January 9, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- New jobs numbers & spending
- Philadelphia sheriff threat & programs the US has pulled out of
- Running Venezuela, Russia/Ukraine war & Iran
- Sober party girls, cigarettes on the rise & Maduro's hoodie
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's a little horse.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hope we don't crack. Yes, what are y'all doing?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, you gotta go because.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We'll call the least for one.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So, uh, Michael found that charming. A couple of people
riding a horse through a target. Riding a horse through
a target? Why that's outrageous. Horses don't belong in target.
There's a horse in the hospital, right. I just, I just,
I'm just out by. I'm going to do something crazy.
You hold the phone. Then we'll post it and people
(01:07):
will be slightly amused for two minutes as they scroll
through Instagram. I just I'm tired of maybe I'm an
old man. I just am tired of the genre. Let
it be heard, let it be said, let it be written.
At January the ninth of twenty twenty six was the
day that America was amased for roughly ninety seconds by
(01:28):
a couple of yeay, who's riding a horse or target?
And it'll never be thought of again?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Sy, So this this is breaking news.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't know if there's anything to make of it,
but the jobs numbers came out. Uh, weakness is evident.
I don't know if they're just looking at me or
if they're talking about the jobs numbers. US hiring remains
at a modest pace, and weaknesses are evident. Employers added
fifty thousand jobs in December, but unemployment ticked down. Of course,
who knows what that number means really, because we have
(01:58):
whatever it is, a million able bodied men who have
just chosen not to work. So if they're not looking
for a job, they don't count as unemployed. So I
don't know what the raw number is, but let's just
all agree the highest number in American history, and it's
just outside of a depression, and it kind of distorts
what that number means.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't know. I don't know I'm supposed to do
with that information.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, the unemployment number has become one of those statistics
that's utterly useless.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, I'm working on something behind the scenes. Maybe y'all
can help me. I've been reading about the Minnesota fraud
like everybody has, and actually the Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Journal, who is this writing? Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The editorial board is talking about welfare grift from Minnesota
to Mississippi, and I'm working on a sarcastic definition for
the word welfare, the gist of the joke being it
is a theft program that is occasionally exploited by the
poor to take money.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Something to that effect. You get what I'm driving at.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, And they pointed out the Babylon BE headline I
mentioned this last hour. This is one of my favorite
Babylon B headlines in the recent memory.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Anyway, Republicans vowed.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
To uncover all Somali fraud and then do nothing about
it except fundraise.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That one doubled me over. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I was listening to a podcast the other day. I
mentioned this yesterday with Neil Ferguson, the historian who has
written a lot about economics throughout his career as a
history professor and writer. And he is talking about he
was talking to a couple of Brits about their economic situation,
which they are like several steps further down the road
in Britain and France from where we are, same doomed
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path of this has got to come to an end.
You can't keep spending more than you take in at
this rate. And at some point you're gonna have to
make some adjustments. And they're further ahead, so we get
to watch them do it first in Europe. But they've
they've gone the further step of crushing the entrepreneurial spirit
and the creativity of their people, so they don't have
the dynamic American economy that enables this awful, awful, you know,
(04:13):
way to live life to continue.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But that'll one soon enough.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, But his his point was there's only there's really
only three ways out of this. As we now have
the highest debt to whatever ratio that we've ever had
GDP ratio, and we're now spending more.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Time of peace and growing economy.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And now we're now spending more on servicing our debt
than we do on the military. And he came up
with a law he's calling Ferguson's law. He wanted to
have his own law that any power that spends more
on servicing its debt than its military will cease to
be a power. That's a pretty good law. Yeah, hard
to argue with that, But there are only three things
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that can happen.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Really.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
One of them is some sort of giant explosion of
productivity that gets you out of this problem.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I've maybe you've done this in your own life.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You got you get some financial problems, but you start
making enough money, you can kind of cover it up,
you can kind of fix it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Maybe the only problem is.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That it enables you to double down on the bad
behavior or later the birds come down a room. If
you don't, if you don't fix the behavior, it doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And that could happen with AI or whatever. So that's
a possibility to get this out of this problem. The
other possibility is raising taxes quite a bit and cutting
services quite a bit. He sees that as a non
starter for the United States, Britain and France, and pointing
out that Macrone tried to just incrementally, just a tiny bit,
(05:47):
raise the age of when you get to your benefits
there in France, and he has been dead in the
water as a political force ever since.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Then.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Look well, grandfather, it in over fifty years and the
people in crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And he said the third way, which might be what
happens but will be awful, is you inflate your way
out of it. So if you have any debts, for instance,
like if you owed, say you bought a car five
years ago on payments for six years.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
This has been great for you, the inflation because you know, sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Thousand dollars on a car, this is can see thousand
dollars ain't worth what it used to be, right, as
long as your wages a re but yeah, way back
to yeah. But so that's the way that works. You
can inflate yourself out of these situations where the debt
just doesn't it's not as big a number. The met
number isn't as big as it seems because inflation is
hit so much. The problem of course being is all
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of our savings and investments and everything that we've built
and everything like that just gets eaten up by inflation,
and we're miserable. Inflation is a tax, and it's intentional.
But he thinks that might be the most likely thing
that these three countries do to get themselves out of it.
I guarantee it their way out of it. And it
makes me We've we've used the term sangry again. It
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makes you sad and angry, but I'm also sickened secangered,
because that's exactly what's happening. So you put away, you've
you've managed to put away a quarter million a half
million million whatever in your four one can investments or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Through your whole life, you're to your house.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
All that, and it's not worth there as much as
you thought it was a million dollars. Ain't when a
million dollars was even close by the time you retire.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So that's nice.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Here's a bitter pill to swallow, as if you haven't
given you enough. Well, it's not that bitter. It's it's
the it's the kind of neutral tasting pill of reality.
It's like you're a daily vitamin. It's not bad. I
wouldn't eat them like as a snack. Oh I do,
flintstone vitamins are delivered to you. Well, that explains why
you're so robust anyway. Uh, the founding Pappas absolutely did
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not want a democracy because democracies don't work. Human being
as a whole don't have nearly the sense of responsibility
to do the right thing. If, for instance, they discovered
they can vote themselves money from the treasury, it won't work.
It can't work. Human nature doesn't change. That's why they
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designed a republic. Yes, the sort that they did. I
was kind of thinking about this last night. I was
watching the What's the Lightning movie. I'm watching about Garfield
by Lightning, Yes, about the assassination of President Garfield, and
it's really really good so far. I'm several episodes end
really well put together, pretty interesting movie. And so I
was having the thought that a lot of people point out, look,
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our politics have always been ugly, and the politics are
certainly ugly there. I mean Chester A Arthur, who ends
up president, was beaten people in the streets to get
them to donate money or come over to their side.
I mean, that's really something. But was the populace as
bad as it is now and as immoral or or
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maybe if you don't like that term short term minded selfish?
Was the population of the country as selfish and self
centered and short term thinking back in the day as
they are now?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I don't think that's probably true.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh, I think it's probably I think we're probably a
better society of voters back in the day, even though
the government. My point being, the people always hit you
with politics has always been ugly. People like act like
it's new that politics are ugly. True, But has the
population the voters been better people throughout our nation's history
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than they are now?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And I think that might be true.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Here's the way I would answer that that proposition I
have in you know, certainly on the air with you,
and many many times in my personal life, made the
argument that spending our children and grandchildren's money through overspending
and accumulating more debt that they will have to take
care of, whether through inflation or higher taxes or whatever,
(10:03):
is utterly immoral. It is theft from the young and
the unborn. I have never once encountered anyone who's contradicted.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That in any way.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It is perhaps the most black and white, irresistible, undeniable
moral argument I have ever heard in politics.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And yet nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Nobody either people don't think about that in a widespread way,
or nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That says we are an immoral people. It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You don't need a degree in economics to understand what
I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Anybody can understand it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If we lived in a system where when I die,
my debts are passed on to my children, and I
lived like a lunatic, greedy, selfish lunatic, and people would say,
over and over again, Joe, your kids and their children
are gonna have to take care of this, that you've
got to stop. One hundred percent of people would say I.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Was a monster.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
But when it's on a societal level, people don't act
like they don't even comprehend it, or they get convinced
that you know, they're trying to bats the ballance the
budget on your back. You deserve all those stuff, the
things you're getting, and guess what my party will give
you more. People's greed overcomes any sense of morality that
they have. Your democracy can't work if your debt passed
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on to your kids and you bought like a really
big house and you're seventy five years old and a
crazy fancy car you can't afford, knowing that they'll have
to pay for it, that would make you a really
bad person.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
People would despise you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Right, But we absolutely are doing that just as a generation.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It's the populous.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, we're buying whatever a dollar eighty worth of government
for a dollar's worth of taxes and helping the next
generations figure it out. You know, live in a crab
your country, that's your throw our way out of it,
or inflate our way out of it. Monarchy, Now that's
what I say. I'm ready to rule over you. As
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your wives and benevolent King. Michael, you want to be
an ambassador to somewhere you name the place.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Hmm, how about Costa Rica.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's a nun done. You'll love it. The beach is amazing.
The monkey's so many monkeys. I am going to vow
for the rest of the show since that was a
real downer that I'm not going to do any more
downerrism the rest of this show on a Friday. Yeah,
you go ahead, man, be pebby whistle past the Graveyard, Pollyanna.
I've got the complete list of organizations that the US
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dropped out of Marco Rudi announced that the other day.
Some of them are going to be pretty sure I
made up, but I swear I won't cool.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Lots of good stuff on the waist here breaking news.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The sheriff of Philadelphia said she will arrest ICE agents
for being in Philadelphia. You don't want this smoke, she says.
More on that, won't More on that coming up. We're
done here. We're through got local sheriffs threatening to arrest
federal agents. Sweet mother of God. If this was a
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different country, I would be on the edge of my seat.
Yeah yeah, yeah, you would think and you would think
it was falling apart, definitely, speaking of insane. So Marco
Rubio announced in is one of his many capacities, this
is Secretary of State that the US was pulling out
of a bunch of globalist organizations, self important globalist drifters.
According to this author, sounds right, yeah, yeah, really. And
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I don't have the typical red meaty, current right wing
view of foreign aid that a lot of people do,
because I have a real, real politic view of the world.
Some friends you have because of ideology, some because they're
scared of you, and some because you bribe them. And
that's part of foreign policy. And it's okay to bribe people.
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It's part of the world anyway. But some of it's dumb.
A lot of it's just stupid and a way outlived
its usefulness as a bribe years ago. How many of
these organizations strike you as like the Human Fund from
Seinfeld or or just a joke, here we go, Here
are the global organizations the US has just pulled out
of the twenty four to seven carbon Free Energy Compact.
(14:20):
So maybe somebody can, on the fingers of one or
two hands, count how many like vaguely environmental organizations. I'm
sure they did lots of good. We've gotten off to
a good start. The Colombo Plan Council. What will we
do without them? The Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Oh, that's
two of the first three. Education cannot wait. The European Century.
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They spelled center wrong, The European Center for Excellence for
Countering Hybrid Threats. The Forum of Europe, European National Highway
Research Laboratories, the Freedom Online Coalition. Oh, that's the Human
Human Fund right there. The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund,
the Global counter Terrorism Forum, the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise,
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the Global Forum on Migration and Development. That one might
be worth studying. Inter American Institute for Global Change Research.
These could be really these It could be groups that
do a lot of good and really mean it, or
they could just be complete fraud and it'd be very Yeah,
they're like five dozen of these things, so I'm gonna
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have to skip around a little bit. The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Whoops, there's all. There's another one.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
The inter Governmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
None of this is at all redundant. Of course, all
of these have to exist in as independent entities with
their own staff and building and the rest of it.
International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration
of Cultural Property, International Cotton Advisory Committee, International Development Law Organization,
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International Energy Forum, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies,
International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance. It's the International
Institute for Justice in the Rule of Law. Here's one
of my favorites. I applied to these people like four times.
Couldn't get a gig. The International Led and Zinc Study Group.
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I'm a zinc specialist.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
If all of these just disappeared overnight, would anybody on
the planet other than the people who work there notice?
And just environmental crap? Phony environmental crap. The International Renewable
Energy Agency, the International Solar Alliance. Why don't you do something? Still,
start a restaurant or something, do something. International Union for
Conservation of Nature, which I'm in favor of. But come on,
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let's see there, oh, a Renewable Energy Policy Network for
the twenty first century. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental
Program program spelled with two MS and an E and
how many total did we pull out of I just
got like a third of the way. I think it
was sixty six or something.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's awesome. That's awesome. God, it goes on and on
and on.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'm sure Trump Peters portray that as just awful that
we're no longer involved in those organizations isolationists. So no boy,
Russia did something provocative yesterday, among other things on the way.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
And President Trump telling the New York Times that the
US will be running Venezuela for quote much longer than
a year. He also is not ruling out putting American
troops on the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
How does MAGA feel about that?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Peggy Noonan and the Wall Street Journal has some interesting
thoughts we'll get to in just a second. We just
grabbed a couple more oil tankers that are involved with
Russia getting oil from Venezuela. That is making Russia really mad.
So all of this stuff ties together. And speaking of Russia,
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this was the breaking news last night. Russia appears to
use new capable missile in Ukraine. If confirmed, the use
of the missile would be an ominous threat to Ukraine
and its Western allies, according to writers for The New
York Times.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Is it a big deal or not? I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The noises they're making out of Russia would lead me
to believe that they're hoping.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean, they did that on purpose, is to make it,
you know, seem all threaty and whatnot. Yeah, I guess
it's the second use of that hypersonic missile that they've
been working on. The Russian Defense Ministry said that it
had struck Ukraine with a nuclear capable intermediate range ballistic
missile and ominous warning by President Putin of Russia as
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US led negotiations to end the war have gained steam,
with Witkoff and Jared Kushner seeming to be more in
favor of the United States getting involved in some sort
of secure guarantee, which seemed like it was off the
table to me a couple of weeks ago. Russia said
that it used this missile, known as the Orshnik, and
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other weapons to hit drone making and energy infrastructure in Ukraine.
Explosions were reported early today near the western city of
Lev after the Ukrainian military warned of a potential missile launch.
The Russian Defense Ministry called to strike a response to
an attempted Ukrainian attack last month on one of mister
Putin's homes. Now, I don't know if you've been following
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this story. This was going on during the whole Christmas
break thing, and maybe you missed it or and we
weren't on the air. But Putin claimed that Ukraine tried
to hit his house. When I first heard that, I thought, okay,
if they did, was that off limits? You hit everybody's
houses if you could hit right. I mean, you had
hot houses, schools, people waiting to bus stops, maternity wards,
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all kinds of things, So why would it be out
of bounds to try to hit your house.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But anyway, Ukraine says to me, you.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Don't see a lot of even handedness among these bulligerent dictators.
But Ukraine said that they didn't try to hit Putin's house.
That's a lie, And US intelligence agencies have concluded that
there's no evidence that there was an attack on Putin's house. Also,
so he's just going around saying that to you know,
it's what he does to have reasons for things. But
(20:18):
in a statement today, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the
threat of a launch from a Russian strategic nuclear testing
site near the Caspian Sea. So, as always, this thing
seems like it could be heating up and getting really
really jazzy. So that leads me to this between whether
we get whether we're getting involved in Ukraine, Russia, or
what we're doing in Venezuela or whatever. Peggy Noonan wrote this,
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and I thought it was pretty darned interesting, because what
Trump get about eighty million votes, something like seventy two
million votes, whatever he got, I don't think a single
voter was thinking. And I sure hope we start attacking Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When they do it.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And Trump's been famously a you know, we can't get
involved in these fever wars sort of guy Peggy Newton,
right Newton writing Trumpian Republicans came to hate what they
call forever wars. What they really hated is what we
have called them in this space, long unwon wars, which
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is a better right. That's a much better term than
forever wars. Long unwon wars that bled blood and treasure
for years and yielded nothing. That was what they hated,
All that loss and nothing good coming out of it.
Capped off by Afghanistan, where our aircraft and vehicles abandoned
to the people. We went there to fight the Taliban
as they took charge. That is what Donald Trump supporters hate.
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If this is a war in Venezuela, for instance, if
this works in quotes, however that looks Trump voters will
be happy about that.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
The act of being in a military involvement knows whether
or not we are getting anything out.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Of it, which I think she's right. Yeah, I think
the whole Oh they voted against Forever Wars.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wait a minute, they had a special operations operation that
went in, went out, accomplished its mission. No one was lost.
What are you talking about, even m I just tell
dumb a lot of our politics and journalism are I
will tell you the future of Venezuela is wildly uncertain.
And you know, one interesting aspect of this is Trump
says it's all about the oil. We're gonna bring in
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the American companies. We're gonna make of Venezuelan oil great again.
Blah blah blah. All the big oil companies are like
have now rushed to the White House. I think today
they have a meeting with Trump where they're going to
tell them, Uh, that would take like billions of dollars
in a decade or two to really get going and
the commedies are still in charge, so we have no
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interest in that. And that sort of oil is a
little more difficult to extract and refine in the rest
of it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Two. But they're like a no, thank you. So where
that goes nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So the Senate voted yesterday fifty two forty seven that
Trump shouldn't be able to do more military operations in
Venezuela without congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That's got to go to the House.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But you did have five Republicans joined the Democrats yesterday
in the Senate for that to pass. And Trump called
them traders and that said that they should somebody should
run against them and all that sort of stuff. I
don't know if it passes the House or not. And
then I suppose Trump would veto what even if it
even if it did pass. In a different country, Iran,
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you got this going on overseas.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Iranian protesters have intensified nationwide demonstrations over the past twenty
four hours. They are directly appealing to President Trump while
chanting anti regime slogans. Video now shows a protester in
Tehran symbolically renaming a street after Trump. Other videos captured
handwritten appeals reading don't let them kill us.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I was listened to a reporter and Iranian reporter yesterday
and he's anti the government there on a British podcast
that I really really like, and he said there are
lots of towns around Iran that have named streets after Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, isn't that something? It really is.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It helps the leadership to a certain extent, you know,
claim that it's United States belligerents leading this protests or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The hell.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Trey yinst of Fox with more on what's going on
in Iran.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Internet service was cut off or partially restricted in major
Iranian cities, including the capital of Tehran, as leadership there
tried to quell growing protests. Further East, Iranian protesters destroyed
their country's flag in Iran's second largest city, Mashad.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Elon said that he was going to get starlink in
there so that they would have internet.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I don't know if that hasn't.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Worked or not worked as well as he wanted, or
he failed or what, but that was his plan. He
announced that earlier in the week to because you know,
obviously that's what all regimes do. They shut off the internet.
So that's up in space. How can the Mullason revolutionary
cards stop that. They can't even stop Israeli agents from
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coming to their homes and snatching them up and putting
bullets in their heads.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Right. It's something, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That there's one guy on planet Earth that can say, nah,
you're going to have Internet and do it in Ukraine
or Iran or wherever he decides to do it. And
there are a couple of big name competitors. I think
Amazon and Google are both going hardcore into competing with
starlink as well, so that's sort of system's going to
be pretty ubiquitous. China's one. I'm interested in what happens
(25:29):
when people can just get a little clandestine receiver there
and hook up to the old starlink roney. I'm sure
the Chinese commedies will crack down on that as hard
as they can, but they're afraid of the Internet and
they're terrified of AI going forward. Before we get to
what Trump said again about Iran, here's Richard Engele of
NBC News on the hopefully revolution that's happening in Iran.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Hundreds of thousands of anti government demonstrators are on the
streets in multiple cities, including the capital Tehran, and they're
pushing hard and tearing up in flags, setting fires, and
in some cases confronting the feared security forces. The economy
is collapsing with inflation and a currency crisis. The Internet
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appears to have been completely blacked out across large parts
of Iran, a sign of how seriously the government is
taking this.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It always worth pointing out, I think to our and
none of this crowd is listening to our show. Probably,
But you flipping pampered, grew up rich, went to a
fancy college American college students who bravely go on the
streets and get in the face of cops or ice agents,
(26:38):
knowing that they can't do anything or won't do anything.
How about you look at some real, real, actual revolutionaries
who are risking at all, like the women on the
street in Iran. They're risking being tortured and raped to
death because they care about changing their system. They're not
cost playing. You get the oppression, You got the terrible
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economy which is getting worse and worse and worse. And
then after thirty five years of the powers that be
in Iran spending like all the GDP's money on building
up their proxies around the region, your hesbalas and your
hamasas and the rest of it, and explaining how we
have an ironclad regime and we'll hold off the Zionist
Jews and the American pigs and blah blah blah, and
(27:23):
then it turned out to be a paper tiger, just
a national humiliation.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Whether you like the regime or not, you're like, we
suck at the military too.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That people are like, you have nothing to offer us,
and it's over from their point of view. But when
the crackdown comes, it could be horrific or there are
other possibilities.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Which we can discuss at some point well.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
And how much do we get involved when the crackdown comes,
which might be today.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Here's CNN's reporting.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
So for the first time that we now see the
United State of America's president taking a strong action saying
that he is ready to save the lives of your audience.
Panias are welcoming that. I want to see action. Otherwise,
empty wards are not going to save lives. Let's be
very clear, people of your own are better allies compared
to these backward moll laws for America, for the rest
(28:12):
of the world. An iron without Islamic republic will guarantee
global security.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh shoot, that was Jake Tapper's head exploding because somebody
said something positive about Trump. First time a US president
is taking strong action. Barack Obama famously and even people
on the left criticized him for this. Did not get
behind the Green Revolution when that was going on in
Iran because he had that whole policy of don't do stupidness,
And as you were talking about the other day, sometimes
(28:41):
doing nothing is a decision.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
How does everybody not know that?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
How does everybody not know that choosing to stay with
the status quo is a decision as much as changing Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, it's a specific course of action.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Think about it like that, and deciding not to support
the protest is not staying away from stupidest necessarily, it's
making a decision anyway. Trump is, at least the verbally,
is supporting the Rangians. He was on Hugh Hewitt Show,
We don't really like people around here. I have the
same name, first name and last name or something going
on there, you Hewett?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Eric ericson who's the other one? The other talk shows?
There's a top of one.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Steve Stevens and all kinds of people like that don't
like him. So Trump's on Hugh Hewitt and said this.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
And I have let them know that if they start
killing people, which they tend to do during their riots,
they have lots of riots, if they do it, we're
going to hit them very hard. And they know, and
they've been told very strongly, even more strongly than I'm
speaking to you right now, that if they do that,
they're going to.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Have to pay.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So does he mean that or not?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So many way, If I'm the moullus, I got my
beard in a twist right now because they are up
against it. Well, they've been hit hard before. He talked
this way and then did hit Iran harder than they've
ever been in the entire time that they've been in charge.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
There.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
See that is correct.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Oh, thank you, President Meduro him weighing in whether Trump
lives up to threats, and somebody made the point yesterday, well,
I don't think that's gonna happen because we haven't moved
any resources into the area.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's because we already have so.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Many resources in the area. We don't need to move
more resources into the area. Here's a hint they're under
the ocean and nobody knows they're there, and they rhyme
with flubfaren is, you've actually have the world's third strongest military.
Every time one of our boomers sails by your home country.
(30:43):
You've been in a submarine because your brother was a
submarine guy. They have a great and they wanted me
to consult. They have a great submarine thing at the
World War Two Museum where you used to simulator and.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Everything like that. It's very very cool about the silent
a fleet. You got to get there, but boy, that'd
be something.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So this reporter I was listening to yesterday said, what
Iran has been doing because they are worried about a
reaction from Trump, is they are not killing people in
the streets. They're beating them down in the streets to
the point that they go to the hospital. Then when
you go to the hospital, the security forces go and
(31:24):
snatch you out of the hospital and take you to
the prison and torture you. So you don't have the
people getting shot in the streets. He just grab them
out of the hospital after you broke their leg and
broke their kneecap in the street.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
How about that for a policy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Trump will hear that by this afternoon and it will
anger him, isn't that something? Yeah, so they'll break your
ankles you're no longer protesting in the street.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Then they go to the hospital and grab you.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, so that you don't have a stack of bodies
in the street like happened with Tienman Square or whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, they're evil, They're evil, evil human beings.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
This could be something to watch this weekend because the
protests are really growing in the last twenty four hours. Anyway,
a lot more to comes here. Excited about n NFL
playoff football this weekend, Excited about the college game tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Something to watch?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Excellent, excellent. I do love the foots ball coming up.
The Immigration forces v. Local authorities thing in Blue cities
is heating up. Boy, A couple of the sheriff in
Philadelphia said she they're going to arrest ice agents there.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
No, you're not my favorite.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
What the hell story of the week after a couple
of head scratchers, I'm trying to figure out you young people.
Here are two stories back to back. Number one from
the New York Times, A New Generation, Oh oh, it's
the Sober Party girl Revelation. A New generation gives up alcohol,
(32:52):
but not the party at a member's only club in Manhattan.
A new generation rejects alcohol. Blah blah blah. It's all
about these fashionable A lot of them are like Instagram
influencers who really like to party but don't drink. They're sober.
I'm known as Sober party Girl. And this other influencer,
(33:15):
another cutie and a low cut thing is called more
fun without it. They're sober influencers anyway, So that's hot
than this article the Wall Street Journal why twenty somethings
are trading their vapes for cigarettes. More and more young
people are thinking it, and they just smoke cigarettes. Really,
cigarette smoking is on the rise for the first time
(33:35):
since the Surgeon General is warning.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I just read the other day that stopping vaping now
is like the number one New Year's resolution in America.
It used to be stopping smoking every year, not stopping vaping.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Interesting, But a lot of people who dig the nicotine
are thinking, why am I sucking on what looks like
a USB drive when I could look like Steve McQueen
or they used the example of Joan Didion or one
of your heroes of the sixties, seventies, whatever, has always
got to sing in their in their their myts.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So go figure.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Now we're completely thuburb but we do suck down twenty
cancer sticks the day.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Okay, go figure, all right, here's my favorite story.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
The main based Maine, the State Apparel Companies phones had
been ringing off the hook after a shackled Nicholas Maduro
was snapped wearing one of its hoodies when he was
hauled to the Big Apple. According to the company, the
OUs did Venezuelan dictator wore the origin company's attire in
the company's patriotic blue shade, in a now infamous photo
(34:41):
of him flashing two thumbs up while surrounded by the
DEA agents as they.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Touched down in New York.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Unclear how the dictator ended up in the hoodie, uh,
but everybody looked at it and said, Wow, that's a.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Good looking hoodie.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's funny. I did research on the hoodie yesterday. It
came up in a conversation with my son about like,
how long is the hood been around?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I looked at it, I.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Thought, and I actually said to him, I think it
became popular about the time I started wearing them. When
I was in junior high. It turns out that's right
for people. Joe and I say, do you know what
made the hoodie popular? It's been around since the forties,
but it was only a military thing really. It became
popular in the seventies because of the movie Rocky Rocky
Wearing the hoodie's exploded ever since.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
The people wore hoodies like grapies, Armstrong and Getdy.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's a little horse.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hope we don't crack. Yes, what are y'all doing?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, you gotta go because.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We'll call the least for one.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So, uh, Michael found that charming. A couple of people
riding a horse through a target. Riding a horse through
a target? Why that's outrageous. Horses don't belong in target.
There's a horse in the hospital, right. I just, I just,
I'm just out by. I'm going to do something crazy.
You hold the phone. Then we'll post it and people
(01:07):
will be slightly amused for two minutes as they scroll
through Instagram. I just I'm tired of maybe I'm an
old man. I just am tired of the genre. Let
it be heard, let it be said, let it be written.
At January the ninth of twenty twenty six was the
day that America was amased for roughly ninety seconds by
(01:28):
a couple of yeay, who's riding a horse or target?
And it'll never be thought of again?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Sy, So this this is breaking news.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't know if there's anything to make of it,
but the jobs numbers came out. Uh, weakness is evident.
I don't know if they're just looking at me or
if they're talking about the jobs numbers. US hiring remains
at a modest pace, and weaknesses are evident. Employers added
fifty thousand jobs in December, but unemployment ticked down. Of course,
who knows what that number means really, because we have
(01:58):
whatever it is, a million able bodied men who have
just chosen not to work. So if they're not looking
for a job, they don't count as unemployed. So I
don't know what the raw number is, but let's just
all agree the highest number in American history, and it's
just outside of a depression, and it kind of distorts
what that number means.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't know. I don't know I'm supposed to do
with that information.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, the unemployment number has become one of those statistics
that's utterly useless.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, I'm working on something behind the scenes. Maybe y'all
can help me. I've been reading about the Minnesota fraud
like everybody has, and actually the Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Journal, who is this writing? Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The editorial board is talking about welfare grift from Minnesota
to Mississippi, and I'm working on a sarcastic definition for
the word welfare, the gist of the joke being it
is a theft program that is occasionally exploited by the
poor to take money.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Something to that effect. You get what I'm driving at.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, And they pointed out the Babylon BE headline I
mentioned this last hour. This is one of my favorite
Babylon B headlines in the recent memory.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Anyway, Republicans vowed.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
To uncover all Somali fraud and then do nothing about
it except fundraise.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That one doubled me over. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I was listening to a podcast the other day. I
mentioned this yesterday with Neil Ferguson, the historian who has
written a lot about economics throughout his career as a
history professor and writer. And he is talking about he
was talking to a couple of Brits about their economic situation,
which they are like several steps further down the road
in Britain and France from where we are, same doomed
(03:48):
path of this has got to come to an end.
You can't keep spending more than you take in at
this rate. And at some point you're gonna have to
make some adjustments. And they're further ahead, so we get
to watch them do it first in Europe. But they've
they've gone the further step of crushing the entrepreneurial spirit
and the creativity of their people, so they don't have
the dynamic American economy that enables this awful, awful, you know,
(04:13):
way to live life to continue.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But that'll one soon enough.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, But his his point was there's only there's really
only three ways out of this. As we now have
the highest debt to whatever ratio that we've ever had
GDP ratio, and we're now spending more.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Time of peace and growing economy.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And now we're now spending more on servicing our debt
than we do on the military. And he came up
with a law he's calling Ferguson's law. He wanted to
have his own law that any power that spends more
on servicing its debt than its military will cease to
be a power. That's a pretty good law. Yeah, hard
to argue with that, But there are only three things
(04:53):
that can happen.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Really.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
One of them is some sort of giant explosion of
productivity that gets you out of this problem.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I've maybe you've done this in your own life.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You got you get some financial problems, but you start
making enough money, you can kind of cover it up,
you can kind of fix it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Maybe the only problem is.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That it enables you to double down on the bad
behavior or later the birds come down a room. If
you don't, if you don't fix the behavior, it doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And that could happen with AI or whatever. So that's
a possibility to get this out of this problem. The
other possibility is raising taxes quite a bit and cutting
services quite a bit. He sees that as a non
starter for the United States, Britain and France, and pointing
out that Macrone tried to just incrementally, just a tiny bit,
(05:47):
raise the age of when you get to your benefits
there in France, and he has been dead in the
water as a political force ever since.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Then.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Look well, grandfather, it in over fifty years and the
people in crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And he said the third way, which might be what
happens but will be awful, is you inflate your way
out of it. So if you have any debts, for instance,
like if you owed, say you bought a car five
years ago on payments for six years.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
This has been great for you, the inflation because you know, sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Thousand dollars on a car, this is can see thousand
dollars ain't worth what it used to be, right, as
long as your wages a re but yeah, way back
to yeah. But so that's the way that works. You
can inflate yourself out of these situations where the debt
just doesn't it's not as big a number. The met
number isn't as big as it seems because inflation is
hit so much. The problem of course being is all
(06:40):
of our savings and investments and everything that we've built
and everything like that just gets eaten up by inflation,
and we're miserable. Inflation is a tax, and it's intentional.
But he thinks that might be the most likely thing
that these three countries do to get themselves out of it.
I guarantee it their way out of it. And it
makes me We've we've used the term sangry again. It
(07:01):
makes you sad and angry, but I'm also sickened secangered,
because that's exactly what's happening. So you put away, you've
you've managed to put away a quarter million a half
million million whatever in your four one can investments or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Through your whole life, you're to your house.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
All that, and it's not worth there as much as
you thought it was a million dollars. Ain't when a
million dollars was even close by the time you retire.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So that's nice.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Here's a bitter pill to swallow, as if you haven't
given you enough. Well, it's not that bitter. It's it's
the it's the kind of neutral tasting pill of reality.
It's like you're a daily vitamin. It's not bad. I
wouldn't eat them like as a snack. Oh I do,
flintstone vitamins are delivered to you. Well, that explains why
you're so robust anyway. Uh, the founding Pappas absolutely did
(07:53):
not want a democracy because democracies don't work. Human being
as a whole don't have nearly the sense of responsibility
to do the right thing. If, for instance, they discovered
they can vote themselves money from the treasury, it won't work.
It can't work. Human nature doesn't change. That's why they
(08:16):
designed a republic. Yes, the sort that they did. I
was kind of thinking about this last night. I was
watching the What's the Lightning movie. I'm watching about Garfield
by Lightning, Yes, about the assassination of President Garfield, and
it's really really good so far. I'm several episodes end
really well put together, pretty interesting movie. And so I
was having the thought that a lot of people point out, look,
(08:36):
our politics have always been ugly, and the politics are
certainly ugly there. I mean Chester A Arthur, who ends
up president, was beaten people in the streets to get
them to donate money or come over to their side.
I mean, that's really something. But was the populace as
bad as it is now and as immoral or or
(08:58):
maybe if you don't like that term short term minded selfish?
Was the population of the country as selfish and self
centered and short term thinking back in the day as
they are now?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I don't think that's probably true.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh, I think it's probably I think we're probably a
better society of voters back in the day, even though
the government. My point being, the people always hit you
with politics has always been ugly. People like act like
it's new that politics are ugly. True, But has the
population the voters been better people throughout our nation's history
(09:37):
than they are now?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And I think that might be true.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Here's the way I would answer that that proposition I
have in you know, certainly on the air with you,
and many many times in my personal life, made the
argument that spending our children and grandchildren's money through overspending
and accumulating more debt that they will have to take
care of, whether through inflation or higher taxes or whatever,
(10:03):
is utterly immoral. It is theft from the young and
the unborn. I have never once encountered anyone who's contradicted.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That in any way.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It is perhaps the most black and white, irresistible, undeniable
moral argument I have ever heard in politics.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And yet nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Nobody either people don't think about that in a widespread way,
or nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That says we are an immoral people. It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You don't need a degree in economics to understand what
I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Anybody can understand it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If we lived in a system where when I die,
my debts are passed on to my children, and I
lived like a lunatic, greedy, selfish lunatic, and people would say,
over and over again, Joe, your kids and their children
are gonna have to take care of this, that you've
got to stop. One hundred percent of people would say I.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Was a monster.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
But when it's on a societal level, people don't act
like they don't even comprehend it, or they get convinced
that you know, they're trying to bats the ballance the
budget on your back. You deserve all those stuff, the
things you're getting, and guess what my party will give
you more. People's greed overcomes any sense of morality that
they have. Your democracy can't work if your debt passed
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on to your kids and you bought like a really
big house and you're seventy five years old and a
crazy fancy car you can't afford, knowing that they'll have
to pay for it, that would make you a really
bad person.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
People would despise you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Right, But we absolutely are doing that just as a generation.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It's the populous.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, we're buying whatever a dollar eighty worth of government
for a dollar's worth of taxes and helping the next
generations figure it out. You know, live in a crab
your country, that's your throw our way out of it,
or inflate our way out of it. Monarchy, Now that's
what I say. I'm ready to rule over you. As
(12:06):
your wives and benevolent King. Michael, you want to be
an ambassador to somewhere you name the place.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Hmm, how about Costa Rica.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's a nun done. You'll love it. The beach is amazing.
The monkey's so many monkeys. I am going to vow
for the rest of the show since that was a
real downer that I'm not going to do any more
downerrism the rest of this show on a Friday. Yeah,
you go ahead, man, be pebby whistle past the Graveyard, Pollyanna.
I've got the complete list of organizations that the US
(12:35):
dropped out of Marco Rudi announced that the other day.
Some of them are going to be pretty sure I
made up, but I swear I won't cool.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Lots of good stuff on the waist here breaking news.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The sheriff of Philadelphia said she will arrest ICE agents
for being in Philadelphia. You don't want this smoke, she says.
More on that, won't More on that coming up. We're
done here. We're through got local sheriffs threatening to arrest
federal agents. Sweet mother of God. If this was a
(13:10):
different country, I would be on the edge of my seat.
Yeah yeah, yeah, you would think and you would think
it was falling apart, definitely, speaking of insane. So Marco
Rubio announced in is one of his many capacities, this
is Secretary of State that the US was pulling out
of a bunch of globalist organizations, self important globalist drifters.
According to this author, sounds right, yeah, yeah, really. And
(13:36):
I don't have the typical red meaty, current right wing
view of foreign aid that a lot of people do,
because I have a real, real politic view of the world.
Some friends you have because of ideology, some because they're
scared of you, and some because you bribe them. And
that's part of foreign policy. And it's okay to bribe people.
(13:56):
It's part of the world anyway. But some of it's dumb.
A lot of it's just stupid and a way outlived
its usefulness as a bribe years ago. How many of
these organizations strike you as like the Human Fund from
Seinfeld or or just a joke, here we go, Here
are the global organizations the US has just pulled out
of the twenty four to seven carbon Free Energy Compact.
(14:20):
So maybe somebody can, on the fingers of one or
two hands, count how many like vaguely environmental organizations. I'm
sure they did lots of good. We've gotten off to
a good start. The Colombo Plan Council. What will we
do without them? The Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Oh, that's
two of the first three. Education cannot wait. The European Century.
(14:45):
They spelled center wrong, The European Center for Excellence for
Countering Hybrid Threats. The Forum of Europe, European National Highway
Research Laboratories, the Freedom Online Coalition. Oh, that's the Human
Human Fund right there. The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund,
the Global counter Terrorism Forum, the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise,
(15:09):
the Global Forum on Migration and Development. That one might
be worth studying. Inter American Institute for Global Change Research.
These could be really these It could be groups that
do a lot of good and really mean it, or
they could just be complete fraud and it'd be very Yeah,
they're like five dozen of these things, so I'm gonna
(15:29):
have to skip around a little bit. The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Whoops, there's all. There's another one.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
The inter Governmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
None of this is at all redundant. Of course, all
of these have to exist in as independent entities with
their own staff and building and the rest of it.
International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration
of Cultural Property, International Cotton Advisory Committee, International Development Law Organization,
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International Energy Forum, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies,
International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance. It's the International
Institute for Justice in the Rule of Law. Here's one
of my favorites. I applied to these people like four times.
Couldn't get a gig. The International Led and Zinc Study Group.
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I'm a zinc specialist.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
If all of these just disappeared overnight, would anybody on
the planet other than the people who work there notice?
And just environmental crap? Phony environmental crap. The International Renewable
Energy Agency, the International Solar Alliance. Why don't you do something? Still,
start a restaurant or something, do something. International Union for
Conservation of Nature, which I'm in favor of. But come on,
(16:42):
let's see there, oh, a Renewable Energy Policy Network for
the twenty first century. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental
Program program spelled with two MS and an E and
how many total did we pull out of I just
got like a third of the way. I think it
was sixty six or something.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's awesome. That's awesome. God, it goes on and on
and on.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'm sure Trump Peters portray that as just awful that
we're no longer involved in those organizations isolationists. So no boy,
Russia did something provocative yesterday, among other things on the way.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
And President Trump telling the New York Times that the
US will be running Venezuela for quote much longer than
a year. He also is not ruling out putting American
troops on the ground.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
How does MAGA feel about that?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Peggy Noonan and the Wall Street Journal has some interesting
thoughts we'll get to in just a second. We just
grabbed a couple more oil tankers that are involved with
Russia getting oil from Venezuela. That is making Russia really mad.
So all of this stuff ties together. And speaking of Russia,
(17:56):
this was the breaking news last night. Russia appears to
use new capable missile in Ukraine. If confirmed, the use
of the missile would be an ominous threat to Ukraine
and its Western allies, according to writers for The New
York Times.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Is it a big deal or not? I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The noises they're making out of Russia would lead me
to believe that they're hoping.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean, they did that on purpose, is to make it,
you know, seem all threaty and whatnot. Yeah, I guess
it's the second use of that hypersonic missile that they've
been working on. The Russian Defense Ministry said that it
had struck Ukraine with a nuclear capable intermediate range ballistic
missile and ominous warning by President Putin of Russia as
(18:45):
US led negotiations to end the war have gained steam,
with Witkoff and Jared Kushner seeming to be more in
favor of the United States getting involved in some sort
of secure guarantee, which seemed like it was off the
table to me a couple of weeks ago. Russia said
that it used this missile, known as the Orshnik, and
(19:07):
other weapons to hit drone making and energy infrastructure in Ukraine.
Explosions were reported early today near the western city of
Lev after the Ukrainian military warned of a potential missile launch.
The Russian Defense Ministry called to strike a response to
an attempted Ukrainian attack last month on one of mister
Putin's homes. Now, I don't know if you've been following
(19:28):
this story. This was going on during the whole Christmas
break thing, and maybe you missed it or and we
weren't on the air. But Putin claimed that Ukraine tried
to hit his house. When I first heard that, I thought, okay,
if they did, was that off limits? You hit everybody's
houses if you could hit right. I mean, you had
hot houses, schools, people waiting to bus stops, maternity wards,
(19:49):
all kinds of things, So why would it be out
of bounds to try to hit your house.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But anyway, Ukraine says to me, you.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Don't see a lot of even handedness among these bulligerent dictators.
But Ukraine said that they didn't try to hit Putin's house.
That's a lie, And US intelligence agencies have concluded that
there's no evidence that there was an attack on Putin's house. Also,
so he's just going around saying that to you know,
it's what he does to have reasons for things. But
(20:18):
in a statement today, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the
threat of a launch from a Russian strategic nuclear testing
site near the Caspian Sea. So, as always, this thing
seems like it could be heating up and getting really
really jazzy. So that leads me to this between whether
we get whether we're getting involved in Ukraine, Russia, or
what we're doing in Venezuela or whatever. Peggy Noonan wrote this,
(20:40):
and I thought it was pretty darned interesting, because what
Trump get about eighty million votes, something like seventy two
million votes, whatever he got, I don't think a single
voter was thinking. And I sure hope we start attacking Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When they do it.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And Trump's been famously a you know, we can't get
involved in these fever wars sort of guy Peggy Newton,
right Newton writing Trumpian Republicans came to hate what they
call forever wars. What they really hated is what we
have called them in this space, long unwon wars, which
(21:15):
is a better right. That's a much better term than
forever wars. Long unwon wars that bled blood and treasure
for years and yielded nothing. That was what they hated,
All that loss and nothing good coming out of it.
Capped off by Afghanistan, where our aircraft and vehicles abandoned
to the people. We went there to fight the Taliban
as they took charge. That is what Donald Trump supporters hate.
(21:37):
If this is a war in Venezuela, for instance, if
this works in quotes, however that looks Trump voters will
be happy about that.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
The act of being in a military involvement knows whether
or not we are getting anything out.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Of it, which I think she's right. Yeah, I think
the whole Oh they voted against Forever Wars.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wait a minute, they had a special operations operation that
went in, went out, accomplished its mission. No one was lost.
What are you talking about, even m I just tell
dumb a lot of our politics and journalism are I
will tell you the future of Venezuela is wildly uncertain.
And you know, one interesting aspect of this is Trump
says it's all about the oil. We're gonna bring in
(22:17):
the American companies. We're gonna make of Venezuelan oil great again.
Blah blah blah. All the big oil companies are like
have now rushed to the White House. I think today
they have a meeting with Trump where they're going to
tell them, Uh, that would take like billions of dollars
in a decade or two to really get going and
the commedies are still in charge, so we have no
(22:39):
interest in that. And that sort of oil is a
little more difficult to extract and refine in the rest
of it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Two. But they're like a no, thank you. So where
that goes nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So the Senate voted yesterday fifty two forty seven that
Trump shouldn't be able to do more military operations in
Venezuela without congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That's got to go to the House.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But you did have five Republicans joined the Democrats yesterday
in the Senate for that to pass. And Trump called
them traders and that said that they should somebody should
run against them and all that sort of stuff. I
don't know if it passes the House or not. And
then I suppose Trump would veto what even if it
even if it did pass. In a different country, Iran,
(23:23):
you got this going on overseas.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Iranian protesters have intensified nationwide demonstrations over the past twenty
four hours. They are directly appealing to President Trump while
chanting anti regime slogans. Video now shows a protester in
Tehran symbolically renaming a street after Trump. Other videos captured
handwritten appeals reading don't let them kill us.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I was listened to a reporter and Iranian reporter yesterday
and he's anti the government there on a British podcast
that I really really like, and he said there are
lots of towns around Iran that have named streets after Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, isn't that something? It really is.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It helps the leadership to a certain extent, you know,
claim that it's United States belligerents leading this protests or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The hell.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Trey yinst of Fox with more on what's going on
in Iran.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Internet service was cut off or partially restricted in major
Iranian cities, including the capital of Tehran, as leadership there
tried to quell growing protests. Further East, Iranian protesters destroyed
their country's flag in Iran's second largest city, Mashad.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Elon said that he was going to get starlink in
there so that they would have internet.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I don't know if that hasn't.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Worked or not worked as well as he wanted, or
he failed or what, but that was his plan. He
announced that earlier in the week to because you know,
obviously that's what all regimes do. They shut off the internet.
So that's up in space. How can the Mullason revolutionary
cards stop that. They can't even stop Israeli agents from
(25:01):
coming to their homes and snatching them up and putting
bullets in their heads.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Right. It's something, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That there's one guy on planet Earth that can say, nah,
you're going to have Internet and do it in Ukraine
or Iran or wherever he decides to do it. And
there are a couple of big name competitors. I think
Amazon and Google are both going hardcore into competing with
starlink as well, so that's sort of system's going to
be pretty ubiquitous. China's one. I'm interested in what happens
(25:29):
when people can just get a little clandestine receiver there
and hook up to the old starlink roney. I'm sure
the Chinese commedies will crack down on that as hard
as they can, but they're afraid of the Internet and
they're terrified of AI going forward. Before we get to
what Trump said again about Iran, here's Richard Engele of
NBC News on the hopefully revolution that's happening in Iran.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Hundreds of thousands of anti government demonstrators are on the
streets in multiple cities, including the capital Tehran, and they're
pushing hard and tearing up in flags, setting fires, and
in some cases confronting the feared security forces. The economy
is collapsing with inflation and a currency crisis. The Internet
(26:11):
appears to have been completely blacked out across large parts
of Iran, a sign of how seriously the government is
taking this.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It always worth pointing out, I think to our and
none of this crowd is listening to our show. Probably,
But you flipping pampered, grew up rich, went to a
fancy college American college students who bravely go on the
streets and get in the face of cops or ice agents,
(26:38):
knowing that they can't do anything or won't do anything.
How about you look at some real, real, actual revolutionaries
who are risking at all, like the women on the
street in Iran. They're risking being tortured and raped to
death because they care about changing their system. They're not
cost playing. You get the oppression, You got the terrible
(26:59):
economy which is getting worse and worse and worse. And
then after thirty five years of the powers that be
in Iran spending like all the GDP's money on building
up their proxies around the region, your hesbalas and your
hamasas and the rest of it, and explaining how we
have an ironclad regime and we'll hold off the Zionist
Jews and the American pigs and blah blah blah, and
(27:23):
then it turned out to be a paper tiger, just
a national humiliation.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Whether you like the regime or not, you're like, we
suck at the military too.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That people are like, you have nothing to offer us,
and it's over from their point of view. But when
the crackdown comes, it could be horrific or there are
other possibilities.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Which we can discuss at some point well.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
And how much do we get involved when the crackdown comes,
which might be today.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Here's CNN's reporting.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
So for the first time that we now see the
United State of America's president taking a strong action saying
that he is ready to save the lives of your audience.
Panias are welcoming that. I want to see action. Otherwise,
empty wards are not going to save lives. Let's be
very clear, people of your own are better allies compared
to these backward moll laws for America, for the rest
(28:12):
of the world. An iron without Islamic republic will guarantee
global security.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh shoot, that was Jake Tapper's head exploding because somebody
said something positive about Trump. First time a US president
is taking strong action. Barack Obama famously and even people
on the left criticized him for this. Did not get
behind the Green Revolution when that was going on in
Iran because he had that whole policy of don't do stupidness,
And as you were talking about the other day, sometimes
(28:41):
doing nothing is a decision.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
How does everybody not know that?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
How does everybody not know that choosing to stay with
the status quo is a decision as much as changing Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, it's a specific course of action.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Think about it like that, and deciding not to support
the protest is not staying away from stupidest necessarily, it's
making a decision anyway. Trump is, at least the verbally,
is supporting the Rangians. He was on Hugh Hewitt Show,
We don't really like people around here. I have the
same name, first name and last name or something going
on there, you Hewett?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Eric ericson who's the other one? The other talk shows?
There's a top of one.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Steve Stevens and all kinds of people like that don't
like him. So Trump's on Hugh Hewitt and said this.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
And I have let them know that if they start
killing people, which they tend to do during their riots,
they have lots of riots, if they do it, we're
going to hit them very hard. And they know, and
they've been told very strongly, even more strongly than I'm
speaking to you right now, that if they do that,
they're going to.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Have to pay.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So does he mean that or not?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So many way, If I'm the moullus, I got my
beard in a twist right now because they are up
against it. Well, they've been hit hard before. He talked
this way and then did hit Iran harder than they've
ever been in the entire time that they've been in charge.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
There.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
See that is correct.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Oh, thank you, President Meduro him weighing in whether Trump
lives up to threats, and somebody made the point yesterday, well,
I don't think that's gonna happen because we haven't moved
any resources into the area.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's because we already have so.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Many resources in the area. We don't need to move
more resources into the area. Here's a hint they're under
the ocean and nobody knows they're there, and they rhyme
with flubfaren is, you've actually have the world's third strongest military.
Every time one of our boomers sails by your home country.
(30:43):
You've been in a submarine because your brother was a
submarine guy. They have a great and they wanted me
to consult. They have a great submarine thing at the
World War Two Museum where you used to simulator and.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Everything like that. It's very very cool about the silent
a fleet. You got to get there, but boy, that'd
be something.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So this reporter I was listening to yesterday said, what
Iran has been doing because they are worried about a
reaction from Trump, is they are not killing people in
the streets. They're beating them down in the streets to
the point that they go to the hospital. Then when
you go to the hospital, the security forces go and
(31:24):
snatch you out of the hospital and take you to
the prison and torture you. So you don't have the
people getting shot in the streets. He just grab them
out of the hospital after you broke their leg and
broke their kneecap in the street.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
How about that for a policy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Trump will hear that by this afternoon and it will
anger him, isn't that something? Yeah, so they'll break your
ankles you're no longer protesting in the street.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Then they go to the hospital and grab you.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, so that you don't have a stack of bodies
in the street like happened with Tienman Square or whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, they're evil, They're evil, evil human beings.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
This could be something to watch this weekend because the
protests are really growing in the last twenty four hours. Anyway,
a lot more to comes here. Excited about n NFL
playoff football this weekend, Excited about the college game tonight.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Something to watch?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Excellent, excellent. I do love the foots ball coming up.
The Immigration forces v. Local authorities thing in Blue cities
is heating up. Boy, A couple of the sheriff in
Philadelphia said she they're going to arrest ice agents there.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
No, you're not my favorite.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
What the hell story of the week after a couple
of head scratchers, I'm trying to figure out you young people.
Here are two stories back to back. Number one from
the New York Times, A New Generation, Oh oh, it's
the Sober Party girl Revelation. A New generation gives up alcohol,
(32:52):
but not the party at a member's only club in Manhattan.
A new generation rejects alcohol. Blah blah blah. It's all
about these fashionable A lot of them are like Instagram
influencers who really like to party but don't drink. They're sober.
I'm known as Sober party Girl. And this other influencer,
(33:15):
another cutie and a low cut thing is called more
fun without it. They're sober influencers anyway, So that's hot
than this article the Wall Street Journal why twenty somethings
are trading their vapes for cigarettes. More and more young
people are thinking it, and they just smoke cigarettes. Really,
cigarette smoking is on the rise for the first time
(33:35):
since the Surgeon General is warning.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I just read the other day that stopping vaping now
is like the number one New Year's resolution in America.
It used to be stopping smoking every year, not stopping vaping.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Interesting, But a lot of people who dig the nicotine
are thinking, why am I sucking on what looks like
a USB drive when I could look like Steve McQueen
or they used the example of Joan Didion or one
of your heroes of the sixties, seventies, whatever, has always
got to sing in their in their their myts.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So go figure.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Now we're completely thuburb but we do suck down twenty
cancer sticks the day.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Okay, go figure, all right, here's my favorite story.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
The main based Maine, the State Apparel Companies phones had
been ringing off the hook after a shackled Nicholas Maduro
was snapped wearing one of its hoodies when he was
hauled to the Big Apple. According to the company, the
OUs did Venezuelan dictator wore the origin company's attire in
the company's patriotic blue shade, in a now infamous photo
(34:41):
of him flashing two thumbs up while surrounded by the
DEA agents as they.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Touched down in New York.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Unclear how the dictator ended up in the hoodie, uh,
but everybody looked at it and said, Wow, that's a.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Good looking hoodie.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's funny. I did research on the hoodie yesterday. It
came up in a conversation with my son about like,
how long is the hood been around?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I looked at it, I.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Thought, and I actually said to him, I think it
became popular about the time I started wearing them. When
I was in junior high. It turns out that's right
for people. Joe and I say, do you know what
made the hoodie popular? It's been around since the forties,
but it was only a military thing really. It became
popular in the seventies because of the movie Rocky Rocky
Wearing the hoodie's exploded ever since.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
The people wore hoodies like grapies, Armstrong and Getdy.
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