July 18, 2026 • 39 mins
Featured highlights from The Armstrong & Getty Show, as heard on the broadcast of Hour Two of The Best Weekend Talk Show In America include...
- Threats Against our Supreme Court justices.
- The Media Loves Stories About Diarrhea
- Portland is Crumbling:
- California is Soft on Crime
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Shoe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
I want to tell you, gor Zutz. I want to
tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And you will pay the price. You won't know what
hit you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
That was the most powerful Democrat in the Senate threatening
Republican appointed Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's one of the most disgusting things ever said. You're
earlier a leader of either party. It really is. They're
dating back to Jim Crow.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's way too much threatening by all the powerful on
both sides, unfortunately, but that was really, really awful.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So you have an atmosphere or the rhetoric against the
Supreme Court for disagreeing with your particular politics right now. Anyway,
you know, it's worth a quick aside. When for sixty
five years the lefty justices controlled the Supreme Court, conservatives
would just say, hey, I don't agree with that, that's wrong.
(01:41):
But now that conservatives have some level of control, you
hear that sort of absolutely horrifying rhetoric, and that's barely true.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We went through all the statistics last week with what's
her name that we really.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Like, Oh yeah, Anastasia Both. Yeah, we went through this
legal foundation. It's just it's just not true. In fact,
all of Trump's biggest things, his justice has won against him.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The court went against him his biggest things, tariffs and
birthright citizenship and stuff like that. So the whole it's
a Republican maga court. Even if it were true, it
wouldn't be something you should complain about. As you just
pointed out, it was a Democrat led court forever.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But it's just not true. Anyway, I do want to
talk more about the birthright citizenship ruling, which I found lame.
But yeah, so it's purely this vile rhetoric against the
Supreme Court is purely a fundraising voter enthusiasm strategy. But
it's incredibly irresponsible and dangerous, so dangerous in fact, that
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a couple of the Lady Justices went before Congress yesterday
to say, hey, we need more and better security.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
The Supreme Court Police reports a thirty eight percent increase
and threats to members of the Court over the past year,
threats that Justice Barrett described firsthand.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I didn't expect that performing this service was going to
put me in the position of explaining to my children
what a bulletproof fest was and why I had to
wear one.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Justice Kagan argued that security measures are necessary in today's
threat environment.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
For some of us, those threats have come very close,
and all of us live with the knowledge that they
may again materialize.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
We all know about Kavanaugh, where they actually arrested a
guy who was in prison still with an assassination threat
against him, caught him outside his house with a gun
and zip tizes and all kinds of stuff that would
have been awful, really really awful. Kagan went on to
talk about how she used to go around with no
security all the time. She could go wherever she wanted,
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and now she has to have security always right.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
In his end of the year report for twenty twenty four,
Chief Justice Roberts said threats against the judges had more
than tripled in the last decade. Federal marshals had investigated
more than a thousand threats against judges in the previous
five years. Hundreds of federal judges faced threat this year,
and Justice Kagan said the Supreme Court Police Force is
projecting a thirty eight percent threat increase this year on
top of the twenty five percent increase last year. And
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as Jack said, she described the minimal minimal security when
she joined the Court in twenty ten, when she clerked
for Enton and Scalia, the justices didn't have twenty four
hour protection. They didn't need it. So it's all about
these times we're living in the political rhetoric. Justice Barrett
went on when threats.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
To my life were particularly intense a few years ago,
around the time of the Dobsleek, my security detail sent
me home with a bulletproof vest and I carried it
into my house, put it into my bedroom, dropped it
down on a table, turned around, and my twelve year
old son was standing in the doorway of my bedroom
and he wanted to know what it was and why
I had it, And I didn't know how to respond.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And Justice Barrett, who has been a bit of a
wobbly vote. Certainly from Trump's perspective, or maybe even from
the conservative perspective, is probably getting it from both sides.
Her home was targeted in a swatting attack, and then
she told lawmakers multiple deliveries arrive in the name of
and this should have made the news, but I guess
(05:15):
it takes too much explaining. They get packages at their home,
but the name is of the son of Federal Judge
Esther Salas's son murdered in twenty twenty at the family's
home by a gunman posting as a delivery driver. So
the Barrett family gets packages addressed to young mister Solace
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at their hard For God's sake, people, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You would question whether or not you should have taken
the job or whether you should step down.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I would, you know, if I bring a bullet because
I decided to become a Supreme Court justice, that's terrible.
But if I see my child shot downable anyway. So
the two justices were requesting some extra money from Congress
to beef up security around the justices, and it's a
no brainer. I hope it goes through immediately, and with
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the unanimous vote, it's terrible that it's needed, but it
absolutely is needed. And the question we always ask in
this sort of discussion, will it ever go back?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I doubt it. Security stuff doesn't seem to ever go back.
I mean, one hundred and fifty years ago you could
walk up to the White House and knock on the door,
and then little by little over time it has become
a fortress. Now you can barely get close enough to
see it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah. Yeah. They mentioned in the Wall Street Journal that
Senator Sheldon white House of the Democratic Rhode Island, has
made smearing the justices as corrupt a personal mission. He's
constantly saying stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But I don't want to make this partisan, because well,
the New York Times had a big story oh sixty
minutes did it too. They did their story about justices
under threat below the level of the Supreme Court. They
focused on that woman you just mentioned whose son was killed.
We didn't really have to do with her politics are
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judging weirdly enough, but regardless, they made it all about
Trump because Trump has said horrible things about all your
lower level courts, and all those justices feel scared. And
they left out the Supreme Court because if they had
gotten into the Supreme Court. You'd have had to focus
on the fact that Joe Biden said many, many, many
times the Ultramaga Supreme Court it's a rubber stamp for
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Trump and all that sort of illegitimate court. Guy that
used to be the chair of the Judicial Committee, you
would think would no better than to pretend that the
justices were just doing the bidding of Donald Trump, especially
when it's not true.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right, No, but it's everything's clickbait. Everything's about fundraising and
whipping up the electric and yeah for in the name
of being fair. Yeah, Trump has said some ridiculous things
about just terrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, they come out with some of those. You know,
it happens twice a week where a sitting judge in
Omaha has declared Trump can't do this or that, and
then Trump will say all kinds of horrible things about
the guy or woman. I had another point I was
going to make about the justices and saying something about
the justices and oh yeah, the Amy Cony Barrett thing,
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the sweating thing. I think the timing of that was
after she went against one of Trump's big as the
tariffs are one of them. So it quite possibly was
a maga person.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That means there's no yeah, yeah, everything doesn't make any difference.
It doesn't make any difference. You gotta stop. Yeah. Yeah. Indeed,
what is cable news like talking about diarrhea? Yeah? I've
noticed that. And explosive? Is that the word that we're hearing?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Usually that's the word they use. Yes, he blewey, that's yeah.
Why do you suppose they like talking about that? Because
we all hate it so much? It gets your attention.
What's causing that? I want to avoid what's causing that?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, if somebody says disease causing a runny nose, we'll
have information next. I might stay tuned, but I probably
won't avoid. But the ed, the ed, the extrasion, I'm
stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Oh no, they got the tips to avoid the explosion.
Avoid pre washed bagged salads. I always thought those were safe.
I thought those were the safest ones. Okay, they don't
wash them very well. You know how I avoid it?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah? I do. I don't need no dang salad. That's
why I pray for your colon. I just had it
checked out. I had a physical imas. I'm perfect. Oh Lord,
please protect Jack's colon and spread of the abuse.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
He He's responded, I have I I was recognizing this.
Thank you God for that. Just to do genetics. I
got the genetics of I'm just predisposed to have local
ester a, low blood pressure, all that sort of stuff,
no matter what I do, So I'm protected against this,
this sort of crazy thing. You come from hardy stock.
(10:13):
It's a blessing. I don't know if that's correct. I
catch every cold that comes my way, that's true. But
you're still kicking. Your folks are still doing great, right?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very very much fantastic. Oh man,
we got all sorts of good stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Former Miss North Dakota has pled guilty to daycare fraud Minnesota.
Damn North Dakota carpetbaggers.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Former or Miss North Dakota went over to Minnesota to
rip off tax bears.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, because anybody who wanted to steal from Minnesota could
right thanks to governor. What's its lame brain? Man?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
We almost we went through with Katie Grimes last week,
the fraud in California, which makes Minnesota seem like nothing.
It's just the amount of money that gets stolen from us.
And as I always say before we take a break.
I don't understand why you liberals aren't more upset about
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this than conservatives. We wish that the government didn't have
a role in any of this stuff. And there are all
these programs that are just go away. You like the programs,
So why, I mean you you think they should exist.
I assume because you want to help people. They aren't
helping people. They're stealing the money. That should make you
more angry than me. Actually, because you're stealing it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's how stupid politics is. Though, any criticism of the
program I'm in favor of, including the fact that it's
being stolen from, I won't accept that. I'm going to
pretend that it's not happening. And the effect of it
is you exactly point out.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Is that what you want to happen doesn't happen because
it's getting stolen from your stupid idiot. I think giving
the downtrodden money enables them. I don't want to give
them the money. They aren't getting the money. I'm winning.
I just hate in terms of that issue. I just
hate the fact that it's being stolen and as opposed
to I get to keep the money.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Good Lord, that was the voice of the patriarchy right there, folks.
That was shocking. Doesn't want to health the downtrodden. You're
in favor of income equality, inequality, yes for that one,
damn it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, well ye, actually I am in system that would try.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
To make it equal is not gonna work. It's a nightmare.
It would be oppression, be horrible. Portlandia is crumbling. It
is a crying shame. That's right. Metal guy, thank you. Uh.
(12:44):
If you were not privileged to spend time in Portland,
Oregon prior to the fall, I am sad for you,
because it is was an amazing city in so many ways,
just pretty, the art scene, the music scene, food od
just the vibe. Great place, cleaner, greener San Francisco for
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a long time, and it's gone to hell, especially downtown.
And a story that happened it was just a day
or two ago, is getting a lot of nationwide coverage,
and I'm glad it is because to such a large extent,
the battle between the progressives, the social progressives and I
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don't want to give it away, but not progressives is
not a war between colonializers and the resistance, or the
down trodden and the patriarchy. Or white people against transgender
black people or whatever. That battle is between realism and
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people who have these childish fantasies about how the world
will work if they just set it up right. Okay,
And the defund the police thing is that exactly. It's
a perfect example. Love it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
They think, well, no, it's going to be just like
the suburbs. That's what AOC said.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
What an idiot. This is the reality.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
We don't have the appropriate amount of police officers to
handle the amount of demand for police services.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
This statement from Portland Police has been made evident the
past several days. On Saturday, it took officers and estimated
thirty to forty minutes to respond to a dozen nine
to one one calls reporting a naked man harassing people
in Waterfront Park. This escalated to an alleged attempt to
grab a seven year old girl out of her parents' arms.
The Bureau says its officers were tied up with a
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barricaded suspect a mile away.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
They're resource intensive and so when you have a draw
like that, it really puts a drain on the entire city,
not just that precinct.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I don't want to steal her. Thunder let's play one
more clip than I want to spell it out how
what happened in what order?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
But this wasn't an isolated incident. Earlier this month, a
group of women held back an alleged attacker for forty
minutes until help arrived. And on Monday morning, the Fox
twelve crew was threatened with a knife at the waterfront.
It took police ten minutes to intervene.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
There's no unless it's an on call group of officers
like the SWAT team or the traffic team. There's no
additional officers that I can just bring in at a
moment's notice.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Deputy Chief Brian Hughes says PPB was operating at a
twenty four percent staffing reduction, with forty one officer stationed
across the city and ten polling overtime. He says tactical
calls like the domestic violence threat in Old Town require
additional staff in case the suspect gets away or fires
a weapon.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, my immediate question would be, just because I know
the way it is been happening around California, would you
not need extra officers if these people were locked up
the first one of the first ten times they showed society. Next,
they can't be free people if they if they're in jail,
then you don't have to tend to them every single
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freaking day. I mean, because I mentioned at a similar situation,
I called the nine to one one on an incredibly crazy,
out of control person the other day street person, and
the cops called me back because they always get your
name in phone number, and they called me back and said, yeah,
this person is known to us. We deal with them
on a regular basis. Okay, so he acts like this
all the time and he's just out on the streets. Well,
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then how much resources does that take to deal with
the same guy day after day after.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Day, I suppose if you put him in jail. Right.
So here's what happened with the crazy guy in Portland.
At about six fifty in the evening, folks started calling
that a man was running around naked in this section
of the city and just a few minutes later, but
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the cops didn't have anybody. Sorry, yeah, we can't do
anything about it. A few minutes later, dispatch advised officers
that another caller stayed in the man tried to punch
them in the head. Sorry, all officers are busy with
other calls can't really help you out there. Then five
eight minutes after that, a third caller reported that the
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suspect grabbed a young girl, a seven year old, and
pulled her away with her mother for god knows what
crazy ass purpose. Finally, there were no available officers in
the central section of Portland, so they had to send
officers from North Precinct down to the other section of
the city. Now that the guy was actually snatching children
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out of their mother's arms just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
And these are usually cities or states where they don't
want you to have a gun or a knife or
any sort of way to protect yourself, even though we
are allowing criminals to run free on the streets and
want to rest them and there aren't enough cobstacle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Isn't that something. Yeah, they would absolutely deny you the
opportunity to defend yourself. They would say they would try
you for punching this guy to get him away from
your child. Yeah, it's again, it's this complete disconnect from reality.
Let's hear a little more from Julia Lopez on Fox twelve.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Seventy vacancies more than twenty million dollars in recent budget
cuts at an increase in complex call since twenty twenty.
Hugh says patrol staff is stretched too thin to respond
right away.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's just triaging calls as they come in on the street,
as opposed to having enough officers to handle each call
as they came in.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Build more jails, yeah, no kidding, Yeah, don't empty the jails,
build more of them. Here's an idea.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
If somebody commits a crime and is prosecuted beyond a
reasonable doubt in front of a jury of their peers,
have them undergo the punishment that is prescribed by law.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We'll call that the Joe Getty plan. It's innovative, it's crazy.
I can write it out for you if you didn't
follow it because it's complicated. Tell me this is not
a war between realism and fantasyland, because they would reject
what I just said. Well, the over incarceration of minorities
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and people victimized by the colonial oppressors. Blah blah blah,
telling you folks, you got to resist these people because
they will ruin the world. End of screed.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well, and hopefully you don't get your house, your car
broken into you, or somebody you care about hurt in
the meantime.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh right, yeah, yeah, that's who was it. Jim Cooper,
the UH sheriff of Sacramento County in California, said the
other day, can we start thinking about the victims again? Please?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, said Coop, that's the exact same same thing I
said at a city council meeting. When are we going
to start caring about the law abiding taxpayer as opposed
to the drug addled the criminal?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Right right, it's insane. It's insane. You get it. The
finger clips, the finger clips, oh, the snaps.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Somebody else who followed me who said something like blah
blah blah, patriarchy blah blah blah, capitalist system, they got
all them.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. The only upside to all
this insanity is now I get how other societies went crazy.
Cite your favorite.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Example, Shrony show, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Armstrong.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
And there's some folks in the legislature and they're true believers.
For whatever reason, they don't want anybody held accountable to
go to a county jailer prison. And that's what we're
dealing with with some folks in California.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Sheriff Jim Cooper, longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
He's the sheriff of Sacramento County in California. He's talking
about the progressive governance in California and how it's many
to say soft on crime is to really not describe
it properly. The policies are don't jail anybody, because that's
part of capitalistic right.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I almost can't talk about this subject because it makes
me so angry and worried. Actually, since my family, when
my kids were little, we were verbally assaulted by a
guy that should have been in prison because of all
the crimes he had committed. He ended up back in
prison because of what he said to me and my family.
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If to all that story a million times, I thought
I was quite possibly going to die in a knife
or gunfight with the guy. But he should have been
in jail a long time ago. And when I called
the cops, I'll never forget this. When I called the cops,
the first cop I talked to said, you know, what's
really a tragedy is that we don't have someplace we
can put this guy so we could get the mental.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh is that the tragedy?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
As my kids are crying behind me, I thought they
were going to die like ten minutes ago, and the
cop tells me the real tragedy is that the.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Guy doesn't have someplace he can go to get more helped.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He's a criminal, he's been a criminal, he's advocated a criminally,
he'd done all kinds of horrible things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
He should have been in jail.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Right, these people are nuts, and they're gonna get more
people herd Or killed.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
And Sheriff Cooper, in that same interview with the excellent
Ashley Zavalla points out that when there are like mental
health diversion programs that are not funded because they don't
believe in putting anybody behind bars anyway, I thought this
was so interesting that that's why I've decided that socialism
is a mental illness.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's an actual mental illness, because it doesn't make any sense.
You can't you can't make you know, there are all
kinds of political policy differences you can have with people,
but you can understand their argument. This doesn't make any sense, right, Right,
you have to suck down the delicious kool aid of
the Marxist cult really to pretend, because it's so clearly
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what they are advocating is so clearly counter to what
we all recognize about reality and humanity, which is why
really socialism works best on the young and stupid people.
But Charles Lehman wrote a great piece for The Dispatch
a while back entitled why don't we lock up repeat offenders?
And it starts Jack with a disturbingly similar situation of
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your own. It wasn't long ago that police charged Hector
da Leone, an immeral and emotionally disturbed and homeless fifty
one year old, with slashing six New Yorkers in an
unprovoked attack at Penn Station in New York. Day lay
one is a vibrant criminal history. Another slashing committed in Newark,
New Jersey, four years ago right across the river, and
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six other priorrests, including aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon,
user possession of drugs, assault, domestic assault, and criminal mischief and.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Caspital that's why he did that? Oh forgot? Or global warming?
Climate change? Did you see? I shouldn't get off on
this tangent. I really shouldn't. National Geographic is trying to
and and they've been captured by the progressives, like a
lot of so called scientific institutions trying to pitch the
idea that selling girls off his child brides in Muslim
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countries is because of climate change. It's not because of
their perverse culture or sick view of religion. No, it's
climate change.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Unbelievable, An, We got to do some of the writing
around that because it is horrifying. Yeah, yeah, there will
be plenty of time. That will still be a problem
in a year and a decade anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So Laman asked the obvious question, why was a violent
criminal with a string of priors, a history of deranged
behaviors on the street. Why wasn't he locked up in
a prisoner or a mental health facility or something. And
why do such people seem to cause so much of
our crime problems? And this is and I think this
is probably not necessary for a lot of you, but
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this is an absolute, ironclad illustration of how idiotic the
we can't incarcerate our way out of the social problems
we have. Oh, this is about capitalism, No, it's about
a few people who who victimize others. They are predators.
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Every cop we've ever talked to done a ride along
with says the same thing. I spend ninety percent of
my time babysitting three percent of the population. Well that's
not quite the percentage that some of the scientists come
up with, but frequent offenders drive a massive share of crime.
It's one of the most well established findings in criminology.
It's undeniable. But it turns out that in many states
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and cases, our criminal justicism isn't designed with that reality
in mind. So people like de Leone can keep offending
in slashing. Can you imagine you get sliced open? I
mean when people don't die. I think other people underestimate
how horrible it is what happened. Oh, thank god hez
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is expected to recover. Oh, please think about it for
a minute. I don't want to dwell on it because
it's horrifying. But you wouldn't sleep right for months. Oh,
you'd be disfigured for life. You'd be dealing with medical
treatments and infections.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
And got that part the PTSD of like being out
in public or walking down the street or getting on
a bus or anything.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Ever again, well you can speak to that somebody with
wild eyes approaches you quickly. Can you imagine the horror,
the utter terror that would cause for maybe the rest
of your life. Anyway, So the daily owners of the
world keep getting turned loose. But the upside of this
is if we go back to sanity, we have a
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great opportunity to bring crime under control again, because we've
done it more than once. That a few offenders commit
most of the crime is the closest thing we have
to an iron law of criminology. Offending follows what social
scientists call a Pareto distribution, or the eighty twenty rule,
and this is at least eighty percent of crime is
committed by at most twenty percent of the offenders, and
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the true concentration is probably greater than that. One systematic
review a few years ago found that ten percent of
the population that is most criminally active, accounts for sixty
six percent of all crime on average. Yeah, ten I
could believe.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I don't believe twenty percent of people are out there
committing in these crime Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah. And it's not a new finding. I mean, they
did a giant study following a cohort of nearly ten
thousand Philadelphia boys born in nineteen forty five. They found
that six percent of the boys were responsible for roughly
half of all police contacts observed. Same. Oh, in Sweden,
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two point four million Swedes found that just one percent
were responsible for sixty three percent of all criminal offenses.
Absolutely believe that, and do you want more? Most gun
violence is highly concentrated in tight social networks, a phenomenon
that's shown up in Baltimore, Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco,
and Oakland, et cetera. It's gangbangers almost exclusively who commit crimes.
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One of the reasons you might think otherwise is that
the media is uncomfortable with that because it's frequently black gangbangers,
sometimes Hispanics, sometimes Asian, but it's generally not white people.
And for the idiotic, woke reasons we've discussed a million times,
they are uncomfortable reporting that. So if white guy goes
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crazy is available, they amplify that like crazy and to
be shot is to be shot. I'm I'm not in
favor of that, but you know the point I'm trying
to make. But so why does this happen? Simple answer
is a life of crime is the product of many
different rare events and well they go into it. Frequent shooters,
for example, tend to occur only in environments with a
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lot of well armed young men with little oversight and
a strong culture of honor, hard looking, and to shoot you. Yeah.
Frequent shoplifters tend to be seriously mentally ill and or
addicted to drugs, and also have frequent opportunities to shoplift
peer groups, Family, environment, and genes also play a role.
In short, a lot of things have gone wrong for
someone to become a frequent offender. So most people don't.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
But if you have a frequent offender, they're going to
keep offending. It's as close, as he said, to an
iron law of criminology as exists. Lock him up, lock
him up, and force theaw law. Oh god, so frustrated. Yes,
so this happens to me a lot in California. I
(29:27):
remember how it's a problem when I'm on vacation. I'm
driving around other states but can't find a restroom anywhere,
can't convenience store or anywhere you stop, just because they're
all locked up because they don't want to deal with
homeless people. We're willing to give away the idea of
having public restrooms in many parts of California or across
the country because we just don't want to enforce the law.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Makes me so angry, right, and you know, Jim Cooper
in that interview. One of the points he made, I
don't think we have the audio of it, but he said, look,
we've got to start thinking about the victims of crime again.
Our entire criminal justice system he's talking about cal Unicornia
is geared toward sympathy and helping and counseling for the offenders.
(30:08):
Nobody talks about the victims. Thank you Coop for saying that, yes,
this is exactly right. Brings us to your point about
when lawlessness is observed and lawlessness is not punished, people
decide lawlessness is okay. Here's a story from the other
side of the country. Raleigh, North Carolina, which is an
absolutely lovely place, Raleig Durhamchapel Hill. You got the major
universities of North Carolina. You got all sorts of eggheads
(30:32):
and tech people and families and all. But in Raleigh,
they had a shocking event the other day. It was
one of those what are the teen takeovers? One point
thirty in the morning. You've got as many as eight
thousand young people, many juveniles, many from outside the city,
(30:52):
that gathered in and took over one commercial area in Raleigh,
ran rough shot, committing crimes, robberies, theft or acts of violence,
then later converged on another area. What followed was a
night marred by or disorder and violence when the police
say left nine people injured by gunfire, led to the
seizure of nearly a dozen guns, resulted in dozens of
(31:14):
arrests of young people in delinquency cases against multiple miners.
Scenes spread across social media and news coverage of overflowing
sidewalks and streets, shouting and cursing, sirens and music blaring,
crime scene tape, people faced down being handcuffed, and the
police chief, who's had a twenty six year career there
in Raleigh, said it was heartbreaking in unacceptable, and he
(31:38):
says we were prepared for the crowd size. What we
were not prepared for were the number of firearms we
were recovering off individuals and the desire to commit criminal acts.
Where did that come from? The intent? The lawlessness? Well,
(31:58):
I think we answered the question already. Yeah, did you
I'm asking y'all, or Jack or Michael or anybody else,
did you grow up thinking, you know, it would be
fun if a bunch of us got together and just
absolutely trampled on the law in one city or another
of course not. It's a societal rot and it's caused
(32:19):
by permitting lawlessness all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And of rant, Jack Armstrong and Joe this is the.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Best weekend talk show in America. This is makes you
wonder what we're doing? Do we really feel this lousy
about the economy? University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Consumer Sentiment
(32:47):
Index much discussed. It's been going on since the nineteen forties.
The Michigan Survey of Consumers is the poll for how
Americans have felt about the economy now for generation, and
it's low. Right now.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We don't feel good about the economy. More than more
than ever, We're despondent.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
A key survey of Americans consumers is scraping bottom, showing
they've never felt this lousy about the economy, even at
the height of the recessions or when the COVID pandemic
COVID pandemic raged. We were talking about this a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
What could possibly explain that they're so anti Trump? Some
people are there want a price a gas when inflation
is high. Nothing else manners. It's the survey itself. According
to a growing number of critics, including several economists, They've
pointed to methodology methodology changes in the University of Michigan's
(33:46):
Consumer's Sentiment in Index as bugs in the machine, saying
they're skewing the results. Now the polling people are saying no.
Low sentiment likely reflects a profound shift in mood since
COVID struck. According to the survey director, uh, well, it
shouldn't be too surprising. People feel differently about the world,
including the economy after the pandemic. It hit its lowest
(34:06):
mark in May, lowest ever of them. The low readings,
they make the point in the journal seem at odds
with an economy that appears decent, if not stellar. The
country's adding jobs, and consumers are continuing to spend despite
worries about inflation and affordability. And I would point out
increasing credit card and car loan defaults and the higher
(34:26):
and higher level of debt. Maybe you shouldn't be spending
that anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
In twenty twenty four Michigan, the University of moved to
conducting its surveys via the web rather than via cell phone,
a response to the problem the ongoing problem everybody knows
surveyor's face and getting anybody to answer the damn phone
because everybody's being spammed all the time. So a couple
(34:55):
of years ago they made that transition to online polls,
and some critic think that made the sentiment index more downbeat,
in part because other research has shown that when people
are surveyed online, for some reason, they tend to be
more negative than when they're speaking to a human being.
Twenty twenty four analysis a couple of economists you've never
(35:17):
heard of estimated that this survey method methodology shift shaved
about nine points off the Michigan Sentiment Index nine points.
Recent analysis from the Chicago Fed also took issue with
the survey switch.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I think it's interesting that people are so much more
negative being online than if you're asked on the phone.
So sure, because of the algorithms feeding us depressing stuff constantly,
we've trained our brains since we go online to immediately
(35:54):
have a bad attitude.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Probably, I wonder, Or it could just be if there's
another human beating, you don't want to appear too negative
and bitchy because it's not considered an attractive quality. I
don't know. There's also the fact, and this is undeniable,
that the skew in partisan attitudes is as big as
(36:19):
it's ever been. You ask a Republican, right now, Republicans
controlled the White House, as if the White House runs
the economy.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
For God's sake, people shouldn't anyway. But you ask Republicans,
they say it's just freaking fine. You ask Democrats, They're like,
it's horrible. We talked about this. I talked about this
last week coming out of fourth of July, and I
took in a ton of two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
founding stuff and up with America tweets and books and
(36:48):
TV shows and speeches and all the different sort of stuff,
and I was feeling pretty raw, raw about America and
actually thought, Joe and I need to be less negative.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
We're too negative.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
But I did want to push back on all the
rah rah with just a little bit of the All
of those things are true structurally, historically, everything about the
United States being great and all that forced for good,
et cetera, et cetera. But this whole educating the young
people to hate their own country k through PhD is
new and real and is going to bear fruit for
(37:24):
a long time to come.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh yes, if you believe Reagan, that were never more
than a generation or two from losing our liberty, or
Jefferson that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, was it.
Jefferson said that you might as well have if you
believe those things, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Yeah,
this is a serious, serious problem, as I'm always saying,
and then you throw in a dose of online information
(37:51):
algorithm stuff that is all brand new to the world. Also,
I'm not as optimistic going forward as a lot of
the ra RA speeches were. Yeah, it's funny because you know,
we're conducting a for profit enterprise here, and if we're
too downbeaten discouraging, arguably, you know, for two down beaten discouraging,
(38:13):
it's not going to work. But from a purely patriotic standpoint,
and this is distasteful and inappropriate. But I also don't
want to be the guy telling Lindsey Graham, oh it's
probably indigestion, don't worry about the chest pains. You know,
when when there is a serious, serious threat, and that
(38:35):
is the successful perversion of our education system to become
not a system of education but a system of indoctrination,
the Marxist ideals, the woe the current woke, postmodern version
of it. So I to me, you know, and I
care as deeply as I do, and I know you
do too, because I'm so positive about the United States
(38:58):
of America and love so much. I mean, it's danger danger,
Will Robinson.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
I want to tell you, gor Zutz. I want to
tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And you will pay the price. You won't know what
hit you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
That was the most powerful Democrat in the Senate threatening
Republican appointed Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's one of the most disgusting things ever said. You're
earlier a leader of either party. It really is. They're
dating back to Jim Crow.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's way too much threatening by all the powerful on
both sides, unfortunately, but that was really, really awful.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So you have an atmosphere or the rhetoric against the
Supreme Court for disagreeing with your particular politics right now. Anyway,
you know, it's worth a quick aside. When for sixty
five years the lefty justices controlled the Supreme Court, conservatives
would just say, hey, I don't agree with that, that's wrong.
(01:41):
But now that conservatives have some level of control, you
hear that sort of absolutely horrifying rhetoric, and that's barely true.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We went through all the statistics last week with what's
her name that we really.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Like, Oh yeah, Anastasia Both. Yeah, we went through this
legal foundation. It's just it's just not true. In fact,
all of Trump's biggest things, his justice has won against him.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The court went against him his biggest things, tariffs and
birthright citizenship and stuff like that. So the whole it's
a Republican maga court. Even if it were true, it
wouldn't be something you should complain about. As you just
pointed out, it was a Democrat led court forever.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But it's just not true. Anyway, I do want to
talk more about the birthright citizenship ruling, which I found lame.
But yeah, so it's purely this vile rhetoric against the
Supreme Court is purely a fundraising voter enthusiasm strategy. But
it's incredibly irresponsible and dangerous, so dangerous in fact, that
(02:47):
a couple of the Lady Justices went before Congress yesterday
to say, hey, we need more and better security.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
The Supreme Court Police reports a thirty eight percent increase
and threats to members of the Court over the past year,
threats that Justice Barrett described firsthand.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I didn't expect that performing this service was going to
put me in the position of explaining to my children
what a bulletproof fest was and why I had to
wear one.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Justice Kagan argued that security measures are necessary in today's
threat environment.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
For some of us, those threats have come very close,
and all of us live with the knowledge that they
may again materialize.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
We all know about Kavanaugh, where they actually arrested a
guy who was in prison still with an assassination threat
against him, caught him outside his house with a gun
and zip tizes and all kinds of stuff that would
have been awful, really really awful. Kagan went on to
talk about how she used to go around with no
security all the time. She could go wherever she wanted,
(03:43):
and now she has to have security always right.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
In his end of the year report for twenty twenty four,
Chief Justice Roberts said threats against the judges had more
than tripled in the last decade. Federal marshals had investigated
more than a thousand threats against judges in the previous
five years. Hundreds of federal judges faced threat this year,
and Justice Kagan said the Supreme Court Police Force is
projecting a thirty eight percent threat increase this year on
top of the twenty five percent increase last year. And
(04:11):
as Jack said, she described the minimal minimal security when
she joined the Court in twenty ten, when she clerked
for Enton and Scalia, the justices didn't have twenty four
hour protection. They didn't need it. So it's all about
these times we're living in the political rhetoric. Justice Barrett
went on when threats.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
To my life were particularly intense a few years ago,
around the time of the Dobsleek, my security detail sent
me home with a bulletproof vest and I carried it
into my house, put it into my bedroom, dropped it
down on a table, turned around, and my twelve year
old son was standing in the doorway of my bedroom
and he wanted to know what it was and why
I had it, And I didn't know how to respond.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And Justice Barrett, who has been a bit of a
wobbly vote. Certainly from Trump's perspective, or maybe even from
the conservative perspective, is probably getting it from both sides.
Her home was targeted in a swatting attack, and then
she told lawmakers multiple deliveries arrive in the name of
and this should have made the news, but I guess
(05:15):
it takes too much explaining. They get packages at their home,
but the name is of the son of Federal Judge
Esther Salas's son murdered in twenty twenty at the family's
home by a gunman posting as a delivery driver. So
the Barrett family gets packages addressed to young mister Solace
(05:37):
at their hard For God's sake, people, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You would question whether or not you should have taken
the job or whether you should step down.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I would, you know, if I bring a bullet because
I decided to become a Supreme Court justice, that's terrible.
But if I see my child shot downable anyway. So
the two justices were requesting some extra money from Congress
to beef up security around the justices, and it's a
no brainer. I hope it goes through immediately, and with
(06:12):
the unanimous vote, it's terrible that it's needed, but it
absolutely is needed. And the question we always ask in
this sort of discussion, will it ever go back?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I doubt it. Security stuff doesn't seem to ever go back.
I mean, one hundred and fifty years ago you could
walk up to the White House and knock on the door,
and then little by little over time it has become
a fortress. Now you can barely get close enough to
see it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah. Yeah. They mentioned in the Wall Street Journal that
Senator Sheldon white House of the Democratic Rhode Island, has
made smearing the justices as corrupt a personal mission. He's
constantly saying stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But I don't want to make this partisan, because well,
the New York Times had a big story oh sixty
minutes did it too. They did their story about justices
under threat below the level of the Supreme Court. They
focused on that woman you just mentioned whose son was killed.
We didn't really have to do with her politics are
(07:13):
judging weirdly enough, but regardless, they made it all about
Trump because Trump has said horrible things about all your
lower level courts, and all those justices feel scared. And
they left out the Supreme Court because if they had
gotten into the Supreme Court. You'd have had to focus
on the fact that Joe Biden said many, many, many
times the Ultramaga Supreme Court it's a rubber stamp for
(07:36):
Trump and all that sort of illegitimate court. Guy that
used to be the chair of the Judicial Committee, you
would think would no better than to pretend that the
justices were just doing the bidding of Donald Trump, especially
when it's not true.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right, No, but it's everything's clickbait. Everything's about fundraising and
whipping up the electric and yeah for in the name
of being fair. Yeah, Trump has said some ridiculous things
about just terrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, they come out with some of those. You know,
it happens twice a week where a sitting judge in
Omaha has declared Trump can't do this or that, and
then Trump will say all kinds of horrible things about
the guy or woman. I had another point I was
going to make about the justices and saying something about
the justices and oh yeah, the Amy Cony Barrett thing,
(08:29):
the sweating thing. I think the timing of that was
after she went against one of Trump's big as the
tariffs are one of them. So it quite possibly was
a maga person.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That means there's no yeah, yeah, everything doesn't make any difference.
It doesn't make any difference. You gotta stop. Yeah. Yeah. Indeed,
what is cable news like talking about diarrhea? Yeah? I've
noticed that. And explosive? Is that the word that we're hearing?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Usually that's the word they use. Yes, he blewey, that's yeah.
Why do you suppose they like talking about that? Because
we all hate it so much? It gets your attention.
What's causing that? I want to avoid what's causing that?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, if somebody says disease causing a runny nose, we'll
have information next. I might stay tuned, but I probably
won't avoid. But the ed, the ed, the extrasion, I'm
stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Oh no, they got the tips to avoid the explosion.
Avoid pre washed bagged salads. I always thought those were safe.
I thought those were the safest ones. Okay, they don't
wash them very well. You know how I avoid it?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah? I do. I don't need no dang salad. That's
why I pray for your colon. I just had it
checked out. I had a physical imas. I'm perfect. Oh Lord,
please protect Jack's colon and spread of the abuse.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
He He's responded, I have I I was recognizing this.
Thank you God for that. Just to do genetics. I
got the genetics of I'm just predisposed to have local
ester a, low blood pressure, all that sort of stuff,
no matter what I do, So I'm protected against this,
this sort of crazy thing. You come from hardy stock.
(10:13):
It's a blessing. I don't know if that's correct. I
catch every cold that comes my way, that's true. But
you're still kicking. Your folks are still doing great, right?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very very much fantastic. Oh man,
we got all sorts of good stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Former Miss North Dakota has pled guilty to daycare fraud Minnesota.
Damn North Dakota carpetbaggers.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Former or Miss North Dakota went over to Minnesota to
rip off tax bears.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, because anybody who wanted to steal from Minnesota could
right thanks to governor. What's its lame brain? Man?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
We almost we went through with Katie Grimes last week,
the fraud in California, which makes Minnesota seem like nothing.
It's just the amount of money that gets stolen from us.
And as I always say before we take a break.
I don't understand why you liberals aren't more upset about
(11:11):
this than conservatives. We wish that the government didn't have
a role in any of this stuff. And there are all
these programs that are just go away. You like the programs,
So why, I mean you you think they should exist.
I assume because you want to help people. They aren't
helping people. They're stealing the money. That should make you
more angry than me. Actually, because you're stealing it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's how stupid politics is. Though, any criticism of the
program I'm in favor of, including the fact that it's
being stolen from, I won't accept that. I'm going to
pretend that it's not happening. And the effect of it
is you exactly point out.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Is that what you want to happen doesn't happen because
it's getting stolen from your stupid idiot. I think giving
the downtrodden money enables them. I don't want to give
them the money. They aren't getting the money. I'm winning.
I just hate in terms of that issue. I just
hate the fact that it's being stolen and as opposed
to I get to keep the money.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Good Lord, that was the voice of the patriarchy right there, folks.
That was shocking. Doesn't want to health the downtrodden. You're
in favor of income equality, inequality, yes for that one,
damn it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, well ye, actually I am in system that would try.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
To make it equal is not gonna work. It's a nightmare.
It would be oppression, be horrible. Portlandia is crumbling. It
is a crying shame. That's right. Metal guy, thank you. Uh.
(12:44):
If you were not privileged to spend time in Portland,
Oregon prior to the fall, I am sad for you,
because it is was an amazing city in so many ways,
just pretty, the art scene, the music scene, food od
just the vibe. Great place, cleaner, greener San Francisco for
(13:06):
a long time, and it's gone to hell, especially downtown.
And a story that happened it was just a day
or two ago, is getting a lot of nationwide coverage,
and I'm glad it is because to such a large extent,
the battle between the progressives, the social progressives and I
(13:29):
don't want to give it away, but not progressives is
not a war between colonializers and the resistance, or the
down trodden and the patriarchy. Or white people against transgender
black people or whatever. That battle is between realism and
(13:49):
people who have these childish fantasies about how the world
will work if they just set it up right. Okay,
And the defund the police thing is that exactly. It's
a perfect example. Love it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
They think, well, no, it's going to be just like
the suburbs. That's what AOC said.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
What an idiot. This is the reality.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
We don't have the appropriate amount of police officers to
handle the amount of demand for police services.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
This statement from Portland Police has been made evident the
past several days. On Saturday, it took officers and estimated
thirty to forty minutes to respond to a dozen nine
to one one calls reporting a naked man harassing people
in Waterfront Park. This escalated to an alleged attempt to
grab a seven year old girl out of her parents' arms.
The Bureau says its officers were tied up with a
(14:35):
barricaded suspect a mile away.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
They're resource intensive and so when you have a draw
like that, it really puts a drain on the entire city,
not just that precinct.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I don't want to steal her. Thunder let's play one
more clip than I want to spell it out how
what happened in what order?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
But this wasn't an isolated incident. Earlier this month, a
group of women held back an alleged attacker for forty
minutes until help arrived. And on Monday morning, the Fox
twelve crew was threatened with a knife at the waterfront.
It took police ten minutes to intervene.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
There's no unless it's an on call group of officers
like the SWAT team or the traffic team. There's no
additional officers that I can just bring in at a
moment's notice.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Deputy Chief Brian Hughes says PPB was operating at a
twenty four percent staffing reduction, with forty one officer stationed
across the city and ten polling overtime. He says tactical
calls like the domestic violence threat in Old Town require
additional staff in case the suspect gets away or fires
a weapon.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, my immediate question would be, just because I know
the way it is been happening around California, would you
not need extra officers if these people were locked up
the first one of the first ten times they showed society. Next,
they can't be free people if they if they're in jail,
then you don't have to tend to them every single
(15:53):
freaking day. I mean, because I mentioned at a similar situation,
I called the nine to one one on an incredibly crazy,
out of control person the other day street person, and
the cops called me back because they always get your
name in phone number, and they called me back and said, yeah,
this person is known to us. We deal with them
on a regular basis. Okay, so he acts like this
all the time and he's just out on the streets. Well,
(16:13):
then how much resources does that take to deal with
the same guy day after day after.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Day, I suppose if you put him in jail. Right.
So here's what happened with the crazy guy in Portland.
At about six fifty in the evening, folks started calling
that a man was running around naked in this section
of the city and just a few minutes later, but
(16:40):
the cops didn't have anybody. Sorry, yeah, we can't do
anything about it. A few minutes later, dispatch advised officers
that another caller stayed in the man tried to punch
them in the head. Sorry, all officers are busy with
other calls can't really help you out there. Then five
eight minutes after that, a third caller reported that the
(17:00):
suspect grabbed a young girl, a seven year old, and
pulled her away with her mother for god knows what
crazy ass purpose. Finally, there were no available officers in
the central section of Portland, so they had to send
officers from North Precinct down to the other section of
the city. Now that the guy was actually snatching children
(17:22):
out of their mother's arms just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
And these are usually cities or states where they don't
want you to have a gun or a knife or
any sort of way to protect yourself, even though we
are allowing criminals to run free on the streets and
want to rest them and there aren't enough cobstacle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Isn't that something. Yeah, they would absolutely deny you the
opportunity to defend yourself. They would say they would try
you for punching this guy to get him away from
your child. Yeah, it's again, it's this complete disconnect from reality.
Let's hear a little more from Julia Lopez on Fox twelve.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Seventy vacancies more than twenty million dollars in recent budget
cuts at an increase in complex call since twenty twenty.
Hugh says patrol staff is stretched too thin to respond
right away.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's just triaging calls as they come in on the street,
as opposed to having enough officers to handle each call
as they came in.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Build more jails, yeah, no kidding, Yeah, don't empty the jails,
build more of them. Here's an idea.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
If somebody commits a crime and is prosecuted beyond a
reasonable doubt in front of a jury of their peers,
have them undergo the punishment that is prescribed by law.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We'll call that the Joe Getty plan. It's innovative, it's crazy.
I can write it out for you if you didn't
follow it because it's complicated. Tell me this is not
a war between realism and fantasyland, because they would reject
what I just said. Well, the over incarceration of minorities
(19:01):
and people victimized by the colonial oppressors. Blah blah blah,
telling you folks, you got to resist these people because
they will ruin the world. End of screed.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well, and hopefully you don't get your house, your car
broken into you, or somebody you care about hurt in
the meantime.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh right, yeah, yeah, that's who was it. Jim Cooper,
the UH sheriff of Sacramento County in California, said the
other day, can we start thinking about the victims again? Please?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, said Coop, that's the exact same same thing I
said at a city council meeting. When are we going
to start caring about the law abiding taxpayer as opposed
to the drug addled the criminal?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Right right, it's insane. It's insane. You get it. The
finger clips, the finger clips, oh, the snaps.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Somebody else who followed me who said something like blah
blah blah, patriarchy blah blah blah, capitalist system, they got
all them.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. The only upside to all
this insanity is now I get how other societies went crazy.
Cite your favorite.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Example, Shrony show, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Armstrong.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
And there's some folks in the legislature and they're true believers.
For whatever reason, they don't want anybody held accountable to
go to a county jailer prison. And that's what we're
dealing with with some folks in California.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Sheriff Jim Cooper, longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
He's the sheriff of Sacramento County in California. He's talking
about the progressive governance in California and how it's many
to say soft on crime is to really not describe
it properly. The policies are don't jail anybody, because that's
part of capitalistic right.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I almost can't talk about this subject because it makes
me so angry and worried. Actually, since my family, when
my kids were little, we were verbally assaulted by a
guy that should have been in prison because of all
the crimes he had committed. He ended up back in
prison because of what he said to me and my family.
(21:21):
If to all that story a million times, I thought
I was quite possibly going to die in a knife
or gunfight with the guy. But he should have been
in jail a long time ago. And when I called
the cops, I'll never forget this. When I called the cops,
the first cop I talked to said, you know, what's
really a tragedy is that we don't have someplace we
can put this guy so we could get the mental.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh is that the tragedy?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
As my kids are crying behind me, I thought they
were going to die like ten minutes ago, and the
cop tells me the real tragedy is that the.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Guy doesn't have someplace he can go to get more helped.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He's a criminal, he's been a criminal, he's advocated a criminally,
he'd done all kinds of horrible things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
He should have been in jail.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Right, these people are nuts, and they're gonna get more
people herd Or killed.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
And Sheriff Cooper, in that same interview with the excellent
Ashley Zavalla points out that when there are like mental
health diversion programs that are not funded because they don't
believe in putting anybody behind bars anyway, I thought this
was so interesting that that's why I've decided that socialism
is a mental illness.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's an actual mental illness, because it doesn't make any sense.
You can't you can't make you know, there are all
kinds of political policy differences you can have with people,
but you can understand their argument. This doesn't make any sense, right, Right,
you have to suck down the delicious kool aid of
the Marxist cult really to pretend, because it's so clearly
(22:45):
what they are advocating is so clearly counter to what
we all recognize about reality and humanity, which is why
really socialism works best on the young and stupid people.
But Charles Lehman wrote a great piece for The Dispatch
a while back entitled why don't we lock up repeat offenders?
And it starts Jack with a disturbingly similar situation of
(23:05):
your own. It wasn't long ago that police charged Hector
da Leone, an immeral and emotionally disturbed and homeless fifty
one year old, with slashing six New Yorkers in an
unprovoked attack at Penn Station in New York. Day lay
one is a vibrant criminal history. Another slashing committed in Newark,
New Jersey, four years ago right across the river, and
(23:26):
six other priorrests, including aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon,
user possession of drugs, assault, domestic assault, and criminal mischief and.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Caspital that's why he did that? Oh forgot? Or global warming?
Climate change? Did you see? I shouldn't get off on
this tangent. I really shouldn't. National Geographic is trying to
and and they've been captured by the progressives, like a
lot of so called scientific institutions trying to pitch the
idea that selling girls off his child brides in Muslim
(24:00):
countries is because of climate change. It's not because of
their perverse culture or sick view of religion. No, it's
climate change.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Unbelievable, An, We got to do some of the writing
around that because it is horrifying. Yeah, yeah, there will
be plenty of time. That will still be a problem
in a year and a decade anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So Laman asked the obvious question, why was a violent
criminal with a string of priors, a history of deranged
behaviors on the street. Why wasn't he locked up in
a prisoner or a mental health facility or something. And
why do such people seem to cause so much of
our crime problems? And this is and I think this
is probably not necessary for a lot of you, but
(24:42):
this is an absolute, ironclad illustration of how idiotic the
we can't incarcerate our way out of the social problems
we have. Oh, this is about capitalism, No, it's about
a few people who who victimize others. They are predators.
(25:03):
Every cop we've ever talked to done a ride along
with says the same thing. I spend ninety percent of
my time babysitting three percent of the population. Well that's
not quite the percentage that some of the scientists come
up with, but frequent offenders drive a massive share of crime.
It's one of the most well established findings in criminology.
It's undeniable. But it turns out that in many states
(25:26):
and cases, our criminal justicism isn't designed with that reality
in mind. So people like de Leone can keep offending
in slashing. Can you imagine you get sliced open? I
mean when people don't die. I think other people underestimate
how horrible it is what happened. Oh, thank god hez
(25:47):
is expected to recover. Oh, please think about it for
a minute. I don't want to dwell on it because
it's horrifying. But you wouldn't sleep right for months. Oh,
you'd be disfigured for life. You'd be dealing with medical
treatments and infections.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
And got that part the PTSD of like being out
in public or walking down the street or getting on
a bus or anything.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Ever again, well you can speak to that somebody with
wild eyes approaches you quickly. Can you imagine the horror,
the utter terror that would cause for maybe the rest
of your life. Anyway, So the daily owners of the
world keep getting turned loose. But the upside of this
is if we go back to sanity, we have a
(26:31):
great opportunity to bring crime under control again, because we've
done it more than once. That a few offenders commit
most of the crime is the closest thing we have
to an iron law of criminology. Offending follows what social
scientists call a Pareto distribution, or the eighty twenty rule,
and this is at least eighty percent of crime is
committed by at most twenty percent of the offenders, and
(26:55):
the true concentration is probably greater than that. One systematic
review a few years ago found that ten percent of
the population that is most criminally active, accounts for sixty
six percent of all crime on average. Yeah, ten I
could believe.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I don't believe twenty percent of people are out there
committing in these crime Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah. And it's not a new finding. I mean, they
did a giant study following a cohort of nearly ten
thousand Philadelphia boys born in nineteen forty five. They found
that six percent of the boys were responsible for roughly
half of all police contacts observed. Same. Oh, in Sweden,
(27:32):
two point four million Swedes found that just one percent
were responsible for sixty three percent of all criminal offenses.
Absolutely believe that, and do you want more? Most gun
violence is highly concentrated in tight social networks, a phenomenon
that's shown up in Baltimore, Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco,
and Oakland, et cetera. It's gangbangers almost exclusively who commit crimes.
(27:57):
One of the reasons you might think otherwise is that
the media is uncomfortable with that because it's frequently black gangbangers,
sometimes Hispanics, sometimes Asian, but it's generally not white people.
And for the idiotic, woke reasons we've discussed a million times,
they are uncomfortable reporting that. So if white guy goes
(28:20):
crazy is available, they amplify that like crazy and to
be shot is to be shot. I'm I'm not in
favor of that, but you know the point I'm trying
to make. But so why does this happen? Simple answer
is a life of crime is the product of many
different rare events and well they go into it. Frequent shooters,
for example, tend to occur only in environments with a
(28:42):
lot of well armed young men with little oversight and
a strong culture of honor, hard looking, and to shoot you. Yeah.
Frequent shoplifters tend to be seriously mentally ill and or
addicted to drugs, and also have frequent opportunities to shoplift
peer groups, Family, environment, and genes also play a role.
In short, a lot of things have gone wrong for
someone to become a frequent offender. So most people don't.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
But if you have a frequent offender, they're going to
keep offending. It's as close, as he said, to an
iron law of criminology as exists. Lock him up, lock
him up, and force theaw law. Oh god, so frustrated. Yes,
so this happens to me a lot in California. I
(29:27):
remember how it's a problem when I'm on vacation. I'm
driving around other states but can't find a restroom anywhere,
can't convenience store or anywhere you stop, just because they're
all locked up because they don't want to deal with
homeless people. We're willing to give away the idea of
having public restrooms in many parts of California or across
the country because we just don't want to enforce the law.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Makes me so angry, right, and you know, Jim Cooper
in that interview. One of the points he made, I
don't think we have the audio of it, but he said, look,
we've got to start thinking about the victims of crime again.
Our entire criminal justice system he's talking about cal Unicornia
is geared toward sympathy and helping and counseling for the offenders.
(30:08):
Nobody talks about the victims. Thank you Coop for saying that, yes,
this is exactly right. Brings us to your point about
when lawlessness is observed and lawlessness is not punished, people
decide lawlessness is okay. Here's a story from the other
side of the country. Raleigh, North Carolina, which is an
absolutely lovely place, Raleig Durhamchapel Hill. You got the major
universities of North Carolina. You got all sorts of eggheads
(30:32):
and tech people and families and all. But in Raleigh,
they had a shocking event the other day. It was
one of those what are the teen takeovers? One point
thirty in the morning. You've got as many as eight
thousand young people, many juveniles, many from outside the city,
(30:52):
that gathered in and took over one commercial area in Raleigh,
ran rough shot, committing crimes, robberies, theft or acts of violence,
then later converged on another area. What followed was a
night marred by or disorder and violence when the police
say left nine people injured by gunfire, led to the
seizure of nearly a dozen guns, resulted in dozens of
(31:14):
arrests of young people in delinquency cases against multiple miners.
Scenes spread across social media and news coverage of overflowing
sidewalks and streets, shouting and cursing, sirens and music blaring,
crime scene tape, people faced down being handcuffed, and the
police chief, who's had a twenty six year career there
in Raleigh, said it was heartbreaking in unacceptable, and he
(31:38):
says we were prepared for the crowd size. What we
were not prepared for were the number of firearms we
were recovering off individuals and the desire to commit criminal acts.
Where did that come from? The intent? The lawlessness? Well,
(31:58):
I think we answered the question already. Yeah, did you
I'm asking y'all, or Jack or Michael or anybody else,
did you grow up thinking, you know, it would be
fun if a bunch of us got together and just
absolutely trampled on the law in one city or another
of course not. It's a societal rot and it's caused
(32:19):
by permitting lawlessness all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And of rant, Jack Armstrong and Joe this is the.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Best weekend talk show in America. This is makes you
wonder what we're doing? Do we really feel this lousy
about the economy? University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Consumer Sentiment
(32:47):
Index much discussed. It's been going on since the nineteen forties.
The Michigan Survey of Consumers is the poll for how
Americans have felt about the economy now for generation, and
it's low. Right now.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We don't feel good about the economy. More than more
than ever, We're despondent.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
A key survey of Americans consumers is scraping bottom, showing
they've never felt this lousy about the economy, even at
the height of the recessions or when the COVID pandemic
COVID pandemic raged. We were talking about this a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
What could possibly explain that they're so anti Trump? Some
people are there want a price a gas when inflation
is high. Nothing else manners. It's the survey itself. According
to a growing number of critics, including several economists, They've
pointed to methodology methodology changes in the University of Michigan's
(33:46):
Consumer's Sentiment in Index as bugs in the machine, saying
they're skewing the results. Now the polling people are saying no.
Low sentiment likely reflects a profound shift in mood since
COVID struck. According to the survey director, uh, well, it
shouldn't be too surprising. People feel differently about the world,
including the economy after the pandemic. It hit its lowest
(34:06):
mark in May, lowest ever of them. The low readings,
they make the point in the journal seem at odds
with an economy that appears decent, if not stellar. The
country's adding jobs, and consumers are continuing to spend despite
worries about inflation and affordability. And I would point out
increasing credit card and car loan defaults and the higher
(34:26):
and higher level of debt. Maybe you shouldn't be spending
that anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
In twenty twenty four Michigan, the University of moved to
conducting its surveys via the web rather than via cell phone,
a response to the problem the ongoing problem everybody knows
surveyor's face and getting anybody to answer the damn phone
because everybody's being spammed all the time. So a couple
(34:55):
of years ago they made that transition to online polls,
and some critic think that made the sentiment index more downbeat,
in part because other research has shown that when people
are surveyed online, for some reason, they tend to be
more negative than when they're speaking to a human being.
Twenty twenty four analysis a couple of economists you've never
(35:17):
heard of estimated that this survey method methodology shift shaved
about nine points off the Michigan Sentiment Index nine points.
Recent analysis from the Chicago Fed also took issue with
the survey switch.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I think it's interesting that people are so much more
negative being online than if you're asked on the phone.
So sure, because of the algorithms feeding us depressing stuff constantly,
we've trained our brains since we go online to immediately
(35:54):
have a bad attitude.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Probably, I wonder, Or it could just be if there's
another human beating, you don't want to appear too negative
and bitchy because it's not considered an attractive quality. I
don't know. There's also the fact, and this is undeniable,
that the skew in partisan attitudes is as big as
(36:19):
it's ever been. You ask a Republican, right now, Republicans
controlled the White House, as if the White House runs
the economy.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
For God's sake, people shouldn't anyway. But you ask Republicans,
they say it's just freaking fine. You ask Democrats, They're like,
it's horrible. We talked about this. I talked about this
last week coming out of fourth of July, and I
took in a ton of two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
founding stuff and up with America tweets and books and
(36:48):
TV shows and speeches and all the different sort of stuff,
and I was feeling pretty raw, raw about America and
actually thought, Joe and I need to be less negative.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
We're too negative.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
But I did want to push back on all the
rah rah with just a little bit of the All
of those things are true structurally, historically, everything about the
United States being great and all that forced for good,
et cetera, et cetera. But this whole educating the young
people to hate their own country k through PhD is
new and real and is going to bear fruit for
(37:24):
a long time to come.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh yes, if you believe Reagan, that were never more
than a generation or two from losing our liberty, or
Jefferson that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, was it.
Jefferson said that you might as well have if you
believe those things, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Yeah,
this is a serious, serious problem, as I'm always saying,
and then you throw in a dose of online information
(37:51):
algorithm stuff that is all brand new to the world. Also,
I'm not as optimistic going forward as a lot of
the ra RA speeches were. Yeah, it's funny because you know,
we're conducting a for profit enterprise here, and if we're
too downbeaten discouraging, arguably, you know, for two down beaten discouraging,
(38:13):
it's not going to work. But from a purely patriotic standpoint,
and this is distasteful and inappropriate. But I also don't
want to be the guy telling Lindsey Graham, oh it's
probably indigestion, don't worry about the chest pains. You know,
when when there is a serious, serious threat, and that
(38:35):
is the successful perversion of our education system to become
not a system of education but a system of indoctrination,
the Marxist ideals, the woe the current woke, postmodern version
of it. So I to me, you know, and I
care as deeply as I do, and I know you
do too, because I'm so positive about the United States
(38:58):
of America and love so much. I mean, it's danger danger,
Will Robinson.
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