:22):
every dime of it, they'd still have a trillion dollar
deficit and would even change the adjustment for a national
death ps. Let's put AI to use and have AI
replaced Congress. It couldn't do any worse. Some great AI
stuff coming up next hour.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Not to mention that our really enthusiastic bottom quintile of
earners in America have a standard of living higher than
practically anybody in human history. You didn't think you could
get a revolution going with that? But no, you wouldn't,
Eli Rights.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I fear that socialism and Marxism will take more of
a stronghold on America as more and more people lose
their jobs to AGI.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We're all left.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, you're right, how about Jeff disheartened rights, We're going
from a house of representatives to a house of operatives. Wow,
another clever turn of a phrase. And then Prop fifty
in California. They titled Prop fifty the Election Rigging Response Act.
It's one hundred percent designed to rig elections. Hypocrisy at
its finest.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Too much cleverness in mailbag today, that's too high a standard.
Exactly if you missed a segment of the podcast Armstrong
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
It from studio c signor it is a dimly lit room.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Give with from the bowels of.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The Armstrong and getting communications compound.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And hey, y'all is it mint all? God dang it's
and he wants to see him over there.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The camel's in the studio because it's hump day, midweek,
and it is Wednesday, November fifth, year, twenty twenty five,
and today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I guess the communist what the communist Marxist Islamist Khan
man Zorn Mumdani, the guy who presided over New York's
descent into filth, crime and horror way back in the day,
Ed Koch once said something very very funny. He said,
(01:24):
the voters have gotten what they want and now they
will be punished for it. And I think that's that's
funny coming from him. But yes, I would suggest if
you had thought of going to New York to take
in a show or just enjoy, enjoy that amazing dynamic city.
You do it fairly quickly before the rot begins to
fully take hold.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What sort of are you expecting crime? There will be
much more crime.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
There will be a you know, if you live there,
rents are going to go up, up, up, up up.
As if Mumdani the commune is successful in restricting rises
rent more broadly, there'll be a terrible, terrible shortage all
sorts of stuff. Islamism will rise in New York City,
(02:09):
parts of the city where you shouldn't go. It'll be
a little more like Brussels or Paris or parts of London.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, imagine the Columbia style protests with Mom Dominie as mayor.
Oh yeah, encouraging the anti senitism and the pro Islamism. Yeah,
what an experiment they're running. Yeah, interesting to watch. I'll
watch from over here. I don't know how much. I
don't know how much the economic stuff he actually has
the ability to do. It's troubling just fraud. It's troubling
(02:37):
that directionally he wants it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
But I don't know much how much.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Mayor can't take over grocery stores and make them government run,
for instance. Right, But you're probably right about the crime thing.
He won't have the back of the police department and
they'll know it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Ran saying he would keep the current commissioner, who's pretty
popular around, but who knows for how long and with
how much support?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Interesting?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Uh, it's uh, we'll play some of Danny's speech last
night tonight. I think of most of this stuff, most elections,
especially elections that aren't national around the country, they don't matter.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
To you and Leslie live there.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
They're way overblown. I just it drives me nuts, so overblown.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So it's well, it's like a Blue Jay's losing didn't
affect me in the very least, but I spent many
hours engaged in it.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's all excited about it. Politics is our true national
If you find it entertaining, go ahead. I don't and
I can't talk about it. I don't find it entertaining
to talk about races three thousand miles away that don't
mean anything.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So a Democrat won in a blue state, big freaking deal.
I don't, I don't care. I just and I don't
think it means anything.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
The Mom Donny thing means something, and the Prop fifty
thing in California, I find that highly troubling, highly troubling. Yes,
that Islick, I laugh, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Its funny.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I's just riding up the elevator with a woman, and
we've never ride up in the elevator with her a
lot because we get to work roughly. At the same time.
We've never talked politics, because I don't talk politics with anybody.
I was talking about the rain and everything like that,
and I said, but the weather has been great. You know,
it's gonna be as crowded as Los Angeles around here
the weather keeps up. She said, not with Prop fifty passing,
(04:21):
a lot of people are gonna leave. And I thought, wow, okay,
now I have an idea of how you feel about
how high five since? But that's just a highly troubling
move because when Gavin Newsom originally proposed the idea of
further jerry man during California, I wish the media would
even have done a close to good job of describing
(04:42):
what was happening instead of acting like California is a
perfectly pristinely drawn state with all the Republicans getting exactly
the amount of representatives they deserve.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Wasn't even close.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It was already a jerrymandered state, but the media presented
it is, as you know, Gavin Newsom has to do
this to fight back against Texas, and that's even worse
than you're describing would go on. And originally when it
was proposed, voters, including Democrats, were like, no, no, that
would be terrible. We don't want the politicians picking the
(05:16):
lines and not nearly immoral and non American and having
the forty percent of the state which votes Republican not
represented hardly at all.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That would be terrible. But they were able to turn it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Into a Trump thing and it passed overwhelmingly, and that's
where we are. And now more states are going to
become even more jerry mandered, so a state is either
all blue or all red in terms of representatives, even if,
like in California, forty percent of the people.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Vote Republican, right, I mean, that's horrifying.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That is not good, and the number will be far
higher if a you know, non trumpy Republican is running too,
a fairly moderate Republican. Yeah, it's yeah, I'm completely disgusted
by it. I'm also disgusted by the victory of that
Jay Jones, monstrous sicko in Virginia. I know you've just
disdained looking at races that aren't immediate to you, but
(06:11):
it's a sign of how sick we become politically speaking.
That's the guy with the text about murdering opponents public kidroom. Yeah,
and I hope your kids die in your arms. And
then when he was called on it, he doubled down.
You got to make people suffer physically to change their politics.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
He is a monster, He is a sicko. He is
a twisted little man. Well, and he's now the top law.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Enforcement officer in Virginia merely because you know, the people
tend to vote to straight ticket ish and the Republican
candidate for governor was fairly weak in an off year.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But he got lifted over the top in spite of
just absolutely exposing himself as a sick human being.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Even as attorney general. It's not like he's running is
I think that is Again I talked regularly. I think
we got this race to the bottom going on that
I don't know how we stop we Now, there's like
no scandal that can practically doom you if you're the
right party in the right district, state, whatever. Just the scandals,
(07:11):
there's there's we have no bar that you need to
meet for like morality or behavior or anything like that.
Interestingly enough, Trump dislike of Trump swayed many of the
elections we're talking about, and the Democrats absolute lawlessness, amorality,
(07:35):
and and and clear dishonesty, especially in the media, got
Trump elected.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I mean, propping up.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The corpse of Joe Biden, you know, White House at
Bernie's style, pretending he could run, got Trump elected.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Now Trump's getting all these people elected because we're so divided.
Part of my unwi over this is being old enough
to have gone through some back and forth of the
elections and realizing they last like a month or six
months or a year or two years or whatever, depending
on their race, and it means nothing for the next
time around.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You use the example yesterday, Barack Obama's the most popular
person elected in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Two years later got wiped out. The Democrats got wiped
out two years later. Right, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The end of anything or the beginning of anything. It
was just to be swung that way for a while.
Now we're gonna swing this way for a while. And everybody, interestingly,
at least large trends in them that are gonna beat
but by our lives for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The reason he got booted out of I'm sorry that
the Democrats lost the midterm so miserably was people didn't
like Obamacare.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They saw that it was a pig in a poke.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It was sold dishonestly, and it's gotten far, far worse
since then. It is practically a disaster, a disease on
the American body politic, but it's too confusing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
People aren't really sure out of following Bamama.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Although I would suggest to you, my cynical friend, in
the business we're in, I mean, getting back to my
World Series analogy, what if the announcers has said, well,
the Blue Jay's one game seven, but we're just gonna
start another season in April. I've got a tent matter,
I've got a perfect We're in that business.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
No, we're not, well, i'm not. Maybe you think you are.
I'm not. I'm not. They're in the business.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If you're in the business of calling baseball games, you
better talk about baseball. I do not feel like I'm
in the business of having you talk about politics. For
my whole life, I watch these cable news shows and
I think man if you're somebody who turns on cable
and all you care about is politics in your life,
I actually feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
There are lots of really interesting things that happen in the.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
World all the time, with schools and kids and AI
and culture and medicine that aren't Who won one race
three thousand miles from you and listening to a panel
of seven people talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It, and I'm going to Angus King like now caucus
with your party and point out that this worship of
politics all the time is antithetical to what this country
was found absolutely, which is limited government. But we're I
don't know. I think I feel like that that ship
is sailed. It's over the horizon and it's a halfway
to his destination.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Have some great AI stories, by the way, for my
own personal life, just amazing now.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The one that we shared with Craig the healthcare guru, good,
gracious and dove my.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Mind, I haven't told you my favorite one with my
son and I getting into a bit of an argument
with the groc lady yesterday in my car and the
way it turned.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Out she's not it's not a lady.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That's what he keeps telling me. Let's start to show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday,
November fifth five. You know, it was one year ago
today that Trump won. Think about how much has happened
in the last year. That much is going to happen
in the next year before the next election. No, So,
(10:48):
acting like everything the world stopped today and that's how
people are going to vote a year from now is nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's a fellow weather. Don't hit me, don't hit me,
and we approve it this program.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right, let's begin then officially according FCC rules regulations,
here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I am a democratic socialist, and most damning of all,
I refuse to apologize for any of this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
How about that crowd? So exit polling showed.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
More than a quarter of New Yorkers identified as socialist.
Forty percent of the young voters identified as socialists in
New York. My hope is they don't know what that means,
that's my hope. Yeah, or they have a fanciful idea
of what it means.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's like an eleven year old girl's conception of love,
you know, romantic love. It's just based on fantasy and
little else.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Maybe you don't know this if you saw his speech
or didn't see a speech or whatever, but his opening
line was from Eugene Debs, who ran as the socialist
can it five times in a row? Way back in
the early part of the twentieth century. And yeah, so
he quotes a socialist first thing. If you were wondering,
you know, if he was going to moderate or anything
like that, or say I'm here for all New Yorkers
(12:12):
or blah blah blah. Oh no, and he was very
proud that he'd gotten elected as a Muslim, to emphasize that. Again,
Our only hope is that young people don't actually know
what they're talking about. They just think it means being
kind of a demo more of a democrat.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
They have gotten what they asked for, and now we'll
be punished for it. We got Katie's headlines on the way,
We got lots of news of the day, some horrifying
Grock stories, AI stories, and all lots of stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I hope you can stay here. Our text line has
always four one, five, two nine five kftc.
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Armstrong Nghetty the most depressing radio show, What Shut Up,
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Speaker 3 (12:55):
Strong announcement for people who work at this radio station.
I have put all my Halloween candy in the lunch room.
If you want some candy, there are bags and bags
of candy in the lunch.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Room right now.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You want some Reese's peanut butter cups or M and
M's or what are the little mint things that are
a klondike mint bar thingies. There's lots of candy in there.
Please eat it or taking home or throw it in
the garbage or doing anything with it. But I don't
want it near me or my kids.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I heard that if you were inclined to eat
candy but had none and couldn't afford to get any. Again,
the presence of free food resulting in people eating that,
I know really as a head scratcher if you think
about it, or just.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Being at hand. I'd eaten candy every day since Saturday
when we bought it. I would I would never get
like off the couch, get in my car, drive to
the store and bike it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'm gonna get some candy. No, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, it's an interesting i'd probably say, as some anthropological
truth behind it. Anyway, let's figure out who's reporting what
it's lee story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Katie starting with ABC government shutdown becomes the longest in history.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
All right, I forgot that story was going on.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Although a friend of mine who has been enjoying hiking
and having a paid vacation starting to run up against
their savings, having not been paid now for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that's gonna happen to a lot more people.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
The only part of yesterday I enjoyed from News Now
zorun Mom Donny's HQ screen hijacked after his win.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It says, quote Trump is your president. H oh mind.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
It flashed across his big screen as he was coming out.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Frank, that was some enthusiastic crowd.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
And from the Wall Street Journal, Hamas returns last dead
American Israeli hostage to Israel.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
We've said this, not enough people have said it from
the beginning. How Americans being taken hostage by Hamas did
become a bigger news.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Story is a bit of a mystery in it. I
think the dual citizenship part played a role. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
From Fox News, dramatic video shows catastrophic ups plane disaster
that left at least nine dead and eleven injured.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
What happened there.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Some sort of engine problem that there was the flames
coming out of one of the engines as it was
taking off, and it went down right after take off
with I think it was either twenty eight or thirty
eight thousand gallons of fuel aboard.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Wow killing kerb bluid killed nine people, yeah, and counting
from USA today.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Murder hornet swarm kills father and son, Ziplining.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I saw that. Oh what, that's a rough story. Hair
stung more than one hundred times. Murder horn off first victim.
Oh my god, you can't even run for cover, You're
just sliding along. Good lord, this is this is no good.
This is no good. Do you have anything that doesn't
make me want to, you know, curl up in the
fetal position.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
We like everyone to start the day with. Here's a
list of things you should be deadly afraid of.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Exactly from the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Second monkey that escaped from overturned truck gunned down in Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
One more still on the loose. Maybe the hornets will
get it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So there were two monkeys on the loose. Now there's
one monkey on the loose. I thought they'd got them
all they're not. I don't think they're being completely honest
about this.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
This sounds like a really dark childhood rhyme that you
do while you tug on your kid's little toes or something.
This little monkey escaped the lab, this little monkey got shot,
This little monkey went on a rampage. This little monkey
did not and this little monkey went we we we
all the way through minutes Mississippi, it's waking dark.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Off the top of my head. What brief.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Yeah, Joe from the Babylon Bee Snap beneficiaries wishing there
was some way they can trade their labor and services
for money to buy food.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Ah, that's good, that is good. That is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Wow that the notion rejected in our nation's most important city.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
No kidding. Okay, we got lots to talk about obviously,
So stick around Armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
So hear me, President Trump when I say this, to
get to any of us, you will have to get
through all of us.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, we're all together.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
No wonder the young gets so fired up. They haven't
heard all this crap before you get older. You've heard
this so many times from so many people. Are you
ready to rock? He wants to know if we're ready
to rock. We better show him that we're ready to rock,
or we won't be able to rock. Oh lord, I've
(18:00):
got some I think, really interesting analysis of the whole thing,
the whole current climate, not just the election, but the
whole current climate from Mark Halpern.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Coming up in a minute, but here is.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
A little more of Zoran from last night after winning
to be mayor of New York. He doesn't take office
till January. By the way, here we go.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
After all the conventional wisdom would tell you that I
am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite
my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim, a
democratic socialists, and most damning of all, I refuse to
(18:45):
apologize for any of this.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Who was asking you to apologize for being Muslim? That's
a made up controversy that he's done a pretty good
job of writing.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But can you menage a child of wells and privilege?
And he's got to be a victim of something.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
If you specifically got up and said and I'm Christian,
and the crowd went wild, like all the mainstream media
would present that as scary, Yes, yeah, when Christianity wants
merely to get you right, with the Lord, and Islam
wants to take over the politics and economics of the
entire world at the point.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Of a spear.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Here's a little analysis for Mark Helpern and I thought
that was interesting. He said, anger used to make party
elders nervous. Now it's the entry ticket to all politics.
Voters numbed by years of chaos, fed up by the buffeting,
seemed to crave candidates who channel fury into authenticity. Zorn Mamdani,
(19:45):
the New York assemblyman who has become a rising voice
in the Democratic Left, tapped into that energy in his
own insurgent campaign.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
He understood something basic.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
People want someone who will rage against a system they
believe has failed him. Trump has owned that tone for
a long time now now leaders like AOC and Gavin
Newsom have learned to wield it, and they do so
with a fluency that unnerves their opponents. It is all
about and absolutely this is what Trump is good at.
It's just channeling that just you're angry at the system,
(20:18):
kind of vaguely angry at the system. And maybe it's uh,
your rent being too high, Maybe it's the fact that
the media is all one sided.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Whatever it is, maybe you can't get a woman or
a man or or a job, or you're not you
feel disconnected with people and you're lonely and a little
bit bitter.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Right, that's a good one too. It doesn't have to
be anything.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
It doesn't have to be something that's got a mayor
or a governor answer to it. It's just they they're
angry at me too. I'm angry and they're angry. Bye,
I'm my behind if I'm voting for them. That might
be where we are now. Yeah, that's interesting. I don't
know how that works.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And because and I surprise myself with my own you know,
sociological jibe there or whatever that was, that we're in
an era where people look to government to solve all
of their problems. Yeah, and we'll say so openly. So
the new promise is friends in every pub and a
(21:27):
hobby on every couch, as opposed to the old slogan
chickens and pots, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's one of the reasons I hate to join in
the hole making this your life. I mean, it's like
your mission in life is to stop the schools from
teaching everybody to be to Marxists, which is a a
good goal.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
My goal is to like make people stop paying attention
to politics so much.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It does not the only I can't imagine living my
life through an individual house race somewhere on the other
side of the country and watching the analysis all day
long and getting upset or happy either way about it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's not what life is. Here's here's the counter to that.
And in a weird way, I agree with you. The
distance between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party twenty
five years ago was pretty subtle, and thirty five years
ago was very subtle. Now there is an enormous gulf.
I'm talking about teaching Marxism in schools. The Democratic Party
(22:22):
is staunchly in favor of that, and so politics matters
in a way it didn't used to. I mean, going
back and forth from Jerry Ford to Jimmy Carter. I
mean it had significance, no doubt, but it's nothing like
I if Trump were to give way to a you know,
a Gavin Newsom or some or God forbid, an AOC
(22:43):
type character. So it's all part of a giant So
it's difficult. There's a real tension there.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, well, yeah, there's it's all part of a giant
swirling problem that I don't know how we break out of.
Because he got that, which is true. But if people
make politics their lives and get all worked up about
it emotionally the way Mark Alprin's talking about and then
we go further to the the other side is ruining
America on both sides, and it just get angrier and
(23:12):
more involved.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And I don't see a way out that way.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
No neither do I is King Solomon available page in
King Solomon, King Solomon to the studio.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
This needs to be discussed more. And it is like
some of the podcasts I listen do they do discuss
this sort of thing with modern fundraising and the role
that social media plays in our news feeds? And is
there any breaking out of this? Channeling anger is our
politics and it's the only sport in town?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oof? Right? Oof? Indeed?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I read an unnecessarily long Kevin Williams in Peace about
the old Tucker Carlson anti Semitism and his little cabal
of parents' basement dwelling Jew haters, and that's.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
A good description. And he wrote something very very very
very smart about here. It is. I had it handy.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
My complaint with Carlson at al is at rude a
religious one.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It could not be a political one.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Tucker Carlson's politics in these waning days of twenty twenty
five are not worth disagreeing with, and neither are Kevin
Roberts sees the guy from the Heritage Foundation who's embarrassed
himself anyway, either you know about it or you don't.
He's here's the part I like, like every other self
ab abate take two, Like every other self abasing servant
of the digital mob, their politics are insipid, superficial, and
(24:44):
subject to instantaneous revision as soon as the necessity requires it,
every self abasing servant of the digital mob.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I mean it's like, I've gut seen.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
A number of examples of your strictly online rabble rousers,
of the brand of Candace Owens and similar characters and
wild about faces, just complete self contradiction just weeks and
months later. But the skill that they have in their
grift is they explain that one hundred and eighty degree
(25:21):
turn based on what the evil doers have done and
how they've been forced to react to it. I mean,
that's the con man skill that's required to that grift.
But anyway back to mum, Donnie's grift and the really
interesting part to me as a student of politics at
least his genius, among other things, is that he looked
(25:44):
at legitimate sources of concern, specifically affordability, which is clearly
you know, the you know, a bold faced word that
will appear in democratic politics, especially going forward.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
He addressed that through fanciful, ridiculous Marxist you know, fantasies,
excuse the redundants, but he recognized what people were actually
worried about, and Republicans had better do that and offer
better policy prescriptions or they are screwed. Trump, for instance,
(26:23):
ran on a handful of things, a couple of which
he has delivered in spades, I mean, lived up to
his promises more than anybody thought he.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Would or could.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
The more iggressions, for instance, Yeah, yeah, clearly, and a
couple of other things. On the other hand, one of
the main planks of his platform was I'll bring consumer
prices down, and that it was impossible, right, although I
would suggest that the whole tariff thing, and only part
of that, is misguided.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
As always, some of it was necessary, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Owing the big Supreme Court oral arguments are today on
that blockbuster case. But inflation is still running fifty percent
higher than the goal. You know, three percent isn't a ton,
but it's tough. People are struggling.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Is there any policy prescription that isn't giving people stuff,
taking money from uh higher wage earners and spreading it
around more. That seems to be the only policy prescription
anybody ever comes up with.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, well, a lot of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Us have been begging the Trump administration to deregulate, double
down on that, make that doja's priority, deregulation, free up
American enterprise.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
How that would help? So the whole no any enemies
to my left or no enemies to my right.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Thing that has caught on, which is a recipe for
disaster for our fright. It just don't mean there's no
winning with that philosophy. I mean that guy, that guy
I wanted Virginia with his texts that my opponent should
be dead, and I wish his wife was crying with
her children knowing dad died in front of them. I mean,
(28:01):
in the children die in their arms. What the hell?
I mean, that's just they're you know, that's the sort
of the equivalent of ivy could shoot somebody on fifth
Avenue and get away with it, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I mean that should be the end of any political career.
It's diseased, absolutely diseased.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well, speaking of diseases viruses, for instance, he says, by
way of a somewhat awkward transition, every.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Day a scam.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
By the way, listener, I have no idea, Oh okay,
you're going to go into the webro commercial lion.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I didn't know if you're talking about to talk about
the escaped monkeys or something that's happened to.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You, or I didn't know where you're going. So it
was such a hook.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Speaking of diseases, well, viruses specifically, Yeah, every day there's
new scam, text scams, email scams.
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Speaker 3 (29:38):
Can you believe it was a year ago today that
Trump won the presidency? Doesn't that seem like it has
to be longer than that.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, and then you bear in mind that it was
only what two and a half or December? Yeah, two
and a half months later that he actually took office,
So only nine and a half months in office.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
My point being really that we got a long way
to go before the next election, so any projections about
what people are going to be voting on seems silly
to me. A year out, you want, you want some
good news, I mean, it's kind of the seed that's
growing and showing green shoots. But a big time financier
whose name was only vaguely familiar to me, just gave
(30:21):
one hundred million dollars to the University of Texas at Austin.
That institution founded by Barry Weiss, among others, who employing
Neil Ferguson some of our intellectual heroes. That is absolutely
dedicated to free intellectual inquiry and making a university what
a university ought to be. And that far from green shoots,
(30:43):
it's showing a good sturdy stem and more and more
people are coming out to support it. That sort of
program around the country is really getting air.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
You just never hear it reported.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
In the corrupt, dishonest, despicable mainstream media. But man, you
find places and institutions like that and support them with
your money, your time, your energy, however you can. You know,
I griping is good because it raises attention, but at
some point you got to do the work. And I'm
glad to hear there are people who are actually doing it.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
That's a good story. And as Joe mentioned, the Supreme
Court is hearing the arguments today on whether or not
one guy Trump can do the tariff thing he's been
doing since he became president. That'll be interesting to fall.
Can't wait we start hearing some of the leaks of
the oral arguments that are going on today.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We've got mail bag on the way next, lots of
good stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Say, for instance, keep this in mind as you go
through your day of taken in news for people under thirty.
And that's not exactly kids under thirty, More than forty
percent of them say they get the bulk of their
news from TikTok.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Uh oh.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I mean, so I don't even know what they're seeing, right,
So how can I have any comment on why they're
doing things they're doing. I haven't the slightest idea what their.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
View of the world is, right, right, which is an
odd circumstance, Yes it is. Yeah, let's talk more about
that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Continuing on, perhaps in vain, with our series from John
Stuart Mills on Liberty, maybe the most important book ever
wrote written.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
In the English language.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion
is that it is robbing the human race. If the
opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of
exchanging error for truth. If wrong, they lose what is
almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier
impression of truth produced by its collision with error.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Got an example of a school I think it's in Oklahoma,
another major public university, where somebody at a table set
up in favor of something is anti gay marriage or
something thing. Anyway, somebody came along and flipped over the
table and knocked all over in the university.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Did nothing about it, of course, not nope.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Mail bag, drop us a notes mail bag at armstrong
e geddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Here's your meme of the day. It's a New York
Post cover.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Zoron Mamdami with a hammer and sickle hoisted joyfully over
his head, and the headline is on your marks.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Get set Zo.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Socialist Mumdani wins race for mayor the red Apple.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
That's pretty good. On your marks, Get set though, how
Low from Santa Cruz. The recent election may not be
a perfect bell wether, but I think the Democrats might
have finally found their voice, not just We're not Trump,
but something.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
That hits much wider audience. One simple word, affordability. It's
not left or right, it's everyone who's trying to survive
the checkout line.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
This is brilliant. Howlow, did you write this.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You can't chant four more years when you can't afford
four more eggs.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
See what he did devastating. It's a twist, so it's smart.
It's more truth than the truth. That isn't a twist.
Years and eggs are completely different things.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Right, did it substruded the woodwork for the other at
the end of the sentence.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Actually, it's very clever. Oh, it's real good, real good. Yeah,
that's terrific. Dave from South Carolina. Uh mam, Donnie's first
speech and he already sounds like ding Hitler. Don't mess
with Zohan. I mean Zohan, I mean first London, now
New York City. Unbelievable. This is happening in my lifetime.
I am not joking. Look for blasphemy laws in New York.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Soon.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
They will not be called blasphemy laws. They will be
anti hate speech laws, in which it becomes a crime
to insult the prophet. Wow, look for it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Mark it down.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
November fifth, Joe Getty said it. Uh, dear cold Warrior
and old fancy Jack Ryan from here rights.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Congress members who are all millionaires and control trillions of
dollars and poorly are mad at billionaires who at the
very least have built massive companies that employ millions of people.
His title I should have read was millionaires controlling trillionaires.
Millionaires con controlling trillions, mad at billionaires. Not to mention
if they could somehow siphon all of Elon Musk's wealth,
(35:22):
every dime of it, they'd still have a trillion dollar
deficit and would even change the adjustment for a national
death ps. Let's put AI to use and have AI
replaced Congress. It couldn't do any worse. Some great AI
stuff coming up next hour.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Not to mention that our really enthusiastic bottom quintile of
earners in America have a standard of living higher than
practically anybody in human history. You didn't think you could
get a revolution going with that? But no, you wouldn't,
Eli Rights.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I fear that socialism and Marxism will take more of
a stronghold on America as more and more people lose
their jobs to AGI.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We're all left.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, you're right, how about Jeff disheartened rights, We're going
from a house of representatives to a house of operatives. Wow,
another clever turn of a phrase. And then Prop fifty
in California. They titled Prop fifty the Election Rigging Response Act.
It's one hundred percent designed to rig elections. Hypocrisy at
its finest.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Too much cleverness in mailbag today, that's too high a standard.
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